Oh Palindromedary, that's hilarious! I hope you just chugged a couple for Fourtie's when you saw that urinal. LOL

Many learn with age and maturity a special discernment reveals the overt journalism propagating from Fox News. To me it is shown openly plainly or readily apparent their talking points are not conservative at all. Rather a secret or hidden agenda, very Wahhabi, that is loaded with prejudice teaming in opinions, flash innuendos that constantly refer to President Obama as not being a leader.

That’s funny, with one war over in Iraq, and another winding down in Afghanistan America’s automatic weapons industry is blunted. Or, those who really know, and I say this just in speculation, how much of America’s military weapons have been lost or unaccounted for. No report but the media knows. As a Vietnam vet I know there where a lot of lost stuff.

Another can be said, from particular authors that investigated stories of the Carlyle Group, One of those Canary Island deals, a private investment firm of “Bush One” as a prominent member of the board of directors did sell weapons on the open market. Yikes, with partnerships with the Bin Laden Family. This was written in Gerald Posners Book “Secrets of the Kingdom” 2005 what a gig; the Son makes war the old man sell weapons. Profiteering and treason are the mix that the media is trying to hold the lid on a political pressure crook pot that is busting at the seams.

It is my opinion it is crazy for the average American to run around with a basic training military weapon such as an M16, or even the M14 which I think is tougher. Somebody is selling this stuff in the market place. The concept of a military weapon is just that you can be part of that weapon only if you join the military. That’s the idea to defend the country in the regular army with any advance weapons. This thing about dealerships is not looked at deep enough. Sort of like who let the dogs out. Or this is a WTF moment the military is way too loose to just stand by a watch military grade weapons used in basic training flaunted in the media, and over the counter sales is a total breach of American military security.

Lastly insurance for fire arms is central to the solution. Actually one the NRA will certainly back away from fast.

Ken, thanks for that great advice. I really appreciate the effort blowing all that wind back in my direction.

I would never suggest you change any thing you do. I love your comments the way they are!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go powder my nose and polish my nails.

LOL

PS I did ask Hartmann to stop exactly like you suggested. Please read comment #25

Well Thom,

Dishing out Executive Orders to help keep assault weapons out of the hands of dangerous people as fast as McDonald's dishes out French Fries is fine and dandy with me. President Obama has my full blessing and support.

However, If he fails to do the exact same thing to raise the debt limit and demand no cuts to social programs, I'll definitely jump the fence and hop onto the radical Conservative Bandwagon faster than you can say, "Would you like fries with that order, Sir!"

I might even take over the reigns of that Bandwagon myself! "Yipikiyaahh!!"

BACK to the Topic:

The REAL reason is the 40% increase in bus routes just since 2002. From 5,000 routes to 7,000.

Consolidating and privatizing of schools under Mayor Bloomberg led to more buses carrying the same number of students farther to more destinations. That is the tradeoff for closing neigborhood schools and trying charter schools.

"The fraud of failed schools and the "need" for school choice is behind this dilemma. Each day, thousands of children are needlessly sent out of their neighborhood in a con game that carries the premise that schools are notably better a few miles away."

http://nycityeye.blogspot.com/2013/01/bloomberg-school-choice-policies.html

I know this is happening in the criminal conspiracy called Wisconsin state government under Scott Walker; huge tax breaks were larded out to billionaire business owners, leading to cuts in tax breaks for poor families and to schools. Closed schools require more and longer bus routes to the consolated schools, but fewer teachers now needed, paid at the shocking astronomical wasteful rate of exactly the median teacher pay for the United States.

The bus drivers AVERAGE about $38,000 a year, said Michael Cordiello, president of Local 1181. The agreement Bloomberg is tearing up has been in place for 47 years.

Today you used the word rational in speaking of people other than the crazies who want to be able to march down the street with their AK47 tucked up under their arms. I wonder if the rational people who are acquainted with those people could even confince them to be realistic. I certianly hope they don't go hunting deer with the assault weapons so I guess the only reason for them to have them is kill, kill, kill.

Perhaps we will end up with war in the streets, it is oh so scary today.

You can bet the Republicans would be screaming for gun controls if THEY became the primary targets of the gun nuts out there.

Thanks Ken, a great explanation of reality. We need to make changes in our culture and that takes years. Raise our children to respect their family, friends, country and it's citizens. The golden rule, which is unfortnately missing in our government for the most part. Thanks again for a well written response to over the top reactive ideology.

What? President Obama dares to exercise his constitutionally-mandated powers as president? That's outrageous. (Of course, it's only outrageous when a black democrat does it; when a white republican does it, it's just fine.)

Here's a review I posted about John Mackey's book, "Conscious Capitalism":

John Mackey is a hypocrite.

On the back cover of his book you will see that it is recommended by 5 people, all of whom are billionaires or multi-millionaires. All dedicated members of the 1%. Mackey's brand of "conscious capitalism" is conscious, alright, so in that sense he's telling the truth. But look at his actual business practices and you'll see what kind of consciousness he promotes.

His book says, "You tell the truth to the people you love." Ok, if he's telling the truth about that, he doesn't love his customers and he doesn't want his employees to love customers, either. Let's look at how Mackey's conscious capitalism works out in his actual business practices:

1. A whole Foods butcher told me, "Grass fed beef means that the cattle are fed soy, corn, and other grasses."

I said, "Soy and corn are not grasses, they are grains,"

He said, "Oh no, soy and corn are grasses, all of our meat is grass fed. We don't sell any grain-fed meats."

2. The Whole Foods store in Seattle's University district had a hockey puck-shaped odor control product in the men's room urinals. Specifically, paradichlorobenzene- a cancer-causing brain and nervous system poison. Being chemically sensitive, I got a one-week headache every time I used the bathroom. And toxicologically speaking, the people who are most vulnerable to toxins like paradichlorobenzene are infants, young children, pregnant women, sick people and people with compromised immune systems, and old people. I emailed John Mackey the Conscious Capitalist, and it's been about five years, and he hasn't consciously replied to me. A week after I emailed Mackey, I talked with to the manager of the store, proving everything I said. He said, "Ok, I'll have to look into that." A month later he had not done anything and hadn't contacted me. So I called him again. He didn't call back. I talked with a department manager, who said she would look into it and get back to me. She didn't. I talked with another department manager who said he would get back to me. He didn't. After a year and a half, I told a Whole Foods employee about the situation and told him I was thinking about suing Whole Foods. He said, "I think you should, because if you don't sue them, they won't do anything."

I put a sign on the bathroom door that said, "Danger: Paradichlorobenzene in use. Cancer-causing brain toxin." A Whole Foods security guy came up to me a few minutes later and said, "Did you put that sign on the bathroom door?"

I said, "That depends. Do you use paradichlorobenzene in that bathroom?"

He said, "No, we do not."

I said, "Then I did not put the sign on the door."

He said, "Someone saw you put the sign on the door. I am going to ask you again: did you put that sign on the door?"

I said, "And I am going to ask you again: do you use paradichlorobenzene in that bathroom?"

He said, "No, we do not."

I said, "Then I did not put that sign on the door."

He said, "We do not want you putting signs in our store."

I said, "We do not want you exposing us to that highly toxic chemical."

He said, "You could be arrested for putting that sign on the door."

I said, "That would be an interesting court case: man arrested for informing customers that they are being poisoned."

He said, "We're going to let you go this time, but don't put any more sign on that door."

I said, "I'm going to let you go this time, but quit using that chemical."

A month later, they were still using the chemical.

So I notified Whole Foods of my intention to sue them, and said I would also take the case to the court of public opinion. Within a week they stopped using paradichlorobenzene in their bathrooms.

3. About five months ago I was getting a plastic bag off the roll in the produce department at a Whole Foods store, and realized that all of their plastic bags had a toxic solvent in them. The smell was unmistakeable. I asked an employee, who looked uncomfortable and said, "I don't know anything about that." I asked the store manager, who also looked uncomfortable and said, "Oh yes, we've known about that for over a month."

I said, "Then why are you still letting your customers use those toxic bags?"

He said, "Well, we have to use our remaining stock of bags, and then we'll see if we can get bags from another supplier."

I said, "Why don't you remove those bags right now, and let your customers use paper bags?"

He said, "I don't have the authority to do that."

I said, "So you're telling me that the Whole Foods corporation won't let you stop exposing your customers to that toxic chemical?"

He said, "Yes, that's what I am saying."

4. I have asked three Whole Foods employees if Whole Foods sells grass fed butter. All three of them handed me a butter whose label says, "Summer Butter." The label does not say "Grass Fed," it just says, "Summer Butter." When I pointed out this obvious fact, they all insisted that the butter was grass fed. I said, "If it's grass fed, why doesn't the label say grass fed?" One of them kept insisting that the butter is grass fed.

5. I pointed out to a Whole Foods employee that the grape juice under the "Organic Grape Juice" sign, was not organic. He said, "Sure it is, see the sign?"

I handed him a bottle of the juice and said, "This bottle that was under that sign, does not say organic."

He said, "But it is organic, the sign says it's organic."

I asked him to get a manager. The manager took me around the corner from the "Organic Grape Juice" sign, and showed me the organic grape juice. I said, "Why do you have the 'Organic' sign over the non-organic grape juice?"

She said, "The sign is right by the organic grape juice."

I said, "The organic sign is around the corner from the organic grape juice. The sign is right above the non-organic grape juice. That is deceptive advertising."

She said she would move the sign. An hour later, she had still not moved the sign. I borrowed a magic marker from an employee, and wrote on the sign, "This grape juice is NOT organic. Look at the bottles."

Within two minutes, the sign was taken down.

6. I asked a Whole Foods employee if the food in their salad bar and hot bar was organic. He said, "Yes, it is."

I said, "Why isn't there a sign saying organic?"

He said, "The thing is, if you even touch organic food with a spoon that touched non-organic food, you can't call it organic."

I said, "So, you're telling me that all of the food in these food bars is organic food that has been maybe touched with a spoon that touched non-organic food?"

He said, "Yes, mostly. I mean, there's some food that isn't organic, but almost all of it is."

I said, "Would you tell me which of these foods are organic?"

He said, "Most of it is organic."

I said, "Please be specific. I want to eat organic food. Which of these foods are organic?"

He said, "Almost all of them,"

Looking him very carefully right in the eyes, I very loudly said, "Read my lips! I want you to tell me which of these foods ARE organic."

He said, "Well, most of it's organic. No one knows exactly which ones, but you can eat any of this food, it's mostly organic."

7. I know an organic farmer. Well, he used to be an organic farmer before Whole Foods corporation drove him out of business. Here's what happened: Whole Foods and this farmer signed a contract that the farmer would plant almost his entire farm in pumpkins, and promised to buy all of the pumpkins. Then, a few weeks before harvest time, Whole Foods told him, "We found some cheaper pumpkins, we're not going to buy yours."

The farmer told them, "You signed a legally-binding contract to buy my pumpkins."

Whole Foods said, "Well, you can sue us if you want to, but we will drag the case out for years. It will be very expensive."

Because he could not afford to sue Whole Foods, the farmer's pumpkins rotted in the fields, he could not make his mortgage payments, and he lost his farm.

These are the instances of Mackey's conscious capitalism that I can personally verify. Many other people around the country have other, equally-damning evidence that John Mackey has consciously told his employees to harm customers and lie to customers so that John Mackey can make more hundreds of millions of dollars.

All of the feel-good words in Mackey's book are sound bytes from a guy who is just another lying, destructive republican hypocrite. Oh, excuse me, I should have said that John Mackey is a VEGETARIAN lying, destructive republican hypocrite. Which makes it strange, because usually vegetarians are MORE ethical, not less.

It's all silliness. Every president uses his executive authority. The only difference, Obama uses it less than any recent GOP president.

THE REPUBLICAN CREED

REPUBLICANS believe the government should help the rich live long and prosper.

REPUBLICANS believe the government should let the rich exploit the working classes until they die from hard work and exhaustion.

REPUBLICANS believe the government should let the poor die off from disease and starvation because they never will amount to anything anyway , and are just a drain on the rich.

FACE WALL STREET and say this prayer at the opening and closing of the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

From Jan. 16th. comment; The labels you do not like are a method of identifying those with political beliefs that are completely different from each other. Perhaps you ladies should ask Hartmann to stop using these labels. As far as hostility, I watched a program yesterday on PBS/Frontline, where the first four years of Obama's Presidency where shown. Believe me he was seen as a man that was angry and name calling when it came to the constant blocking tactics the Republicans were using to cripple his attempt to pass healthcare and the Banksters were even more disrespectful when they refused to come to his speech on Wall St. after Obama had given them what they asked for. He was pissed beyond words and he had no trouble being forceful in his expressions and words. The comments made here are not for finding solutions to our problems, we are here to make our separate points! The remarks made here have less affect than blowing into the wind when it comes to policy changes in Washington. If you want to change Washington, go march, nobody but the few people that comment here ever reads this blog! Or you could go on the international web blogs that discuss world problems. I doubt that Hartmann reads the comments made here. As far as not being lady like while making comments, that is one thing I will not apologize for. If you think I am overly offensive contact the webmaster for this blog. As NoFraud stated in his last comment before signing off permanently, this blog and the comments made here by nitwits are irrelevant and actually accomplishes nothing. This comment section is a group of people saying what they feel, Women in general are less confrontational due to the hormonal difference between the female and male human. That is just a fact of life that you see as sexist, on the contrary I am just pointing out the difference between different people and how they express themselves. No one person or persons has the right to tell another how to express themselves. What one person calls hostile another sees it as just being straight and forceful. And calling Obama, Ms. Obama is not a sexist comment, it is meant to imply he is not aggressive as he should be when dealing with the Republicans and the fact they have no problem being aggressive when it comes to dealing with the President