This debate doesn't belong here, so I'll step out of it. Suffice it to say, not only do I have Yahoo, I have Google. I also know how to use both extremely well. Too bad more folks don't.

Dosen't matter who appoints them, its how they vote, and they definitelt aren't conservative. Don't blame the republicans for nominating non-partisan judges.

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| Copyright 1981 The Washington Post
| September 15, 1981: First Section; A10
| School Lunches Flunk GAO Nutrition Test
| By Ward Sinclair, Washington Post Staff Writer
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| No surprises for Johnny on this one: public school lunches get
| a C for quantity, but an F for nutritional content in a new
| report card by the General Accounting Office.
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| As the Reagan administration moves to cut the size and
| quality of school lunches, the new GAO review has found that
| meals now served in selected high schools flunk the basic
| nutritional tests.
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| GAO said that none of the lunch formats it studied at schools
| in seven states met the goal of providing one third of a
| student's recommended dietary allowance (RDA). Some of the
| lunches did not even provide one fourth of the RDA, the GAO
| found, although most met the quantity requirements.
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| The congressional auditing agency recommended that Secretary
| of Agriculture John R. Block take a new look at the
| department's lunch standards and either assure that present
| nutrition goals are met or set "more achievable" standards.
|
| [...]
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| The new GAO study was released last week, just days after the
| Department of Agriculture, responding to federal budget
| pressures, took the latter course. It proposed new regulations
| that redefine child nutrition standards, permitting substitute
| foods and smaller portions.
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| [...]
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| In its response to GAO criticisms, Agriculture officials
| agreed the nutritional goal should be reexamined but they said
| that a departmental task force of food-service experts was
| doing just that.
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| The task force's conclusions, however, were discarded by the
| department as it prepared the new school lunch proposals. The
| task force said the proposals would "compromise" the
| nutritional integrity of the $3.5 billion program and that
| cost-saving measures, other than changing meal content, should
| be adopted. The task force findings and comments were not
| mentioned by USDA in its lengthy explanation of its proposals,
| published earlier this month in the Federal Register.
|

There is no way to move this to the politics board at the lounge, so I am moving it to the Smack board.

Rocky Wrote:

MaumeeRocket Wrote:[quote="Rocky"] If you all have any comments you better get them in before the Nazi Republican moderator deletes the post.

Its too bad you didn't live during the Nazi period, if you did i doubt seriously if you would through that term around about a guy that is elected in a free democracy.

Bush wasn

PhatPhelix Wrote:

Rocky Wrote:[quote="MaumeeRocket"] [quote="Rocky"] If you all have any comments you better get them in before the Nazi Republican moderator deletes the post.

Its too bad you didn't live during the Nazi period, if you did i doubt seriously if you would through that term around about a guy that is elected in a free democracy.

Bush wasn

I was referring to "popular vote" guy.

I was referring to how the election was rigged, guy.

PhatPhelix Wrote:I was referring to "popular vote" guy.

Not that I am trying to get into a political argument here, but there was a president elected once that actually had less of the popular vote but he had the electoral votes. Anyone remember who that was? I am think Andrew Johnson or someone like that.

rocketfootball Wrote:

PhatPhelix Wrote:I was referring to "popular vote" guy.

Not that I am trying to get into a political argument here, but there was a president elected once that actually had less of the popular vote but he had the electoral votes. Anyone remember who that was? I am think Andrew Johnson or someone like that.

Actually the US has had three presidents(Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and GWB) who lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote, and one president(John Quincy Adams) elected who lost the popular vote and the electoral vote, but his opponent(Andrew Jackson) who had more votes(popular and electoral) than Adams, did not recieve the majority of the electoral vote required to become president. The House of Representitives decided the outcome of that election BTW.

TJRocket Wrote:

rocketfootball Wrote:

PhatPhelix Wrote:I was referring to "popular vote" guy.

Not that I am trying to get into a political argument here, but there was a president elected once that actually had less of the popular vote but he had the electoral votes. Anyone remember who that was? I am think Andrew Johnson or someone like that.

Actually the US has had three presidents(Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and GWB) who lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote, and one president(John Quincy Adams) elected who lost the popular vote and the electoral vote, but his opponent(Andrew Jackson) who had more votes(popular and electoral) than Adams, did not recieve the majority of the electoral vote required to become president. The House of Representitives decided the outcome of that election BTW.

Thanks.

Were the votes all counted in those elections? :arse:

I'm sure they were....some of them many, many times

I voted in Palm Beach County, Florida back in 2000. I actually had to ask for help because I didn't know if the freaking ballot was being punched correctly. I know everyone says those Florida people are stupid....blah, blah, blah.......but if you actually had that freaking ballot in front of you......you would see why it was easy to mess up.

The problem wasn't with not understanding which hole to punch...it was that the template and the ballot underneath both slid side to side and up and down. Thus...if you put the ballot in too tight or too loose and nudged the template.......you were voting for someone else!!!

Trust me.......South Florida has waaaaay more Dems than Repubs(retirees).....there is no way Bush would have won Palm Beach, Broward or Dade........trust me!!!

FtLauderdaleRocket Wrote:I voted in Palm Beach County, Florida back in 2000. I actually had to ask for help because I didn't know if the freaking ballot was being punched correctly. I know everyone says those Florida people are stupid....blah, blah, blah.......but if you actually had that freaking ballot in front of you......you would see why it was easy to mess up.

The problem wasn't with not understanding which hole to punch...it was that the template and the ballot underneath both slid side to side and up and down. Thus...if you put the ballot in too tight or too loose and nudged the template.......you were voting for someone else!!!

Trust me.......South Florida has waaaaay more Dems than Repubs(retirees).....there is no way Bush would have won Palm Beach, Broward or Dade........trust me!!!

He didn't win those counties...but he did win the State of Florida. If you cannot figure out the ballot then you are too damn stupid to vote!!!

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NIUFAN Wrote:

FtLauderdaleRocket Wrote:I voted in Palm Beach County, Florida back in 2000.&nbsp; I actually had to ask for help because I didn't know if the freaking ballot was being punched correctly.&nbsp; I know everyone says those Florida people are stupid....blah, blah, blah.......but if you actually had that freaking ballot in front of you......you would see why it was easy to mess up.

The problem wasn't with not understanding which hole to punch...it was that the template and the ballot underneath both slid side to side and up and down.&nbsp; Thus...if you put the ballot in too tight or too loose and nudged the template.......you were voting for someone else!!!&nbsp;

Trust me.......South Florida has waaaaay more Dems than Repubs(retirees).....there is no way Bush would have won Palm Beach, Broward or Dade........trust me!!!

He didn't win those counties...but he did win the State of Florida. If you cannot figure out the ballot then you are too damn stupid to vote!!!

No he didn't. The Supreme Court ruled that he had won Florida. That's an entirely different matter than having won the state. As stated earlier, unless you believe that over 6,000 Democrats voted for Buchanan, then you can't believe that Florida went to Bush honestly. And, if you do believe that, then you may want to reconsider who is too stupid to vote.

Oddball-So are you now saying that a vote for Buchanan should be counted as a vote for Gore? Did you forget that the Dems tried (and I believe succeeded in some counties) of not having certain military ballots counted? I believe that the issue was with when the postal system delivered the ballots and had nothing to do with "hanging chads" or "voters intent". All the Supreme Court did was put an end to the illeagal and impossible "quest" to find more Gore votes where they didn't exist. Also, six independent news organizations were involved in a total recount of the Florida vote and all six, though it was not widely reported (wonder why?), came to the conclusion that Bush won Florida.

As a side note, I voted in Illinois yesterday and we have now switched from punch cards to an optical scanning system. Voting is now like taking a multiple choice test in college.

That's one way of looking at it, I suppose. Not the correct one, of course...

How "independent" is Rupert Murdoch?

Quote:As a side note, I voted in Illinois yesterday and we have now switched from punch cards to an optical scanning system. Voting is now like taking a multiple choice test in college.

We used those here in Toledo for the first time this election. I hate them. Used to take me two or three minutes to vote, now takes at least ten...and that's with no issues on the ballot, just the primary candidates. This new system sucks.