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Here's a good laugh...
Plane with 5 passengers on board, Donald Trump, the Pope, Dr Anthony Fauci , Hillary Clinton, and a ten year old school girl. The plane is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes.
Dr Fauci, said โI need one. I have to help develop a cure for the global health crisis that is COVID19!โ He takes one and jumps.
The pope said โI need one, I have to help spiritually guide people through the global health crisis that is COVID19!โ He takes one and jumps.
Trump said โโI need one, Iโm the smartest man in the USA.โ He takes one and jumps.
Hillary said to the ten year old "you can have the last parachute. I've lived my life, yours is only starting". The 10 year old said "Donโt worry, there are 2 parachutes left. The smartest man in the USA took my school bag."
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People may experience these symptoms: Signs of a stroke.
Muscular:ย difficulty walking, instability, paralysis with weak muscles, problems with coordination, stiff muscles, overactive reflexes, or paralysis of one side of the body
Visual:ย blurred vision, double vision, sudden visual loss, or temporary loss of vision in one eye
Whole body:ย fatigue, lightheadedness, or vertigo
Speech:ย difficulty speaking, slurred speech, or speech loss
Sensory:ย pins and needles or reduced sensation of touch
Facial:ย muscle weakness or numbness
Limbs:ย numbness or weakness
Also common:ย difficulty swallowing, headache, inability to understand, mental confusion, or rapid involuntary eye movement
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Here's a good laugh...
Plane with 5 passengers on board, Donald Trump, the Pope, Dr Anthony Fauci , Hillary Clinton, and a ten year old school girl. The plane is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes.
Dr Fauci, said โI need one. I have to help develop a cure for the global health crisis that is COVID19!โ He takes one and jumps.
The pope said โI need one, I have to help spiritually guide people through the global health crisis that is COVID19!โ He takes one and jumps.
Trump said โโI need one, Iโm the smartest man in the USA.โ He takes one and jumps.
Hillary said to the ten year old "you can have the last parachute. I've lived my life, yours is only starting". The 10 year old said "Donโt worry, there are 2 parachutes left. The smartest man in the USA took my school bag."
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ย @lldd11ย Russia Never started wars.........I find that hard to believe.
Here's a comment from Reddit of someone who was actually born in Soviet Russia. here's that person's statement.......
Is it true that Russia never started a war, but they always were defending their country?
Answer
Vladimir Lebedev-Schmidthof
,ย Born in Soviet Union, live in Russia for all my life. Married, with kids.
Knowing the history of my country it is definitely not true. As any other major country Russia (Ancient Russia, Muscovy, Russian Czardom, Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russian Federation) did start wars.
Most recent example is Soviet-Finnish war (Winter war in Finnish history) to gather more buffer zone between Leningrad and Finland.
Other examples are some Turkish wars of Peter the Great or, say, Northern War (Russo-Swedish part of it, also Peter the Great) winning which Russian Czardom became Russian Empire.
So two great examples are above: Northern War (1700โ1721) and Winter War (1939โ1940).
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Killing assault rifles? That's the INCORRECT term. Here's what it really is:
MODERN SPORTING RIFLE: INTRODUCTION
Sub Menu
Understanding Americaโs Rifle
The term โmodern sporting rifleโ was coined to describe todayโs very popular semiautomatic rifle designs, including the AR-15 and its offspring. These rifles are used by hunters, competitors, a lot of Americans seeking home-defense guns and by many others who simply enjoy going to the range.
Though modern sporting rifles are increasingly popular, they are too often misunderstood.
The central reason these firearms are misunderstood is political. Though the semiautomatic design used in todayโs pistols, rifles and shotguns was invented in the late-nineteenth century and was popularly sold to consumers in America and Europe in the early twentieth century, the modern sporting rifle has been called a โweapon of warโ by those who want to ban them.
Though some modern sporting rifles might cosmetically look like fully automatic rifles the military uses, modern sporting rifles by law have many internal differences.
To dispel the myths about modern sporting rifles so that we can have honest and factual discussions about them here are the facts about these rifles.
Modern Sporting Rifle - Outdoor range / Hunting
Modern Sporting Rifle Facts
Modern sporting rifles are among the most popular firearms being sold today.
The โARโ in โAR-15โ rifle stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s. โARโ does NOT stand for โassault rifleโ or โautomatic rifle.โ
AR-15-style rifles are NOT โassault weaponsโ or โassault rifles.โ An assault rifle is fully automatic, a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.
If someone calls an AR-15-style rifle an โassault weapon,โ then theyโve been duped by an agenda. The only real way to define what is an โassault weaponโ is politically, as in how any given law chooses to define the termโthis is why the states that have banned this category of semiautomatic firearms have done so with very different definitions.
AR-15-style rifles can look like military rifles, such as the M-16, but by law they function like other semiautomatic civilian sporting firearms, as they fire only one round with each pull of the trigger.
Versions of modern sporting rifles are legal to own in most states, provided the purchaser passes the mandatory FBI background check required for all retail firearm purchasers.
Since Americaโs founding, civilian sporting rifles have evolved along with military firearms. The modern sporting rifle simply follows that pattern.
These riflesโ accuracy, reliability, ruggedness and versatility serve target shooters and hunters well. They are true all-weather firearms.
Modern sporting rifles are chambered in .22 LR, .223 (5.56 x 45mm), 6.8 SPC, .308, .450 Bushmaster and in many other calibers. Upper receivers for pistol calibers such as 9 mm, .40, and .45 are available. There are even .410 shotgun versions.
These rifles are used for many different types of hunting, from varmint to big game. And theyโre used for target shooting and in competitions.
AR-15-style rifles are no more powerful than other hunting rifles of the same caliber and in most cases are chambered in calibers less powerful than common big-game hunting cartridges like the .30-06 Springfield and .300 Win. Mag.
The AR-15 platform is modular. Owners like being able to affix different โuppersโ (the barrel and chamber) to the โlowerโ (the grip, stock).
They have been commercially sold to the American public since the 1960s.
They are commonly-owned, with more than 16 million modern sporting rifles owned by civilians by 2018.
And, they are a lot of fun to shoot!
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TPWC74473 Women who kill their partners are sentenced on average to 15 years โ for men, itโs two to six.
Women who kill their partners are sentenced on average to 15 years โ for men, itโs two to six. Illustration: Mona Chalabi
Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for a man she killed when she was 16 years old.
This week though, Brown was granted clemency by the Tennessee governor after appeals by her lawyers claiming that she was a victim of sex trafficking who feared for her life. Brown, now aged 30, will remain on parole supervision for 10 years so long as she retains a job and participates in regular counseling sessions.
The man Brown killed was Johnny Allen, who had taken her to his house that night and paid her for sex. Though he wasnโt her partner, the case prompted me to look at the gap between sentencing of men and women who kill intimate partners in the US.
Cyntoia Brown: celebrities call for release of sex-trafficking victim
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Statistics cited by the ACLU and the Womenโs March suggest a wide gender gap in sentencing. The average prison sentence for men who kill their female partners is two to six years (the illustration here takes the midpoint of those values). By contrast women, who kill their partners are sentenced on average to 15 years.
Despite its widespread use, the statistic is dated. It was first published by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in 1989. It remains true that most women who kill their partners cite self-defense as a motive. In fact, 70-80% of incarcerated women report intimate partner violence. But there doesnโt appear to be any recent analysis of sentencing to see if this gender gap in sentencing remains the same.
Since the statistic was first published, one of the clearest changes in the US prison system has been the dramatic increase in womenโs incarceration rates. Research also suggests that women are given harsher punishments when they have committed crimes that are perceived as more masculine, such as murder.
More recent statistics from other countries suggest that intimate partner violence committed by men continues to be treated with leniency. In Ireland, men who are convicted of the manslaughter of current or former partners serve an average of 2.8 years less time in jail than other men convicted of the same charge against people who were not their partners.
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ย @marialucio3302ย Secondly, weโre in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration โ President Obamaโs administration before this โ we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. What the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote wonโt be counted, it canโt be counted, weโre going to challenge it and all these things. If enough people vote, itโs going to overwhelm the system.
You see whatโs happening now, you guys know it as well as I do, you see the long, long lines and early voting. You see the millions of people who have already cast a ballot. And so, donโt be intimidated. If in fact you have any, any problem go to โ and I donโt have the number but itโs 833-DEM-VOTEโฆ Call that number. We have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them, theyโll answer the phone, if you think thereโs any challenge to your voting. Go to 833-DEM-VOTE, dial those letters on your phone. That will get you the assistance that we have already put in place. HERE'S THE ENTIRE STATEMENT HE SPOKE YOU DECEIVERS!!! ๐คจ๐คจ๐คจ๐คจ
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I wouldn't say they were wrong, but that the future predicted, had changed course due to change of mind,heart, direction in which that course was headed. Much the same as when you choose to change direction from your current path onto a different path. It doesn't make the prediction wrong, it makes the outcome of that prediction altered from what it was supposed to become. In other words, your decision to not buy a car today, changed what was supposed to be the predicted outcome of that day, but instead you decide to buy the car tomorrow. So in hindsight, the prediction wasn't wrong, it just never happened.
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Red Rum Is baptism necessary for salvation?
Strictly speaking, the answer is โNo.โ A person can be saved who has not been baptized. However, the Bible makes it clear that baptism is extremely important and that those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and who have decided to follow Him, will be baptized. Letโs see what the Bible actually says about this matter.
Mark says, โHe who believes and is baptized will be savedโ (Mark 16:16, NKJV). Jesus told Nicodemus, โMost assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water [baptized] and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of Godโ The first half, you're correct about But the second half I'm also correct about
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And this is what BLM is all about.....
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martinโs murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
We are expansive. We are a collective of liberators who believe in an inclusive and spacious movement. We also believe that in order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. We must ensure we are building a movement that brings all of us to the front.
We affirm the livesย of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.
We are workingย for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise.
We affirm our humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.
The call for Black lives to matter is a rallying cry for ALL Black lives striving for liberation.
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Here are six facts about the proposed Keystone XL deal that make clear why the pipeline was a bad deal for America and why it deserved to be rejected:
1. Keystone XL Would Not Reduce Foreign Oil Dependency
The oil to be sent through Keystone XL pipeline was never destined for US markets. In its own presentation to investors about the proposed pipeline extension, TransCanada (the company behind Keystone XL)ย boastedย that most if not all of the extracted and refined oil would be exported --- sold in oversees markets where oil fetches a higher price (and thus turns a higher profit for the company).ย
2. Keystone XL Would Have Increased Domestic Oil Prices
Currently, Canadian oil reserves stored in the Midwest help suppress gas prices in theย United States, particularly for farmers in our nationโs heartland.
In its permit application for the pipeline, TransCanada noted that the Keystone XL pipeline would allow the company to drain these reserves and export that fuel as well. According to TransCanadaโs ownย statements, this would raise gas prices in the United States, especially in the Midwest.
3. Keystone XL Overstated Number of Jobs to be Created
In 2008, TransCanadaโs original permit application to theย State Departmentย said the Keystone XL pipeline would create โa peak workforce of approximately 3,500 to 4,200 construction personnelโ in temporary jobs building the pipeline.
By 2011, now facing growing opposition to the pipeline, TransCanada had inflated these numbers (using undisclosed formulas) to 20,000. Supporters of the proposal, backed by big oil, have sinceย trumpetedย these trumped up numbers.ย
4. Current Keystone Pipeline Leaked 12 Times in Last Year
The pipeline that the Obama administration has rejected the permit for would be an extension of a pipeline that has already leaked -- not just once, but 12 times in the last year.
While TransCanada tried to dismiss these leaks as โminorโ averaging โjust five to 10 gallons of oilโ each, the leak on May 7, 2011 near Millner, N.D.,ย spilledย about 21,000 gallons of oil in total.
5. The Environmental Concerns About Oil Leaks Are Justified
Nebraskaโs Republican Governorย Dave Heinemanย strongly opposed the Keystone XL project because the pipelineย would run through a massive and vital aquiferย in his state the supplies clean drinking water to over 2 million Americans plus water that fuels the regionโs agriculture industry.
Building the pipeline might have created a few thousand temporary jobs but even a minor oil spill in or near the aquifer would have jeopardized hundreds of thousands of jobs, not to mention the health and safety of millions.
Meanwhile, in Michigan where a similar tar sands pipeline spilled over 840,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River in 2010, residents are still complaining of headaches, dizziness and nausea while studies continue to look at theย long-term effectsย of just being near such an oil spill when it happens.
6. Mining Tar Sands Would Worsen Global Warming
Assuming you believe, like the vast majority of the worldโs scientists, that climate change is both real and of concern, the Canadian tar sands are the second largest carbon reserve in the world.
Mining these reserves wouldย release all of that carbon into the atmosphere, to detrimental effect on our environment. Sure,ย Canadaย might go ahead and mine the tar sands anyway, but the United States doesnโt have to help pollute the planet and our own states in the process.
No matter how you look at it, the Keystone XL proposal was a slimy, scam of a deal. America is better than that.
We can create good-paying jobs that build our families and our economy for the future without hurting our environment today.
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ย @Shhh_94ย You do realize he did that only to make himself appear like he actually cares anything about african americans.
Trump has a long history of racist controversies
Hereโs a breakdown of Trumpโs history, taken largely from Dara Lindโs list for Vox and an op-ed by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times:
1973: The US Department of Justice โ under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations โ sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to Black tenants and lied to Black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to previous discrimination.
1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trumpโs Castle, accused another one of Trumpโs businesses of discrimination. โWhen Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,โ Brown said. โIt was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.โ
1989: In a controversial case thatโs been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four Black teenagers and one Latino teenager โ the โCentral Park Fiveโ โ were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, โBRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!โ The teensโ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes theyโre guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
1991: A book by John OโDonnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trumpโs criticism of a Black accountant: โBlack guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. โฆ I think that the guy is lazy. And itโs probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. Itโs not anything they can control.โ Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that โthe stuff OโDonnell wrote about me is probably true.โ
1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gamblerโs prejudices.
1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldnโt be allowed because โthey donโt look like Indians to me.โ
2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a โrecord of criminal activity [that] is well documented.โ
2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a Black contestant, for being overeducated. โYouโre an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you havenโt done anything,โ Trump said on the show. โAt some point you have to say, โThatโs enough.โโ
2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he โwasnโt particularly happyโ with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering โan idea that is fairly controversial โ creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.โ
2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the โGround Zero Mosqueโ โ a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it โinsensitive,โ and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, โWell, somebodyโs blowing us up. Somebodyโs blowing up buildings, and somebodyโs doing lots of bad stuff.โ
2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama โ the countryโs first Black president โ was not born in the US. He claimed to send investigators to Hawaii to look into Obamaโs birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a โcarnival barker.โ The research has found a strong correlation between birtherism, as the conspiracy theory is called, and racism. But Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.
2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasnโt born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasnโt a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, โI heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?โ
For many people, none of these incidents, individually, may be damning: One of these alone might suggest that Trump is simply a bad speaker and perhaps racially insensitive (โpolitically incorrect,โ as he would put it), but not overtly racist.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/10/trump-attacks-twitter-black-people-women
Still think he gives a damn about black people? ๐
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ย @jamescobrienย They don't need to be overrun by 300,000,000 americns and plus, you have to factor in the number of minors/ old people and babies that make up that number. When it comes down to it, I say 100,000, 000 fighting strong adults. But they got tanks, aircrafts, aircraft carriers, submarines and high explosive bombs capable of wiping out large masses of people short of a nuclear weapon. All in short, small battle victories, but total lost of the war. Not a favorable outcome for the people.
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ย @hichamal-maghribi4600ย Um, I wouldn't be so quick to say that. Putin wants back the old Soviet Union.......all three Baltic states were once apart of the old Soviet Union, but are currently NATO countries. Putin's next move will be to try and Politically have the Baltic states withdraw from the NATO union. He will take this road rather than risk full scale military action from NATO.
Of course, the Baltic states will refuse to remove themselves from NATO, which will cause Russia to strangle the Baltic states with their own sanctions until it will break their will to hold on to NATO; but ultimately, they will not give in. Finally, Putin will decide to make the worst mistake of his entire political career and that's putting troops near the border of the Baltic states ready to invade. Unlike Ukraine, the Baltic states won't wait until the last minute to ready themselves for an invasion, they will ready for Putin from day one. Once Putin moves in, it's all out war. He better not dare use nuclear weapons in a war he started, his country will burn in a lake of fire.
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ร
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BRANDY TELLS WITNESS FATAL CRASH WAS HER FAULT
1/24/07 4:36 PM PST
693 UPDATE:EXCLUSIVE -- BRANDY ADMITTED FAULT AT SCENE
In an exclusive conversation with the man driving directly behind Brandy at the time of her fateful crash, TMZ has learned that the singer repeatedly blamed herself at the scene of the accident.
"She got upset, talking about how it was all her fault ... she didn't stop, kept saying how she hit the lady," says the witness.
He added, "Brandy walked in front of traffic, crossing the lanes of speeding cars, then she did it again. People were honking at her to get out of the road. She was obviously disoriented and highly upset."
The witness also claims he tried to calm the hysterical singer, and even dished out some legal advice, saying he advised her to stop admitting guilt. He also consoled her by repeatedly saying "It was an accident."
The witness also claims he went over to check on the woman in the Toyota, but couldn't find a pulse.
TMZ has learned R&B sensation Brandy was involved in a fatal accident last month, and it appears to be her fault.
It happened at 10:30 AM on December 30, 2006 on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Brandy was driving her 2007 Land Rover at 65 mph and did not notice that cars in front of her had slowed considerably. We're told Brandy's vehicle struck a 2005 Toyota. The Toyota then hit a 1989 Toyota. The 2005 Toyota then slid sideways and hit the center divider. As the 2005 Toyota came to a halt, it was struck by a 1988 Acura.
In a statement to TMZ from Brandy's publicist, Courtney Barnes, the singer confirmed her involement in a fatal crash: Brandy was involved in a car accident December 30, 2006 in Los Angeles where there was a fatality. She wishes to publicly express her condolences to the family of the deceased. Brandy asks that you respect the privacy of everyone involved at this time.
We're told the driver of the 2005 Toyota, Awatef Aboudihaj, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in critical condition and she died the next day. Aboudihaj, a 38-year-old married mother of one, was a Los Angeles resident.
Brandy was not injured. The driver of the Acura suffered moderate injuries.
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ย @LittleAl016ย Yes, that's exactly how I'm comparing the two. The reason Nintendo was so popular was because it was more family oriented than the Genesis was. Parents back then, didn't see it as a gaming system, but saw it mainly as a kid's toy. That and the fact that the games were super cartoonish in nature is another reason why it didn't pick up with the adults until later. Sega was too geared towards the teens and young adults, that's mostly what led to Sega's marketing failure. The young adults and parents of that time, wasn't interested in home video games and some of the games were over the top for children. It wasn't until Sonic the hedgehog came on the scene that Sega had winner in the children marketing department, by that time, Sega was just about done in. Also, Nintendo was so mainstream and well known by name, that all video game machines were called an Nintendo by illiterate parents. Nowadays, every machine gets called by it's proper name by educated parents today.
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ย @seekndestroy6678ย Biden, Oct. 24: But one of the things that I think is most important is those who havenโt voted yet, first of all go to IWILLVOTE.com to make a plan exactly how youโre going to vote, where youโre going to vote, when youโre going to vote. Because it can get complicated, because the Republicans are doing everything they can to make it harder for people to vote โ particularly people of color โ to vote. So go to IWILLVOTE.com.
Secondly, weโre in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration โ President Obamaโs administration before this โ we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. What the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote wonโt be counted, it canโt be counted, weโre going to challenge it and all these things. If enough people vote, itโs going to overwhelm the system.
You see whatโs happening now, you guys know it as well as I do, you see the long, long lines and early voting. You see the millions of people who have already cast a ballot. And so, donโt be intimidated. If in fact you have any, any problem go to โ and I donโt have the number but itโs 833-DEM-VOTEโฆ Call that number. We have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them, theyโll answer the phone, if you think thereโs any challenge to your voting. Go to 833-DEM-VOTE, dial those letters on your phone. That will get you the assistance that we have already put in place. READ IT AGAIN IDIOT. HE'S TALKING ABOUT TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION! ๐คจ
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What the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote wonโt be counted, it canโt be counted, weโre going to challenge it and all these things. If enough people vote, itโs going to overwhelm the system.
You see whatโs happening now, you guys know it as well as I do, you see the long, long lines and early voting. You see the millions of people who have already cast a ballot. And so, donโt be intimidated. If in fact you have any, any problem go to โ and I donโt have the number but itโs 833-DEM-VOTEโฆ Call that number. We have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them, theyโll answer the phone, if you think thereโs any challenge to your voting. Go to 833-DEM-VOTE, dial those letters on your phone. That will get you the assistance that we have already put in place. READ IT AGAIN IDIOT. HE'S TALKING ABOUT TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION! ๐คจ
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ย @reptiles3244ย it's not a mental illness. Both sexes started as a female embryo until the XY chromosome interferes with the female development and begins it's transition to boy. So biologically,males are transgender by nature. If the XY chromosome doesn't interfere with the female embryo development, the embryo will fully develop into a female baby. In theory, males are capable of breastfeeding, yes you heard right..... breastfeeding. The male breast can produce milk in which a baby can feed from. The male breast doesn't produce a whole lot of milk, just a small amount of it, but it has been done before. And you wanna know why some males have man boobs? Well, that is also a trait that is given to males from the female embryo. A man can grow natural breasts using female hormones and increasing the amount of estrogen in the male body, which will also give you long hair and soft skin and feminine features. All of these are natural transition development from male to female. The only thing needed to rid of the obvious male tone of voice is either through speech therapy or surgery and bone reduction to give the body a more feminine look. Also the male penis can be converted into a fully functional vagina, don't believe me, look it up on YouTube. The vagina will be able to produce pleasure, but the transgender won't be able to have a baby, but scientists are working on way to make it possible for transgender women to have babies in the far future.
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ย @AMERICAN_HERO_1ย I think you should should read this......
Immigration
โBorder czarโ? Kamala Harris assigned to tackle immigrationโs causes, not border security
Claims that Harris was named the "border czar," responsible for overseeing U.S. border enforcement, have become a talking point for Republicans. But Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
There's more........Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @AMERICAN_HERO_1ย Here's more.........Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @AMERICAN_HERO_1ย There's more.....Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @AMERICAN_HERO_1ย There's more.......Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @AMERICAN_HERO_1ย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @ReapingTheHarvestย Flu
Also called: influenza
Usually self-diagnosable
Symptoms include fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, congestion, runny nose, headaches, and fatigue.
People may experience:
Pain areas:ย in the muscles
Cough:ย can be dry or with phlegm
Whole body:ย chills, dehydration, fatigue, fever, flushing, loss of appetite, body ache, or sweating
Nasal:ย congestion, runny nose, or sneezing
Also common:ย chest pressure, head congestion, headache, nausea, shortness of breath, sore throat, or swollen lymph nodes
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ย @FantasticIsMyLifeย This is common law Larceny
While some jurisdictions may have statutorily redefined larceny; it is a very old common-law crime.
For example, the common-law definition is still in use inย new-south-walesย (even though the punishment is statutorily specified in theย Crimes Act 1900) and the first element of the crime is that "the property must belong to someone other than the accused".
The suggested jury direction from theย Criminal Trial Courts Bench Bookย says:
The law differentiates in a number of contexts between possession, control and ownership. Each of those concepts can become quite involved and complex. Fortunately, in the circumstances of the present case, it is neither necessary for me to seek to explain all their refinements to you, nor for you to understand all of those refinements.
However, to give you but the broadest of examples: if you were to buy, say, an expensive diamond from a jeweller, assuming that it was legally [his/hers] to sell to you in the first place, then, the moment you took physical delivery of it you would own it, have the control of it, and be in possession of it.
If, however, you proceeded to place it in a bank security box for safe keeping, you would, for some legal purposes anyway, cease to possess it, although you would still own it and be in control of it. If a robber broke into the bank and took your diamond, the robber would then be in possession of it, even though you would, in law, continue to be its owner.
When I direct you that the property must belong to someone other than the accused, all that is required is that, at the time of the taking,ย it must be owned, controlled or possessedย by someone other than the accused. Thus in this context, the law uses the concept of belonging in the widest possible sense.
The overzealous shopper both controls and possesses the toilet rolls even though they are owned by the supermarket
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court denies another bid by Trump allies to halt election certification
A GOP congressmanโs lawsuit over mail-in voting was dismissed.
By
Matthew Mosk
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Alex Hosenball
November 28, 2020, 9:29 PM ET
โขย 5 min read
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Trump running out of time as courts, recounts knockdown his election challengePresident Donald Trump has lost battles over his attempt to challenge the results of the election by pushing unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters, File
Another court ruling has gone against allies of the Trump campaign in their bid to halt certification of the 2020 presidentialย electionย in Pennsylvania, as the state's Supreme Court issued an order Saturday dismissing a recent court challenge focused on mail-in voting.
This election challenge was brought by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican, along with another GOP candidate for Congress, alleging that the state legislature had not legally passed the measure allowing for universal mail-in voting.
The plaintiffs called on the court to have Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar cancel all mail-in ballots or, if not, to empower the state legislature to appoint new electors. A trial judge on Tuesday had imposed a temporary injunction to pause the election certification process until the question could be resolved. Boockvar's office brought the matter immediately to the state Supreme Court.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the injunction on Saturday and dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the GOP cannot bring it back. ANOTHER VICTORY FOR BIDEN!!! ๐
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ย @tdup191ย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย TheuglyTripย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @meganbownes8347ย I think you need to read it again.....Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @Ken-ck4znย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @chrislockwood5299ย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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@GreggAllman-v3s Wrong. Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @patoamarillo229ย I'm 52 and here's that statement that I'm referring to.......Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @benjaminlancaster-u7jย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @YN97WAย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @Riverking1ย Congratulations, it's not dumb. Here, read this.....Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @jphill6093ย Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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ย @spinnanzย Proof my friend, is life itself. Why is it so hard not to want to be loved by a creator? Is that what you want, to die and disappear off the face of the earth, only to have a grave marker? Is that how much you truly value your existence? Why exist at all, if you only want to fade away into utter darkness, never to be seen or heard ever again. Memories last only for as long as the next person living. This whole planet one day will be gone and with it, everything that ever lived, that ever existed, will become a void. Imagine no memories, no existence, no life, no nothing...... because God doesn't exist. What a miserable end. Your choice is truly a sad one.
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Willam Jhonson I'm black not white. Yes, there's still racial unfairness in this country facing black people and the constant struggles that's continuing since the civil rights movement, but don't throw all your apples away just because of a few bad ones. Out of the basket of apples, just root out the bad ones and enjoy the ones that are good. That's a way to find good in all people, white or black. Your enemy isn't the white person; your enemy is the government holding you back. Not every white person is racist, that depends on their upbringing; but your hate of them as a whole is the problem why they act that way towards black people. Like God said, hate the sin, not the sinner. Love those that hate you, because fighting fire with fire, doesn't put it out the fire. When injustice is the fire, you should be the water to extinguish it.
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The term Fakebook is not a new trend word: Fakebook
A digital pseudo-reality boasting your 'Realย IP Addressย Self' has hundreds of close human 'friends' beyond those you actually have. Yet, theย preponderanceย of these areย anomalousย entities, much like avatars or quintessences of the collective imagination of those involved. These pixel-meld hallucinations are typically of someone you have never met, never will, or even if you did, you wouldn't recognize each other, which proves the point entirely. 'Friends' are virtual, semi-actualized characters who 'liked' something you said in aย lucidmoment; are attracted to someone you resembled; were amused by a photo you posted; or related to purported fun or drama.
But since they are never online after befriending you (& they think you are weird if you write them later or think they are actually there) it shows you have bought into this parallelย macrocosmย of distortedly amplified friendship. Participation severely underlines your extreme insecurity about having few or no 'real' friends since you are willing to make friends with anyone under the slightestย pretextย & even buy into a scam that gives you a warm, fuzzy sensation of being part of a benign worldwide social network (that may not even include your actual family & friends), but is mainly trying to sell you stuff viaย tailoredย ads that materialize on the right, regarding everything you talk about. Just post any word that crosses your mind to see behind the fabric of this lucrative venture.ย Ka-ching!
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court denies another bid by Trump allies to halt election certification
A GOP congressmanโs lawsuit over mail-in voting was dismissed.
ByMatthew Mosk andAlex Hosenball
November 28, 2020, 9:29 PM ET
โข 5 min read
Trump running out of time as courts, recounts knockdown his election challengePresident Donald Trump has lost battles over his attempt to challenge the results of the election by pushing unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters, File
Another court ruling has gone against allies of the Trump campaign in their bid to halt certification of the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania, as the state's Supreme Court issued an order Saturday dismissing a recent court challenge focused on mail-in voting.
This election challenge was brought by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican, along with another GOP candidate for Congress, alleging that the state legislature had not legally passed the measure allowing for universal mail-in voting.
The plaintiffs called on the court to have Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar cancel all mail-in ballots or, if not, to empower the state legislature to appoint new electors. A trial judge on Tuesday had imposed a temporary injunction to pause the election certification process until the question could be resolved. Boockvar's office brought the matter immediately to the state Supreme Court.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the injunction on Saturday and dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the GOP cannot bring it back. ANOTHER ONE SHOT DOWN! ๐๐๐๐๐๐
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ย @pcpc6347ย Jimmy Hoffa
James R. Hoffa NYWTS.jpg
Hoffa in 1965
Born
James Riddle Hoffa
February 14, 1913
Brazil, Indiana, U.S.
Disappeared
July 30, 1975 (aged 62)
Bloomfield Township, Michigan, U.S.
Status
Missing for 45 years, 4 months and 22 days; declared dead in absentia on July 30, 1982 (aged 69)
Occupation
Trade unionist
Spouse(s)
Josephine Poszywak โ(m. 1936)โ
Children
Barbara Ann Crancer
James P. Hoffa
Conviction(s)
Attempted bribery and jury tampering (1964)
Conspiracy, mail and wire fraud (1964)
Criminal penalty
Aggregate of 13 years' imprisonment (eight years for bribery, five years for fraud; 1967)
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ย @chadleach6009ย 11. Reversed Bush Torture Policies
Two days after taking office, signed an executive order banning the so-called โenhanced interrogationโ techniques used by the CIA under President Bush and considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions. Also released the secret Bush administration legal opinions supporting the use of these techniques.
12. Established Rules to Limitย Carbon Emissions from Power Plants
Finalized a โClean Power Planโ in 2015 through new EPA regulations, setting the first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants. When fully implemented in 2030, the new rules will result in a 32 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 2005.
13. Normalized Relationsย with Cuba
In 2014, took steps to open diplomatic and commercial ties with Cuba, ending the failed Cold War policy of isolation. In March 2016, direct mail flights to Cuba resumed for the first time in fifty years. American tourists may also now freely visit the country.
14. Put Medicare on Sounderย Financial Footing
Slowed the growth of health care spending through cost-saving measures enacted as part of the ACA, ensuring the solvency of Medicareโs principal trust fundย through 2028.
15. Protected DREAMersย from Deportation
Took executive action in June 2012 to protect undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children
(so-called DREAMers) from deportation and allow them to apply for work permits.
16. Established Net Neutrality
Directed the Federal Communications Commission toย issue a rule classifying internet service providers as a public utility and forcing them to treat all web traffic the same, regardless of source. After years of litigation, a federal court upheld the FCCโs rule, meaning providers canโt favor certain websites or block others.
17. Protected Two Liberal Seatsย on the U.S. Supreme Court
Nominated and obtained confirmation for Sonia Sotomayor (the first Hispanic person and third woman to serve on the Court) in 2009 and Elena Kagan (the fourth woman) in 2010. They replaced David Souter and John Paul Stevens, respectively.
18. Boosted Fuelย Efficiency Standards
Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will increase fuel economy to the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light-duty trucks by model year 2025.
19. Kicked Banks Out ofย Federal Student Loan Program,ย Expanded Pell Grant Funding
As part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed a measure ending the decades-old practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. As a result, all students began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government. More than half of the savings ($36 billion over ten years) is dedicated to expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.
20. Improved Americaโsย Image Abroad
With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of โsoft powerโ) during the Bush years. Favorable opinion toward the United States rose during Obamaโs first term in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent, and have stayed highย ever since.
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ย @chadleach6009ย 31. Cut Veteran Homelessnessย by Half
In 2010, launched the nationโs first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness, Opening Doors, which has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans since 2010 and aims to end youth homelessness by 2020.
32. Enacted Governmentย Surveillance Reform
Signed the 2015 USA Freedom Act, which bans the governmental collection of bulk data, creates a special panel to provide technical and legal advice to the court administering the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and provides greater transparency for FISA court opinions. The ACLU noted that the legislation marked the first time since 1978 that Congress has โtaken steps to restrict, rather than expand, its government surveillance authority.โ
33. Expanded Overtime Pay
Updated a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act to ensure overtime pay for employees making up to $47,476 a year, thereby expanding overtime protections to 4.2 million workers. The new rules were set to go into effect in December 2016, but were blocked in November by a federal judge in Texas.
34. Cracked Down on Badย For-Profit Colleges
Through the Department of Education, issued โgainful employmentโ regulations in 2011, cutting off commercially focused schools from federal student aid funding if more than 25 percent of former students arenโt paying off their loans or if former students spend more than 12 percent of their average total earnings servicing student loans. In June 2016, regulators voted to shut down the nationโs largest accreditor of for-profit colleges, cutting off federal aid to hundreds of for-profits.
35. Cut the Deficit
Reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016, one benefit of a strengthening economy.
36. Created theย College Scorecard
Through the Department of Education, developed a comprehensive database in 2015 that allows prospective college students to compare potential schools based on costs, graduation rates, debt, and post-college earnings.
37. Improved School Nutrition
Signed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010, championed by Michelle Obama, mandating a $4.5 billion spending boost and higher nutritional standards for school lunches. New rules double the amount of fruits and vegetables, and require only whole grains, in foods served to students.
38. Expanded the Definition ofย Hate Crimes
Signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009, applying existing hate crime laws to crimes based on a victimโs sexual orientation, gender, or disability, in addition to race, religion, or national origin.
39. Recognized the Dangers ofย Carbon Dioxide
Through 2009 EPA regulations, declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, allowing the agency to regulate
its production.
40. Strengthened Womenโsย Right to Fair Pay
Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if it happened years ago. Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court inย Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.
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ย @chadleach6009ย 41. Secured the Removal ofย Chemical Weapons from Syria
Forced an agreement by Syrian leader Bashar Assad in 2013 to destroy the countryโs stockpile of chemical weapons in accordance with the United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention. In 2016, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed the destruction of thousands of tons of mustard gas and other toxic chemicals. (There is evidence, however, that Assad has recently continued to use chlorine gas against rebels and civilians in Aleppo.)
42. Protected LGBTQ Americansย From Employment Discrimination
Signed an executive order in 2014 prohibiting federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against their workers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
43. Reduced Discrimination Againstย Former Prisoners in Federal Hiring
Signed an executive order to โban the boxโ in federal hiring and contracting. Government employers canโt ask about criminal records at the beginning of the application process, giving applicants with a criminal history a fairer shot.
44. Won Major Victories Againstย Housing and Mortgage Discrimination
Through the Justice Department, reached a record $335 million settlement against Countrywide Financial Corporation and a $175 million settlement against Wells Fargo for their practices of charging higher interest and fees to African American and Latino borrowers prior to the financial crisis, in addition to numerous other suits pursued on behalf of borrowers. In 2015, the administration successfully argued before the Supreme Court that victims of housing discrimination suing for bias only need to show โdisparate impact,โ not an intent to discriminate, to win their case.
45. Expanded Broadband Coverage
Obtained approval from the FCC to shift $8 billion in subsidies away from landlines and toward broadband
internet access for lower-income rural families. By 2016, 98 percent of Americans had access to fast 4G/LTE broadband.
46. Expanded Health Coverageย for Children
Signed the Childrenโs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act in 2009, expanding the Childrenโs Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover an additional four million children, paid for by a tax increase on tobacco products.
47. Improved Food Safety
Signed the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which increased the Food and Drug Administrationโs budget by $1.4 billion and expanded its regulatory responsibilities to include increasing the number of food inspections, issuing direct food recalls, and reviewing the safety practices of countries exporting food products to the U.S.
48. Let the Space Shuttle Die andย Killed the Planned Moon Mission
Allowed the expensive ($1 billion per launch), badly designed, and dangerous shuttle program to make its final launch on July 8, 2011. Cut off funding for the even more bloated and problem-plagued Bush-era Constellation program to build a moon base in favor of support for private-sector low-earth orbit ventures, research on new rocket technologies for long-distance manned flight missions, and unmanned space exploration, including the largest interplanetary rover ever launched, designed to investigate Marsโs potential to support life.
49. Rebuilt and Fortified theย Gulf Coast post-Katrina
Completed a $14.5 billion system in 2011 to rebuild the levees in New Orleans and protect it from a 100-year storm.
50. Avoided Scandal
Became the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to serve two terms with no serious personal or political scandal.
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ย @ross-carlsonย ๏ฟผ
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What does the God-of-the-gaps argument propose?
The God-of-the-gaps argument (also known as the God-of-the-gaps fallacy) is a term used in the philosophy of science for an inference to the action of a deity from the observation of a phenomenon which seems miraculous or impossible to understand at the time. The term applies especially to situations for which an adequate scientific explanation (or, at least, the outline of one) has since been discovered which explains the phenomenon in question. The name is actually fairly easy to understand: when a person uses the God-of-the-gaps argument, she is filling in a "gap" in her knowledge about a particular observational phenomenon by appealing to God's existence and actions to help her explain it; in other words, she is making an argument which uses God to fill in the "gaps."ย
As an example, comets have often been viewed throughout history as harbingers of God's judgment or other significant events by anyone with a superstitious bent. Today, however, we know that comets are merely "dirty snowballs" flying through the Solar System, which glow when they are bombarded by solar radiation. Thus, whereas an ignorant person might be inclined to view these celestial objects as somehow related to God's direct action in His creation, someone educated in light of modern science will immediately recognize that comets have little, if anything, to do with God's activity in the cosmos. In this case, God's actions (say, to indicate His judgment on a particular nation) have been fallaciously used to explain the observation of the comet, while modern science offers a better explanation which simply understands the comet as a natural and regularly occurring aspect of God's created order.ย
Other examples of this argument could easily be given. However, the general form of the argument looks something like this:ย
1) A phenomenon (lightning, comet, earthquake, etc.) has occurred for which no scientific (or similar) explanation is currently available.ย
2) Whenever a phenomenon occurs for which no scientific (or similar) explanation is currently available, God must be the one who caused the phenomenon to occur.ย
Therefore,ย
3) God caused the phenomenon to occur.ย
Stated in this way, the argument is deductively valid. However, it is easy to see why the argument is generally regarded as fallacious: there is just no good reason to think thatย anyphenomenon we observe which we do not understand must automatically be regarded as God's direct, miraculous action in His creation. Premise 1) is clearly true or false depending on when one lives in history: if I were a contemporary of Aristotle, it might be true that no explanation of comets currently existed for me, but it would certainly not be true today that no explanation of comets currently exists. Assuming the truth of Premise 2), this would entail that God was a direct cause of comets in the ancient world, but that comets became a natural phenomenon once we discovered what they truly were! Of course, such a claim would be nonsensical.ย
But even if we accepted Premise 1), we still would have no good reason to think that Premise 2) is true. Why should it be the case that God's action is always the correct explanation of whatever we do not understand? This is simply aย non sequitur, i.e., a fallacy in which the argument assumes an unjustifiable connection, such as Premise 2) does. Moreover, many such arguments throughout history have been used to attribute causation of apparently miraculous phenomena exclusively to God's agency, but have been subsequently refuted when scientific explanations for those same phenomena were developed and validated. As such, the God-of-the-gaps argument clearly fails to establish that God really is the cause of any particular phenomenon, and it is therefore an argument which Christians should not use.ย
It's worth pointing out that calling the God-of-the-gaps argument fallacious does not rule out God's agency entirely; it simply proves that God should not automatically be regarded as theย soleย cause of some phenomenon, simply because that phenomenon is not presently understood. For instance, it may be the case thatย multipleย explanations of some phenomenon exist, e.g., comets may beย bothย naturally recurring phenomenaย andย occasionally indicators of God's pending judgment. The failure of the God-of-the-gaps argument to show that God is the sole cause of a phenomenon does not imply that God is not a cause of that phenomenon at all.ย
This leads to what is sometimes referred to as the "atheism-of-the-gaps argument." Just as the God-of-the-gaps argument fallaciously assigns to any apparently inexplicable phenomenon the direct agency of God, the atheism-of-the-gaps argument fallaciously assumes that God canย neverย play an explanatory role in the characterization of any phenomenon which is not currently understood. The argument is usually couched in terms of the manifold successes of modern science: if naturalistic explanations have proven so successful in describing the world around us, shouldn't we assume that everything we don't understand today will ultimately prove to have such a naturalistic explanation? Of course, the answer is no; only detailed investigation on a case-by-case basis can reveal whether or not God has acted directly and miraculously in any given instance. Just as we cannot assume that whatever we do not understand is due to God's intervention, so we also cannot assume that God has not intervened.ย
In the end, both the God-of-the-gaps and the atheism-of-the-gaps arguments fail, and for similar reasons. Fortunately, their failure points us forward to a more robust description of how God does or does not interact with His creation in any given instance, and helps to motivate an understanding of the Christian faith which is both scientifically accurate and theologically compelling.ย
Related Truth:
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Faith vs. science. Is there a contradiction between faith in God and science?
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For those Trump supporters who says she had 4;years to deal with the border need to read this........
Biden didnโt put Harris in charge of overseeing border security.
In a meeting with Harris in March 2021, Biden said Harris would lead U.S. diplomatic efforts and work with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to stem migration to the United States. Biden said that when he was vice president, he โgot a similar assignmentโ and that the Obama administration secured $700 million to help countries in Central America.
โOne of the ways we learned is that if you deal with the problems in country, it benefits everyone. It benefits us, it benefits the people, and it grows the economies there,โ Biden said then.
Biden asked Harris โto be the chief diplomatic officer with Central American countriesโ and address the root causes that make people leave their home countries, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.ย
Managing the border โhas always beenโ the Homeland Security secretaryโs role, Mittelstadt said.
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Joe Biden admits to voter fraud? This video was taken out of context
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Issued on:ย 28/10/2020 - 13:46Modified:ย 28/10/2020 - 15:09
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In a misleading clip viewed over 7 million times online, Joe Biden seems to admit to widespread voter fraud. The full video interview refutes this claim. (Screenshots: Twitter)
In a video shared widely online, Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden says that he and the Obama administration have put together โthe most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organisation in the history of American politicsโ. But was he talking about an organisation that commits voter fraud or prevents it? Although it may look like Biden just admitted to a voter fraud scheme, this misleading video was taken out of context.
On October 24, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted a truncated clip of Biden with the caption: โBIDEN ADMITS TO VOTER FRAUD!โ
In the shared clip, Biden says: โSecondly, weโre in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for President Obamaโs administration before this, we have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organisation in the history of American politics.โ
McEnanyโs post was retweeted more than 30 thousand times and the interview clip has been viewed more than 7.8 million times on Twitter.
The White House press secretary tweeted this misleading video of Joe Biden to over one million followers.
A Republican National Committee Twitter account, โRNC Researchโ,ย initially postedย the cut clip out of context on October 24. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has tweeted about this deceptive clipย atย leastย fiveย separateย times, even adding โRigged election?โ to the online debate. He was joined by his sonย Eric Trump, severalย congressmenย as well as otherย political figuresย in sharing the misleading video.
Countless others shared the clip online, calling it a gaffe, a โmoment of clarityโ or an admission of guilt.
From time to time Joe Biden has moments of clarity that allow him to share the absolute truth with the American people. In this clip he admits to building a widespread voter fraud operation.ย pic.twitter.com/daxFAbPq6v
ย @amuse (@amuse)ย October 24, 2020
In an October 24ย post on Twitter, a user alleges that Biden admits to โbuilding a widespread voter fraud operationโ.
An October 27 post on Twitterย claims that Biden admitted to a โvoter fraud ringโ.
Social media users characterized this admission as a slip of the tongue on Bidenโs part. However, a closer look at the source of this interview reveals that, instead of admitting to organising voter fraud, Biden is clearly describing measures taken to combat it.
ย
Taken out of context
This video shows legitimate, undoctored footage of Joe Biden in an interview on a left-leaning American podcast called โPod Save Americaโ. However, the video that went viral online is only 24 seconds of a 25-minute interview with the former vice president.
On October 24, Pod Save America published a 26-minute interview with Joe Biden.
At 17:49, podcast host Dan Pfeiffer asks Biden what his message is to people who are yet to vote, as well as those who have already voted. Biden responds by telling people to make a plan to vote if they havenโt yet, due to the prevalence of voter suppression.
โThe Republicans are doing everything they can to make it harder for people to vote โย particularly people of colour โ to vote,โ Biden says.
At 19:12, we can hear Bidenโs now-viral statement about โthe most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organisationโ, set up during the Obama administration. However, the statement is followed by a reassurance that Democrats will ensure a fair election despite President Trumpโs ongoing allegations of electoral fraud.
Read on the Observers >>ย 'Voter Fraud Alert!' - US voters post photos of their unsolicited mail-in ballots online
It becomes clear, when his answer is heard in its entirety, that Biden is referring to an organisation that counters voter fraud when he says โvoter fraud organisationโ. The organisation he refers to isย the Civic Engagement and Voter Protection teamย of the Democratic National Committee.
The program aims to combat voter fraud and discrimination through a website, IWillVote, and a hotline, which Biden further details in the full interview. These programs were active during the Obama administration and have beenย ramped up for the 2020 election, which Biden refers to at the beginning of the viral clip, albeit somewhat confusingly.
โWhat the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote won't be counted,โ Biden goes on to say. โWeโre going to challenge it and all these things.โ
He goes on to tell people who suspect they are victims of voter fraud or suppression to call a hotline in order to receive help from a lawyer.
The hotline he mentions โ 833-DEM-VOTE โย exists toย answer questions about โfelon disenfranchisement, voter purging, poll worker misconduct, voter machines, accessibility, and moreโ.
Therefore, once we see this clip in its full context, itโs clear that Biden is not admitting to a huge voter fraud scheme. Instead, he is telling Americans how they can report voter fraud through a national program set up by the Democratic Party.
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AUGUST 3, 2017 / 1:16 AM / 3 MONTHS AGO
Born this way? Researchers explore the science of gender identity
Daniel Trotta
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While President Donald Trump has thrust transgender people back into the conflict between conservative and liberal values in the United States, geneticists are quietly working on a major research effort to unlock the secrets of gender identity.
A consortium of five research institutions in Europe and the United States, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, George Washington University and Boston Childrenโs Hospital, is looking to the genome, a personโs complete set of DNA, for clues about whether transgender people are born that way.
Two decades of brain research have provided hints of a biological origin to being transgender, but no irrefutable conclusions.
Now scientists in the consortium have embarked on what they call the largest-ever study of its kind, searching for a genetic component to explain why people assigned one gender at birth so persistently identify as the other, often from very early childhood. (reut.rs/2w3Ozg9)
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Researchers have extracted DNA from the blood samples of 10,000 people, 3,000 of them transgender and the rest non-transgender, or cisgender. The project is awaiting grant funding to begin the next phase: testing about 3 million markers, or variations, across the genome for all of the samples.
Knowing what variations transgender people have in common, and comparing those patterns to those of cisgender people in the study, may help investigators understand what role the genome plays in everyoneโs gender identity.
โIf the trait is strongly genetic, then people who identify as trans will share more of their genome, not because they are related in nuclear families but because they are more anciently related,โ said Lea Davis, leader of the study and an assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute.
The search for the biological underpinnings is taking on new relevance as the battle for transgender rights plays out in the U.S. political arena.
One of the first acts of the new Trump administration was to revoke Obama-era guidelines directing public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice. (reut.rs/2l8pWJe) Last week, the president announced on Twitter he intends to ban transgender people from serving in the military. (reut.rs/2uXF8kG)
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found 68 percent of Americans say transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military, an even larger majority than the 58 percent found in a Reuters/Ipsos poll last week.
Texas lawmakers are debating a bathroom bill that would require people to use the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. (reut.rs/2tXKbgV) North Carolina in March repealed a similar law after a national boycott cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business. (reut.rs/2nGg1OH)
Currently, the only way to determine whether people are transgender is for them to self-identify as such. While civil rights activists contend that should be sufficient, scientists have taken their search to the lab.
That quest has made some transgender people nervous. If a โcauseโ is found it could posit a โcure,โ potentially opening the door to so-called reparative therapies similar to those that attempt to turn gay people straight, advocates say. Others raise concerns about the rights of those who may identify as trans but lack biological โproof.โ
โItโs an idea that can be wielded against us, depending on the ideology of the user,โ said Kale Edmiston, a transgender person and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh specializing in neuroimaging.
Dana Bevan, a transgender woman, psychologist and author of three books on transgender topics, acknowledged the potential manipulation of research was a concern but said, โI donโt believe that science can or should hold back from trying to understand whatโs going on.โ
Davis stressed that her study does not seek to produce a genetic test for being transgender, nor would it be able to. Instead, she said, she hopes the data will lead to better care for transgender people, who experience wide health disparities compared to the general population. (reut.rs/2cyp674)
One-third of transgender people reported a negative healthcare experience in the previous year such as verbal harassment, refusal of treatment or the need to teach their doctors about transgender care, according to a landmark survey of nearly 28,000 people released last year by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
Some 40 percent have attempted suicide, almost nine times the rate for the general population.
โWe can use this information to help train doctors and nurses to provide better care to trans patients and to also develop amicus briefs to support equal rights legislation,โ said Davis, who is also director of research for Vanderbiltโs gender health clinic.
A worker checks the serial number on a slice of human brain before using a saw to cut a piece from the sample at a brain bank in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S. June 28, 2017. Picture taken June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee has one of the worldโs largest DNA databanks. It also has emerged as a leader in transgender healthcare with initiatives such as the Trans Buddy Program, which pairs every transgender patient with a volunteer to help guide them through their healthcare visits.
The study has applied for a grant from the National Institutes of Health and is exploring other financial sources to provide the $1 million needed to complete the genotyping, expected to take a year to 18 months. Analysis of the data would take about another six months and require more funding, Davis said.
The other consortium members are Vrije University in Amsterdam and the FIMABIS institute in Malaga, Spain.
PROBING THE BRAIN
Until now, the bulk of research into the origins of being transgender has looked at the brain.
Neurologists have spotted clues in the brain structure and activity of transgender people that distinguish them from cisgender subjects.
A seminal 1995 study was led by Dutch neurobiologist Dick Swaab, who was also among the first scientists to discover structural differences between male and female brains. Looking at postmortem brain tissue of transgender subjects, he found that male-to-female transsexuals had clusters of cells, or nuclei, that more closely resembled those of a typical female brain, and vice versa.
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Swaabโs body of work on postmortem samples was based on just 12 transgender brains that he spent 25 years collecting. But it gave rise to a whole new field of inquiry that today is being explored with advanced brain scan technology on living transgender volunteers.
Among the leaders in brain scan research is Ivanka Savic, a professor of neurology with Swedenโs Karolinska Institute and visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her studies suggest that transgender men have a weakened connection between the two areas of the brain that process the perception of self and oneโs own body. Savic said those connections seem to improve after the person receives cross-hormone treatment.
Her work has been published more than 100 times on various topics in peer-reviewed journals, but she still cannot conclude whether people are born transgender.
โI think that, but I have to prove that,โ Savic said.
A number of other researchers, including both geneticists and neurologists, presume a biological component that is also influenced by upbringing.
But Paul McHugh, a university professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has emerged as the leading voice challenging the โborn-this-wayโ hypothesis.
He encourages psychiatric therapy for transgender people, especially children, so that they accept the gender assigned to them at birth.
McHugh has gained a following among social conservatives, while incensing LGBT advocates with comments such as calling transgender people โcounterfeit.โ
Last year he co-authored a review of the scientific literature published in The New Atlantis journal, asserting there was scant evidence to suggest sexual orientation and gender identity were biologically determined.
The article drew a rebuke from nearly 600 academics and clinicians who called it misleading.
McHugh told Reuters he was โunmovedโ by his critics and says he doubts additional research will reveal a biological cause.
โIf it were obvious,โ he said, โthey would have found it long ago.โ
Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Marla Dickerson
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What will happen when Jesus returns?
The second coming of Christ is referenced many times in Scripture, with over 1,500 passages in the Old Testament and one out of every 25 verses in the New Testament mentioning the Messiahโs return. The large amount of material devoted to this important event underscores what God says in Amos 3:7: โSurely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.โ
In short, the return of Christ brings about what is referred to as the kingdom of God in ScriptureโGodโs absolute rule over His creation, including humankind. To accomplish that, Jesus ushers in two different judgments, two different resurrections, and two different eternities.
When Jesus returns, He will be ready for war (Revelation 19:11โ16). The nations will be gathered to fight against Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2) in what we call the battle of Armageddon. But that will be the day Jesus returns: โHis feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving southโ (verse 4). It will be a unique day in the history of the world: โOn that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness . . . a day known only to the Lordโwith no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be lightโ (verses 6โ7). Godโs enemies will be defeated, and the Antichrist and the false prophet will be โthrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfurโ (Revelation 19:20). Jesus will set up His kingdom, and โThe Lord will be king over the whole earthโ (Zechariah 14:9).
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ย @jb99rappย pieces of the plane should still be found within the Pentagon. Keep in mind that the Pentagon was finished construction on September 11, 1941. I highly doubt that the terrorists choose that date because they knew of the importance of the date. Only our government would have known when that building was completed and timed the conspiracy attacks to coincide with the date the Pentagon was completed. So to me, I feel that the twin towers wasn't the main target that day.......The Pentagon was. Striking the twin towers wouldn't be significant enough to go to war, but striking the Pentagon would have been a direct attack against the government of The United States and the given excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. America needed an excuse, because unlike other countries, America just can't openly declare war against terrorism and send in a massive major military force without it being seen and labeled as an invasion. That would give the middle eastern countries the right to declare war on the United States. What would have been a all out proxy war against terrorism, suddenly becomes WW3. They had this thing well thought out years in advance even before the main operation took place. I even believe that the first bombing of the world trade center was the government testing the water for their upcoming 9/11 operation. The test was a success and the plans for 9/11 went forward. It was well thought out, well planned, well orchestrated. That took years to implement. The American people bought into the cover up bullshit about terrorists so well, that they are willing to defend the government without a brain in their heads. And with that defense, the government's secret is safe and anyone remotely coming close to the truth is seen as an absolute bafoon to the believers of 9/11.
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ย @arktkt06ย Prison/ jail is boring-as-fuck, repetitive, redundant, the same bullshit routine day after dayโฆmonth afterโฆyear after, etc. it can be depressing, lonely, intimidating, and at times scary, even frightening for some inmates. Particularly if youโve never been locked up before, or havenโt spent much time inside, as you donโt know what to expect and you have no experience on how to โprogramโ. This refers to a daily routine an inmate has from the time they get up, ie: breakfast, shower, required tasks (job or school), yard, exercise/ work-out. The things one does to basically stay busy through out the long monotonous days. Does this sound like 18 years isn't enough? I got this off the internet about prison life. See, I told you, you try doing what you think is a light sentence of 18 years.
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Absolutely. Look at it like this....... this is our present reality, but it's also the past. The distant future does exist, we just haven't gotten there yet , but once we arrive, the present of now becomes the past of the distant future. But because we haven't gotten there yet, our current reality is the present. We still exist because we haven't arrived at our destination, but the distant future says that we already have and is learning about the past in it's time, meanwhile, we the present reality still exists and is on our way there. We haven't arrived/ but we did arrive. The distance future sees our current present of reality as the past and we see the existence of the distant future as a reality we haven't yet arrived. So in short answer.... each current present reality is the past of the future. So yes, people who lived in the 50s and 60s are still alive in their current present reality, which we see as the past.
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It's Ya Boi Daniel But that was the whole purpose of the forbidden fruit, you had free will to make a choice. God said don't eat of the fruit in the middle of the garden for you shall surly die. The devil tricked them into thinking that they won't die and that their eyes shall be open and they will be aware. Well, when God said they will surely die, he didn't mean right then and there, he ment that man will lose his ability to live a long life and by that I mean anywhere from 500 to 1000 years old. Once you ate the forbidden fruit, you'll start dying from the moment you bite into it. It'll be a slow but gradual process from aging and other factors. Having our eyes open means, that we have become self aware and shameful of being out in nature fully naked. Be aware of your flaws and seeking a sense of perfection from those flaws a.k.a Makeup, plastic surgery. You become insecure of your being and wanting to be better than what you already are. Yes, God is all knowing, because he's the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. He knows your flaws, your faults, your failures, your success, all before they happened, as they are happening and when they happened. But, there a thing called destiny and there are multiple paths towards that destiny; God lays out those paths before you; you have to choose the right one, because there multiple paths of that future of your life, God doesn't know himself which one you might end up choosing, but he does know where that chosen path leads to, but because of free will, he can't make you not choose that life, you have to choose, but choose wisely, the right path will will reward your life, the wrong path will take it from you. You are responsible for your destiny, God is only there to provide assistance, he will not take you by the hand and lead your life around. You have to do that yourself, all the while, having faith in him, knowing he's always there guiding you, but not leading you and he's always watching over you; but you have to do your part in that protection of your life so that you may live a long fulfilling life by the time of your passing.
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ย @originalkingalpha5116ย You don't understand. You live life first and then when all else fails, then you turn to the Bible for wisdom and understanding. But you don't read it first like it's a book of instructions because it's not. Life doesn't come with instructions. That's the beauty of it.....explore, experience and learn as you go. Experience is your greatest tool for gaining wisdom because it will teach more than reading that Bible would ever prepare you for. You defeat the purpose of life by trying to study for something that you will never be ready for when it happens. And it's that reason why so many people lose their faith in God, because they kept looking for a miracle instead of becoming one. You want to become a doctor, study for it. You want know God, experience life first, then come back to the Bible and you'll find your ah ha moment. Only then, will you obtain the wisdom and knowledge of what you went through and experienced and BE READY for when it happens again. But if you read it first and think you have obtain knowledge to take on the world, the world will be ready for you more than you think you'll be ready for it. And that's why Christians are so disappointed in God and ask....where were you when I needed you. God says, I was there the whole time, you just never looked deep within yourself to find me. Circumstances sometimes happens beyond your control and it's those circumstances that reading the Bible first cannot prepare you for. It's easy to lose faith and hope in God when things happen beyond your control, that's why you have to trust in him, but also trust in yourself to get through it. Talking to God first and reading the Bible helps before after the fact. But you must go through the experiences of life first before anything to gain wisdom and knowledge first and then the Bible becomes you guide after. Also, when you seek life, there too, will you also find God.
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ย @samiam9059ย How did the Donald J. Trump administration handle migrant flows?
For the last four years,ย U.S. immigration policyย focused almost solely on stopping migrants from coming to; entering; or, if they reached the United States, staying in the country. The Trump administration forced Central American countries to sign โsafe third countryโ agreements, which require asylum seekers to first seek refuge in neighboring countries before applying in the United States. It also narrowed the interpretation of what constitutes grounds for asylum, largely excluding the domestic or gang violence that so many flee. And it drastically lowered the annual U.S. cap on refugees from over one hundred thousand to just fifteen thousand.
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Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States wait at the border in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, in January 2021.ย Luis Vargas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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For those migrants who did make it to the border, the Trump administration infamouslyย separated children from their parentsย while processing them. Later, it sent those waiting for their claims to be adjudicated back to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the Remain in Mexico policy. The Mexican government, for its part, agreed to hold these tens of thousands of migrants indefinitely.
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The Biden administrationโs approach differs in that it looks to both manage the migrant flows and to change the situations on the ground that force people to leave their home countries. In his first weeks in office, Biden ended construction of the wall along the U.S. southern border and canceled the safe third country agreements with Northern Triangle countries. He is allowing some twenty-five thousand asylum seekers currently in Mexico under the MPP to enter the United States as they await a decision. On the campaign trail, Biden promised to invest $4 billion over his first term to address the root causes of migration, including through programs in Central American countries to reduce and prevent violence, help farmers set up irrigation systems or change crops, and create economic opportunities.
Still, the administration has inherited a migration system in crisis. The institutional capacity of immigration courts and other parts of the bureaucracy to humanely manage caseloads has eroded. It will take time and money to clear the backload ofย more thanย 1.2 million pending immigration casesย and put back into place working asylum processes. The pandemic has made managing these flows and the containment of people all the harder.
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Biden has ambitious plans. On his first day in office, he sent lawmakers aย comprehensive immigration reform billย that would provide a path to citizenship for most undocumented migrants. And he has promised toย welcome more refugeesย andย reunite the more thanย five hundred childrenย still in U.S. immigration custody with their families. But his success will depend on a politically polarized Congress.
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ย @SuperDuperest777ย Black Lives Matter raised more than $90 million in 2020
Published: Feb. 23, 2021 at 9:52 p.m. ET
Byย
Associated Press
Group opens up finances, says it hopes to focus on economic justice in 2021
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A Black Lives Matter flag flies before a December 2020 march in La Marque, Texas, to protest a police shooting.The Galveston County Daily News via AP
NEW YORK โ The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financial snapshot shared exclusively with The Associated Press.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is now building infrastructure to catch up to the speed of its funding and plans to use its endowment to become known for more than protests after Black Americans die at the hands of police or vigilantes.
โWe want to uplift Black joy and liberation, not just Black death. We want to see Black communities thriving, not just surviving,โ reads an impact report the foundation shared with the AP before releasing it.
This marks the first time in the movementโs nearly eight-year history that BLM leaders have revealed a detailed look at their finances. The foundationโs coffers and influence grew immensely following the May 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man whose last breaths under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer sparked protests across the U.S. and around the world.
That growth also caused longstanding tensions to boil over between some of the movementโs grassroots organizers and national leaders โ the former went public last fall with grievances about financial transparency, decision-making and accountability.
The foundation said it committed $21.7 million in grant funding to official and unofficial BLM chapters, as well as 30 Black-led local organizations. It ended 2020 with a balance of more than $60 million, after spending nearly a quarter of its assets on the grant funds and other charitable giving.
In its report, the BLM foundation said individual donations via its main fundraising platform averaged $30.76. More than 10% of the donations were recurring. The report does not state who gave the money in 2020, and leaders declined to name prominent donors.
Last year, the foundationโs expenses were approximately $8.4 million โ that includes staffing, operating and administrative costs, along with activities such as civic engagement, rapid response and crisis intervention.
One of its focuses for 2021 will be economic justice, particularly as it relates to the ongoing socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on Black communities.
The racial justice movement had a broad impact on philanthropic giving last year. According to an upcoming report by Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, 35% of the $20.2 billion in U.S. funding dollars from corporations, foundations, public charities and high-net-worth individuals to address COVID-19 was explicitly designated for communities of color.
After the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, BLMโs founders pledged to build a decentralized movement governed by consensus of a membersโ collective. In 2015, a network of chapters was formed, as support and donations poured in. But critics say the BLM Global Network Foundation has increasingly moved away from being a Black radical organizing hub and become a mainstream philanthropic and political organization run without democratic input from its earliest grassroots supporters.
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors told the AP that the foundation is focused on a โneed to reinvest into Black communities.โ
โOne of our biggest goals this year is taking the dollars we were able to raise in 2020 and building out the institution weโve been trying to build for the last seven and a half years,โ she said in an interview.
Cullors, who was already active in her native Los Angeles, where she created her own social justice organization, Power and Dignity Now, became the global foundationโs full-time executive director last year.
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ย @jamesburnette7466ย 2017 Trump FAILURES
As President
Chronological by Failure Date
The crux of the biscuit.
Refuses to release his tax resturns
--- Hiding ties to foreign governments
------ Countries with Trump businesses
------ Undisclosed Payments received
------ Undisclosed Debt owed
------ Involvement with Deutsche Bank
EVEN THE IRS says that "under audit" is a total BS excuse. Trump clings to this lie.
July 13, 2020 - Rudy Giuliani - "Trump's tax audits have been completed and accepted."
One of Trump's greatest fears, is what his tax returns reveal. And where they will lead.
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Trump's First 100 Days =
Complete Failure
FAIL - Inauguration Speech
------ Dark and Foreboding
FAIL - "Day 1, I will lock her up."
------ Slithering away
FAIL - "I will REPEAL Obamacare."
------ Unable to repeal ObamaCare
------ "We have to let ObamaCare go on
its way for a little while"
FAIL - "I will REPLACE Obamacare."
------ Unable to replace ObamaCare
FAIL - "Mexico will pay for the wall."
------ "The US will pay for the wall."
FAIL - "I will ban all Muslims."
------ Executive Orders Overturned - 3 TIMES
FAIL - "I will drain the swamp."
Appointed swamp dwellers to Cabinet
--- Billionaires, profiteers, lunatics
FAILED as Ambassador to other nations
--- Mexico, China, Canada, Germany
--- Stupid, embarrassing comments, behavior
FAILED Dealmaker with TrumpCare
--- The Art of the FAIL, same author as
--- The Art of the FEEL
--- ZERO negotiating skills - just threats
FAIL - Lunatic conspiracy theories
--- Obama "tapped my wires"
--- Hillary vote fraud
--- Drug-induced paranoia?
FAIL - STILL loves traitor Gen. Flynn
Ignoring election promises
... slithering away
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Jan.
Jan. 31, 2017 -
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for failing to enforce his executive order on travel and immigration.
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Feb.
Feb. 2, 2017
Trump calls Pure Chaos in the WH "Fine-tuned machine."
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Feb. 16, 2017 - Valentine's Day
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Trump sent VP Pence out of the room, and asked Comey to back off the Flynn investigation - "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
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March
March 11, 2017 -
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Trump fired Manhatton federal prosecutor Preet Bharara because he was investigating him for nefarious dealings in New York City.
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March 17, 2017 -
Man-baby Trump refuses to shake hands with Angela Merkel on camera, further proving what a jerk he is.
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April
April 7, 2017 -
Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed.
Appoints sleazy, anti-rights SC judge
--- Rams a corporations-first judge down our throats
--- Had to destroy a 100-year election rule to do it
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April 14, 2017 -
Trump announces that the White House visitors log will no longer be public, so that we can't count all the nefarious visitors.
This effectively bars the public from knowing which activists, lobbyists, political donors and others are gaining access to the president and his aides on a daily basis.
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April 2017 -
Praised Murdering Dictators
A TOTAL JERK in every way -
TRUMP PRAISES MURDERING DICTATORS
Murdering Dict. Duterte of Philippines
Murdering Dict. el-Sissi of Egypt
Murdering Dict. Erdogan of Turkey
Murdering Dict. Kim Jong Un - N. Korea
Murdering Dict. Putin of Russia
Murdering Dict. Xi Jinping of China
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April 29th - 100th Day in Office -
Trump delivers a hate-filled speech, deflecting from his failed presidency.
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May 2017
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Trump's Continuing Obstruction of Justice
May 9, 2017 -
Fired FBI Director Comey
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Cowardly sniper Donnie Trump fires Director Comey from afar, without even a courtesy call to inform him. The reasons given were TOTALLY bogus. The REAL reason is that Comey requested more funds and resources to pursue the Trump-Russia connections. COMEY KNOWS THAT TRUMP IS GUILTY AS HE|| OF COLLUSION, so Trump had to get rid of him.
Trump wants to replace Comey with sycophant Texas Senator John Cornyn. Oh, sure, Great choice.
May 10, 2017 -
Secret Meeting with the Russians
Trump held a secret meeting in the oval office with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian spy master Sergei Kislyak. The only news media allowed in was Putin's state-owned media TASS. NO U.S. MEDIA was allowed in.
What he told them -
"I fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off."
Spicy couldn't take it. Sarah Huckabee drove him outside to hide in the White House shrubbery. SNL had a field day.
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May 11, 2017 -
Trump backtracks on campaign vow to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
... slithering away
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May 12, 2017 -
MORE OBSTRUCTION
Trump issues veiled threat to James Comey
"... he'd better hope there are no recordings ..."
COMEY would love to hear the tape.
Shades of Richard Nixon.
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May 17, 2017 -
NEW LOW
Trump's approval rating has hit a new low - 42%.
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May
Trump's First Trip Abroad
May 20, 21 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mel and Ivanka - no head cover for Muslims
Showing disrespect for Islam.
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May 22, 2017 - Tel Aviv, Israel
Melania swats away Trump's hand in gesture of rejection ... TWICE.
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May 23, 2017 - Jerusalem, Israel
Trump reveals classified location of US nuclear submarines to murdering Philippine dictator Duterte.
Trump prompts Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer to face-palm himself, after stupid Trump comment implying that Israel is NOT in the Middle East.
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May 24, 2017 - Vatican, Italy
Trump denies he outed Israel to Russians, even when no one accused him of it. Feeling guilty, much?
Melania AGAIN refuses Trump's hand in gesture of rejection.
Contempt for Islam
Mel and Ivanka - no head cover for Muslims
Mel and Ivanka - cover heads for Catholics
--- Just to rub it in
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May 25, 2017 - Brussels, Belgium
Trump shoves NATO member PM Dusko Markovic (Montenegro) aside to thrust himself to the forefront. Pig.
"You tiny, tiny, tiny little man." ... J.K. Rowling
A Federal Appeals Court in Richmond, VA slaps down Trump's Muslim travel ban. This is the 3rd beatdown of the ban, and this time, it is NOT from "an island in the Pacific" (Sessions).
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May 26, 2017 - Sicily
Top World leaders walk through Sicily. Donnie rides in a golf cart. "Look at me, I am better than you jerks."
What a putz.
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May 31, 2017 - COVFEFE
Spicer - "I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."
WHAT? Why don't you TELL US?
Spicer is as crazy as drumph.
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ย @jamesburnette7466ย Continuing Mayhem
Jun. 1, 2017 - Thurs.
Filling the Swamp
Trump grants ethics waivers to 17 top white house staffers. That's as many as Obama granted in his entire eight years.
Dooming the Planet
Trump drops out of Paris climate accord - the US has now joined Nicaragua and Syria, the only holdouts IN THE WORLD. NO LIVING HUMAN can top the idiocy of this self-consumed manchild.
"Believe me. We are just beginning."
We are so screwed.
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June Week 1
June 6, 2017 - Tues.
Qatar Tweet
Trump loses mind, and sends an idiotic tweet trashing Qatar.
We have 10,000 troops stationed there, and an air base from which we attack Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Great move!
Qatar ambassador is flabbergasted.
Eric Trump on Hannity - "Those who oppose my dad are not even people."
Like father, like son. Not EVEN PEOPLE!
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June 7, 2017 - Wed.
Comey Issues Statement
Previews his June 8 testimony.
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June 8, 2017 - Tues.
Comey Testifies
Will Trump lose his mind, and have a tweet attack? Nope. He seethed in silence, while they hid his twitter machine.
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June Week 2
June 12, 2017 - Mon.
First Full Cabinet Meeting
Distracting and Deflecting
A swamp gathering - Acosta, Bannon, Chao, Coats, Conway, DeVos, Kushner, Lighthizer, Mattis, Mnuchin, Mulvaney, Price, Pruitt, Sessions, Shulkin, Tillerson
A praise fest, orchestrated by man-baby -
The president, surrounded by his vermin, "We are amazing. fabulous, great, incredible, tremendous, believe me, believe me."
"We are doing very, very well."
"Millions and millions of dollars."
"Tremendous opposition from the other side."
Democrat obstructionists? You better believe it!
Tit for tat, you stupid dunce.
Republicans set the record for obstruction during the 8 years of Obama, JUST because he is black.
Red is white, water is not wet, and Trump is a genius.
Another day of PURE CR@P from man-baby.
The STATE OF MARYLAND has announced a lawsuit against Trump for breach of constitutional oath, by accepting illegal payments from foreign governments.
The republican congress has utterly FAILED in their obligation to respond to man-baby's violation of US law.
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June 13, 2017 - Tues.
Confirmed - Trump is being investigated for OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE by the FBI.
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June 15, 2017 - Thurs.
AG Sessions now has an attorney. HUH?
Oh, the irony.
The TOP US attorney needs an attorney,
because he is SO SLEAZY.
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June Week 3
June 20, 2017 - Tues.
NEW LOW
Trump's approval rating has hit a new low - 36%.
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June 21, 2017 - Wed.
Kushner amends his SF-86 security clearance form for the THIRD TIME, adding a total of OVER 100 foreign contacts. I guess he has a bad memory. ESPECIALLY, about RUSSIAN contacts.
WHY DOES THIS DUFUS STILL HAVE A SECURITY CLEARANCE? HUH? HUH?
Way past time to drop the hammer on the shadow president.
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June 22, 2017 - Thurs.
Bullsh|t artist Dump reveals there are NO Comey tapes, and never were. Blustering idiot.
Reminiscent of the Dump BS on Obama's birth certificate - "My investigators in Hawaii can't believe what they found."
PURE BS. They found NOTHING!
My guess is that there WERE NO INVESTIGATORS! Just threats and lies from Dump. SOP.
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June 23, 2017 - Fri.
Kushner interviewed by FBI.
ALL cameras banned at daily press briefings.
The transparency is too much for the crooks.
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June Week 3
June 29, 2017 - Thurs.
"... She was bleeding badly from a facelift. ..."
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ย @jamesburnette7466ย Continuing Mayhem
July 6, 2017 - Thurs.
At G20, Trump kowtows to master Putie, by continuing to deny Russian election hacking. Kneepad man.
Rep. governor of Maine Paul LePage, "The sooner the print press goes away, the better society will be." HOLY SH|T! With idiots like this, you can kiss your freedoms good-bye.
Paul the piff. Ignorant republican (badword).
US Ethics chief Walter Shaub, Jr. announced his resignation. He could not deal with the MANY ethics violations of the Trump regime. He was overwhelmed by all the CONFLICTS OF INTEREST of the Trump family.
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July 7, 2017 - Fri.
"POTUS' inexplicable refusal to confirm Russian election interference insults career intel pros & hinders our ability to prevent in future."... Sally Yates
Putin denies meddling. Are you going to believe 17 US intelligence agencies, or the dictator of the Russian totalitarian regime? Do you have any brain, at all?
Tillerson pressor - NO cameras allowed.
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July Week 2
July 11, 2017 - Tues.
"Dirt on Hillary? I love it."
More please.
"High quality person" idiot-son Donald Jr. CONFIRMS attempt at Russian collusion, by publishing corroborating email.
What a basket of thieving bunglers.
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ย @jamesburnette7466ย July 12, 2017 - Wed.
Trump fumes in the WH, and tries to spin Junior's shenanigans with Rob Goldstone.
White House leaking like a sieve.
Staffers looking for a way out.
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July Week 3
July 18, 2017 - Tues.
Trumpcare goes down in flames
Stumpy claims victory!
What a putrid punk!
Totally FOS.
Pouring out of his ears.
Oozing slime.
ANOTHER attendee (#8) was revealed at Junior's undisclosed Clinton dirt meeting in June 2016, a Russian international money launderer Ike Kaveladze (IBS).
ANOTHER secret undisclosed meeting at the G20 between Stumpy and Putie comes to light - "about an hour.".
Tired of winning yet?
He needs to go, ASAP.
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July 20, 2017 - Thurs.
6 Months In = TOTAL FAILURE
Obamacare Repeal Failure
Trumpcare Failure
Tax Cut Failure
Travel Ban Failure
FBI Director Fired
Mexico Wall Failure
Infrastructure Failure
Ethics Chief Resignation
EPA Trashing Regulations
Department staffing Failure
US Election Meddling Failure
International Relations Failure
Press Communications Failure
NO LEGISLATIVE SUCCESS
- of any kind.
Under Investigation for -
Aiding An Enemy
Rampant Nepotism
Rampant Hypocrisy
Personal Profiteering
Obstruction of Justice
Rampant Conflicts of Interest
Trump trashes Sessions
As Mueller digs deeper.
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July 21, 2017 - Fri.
Sean Spicer resigns. How did Sean last so long, trying to justify a lunatic, by lying his a$$ off?
Another former Goldman-Sachs employee, hedge fund henchman Anthony Scaramucci is appointed WH Communications Director. He has been dubbed the "human pinkie ring".
In less than 2 minutes, the pretty boy tire salesman said -
"I love the president"., and
"I love the president"., and
"I love the president."
Ye gods. Stumpy chose well.
This is in stark contrast to what Scaramouche has previously said about Drumpf on Fox News in 2015 - "anti-american, big mouth, hack politician, inherited money dude, Queen's County bully", etc. It is amazing, how in politics, a few bucks can turn black into white.
Sarah Huckabee was anointed Press Secretary. She continues to provide non-answers, and "Ask somebody else" responses. This observer finds Sarah grotesque, a rubber-stamp clone of her deranged father.
WH Trump spokesman Mark Corallo also resigns, declining to comment further.
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July Week 4
July 24, 2017 - Mon.
The Dumbster embarrasses the entire country with his self-praising tirade at the National Boy Scouts Jamboree, further proving that he is an unhinged lunatic.
Continues to attack Sessions, to get him to quit, so he can hire another do-my-bidding henchman.
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July 26, 2017 - Wed.
Stumpy trashes Sessions for a THIRD straight day!
"They are getting SO CLOSE! I need desperately to deflect and distract again."
"I know. I will ban all LGBTQ people from the military! YEAH! That will do it. They will forget all about Russia!"
WRONG!!
Little Donnie is going down.
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ย @mtmayhem933ย Secondly, weโre in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration โ President Obamaโs administration before this โ we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. What the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote wonโt be counted, it canโt be counted, weโre going to challenge it and all these things. If enough people vote, itโs going to overwhelm the system.
You see whatโs happening now, you guys know it as well as I do, you see the long, long lines and early voting. You see the millions of people who have already cast a ballot. And so, donโt be intimidated. If in fact you have any, any problem go to โ and I donโt have the number but itโs 833-DEM-VOTEโฆ Call that number. We have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them, theyโll answer the phone, if you think thereโs any challenge to your voting. Go to 833-DEM-VOTE, dial those letters on your phone. That will get you the assistance that we have already put in place.
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@Core Canvas 12 Contradictions Found in the KJV
Steve
December 15, 2013
KJV Errors,ย KJV Onlyism
22 Comments
I recently had a discussion with someone about the perfection and preservation of the KJV. In our discussion I pointed out several contradictions found in the KJV proving it wasnโt perfect. As you could probably guess it was simply ignored. I decided to list them here:
1. Mark 15:25 says โAnd it was theย third hour, and they crucified him.โ โ John 19:14-16 says โโฆabout theย sixth hourโฆthey cried outโฆcrucify himโฆ.Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified.โ
2. 2 Kings 24:8 says โJehoiachin wasย eighteen years oldย when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalemย three months.โ โ 2 Chronicles 36:9 says โJehoiachin wasย eight years oldย when he began to reign, and he reignedย three months and ten daysย in Jerusalemโฆโ
3. 2 Kings 8:26 says โTwo and twenty years oldย was Ahaziah when he began to reignโฆโ โ 2 Chronicles 22:2 says โForty and two years oldย was Ahaziah when he began to reignโฆโ
4. 2 Samuel 6:23 says โTherefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her deathโ โ 2 Samuel 21:8 says โBut the king tookโฆthe five sons of Michal the daughter of Saulโ
5. 2 Samuel 8:3-4 says โDavid smote alsoย Hadadezerโฆand took from himโฆseven hundred horsemenโฆโ โ 1 Chronicles 18:3-4 says โDavid smoteย Hadarezerโฆand took from himโฆseven thousandย horsemenโฆโ
6. Gen 32:30 states โโฆfor I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.โ โ John 1:18 states, โNo man hath seen God at any timeโฆโ
7. James 1:13 says โ..for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.โ โ Gen 22:1 says โAnd it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abrahamโฆโ
8. Matt 1:16 says, โAnd Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesusโฆโ โ Luke 3:23 says โAnd Jesusโฆthe son of Joseph, which was the son of Heliโ
9. Gen 2:17 says โBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: forย in the daythou eastest thereof thou shalt surely die โ Gen 5:5 says โAnd all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.โ
10. 1 Samuel 31:4-6 says โโฆSaul took a sword and fell upon it. And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead andโฆdied with him. So Saul diedโฆโ โ 2 Samuel 21:12 says โโฆthe Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa.โ
11. 2 Kings 25:8 says โAnd in the fifth month, on theย seventhย day of the monthโฆNebuzaradanโฆcameโฆunto Jerusalemโ โ Jeremiah 52:12 says โโฆin the fifth month, in theย tenthย day of the monthโฆcame Nebuzaradanโฆinto Jerusalemโ
12. 1 Kings 4:26 says โAnd Solomon hadย forty thousandย stalls of horses for his chariotsโฆโ โ 2 Chronicles 9:25 says โAnd Solomon hadย four thousandย stalls for horses and chariotsโฆโ
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ย @themorosepittbull257ย VOTER ID 101: THE RIGHT TO VOTE SHOULDN'T COME WITH BARRIERS
๏ฟผย ๏ฟผ
Introduction
Introduction
Since the founding of this country, Americans have fought for the right to vote.ย From the 15th and 19th Amendments to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, there have been many long, hard battles and many victories in the field of voting rights. But the fight is not over. In many ways, it is worse than ever.
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down a major provision of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder that required states and local governments to get federal approval before changing voting laws. These provisions were in place to stop racially discriminatory laws from being passed at the state level to curtail voting rights. Just two hours after the Supreme Court decision, the state of Texas passed the first version of a new voter ID law, which allowed citizens to vote with a concealed-carry gun permit, but not with a student ID card. As of this writing,ย 34 states have voter ID lawsย on the books, and 20 of those states require government-issued photo ID with limited or no alternatives.
So whatโs the problem with this?ย 21 million eligible votersin the United States do not have government-issued photo ID.ย And, for many, these IDs are very difficult to secure.
People have fought and died for the right to vote. Voter ID laws prevent people from exercising this right. If you live in a voter ID state, ย there is someone in your district who cannot vote because they donโt have the right ID. Lack of access to ID cards impacts people even in states without voter ID laws. Accessing a photo ID is much more challenging for the young, the elderly, ย people of color, and people with low incomes. All of these groups are more likely not to have photo ID, which means they arenโt authorized to work, and may not have access to their local shelter or food bank.
If you care about voter participation and making an impact at the polls in your district, getting IDs can not only change the electorate, but changes lives.
What Are Voter ID Laws?
What Are Voter ID Laws?
Voter ID laws are laws that say that a voter must show some form of identification to be able to vote.ย The exact form of ID necessary to vote varies from state to state. In some voter ID states, itโs as โsimpleโ as showing proof of residence like a utility bill or W-2. In states with strict voter ID laws, voters can be required to show ย a specific form of photo ID from a designated list (for example, a state driverโs license, passport, etc.).
Those who advocate for voter ID laws claim they prevent in-person voter fraud, but this is a myth.ย In person voter fraud is extremely rare. In aย 2014 study, only 31 cases were found out of more than 1 billion ballots cast in elections from 2000-2014. And those 31 included any and all credible claims, not just prosecutions and convictions.
In reality, voter ID laws are a powerful form of voter suppression.ย Millions of voters are prevented from using their voice at the polls because of voter ID lawsโand voter suppression doesnโt hit the whole country equally. Much like poll taxes and literacy tests of the Jim Crow days, these laws are created to prevent specifically targeted populations from voting. Voter ID laws target eligible voters who are less likely to have IDs. In reality, this means these laws suppress the vote from elderly, low-income and voters of color:
18 percentโor almost 6 millionโcitizens over the age of 65 do not have photo ID;
16 percent of Latino voters do not have government-issued photo ID;
25 percent of voting age African Americansโ5.5 million people โ do not have ID; and
15 percent of voting age Americans who earn less than $35,000 do not have ID.
These are some of the people who are prevented from voting by voter ID laws.
Why Donโt People Have ID?
Why Donโt People Have ID?
For many Americans, an ID seems like an easy thing to obtain. Everyone has one, right? Wrong. Think about it this way. The most common form of ID is a driverโs license. A lot of people donโt drive. Maybe they live in urban areas, are elderly, or canโt afford driverโs ed or a car. For those folks, driving is off the table. In some cases, people are working schedules that stop them from accessing the venues in which drivers license's could be obtained. That doesnโt mean voting should be off the table.
Even other forms of required ID can be hard for many people to come by. Other common forms of required ID include US passports, military ID, and (depending on the state), government or private employer IDs, tribal IDs, student IDs, and gun or hunting licenses. In practice, this means that if you donโt drive, donโt travel internationally, donโt have a job that gives you an ID, and donโt hunt or carry a gun, you canโt vote in many states. Youโll frequently hear the argument that a person has to have an ID to drive a car or buy alcoholโso why canโt we require ID to vote? Letโs be serious: driving a car and buying alcohol are not fundamental civil rights. Voting is.
What Does It Take to Get an ID?
Most states that pass voter ID laws create something called a free voter ID. Spoiler alert: these IDs are not actually free. In fact, they can get very expensive. In most states, multiple documents are required to get this โfreeโ ID, just like any other government-issued photo ID. Required documents can include a birth certificate, social security card, citizenship papers, proof of residency, and more. Many, many people do not have access to their birth certificates. People experiencing homelessness frequently do not have access to these documents, nor do ย people whoโve experienced natural disasters, those who move frequently or who just arenโt good at tracking paperwork! The problem is even worse for Americans born in Puerto Rico, a territory whichย invalidated all birth certificates issued before 2010ย in order to address identity theft issues. ย Not having a birth certificate is common and getting a replacement can be difficult, expensive, or both.
Even if someone has all of the required documents for a โfreeโ ID, transportation to the DMV or registrarโs office can be a challenge. After all, if you donโt have an ID, you donโt have a driverโs license. Most Americans do not live in cities with robust public transportation options, and even public transit can be expensive. People in rural areas have an even more difficult time getting to their DMV, which may be miles away. Even more troublingly: some states,ย like Alabama, paired their new voter ID laws with the closure of DMVs in predominantly Black areas.
So in order to vote in states with strict voter ID laws, a voter would need to:
Be aware of the type of IDs required to vote;
Obtain the right documentation;
Pay the cost of replacing any lost documentation;
Secure transportation; and finally ย
Overcome the very real fear of dealing with a bureaucracy that is traditionally hostile to low-income Americans and people of color.
Voting should not require overcoming so many barriers.ย We have fought these battles before and won. If we work together, we can win them again, and make sure every American has not just the right, but also the ability, to vote.
How Your Group Can Take Action
If the fight over voter ID laws seems like bad news, it is. But thereโs good news too: we can beat this. If we work together, we can help people obtain the IDs they need to vote. When voters come to the polls, theyโll be able to choose the leaders who best represent their interests. Only then can we get these laws repealed and ensure voting rights for everyone.
There Are Three Ways That You Can Make a Difference:
If you live in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, or Texas, connect your group toย Spread The Voteย who can train you and provide funding and infrastructure to help you get IDs in your community.
Donโt live in one of those states? Sign up for the Spread The Voteย newsletterย to find out when theyโre launching in a state near you.
If you donโt live in a voter ID state, you can still help those without ID get to the polls. Focus on voter registration, education, and GOTV efforts. Start talking to folks in your community early and go back often. Get to know their biggest issues and how voting, especially in local elections, can really affect their lives. Making elections personal and hyperlocal will demystify voting and illustrate why every vote really counts. Check outย Indivisible435ย for a guide on voter registration, and a voter registration tool you can use in your community.
Make noise. Contact your politicians, especially if you live in voter ID states. Write op-eds. Shout out loud that voter ID laws are unjust and how they affect elections in your district. Never let people think these laws are normal or fair.
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ย @thomasprairie8769ย Here's your stupid ๐. Pennsylvania Supreme Court denies another bid by Trump allies to halt election certification
A GOP congressmanโs lawsuit over mail-in voting was dismissed.
By
Matthew Mosk
ย and
Alex Hosenball
November 28, 2020, 9:29 PM ET
โขย 5 min read
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Trump running out of time as courts, recounts knockdown his election challengePresident Donald Trump has lost battles over his attempt to challenge the results of the election by pushing unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters, File
Another court ruling has gone against allies of the Trump campaign in their bid to halt certification of the 2020 presidentialย electionย in Pennsylvania, as the state's Supreme Court issued an order Saturday dismissing a recent court challenge focused on mail-in voting.
This election challenge was brought by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican, along with another GOP candidate for Congress, alleging that the state legislature had not legally passed the measure allowing for universal mail-in voting.
The plaintiffs called on the court to have Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar cancel all mail-in ballots or, if not, to empower the state legislature to appoint new electors. A trial judge on Tuesday had imposed a temporary injunction to pause the election certification process until the question could be resolved. Boockvar's office brought the matter immediately to the state Supreme Court.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the injunction on Saturday and dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the GOP cannot bring it back.
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ย @themarchhare1376ย Here are six facts about the proposed Keystone XL deal that make clear why the pipeline was a bad deal for America and why it deserved to be rejected:
1. Keystone XL Would Not Reduce Foreign Oil Dependency
The oil to be sent through Keystone XL pipeline was never destined for US markets. In its own presentation to investors about the proposed pipeline extension, TransCanada (the company behind Keystone XL) boasted that most if not all of the extracted and refined oil would be exported --- sold in oversees markets where oil fetches a higher price (and thus turns a higher profit for the company).
2. Keystone XL Would Have Increased Domestic Oil Prices
Currently, Canadian oil reserves stored in the Midwest help suppress gas prices in the United States, particularly for farmers in our nationโs heartland.
In its permit application for the pipeline, TransCanada noted that the Keystone XL pipeline would allow the company to drain these reserves and export that fuel as well. According to TransCanadaโs own statements, this would raise gas prices in the United States, especially in the Midwest.
3. Keystone XL Overstated Number of Jobs to be Created
In 2008, TransCanadaโs original permit application to the State Department said the Keystone XL pipeline would create โa peak workforce of approximately 3,500 to 4,200 construction personnelโ in temporary jobs building the pipeline.
By 2011, now facing growing opposition to the pipeline, TransCanada had inflated these numbers (using undisclosed formulas) to 20,000. Supporters of the proposal, backed by big oil, have since trumpeted these trumped up numbers.
4. Current Keystone Pipeline Leaked 12 Times in Last Year
The pipeline that the Obama administration has rejected the permit for would be an extension of a pipeline that has already leaked -- not just once, but 12 times in the last year.
While TransCanada tried to dismiss these leaks as โminorโ averaging โjust five to 10 gallons of oilโ each, the leak on May 7, 2011 near Millner, N.D., spilled about 21,000 gallons of oil in total.
5. The Environmental Concerns About Oil Leaks Are Justified
Nebraskaโs Republican Governor Dave Heineman strongly opposed the Keystone XL project because the pipeline would run through a massive and vital aquifer in his state the supplies clean drinking water to over 2 million Americans plus water that fuels the regionโs agriculture industry.
Building the pipeline might have created a few thousand temporary jobs but even a minor oil spill in or near the aquifer would have jeopardized hundreds of thousands of jobs, not to mention the health and safety of millions.
Meanwhile, in Michigan where a similar tar sands pipeline spilled over 840,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River in 2010, residents are still complaining of headaches, dizziness and nausea while studies continue to look at the long-term effects of just being near such an oil spill when it happens.
6. Mining Tar Sands Would Worsen Global Warming
Assuming you believe, like the vast majority of the worldโs scientists, that climate change is both real and of concern, the Canadian tar sands are the second largest carbon reserve in the world.
Mining these reserves would release all of that carbon into the atmosphere, to detrimental effect on our environment. Sure, Canada might go ahead and mine the tar sands anyway, but the United States doesnโt have to help pollute the planet and our own states in the process.
No matter how you look at it, the Keystone XL proposal was a slimy, scam of a deal. America is better than that.
We can create good-paying jobs that build our families and our economy for the future without hurting our environment today.
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Trumpโs Biggest Lies From His โMeet the Pressโ Interview
Peter Wade
Sun, December 8, 2024 at 11:45 AM EST
13,099 Murderers
Trump claimed that the U.S. had โ13,099 murderers released into our country over the last three yearsโ who were undocumented immigrants.ย That claim is false.
Trump may have pulled that numberย from a letterย the deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent to Rep. Tony Gonzales that listed โthe number of noncitizens on ICEโs docket convicted or charged with a crime.โ
On the letter, ICE lists 13,099 non-citizens who had been convicted or charged with homicide who are living in the U.S. and who are on ICEโs โnon-detained docket,โ but those numbers are from not just the Biden administration but all administrations over the last 40 years, including Trumpโs. Plus, not all of those people listed are walking free. The list includes those who are currently in jail or prison but who are not being held in immigration detention.
Welker confronted Trump with that fact, saying, โThe 13,000 figure I think goes back about 40 years.โ
โNope. No it doesnโt,โ Trump said. โItโs within the three-year period. Itโs during the Biden term. No, that was a fiction that they put that out. This was done by the border patrol. Itโs 13,099 and itโs during the Biden period of time. And these are murderers, many of whom murdered more than one person. You donโt want those people in this country.โ
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ย @BOL2487ย I'm not religious and christianity isn't one either. It's a family of believers in Christ. God is not just a immortal being, but the holy father as well. We are commanded to love another. That's basic of christianity, it isn't entirely about worship alone, but unconditional love for all mankind. Religion only includes worships, but does not include love. Put simply, Your mother and father is head of the family, well, so is God and Jesus. Your family consists of brothers and sisters, well so does the family of christianity. When a brother or sister acts out of line against the family rules, there will be consequences, same is true in the family of christianity, but those consequences are spiritual, but can be manifested physically as well. Like any family, we are a group of individuals, but function as one body and love for one another keeps the family together. That's what christianity is all about. ๐๐
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ย @ivan4507ย Stupid argument? You believe he's not real, but you're not even dead yet to know that. God is immortal meaning existing without a body. But you spent your entire life on the fact that he doesn't exist simply because you haven't experienced him nor have you seen him. That's funny because you meet God everyday through the lives of others whom you come in contact with. The good in people and the evil in people. God is everything that exists in the earth and beyond it. God is Life. God is death. God is everything that happens in between. But you're expecting a magical being to just appear and say, hello I'm God. ๐ And because he doesn't, you have accepted that he doesn't exist. ๐ You claim God doesn't exist, but it was God Who designed every organ in your body. Your brain, your heart, your liver, your spleen, your lungs, etc. God created a magnificent living machine of flesh that can think for itself, reason for itself, learn to adapt to environments and be able to become self aware of it's own destiny. Man thinks he's so much better off not believing in a Creator, but still haven't conquered death. ๐ Until man finds a way to end death of all life and I don't mean living a long life, I mean ENDING DEATH PERIOD! Until man can pull that off, he's in No Position to dictate that GOD doesn't exist! ๐คจ
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ย @veganpottertheveganย
MODERN SPORTING RIFLE: INTRODUCTION
Understanding Americaโs Rifle
The term โmodern sporting rifleโ was coined to describe todayโs very popular semiautomatic rifle designs, including the AR-15 and its offspring. These rifles are used by hunters, competitors, a lot of Americans seeking home-defense guns and by many others who simply enjoy going to the range.
Though modern sporting rifles are increasingly popular, they are too often misunderstood.
The central reason these firearms are misunderstood is political. Though the semiautomatic design used in todayโs pistols, rifles and shotguns was invented in the late-nineteenth century and was popularly sold to consumers in America and Europe in the early twentieth century, the modern sporting rifle has been called a โweapon of warโ by those who want to ban them.
Though some modern sporting rifles might cosmetically look like fully automatic rifles the military uses, modern sporting rifles by law have many internal differences.
To dispel the myths about modern sporting rifles so that we can have honest and factual discussions about them here are the facts about these rifles.
Modern Sporting Rifle Facts
Modern sporting rifles are among the most popular firearms being sold today.
The โARโ in โAR-15โ rifle stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s. โARโ does NOT stand for โassault rifleโ or โautomatic rifle.โ
AR-15-style rifles are NOT โassault weaponsโ or โassault rifles.โ An assault rifle is fully automatic, a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.
If someone calls an AR-15-style rifle an โassault weapon,โ then theyโve been duped by an agenda. The only real way to define what is an โassault weaponโ is politically, as in how any given law chooses to define the termโthis is why the states that have banned this category of semiautomatic firearms have done so with very different definitions.
AR-15-style rifles can look like military rifles, such as the M-16, but by law they function like other semiautomatic civilian sporting firearms, as they fire only one round with each pull of the trigger.
Versions of modern sporting rifles are legal to own in most states, provided the purchaser passes the mandatory FBI background check required for all retail firearm purchasers.
Since Americaโs founding, civilian sporting rifles have evolved along with military firearms. The modern sporting rifle simply follows that pattern.
These riflesโ accuracy, reliability, ruggedness and versatility serve target shooters and hunters well. They are true all-weather firearms.
Modern sporting rifles are chambered in .22 LR, .223 (5.56 x 45mm), 6.8 SPC, .308, .450 Bushmaster and in many other calibers. Upper receivers for pistol calibers such as 9 mm, .40, and .45 are available. There are even .410 shotgun versions.
These rifles are used for many different types of hunting, from varmint to big game. And theyโre used for target shooting and in competitions.
AR-15-style rifles are no more powerful than other hunting rifles of the same caliber and in most cases are chambered in calibers less powerful than common big-game hunting cartridges like the .30-06 Springfield and .300 Win. Mag.
The AR-15 platform is modular. Owners like being able to affix different โuppersโ (the barrel and chamber) to the โlowerโ (the grip, stock).
They have been commercially sold to the American public since the 1960s.
They are commonly-owned, with more than 16 million modern sporting rifles owned by civilians by 2018.
And, they are a lot of fun to shoot!
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@stimmo77 Secondly, weโre in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration โ President Obamaโs administration before this โ we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. What the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote wonโt be counted, it canโt be counted, weโre going to challenge it and all these things. If enough people vote, itโs going to overwhelm the system.
You see whatโs happening now, you guys know it as well as I do, you see the long, long lines and early voting. You see the millions of people who have already cast a ballot. And so, donโt be intimidated. If in fact you have any, any problem go to โ and I donโt have the number but itโs 833-DEM-VOTEโฆ Call that number. We have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them, theyโll answer the phone, if you think thereโs any challenge to your voting. Go to 833-DEM-VOTE, dial those letters on your phone. That will get you the assistance that we have already put in place.
READ THE ENTIRE STATEMENT! HE WAS REFERRING TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN YOU CONTEXT CLIPPERS!!!
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ย @writeongalย Keystone XL Pipeline Environmental Impact
Leaks and the pipeline
Tar sands oil is thicker, more acidic, andย more corrosiveย than lighter conventional crude, and this ups the likelihood thatย a pipeline carrying it will leak. Indeed,ย one studyย found that between 2007 and 2010, pipelines moving tar sands oil in Midwestern states spilled three times more per mile than the U.S. national average for pipelines carrying conventional crude. Since it first went into operation in 2010, TC Energyโs original Keystone Pipeline System has leakedย more than a dozen times; one incident in North Dakota sent a 60-foot, 21,000-gallon geyser of tar sands oil spewing into the air. Less than two years before the project was finally pulled, the Keystone tar sands pipeline was temporarily shut down after a spill in North Dakota of reportedly more than 383,000 gallons in lateย October 2019. And the risk that Keystone XL would have spilled was heightened because of the extended time the pipe segments were left sitting outside in stockpiles. โA study published in early 2020, co-authored by TC Energyโs own scientists, found that the anti-corrosion coating on the projectโs pipes was damaged from being stored outside and exposed to the elements for the last decade,โ notes NRDC senior attorneyย Jaclyn Prange, who has spent years working on KXL litigation.
It was plaqued with problems from the start. It would have hurt the economy in the long run. The cost of maintenance far exceed the benefits of the pipeline. With the stroke of a pen, boom gone.
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ย Chad Thomasย No, it's not a mental illness. Well for those who play dress up but don't take it seriously, then yeah. But for those who want to have a sex change, no, it's not a mental illness.
This might be a little hard for you to accept but ......Men are capable of breastfeeding. Men have faint amount milk in the breast from which a baby can suck on and be fed. Also, by increasing the amount of estrogen in a man will he be able to grow long hair, feminine features, high pitch voice and soft skin. Males are part female, the embryo is female by default, if no Y chromosome is introduced in the development of the embryo, it automatically becomes a girl straightforward. So males come from females. And that's why it's a male can become a female. Also, the male penis comes from what would have been the female vagina during the development of the crossover from female to male. So how about that, you were a embryo transgender; transformed from female to male.
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5 counts of attempted murder, Reckless driving, public endangerment, 5 counts of attempted vehicular homicide, 5 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, felony evasion to avoid arrest, speeding, failure to yield, red light traffic running violation, felony possession of a firearm, 1 count of felony discharge of a deadly weapon, 1 count of assault on an officer with a deadly weapon.
He's in a world of trouble.๐ณ Goodbye sunshine. โ๏ธ๐ฎโโ๏ธ
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