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January 9, 2014

Recall election process info page on NJ state website is down

Under recall election petition tab, click link on
http://nj.gov/state/elections/candidate-recall-election-process.html

and you get this error :

The page you have requested cannot be displayed because it does not exist,
has been moved, or the server has been instructed not to let you view it.




Want to bet Christie does not know about that either?

December 21, 2013

US Rep. Jack Kingston Proposes That Poor Students Sweep Floors In Exchange For Lunch

Perennial asshat Jack Kingston wants poor kids to work for their lunch..

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) wants kids to learn early in life that there's no such thing as a free lunch. To make sure they absorb that lesson, he's proposing that low-income children do some manual labor in exchange for their subsidized meals.

On Saturday, Kingston, who is vying to be his party's nominee in Georgia's Senate race next year, spoke at a meeting of the Jackson County Republican Party about the federal school lunch program.

Under that program, children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty line are eligible for free meals. Students from families with incomes between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level can receive lunches at reduced prices.

But on Saturday, Kingston came out against free lunches, saying that children should have to pay at least a nominal amount or do some work like sweeping cafeteria floors.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/jack-kingston-school-lunch_n_4467711.html


This dipshit then doubles down on his remarks and states he never said "poor kids" and this was all the fault of "Democrats who he said planted a tracker to film his comments".


http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/jack-kingston-school-lunch-quote-101377.html

He is running for US Senate Seat here, I hope he gets creamed.

December 21, 2013

best tweet yet re: duck dynasty

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November 4, 2013

Alligator found in O'Hare airport in terminal # 3

Police whisked 2-foot long “Allie’’ the alligator into a box after it was spotted it under an escalator at O’Hare Airport Friday morning.

A maintenance worker made the bizarre discovery in the lowel level of Terminal 3, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. The unexpected trespasser was later transferred into the care of the Chicago Herpetological Society.

By Sunday, Allie, an American alligator about 3-years-old, was still “in distress ’’ from Friday’s incident and was suffering from a metabolic bone deficiency, which likely means its diet was poor and lacked calcium for some time before Allie was found, according to a spokesman for the Chicago Herpetological Society.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-small-alligator-startles-officials-at-ohare-20131103,0,129357.story

Glad someone found this lil guy. Good luck lil dude.

November 3, 2013

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October 12, 2013

Protesters demonstrate outside Paul Broun's Athens office

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Signs stating “Don’t Cruzify America” and “End the Shut Down” greeted travelers on the Atlanta Highway by the Georgia Square Mall — the location of Rep. Paul Broun’s office — Friday afternoon as about 25 protesters waved their displeasure at the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government...

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-10-12/protestors-demonstrate-outside-paul-brouns-athens-office

I so want this dipshit to lose his U.S. Senate bid. I doubt we'll be able to win his House seat here with it's heavily gerrymandered district( thanks GA state Repubs), but just having him lose the Senate bid would be a change for the better.

July 24, 2013

Cute video of sea otter teasing cattle dog

I think most animals are curious and playful, like this lil one.

July 8, 2013

Google homepage today is a Roswell UFO inspired game you can play.

You can play as a Alien crashes landing on Earth. Cute.
The Roswell incident was on July 8th 1947.
http://www.google.com/

December 19, 2012

Help for one of UGA's littlest ones , teeny tiny preemie baby

Hi Georgia DU er's & DU.
Please consider helping this family with the preemie baby. Thanks!
the bench scientist

http://onlineathens.com/uga/2012-12-18/uga-workers-raise-funds-co-workers-infant-daughter

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