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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Oct 16, 2014 - 11:41am PT
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He got the axe. Did some weird shite behind the scenes, too. Probably deserved it.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 16, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
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ok, that's all well and good, but... how about evidence to the fact of the OP...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Would any of you republican fools follow this mans advice?
Taking advice from anyone this well tended to this well follicly and dermatologically who also makes millions can only benefit him.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 16, 2014 - 06:20pm PT
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I like the way he references Katrina. Kinda ironic, considering the title of this thread.
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Oct 17, 2014 - 03:51am PT
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libs promote diversity and hypocritical hilarity ensues...
student is accepted to ALL female wellesly college and promptly declares she is actually a man (“masculine-of-center genderqueer” to be exact) and is warmly welcomed...new male/former female student at ALL female wellesly college applies to be "multicultural affairs coordinator" to promote a “culture of diversity” on campus...diversity promoting students at ALL female wellesly college declare new male/former female student's application to be "inappropriate" because “Having men in elected leadership positions undermines the idea of this being a place where women are the leaders”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/when-women-become-men-at-wellesley-college.html?_r=0
why are libs so hateful? will eric holder investigate? will barry speak?
winston smith is dead
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Oct 17, 2014 - 05:51am PT
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how government spends your health care tax money:
"...the agency has spent $2,873,440 trying to figure out why lesbians are obese, and $466,642 on why fat girls have a tough time getting dates. Another $2,075,611 was spent encouraging old people to join choirs.
Millions have gone to “text message interventions,” including a study where researchers sent texts to drunks at the bar to try to get them to stop drinking. The project received an additional grant this year, for a total of $674,590.
The NIH is also texting older African Americans with HIV ($372,460), HIV and drug users in rural areas ($693,000), HIV smokers ($763,519), pregnant smokers ($380,145), teen moms ($243,839), and meth addicts ($360,113). Text message interventions to try to get obese people to lose weight have cost $2,707,067.
The NIH’s research on obesity has led to spending $2,101,064 on wearable insoles and buttons that can track a person’s weight, and $374,670 to put on fruit and vegetable puppet shows for preschoolers.
A restaurant intervention to develop new children’s menus cost $275,227, and the NIH spent $430,608 for mother-daughter dancing outreach to fight obesity.
Sexual minorities have received a substantial amount from the NIH. The agency has now spent $105,066 following 16 schizophrenic LGBT Canadians around Toronto for a study on their community experiences.
The total for a project on why gay men get syphilis in Peru is now $692,697 after receiving additional $228,425 this year. The NIH is also concerned about postpartum depression in “invisible sexual minority women,” with a study that has cost $718,770.
Millions went to develop “origami condoms,” in male, female, and anal versions. The inventor Danny Resnic, who received $2,466,482 from the NIH, has been accused of massive fraud for using grant money for full-body plastic surgery in Costa Rica and parties at the Playboy mansion.
How transwomen use Facebook is the subject of another NIH study worth $194,788.
The agency has also committed $5 million to “mine and analyze” social media to study American’s attitudes toward drug abuse, and $306,900 to use Twitter for surveillance on depressed people.
The NIH has also spent $15,313,372 on cessation studies devoted to every kind of smoker imaginable. Current studies are targeted at American Indians ($2,899,954); Chinese and Vietnamese men ($424,875); postmenopausal women ($4,151,850); the homeless ($558,576);Korean youth ($94,580); young schizophrenics ($397,802); Brazilian women smokers ($955,368);Latino HIV-positive smokers($471,530); and the LGBT community ($2,364,521).
Yale University is studying how to get “Heavy Drinkers” to stop smoking at a cost of $571,799. Other projects seek to use Twitter to provide “social support to smokers” ($659,469), and yoga ($1,763,048) as a way to quit.
An NIH project studying sighs cost taxpayers $53,282.
On Tuesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) had to outsource efforts at an Ebola vaccine to the Baltimore-based Profectus BioSciences Inc. The company will receive $8.6 million to research and test their vaccine, a fraction of NIH funding that went to the above projects."
lib response: more government spending
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2014 - 06:38am PT
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So the government spends a few million dollars investigating various ways to get people to stop smoking, and you get all worked up?
Get a life, dood.
(BTW, smoking related health problems costs BILLIONS.)
(Oh, and does that right wing source you cite actually dig into the science of those studies, or does it just perform a cursory glance, looking for studies that sound silly but really might be scientifically sound?)
And speaking of billions...
Where is your outrage over the hundreds of billions of dollars your chickenhawk buddies flushed down the shitter in pursuit of that winning cause, the Iraq War?
(Crickets...)
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2014 - 07:12am PT
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Was I talking to you scratch?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Oct 17, 2014 - 07:20am PT
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Sketch usually hears voices when he's wearing the magic underwear...
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2014 - 07:42am PT
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Sketch you are a tiresome little bore.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 08:26am PT
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Was I talking to you scratch?
Dude... your talking to all of us....
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Oct 17, 2014 - 09:10am PT
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barry's spox assures us about ebola there are many responsible people responsible for their responsibility but these responsible people are not responsible for the responsibilities of the other responsible people because that would be irresponsible
so, now, barry names a "ebola czar" to be responsible for overseeing our response to ebola; his qualifications for this new responsibility are quite responsible:
"A former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and also to then-Vice President Al Gore, Klain is currently president of Case Holdings and General Counsel of Revolution, an investment group. He has clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court and headed up Gore’s effort during the 2000 Florida recount."
of course, we should not confuse the responsibilities of this responsible person with the responsibilities of this other responsible person:
"the woman who heads that office, Dr. Nicole Lurie, explains that the responsibilities of her office are “to help our country prepare for, respond to and recover from public health threats.” She says her major priority is to help the country prepare for emergencies and to “have the countermeasures—the medicines or vaccines that people might need to use in a public health emergency. So a large part of my office also is responsible for developing those countermeasures.”
Or, as National Journal rather glowingly puts it, “Lurie’s job is to plan for the unthinkable. A global flu pandemic? She has a plan. A bioterror attack? She’s on it. Massive earthquake? Yep. Her responsibilities as assistant secretary span public health, global health, and homeland security.” A profile of Lurie quoted her as saying, “I have responsibility for getting the nation prepared for public health emergencies—whether naturally occurring disasters or man-made, as well as for helping it respond and recover. It’s a pretty significant undertaking.” Still another refers to her as “the highest-ranking federal official in charge of preparing the nation to face such health crises as earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and pandemic influenza.”
one thing is for sure, you can never have too many responsible people in responsible positions to avoid barry bearing any responsibility for any of the responsibilities of the presidency
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Oct 17, 2014 - 09:20am PT
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 09:34am PT
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We probably wouldn't need an Ebola Czar if the Republicans would allow appointment of a Surgeon General.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Oct 17, 2014 - 09:39am PT
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 10:13am PT
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No, no, TGT, NOT Sturgeon General, you oaf!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 10:52am PT
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Any ideas how to fix that?
Yeah:
Dump the bosses off your back. [Click to View YouTube Video]
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 11:23am PT
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That's a good start, Sketch.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Oct 17, 2014 - 11:42am PT
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Sketch, that kinda Progressive talk from you is freaking me out.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 11:43am PT
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Why does Sketch want to punish the The Job Creators?
He's a commie. Somebody get bluering on the blower.
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