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Latest Taxpayer's Tab: Defunding the NLRB
Student athletes on Northwestern University's football team recently voted on whether or not to unionize, an unprecedented move that could have far-reaching effects in the world of college athletics and how major schools' programs are financed. The decision that set the legal process in motion was made in February, after a Chicago branch of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in the players' favor and affirmed that the student athletescould be considered university employees.
In this week's edition of The Taxpayer's Tab, NTUF examined the role of the NLRB and a bill that proposes to strip away its federal funding. That bill -- H.R. 4379, introduced by Congressman Matt Salmon (R-AZ) -- would save $264 million, the total amount that the Office of Management and Budget says the NLRB will spend this year.
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New Orleans Mayor Pushing Tax Hike Measures
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is calling for three major tax hikes on his city's residents, and the measures could end up on the November ballot if approved by the Legislature and signed by Governor Jindal.
A recent court ruling requires the Big Easy to address the underfunded firefighters' pension fund. In response, New Orleans officials have pieced together the following proposals:
If passed by the Legislature, signed by Jindal, and approved by taxpayers, the result would be an estimated new tax burden of $38.6 million on the citizens of New Orleans. Of course, each of these measures would receive the "negative" rating in NTU's Ballot Guide, since they would negatively impact taxpayers.
Whenever elected leaders toss around revenue estimates, taxpayers should be wary. Take cigarette tax hikes, for example. According to a 2013 tobacco tax study by NTU's research arm, revenue projections were met in only 29 of 101 cases where cigarette/tobacco taxes were increased between 2001 and 2011, meaning that 70 percent of the time, revenue estimates were missed. It'd be relatively easy for New Orleans residents and visitors to avoid the increase by buying their cigarettes elsewhere. As we've seen in other high-tax jurisdictions, it's also possible that a new black market for cigarettes would find its way to Bourbon Street.
Once estimated revenues fail to materialize, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what often happens next—more tax hikes! NTU Foundation's study found that between fiscal years 2001 and 2011, 66 out of 96 tobacco tax increases were followed by additional tax hikes. This means that New Orleans could face even higher taxes (not necessarily on tobacco) if House Bill 1210 comes to fruition.
In order to address the city's pension woes, Mayor Landrieu should look to limit spending and tighten the city budget before attempting to pile on new tax hikes. If these measures do make it to the November ballot, taxpayers will have a chance to reject the increases and demand that their Mayor run the city in a more fiscally responsible manner.0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts
President Obama Heads To Asia
Today, President Obama will depart on his third international trip of the year, as he heads to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines after making a public statement in Oso, Washington. The trip was originally scheduled to take place last fall, but the government shutdown in October prompted the White House to cancel.
The President will be away from D.C. until Tuesday, April 29, a total of 8 days spent traveling in and around the Southeast Asia region marked by several meetings with high-ranking foreign officials. According to the White House, the trip "will underscore a continued focus on the Asia-Pacific region and committment to his vision of rebalancing to the world's largest emerging region." The flight will take him from D.C. to Oso, then to Tokyo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, and finally, Manila. He'll head back to D.C. after that.
As our readers may know, NTUF keeps an ongoing log of Presidents' travel patterns, which we periodically update in order to provide taxpayers with a transparent accounting of how often the President travels abroad. Foreign travel is a necessary (albeit expensive) part of the job, yet there is a lack of readily available information for anyone who may be interested in how and when the President flies abroad. NTUF's study of these trends is offered in an attempt to fill in some of these gaps. We use information reported by the State Department combined with media and independent reports.
By our count, the President's 8-day trip to Asia will bring his cumulative totals to:
In 2014, the President has spent 14 days traveling to and from 10 countries on 3 separate trips.
Last month, we issued an update on President Obama's travels through his first five years in office, which showed he has spent more time abroad than other modern Presidents. Additionally, the cost per flight hour for Air Force One -- basically, what it takes to operate and maintain the President's primary means of air travel -- has risen to over $228,000 per hour, up from about $180,000 in previous years. Assuming about 38 hours of flying time during the flights to and from the cities mentioned above (and a cruising speed of 575 mph), that means the flight costs alone on this latest trip could add up to over $8.6 million.
Presidential travel necessarily entails substantial planning, logistical support, security provisions -- and, therefore, presents significant costs for taxpayers. NTUF's 2013 update delves into many of these issues and what we do (and do not) know about them.0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts
"A Taxing Trend", & Tax Day Aftermath - Speaking of Taxpayers, April 18
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Pete & Doug examine NTU's study of tax complexity, "A Taxing Trend", which found a $224 billion cost due to 6.1 billion hours lost in complying with the tax code; as well as IRS online monitoring, and what to look for next year. Plus, the Outrage of the Week!0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts
Latest Taxpayers Tab: Minimum Wage Revisited
In the President's State of the Union address earlier this year, there was particular emphasis placed on the growing disparity between America's highest and lowest income earners. His speech made it clear that one of his top priorities would be to raise the federal minimum wage, with or without Congressional support -- and he followed through in February by raising the base hourly pay for federal contract workers via an executive order.
In this week's edition of The Taxpayer's Tab, NTUF examined one of the proposals to raise the federal minimum wage across the rest of the country, Senator Tom Harkin's (D-IA) Minimum Wage Fairness Act. S. 1737 would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour within three years, and has picked up 39 cosponsors in the upper Chamber. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that while the bill's provisions would lift some 500,000 workers above the poverty line, it could also cost as many as 1 million jobs in 2016. CBO's analysis shows the bill would increase federal spending by about $2 million over five years, and reduce revenues by $13.7 billion in that same time (largely because of an extension for certain small business tax deductions included in the text).
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NTUF has also been in the news lately: our analysis on Congressional Caucus budget alternatives was featured at Townhall.com, and Real Clear Policy picked up Research and Outreach Manager Dan Barrett's piece on the "Neutral Tax".
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Another Tax Day Gone...
"Man is a creature that can get used to anything."
That's Dostoyevsky, though he's not the only person to express that sentiment.
After another tax season, as the federal government vacuums up record revenues while the economy sputters, that seems to be the appropriate theme. Though one might add, "especially if he cannot see or understand it."
Last year I wrote on a few topics related to Tax Day and NTU's study of tax complexity: A Taxing Trend. Unfortunately, from the challenges faced by overseas taxpayers, and the spike in the cost of tax complexity in the '10s, to the IRS tracking of your digital footprint, nothing has really changed.
There are more stories about the IRS' monitoring of social media presences, overseas taxpayers still have to deal with FATCA, and we still lost north of $200 billion to tax complexity.
Though for the cost of tax complexity, that is quite noteworthy… This year the hour cost of tax complexity seems to have come down a bit, and, while that has brought the dollar cost down ever so slightly, that second figure has not come down much.
In fact, it is still in the stratosphere at $224 billion this past year. The charts illustrate how the dollar cost of tax complexity is, at best, very slow to react to the hour burden - and with more Obamacare measures still being implemented the dip may be short-lived.
The story is a familiar one as our tax code remains a huge burden, and the agency enforcing it looks for more ways to track your every move, but perhaps it's not that much of a problem?
It might seem anathema to consider such a question, yet, the Associated Press asked whether filing taxes was truly difficult in a recent poll, headline: "Most Americans Say Filing Taxes Easy."
How could something that is costing the economy 6.1 billion hours be "easy"? How could it take the average taxpayer 15 hours and $280 out of pocket to get it done? Maybe we just aren't that bright.
Well the AP found that 58 percent of respondents thought filing a tax return was easy. Sad to say, that relief you're feeling will be short lived.
The poll's other findings undermine their own lead finding. First of all, they peg the number of taxpayers using assistance of some type (from Turbo Tax to an accountant) at 91 percent!
That's right, practically everyone gets help with their taxes, and then claims filing them is "easy." Something is amiss…
This is like saying changing your oil is easy because you take your car to Jiffy Lube. By this logic I have no problem flying a plane, just look how many times I've flown on airplanes! One could go on and on.
AP also needles simplicity by asking: "Would you be willing to pay more in federal taxes if the process of filling out a tax return were easier, or not?"
Of course only 7 percent of respondents said yes. It is very disappointing this loaded question was asked, as if paying more is somehow a feature of simplifying the tax code.
Maybe if they had told them how much they are losing just due to tax complexity those polled would have had some math to do.
This poll does show that the convenience tax filing products have brought to the table is now obscuring the true pain of complying with the tax code for almost everyone. We are all glad to have this arduous process made easier on us, but when you combine this situation with the real cost of tax complexity as shown by A Taxing Trend, you have the worst possible situation: A complex tax code that costs our economy billions, and remains hidden from view.
Similar to how automatic withholding and deficit spending can obfuscate what you pay in taxes, when everyone has help filing their taxes, the inefficiencies and burdens of the system are not clear to individuals.0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts
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NTUF's Dan Barrett joins the podcast to analyze all the budgets the House has been analyzing this week. Pete & Doug discuss all the smoke billowing from the IRS scandal, and an AP poll on the "ease" of filing taxes. Plus a smelly Outrage of the Week!0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts
A State-Based Federal Tax System?
If you're following HBO's Game of Thrones, winter's always coming. The problem for taxpayers is that our winter comes every year in mid-April and it's increasingly becoming a game with only losers. Around this time of year, I hear from citizens and even policy experts not only complaining about their tax burden but wondering why the system itself is in such dire straits. There are many reasons (NTUF recently laid out some of the problems and solutions in The Taxpayer's Tab -- seriously, if you're not subscribed to the Tab, you're missing out) but some Americans see no hope for our graduated progressive-income tax system and are looking to completely replace it.
One such reform was pointed out to me by Tom, whom I met at NTU and Foundation's CPAC 2014 booth. His idea is to streamline America's tax system in a way similar to what the Founding Fathers originally created. I later found a short description of what Tom calls the Neutral Tax on his website:
[The Neutral Tax] eliminates all federal taxes on citizens and businesses (including federal income, payroll, personal income, unemployment, corporate, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, self-employment, gasoline, etc.) and replaces them with a singular flat tax on the gross revenue of each state government (including all local taxes & fees.)
In short, the new system would transfer the requirement of collecting federal revenues from individuals, households, businesses, and corporations to state governments. State governments tend to be more efficient in costs and accountability when collecting taxes because they are made up of much smaller jurisdictions than the entire country. Dealing with a smaller pool of people means lower operating and enforcement costs. Though there are still horror stories coming out of state Departments of Revenue, taxpayers are better able to walk down the street or travel to their state capitol to dispute their tax burden compared to traveling all the way to Washington, D.C. and/or dealing with examiners of a large and oftentimes cumbersome agency, such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The new system would take the responsibility of collecting taxes away from the federal government, leaving the states to decide the methods and parameters to tax citizens. Bringing the notion that states are laboratories for democracy into play, governments could choose to merely expand existing systems or choose to reform to collect the necessary funds. The goal is to allow states to have the freedom to reform their systems without having to also conform to the federal income tax-based framework. For example, today, taxpayers in Florida (and six other states) don't pay state income taxes (and generally pay higher sales or use taxes) but still must pay federal income taxes. This system makes having a comparatively more efficient sales tax system less advantageous because people are a part of two systems. Having a Neutral Tax system might increase efficiencies by decreasing compliance costs for households and businesses. Of course, the tax system that states would adopt is all dependent on the Governor and state legislators.
With the basic concept out of the way, let's delve down into what a Neutral Tax system might look like, how it would affect taxpayers, and how it might change the federal budget.
Calculating the Neutral Tax: As it appears in Tom's document, the Neutral Tax would be revenue-neutral, meaning that the system would collect the same amount of revenue as before the fundamental reform. At the federal level, tax rates would be set at zero. Each state would calculate the state, local, and federal tax makeup of its citizens to determine how much it would need to increase its own collections to offset the federal income tax repeal.
For 2014, total projected federal revenue ($3.0 trillion) is divided by total tax revenue ($5.7 trillion – federal, state, and local total) to reveal that 52.6 percent of taxes paid go to the federal government. To be compliant in the new system, state revenue departments would need to increase average collections by 52.6 percent, which would not change the taxpayer's tax burden (just the method of collection). It would be up to the Department of the Treasury and Congress to determine what percentage of the tax mix would go to federal accounts.
The Neutral Tax & Taxpayers: At least initially, taxpayers would likely not see a change in their tax burden. States would have the freedom to decide how to collect revenues and how much to collect, which would also leave it to state officials to decide who collects taxes. For example, it's possible that one state could adopt a more progressive income tax while its neighbor could have a Fair Tax system.
The policy document also notes that "it cannot be argued The Neutral Tax inherently falls more heavily on one group or another. It will be up the states to determine how they modify their existing tax/fee structures to collect the additional federal tax… ."
A Different Federal Budget: Even with the same amount of revenue coming in, the Neutral Tax would not necessarily lead to similar spending levels. Enacting the new system would mean refundable tax credits would no longer be in effect. These credits are payments given to households in excess of their tax liability and are counted by both the Congressional Budget Office and NTUF's BillTally project as spending, not revenues. Without these credits, federal spending would be reduced by $86.4 billion if the Neutral Tax was enacted this year. This line of reasoning is also found in our scores of the flat tax and Fair Tax proposals.
I took a similar view of the Neutral Tax as with the Fair Tax with respect to the IRS. With the elimination of most of the Tax Code, the IRS would be significantly downsized. The agency is approved to spend $12.1 billion this year, which would be counted as savings if the Neutral Tax is passed and the IRS is eliminated. BUT, a couple of further details: The IRS would need a multi-year wind-down to finalize remaining tax cases and to transfer data and authority to a smaller entity, comparable to the Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. They spend $96 million last year (page 1070 of the Budget Appendix) on operations and so I would credit that figure against the total IRS deauthorization.
Much like other fundamental tax reform measures, this proposal also has a slim chance of passing a divided and pro-establishment Congress. In this proposed system, as with other reforms, the decision making power of how much to tax Americans rests with Congress and the Treasury Department. This then relies on individuals, local taxpayer associations, and national organizations to push for changes in the overall rate. It is difficult to tell if taxpayers would organize to keep rates low or if we could face a situation similar to today where rates are often times arbitrarily increased. However, it is good to keep the ideas coming for taxpayers to consider how best to fund the government in challenging economic times. Thanks to Tom for stopping by our CPAC booth and helping me add another alternative to the growing list of reforms!
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High-Frequency Trading and the "Transaction Tax"
When most of us think of trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, images of traders frantically running across the room as they take orders over the phone come to mind. Many Americans also trade at home, relying on internet services or financial advisors to relay the latest information on the stocks and funds that they're interested in.
However, there is growing concern that automated "high-frequency trading", which utilizes computer algorithms and software to make split-second decisions as trading conditions change in real-time, might give some traders an unfair advantage over others. The problem stems from the idea of marginal profit -- that is, even very small profits on minor trades can accumulate into larger ones so long as the trader conducts enough transactions. Software and computer algorithms are already capable of trading at exponentially higher speeds than the every-day financier, yet some firms spend hundreds of millions of dollars to cut down on communication time even further in order to get their hands on a stock first, then immediately resell it at a marginally higher price.
Author Michael Lewis has chronicled the debate in a recent book and several media appearances. The issue has gotten the attention of some lawmakers on Capitol Hill, too, who are pushing a national transaction tax in response. That tax would be levied on every financial transaction that investors make, which, according to Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), could serve as a deterrent for firms who are supposedly gaming the system by conducting thousands of small transactions at a time and rely on the very small marginal profits made on each one.
Ellison's idea -- which he has dubbed the "Inclusive Prosperity Act" -- attempts to counteract the effect of "Wall Street speculation" that "is currently subject to zero sales tax on its trillions of dollars of annual transactions- while consumers regularly pay sales taxes even on daily necessities." It has been proposed before in previous sessions of Congress.
NTUF featured an even broader transaction tax proposal in a 2012 edition of The Taxpayer's Tab. Congressman Chaka Fattah's (D-PA) Debt Free America Act proposed to eliminate the personal income tax, virtually all tax credits, and the Alternative Minimum Tax and replace them with a one-percent fee on each and every cash, credit, debit, and stock or bond transaction. While it's unknown whether the bill would have any administrative costs associated with tracking every financial transaction Americans make, Rep. Fattah claims that his legislation will generate enough revenue to pay down the national debt in just ten years. Variations on that proposal include a 0.35 percent tax on all transactions, which proponents argue would simplify the current tax system and expand the revenue base.
Since our feature on Rep. Fattah's legislation, NTUF has offered a preview of other tax reform proposals -- including the Fair Tax and a flat tax -- that have been proposed in Congress. You can read our analysis here.0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts
Broad Coalition Sends Message to Congress: Oppose Internet Access Taxes
NTU is proud to be among the 29 groups from across the political spectrum that signed a letter urging Congress to block potential tax hikes on Internet access. Specifically, the letter calls upon the House and Senate to pass the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 3086) or the Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act (S. 1431), bills that would make permanent the moratorium on multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet. The current moratorium is scheduled to expire on November 1, 2014.
As the letter explains:
Internet taxation affects all Americans from all political views and all walks of life. From healthcare to education, small business entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies, the Internet has dramatically transformed the way everyone lives, works, and learns. In 2010, the Internet accounted for an estimated $684 billion, or 4.7 percent of all U.S. economic activity. While the Internet was a nascent technology when the current moratorium was established in 1998, it has become the economic engine driving innovation and growth in our 21st century economy. Throttling that engine at a time when our economy is struggling hurts not only those trying to invest in America's future, but also those who can least afford it and have the most to gain from the Internet's potential.
Let's hope Congress heeds the letter's advice and works to reduce barriers to Internet access.0 Comments | Post a Comment | Sign up for NTU Action Alerts


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Longview Police have arrested a third suspect in connection with an apartment burglary that left one suspect dead.
Just before 10 p.m. on December 17, officers were dispatched to a shooting that just occurred at the Towne Oaks North Apartments located in the 2500 block of N. Eastman Road. When they arrived on the scene, they were told a man entered the apartment and assaulted one of the residents. That suspect, Noah Wood, 17 of Longview then entered a bedroom of the apartment and was shot by another resident at the location with a rifle, and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police have arrested two other men now in connection with this aggravated robbery. The most recent subject arrested is identified at Robert Acles, 20, of Longview.
Acles was charged with aggravated robbery and remains in the Gregg County Jail The case will be forwarded to the D.A.'s office for further review, and remains under investigation.
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Lloyd Gordon is a top estate liquidator in Beverly Hills, California."A lot of people wonder if they should have a sale or donate," says Gordon. "Usually people end up doing both. The best approach is to have an estate sale first, get as much money as you can for the items that are saleable. The rest, donate and get a good tax deduction."But Gordon says hiring a reputable estate liquidator can cost you as much as 30 percent of the profits – sometimes more. For that percentage, the company should clean the items, set up and advertise the sale, process all sales transactions and get you the highest prices. According to Gordon, families don't always understand the market value of what they've inherited. "Generally what they think is worth a lot of money is not," says Lloyd. "The things they know nothing about, is exactly what is worth a lot of money. And that's the difference between having a pro and a non-pro do it."So if you find yourself having to sell an estate, remember, professional liquidators charge up to 30 percent commission of all sales made. But, in the long run they can save you a lot of time and will probably make you more money than if you were to do it yourself.
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Personal data sent to India by companies outsourcing work to service providers in the country will not be covered under the country's stringent new rules for the collection of personal data, an executive of a data protection standards company set up by the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said.
The new Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules 2011 require companies or their intermediaries to take consent in writing from individuals about the use of the sensitive personal information they collect.
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The Indian government has assured outsourcers that it will be issuing a clarification soon that the rules do not cover personal data collection by companies abroad, said Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO of the Data Security Council of India, a company set up by Nasscom to set standards for data security and privacy for outsourcers.
The key element of the clarification will be that the new rules apply only to a "body corporate" in India, he added. A spokesman of the country's Ministry of Communications and IT said he had no comment on this issue.
Indian companies that handle data will however continue to be governed under those parts of the rules that require them to follow stringent security procedures as processors of data, Bajaj said.
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The new rule requiring written consent for collection of sensitive personal data presents numerous questions as to its practicality and how it can be implemented, particularly in the context of an outsourcing arrangement where the customer is, for example, in the U.K. and the service provider is located in India, said Lawrence Graham LLP, a firm of London-based business lawyers, in a recent note.
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Bill Maher Uses Texas HPV Vaccine Issue to Call Michele Bachmann Mentally Retarded
Bill Maher returned to HBO Friday regaling viewers with nonstop attacks on conservatives.
Showing some uncharacteristic restraint, it only took eight minutes before he went after Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann using Texas's HPV vaccine issue to call the Minnesota Congresswoman mentally retarded (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER: And Michele Bachmann is not backing down on this issue. You know, Rick Perry stole her thunder so she's mad at him. So she said that after the debate where this came up, she had a discussion with a woman who came to her after the debate and said that her daughter had taken the vaccine and become from the vaccine mentally retarded. And Michele Bachmann said, "Mom?"
Is there no floor below which Maher won't go to attack conservative women?
Mentally retarded jokes?
He's 55 for goodness sake. This is the kind of stuff I'd expect from kindergartners.
Didn't one of the kids in the hit film "Kindergarten Cop" say something like this, albeit with a better delivery?
Nice job, Bill. You really do your profession proud.
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Maher should serve as a
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 2:20am.
Maher should serve as a warning other others about the dangers of unprotected gay sex, drug abuse, and illiteracy.
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Bachmann's attack is unconscionable
Submitted by Texndoc on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 3:27am.
To imply there are "innocent 12 year olds" and that the millions of girls who have received the vaccine somehow surrender that. Well, The CDC and The American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the vaccine be give from age 9 to 22. Not Perry picking that age, Mrs. Bachmann.
Actually appearing on the Tonight Show she was glorious when defending the Tea Party. I find the situation she finds herself in quite sad. A vaccine hysteric wearing a tin-foil skirt in one debate, now trailing Newt Gingrich. Good job, Michele.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:39am.
There are enough anecdotal reports about effects from Gardasil for parents to be wary of vaccinating their child from a behavioral disease. The medical society once promoted Thalidomide. That didn't work out so well did it?
This is a vaccine that should be up to parents to decide about, NOT the government. Bachmann is not a vaccine hysteric.
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anecdotes? I would need more than that
Submitted by mom_rox on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 12:06pm.
Bachmann needs to tread carefully - she's treading (diving?) into Jenny McCarthy territory.
I have sons, so I have not personally had to deal with this. I did not like Perry's end-run around the legislature, but I do not have a problem with the opt-out feature. (I'm in TX.) Personally, I do not see the vaccine as "permission" to have sex, but a preventation for a serious disease. (edited)
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Submitted by stratman on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 1:04am.
Gardasil is approved for both boys and girls aged 9 - 26.
Are you saying that Perry was for vaccinating only females and not males? Medically, there is no reason to exclude boys from the vaccine. To do so displays ignorance of the vaccine usage but also a not so subtle sexism.
Personally, I believe the vaccine should not be forced on a population and should not require an "opt-out" but only be an "opt-in" - patient (or parent) is informed and the patient (or parent) decides. HPV is not the infectious public health risk that other immunizations protect us from. Also, if the government can force citizens to get Gardasil, something which does not combat potentially emergent epidemic or pandemic infection that kill or injure people the way polio or pertussis did in the past, then what is to stop the government from forcing people to take an aspirin or prozac because some legislator thinks it's a money saver?
I like a number of things about Perry, and he may have had good intentions in this debacle, but he was dead wrong in how he approached it. Despite it being one of the albatrosses he carries in the Primaries, Perry is still a darn sight better than Obama or anything on the Left's side. The question is whether Perry, warts and all, is the best we Conservatives are going to get.
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Hi Strat
Submitted by mom_rox on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 9:16am.
Yes, Perry's executive order was for girls only (which is why I didn't focus on it way back when). To repeat myself, something like this should have gone through the legislature.
This hasn't been mentioned much, but Perry's wife, Anita, was a nurse, so I have to assume that she must have had some influence on his decision.
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Oh Yes Ms Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 2:38pm.
It's a major issue when we talk about vaccinating "lil girls" but what most people forget/never talk about, is that "lil boys" are the carriers of the virus...hmm
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Submitted by stratman on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 12:44am.
Gardasil is "licensed, safe, and effective" for females and males ages 9 - 26 yo. The CDC recommends females begin the 3 injection series when 11 or 12 yo. No reason given why they don't recommend beginning at 9 or 10 years of age. The AAP appears to handle their recommendation similarly according to their current schedule. The AP recommendation do not go beyond the age of 18 yo, maybe because of scope of practice concerning age ranges.
Concerning Michelle Bachmann -- unfortunate comment which should have been vetted. BUT... from a layperson's point of view, it IS possible for a reaction to Gardasil in a patient to appear to result in "retardation". Brain injury from trauma or anoxia (lack of blood flow to the brain) can result in the appearance of developmentally delayed or, colloquially, mentally retarded individual. For instance, Gardasil can cause a temporary irregular heart beat soon after receivingthe injection. Falls may occur and serious head trauma is a possibility. Hence the recommendation that people getting the injection remain in the office, supine, and observable for a while. Also, Gardasil may in very rare cases cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), an paralysis of muscles which may require being placed on a ventilator to help the person breathe until the symptoms resolve. If enough of a delay between chest muscle paralysis and receiving ventilator support occurs, then anoxia - lack of oxygen to the brain - may occur and cause brain cell death which may mimic "retardation". Also, Gardasil may cause blood clots in those with increased risk. Blood clots may also cause anoxia in the brain with resultant stroke symptoms and after-effects that a layperson might think is "retardation".
From the warning on the drug, specifically about serious head trauma resulting from syncope, it very may well be there has been at least one case of injury to the brain from one or more of the known side effects of Gadasil that has impaired cognitive/behavioral/physical functioning to an extent a layperson would view the patient as "retarded", or a physician to diagnose impaired functioning analogous to delayed development (though the physician would not label the disability as "retarded").
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As long as Donkeyface is
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 3:06am.
As long as Donkeyface is talking about 'mental retardation'..........we don't need to give it too much thought - since this drug-addled twerp is the poster boy for 'mental retardation'.............and, much like his knee-pad man-crush Boy Barry, he's too delusional to even know it!!!
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No one should hate anyone, but I dislike that guy...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 3:47am.
with great intensity.
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A great joke.
Submitted by melvin on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 3:57am.
And she deserved it too, after her idiotic vaccine comments. BTW, Rush and many other conservatives hammered her over her moronic statement
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Sorry, Rush said Bachmann won the debating point...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 4:16am.
but hurt herself by relaying the "mental retardation caused by the vaccine" story the next day. He said she should have left well enough alone and by pursuing it even after Perry admitted he made a mistake was wrong.
To say, as you did, that she made a moronic statement puts you on the side of Bill Maher and many other liberals and not on the side of Rush and many other conservatives.
Speaking for myself, I would never want to be on the same side as Bill Maher...ever!
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Rush had a photo
Submitted by Texndoc on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 4:31am.
Rush had a photo on his website of Michele Bachmann's face pasted over a photo of Fonzie on a motorcycle jumping a shark-tank. That's what Rush thinks.
Anyway I had to laugh at the Conservative blogger Ace: "Bachmann says in a new fundraising e-mail to supporters: Perry takes INNOCENT 12 year old girls and injects them with Liquid Whore!!"
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She had a great point
Submitted by melvin on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 4:58am.
But she blew it. Perry was requiring the vaccine, only because he was bought off by lobbyists. If she would have stuck to that argument, she would have scored a big time win. Instead she veered off into the vaccine=mental retardation, cuckoo for cocoa puffs argument, and probably ended any hope she had for the nomination.
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So much for the requirement
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 8:03am.
Just as your biggest heroes, my hate-filled, angry Socialist, only are looking out for themselves and want government to baby you so that they can entrench themselves as aristocrats (and to that end, to them you are nothing more than a useful idiot). Besides, that so-called "buying" of Perry sure worked out. As soon as there was an outcry against the vaccination (for which there were ways to opt out...but how can I expect you to be intellectually honest?), he dropped it. And it hasn't happened.
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Love, sensitivity, and tolerance
Submitted by AR72 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 5:20am.
Where's the love, sensitivity, and tolerance that liberals such as these are always telling us conservatives we should have? I don't know which is more disgusting, his joke or the audience laughing about it.
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Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 7:05am.
I don't get it. When I was young,I received a 'government' sanctioned vaccination against polio. At the time I had no idea why, but in retrospect I'm glad they did it. So what's the big deal?
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The difference is that HPV is
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 7:30am.
The difference is that HPV is a specific STD and is not acquired or spread to others simply by being in school with kids who have it.
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Again you've lost me
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 7:39am.
Who cares how it's spread. If it prevents people from getting sick, then what's the downside?
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Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 8:08am.
For many this is a moral issue.
Also, I think you are suffering from cultural confusion. You come from a society where people believe they should have zero say over medical decisions pertaining to themselves. Here in this country - I know it sounds really weird, especially to you - but people believe that only two people should be involved in medical decisions - the doctor and the patient. By extension, when it comes to their children, medical decisions are again a private matter for people, not left up to the government.
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I agree with Bachmann Mandrake
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 12:06pm.
I would have no problems with my kid getting the vaccine, but it should be optional and not mandatory.
I take back what i said. After more research parents had the option to opt out. If you are allowed to opt out, I don't see the problem
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Well, then, maybe you should
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:00am.
Well, then, maybe you should be "required" to be vaccinated against typhus, yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria, beriberi, and all those other tropical diseases right now. ..you know, just "in case" you ever travel to a jungle.
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pretty soon
Submitted by jimtrees on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:48pm.
Pretty soon there will be all new bridges with obama's plan. So, lets cross them when we get to them.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:44am.
The difference you don't get an STD without a sexual behavior, and you don't give it to others without that behavior. Would you take a vaccine for a disease you had no chance of catching? Consider that there are possible side effects with ANY vaccine, and possible risks. Some of us don't want to expose our children to those risks if there is no reason to.
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Michele Bachman is wrong....
Submitted by jdripper on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 8:50am.
What she is saying is wrong, it is false, a fabrication, and in a more politically correct fashion honesty challenged. Maher in how he said it is wrong, but for her to say she is a legitimate Presidential candidate and to be bluntly lying about her opponent she needs to be called out about that.
Being a conservative woman does not make her immune from criticism or give her a pass to say any little thought that pops in her head. She needs to back down, apologize for the false statements, and then move forward.
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What was the lie?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:03am.
Perry did mandate the vaccine, did he not?
What am I missing?
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You are missing the entire issue for starters....
Submitted by jdripper on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:14am.
She did not leave it at that. If she had then she would have been fine. She took everything one more step. She declared that the vaccine creates mental retardation in children. She got on national television after the debate and alleged that some woman came up to her tears declaring that after the inoculation her daughter became mentally retarded. Now Merck, and several medical societies have called her out for her false statements.
In over 20,000 clinical trials of the drugs the only side effects were minimal The FDA has approved it and medical science recognizes it. One biologist has offered $10,000 to anyone who can prove Bachman's statements to be true.
She needs to apologize for going way around the bend and just get back to the main point.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:47am.
If you are one of the people who experienced a severe side effect, it doesn't matter to you how many haven't. For a disease that is contracted sexually it is wrong to mandate it.
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Alex Jones?
Submitted by jdripper on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:11am.
You get your news of the world from Alex Jones?
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Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 2:55pm.
Let me interject here. I dont remember the name of the company but there was a study done years ago in a small community in La called St. Gabriel. This is also where our women's prison is located. A chemical plant located near the towns water supply was sued for contaminating the water and causing miscarriages. A lengthy study was done.
By state and federal health standards, the statistical results of the study of this community was shown to be -3 miscarriages from "significant" by population. So St Gabriel lost the law suit because they were missing 3 miscarriages. Hundreds of women suffered health problems and miscarriages but based on "statistical based results" were denied assistance, compensation, and the plant continued to endanger ALL the towns population until finally, about 10 yrs ago, the plant closed. I have seen photographs of the area. Plants still are unable to grow in that area. Since we have a very tropical environment, it is a very spooky place to visit.
Policies, laws, and medical treatments based solely on one "statistical study" should be of great concern. In particular when the source of the study will benefit financially from "policies" resulting from that study.
This debate reminds me of Al Gore in many ways.
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Submitted by stratman on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 1:43am.
As of June 22, 2011, the CDC's VAERS reports that 8% of total HPV vaccines given resulted in hospitalization, permanent disability, life-threatening illness, congenital anomaly or death, which is classified as serious reaction. These are reported side effects that occur temporally after injection and may or may not be related specifically to receipt of the vaccination. More study is required before definitive conclusions can be made.
That said, I would find it unlikely that all serious VAERS were unconnected to the HPV vaccination. By the very nature of the VAERS reporting mechanism, you cannot conclusively state all side effects to the vaccination are mild. Also, FDA approval does not guarantee no harm will come from approved use of an approved drug.
I read it was two scientists or researchers who have challenged Bachmann. Immature response to a layperson's mistake. My money is on these two being Democrats or Ron Paul supporters.
See my post above for how a layperson could view a reaction to Gardasil as "retarded".
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Innocent Mistake?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 9:47am.
Let me make it clear that I don't think the government at any level should ever tell people that they should be forced to take a vaccine. It should always be voluntary and done via the, "opt in" route, as opposed to the "opt out" route.
But stratman, your post makes it seem that 8% of total HPV vaccines given resulted in hospitalization, permanent disability, life-threatening illness, congenital anomaly, or death. I doubt that the FDA or any other government body would have approved these vaccines if that was the case. So following the link you provided I read the following:
As of June 22, 2011, approximately 35 million doses of Gardasil® were distributed in the U.S. and VAERS received a total of 18,727 reports of adverse events following Gardasil® vaccination: 17,958 reports among females and 346 reports for males, of which 285 reports were received after the vaccine was licensed for males in October 2009. VAERS received 423 reports of unknown gender. Of the total number of VAERS reports following Gardasil®, 92% were considered to be non-serious, and 8% were considered serious.
So out of approximate 35 million doses given, VAERS received a total of 18, 727 reports of adverse events following the vaccination. That's 5/100ths of 1%, (if my math is correct), reporting any adverse event of any nature. Furthermore, 8% of those adverse events were indeed serious, but 8% of 5/100ths of 1% is 4/10000ths of 1%.
I'm going to assume you just mistakenly stated that 8% of HPV vaccines resulted in the serious reactions you mentioned. Your hearts in the right place regarding your arguments, but no government body would let 2.8 million "serious events" go unnoticed, and even the MSM would report on something that serious.
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Thank You
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 3:56pm.
Excellent correction. It is 8% of reported side effects that are considered "serious".
Concerning vaccines, no one can medically do something to you without consent, unless you are deemed mentally incompetent or a direct health hazzard (eg tuberculosis) or there is an emmergent situation and you or your proxy is unavailable to guide decisions. But, if you do not get certain vaccines then you will not be able to participate in some functions in society such as certain jobs or the military. There may be some schools that require immunizations for matriculation, but I don't keep track of that.
If you were to live in isolation then refusing vaccines would have no impact on society. Since hardly anyone lives in isolation, the unvaccinated become a risk to the population via a mechanism known as "herd immunity". Additionally, non-immunized individuals can become host not only for a bacteria or virus that the "herd" has immunity to, but also that bacteria or virus could mutate inside the uvaccinated host to a form the "herd" is not protected from. Then all are at risk.
To live in a society is to make a social compact with that society. Vaccinations are a part of that social compact. But this should not be abused by society. The Texas HPV vaccine debacle was abusive since HPV's risk to society on a variety of levels is not on par with other vaccinated infectious diseases.
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What am I missing?
Submitted by ckc1227 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 4:09pm.
Her lies, for one.
Lie 1. I am offended for all those innocent little girls who were forced to take this dangerous drug against their will by Rick Perry.
Try again, Michelle. No little girls were forced to take this drug in Texas.
Lie 2. An evil drug company made MILLIONS off of this mandate from the Texas government.
Ummm, wrong again Michelle. Neither of these things happened because the mandate never went into effect.
Most likely lie 3. I know a woman whose daughter was turned retarded by Gardasil.
Sure you do, Michelle.
The Gardasil mandate was an overreach by Perry. He shouldn't have done it. But as overreaches go, this one was minor. It's not like vaccine mandates are unheard of. I'm more concerned with his "I don't care how you got here" attitude towards illegal immigration.
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Well, that...
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 2:09am.
And his casual attitude toward imminent domain. The TTC was his pet project, and the tolls would have been run by foreign interests.
Definitely better than president downgrade, prolly better than Bush, maybe the best of this bunch, but hardly ideal, or anywhere near it.
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Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 7:00am.
My problem with the TTC was this: we HAVE a TTC called I-35. But instead of doing anything about it, to seriously upgrade it - ESPECIALLY in Austin - people have chosen to hand-wring about it for the past 20-30 years. And they want to continue to hand-wring, over and over and over again.
I have no problem with a toll road being run by those evil, disgusting, sickening people we call foreigners. But then, I don't have the intense, overwhelming FEAR of the evil foreigners some people do. Besides, those evil foreigners do much for investment and jobs here in Texas. Within driving distance of my place I can hit two major employers that are in fact French, for instance. Toyota has a plant in San Antonio. And so on. (You listening, you shrieking populist Hutchison?)
The honorable thing Perry did was that when people, for various reasons - some entirely rational and COMPLETELY understandable, some from WAY out in Conspiro-land - opposed the TTC, he dropped it. The thing died in January 2009 and Gov. Perry won't fight for it. It's dead and he says it's dead. Compare that to some Presidents who want to shove their projects and ideas down our throats...
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Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 1:49pm.
I have no problem with foreign companies running tolls, if they build them, and they negotiate the price for land with the owners, not have a governmental agency take it for a "fair market value". Fair market value is however much the owner can get for it.
As you know, San Antonio has fought against toll roads on 1604/281 for awhile now, mostly because one of the original proposals was to toll roads we've already paid for. I have a big problem with that.
I agree about the lack of progress on 35. Austin is a nightmare. Toll roads there are a life saver much of the time.
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Funny thing is, if Bachmann
Submitted by ant on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:33am.
Funny thing is, if Bachmann or especially Bush were for the vaccines, the left would be shrieking about them being in the pocket for Big Pharm. Kinda like 'hope and change' seems to cowtow to lobbyists, just like the Washington insiders we've become accustomed to, 'transform' America but keep the DC game the same as it ever was. Whatever happened to 'Keep your laws off my body!'
Now if Bachmann had told a story about a woman borrowing her sister's teeth...
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And you're just as guilty of bias as the liberal media
Submitted by cdh3021 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:38am.
I say that you're as guilty of bias as the liberal media because you cut the clip right at the point where Maher says "I'm kidding, of course." This guy is a COMEDIAN! It's his job to make jokes and be controversial. Yes. He's biased. But that means you have to be biased as well? Why don't you tell it like it REALLY is. Why don't you tell about the professors who have offered more than 10,000 dollars for proof that Bachman's story about HPV vaccine is true?
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Mission statement
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:41am.
Read the mission statement of this website 10,000 times.
I may be wrong, but I never once saw a word about objectivity in the mission statement.
And "I'm just kidding" is always the excuse Leftists hide behind.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
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$10,000 Dollars?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:46am.
You have to admit that the offer of $10,000 to disprove Bachman's claims is pretty funny because of the piddling amount. The bias of the MSM is funny regarding this offer, too. I have heard of this offer a bunch on different MSM outlets, but I never once heard of Brieitbart's offer of $100,000, (real money compared to the piddling $10,000), for anyone who could prove that TeaParty members yelled racial slurs or spit on the Congresspeople after the passage of Obama-care on any MSM outlet.
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Always been a Bachman Fan
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:52am.
I think she could have gone about taking on Perry in a much smarter manner. She's coming across kind of shrill and ludicrous. Even if every single thing she is saying is correct, she's not getting her message across because of it's tone.
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Has what the woman she met
Submitted by balboa on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 4:38pm.
Has what the woman she met claimed been verified?
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My understanding of this.
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 10:05pm.
My understanding of Bachman's claim is that it was a woman in the audience that she met briefly who told her that her daughter suffered some mental "retardation" after taking this type of a vaccine. But Bachman doesn't know who the woman is, and no one has stepped forward claiming to be this woman.
Whatever the case, it's pretty flimsy evidence to bring this up regarding the complications of said vaccine.
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Bill Mahr is a horses ass.
Submitted by tebgr on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 11:01am.
Bill Mahr is a horses ass IMHO. I find him as insufferable to watch as MSNBC. I appreciate what Michelle Bachman has done in embracing the Tea Party movement and agree with most of what she says. That said, this joke was funny! Folks, if we as conservatives/libertarians cry about every poke then we become the joke.
It's entirely possible that the vaccine caused a side effect as severe as mental retardation despite the fact that is did not show up in clinical trials. Every drug has a possible side effects. We as a society need to understand that lest all drugs be taken off the shelf. While Michelle is right about the mandate issue, introducing possible mental retardation as a reason not to use the vaccine has lessened her credibility and she has opened herself up to being the butt of jokes.
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It's Possible
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 1:21pm.
By that logic, it's entirely possible that the vaccine may have caused a genetic mutation that is lying dormant in one of the girls who took the drug. That genetic mutation may one day produce offspring who are immune to all the BS slung about by liberals and progressives! As long as we are going down the road of "It's entirely possible", we might as well look on the bright side.
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Submitted by jimspice on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 12:26pm.
For once I agree with NewsBusters. Maher, by comparing them to Michele Bachmann, is being very unfair to mentally retarded people.
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......with lovely comments like that
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Mr Spice knows what he is doing. He has been at NB for over 2 years.
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Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 4:38pm.
Thanks for showing us how intellectually bankrupt you are.
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Bill Maher is the only sh!t
Submitted by TE on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 2:15pm.
Bill Maher is the only sh!t for brains dumb @ss stupid enough to "think" that Brazil has not used in oil in thirty years (THIRTY YEARS!) If the useful idiots at ABC, CNN, NBC, A-Mess-NBC who always have Maher on their programs because of his "brain" had any brains themselves they would ask Maher what he "thinks" powers the tractor-trailers and cars in Brazil. Does Maher "think" that gerbils are spinning the wheels of 18-wheelers? Is burning dog sh!t powering those trucks and cars?
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Bachmann is Sarah Palin Lite
Submitted by cbeyer on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 2:38pm.
I have never liked Michelle Bachmann who is nothing more than Sarah lite. Her over the top attack on Perry was a sign of desperation and it came accross that way. I could never support her. She is a lightweight with a very undistinguished record as a congresswoman.
Sarah Palin would blow her away in the debates or at any level.
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To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read "Leftism As Psychopathy" by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
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Some very smart people say
Submitted by michael lofrano on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 7:16pm.
Some very smart people say that vaccinations can cause a mental reaction. I see you haven't missed any on your vaccinations, Bill.
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By Nora L. Howley, Manager of Programs, NEA Health Information Network
February is American Heart Month, and NEA HIN believes that schools can help build the heart health of students and staff by making the school day more physically active. From physical education to recess, there are many ways for schools to become more "active."
- Use the lessons in Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives to teach children about the importance of physical activity and to build movement into subjects like reading and math.
- Take an Instant Recess Break with your students. If you go to YouTube and enter "Instant Recess" you will get a number of great videos from Toni Yancy of the University of California, Berkley School of Public Health. There are videos with professional athletes, videos with hip-hop music, and videos with African dance moves to name a few.
- Teachers can use an Energizer from the East Carolina University to help students learn AND move.
- Teachers and students can also take a Brain Break from the Michigan Department of Education to help your students and staff stay focused
But a physically active school is more than just taking breaks. It includes physical education as a critical curricular area. According to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, the four components of a High-quality Physical Education Program are:
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A physically active elementary school also has recess every day for every child. While unstructured play time is important, there are also things that schools can do to help children be more active at recess. The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) offers a webinar on The Power of Inclusive Play that offers tips for making sure that all children, including those with disabilities get opportunities to be physically active.
Finally, a physically active school has policies. Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn, Chapter D: Policies to Promote Physical Activity from the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) provides model policies and the research behind them. The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) describes the important role that leadership plays in implementing good policies and programs.
Editor's Note: This post is from our partners at the NEA Health Information Network (NEA HIN). Each month, we feature a new column on a topic related to school health. Through this effort, we hope to inform the public of important health issues that impact schools and offer educators and parents resources to address them.
How about combining lessons
How about combining lessons with jogging or use jogging as physical training?
I agree that modern kids are less active than 5-10 years ago. It's all about computers and games. They are not running, not falling, not climbing trees, not riding bicycles.
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---- — Just about the time we see the grass greening and the trees leafing out, we start noticing that the bugs are back.
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Tucked at the end of the outline of MLB's new labor agreement is section X "Other," subsection b, which reads: "All players will be subject to a policy governing the use of Social Media." That's it. It doesn't say what the policy is, whether it already exists, is yet to be drafted, or how it will be enforced.
Let's hope the players' social media policy is something other than the policy already in place for team employees.
That policy is essentially a list of "don'ts": don't put out official MLB or team information unless authorized to do so; don't violate any MLB trademarks or copyrights; don't say anything that might be seen as adversely affecting MLB or its teams. According to Maury Brown's Biz of Baseball, MLB amended the policy at some point to prohibit the use of any electronic equipment within 30 minutes of the start or finish of a game. You may recall that former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen ran afoul of the policy in April by tweeting after being ejected from a game and was fined an undisclosed amount.
It's easy to point to Logan Morrison (@LoMoMarlins) and Nyjer Morgan (@TheRealTPlush) as the poster children for a players' social media policy. Both players have out-sized personalities that are frequently on display via Twitter. Sure, they push the envelope and sometimes that backfires. But policies shouldn't be written with one or two players in mind.
More than 350 major-leaguers have twitter accounts, counting verified and unverified ones. Most players use Twitter to engage with other players and fans, providing a level of familiarity and insight not available from other media. Some players, like Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32), use twitter to engage with analysts on the theories and metrics of pitching. Others like Sam Fuld (@samfuld5) raise awareness about diseases.
These are good things and they should be encouraged.
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