NPR hasn't stepped out of line yet, though. They're running a weekly series on real people who've been affected by sequester cuts. And at the end of each segment, they have a loud cattle call of, "If you or someone you know - or have vaguely heard rumors of - is hurt by the sequester cuts, please for God's sake contact us so we can make Our Dear Leader happy." Maybe not those exact words, but you get the idea.

NPR hasn't stepped out of line yet, though. They're running a weekly series on real people who've been affected by sequester cuts. And at the end of each segment, they have a loud cattle call of, "If you or someone you know - or have vaguely heard rumors of - is hurt by the sequester cuts, please for God's sake contact us so we can make Our Dear Leader happy." Maybe not those exact words, but you get the idea.

All those admins are counted, however, in the student / teacher ratio. More like students / paid-adults-at-the-school ratio. So the classes stay crazy large, the kids get little attention, the teachers complain that not enough money is being spent on the schools ("Look at the class sizes!"), more money is thrown at them, and The Blob continues to grow. (Gotta have that Diversity Counselor!)

So striking reading those inaugural words. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won, on the promise (not realization) of those very words; he was nominated after some 18 days in office, no? Is it too late for the Nobel Committee take back the award? I sure don't see any fruit. I don't even see a peaceful leader...

She thought it was a sin and against her beliefs for Christians to marry?

jpuck, Would you say that the Jewish or Muslim postal worker must eat the ham sandwiches served in the cafeteria at work? (That's not a great analogy, but I have to leave work and don't have time to think of something better - sorry!)

Perfect example of the crux of the problem: Libs want to redefine "Freedom of Religion" to be "Freedom of WORSHIP." You can worship in private as you wish, but woe be unto you if you choose to live out your faith. You do not have that right anymore with our new definition. This case is incredibly important. Its resolution is either the reinstatement of sanity and actual freedom, or it is the beginning of the end.

But are you willing to agree with Rahm and say that Chicago's gun control laws brought this about? That the gang war has subsided because it's so gosh-darned hard for them to get guns now, thanks to Chicago's laws that are working so well?

The modern, post-Modernist Progressive has a pretty standardized set of Likes (re-distribution of wealth out of fairness, universal healthcare, sexual freedom, etc.) and Dislikes (guns, religion that requires morality, anyone that likes guns or calls for moral standards based outside their own wants, etc.). I enjoyed the column a while back on TH on a poll that found that Progressives could not fake answering a survey as a Conservative, but Conservatives could answer almost 100% the way a Prog would. They haven't a CLUE how we think. We, on the other hand, are inundated daily by their propaganda, so we know their mind.

Post-Modernist thinking like this is now the norm at American universities. Moral relativism, the old standard, still had "moral" in the name. The idea of gray areas' still being based on a black and a white were still part of it. With post-Moderinism, exhibited by these 2 callers, the very notion of black vs white - right vs wrong - are no longer even acknowledged as existing. The enlightened mind no longer holds such outmoded notions. And yet, humans have a hard time really living that, don't we? And so, were you to threaten to kill the baby of one of these callers, you can bet he would object. Morality is reduced to: do I like it or not?

According to DeGette, when you also finish shooting the bullets in your handgun, you throw it away - it doesn't have any more bullets! And we can eliminate pollution, because when your car runs out of gas, you can't drive it anymore. This is great! She is solving all the world's problems. We will stop getting fat, because when we run out of cake in the fridge, there won't be any more cake. Bless her little heart...