jerseyhoya wrote:

Oliver Cooper ‏@OliverCooper
The governing party has only increased its vote share in five by-elections in England since 1971. Two of them were tonight.

Corbyn really struggles tho

jerseyhoya wrote:Two things so far that are really looking up from the Trump presidency are left of center people in these United States realizing Russia is bad and states rights are good. Would that right of center people could recall our previously held positions on these issues a bit better.

ReadingPhilly wrote:sick world. worried for my friend td.

A 51-year-old man was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of killing a man and injuring two others after opening fire inside a crowded Kansas City-area bar and yelling, “get out of my country.”

The two men initially shot were not Middle Eastern. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was killed, was originally from India and had received a master’s degree at the University of Texas. He and Alok Madasani, who was injured, worked in the aviation systems division at GPS-navigation maker Garmin, which has a facility in Olathe.

Kuchibhotla, 32, was married. Family members have set up a GoFundMe page to cover expenses including sending his body to India for his parents to say goodbye.

Ian Grillot, hiding behind a table, counted the gunshots. When he thought the gunman was out of bullets, he jumped up to pursue the man.

But the man who opened fire inside Austins Bar & Grill about 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday night still had one round left, and he used it to shoot Grillot. The bullet went through the 24-year-old Olathe man’s hand and into his chest.

“I guess I miscounted,” Grillot said Thursday from his hospital room, in a video released by the University of Kansas Health System. He had acted, he said, to try to stop a man who had just shot two other bar patrons, one of whom died.

“I wasn’t really thinking when I did that,” Grillot said. “It was just, it wasn’t right, and I didn’t want the gentleman to potentially go after somebody else.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/cr ... rylink=cpy

WheelsFellOff wrote:gentleman is a really weird way to spell asshole

slugsrbad wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:gentleman is a really weird way to spell asshole

Texans, amirite?

td11 wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:sick world. worried for my friend td.

A 51-year-old man was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of killing a man and injuring two others after opening fire inside a crowded Kansas City-area bar and yelling, “get out of my country.”

The two men initially shot were not Middle Eastern. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was killed, was originally from India and had received a master’s degree at the University of Texas. He and Alok Madasani, who was injured, worked in the aviation systems division at GPS-navigation maker Garmin, which has a facility in Olathe.

Kuchibhotla, 32, was married. Family members have set up a GoFundMe page to cover expenses including sending his body to India for his parents to say goodbye.

story about a white man who tried to help the two indian guys and ended up getting shot himself: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/cr ... 81204.html

Ian Grillot, hiding behind a table, counted the gunshots. When he thought the gunman was out of bullets, he jumped up to pursue the man.

But the man who opened fire inside Austins Bar & Grill about 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday night still had one round left, and he used it to shoot Grillot. The bullet went through the 24-year-old Olathe man’s hand and into his chest.

“I guess I miscounted,” Grillot said Thursday from his hospital room, in a video released by the University of Kansas Health System. He had acted, he said, to try to stop a man who had just shot two other bar patrons, one of whom died.

“I wasn’t really thinking when I did that,” Grillot said. “It was just, it wasn’t right, and I didn’t want the gentleman to potentially go after somebody else.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/cr ... rylink=cpy

https://www.gofundme.com/srinus-familyrecovery-support
https://www.gofundme.com/madasani-kuchi ... elief-fund
https://www.gofundme.com/a645d-ians-road-to-recovery

jerseyhoya wrote:Two things so far that are really looking up from the Trump presidency are left of center people in these United States realizing Russia is bad and states rights are good.

Rockinghorse wrote:The new Vice News nightly show on HBO is really well done. Packaged for millennials/short attention span but they tackle major issues all over the world. I used to make fun of them for having improbably sexy reporters running away from gunfire, etc. but it's become quality journalism especially by today's standards.

pacino wrote:Ken Bone was at CPAC

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Two things so far that are really looking up from the Trump presidency are left of center people in these United States realizing Russia is bad and states rights are good.

Come on.

Russia has never been "not bad." We mocked Romney in 2012 for calling Russia our biggest threat, not for calling them bad. I don't think anyone could've foreseen this election scenario playing out that would've validated his point.

And states rights is ALWAYS a mixed bag. Sometimes good, sometimes not, and it nearly always depends on (1) a person's philosophy of government, and (2) whether the person likes the people in charge. This isn't some new revelation in February 2017.

td11 wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Two things so far that are really looking up from the Trump presidency are left of center people in these United States realizing Russia is bad and states rights are good.

Come on.

Russia has never been "not bad." We mocked Romney in 2012 for calling Russia our biggest threat, not for calling them bad. I don't think anyone could've foreseen this election scenario playing out that would've validated his point.

And states rights is ALWAYS a mixed bag. Sometimes good, sometimes not, and it nearly always depends on (1) a person's philosophy of government, and (2) whether the person likes the people in charge. This isn't some new revelation in February 2017.

on the states rights issue, it's pretty clear that elected Rs don't actually give a shit about states rights. when it comes to protecting trans kids in public schools: leave it up to the states, and when it comes to legal weed: fuck the states