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Linda Vester talks about NBC's failure to further investigate troubling accusations.
An old story. Thank you Graham .
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office.
After his check up, the doctor called his wife into his
office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very
serious disease, combined with horrible stress. If you don't
do the following, your husband can die. Each morning, fix him
a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant and make sure he is in a
good mood. For lunch, fix him a nutritious meal. For dinner,
prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him
with chores. Don't discuss your stress; this will probably
make him feel worse. And most importantly, you must be
intimate with your husband every day of the week. If you can
do this for at least 10 months to a year, I think your
husband will regain his health completely."
On the way home, the husband asked his wife, "What did the
doctor say to you?"
"You're going to die."
This is off "The Morning Jolt" column on National Review. And it was used many, many times. Where were the protests then? FULL DISCLOSURE: I was tear gassed once in the Kingston Jamaica International Airport Arrivals terminal. Around Christmas, 1979. The police were dispersing a crowd bringing in Christmas gifts outside the terminal and the wind changed. Not pleasant but also not devastating. A point is made in the very last sentence.
From the coverage of the Customs and Border Patrol using tear gas, one could easily be led to believe that this was an unprecedented escalation in tactics from the Trump administration.
Nope.
The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during the later years of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to Homeland Security data.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in fiscal 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office.
Use of CS rose again in fiscal 2017, which was split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.
Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.
A recent Washington Post article about the use of tear gas by the Border Patrol talks a lot about the Chemical Weapons Convention, the use of poison gas in World War I, and Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons — as if any of that is comparable to the use of tear gas. The Chemical Weapons Convention explicitly says, “Riot control agents may not be used as a method of warfare but may be used for certain law enforcement purposes including riot control.”
In 2008, the National Review crew was in Saint Paul, Minn., covering the Republican National Convention. Mark Hemingway and I were on our way to tape a “Red Meat” video — remember those? — when we encountered a clash between protesters and police in riot gear. Police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters and then . . . the wind shifted. Those of us watching the clash from what we thought was a safe distance away found ourselves with watery eyes and burning nostrils. (If you feel the need to simulate the experience, find your nearest pepper shaker, remove the cap, hold it right up against your nostril, and inhale deeply.)
It’s unpleasant. But if this tool is unacceptable for dispersing crowds, what tool is acceptable? Rubber bullets can kill people in the wrong circumstances. Water cannons evoke images of the violent crackdown on civil-rights protests. The aim is to avoid physical confrontation between police and the rioters as much as possible.
FactCheck.org examined the use of tear gas after the Ferguson protests in 2014:
“There are few immediate alternatives to tear gas for riot control. There are strategies to prevent riots, including better community relations, a less militaristic appearance, and improved training, all of which have been raised in relation to Ferguson. But once rioting is under way, police need tools to control it — and “even though tear gas is far from perfect,” said David A. Koplow, a Georgetown University law professor, “it continues to be used in that role because there’s nothing else better.”
The current effort to demonize the use of tear gas is offered by folks who don’t really want to see crowds of migrants rushing the border stopped.
This is sad. Back in the day SpongeBob got lots of airtime in Farandaville. Hillenburg had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, perhaps better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was 57.
Here's a bit of SpongeBob with his pal Patrick. Good for children of all ages - 6 to 90.
Yup. Not a joke but still amusing.
We do not listen to our bodies enough, but the toilet is listening every time we use it.
“At the moment these are a mishmash of technologies rather than a single device, but the aim is to combine them together into a smart toilet," added Mr Lindenmayer.
“You don't need to monitor for everything, as you can get a lot of information about your health from a few key pieces of data.
“The idea is that people will connect their phone to the toilet and get information about their health. If it sees something amiss, then they would go to the doctor for more detailed tests.”
The ESA is currently looking for companies who will adapt their technology for use in smart toilets.
By putting sensors into public toilets, it would allow health officials to track and predict the spread of diseases in communities, giving a vital early warning of outbreaks.
Wow! At a really nice event at Fairfield on Saturday, the 17th, with a big turnout of Fairfield rugby people. Well-deserved and I love it. Besides playing at Fairfield (Colin two years ahead of me) we played a lot of successful rugby together for Essex in the 70's. In fact Colin played for the the Metropolitan Union All Star team in 1976 against France. And acquitted himself quite well (NY still lost however). Colin coached through the nineties with the Met Union and was amazingly successful as a coach. He kept things simple and got everything he could out of his players. Picture to the right is Colin around 1977. More pix down below.
"The Chief" - he gave a great talk as he was interviewed at the Awards dinner!
Here I am (It's always all about me) with Betsy Kiley in August, 2009 outside of Chuck's Steakhouse (the one in Danbury not the one that only recently closed in Hawaii). Brigid took the picture - note t shirt. It's great to be youngerish...
One more - from 1976.
A great & unique rugby guy - and he had a wonderful career as an educator in Connecticut. GO COLIN GO!
Gross. Is his point that a ban needs to be done at the State level?
A federal judge dismissed charges Tuesday against several Michigan doctors accused of mutilating the genitals of numerous underage girls, ruling that the federal prohibition against the practice is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman argued that the 22-year-old federal law prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM), which went unused until last year, constitutes federal overreach.
“There is nothing commercial or economic about FGM,” Friedman wrote in a 28-page opinion. “FGM is not part of a larger market and it has no demonstrated effect on interstate commerce. The Commerce Clause does not permit Congress to regulate a crime of this nature.”
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested in April 2017 and accused of leading a criminal conspiracy that involved multiple doctors and resulted in the mutilation of nine girls over the course of twelve years. The practice, which is universally recognized as a gross violation of human rights, is traditional among the Dawoodi Bohra, the Muslim sect to which Nagarwala and his co-conspirators belong.
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In response to the case, Michigan governor Rick Snyder signed new laws prohibiting the practice of FGM, but as those laws applied only to future violations, the defendants in this case were charged under the old federal statute. Twenty-three other states, however, do not have laws banning the practice, leading critics of the judge’s ruling to suggest that parents intent on mutilating their daughters for religious purposes will simply travel to states where they can do so legally.
“It’s a giant step backward in the protection of women’s and girls’ rights,” Shelby Quast, the Americas director of equality for the rights organization Equality Now, told the Detroit News. “Especially when there is a global movement to eliminate this practice.”
“Parents are aware of where there are laws against it and where there are not,” she said. “And they will take advantage of that.”
A blowout; Stepinac was ahead 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. Video below, and hit the link for the Journal News coverage. It means Stepinac is still the king of Catholic high school football in New York, with three state championships in the last four years.
UPDATE: Mexico is denying this.
This references the caravan moving north.
From USA Today so you know (1) it must be true and (2) it's a short article. The picture is a Sivatherium in Africa - extinct only since about 8,000 years ago! They are pictured in cave drawings. So here's one where human activity may have had an impact. But see below - quite interesting.
The animal decline might have instead been because of environmental factors such as declining atmospheric carbon dioxide and expansion of grasslands, researchers write.
"Low CO2 levels favor tropical grasses over trees, and as a consequence savannas became less woody and more open through time," John Rowan, a postdoctoral scientist from the University of Massachusetts Amherst who was involved in the research, said in a statement. "We know that many of the extinct megaherbivores fed on woody vegetation, so they seem to disappear alongside their food source."
Analysis suggests 28 lineages of megaherbivores went extinct, starting around 4.6 million years ago, according to lead author Tyler Faith, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah. Today, only elephants, hippopotamuses, giraffes and white and black rhinoceroses exist.
University of Oxford, U.K., researchers cautioned that it isn't exactly clear when humans began affecting large animal populations, but there is strong evidence that human impact played a role in losses tens of thousands of years ago.
"The causes of megaherbivore decline are probably complex, multidimensional, and varied across time and space," René Bobe and Susana Carvalho wrote in the same issue of Science.
The newly discovered journal seems to indicate that just after giving thanks for the meal, one Pilgrim from England drank too much mead and began to rant about “making the colonies great again,” kicking off several hours of hostile glances, passive-aggressive remarks, and flat-out argumentation.
Arguments centered around “common sense musket control” raged as one Pilgrim mother complained about the large quantity of wheellock muskets left lying around without observing proper gun safety rules, while at the other end of the table, a fistfight broke out over a Ten Commandment display in front of the Plymouth General Court.
OMG! "Parasite in Turkeys ... People's TV took over..."
Number of exorcisms is rising. I get that plenty of people take the idea of Satan and demonic possession as medieval, a fairy tale, etc. But I don't. Here is an interesting posting on the Catholic League website. An excerpt below the link - it only takes five minutes to read the whole thing if you hit the link. And it references this article in the December edition of The Atlantic. The Atlantic - certainly not a religious publication.
The priest begins by sending the person making the request to a psychiatrist for evaluation. That’s the end of the line for most: they receive the mental health care they need, but are no longer considered a candidate for an exorcism. Still, there are some who defy the standard explanation for a person’s serious mental condition; they may be a candidate for an exorcism.
It is not just priests, or Catholics, who believe that there are persons seeking help who are beyond the scope of experts. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of Columbia University’s psychiatric department, says he knows of some cases where it “could not be explained in terms of normal human physiology or natural laws.”
Who are the most likely candidates for an exorcism? Approximately 8 in 10 are survivors of sexual abuse. Mariani explains why. “The exorcists—to be clear—aren’t saying sexual abuse torments people to such an extent that they come to believe they’re possessed; the exorcists contend that abuse fosters the conditions for actual demonic possession to take hold.”
From a Catholic perspective, this is daunting. It suggests that those who do such evil acts as sexual abuse create the fodder that attracts the devil to victimize the victim again. If this is true, the offenders are responsible for much more than molestation, and will have to answer for it.
Here on amazon - "Becoming".
Nice two minutes off PBS -
News flash as we get the jump on CNN -
The now-executed turkey, Drumstick, had reportedly lived a quiet and productive life on a farm in the U.S for years, but was sentenced to die for Thanksgiving this year. Tapping a team of ACLU lawyers for his defense team, Drumstick appealed to the highest court in the land, gaining national attention before Trump intervened, agreeing to offer the turkey a pardon as part of an annual White House tradition.
The turkey is survived by his family, who are currently hiding in a sancutary city to avoid deportation or execution.
UPDATE: An email from one of my correspondents, who wishes to remain un-named. "He must NOT quit his day job! Ever since he was featured in Key&Peele's "Anger Translator" video, he has been under the mistaken idea that he is a comedian or the next Johnny Carson. Heeeere's Barry! BIden as Ed McMahon. No shortage of guests! Not sure why someone as entertaining as he, doesn't have his own show yet, he's had 2 years."
Hard to out-blowhard Trump but he's just about there. The video is about two minutes long. He's so clever. So smart. "Only partly joking..." he says.
Here he is on one of his last TV appearances - Jay Leno, in 2001. He was 79 and died three years later.
This youtube video has been watched 2.1 million times.
Yay! After starting their season at 1-4 Stepinac completely turned it around! They beat Iona in the league semi-final and then Cardinal Hayes in the final (see both below) to win the Metropolitan area championship and will play St. Francis from upstate this Saturday at Stepinac.
Stepinac comes back to beat Hayes and keep grip on CHSFL title
That's what Stepinac did Saturday night at Mitchel Field, rallying from two touchdowns down to beat Cardinal Hayes 29-18 and repeat as CHSFL 'AAA' champions. Harris scored three times, junior Joey Carino threw three touchdowns and order returned to Mamaroneck Ave.
And here is the story about their beating Iona to make the final against Hayes.
Malik Grant runs for nearly 400 yards as Stepinac gets revenge on Iona Prep
The senior running back was the difference-maker in Saturday’s CHSFL ‘AAA’ semifinal against the second-seeded Gaels. The Crusaders came away with a 37-26 win on the very same field where they had suffered a devastating overtime loss two months ago.
The victory came on the back of a monster performance from Grant, who piled up 392 yards and three touchdowns on 38 carries.
Wow.
Titanic battle. The second video is the New Zealand coach reflecting on the game.
The All Blacks head coach is Steve Hanson.
Kieran Lalor is a great guy. With a great biography - and a marine veteran of the Iraqi conflict. We've been with him at several non-political fundraisers. His points here are 1,000% correct.
Evidently it was peer reviewed but errors not found. Wonder why? Errors were found by a mathematician who has been critical of much climate research.
Ralph Keeling, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who co-authored the paper, said he and his partner, Laure Resplandy of Princeton, quickly realized the implications of their mistake once Lewis pointed it out.
“When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there,” he said. “We’re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly.”
After correcting their mistake, Keeling said their research indicates oceans are warming only slightly faster than previously thought, not dramatically faster as they initially reported. Keeling said the miscalculation was made when they were calculating their margin of error, which had a larger range (10 to 70 percent) than they initially believed.
“Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean,” Keeling said. “We really muffed the error margins.”
3%+ globally in 2019. Would be nice. We'll see he is not known for pie in the sky statements.
Not supposed to work this way. Video below -
An elderly couple were crushed under a garage door and knocked over by a runaway car while walking along a pavement in Paraíba do Sul, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, on Sunday morning. Security footage captures the moment the door, weighing around 70kgs (155lbs), was allegedly wrenched off its hinges by a driverless car that launched itself out of the font porch parking area of a residential property.
Of course there's still a deficit. But the economy has to be booming to produce this much revenue. And - see below - an astonishing rise in corporate taxes paid (even though the corporate rate is lower).
Although the total federal taxes collected this October set a record, the individual income taxes that the federal government collected in October did not set a record. This October, the Treasury collected $128,866,000,000 in individual income taxes. In October 2017, the Treasury collected $131,056,520,000 (in constant October 2018 dollars).
Corporation income tax receipts, however, were significantly higher this October than they were in October 2017. This year, the Treasury collected $8,000,000,000 in corporation income taxes in October. Last year, it collected $3,823,060,000 (in constant October 2018 dollars).
This whole thing is mind-boggling. "Crony capitalism at it's worst." Easy to understand why the news was held back until after the election. Nice that Ocasio-Cortez and the Wall Street Journal could agree on something.
Amazon staged a year-long competition to find a second headquarters beyond its Seattle home, and politicians bid for it like millionaires at a Picasso auction. Except they were bidding with other people’s money. The two ostensible big winners, announced Tuesday, are Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York City, and Crystal City in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
They stand to split about $5 billion in Amazon investment, with the promise of 25,000 new jobs each at an average salary of $150,000 a year. Amazon plans to occupy about four million square feet of office space in each location, with the potential to double that if necessary. The kicker is that Amazon has extracted state and local subsidies of more than $2 billion for the privilege.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Arlington County officials agreed to a cash grant of $550 million for Amazon that could increase with the number of jobs, with another $23 million in infrastructure improvements. New York is even more generous, with starting subsidies of $1.525 billion. As Amazon put it on its website, this works out to $48,000 per job. Apparently bodega owners in Brooklyn are supposed to be happy about subsidizing a third of the salaries of hipster techies.
Amazon will also get a grant of $325 million from the Empire State Development program based on the square footage of buildings it occupies. New York City is kicking in its own subsidies, though its biggest concession was to waive local control over city land—a privilege other businesses don’t get.
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It’s hard to blame Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for accepting what politicians give him, though we wonder if he isn’t a tad embarrassed. The man who was able to buy the Washington Post for the equivalent of pocket money hasn’t made more political friends outside of New York and Virginia with this subsidy sweepstakes.
The worst actors here are the politicians who pose as job creators but are essentially job buyers. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo once famously said he’d change his name to Amazon Cuomo if the company located in New York, but he didn’t need to pay such a Queens ransom. Google and other companies have created thousands of jobs in New York without similar subsidies, and Amazon might well have done the same given the city’s intellectual capital.
Mr. Cuomo says the state will make money from Amazon despite the subsidies, but that depends on Amazon’s decisions and long-term success. The Governor also says he had to offer subsidies to compete against states that don’t have an income tax, though that admission underscores the state’s lack of tax competitiveness. Mr. Cuomo taxes New Yorkers at confiscatory levels, giving himself more money to spend. Then he turns around and takes credit for sparing powerful interests from those taxes.
In New York they call this a racket, and with good reason. One of Mr. Cuomo’s closest pals was convicted recently in the “Buffalo Billion” scandal as he and others sought to profit from the Governor’s subsidy scheme to invest $1 billion in the Buffalo area. Amazon’s case is aboveboard, but it still amounts to a company with a market capitalization of nearly $800 billon getting paid to create jobs it would have created somewhere anyway.
This is a short video with additional interesting points on Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO & world's richest man. That's him laughing at us taxpayers.) efforts to influence politicians.
Facebook's new technology did have a major hiccup early on, when it flagged several Antifa pages, but Zuckerberg had his engineering team program an exception for bigots on the left. "If you're being intolerant for the sake of tolerance, then yes, you're exempt from our new bigot filters, obviously," he said.
Played at the home ground of England rugby, Twickenham. Intense game, and controversial call at the end as the kick blocker was ruled offside.
For a closer look at the offside call -
A projected $1.5 billion - and it will probably be more. Ridiculous, just like the mass amount and subsidies and tax breaks the Mets and Yankees got for their new Stadiums was ridiculous. There are plenty of studies showing these subsidies and tax breaks do not result in higher state and local revenue from new business activity and employment.
But it's a done deal. Meanwhile Cuomo was just elected to his 3rd. term by a 21% margin. The deal kept quiet 'til after the election?
In a statement released by Amazon, Cuomo called the agreement "one of the largest, most competitive economic development investments in U.S. history."
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson issued a statement saying: "Amazon is one of the richest companies in the world...I also don’t understand why a company as rich as Amazon would need nearly $2 billion in public money for its expansion plans at a time when New York desperately needs money for affordable housing, transportation, infrastructure and education."
The obvious question Mr. Speaker.
UPDATE: FOX News is supporting CNN. Just nonsense. CNN is suing the White House. Jim Acosta is a boorish self-promoter who loves the attention while playing the martyr. Below is from the Journal's "Best of the Web" afternoon email yesterday.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will soon have to consider what America owes to a CNN television correspondent named Jim Acosta. Today he and CNN filed a lawsuit asserting that unlike almost every other person in the country, Mr. Acosta has a constitutional right to a “hard pass” allowing him to enter and exit the White House unescorted and uninvited. Whatever one thinks of his novel legal theory, both in his lawsuit and at his appearance last week at the White House, Mr. Acosta has mischaracterized recent events.
Here’s how the lawsuit describes the scene as the President showed up to share his thoughts on Tuesday’s midterm elections:
President Trump delivered opening remarks and then invited questions from the media in attendance. Acosta, sitting in the front row, raised his hand. President Trump called on Acosta to “[g]o ahead” with a question. Acosta was one of the first reporters the President called on for questions.
Speaking through a hand-held microphone, as did all the White House journalists who asked questions, Acosta asked a question about one of President Trump’s statements during the midterm campaign—namely, whether a caravan making its way to the United States from Central America constitutes “an invasion” of the country, a significant feature of the President’s messaging during the just-ended campaign.
This is not an accurate rendering of what happened. A video recording of the event shows that after four reporters took their turns asking questions, the President called on Mr. Acosta, who made it clear that he would not simply be asking questions and seeking information as reporters do but intended to provide a rebuttal to recent comments made by the President. “I wanted to challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign—in the midterms,” said the CNN commentator.
Mr. Acosta mentioned Mr. Trump’s characterization of the immigrant caravan making its way through Mexico as an “invasion.” At this point Mr. Acosta did not ask a question but simply issued a declaration. “As you know Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion. It’s a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S.,” said the CNN correspondent.
So instead of simply serving as a reporter Mr. Acosta chose to offer commentary—and according to standard dictionaries he was wrong. The large group of immigrants had crossed illegally into Mexico and plainly intended to illegally enter the U.S.
Mr. Acosta may think that an invasion must include a military force but Mr. Trump’s use of the word is common. Merriam-Webster defines invade as “to enter for conquest or plunder,” but also “to encroach upon” or “infringe.” Other dictionaries have similar definitions, such as “to intrude” or “violate.”
Having wrongly asserted that the caravan could not be called an invasion and wrongly asserted that Mr. Trump knew he was saying something untrue, Mr. Acosta then asked why Mr. Trump had done so and if he had “demonized” immigrants. Yes, Mr. Acosta was now asking a question, but doing so while demanding that the President accept a false premise.
Mr. Acosta then interrupted the President as he tried to answer. Then Mr. Acosta editorialized again:
“Your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and so on. But they’re not going to be doing that.”
Is Mr. Acosta now a spokesman for the caravan? After another interruption, Mr. Acosta insisted on continuing to talk after the President called on a reporter. Then Mr. Acosta fended off a White House intern as she attempted to retrieve the microphone to allow others to ask questions.
The First Amendment prevents the President or anyone else in the federal government from restricting the ability of citizens to report and publish. Does it also require the President to listen to ill-informed lectures for as long as the lecturers choose to speak? Obviously if everyone had the right to refuse to surrender the microphone at press conferences the result would be fewer members of the press corps having an opportunity to ask questions, not more.
Good back and forth game. Played in Ireland as the southern hemisphere teams are on their end of year tours to Europe.
As we should all know - because the Pope is smart - he supports the free enterprise system.
Quoting the catechism, Francis said, “Man, using created goods, must consider the external things that he legitimately possesses, not only as his own, but also as common, in the sense that they can benefit not only him but also others.”
The pope’s remarks on entrepreneurship and ownership came during a reflection on the seventh commandment, “Thou shall not steal.” In recent months, the pontiff has dedicated his weekly general audiences to a series of lessons and reflections on the Ten Commandments recorded in the scriptural books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.
Of course missing Paul, since 2005. Just Tom, Phil and Jim. At the Peruvian restaurant in Ossining, Aji Limo. Pretty good! No liquor license yet, BUT they allowed us to bring our own wine, and no cork charge. More pictures to follow as there were seven of us
Very funny. Here's another one I posted in September. BBC (very funny): Dummy hypnotises ventriloquist And keep in mind when the woman comes onstage in this one nothing was pre-rehearsed - they'd never met and they are winging it.
The NY City Pastor and an author and lecturer of some note. I've published his emails a few times in the past. He is a convert to Catholicism.
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November 11th, 1918. Official treaty was some months later but this was the end of hostilities.
The Knights of Columbus put out an interesting short video -
I heard this remarkable fellow speak in April, 2016 at a "Forum" in Scarsdale about assisted suicide. Thinly disguised promotion of it actually. That's JJ with the microphone (seated next to Ed Mechmann). He was awesome. Hanson survived over three years past his initial prognosis before dying in December, 2017. His wife Kristen is carrying on his work.
I suppose, why not? You can change everything else. Thinks he'll get more ladies ... This off the Guardian (UK) but it's all over the media.
So says DNC Chairman Tom Perez. Lightweight dude.
Here are short responses to Perez, Jim Acosta, et al.
So the Lady Red Ruggers are playing Colby this weekend at home on Saturday kick-off at 11AM - the first round. Then more rugby the following weekend if they win.
This past Sunday's game, Fairfield ran into a buzzsaw. Vassar is very well-drilled (Stable coaching for over two decades & excellent long term results. Undefeated this season & they defeated West Point.) with a big set of forwards and they had 70% of the possession. The score got out of hand (61-5) when the seniors came off and less experienced underclass members got game time. So, you learn more from a loss then from a win. Fairfield is currently 7-1-1.
First three photos - good example of size differences and the Vassar body position in loose play in the forwards (Vassar does not recruit) -
The lineout held up OK - here's a long throw won and then another lineout with a catch and feed off the top -
The scrum was solid.
Nice ball retention here by a Fairfield back - they really have some good skills!
The Fairfield backs were not outmatched - but didn't have enough of the ball.
Post game and no doubt looking towards this Saturday.
A slight exaggeration perhaps, but not much.
With the Republicans, Christians have the option of declaring all their beliefs hollow by supporting a party that pays lip service to Christians while it is full of lies, greed, a hostile pose to foreigners, and a cavalier attitude about war. Christians can especially show their hypocrisy by throwing yet more support behind a president who stands anathema to just about every moral standard they've previously claimed important while he makes only a marginal effort to show support of faith (though the other day he referred to the second epistle to the Corinthians as "Corinthians 2: Corinthians Harder").
With the Democrats, though, Christians can basically opt for suicide by giving support to a party that is actively against them, having shown they are very willing to make Christians face trial and lose their jobs for holding the same moral beliefs they've held for thousands of years. The only religious belief the Democrats seem to hold dear is that every knee shall bow at the altar of abortion (and pay forced tribute).
"It's a really interesting choice," said Christian Tanya Lloyd. "By supporting the Republicans, I'm giving people further ammunition to dismiss my beliefs as an empty cultural pose. At least they like to pretend to be Christian, though, while sometimes it seems like the only thing keeping the Democrats from hunting me down with hunter-seeker drones like from The Terminator is lack of technology."
However the election turns out, though, Christians express confidence that they'll be fine since they ultimately put their faith in "a much higher power than either political party" (presumably they're referring to the Supreme Court).
Why did SNL mock him? Probably because he's a Texan and running for Congress as a Republican.Of course the SNL allies will maintain that the low state of discourse is Trump's fault. Anyway his reaction is classy.
This is the second year the President has highlighted National Adoption Month. Interesting and sad statistic at the end about the number of children who "age out" of the foster care system.
“Children, regardless of race, sex, age, or disability, deserve a loving embrace into families they can call their own.”
National Adoption Month will honor the thousands of families in this country who chose to adopt, said Trump.
Trump also highlighted the plight of the nation’s growing foster-care system, and said that he appealed to “families, communities, and houses of worship across our great Nation to help these children find a permanent home.”
The president said it was “unfortunate” that many children in the foster system reach the age of 18 without being adopted, and that “these children deserve a permanent family” that will provide them with love and stability.
Trump’s inclusion of “houses of worship” was noteworthy. Currently, there are several cases ongoing in which faith-based foster agencies are suing localities after being denied contracts, or shut out entirely, from the foster-care process due to their religious beliefs.
This is the second year Trump has recognized National Adoption Month. The tradition of presidents promoting adoption began in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan declared one week in November to be “National Adoption Week.” In 1995, President Bill Clinton expanded the awareness campaign into a month.
National Adoption Day, a separate event first observed in 2000, is celebrated the Saturday before Thanksgiving. On this day, thousands of children throughout the country who are being adopted from foster care have their adoptions finalized. National Adoption Day also seeks to raise awareness of the more than 100,0000 American children living in the foster care system who are eligible for adoption.
In the United States, the average foster child waits for three years before being adopted. Each year, about 2,000 children age out of the system without being placed in a permanent home.
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