And not one from any liberal who could defend the bill that the Democrats put forward by Schumer and shot down by the Senate!
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But other than that unusual argument, nobody else really came to the defense. Oh, they talked about Trump, and Putin, Zelensky, and a couple of doctors (Fauci and Oz). We argued about how many students graduated from that town in South Dakota, and we even had a comment about black holes (which is probably where the Schumer defense went).
But you think you could find a single comment from someone who claimed that yes, this was a great bill and gave us the reasons why it was a great bill? One might think, but then a thinking man is disappointed dealing with liberals.
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Taegan Goddard feels Schumer bothed the abortion vote and says so.
However, whoever botches last, botches most, and that may yet prove to be the Republicans.
Chuck Schumer Botches a Vote on Abortion
May 12, 2022 at 11:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 111 Comments
If Democrats are to make abortion a major issue in the midterm elections, they’ll need to make it rise above the issues Republicans would prefer to talk about, like inflation and immigration.
But in holding a show vote in the Senate yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) botched it badly. He couldn’t even get a majority — let alone the 60 votes needed to proceed under Senate rules.
Chris Christie Mocks Trump for Losing Election
May 12, 2022 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments
Donald Trump took aim at three “RINOs” who are campaigning for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), The Hill reports.
TRUMP:
“That’s right, he had them all. Chris Christie, Doug Ducey from Arizona, and Pete Ricketts from Nebraska. That tells you all you need to know about what you are getting in Georgia—just a continuation of bad elections and a real RINO if you vote for Brian Kemp.”
Christie responded on Twitter:
“Insightful commentary about three Republican Governors who were overwhelmingly re-elected by their people from a former President who lost to Joe Biden. Maybe the ‘R’ in RINO really stands for re-elected.”
Top Russian Official Warns of Nuclear War
May 12, 2022 at 11:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said growing NATO arms supplies and Ukraine troop training increases the “risk of such conflict turning into a full-scale nuclear war, a scenario that will be catastrophic for all,”
USA Today reports.
Bidenomics purposely Destroying America
"Biden admin cancels massive oil and gas lease sale amid record-high gas pricesInterior Department canceled a 1-million-plus acre oil lease in Alaska as Americans face painfully high prices at the pump"
Democrat Rep. Katie Porter claims #Bidenflation "reinforce[s]" the "need" for abortion.
"The fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses ... pay more at the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing is a reason" for abortion.
Wow!
However, whoever botches last, botches most, and that may yet prove to be the Republicans.
Reverend...
You make a lot of assumptions that do not fall in line with polling and other realities. For instance, the idea that the former President Trump will play a bigger role than Biden in the midterms and that somehow that will play to the Democrat's favor.
I think desperate times call for desperate measures. Trying to make the midterms about Abortion is desperate in my humble opinion. Going over the top with a bill that almost nobody supports will more likely than not backfire. Something that even Goddard appears to understand.
Sort of like pulling your goalie in hockey. It might help you score that tying goal, but it is way more common for the opposing team to score the empty netter and increase their margin.
This botchup could backfire when some vulnerable Democratic Senator has to explain why he believes that abortions should be legal without restrictions, that all OB doctors have to perform them, and that taxpayer money must be used. These are extreme positions that are unpopular - even if Roe (on the surface) is popular.
I am not sure what "botchup" you are expecting the GOP to make. They will continue to campaign on the economy, on inflation, on supply chain problems, on crime, on the border, and on how much of a disaster this President and Democratic Congress have been and just exactly how much damage they have caused in less than two years.
I mean... we can hardly recognize what our country is compared to how it was pre-covid under Trump and the GOP.
Can you honestly say anything is better now?
CHT said:
But you think you could find a single comment from someone who claimed that yes, this was a great bill and gave us the reasons why it was a great bill? One might think, but then a thinking man is disappointed dealing with liberals.
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Chris Christie Mocks Trump for Losing Election
May 12, 2022 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Top Russian Official Warns of Nuclear War
May 12, 2022 at 11:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
I guess the bill is "outstanding" because Christie mocked Trump and Russian official warns of nuclear war
Or in reality it is a very unpopular bill once you get past the big tech and state media talking points.
I guess the good thing is every time things like this come up it destroys another bit of those institutions. Soon they may have very little power left
except for waterboys
Jesse Kelly
PICTURE:
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1524502605048815617
This is a newborn baby. 49 Democrat senators just voted that it should be lawful to kill it the moment before this while it was still inside its mother.
some campaign ads write themselves
and if the dems don't hold the Senate and House Biden and Hunter and Jan 6th are all toast
and everyone knows it
Zeke Miller
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1524623174306091008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats' bill to write Roe v. Wade into law blocked by GOP-led filibuster as Supreme Court weighs abortion case.
Ted Cruz
🔥🔥🔥🔥 Every word of this is egregiously false.
Does AP even pretend anymore?
Here’s an ACCURATE headline: “Bipartisan majority of the Senate rejects Dem proposal to overturn every single restriction on abortion enacted over the last 50 years.”
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to issue unprecedented subpoenas to five Republican members of Congress to compel their cooperation with the inquiry, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The select committee empowered the panel’s chairman, congressman Bennie Thompson, to move ahead with subpoenas to House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans including Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, and Andy Biggs and Mo Brooks, the sources said.
The legislation would have blocked legislation that had a ban on abortion even in the first trimester, blocked legislation, if you wanted to see doctors, the women and doctors would be arrested, and even no exceptions for rape or incest!
Even in Texas vigilantes could sue women
The legislation would have blocked legislation that had a ban on abortion even in the first trimester, blocked legislation, if you wanted to see doctors, the women and doctors would be arrested, and even no exceptions for rape or incest!
Well then Schumer should have pushed a bill that allowed first term abortions, abortions when the health of the mother or baby were in question, and an exception for rape and incest. But banned them in the second and third trimester, codified the Hyde Amendment, and protected doctors who have religious opposition.
Then you could have actually proven that Republicans were extreme if they voted against it. But would they? That probably would have passed.
As it is... he pushed an extreme bill which 49 Senators voted for.
All Democrats! All Abortions! All the time!
The big lie on steroids
The house is closing in
The subpoenas suggests House investigators are interested in seeking more detail about meetings between Trump and Republican members of Congress at the White House before the Capitol attack, at which they strategised about how to stop certification of Joe Biden’s win on 6 January.
If he was directly involved with them before the January 6th insurrection, Director Garland would be under incredible pressure one way or the other.
Every word of this is egregiously false.
Does AP even pretend anymore?
Well, when the intent is to protect and defend the democrats, one MUST lie because it is impossible to protect and defend the democrats with anything even vaguely resembling the truth.
And here's to McCarthy, Jordan, Perry, Biggs and Brooks telling Bennie Thompson to go fuck himself.
Jordan, a close Trump ally, had drawn the attention of investigators over his calls and communications with Trump on and before Jan. 6. Cassidy Hutchinson, a close aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the select committee that Jordan was regularly in contact with the White House amid strategizing efforts centered on keeping Trump in office. He was present in meetings, Hutchinson said, when the White House counsel pushed back on certain proposed tactics.
If Trump was involved before the January attack??
"The fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses ... pay more at the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing is a reason" for abortion.
Wow!
Wow, indeed.
The modern democrat party is quite simply the embodiment of everything in the known universe that is pure EVIL.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/12/mccarthy-jordan-jan-6-subpoena-00032115
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/12/mccarthy-jordan-jan-6-subpoena-00032115
As it is... he pushed an extreme bill which 49 Senators voted for.
The funny thing is those 49 senators represent 40 million more constiuents than the 51!!!!!! Any one see what is wrong with our current system????
Anyone care to bet not one of these assholes will every step foot in front of the committee ??????
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel issued subpoenas Thursday to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers in its probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The panel is investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides worked to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.
The funny thing is those 49 senators represent 40 million more constiuents than the 51!!!!!! Any one see what is wrong with our current system????
We're seeing that it is protecting America from the 'tyranny of the majority' and that's a feature, not a bug BWAA.
Powerline
So Democrats couldn’t even get to 50 votes in the Senate for their complete abortion-on-demand at any point for any reason bill, which was clearly written with the express political purpose of making it impossible for pro-choice Republican senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins to vote for it. The bill exposed the Democrats’ hostility toward religion with a clause that would have required Catholic (and other denominational) hospitals to perform abortions—so much for rights of conscience.
The text of the bill also dropped the term “woman” or “mother” in favor of gender-neutral terms like “patient,” “person,” or “individual.” Apparently bowing to the demands of Pennsylvania’s fraudulent “pro-life” Senator Bob Casey, the bill changed language in its findings section referring to abortion restrictions as a tool of “white supremacy” to “a tool of gender suppression.”
The time has clearly come to paraphrase Justice Anthony Kennedy: “At the heart of politics is the right of Democrats to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
The funny thing is those 49 senators represent 40 million more constiuents than the 51!!!!!! Any one see what is wrong with our current system???
Fatty the senate isn’t based on population, never was never will be, you mental midget.
Go to back elementary school civics
Yep, those sanctions are just working wonders...
The Russian ruble has turned into the world's best-performing currency this year, as its onshore rate is up more than 11% against the US dollar so far in 2022.
The ruble is the biggest gainer among 31 major currencies, according to data tracked by Bloomberg, and has overtaken the Brazilian real, which is up 9% this year.
But the ruble's advance has come after Moscow imposed a slate of capital controls to prop up the economy to offset Western sanctions for its war on Ukraine. That means few investors are able to take profits from the currency rally out of Russia.
The capital controls are in addition to Russia demanding ruble-payments for natural gas supplies from European nations, as well as forcing exporters to sell foreign-exchange holdings.
Nonetheless, the success of the Kremlin's artificial market maneuvers has outperformed those of other nations like Argentina and Turkey when they attempted similar measures.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russias-ruble-worlds-top-performing-195853489.html
Now then... the small thinkers around here will call this acknowledgement "Rootin for Putin" in 5, 4, 3, 2...
he Russian ruble has turned into the world's best-performing currency this year, as its onshore rate is up more than 11% against the US dollar so far in 2022.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! When you start with fucking zero asshole.....rates look real good for fucking idiots like you!!!!!!
Seems to me sanctions are taking their toll in Russias war effort!!!!
Russia is resorting to putting computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in tanks due to US sanctions, official says
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The US says Russia is putting chips from home electronics in tanks due to the effect of sanctions.
Russia's military relies heavily on technology made by the US and allies, who have banned exports.
The US commerce secretary said Wednesday that sanctions "cripple" Russia's ability to fix equipment.
Fatty the senate isn’t based on population, never was never will be, you mental midget.
You joshing me shorty????????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Sad what an ignorant asshole you prove again to be!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
So your point of population size regarding the senate was simply stupid, fatman?
Goody Roger broke it again
And once again shorty, the obvious point flew right over your pea sized head!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Another example of your failed education at the #1 party school in the US!!!!!!! And alma mater of the fraud running for senate who never graduated!!!!!!!
So make an irrelevant stupid comment and it’s my fault.
Got it fatman
Go inhale a pie
Well Denny...
220,000 Americans (many of them voters) do not want third or even second term abortions. I guess a vast majority of those 49 Senators screwed the pooch... That vote might be popular for Feinstein or Schumer, but it will likely come back to haunt (if not doom) Senators like Tester, Warnock, Hassan and others who will face tough races and only win in red states because they appear "moderate"...
Go inhale a pie
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Can't fix stupid as deep seated as yours shorty.... Your inability to think is the root cause of your ignorance!!!!
James is for saving lives in Ukraine, but not American Babies.
Biden puts illegals in the front of the Line to get Baby Formula.
220,000 Americans (many of them voters) do not want third or even second term abortion
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! SO FUCKING WHAT!!!!!!!!! At least they recognize the need for women's rights....unlike shorty who can't his own ass in the dark!!!!!! Finally, the R party is on record to making women second class citizens, just like your child wife who walks 5 steps behind you!!!!!
"Woman Rights"
Do college sports count?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
James is for saving lives in Ukraine,
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! James is for saving democracy in the world, unlike you who wants to be told how to live by MAGA idiots!!!!
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Q: “Who’s running point on the formula [shortage] at the White House?” Biden spokeswoman: “I don’t know, I can find out [laughs]”
Bidenomics
Falling Real Income .
Funny goat fucker, you first blame biden for the California GW drought and water problem and now blame him for an industrial failure of manufacturing baby formula....when will your stupid blame game stop since that is all you can squeeze out of that broken head of yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now blame him for an industrial failure of manufacturing baby formula..
Yep... you can blame him for these sorts of failures.
Keep in mind that some people were so stupid as to blame the Covid virus on Trump? I mean these are people who you wonder how they can wake up, get out of bed, and tie their own shoes they are so stupid.
But I would blame California for their own drought problems and any other problems that they have around utilities, black outs, etc. It is their own silly policies that create half these messes. It's been raining on the west coast as it always does. Figure it out, Newsome.
Keep in mind that some people were so stupid as to blame the Covid virus on Trump?
No Lil Schitty.....they blame him for being an incompetent boob by sitting on his hands as it spread....I wonder how you can sleep at night making up the tripe you keep posting in Trumps name.....sad you hate democracy and will support party before country!!!!!!
But I would blame California for their own drought problems
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Sounding more like the goat fucker with every post!!!!!!!! It's not raining in Ca asshole....try again!!!
It's been raining on the west coast as it always does. Figure it out, Newsome.
Lil Schitty again just makes shit up to conform to his LIES!!!!!!!! STOP LYING SCOTTY.....YOUR MIND IS REALLY SHOT TO SHIT!!!
Driest winter months in 100 years mark third year of drought
January, February, and March had the least rain and snow on record for any of these months in California.
These warm, dry months overshadowed gains in precipitation at the end of 2021. Snow melted faster than expected, reducing snowpack to just 38% of average by April 1.
This is the state’s second extreme drought in 10 years, a symptom of a warming climate.
See more on California drought conditions at California Water Watch.
Economy and Abortion Are Top Issues
May 12, 2022 at 4:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
A new Monmouth poll finds the economy (26%) and abortion (25%) are essentially tied as the most important issues for the 2022 midterm elections.
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In all truth, there is little a President or either of the two major political parties can do about the world-wide economic situation we are now facing,
BUT abortion is a national issue that a President and a political party CAN deal with, and the Republicans are constantly overstepping on it.
No Lil Schitty.....they blame him for being an incompetent boob by sitting on his hands as it spread..
Well good thing that Biden came along...
and killed 600,000 by sitting around doing nothing but complaining about vaccines.
Trump created the task force, first in the world to set up travel restrictions, got the vaccine out in record time, and had over a million people a day being vaccinated. He materially and objectively did better than any other world leader.
Biden cried about masks and vaccination rates and did nothing.
Biden cried!
600,000 Americans died!
Good Job Joe!
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) says that while Americans face a worsening baby formula shortage, “They are sending pallets–pallets! of baby formula to the border.”
Who is “they?” Well, the Biden administration, of course.
You don’t think Joe Biden would put Americans at the head of the baby formula line, do you? Democrats hate Americans, especially the babies they didn’t get a chance to abort.
Hoping to change the country’s demographics (a stated goal of Democrats and the media), Biden is flooding the country with illegal immigrants, a record number of them, even as he spends $40 billion to protect Ukraine’s border. But now, according to this congresswoman, people who have no business being in our country are receiving the baby formula countless American mothers can’t find for their own babies.
On a social media post, Cammack said she received photographic evidence of the border deliveries from a border patrol agent.
Illegal immigrants are “receiving pallets and more pallets of baby formula at the border,” she said. “This [photo of baby formula] was taken at Ursula processing facility [in Texas], where thousands are being housed and processed and then released into the United States.”
The photo, she says, is the full shelves of baby formula shipped to the border for illegal aliens — you know, the people breaking into our country at the invitation of the Biden administration.
She also posted the photo on her verified Twitter account:
In a Facebook video, Cammack said this border patrol agent told her, “Kat, you would not believe the shipment [of baby formula] I just brought in.” Cammack added that this guy “has been a border patrol agent for 30 years, and he has never seen anything quite like this. He is a grandfather, and he is saying that his own children can’t get baby formula for his grandkids.”
She adds, “He, as a border patrol agent, just took in pallets, pallets of baby formula for all of the illegals that are crossing into the United States.”
If this is the case, no one, including this congresswoman, is saying that the babies of illegals should not get this formula. But why are they first in line? Good heavens, illegal immigrants in Texas are getting baby formula when we know American citizens and legal immigrants in Texas are “desperate” to find formula.
What’s more, these illegals should not even be in the country, and by extension, they and their babies should not be our responsibility. These folks should be in Mexico using Mexico’s resources, not in America illegally draining our resources, especially a resource as vital as baby formula.
If these illegals didn’t stroll into our country illegally, something Biden is openly encouraging and allowing, we wouldn’t have this problem.
The congresswoman also makes a good point. Using secret flights, the Biden administration will release most of these illegals into the American interior, which will only stress our baby formula resources all the more … and our housing resources … and our law enforcement resources.
In all truth, there is little a President or either of the two major political parties can do about the world-wide economic situation we are now facing,
Well every economist worth a dollar says inflation is the fault of overspending and the entire country can see that Biden has ZERO plan to deal with it.
More to the point, Biden and his cronies keep trying to convince America that things are great! That is about as politically tone deaf as you can get.
When the economy is tanking people expect our Government to do something. Attacking people who want to "Make America Great" isn't much of a plan... now is it Reverend.
On abortion, even your hero has acknowledged that Democrats have screwed the pooch by putting up a radical out of touch crazy assed Abortion happy bill that virtually had no chance of passing...
And now Warnock in Georgia, Kelly in Arizona, Cortez Mastro, Hassan are all going to have to explain to their purple constituents why they approve of THIRD TRIMESTER abortions, forcing CATHOLIC HOSPITALS to perform Abortions, and start using TAXPAYER MONEY on abortions.
Should go over like a lead balloon!
Wouldn't you agree Reverend?
Well good thing that Biden came along...
DAMNED STRAIGHT, LIL SCHITTY!!!!!!! With Donnie we'd be out of Nato by now and Ukraine would be lost, but the cost of gas would be a lot lower......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Asshole
Well every economist worth a dollar says inflation is the fault of overspending and the entire country can see that Biden
Wow Lil Schitty....how prescient of you to post the obvious.......>BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The entire country can see Biden has no control over the worlds oil market and that alone is the main driver of inflation, plus people spending for scarce resources....wonder what the GOP plan is since I haven't seen one from them other than assholes like you complaining its Biden's fault!!!!!
why they approve of THIRD TRIMESTER abortions, forcing CATHOLIC HOSPITALS to perform Abortions,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Easy asshole.....it's not law is it???? Just the initial step....BTW....WHY THE FUCK DOES AN AETHIEST CARE WHAT CATHOLICS DO????
FUNNY HOW THE LYING SCUM BAG LIL SCHITTY EARLIER CLAIMED IT WAS RAINING ON THE WEST COAST,.....NOW HERE IS A SECOND PIECE SHOW WHAT A FUCKING FRAUD AND ASSHOLE HE CAN BE WHEN HE IS ECHOING THE GOP LINE OF STUPID!!!!!!
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California’s water officials on Tuesday continued to paint a grim picture of the state’s sapped water supplies as it endures a third year of severe drought. April storms that brought welcome rain and snow did little to alter that trajectory and were not nearly enough to overcome a record dry start to the year.
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Despite erratic bursts of precipitation since October, snowpack on April 1 was the fifth-lowest on record since 1950, state climatologist Michael Anderson said. It sits at just 22 percent of average as of May 10.
“We used to get these monster snowpacks above 200 percent of average — the last one was in 1983,” Anderson said Tuesday. “Since then, they haven’t made an appearance.”
Satellite images show wide fluctuations in Sierra snowpack throughout the winter season, with significant losses by April after a record-breaking dry spell from January through March. (NASA Earth Observatory)
While the reality of the drought — and climate change — may be apparent in parched reservoirs and disappearing mountain snow, that hasn’t quelled the demand for water. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called on Californians to voluntarily reduce water use by 15 percent last summer, but it declined by only 3.7 percent from July through March compared with the same period in 2020, according to the State Water Resources Control Board.
I see VERY lo iq still hasn't recovered.
Now he's hoarsely shouting
Must be very frustrating for him
especially trying to get his full throated bleats out
ROFLMFAO !!!
Anybody see the latest Monmouth poll ?
I thought people here were saying Biden was improving abd had bottomed ?
Well now he's in the thirties !!!
Everbody has started to see Biden for what he is
Maybe justice will finally come for Hunter.
You know the guy with the criminal evidence that actually exists
along with the "big guy"
whoever that is
* btw Monmouth has generic Republicans up 7
Thanks Joe
Anonymous James's Fucking Daddy said...
I see VERY lo iq still hasn't recovered.
THE REAL ASSWIPE REARS HIS SHITSTAINED ASS FOR ANOTHER BEATING!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
California water watch
Grow lawns higher.
😀
* in 2020 democrats were up 6.8...
quite a staggering reversal
* Biden now DOWN ELEVEN with WOMEN
of course I'm no biologist
* wonder what triggered that ?
* down 31 in 18-34 year olds
the youth are hating him
was seeing if I'd trigger a spam "hold"
none for me in now well over a week
and rarely before then
Of course I didn't post the same thing in three different threads
and/or copy from a single source
and then falsely accuse others
Bidenomics = 5.5% 30 year mortgages.
Outstanding way to crush American dreams.
Day #1 0f Bidenomics, was 2.73% .
No fucked up you just blame everyone but yourself for being stupid!!!!!!!
Outstanding way to crush American dreams.
Outstanding way to fight inflation as you have also complained about......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Truth from the past:
A guy named Gene reports:
When I was in college my parents moved to Glen Park, IN (a suburb of Gary) in the 1940's. My mother managed a dress shop for her cousin's wife who had become ill and my parents lived in an apartment behind the shop. The building, which consisted of about six shops and an upstairs medical office. The office was run by a midwife who specialized in illegal abortions. From the back window we could see all the cars drive up and unload the clients who "snuck" up the back stairs. We noticed that many of the cars had Illinois license plates. My mother's cousin used to write down the plate numbers and check them with a friend who had access to the car owner list. Many of them belonged to the Catholic Church or the Chicago Mayor's office. They brought in young women who had gotten pregnant by men of influence in these organizations.
t. Many of them belonged to the Catholic Church or the Chicago Mayor's office. They brought in young women who ha
Sad how little has changed in all these years except the church of today goes for boys!!!!!!!!
rrb's hero is losing 📉
hours ago
Russian troops seek to block Kyiv’s forces
Ukrainian ministry officials said Thursday that Russian troops were trying to block Kyiv’s forces from advancing as far as the Ukrainian-Russian border in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
“In the direction of Kharkiv, Russian army units are regrouping and trying to prevent the further advance of our troops in the direction of the state border of Ukraine,” defense ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said in his regular media briefing.
“To this end, the occupiers launch unceasing artillery attacks on our troop units in order to inflict human losses, as well as to damage weapons and military equipment,” Motuzyanyk added.
He did not clarify how close Ukrainian forces were to the border.
According to the defense ministry briefing, Moscow’s troops were opening fire “along the entire line of confrontation” in Ukraine’s east, and attempting to penetrate Ukrainian defenses.
Also on Thursday, the Ukrainian military’s General Staff said in its daily operational statement that Russian forces continued their attempts to storm several cities in Ukraine’s industrial heartland of Donbas that day, but had no success.
You (Russia) caused this. Look in the mirror,” Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said this week.
While the country’s Parliament still has to weigh in, the announcement means Finland is all but certain to apply — and gain admission — though the process could take months to complete. Sweden, likewise, is considering putting itself under NATO’s protection.
That would represent a major change in Europe’s security landscape: Sweden has avoided military alliances for more than 200 years, while Finland adopted neutrality after its defeat by the Soviets in World War II.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR
Public opinion in both nations shifted dramatically in favor of NATO membership after the invasion, which stirred fears in countries along Russia’s flank that they could be next.
Such an expansion of the alliance would leave Russia surrounded by NATO countries in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic and would amount to a stinging setback for Putin, who had hoped to divide and roll back NATO in Europe but is instead seeing the opposite happen.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance would welcome Finland and Sweden with open arms.
This is a historical event
POSTED ON MAY 12, 2022 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN DR. FAUCI
FAUCI WAS PAID FOR UNDERMINING TRUMP
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that NIH officials including Anthony Fauci have been paid hundreds of millions of dollars in patent royalties by pharmaceutical companies and others, raising obvious conflict of interest issues which the NIH has covered up rather than trying to address.
But it gets worse: remember how Fauci constantly undermined President Trump during the early stages of the covid epidemic? It turns out that he was paid to do the exact opposite of his job–to subvert his boss, the president. OpenTheBooks.com has the story:
To this day, Fauci continues to receive NIH-approved perks without a lot of accountability. For example, in February 2021, Fauci received a $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation in Israel for “speaking truth to power” during the Trump administration.
Speaking truth to power? More like representing the Beltway establishment in opposition to his own superior, while defending Communist China in opposition to the interests of the American people. All for a cool million dollars.
POSTED ON MAY 12, 2022 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN DR. FAUCI
FAUCI WAS PAID FOR UNDERMINING TRUMP
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that NIH officials including Anthony Fauci have been paid hundreds of millions of dollars in patent royalties by pharmaceutical companies and others, raising obvious conflict of interest issues which the NIH has covered up rather than trying to address.
But it gets worse: remember how Fauci constantly undermined President Trump during the early stages of the covid epidemic? It turns out that he was paid to do the exact opposite of his job–to subvert his boss, the president. OpenTheBooks.com has the story:
To this day, Fauci continues to receive NIH-approved perks without a lot of accountability. For example, in February 2021, Fauci received a $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation in Israel for “speaking truth to power” during the Trump administration.
Speaking truth to power? More like representing the Beltway establishment in opposition to his own superior, while defending Communist China in opposition to the interests of the American people. All for a cool million dollars.
Yay!, Finland and Sweden are waddling to the trough for Uncle Sugar to pay for their defense
You believe that
British forces will defend Sweden and Finland from a Russian attack, not the United
States should the need arise, under a new security agreement that sets the stage for the Nordic countries to join NATO in defiance of Kremlin threats.
“What we are saying emphatically is that in the event of a disaster or the event of an attack upon Sweden, then the U.K. would come to the assistance of Sweden with whatever Sweden requested,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on the first of two stops Wednesday
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Zelenskyy says he is ready for talks with Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that “we must find an agreement,” but with no ultimatum as a condition.
Zelenskyy told Italian RAI state TV in an interview scheduled to be broadcast on Thursday night that Ukraine will never recognise Crimea as part of Russia.
“Crimea has always had its autonomy, it has its parliament, but on the inside of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in excerpts of the interview that RAI released earlier on Thursday.
Bidenomics = 5.5% 30 year mortgages.
Outstanding way to crush American dreams.
Day #1 0f Bidenomics, was 2.73% .
There is not any part of Bidenomics that is working.
Republican leaders use political to criticize the military
The real problem that the U.S. military faces today is its loss of focus on the factors that underlie military effectiveness. “Diversity,” “inclusion,” and other buzzwords do not win wars. As the Russian experience in Ukraine suggests, neither does a broken system. The continued stalemate in Ukraine, which has dampened this year’s Victory Day celebration in Moscow, illustrates that the modern Russian general faces a task even more daunting than that of his American counterpart.
The USA should be Earning this money.
Russia is earning $20 billion per month in oil sales as higher crude prices lift export revenue 50%, says IEA
Roger , are you using much less water ?
Sanctions Are ‘Beginning to Bite’ Into Russian Military
May 12, 2022 at 6:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 76 Comments
“U.S. and British officials believe that damaging international sanctions slapped on Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine are hampering its ability to restock high-tech weapons, such as precision-guided munitions, though Russia still has plenty of conventional ammunition stocks at its disposal to continue to wage war,”
Foreign Policy reports.
GOOD~!
Fake news?
After baking the state of Texas, an early-season heat wave is poised to shatter temperature records across the central and Northeastern sections of the United States in the next few days.
Unusually hot weather, with temperatures expected to top 100 degrees Fahrenheit throughout a broad stretch of the country, will affect millions of Americans from Texas to Maine and serve as yet another wake-up call as to the mounting evidence of climate change.
"The heat wave will produce temperatures that are 15-25 degrees above average. In most cases, temperatures this high have not been experienced since September or August last year," AccuWeather said on its website.
On Saturday, heat records were toppled in the Texas cities Del Rio, San Angelo and Abilene, with the thermometer registering 112 degrees in some locations. At the weekend, San Antonio notched its earliest consecutive 100-degree days on record, the Weather Channel reported. The oppressive heat has been exacerbated by stifling humidity
While the singular cause of individual heat waves can be difficult to attribute to climate change, their growing frequency has been linked to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
"Unusually hot days and multi-day heat waves are a natural part of day-to-day variation in weather. As the Earth's climate warms, however, hotter-than-usual days and nights are becoming more common and heat waves are expected to become more frequent and intense," the Environmental Protection Agency says on its website.
What is also clear is that as average temperatures continue to rise thanks to climate change, they intensify each individual event.
"Every heat wave in the world is now made stronger and more likely to happen because of human-caused climate change," Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College of London's Grantham Institute, told the AFP.
A study published last year's record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, for instance, concluded that it was "virtually impossible" that it would have occurred without human-caused climate change.
The arrival of May temperatures in the U.S. normally not registered until late June or early July is analogous to the early scorching heat wave that has gripped parts of Pakistan and India, which experienced its hottest March on record and the hottest April in 122 years.
Russia is earning $20 billion per month in oil sales as higher crude prices lift export revenue 50%, says IEA
Just think , IF, we had President that could lead.
The US hasten Oil and Gas .
What we lack is Presidential leadership.
What is Roe v Wade?
Roe v Wade was the landmark case of a Texan woman, Norma McCorvey, who was referred to by the legal pseudonym of Jane Roe to protect her privacy.
In 1969 she became pregnant with her third child and was unable to get an abortion because the state only allowed them if the mother's life was in danger.
Her lawyers brought a case against the local district attorney Henry Wade to the US Federal Court, claiming Texan abortion laws were unconstitutional.
The District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled in her favour, but Mr Wade appealed against the decision at the Supreme Court.
After hearing the arguments, in 1973 the court revealed seven of its nine justices had voted in favour of Ms Roe.
This meant a change to the constitution and that regardless of any state laws banning abortion, every woman in the US has the right to one within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy - and some rights to one beyond that.
Without the protection of the 1973 ruling, abortion laws would be decided at state level.
What does the leaked Supreme Court document show?
The Supreme Court is currently presiding over the case Dobbs V Jackson Women's Health Organization, which argues the 2018 Mississippi state ban on abortions after 15 weeks is unconstitutional.
The case cites both Roe v Wade and another key piece of US-wide abortion legislation - Planned Parenthood v Casey from 1992.
That case saw five criteria of Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act (1982) overturned by the Supreme Court.
Justices ruled that the required waiting period, the need to inform the woman's spouse, and parental consent for minors were "undue burdens" on women seeking abortions up to 24 weeks.
The leaked 'draft opinion' written by Justice Alito reads: "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.
"And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have inflamed debate and deepened division."
How does the US Supreme Court work and could it mean the draft becomes law?
The draft, now confirmed as authentic by Chief Justice Roberts, was written in February, with a final decision on Dobbs v Jackson not due until early July.
Under the US system, the Supreme Court is made up of nine Supreme Court justices, who hear fewer than 1% of the cases it is sent every year.
The justices are appointed by presidents and can serve until they die, meaning the political leanings of the court can be different to the White House.
Currently there are six justices appointed by Republican presidents and three by Democrats.
During Donald Trump's presidency, he appointed three new Republican justices, notably replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of women's rights, with Amy Coney Barrett - a staunchly Conservative Catholic.
Image:Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020
Mara Clarke, the founder of Abortion Support Network (ASN), has been campaigning to protect women's abortion rights for more than 20 years.
She tells Sky News: "Despite the fact that the majority of people in the US claim to be pro-choice, the opposition to abortion is baked into the political framework.
"Things were hard when I started doing this work 20 years ago, but we all knew the shift in the Supreme Court would be the death knell."
After hearing oral arguments on both sides, the nine justices deliberate and vote, before one on the winning side is appointed to draft an "opinion" that sums up their ruling.
This can be edited several times before the opinion is published and becomes the "opinion of the court" and therefore constitutional law.
What would it mean for American women?
This week's leak has triggered mass protests outside the Supreme Court and across the US.
Democrats such as Hillary Clinton have said overturning Roe v Wade would "kill and subjugate women" and branded it an "utter disgrace".
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement it would be the "greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years", an "abomination" and "one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history".
Ms Clarke, whose organisation helps fund women who need to get abortions abroad, stresses that 90% of US counties do not have a single abortion provider, some doctors cover several states by themselves and others conscientiously object.
"For many years already low-income and marginalised people have depended on abortion funds to access them," she says.
And despite a change in World Health Organisation (WHO) advice that endorses take-at-home abortion pills as the safest way to end a pregnancy up to 12 weeks, women all over the world still resort to dangerous and deadly last resorts.
"People are still Googling 'can I do this to have an abortion?'," Ms Clarke adds.
"When I started working on this in the UK before there was widespread knowledge about abortion pills, one mother tried to crash her car - but not die - to induce an abortion.
"Another had never done drugs in her life but thought if she tried heroin the shock to her system would work."
But she says the US network of around 90 groups and independent abortion providers will continue helping women access abortions privately.
"There would be extreme chaos if this happens, but those groups will continue funding people's abortions. They pay for procedures, have drivers, pay for hotel rooms, put people up in their own homes.
"For those who are just waking up to this problem, welcome, we are tired, and we could use some help."
She also says that abortion pills, which have been legalised in the UK after being used as an emergency measure during the pandemic, are going to "save thousands of lives" across the US should the legal changes go through.
"But this also isn't just a US problem - it's a global problem," she adds.
"UK abortion laws are by no means perfect - people in Scotland still have to travel to England if they are more than 18 weeks pregnant.
"It's really easy to point fingers and laugh at backwards Americans, but I would urge people to look at themselves and their neighbours too."
https://news.sky.com/story/what-is-roe-v-wade-and-how-could-abortion-become-illegal-in-many-us-states-12604522
This is British news story
Thunderstorms here over an inch of grass and grain producing rain.
More on the way, ponds are full.
So are the barrells we use to collect roof run off over 500 gallons of it.
Saving water is a duty to Mother Nature .
7 Roger posting.
I don't read them.
Of no value.
He could write his own opinions, but he doesn't, sadly.
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