The Way I See It!

The GOP has told us that increasing taxes (taking away tax breaks) for the rich will kill/hurt the creation of jobs. Here is a question for the mindless followers. Taxes are lower for the rich than they have been in some 40 plus years. President Obama has NOT increased the tax burden on the rich regardless of what you may think or have heard. So, if the tax rates are at a 40 year low and all the "Bush tax breaks" are still in place and any increase will kill the jobs creation....wait for it...WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN JOBS MR. SPEAKER? WHERE ARE THE JOBS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED BY LEAVING THE TAX RATES IN PLACE? Oh wait that's right, there are modest increases due to the actions of our president of which you and your circus fools had nothing to do with and tried harder to cause their failure than you did implementing an alternative plan of your own. SO PLEASE SHUT UP ABOUT JOBS AND TAXES UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT EACH! 

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I am sitting in a Wendy's restaurant while my family shops for gifts nearby. I bought a large order of fries to snack on while I wait and use the free wi-fi. I had eaten about half before they were cold, so I started to throw the rest away. When I got up to do so an older man who had been sitting nearby with a woman I assume to be his wife, asked if he could have the fries I was throwing away. I obviously said yes...and after the initial shock I went to talk to the manager. I explained what had just happened and I thought they may be homeless or at least without money for food. I then gave her money to buy them as many items from the "value menu" as $10 could buy. I know it may not be much but I hope it will help them feel a little better even if only for one day. Many heartless souls will say they are freeloaders or they perhaps created the situation that has put them where they are. To those people I say good luck if and when there is a judgement day. A little back sto...

Fear Not By: David Pittman Twenty-four years ago I learned that being gay was no different than being straight. I became aware that sports were not simply what everyone assumes to be a “manly activity”. I learned that gay men were no less manly just because they are gay. I learned that gay men do not in fact find all other men; including those who are not gay attractive, and thus they do not want to molest them. I learned that straight men can never understand the stigma (that comes often from within) from not being, what others view as “normal”. I learned that parents who do not teach acceptance, are not much different than those who teach hate and fear. From the outside looking in you may think you understand me, or at least that you want to try. That being said, I should warn you first that everything you may think you know; you are most likely mistaken. Of course that is normally the case when society tries to understand the gay community. So I might add, instead of trying...

I wanted to share something that happened to me several years ago while working security at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY. I share this for two reasons. First, I would like to know if I am wrong for being disturbed by this? And second, does anyone know if this is this a normal/regularly occurring event? Part of our job as security was to allow access to the morgue after hours for those who might ever need it. One night I was sent to allow a ob/pediatrics nurse into the morgue to retrieve a baby which was to be taken back up to the mother several hours after the birth/death. Mind you, I unlocked the door to allow the nurse into the morgue to seek out a baby that was born dead or died during birth or on the outside died shortly after birth. I point that out because I am not totally sure of the nature of the death. Anyway, I then had to walk with the nurse back to her floor as some sort of escort; I assume because there was a body involved. I can't remember if ...

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  8/1/2011 Countdown With Keith Olberman Special Comment I close, as promised, with a Special Comment on the debt deal. Our government has now given up the concept of right and wrong. We have, in this deal, declared that we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all political incumbents are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Re-nomination, re-election, and the pursuit of hypocrisy. We have, in this deal, gone from the Four Freedoms to the Four Great Hypocrisies. We have superceded Congress to facilitate 750 billion dollars in domestic cuts including Medicare in order to end an artificially-induced political hostage crisis over debt, originating from the bills run up by a Republican president who funneled billions of taxpayer dollars to the military-industrial complex by unfunded, unnecessary, and unproductive wars, en...

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