Thursday, November 29, 2018
Manafort clearly expects a pardon
Hence his lies to Mueller and his legal team functioning as Bozo's mole.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
A songstress of the South
She capitalizes pronouns referring to Jesus.
No grammar will tell you to do that in connection with any other human.
Karin Slaughter, Blindsighted.
Update.
Garbled syntax, poor editing.
Not an artist, though a compelling writer.
She had never seen her father cry before, but he was then, small, pathetic sobs escaping his lips.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Fake news at CNN
CNN calls this an opinion piece, and says the opinions it expresses are those of the Republican US senator who wrote it.
This is not an opinion piece.
It is a pack of lies from GOP doctor and senator Bill Cassidy.
Republicans want to protect the provisions of the ACA protecting people with pre-existing conditions like they want to protect the federal minimum wage.
Senator: It's time to get real about pre-existing conditions
Remember when Democrats promised that if you liked your plan or your doctor you could keep them?
Now they're pushing another bogus claim, accusing Republicans of wanting to take away health insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Here's the truth: everyone — Republicans and Democrats — support protecting people with pre-existing conditions.
This is not an opinion piece.
It is a pack of lies from GOP doctor and senator Bill Cassidy.
Republicans want to protect the provisions of the ACA protecting people with pre-existing conditions like they want to protect the federal minimum wage.
Senator: It's time to get real about pre-existing conditions
Remember when Democrats promised that if you liked your plan or your doctor you could keep them?
Now they're pushing another bogus claim, accusing Republicans of wanting to take away health insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Here's the truth: everyone — Republicans and Democrats — support protecting people with pre-existing conditions.
She's not the only neo-Confederate racist liar in Mississippi
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to 'defend his homeland'
As a state senator in 2007, Hyde-Smith cosponsored a resolution that honored then-92-year-old Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr, calling her "the last known living 'Real Daughter' of the Confederacy living in Mississippi."
Pharr's father had been a Confederate soldier in Robert E. Lee's army in the Civil War.
The resolution refers to the Civil War as "The War Between the States."
It says her father "fought to defend his homeland and contributed to the rebuilding of the country."
It says that with "great pride," Mississippi lawmakers "join the Sons of Confederate Veterans" to honor Pharr.
. . . .
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, according to the group's website, is a "historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved."
The group says on its website that "The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South's decision to fight the Second American Revolution."
The concurrent resolution was approved by Mississippi's House and Senate. Hyde-Smith served as a state senator from 2000 to 2012.
Update. She won a seat in the US senate. By a considerable margin.
As a state senator in 2007, Hyde-Smith cosponsored a resolution that honored then-92-year-old Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr, calling her "the last known living 'Real Daughter' of the Confederacy living in Mississippi."
Pharr's father had been a Confederate soldier in Robert E. Lee's army in the Civil War.
The resolution refers to the Civil War as "The War Between the States."
It says her father "fought to defend his homeland and contributed to the rebuilding of the country."
It says that with "great pride," Mississippi lawmakers "join the Sons of Confederate Veterans" to honor Pharr.
. . . .
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, according to the group's website, is a "historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved."
The group says on its website that "The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South's decision to fight the Second American Revolution."
The concurrent resolution was approved by Mississippi's House and Senate. Hyde-Smith served as a state senator from 2000 to 2012.
Update. She won a seat in the US senate. By a considerable margin.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
It isn't just the ultra-left and the kids who want to seize power from their elders
New Democrats from red districts ran as centrists and running against Pelosi was part of their effort to get votes from Republicans and GOP sympathizers unhappy with Trump.
And in some cases she did her best to support them in their campaigns.
Freshmen Democrats feel the squeeze as Pelosi fight intensifies
As Gil Cisneros completed a Democratic sweep of Orange County, the incoming House freshman fielded a phone call from a person heavily invested in his victory.
It was Nancy Pelosi.
The House Democratic leader congratulated her fellow California Democrat in a warm phone call for a hard-fought victory in what used to be reliably Republican terrain.
"I told her, 'Thank you very much for calling' and that was pretty much it," Cisneros told CNN.
"And we'll probably talk later."
Indeed, they probably will.
Cisneros is one of 12 incoming freshmen Democrats who vowed on the campaign trail to back new leadership in the new Congress, distancing themselves from Pelosi whom the GOP vilified in nearly $100 million worth of ads throughout the country.
Now, in their first vote, freshmen like Cisneros will be forced to choose whether to back Pelosi for speaker to be their caucus' nominee -- or stand by what they said on the campaign trail.
Pelosi is virtually assured to win that vote, which will be conducted next week by secret ballot, because she only has to win the support from more than half of her caucus.
O has publicly come out supporting Ms. Pelosi.
And in some cases she did her best to support them in their campaigns.
Freshmen Democrats feel the squeeze as Pelosi fight intensifies
As Gil Cisneros completed a Democratic sweep of Orange County, the incoming House freshman fielded a phone call from a person heavily invested in his victory.
It was Nancy Pelosi.
The House Democratic leader congratulated her fellow California Democrat in a warm phone call for a hard-fought victory in what used to be reliably Republican terrain.
"I told her, 'Thank you very much for calling' and that was pretty much it," Cisneros told CNN.
"And we'll probably talk later."
Indeed, they probably will.
Cisneros is one of 12 incoming freshmen Democrats who vowed on the campaign trail to back new leadership in the new Congress, distancing themselves from Pelosi whom the GOP vilified in nearly $100 million worth of ads throughout the country.
Now, in their first vote, freshmen like Cisneros will be forced to choose whether to back Pelosi for speaker to be their caucus' nominee -- or stand by what they said on the campaign trail.
Pelosi is virtually assured to win that vote, which will be conducted next week by secret ballot, because she only has to win the support from more than half of her caucus.
O has publicly come out supporting Ms. Pelosi.
Trump tries to deflect
Top Republicans slam Trump for statement backing Saudi Arabia
Top Senate Republicans slammed President Donald Trump for his statement backing Saudi Arabia in the wake of the death and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, tweeted Tuesday, "I never thought I'd see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia."
The criticism follows an official statement the White House released Tuesday, under the subject line "Statement from President Donald J. Trump on Standing with Saudi Arabia."
. . . .
Later in the day at a news conference, Trump said he was "not going to destroy the economy of our country" over Khashoggi's death by giving up arms deals to Saudi Arabia.
Of course, nobody has asked him to do that.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham wrote in a series of tweets Tuesday, "One thing I learned during the Obama years is that when you look the other way regarding problems in the Middle East, it seldom works out."
Graham said former President Barack Obama "chose to look the other way as Iran took increasingly provocative actions," and said, "Each time it led to even worse Iranian behavior and created even larger problems for the future."
"Likewise, it is not in our national security interests to look the other way when it comes to the brutal murder of Mr. Jamal #Khashoggi," Graham continued.
That bullshit drive-by shot at the Obama administration is standard Trumpist shit from a guy who has more and more become a mini-me for the asshole in the White House, doubtless aimed at diminishing the anger his criticism will arouse in the Duce.
Of course, the issue is not the arms deals and not the close cooperation of the Saudis and the US in the Middle East, but the prince in particular and his criminal leadership.
The US should freely and fully criticize him and such features of the Saudi regime as the following.
Saudi Arabia tortured activists including women, rights groups claim
Saudi Arabia has tortured, sexually harassed and mistreated several human rights activists detained since May this year, including women, two leading international rights groups have alleged.
Activists were repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly, with marks on their bodies and uncontrolled shaking of the hands, Amnesty International said, citing three separate testimonies.
One of the activists reportedly tried to take her own life repeatedly inside the prison, according to the testimonies, Amnesty said.
"In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks," the rights group said in a statement Tuesday.
Top Senate Republicans slammed President Donald Trump for his statement backing Saudi Arabia in the wake of the death and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, tweeted Tuesday, "I never thought I'd see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia."
The criticism follows an official statement the White House released Tuesday, under the subject line "Statement from President Donald J. Trump on Standing with Saudi Arabia."
. . . .
Later in the day at a news conference, Trump said he was "not going to destroy the economy of our country" over Khashoggi's death by giving up arms deals to Saudi Arabia.
Of course, nobody has asked him to do that.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham wrote in a series of tweets Tuesday, "One thing I learned during the Obama years is that when you look the other way regarding problems in the Middle East, it seldom works out."
Graham said former President Barack Obama "chose to look the other way as Iran took increasingly provocative actions," and said, "Each time it led to even worse Iranian behavior and created even larger problems for the future."
"Likewise, it is not in our national security interests to look the other way when it comes to the brutal murder of Mr. Jamal #Khashoggi," Graham continued.
That bullshit drive-by shot at the Obama administration is standard Trumpist shit from a guy who has more and more become a mini-me for the asshole in the White House, doubtless aimed at diminishing the anger his criticism will arouse in the Duce.
Of course, the issue is not the arms deals and not the close cooperation of the Saudis and the US in the Middle East, but the prince in particular and his criminal leadership.
The US should freely and fully criticize him and such features of the Saudi regime as the following.
Saudi Arabia tortured activists including women, rights groups claim
Saudi Arabia has tortured, sexually harassed and mistreated several human rights activists detained since May this year, including women, two leading international rights groups have alleged.
Activists were repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly, with marks on their bodies and uncontrolled shaking of the hands, Amnesty International said, citing three separate testimonies.
One of the activists reportedly tried to take her own life repeatedly inside the prison, according to the testimonies, Amnesty said.
"In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks," the rights group said in a statement Tuesday.
The mob boss in the White House
This is a stress test of the US government
If you weren't taking President Donald Trump literally, you were wrong.
"Lock her up!" and "America First!" are more than just slogans.
He's stress-testing the government for ways to punish his rival Hillary Clinton and absolving Saudi Arabia for the way its titular leader dispatched with one of his critics in exchange for their participation in the US arms market.
Freedom to dissent and the peaceful transfer of power between opponents are supposed to be what sets the US apart from undemocratic societies.
But when Trump shot back at Clinton during a 2016 presidential debate that if he were President she'd be in jail, it was a prelude to him actually targeting his former rival and pressuring the Department of Justice to actually "lock her up."
Trump raised prosecuting Clinton with top White House, Justice officials
President Donald Trump on multiple occasions raised with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Matt Whitaker, who was then-chief of staff to Jeff Sessions, whether the Justice Department was progressing in investigating Hillary Clinton, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The President also wanted his previous White House counsel, Don McGahn, to ask the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton on numerous occasions, but McGahn rebuffed doing that, the source said.
Anticipating the question about Clinton would be raised, Whitaker came prepared to answer with what Justice was doing on Clinton-related matters, including the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One investigations, the source said.
The source added that Whitaker was trying to appease the President, but did not seem to cross any line.
The New York Times first reported on Trump's requests to McGahn to prosecute Clinton, as well as former FBI Director James Comey.
. . . .
Trump said during his campaign that he would seek to use the presidency to direct an investigation against Clinton, and since taking office he has repeatedly railed against the Justice Department for the special counsel investigation's focus on his associates rather than investigations into his political opponents.
Trump engaged in a war of words with Sessions several months before the Alabama Republican was fired, and the President said on Twitter that Sessions should investigate Democrats and "Comey lies."
If you weren't taking President Donald Trump literally, you were wrong.
"Lock her up!" and "America First!" are more than just slogans.
He's stress-testing the government for ways to punish his rival Hillary Clinton and absolving Saudi Arabia for the way its titular leader dispatched with one of his critics in exchange for their participation in the US arms market.
Freedom to dissent and the peaceful transfer of power between opponents are supposed to be what sets the US apart from undemocratic societies.
But when Trump shot back at Clinton during a 2016 presidential debate that if he were President she'd be in jail, it was a prelude to him actually targeting his former rival and pressuring the Department of Justice to actually "lock her up."
Trump raised prosecuting Clinton with top White House, Justice officials
President Donald Trump on multiple occasions raised with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Matt Whitaker, who was then-chief of staff to Jeff Sessions, whether the Justice Department was progressing in investigating Hillary Clinton, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The President also wanted his previous White House counsel, Don McGahn, to ask the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton on numerous occasions, but McGahn rebuffed doing that, the source said.
Anticipating the question about Clinton would be raised, Whitaker came prepared to answer with what Justice was doing on Clinton-related matters, including the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One investigations, the source said.
The source added that Whitaker was trying to appease the President, but did not seem to cross any line.
The New York Times first reported on Trump's requests to McGahn to prosecute Clinton, as well as former FBI Director James Comey.
. . . .
Trump said during his campaign that he would seek to use the presidency to direct an investigation against Clinton, and since taking office he has repeatedly railed against the Justice Department for the special counsel investigation's focus on his associates rather than investigations into his political opponents.
Trump engaged in a war of words with Sessions several months before the Alabama Republican was fired, and the President said on Twitter that Sessions should investigate Democrats and "Comey lies."
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Lock her up?
Team Ivanka's email explanation is beyond ridiculous
Faced with a Washington Post report that Ivanka Trump had regularly used a private email account to conduct government business in 2017, the explanation from her side went like this: She didn't know that was wrong!
I'm not kidding.
Here's the key snippet from the Post story (bolding mine):
"Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump's personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction."
Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Ivanka Trump lawyer Abbe Lowell, said something similar in a statement following the Post story. (Again, bolding is mine.)
"While transitioning into government, until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family," Mirijanian said.
Did any of the emails deal with classified materials?
Hillary's did, big time.
Faced with a Washington Post report that Ivanka Trump had regularly used a private email account to conduct government business in 2017, the explanation from her side went like this: She didn't know that was wrong!
I'm not kidding.
Here's the key snippet from the Post story (bolding mine):
"Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump's personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction."
Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Ivanka Trump lawyer Abbe Lowell, said something similar in a statement following the Post story. (Again, bolding is mine.)
"While transitioning into government, until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family," Mirijanian said.
Did any of the emails deal with classified materials?
Hillary's did, big time.
Is this claim premature?
Trump team reportedly helped Saudi Arabia cover up murder of US journalist
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hand-delivered a plan to the Saudi royal family to help the crown prince get away with ordering the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a bombshell new report.
Citing a senior Saudi source, Middle East Eye reported Monday evening that Pompeo devised a plot to help shield Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (“MBS”) from the fallout following the highly publicized murder of Khashoggi, who was brutally killed in the Saudi consulate in Turkey on October 2.
Pompeo reportedly discussed the plan with Saudi Arabia’s king during a visit to the country’s capital city, Riyadh, two weeks after Khashoggi’s murder.
Friday, November 16, 2018
What? The Duce didn't just shrug off the CIA's opinion and denounce the deep state, WAPO, and CNN for spreading fake news?
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi's death, official says
The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite the Saudi government's denials that the de facto ruler was involved, according to a senior US official.
The senior US official told CNN on Friday the conclusion is based on a recording provided by the Turkish government and other evidence, including American intelligence.
Investigators also believe an operation such as the one that ended in Khashoggi's death would not have happened without bin Salman's knowledge given his control of the government, the senior US official said.
. . . .
The Washington Post was first to report on the CIA's assessment.
According to the Post, US officials have high confidence in the CIA's assessment.
. . . .
The CIA also examined an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate provided by Turkey and a phone call placed from inside the consulate after Khashoggi was killed, according to the Post.
Maher Mutreb, an alleged member of the Saudi hit team and a security official for the crown prince, placed the phone call to a top aide for bin Salman informing the aide that the job had been done, people familiar with the call told the newspaper.
The CIA does not know the location of Khashoggi's remains, according to the Post.
. . . .
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed penalties on 17 individuals over their alleged roles in the killing of Khashoggi.
Khashoggi's assassination has created a crisis for the Trump administration and drawn attention to President Donald Trump's business ties to Saudi Arabia and the relationship between bin Salman and Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite the Saudi government's denials that the de facto ruler was involved, according to a senior US official.
The senior US official told CNN on Friday the conclusion is based on a recording provided by the Turkish government and other evidence, including American intelligence.
Investigators also believe an operation such as the one that ended in Khashoggi's death would not have happened without bin Salman's knowledge given his control of the government, the senior US official said.
. . . .
The Washington Post was first to report on the CIA's assessment.
According to the Post, US officials have high confidence in the CIA's assessment.
. . . .
The CIA also examined an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate provided by Turkey and a phone call placed from inside the consulate after Khashoggi was killed, according to the Post.
Maher Mutreb, an alleged member of the Saudi hit team and a security official for the crown prince, placed the phone call to a top aide for bin Salman informing the aide that the job had been done, people familiar with the call told the newspaper.
The CIA does not know the location of Khashoggi's remains, according to the Post.
. . . .
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed penalties on 17 individuals over their alleged roles in the killing of Khashoggi.
Khashoggi's assassination has created a crisis for the Trump administration and drawn attention to President Donald Trump's business ties to Saudi Arabia and the relationship between bin Salman and Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
Who doubts Democrats wrote those guidelines?
Republicans share no such urge to leniency toward criminals.
Washington man who raped overdosing woman and mocked her death gets 34 months in prison
Brian Varela, 20, has admitted he gave drugs to 18-year-old Alyssa Noceda last February. He raped her after she passed out from the overdosed in his bedroom.
Rather than help her, he sent photos of unclothed body to his buddies with mocking comments.
After Noceda died, Varela dumped her body in a crate in his house to try to hide it.
Washington state’s sentencing guidelines meant Noceda could not be sent to prison for more than 34 months for the rape and death, because he had no prior record.
“I’m sorry for my foolish actions. Whatever I get is what I deserve,” he said during his sentencing.
With time served, Noceda will be back on the streets in about two years.
Washington man who raped overdosing woman and mocked her death gets 34 months in prison
Brian Varela, 20, has admitted he gave drugs to 18-year-old Alyssa Noceda last February. He raped her after she passed out from the overdosed in his bedroom.
Rather than help her, he sent photos of unclothed body to his buddies with mocking comments.
After Noceda died, Varela dumped her body in a crate in his house to try to hide it.
Washington state’s sentencing guidelines meant Noceda could not be sent to prison for more than 34 months for the rape and death, because he had no prior record.
“I’m sorry for my foolish actions. Whatever I get is what I deserve,” he said during his sentencing.
With time served, Noceda will be back on the streets in about two years.
Karin Slaughter, neo-Confederate
The first paragraph of Chapter 2 of her debut novel, Blindsighted, settles it.
At that moment she presented herself as unmistakably a neo.
Immiseration
Marx taught that private property in the means of production and the free market system led, by inexorable laws and independent of human will, to the immiseration of the proletariat.
He was wrong.
The immiseration of the proletariat, when prevented by state intervention, is a political goal consciously sought by most of the capitalist class.
As is the exclusion of the proletariat from political power or influence, reminding us of J S Mill's view that the point of giving the vote to the proles was to enable them to defend their class interests.
Even if everyone thinks it best to pretend it's all about race, and no one even whispers the word "class".
Friday, November 9, 2018
But if she does it how can it be wrong?
She writes "If he would have" instead of "if he had".
She shakes me; oh, she does.
She is that fine a writer.
George Eliot, Middlemarch.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Didn't see that coming
Le mariage à trois officiellement reconnu
Un an après la légalisation du mariage entre personnes du même sexe, la Colombie a reconnu pour la première fois une union légale entre trois hommes.
Le journaliste Manuel Bermúdez, l’acteur VÃctor Prada et l’éducateur sportif Alejandro RodrÃguez ont formalisé, le 3 juin à MedellÃn, leur relation en signant un accord qui en fait “un régime patrimonial spécial sous forme de ‘trieja’” – ou “trouple” en français –, un néologisme créé pour l’occasion à partir du mot espagnol pareja, qui signifie “couple”.
Le document protège leurs droits patrimoniaux et les reconnaît officiellement comme une famille, explique le journal colombien El Tiempo.
Un an après la légalisation du mariage entre personnes du même sexe, la Colombie a reconnu pour la première fois une union légale entre trois hommes.
Le journaliste Manuel Bermúdez, l’acteur VÃctor Prada et l’éducateur sportif Alejandro RodrÃguez ont formalisé, le 3 juin à MedellÃn, leur relation en signant un accord qui en fait “un régime patrimonial spécial sous forme de ‘trieja’” – ou “trouple” en français –, un néologisme créé pour l’occasion à partir du mot espagnol pareja, qui signifie “couple”.
Le document protège leurs droits patrimoniaux et les reconnaît officiellement comme une famille, explique le journal colombien El Tiempo.
Monday, November 5, 2018
Meaning is bullshit
Not a word about the meaning of life before the 19th Century.
The whole idea is vacuous bullshit.
The question whether life has meaning, or what it might be, is meaningless.
Man's Search for Meaning?
Poppycock.
And, yes, that makes absurdism rather absurd.
Up to a point.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Friday, November 2, 2018
Coverage of pre-existing conditions soon to be scuttled?
Trump’s legal assault on pre-existing conditions should be the biggest story in America
“The Texas judge who’s primed to eliminate the ACA’s protections for preexisting conditions has been sitting on his opinion for six weeks now,” Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley tweeted last month.
“My money? The judge is waiting until after the midterms because he knows that bad ACA headlines would hurt Republicans at the polls.”
Meanwhile, they just lie to everybody they are the defenders of the very thing they are trying to kill.
Millions will believe them.
Trump — like many other Republicans — won’t stop lying about protections for pre-exisiting conditions for two simple reasons.
People want the protections the ACA gave them and Republicans want to take them away.
Trump — like many other Republicans — won’t stop lying about protections for pre-exisiting conditions for two simple reasons.
People want the protections the ACA gave them and Republicans want to take them away.
Well, yes
“It appears the Trump administration is trying to eliminate the entire concept of gender as a thing separate from sex, in the sense that they believe that they can stop allowing transgender people to self-identify as transgender by requiring everybody to be defined as a binary sex from birth,” said Rachael French, a biology professor at San Jose State University.
Scientists Blast Trump’s ‘Absurd’ Anti-Trans Memo
She is shocked, shocked that an administration and a president reliant on the love of Evangelicals could harbor the notion that gender detached from actual sex is not really a thing.
Here is a look at the idea that it really is.
Scientists Blast Trump’s ‘Absurd’ Anti-Trans Memo
She is shocked, shocked that an administration and a president reliant on the love of Evangelicals could harbor the notion that gender detached from actual sex is not really a thing.
Here is a look at the idea that it really is.
Standing?
They are not in the US and they are not citizens of the US.
Nothing has actually happened to them at the hands of US officials.
So?
Migrants traveling toward US sue Trump
So many Republicans want to deny due process to classes of people whom they hate, in complete disregard for the constitution they lie they revere and for the laws they lie they are committed to defending above all things.
Remember Gitmo, torture, black holes, and Republican outrage that under Obama terrorists arrested in the US got Miranda warnings, lawyers, and trials.
Muslim terrorists, that is.
As for white right wing terrorists and racist or anti-Semitic murderers, well, that's a whole nother thing, ain't it?
Nothing has actually happened to them at the hands of US officials.
So?
Migrants traveling toward US sue Trump
So many Republicans want to deny due process to classes of people whom they hate, in complete disregard for the constitution they lie they revere and for the laws they lie they are committed to defending above all things.
Remember Gitmo, torture, black holes, and Republican outrage that under Obama terrorists arrested in the US got Miranda warnings, lawyers, and trials.
Muslim terrorists, that is.
As for white right wing terrorists and racist or anti-Semitic murderers, well, that's a whole nother thing, ain't it?
Well, he did run on cruelty and racism
The return of "zero tolerance"?
Trump says he will hold asylum seekers from Central America in massive tent cities
If he did this it would result in thousands more family separations and kids lost to their parents forever.
Elsewhere it is reported he said that he planned tent cities to hold as many as twenty million people.
Does he hope to use them to hold all of the ten or eleven million illegals thought to be living in the US for some sort of deportation processing?
Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist who worked on Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, said people accussing [sic] Trump of making the proclamation purely for political gain are overplaying its political significance.
. . . .
“He believes he’s responding to the people who elected him,” Jennings said.
Just so.
Trump says he will hold asylum seekers from Central America in massive tent cities
If he did this it would result in thousands more family separations and kids lost to their parents forever.
Elsewhere it is reported he said that he planned tent cities to hold as many as twenty million people.
Does he hope to use them to hold all of the ten or eleven million illegals thought to be living in the US for some sort of deportation processing?
Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist who worked on Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, said people accussing [sic] Trump of making the proclamation purely for political gain are overplaying its political significance.
. . . .
“He believes he’s responding to the people who elected him,” Jennings said.
Just so.
As stupid as his voters
He sees some TV airhead whose belched right wing stupidities ring his bells and thinks, "That woman ought to be in charge. Drain the swamp. Build a wall. Down with fake news and globalism."
And that's how so many fuckwits decided to put him in the White House, mate.
(Yes, I've been watching the Australian series Rake on Netflix.)
A Fox & Friends Host for UN Ambassador
Nothing in this world can make stupid white trailer trash - and they don't all actually live in trailers - understand that the GOP is the party of their class enemies, and all the standard conservative bullshit as well as all the Trumpist, Buchannist, authoritarian, white Nativist, white nationalist bullshit are sucker bait aimed exactly at them.
As Asimov once wrote (and I think he was quoting someone), "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
POPULISM! Trump Economic Advisor Says Federal Minimum Wage Is 'Terrible Idea'
And that's how so many fuckwits decided to put him in the White House, mate.
(Yes, I've been watching the Australian series Rake on Netflix.)
A Fox & Friends Host for UN Ambassador
Nothing in this world can make stupid white trailer trash - and they don't all actually live in trailers - understand that the GOP is the party of their class enemies, and all the standard conservative bullshit as well as all the Trumpist, Buchannist, authoritarian, white Nativist, white nationalist bullshit are sucker bait aimed exactly at them.
As Asimov once wrote (and I think he was quoting someone), "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
POPULISM! Trump Economic Advisor Says Federal Minimum Wage Is 'Terrible Idea'
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Birthright
Trump reignites debate in Congress over ending birthright citizenship
Ryan has said flat out it would require a constitutional amendment.
But a number of congressional followers of the Duce have urged that the congress can command courts to interpret the 14th in such a way as to deny birthright citizenship to children of illegals.
That, too, is bullshit, but it's a kind of bullshit very popular among the "low information voters" who comprise the bulk of the non-rich Republicans.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a critic-turned-ally of the President, said on Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation in line with Trump's vow of executive action, while Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, an immigration hardliner who has been rebuked by members of his own party for incendiary comments on immigration and diversity, seized on the President's remarks to promote legislation he has previously introduced to end birthright citizenship as it currently exists.
It's not likely that any legislation challenging birthright citizenship would pass out of Congress, in part because there's no broad base of support on Capitol Hill in favor of doing so and any effort to challenge the policy would be highly divisive.
"At this point, it's really a minority within the Republican Party that's advocating for the end of birthright citizenship," said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
"There have been bills that have been introduced since the early 1990s that would limit or end birthright citizenship, but they have never had enough support to pass even out of committee, much less out of Congress."
. . . .
Legislation like what King has introduced does not attempt to alter the text of the Constitution as it is written, but rather seeks to reinterpret the way a key passage of the 14th Amendment is commonly understood.
The bill would restrict birthright citizenship so that children born in the United States to unauthorized immigrants would not automatically be granted citizenship.
It currently has 48 cosponsors, all of whom are House Republicans.
Many legal experts believe, however, that efforts to reinterpret the 14th Amendment would not pass constitutional muster.
Ryan has said flat out it would require a constitutional amendment.
But a number of congressional followers of the Duce have urged that the congress can command courts to interpret the 14th in such a way as to deny birthright citizenship to children of illegals.
That, too, is bullshit, but it's a kind of bullshit very popular among the "low information voters" who comprise the bulk of the non-rich Republicans.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a critic-turned-ally of the President, said on Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation in line with Trump's vow of executive action, while Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, an immigration hardliner who has been rebuked by members of his own party for incendiary comments on immigration and diversity, seized on the President's remarks to promote legislation he has previously introduced to end birthright citizenship as it currently exists.
It's not likely that any legislation challenging birthright citizenship would pass out of Congress, in part because there's no broad base of support on Capitol Hill in favor of doing so and any effort to challenge the policy would be highly divisive.
"At this point, it's really a minority within the Republican Party that's advocating for the end of birthright citizenship," said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
"There have been bills that have been introduced since the early 1990s that would limit or end birthright citizenship, but they have never had enough support to pass even out of committee, much less out of Congress."
. . . .
Legislation like what King has introduced does not attempt to alter the text of the Constitution as it is written, but rather seeks to reinterpret the way a key passage of the 14th Amendment is commonly understood.
The bill would restrict birthright citizenship so that children born in the United States to unauthorized immigrants would not automatically be granted citizenship.
It currently has 48 cosponsors, all of whom are House Republicans.
Many legal experts believe, however, that efforts to reinterpret the 14th Amendment would not pass constitutional muster.
Reality Slips Further Away from the GOP
Not that either is all that "reality based", but the Dems are closer.
Reality Slips Further Away from the GOP
The GOP absurdly overestimates public support, even in their own districts, for repeal of Obamacare.
Congressional staff for members of both parties underestimate support for various Democrat sponsored ideas, but the Dems less so.
Running mouths of both parties seems to have embraced the idea that the candidates of their own party can win elections with only votes from their reputed client identity groups.
Because we are still by far a majority white country, and because the president is not elected by the people, it has long been true GOP candidates can win in most districts, most states, and nationally with just white votes.
The surprise is that some Dems now urge openly that in some districts and possibly some states they can campaign for, and win with, only nonwhite votes - if they get enough white women.
But then again a whole lot of Democrats wanted Jesse Jackson to be nominated.
They were sure he could be elected.
And a whole lot of Democrats think the same of Elizabeth Warren.
How's that for "reality based"?
Reality Slips Further Away from the GOP
The GOP absurdly overestimates public support, even in their own districts, for repeal of Obamacare.
Congressional staff for members of both parties underestimate support for various Democrat sponsored ideas, but the Dems less so.
Running mouths of both parties seems to have embraced the idea that the candidates of their own party can win elections with only votes from their reputed client identity groups.
Because we are still by far a majority white country, and because the president is not elected by the people, it has long been true GOP candidates can win in most districts, most states, and nationally with just white votes.
The surprise is that some Dems now urge openly that in some districts and possibly some states they can campaign for, and win with, only nonwhite votes - if they get enough white women.
But then again a whole lot of Democrats wanted Jesse Jackson to be nominated.
They were sure he could be elected.
And a whole lot of Democrats think the same of Elizabeth Warren.
How's that for "reality based"?
It depends on which cherries you want to pick
The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected
Juan Cole picks cherries tasty to children and liberals in mixed company.
Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others have picked other cherries tasty to those interested in understanding the connection between texts in the Koran and the politics - and political violence - of various Muslim fundamentalists and their organizations.
And it remains undeniable that Muslims interested in finding textual support for horrific politics and political violence have a far easier time rooting in the Koran than Christians rooting in the New Testament for like support for like politics and violence.
Historically, Christian churchment trying to show textual support for their violence against their enemies have commonly resorted to tortured and blatantly arbitrary readings.
Not so, the Muslims.
But that does not mean there is not abundant textual support in the NT as well as the OT for the most egregious misogyny and the claim by some Christian ministers that "God hates fags".
And slim to none to the contrary.
Juan Cole picks cherries tasty to children and liberals in mixed company.
Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others have picked other cherries tasty to those interested in understanding the connection between texts in the Koran and the politics - and political violence - of various Muslim fundamentalists and their organizations.
And it remains undeniable that Muslims interested in finding textual support for horrific politics and political violence have a far easier time rooting in the Koran than Christians rooting in the New Testament for like support for like politics and violence.
Historically, Christian churchment trying to show textual support for their violence against their enemies have commonly resorted to tortured and blatantly arbitrary readings.
Not so, the Muslims.
But that does not mean there is not abundant textual support in the NT as well as the OT for the most egregious misogyny and the claim by some Christian ministers that "God hates fags".
And slim to none to the contrary.
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