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[Tails82]

Is God's presence conditional? Was there a timer where he just took off away from the church?

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See 1 and 2.

God's presence doesn't matter; he backs the authority, but does not propagate it.

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

This is Tails when having a debate:



Round and round ha.

[Tails82]

Consistent!

www.frc.org/washingtonupdate/big-apple-parents-beware

From trans fats to Big Gulps, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has insisted that the city's interest in "public health" excuses his overreach on things like dietary choices. This seems a bit hypocritical for a mayor who just last year told a crowd, "The government should get out of your personal life!" Unfortunately, the Mayor's duplicity doesn't stop with targeting those who frequent the city's restaurants. Parents should also beware.

The New York Times reported today that the city is now distributing free "morning after" pills in more than 50 high school buildings. In 13 of the schools in which the city actually runs the clinic (as opposed to a local health clinic), an opt-out form was provided for parents to sign. As is typical, not every parent saw the form and several students even admitted to a reporter that they had not bothered to pass the opt-out form to their parents. Shockingly, during the 2011-2012 school year alone, about 5,500 girls were given Plan B.

Anna Higgins, director of FRC's Center for Human Dignity, was quoted in the The New York Times story, "The moral and physical consequences to this premature sexual behavior are very real. They need to be addressed by the person who knows the child and who loves the child best, which is the parent." This is especially true when it comes to a drug that hasn't been tested by the FDA to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of the pills on young girls. Even President Obama as the father of two girls has recognized the potential dangers...Rather than addressing a public health problem, the Mayor is creating a new one. How's this for harm: Young people under 25 are infected with about half of the sexually transmitted infections (STIs) nationwide -- and Plan B doesn't protect against a single one. Not only has Plan B had zero impact on teen pregnancy rates, but a 2010 study found that it's partially responsible for a spike in adolescent STIs.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324425204578601930072259200.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

House Republicans passed an historic farm bill on Thursday that for the first time in about 40 years separates food stamps from farm policy. This bids to divide what has been a political alliance of urban Democrats and farm-state Republicans that has bloated the budgets of both programs for decades.

This also explains the howls from Democrats, all of whom voted against the measure. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was visibly irate as she accused Republicans of taking "food out of the mouths of babies and you prevent a bill from going forward that addresses our food banks and our nutrition needs and the rest for our country, what are you thinking?" Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut chimed in that "a vote for this bill is a vote to end nutrition in America." Who writes this melodrama?

How insane do you have to be to think people can't feed themselves without the state's help?

Ms. Pelosi's anger must be especially amusing to House Speaker John Boehner, because the Democratic leader helped to defeat the original $1 trillion version of the farm bill last month. That version included some $740 billion for food stamps, but Democrats opted to kill it because they wanted even more money for a program whose cost more than doubled from 2008 to 2012. They objected to a modest GOP proposal to allow states to adopt pilot work requirements for able-bodied food-stamp recipients.

The new farm bill still has more subsidies than is desirable, especially amid a booming agriculture economy and record land prices. The supports for prospering sugar and dairy farmers are especially dreary. Republicans defeated a proposal by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan to put income limits for receiving subsidies, so "farmers" with non-farm incomes of nearly $1 million a year can still dun taxpayers.

But at least the bill spends $20 billion less over 10 years than current law. One major reform is the repeal of a 1949 law that reinstates New Deal-era production controls and price supports if Congress failed to pass a new bill. That was also a gambit to scare Congress into acting. In conference with the Senate, Republicans can improve the bill further by insisting on reducing the income limits for farm subsidies to $500,000 or less.

Republicans can now move separately to reform food stamps, which are the new symbol of the runaway welfare state with 47 million Americans receiving taxpayer-funded meals as of this March. Food-stamp use began to explode after the Bush Administration eased eligibility rules, and it understandably rose during the recession. But the food-stamp rolls are still climbing four years into an economic recovery and are more than 13 million higher than in 2009.

Where are we finding all these new people? If there weren't food stamps before, shouldn't all those feeble-minded morons, unable to find food, have starved by now?

The House work requirement makes sense, and a similar feature was part of the wildly successful 1996 welfare reform signed by Bill Clinton. Real wealth tests are also needed, so people living in mansions or with plump bank accounts aren't on the food dole. The House can also stop funding USDA programs that spend $40 million a year for TV and radio ads to maximize the number of beneficiaries.

The Administration still portrays rising food-stamp payments as fiscal "stimulus." The logic is that giving more people more incentive to get on the dole will somehow encourage more people to get off the dole. Only the first part is working.

All of this sets up a welcome debate on the future of these programs. Republicans won their House majority in large part by promising to restrain and reform government. President Obama vows to veto any farm bill without food stamps, but enough Democrats want both food stamps and a farm bill that he may have to reconsider. Voters may even find the debate educational.

blog.heritage.org/2013/07/12/roll-out-the-barrels-obamacare-funds-to-sponsor-bourbon-festivals-2/

Roll Out the Barrels? Obamacare Funds to Sponsor Bourbon Festivals

The ironies abound in this announcement. Last year, the New York Post reported that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed using community transformation grant funds from Obamacare to “reduc[e] alcohol retail outlet density and illegal alcohol.” So as Kentucky is using Obamacare funds to promote alcohol consumption, New York City wants to use Obamacare funds to discourage it. Apparently, the left hand doesn’t know what the far-left hand is doing.

Second, alcohol abuse costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. A 2011 Centers for Disease Control study found that alcohol abuse cost federal, state, and local taxpayers a total of $94.2 billion each year. To the extent that these Obamacare promotional activities encourage alcohol abuse, they will inevitably impose new burdens on taxpayers—and raise overall health costs, contradicting the law’s stated purpose.

Just as important, these types of theatrical “marketing” activities represent a misuse of taxpayer dollars at a time of record debt and deficits. Congress should tell the Administration to stop handing out Obamacare grants like drunken sailors and refuse to spend a single dime funding Obamacare.

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President Obama talks passionately about reducing school dropout rates, and he need only look in his own backyard for how to do it. Of course he'll also have to quit trying to kill the successful program.

Washington D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program has released its latest data on student progress in that landmark voucher program. A remarkable 97% of its students graduated from high school in the 2011-2012 school year—a 4% increase from the two previous years. This compares to a D.C. public schools graduation rate of 55%. More than 90% of parents say they are happy with their voucher child's academic progress, and applications exceed slots for the coming school year by nearly 3 to 1.

Despite this success, Democrats killed D.C. vouchers in 2009 at the behest of teachers unions. It was left to Speaker John Boehner and former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman to rescue the education lifeline. The President's 2014 budget proposal again zeroes out funding, but it will survive thanks to House Republicans.

Mr. Obama's policy alternative for dropout rates is to demand that states raise the minimum age at which kids can leave school. This 2012 proposal fell flat once states realized they'd pay more to keep kids longer in the same rotten schools, with no uptick in diploma rates. The union answer is, as ever, to spend even more on failure.

Each D.C. voucher is worth about half the $18,000 that D.C. public schools spend per student. The voucher success rests not in money or mandates, but in giving parents the choice to take their child out of a failing school and into one with high standards and committed teachers. That's what President Obama does with his own daughters, who attend private schools. Millions of poor kids deserve the same choice.

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/11/indiana-school-district-loses-300k-because-student/

Indiana school district loses $300K because students refuse to buy first lady’s healthy meals

School officials in Carmel Clay, Ind., said they lost $300,000 last school year because students are rejecting the healthy menu changes brought on by First Lady Michelle Obama’s federal lunch regulations.

“I’ve had a lot of complaints, especially with the little guys,” Linda Wireman, a food service director for North White School Corp., told JCOnline. “They get a three-quarters cup of vegetables, but if it’s something they don’t like, it goes down the garbage disposal. So there are a lot of complaints they’re going home hungry.”

Amy Anderson, the food service director for the school district, said the rules made her feel less like an educator and more like a “food cop.” The changes have even made her consider retiring early.

Lori Shofroth, Tippecanoe School Corp.’s food service director, said many students are throwing food away, putting a dent in the district’s budget.

“They’re teaching our kids with this meal pattern that it’s OK to throw away,” she told JCOnline. “We did a waste study on three different schools, and there was a huge amount of waste. That was just with produce, fruit or vegetables or milk.”

Other students don’t eat the lunches at all, resulting in a $300,000 loss for the district.

“I’ve got kids who can stop at Panera and pick up a sandwich that meets none of these criteria. I’m not maybe your typical school district, and they’re assuming that every student doesn’t have access to food, and that’s incorrect in this community,” Amy Anderson told the paper. “Our kids can just wait and just hop in their BMWs and go to McDonald’s, which they’re rebuilding, making it bigger.”

[Chromeo]

So I see Zimmerman got off like I said he would, enjoy your race riots America! Wreck some shit for me.

[kode54]

<trn> hehe
<trn> I guess nobody cares, but Zimmerman not guilty.
<trn> A win for freedom, justice, the 2nd Amendment, the U.S. Constitution, and a total shutdown the attempted railroading of an American hero by the occupation government.
<trn> I was watching with about 80 other people at a lounge, the whole place jumped up and cheered and applauded.
<trn> Finally something to feel good about in this country.
<trn> Driving home the number of police was insane, they are obviously keeping these thugs in line.
<trn> No rioting or unrest.
<trn> At least I have 1500 extra rounds and 15 more mags to put in the drawer.
<trn> Anyway, I'm ecstatic. This is a great day that shows racism is alive and well but being (white|hispanic) isn't a crime and shooting assaulting thugs and defending life, liberty, and property is protected.
<trn> FUCK YOU OBAMA PIECE OF SHIT
<trn> gnite

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

wtf is a Zimmerman

[Tails82]

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324879504578603562762064502.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

A jury acquitted George Zimmerman on Saturday night of all charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, bringing to an end a case that set off nationwide protests and searing debates over racial justice and self-defense laws.

As the verdict was read, Mr. Zimmerman appeared stoic, while family members behind him were visibly tense. When the not-guilty verdict was pronounced, his family members embraced. Courtroom police removed Mr. Zimmerman's ankle bracelet, and he flashed a smile.

FREE AT LAST

FREE AT LAST

[Chromeo]

This is a ... day that shows racism is alive and well

that goes without saying

[Tails82]

This is a day that shows no-limit-niggas can't just go around slamming peoples' heads into the concrete. This is a day that shows people have a right to defend themselves against ghetto thugs.

[Chromeo]

funny, you prove my point about the defense appealing to the racist fantasies of the typical Floridian perfectly

[Tails82]

I never injected race into this.

[Chromeo]

Jul 14, 2013 8:05:13 GMT -5 Tails82 said:

This is a day that shows no-limit-niggas can't just go around slamming peoples' heads into the concrete. This is a day that shows people have a right to defend themselves against ghetto thugs.

Jul 14, 2013 9:09:52 GMT -5 Tails82 said:

I never injected race into this.

[Tails82]

Oh and I just remembered this

mobile.wnd.com/2013/07/ouch-what-do-you-really-think-about-journalists/

A new poll reveals over the last four years, journalists – more so than any other profession studied – have suffered a precipitous drop in the public’s esteem.

According to a Pew Research Center poll, only 28 percent of Americans are willing to say journalists “contribute a lot to society’s well-being,” a 10-point drop since 2009.

About as many U.S. adults – 27 percent – now say journalists contribute “not very much” or “nothing at all” to society as say they contribute a lot – 28 percent.

Meanwhile, the military tops the list for contributing to society, as 78 percent affirm our soldiers’ role in improving the nation’s well-being, while teachers come in second at 72 percent and doctors in third at 66 percent.

The findings echo a Gallup poll from last year, which found distrust in the media has hit an all-time high.

When asked, “How much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media – such as newspapers, TV and radio – when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly,” 60 percent of respondents told Gallup “not very much” or “not at all.” Forty percent admitted a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust.

Of the 10 professions measured in the Pew poll, nine reflected at least marginal drops in esteem from 2009 to 2013, but the 10-point drop for journalists was the worst. The only profession to gain was business executives, who saw only 21 percent acknowledge their contribution to society in 2009, but 24 percent affirming a positive difference in 2013.

The liberal media are a bunch of liars, and in Zimmerman's case they maliciously edited audio to make up a story. They ginned up race riots. They should never be trusted, they are merely a propaganda branch for Obama and his cronies.

Journalism is a joke, the fact that it attracts people like Nitro should say something.

[Chromeo]

yeah, the liberal media are totally the problem when it's fox news alone among US news channels that leads to people who watch it being less informed than people who watch no news at all