It's midday. It's open. And it's a thread. What more did you expect?
- Is Wisconsin really on the verge of preventing poor people from getting cheese? I mean, Wisconsin?
Under the bill, participants in the program must spend two-thirds of their monthly benefits on certain approved foods, including proteins and produce. The remaining one-third can be used for any authorized food.
The bill’s author says he’s trying to encourage healthier eating, but at least one opponent says it could hurt a major piece of the state’s economy: the dairy industry. “This bill does not allow for Wisconsinites who are utilizing the FoodShare program to purchase sharp cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, shredded cheese or reduced sodium cheeses,” said State Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee.
That's like Florida not allowing you to buy oranges with food assistance. Actually Rick Scott would probably favor that. Bad example.
- Mitt Romney: no less creepy after losing than he was before:
Sharing his secrets for "abundant living," Romney urged the new grads to go out, get married, and procreate like crazy.
'Get married,' he said, and “Have a quiver full of kids if you can.”
Also, hurry. Staying single until your thirties could be a big mistake. A quiver full of kids aren't born over night.
“Some people could marry but choose to take more time, they say, for themselves. Others plan to wait until they’re well into their 30s or 40s until they think about getting married,” he said, “They’re going to miss so much of living, I’m afraid.”
Now, the use of the phrase "quiver full" can hardly be accidental, given the existence of the Quiverfull movement--whose leaders believe that if women do not consent to serving as baby factories, men will turn gay.
- Of course, corporate America has yet to catch up to the designs of the Quiverfull movement, as demonstrated here:
May 1, 2013 |
T-Mobile forced a pregnant employee to clock out every time she used the restroom, even after she obtained, by company request, a doctor’s note urging her to drink more water, ABC reports.
Kristi Rifkin worked at company call center in Nashville for four years before she became pregnant with her third child. As she explained in a blog post for MomsRising.org, “it was a very, very rough pregnancy” that required special medication, twice weekly visits to the doctor, and high water intake.
As Rifkin naturally started using the restroom more often, her employers warned her that trips to the toilet were at the expense of company time. In her post, Rifkin describes the pressure she felt to keep her job, even going so far as putting her physical well being at risk by eating and drinking less.
If only corporate America and theocrat America were on the same page. But they're not. Poor Republican Party.
- And speaking of theocrat America, Brian Brown at NOM thinks that the Republican Party will die if it accepts marriage equality. Fine by me--eventually, as in the T-Mobile case, the theocrats will realize that they're a convenient source of people power for the plutocrats who really could care less about their issues.
- Clarence Thomas needs to spend more time talking during arguments, and less time talking when the Court is not in session.
- Unseasonably hot and dry winds in Southern California have led to a 28,000-acre brushfire in Ventura County, immediately Northwest of Los Angeles County. So far, some homes have been damaged, but none destroyed.