New Rant Thread

[Twelvefret]

When you pay into a universal federal government pension plan as part of the mandatory federal income deductions, you bet those are not entitlements and why even the rich get them. It is the same with universal health care.

Bob

In the US those benefits are considered entitlements, not earned benefits, as Hakeem Jeffries described to which I agree. The very idea that a six-time bankrupt person would even suggest reducing, is unconscionable, but to the point, what determines what is true?

 

[Paper Plane]

And put illegals in our homes for free.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

steve

 

[TobyC]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

steve

The French gave us that stupid thing.

 

[TobyC]

"The New Colossus" was the first entry read at the exhibit's opening on November 2, 1883. It remained associated with the exhibit through a published catalog until the exhibit closed after the pedestal was fully funded in August 1885,[7][8] but was forgotten and played no role at the opening of the statue in 1886. It was, however, published in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World as well as The New York Times during this time period.[9] In 1901, Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.[4]

 

[TobyC]

Cuccinelli added the caveat "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge"; later suggested that the "huddled masses" were European; and downplayed the poem as it was "not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty.

 

[TobyC]

Paul Auster wrote that "Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but 'The New Colossus' reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world."

 

[TobyC]

 

[R181]

Wow, Toby your Blitz Krieg of posts is like talking louder than everyone else and not giving them a chance to talk. Now where have I seen that before?

Bob

 

[slapo]

Perhaps it would be better to take the politics to the locker room and leave this thread for actual apolitical rants.

 

[TobyC]

Wow, Toby your Blitz Krieg of posts is like talking louder than everyone else and not giving them a chance to talk. Now where have I seen that before?

Bob

That's "Blitzkrieg".

 

[TobyC]

Perhaps it would be better to take the politics to the locker room and leave this thread for actual apolitical rants.

Politics? "The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus.

 

[Zorro]

I once walked past a pub in Scotland that had a notice on the door saying

"no football colours"
"no politics"
"no warnings"

 

[SpeedyPC]

I once walked past a pub in Scotland that had a notice on the door saying

"no football colours"
"no politics"
"no warnings"

And NO FARTING!!……. Pssss. Pass the bake beans and chilli

 

[Rufusdog]

And NO FARTING!!……. Pssss. Pass the bake beans and chilli

Cabbage, especially sauerkraut is more effective.

 

[SpeedyPC]

Cabbage, especially sauerkraut is more effective.

I would rather smoke grass, instead of eating cabbage I’m not a bloody guinea pig.