A Little of This, Some of That

I continue to be amazed at the fear mongering that is rampant upon social media. First, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy to those individuals, families and friends that lost their lives this last week at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. If the allegation is true, that the shooter made the statement 'no more body parts' that seems to embody the rhetoric the GOP has been spouting, In particular Ms. Carly's out right refusal to re-track her 'mis-statement' about seeing a video that simply doesn't exist. Then we have Trump spewing hate for just about anything and anyone that doesn't agree with him. And people are still following this individual who wants to close mosques, require Muslims to register and wear some sort of ID a la Nazi Germany and Jews. All this does is to serve to stoke the fears of people here in the states. In the aftermath of Paris, suddenly being a refugee from Syria means you are a terrorist.  How can the United State...

On Monday, November 9, a new law goes into affect in Wisconsin.  Thanks to Scooter Walker. This law is requiring welfare recipients to take and pass a drug test to obtain benefits. I am NOT a supporter of this and I'll lay out additional reasons in a moment.  Until then, please review the following articles that I link below. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/welfare-drug-testing_56156d38e4b021e856d344cd http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/maines-welfare-drug-tests_55ce1b56e4b0ab468d9d266f http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/florida-welfare-drug-testing_n_6807268.html http://time.com/3117361/welfare-recipients-drug-testing/ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/02/26/3624447/tanf-drug-testing-states/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/30/the-myth-of-welfare-and-drug-use.html Ok, I could post more, but they all say basically the same thing.  That is, testing welfare recipients is pretty much a waste of money. Lets do some basic math sh...