#20 | Posted by BillJohnson

And, if they're barely surviving on beans and rice or handouts at the end of the month, that's on them. I am not, however, going to deny them a splurge when some special occasion comes up like an anniversary, birthday, ...what have you. If they have to cut corners elsewhere to make up for a kid's birthday cake, again, it's on them. All about that "personal responsibility" you "conservatives" like to preach about rather the nanny state impinging on your choices.

Eddie Hazel does not get enough love or recognition.

Ten dollars of food from a grocery store goes a lot further than from a fast food restaurant.

This hot/cold debate sounds inconsistent on the surface but it really isn't if you look at the big picture.

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson

And if you do that, you run out of money well before your next benefits come. I would expect people to figure that out pretty quickly.
How they spend that benefit is their business.

Joe Maphis - Fire On The Strings

Don't they read backwards?

#18 | Posted by REDIAL

Considering their written language is considerably older than ours, it might be said you have that backwards.

It only has 8 operational aerial tankers.
#13 | Posted by oneironaut

Probably because they have no need.
Taiwan is close enough to not need them. They're not projecting power anywhere else. Their military doctrine doesn't require them.
Getting the Navy within missile range of the Chinese mainland won't go well.
Their subs are getting real good, too.

We're going to waste a couple of generations digging the country out of the rubble of the last few GOP administrations.

Electing a D student who bankrupted six casinos who raped children on tape was a really bad idea.

#15 | Posted by Nixon

The "media" not making more of this should certainly put the lie of "the liberal media" under a microscope.

I'd feel right at home. That's California prices!

#18 | Posted by donnerboy

I wish.
$5.49 at the Indian casino station, $5.99+ in town.
About 2 hrs north of SF on 101.

You mean she's not tearing up the road to get back to hubby?
Tell me more about Republicans' devotion to "family values".

We've been headed down this road since the Homeland Security bill passed after 9/11, if not before.

Nobody better be depending on my tourist dollars this year.

And nothing but nuclear fear mongering from pissed Ol' Pete to justify any of it.
Kinda like trashing a working nukes deal with Iran was a STUPID move.

I thought some n the left want to ban beef.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger

Those people are called Vegans. Nobody serious takes them seriously.

Any hope of "friends" in Iran ended with combover Caligula's first term.