Fail Quotes

[nilecroc]

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C0nc0rdance

So did he just completely miss the point?

[Skm1091]

So did he just completely miss the point?

Looks like he did more than that.

[nilecroc]

Looks like he did more than that.

Is it just me or is his state fetish getting progressively worse.

[Dukect45]

A Massachusetts honor student rescued a drunken friend from a party. Now she's the one in trouble.

Erin Cox, 17, was at a yogurt shop when her plastered pal called from a party to ask for a ride home, the Boston Herald reported.

Cox arrived minutes before the cops. She was sober, as police later confirmed, but that wasn't good enough for North Andover High School.

The school suspended Cox, a standout volleyball player, for five games and took away her role as team captain. She's accused of violating the school's zero-tolerance policy toward alcohol and drugs.

Cox was stunned.

"But I wasn't drinking," she told the Herald. "And I felt like going to get her was the right thing to do."

Cox's parents couldn't believe it either. They hired a lawyer and sued the district to fight the suspension.

Attorney Wendy Murphy said the district is sending a dangerous message to teens.

"If a kid asks for help from a friend, you don't want that kid to say, 'I'm sorry I can't help you. I might get in trouble at school,'" Murphy told WBZ-TV.

The court ruled it didn't have jurisdiction over the school's decision, leaving Cox to sit the bench.

Geoffrey Bok, an attorney for the district, told the Herald the school had to act when police got involved.

"The school is really trying to take a very serious and principled stand regarding alcohol," Bok said.

Eleanor Cox, the teen's mom, said the district's hardline tactics have hurt a good girl who did the right thing.

"She's very fragile, and I'm worried about her — very worried about her," she said. "She didn't do anything wrong."

The teen said she still thinks she made the right choice, but she's disheartened.

"I just feel very defeated," she said. "When you're in high school, you're supposed to stay perfect and be perfect, but everyone makes mistakes."

The district didn't respond to a request for comment.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/drunk-logic-sober-teen-suspended-driving-friend-home-party-article-1.1486179

Zero tolerance everybody ugh

[evensgrey]

I don't know what to say about this nonsense.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/white-house-calls-postage-stamps-encouring-fitness-unsafe/

[Ibrahim90]

I don't know what to say about this nonsense.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/white-house-calls-postage-stamps-encouring-fitness-unsafe/

how does that work again? the article doesn't explain the logic behind this.

[evensgrey]

how does that work again? the article doesn't explain the logic behind this.

Some of the images on the stamps depict sports for which specific safety equipment is recommended, like helmets for bicycle riding, and various pads for skateboarding.  The fact that the images are all extremely stylized and don't depict anything specific about what the characters in them are wearing doesn't seem to enter into it.  The only part I don't get is why it seems to be being attributed to the Mrs.  From here in Canada, she seems to be pretty quiet, like most First Ladies have been (with the exception of Hillary Clinton, who is the one who actually wanted to be President, from all accounts).

[Ibrahim90]

Some of the images on the stamps depict sports for which specific safety equipment is recommended, like helmets for bicycle riding, and various pads for skateboarding.  The fact that the images are all extremely stylized and don't depict anything specific about what the characters in them are wearing doesn't seem to enter into it.  The only part I don't get is why it seems to be being attributed to the Mrs.  From here in Canada, she seems to be pretty quiet, like most First Ladies have been (with the exception of Hillary Clinton, who is the one who actually wanted to be President, from all accounts).

And now you know why I can't understand the logic, and in fact don't see any.

Actually, I'm not surprised people blame Michelle Obama: She's been very active in the health campaign going on here. And she's been influencing people and policy (or rather, is seen to do so). Whether she actually is all that influential, I cannot say, or confirm.

[nilecroc]

Watching CNN at McDanolds, and some guy just said their losing 16400000$ off the gov "shutdown". How?

[MrBogosity]

Watching CNN at McDanolds, and some guy just said their losing 16400000$ off the gov "shutdown". How?

This story explains it: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/money-nothing-government-shutdown-costs-12-5-million-hour-8C11308802

That estimate, from economic consulting firm IHS Global Insight, covers just the cost in work and services the government is unable to perform as it furloughs 800,000 federal workers. According to IHS, pay for federal employees is considered part of the Gross Domestic Product, which is the total value of all goods and services produced in the nation each year. So no pay for the workers means no contribution to U.S. economic output.

Sounds like statist doublespeak to me. If we don't pay them, then we lose the money because they aren't doing the stuff we'd pay them for. So, then, WHAT is being done with that money? It's kind of like a reverse Broken Window Fallacy.

[MrBogosity]

And then there's geodgereturns in this video:

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Watch him get completely pwned as I show him Krugman advocating a housing bubble, only to turn around and claim it was a joke.

[BlameThe1st]

So which is it, Dems? Do you all want compromise or don't you? You cannot demand compromise while simultaneously demeaning it.

Let me guess: when you lot refuse to compromise, you're standing by your principles; but when "they" refuse to compromise, they're being unreasonable.

[Skm1091]

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Ay caramba *Head desk*

[Travis Retriever]

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/sigh
The description says it all: "In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends on how much money they have. (Three key examples: access to education, access to justice, political influence.) In a talk and audience discussion, Sandel asks us to think honestly on this question: In our current democracy, is too much for sale?"

[Travis Retriever]

So which is it, Dems? Do you all want compromise or don't you? You cannot demand compromise while simultaneously demeaning it.

Let me guess: when you lot refuse to compromise, you’re standing by your principles; but when “they” refuse to compromise, they’re being unreasonable.

omg! lol! That falls into the 'so bad it's funny' category for me.