Big Ol' Smitty

Is my image marketable for wrestling?

x3 1 for me, 2 for my 4 year old nephew. I spoiled him today.

I wanted to see what you guys thought of this new bankruptcy bill. It seems pretty terrible to me so far--throwing a bone to credit card companies, essentially. I particularly would like to hear a conservative (preferably non-Mike-->Boon, Justice, & Cerebus, I'm looking at YOU) viewpoint on the bill, as it is a primarily GOP supported piece of legislation.

I read National Review regularly and think many of the writers in the magazine are quite good and find myself agreeing with things that they write from time to time. What I've read from Coulter, though, is pretty tacky and generally bad. She's been fired from a couple of places because of piss-poor writing, I think.

Patriotically Correct is the new PC.

Cite? We adjust it for inflation, yes. It seems to be rather constant to me. http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/histpov/hstpov1.html http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h03ar.html Okay, ignore those and read all the others. Please don't lecture me on credible sources, *Mister* AFSE. And sorry I don't post articles from serious sources like Rolling Stone. I see you favor option B (or possibly eugenics?). We're just gonna have to disagree on this one.

I dumped the nicest, sweetest girl I'd ever met--I'll probably never meet anyone better and I'll probably never be happy for longer than about a year in any relationship.

I sold my first copy of the Ann Coulter book at work yesterday. I had to come home and scrub with hot water and soap immediately.

Cite something here, if you would. The poverty line is based on required amts. of food. As costs of food rise, yes, the poverty line would increase, but I don't know that the amounts themselves have been frequently refined. Yeah, the US DoA, GAO, food charities, & university studies--wild bias there. What do you want, a friggin study from the CATO Institute? Yeah, strange that not every research resource is available on fucking Google. If you're at a university, you may be able to look them up on an academic database. Please. I don't need a lecture on credible sources from a guy who tried to use a right-wing think tank and the Argentinean Foundation for a Scientific Ecology as sources to support his argument on *global warming*. Then you have a couple other options: A.) Rely on private charities which are under-funded, too localized, too mismatched and too ill-suited. Most charity donations are spent locally--rich communities have well funded charities and poor communities have poorly funded ones. They are also ill-prepared to meet w/ natural disasters or economic downturns. B.) Let 'em rot.

And what if they don't?

What does this mean?

You're crazy, RJ. The ability to direct a pornographic film takes a much *rarer* kind of talent than teaching or serving as a police officer or firefighter.

Anyone else noticed that Intolerant Manga Aficianado/TSM Post Whore/Player Hater of the Year (2001-???) Czech Republic perpetually mocks big eyed anime girls, KJ Brackish, & CronoT in his avatar/subtitle/signature?

Hey he's batting between .300 and .400. In baseball, he'd be a hall of famer.

Early Findings on Family Hardship and Well-Being, Children's Defense Fund and National Coalition for the Homeless, November 1998. Household Food Security in the United States in 1995, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Service, Office of Analysis and Evaluation, September 1997. Snapshots of America's Families, Urban Institute, January 1999. Phase One, NETWORK Welfare Reform Watch Project, NETWORK: A Catholic Social Justice Lobby, April 1998. A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in American Cities 1998, The United States Conference of Mayors, December 1998 Hunger 1997 The Facts and Faces, Second Harvest National Food Bank Network, March 1998. Survey of Those Leaving AFDC or W-2 January to March 1998 Preliminary Report, State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, January 1999. Survey of Former Family Independence Program Clients Whose Cases Were Closed Between January and March, 1997, South Carolina Department of Social Services, March 1998 Hidden Hunger, Fragile Futures, Project Bread and the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Tufts University, November 1998 SEFAN Statewide Hunger Survey 1998, reported in "Statewide Network News," Fall 1998. The Promise and the Reality, The Outlook for Virginians Leaving Welfare, Campaign for Virginians in Need and Social Action Linking Together, March 1998. Welfare Reform, States' Early Experiences With Benefit Termination, U.S. General Accounting Office, May 1997. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Report, Aug. 20, 1999. http://www.secondharvest.org/site_content.asp?s=62 http://www.news.uiuc.edu/biztips/02/03welfare.html http://www.guidestar.org/news/features/hunger03.jsp The Impact of Welfare Reform on the Charitable Food Sector," by Peter Eisinger, Wayne St. Univ.

I thought you conservatives didn't like relativism. They have problems so that makes any other problems okay! Sorry if I hold my country to higher standards than North fucking Korea. Pediatrics, Vol. 106 No. 6, Dec. 2000, p. e83. For starters. There's a difference between survival and proper nutrition for a growing child. In a very wealthy country, there is no reason that every child should not have proper vitamins, minerals, protein, & other nutrients that they need to develop properly.

Is that due to a "lack of food" or because their parents are retarded? In a country like this there is no excuse for anyone to go hungry... Probably a combo of not being able to afford decent food + dumb parents.

Relative childhood poverty is still in the 20s here, whereas Sweden, for example, has lowered it to 2.6%.

Maybe if you contacted the religious studies departments of some major universities they would let you thug some of the tapes of tongue-speaking.

What you quoted: Sounds suspiciously like hunger to me.

Anyone else noticed that Czech Republic perpetually hates on bigolsmitty? I like rap/hip-hop and my av/subs/sigs are not meant to be mocking in any way. Thanks for your brave service as PC police, though!

Yeah you're right. I just worry about growing children not having proper nutrition. And child nutrition has gone down since the welfare "reform" of the 1990's. So while I agree that it's better to have crap food than no food, I would say that there's still room for progress.

What you quoted:

Poverty and richest are contradictory, and we're statistically a bunch of fat fucks. I doubt very seriously that many people here STARVE. 36.2 million Americans live in food insecure households, that is, they do not always have enough money to buy food sufficient to meet their basic needs. 14 million children live in food insecure homes where food may be scarce or diets altered due to limited incomes. Food insecurity/low income is associated w/ lower intake of fruits, vegetables, & dairy (can't afford milk or juice?--drink Kool-Aid!). This means fewer vitamins, minerals, less fiber, and low calcium intake. About 20% of infants in low-income homes suffer from iron deficiencies. (Growing) Children in food insecure homes often consume too few calories per day but eat an inordinate amount of cheap, fatty foods. Source: Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy Dave Chappelle: