I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

No problem here and using Chrome.

Everybody lies, everyone has their hypocritical moments, good people do bad things. HOWEVER....to blithely bring government and related industries to a screeching halt, to furlough almost a million people without caring how it would hurt their families, and all for an idiotic attempt to repeal a LAW that has the mandate of the people....I don't know what to say. There aren't words.

Don't even get me started on the critters who say they need their paychecks for their nice house and their kid in college! Because none of those furloughed have bills, right?

Law for future - if Congress shuts down government, they don't get paid until it's fixed. They need to feel the consequences of their actions. How long would any of you have a job if you just shut down your company? How can anyone think this is okay?

If I had any hair left, I'd pull it all out and mail it to Boehner!

BTW - I switched to chrome and still have the weirdo toolbar.

Just checking that when you're talking about the wonky tool bar you mean this, that appears at the top of the text entry field?

It's a new format, designed to let members connecting with mobile devices and tablets format their text (which wasn't possible with the previous format). Mouse over the various icons to identify what each does. The little green for images is gone, but the function's still there!

Mods - there are no emoticons anymore. Are you going to bring them back?

You are correct, E. Defund the Affordable Care Act or the government stays closed. They are trying unconstitutionally overturn a law that they cannot repeal through the constitutionally-mandated process to do that. They had their chance to kill the law in the 2012 election, but THE PEOPLE SPOKE. They re-elected President Obama with a clear and convincing majority, as well as increased the Democratic majority in the Senate and thereby affirmed their support of the law. The only reason they kept the House in spite of a million more votes for Democratic House candidates than Republican candidates is because they cooked the Congressional districts. So much for accepting the results of elections and moving on ... They are trying to destroy the democratic process through the budget.

Thanks, Mods. I noticed that I had a toolbar on my iPad when I didn't before.

Would you like to return my "Report This Post" button too?

I still don't have a tool bar at all............don't know about SuzieQ, but would really like to have one back. It was there before and took off for parts unknown apparently.

Just saying a little help would surely help.

Jackie

I also note that the typing font is quite different.......hmmm. Maybe I wouldn't mind that if I only get a toolbar.............Help, I've been robbed???

Jackie

Thank you.....Houston and Mods.............I have a tool bar. Now if I can figure out how to make it work.

Jackie

Oh lookie! We are on page 1600!

Had an encounter with a Teahadist while waiting in line for my Vit D at the pharmacy. He was talking to one of my former coworkers who is now furloughed. I was surprised, as he was complaining of the government being shut down - wow, I said to myself, this guy believes in government and my own sense of judgement had him already pegged as TP. Ofcourse, government to him are forest roads so he can go hunting and have his private playground in the woods. Another Teahadist chimed in, saying "we pay taxes, they shouldn't shut the forest down, or close roads." (Thousands of them, thousands of miles of dirt roads, degrading our water supply, the scenic beauty and more importantly, no money to maintain them as taxes as a % of GDP have gone down over all of our lifetimes). I couldn't help myself and said, the problem is that no one wants to pay taxes anymore and the feds have less money than they use to have in order to maintain all of those roads. His response, "huh, stutter, well they just spend those taxes wrong" then went into his tirade of all these freeloaders getting free money.....Imagine, as much as his disabled brother, according to him. WTF? His brother is not a freeloader, everyone else is?

As a federal employee, I probably wouldn't have gone this far, but I went one step further, because now I'm retired!, out of disgust and said "I can't argue with a Tea Partier (even though he had not self-identified that way explicitly). His response, "That's because we're always right." I then wondered what it would be like to be his wife. If this man thinks he's always right, he must carry that into his personal relationships.

I must admit, I had a sour feeling about this guy from the get go, unlike my teddy bear TP Contractor who I felt could reason things beyond the tired bromides, but after the fact, I wondered if I could have approached him differently. Guided him to see a different way of seeing things - especially around budgets and government agencies. I think I'm just mad and fed up with these people, and why I continue to mention that if I see someone who collected Medicaid for their health treatments while using the word "socialism" in a perjorative way and especially in reference to someone else getting the benefits of Obamacare (which in most cases requires the customer to pay a premium!!), I will probably not be able to bite my tongue.

I have accepted the fact that I just plain do not like those people. The truth is that if it is something they want or need or benefit from, it is good and necessary in their minds. If they don't need it, it's bad and should be taken away from 'other' people. They are simply selfish and can't (and don't care to) see beyond the end of their own noses.

A kid I know posted on Facebook that the shutdown was a non event. When I replied with examples of the real damage it was doing. He de-friended me. Facts really upset the right wing.

GG, it's hard to sort out nature vs. nurture in disorders such as tealibanism, but I think somebody should study it. Maybe a massive twin study is in order.

Btw, now I can't find the emoticons. :-(