pacino wrote:Sanders will introduce his medicare-for-all bill when the Senate reconvenes.

let the discussion begin.

Bill McNeal wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Bryan Lowry‏ @BryanLowry3
Trump just shook hands with the guy with the glass eye that says Trump.

pacino wrote:

pacino wrote:Sanders will introduce his medicare-for-all bill when the Senate reconvenes.

let the discussion begin.

Kamala Harris is co-sponsoring

A Missouri state lawmaker posted on Facebook on Wednesday that the person responsible for vandalizing a Confederate statue should be hanged.

"This is totally against the law," said Rep. Warren Love, R-Osceloa. "I hope they are found & hung from a tall tree with a long rope."

In February, Love referred to former President Abraham Lincoln as the "greatest tyrant and despot in American history" in another Facebook post. In January, Love made a reference to "the black Negro" during a hearing on prevailing wage legislation.

After this article published online, Love called the News-Leader and acknowledged he had "stirred up a hornet's nest" with he called a "cowboyism" and a "stupid commen."

Love said Tuesday he thought the post was deleted but clarified Wednesday it was still up; he had not been able to access it due to poor internet connectivity.

Love said he understood why people might be upset that he made a lynching remark about a Confederate monument.

"Basically, if I'd had said it in a politically correct way, I would have stated, you know, for that type of an infraction or desecration, I would like to see them prosecuted to the full extent of the law," Love said. "That's what I should have said. But due to my stupid comment, I didn't."

Love said he was reminded of desecration in a rural cemetery in his district and characterized this kind of behavior as "plumb ornery."

"I used to turn s---houses over when I was a kid a little bit with some ornery boys," Love said, "but tearing up a cemetery to honor the dead or a monument to honor someone is just terrible, terrible. That's kind of my feelings about it."

Love reminded the News-Leader he had filed legislation to protect "objects of remembrance" in the past.

WASHINGTON — Critics and defenders of the nuclear deal with Iran are equally in the dark about President Donald Trump’s intentions ahead of the next congressionally mandated deadline to certify Tehran’s compliance Oct. 15.

A senior White House official told Politico that Kelly's goal is essentially that the “president has to get good briefings, he has to get good intelligence.” The official said, “We have to be putting him in a position to make good decisions.”

Indeed, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton this week complained in an article outlining his plan for quitting the Iran nuclear deal that he had been denied permission to present his proposal to Trump.

“I offer the Iran [proposal] now as a public service, since staff changes at the White House have made presenting it to President Trump impossible,” Bolton wrote in National Review. “Although he was once kind enough to tell me ‘come in and see me any time,’ those days are now over.”

The next IAEA report on Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA is expected to be distributed to member states of the IAEA board Friday, said Kelsey Davenport of the Arms Control Association. The next IAEA board meeting is scheduled for Sept. 11 through Sept. 15, shortly before world leaders head to New York for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Trump is expected to address the gathering Sept. 19.

Iran and Russia have also reportedly requested that a ministerial meeting of the seven nations that negotiated the deal be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. If it occurs, it would mark the first meeting between US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The State Department did not indicate whether Tillerson would be open to attending such a meeting, which does not appear to have been formally scheduled yet.

Russia is indeed urging the US administration to stay in the deal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said this week.

pacino wrote:Scott Wanger is a prick and here's just one more reason why

Wagner drew criticism last week after he called Soros, an American citizen, a “Hungarian Jew” who has a “hatred for America” despite earning a fortune in the United States. Soros, the 87-year-old founder of the Open Society Foundations and backer of former President Barack Obama, is a favorite target of the right-wing media.

Maryland Democrats initially criticized Hogan last month over his decision to endorse Wagner and to be the headline speaker at a fundraiser for the Pennsylvania candidate. They based their criticism on Wagner's staunch support of Trump, from whom Hogan has kept a distance, and policy positions well to the right of the Maryland governor.

Doll Is Mine wrote::lol:

The relief discussion is already running into politics. Earlier this week, New York Rep. Peter King lambasted Cruz for opposing funding in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. On Wednesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie piled on.

“I see Sen. Cruz and it's disgusting to me that he stands in a recovery center with victims standing behind him as a backdrop," the governor told CNN's Chris Cuomo. “He's still repeating the same reprehensible lies about what happened in Sandy and called on Congress Wednesday morning to work fast on a bill to aid Texas after Hurricane Harvey.”

Cruz, one of the 20 members of the Texas delegation who voted against the $51 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package, has argued that the legislation was filled with funding for unrelated items. Fact checkers have been dubious of the claim.

Cruz dismissed the criticisms from King, Christie and others.

“I’m sorry that there are politicians who seem really desperate to get their names in the news and are saying whatever they need to do that,” he told Fox News. “We have a crisis on the ground with people who are hurting right now, people who are in harm’s way whose lives and families are in jeopardy as we speak. I’ll tell you my focus, and I wish the focus of others would be on saving the lives that are being threatened.”

wwry wrote:

pacino wrote:

pacino wrote:Sanders will introduce his medicare-for-all bill when the Senate reconvenes.

let the discussion begin.

Kamala Harris is co-sponsoring

hell yea kamala

“I’ll break some news: I intend to co-sponsor the Medicare-for-All bill because it's just the right thing to do,” said Harris, who is widely seen as a leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2020. She added with a laugh: “Somebody should tell my staff.”

Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
French rag Charlie Hebdo mocks Harvey victims as Neo Nazis

Charlie Hebdo makes fun of everyone but Muslims. Cowards

“If they weren’t talking about you, you wouldn’t be doing something right and it’s important to keep it in context, otherwise quite frankly you’d probably end up killing yourself out of depression,” Trump told the host Joe Pagliarulo, according to The Hill. He also explained that the first family take the coverage with a “with a grain of salt.”

“It’s the media, the mainstream media, who does not want [the president] to succeed. It’s government who does not want him to succeed…No matter what he does, he’s going to get hit, and listen, I think you have to tune it out.”

Throughout the interview, Trump continued to attack the political establishment and the mainstream media that he said dealt in "fake news."

“Politics is nasty, it’s the nastiest business I’ve ever seen,” he said. “No matter what [the president] does, they’re going to hit him on it.”

jerseyhoya wrote:

Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
French rag Charlie Hebdo mocks Harvey victims as Neo Nazis

Charlie Hebdo makes fun of everyone but Muslims. Cowards

Really well thought out #taek

Doll Is Mine wrote::lol:

A new poll on Wednesday from Fox News — the only major news station Trump publicly admires — showed more than half of voters disapproving of his performance and believing he is unraveling the United States.

In the poll of 1,006 registered voters, 56% said they feel he is “tearing the country apart,” and 55% said they disapprove of his time in office — a Fox News record.

Doll Is Mine wrote:

td11 wrote:Feel really terrible for the Latino community. all the ongoing ICE deportations and now this. GOP is a fucking disgrace

It will only get worse...DACA is next.