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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Re: Republitards want drug testing.... again... surprise!

Wo is das Scott Ryan?

Typical Dem.....Once again, Studo proves that like most of his clueless brethren, he hasn't a clue about who he is even talking about.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM, studio <tlack@hotmail.com> wrote:

On May 17, 8:14 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Its a dem bill here!
>
> PURE dem

That bill is going no where in Mass., so stop complaining about it.

But it is a pure Republitard bill in 4 other states...
Including one passed and signed into law in Florida by Gov. Scott Ryan
(R-tard).

And conveniently enough; Scott Ryan just happens to own a company
called Solantic...
which does drug screening!

This bald headed uncle Fester looking creep should be voted out of
office.

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New Yorkers on benefits face fizzy drinks ban

CATO released a study last week (http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv34n1/regv34n1-3.pdf)

reported in mainstream media like the Washington Post that showed that the nanny state Obamanoids plans for taxing or prohibiting sugary drinks would just mean that consumers would choose to have extra cake or pie with their sugar free water, tea or coffee.

Somewhat like the 70s empirical study by Univ Chicago's Sam Peltzman that showed that mandatory seat belt use meant drivers felt safer, drove faster, and killed more pedestrians.

I'm have connectivity problems else I would google up the link for you, but you can look for it yourself on www.Cato.org

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Mario LAF <mario@libertarian.co.uk> wrote:

New Yorkers on benefits face fizzy drinks ban

Page last updated at 05:06 GMT, Thursday, 2 June 2011 06:06 UK
Dave Howard By Dave Howard

With a month to go before the height of summer, temperatures in New York
are already hitting 30C (86F).

For Dennis, Johnson and Javii, playing basketball in the Bronx, it's the
kind of weather for a refreshing fizzy drink.

"Soda's good for us," says Johnson.

Dennis is even sure fizzy drinks can help with medical problems: "If you
have a stomach ache," he says, "What does your mom buy?"

He answers his own question: "Ginger ale, right? That's a soda."

Twenty-three-year-old Dominique Pleasant is sitting nearby with her two
daughters. They're all drinking cans of cola.

Like more than a quarter of people in the Bronx, Dominique qualifies for
food stamps.

"Food stamps is free money from the government to purchase food," she
explains.

"It's for people on low incomes, single parent families like us or
people that don't have a job."

'It's stupid'

It's estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers claim food stamps.

Now the city's waiting to hear if the federal government in Washington
will allow a ban on spending food stamps on fizzy drinks.
Dennis, Johnson and Javii Dennis, Johnson and Javii enjoy a fizzy drink
while playing basketball

Health officials say it's to cut obesity and tackle illnesses like diabetes.

"I think it's stupid," says Dominique. "It makes no sense. The air we
are breathing is bad but they aren't trying to stop that."

New York has seen a long line of moves lately to try to improve public
health.

It's just banned smoking in public parks. Chain restaurants have to put
calorie counts on menus.

There's been a series of hard-hitting adverts on local TV warning of the
dangers of fizzy drinks.

Officials say it's about helping people make the right choices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13618342

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JP 4 june in history

1039 – Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.

1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.

1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1794 – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

1802 – Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.

1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.

1825 – French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.

1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.

1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.

1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.

1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.

1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.

1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.

1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.

1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.

1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.

1928 – President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.

1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.

1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.

1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.

1961 – In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.

1965 – Duane Earl Pope robbed the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime landed Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.

1967 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.

1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1973 – A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.

1975 – Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.

1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.

1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.

1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army.

1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.

1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.

1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.

1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

2001 – Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.

Re: Torture’s Comeback

On Jun 3, 5:05 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's a terrorist?
> ----
> if you don't know by now you never will

That's not a very good definition.
You sure you aren't a terrorist?

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Re: Obama Flouts the War Powers Resolution

On Jun 3, 1:46 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Some may wonder why Obama didn't ask Congress for authorization, since he could surely have gotten it. Greenwald knows why: "The Obama White House is simply choosing not to seek it because Obama officials want to bolster the unrestrained power of the imperial presidency entrenched by [the Bush administration]."

Yeah, I was gonna say the precedent was set by Bush Jr.
Now the opposition who set the precedent, doesn't like the
precedent... Surprise Surprise Surprise!
Well golly gee overzealous paranoid duped hicksters. Nothing you can
do about that now.

Anymore precedents you wanna set?
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Oh and how about that $12 million helicopter Homeland Defense bought
for the State Of New Jersey?
The governor is using it to go to his sons baseball games and meet
with people wanting him to run for Prez.
Now that's some fine governing Christy Chris.