Bernie Sanders gives John McCain an uncomfortable moment asking him if the VA is socialized health care, and if he or anyone else in the Senate is advocating doing away with it.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's nominee for surgeon general is a Catholic best known for founding an Alabama clinic that treats the poor, but her lesser-known support for abortion rights puts her at odds with her church and some of the groups that have praised her work.

Obama to gays: Don't ask me

Gays always seem to get thrown under the bus by the politicians who are supposed to love them.

President Bill Clinton disappointed his gay supporters with "Don't ask, don't tell," a policy that opened the door to the military for gays, but only if they stayed in the closet.

Now, President Barack Obama is reneging on campaign promises to make things right. He is leaving "Don't ask, don't tell" just as it is.

Letting them serve their country shouldn't be so much for gays to ask of presidents who received such overwhelming support from them.

Now that the military is fully integrated by gender, there doesn't seem to be much of an argument for keeping gays out. Sexual relations between male and female soldiers run the full spectrum, including marriages, pregnancies and, unfortunately, assaults. And the armed forces are handling it.

Obama should keep his promise. This is an outdated and discriminatory policy that deprives the military of good soldiers. If gays want to fight and die for their country, they shouldn't have to beg.

Particularly not of a president who vowed to embrace them.

An Illinois teen knew he was too drunk to drive home after a Dave Matthews Band concert south of Milwaukee. So he fell asleep in his car, only to be awoken by a state trooper. Travis Peterson, 19, of Dixon, Ill., said even though he told the officer he was drunk and sleeping it off, the trooper ordered him to leave because the lot was being cleared.
Once out of the parking lot, Peterson was arrested for drunken driving. He was subsequently found guilty and ordered to spend 60 days in jail.

A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday commended Peterson for doing the right thing by trying to sleep it off, and said the trial court was wrong not to let him argue that police had entrapped him.

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And one for kdog (you think you're paying too much for smokes!)

A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.

Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number--a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).

a good time to reflect on where you were at the time.
as for me I was in Nancy Thomas' basement and with her parents away I was getting to third base for the very first time.

Some of her choice quotes:

she compared anal sex to "shoving a straw up your nose to drink," for example, and in a speech supporting the continued criminalization of sex between men (which she called "acts of gross indecency") let loose gems such as "You cannot make a human wrong a human right" and "Diversity is not a license for perversity."

Of course the students are in an uproar, and Dr Thio claims that she is a victim here. lol...

link via MeFi

Glad someone is watching the store while congress tries to cram through more bad legislation.