A Mississippi wedding venue rejected an interracial couple, citing ‘Christian belief.’ Facing a backlash, the owner apologized.

In a now-viral video shared to social media by Welch over the weekend, a woman identified as the event hall’s owner can be seen telling the 24-year-old, “First of all, we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race … because of our Christian race, I mean, our Christian belief.”

Trump made 'suggestion' Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says
"I don't think it was a request, like a command," Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday. "I think that it was a suggestion."

thephan wrote:Borass Johnson is quite the tyrant. Now he is suggesting a general election October 14th, 2 weeks before whichever flavor of Brexit happens, to try to turn Parliament to his favor. I will now admit that I do not understand Britain/UK's version of representative government at all.

phatj wrote:

thephan wrote:Borass Johnson is quite the tyrant. Now he is suggesting a general election October 14th, 2 weeks before whichever flavor of Brexit happens, to try to turn Parliament to his favor. I will now admit that I do not understand Britain/UK's version of representative government at all.

For starters, they have 1425 MPs against a population of 67M, so each MP represents about 47K people on average, vs. each congressperson representing ca. 746K in the US, a factor of 15 difference. If the US House of Representatives were equivalent, there would be nearly 7000 congresspeople.

jerseyhoya wrote:
The smaller parliamentary constituencies is still a valid difference, and do think we should think about expanding the House of Representatives. Silly that it has remained the same size as population has increased exponentially over the last century.

swishnicholson wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:
The smaller parliamentary constituencies is still a valid difference, and do think we should think about expanding the House of Representatives. Silly that it has remained the same size as population has increased exponentially over the last century.

That makes a lot of sense.

i somehow don't think it's going to get a lot of traction.

Days after leaving post, former Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska takes job with oil company

Joe Balash, who had served as the Interior Department’s assistant secretary for land and minerals management for nearly two years, confirmed in an interview that he will begin working for the Papua New Guinea-based Oil Search, which is developing one of Alaska’s largest oil prospects in years. Balash, who spearheaded Interior’s push to expand drilling on Alaska’s North Slope, is the latest Trump energy official to leave government and then start working for the fossil fuel industry.
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thephan wrote:

Trump made 'suggestion' Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says
"I don't think it was a request, like a command," Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday. "I think that it was a suggestion."

Because best People, other pence people said to the press that it was for security.

Separately, Pence's team has spent more then 250k at Don's properties.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-penc ... properties

Pay to play. "Love me Donald"

Vice President Pence's office issued a statement late Tuesday saying President Trump did not direct Pence to stay at his resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, a shift from remarks offered by the vice president's top aide.

"Because of some misreporting, we want to clarify that the decision to stay at Trump National in Doonbeg, Ireland was solely a decision by the Office of the Vice President and was based on the requirement to find accommodations near the Vice President’s ancestral hometown that could satisfy official meetings on both coasts of the Emerald Isle," the office said in a statement.

"At no time did the President direct our office to stay at his Doonbeg resort and any reporting to the contrary is false," the vice president's office said.

Doonbeg is on the opposite side of Ireland from Dublin, the city where Pence met with Ireland's president.

momadance wrote:Nothing surprises me anymore.

https://twitter.com/wxdam/status/1169308075662151680

Williamson deletes tweet suggesting 'power of the mind' can deter Hurricane Dorian

JFLNYC wrote:Now there’s no way to stop Articles of Impeachment.