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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Hagel safe as blast rocks Afghan defense ministry, killing 8
edited 8th Mar '13 10:35:27 PM by DeviantBraeburn
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All White House tours are free of charge, although you do have to set it up months in advance and they can be cancelled without notice. It is and always was an expenditure.
I'm not really sure how much the government can do to stop individual schools and teachers from making (poor) decisions like that except in broad strokes. But it's certainly demonstrative of a nation that is seemingly incapable of having a rational, dispassionate debate on how to treat firearms.
When you're talking at a national level, it's pretty much a given that you'll be able to find examples of schools fumbling the ball anyway, just due to the huge sample size.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.I know it's a little thing, but I like how completely insane that exchange was. First there's this idea that it's the cuts to the White House tours, not, oh I don't know, fucking education that are going to hurt students, then Newt decides that Donald Trump ought to be the paragon of altruism who steps up to the plate to help, and then Trump responds with a total non-sequitur about Korea. It's just great.
edited 9th Mar '13 11:09:48 AM by HilarityEnsues
GOP: Democrats' budget will ‘crush American workers’
Critics hold the line on pro-Obama lobbying group: 'Shut it down'
Republicans: Postal Service has green light to end Saturday mail delivery
Obama warns sequester could derail February jobs surge
There's commercials where I live now urging me to call my Congressmen and ask them to prevent the shut down of mail delivery and Saturday. Mostly by saying that they can pay for themselves and so on.
Also, I'm pretty sure Obamacare does things like care for people with pre-existing conditions, by making sure that the insurance companies can't turn you down for that reason. I'm not quite sure how the Republicans are expecting to sound revolutionary with this new plan of theirs.
Obama to name Thomas Perez as new labor secretary
Something that was recently linked in this thread said that McCain had a plan for a guarantee of health services to patients with pre-existing conditions as part of his healthcare platform during the '08 election. So even if Democrats have been pushing for this for a long time, the Republicans can trace a portion of the healthcare reform (namely, the bit about treating patients with pre-existing conditions) as their own from an era before Obama. If Democrats have had something like this in their agenda long before the '08 election, I'm sure that's all irrelevant to one of the two major parties in US politics.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.Obamacare was based on Romney's healthcare proposals. That's what makes the opposition to it so ridiculous. It's literally just because it's Obama's. Studies have shown that if you show people all the individual mandates, they love them—until you attach Obama's name to it.
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Right, Obama's cancelling them because he doesn't care about students. Honestly I think they're making too big of a deal out of this. It's annoying but there are far more important things that we should be worrying about.
edited 8th Mar '13 7:52:17 PM by Kostya