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We have very similar laws here in Australia- paid paternity leave as well. I support it with my tax dollars and gladly.

You frame your comment like it's outragous for tax dollars to go towards jungle gyms and paternity leave. That makes me sad. <-see?
In my experience with the US, - more jungle gyms would not go astray - for the purposes of preventative health care. (What country has the highest rate of childhood obesity - any takers?)

>> ^NordlichReiter:

Dag, perhaps if it were your taxes paying for the Jungle Gyms you might see it differently. At my workplace there is a room, on every floor that allows for breast feeding. It is also federal law to allow for maternity, and paternity leave. That's right. paternity, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_of_1993
But that said, I would rather pay taxes for this bullshit, then for those foreign entanglements.
You know the hardest thing about taxes for me? The goddamn paperwork, and all the exemptions; how the fuck am I gonna keep up with all of that shit. For me it's like getting stuck in traffic. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
At least this idiot didn't dress up like a pimp.


Neither did the guy who claimed to have dressed up like a pimp.

>> ^dag:
I support health dollars for jungle gyms and breastfeeding. Why is this a bad thing?


Breast milk and jungle gyms are the tools of Satan?

Franken just amazes me. I'm surprised I'm even saying this, but it really does seem that he was completely wasted as a comedian/comedy writer. I normally consider that to be a perfectly respectable profession, but he's demonstrating so well that he's capable of so much more than entertaining people (and I never really found his stuff to be all that funny, for some reason).

Actually, I find I feel much the same about Ellen...wasn't really all that impressed by her comedy, but I find her to be a pretty good talk show host. And she definitely gets my respect for her unflinching ability to stand up for herself and others who are being discriminated against.

Although, after considering Payback's comment, I think I'm going to have to switch and say, "I too, hate Ellen for stealing my Portia from my fantasies."
>> ^NetRunner:

To quote Al Franken:

If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America the way a 4-year-old loves her Mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

To quote Al Franken:

If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America the way a 4-year-old loves her Mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

it doesn't have anything to do with the "democrats" not calling out the "republicans" or vice versa. it is that they all just lie and don't call others out because they don't want their own lies uncovered.

i don't know how Al Franken does compared to other senators on a day to day basis, but we need more people to act like him in his uncovering of lies.

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*quality move by Al Franken

Al Franken auto-upvote.

No matter how crappy of a day I have I can always bring a smile to my face by reminding myself that Al Franken got elected to the Senate.