What, again? Did they leave something behind? Probably the excitement of Trump capturing El Chapo.
It’s all true… from a certain point of view…
Ooh, can we run down cops with it? Turn police chases into demolition derby?
Well, we’ll be able to in my version!
Now, where’s that ALEC number?
Resisting arrest now a hate crime in Louisiana.
In similar news, firemen in that city will now take on the additional duty of burning censored books.
Glenn Beck thinks the Women’s March was organized by George Soros and radical Islamic groups.
And tomorrow he’s going to prove it.
Damn. My kids participated and paid for everything themselves. I wonder if Mr. Beck would provide a Soros website my kids could go to in order to be reimbursed for their expenses.
I thought Beck had recaptured his sanity. Reports were premature, it seems.
And over in the federal government, employees of, more specifically, scientists who work at, the EPA and the Department of Agriculture have been told that they are not allowed to talk to the press or the public
I wonder if they’re also not allowed to talk to colleagues?
ETA: The Post has more in-depth information.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX); don’t watch the news, because Donald Trump is the only source you need for absolute truth.
This would be comical if it weren’t so frightening.
Just because he’s right about Trump doesn’t mean he’s right about anything else.
Apparently a very stupid idea; publicity over this has made at least 2 interns angry enough to contact the news media in South Dakota. And this has made one Republican Legislator resign rather than face an investigation.
Probably more to come.
Wow, my state of birth hits an all new low. Defeating a measure prohibiting sexual contact with legislative interns and HIGH SCHOOL PAGES.
Today, Thrump eased the way for the two controversial pipelines. One, the Dakota, would seem to have some economic sense – cheaper and safer than trucking or rail of oil from Dakota to the midwest refineries – even though some cultural problems are caused, and the pipeline still has to be closely monitored for leakage, of course…
But…why should we, desiring energy independence, subsidize the Canadian Shale Oil industry? They are competing with our own companies, helping drive down the price of crude, etc. etc…and besides that, the extraction of oil from Canadian shale is a dirty and polluting business that probably has to be subsidized by the Canadian people to make it viable…
In either event, the amount of jobs associated with building the pipelines is significant, but only for a short time, then the number of people employed in decent jobs to move the oil is far less with a pipeline than with rail or truck movement…
Just sayin’, seems like a political stunt mostly, that rubs both ways. If done right, I could support the Dakota line. But the Canadian one? Nope.
Repeal of the ACA is also just a political stunt that proves nothing, because it is taken on faith, now, that the replacement will contain most of the features of the ACA. It would be so much easier and more acceptable to both sides of the issues to either 1) revise and improve the ACA after debate and public input, or, 2) scrap the whole thing and go to the best option, single payer.
Either way, if Thrump wants to make me a partial believer, he should pressure the congress to give up many of their perks, including the comprehensive free and thorough health care package they enjoy. Whatever they contrive to serve the public should also be applied to their benefit package.
Pruitt as much as admitted in his testimony today that everyone questioning his ethical standards were participants in the same hypocritical methods of obtaining wealth while serving in congress – finding out ahead of time which companies will benefit from measures they enact and buying their stock beforehand, often with the assistance of lobbyists. Time honored hypocritical behavior, and they all should burn in hell.
The only reason I’m against the two pipelines is because of local opposition. I think the tar sands would find their way to market somehow anyway so the CO2 is out of the equation for me. And at the same time the oil isn’t going to the United States but destined for other countries, and the jobs added are slim. So this is one of the times when I defer to the free market. The oil companies can’t buy the rights to the pipeline on the free market so they are trying to force the owners to sell. Aren’t the Republicans against the federal government seizing peoples own land from them?
“Cultural problems”? The whole protest there is at least partly, if not greatly, about water safety and water rights, not just the concept of sacred land. That sounds a bit more serious than “cultural problems.”
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Maybe they were all just tourists. There is a new orchid exhibit in the botanical gardens, maybe 500,000 women decided to choose Saturday to come down town to see it. I hear women like flowers.
Somebody told them there was a new Ladies’ Room there and they all went together.