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    Pentagon Considers Plan To Send Up To 10,000 Troops to Middle East

    The Pentagon will propose to the White House to send thousands of American soldiers overseas to defend against potential Iranian threats, officials said. And, more importantly, to distract the American public from news about Trump having lost his bid to block Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp from providing his financial records to Congress.

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    Nancy Pelosi: Trump ‘Had A Temper Tantrum For Us All To See’ In The Rose Garden

    The House speaker sent a letter to her congressional colleagues Wednesday night to comment on the president’s Rose Garden meltdown. Yep, the Toddler-in-Chief certainly showed his stripes yesterday. All that was missing was a blanket and a binky. Meanwhile....

    Nicolle Wallace Reveals Trump’s ‘Lie To End All Lies’ In Rose Garden Meltdown

    “You’ve been indicted, basically, for one,” Wallace replied. “This is the president whose signature is on checks to Michael Cohen who paid hush money to a porn star.”
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    GOP Lawmakers To Trump: We Can Still Work With Democrats

    Sen. Lindsey Graham urged the president to “rise above” Democratic calls for impeachment and work to find common ground. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Good luck with that pipe dream, Linds.

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    Abortion Providers Fear For Their Safety As Rhetoric Ratchets Up

    Abortion clinics and their staff are on high alert as the anti-choice movement steps into high gear. Definitely a sad and sorry state of affairs. At this point, I fear it's no longer a question of IF a clinic and/or abortion providers are attacked, but WHEN.

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    Steve Mnuchin Says Treasury Will Miss Deadline To Put Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

    Mnuchin said he’s too focused on counterfeiting to celebrate an African American woman’s contributions to the country. That argument doesn’t make sense. Of course it's bullshit. This is all about the racist attitude of this president whom everyone knows would NEVER sign off on putting a black face on the nation's currency.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    At this point we don't know which deaths were the result of the mistakes of the federal government, or what the best alternative would be.

    The following is from a Vox article...
    Imagine what would happen if someone went to court and argued: "Yes, they might have run over a kid while driving drunk, and maybe they could have done more to prevent that, but it's really the kid's fault for trying to cross the street while they were driving. There are just too many kids crossing streets these days to miss them all."

    I just don't buy it. Any system that involves using deliberate mistreatment as a deterrent is going to to have deaths at some point. The deaths aren't anomalous , they are the point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    Imagine what would happen if someone went to court and argued: "Yes, they might have run over a kid while driving drunk, and maybe they could have done more to prevent that, but it's really the kid's fault for trying to cross the street while they were driving. There are just too many kids crossing streets these days to miss them all."

    I just don't buy it. Any system that involves using deliberate mistreatment as a deterrent is going to to have deaths at some point. The deaths aren't anomalous , they are the point.
    That's kind of the Republican MO these days, their blatantly evil policies and their opponents' inability to do anything to hold them accountable for that is as potent a demonstration of their power as anything else.

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    Ha ha, it's funny because while everyone was laughing at Ben Carson not understanding how cookies work he was busy cutting transgender protections at homeless shelters. That lovable scamp. He also lied to Congress about it, but that's apparently not even a crime anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    Imagine what would happen if someone went to court and argued: "Yes, they might have run over a kid while driving drunk, and maybe they could have done more to prevent that, but it's really the kid's fault for trying to cross the street while they were driving. There are just too many kids crossing streets these days to miss them all."

    I just don't buy it. Any system that involves using deliberate mistreatment as a deterrent is going to to have deaths at some point. The deaths aren't anomalous , they are the point.
    Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
    That's kind of the Republican MO these days, their blatantly evil policies and their opponents' inability to do anything to hold them accountable for that is as potent a demonstration of their power as anything else.
    Well, since those kids are Latino, and therefore considered less than human in the eyes of Congressional Republicans, so it's no big deal to them. That's their rationale behind all this madness, makes me wonder why they even bother hiding their motives.

    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    Ha ha, it's funny because while everyone was laughing at Ben Carson not understanding how cookies work he was busy cutting transgender protections at homeless shelters. That lovable scamp. He also lied to Congress about it, but that's apparently not even a crime anymore.
    Golly gee whillickers! Why am I not shocked by this revelation? I wonder what those Log Cabin Republicans who supported Caramel Caligula back in 2016 think of him now that his administration has thrown the LGBTQ community under the bus?
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    Multiple tornadoes touched down here in MO last night, including in the capital. There are reports of some injuries and deaths, and massive damage naturally, but nobody seems to have a clear report yet. Just, damn.

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    In 2015, 2016, 2017, and as well as 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Tennessee State Senator Todd Gardenhire, who we noted for his reaching office in 2012 by winning a GOP primary in a conservative-leaning district by a mere 40 votes, and since, his utter dedication to mendacity regarding discussions of healthcare. Gardenhire, after voting to block the Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee, lied and said he wasn't being a hypocrite because he wasn't on government insurance himself (he was). He also lied about the Affordable Care Act, claiming it hadn't also, by extension, allowed him to keep his son covered through his own government medical insurance until he was 27 (it did). When confronted on camera by a constituent who demanded he pull himself from his own insurance plans if he was going to deny coverage to a quarter million Tennesseeans, Todd Gardenhire's reasonable response was, "Why don't you give it up, *******?" But back to the lying... Gardenhire falsely claimed in a hearing on abortion that there were more restrictions on men seeking vasectomies these days than women seeking abortions (WHAT?). Gardenhire also voted for Tennessee's attempts to bring back the electric chair, because they're having a hard time getting phenobarbital to perform lethal injections. He has voted to try and block Tennessee from resettling Syrian refugees. Gardenhire called those who wrote protests on the sidewalk outside his office in chalk “Nazis”, which seems pretty hyperbolic given that we’re pretty sure that actual Nazis used far more heinous tactics. Oh, and in 2017 he became the sponsor of an honest-to-goodness “Blue Lives Matter” bill in the Tennessee state legislature.

    Gardenhire, now 71, is not up for re-election until 2020. Hopefully, he’ll choose to retire rather than try and run for a third term.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post

    Golly gee whillickers! Why am I not shocked by this revelation? I wonder what those Log Cabin Republicans who supported Caramel Caligula back in 2016 think of him now that his administration has thrown the LGBTQ community under the bus?
    They're fine with it since it's 'just' the 'transgenders'. Plenty of gay people out there who reject the T in the LGBTQ, sad to say.

    But, hey. They're Republicans so they're just fine with #$@$ you I got mine' right up until they end run their way to reinstituting discrimination everywhere they can. See legislation to help Chik-Fil-A

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/relig...=.1a5ca1a15cd6


    ter the San Antonio City Council voted to ban the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A from the city’s airport because of its history of anti-LGTBQ statements and actions, many prominent Texas Republicans were in up in arms, saying it violated the First Amendment.
    This week, about three months after that effort, the state’s Republican-controlled House passed a measure to try to prevent further actions. The “Save Chick-fil-A” bill explicitly forbids the government from taking “any adverse action,” against any person, contractor or business for its membership in or affiliation with a religious organization.
    The bill met vociferous opposition from Democrats, including the legislature’s LGBTQ members who made several attempts to block it, according to the Texas Tribune, calling it a bill of hatred that was being disguised by its stated purpose of religious liberty. Some have expressed concerns that it is written so broadly that it could effectively require certain governmental entities to work with virulently anti-gay, but ostensibly religious groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church.

    Meanwhile, Chik-Fil-A continues to funnel millions into anti LGBTQ groups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    Multiple tornadoes touched down here in MO last night, including in the capital. There are reports of some injuries and deaths, and massive damage naturally, but nobody seems to have a clear report yet. Just, damn.
    The remnants of that storm system are headed east for my neck of the woods here in Philly. Forecasts are calling for strong to severe thunderstorms blowing through the region between five and nine p.m. today.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    They're fine with it since it's 'just' the 'transgenders'. Plenty of gay people out there who reject the T in the LGBTQ, sad to say.

    But, hey. They're Republicans so they're just fine with #$@$ you I got mine' right up until they end run their way to reinstituting discrimination everywhere they can. See legislation to help Chik-Fil-A

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/relig...=.1a5ca1a15cd6





    Meanwhile, Chik-Fil-A continues to funnel millions into anti LGBTQ groups.
    I stopped eating there years ago after learning of their virulent anti-LGBTQ stances. Discrimination against gays today could easily morph into discrimination against minorities like me tomorrow.
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    I used to identify as bisexual but then I realized how that wasn't making me feel happy about my worth, until I recognized that asexuality not only is common among autistics, but is healthy and should not be condemned.

    That being said, the idea of a man uninterested in romantic encounters of any kind sets off just as much panic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    I stopped eating there years ago after learning of their virulent anti-LGBTQ stances. Discrimination against gays today could easily morph into discrimination against minorities like me tomorrow.
    I've never been a fan, even before the LGBT issues. Honestly something's happened to crunchy fast food chicken sandwiches in the last year or 2, and the only one that's not half-rubber is the Chicken Schnitzel from Weinershcnitzel.

    Quote Originally Posted by JDogindy View Post
    I used to identify as bisexual but then I realized how that wasn't making me feel happy about my worth, until I recognized that asexuality not only is common among autistics, but is healthy and should not be condemned.

    That being said, the idea of a man uninterested in romantic encounters of any kind sets off just as much panic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalak View Post
    I've never been a fan, even before the LGBT issues. Honestly something's happened to crunchy fast food chicken sandwiches in the last year or 2, and the only one that's not half-rubber is the Chicken Schnitzel from Weinershcnitzel.
    Well, I went there more for the chicken salad sammiches which I enjoyed. No matter, I can live without them.
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    There are a number of companies I avoid. Ones like Chic-Fil-A, others where the owner is a Big Republican/Trump supporter, like Nathan's Hot Dog. You can't boycott everyone, but you can try to make sure your money doesn't support the most egregious ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Well, I went there more for the chicken salad sammiches which I enjoyed. No matter, I can live without them.
    I've seen knock off recipes for their chicken which I suppose one could try if you really liked their chicken. I know the knock-off McRib one I found works well since I can tweak it's spices and mix my own sauce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    Imagine what would happen if someone went to court and argued: "Yes, they might have run over a kid while driving drunk, and maybe they could have done more to prevent that, but it's really the kid's fault for trying to cross the street while they were driving. There are just too many kids crossing streets these days to miss them all."

    I just don't buy it. Any system that involves using deliberate mistreatment as a deterrent is going to to have deaths at some point. The deaths aren't anomalous , they are the point.
    As Ms. Pelosi pointed out, not a single child died in US custody in the decade before Trump. Now it's six.

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