Starting on August 1st, the passage of a new law deeming oil pipelines “critical infrastructure” in Louisiana has made trespassing on a pipeline construction site a felony with a sentence of up to five years in prison. Organizers say that at least 10 activists have now been arrested under the new law while protesting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, which will bring crude oil from North Dakota into Louisiana.
...“It’s a ridiculous over-criminalization of people who protest,” Bill Quigley, a law professor who represents protesters in Louisiana, told NPR. He called the law a violation of the First Amendment rights, and plans on challenging it in court.
Wow, even installing Windows Store apps onto peoples' machines whether they want them or not didn't get this thing to take off? https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/02/windows-10-installing-unwanted-store-apps/
I'm guessing the only way they're gonna get people into the Windows Store is to deny them updates if they don't use it. But even that probably won't work, because people will just settle for not getting updates. lol
They need to just update Windows 7, or make Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB available to everyone.
All anyone wants from Microsoft Windows is a robust Win32 platform.
The number of apps in its Windows Store had dwindled to 13 percent of the 1.1 million offered in 2014
Of course, Fakebook is still using Weekly Stankard for fact checking.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-weekly-standard-played-facebook-and-screwed-think-progress
Without consumer groups at the table, these are the kind of facts that tend to get lost in the shuffle, and the entire conversation tends to shift to why privacy rules kill innovation and aren't necessary, and not what balanced, reasonable, but meaningful privacy rules of the roads might actually look like. Again, because as it stands now, none of the folks at this hearing are actually interested in that.
Sure, maybe meaningful privacy protections are impossible, either due to government's failure to adapt to quickly changing markets, or outright corruption. But by omitting consumer groups from the conversation, it's being made abundantly clear that this isn't a serious effort one way or another, with the end result being more of an echo chamber than any meaningful policy discussion.
GOP = Gaslighting Operation Party
Environmental regulations would be gutted, and industries open to intense privatization.
...The plan was co-written by the pro-Brexit think tank the Initiative for Free Trade and the Koch brothers-funded Cato Institute. It was supposed to be released in both London and Washington D.C. Tuesday afternoon, however it appears the Cato Institute published their version of the plan early.
That headline though.
Whereas her criticisms of church leaders were once veiled, she now speaks her mind freely. She blogged icily about meeting a prominent male theologian who looked her up and down and told her she was prettier than another famous female Bible teacher. She has castigated the evangelical movement for selling its soul to buy political wins. Moore is hopeful that a reckoning is finally under way. “There is a very strong saying that Peter used himself, that judgment begins in the house of God. And I do believe that’s what’s happening.”
Trump was accused of even worse and yet 62 million people came out to vote for him. A lot of people (possibly the majority) don't even know who Kavanaugh is.
Now, the exodus of (Republican) women to the Democratic Party appears to be accelerating, and for a more profound cultural reason than policy differences: the belief that Trump and his male allies refuse to fully see them as equal human beings. Trump lost the female electorate by 12 percentage points (although he won white women). Meanwhile, a solid majority of men clearly didn’t care much that candidate Trump had allegedly abused, harassed, or groped almost 20 women; or that Trump responded by calling the women liars and threatening to sue them. The president was similarly hostile last winter to the multiple women who came forward to accuse Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore of molesting them as minors.
He lied. And I don't like him. BUT what is the statute of limitations on being a shithead adolescent?
High school was over 20 years ago for me. I was a model "nice guy" (not /r/niceguys just a nice guy). But, dude, if someone came out today and said I groped them at a houseparty, I don't have any way to prove I didn't...and it's scary to think that I could lose my career over that.
The lie wasn't about the sexual issue. The lie was about his involvement in judicial selections under Bush.
From the accuser who is a democrat plant?
No, from the e-mails released as part of the hearing, compared to what he said in his 2006 confirmation in Senate testimony.
That is a good question. Well I have never claimed to be completely conservative, I believe we should control the borders and that the only people coming in should be legal and vetted. I'm very pro 2nd amendment although I'm not an NRA member or anything. I am atheist. I am more fiscally conservative. I have never really cared about lgbt people one way or the other, just seems like none of my business to judge. When I graduated high school I did my final paper on why gay marriage should be legalized nationally. I love weed, I think it should be legalized. I don't buy into ideas like toxic masculinity or white privilege, just like I don't buy into white nationalism, or neo Nazism, they all seem to be coming from places of hate to me. I believe everyone is born equal, but I would not call myself a feminist, again seems to hate filled for me. I can't stand Trump fans, they seem to be lying to themselves and just believe every word that trump says, but I can also understand why they don't like the left, left leaning politicians calling them names doesn't help. So all in all I kind of can't stand a single politician left or right currently, they seem to be out for themselves on all sides. So I'm not a Republican, im not a Democrat, libertarians have some so down right stupid ideas even though I'm not completely against them. So you tell me what I am dude.
You're a fed-up independent. There's a lot of them! There's a very tiny group called the Centrist party that might seem like a fit for you, but they have no power.
Ok so I just wanted to say i dont think Americans should all be holding hands chanting USA in unison. I just think their should be something that we can all unite behind. See I'm conservative, never liked trump, i didn't like his show or his attitude. Now I must confess I did find it funny watching the Republican and Democrat elites squrim when he started winning. But when you are a conservative you are the butt of all late night jokes and most of the media's scapegoat for fear mongering, so I thought it was funny to watch everyone lose their minds. It's much less funny now, I wish Bernie was president, I mean he was the only respectable candidate, and I didn't like many of his policies. But all in all I find the problem to be a rich vs poor problem more than anything else. And your right russia does support Trump because he won't talk shit on them or sanction them. And is possibly in Russia pocket although I still reserve final judgement on that. And to be honest my big problem with the left is mostly due to the fact that wealthy white liberals who actually have that white privilege they cry about, have every perk and luxury in the world, and claim that all white people are like them, and that all of America is horrible. I just feel their is a huge disconnect between Washington and Hollywood elites and the poor people of the country. And yes I wish I had more money for sure, but if it turned me into a holier than thou pompous dickhead that only cares about petty social issues so that I can get likes on Facebook then I would rather stay poor. Also just as a side note I've not been on social media since MySpace was hot because I hate all social media as a concept.
What does it mean to you, to say you are conservative?
What you consider yourself, and what media "conservatives" stand for, may no longer be the same.
Nixon created the EPA, and Trump is destroying it.
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Wikipedia seems to think that Voter Caging is alive and well.
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