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E-Verify Threatens Us All
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:27:12 by Deckard
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In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program where businesses check job applicants’ Social Security numbers and other Information — potentially including “biometric” identifiers like fingerprints — against information stored in a federal database to determine if the job applicants are legally in the United States. Imagine how much time would be diverted from serving consumers and growing the economy if every US business had to comply with E-Verify. Also, collecting the ...
MEET OFFICER MADER: FIRED FOR TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:10:12 by Gatlin
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Early in the morning of May 6, 2016, Weirton Police Officer Stephen Mader responded to a domestic dispute call. When he arrived on the scene, he encountered R.J. Williams, a young African American man. When Officer Mader asked Mr. Williams to show his hands, Mr. Williams revealed that he was holding a gun. As Mr. Williams began waiving his gun around, Officer Mader ordered him to drop his weapon. Mr. Williams ignored Officer Mader’s demand and repeatedly responded, “Just shoot me.” Officer Mader did not “just shoot” R.J. Williams. He analyzed the full situation. He did not just view Mr. Williams as an African American man. He didn’t even view him solely as ...
"Dirty Oddie" (Even Dirty Harry would be disgusted.)
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:06:06 by Deckard
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Go ahead – make my day.Back in 1971, Clint Eastwood’s character said it on screen – and people were shocked. But it was just a movie. And besides, Dirty Harry only shot bad guys – murderous psychopaths, as in the original 1971 film.In the sequel film – Magnum Force – Dirty Harry shot murderous, psychopathic cops. Today we have Dirty Oddie – and he’s not a character on the silver screen. He’s an armed government worker – a law enforcement officer – in Tennessee. And he “loves this shit.”Killing people, that is. Those are Dirty Oddie’s own words. “God, I tell you what, I thrive on ...
Can We Talk About Something Besides Trump?
Post Date: 2018-02-13 04:55:10 by Deckard
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At some point, maybe we should just take Trump’s antics as a givenCan we get the 2020 presidential election underway, please? Like, right now? Yes, yes—American presidential elections already are endless affairs, especially compared to the five-second-long events the Brits like to have at random intervals. Launching the next presidential contest more than two years before the vote would just make matters worse. Still. Wouldn't it be lovely to spend a few minutes talking about something other than Donald Trump? Consider the week just past, in which the principal news stories were: The Trump/Russia Intrigue, Chapter 147: Reactions to responses to points raised by release ...
Hard-Right Republicans Say ‘The Swamp Has Won’ as Trump Signs Off on Trillions in Spending
Post Date: 2018-02-13 01:08:38 by Hondo68
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Updated | Hard-right Republicans from the Tea Party–allied House Freedom Caucus condemned a budget deal with Democrats on Sunday that would raise the U.S. deficit. Their exasperation came as President Donald Trump prepared to announce another budget plan that would include trillions more in spending and also grow the deficit.“The swamp won. And the American taxpayer lost,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Representative Mark Meadows told CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday of $300 billion in spending in the budget bill passed last Friday.“The real problem with this particular one is that our leadership caved,” Meadows said, suggesting Republicans had given in to ...
Being a murderer and a pedophile is just like being gay?
Post Date: 2018-02-12 21:27:08 by A K A Stone
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If gay people are born that way. Wouldn't that mean murderers and pedophiles are born that way too?
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan: Paul Ryan has 'got problems' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 21:16:41 by Gatlin
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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan: Paul Ryan has 'got problems' Washington (CNN)One of the leading voices of the House Freedom Caucus warned Sunday that House Speaker Paul Ryan was facing problems from fellow Republicans dissatisfied with his leadership. Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said the recently passed government funding agreement, which raises budget caps by $300 billion over two years, was "not consistent" with the promises Republicans made to cut spending, and that Ryan's support for the deal undermined his leadership. "Do I think the speaker has problems? Yes, I do," Jordan said. He noted that Ryan entered the national stage as one of the ...
Freedom Caucus Sounds Off on Leadership Over Budget Deal
Post Date: 2018-02-12 19:19:41 by Gatlin
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Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., left, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., voted “no” on the two-year spending package signed into law last Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The House Freedom Caucus is not happy with GOP leadership after Democrats and Republicans struck a deal last week to fund the government for two years and avoid another shutdown until at least March 23. The package President Donald Trump signed Friday morning raises the debt limit, provides an additional $300 billion for defense and domestic programs over two years, and allocates relief dollars for natural disaster victims.Most Freedom Caucus members are furious over what they consider wasteful spending and a ...
Did liberals just try to assassinate Donald Trump jr.
Post Date: 2018-02-12 13:29:11 by A K A Stone
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It is being reported that an envelope containing white powder was sent to Donald Trump Junior's apartment and that his wife opened it and that she is in the hospital now.
Being a faggot is a choice [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 11:57:20 by no gnu taxes
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1. Just because an argument is politically strategic, does not make it true: A couple of years ago, the Human Rights Campaign, arguably the country’s most powerful lesbian and gay organization, responded to politician Herman Cain’s assertion that being gay is a choice. They asked their members to “Tell Herman Cain to get with the times! Being gay is not a choice!” They reasoned that Cain’s remarks were “dangerous.” Why? “Because implying that homosexuality is a choice gives unwarranted credence to roundly disproven practices such as ‘conversion’ or ‘reparative’ therapy. The risks associated with attempts to consciously change ...
The hallelujah cure: Trump campaign adviser says pray away the flu
Post Date: 2018-02-12 11:23:00 by Willie Green
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Brethren, our topic for this week’s column is the flu, because I have it. I followed the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and got a vaccination, which may or may not have lessened my symptoms. But then I discovered I had neglected the most important prophylaxis of all: prayer. This advice came from the evangelist Gloria Copeland, who with her husband, Kenneth, runs a religious empire based largely on faith healing. Copeland posted a video last week that argued, passionately if incoherently, either that the flu doesn’t actually exist (“We got a duck season, a deer season, but we don’t have a flu season”) or that faith can protect you from it ...
Teenage Dystopia: The Cycle of Oppression and Resistance
Post Date: 2018-02-12 09:43:01 by Deckard
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Teenagers already live in a dystopia. Their lives are controlled by the government and their parents. If legal adults were treated like American teenagers, that government would be considered one of the most oppressive on Earth. The government requires 6-16-year-olds to attend a government institution that subjects them to unconstitutional searches. Here, in public schools, they must ask permission to use the bathroom, eat when they are told, and not speak unless called upon. If you are under 18 you cannot work without government permission, and cannot even walk on public sidewalks at certain times of day, like during school hours or after a certain time of night. And the age that ...
Why Trust in Government is at All Time Lows, and Why That’s a Good Thing
Post Date: 2018-02-12 09:35:07 by Deckard
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Do you have confidence in the government? Concerned about public confidence in the agency, the FBI didn’t want the FISA memo released. They didn’t want people to know their investigations are politically motivated. Now it’s come out that the Department of Homeland Security pressured CNN into delaying the release of a report until after the Superbowl. DHS was concerned public confidence in Superbowl security would be lost if people found out about an exercise they ran last summer. The DHS program manager of Biowatch left sensitive documents on an airplane. They revealed confusion and vulnerabilities in the exercises meant to test government response to a ...
Bullet Trains Are Transforming the World's Biggest Migration
Post Date: 2018-02-12 09:10:08 by Willie Green
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Millions of Chinese cram onto trains to make the annual pilgrimage home for the Lunar New Year holiday. It’s a crowded and often uncomfortable experience that is rapidly being transformed by the country’s push into the world of high-speed rail. China already has the globe’s longest bullet-train network, but it’s plowing 3.5 trillion yuan ($556 billion) into expanding its railway system by 18% over the next two years, to 150,000 kilometers, or more than 93,000 miles. Much of that will be spent on extending the high-speed network westward, which includes parts of the country that ancient Chinese poet Li Bai once lamented were so mountainous that getting there was as ...
Fox News executive claims Olympic athletes were picked because they were black or gay
Post Date: 2018-02-12 07:09:50 by Deckard
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Piece was written by executive vice president John MoodyFox News has taken down a heavily criticised column, penned by a top executive, that said the US Olympics Committee’s motto should be “Darker, Gayer, Different” and suggested some athletes qualified because they belong to minority groups. In a piece entitled “In Olympics, let's focus on the winner of the race — not the race of the winner”, the conservative news outlet’s executive vice president John Moody criticised what he called the US Olympic Committee’s overbearing focus on the diversity of athletes. He slammed the American athletics organisation for touting an “embarrassing ...
The Tea Party [Freedom Caucus], Not Democrats or Republicans, Is the Problem [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 06:00:36 by Gatlin
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The Tea Party [Freedom Caucus], Not Democrats or Republicans, Is the Problem. It’s de rigueur to decry ‘partisanship’ as Washington’s ‘real problem.’ Let’s get real—the most destructive force in American politics today is the Tea Party, says Jon Favreau. So now that our government is open and able to pay its bills, what soon-to-be-forgotten lessons have we learned from this sorry fiasco?Perhaps most important is the reminder that political temper tantrums in Washington exact a toll that goes far beyond unfavorable headlines and worse-than-dog-poo poll numbers. This decision hurt people. Some families couldn’t pay their bills. Others had nowhere ...
Eastern Orthodox Interpretation [of the Bible]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 05:04:25 by A Pole
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Eastern Orthodox churches have long remained fervently committed to the organic interrelationship between scripture and ecclesial tradition (Florovsky 1972; Bulgakov 1988, pp. 9–26; Staniloae 1994, pp. 37–78; Vassiliadis 2005; Stylianopoulos 2008). From its inception, they believe, the church relied both on a canon of Holy Scripture (taken over from Judaism and eventually expanded with a “New” Testament) and on a “canon of truth” or rule of faith based at once in scripture itself and in the sanctified intuition of the church (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.9.4; 1.10.1–3). The Christian biblical canon and the theological canons of its legitimate ...
The American Experience,The Gilded Age
Post Date: 2018-02-12 01:09:57 by sneakypete
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The "thinking" of leftists on full display. The American Experience is in general one of PBS's most leftist leaning programs,and the series "The Gilded Age" is about the transformation of America from a primitive rural age where there are no real jobs other than in the cities,and most American lead a day to day life of manual labor on small farms or ranches to eek out a subsistence lifestyle. No real money to speak of,and nothing to fall back on but distant neighbors if the men die or get injured,to the creation of the industrial nation in the late 1890's and early 1900's. A prime example is right after explaining how US Steel was created and Andrew ...
The Tea Party Is Officially Dead. It Was Killed By Partisan Politics.
Post Date: 2018-02-11 21:32:08 by Gatlin
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It has finally happened: The Tea Party is dead. The grassroots movement that fought so hard for fiscal sanity in government over the past decade is no more. It was killed off by the very same Washington establishment it sought to overthrow. Its death leaves proponents of limited government with some big questions: What went wrong? And what do we do now? For me, it's personal. For years, the Tea Party was my life, and I have the the battle scars—and tattoos—to prove it. When I was the President of FreedomWorks, I worked side by side with tens of thousands of citizen activists as a Tea Party organizer, organizing protests and knocking on doors, hoping to topple the Goliath ...
Taliban invites Rand Paul to peace talks
Post Date: 2018-02-11 21:22:12 by Gatlin
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The Taliban is extending an invitation to Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, to their political office in Doha, to discuss possible peace plans to end the 17-year Afghan war. The invitation, proposed on the terror group’s social media accounts under the moniker of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” was extended in response to Mr. Paul’s recent comments on the status of the war. “We invite the respectable U.S. Senator Rand Paul, in his official capacity to visit our political office in Doha for mutual talks,” the Twitter post by the Information Committee of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan read. “We’ll prove to Mr. Rand Paul, the immediate ...
Schiff: Trump doesn’t want to release Dem memo because it 'undermines his claim of vindication'
Post Date: 2018-02-11 21:02:29 by buckeroo
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said President Trump doesn't want the public to see the "underlying facts" in the Democratic counter-memo because they would undercut his "claim of vindication" in the Russia probe. "The president doesn't want you to see these facts from the FISA application because it completely undermines his claim of vindication," Schiff told CBS's "Face the Nation," referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court application used to obtain a warrant to spy on a former Trump campaign aide. Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he plans to work with the FBI to redact ...
Tea Party, Freedom Caucus still have power, Paul, Jordan say
Post Date: 2018-02-11 20:50:51 by Gatlin
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Rep. Jim Jordan on future for congressional deficit hawksbr> Ohio Republican Jim Jordan on whether the bipartisan budget deal took the teeth out of his hardline House Freedom Caucus. Conservative Capitol Hill lawmakers Rep. Jim Jordan and Sen. Rand Paul railed Sunday against fellow Republicans agreeing to a recent budget deal that increases federal spending by $400 billion and insisted that the Tea Party movement and other fiscal-minded groups are still alive. “This was not consistent with what the American people elected us to do,” Jordan, R-Ohio, told “Fox News Sunday” two days after Congress passed the two-year deal that includes roughly $400 billion in new ...
You're fired: Trump to rid 'worst' federal workers, automatic raises, fat bennies
Post Date: 2018-02-11 17:45:56 by Tooconservative
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President Trump plans to take the huge federal Civil Service off cruise control, ending automatic pay increases that go to 99.7 percent of the workforce, trimming fat benefit packages, and for the “worst,” rolling out his trademark phrase from The Apprentice, “You’re fired!” In his budget, set for release Monday, his administration is planning the biggest reform to the federal workforce in decades, using models from Amazon, Google, and a handful of well-operating agencies. Officials said the overall goal is to bring the 1950s-styled Civil Service into the digital age, introduce automation, reward “the best” with bonuses, make it easier to hire and fire, ...
Raw milk is trending for some reason—so are nasty, drug-resistant infections
Post Date: 2018-02-11 17:27:52 by Tooconservative
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There’s been something of a renaissance of raw milk in recent years. And, not surprisingly, the dicey drink of bygone eras is also reviving disease outbreaks. In recent years, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have noted that more states have made it legal to get raw (unpasteurized) milk and yearly outbreak numbers linked to unpasteurized dairy have quadrupled nationwide. Today, experts released an analysis of a 2016 multi-drug resistant infection outbreak in Colorado that highlights the growing problem of raw milk consumption—and the challenges that lie ahead. Specifically, the milk in the outbreak was consumed legally while health authorities were ...
Israel warns over Iran's presence in Syria after air strikes
Post Date: 2018-02-11 14:33:09 by treeingwalkercoonhound
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel issued stark warnings on Sunday over Iran's presence in neighbouring Syria after a confrontation threatened to open a new and unpredictable period in the country's seven-year civil war. Israel carried out major air raids in Syria on Saturday, including against what it described as Iranian targets -- the first time it had publicly acknowledged doing so since the war began. The raids came after an Israeli F16 fighter was shot down by Syrian air defences. The pilots survived, but it was Israel's first loss of a warplane in battle since 1982.
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