What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
An unfortunate and ironic typo from the White House Snapchat account had social media buzzing Monday afternoon.President Trump and First Lady Melania welcomed families to the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll.During the event, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos met with participants. The Snapchat account titled her “Secretary of Educatuon.”
White House Snapchat account makes unfortunate typo | WGN-TV
lololololol
The perpetually aggrieved Vermont senator helps himself to a modest lakefront property.
Bernie Sanders Buys His Third House | Vanity Fair
$600k. Hmmmmmm, not quite the billionaire lifestyle but certainly pretty close to it.
Senators in New Hampshire have passed a bill that would exempt digital currency traders from money transmission regulations.
Bitcoin MSB Exemption Goes to New Hampshire Governor for Approval – CoinDesk
Roll out the red carpet for the psycho Free-Staters, why doncha?
“Marijuana is not a factor in the drug war,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly said Sunday.
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Appearances to the contrary, Sanders was not a union organizer, but rather a longtime member of the Senate. And if Clinton had more support from the Democratic party, that was due in large part to the relationships she had cultivated over the years, working with others – something Sanders was not particularly good at. Nonetheless, for weeks during the early months of the primary, I listened to 19-year-olds and media pundits alike lavish praise on Bernie Sanders for his bold, revolutionary message, and scorn Hillary for being a part of the establishment.
He was seen as authentic in his progressivism while she was pushed to the left by political expediency – as though a lifetime of fighting for equality and children’s rights meant nothing. He was the champion of the working class (conveniently ignoring that black and white women were members, and that their issues were also working class issues), but her longstanding commitments to universal health care, child care, paid sick leave, racial justice, the repeal of the Hyde amendment, and narrowing the wage gap between working men and women apparently evaporated because she’d accepted well-paid invitations to speak at Goldman Sachs.
Later, the news media even let Sanders get away with describing Planned Parenthood and NARAL as “establishment” when he didn’t get their endorsement. They made little of it when he described abortion as a social issue (as though loss of control over one’s reproductive life has no impact on one’s economic survival). They accepted, without question, his descriptions of himself as an activist for feminist causes, when all he had done was vote the right way in the Senate. They posted pictures of him being arrested at a protest against the University of Chicago’s real estate investments, while making no mention of the work Hillary had done, when she was the same age, investigating racist housing practices with Marian Wright Edelman. Clinton’s emails and her “trust problems” were the only stories about her they were interested in reporting.
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A 3,500-year-old tomb with several mummies, sarcophagi and statues was found in the Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis.
Archaeologists make major discovery in Egypt’s Luxor | Egypt News | Al Jazeera
Amazing.
Gwangju, South Korea—When I arrived at Incheon International Airport near Seoul on April 2 to start a two-month stay in South Korea, I was immediately struck by the sharp contrasts between America and this bustling country of 50 million.
In South Korea, War Hysteria Is Seen as an American Problem | The Nation
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Days after Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh lost the December election, the prisons started emptying but Isatu Kanyi is still waiting for her husband.
Gambian wife’s anguish over missing husband – BBC News
sigh….
The man tipped to be President Donald Trump’s US ambassador to New Zealand is a former naked centrefold and supports the use of waterboarding.
Man tipped for US ambassador role in NZ a former nude model who supports waterboarding
Bu-bye, Baker!
An eastern Kentucky coal mining company on Tuesday announced its plans to build what could become the state’s largest solar farm on a reclaimed mountaintop strip mine
Coal company plans huge solar farm on strip mine
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The last story you will ever need to read about Rachel Dolezal.
mmmhmmm.
The US car giant says it will ‘take all legal actions’ to defend its interests.
GM says Venezuelan car plant is seized by government – BBC News
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Hawaii’s two Democratic senators fired back at Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday for saying that a federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s immigration order hailed from “an island in the Pacific.”
Hawaii Lawmakers Fire Back at Sessions for ‘Island in the Pacific’ Comment – NBC News
oy….
“The fourth-down conversion conversion by Danny Amendola, where is Danny?” Trump said, looking back to the players behind him for Amendola before apparently being told Amendola wasn’t there. “Way to go, Danny.”
Trump seemed to go out of his way to avoid mentioning players who weren’t on the White House trip, which made the Amendola moment stand out. He praised Trey Flowers for a Super Bowl sack, but didn’t mention Dont’a Hightower, whose strip-sack was probably the biggest play of the game. Hightower wasn’t at the White House. Trump mentioned lesser-known players like Matthew Slater, Nate Ebner, Marcus Cannon and the offensive line, but didn’t mention James White, who scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime of the Super Bowl. White reportedly wasn’t at the White House visit.
And, notably, Trump never mentioned quarterback Tom Brady, undeniably the team’s biggest star. Brady didn’t go to the White House, citing a family situation. Brady and Trump are friends, but Brady has avoided talking about Trump for months.
President Trump welcomes Patriots to White House, leaves Tom Brady out of remarks
What a pathetic, butt-hurt little toddler.
Awww, did the poor whittle orange Cheeto get blown off by half the team?
Did he get a lame, unsigned helmet instead of the cool one they brought to Obama?
Did they have to zoom in on the phot with the team to make it less obvious that the players who attended hardly filled the steps they take the picture on?
Wah, wah, weh… All the way home.
He is thought to be the first immigrant protected by the DACA program to be deported under the Trump administration.
A 23-year-old ‘Dreamer’ sues the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico – LA Times
Figures. Trump doesn’t deliver on his agreements, why should the federal government honor any of their own deals while he is in office?
Then as violent crime rates fell under George W Bush and prisons became clogged, prosecutions eased. The war on drugs fell out of fashion. Barack Obama called it “unproductive” and sent memos guiding prosecutors away from pursuing low-level offenders.
Now a new administration looks set to turn back the clock. Attorney General Jeff Sessions likes to reminisce about the aggressive law enforcement of the 80s and 90s and recently labelled cannabis “only slightly less awful” than heroin.
…Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people in prison for drug offences increased more than 10-fold, from 40,900 to 469,545, and the average sentence more than tripled, according to data compiled by the Sentencing Project. The majority of them were low-level offenders with no criminal record.
…A 2013 study published in the British Medical Journal found that since 1990 US drug prices nationwide had fallen while purity increased. And a 2012 study by the University of Florida found that the threat of severe punishment was “generally weak and insignificant” at deterring drug crime or lowering addiction rates.
Officers rue the return of US ‘war on drugs’ – BBC News
It is beyond hard to belive that Sessions or any of his cronies could possibly be that stupid. They the War on Drugs didn’t do the country any favors but they simply seems not to care. Just another way for the old, rich, white guys to beat down and separate everyone else.
Incompetent, asinine, racist hacks.
At Wednesday’s oral arguments, a clear majority of justices seemed troubled by a Missouri policy that bars state money from going to religious schools for playground improvements.
In Supreme Court Church-State Missouri Playground Case, Justices Lean Toward Church : NPR
hmmmm
New revelations about slave markets in Libya are just the latest in a string of horrors in the troubled state.
Dear ghod….
a friend posted this recently on facebook.
…A if it was earth shattering news or something.
Um, duh???
sheesh.
A dispute over whether the US government deported an undocumented immigrant with protected status heated up Wednesday, as the Department of Homeland Security released further details about the case.
This man’s deportation is testing Trump’s murky stance on DACA – CNNPolitics.com
sigh….
So now DHS is lying or at least in a pissing he said, she said match with a young person? GRrrrreat. Way to lower the bar to kindergarten tantrum tactics assholes.
“We were worried about everything,” Hickenlooper tells Yahoo News. “We were worried about kid usage going up, people coming into work high, the branding of the state. We haven’t seen anything negative in regard to any of those things.”
…”Reefer Madness and all the hysteria that surrounded marijuana in the 1950s and earlier made us so cynical about the whole thing — and that lesson tempers how we market the risks to teenagers so that they’ll hear it.”
…The attorney general just ordered the Justice Department to review its policy on pot. What are you going to do if Sessions tries to crack down on marijuana in your state?
Well, you know, Amendment 64 passed 55 percent to 45 percent here. Polls show it’s over 60 percent approval now. I took a solemn oath to uphold the Constitution of the state of Colorado. Our voters put marijuana into our Constitution. I don’t really have too much choice, the way I look at it.
Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper warily learns to live with pot
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A video has emerged of a woman being lashed in public with a cane in footage showing Indonesia’s brutal Sharia law punishment, which is filmed by dozens of civilians gathered to watch.
Indonesian woman lashed in brutal Sharia law punishment | Daily Mail Online
Sharia or a live S&M porn act done against the woman’s will?
With how much the man with the cane seems to be enjoying himself, it’s a little tough to tell. Methinks a bunch of the holier-than-thou monsters in the audience came in their pants watching this. What pathetic, weak excuses for men!
Ivanka Trump secured three trademarks for her goods in China on the same day she met Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, it has been revealed.
Ivanka Trump ‘won China trademarks as she dined with President Xi Jinping’
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Evacuations from four besieged areas of Syria resumed on Wednesday, Syrian state television, a Hezbollah media unit and a war monitor reported, days after a suicide bombing killed dozens in a convoy which was part of the same reciprocal agreement.
Syria evacuations resume days after deadly bus attack – World – CBC News
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But Trump and the firm will have to get through Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup first, along with about 90 other landowners in the path of the pipeline.
They are mostly farmers and ranchers, making a last stand against the pipeline – the fate of which now rests with an obscure state regulatory board, the Nebraska Public Service Commission.
…Backed by conservation groups, the Nebraska opponents plan to cast the project as a threat to prime farming and grazing lands – vital to Nebraska’s economy – and a foreign company’s attempt to seize American private property.
They contend the pipeline will provide mainly temporary jobs that will vanish once construction ends, and limited tax revenues that will decline over time.
Last stand: Nebraska farmers could derail Keystone XL pipeline | Reuters
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