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Self-Reliance To Self-Pity: Road Now Most Traveled (Mark Steyn)
IBD Editorials ^ | October 28, 2011 | MARK STEYN

Posted on 10/28/2011 4:57:47 PM PDT by Kaslin

Last Thursday was officially "Diaper Need Awareness Day" in the state of Connecticut. Were you aware of it? There are so many awareness-raising days, it's hard to keep track. Maybe we could have an Awareness-Raising Day Awareness Day.

At any rate, the first annual Diaper Need Awareness Day was proclaimed by Dan Malloy, governor of the Nutmeg State, and they had a big old awareness-raising get-together in New Haven.

It's not clear yet whether they've got an official ribbon. We're running a bit low on ribbon colors these days: It's not just pink ribbons for breast cancer, but also teal for agoraphobia, periwinkle for acid reflux, pink and blue ribbons for amniotic fluid embolisms and pinstripe ribbons for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

We could use a Ribbon-Hue Awareness Day to raise awareness about how we're falling behind in the race for more ribbon colors.

If you're wondering what sentient being isn't aware of diapers, you're missing the point: Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro is raising awareness of the need for diapers in order to, as Politico reported, "push the federal government to provide free diapers to poor families."

Congresswoman DeLauro has introduced the "DIAPER" Act — that's to say, the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act Act. So don't worry, it's not welfare, it's "stimulus." As Fox News put it, "A U.S. congresswoman in Connecticut wants to boost the economy by offering free diapers to low-income families."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Connecticut; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: danmalloy; delauro; malloy; rosadelauro
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1 posted on 10/28/2011 4:57:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Bump for later read.


2 posted on 10/28/2011 4:58:49 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Kaslin

What a load of ****!


3 posted on 10/28/2011 4:59:57 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Kaslin

I propose a black ribbon to symbolize the need to end all ribbon wearing.


4 posted on 10/28/2011 5:01:30 PM PDT by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: Kaslin

Fix the link!


5 posted on 10/28/2011 5:04:13 PM PDT by Ronin (If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
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6 posted on 10/28/2011 5:04:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Kaslin

May I suggest;

‘baby sh*t’ brown ?


7 posted on 10/28/2011 5:06:24 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: maine yankee

“May I suggest;”

Somebody had to. Glad it wasn’t me. Thanks for taking the fall.:-)


8 posted on 10/28/2011 6:02:14 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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I’m wondering how the other 6.7 billion people on the planet fare without diapers. I think in the before times, they used some kind of cloth. Then cleaned it...that must be the problem, cleaning requires work.


9 posted on 10/28/2011 6:12:29 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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Oh, yeah....I thought disposable diapers were supposed to be evil to liberals...because, they are disposable.


10 posted on 10/28/2011 6:13:12 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage; Kaslin
An able-bodied man paid by the government of the United States to lie in a giant crib wetting his diaper week in week out is almost too poignant an emblem of the republic at twilight.

Steyn gets it again.

Actually, this has been building for awhile. I met somebody in California 30 years ago who was getting SSI because "working gave her migraines."

11 posted on 10/28/2011 7:29:37 PM PDT by livius
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To: JLS

Steyn pyng!


12 posted on 10/28/2011 10:14:11 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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13 posted on 10/29/2011 9:08:36 AM PDT by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress)
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To: dsrtsage; Kaslin; nutmeg; raybbr; Puppage; wastedyears; RaceBannon; JLS
Oh, yeah....I thought disposable diapers were supposed to be evil to liberals...because, they are disposable.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is married to Stan Greenberg, a major league rat pollster who works with James Carville and Bob Shrum at Democracy Corps, IIRC. This diaper bill should have no chance in the House. Maybe it's just part of their class warfare meme, but something stinks besides the diapers, IMHO.

14 posted on 10/29/2011 9:47:42 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Kaslin
Just found this on the Weekly Standard website:

“Before the coming of FDR,” wrote Eric Hoffer, who spent the 1920s on skid row, America “was singularly free of self-pity. None of the people I talked with blamed anyone for their misfortune.”

15 posted on 10/29/2011 9:52:33 AM PDT by x
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To: neverdem

Translation: He polls 20 rats in a row before he polls 1 Conservative or Republican . Am I right?


16 posted on 10/29/2011 9:58:58 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Ronin

What do you mean fix the link?


17 posted on 10/29/2011 10:01:35 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: dsrtsage
I always used cloth diapers for kids when they were infants. I soaked them in a pail then rinsed them before I put them in the washer, and I always washed them separately from all the other clothes. The only time I used disposable diapers was when we went on a trip.

Needless to say the worn out diapers made great polishing cloth for my husbands boots or dress shoes he had to wear

18 posted on 10/29/2011 10:11:53 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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19 posted on 10/29/2011 10:37:00 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Kaslin

Diapers and politicians need to be changed often,
And, generally, for the same reason!


20 posted on 10/29/2011 6:00:38 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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