Fuck its silent in here.......

[CT III]

Yeah, he ain't pretty no more.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Another thoughtful aside brought to you by Richard Motherfucking Cohen...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-texas-gipper/2011/08/15/gIQA2SQGHJ_story.html

Perry, who actually looks like a president (also the late Rory Calhoun)...

That's Rick Perry for you: always standing and walking.

[R-V]

Jon Huntsman is dreamy!

(Sets up fainting couch for morph and TJ)

Huntsman's tax reforms included $110 million in income-tax cuts, and would mandate a state-wide flat income-tax rate. Sales and food taxes were slashed too. The deal included tax credits aimed at attracting new business development, including mining.

Huntsman may be the pro-life cause's most accomplished executive. He signed bills banning second-trimester abortions, reclassifying third-trimester abortions as a third-degree felony, and requiring abortion providers to explain the pain unborn children can experience during abortion. He signed a trigger law that would ban abortion outright if Roe is overturned.

(Sets up fainting couch for flannj)

And Huntsman expanded the rights of Utah gun-owners, abolishing some concealed-carry restrictions and allowing for more transport of firearms on Utah's roads. He even signed a bill that would grant small-game hunting licenses to children under 12.

(Sets up fainting couch for Gil)

Huntsman also riled conservatives on some environmental issues. He has praised Nixon's creation of the EPA. His party's right wing castigated him for participating with other Western-state governors in a climate-change summit that yielded exactly nothing in terms of policy.

[flannj]

Jon Huntsman is dreamy!

(Sets up fainting couch for morph and TJ)

Huntsman's tax reforms included $110 million in income-tax cuts, and would mandate a state-wide flat income-tax rate. Sales and food taxes were slashed too. The deal included tax credits aimed at attracting new business development, including mining.

Huntsman may be the pro-life cause's most accomplished executive. He signed bills banning second-trimester abortions, reclassifying third-trimester abortions as a third-degree felony, and requiring abortion providers to explain the pain unborn children can experience during abortion. He signed a trigger law that would ban abortion outright if Roe is overturned.

(Sets up fainting couch for flannj)

And Huntsman expanded the rights of Utah gun-owners, abolishing some concealed-carry restrictions and allowing for more transport of firearms on Utah's roads. He even signed a bill that would grant small-game hunting licenses to children under 12.

(Sets up fainting couch for Gil)

Huntsman also riled conservatives on some environmental issues. He has praised Nixon's creation of the EPA. His party's right wing castigated him for participating with other Western-state governors in a climate-change summit that yielded exactly nothing in terms of policy.

He can have 1/2 of my vote.

[BH]

Jon Huntsman is dreamy!

(Sets up fainting couch for morph and TJ)

Huntsman's tax reforms included $110 million in income-tax cuts, and would mandate a state-wide flat income-tax rate. Sales and food taxes were slashed too. The deal included tax credits aimed at attracting new business development, including mining.

Huntsman may be the pro-life cause's most accomplished executive. He signed bills banning second-trimester abortions, reclassifying third-trimester abortions as a third-degree felony, and requiring abortion providers to explain the pain unborn children can experience during abortion. He signed a trigger law that would ban abortion outright if Roe is overturned.

(Sets up fainting couch for flannj)

And Huntsman expanded the rights of Utah gun-owners, abolishing some concealed-carry restrictions and allowing for more transport of firearms on Utah's roads. He even signed a bill that would grant small-game hunting licenses to children under 12.

(Sets up fainting couch for Gil)

Huntsman also riled conservatives on some environmental issues. He has praised Nixon's creation of the EPA. His party's right wing castigated him for participating with other Western-state governors in a climate-change summit that yielded exactly nothing in terms of policy.

He can have 1/2 of my vote.

Huntsman Jr. had a rebellious phase. He dropped out of high school to focus on his progressive-rock band, Wizard. Ask him about those days and he slips into semi-seriousness. He describes Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, and Genesis as "highly impactful in terms of [his] view of the music world." And he jokes that the '80s were a mostly "lost decade" in terms of music when explaining his fondness for '90s acts like the Foo Fighters and Ben Folds Five.

I need to hear more about this band, Wizard, before making a decision.

[flannj]

Jon Huntsman is dreamy!

(Sets up fainting couch for morph and TJ)

Huntsman's tax reforms included $110 million in income-tax cuts, and would mandate a state-wide flat income-tax rate. Sales and food taxes were slashed too. The deal included tax credits aimed at attracting new business development, including mining.

Huntsman may be the pro-life cause's most accomplished executive. He signed bills banning second-trimester abortions, reclassifying third-trimester abortions as a third-degree felony, and requiring abortion providers to explain the pain unborn children can experience during abortion. He signed a trigger law that would ban abortion outright if Roe is overturned.

(Sets up fainting couch for flannj)

And Huntsman expanded the rights of Utah gun-owners, abolishing some concealed-carry restrictions and allowing for more transport of firearms on Utah's roads. He even signed a bill that would grant small-game hunting licenses to children under 12.

(Sets up fainting couch for Gil)

Huntsman also riled conservatives on some environmental issues. He has praised Nixon's creation of the EPA. His party's right wing castigated him for participating with other Western-state governors in a climate-change summit that yielded exactly nothing in terms of policy.

He can have 1/2 of my vote.

Huntsman Jr. had a rebellious phase. He dropped out of high school to focus on his progressive-rock band, Wizard. Ask him about those days and he slips into semi-seriousness. He describes Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, and Genesis as "highly impactful in terms of [his] view of the music world." And he jokes that the '80s were a mostly "lost decade" in terms of music when explaining his fondness for '90s acts like the Foo Fighters and Ben Folds Five.

I need to hear more about this band, Wizard, before making a decision.

Okay, he's down to 2/5ths now.

[Quality Start Machine]

I need to hear more about this band, Wizard, before making a decision.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

He's the one with helmet hair and a vest.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52454.html

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Condoleezza has an admirer.

[Gilgamesh]

So, in addition to paying employees, job creators now have to post a notice telling them of their rights too?!?

WHEN WILL THIS TYRANNY (which every other federal labor statute requires) END?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11238/1169998-84-0.stm

[Yeti]

Has this been address (I don't read this thread often): http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2011/aug/24/3/welfare-drug-testing-yields-2-percent-positive-res-ar-252458/

Cost of the tests averages about $30. Assuming that 1,000 to 1,500 applicants take the test every month, the state will owe about $28,800-$43,200 monthly in reimbursements to those who test drug-free. That compares with roughly $32,200-$48,200 the state may save on one month's worth of rejected applicants.

So far, they say, about 2 percent of applicants are failing the test

Compared to:

According to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, performed by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, 8.7 percent of the population nationally over age 12 uses illicit drugs. The rate was 6.3 percent for those ages 26 and up.

And:

A 2008 study by the Office of National Drug Control Policy also showed that 8.13 percent of Floridians age 12 and up use illegal drugs.

So welfare recipients use drugs at a lower rate than their state and national counterparts? And the state of Florida is basically breaking even? Ok. Makes sense. A friend of mine posted this on Facebook last night and mentioned that if the government is going to maintain a "you don't get breaks/money from us unless you're drugfree" then they oughta test every executive of corporations that get tax breaks. It's only fair. They probably "cost" the government a shitload more money than those poor minorities welfare recipients do.

[Brownie]

So, in addition to paying employees, job creators now have to post a notice telling them of their rights too?!?

WHEN WILL THIS TYRANNY (which every other federal labor statute requires) END?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11238/1169998-84-0.stm

Not a good time to own a business with any employees.

[Gilgamesh]

So, in addition to paying employees, job creators now have to post a notice telling them of their rights too?!?

WHEN WILL THIS TYRANNY (which every other federal labor statute requires) END?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11238/1169998-84-0.stm

Not a good time to own a business with any employees.

I just don't understand the uproar over this.

It's a bad thing for people to know their rights under the law?

[morpheus]

So, in addition to paying employees, job creators now have to post a notice telling them of their rights too?!?

WHEN WILL THIS TYRANNY (which every other federal labor statute requires) END?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11238/1169998-84-0.stm

Not a good time to own a business with any employees.

I just don't understand the uproar over this.

It's a bad thing for people to know their rights under the law?

Perhaps we could simply reproduce the entire Federal Register in poster form?  Or just the labor laws part?

[Gilgamesh]

So, in addition to paying employees, job creators now have to post a notice telling them of their rights too?!?

WHEN WILL THIS TYRANNY (which every other federal labor statute requires) END?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11238/1169998-84-0.stm

Not a good time to own a business with any employees.

I just don't understand the uproar over this.

It's a bad thing for people to know their rights under the law?

Perhaps we could simply reproduce the entire Federal Register in poster form?  Or just the labor laws part?

Pocket-sized US Constitutions for all!!