KaskadskyjKozak

We've always known you prefer snails to oysters. NTTAWWT

as an aside, i though i recall from my boy scout days that it is in fact disrespectful to turn a flag into a piece of apparel? Abby Hoffmann caught a lot of shit for his American flag shirt in the early 70s. sure did, and thus my confusion at how, since then, all super-duper patriotic americans gotta have a flag on their hat, beltbuckle, tit, whatever - especially the teaparty types who bring the total flag custom to its logical extreme. Don't forget the ridiculous, obligatory, post-9/11 lapel pin...

Just think how much tax revenue could be raised right now at all the OWS protests if legal weed was being sold at park-side vending stands. Lost opportunity....

Because they are all dumbasses.

as an aside, i though i recall from my boy scout days that it is in fact disrespectful to turn a flag into a piece of apparel? in other words, wearing a flag patch on a uniform is cool, but making a shirt out a flag or of what appears to be a flag is not. no difference to me, mind ye, red n white horizontal strips make me look too goddamn chubby Right, but I don't recall the story about them making a flag into a shirt.

Racial tensions aside, in my opinion this should be no different than allowing the WBC folks' the right to protest at funerals. I don't like the decision in this (CA high school) case, cuz it's still totally a free speech issue to me. The American-flag-wearing students should not have been forced to remove their shirts. Looks to me like the school administration kowtowed to the Latino student population to avoid an altercation. That's a pretty poor motivational basis, if you ask me. I know that the decisions reached in Snyder v Phelps and the CA high school flap were made by two different courts, but I see a distinct lack on consistency in these two rulings as they currently stand. It's OK for the WBC to drag out signs and banners and protest loudly, condemning GLBTs in a most flagrant and insensitive manner, in effect endorsing hate speech. Yet, it's not OK for students to wear a T-shirt with an imprint of an American flag upon it on a day wherein another culture celebrates its national heritage. The question to ask oneself here is this: "Were any Latino students who wore T-shirts espousing their national heritage also required to turn their shirts inside out?" If the answer to that question is "no", then this is a distinct case of discrimination and the court's decision is flawed. Heaven forbid that American students in America at an American school should dare to wear a shirt depicted an American flag.

crickets

Unions paid independent scholars to do a study which is far cry from "scholars" working for a think tank entirely financed by corporations. AEI is a propaganda outfit and one of the worse. Nothing more. Oh, now I see. Academics paid by AEI - bias. Academics paid by Union - no bias. There is clarity. No, no, no, Jim. Can't you read, you corporate shill?!? Unions paid scholars, not "scholars". Get it? And the unions paid *independent* scholars! More clear? And the unions just paid them. But AEI is a *think tank*!! Get it - the loaded term - it really makes the point! And this *think tank* ENTIRELY financed the "scholars". ENTIRELY! They didn't just pay them, they financed them. Entirely. Learn to read, f-wit!

Fixed your bias. Sounds pretty much analogous, dipshit.

fire some administrators and/or cut some high-end pensions and you could finance that.

His anecdotal experiences are far more useful than your blathering.

...as opposed to your incessant spew of verbal diarrhea effecting any change in government.

Again and again we hear about how much money Division I sports programs bring in to a school, but fuck it sure costs a lot to run those programs, now doesn't it. Why again are education costs going through the roof? Never mind, no matter, j_bot and prole will just make it "free".

j_bot regularly exhibits his two-faced inconsistencies, claiming to stand for one thing as he bashes capitalism and the private sector in one breath, while using the same practices as an excuse to rationalize what occurs in the public sector in the very next breath.

How long do I need to stop posting before you off yourself? It is very tempting.

We're there, bro! There's actually a metric used to measure this. WE'RE 44TH! Believe it or not, you might have seen it mentioned earlier in this thread if you were paying attention. Oh, it's awful. How DO you refrain from slitting your wrists?

Not as catchy as Obama.

Feel free to tell us exactly how you would change the compensation structure of CEO's compared to the rank-and-file fixing your oft-cited wealth gap. Let's hear some concrete explicit steps rather than typical progtard whining and hand-waving. I would think the oft-cited charts would make that answer obvious, roll back the "Reagan Revolution": retie wages and benefits to gains in productivity, enforce rules against union busting, tax the shit out of the global casino, deficit spending in the near-term to fund infrastructure and improvements in education while putting people to work, limit the access and influence of corporate cash in the political system, re-regulate finance, break up the big banks and/or run them as public utilities, close loopholes, limit tax offshoring, and prosecute avoiders and evaders, write off onerous debt for homeowners facing foreclosure, reduce health care costs by the only means available, a national single-payer health care system, penalize corporations seeking to reduce environmental and labor costs through offshoring and other 'race to the bottom' advantage-seeking behavior, tighten rules around repatriation of corporate profits, etc. Darn, did I mention CEO compensation? Sounds like a great recipe for an immediate and total economic collapse. And I sure don't see anything individual - or combined set of changes - actually changing the fact that there are always a very few very rich who run everything and the vast majority living at a much lower standard.

Any attempt by congress to legislate upper limits on compensate would go into court-gridlock and you damn-well know it. Tell us all again how smart you are. Aborted "graduate coursework", notwithstanding.

Yeah, that would be constitutional.

Feel free to tell us exactly how you would change the compensation structure of CEO's compared to the rank-and-file fixing your oft-cited wealth gap. Let's hear some concrete explicit steps rather than typical progtard whining and hand-waving. Crickets.

C'mon now - we've already had two! Clinton was the first, after all.