The Senate’s health care bill actually cuts the program massively.
Category Archives: Fail!
Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-lift’ – The New York Times – This is the Trump that his supporters love – “thumbing nose” at anyone who annoys him! Not Presidential but they do not care
Stepsister, Yes; Grandma, No: U.S. Sets Guidelines for Revised Travel Ban – The New York Times – trying to reach daily quota for “dumb” early in the day!
Stepsiblings and half-siblings are allowed, but not nieces or nephews. Sons- and daughters-in-law are in, but brothers- and sisters-in-law are not. Parents, including in-laws, are considered “close family,” but grandparents are not.
It Isn’t About the Damn Cake | Dame Magazine
Justice Neil Gorsuch has already indicated that he won’t look favorably on an expansive view of LGBTQ rights. He dissented from the Court’s opinion in Pavan v. Smith, a case where Arkansas refused to place both names of a female same-sex couple on a birth certificate even though they automatically do so for a male-female couple. Dissenting in that case showed that Gorsuch doesn’t really consider the Court’s landmark same-sex marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, settled law, and that he will make LGBTQ people fight tooth and nail for every possible right. At first glance, whether or not a bakery refuses to bake a cake for a same-sex couple doesn’t necessarily seem as terrible, objectively, as those instances where people seek to deny LGBTQ people things like mental-health treatment or, worse still, impose horrifying conversion therapy upon them. However, they all spring from the same discriminatory impulse: the notion, a wholly anti-American one, that you can treat people differently if you don’t agree with who they are.
Inoreader – EID Journal: A New Bat-HKU2–like Coronavirus in Swine, China, 2017
“Bats get out of control and produce more viruses when humans create more fruit plantations – there has been a huge increase in date fruit production in Saudia Arabia – home of the MERS outbreak.”
The study shows that bats carry a significantly higher proportion of viruses able to infect people than any other group of mammals; and it identifies the species and geographic regions on the planet with the highest number of yet-to-be discovered, or ‘missing’, viruses likely to infect people. This work provides a new way to predict where and how we should work to identify and pre-empt the next potential viral pandemic before it emerges.
Source: Inoreader – EID Journal: A New Bat-HKU2–like Coronavirus in Swine, China, 2017
Facebook’s secret rules mean that it’s ok to be anti-Islam, but not anti-gay | Ars Technica
In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a US congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,” declared US Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. “Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.”Higgins’ plea for violent revenge went untouched by Facebook workers who scour the social network deleting offensive speech.But a May posting on Facebook by Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado drew a different response.”All white people are racist. Start from this reference point, or you’ve already failed,” Delgado wrote. The post was removed, and her Facebook account was disabled for seven days.
Source: Facebook’s secret rules mean that it’s ok to be anti-Islam, but not anti-gay | Ars Technica
Kushner’s first foray into Mideast peace reveals challenges ahead – AKA: FAIL!
Palestinian officials contacted by Al-Monitor said they felt abandoned by the United States as their negotiating team left little leeway for Abbas to be able to show something for his efforts and attempts to keep the lid on the brewing public discontent with him. The biggest problem for the Palestinian president comes from families of prisoners and martyrs, as these families are worried that they will be sacrificed for an unknown process that has little chance to succeed.
Source: Kushner’s first foray into Mideast peace reveals challenges ahead
Police release transcripts of interviews with officers in Charleena Lyles shooting | No attempt to stop her – just rely on “accepted” excuse – “feared for my life” and shoot to kill.
McNew told investigators Lyles had him trapped in the kitchen and was closing the distance between them. “And at that point, fearing for what was about to happen, what she would do to me, um, being stuck in that spot, I fired my handgun,”
Kashmir: School students, women take up rocks, sticks against Indian forces – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
India and Pakistan continue to clash over disputed Kashmir, and the volatile Himalayan region has experienced an armed insurgency for more than two decades.Many Kashmiris are now fed up with both Islamabad and New Delhi.The inability of Indian authorities to rein in the separatist movement has led many Kashmir analysts to suggest that India is losing grip on the situation.
Black St Louis police officer shot by white colleague ‘fearing for his safety’
The off-duty officer heard the commotion from his home nearby and rushed to the scene with his department-issued weapon. Two officers ordered the off-duty officer to the ground, but then recognized him and told him to stand up and walk toward them.As he was doing so, another officer arrived and “apparently not recognizing” him, shot the off-duty officer, police said.The officer who shot the off-duty officer is 36 years old and has been with the department more than eight years.




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