Monkeyboy wrote:In fact, if you're not willing to tell the big lie, they'll primary you right out of your congressional job. You have to show you're part of the family.

Speaking of family, the mafia is the first thing I thought of when Ryan was caught on tape saying they need to keep quiet to show they are "family."

Youseff wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:In fact, if you're not willing to tell the big lie, they'll primary you right out of your congressional job. You have to show you're part of the family.

Speaking of family, the mafia is the first thing I thought of when Ryan was caught on tape saying they need to keep quiet to show they are "family."

how many GOP politicians do you think are lying about global warming and how many do you think are just stupid? percentage wise?

jerseyhoya wrote:Pretty glad we have such a steady hand on the tiller in the WH and the State Department so well led and staffed if the Middle East starts seeing major internal Sunni strife in addition to the other issues.

Youseff wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:In fact, if you're not willing to tell the big lie, they'll primary you right out of your congressional job. You have to show you're part of the family.

Speaking of family, the mafia is the first thing I thought of when Ryan was caught on tape saying they need to keep quiet to show they are "family."

how many GOP politicians do you think are lying about global warming and how many do you think are just stupid? percentage wise?

Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania consistently have the most extreme levels of partisan bias. Collectively, the distortion in their maps has accounted for seven to ten extra Republican seats in each of the three elections since the 2011 redistricting, amounting to one-third to one-half of the total partisan bias across the states we analyzed.

The seven states with high levels of partisan bias are all states where one political party had sole control of the redistricting process. Court-ordered modifications to maps in Florida, Texas, and Virginia — all originally drawn under sole Republican control — have reduced but not entirely curbed these states’ partisan bias.
States where Democrats had sole control of redistricting have high partisan bias within state congressional delegations, but the relatively small number of districts in these states creates a much smaller effect on partisan bias in the House overall.
By contrast, maps drawn by commissions, courts, and split-control state governments exhibited much lower levels of partisan bias, and none had high levels of bias persisting across all three of the elections since the 2011 round of redistricting.

The pro-Russian opposition Democratic Front, whose top two leaders were indicted over allegedly planning the Russia-orchestrated coup, said the day when Montenegro joins NATO is one of the saddest days in its history.

"Today, Montenegro is being annexed like never before in its history," official Strahinja Bulajic said. "Today is one of the most shameful days in Montenegrin history."

Police in Myanmar have arrested a newspaper's chief editor and a columnist for allegedly defaming the military by publishing an article mocking its role in the country's efforts to reach a peace agreement with fractious minority groups, one of their lawyers said Monday.

The lawyer for The Voice Daily editor Kyaw Min Swe said that the two were not released after being called in for questioning Friday over a lawsuit filed by the military under the country's Telecommunications Law. A broadly defined offense under the law sets a prison term of up to three years for material judged defamatory that is transmitted over any telecommunications network, including online.

To the surprise of many who expected a new era of freedom of expression, prosecutions have continued under the government of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose political party took power last year. Along with the still-influential military, it has used it to crack down on social media users, activists and journalists.

Under the new government, there have been 67 lawsuits under Article 66 (D), with more than a dozen people actually charged, said the Telecom-Law Research Team, an independent research group. It said five of the lawsuits were filed by members of Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy party. A woman who criticized Suu Kyi on social media was sentenced last month to six months in prison.

JUburton wrote:lol these travel ban tweets

pacino wrote:he's insane

these tweets should be cited as evidence in the coming SC ruling of his intent with this ban.

WilliamC wrote:

pacino wrote:he's insane

these tweets should be cited as evidence in the coming SC ruling of his intent with this ban.

You really think that Comey is going to bring a hammer? I don't.