degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:34 pm
It was 4 hours between a denial statement and a resignation.
Pruitt, do you think Horvath (NDP) wins now? Wynne can't possibly win.
Who do the PCs get in last minute? Lisa Raitt maybe?
Horrifying thing is that Wynne could pull it out if the PCs don;t handle this properly.
Horvath will never win - Wynne has stolen her platform and she shit the bed last time out and has the charisma of a kindergarten teacher.
Lisa Raitt would have to quit the federal party, secure nomination in a provincial riding (no problem there) and then rustle up enough support from caucus. A long shot, I'd figure.
PCs could go back to Christine Elliott. She was an MPP and Deputy Leader for a while, had been favoured to beat Brown and is Jim Flaherty's widow (If Flaherty were alive and running the PCs in Ontario, they'd win in a landslide.)
I will bet that they will be choosing a woman to run the party - especially in light of this. Even Mulroney's daughter (who has never even run for office and has just been nominated to run) is being mooted.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
How is it playing in Ontario? The details are so sketchy.
By her own admission, he stopped his advance when he was asked to and took her home. She told people what happens and none of those people felt it was assault. She also didn’t feel unsafe around him since she sought out employment with him the next year. But now, five years later and on the eve on an election where he was the front runner, it’s an issue that she is comfortable enough to go to the media with, but not to file a police report.
Kung Fu movies are like porn. There's 1 on 1, then 2 on 1, then a group scene..
degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:28 pm
How is it playing in Ontario? The details are so sketchy.
By her own admission, he stopped his advance when he was asked to and took her home. She told people what happens and none of those people felt it was assault. She also didn’t feel unsafe around him since she sought out employment with him the next year. But now, five years later and on the eve on an election where he was the front runner, it’s an issue that she is comfortable enough to go to the media with, but not to file a police report.
The first incident occurred more than 10 years ago. The woman, a high school student in Barrie at the time, said she and a mutual friend met Brown at a bar.
Brown then invited them back to his home and provided them with alcohol, though the woman was under the legal drinking age at the time.
She says she was drunk when Brown invited her for a tour of his home. When the pair entered the bedroom, Brown closed the door and exposed his penis to her.
"He pulled down his pants said, and I don’t know if he said 'suck my dick' or 'put this in your mouth,' but something along those lines,” she said.
The woman alleges that he then asked her to perform oral sex, which she did for a short time before stopping.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
Yeah, but I don;t understand your post a couple spots above. He "stopped his advance" after preying upon a teenager and telling her to suck his dick in his home. and she did. This is sexual harassment, sexual assault and on a much more minor level, providing alcohol to a minor.
And he was a Member of Parliament at the time, and it was a decade ago.
You should know from all of the reports that have been coming out of the Nassar trial and seemingly dozens of other recent cases, that victims don't always go to the cops. Think about it, this is a 17 or 18 year old high school student who was assaulted by a Member of Parliament.
Who knows what finally makes someone come forwards with their story, but if - as an example - Salma Hayek (a successful middle-aged actress who is married to a billionaire) is reluctant to accuse a public figure, why would you imagine a high school kid would feel comfortable doing so?
As soon as the party learned about the accusations, they had to turf Brown out. Morally, the right thing to do. Politically, each day they wait pushes them closer to the abyss before the next election.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
Shirley wrote:I make a similar face when I click one of wlu_lax's links and it's invariably to the Washington Post or WSJ and I can't read the article.
Google the headline on the WSJ articles, then click from the google results. Works a lot of the time.
Yeah, I do that sometimes and it usually works. Doesn't work for WaPo though. I hadn't tried incognito mode before, but it does seem to work for WaPo.
There needs to a special URL that launches into incognito.
If you reach your limit on a site like WaPo or NYT where you're allowed x free number of stories per month you can also just trash all of your cookies for that website and the counter resets.
brian wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:37 am
If you reach your limit on a site like WaPo or NYT where you're allowed x free number of stories per month you can also just trash all of your cookies for that website and the counter resets.
brian wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:37 am
If you reach your limit on a site like WaPo or NYT where you're allowed x free number of stories per month you can also just trash all of your cookies for that website and the counter resets.
Incognito works too.
People also copy and paste the full articles in Reddit comments.
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
Great insight into the state of the Far Right. Half the cartoons are bashing Republican leaders like Ryan, McConnell and McCain. Or glorifying Bannon, who very shortly after became enemy #1. It's dangerous for the Far Right to praise or condemn someone, because the narrative will flip 180 on that person, then you can be set up as Pro-Bannon when Trump turns on Sloppy Steve, or anti-Ryan when they suddenly like Ryan again and he is battling Dems. What a fucking joke.
OTOH, she is really hot:
And in looking for a picture of her, I see she is married to the militant 1950s misogynistic Senate candidate from Missouri who was in the news yesterday for proclaiming that a woman's role is to have dinner on the table at 6:00. Here is his campaign ad, which is hard to believe it isn't a parody.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
brian wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:37 am
If you reach your limit on a site like WaPo or NYT where you're allowed x free number of stories per month you can also just trash all of your cookies for that website and the counter resets.
Incognito works too.
And a Wapo subscription isn't all that expensive, either.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
If she had a dating profile, the b/w photo would be her main pic to draw you in and then you'd look at the others and be like "ehhh" and then you'd make sure to set up a quick date because there's a 90% chance that she's not nearly as attractive irl. (Bad skin is my guess)
Withdrawal of this policy means manufacturers, oil and gas operations, and other types of industrial facilities will have greater incentive to reduce emissions,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told the Washington Examiner. “Now these companies can help protect the environment without wasting time and money on unnecessary red tape.
And because I feel like absolutely pounding on this fucking drum, from the deadspin article about how shitty the MSU athletic department, this little tip in at the end.
Last September, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rolled back Title IX-related federal guidelines, making it more difficult for victims to report crimes though an already convoluted system. DeVos and her family pledged $10 million to MSU last year, earning her a speech at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new campus research center and a meeting with Simon.
The next month, MSU formally asked the Department of Education to cease its monitoring of the school, claiming to have gone “above and beyond” what was expected of the institution. All it actually did was start seriously funding its Office of Institutional Equity, bumping its budget from $300,000 in 2015 to $1.2 million in 2017, per OTL. Trying to smooth out the PR headache her MSU friendliness could cause her, DeVos said on Thursday—after Simon stepped down—that the Department of Education will investigate the university for its role in the Nassar scandal.
Fucking moron. Fucking deplorable.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
brian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:10 pm
If I were a politician I'd just try to tell people that this country NEEDS to invest in solar and wind energy so that we can be competitive with other companies in other countries when those energy sources achieve the economy of scale that is destined to happen, but that coal will be a major part of the country's energy footprint for at least another quarter century.
That isn't the message that the coal industry OR environmentalists want to hear, but it's the truth.
I'm on board with this. Wind and solar are the future. Someone is going to develop the technology, and if the US government doesn't invest, or incentivize American companies to innovate, then in 50 years, the entire world will be buying the technology from whatever country steps up and creates the new technology. The Free Market people say if solar or wind was economically efficient, businesses would succeed, and since they can't yet, it's wrong to throw money at solar. The problem is that it will take an enormous amount of investment to get to the technology to a place where it is efficient, and few people or businesses can sustain that kind of an investment for that long without a return. It's a long term, society-wide play, and shouldn't be analyzed on the individual business level. If the US can become the leader in creating a feasible renewable energy source, that will create an enormous amount of jobs in a wide range of fields, from scientists and engineers to manufacturing and installing.
And to Brian's point, renewable energy sources aren't efficient enough yet to provide the majority of our power, so we need to continue to rely on coal, oil, and the old guard until we are in a position to wean off of them. The battle to preserve a dying industry for the sake of it is insane.
Elon Musk is the outlier, as he could sustain enormous losses for many years and continue to pump money into Tesla and SpaceX. He also has an extremely rare drive to change the world, and the charisma, money and connections to get celebrities and Billionaires to buy into his vision, and pay $150,000 for a car that won't come out for 3 years, without even seeing a prototype. I highly recommend the authorized biography of Musk, by Ashlee Vance. Fascinating book. Tesla cars are basically a front to fund his battery business, which is just now starting to come true. He knew he needed a sexy packaging for batteries, and the cars gave him cash flow and market testing for his batteries, allowing him to improve to eventually get the house batteries to point where they are affordable and efficient enough to take over.
Still isn't in the top 100 stupidest or most destructive things this administration has done though. There's enough positive momentum with solar and wind, especially that even if there's short-term losses in jobs should bounce back before too long.
It's stupid, it's simplistic (though that's the Trump era in a nutshell), but ultimately isn't going to make too much of a difference to you and I. Sabotaging some potential future jobs down the road, but Trump won't be in office forever.
The amount of white supremacist propaganda on college campuses in the U.S. increased 258 percent between fall 2016 and fall 2017, according to a report the Anti-Defamation League released Thursday.
There were 147 incidents of white supremacist flyers, banners, posters or stickers found on college campuses during the 2017 fall semester, the report states, compared to 41 such incidents in the fall semester of 2016.
The ADL counted a total of 346 incidents of hate propaganda that had been spread on 216 college campuses in 44 states and Washington, D.C., since September 2016.
“White supremacists are targeting college campuses like never before,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the organization, said in a statement. “They see campuses as a fertile recruiting ground, as evident by the unprecedented volume of propagandist activity designed to recruit young people to support their vile ideology.”
The propaganda delivered “a range of messages,” according to the report.
“It may promote a white supremacist group, or trumpet the urgent need to ‘save’ the white race,” the report says. “Frequently, the propaganda attacks minority groups, including Jews, Blacks, Muslims, non-white immigrants, and the LGBT community.”
The rise in efforts by hate groups to target young people is a disturbing byproduct of Trumpism that has been largely ignored. Just a few weeks ago, an openly gay, Jewish student at UPenn was murdered while home on break by a high school classmate who was part of a well-known and dangerous Neo Nazi organization. And yet this rise in violent extremism among young men has drawn only a pittance of concern when compared to the countless editorials criticizing young people as oversensitive liberals who need their safe spaces.
brian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 1:13 pm
My dear God.
You know, these rectums can happily cherry pick information from news stories secure in the knowledge that their base won;t bother reading the article in full.
Here are the last lines from the AP article that 3rd in line to the throne quoted from:
Some workers received the increase with mixed emotions though.
“It’s tough to be upset about more money in my pocket,” said Jefferey Snively, an aerospace engineer who got a 4 percent bump in his last paycheck due to the lower tax rate.
He said that’s not enough to feel like a windfall or change his spending habits, but is a pleasant change. Yet, he thinks the tax overhaul wasn’t really about him or other workers, but more about corporations and the wealthy.
“I think the people this bill made the most difference for are the ones who needed it least,” he said.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
I hope the democrat running for Paul Ryan’s seat (looks likely to be Randy Bryce) runs a fundraising campaign asking for everbody’s extra $1.50 a week.
Moreta wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:27 pm
I hope the democrat running for Paul Ryan’s seat (looks likely to be Randy Bryce) runs a fundraising campaign asking for everbody’s extra $1.50 a week.
Moreta wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:27 pm
I hope the democrat running for Paul Ryan’s seat (looks likely to be Randy Bryce) runs a fundraising campaign asking for everbody’s extra $1.50 a week.
The Iron Stache.
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
Moreta wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:27 pm
I hope the democrat running for Paul Ryan’s seat (looks likely to be Randy Bryce) runs a fundraising campaign asking for everbody’s extra $1.50 a week.
The Iron Stache.
That was sincerely uplifting. But as I was watching it I was wondering how long it would take until...
