Yes. They think freedom of speech also protects conservative commentators from losing their jobs as well and Rush Limbaugh's right to buy a football team.
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan Assistant Attorney General that was stalking and slandering the current U of M student body president who is openely gay, was fired today. Now, of course, there is an uproar about how people cannot be fire for free speech! IT'S AGAINST THE LAWS!!
Yeah, just like it's "free speech" for a pharmacist to deny birth control to his patients for religious reasons.
Shirvell also appeared on a segment of the Daily Show -- he reminded me very much of that judge who was suing a teeny family-owned dry cleaning store for losing his pants. IOW, clueless to how this appeared to anyone else.
Amy, they write homework and in-class tasks up on the board during each session to be written in the assignment books. Mac's often comes home empty, and I have commented on it. I have a conference with them on the 11th. And I get them not wanting to have to check a kid's book, they are trying to teach responsibility, mac is failing that lesson.
Are people, in general, just really that ... dumb?
Ignorant of 1st amendment rights and what they mean? Yes. Very much so. I don't think the ACLU will be taking up the cause on this, at any rate.
And I get them not wanting to have to check a kid's book, they are trying to teach responsibility, mac is failing that lesson.
I ran into that with teachers, too, especially once Jake was past a certain age. I hope they'll work with you. It's really hard to keep on top of it otherwise.
Don't mess with get sick in Texas!
Texas Considers Medicaid Withdrawal
Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid program.
Far-right conservatives are offering that possibility in impassioned news conferences. Moderate Republicans are studying it behind closed doors. And the party’s advisers on health care policy say it is being discussed more seriously than ever, though they admit it may be as much a huge in-your-face to Washington as anything else.
John Cole sez:
Could someone explain how this would work? How does a state secede from a program? What would the practical implication be? Could I pay into SS my whole life while a WV resident, then when I hit 65, I have a stroke and lose control of my senses and decide to move to Texas, and then I would not be able to collect SS? I’m honestly confused. What the hell is he talking about? Could a state secede from the Post Office? Or the Selective Service? Or the VA?
I was that kid too - Never wrote in my homework, told my parents I didn't have any. Eventually my parents and school decided on a system where the teachers would make sure I'd written it down, then my parents would check and sign my book when it was done. Even then I mostly managed to get away with not doing it by forging signatures and/or blatant lying.
The worst part was that every single morning I'd be sick with worry about the trouble I'd be in, and every afternoon I'd find something more interesting to do than homework. Even getting suspended for a couple of days when I was nine or so didn't stop me.
The worst part was that every single morning I'd be sick with worry about the trouble I'd be in, and every afternoon I'd find something more interesting to do than homework.
Heh. Story of my life....
How does a state secede from a program?
Well, that didn't work so well for Texas in 1861, let's hope it doesn't work this time around either.