How sequestration will affect Ga. citizens, businesses
Because of required furloughs and spending reductions for TSA security agents, FAA air traffic controllers, customs agents and other personnel, flight delays of up to four hours are predicted at major airports such as Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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On Friday, March 1, federal spending cuts forced by sequestration will be implemented. The total amount of spending to be cut — $85 billion — is somewhat small, but its impact is magnified by three specific provisions of the sequestration law:
1.) Major budgetary areas such as Social Security, interest on the debt, the Department of Veterans Affairs and military pay are off-limits to cuts. Cuts in Medicare reimbursement are limited to 2 percent. That concentrates spending reductions to remaining portions of the budget.
2.) By law, federal agencies that do face sequestration do not have the ability to pick and choose which programs will be cut or by how much. All cuts must be across the board, by meat cleaver rather than scalpel.
3.) The law requires savings in the current fiscal year, which began in October 2012. Because the required cuts are not being implemented until March, they must be backloaded into the final months of fiscal 2013, compounding the impact. As a result, non-defense discretionary spending will be cut by 9 percent for the remainder of the fiscal year; defense spending will be cut by 13 percent.
As a result of the provisions outlined above, the consequences of the sequestration are relatively simple to project. Here is a sampling of the impact on Georgia, as outlined by the Office of Management and Budget:
Teachers and Schools: Georgia will lose approximately $28.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 390 teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition about 54,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 80 fewer schools would receive funding.
– Education for Children with Disabilities: In addition, Georgia will lose approximately $17.5
million in funds for about 210 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
Military Readiness: In Georgia, approximately 37,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $190.1 million in total.
– Army: Base operation funding would be cut by about $233 million in Georgia.
– Air Force: Funding for Air Force operations in Georgia would be cut by about $5 million.
Vaccines for Children: In Georgia around 4,180 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to reduced funding for vaccinations of about $286,000.
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Aviation is a major industry in Georgia. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport boasts the busiest airport in the world, and many businesses are located in the metro Atlanta region because of easy access to Hartsfield. However, spending cuts required by sequestration will greatly reduce the efficiency of the national system. As the OMB reports:
Aviation – At the major gateway airports, average wait times could increase by 30-50 percent. At the nation’s busiest airports, like Newark, JFK, LAX, and Chicago O’Hare, peak wait times could grow to over 4 hours or more.
Aviation security – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) would reduce its front-line workforce, which would substantially increase passenger wait times at airport security checkpoints. TSA would need to initiate a hiring freeze for all transportation security officer positions in March, eliminate overtime and furlough its 50,000 officers for up to seven days.
Aviation safety – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would be forced to undergo a funding cut of more than $600 million. This action would force the FAA to undergo an immediate retrenchment of core functions by reducing operating costs and eliminating or reducing services to various segments of the flying community… The furlough of a large number of air traffic controllers and technicians would require a reduction in air traffic to a level that could be safely managed by the remaining staff, resulting in slower air traffic in major cities, as well as delays and disruptions across the country during the critical summer travel season.
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Other impacts, also as reported by OMB:
Small business assistance – Small Business Administration (SBA) loan guarantees would be cut by up to approximately $900 million, constraining financing needed by small businesses to maintain and expand their operations and create jobs.
Oil and gas permitting – Development of oil and gas on Federal lands and waters would slow down, due to cuts in programs at the Department of the Interior (DOI) and other agencies that plan for new projects, conduct environmental reviews, issue permits and inspect operations. Leasing of new federal lands for future development would also be delayed, with fewer resources available for agencies to prepare for and conduct lease sales.
Veterans services – Although the Department of Veterans Affairs is exempt from sequestration, the Department of Labor’s Veterans Transition Assistance Program, which serves over 150,000 veterans a year, would have to reduce operations – leaving thousands of transitioning veterans unserved as they move from active duty to civilian life. The Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program would also experience cuts, translating into a reduction in the capacity to serve tens of thousands of veterans in their efforts to find civilian employment.
Title I education funds – Title I education funds would be eliminated for more than 2,700 schools, cutting support for nearly 1.2 million disadvantaged students. This funding reduction would put the jobs of approximately 10,000 teachers and aides at risk. Students would lose access to individual instruction, after-school programs, and other interventions that help close achievement gaps.
Senior meals – Federally assisted programs like Meals on Wheels would be able to serve 4 million fewer meals to seniors. These meals contribute to the overall health and well-being of participating seniors, including those with chronic illnesses that are affected by diet, such as diabetes and heart disease, and frail seniors who are homebound. The meals can account for 50 percent or more of daily food for the majority of participants.
Mental health and substance abuse services – Cuts to the Mental Health Block Grant program would result in over 373,000 seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children not receiving needed mental health services. This cut would likely lead to increased hospitalizations, involvement in the criminal justice system, and homelessness for these individuals. In addition, close to 8,900 homeless persons with serious mental illness would not get the vital outreach, treatment, housing, and support they need through the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program.
FBI and other law enforcement – The FBI and other law enforcement entities would see a reduction in capacity equivalent to more than 1,000 federal agents. This loss of agents would significantly impact our ability to combat violent crime, pursue financial crimes, secure our borders, and protect national security.
Customs and border patrol – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would not be able to maintain current staffing levels of border patrol agents and CBP officers as mandated by Congress. CBP would have to reduce its work hours by the equivalent of over 5,000 border patrol agents and the equivalent of over 2,750 CBP officers.
– Jay Bookman
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1,346 comments Add your comment
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
10:17 pm
I’m not in the business, but natural gas could (should) certainly be an alternative.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
10:34 pm
Jackie and the moonbat are correct.
Bloomberg’s bank welfare was not known but I wonder what these record profit industries would look like without socialism.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
10:52 pm
As I tried explaining things earlier, this crap has the potential to turn out much worse than people think. Taking money out of the economy is not the way to get the economy going.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-newport-news-shipyard-looming-budget-cuts-create-anxiety-and-anger/2013/02/25/281eb25c-7f51-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html?hpid=z1
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
10:59 pm
What probably pisses me off the most is that we developed many of the systems that enabled these mid east countries to find and extract their oil and what do we get in return?
Now more than ever, it’s time to be smart and turn the tables.
Its just a matter of time, but how much time is left?
G Mare
February 25th, 2013
11:02 pm
I am getting in on the tail end of the comments. Hi to all who remember me with kindness!
Just want to put in my word about Social Security/Medicare: I receive just over $12,000 per year, AFTER $1200 is deducted for Medicare. So to those who think all recipients are living “the good life,” please think again!
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:05 pm
Hi G Mare,
Welcome back.
KEITH
February 25th, 2013
11:06 pm
why do liberals hate companies like Lockheed? is it because they require people to work for money instead of just giving it to them for nothing.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:10 pm
What probably pisses me off the most is that we developed many of the systems that enabled these mid east countries to find and extract their oil and what do we get in return?
When companies, such as Haliburton, can “move” their headquarters to avoid taxes and still benefit from contracts with Uncle Sam, there ain’t nothing we can do. It’s no different than companies taking their manufacturing to China and then bitching about counterfeits made over there. You can’t show somebody how to build something and then get mad when they counterfeit it. Everybody knows that China’s goal is to replace us as the #1 economy, and no trick is off limits to achieve that.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:10 pm
Hi, G Mare,
Glad you are doing well.
Obama has gotten us into a deep mess since you were last here!
Everyone deserves their SS that have paid into it.
I’ve never seen otherwise.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:12 pm
“Obama has gotten us into a deep mess since you were last here!”
Wrong.
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
11:12 pm
…why do liberals hate companies like Lockheed?
We hate them because they are infested with labor union thugs.
(LOL at you.)
bobloblaw
February 25th, 2013
11:13 pm
Very simple: Privatize airport security and the FAA
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:13 pm
GMare!!!!!!!
Mama Says
February 25th, 2013
11:13 pm
Blame who you like, we are in an argument over who is responsible for cutting 2% of our projected increase in debt. Get it ? Rather than increasing the debt by 100% we are still going to increase it 98% over the next 20 years.
How can any democrat even try to argue that you want to cut spending at all ?
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:15 pm
why do liberals hate companies like Lockheed?
Why do a$$hats come here and paint broad brushed lies? Conservative are the one’s that hate union labor, not liberals. Geez, you’d think such a “staunch conservative” such as yourself would remember these details.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:15 pm
Bro, we necessarily show them how to build it.
Saudi are just a-holes.
The Chinese are masters at reverse engineering.
(why do you use Haliburton as your example?)
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:16 pm
“we didn’t” necessarily
calm down spell nazis…
KEITH
February 25th, 2013
11:17 pm
Bob Woodward and Jay Carney says it was obamas idea. obama blames congress. too bad for obama theres video evidence that shows hes a liar.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:17 pm
are the yerkees (sp) monkeys still around?
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:18 pm
(why do you use Haliburton as your example?)
Because you went off on mid-east oil companies. Haliburton relocated their HQ to Dubai a ways back. Oil… Middle East… Not much of a stretch to point out Haliburton.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:20 pm
Bob Woodward and Jay Carney says it was obamas idea. obama blames congress. too bad for obama theres video evidence that shows hes a liar.
So, if I suggest you go fellate a lit stick of dynamite and you decide to do it and suffer the consequences of that task, is it my fault or yours that you get your jaw blown to bits?
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:20 pm
Ok, Bro, Thanks for the clarification…
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:22 pm
betty
No problem. It wasn’t meant as one of those “talking point” type hits if that’s what you were thinking. The oil side of Haliburtion is ok by me. I don’t care for their defense contracting group, but that’s a different ball of wax.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:23 pm
“So, if I suggest you go fellate a lit stick of dynamite”
lol
Bro may not have slept in a couple days…
with the new one and all.
Hang in there, Bro,it will calm down in about 4 years.
KEITH
February 25th, 2013
11:24 pm
So, if I suggest you go fellate a lit stick of dynamite and you decide to do it and suffer the consequences of that task, is it my fault or yours that you get your jaw blown to bits?
they gave YOUR President what he wanted. what YOU voted for. So enjoy. lol
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
11:25 pm
Privatize airport security…
Are you demented?
Before you write such stupidity you should educate yourself and look up the shameful track record of the disgraceful Atlanta based Argenbright Security, that was fined $1million for hiring criminals to man security checkpoints at airports even after being fined the year before for inadequately checking employees’ backgrounds.
Yep, criminals galore, staggering incompetency, before during and AFTER 9/11.
But hey, I forgot, the gub’mint can’t do anything right, huh bobo?
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:25 pm
I figured, such, Bro. I just hadn’t heard Haliburton (sp) lately.
Just curious.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:30 pm
betty
Sleep is for the weak!!! Or at least I’m trying to convince myself of that.
I see Haliburton and Schlumberger employees coming from the ME and other parts all the time.
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they gave YOUR President what he wanted. what YOU voted for. So enjoy. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
Didn’t vote for him homie. You got me confused with someone else. That’s ok. Based on your spastic thoughts, you probably wouldn’t know the difference between the individual posters here at all even if we drew a diagram with crayon pictures to help you out.
Seems as though you still can’t answer a simple question though? When your jawbone goes in 100 different directions, who’s fault is it?
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
11:41 pm
“Sleep is for the weak!!! ”
You got that right!
Keep grindin’, Bro!
moonbat betty (chewing gum, rubbing me belly and keeping a budget
February 25th, 2013
11:46 pm
dance kam dance (and JamVet too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-KeYUKaDD0
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:47 pm
Keep grindin’, Bro!
Somebody told me there’s a prize at the bottom of the cracker jack box. So far, all I’m getting is nuts!!
moonbat betty (chewing gum, rubbing me belly and keeping a budget
February 25th, 2013
11:49 pm
Bro,
In a couple of years, you won’t even remember it!
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
11:52 pm
betty
It’s been fun though. In a couple of years, what little hair that grows on my head will probably fall out.
moonbat betty (chewing gum, rubbing me belly and keeping a budget)
February 25th, 2013
11:59 pm
Bro, these windows of time are so small.
There is nothing more beautiful than a holding your baby daughter.
It is worth it.
It’s what life is about.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 26th, 2013
12:04 am
betty
You spoke the truth there. Watching the older one growing up has been a blast. Sometimes, I forget she’s only 4 with some of the stuff she says and thinks. She displays logic beyond what some grown ups here exhibit.
G Mare
February 26th, 2013
12:06 am
Thanks for the exuberant greeting, Bro. Please tell me about the new one: boy or girl, born when, name? If possible, please post a pic – while we still can?
Must say, I’ve missed being here. Many of y’all became a community when I was so in need of one.
Of course, some things have changed. I note that Orange has had a birthday – he is now 13, but no less nasty & ignorant. Yeah, snarky I know, but he does annoy me, as do a few others who post here. But they also keep things interesting, yes?
Goodnight Moon (just had to say that!), Bro, Kam, Jam, et al.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 26th, 2013
12:07 am
I’m cashing out for the night. I guess I’ll never know if KEITH takes responsibility for his own actions or blames others for whatever he does. Oh well, it’s fun playing with the ideologues at times.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 26th, 2013
12:10 am
GMare
Girl #2 and a little over a week old. Don’t have any online photos as mommy’s very protective of her little ones. I’m glad to know you’re ok as I was worried when we didn’t hear from you for a while. We may as well be a community since we’re all Americans whether we like it or not.
Don’t let the partisaned pissants bother you. Do like I do and pick fun with them. It’s almost like giving a laser pointer or ball of yarn to a cat. Once you pick up on their tendencies, you can play them like a violin.
moonbat betty (chewing gum, rubbing me belly and keeping a budget)
February 26th, 2013
12:21 am
Goodnight, G Mare.
Bro, night to you as well…
cats and violins? lol!
night all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRrdP8bUZI4
G Mare
February 26th, 2013
1:10 am
As it is way late in the night, you may not see this post, Bro. Just want to say that I have 2 daughters – 2 wonderful, brilliant daughters! And I know yours, with a dad like you, will be the same.
independent thinker
February 26th, 2013
4:43 am
Balanced approach of Stupid Party includes no taxes for GE on massive profits and $400 million++ tax
refunds to Facebook on over a billion dollars profit plus interest carryovers and other nonsensical deductions for the Romneys and a $75,000 write off on a dancing horse. Throw granny in the street with no medical care to keep these tax write offs alive and send the jobs overseas with tax write offs to boot..
Doggone/GA
February 26th, 2013
7:14 am
I know it’s well after the fact…but for someone who styles himself an “Independent Thinking” there’s a LOT of “just repeate what I’ve heard” in that post. And the $75,000 “write off” for the horse was disallowed, which IT apparently does not know.
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
7:19 am
It’s the end of the world as we know it….I feel fine..
The unkindest cut? Energy Secretary Steven Chu has revealed that sequestration would reduce the number of houses being “weatherized” by the feds by “more than a thousand.”
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
7:25 am
An interesting read from this morning regarding the selling of access…got $500K? Pick a country, be an ambassador..
http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/240557/simony-at-the-church-of-hope-and-change
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 26th, 2013
7:36 am
The unkindest cut? Energy Secretary Steven Chu has revealed that sequestration would reduce the number of houses being “weatherized” by the feds by “more than a thousand.”
Oh the humanity!
pobiddy
February 26th, 2013
7:37 am
We are not talking about a reduction in current spending only a reduction in projected spending. There will be no cuts in present spending. It is the same as saying we are going to buy a Cadillac and then buying a Chevy and saying we cut the budget. You still spent more than the year before.
TaxPayer
February 26th, 2013
7:38 am
We are long overdue for some major reductions in the DoD budget. A little bit each year for ten years or so should suffice.
Rightwing troll
February 26th, 2013
7:47 am
“Why do a$$hats come here and paint broad brushed lies? Conservative are the one’s that hate union labor, not liberals. Geez, you’d think such a “staunch conservative” such as yourself would remember these details.”
“Staunch” conservatives make up details, they don’t have to remember anything but the time and place of their next klan meeting, and to change their underalls after the First Lady does anything…
Rightwing troll
February 26th, 2013
7:50 am
BTW Bro… My girl #2 turns two this week, congrats on your expanding brood, my sympathies to your oncoming formula bills… That stuff do cost a lot…
southpaw
February 26th, 2013
7:50 am
Brosephus -
Congrats on the little one. I hadn’t heard before now. Just watch the sleep, if you can. I also once tried the idea that sleep was for the weak, and I ended up in the hospital. My wife woke up and watched me having a seizure for about 15 minutes. We have no idea how long the seizure might have gone on before she woke up. I’d hate for something similar to happen to you.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
7:52 am
I see Lindsay Graham is waivering…..
jhunt163
February 26th, 2013
7:55 am
“We are long overdue for some major reductions in the DoD budget”
We are long overdue for cuts to any budgets.
indigo
February 26th, 2013
7:56 am
Brosephus – 12:10 “since we’re all Americans whether we like it or not”
Would you rather be something else?
barking frog
February 26th, 2013
7:56 am
The Georgia House passed the ethics bill so Jay and Kyle
may accomplish their goal.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
7:57 am
We are also long overdue for the closing of tax loopholes and financial
transaction taxes.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
7:58 am
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2013/02/25/54503/5-reasons-the-world-is-catching-on-to-the-financial-transaction-tax/
WAAAY long overdue
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
7:59 am
Rightwing Troll
The boobies are free! !
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southpaw
I average 6hrs a night anyway, so other than 15min diaper change breaks, not much has changed. Thanks for the medical heads up though.
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
8:01 am
Would you rather be something else?
Didn’t say that, did I?
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:02 am
JAY
Your hero has taken selling access to heights unknown…what’s up with that?
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:02 am
Bro….
Blessings on your wife for doing it natures way…..
It was one of the nicest parts of having a wee one,
and a small sadness when it ended.
independent thinker
February 26th, 2013
8:03 am
God forbid they cut some of that military fat- those commie liberals. Like those 800 bases and god knows how many golf courses. Gotta keep those bases in Germany, Italy and Japan. Never know when WWII starts up again! And god forbid they cut the half trillion dollars for those F-35s that sit idle on the ground due to defects. Need those planes- never know when those drones go kaput.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:07 am
Stevie Ray
Don’t ya’ just love Chuck Todd and that liberal in the tank for Obama media?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/25/1189774/-Chuck-Toad-White-House-Selling-Access-WoE-Let-s-Buy-Some
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
8:09 am
GG
First one was also breastfed. Second birth was natural. No time for an epidural.
kayaker 71
February 26th, 2013
8:11 am
Again, Bozo and the Chicken Little gang appeal to the least informed among us. It’s so easy for them. Create a crisis, leak it to the media, paint a doomsday scenario of what will happen if they don’t get their way, illicit the support of blog masters like Bookman and his trolls, then, when you have to wait an extra few minutes in an airport security line, blame it on Republicans who caused this “chaos”. It’s the same old song and dance when anyone tries to cut spending and the gullible public falls for it every time. This represents 85B from a 3.5T dollar budget. If this cannot be cut without the very fabric of our country falling apart we are way too dependent on government handouts and programs that are, in large part, securing votes for politicians.
Thomas
February 26th, 2013
8:11 am
Lot of rain last night so you folks be careful blogging today.
Remember- you are the difference maker.
Obama is great. All the world needs is more taxes and the global governments to print more money and all will be fine.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 26th, 2013
8:13 am
I’m still concerned about those “unnecessary” government workers.
.
How will the meat cleaver affect them?
.
One can only pray to Obama …………for hope.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:14 am
Bro
Your bride is obviously a hell of a gal.
Don’t let all the scare stories about living in an estrogen palace
get to you…..You will be the center of attention for 3 adoring females.
It will be wonderful.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:16 am
Anybody here Pray to Obama???
snicker
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
8:17 am
GG
As long as she’s with me, I don’t need any rifle to take on tornadoes.
Mick
February 26th, 2013
8:17 am
The budget deficit is NOT the number one problem, employment is! So what does the sequester accomplish? More unemployment…brilliant cons…
kayaker 71
February 26th, 2013
8:19 am
Granny, 8:14,
“The center of attention for 3 adoring females”…. Yeah, until they get to be around 13 or 14. They they proudly proclaim that you know absolutely nothing about life, how to live it or what kind of decisions to make. Sanity seems to come back around 30 if they survive when they, lo and behold, find out that a lot of the things you said earlier were right.
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:19 am
GRANNY
Good Mourning! Just a few days before doomsday….
Anyhow, here is an equally as interesting read on the history, recently new activity and what appear to be the objectives of this OFA thingy…
They all sell access..every single one of them…your guy is no different and since he has no worries about re-election, he can step up these efforts…
http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/240557/simony-at-the-church-of-hope-and-change
Cherokee
February 26th, 2013
8:20 am
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:02 am
JAY
Your hero has taken selling access to heights unknown…what’s up with that?
I’m always amazed at how quickly all these horrible awful very bad day themes spread like wildfire through the wingnut media and their myrmidons. Like they keep thinking that something finally will stick and the great unwashed masses will finally see the light.
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
8:21 am
Mick
I tried to make that point to the WaPo editorial board last night. Don’t know if they were listening though.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 26th, 2013
8:21 am
Brosephus™ – WiFi and mobile
February 26th, 2013
8:09 am
GG
First one was also breastfed. Second birth was natural. No time for an epidural.
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A sincere public announcement.
Don’t advertise drinking raw milk on these blogs.
Big brother is watching.
.
“According to the FDA press release, “Drinking raw milk is dangerous and shouldn’t be consumed under any circumstances.” But this runs contrary to the scientific data. As the Weston A. Price Foundation notes, raw milk has a proven safety record; it has many health benefits—protecting against infection, diarrhea, rickets, tooth decay, and tuberculosis; and there are tremendous potential economic benefits as well.
FDA’s assertion that raw milk is dangerous and puts consumers at risk—despite the abundant evidence to the contrary—has convinced the Justice Department to go after Allgyer for “misbranding.” If the newly revived Leahy bill passes, the Justice Department will be able to sentence raw milk producers, like David Allgyer of Rainbow Farms, to up to ten years in prison. If you have not already done so, please review our Action Alert on the Leahy bill and contact your senators and congressional representative today!”
.
http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-war-against-raw-milk/
stands for decibels - I got your "debt crisis" right here
February 26th, 2013
8:22 am
So what does the sequester accomplish? More unemployment…brilliant cons…
It is NOT just the fault of conservatives. It’s also the fault of our President who continues to coddle this idiotic mentality, who cannot, apparently, come right out and say “we should not be making cuts during a recession, beyond what would be SOP for us in terms of clearing out known waste/fraud/abuse.”
Unless and until all of us rational folks understand this dynamic, we’ll be effed.
jhunt163
February 26th, 2013
8:22 am
Kayaker, you forgot to put out that you have already cut the budget $2.6 trillion, but wait, that is not true – http://factcheck.org/2013/02/reid-twice-wrong-on-2-6-trillion-cuts/
So you remedy by sending out corrected talking points about $1 trillion in immediate cuts, but that is not true as well since they won’t be fully materialized until 2021.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/feb/25/bill-nelson/sen-bill-nelson-says-2011-budget-deal-included-imm/
The law set up caps on future discretionary spending that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would reduce spending by about a trillion dollars between 2012 and 2021, compared with what it would have been if annual appropriations grew at the rate of inflation.
stands for decibels - I got your "debt crisis" right here
February 26th, 2013
8:23 am
Yeah, until they get to be around 13 or 14. They they proudly proclaim that you know absolutely nothing about life, how to live it or what kind of decisions to make.
I agree with this post.
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:23 am
kayaker 71
February 26th, 2013
8:19 am
Truer words never spoken…my two younger ones (14 and 17) just flipped a switch at 13th birthday and became frightfully obnoxious….seems with all going on in there bodies and the cruel realities of cliques, they retreat into themselves….Its horrible but is predictable…It’s not easy being a 14 year old girl..
I was so frustrated at one point I bought and read a book called “Queenbees and Wannabees”….
Good new is that at least my youngest will come back and apologize when so goes over the edge..
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:24 am
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:19 am
GRANNY
Good Mourning! Just a few days before doomsday….
Anyhow, here is an equally as interesting read on the history, recently new activity and what appear to be the objectives of this OFA thingy…
They all sell access..every single one of them…your guy is no different and since he has no worries about re-election, he can step up these efforts…
http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/240557/simony-at-the-church-of-hope-and-change
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Selling Access? Nope.
Hanging with donors and like minded people – that’s part of the job.
Wanna’ help get money out of politics?
http://www.change.org/petitions/repeal-citizens-united-end-corporate-personhood
Quitcher bitchin and get active.
Adam
February 26th, 2013
8:25 am
Is this really still going?
JamVet
February 26th, 2013
8:26 am
You can have Lindsey Graham, I’ll take Lindsey Buckingham every time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYq3FVTzZk
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:27 am
Cherokee
February 26th, 2013
8:20 am
It ain’t easy admitting your baby is as ugly as priors. Second terms are known for lameduckishness, selling access, and putting together that pardons for sale list…
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:28 am
Oh and, Stevie Ray, I think Ed Morrissey is scum.
I very clearly remember his attacks on Sandra Fluke
Common Sense isn't very Common
February 26th, 2013
8:28 am
Bro
Lack of sleep and being armed is not good.
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:29 am
JAMVET
Thanks for that…he doesn’t get the credit he deserves for his performing and song writing talents. Awesome live as well….
Stevie Ray
February 26th, 2013
8:33 am
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:24 am
We certainly share opinions of CU. Too bad they are all benefitting and are too spineless to push amendment or the like clarifying. Don’t forget the lobbyists. Both and all elected dopes take full advantage on one side and damn it on the other…some GOP dopes excluded of course…
I generally don’t judge other folks data providers…I think it’s better to challenge what they say. I’ve never met them.
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
8:33 am
Earth to Heyward
The raw milk being referenced is NOT breast milk. Then again, I would expect such dumb crap to ooze from your brain.
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:34 am
Stevie Ray
Some Presidents have succombed to the 2nd term curse to be sure….
but we will get gun control measures, immigration reform and climate cahnge legislation in this second term – if we have to drag every last
rightie across the finish line by their bootstraps.
Brosephus™ - WiFi and mobile :)
February 26th, 2013
8:36 am
NoCom
Where’s your sense of adventure?
JamVet
February 26th, 2013
8:37 am
In the morning light the difference between the fellowship and human kindness of good people here (i.e., G Mare, betty and Bro last night) vs, the endless, constant animus form 71, Thomas and Keith is REALLY stark, huh?
Stevie, you probably are familiar with it, but if not check out the amazing Buckingham Nicks LP from 1973. Simply stunning.
Speaking of that duo…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdkk-pI-Jck
Granny Godzilla
February 26th, 2013
8:38 am
Stevie ray
Perhaps it would be best to do a little judging of sources.
One wouldn’t use Tommy Flanagan would one?
RB from Gwinnett
February 26th, 2013
8:39 am
Hey libs, it’s the same 2% all of us had to cut our budgets when the payroll tax went back up January 1. Stop all the scare tactics and whining and just deal with it.
stands for decibels - I got your "debt crisis" right here
February 26th, 2013
8:40 am
The raw milk being referenced is NOT breast milk.
Isn’t all milk “breast milk”?
/nitpicky a-hole
stands for decibels - I got your "debt crisis" right here
February 26th, 2013
8:41 am
Hey libs
and a very good morning to you, RB! How are things in the jerb-creatin’ world? Create any new ones for us today, have you?
indigo
February 26th, 2013
8:44 am
Brosephus – 8:01 “didn’t say that, did I”?
And, I was just asking, wasn’t I?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 26th, 2013
8:44 am
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would lose his speakership if he agrees to new tax revenues to avert the across-the-board spending cuts that are set to kick in on March 1.
So when Boehner says its all about jobs, jobs, jobs, he means HIS job. How very sad from the party that falsely claimed “Country First”
indigo
February 26th, 2013
8:47 am
Stevie Ray – 8:02
He IS a hero, compared to your Republican idols.
stands for decibels - I got your "debt crisis" right here
February 26th, 2013
8:50 am
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would lose his speakership
Who died and left this Johnson in charge?
JamVet
February 26th, 2013
8:50 am
Joni Mitchell made this amazing life even better…
And the seasons they go ’round and ’round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look behind
From where we came,
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMbmXeQqvI