CFP wrote:This is like my fourth "this f*ckin' guy" of the day:

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pacino wrote:Tim Murphy had a mistress and wanted her to have an abortion

He's super pro life

According to internet registration records reviewed by USA TODAY and cybersecurity researchers, Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump, who is also a senior adviser, switched the location of their email accounts to a server operated by the Trump Organization on either Sept. 26 or 27, as attention from the media and lawmakers intensified.

Donald Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended that he decertify the Iran nuclear deal – but that he stop short of pushing Congress to reimpose sanctions on Tehran that could unravel the agreement.

Trump’s team plans to work with Congress and European allies to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime, according to a strategy developed in an Iran policy review led by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. But the strategy assumes the nuclear deal will remain intact for now.

slugsrbad wrote:

Donald Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended that he decertify the Iran nuclear deal – but that he stop short of pushing Congress to reimpose sanctions on Tehran that could unravel the agreement.

Trump’s team plans to work with Congress and European allies to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime, according to a strategy developed in an Iran policy review led by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. But the strategy assumes the nuclear deal will remain intact for now.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/0 ... eal-243427

swishnicholson wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:He spoke at my college graduation and was really fucking boring. I've watched the first 7 of these things though and think it's pretty interesting/informative. Lot of stuff I had not heard previously.

Don't take this the wrong way, but sure his footage is informative if you're not particularly well informed, or weren't alive then. Its educational potential is certainly valuable, but I'd wager few of your age-group peers are as engaged as you & as willing to endure Burns turgid narrative style

I guess I have to agree/disagree. It's educational potential is certainly valuable. I'm reasonably well-informed and was alive during much of the era, but still found a lot of stuff I had not heard previously, though granted mostly in the earlier episodes. Entertaining is probably not the word, but it was easy to take and interesting, particularly in half hour doses. I'm glad I watched it and I don't know of a more comprehensive and interesting visual overview of the era, so I'm glad it got made and other people can and will watch it. I'm really not sure if the rhetoric and effects had been heated up that it would be so effective.

Is there something you would recommend over it?

In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., found themselves in a precarious legal position. For two years, prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was failing to sell. Despite the best efforts of the siblings’ defense team, the case had not gone away. An indictment seemed like a real possibility. The evidence included emails from the Trumps making clear that they were aware they were using inflated figures about how well the condos were selling to lure buyers.

WASHINGTON — The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission despite Democratic complaints that Ajit Pai will undermine net neutrality.

The vote was 52-41 on Monday for Pai, who has served as a commissioner at the FCC since 2012.

The nomination turned into a proxy fight over Obama-era net neutrality rules established in 2015. Those rules mean service providers such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast must treat all content the same and not favor their own websites and apps over others, such as a movie streaming service. Pai has tried to roll the rules back, drawing more than 22 million comments and ire from Democrats.

Four Democrats joined Republicans in backing the nomination — Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Gary Peters of Michigan, Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

As for the narrowly divided Senate, where passing abortion-related bills can be harder than in the House, the legislation may not get floor time anytime soon. GOP Whip Sen. John Cornyn was asked Monday if the chamber would take up the legislation.
"That's not a near-term priority," Cornyn replied.
Similar legislation is already enacted in several states. But opponents of the legislation argue 20-week abortion bans are unconstitutional.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's hotel tax rate would nearly double and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh would have the nation's two highest combined state-and-city hotel taxes under a proposal surfacing Tuesday in the House of Representatives to fill state government's $2.2 billion projected deficit.

The idea blindsided tourism and hotel advocacy groups. It emerged rapidly Tuesday from closed-door budget negotiations after a tide of opposition drowned one days-old proposal — a tax on commercial warehousing — and House GOP leaders last week blocked a new tax on Marcellus shale natural gas production.
Floor debate and votes were possible Wednesday after the House and Senate recessed.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's office would not say whether he will support it. In a statement Tuesday night, his office said Wolf still believes a Marcellus Shale tax is the most responsible source of recurring revenue to help balance the budget and that it is studying the House Republican proposal.

Combined with local hotel taxes, a 5 percentage point increase would give Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the nation's first- and second-highest hotel taxes, according to data compiled by HVS, a New York-based convention and hospitality industry consultant. Philadelphia's rate would rise from 15.5 percent to 20.5 percent, and Pittsburgh's, along with all of Allegheny County's, would rise from 14 percent to 19 percent.
Top House Democrats and Republicans said they were working to secure enough support to pass it.
The revenue from the hotel tax increase is a relatively small piece — an estimated $165 million in a year — of an overall revenue package negotiated in secret by Wolf's office and top lawmakers. But it is of prime importance because it is one of the few revenue sources that can be counted on every year.

The revenue package otherwise leans heavily on borrowing, one-time fund transfers and expanding casino-style gambling.
Borrowing would provide the biggest piece of the puzzle, nearly $1.3 billion. The total cost, interest included, could exceed $2 billion over 20 years. Another $500 million could come from off-budget programs that provide everything from medical malpractice insurance to funding for mass transit agencies and environmental cleanups.
The package would substantially expand casino gambling in Pennsylvania, already the nation's No. 2 commercial casino state, in hopes of drawing tens of millions more dollars in license fees from casino owners and taxes on gambling losses.

pacino wrote:the junk science fetal pain bill passed the House 237-189. The the Senate we go...20 week abortion ban:

As for the narrowly divided Senate, where passing abortion-related bills can be harder than in the House, the legislation may not get floor time anytime soon. GOP Whip Sen. John Cornyn was asked Monday if the chamber would take up the legislation.
"That's not a near-term priority," Cornyn replied.
Similar legislation is already enacted in several states. But opponents of the legislation argue 20-week abortion bans are unconstitutional.