More from this week’s show: https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2019/04/13/sara-bareilles-milk-carton-kids-aparna-nancherla
OH my!
I am looking at this and just drooling…
re: #1 freetoken
The cooling time is really quite interesting. Funny how something like that can be calculated by geeks :D
The international price of #soybean will remain weak, which is beneficial to the stability of China’s soybean import market: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs pic.twitter.com/BgyxY7PjS7
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) April 17, 2019
Hey Trump. Smooth move, Exlax.
re: #4 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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Hey Trump. Smooth move, Exlax.
The buyers who are picking up from, say, Argentina, won’t come back to Iowa either.
Three US Senate Committee chairs seek details of @HillaryClinton e-mail probe from Justice Dept https://t.co/Nq7TBJKt41 pic.twitter.com/sxangPIgiu
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) April 17, 2019
Buttery males.
re: #6 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Let me guess: The chairs are all Republicans.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: The chairs are all Republicans.
This is very sad. At one time, Senate Republicans did not seem so invested in these RW conspiracy theories but now that the House Republicans have effectively been neutered, the Senate is taking up the House banner on distracting from Trump crimes. They are terrified of the Mueller report.
Well, I’ll be …
God bless them for trying to do what is right.
Sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University is known for its adherence to church teachings and for its strict Honor Code, which regulates everything from beards to premarital sex. Student protest is uncommon.
But last Friday, 300 gathered at the school’s flagship campus to question its Honor Code Office, chanting, “God forgives me, why can’t you?”
Students allege that the university is mistreating victims of sexual assault and harassment, especiallyy women and LGBTQ students.
They say the administration has used the code against victims, and some say they have been punished for reporting their own sexual assaults.
A Rare Sight At Brigham Young University As Students Protest The Honor Code Office
Just got word that one of my coworker pals passed away…not a good night…
re: #10 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just got word that one of my coworker pals passed away…not a good night…
I’m sorry, that’s tough. One of the people I worked closely with on another team died suddenly (cardiac arrest) while I was in Japan last year. I still don’t feel like I got closure from that because I couldn’t go to the funeral.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
its chaff, thrown up in the hope that they can distract the media (and there’s plenty on their payroll) to report on something other than the day-to-day tire fire that is the current administration.
I’m sure that this will be covered breathlessly on Faux 24/7 doing their best to link this with perceived transgressions from Congresswoman AOC and Omar because, why not.
re: #10 Joe Bacon 🌹
My sincere regrets for you and his loved ones. May there be light eternal for everyone.
I liked Elizabeth Warren, didn’t know she was a teacher.
She’s got some big ideas, and they’re going to take a lot of money to implement. All National Parks accessed for free? That’s gonna cost a lot of money. Medicare For All? Green New Deal? Taxpayers will have to pony up. I like the idea of a 2% wealth tax for those making $50 million/year.
re: #14 teleskiguy
I liked Elizabeth Warren, didn’t know she was a teacher.
She’s got some big ideas, and they’re going to take a lot of money to implement. All National Parks accessed for free? That’s gonna cost a lot of money. Medicare For All? Green New Deal? Taxpayers will have to pony up. I like the idea of a 2% wealth tax for those making $50 million/year.
We don’t really need any special tax plans - all we really need to do is go back to the status quo ante 1/1/1959. That will increase revenue sufficiently, I believe.
I was probably the only person who yelled out “YEAH! SKIING!” when she was talking about global warming and she mentioned the dwindling snowpack. She talked directly to me in that moment.
Oh, and in our brief photo op I told her a joke. What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one with everything. She shook my hand a second time and said “Wow, that’s deep!”
The crowd was quite diverse. I saw gay couples holding hands. Plenty of people of color, lots of women. Hell, standing in line to get my picture with her I was surrounded by women. Lots of young families too, I was standing next to a lady who had brought her newborn (I mean *new*born, this was a tiny little babe) and she got called up to ask a question. Elizabeth was so enamored with the babe, “Oh look, we have a baby!” First question was if the campaign would start selling Elizabeth Warren baby clothes on her website, and she said she’d get right on it.
The Q&A was dominated by health care. One lady started crying when she talked about her diabetes and how expensive insulin has gotten.
As far as I know Elizabeth Warren is the only Democratic presidential candidate not from Colorado to visit Colorado for a rally. I could be mistaken.
If I can I plan on attending more of these confabs. As a Democrat I want to be informed of the candidates, and this is a great way to get to know them, in person.
re: #18 teleskiguy
Thanks for the reporting! I couldn’t get to that event, but I’m very interested in Warren’s policies. Glad to hear there was a diverse crowd attending, as a measure of interest for her and her proposals.
She only mentioned Donald Trump twice, to pretty loud boos.
OK, just a couple more (they took eight pictures!). pic.twitter.com/BBqA4k4uI0
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 17, 2019
#Trumpwald pic.twitter.com/RSmDtvFcbz
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) April 17, 2019
Just 2 people who share the same obsessions, the same enemies & a lot of personality traits. A shame they are *not* on the same side.
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) April 17, 2019
re: #24 teleskiguy
There’s people I grew up with who if they saw these pictures would probably get them very angry. “Didn’t know you were a fuckin’ fag pinko commie Charlie!” I can already hear them say it.
What the fucking fuck? Metro Denver schools are closed tomorrow because of “credible threats” of a possible mass shooting. The Columbine massacre’s 20th anniversary is on Saturday.
Sol Pais is armed and dangerous. We are operating out of an abundance of caution. The threat is not isolated to one school or individual. Federal, state, and local law enforcement are working together to keep our community safe. Tip Line:[no phone numbers allowed]. Media Line:[no phone numbers allowed]. pic.twitter.com/KENVT1kEK3
— FBI Denver (@FBIDenver) April 17, 2019
FUN CHALLENGE: every single professional woman show up to work dressed like this pic.twitter.com/ffPh8cQz9n
— Ariel Dumas (@ArielDumas) April 17, 2019
re: #27 teleskiguy
The 18-year-old is obsessed with Columbine, I guess. Flew into Denver from Miami yesterday and went straight to a gun store and bought a shotgun and ammo, no questions asked. Now the FBI is looking for her.
Great country we live in, huh?
re: #28 teleskiguy
You can see how Elizabeth Holmes’ successful fraudulent portrayal worked, given the supposedly “smart” people are so performatively quirky.
re: #24 teleskiguy
Yes, I look unkempt and scraggly. I can only be myself! If she wins, I’ll go to her inauguration in Washington, I’ll shave, I’ll cut my hair, I’ll show up in my best duds. That’s a promise.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 17, 2019
re: #31 teleskiguy
And you better believe my best duds are *nice.*
re: #27 teleskiguy
Hopefully, the FBI (or law enforcement in general) will find her. She sounds like she’s seriously unstable and a genuine threat.
A federal judge says he may want to review the Justice Department’s redactions of the Mueller report himself once versions of it are made public https://t.co/Gr1cUY9Ytf pic.twitter.com/qMsZZkl8ed
— CNN (@CNN) April 17, 2019
re: #10 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just got word that one of my coworker pals passed away…not a good night…
So sorry to hear that.
Probably 4 days because he started on a friday? 😂
— PickSix (@gobillsGER) April 17, 2019
re: #36 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
A federal judge says he may want to review the Justice Department’s redactions of the Mueller report himself once versions of it are made public
Wonder if Wikileaks will release the unredacted Mueller Report at some point…
re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wonder if Wikileaks will release the unredacted Mueller Report at some point…
Wikileaks tends to protect Republicans.
re: #40 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Wikileaks tends to protect Republicans.
I was being facetious, just like Trump was joking when he repeatedly said how much he likes Wikileaks…
This picture is Trump policy.
Burning discarded automobile batteries in Houston, Texas in 1972. Marc St. Gil — National Archives pic.twitter.com/fjTveoBWeb— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 6, 2017
re: #42 teleskiguy
[Burning discarded automobile batteries in Houston, Texas in 1972. Marc St. Gil — National Archives
That explains Gohmert.
re: #43 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
That explains Gohmert.
Gohmert is from Tyler, TX, some 200 miles to the north of Houston. I’m not sure how to explain his innate dumbassery.
re: #44 teleskiguy
Gohmert is from Tyler, TX, some 200 miles to the north of Houston. I’m not sure how to explain his innate dumbassery.
This is part inbreeding, part pure cussedness. I think a lot of voters know that Gohmert is an idiot, but he is a high-profile idiot who pisses off a lot of liberals, and that makes him good enough for them.
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So basically his district is populated by dumbasses. Idiocracy is prophecy, it seems.
I have to say, it was easy to post pictures, tweet, blog here at LGF, while I was at the Elizabeth Warren Rally, with my iPhone X.
re: #44 teleskiguy
Gohmert is from Tyler, TX, some 200 miles to the north of Houston. I’m not sure how to explain his innate dumbassery.
Gulf winds blow north.
re: #48 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
This is true. This is… so true.
I’m still getting used to this online weed delivery. I have to be more careful when I order a vape cartridge, like look carefully at the image with the magnifier window. I bought a cartridge that is supposed to be great, but it’s not a standard cartridge and now I have to buy a Stiiizy battery to make it work. (yes it is 3 i’s in a row. with my stigmatism it took me about 8 tries to get the spelling right.) But other than my own stupidity, delivery is still so fucking nice.
re: #44 teleskiguy
Gohmert is from Tyler, TX, some 200 miles to the north of Houston. I’m not sure how to explain his innate dumbassery.
Tyler is Dominionist central, home of far right atavist Gary North and his cadre.
Grifters. Grifters everywhere.
The Zimbabwean Prophet Walter Magaya has defended his latest move of charging $500 (K5,300) to each person wanting to sit on his anointed chairs saying “salvation is not free”.
The prophet admitted charging K5,300 to each faithful wanting to sit on the anointed chair in his church saying people who pay that kind of money will have 10 times such amount of money in 5 months. He said after paying that $500, the congregants are free to go with the chair to their various homes and it will continue being a magical chair up to 5 years and by that time, the person will be ten times richer.
Thousands of people regardless whether they are saved or not have been flocking to Prophet Magaya’s church in Zimbabwe in order to sit on the anointed chair and pay $500 to him and to get 10 times richer within 5 years.
“Salvation is not free,” he says.
$500 to sit in sunflower oil “anointed” plastic patio chairs that you can buy on the cheap at any decent home-improvement/garden store?
Damn…..I’m in the wrong business. And here I am, bustin’ my ass for my living like a chump.
re: #50 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
The battery thing is bewildering to me. It’s like some weed stores have all the cartridges and batteries for a certain company and other stores cater to completely different other companies that have cartridges and batteries. It’s quite messy right now.
re: #14 teleskiguy
I liked Elizabeth Warren, didn’t know she was a teacher.
She’s got some big ideas, and they’re going to take a lot of money to implement. All National Parks accessed for free? That’s gonna cost a lot of money. Medicare For All? Green New Deal? Taxpayers will have to pony up. I like the idea of a 2% wealth tax for those making $50 million/year.
Or the Democrats can do it the GOP way and just borrow the money. Or the MMT way and print it.
re: #53 teleskiguy
Mountain Remedy has a nice selection of cartridges but I just assumed the one I picked was a standard screw on thread. it’s more like a Pax but slightly smaller and doesn’t quite fit the pax battery. I went down to the local head shop and they didn’t even have the battery.
Oh, Elizabeth Warren used *no* teleprompters. Spoke for 90 minutes.
re: #56 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Those damn oil vape pens are just too darned convenient!
re: #57 teleskiguy
Oh, Elizabeth Warren used *no* teleprompters. Spoke for 90 minutes.
So can Trump. He just can’t make any sense for those 90 minutes.
re: #59 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
So can Trump. He just can’t make any sense for those 90 minutes.
Whereas Warren was outlining her campaign, telling her rather touching life story, explaining banking law and how it fucks regular people over, climate change, health care, and a few times point out the sheer amount of nerds in the crowd.
I didn’t get bored, and I listened. I like Elizabeth Warren.
re: #58 teleskiguy
I hope so. I’m still struggling with my bad luck (curse?) My first cartridge died about 20% in, and this my second cartridge not being standard. My luck will change!
re: #61 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
I’m still opaque on what the battery is (seriously, finding out where these things come from is kind of a problem) but lately I’ve been getting cartridges from Magnum, and they thread into this battery, and there’s no button. You just pull it. And I think I found the right thing to use all the oil you buy. That thing depletes the cartridge all the way to the last drop. That’s my rig for the last two months.
re: #62 teleskiguy
I’ve got an Apollo stick battery (originally for nicotine vape) with a 3-6 volt adjustment, standard screw base but has a button to turn on. The Stiiizy cartridge seems to be one of those draw activated proprietary mount units like the pax cartridge and battery.
re: #60 teleskiguy
Whereas Warren was outlining her campaign, telling her rather touching life story, explaining banking law and how it fucks regular people over, climate change, health care, and a few times point out the sheer amount of nerds in the crowd.
I didn’t get bored, and I listened. I like Elizabeth Warren.
All that Fox viewers know is “Pocahontas”.
re: #54 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Or the Democrats can do it the GOP way and just borrow the money. Or the MMT way and print it.
That would make them “tax-and-spend Democrats”…
re: #36 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All that Fox viewers know is “Pocahontas”.
A questioner mentioned Fox News. And Warren kind of side stepped it. She talked about talking to people who disagree with you about your values, or whatever. I thought the question about Fox News was a waste of time.
I had a ticket to ask a question. I wasn’t called. I was going to ask a question about guns and gun control.
The Elizabeth Warren event was held just a few miles from a horrible gun massacre in a movie theater, and about 15 miles from Columbine High School.
re: #67 teleskiguy
A questioner mentioned Fox News. And Warren kind of side stepped it. She talked about talking to people who disagree with you about your values, or whatever. I thought the question about Fox News was a waste of time.
They have their labels to be applied to anyone challenging Trump and will be slapping at on with a bigger trowel as time progresses:
Warren: used her fake Native American heritage to advance her career at the cost of more qualified whites
Biden: touchy-feely old creepy pervert (we know, we know)
Pete Buttgieg: Gay and Episcopalian (not a True Fundamentalist Christian)
Ilhan Omar: terrorist sympathizer and Sharia supporter
Because the melting point of gold is 1064°C and a wood fire burns at around 600°C https://t.co/IkVfPS8W6c
— Dan Broadbent 🚀 (@aSciEnthusiast) April 16, 2019
It’s a wrong answer, btw.
The correct answer is: the heat from the old wood, that was burning, as it was wood in the ceiling, mostly escaped into the atmosphere around and above the church.
If the building had been truly enclosed, the metal would have melted.
re: #71 freetoken
It’s a wrong answer, btw.
The correct answer is: the heat from the old wood, that was burning, as it was wood in the ceiling, mostly escaped into the atmosphere around and above the church.
If the building had been truly enclosed, the metal would have melted.
“the alter and cross…” I see how this person needs to believe in God.
Looks like Czech Republic has a political scandal in the making.
This is from a Czech-language source, courtesy of Google Translate.
Čapí Hnízdo’s (Stork’s Nest in English) investigators filed a motion to charge all the accused in the case, including Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO). He faces charges of subsidies fraud and damaging the financial interests of the European Union, for which he faces five to ten years in prison.
“The investigation into the case at the local prosecutor’s office into the conference center called the ‘Stork’s Nest’ case has ended. The file was submitted to the public prosecutor, together with the final proposal”, according to spokesman for the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office in Prague, Aleš Cimbala, in a briefing to irozhlas.cz.
According to Cimbala, the indictment proposal concerns all the actors in the case, except for Andrej Babiš Jr., who was assigned to a separate hearing. “After studying the complete file material, the prosecutor will decide to file the indictment or settle the case differently, ” he continued.
“We will not currently specify the content of the final draft of the police authority. In accordance with the provisions of Section 8a (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the public will be informed through the media about the results of the pre-trial proceedings in connection with the indictment or otherwise settled,” Cimbala added.
Supervisory Prosecutor Jaroslav Saroch did not want to comment on the matter: “Contact the Spokesperson,” he said only.
Sharoch will now study the file in detail and ask whether he will file an indictment or whether it will be appropriate to resolve the matter differently, as Cimbala has previously described.
Andrej Babiš himself has not yet responded to the irozhlas.cz questions. But he had repeatedly denied the charges. Attorney Michael Bartončík, who represents Babiš in the case, was unavailable by phone on Wednesday.
Original article: irozhlas.cz
Long story short, the Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš, who’s also head of the ANO 2011 Party, the current governing party, stands accused of EU subsidies fraud to develop a conference center known as “The Stork’s Nest”, by claiming it was some kind of agricultural use.
We shall see, but this just hit the news here and it has the potential to bring down the government, which would in turn force new elections, if the local prosecutor (equivalent to a state Attorney General) decides to proceed with a criminal prosecution - the next step would be issuing a criminal indictment.
re: #26 teleskiguy
There’s people I grew up with who if they saw these pictures would probably get them very angry. “Didn’t know you were a fuckin’ fag pinko commie Charlie!” I can already hear them say it.
In this era, with the extreme Overton window-shift, I would take that as a complement. You’re a left of center, rational human.
re: #74 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I’m quite comfortable in who I am. It’s a long story, but even the Trump fuckers that I see from time to time in this pretty small community I’ve been in for forever, they know I’m on the level.
And these fuckin’ assholes are going to vote for Trump in 2020.
re: #75 teleskiguy
I’m quite comfortable in who I am. It’s a long story, but even the Trump fuckers that I see from time to time in this pretty small community I’ve been in for forever, they know I’m on the level.
And these fuckin’ assholes are going to vote for Trump in 2020.
Because they feel that not voting for Trump would somehow constitute “backing down” and they only know how to double down.
Here’s a bit in English about that possible political scandal brewing here in Czech Republic.
Police investigators have proposed pressing charges of EU subsidy fraud and damaging the interests of the European Union against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš,and several family members including his wife, Czech Radio reported citing police sources.
The police investigation into the so-called Stork’s Nest affair, in which the prime minister is suspected of having illegally tapped into a 50 million crown EU subsidy ten years ago, has been concluded and the files have been handed over to the chief state attorney who will decide on whether to file charges.
If the prime minister is stripped of his immunity, tried and found guilty he could face a jail sentence of between five and ten years.
The prime minister has consistently denied the allegations and some time ago put his huge Agrofert business conglomerate into trust funds in order to comply with a strict new conflict of interest law.
re: #28 teleskiguy
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If Jack is trying for the rasta look, he’s failing. Or the Sikh look. He’s failing.
That fasting is not doing his brain cells much good.
re: #79 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Yeah, but he’s got that self-important, over entitled douche bro look down to an art form!
He’s a perfect example of why personal wealth should be capped.
re: #14 teleskiguy
I liked Elizabeth Warren, didn’t know she was a teacher.
She’s got some big ideas, and they’re going to take a lot of money to implement. All National Parks accessed for free? That’s gonna cost a lot of money. Medicare For All? Green New Deal? Taxpayers will have to pony up. I like the idea of a 2% wealth tax for those making $50 million/year.
oh no nononono…
That 2% wealth tax idea is not an income tax on this year’s income… it’s a tax on your net worth; 3% on a net worth of a billion or more.
Which would bring up all sorts of compliance issues, it would require a whole army of IRS accountants and auditors…
But the principle is sound. If the practicalities of implementing it weren’t such a mess.
I live in Littleton, within a half mile of an elementary school, a junior high, and a high school, plus my son’s preschool, and maybe 5 miles from Columbine. Fuck the NRA for creating a situation where this person could walk off a plane and immediately buy a gun. Fuck every sheriff in Colorado claiming they won’t enforce the red flag law. I’m fucking sick of the gun nut culture that has infected this country, and that appears impossible to excise.
re: #83 Mike Lamb
I live in Littleton, within a half mile of an elementary school, a junior high, and a high school, plus my son’s preschool, and maybe 5 miles from Columbine. Fuck the NRA for creating a situation where this person could walk off a plane and immediately buy a gun. Fuck every sheriff in Colorado claiming they won’t enforce the red flag law. I’m fucking sick of the gun nut culture that has infected this country, and that appears impossible to excise.
What angers me the most about the gun nuts is how extreme they keep on getting. Background checks which on paper a strong majority support are depicted as tyrannical. It’s the insensitivity, lies, & the attacks on those who have suffered from gun violence that piss me off the most. Dana Loesch literally thinks she’s a bigger victim than the Parkland kids were because she gasp got called out for being a spokeswoman for a scumbag organization that encourages dangerous behavior with guns.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2019
“As Amy Walter … put it, reporters talking about polls are a lot like preteens talking about sex.” Walter: “They know all the words. They talk about it a lot. But they have no idea what they’re talking about.”@amyewalter is a national treasure. https://t.co/mRNZD2MPbh
— Madelaine Pisani (@MadelainePisani) April 16, 2019
re: #85 darthstar
Forgiving isn’t about them, it’s about you.
re: #86 darthstar
To be fair this seems to be the case with most topics reporters cover, although in some cases they don’t even know the words.
Best renovation manual I know of. pic.twitter.com/ZOT7cLO6Zn
— John Cole (@ColeToon) April 17, 2019
re: #87 Shropshire Slasher
Forgiving isn’t about them, it’s about you.
Aw, man…that line gets me every time.
The fire department in Paris followed a protocol: Save the people, save the art, save the altar, save what furniture you can, then focus on the structure, in that order. They know what can be rebuilt and what can’t.
— Michael … .-.. .- …- .. - -.-. …. (@_theek_) April 15, 2019
The steeple and the beams supporting it are 160 years old, and oaks for new beams awaits at Versailles, the grown replacements for oaks cut to rebuild after the revolution.
— Michael … .-.. .- …- .. - -.-. …. (@_theek_) April 15, 2019
Warsaw, Poland - Pesach Seder To Be Held In Warsaw Ghetto For First Time In 76 Years https://t.co/q7taedEKqt
— VosIzNeias (@VINNews) April 17, 2019
re: #21 teleskiguy
If I can I plan on attending more of these confabs. As a Democrat I want to be informed of the candidates, and this is a great way to get to know them, in person.
would that every voter cared as much.
ive said it thousands of times
d or r, primary or general - i don’t care how you vote
i care how you decide how to vote
A Swedish public TV news piece about preventing a situation such as the Notre Dame fire in Gamla Stan (the Old Town). Among other things, they have done walks and mapped width of streets (Gamla Stan has notoriously narrow streets) to figure out what routes to arrive through, and they have smaller engines that can be used. Also, featured in the video clip is a set of thermal cameras in a church belltower to keep an eye if anything goes too hot.
re: #94 Teukka
Addendum: The FD, building owners and other authorities have also done inventories so they know what to try to save if fires break out.
Trump’s reason for vetoing the Yemen resolution? He considered it an attack on his presidential power. That’s huge, because it tells us how he’s going to respond to any efforts to hold him or his family accountable.
Another liberal rag criticizes dear leader. https://t.co/zsDoqsg3S9 via @amconmag
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2019
re: #14 teleskiguy
I liked Elizabeth Warren, didn’t know she was a teacher.
She’s got some big ideas, and they’re going to take a lot of money to implement. All National Parks accessed for free? That’s gonna cost a lot of money. Medicare For All? Green New Deal? Taxpayers will have to pony up. I like the idea of a 2% wealth tax for those making $50 million/year.
Yes, opening up the national parks for free would cost.
But quite a few units don’t charge at all. About 117 impose a fee out of the more than 400 units. More than 2/3 of the parks don’t charge. The issue is that the volume of people who visit parks is uneven (think the national mall, which is a NP unit) or Blue Ridge Parkway or Great Smoky Mountains, which are among the most visited units, along with Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon. Some charge, while others don’t.
Charges tend to inhibit people from visiting those parks, and the charges don’t cover the needs that have long been deferred. We need to up funding to deal with the backlog, and that’s something that most everyone agrees should happen - even those bass-ackward GOPers, because they know their states rely so heavily on the parks for tourism and the local economy.
They just don’t want to pay for it, and hence the units try to make up the difference by charging entrance fees.
Having a plan to resolve the backlog and upgrade facilities is a worthy goal and one that should have widespread support (but yeah, it’s Warren, so the GOP will go batcrap insane).
re: #97 darthstar
Trump’s reason for vetoing the Yemen resolution? He considered it an attack on his presidential power. That’s huge, because it tells us how he’s going to respond to any efforts to hold him or his family accountable.
I would love to see Congress override it and then see what he does.
re: #91 Belafon
Thanks, Belafon. Great thread on preparedness training and execution.
France: We will let the best architects from around the world compete to design the new spire.
Twitter Conservatives: OMG, what if a woman or a non-white person wins?! pic.twitter.com/6rLDkiTuRC— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 17, 2019
re: #90 darthstar
Aw, man…that line gets me every time.
im partial to ‘forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past’
re: #97 darthstar
Trump’s reason for vetoing the Yemen resolution? He considered it an attack on his presidential power. That’s huge, because it tells us how he’s going to respond to any efforts to hold him or his family accountable.
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It’s stating the obvious, but Trump does not want to share power with anyone. He just told his own party to stuff it up the wazoo. Maybe some Goopers will wake up to the monster they have created and enabled.
Morning!
Looks like SkiGuy was pumped up by seeing Elizabeth Warren. It’s good to see the candidates in person if you can.
Was there any doubt he would wear an Umphrey’s McGee Tee?
re: #103 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s stating the obvious, but Trump does not want to share power with anyone. He just told his own party to stuff it up the wazoo. Maybe some Goopers will wake up to the monster they have created and enabled.
Only if Mitch lets them.
re: #99 Belafon
I would love to see Congress override it and then see what he does.
He’d fire Congress in a tweet then learn it doesn’t work that way.
Don passed away because of the insulin price spike. He was having problems getting the Blue Shield Beancounter to issue the copays for each vial and the beancounter was also cutting the copay for his anti rejection Rx for his transplanted kidney.
He was hospitalized 2 weeks ago because the kidney was showing signs of tissue rejection.
So you can chalk up another win for a heartless corporate beancounter rationing care.
A fucking beancounter NOT a government employee rationing care who gets an incentive payment every time they deny or reduce a claim.
Maybe that beancounter will get the special prize from Blue Shield—a cruise, maybe a week at Cabo all expenses paid for being such a diligent steward of the stockholder dividends.
I fucking hate the pimps running the health insurance rackets and the PhRMA extortionists who jack up the prices of RXs.
Time for Single Payer and put these beancounters and pimps on the unemployment line!
re: #101 Ace-o-aces
I recall the initial call for a designer for the Vietnam Veterans memorial in DC.
It went to the unknown Maya Lin, a young woman who was still in architectural school. Her design was attacked by pundits and people who didn’t get the design or its healing nature…. but the power lay in its simplicity and stark nature.
The committee ultimately added a more conventional statue to the design to assuage the critics.
To me, good design shines through and ultimately works in harmony with the structures. Anyone could proffer a design, and if you don’t know who is submitting it, then the judges who make the decision will go on the merits, and that’s what these creeps hate. They hate that it’s not a done deal that a white guy will be the designer.
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
Upding for sympathy and your analysis; not the passing of your friend.
re: #90 darthstar
Doesn’t mean you have to take shit from anyone though. Or accept shitty behavior and destructive bullshit.
re: #106 ObserverArt
Only if Mitch lets them.
they like to be led around by the nose and not one of them has the balls to have an original thought
Media reports say @AlanGarciaPeru in a coma after shooting himself. Live coverage: https://t.co/PBvRcz5Wcg
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 17, 2019
re: #97 darthstar
Trump’s reason for vetoing the Yemen resolution? He considered it an attack on his presidential power. That’s huge, because it tells us how he’s going to respond to any efforts to hold him or his family accountable.
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Some points:
1. Maybe it’s a redundant reminder, but Daniel Larison at TAC has been, for a long time, a persistent foreign-policy non-interventionist, and in particular, a virulent critic of the Saudis’ war on Yemen and US support for it. (The phrase “lonely voice crying in the heedless wilderness” comes to mind, but there we are).
2. The disgraceful cretins which pass for our Foreign Policy Establishment these days have convinced themselves (if few others) that the Saudi campaign in Yemen is basically a proxy war against Iran*, so anything that can be spun as Fighting The Persian Devil is going to be relentlessly promoted, and the GOP, of course, will follow right along.
3. The war in Yemen is so little-known among the American public (except for Administration spin as in point 2 above), that as long as there are no US casualties involved, said public is likely to care even less.
4. Trump might have a vague point re restrictions on Presidential war powers - and of course, as long as there are more than 1/3-plus-one Republicans in either House of Congress, any resolution is unlikely to be of any use. But aside from the general “fuck you, I’ll veto” principle - which Trump, I’m sure, is only too willing to employ, I’m not sure it’s relevant to criminal/corruption charges, which (IMHO) are this Admin’s biggest failing.
*it isn’t, really.
re: #105 ObserverArt
Morning!
Looks like SkiGuy was pumped up by seeing Elizabeth Warren. It’s good to see the candidates in person if you can.
Was there any doubt he would wear an Umphrey’s McGee Tee?
Wife got back from Denver and brought me back this tee:
If the FBI, Steele, and Clinton on Twitter the president berates, it’s not he whom the Mueller report exonerates.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2019
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
Don passed away because of the insulin price spike. He was having problems getting the Blue Shield Beancounter to issue the copays for each vial and the beancounter was also cutting the copay for his anti rejection Rx for his transplanted kidney.
He was hospitalized 2 weeks ago because the kidney was showing signs of tissue rejection.
So you can chalk up another win for a heartless corporate beancounter rationing care.
A fucking beancounter NOT a government employee rationing care who gets an incentive payment every time they deny or reduce a claim.
Maybe that beancounter will get the special prize from Blue Shield—a cruise, maybe a week at Cabo all expenses paid for being such a diligent steward of the stockholder dividends.
I fucking hate the pimps running the health insurance rackets and the PhRMA extortionists who jack up the prices of RXs.
Time for Single Payer and put these beancounters and pimps on the unemployment line!
Said it before, will say it again. If I lived in the US my insulin would cost $230 per week. Here I pay $26 per week FOR THE EXACT SAME INSULIN PEN SAME MANUFACTURER. WITHOUT INSURANCE WALK IN BUY CASH. And Congress does fucking nothing while people die. Fuck them all.
The motto of Roy Moore’s fandom: “Why abort kids when #TeamKidCurious are eager to date them?”
— 🏝 Kim (@kim) April 16, 2019
As Ron Simmons would say DAMN.
Also, question…anybody know why Moore had his nomination pulled?
I’ve been saving my commenting tokens for after the Mueller report drops. It’s been hard enough this year to focus on job interviews and such. Had a good interview Monday and just confirmed a Thursday phone interview. Yay me! I think I’ll write a book titled A Sensitive Man at 50 Looks for Work in Donald Trump’s America.
Matty Lite
WATCH: On the border in Yuma, Arizona last night, we watched dozens of illegal immigrants get detained by border control. There is no barrier here between the US and Mexico stopping them from crossing. #BuildTheWall pic.twitter.com/YVRQUOAJ8H
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 17, 2019
re: #119 Sufficient unto the day…
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As Ron Simmons would say DAMN.
Also, question…anybody know why Moore had his nomination pulled?
I got a feeling Mitch made it clear the votes aren’t there for Moore or Mr. 999.
Fuck Trump. He can NOT be allowed to get away with this:
President Donald Trump is reportedly doing all he can to resist efforts by House Democrats to obtain documents and information relating to their multiple ongoing investigations into his administration and business dealings.
According to The Washington Post, both Trump’s personal attorneys and White House counsel Pat Cipollone are preparing the ground for a legal fight to block any subpoenas from the various House committees running investigations and will not turn anything over to Congress.
Trump is already not complying with information requests related to security clearances, meeting with foreign leaders, and other topics his team says are covered by executive privilege, the Post reported, citing aides familiar with White House discussions.
“They are fighting us on everything now, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, told the publication. “It’s an assault on the separation of powers and specifically the congressional oversight function.”
The White House did not respond immediately to Newsweek ‘s request for comment.
Since the Democrats won back control of the House in the midterms, the party has been hard at work investigating the president and those around him amid suspicions of wrongdoing. President Trump regards these investigations as an abuse of political power and without merit.
Six House committees are running sprawling investigations into Trump.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
Meanwhile Lindsay Graham is pursuing yet another vendetta against Hillary.
re: #126 Dave In Austin
Matty Lite
Hey, Rep. Gaetz, it’s Border Patrol, not control.
English your first language?
I just woke up from the long drive back from Boulder after the concert. I didn’t know Teleskiguy (and Elizabeth Warren) were in town. Now I know why the traffic was so bad trying to get out of there Tuesday. /s
After the concert, the Laughing Goat put on Harry Belefonte music over its speaker system. My wife and Shelley Segal wound up dancing to calypso music on stage. (Sadly, I did not get pictures of my wife dancing with her, but someone did kindly take pictures of us together.)
She is at the end of a tour promoting a new album.
youtube.com (her official video channel)
Well, this is plenty fucked up…
CNN - Denver Public Schools and almost 20 other local school districts are closed Wednesday as authorities search for a Florida high school senior they describe as armed and “infatuated” with the Columbine massacre — just days before the 20th anniversary of the attack.
Local and federal officials are searching for 18-year-old Sol Pais. She made “credible” — but not specific — threats after traveling from Miami to Denver on Monday night, said Dean Phillips, the special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office.
After Pais arrived in Colorado, she immediately went to a store and bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition, the FBI said Tuesday night.
Pais is considered a threat to the community and schools, but there is no information on any specific threat to a particular place, Phillips said.
As Colorado braces for a poignant anniversary Saturday — the 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre that killed 13 people — Denver-area school districts are shut down in light of the new threat.
Jefferson County Public Schools, which includes Columbine High School in Littleton, canceled classes Wednesday as authorities search for Pais.
Other school districts closed Wednesday include the Douglas County School District, Aurora Public Schools and Cherry Creek Schools.
Sure, let’s celebrate the anniversary of a tragic school shooting by going to where it happened and shooting even more fucking people. God, I hate this country sometimes.
I also find it interesting that it’s a female person of interest this time, that’s not very common. I hope they find her, the last thing we need is more bloodshed in Littleton.
Guess what time it is hooman! pic.twitter.com/xkwbLCkavQ
— laney (@misslaneym) April 17, 2019
moron
Wow! FBI made 11 payments to Fake Dossier’s discredited author, Trump hater Christopher Steele. @OANN @JudicialWatch The Witch Hunt has been a total fraud on your President and the American people! It was brought to you by Dirty Cops, Crooked Hillary and the DNC.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2019
Democrats in Congress must return from their Vacations and change the Immigration Laws, or the Border, despite the great job being done by Border Patrol, will only get worse. Big sections of Wall now being built!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2019
Why is anyone paying attention to guy who allowed sex abuse to persist at Baylor among its athletes?
LMAO. A report that he hasn’t read is raising concerns because it would reveal that Trumpworld is corrupt and that Trump did bad things eligible for impeachment.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 17, 2019
Ken Starr is worried about a report he hasn’t read being anti-Trump, even though the report is supposed to exonerate Trump (weird how this is all working).
Barr’s going to sanitize the report, but he can’t fully remove the stench of Trump criminality and misconduct that rises to the level of an impeachable offense. How do we know this? Because Barr signaled that Trump wasn’t out of the woods on obstruction (which as Starr knows, is an impeachable offense).
Starr would much rather that Trump be exonerated (he wasn’t). Starr’s more concerned that the report reveals Trumpworld criminal misconduct and is anti-Trump, which is all about spin, not about justice. Justice is that Trump is held accountable for his malfeasance. Starr doesn’t care about that at all.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
Fuck Trump. He can NOT be allowed to get away with this:
President Donald Trump is reportedly doing all he can to resist efforts by House Democrats to obtain documents and information relating to their multiple ongoing investigations into his administration and business dealings.
According to The Washington Post, both Trump’s personal attorneys and White House counsel Pat Cipollone are preparing the ground for a legal fight to block any subpoenas from the various House committees running investigations and will not turn anything over to Congress.
Trump is already not complying with information requests related to security clearances, meeting with foreign leaders, and other topics his team says are covered by executive privilege, the Post reported, citing aides familiar with White House discussions.
“They are fighting us on everything now, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, told the publication. “It’s an assault on the separation of powers and specifically the congressional oversight function.”
The White House did not respond immediately to Newsweek ‘s request for comment.
Since the Democrats won back control of the House in the midterms, the party has been hard at work investigating the president and those around him amid suspicions of wrongdoing. President Trump regards these investigations as an abuse of political power and without merit.
Six House committees are running sprawling investigations into Trump.
- “an abuse of political power and without merit”
is an entirely separate argument from
- “everything we touch is covered by executive privilege”
so this is a throw spaghetti at the wall defense
because if exec privilege was a slam dunk, then the motivations of congress wouldnt matter a whit
re: #114 Jay C
Some points:
1. Maybe it’s a redundant reminder, but Daniel Larison at TAC has been, for a long time, a persistent foreign-policy non-interventionist, and in particular, a virulent critic of the Saudis’ war on Yemen and US support for it. (The phrase “lonely voice crying in the heedless wilderness” comes to mind, but there we are).
2. The disgraceful cretins which pass for our Foreign Policy Establishment these days have convinced themselves (if few others) that the Saudi campaign in Yemen is basically a proxy war against Iran*, so anything that can be spun as Fighting The Persian Devil is going to be relentlessly promoted, and the GOP, of course, will follow right along.
3. The war in Yemen is so little-known among the American public (except for Administration spin as in point 2 above), that as long as there are no US casualties involved, said public is likely to care even less.
4. Trump might have a vague point re restrictions on Presidential war powers - and of course, as long as there are more than 1/3-plus-one Republicans in either House of Congress, any resolution is unlikely to be of any use. But aside from the general “fuck you, I’ll veto” principle - which Trump, I’m sure, is only too willing to employ, I’m not sure it’s relevant to criminal/corruption charges, which (IMHO) are this Admin’s biggest failing.*it isn’t, really.
I don’t think Trump has any point at all on the restrictions re: Presidential war powers. Congress has pretty much abdicated its role in declaring war, such that the President can do whatever the fuck he/she wants militarily.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹
From the concert Monday night. Ms. Segal spent about an hour with us after the concert while the roadies took down her equipment. The three of us were the last people out of the Laughing Goat when the management threw us out after they closed.
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No end of amusement here, AM, Mr Segal just played on an album that I also contributed some banjo to, a solo CD by an American friend living in Finland.
He also taught my ex GF when she was attending Mills College
re: #136 lawhawk
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Ken Starr is worried about a report he hasn’t read being anti-Trump, even though the report is supposed to exonerate Trump (weird how this is all working).
Barr’s going to sanitize the report, but he can’t fully remove the stench of Trump criminality and misconduct that rises to the level of an impeachable offense. How do we know this? Because Barr signaled that Trump wasn’t out of the woods on obstruction (which as Starr knows, is an impeachable offense).
Starr would much rather that Trump be exonerated (he wasn’t). Starr’s more concerned that the report reveals Trumpworld criminal misconduct and is anti-Trump, which is all about spin, not about justice. Justice is that Trump is held accountable for his malfeasance. Starr doesn’t care about that at all.
Starr really shouldn’t have any cred after how he handled what happened at Baylor.
re: #142 HappyWarrior
Or after his previous tenure in the role Mueller occupied…
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No end of amusement here, AM, Mr Segal just played on an album that I also contributed some banjo to, a solo CD by an American friend living in Finland.
He also taught my ex GF when she was attending Mills College
Are the two Segals related, or just a common name?
re: #136 lawhawk
Ken Starr is worried about a report he hasn’t read being anti-Trump, even though the report is supposed to exonerate Trump (weird how this is all working).
Barr’s going to sanitize the report, but he can’t fully remove the stench of Trump criminality and misconduct that rises to the level of an impeachable offense. How do we know this? Because Barr signaled that Trump wasn’t out of the woods on obstruction (which as Starr knows, is an impeachable offense).
Starr would much rather that Trump be exonerated (he wasn’t). Starr’s more concerned that the report reveals Trumpworld criminal misconduct and is anti-Trump, which is all about spin, not about justice. Justice is that Trump is held accountable for his malfeasance. Starr doesn’t care about that at all.
Man who led the Great Clinton Penis Hunt says what?
There has never been a not-corrupt Republican administration in my entire life (except Ford, which I put down to he didn’t have enough time).
Sidenote: My wife is now E-mailing the photographs to Shelley Segal (as Ms. Segal gave my wife her personal E-mail address).
She can be reminded of the two crazy people from Nebraska she met.
She told us on her next road trip she’s planning on coming to Omaha. I pointed out that Boulder is closer, but if she likes, she can play the community center/bar/restaurant in my town. (I’m not sure how many people she can pack into a venue in a town of 128 though.)
re: #143 Sufficient unto the day…
Or after his previous tenure in the role Mueller occupied…
Exactly too. I really don’t care what Ken Starr has to say about anything. Mueller conducted himself honorably in the Trump investigation. Starr didn’t in the Clinton one.
re: #142 HappyWarrior
Starr really shouldn’t have any cred after how he handled
what happened at Baylor.Whitewater
just helpin’ out…
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹
Man who led the Great Clinton Penis Hunt says what?
There has never been a not-corrupt Republican administration in my entire life (except Ford, which I put down to he didn’t have enough time).
well… what month is your birthday? The last few months of Eisenhower might possibly be considered as being within your lifetime.
re: #146 Anymouse 🌹
She told us on her next road trip she’s planning on coming to Omaha. I pointed out that Boulder is closer, but if she likes, she can play the community center/bar/restaurant in my town. (I’m not sure how many people she can pack into a venue in a town of 128 though.)
All of them, Katie.
re: #148 Man, DangerMan
just helpin’ out…
Starr really shouldn’t have any cred after how he handled what happened at Baylor. Whitewater everywhere he was professionally involved.
FTFY
Good morning from @PeteButtigieg’s first event of the day in Marshalltown, IA. The anti-gay protester has returned and is dressed up as the devil and is shouting at us through a sound system. pic.twitter.com/xaWeEqxBUI
— Marcus DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) April 17, 2019
Oh my god. The protester has a fake @PeteButtigieg whipping Jesus on a cross. I have no words. pic.twitter.com/VxeqXbfAIs
— Marcus DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) April 17, 2019
re: #152 lawhawk
Starr really shouldn’t have any cred after how he handled what happened
at Baylor. Whitewatereverywhere he was professionally involved.FTFY
What did he do before Whitewater? Wanna say he was a Bush I DOJ member. Perhaps solicitor general?
Can someone please add the Looney Tunes theme song to this video
— Matt (@MSpaunhorst) April 17, 2019
re: #149 sagehen
well… what month is your birthday? The last few months of Eisenhower might possibly be considered as being within your lifetime.
Eisenhower is within my lifetime. I was an toddler when he left office, so I don’t remember his presidency.
That said, I don’t recall reading anything about President Eisenhower which indicated he did anything corrupt or criminal.
I do recall reading a book about him when he was running for President. Either party would have welcomed him at the head of its ticket. The book said he chose the Republican Party because his time in WW2 showed him the dangers of one-party states, and the GOP was close to being wiped out after the Great Depression.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
They will keep digging. The thing about that information is there’s generally more than one form of it, and if you can’t get at it directly, you can get at it by going a different direction and putting 2 and 2 together.
re: #155 HappyWarrior
What did he do before Whitewater? Wanna say he was a Bush I DOJ member. Perhaps solicitor general?
He started as a justice on the DC Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan. He was a Democrat until 1975, then became a Republican. Prior to that he was a law clerk for David Dyer.
re: #157 Anymouse 🌹
Eisenhower is within my lifetime. I was an toddler when he left office, so I don’t remember his presidency.
That said, I don’t recall reading anything about President Eisenhower which indicated he did anything corrupt or criminal.
I do recall reading a book about him when he was running for President. Either party would have welcomed him at the head of its ticket. The book said he chose the Republican Party because his time in WW2 showed him the dangers of one-party states, and the GOP was close to being wiped out after the Great Depression.
It was that and he feared Robert Taft being nominated. I like Ike. There’s some stuff he did that I didn’t like I.e. staying silent on McCarthy, the Iranian coup, Nixon, but he is the best GOP President in the last century.
re: #157 Anymouse 🌹
That said, I don’t recall reading anything about President Eisenhower which indicated he did anything corrupt or criminal.
There was Sherman Adams and the vicuna coat, as I recall. Big deal at the time… and now? It wouldn’t even register. Business as usual down in the swamp.
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹
He started as a justice on the DC Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan. He was a Democrat until 1975, then became a Republican. Prior to that he was a law clerk for David Dyer.
Had no idea Starr was once a Dem.
re: #161 ipsos
There was Sherman Adams and the vicuna coat, as I recall. Big deal at the time… and now? It wouldn’t even register. Business as usual down in the swamp.
Right. Wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar these days.
re: #160 HappyWarrior
It was that and he feared Robert Taft being nominated. I like Ike. There’s some stuff he did that I didn’t like I.e. staying silent on McCarthy, the Iranian coup, Nixon, but he is the best GOP President in the last century.
I can forgive staying silent on Joe McCarthy, with the idea that the President shouldn’t be attacking individual members of Congress (even if they are attacking you).
The Iranian Coup was bad for Iran, but isn’t really corrupt or criminal. (Overthowing elected officials of other countries has a long tradition in US politics.)
re: #162 HappyWarrior
Had no idea Starr was once a Dem.
Yup. He moved to the GOP during the Southern Strategy brought on under Nixon. I don’t know if it’s because of the racist nature of that, or if he had a change of heart over his political affiliation.
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹
Yup. He moved to the GOP during the Southern Strategy brought on under Nixon. I don’t know if it’s because of the racist nature of that, or if he had a change of heart over his political affiliation.
I keep on forgetting he’s a Southerner.
AG Bill Barr Welcomes Your Huddled Masses TO JAIL (Goes to Wonkette, more at the link):
Attorney General William Barr would like to remind you that fuxxoring the Mueller report isn’t his only duty as AG, even if that does remain his first love. Yesterday, Barr issued an order telling immigration courts that certain classes of people seeking asylum in the USA have to be kept locked up until their asylum cases are decided, and therefore cannot apply for release on bond. Does the Executive Branch have that power? You bet your due-process-loving ass it acts like it does, because the immigration courts are run by the Department of “Justice,” not the judicial branch. Whether Barr’s ruling is constitutional is another matter, and the American Civil Liberties Union is gearing up to challenge the ruling in court as soon as possible.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹
I can forgive staying silent on Joe McCarthy, with the idea that the President shouldn’t be attacking individual members of Congress (even if they are attacking you).
The Iranian Coup was bad for Iran, but isn’t really corrupt or criminal. (Overthowing elected officials of other countries has a long tradition in US politics.)
Right. Bad policy. As for McCarthy, it’s a criticism about staying silent while McCarthy went after heroes like George Marshall and with Iran not considering the long term consequences. Ike was better than Taft would have been or any other Republican that ran in 1952 and I think any Republican was going to win due to Democratic President fatigue.
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
Don passed away because of the insulin price spike. He was having problems getting the Blue Shield Beancounter to issue the copays for each vial and the beancounter was also cutting the copay for his anti rejection Rx for his transplanted kidney.
He was hospitalized 2 weeks ago because the kidney was showing signs of tissue rejection.
So you can chalk up another win for a heartless corporate beancounter rationing care.
A fucking beancounter NOT a government employee rationing care who gets an incentive payment every time they deny or reduce a claim.
Maybe that beancounter will get the special prize from Blue Shield—a cruise, maybe a week at Cabo all expenses paid for being such a diligent steward of the stockholder dividends.
I fucking hate the pimps running the health insurance rackets and the PhRMA extortionists who jack up the prices of RXs.
Time for Single Payer and put these beancounters and pimps on the unemployment line!
Single payer isn’t necessary; it can probably be accomplished by government regulation on drug prices but you need a government that cares.
This case should be considered murder; could some DA take up the case and charge the executives running these pharmaceutical firms of homicide?
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹
Yup. He moved to the GOP during the Southern Strategy brought on under Nixon. I don’t know if it’s because of the racist nature of that, or if he had a change of heart over his political affiliation.
Liar!!!!!!!! There was no “southern statergery”. All dimo crit liesss.
An interesting hypothetical is what if Ike replaced Nixon in ‘56 or ‘52 if the Checkers speech hadn’t resonated. Nixon more than Eisenhower is the keystone that started the GOP’s direction we know now.
re: #171 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Liar!!!!!!!! There was no “southern statergery”. All dimo crit liesss.
I remember when Ken Mehlman as RNC chairman actually apologized for it and Limbaugh went nuts. That was when the GOP actually seemed somewhat interested in being something other than the party of old white guys who yell at clouds.
re: #172 HappyWarrior
My theory is that, whether Nixon or Eisenhower was in the President’s role, the origins of the current GOP direction (oligarchs whipping racist false populism) reach all the way back to their reaction to FDR.
re: #174 jaunte
My theory is that, whether Nixon or Eisenhower was in the President’s role, the origins of the current GOP direction (oligarchs whipping racist false populism) reach all the way back to their reaction to FDR.
Hmmm. I’m not sure. Hoover, Landon, Willkie, & Dewey really didn’t seem to engage in race baiting. But if you ask me, the GOP’s turning point is Taft succeeding TR as the GOP standard bearer.
jeebus…what an embarrassment
….in my conversation yesterday with President @EmmanuelMacron of France. I also wished both Pope Francis and President Macron a very Happy Easter!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2019
“Great experts on renovation and construction” as if to imply that France has no experts available to deal with the situation.
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus…what an embarrassment
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Yeah, here’s a cookie, Needy Boy.
As if the Pope has anything to do with Notre Dame
Do you know why I really like solar and wind power?
You don’t need pipelines, trains, or trucks to transport sunlight and wind.
Think of the environmental impact of eliminating the transportation of oil and gas. pic.twitter.com/MRTIkCs8gj— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) April 17, 2019
re: #170 Hecuba’s daughter
Single payer isn’t necessary; it can probably be accomplished by government regulation on drug prices but you need a government that cares.
This case should be considered murder; could some DA take up the case and charge the executives running these pharmaceutical firms of homicide?
The one thing that all of the Eurpoean health care models - and they are diverse - have in common is that government negotiates prices on goods and services on behalf of the people.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
“Great experts on renovation and construction” as if to imply that France has no experts available to deal the the situation.
It’s not like France has had to rebuild the church before. Gaa.
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s nice that Trump offered money to rebuild Notre Dame but how come he didn’t say anything when 3 black churches burned down? Also the water in Flint still isn’t safe and don’t even get me started on Puerto Rico but I’m not the one who campaigned to “Make America Great Again”
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) April 17, 2019
#BREAKING: Sol Pais is dead, investigators confirm.
WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/BUz1OEVg87 pic.twitter.com/RZ9dWcU6aS— CBSDenver (@CBSDenver) April 17, 2019
re: #175 HappyWarrior
Hmmm. I’m not sure. Hoover, Landon, Willkie, & Dewey really didn’t seem to engage in race baiting. But if you ask me, the GOP’s turning point is Taft succeeding TR as the GOP standard bearer.
Wilkie in particular was more, not less, liberal on civil rights issues than FDR himself. He was the first major party candidate to address the NCAA convention (though only after the election). He was a remarkable character in many respects, a strident internationalist in a time of isolationism, and an advocate of equality when segregation was the norm. His premature death from heart disease was one of the great “what if” moments of American history. Wilkie traveled around the world as a special envoy for former opponent FDR during World War II. His book about those travels, One World, would send present day Republicans into screaming fits of rage.
The far right of the Republican Party had always been there but it really began to gain traction only after 3 liberal candidates in a row, Landon, Wilkie, and Dewey, had lost to the Democrats. Eisenhower, the outsider, delayed their complete ascendancy while Nixon, the Hunt brothers, and the Taft wing perfected their game in the background.
re: #186 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Wilkie in particular was more, not less, liberal on civil rights issues than FDR himself. He was the first major party candidate to address the NCAA convention (though only after the election). He was a remarkable character in many respects, a strident internationalist in a time of isolationism, and an advocate of equality when segregation was the norm. His premature death from heart disease was one of the great “what if” moments of American history. Wilkie traveled around the world as a special envoy for former opponent FDR during World War II. His book about those travels, One World, would send present day Republicans into screaming fits of rage.
The far right of the Republican Party had always been there but it really began to gain traction only after 3 liberal candidates in a row, Landon, Wilkie, and Dewey, had lost to the Democrats. Eisenhower, the outsider, delayed their complete ascendancy while Nixon, the Hunt brothers, and the Taft wing perfected their game in the background.
Wilkie was a good man. We could have used him after WWII more than McCarthy.
STORY: After a massive manhunt along the Front Range and foothills west of Denver, Sol Pais was found dead near the base of Mt. Evans, according to multiple sources.https://t.co/KVlk38t5cD
— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) April 17, 2019
Let’s compare Europe v the USA!
I graduated from a Scottish University with no debt.
My parents have survived cancer and a heart attack with no medical bills.
I am a fairly high earner, and pay on average 33.5% tax on salary.
Do you get similar value from your taxes or not…— Stu Cameron (@stucam7771) April 17, 2019
re: #187 HappyWarrior
Wilkie was a good man. We could have used him after WWII more than McCarthy.
Some of the standard RW conspiracy theories, especially the ones dealing with the Federal Reserve and internationalism, originated in efforts by the Hunts and their allies to discredit the liberal wing of the Republican Party, especially Nelson Rockefeller. In its early days, ca. 1958, the John Birch Society targeted Republicans more than Democrats.
JUST IN: Federal prosecutors have charged 60 physicians and pharmacists with illegally handing out opioid prescriptions.
They say it is the biggest crackdown of its kind in U.S. history. https://t.co/eb2K4YS7Z0— Enquirer (@Enquirer) April 17, 2019
Here’s a breakdown of what we know so far: https://t.co/JeHwHW2q0W pic.twitter.com/SryEozpSd9
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) April 17, 2019
re: #191 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Some of the standard RW conspiracy theories, especially the ones dealing with the Federal Reserve and internationalism, originated in efforts by the Hunts and their allies to discredit the liberal wing of the Republican Party, especially Nelson Rockefeller. In its early days, ca. 1958, the John Birch Society targeted Republicans more than Democrats.
Definitely. I believe Phyllis Schalfly was also part of that movement.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Just listening to the news, it’s possible she froze to death.
I wrote something. Let’s just say there are alot of triggered people on Facebook saying I don’t know history, politics, or the bill of rights.
I’m a history teacher by trade.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
Enquirer ✔
@Enquirer
JUST IN: Federal prosecutors have charged 60 physicians and pharmacists with illegally handing out opioid prescriptions.They say it is the biggest crackdown of its kind in U.S. history. cincinnati.com …
If we only had the Trump Wall, right?
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow. That’s certainly an unexpected twist. Press conference should be interesting.
re: #195 nowherenorth2
I wrote something. Let’s just say there are alot of triggered people on Facebook saying I don’t know history, politics, or the bill of rights.
I’m a history teacher by trade.
I definitely blame poor civics and history teaching for why Trump was viable in the first place.
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
The article at Channel 4 in Denver.
denver.cbslocal.com
She was found at a campground in Arapaho National Forest, seen by a hiker naked and carrying a gun. The police brought a SWAT team to the forest. As of yet they have not said how she died.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now if they could arrest the Sackler family, we’d be making progress.
re: #186 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
He was the first major party candidate to address the NCAA convention (though only after the election).
Was it about their football schedules? /s
I presume you meant NAACP.
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow. Any word yet on how she died?
re: #199 Anymouse 🌹
The article at Channel 4 in Denver.
denver.cbslocal.comShe was found at a campground in Arapaho National Forest, seen by a hiker naked and carrying a gun. The police brought a SWAT team to the forest. As of yet they have not said how she died.
WTF?
re: #57 teleskiguy
Oh, Elizabeth Warren used *no* teleprompters. Spoke for 90 minutes.
In 2016, the GOP had an overabundance of “qualified” (defining qualified in GOP terms, of course) candidates with substantial experience, in-depth knowledge, and eloquence (even though many lacked decency, compassion, or ethics). Yet each fell before a carnival barker, whose only gift was inciting hatred and promoting violence, while pretending to care about the economically disadvantaged who were white. If there were fewer GOP candidates, Trump would not have had a chance.
When I heard a Warren interview months ago, she was very impressive. The Democrats are blessed with a diverse set of supremely qualified candidates. Unfortunately, I fear the Republican model will prevail — but this time it will be a con artist of the left (*cough Bernie *cough) , who will win the nomination but fall to the dictator wannabe now in charge and bring down the rest of the Democratic party with him.
ouldre: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow, she sure sounds like a totally not crazy and responsible gun owner. Good thing she was able to hop right off a plane and buy one.
Updating on the situation in Peru where authorities were arresting the former President of Peru on corruption charges. He shot himself in the head, and has died at the hospital.
Breaking News: Peru’s former leader shot himself in the head and died as the police tried to arrest him. President Alan García had been accused of corruption. https://t.co/VuCmcheTHw
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 17, 2019
Betsy DeVos is being all educational experty in Kentucky today:
Oh. 👀 https://t.co/EcHww913KY
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 17, 2019
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
Betsy DeVos is being all educational experty in Kentucky today:
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Asshole.
The Alabama bill would ban virtually all abortions, with no exception for rape or incest. It does not contain provisions for medical care, child care, education or other post-birth care. https://t.co/j1Ex1oiaYJ
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 17, 2019
No exception for rape or incest.
No provisions for medical care.
re: #211 jaunte
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No exception for rape or incest.
No provisions for medical care.
Typical.
re: #206 jimmyvluv4u
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Wow, she sure sounds like a totally not crazy and responsible gun owner. Good thing she was able to hop right off a plane and buy one.
I am confused — did she actually pass a background check? Or is it once that you have a card certifying your eligibility to purchase weapons, you never have to satisfy a check again? Or is it only that if you’ve never committed a crime, you automatically pass the check and can purchase as many weapons as you want?
re: #172 HappyWarrior
An interesting hypothetical is what if Ike replaced Nixon in ‘56 or ‘52 if the Checkers speech hadn’t resonated. Nixon more than Eisenhower is the keystone that started the GOP’s direction we know now.
Black voters were generally pro-Ike (even before he sent the troops to Little Rock; black veterans remembered him as being more supportive of Tuskegee Airmen and all the other black units in WWII and during the occupation than other generals would have been). Also, Ike appointed Earl Warren, black people loved him for that. And both parties were split geographically on Civil Rights in the 50’s; it wasn’t an R/D split like today.
But in 1960, Martin Luther King Jr was in jail in Atlanta looking at 4 months on a chain gang. MLK Sr begged both candidates for help getting him out on bond during his appeal (didn’t think he’d live through the imprisonment; there was an assumption that guards would take it upon themselves to treat him far more harshly than the other prisoners just to make a point).
Nixon thought it would look bad for a sitting VP should intervene in the case; Kennedy made a few phone calls and got him released. MLK Sr publicly thanked him; this swayed maybe just enough black voters that the very very close election went JFK’s way. Nixon may have been resentful.
Or it may have as much or more to do with the fact that Republicans have become the party of “opposing everything scientists say, just because scientists say it.”
(Republicans Push Against Vaccines In Middle Of Epidemic, Because F*ck Science And F*ck YOU!, Wonkette)
Conservatives are trying to kill us.
re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter
I am confused — did she actually pass a background check? Or is it once that you have a card certifying your eligibility to purchase weapons, you never have to satisfy a check again? Or is it only that if you’ve never committed a crime, you automatically pass the check and can purchase as many weapons as you want?
It’s my understanding that she passed a background check. You only have to be 18 to purchase a shot gun in Colorado.
re: #215 sagehen
Black voters were generally pro-Ike (even before he sent the troops to Little Rock; black veterans remembered him as being more supportive of Tuskegee Airmen and all the other black units in WWII and during the occupation than other generals would have been). Also, Ike appointed Earl Warren, black people loved him for that. And both parties were split geographically on Civil Rights in the 50’s; it wasn’t an R/D split like today.
But in 1960, Martin Luther King Jr was in jail in Atlanta looking at 4 months on a chain gang. MLK Sr begged both candidates for help getting him out on bond during his appeal (didn’t think he’d live through the imprisonment; there was an assumption that guards would take it upon themselves to treat him far more harshly than the other prisoners just to make a point).
Nixon thought it would look bad for a sitting VP should intervene in the case; Kennedy made a few phone calls and got him released. MLK Sr publicly thanked him; this swayed maybe just enough black voters that the very very close election went JFK’s way. Nixon may have been resentful.
Yep Ike was good on Civil Rights.
re: #217 Mike Lamb
It’s my understanding that she passed a background check. You only have to be 18 to purchase a shot gun in Colorado.
Yeah but how thorough was that background check?
re: #213 jaunte
Because once again, the anti-abortion crowd isn’t about being pro-life, just controlling women and removing their agency over their bodies. pic.twitter.com/K5ytsTIK2j
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 17, 2019
re: #193 HappyWarrior
Definitely. I believe Phyllis Schalfly was also part of that movement.
Quite true. Schlafly was very much a protege of the Hunts, starting as early as 1956. The Hunts, incidentally, were all notorious womanizers while Schlafly was something of a looker (a model in fact) when she was young. Hmmm….
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Quite true. Schlafly was very much a protege of the Hunts, starting as early as 1956. The Hunts, incidentally, were all notorious womanizers while Schlafly was something of a looker (a model in fact) when she was young. Hmmm….
I didn’t know that about her.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Part of Kentucky was a hotbed for disability fraud as well. Got some interesting doctors there.
re: #227 Old Liberal
Part of Kentucky was a hotbed for disability fraud as well. Got some interesting doctors there.
I’ve known younger folks here whose goals are getting a doctor to approve them for disability believing that will put them on Easy Street for life.
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