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Re: Joe Biden, a Meme for All Seasons

LauraNo — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:00:17 -0000

Romney had nothing to do with ending up with a black grandchild. Having one says nothing about him and less about what he would do for people he has never known or cared about, unless they are Mormon?

Re: Why White Women Continue to Back the GOP

LauraNo — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:03:09 -0000

Was "chicks" and "gals" necessary?

Re: This is Who We Are

LauraNo — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:22:57 -0000

The thing to to think about is why do white people (60%ish) vote for the all-white party over and over and against theirs and the country's interest? Hint: they're white.

Re: What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries

LauraNo — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:53:03 -0000

Nope. Not "anyone", a person has to have a medical emergency. Try going to the ER for your bladder cancer and see where it gets you.

Re: The GOP Has a Mad Max Problem

LauraNo — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:05:16 -0000

They just make stuff up, you know. Cognitive dissonance is always hovering right there. and must be warded off.

Re: Donald Trump and the Apocalypse

LauraNo — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:26:53 -0000

IT IS NOT A WALLED CITY. So many liars, so little time...

Re: Donald Trump and the Apocalypse

LauraNo — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:25:57 -0000

I see I will need to correct commenters here every third or fourth comment if I don't get out of here. The Vatican is not walled in, and you do not need a visa to visit it. cc FOB Cobra

Re: Donald Trump and the Apocalypse

LauraNo — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:22:33 -0000

No it doesn't. Sheesh. I am assuming you will trust PJ Media. https://pjmedia.com/trendin...

Re: The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria

LauraNo — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:42:47 -0000

It's so cute to think Scalia "thought' racism was a thing of the past. Guess he never read a poll concerning republican attitudes towards other people.

Re: The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria

LauraNo — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:41:01 -0000

The Supreme Court is only tasked with the legal, NOT anyome's idea of what is 'moral'.

Re: The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria

LauraNo — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:39:19 -0000

Yes it does.

Re: The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria

LauraNo — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:37:42 -0000

I just mentioned that case too. He was a biased ideologue but some people are now trying to reform his reputation.

Re: The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria

LauraNo — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:35:56 -0000

Judicial restraint: over ruling legislation when it offends rightwing sensibilities, ie the Civil Rights Act (which hardly anyone had ever thought unconstitutional up to the day he trashed it). Appointing a president along partisan lines instead of counting every vote wasn't very 'restrained' either.

Re: Journalist Starts ‘Rubble Bucket Challenge’ to Bring Attention to Gaza

LauraNo — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:24:50 -0000

I can't believe what I am reading from people here. So much hate!

Re: California government forces Catholic colleges and insurers to cover elective abortion

LauraNo — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:54:19 -0000

"Employees of the college, of course, are perfectly free to buy their own abortion coverage or to pay out of pocket to abort their unborn children, making RH Reality Check's claim nonsense."

Both of these things are true but they do not apply to RH Realty Check's claim, which you helpfully cited in THE PRECEDING SENTENCE: "will deny faculty, staff, and administrators seeking abortions coverage of the procedure ..." as one group, RH Reality Check, put it." See where it says "will deny (insurance) coverage of the procedure??? You wrote this post and you don't know what you have quoted? No where did they claim what you pretend they did, that people will be unable to buy coverage or pay for their abortions. Tsk, tsk.

Re: This Time, It's Different: The Conservative Response to Ferguson

LauraNo — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:44:00 -0000

Funny. The riots didn't double. Why anyone would think that is beyond me in the first place.

Re: Scrooge is Alive and Well

LauraNo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:32:56 -0000

The magical world where McDonald's pays $15 an hour? It's Australia. http://www.theatlantic.com/...

Re: Scrooge is Alive and Well

LauraNo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:28:15 -0000

Tell that to Australia. Next lame argument, please, that one is toast.

Re: Scrooge is Alive and Well

LauraNo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:25:12 -0000

"A rudimentary understanding of the demand-supply curve shows that minimum wage laws will create unemployment."

When did this last happen? Show us which companies went out of business because they had to pay a bit more.You are aware the minimum wage is raised fairly frequently, right? When republicans are not free to wreak all the havoc on the non-rich as they can manage, that is. I think a rudimentary bit of common sense would tell you, if people with very little money have more, they will spend it. Not on yachts or jewelry from other countries, but at grocery stores and day cares right here at home. Not in off-shore secret accounts but on the back rent. Any customer so sensitive to a 5 cent, or 20 or 50 cent rise in burger costs that they will forgo the burger, will just spend the burger money on something else, perhaps a couple of movie rentals. It doesn't hurt the economy at all.

Re: Scrooge is Alive and Well

LauraNo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:17:28 -0000

You are concerned with an increase not being based on performance? Do you know how productivity has increased on average, throughout the economy and how wages have either stagnated or declined on average, across the economy" The workers making $7/ hr 5 years ago are still making $7. Performance raises are a totally different thing from minimum wages.

Re: Scrooge is Alive and Well

LauraNo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:13:58 -0000

You want people and families TO RENT A ROOM just so our biggest corps can continue paying out-of-this-world ridiculous 'salaries' and 'bonuses' to already filthy rich people? Or dividends to same rich people? Geez, are we so far down the rabbit hole people can say this with a straight face??? How about, instead, people with enough money they can waste it on lousy fast food and made in China fall apart merchandise pay 5 cents a burger more?

Re: Scrooge is Alive and Well

LauraNo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:06:20 -0000

It has nothing to do with boomers. It has to do with 1) voters and 2) people too lazy or too stupid to know they should vote. Fascism walked right in the front door while they were either watching FOX or Real Housewives and we now have an oligarchy making the rich richer, the poor poorer with the help of corp owned networks and newspapers, and politicians bought and/ or threatened by ALEC and the NRA and the Kochs and their henchmen, and ideological judges in courts all over and all the way up to the Supreme Court, Unless you want to make the argument that republican voters are all boomers...

Re: How Pope Francis Misunderstands the World

LauraNo — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:33:58 -0000

It's not hate against conservatives, it's disgust. They are doing everything they can to advance corporate fascism on behalf the the already super rich out of hate, resentment, stupidity, pretend fear of socialism (as reasonable as their unreasonable fear of communism was or of Islam is) or whatever reason they have. What they do not care about is the strength of the American middle-class and how THAT spreads out to help everyone, including the very rich.

Re: How Pope Francis Misunderstands the World

LauraNo — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:24:50 -0000

You didn't answer the question. In fact, you veered miles around it. I don't care, and no one should, where anyone gets their money if it was obtained legally. Back to the subject matter: how will the world be better if the church stops accepting donations?

Re: How Pope Francis Misunderstands the World

LauraNo — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:20:37 -0000

Why? Is the Atlantic supposed to only print that which you agree with? How will you ever hone your thinking?