Comments on: Deserves the salary

By: kiki-chan

kiki-chan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:29:30 +0000

I am is a peach shake.
you used 2 different verb tenses.

By: oh, so bored!

oh, so bored! — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:30:31 +0000

but THEY ARE TRUE.

By: BH

BH — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:35:46 +0000

“Brains should equal money, period.”

In that case, most of Congress would be getting minimum wage.

As for teachers, 75% of my town’s budget is the School Department. 85% of THAT goes to salary and benefits.

When the city tries to level-fund or *gasp* cut the budget, the school department is allowed by state law (passed by Democratic-controlled Legislature, many of whom are fellow union members) to sue the school for the difference. Most of the budget increases being sued over are due to- wait for it- salary and benefit increases.

The teachers are doing fine. Trust me.

Meanwhile, our state ranks near the bottom of student performance nationwide.

The only thing keeping us off the bottom is our large number of Catholic and other private schools, whose students far outperform their public school peers, and whose teachers are paid 50% less than their public school peers.

By: BH

BH — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:23:47 +0000

“ANY IDIOT COULD STOP A FIRE, but it takes dedication and hard work over the course of years to become a representative,”

Really? What did Patrick Kennedy do, besides get born with the right last name and move out of state?

By: Bla

Bla — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:32:23 +0000

Yes that kitten does deserve the salary of a Senator.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:54:43 +0000

“Happy happy joy joy
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Happy happy joy joy
Happy happy joy joy joy”

…sung a thousand times in different shades…

By: deadharvest

deadharvest — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:41:08 +0000

Firefighters: Media-made heros since 2001. Funny how they are God’s little helpers now, but really werent thought twice about before nine-eleven.

By: Bwggy

Bwggy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:59:59 +0000

No, a senator should get the salary of a fire-fighter

By: Pencilsharpener

Pencilsharpener — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:32:52 +0000

Enough ‘firefighters saving cats’ front page pictures already! Isn’t this like the third one in a few weeks?
We get it. It’s wonderful that firefighters save cats!

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:45:14 +0000

75. Is that bad?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:42:29 +0000

Oh, I inadvertantly dropped the ‘s’.. sorry Chief!

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:39:01 +0000

That reminds me. Two words, Igor: Colon cleanse. Get on it.

By: Igor The Vigorous

Igor The Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:53:44 +0000

I’ll do that, Paws.
(1) If showing a picture of someone and saying they deserve more money is “LOL” to you, you need the rest of your brain restored.
(2) Refer to Shortright’s post.
(3) I get it, but it doesn’t belong on a humor website. Go post it on a blog named “Political issues”, not “LOL News”. Good job trying to make an assumption based on the fact that I’m tired of the third picture recently of a cat being rescued and complimenting them, followed by no humor.
(4) With yet ANOTHER front page kitty-rescue-yay LOL, a number of votes that don’t matter because it’s on the front page and that is based upon how many people that visit the site and see the front page, and a number of comments that ALSO have nothing to do with quality, my opinion matters just the same as it always has, you idiot. Just the same as yours.
(5) Since people have disagreed with you, and most all parts of the regular PK community agree that the firefighter-saves-kitty-now-compliment-him LOLs need to stop, your opinion matters just as little. Now there’s no need to tell me how much my opinion is worth or what I do and don’t get, you useless little cancerous growth.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:17:05 +0000

It’s so very, very happy?

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:38:03 +0000

I’ve found a troll; may we burn her!?

By: Cleo

Cleo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:33:36 +0000

(1) If salaries for firefighters and other public servants isn’t one of the most hotly debated political issues, I don’t know what is. And evidently I have to point out that it isn’t merely because they save kittens. (2) The writer of the submission has no control over which category said submission is placed under. (3) Nice to see you missed the larger picture entirely. Clearly you just don’t get it. (4) With front page placement, 1854 votes, and 471 comments, albeit mostly jejune, your opinion matters little.

By: the_original_shortright

the_original_shortright — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:24:10 +0000

*glares*
i see you’ve been looking through my closet again.

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:13:33 +0000

Exactly, eddie. 100 years and counting. And Cardinals Nation likes to rub in the Cubs fans faces every single year. Along with our 10 World Series Championships.

By: the_original_shortright

the_original_shortright — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:12:07 +0000

he?! um, hello??? i have no bits and pieces down there.

the token-too-hot-female chief is NOT pleased.

By: the_original_shortright

the_original_shortright — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:08:42 +0000

well, the indians aren’t doing so hot right now… :-/

By: modem

modem — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:21:28 +0000

Senator means “A member of an assembly possessing legislative powers”. So i think he deserves the high paid salary, senator does so much of things for us..

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:58:20 +0000

Practice, the same as how you learn to read and write any other language properly.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:28:55 +0000

Never mind whether or not you like LOLspeek and/or would like some LOL sites free of cats and/or LOLspeek, how can anyone actually dislike LOLcats?

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:25:48 +0000

Well, that or the “uniform that you must get out a spraycan because no way could you get it on otherwise” look. You could pull off any of them.

By: MLD

MLD — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:13:39 +0000

Nope. I thought the kitten is wearing it’s ‘You die now’ face.

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:19:43 +0000

I just might. How much for one the size of Everest? (Hey, guess what I just did to Jupiter for this thing? )

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:15:54 +0000

Well when you’re crapping diamonds, it makes the pain much more bearable. Do you need someone who knows how to move those sort of goods?

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:11:53 +0000

Well, I crapped him out as a shiny, hard diamond named
Randdoooooo, so it all turned out okay.
He’s new, he’s better, he’s faster, he’s stronger.
His anger more focused, his repressed shameless librul tendencies more projected, and his torching of trolls more streamlined.
A beautiful thing, isn’t it?

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:09:09 +0000

Not cool man. That guy was nice to me when I wanted to become a regular. Helped me make fun of people on roflrazzle for awhile. Gave me confidence! Look where I am now.
*tear*
Not cool Trogdor.

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:06:02 +0000

He was delicious.
-Pats belly suspiciously-

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:04:04 +0000

Yeah you’re pretty cool, but what happened to that Eric guy?

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:01:19 +0000

If it can’t be done during a 9-5 then it probably cant be done!

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:59:04 +0000

How did I miss this conversation?

By: Danbala

Danbala — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:12:44 +0000

Hmm. Differing definitions of republic, simply.

By: randman83

randman83 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:07:07 +0000

Almost. The thing that defines a republic is that instead of all citizens voting on every issue in government (which, nowadays, would be totally disastrous), we elect officials who go and vote for us on issues, and we entrust them with upholding the values of their constituency. The House and senate mostly just present the different ways of representing their states.

By: randman83

randman83 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:54:48 +0000

You’re right, and the reason we have a bicameral congress is the Connecticut Compromise, which was designed specifically to keep America from becoming a complete democracy. The two houses were meant to balance each other, one to represent STATES equally, the other to represent PEOPLE equally. As a result, the people and states are not represented entirely equally, but the final product usually ends up reasonable due to this system of checks and balances

By: randman83

randman83 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:42:58 +0000

Hey, it’s all good I do that all the time.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:32:21 +0000

Looks like it to me.. I mean, I would welcome you any time into our camp. But be aware, you would have to check your viewpoints in at the door. Otherwise, welcome!

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:26:27 +0000

Planet of the Apes? He got his name because he knows the Planet of the Apes is coming AGAIN?!

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:23:56 +0000

I’ll ask you again, Again, wtf do you do that’s so goddamn important?

*crickets*
-
Apparently nothing worth mentioning..

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:19:50 +0000

No problem!
-Performs a group high-five on Eddie-

By: Danbala

Danbala — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:19:44 +0000

I read the purpose of the post as being to point out what would make the US not a democracy becuase not every citizen’s vote is equal, and then the Senate would be the essential bit. So, he could’ve mentioned the House, but I wouldn’t say should’ve.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:19:23 +0000

Whoa…. did I just get called a right-wing…. idiot?
*snorts, but holds it in*
I can handle being called an idiot by someone who thinks firefighting is easier than being a senator… (hazardous workplace anyone?) But… being called a right-wing idiot? Do you LIVE on this planet? Did the schools you attended that you were “smarter than 80%-90% of your teachers” composed primarily of primates?
If so, then it explains a whole helluva lot!

By: NedC

NedC — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:18:54 +0000

Who deserves the salary, the kitten or the fire fighter?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:18:26 +0000

Just because they teach your children that does not mean they are imbued with magical brain powers…

We just wish that you were imbued with any semblance of a brain.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:14:53 +0000

There is that.. thanks for the save, Ty-gor.. unfortunately, I’m not looking forward to attending a repeat of Government class.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:13:29 +0000

Oh, and he enrolled me into Gubmint 101..

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:13:20 +0000

Eddie, I know he didn’t mix them up, but didn’t he completely leave out the House of Representative? (As my very funny teacher called them, his only legal HORS)
I’m not sure that it’s relevant to what he’s talking about, but if he’s going to cite the inequality in the senate populations, shouldn’t he mention the fact we DO have one according to the size of populations?

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:13:09 +0000

Considering some of the other things he’s said, it’s quite obvious the folks that taught him weren’t that smart…

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:12:23 +0000

Well, that went better than expected. I get to keep my badge and the lawn..