BigRed0427 posted:

Quick question, where the gently caress did the free phone come from? Is that even true?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

And as much as the right is screeching about giving free things to Those People if memory serves a significant driver for it was disaster warning. Entire areas had no phone service whatsoever partly because telecoms wouldn't wire up places that weren't likely to be profitable until the government forced them to and partly because some entire neighborhoods/towns/areas were full of people who couldn't afford phones. It would take them days to get mail or people out to send a message the rest of the world and say "hey there's a gigantic disaster hitting we're going to panic, warn you, and ask for help." It would take longer for the disaster services to even hear about the disaster which meant poo poo just got worse as it was not mitigated. But if everybody has a phone within short walking distance then it's a quick 911 call and the appropriate authorities know that poo poo Just Got Real.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

i'm trying to identify all the things which are specifically illegal in that plan

-renting your own residence through section 8
-claiming a kid on your taxes for the credit but not including your income in SNAP/Obamacare calculations
-pell grant money not spent on tuition, fees, on-campus housing, books
-false disability claims

anything else?

Jurgan posted:

Also, "Why don't those lazy poors get a job!?"

At the top of all job application forms: "Home Phone Number"

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Yeah I never understood that, how do people expect someone to schedule an interview (possibly multiple) and then receive the job offer if they don't have access to a phone or email? Do they still think you just walk in, ask for an interview, get the interview immediately, then get the job offer that same day?

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Yeah I never understood that, how do people expect someone to schedule an interview (possibly multiple) and then receive the job offer if they don't have access to a phone or email? Do they still think you just walk in, ask for an interview, get the interview immediately, then get the job offer that same day?

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Yeah I never understood that, how do people expect someone to schedule an interview (possibly multiple) and then receive the job offer if they don't have access to a phone or email? Do they still think you just walk in, ask for an interview, get the interview immediately, then get the job offer that same day?

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Got this posted today by my brother in law:

It included a picture of "white trash":

THE 2015 USA WELFARE PLAN

For a guy and his girlfriend with two kids. Follow these proven steps.
1. Don't get married to her.
2. Always use your mom's address to get mail.
3. The guy buys a house.
4. Guy rents out house to his girlfriend who has 2 of his kids.
5. Section 8 will pay $900 a month for a 3 bedroom home.
6. Girlfriend signs up for Obamacare so guy doesn't have to pay for family insurance.
7. Girlfriend gets to go to college for free being a single mother
8. Girlfriend gets $600 a month for food stamps
9. Girlfriend gets free cell phone
10. Girlfriend get free utilities.
11. Guy moves into home but continues to use moms house to get mail sent to.
12. Girlfriend claims one kid and guy claims one kid on taxes. Now you both get to claim head of house hold at $1800 credit.
13. Girlfriend gets disability for being "crazy" or having a "bad back" at $1800 a month and never has to work again.
This plan is perfectly legal and is being executed now by millions of people.
A married couple with a stay at home mom yields $0 dollars.
An unmarried couple with stay at home mom nets.
$21,600 disability +
$10,800 free housing +
$6,000 free obamacare +
$6000 free food +
$4,800 free utilities +
$6,000 pell grant money to spend +
$12,000 a year in college tuition free from pell grant + $8,800 tax benefit for being a single mother = ---------
$75,000 a year in benefits
Any idea why the country is 18 + trillion dollars in debt?

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Man, my feed is filled with stupidity.

My cousin (that was a nurse until she decided to homeschool her children because they only learn a month's worth of knowledge in public schools and now her children learn important skills like how to clean a gun during school):

Image is a velociraptor with the text "If a fetus is not alive, why is a person who kills a pregnant woman charged with double homicide?"

taiyoko posted:

I'm pretty sure that it's not double homicide, it's homicide and unlawful termination of a fetus.

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Yeah I never understood that, how do people expect someone to schedule an interview (possibly multiple) and then receive the job offer if they don't have access to a phone or email? Do they still think you just walk in, ask for an interview, get the interview immediately, then get the job offer that same day?

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Earlier this week, Mary Hasson broke the news here at the Federalist that federal funds went to Planned Parenthood’s salad-munching, wine-sipping, organ-harvesting Dr. Deborah Nucatola for advice on “healthy baby” births.

Hasson requested all communications and documents relevant to any payments to or compensation of fees, consultant fees, reimbursements, etc. to Deborah Nucatola, MD, a Planned Parenthood employee. And she requested that the documents be sent as soon as possible.

The Freedom of Information Act requires the federal government to be transparent, but successfully receiving information from the Obama Administration has gone so poorly — even more poorly than previous administrations — that many media outlets have resorted to suing the federal government to get them to respond to FOIA requests.

In March it was announced that the Obama administration had set new records for censoring information, outright denying access to information, and length of time to fulfill requests. They also, “refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy,” according to the Associated Press.

Since FOIA requests can routinely take years to fulfill, if they’re ever filled, Hasson requested that the Health and Human Services FOIA office expedite her request. She wrote:

“The public has a right to know of any federal monies going to Dr. Nucatola in light of the video, released by the Center for Medical Progress, that includes remarks by Dr. Nucatola that raise questions about whether federal laws may have been violated regarding patients’ informed consent for fetal tissue, and conflict of interest. Expedited processing required because of planned or pending Congressional hearings and the public’s demand for transparency on this issue.”

You’ll never guess what happened next.

HHS denied her request for expedited information on the compensation and payments given to Nucatola. They claimed it didn’t fit the public’s “urgent” right to know:

“Further, in order to meet second prong of the compelling need standard, the requested information must be the type of information that has a particular value that will be lost if not disseminated quickly, and ordinarily refers to a breaking news story of general public interest.”

HHS is arguing that the Planned Parenthood scandal, the very same one that has Planned Parenthood honcho Cecile Richards panicking and running every public relations response in the book, is not a “breaking news story of general public interest!”

To be sure, while HHS denied Hasson’s expedited FOIA request, they could at some point in the years to come respond to Hasson’s simple information request. Or, then again, maybe not.

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Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, has been struggling with $72 billion in debt and soaring unemployment. The Pew Research Center calculates that the island’s population dropped by 11,000 people a year in the 1990s, but between 2010 and 2013, the loss accelerated to 48,000 a year.

This year, with economic problems growing, the number leaving for the mainland is even higher.

Puerto Rican voters tend to lean Democratic, but a great number of the newcomers do not identify with any party, making them appealing targets for politicians and recruiters on both sides. Like those living in other U.S. territories, people in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president in the U.S. general election.

“Everyone remembers that George W. Bush won Florida by 537 votes in 2000. You are talking about 1,000 families coming here a month. It’s stunning,” said Anthony Suarez, president of the Puerto Rican Bar Association in Florida. He has helped organize a bipartisan forum that he calls “Political Salsa” to engage newcomers on the issues.

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The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has many problems. For starters, it will run out of money next year, which could mean 20-percent benefit cuts. The program also suffers from excessive wait times, complicated rules and procedures, inconsistent decisions, deficient rehabilitation services and insufficient protections against fraud.

Introducing an optional, private disability insurance component could ease the program’s financial problems and improve the physical and economic well-being of the disabled. Private disability insurance providers face a bottom line—if their premiums can’t cover costs, they go out of business. SSDI faces Congress—and therefore can escape financial reality. Can’t cover costs? Just ask Congress to hike raises, a request that lawmakers have a hard time refusing. Since 1956, the SSDI tax rate—taken direct from every paycheck—has more than tripled.

But competition keeps private insurers from hiking premiums whenever they want more money. If they increase prices without providing better benefits, they lose clients. Taxpayers, however, can’t opt to take their SSDI tax payments and shop elsewhere.

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Legendary Jewish comic Jackie Mason joined the list of critics of the nuclear deal signed between world powers and Iran Sunday, jesting that New York restaurants face a harsher inspections regime than Iran’s nuclear facilities will under the terms of the agreement.

Speaking during an interview to air Sunday night on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM, Mason, an outspoken advocate of Israel, quipped that US Secretary of State John Kerry should pay the American people back for the cost of his airfare to and from the Iran talks.

“First Obama said we can inspect them any time, any place, whenever we please. Now it turns out ‘whenever we please’ except when they don’t allow it. If they don’t want it it’s up to them. So then we have to wait 28 days [sic] to inspect, as if to say for the 28 days we can trust them completely, because they’ll do nothing. They’ll just hold the bomb in front of us waiting for us to come so they can show it to us. That’s how stupid this negotiation is to us,” he said.

“Do you know that in the restaurants of New York, they have an inspection system. You can surprise any restaurant without notice that you can walk in and inspect them… So we are protected in this city from a bad tuna fish. We’re not protected from a bomb but we’re protected from a bad quality of a tuna fish,” Mason joked.

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The city’s Public Works agency is testing a pee-repellant paint on walls in areas that have been saturated with urine. Anyone urinating on the specially treated walls will get the spray splashed back onto them.

San Francisco’s director of public works, Mohammed Nuru – whose Twitter handle is @MrCleanSF – got the idea when he read on social media about the use of the paint in Hamburg, Germany’s nightclub district to stop beer drinkers from relieving themselves in the street.

The paint, called Ultra-Ever Dry, is sold by Ultratech International Inc and is billed as a superhydrophobic coating that will repel most liquids.

“The urine will bounce back on the guys pants and shoes. The idea is they will think twice next time about urinating in public,” said Rachel Gordon, a Public Works Department spokeswoman. She said the super-hard coating made the “bounce back” effect much stronger than when peeing on a regular wall.

From the comments…

“In Los Angeles this was one of many stories that aired on the news. Stupid just got stupider in San Francisco. I have a garage on the alleyway that is slightly set back and had a pee problem from the vagrants who bicycle the alley looking for aluminum cans. I installed a shower head attached to the garage that hung 10 feet over the pee spot, attached the water line to a motion detector and water solenoid. Included in the circuit was a high beam light, also controlled by the motion detector. One evening I saw the light come on, heard a yell and when I opened the back gate I saw a very wet man riding away on his bicycle. After a few douches of cold water, no more pee problem. I suggest if SF really wants to clean up these area’s, do the same … except use reclaimed water as the source.”—Patrick

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Federal law bans the sale of unborn babies’ body parts. In fact, it’s a criminal act. However, the devil in this case is literally in the details. The law provides a massive loophole, allowing payment for a whole range of things associated with selling aborted babies organs, including “reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.”

Planned Parenthood is exploiting this deadly loophole, claiming that it is in full compliance with the law because it supposedly doesn’t “profit[] in any way” from this grotesque business practice. In fact, Planned Parenthood’s first response to the videos was to assert, “There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for . . . Planned Parenthood.”

This is a boldfaced lie.

Planned Parenthood, according to it’s own reported data, commits 327,653 abortions each year, which it brags is “40 percent of the market in the whole country.” According to Planned Parenthood’s Director of Medical Research, abortionist Deborah Nucatola, the going rate for babies’ body parts is “anywhere from $30 to $100.” And according to the president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Directors’ Council, abortionist Mary Gatter, “maybe 60% to 70%, but a large percent of patients we approached would say yes” to having their aborted babies’ body parts harvested.

Conservatively, Planned Parenthood could be taking in between $5,897,754 and $22,935,710 annually from selling aborted babies’ body parts. That’s a lot of “Lamborghini” Diablos.

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Fulchrum posted:

D. Countries that wasted billions when they managed to crash a space probe by directing it in feet and inches, and people who didn't.

Fulchrum posted:

Whereas if you give that guy a handgun, suddenly, totally a fair fight.

Fulchrum posted:

"And where does the government get off deciding who can enact a genocide and who can't?"

Mo_Steel posted:

You were saying?

Fulchrum posted:

Anyway, THIS WEEK IN LL 101!

Fulchrum posted:

Poizen Jam posted:

Why yes, teens do make a lot of dumb decisions, therefor it's a good idea for them to have easy access to birth control. You wouldn't want them to need an abortion, would you?

Cowslips Warren posted:

So many people about PP selling baby organs. Not fetus. Of course. My question, which has always been shot down or I've been told I need to "stop believing the liberal lies and read something adult" is just, let's suppose PP -is- selling fetal body parts. To who? Seeing as most abortions are way early on and the fetus doesn't have any real easy parts to remove safely where you could use them on another (fetus? An already born child? Are there COMA or Spares vats somewhere where they use magic sci-fi to age tissues and livers to fit adults?) person. So who is buying them? Did China stop making tiger penis soup in favor of American Baby soup?

Forceholy posted:

Yes. Apparently, you can get a trade job by walking up to a foreman or manager, shaking his hand and telling him you want to work. Apparently, it's still the 70s.

Fulchrum posted:

The loophole of being reimbursed when they pay to provide tissue for research.

Twelve by Pies posted:

There are people who unironically believe this still works: Report: 95% Of Grandfathers Got Job By Walking Right Up And Just Asking

PUGGERNAUT posted:

lol how old are these fuckers, is that seriously the most recent "authority figure in over his head" they know from the tv?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I really, really hate having conversations about my personal situation with people because they always say "well did you..." as if I'm a dumbass that didn't think of something. A lot of people do seriously, genuinely believe that there is effectively infinite demand for labor and anybody that doesn't work is just lazy. Ideas like "discouraged workers" or "there are several million fewer jobs now than there was 10 years ago" just won't register. The average time somebody waits to find a new job after losing one has gone up dramatically and "I can have a new job by dinner time" just isn't a thing but that of course doesn't stop people from assuming that it is.

darthbob88 posted:

Or the fact that there are more people looking for work than jobs for people to do. Unless you can in fact poo poo gold bricks, "Just get a job" isn't an option any more.

PhantomZero posted:

I brought this up to my dad and he suggested minorities and other jobless should "create jobs" then if they couldn't find one.

PhantomZero posted:

I brought this up to my dad and he suggested minorities and other jobless should "create jobs" then if they couldn't find one.

PhantomZero posted:

I brought this up to my dad and he suggested minorities and other jobless should "create jobs" then if they couldn't find one.

Wiggles Von Huggins posted:

This isn't crab mentality. This is "I already have it and now I am mad that you have it." Does this have a name?

Wiggles Von Huggins posted:

This isn't crab mentality. This is "I already have it and now I am mad that you have it." Does this have a name?

Keeshhound posted:

gently caress You, Got Mine.

Or "FYGM."