Goon one: That McDonald’s coffee lawsuit was bogus. Of course coffee is hot!
Me: Um, here’s transcripts from the trial where McDonald’s own people stated A) they kept coffee pretty darn hot, B) served it that hot, C) never thought about checking how safe that was or how bad it could burn someone.
Goon two: They didn’t serve it too hot. That’s a lie.
Me: It’s in the court transcripts. Their own people admitted it. They lost the case.
seems to be that you run out of things to say when you actually have to write.
Or is that just me?
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley dropped some late night vetoes back into the collective lap of the SC legislature Thursday. She struck out 81 lines in the budget which included the usual right wing bugaboos of education and the arts.
What’s most striking, though, is the Governor’s veto of funding for a number of public health concerns. From the Charleston City Paper:
$453,680 for the Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, $100,000 for the Bleeding Disorders Premium Assistance Program, $500,000 for the Office of Rural Health Benefit Bank, and $100,000 for the James R. Clark Memorial Sickle Cell Foundation. Haley explained these vetoes in the Department of Health and Environmental Control budget by writing, “Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement, but nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina’s chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency’s broader mission of protecting South Carolina’s public health.”(emphasis added)
Now, as many of you know (or could easily figure out), I am not religious and naturally one of the things that bothers me is that so many people speak of America as a Christian Nation. Generally, I find that sentiment to be not only historically inaccurate, but also politically untenable.
But it is language like this that truly disturbs me, since it makes it plain that these pious people are not actually interested in any of the teachings of Jesus.
To paraphrase the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25 Verse 40 “What you have done for the least of these, your brothers and sisters, you have also done this to me”.
So, in this case, the Governor of South Carolina has told Jesus, “Fuck you. You’re on your own. There’s just no way I’m going to spend money on the small number of people in this state who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault (which I find hard to believe) or those with blood disorders or those who just live out in the boonies.”
It’s quite clear from the actions of the right that they haven’t the first clue what is in the Bible. So, could we just drop the nonsense that we’re a Christian Nation?
Can someone tell me if there’s some memo from the DNC telling people that anytime someone points out exactly how similar the views of President Obama and Governor Romney are, that they must immediately be painted as one of those “both sides are bad, vote Republican” independents?
Because that’s really disingenuous and annoying.
Thanks.
Two hundred and thirty-six years ago today (give or take a few days since some guys didn’t sign until later and some, I think, signed earlier), our Forefathers in their infinite wisdom took the first fledgling steps out of the politics of the Middle Ages into the Enlightenment, throwing off hundreds of years of monarchy in a quest for political independence that would give each (land-owning, educated, white, male) citizen a voice.
Later, they would craft a document meant to give this new government the ability to grow, adapt, change, and thrive as the times required (you know, as we extended that voice to the rest of the country).
And today, we live in a country where a large number of people want to just take us right back to how things were in 1776, claiming they are merely following the vision of the Founders.
You know, those “conservatives” who threw off the deadly “progressive” rule of King George and the British Empire.
So, Happy Independence Day!
Pretty much sucks once you have children.
