Depressing News Item of the Day

[Pete4256]

The video shows you can't fix poverty by giving 1 million people a free ticket to the USA every year ... what a crock that program is in the grand scheme of the total problem.

A real eye opener to finish off the year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...layer_embedded

In fact the conclusion is that our government actually makes things worse.

[Rongar]

If your hometown is thinking of applying fot the Olympics...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...test-terrorism

[Rongar]

Another online scam surfaces...an oh-so-plausible one, too...beware!
https://wm.shaw.ca/zimbra/public/lau...d=en_US&full=1

[Cubbie]

How about those tree hugging liberal global warming scientists who are stuck in the ice! Poetic justice! Even worse than Obamacare, is the liberal scam about global warming that the media has indoctrined onto the sheep for years.

[filihok]

How about those tree hugging liberal global warming scientists who are stuck in the ice! Poetic justice! Even worse than Obamacare, is the liberal scam about global warming that the media has indoctrined onto the sheep for years.

Even more depressing is that some people who consider themselves politically astute are so stupid that they think that getting warmer means it can't get cold.

Even more depressing than that is that some people are such absolute jackasses that they are actually happy about the misfortune of others.

[Kobie]

How about those tree hugging liberal global warming scientists who are stuck in the ice! Poetic justice! Even worse than Obamacare, is the liberal scam about global warming that the media has indoctrined onto the sheep for years.

Hi, my name is Cubbie and I don't understand how climate works

[filihok]

Hi, my name is Cubbie and I don't understand how climate works

Derp. Scientists say that the Earth's north pole is tiliting back toward the sun but today is colder than yesterday. Obama suckz1

[Cubbie]

I sometimes wonder what kinda person could be ignorant enough to vote for Obama? Then I visit this forum and it all becomes clearer! Mostly I feel bad for you guys though. You've been spoonfed the lies so long you just eat it up. The government loves sheep like you. So easy to be controlled by the media and so gulliable. Well here's a little lesson for you guys on the global warming hoax. You guys might want to turn off all that liberal media that has been brain washing you!


http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/caruba/130922

[HoustonGM]

How about those tree hugging liberal global warming scientists who are stuck in the ice! Poetic justice! Even worse than Obamacare, is the liberal scam about global warming that the media has indoctrined onto the sheep for years.

You really are a true caricature.

[Alloutwar]

Chris Christie's staff was responsible for the traffic closures that led to severe issues in the town of a politician that did not endorse him for re-election.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chris-c...ndal-1.2490021

Not good for the Repubs' top presidential contender in 2016.

[dickay]

Chris Christie's staff was responsible for the traffic closures that led to severe issues in the town of a politician that did not endorse him for re-election.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chris-c...ndal-1.2490021

Not good for the Repubs' top presidential contender in 2016.

Agreed but I think it'll blow over. Afterall, the IRS being used to target conservative groups seeking non-exempt status has pretty much disappeared into the, "nothing here to see, move along" category. Unless a direct link can be made to Christie, his actions to hold those on his staff accountable will be spun and may actually reinforce the straight shooter no-nonsense image he has tried to manifest.

[filihok]

I sometimes wonder what kinda person could be ignorant enough to vote for Obama? Then I visit this forum and it all becomes clearer! Mostly I feel bad for you guys though. You've been spoonfed the lies so long you just eat it up. The government loves sheep like you. So easy to be controlled by the media and so gulliable. Well here's a little lesson for you guys on the global warming hoax. You guys might want to turn off all that liberal media that has been brain washing you!

Are you the kind of person who draws conclusions based on zero evidence?
Who have you voted for?
I've never voted for Obama

[Alloutwar]

I largely agree with Dickay on Christie's issue, but found this interesting:

http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/0...ired-vendetta/

But while Christie claimed that this was “not the way this administration has conducted itself over the last four years” and denied being a bully, accusations ofpolitical retribution have long surrounded the governor. For instance, former Gov. Richard Codey (D) accused the Christie administration of “sending a message” by denying him state trooper protection after he publicly disagreed with Christie. The same day, a Codey cousin was fired from his position at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a former Codey aide was removed from the New Jersey Office of Consumer Affairs.
After then State Sen. Sean Kean (R) told a reporter that Christie erred in not calling for a state of emergency sooner, during a 2010 blizzard, Christie’s staff banned Kean from attending the next news conference Christie held in Kean’s home district. A Christie aide told the Star-Ledger that Kean “got what he deserved.” Rutgers Professor Alan Rosenthal saw his state funding slashed after backing a re-districting map more favorable to Democrats and last year, confirmation of a judicial candidate recommended by State Sen. Christopher “Kip” Bateman (R) suddenly stalled after the legislator voted against Christie’s public medical education system reorganization.
On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey announced that he would be opening up another investigation into the lane closings, joining the state legislature and the inspector general of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who are conducting investigations of their own.

So either a) this is modus operandi from his administration, or b) he hires and surrounds himself with terrible people and manages them incompetently.

[Alloutwar]

Ugh.

You should stop eating shrimp. Forever.

As for health risks, Richardson says that most shrimp is not inspected by the FDA. In fact, when researchers tested imported ready-to-eat shrimp, they found 162 separate varieties of bacteria with resistance to 10 different antibiotics.

Farmed shrimp are kept in pools on the coast, where the tide can refresh the water and carry waste out to sea. Ponds are prepared with heavy doses of chemicals such as urea, superphosphate, and diesel. Then the shrimp receive pesticides, antibiotics (some that are banned in the U.S., but used overseas), piscicides (fish-killing chemicals like chlorine), sodium tripolyphosphate, borax, and caustic soda.

Shrimp farmers have destroyed an estimated 38 percent of the world’s mangroves to create shrimp ponds, and the damage is permanent. Not only do the mangroves not return long after production has ended, but the surrounding areas become wastelands. According to a Yale University research paper, shrimp farming has made certain areas of Bangladesh completely unlivable for people: “The introduction of brackish-water shrimp aquaculture… has, in turn, caused massive depeasantization and ecological crisis throughout the region.”

wild shrimp isn’t a better option because it usually involves the use of deep-sea trawlers, which kills 5 to 20 pounds of “bycatch” (unwanted species of fish accidentally scooped up by the trawler’s net) for every pound of shrimp. Trawling is comparable to bulldozing an entire section of rainforest to catch a single species of bird. “[The bycatch] includes sharks, rays, starfish, juvenile red snapper, sea turtles and more. While shrimp trawl fisheries only represent 2 percent of the global fish catch, they are responsible for over one-third of the world’s bycatch.” Then the bycatch gets tossed over the side of the boat.

Shrimp is the first seafood to be crossed off my list on the way to vegetarian-ism...aside from all the stuff I already don't eat (clams, oysters, squid, calamari - or bung)

and a taste test showed that switching rectums for calamari might indeed go undetected.

[cadmus2166]

Glad I never liked shrimp to begin with.