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kpete's JournalRand Paul: Parents ‘OWN’ Children, Not the State, So Vaccines Should Be Voluntary
Parents “own” children? What sort of libertarian believes human beings are property?
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) doubled down on his position that most vaccines should be voluntary, suggesting Monday that mandated immunization is an example of government overreach.
“The state doesn’t own your children,” Paul said in an interview with CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.”
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In a heated interview with CNBC host Kelly Evans, Paul expressed support for vaccination but bristled at the idea that it should be mandatory.
“I guess being for freedom would be really unusual,” he said sarcastically at the start of the exchange.
Paul also acknowledged hearing about cases in which healthy kids were left with “profound mental disorders” after being vaccinated.
MORE:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/231501-rand-paul-the-state-doesnt-own-your-children
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44286_Rand_Paul-_Parents_Own_Children_Not_the_State_So_Vaccines_Should_Be_Voluntary
just like abortion. oh. wait. RT @Olivianuzzi:
What Rand Paul's press office is saying about his vaccine comments:
https://twitter.com/7im/status/562379904952442880
The City That Outlawed Free Food
Michelle Chen on February 2, 2015 - 12:25 PM ET
Homeless advocate Arnold Abbott, 90, serves food to the homeless with the help of volunteers on November 5, 2014, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Governing public space often boils down to basic social discipline. Some cities try to reduce littering by removing trash cans—thus limiting people’s options for tossing garbage in public. And some cities now apply this rationale to homelessness: by passing laws that bar homeless people from public places. Fort Lauderdale has taken this social engineering to its logical extreme by restricting “food distribution,” effectively giving those who help the homeless no place to feed them—because all that free food only encourages public displays of hunger.
But Fort Lauderdale’s Food Not Bombs activists say the real crime is a ban on acts of public generosity. The punk-inspired grassroots group just bit back with a lawsuit fighting for their right to engage in weekly demonstrations to promote peace and social welfare, and to illustrate this communal ethos by distributing morsels to bystanders in need. They assert that their modest gesture in Stranahan Park is an exercise in free expression.
Fort Lauderdale’s ordinance restricting food distribution in public was passed last October in an effort to, according to city officials, manage use of the park, deter behavior that “enables” homelessness and to “ensure food safety and health”—evidently by keeping free food safely out of the hands of the hungry.
But the city made international headlines by nabbing an activist with a local organization, fittingly called Love thy Neighbor, as they distributed meals. The 90-year-old humanitarian Arnold Abbott proclaimed at the time, “you cannot sweep the homeless under a rug…. There is no rug large enough for that.”
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MORE:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/196689/city-outlawed-free-food#
Sweet or creepy?
Sweet or creepy? Bill Belichick celebrates Super Bowl win with passionate father-daughter kiss
http://nydn.us/1EBljOm
Obama plans to tax US companies-Apple/Microsoft/Gen'l Elec Would Face Bills Of 10bn+ On Offshore $$$
Barack Obama sets out plan to tax US companies on $2tn profits held abroad
Apple, Microsoft and General Electric would face bills of $10bn or more under president’s budget proposal for one-off levy plus 19% tax on offshore cash
Barack Obama’s plan to force US multinationals to pay tax on the more than $2tn (£1.3tn) of profits they hold offshore could boost US GDP by 1.5%, with major corporate names such as Apple and Microsoft facing bills of $10bn each.
In his budget presented on Monday, the president set out proposals to make companies pay a 14% one-off levy on their cash held offshore followed by a 19% tax on future profits earnings.
Andrew Hunter, economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said the one-off tax could raise at least $238bn and would increase US GDP by about 1.5% if it was used to fund new infrastructure. He said the stock of earnings held abroad by US firms has increased sixfold since 2002 to $2.1tn, led by companies in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors.
“The biggest holders of foreign cash within these sectors, such as Pfizer, Apple and Microsoft, would face payments of around $10bn each,” said Hunter, adding that the permanent tax on future foreign profits could raise up to $600bn over the next 10 years.
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MORE:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/02/barack-obama-tax-profits-president-budget-offshore
Koch Brother's Ballots
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/koch_brothers_ballots_20150202
It's a 1% world, we just live in it
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obscene private jet exodus from the Phoenix area
https://twitter.com/7im/status/562116115032076288
The lazy moochers of the 47%
Here's one:Pudgy of form, shod in heavy work boots, Robertson trudges almost haltingly as he starts another workday.
But as he steps out into the cold, Robertson, 56, is steeled for an Olympic-sized commute. Getting to and from his factory job 23 miles away in Rochester Hills, he'll take a bus partway there and partway home. And he'll also walk an astounding 21 miles.
Five days a week. Monday through Friday.
It's the life Robertson has led for the last decade, ever since his 1988 Honda Accord quit on him.
Every trip is an ordeal of mental and physical toughness for this soft-spoken man with a perfect attendance record at work. And every day is a tribute to how much he cares about his job, his boss and his coworkers. Robertson's daunting walks and bus rides, in all kinds of weather, also reflect the challenges some metro Detroiters face in getting to work in a region of limited bus service, and where car ownership is priced beyond the reach of many.
But you won't hear Robertson complain — nor his boss.
"I set our attendance standard by this man," says Todd Wilson, plant manager at Schain Mold & Engineering. "I say, if this man can get here, walking all those miles through snow and rain, well I'll tell you, I have people in Pontiac 10 minutes away and they say they can't get here — bull!"
As he speaks of his loyal employee, Wilson leans over his desk for emphasis, in a sparse office with a view of the factory floor. Before starting his shift, Robertson stops by the office every day to talk sports, usually baseball. And during dinnertime each day, Wilson treats him to fine Southern cooking, compliments of the plant manager's wife.
"Oh, yes, she takes care of James. And he's a personal favorite of the owners because of his attendance record. He's never missed. I've seen him come in here wringing wet," says Wilson, 53, of Metamora Township.
With a full-time job and marathon commutes, Robertson is clearly sleep deprived, but powers himself by downing 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew and cans of Coke.
"I sleep a lot on the weekend, yes I do," he says, sounding a little amazed at his schedule. He also catches zzz's on his bus rides. Whatever it takes to get to his job, Robertson does it.
"I can't imagine not working," he says.
'Lord, keep me safe'
The sheer time and effort of getting to work has ruled Robertson's life for more than a decade, ever since his car broke down. He didn't replace it because, he says, "I haven't had a chance to save for it." His job pays $10.55 an hour, well above Michigan's minimum wage of $8.15 an hour but not enough for him to buy, maintain and insure a car in Detroit.
As hard as Robertson's morning commute is, the trip home is even harder.
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the rest:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-lazy-moochers-of-47.html
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/01/31/detroit-commuting-troy-rochester-hills-smart-ddot-ubs-banker-woodward-buses-transit/22660785/http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/01/31/detroit-commuting-troy-rochester-hills-smart-ddot-ubs-banker-woodward-buses-transit/22660785/
"accidental"?...never --- "negligent"?... always
3-year-old toddler in New Mexico shoots father, pregnant mother(CNN) — A 3-year-old boy shot his father and pregnant mother over the weekend inside a hotel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Police say the boy removed a handgun from his mother’s purse Saturday and fired one shot, striking his father in the lower backside.
The bullet apparently exited through the father’s hip and hit the mother in the right shoulder. She is eight months pregnant, said Officer Simon Drobik of the Albuquerque Police Department.
The father was treated and released from the hospital while the mother was hospitalized in stable condition. The condition of her unborn child is unknown.
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http://pix11.com/2015/02/01/3-year-old-toddler-in-new-mexico-shoots-father-pregnant-mother/
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