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Bruce Leroy posted:Unpaid internships should really be against the law, they should at least pay minimum wage. Regular employees are trained frequently trained by their employers and are paid during their training, so no one should have to forfeit earning a living just because employers are greedy and want to get free work from someone desperate to break into an industry. Ah, I called this student teaching.
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Has anyone here heard about NATO taking over the US through martial law? My brother in law made a Facebook post about it with the claim of "google it to find the truth". I did and it lead to a bunch of UFO sites, etc... This was my response: "Conspiracy theory bs. NATO cannot take over the US mainly because the entire military might of NATO depends on the US armed forces. If you add all the other countries' militarized together, they would not even come to 50% of our military might. This was supposed to happen in August but nothing. These types of fictional stories are what perpetuate the new world order/illuminati paranoia found in the "militia" groups."
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I got the North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan border meme from a high school acquaintance. I responded with how he apparently wants the US to be like those countries and I asked what other policies he would enact like those countries. His response was "stop giving away free poo poo to those breaking the law.....poo poo paid for with my taxes." I told him that "admitting that you support fascism and communism (real communism) is the first step to take". He promptly deleted the entire post. VICTORY!
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Jan 21, 2013 03:35
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SalTheBard posted:I saw the whole "OBAMA FLEW FLAGS FOR WHITNEY HOUSTON BUT NOT CHRIS KYLE" macro posted today so I responded. While typically I ignore the dumb poo poo Ralph posts and very rarely do I argue with him I take this as a personal victory! I saw that too on my facebook. I rebuked it and gave the snopes lonk. Original poster never responded and ended up talking about music with someone else who commented. Suddenly, ignoring everything I posted he stated that he talked a post office worker on a government installation who said Obama ordered it to be half-mast. I ignored it because the conversation had shifted to another topic. Next time though, I am going to rebuke him and then call him out for the truth not mattering, only his warped reality filled with lies. I will also say that moments like these make all his other statements seem suspect.
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Can someone repost the response to the college class socialism scenario? I tried to find it but I cannot. A cousin posted it but it is now in video form.
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Mar 5, 2013 00:21
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Thanks for those responses. Here is the video in all its glory. http://youtu.be/3h8O7V-WxWQ
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Mar 5, 2013 01:29
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I know someone posted a link back to a website showcasing and listing all the weird things the bible allows. Could someone repost that? I searched google but could only find one that gave a random quote without categories.
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Mar 28, 2013 01:24
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I saw today some in fighting on Facebook. Several people I am friends with post constant image macros from a group called "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children". Today, the image macro was how no one cares that a US soldier died in Afghanistan but they are all upset that some reality tv star of MTV died. This same group posts something similar when any celebrity dies so that did not stand out. Later on in the day, I saw that they had another post about it. Apparently a lot of the people who follow this group were offended by this previous post because they referred to the kid as a addict and an idiot. So this new post pretty much blamed all of the offended people for this kid's death. The fighting was magical.
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This link got posted in my news feed. http://www.causes.com/actions/1742344-51st-state-is-it-time-for-illinois-to-split I told the poster that every state has this problem and that even if it did happen, they would just find another city to bitch about. I tried to find some cold hard facts to back up that rural areas need metropolitan areas (such as taxes brought in by chicago that gets spent in rural areas) but I could not find anything specific. Does anyone have anything that they know of?
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Apr 13, 2013 03:51
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I would probably this youth pastor is simply looking at it from an observer's perspective and without empathy. I consider myself a functionalist so I try to see everything as "what purpose/good can come from this". This is easy when it is from that outsider's perspective but if you put me into an active engaged member of the situation, I may not feel the same way. If this pastor was placed in that situation, he may not be asking why he did not pray enough.
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My Facebook has been blowing up with this link. (I.e. At least some people respect the 2nd amendment) http://m.effinghamdailynews.com/effingham/pm_112941/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=wFHHpLMV Several state's attorneys have came forward and said that they will use prosecutorial discretion to not prosecute conceal carry laws as long as the person is not breaking another law. I mentioned to one person how this is could be a lawsuit waiting to happen (you choose not to prosecute these people so why choose to prosecute me). I also asked what the parameters are if their discretion(can I take a gun into schools, etc). I feel though that I am missing other union tended consequences of this inaction. Any other ideas?
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I think the better response is obviously those examples and hundreds more can lead to the even better logic that males (possibly white males most of the times) should not have guns.
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I tried to find it by browsing the last of the thread but I could not. I remember someone posting about "the lead vaccine developer comes clean so she can sleep at night". It just came up on my news feed and I thought someone debunked it. I know to send her a link to The Vaccine War from Frontline but I would like to have something specific for this. When I look online, I cannot find anything about except from the same health conspiracy sites.
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I got into a discussion on Facebook with a kid I went to high school with. It was about the firearms instructor in Texas who refused to teach Muslims. After having several round about discussions with one person (she said we needed to be weary of sharia law an how they could be enemies. I said that to paint all Muslims like that was lovely and wrong). The original poster says this went way farther than need be and that this is just about protecting us from threats. He apparently ignored my other posts. So I ended it there and told him i would no longer reply to his political posts. Suddenly, some random guy adds that I am an idiot and he proceeds compare Muslims to Rottweilers because you can never be too careful about whether they will attack. :exploding head smiley that I cannot get on my phone:
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Doji Sekushi posted:gently caress. A doozy from my timeline: Can you explain the fuzziness of the math? I am getting confused (sorry I am tired).
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I posted this on my timeline: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/muslim-american-surveillance-new-york I was more concerned about how Muslims get instead of knocking right wing extremists. However several people threw fits. This got posted against it: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/25/mother-jones-right-wing I knocked that down easily but someone did bring up how there have been left wing extremist groups 22% of all acts but the article does not mention those. I thought MJ was a pretty evenhanded source of news.
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Jul 18, 2013 05:59
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Defenestration posted:Mother Jones is great, excellent reporting overall. They broke the 47% story too. She got the 22% figure from the same source that the article gets its information from. http://www.start.umd.edu/start/announcements/announcement.asp?id=483 Yes, I know that right wing extremism is currently more active than left wing, it seems disingenuous to not even mention that left wing extremism exists in this study. That makes the article suspect (as my sister felt) and she wanted to discredit the subject entirely. It took me pointing out that the main purpose (and my reasoning behind posting it) was about initiatives like Muslim Mapping. At the very least, the article headline is more misleading (a million times better than Breitbart's headline though) since the main topic is about Muslim surveillance programs than about right wing extremism.
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TinTower posted:I've known of Bill Whittle for ages. He's hilariously deluded. "Are there any black mayors in Europe? Are there any black people in China?" Wow.
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Change the Obamacare LL101 to any war with a draft and you get the same thought process. Phase 1: all eligible federal officials and their children will be the first drafted. Phase 2: all eligible citizens from the electoral states that voted for the President will be drafted next. Phase 3: It will never reach this. Isn't the reason why elected federal officials do not want to be a part of Obamacare is because they have an even better and therefore even more socialist government healthcare?
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Aug 4, 2013 02:30
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I am a teacher and, at a beginning of the year meeting, our Superintendent told us that we would still be pushing forward with CC. She said that several local communities have had tea party groups protesting CC. She said that they are greatly uninformed but that it was just small groups. In the last 2 days, I have witnessed 3 separate articles on Fox News with article titles and leads denouncing CC (ruins homeschooling, revisionist history and liberal agenda, etc). I think this is just the beginning and it will only get worse.
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So a friend posted this today: "I typically try my hardest not to put anything negative about politics on Facebook. However today I received information regarding my kids insurance plans and apparently they do not "fit the Obamacare" guidelines. So they will be loosing them. We currently are paying well over $800 a month in insurance. Which i am sure will go WAY up. Please congress/ government lets get this thing figured out. They have had them for 5 years and they were exactly what WE needed, but now they aren't. NOT HAPPY!" She has told me before (last October I believe) that Obamacare is going to take away her family health plans. We both live in Illinois (her husband is an assistance principal and she is a stay at home mom/norwex seller). What can I tell her to get her calmed down about this? I know Governor Quinn came out and announced that exchange prices were going to be cheaper than they thought but they have not given out specifics (prices or coverage) yet. I would have thought that they would have given out the specifics before sending out these letters.
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Is there a calculator set up where you can enter your state, your family set up and income level where they show all your available plans and prices?
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I got into a debate about the debt ceiling with some facebook friends. Suddenly another friend brought this up. I am still trying to get info about this but I thought I would check with you guys first.quote:Kanyon, except we are not talking default. Current interest payments for the debt are about $395 billion, the total receipts are $2.7 Trillion. 14%, now thats a pretty big percentage to be paying in interest. But if we want to prioritize not defaulting, it seems like we can pay the interest and put some toward the principal, if we are willing to look hard at the problem. The debt ceiling is saying we want to continue spending 30% more than we take in, and when they get called on it, its about not defaulting. One could go the other way and say that the projections are known, why did you spend so much more than you had when you knew you had fixed payments? I mean a budget might help in these situations, which I think Congress is starting to figure out. I know that the issue of spending more than we take in can be taken care of through increasing tax revenue but I am looking for more specific issues as play here.
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Where is the info about the treasury bills interest rates? I mentioned it as a response to my previous interaction. Someone else responded asking whether it was a 1 month or three moth t bill. I am trying to figure out I this person is generally inquiring or if they are trying to lead this somewhere to point out how wrong I am.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:http://www.treasurydirect.gov/RI/OFBills Thanks. Do you or anyone else have any idea why he might be asking it? The only thing I can think of is him complaining about how it is only for such a short time period.
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Oct 3, 2013 00:11
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Anyone have that long response of using a classroom to explain socialism? This is the video that has animated Reagan explaining to Obama what socialism is. My brother in law posted that and some ann coulter yahoo news article about how horrible Obamacare is. I need that response to hopefully shut him down (a few days ago he posted the townhall government shut down article and I responded ad he shut up about it).
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So apparently "FEMA camps" are returning to the forefront of the the Obama dictatorship. I saw this video this afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUVqsWBJbxg After pointing out how he was talking about the detainees at Gitmo, I agreed that we needed to shut that down. Then, this video appears from a town near by. It is simply amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVpQlHFFSy4 FEDEX and FEMA both start with "FE". IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
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I saw this anti-vaccine website posted by a friend. http://thepeopleschemist.com/reasons-dont-vaccinate-children-vaccine-supporters-shouldnt-give/
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The worse I had was my sister bringing up the Obama selfie (she is actually a hardcore liberal and was bringing up how the media reacted horribly to it). Cue my brother-in-law (has become very angry conservative since Obama took office) to not hear her all the way and make this comment: "Obama kissed a man? Well, I wouldn't blame him for kissing a man. It would be better than kissing Michelle. I would rather kiss a man than kiss that thing." I was leaving with my daughters and wife or I would have said something along the lines of "I am guessing men would probably not want to kiss you either."
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Does someone have the run down that points out the stupidity of the "20 habits of successful people"? I am seeing it pop up on my feed because Dave Ramsey put it on his blog?
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BonoMan posted:I think a lot of people don't realize it's a common thing Count me as one. I never knew you were supposed to tip your stylist until my wife mentioned it. Even today, I always forget to simply because I have never tipped before.
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Jan 29, 2014 01:18
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"Moon God" I have heard this claim (Muslims worship a moon god) so many times from Christians. Does anyone know here it came from (using a lunar calendar or the use of a crescent moon as a symbol)?
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PUGGERNAUT posted:
I actually had a former student of mine put this on her Facebook. Luckily, another guy called her out and said that this helps teach kids that there is multiple ways to do the same problem which is helpful in engineering. People still think it is crazy nonsense though. The worst was a mother who apparently homeschools her child and this child never has trouble with these problems.
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I cannot put it in here (on phone) but a high school classmate and another guy have gotten into it about vaccinations. I have argued with both before (as they are both conservative idiots). Here is their conversation: Idiot #1: I place a "vaccine-preventable outbreak" in the same File 13 for flawed assumption theory as a "saved job." Any person with more than a few properly firing neurons should be inclined to question how in the hell a disease can be known to have been prevented. It is like proposing every intravaginal ejaculation leads to conception due to a lack of access to FREE birth control? Idiot #2: This might be one of the few times we disagree. When diseases thought to have been eradicated by vaccination start popping up again in areas where people refuse to get vaccinations I think it is safe to say that they were caused by not getting a vaccination. Idiot #1: a) if they were eradicated, they would be eradicated. No host, no disease, cycle broken. b) what the in high heaven is the CFR doing pimping the CDC? (I thought you were anti-tyrannical bureaucracy/small government? Now you are distributing government on government?) c) Does your Freedom to Choice like a good liberal stop at abortion? d) Say it fast enough or often enough and it must be true. There are volumes of research which counter the idea it was mass vaccination as the direct cause for the decline in prevalence of measles and NOT simply natural herd immunity. I urge you to examine it. e) Do you believe in a Creator? If so, do you believe God created all things for a reason? And how you do you balance the notion of God giving man the ability to create (vaccines) against the capacity to destroy (dis-ease)? Is there ever good dis-ease? Science proves science wrong constantly with almost every new discovery. Yesterday it was a reversal on saturated fats and heart disease. Idiot #2: Of course I believe in freedom of choice, but if you choose to do something that will harm yourself or harm other people because a disease develops a resistance because you refused to take a vaccine then I have a right to say that is stupid. There is also a lot of junk science out there about vaccines that has been disproven(http://www.webmd.com/.../searching-for.../vaccines-autism...). It isn't a left or right thing either, there are a lot of conservatives that don't believe in anti-vaccination claims. Unless there is good enough scientific research out there to say vaccines do actual harm that is not anecdotal then I think it is irresponsible to tell people not to get vaccinated. Idiot #1: I wasn't referencing studies on Autism and would never use WedMD for a reference in any legitimate debate. Traditional medicine LOVES sick people. It's treatment of symptom methodology requires sick people. No sick people = No MD's and nurses outside of an ER for acute trauma. And you know I'll defend your Freedom to think and say how stupid you are until hell itself freezes over. But, please ANSWER one simple question Ben, if vaccinations are effective and you have one, then why are people without a vaccination such a threat to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness? Idiot #2 As I said Idiot #1, diseases develop resistance and if you have people who don't vaccinate then those diseases live and have a chance to develop resistance to vaccines. If a disease develops a resistance to vaccines and kills people who were responsible enough to get vaccinated then that is a threat to my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness just as much as a criminal with a gun is. Idiot #1: I accept that viruses are going to mutate indefinitely. I do not accept that it has a drat thing to do with whether I am forcibly vaccinated under the notion of popular sentiment or leave the battle to God's Will and my innate immunity. You would do yourself a fair service to live a little less in fear of my freedom of choice and a little more fear of the 'trust us we're from the government and we're here to help' crowd with the biological weapons loaded with "eradicated" diseases no longer covered in the scope of a current vaccination regimen when you start making wild comparative accusations involving guns. Idiot #1: Of course, it wasn't just Obama who declared "climate change a fact" -- scientists did. In fact, a full 97 percent of climate experts "agree humans are causing global warming." Idiot #2: I don't want the government to force vaccines on people but people should use their common sense. God doesn't give people freedom from consequence for their own actions and if you choose to not take something that you know will prevent you and those around you from getting a disease then you might face those consequences. Regarding man-made climate change there is overwhelming hard evidence that says it doesn't exist. Do you have any overwhelming hard evidence that says vaccines harm people? Idiot #1 Perfect! I knew you have enough integrity to agree that what is popular isn't always true. 97% of scientists can agree that vaccinations are safe just as well as "climate experts" and be dead (pun intended) wrong. They are all educated by the same institutions and approach problems (dis-ease) accepting the same theories. Granted that theory or approach might have been the best grievance for dis-ease in 1908, but at what point are alternative theories that challenge old 'we said it often enough it must be true' theory? And you know full well you don't shake up those in power. You don't dare suggest the AMA is wrong, because everyone's M.O. is self-preservation. One starts throwing around theories which dismiss long held notions advertised as the absolutes, well now, that's a threat. Regarding your question, I WILL make it a point out of respect for your ignorance on this subject to supply you with hours of counter culture reading on subject of vaccination in the hope of freeing you from the bondage of ignorance. Please afford me a week to gather the studies and references. You are not the only person of which I am in servitude. Now, understand, you asked specifically for research which concludes vaccines harm people. By default, it is exists in the warnings from the FDA and drug company supposedly manufacturing whatever you are conceded for them to inject into you. The part where they say, following exposure, you may "experience vomiting, fever, rash and in rare cases DEATH." Is purposeful and willing exposure to something which may cause death in "certain rare instances" an acceptable risk to weigh when the very reason you are getting the shot is to avoid the very same thing? Idiot #2: I will also point out the similarities in climate change and anti-vaccination science in that there is a lot of fear-mongering going on with very little facts to back it up. Idiot #2: The people who usually get sick or die from those vaccinations have compromised immune systems to begin with and shouldn't be taking them at the time. How many people would die without vaccinations? What percentage of the population died before there were vaccinations? What was their life expectancy? Why is measles and other diseases suddenly reappearing? How credible is your research? What is the methodology and is does it follow the guidelines of similar studies? What other factors are present? Is it peer-reviewed research? Idiot #1: I'll leave you to your own inconsistency my friend. I just do not understand how you can one oppose Obamacare on the basis of government not have the ability to mandate the purchase of a product by an individual and on the other hand be a proponent mandatory vaccination. Liberty falls with the destruction of an individual's freedom to choose. I invite all "hard evidence" you might have or be willing to assemble which indicates my choice to refuse vaccination somehow predisposes you to acquiring the very dis-eases exercising your freedom to choose specifically protects you from. That is fundamentally asinine logic to me. You got the shot. I didn't. You should shake your head all the way to my casket, stand over me and say, "I tried to tell you Darrin..RIP my friend." Then my headstone can read "vaccination denier" and The People can go forth after the ceremony contenting either "that was dumb, cost him his life" or "it wouldn't have mattered if he did get the shot because such and such of strain wasn't covered" BUT when they lay down their confused heads, they will be dishonest not to concede that man lived and died what he believed. Idiot #2: When did I say I was for mandatory vaccination? In fact I said the exact opposite four responses up. I think it is horribly misguided and irrational not to get vaccines because it could hurt you and those around you but I never said they should be government mandated. I don't need the government to tell me to eat or to not jump off of a cliff in order to know that they are good ideas that will keep me alive. If you want to take that risk it is your choice but I still think it is a dangerous one. Idiot #1: In answer to your question in the previous post: a) question assumes a false premise b) 100% of the population died before there were vaccinations. However, if you meant cases with/without vaccination resulting in death, the number of cases of measles peaked, then trended down years prior there having been a vaccination, suggesting natural herd immunity c) I don't know why measles and other diseases you started out by suggesting were eradicated are becoming more prevalent. False data? Edward Snowden? Mad scientist in a lab? Hell I don't know. But what I do know is it isn't necessarily solely attributed to individuals choosing not to subject his self to the risk purposeful exposure to whatever is supposed to be in the syringe d) Certainly not anything close to any of special mentions in Genesis e) It isn't my research. But, in modern day, how credible is any research? It almost all funded by special interest in pursuit of an agenda, looking to prove something correct or wrong, rather than simply yield truth and facts. f) This hinges back to "e". Depends on the guidelines I suppose. That is part of the problem with statistics, you can assemble them to convey whatever result you want usually. One person's research can simply be dismissed because it did not assume an element thought to be flawed in the other person's. But sure as poo poo, when you assume everything and only what they did, inputs, variables, etc., golly gee gosh, you get the same conclusion. g) Other factors, like race, predisposition of people who work with their hands, sometimes contacting feces or monkey testicles to get the dis-ease? Sure, all good considerations to make, ponder it all I say! h) See "e" & "f". DO IT! 
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Mo_Steel posted:I was thinking to myself "why is this guy labeled as an idiot, he seems pretty reasonable" and then I got to this point. Yep, we have argued before and so I know he is an idiot. But I thought he was doing pretty well (so I felt bad about calling him an idiot here) but then he gave me this and I knew it was justified. Edit: Idiot #1 just said that this topic was what his thesis was for his first PHD.
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Overwhelming hard evidence HCGCC doesn't exist that is ignored by the overwhelming majority of publishing climate scientists and every national and international scientific body on the loving planet. gently caress.
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What is this about Michelle Obama banning U.S. press from her trip to china? A few people have mentioned it but when googled, it is shows right wing "news" sites.
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My brother-in-law was originally going to school to become a chiropractor. When I first met him, I immediately picked up the vibe that chiropractors are bullshit because he was talking about sublexations and how it creates all the bad in our bodies and blah blah blah. My wife and her family though were sort of buying it (and now she does not!). After switching from one school to another, he dropped a lot of the "it cures cancer" poo poo because there are apparently different chiropractor theories and this different school does not preach that. He adjusted me one time (and it will never happen again). It felt like a glorified massage and my back actually felt worse the next day (this probably is supposed to signal to me that I need to get adjusted again). He is now out of the chiropractor world but last I heard, he still does adjustments on his children. 
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It should also be noted that he is a hardcore republican (probably close to the tea party side). He named his kid Reagan and I once heard him say that Rush is a little too lefty but Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are what is right for America.
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It does not get any better. I teach mostly poor kids and several of them talk about how almost all the people on welfare use the food stamps to buy crack and they are all lazy. Needless to say, the poor kids (on assistance) in class tell them otherwise but it just runs through their head with no second thought.
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