[/quote]raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:00 pm
“They start with the children, conditioning them because it helps the ducks and the geese for example. So, it must be a good thing because it helps people.”
ABC News 4 @ABCNews4 wrote: Video footage shows former state senator John Kuhn knock down a man with his vehicle after the man attempted to stop Kuhn from leaving the scene of a collision he caused. (Provided)
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I agree. For being standard par-for-course it fit with other pre-teen and adolescent comedies on TV. There were many episodes that had teachable moments, but I guess "The Ricker" never learned a thing.
*$150k.neonzx wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:22 pmI agree. For being standard par-for-course it fit with other pre-teen and adolescent comedies on TV. There were many episodes that had teachable moments, but I guess "The Ricker" never learned a thing.
Wonder if Rick got back the 50k he contributed to Kyles bond...
Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner Martin O’Malley warned that raising the retirement age for the program would disproportionately hurt blue-collar workers, the day after the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released a proposal to raise the age.
The RSC, which comprises nearly 80 percent of House Republicans, released a budget proposal on Wednesday that would raise the age of Social Security eligibility “to account for increases in life expectancy,” though it did not provide specifics. The current full retirement age for the program is 67.
“[Americans] want their government to strengthen [Social Security] and expand it — not to cut it, contract it or gut its customer service,” O’Malley said at a House Ways and Means committee hearing on Thursday.
“For those who would advocate raising the age, I think we have to be mindful of people who do hard work their whole lives, and die sooner,” he said.
Democratic lawmakers slammed the RSC budget proposal.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that Americans should be forced to work till they drop dead,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said.
“Underfunding of SSA is an attack on hard-working Americans and their earned benefits — this is no entitlement, but earned benefits,” Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) said.
Republicans largely avoided the topic during the hearing.
The RSC proposal noted Biden supported raising the age from 65 to 67 as a senator in the 1980s. It said action on Social Security was again necessary given projections that the program will be insolvent within a decade under the status quo.
“With insolvency approaching in the 10-year budget window, Congress has a moral and practical obligation to address the problems with Social Security,” the RSC proposal read.
Biden has proposed raising payroll taxes on Americans earning over $400,000 in order to keep the program fully funded.
In recent years, Americans' life expectancy has been DECREASING.The RSC, which comprises nearly 80 percent of House Republicans, released a budget proposal on Wednesday that would raise the age of Social Security eligibility “to account for increases in life expectancy,” though it did not provide specifics. The current full retirement age for the program is 67.
Full story here: https://cardinalnews.org/2024/03/24/for ... n-charges/According to the biography on his website, which is no longer online, Fariss is married, and he cited his wife, Crystal, and their three children as the reason he was running for office. His website also described him as “first and foremost a Christian family man committed to serving his family and community.”
Philly Boondoggle Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’
Civil rights group denounces congressmember Tim Walberg’s calls to ‘get it over quick’ as a ‘clear call to genocide’
Ramon Antonio Vargas
Sun 31 Mar 2024 11.00 CEST
Rather than provide humanitarian aid in Gaza, the US should ensure it is subjected to atomic bombing the way that “Nagasaki and Hiroshima” were at the end of the second world war, a Republican congressman said in shocking remarks that by all indications were recorded recently at a gathering with a relatively small group of his constituents.
The comments by US House representative Tim Walberg of Michigan drew condemnation from progressive political quarters, including from some who expressed disbelief that a former Christian pastor would advocate for what they called the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
“A sitting US rep in a secret town hall feels comfortable musing privately about genocide,” said a user on X who circulated video of Walberg’s comments late Friday. A reply to that comment read: “Exactly what Jesus would do, right?”
Entries on Walberg’s congressional calendar – along with videos on social media – establish that he met with members of the public in Dundee, Michigan, on 25 March. As Mediaite recounted Saturday, a clip of the session that was posted on YouTube and other sites, and recorded by an activist, showed Walberg telling his audience that the US should not spend a “dime” on humanitarian aid in Gaza, where Israel has been carrying out a military campaign for months.
The aid would be better spent on supporting Israel, which Walberg labeled the US’s “greatest ally, arguably, anywhere in the world”.
“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” Walberg said, alluding to the Japanese cities where the US dropped atomic bombs at the end of the second world war, killing hundreds of thousands of people. “Get it over quick.”
Walberg also spoke in favor of affording similar treatment to Ukraine, which has been defending itself from a Russian military invasion since 2022. But Walberg said the purpose there would be to topple Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s forces expeditiously rather than spend the bulk of US “funding for Ukraine … for humanitarian purposes” as the war there dragged out.
“Defeat Putin quick,” Walberg said.
Once video footage of Walberg’s pronouncements went viral, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement denouncing the congressman’s declarations as a “clear call to genocide”.
“This … should be condemned by all Americans who value human life and international law,” Cair’s executive director, Dawud Walid, said in a statement.
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x4 Walberg overlooks the fact that Putin has nuclear weapons with which to respond.“Defeat Putin quick,” Walberg said.
He thinks that Russia will ever surrender to Ukraine?Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) clarified Sunday that his comments that Gaza should be “like Hiroshima and Nagasaki” were not literal, backing off remarks that many interpreted to be endorsing the use of nuclear weapons.
Walberg made the comments at a town hall meeting with constituents last week, with a video going viral in recent days. He said that the U.S. “shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” in the Israel-Hamas war and that Gaza “should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick. The same should be in Ukraine.”
In a statement Sunday, Walberg said the words were merely a metaphor.
“As a child who grew up in the Cold War era, the last thing I’d advocate for would be the use of nuclear weapons,” he wrote. “In a shortened clip, I used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible, without putting American troops in harms way.
“My reasoning was the exact opposite of what is being reported: the quicker these wars end, the fewer innocent lives will be caught in the crossfire,” he continued. “The sooner Hamas and Russia surrender, the easier it will be to move forward. The use of this metaphor, along with the removal of context, distorted my message, but I fully stand by our allies.”
Wait up here.
If I remember my 1970's WMD controversies rightly a Neutron Bomb would kill every one in range, leave infrastructure intact, and produce little or no radiation nasties.
In this sickening article, Root makes the case that Trump is a true miracle sent by God to save America. That Trump is 'The Chosen One' sent by God and blessed by God.
