Bloodplay it again posted:

But, hey, at least she went to a good school. I went to EIU and I think maybe 5% of the students can name all three branches of US government.

FMguru posted:

Still, Fox has hours to fill every week, and if there's a lull in the news who knows what kind of stupid crap they'll dredge up and run with.

Doctor Butts posted:

Science is not based on faith. If you believe this, then you do not understand science. I'm not sure you can come to an understanding of anything discussed in this thread if you believe that religion and science can both be reduced to faith.

Radio Nowhere posted:

XM talk

Jazerus posted:

Al Jazeera has said they are "working on it" in regards to the AJE stream, they know it was a very unpopular move. Hopefully a legitimate solution is found soon.

AJAM is much better than the rest of US cable news, anyway - it's just not as good as AJE for international coverage.

Vertical Lime posted:

I'm not surprised that once they announced Shep's new role he was the odd man out. I thought Greta would be the odd man out, at least we can take solace Hannity's ratings will probably drop from being on later.

PeterWeller posted:

I dunno. I almost think it makes him adorable in a simpering moron kind of way. I hear him say, "the New York Slimes," and I'm all just, "aww aren't you just the cutest little firebrand with your 'funny' little nicknames for everything." I can't help but find him entertaining despite how big of a shrill shitbag he is. He is the incarnate manifestation of Poe's Law.

Gigantic Douchebag Todd Starnes posted:

A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.

In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution.

“There were several of us who wanted to talk about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would be arrested,” a psychiatric counselor told me. “We were under orders not to say anything.”

The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the Baptist Family & Children’s Services, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp.

The sources say security forces called themselves the “Brown Shirts.”

“It was a very submissive atmosphere,” the counselor said. “Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”

She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired.

“Everyone was paranoid,” she said. “The children had more rights than the workers.”

She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.

“It was not a good atmosphere in terms of health,” she said. “I would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair.”

A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw.

“We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country,” she said. “We were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base.”

Both the counselor and the nurse said their superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses.

“When they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant – ‘Don’t mention that. Don’t say scabies,’” the nurse recounted. “But everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told don’t worry about it.”

The nurse said the lice issue was epidemic – but everything was kept “hush-hush.”

“You could see the bugs crawling through their hair,” she said. “After we would rinse out their hair, the sink would be loaded with black bugs.”

The nurse told me she became especially alarmed because their files indicated the children had been transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes.

“That’s what alerted me,” she said. “Oh, my God. They’re flying these kids around. Nobody knows that these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the truth, there’s no way to control it.”

I don't mean to upset anyone's Independence Day vacation plans, but were these kids transported to the camps before or after they were deloused? Anyone who flies the friendly skies could be facing a public health concern.

The counselor told me the refugee camp resembled a giant emergency room – off limits to the public.

“They did not want the community to know,” she said. “I initially spoke out at Lackland because I had a concern the children’s mental health care was not being taken care of.”

She said the breaking point came when camp officials refused to hospitalize several children who were suicidal.

“I made a recommendation that a child needed to be sent to a psychiatric unit,” the counselor told me. “He was reaching psychosis. He was suicidal. Instead of treating him, they sent him off to a family in the United States.”

She said she filed a Child Protective Services report and quit her job.

“I didn’t want to lose my license if this kid committed suicide,” she told me. “I was done.”

The counselor kept a detailed journal about what happened during her tenure at the facility.

“When people read that journal they are going to be astonished,” she said. ‘I don’t think they will believe what is going on in America.”

So it was not a great surprise, she said, when she received a call from federal agents demanding that she return to the military base and hand over her journal.

She said she declined to do so.

“I didn’t go back to Lackland,” she said.

Both workers told me while they have no regrets, they want to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.

“They’re going to crush the system,” the nurse told me. “We can’t sustain this. They are overwhelming the system and I think it’s a travesty.”

Baptist Family & Childen’s Services spokeswoman Krista Piferrer tells me the agency takes “any allegation of malfeasance or inappropriate care of a child very seriously.”

“There are a number of checks and balances to ensure children are receiving appropriate and adequate mental health care,” she said.

Piferrer said the clinicians are supervised by a federal field specialist from HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. She also said BFCS have 58 medical professionals serving at Lackland.

“Every illness, whether it is a headache or something more serious, is recorded in a child’s electronic medical record and posted on WebEOC – a real-time, web-based platform that is visible to not only BFCS but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,” she said.

As for those brown shirts, the BFCS said they are “incident management team personnel” – who happen to wear tan shirts.

My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.

“This is just the beginning,” one source told me. "It is a long-term financial responsibility.”

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. Sign up for his American Dispatch newsletter, be sure to join his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter. His latest book is "God Less America”.

FuzzySkinner posted:

I recall flipping through the radio and he was on a show hosted by Janet Parshall.

He kept whining about being a “A Duck Dynasty Guy Living in a Miley Cyrus World.”, then made the complaints about "drat LIBERAL MILLENIALS DRINKING THEIR SOY LATTES AND KALE! WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BLACK COFFEE AND ICED TEA?".

pengun101 posted:

whats worse is they are the books from the Politics section(which is choked with them) to the history section. Mostly because of this trash series. http://www.regnery.com/imprint/politically-incorrect-guides/

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-megyn-kelly-puts-nancy-pelosi-ringer-sexist-hobby-lobby-rant/

"Kelly’s response to Pelosi’s statement is priceless as she put Pelosi through the intellectual ringer."

"Intellectual ringer"

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Doctor Butts posted:

Oh, the 'stop making me hit you' defense.

The Palin thing doesn't look like drunk, it looks like some pill is the culprit. She's not herself.

GoatSeeGuy posted:

Seriously, even without noticing the URL I knew it was a Starnes piece. The sad part is it usually takes 2-3 days for these stories of persecution to get debunked by other students/witnesses etc. but by then it's been FWD: FWD: FWD: so many times it'll be trotted out at family gatherings until the heat death of the universe.

You almost have to give Todd Starnes perverse credit for I assume making a good living off a single gimmick.

Giant Piece of Disappointment Todd Starnes posted:

School children in Elyria, Ohio are mourning the demise of a 40-year tradition – the loss of their beloved pink cookie. The fabled cookie, long served in local school cafeterias, was done in by a pound of butter, six cups of powdered sugar and the Obama administration’s food police.

“It no longer meets the national school lunch program guidelines for snacks,” said Amy Higgins, the spokesperson for Elyria City Schools. “It has too many calories.”

The USDA “Smart Snacks in School” standards mandate that all snacks must contain less than 200 calories. It’s not exactly clear how many calories are in the pink cookie but the recipe for the frosting calls for a pound of butter.

The cookie was banished to comply with the federal guidelines.

“We can’t have them in the cafeteria for sale, period,” food services director Scott Teaman told The Chronicle Telegram. “The guidelines for snacks are very strict, and there is no wiggle room.”

Thus marks the end of a longtime lunchroom tradition and sparking disappointment across the city.

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“It’s a tradition,” Higgins told me. “It’s not only a tradition it’s one that tastes really, really good. You’d be surprised by how many people are upset about the pink cookie going away. Anyone who’s gone to Elyria schools in the last 40 years knows the pink cookie.”

Elyria Mayor Holly Brinda remembered tasting her first pink cookie when she was just a little girl.
“I grew up eating them,” said Brinda. “They are a comfort food. It’s one of those things that’s special to our community.”

The mayor says the cookie’s demise is the talk of the town.

“This cookie has a cult following,” she said. In 2009 the cookie was crowned “Best Cafeteria Cookie” by Cleveland Magazine.

The origin of the pink cookie is something of folklore in this town just to the west of Cleveland. It was first made by Jean Gawlik, the school district’s longtime food production manager. The foundation of the cookie came from a family recipe she got from her mother.

“It’s a delicious, delicious confection,” said Higgins. “Everyone loves it.”

Reading the recipe along could result in a sugar rush: butter, sour cream, powered sugar, Crisco,granulated sugar.

“It’s a homemade sour cream cake cookie,” Higgins said. “The reason people fell in love with it – it has just the right amount of sweetness. It’s very cakey and rich and it’s got this really light sweet pink frosting on the top.”

I feel the sudden urge to drink a glass of iced-cold milk.

“It’s one of those indulgences,” Higgins told me. “The kids really like the cookie. It’s quite a unique flavor.”

So if the cookie is so darned popular, why not just change the recipe so that it complies with the federal standards?

“We did try to alter the recipe with whole wheat flour,” Higgins said. “You can get the pink cookie down to the number of calories that would make it allowable – but then it’s not the pink cookie anymore. It doesn’t maintain the integrity of the homemade recipe.”

Changing the recipe of the cookie would be like asking Kentucky Fried Chicken to change their 11 herbs and spices. You don’t mess with perfection.

“You can’t change the recipe of the pink cookie,” said the mayor. “It’s like eating diet potato chips. It’s not right.”

So rather than mess with tradition, the school district’s chef decided to shut down production.

“Our food service (department) is working under very strict requirements for what they can serve in school,” Higgins said. “That’s a good thing. We’re trying to offer more healthy options with flair.”

Instead of pink cookies, kids will be able to eat things like fruit and vegetables and yogurt.

Yum Yum.

The mayor agreed that it’s important to make sure kids are eating healthier.

“That being said, I wish there was a way we could make those cookies available on special occasions,” she said. “Everybody deserves the equivalent of a piece of birthday cake once in a while.”

The mayor even suggested there might be contraband cookies for the taking.

“I don’t think you can keep the pink cookie down,” she said. “I think this is going to be like prohibition. Our school district is law abiding, but I can see people who love this pink cookie trying to resurrect the cookie in other ways.”

Higgins tells me the school district is already working on a plan to sell the cookies to local residents – for special occasions. It’s a sort-of confectionary speakeasy.

Meanwhile, youngsters will have to satisfy their sweet tooth at the cafeteria yogurt bar – thanks to the Obama administration’s food police.

Sorry, kids. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. Sign up for his American Dispatch newsletter, be sure to join his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter. His latest book is "God Less America."

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Parent: Standing for the Pledge is Bullying
By Todd Starnes, Fox News Radio

A North Dakota school has drawn the ire of a national atheist group after a teacher made a 6-year-old child stand up during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Jesse Adams, of New Town, ND, tells the Minot Daily News that school administrators violated his son’s First Amendment rights by making him stand for the pledge.

“We’re trying to raise free thinkers,” he told the newspaper.

Yes, Mr. Adams is one of those parents.

When his child continued to defy the directions of his teacher, the youngster was told to stand in the hallway for the duration of the pledge. Mr. Adams said that amounts to bullying.

Maybe the six-year-old could’ve used hallway time for some personal meditation – or free thinking?

Superintendent Mark Bluestone is a military veteran and a patriot. He told the Associated Press the child was placed in the hallway to avoid disrupting other students who wondered why they could not sit during the pledge.

The superintendent said he feels strong about the importance of teaching children to be patriotic – a rarity in American public education.

The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center fired off a letter to the superintendent. They accused the school of coercing the underage free thinker.

“Allowing students to exercise their right to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance is a matter of free speech and freedom of conscience,” legal director David Niose wrote.

If somebody had pulled that kind of hippy dippy baloney back when I was in school, they would've been pledging allegiance with a boot up their backside.

Iron Crowned posted:

I've heard sound bytes of conservatives claiming that Ebola in the USA is some kind of political correctness conspiracy (I can't remember the exact wording, but political correctness was part of it). I still can't wrap my head around that one

SedanChair posted:

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

In other news, Dish is in some spat with Fox News. But they replaced Fox News with Glenn Beck's channel, until Fox caves on something I guess.