The News Thread

[number8]

Whoa. That was legit racist.

[B-side]

The Latino invasion. Coming to clean your houses and pick your fruits for super low wages. They must be stopped.

[slqrick]

lol.

[Pop Trash]

What the fuck are you guys talking about? Citing facts is 'legit racist?' Anyways goodnight...

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration...ion/?mobile=nc

[B-side]

Your racism is tearing us apart, Pop Trash.

[Pop Trash]

Your racism is tearing us apart, Pop Trash.

Stop being the Salon to my Patton Oswalt.

[Winston*]

Outside of the fact he's currently directing a movie, John Stewart definitely works more than a 40 hour week.

[B-side]

Outside of the fact he's currently directing a movie, John Stewart definitely works more than a 40 hour week.

Not generally, according to him. This is his first directorial effort, too, so it's not the norm.

[number8]

Remember last election when the Republicans were so concerned about cutting the funding to NPR and PBS? Two miniscule budgets that, if cut from the military, wouldn't even be a noticeable percentage.

One guy would have had to use a flak jacket from last year's collection. Ugh!

[D_Davis]

One guy would have had to use a flak jacket from last year's collection. Ugh!

Yuk - with that urban camo pattern?

[number8]

That's why everytime someone calls me an idiot for eating my own feces, I tell them to eat theirs first before they can judge my personal habit.

[MadMan]

So what did I miss the last couple of days that was actually stuff happening in the news and not the entire message board arguing for 7 pages? :lol:

[bac0n]

I paid my own way through college without taking out a single loan. A lot of what made that possible was tuition reimbursement that I got from my employers. (That and taking two classes a semester and going to school in the evenings).

How it works is this: you pay for the classes up front, and afterwards you submit your grades to your work to show them you actually took the course (most employers also require you to get at least a B). They then repay you either all or part of what you paid for that class.

Don't have the money up front to pay for the classes? Take out a student loan then use the reimbursement to pay off the loan.

[Dukefrukem]

I paid my own way through college without taking out a single loan. A lot of what made that possible was tuition reimbursement that I got from my employers. (That and taking two classes a semester and going to school in the evenings).

How it works is this: you pay for the classes up front, and afterwards you submit your grades to your work to show them you actually took the course (most employers also require you to get at least a B). They then repay you either all or part of what you paid for that class.

That's how I paid for grad school.

Undergraduate was a bit different and very hard to pay your way through when you're 18 years old and tuition is $45k a year.

[Ezee E]

I just worked fulltime and school fulltime. Basically had no life for the early years of college.

[bac0n]

That's how I paid for grad school.

Undergraduate was a bit different and very hard to pay your way through when you're 18 years old and tuition is $45k a year.

Not really. Since I was taking only two classes, tuition was more like 4000 a year (late 90s). If you're willing to take more time to get your degree the economics becomes much more friendly.

[Dukefrukem]

Yeh I was talking about full time degree graduating in 4 years.

[Irish]

KATE MIDDLETON HAS GONE INTO LABOR!

[Sycophant]

The funny thing about Onion articles is that sadly they are starting to sound very true these days.

This has been said by everyone since the year news satire was invented.

That is, in fact, one of the great appeals of it.

[Mara]

Oh... it's old news by now, but that soccer story was a hoax. It started off as a joke and then got picked up by news sources with bad fact-checking.

[MadMan]

This has been said by everyone since the year news satire was invented.

That is, in fact, one of the great appeals of it.

Yeah...

And did they say if there was indeed a second shooter? The last report I read stated that the suspect had been killed. Its rather tragic-12 or 13 dead. I imagine that the Republicans will say its a terrorist attack and try to ignore why or how a guy who had been discharged from the Navy and who had been previously arrested was allowed to get guns. I bet he bought them legally, too...

[Raiders]

Yeah...

And did they say if there was indeed a second shooter? The last report I read stated that the suspect had been killed. Its rather tragic-12 or 13 dead. I imagine that the Republicans will say its a terrorist attack and try to ignore why or how a guy who had been discharged from the Navy and who had been previously arrested was allowed to get guns. I bet he bought them legally, too...

As I understand it, you are restricted from purchasing firearms if you have a previous conviction on a firearms offense. In his prior encounter(s) with the law, the prosecution, either by choice or by plea, did not file a firearms charge and so even if convicted, he would not be unable to buy a gun.

I could be wrong, but that is my comprehension of it. I consider that a bizarre loophole given that whatever the charge itself, it was an offense committed with a firearm. Seems it should hold the same weight.

EDIT: Seems it is any felony, not just a firearms charge. He still must have plea bargained to a misdemeanor.

[Spinal]

There is water on Mars.

[Dukefrukem]

I feel like that's something we already knew. BUt i guess it was all just theories?

[TGM]

Jimmy Kimmel asks people which they like better, Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act.