The Onion reports on a new plan to stabilize Social Security
What's a quick way to stabilize social security? The Onion reports:
Social Security Reform Bill Encourages Americans To Live Faster, Die Younger
For the next cocktail party you attend
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How do the police occupy most of their time?
NORML asks where your police officers are, and the answer is revealing: A local St. Louis judge recently told one of my co-workers that prosecutors are finding it almost impossible to convict someone for mere possession of marijuana. The people are apparently speaking, in the form of jury nullification. Perhaps they too think that their limited numbers of police officers should be focusing on violent crimes and other serious crimes such as burglary.
For one Republican, reason prevails.
I'm sorry to say that this reasonable approach to Muslims shown by Jersey Governor Chris Christie (i.e., the lack of bigotry) is all too rare among Republicans. Lawrence O'Donnell reports:
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Christie's words shouldn't be inspirational, but they are in this climate of Republican bigotry.How would Jesus fight a nuclear war?
CNN reports that the U.S. Air Force has just scrapped a long-running program that taught nuclear miss
ile launching officers that the Bible is OK with nuclear war:
The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for new missile launch officers after concerns were raised about the briefing's heavy focus on religion. The briefing, taught for nearly 20 years by military chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, is intended to train Air Force personnel to consider the ethics and morality of launching nuclear weapons - the ultimate doomsday machine. Many of the slides in the 43 page presentation use a Christian justification for war, displaying pictures of saints like Saint Augustine and using biblical references.This program had been taught for two decades before the recent change.