US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

also, correct me if im wrong, but isnt it illegal for employers to ask about your medical history or deny you employment based on (certain) medical conditions?

Yes it might be illegal, but there are...ways. Friend with epilepsy has been stung a few times but not in so many actionable words.

I'm due a chat with best friend in DC, who might actually know what's going on behind the scenes on both sides and report to thread for Monday. Am now going to have a pre-birthday outing fashion attack...

yeah there are definitely ways to assess someone's medical situation w/o being so brazen as to ask about it directly. also, it's technically allowed for certain kind of work

(epileptics can't get commercial driver's licenses, iirc)

Yeah, and people who have ever had kidney stones can't get a pilot's license, if memory serves.

really? is that a 'weed out the drunks' kind of thing?

right, that's why i said 'certain.' im just thinking--if there are already extralegal ways to deny ppl employment based on their medical records im not sure that the excise tax will do much to change that situation or make it easier.

kidney stones + no pilot's license is........i'm having trouble parsing that one. like, they are in no way exclusive to drunks??

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/19/stephen-baldwin-on-obama_n_468692.html

Sudden debilitating pain that makes one unable to function and can strike without warning is contra-indicated for people operating multi-ton vehicles through thin air with hundreds of innocent lives on board, iirc.

My dad fulfilled all his training hours for his pilot's license, proved at great length that he was no longer at risk for (another) heart attack (another risk factor that bars you), only to be denied with no option to appeal b/c of having had kidney stones in the past.

Homey' is short for 'homeboy,' slang for a fellow gang member.

rrreally

this just in: Stephen Baldwin is a tool

that's just in?

i mean i should probably know this (renal final in a week) but it seems like the chances of a recurrent MIs are higher than recurrent nephrolithiasis??? like just keep yr serum calcium monitored and you'll be hunky dory

anyway

Baldwin is fresh from his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, where he specifically got voted off for being an overbearing Christianist tool.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/02/19/quote_of_the_day.html

CPAC is just traet after traet

but again, you read shit like this, and you're like, how are democrats getting rolled by these people?

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/him2076_450.jpg

Q:but again, you read shit like this, and you're like, how are democrats getting rolled by these people?

A: fox news, talk radio, and an establishment media whose political coverage is predicated on a concept of objectivity-as-letting-both-sides-talk-at-length,

Christianist? Is that like a Scientologist? Republicanist? Democraticist?

dunno the context but it's probably like "islamist?"

it means he is a soldier in the army of the lord.

dominionist

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/steve-king-know-thine-enemy----liberals-progressivestrotskyites-maoists-stalinists.php

"More enemies on this list: Gramsciites -- ring anybody's bell?"

i'd really like to know if this in fact rang anybody's bell

hahahahaha

he forgot evil jedi

Q:but again, you read shit like this, and you're like, how are democrats getting rolled by these people?

A: b/c lots of people are militantly stupid -- and they vote. while the sane people get disgusted and decide to sit out elections.

well, also because a lot of americans are fairly conservative.

eh eisbaer, you could be a teapartier describing the 08 result, that's not much of an answer tbh

yeah, i was wondering that about avowed non-voters: they're rarely conservative, it seems? like most are morbsy lefties disgusted by the state of the things, and just peace out?

also includes schizophrenics convinced that voting allows the government to track your every move

wait it doesn't?

i really want an I'M SCHIZO -- AND I VOTE bumper sticker now

Q:but again, you read shit like this, and you're like, how are democrats getting rolled by these people?

A: http://www.themonkeycage.org/trusttrend-thumb.png

Maybe it's because even with a filibuster proof majority they failed on passing the most popular and desperately needed public policy of the past 50 years? That deep down people know it's not Fox News or the Tea Partiers they are bending over for, but the corporate vote?

Seriously fuck these people.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2010/02/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-cpac-part-two.php?img=2

Concerned Women for America = all my eHarmony matches have blocked me

:: starts pondering photoshop possibilities for pic #3 in that gallery ::

re: SP "In Your Heart, You Know She's Right"

Goldwater, as batshit as he was, is rolling over in his grave

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/gallery-day2cpac2.jpg

^^^must resist...urge...for..cruel...namecalling...

had no idea the John Birch Society was still around

did you read Tuesday's NYT story? Delicious stuff.

nah is there a link somewhere around here?

that woman's bumper sticker is mean.

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9886/unseen.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/appryl2/robert-de-niro-frankenstein--large-.jpg?t=1266617571

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/cpac.jpg

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/gallery-day2cpac14.jpg

Dave Matthews must eat brains

can't make out who any of the other people are

also lol @ "proud to be a teabagger". don't really need to shop that one for lols do you.

well none of them are blonde, which ~explains a lot~