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Delta Offers Gold Status To Victims Of Pyschotic American Airlines Stewardess
What if Mother Mary had Obamacare?
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Lastly, as we sit on the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary were covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor uninsured teenaged woman were provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy?
Chuck Norris is a religious fruitbat. Here’s the argument against covering abortion from a few paragraphs earlier in his column:
One out of three (38 percent) would limit abortion to rape, incest or to save the mother’s life.
Yes – rape. Now please point me to the passage in the Bible where Maria consented to being impregnated.
(oh, and if you want to really upset Chuck, tell him that the women in the Roman time had a birth control method called Silphium. A little plant that was important enough to get its picture on a coin, and was used so much over-harvesting contributed to its extinction.)
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Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of ‘Inclement Weather’
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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Citigroup chairman Dick Parsons, and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack all skipped out on a scheduled dressing-down today from Barack Obama because “inclement weather” made it physically impossible for them to travel to Washington. Convenient!
Obama met with 10 top banking executives, or “fat cats” as he’s taken to calling them these days, to yell at them for not lending enough money and generally being horrible people. But the worst of them, Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein, is among the three that are participating via conference call because fog made it impossible for them to deploy the billions of dollars under their control in service of transporting them bodily to Washington, D.C. this morning.
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Christmas Light Hero
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Mr. Turner’s LinkedIn page says he’s a contractor for nearby Disney Imagineering, with expertise in “non-screen projection, complex distortion correction, moving eye point, spatial illusions and scenic projection,” so he’s apparently no stranger to putting on a show.
Millions of missing Bush admin. e-mails found
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Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.
The two private groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive — said Monday they were settling the lawsuits they filed against the Executive Office of the President in 2007.
It will be years before the public sees any of the recovered e-mails because they will now go through the National Archives’ process for releasing presidential and agency records. Presidential records of the Bush administration won’t be available until 2014 at the earliest.
Coming so soon after the whole climate-email fiasco, I look forward to seeing far-right talking heads attempt to explain why it’s wrong to read these.
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Under the terms of the settlement, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) will restore a total of 94 days of missing emails, which will then be sent to NARA for preservation and eventual access under either the Presidential Records Act or the Federal Records Act. The dates for restoration were chosen based on email volume and external events because there simply was not enough money to restore all the missing emails.
It never ceases to amaze me what the US priorities for spending money on are.
This is kind of petty — one company screws up, and another tries to take just those customers the first company screwed up with.
But the awesomeness of the asskicking American is receiving from Delta makes it WELL worth it. (:
Petty? Hardly! It would be petty if American did nothing, or worse, if they stood by the “written warning”. They may have doomed the passenger to TSA ongoing harassment in all future flights. Futhermore, First Class passengers are often frequent fliers – which means losing lots of repeat business.
OTOH, I’ll grant you that it’s “spiteful”, especially given the history between American Airlines and the Delta exec.