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blatham
 
  3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:14 pm
Try to plumb the depths of this rejection of morality. It won't be easy.
Quote:
Protesters may want to think twice about blocking roads in North Dakota.

Republican lawmakers in the state introduced a bill last week in the legislature that would not hold motorists liable for negligently running over someone obstructing a roadway. The bill was introduced in response to a year of protests over a proposed pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

"A driver of a motor vehicle who negligently causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway may not be held liable for any damages," the bill reads. "A driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway is not guilty of an offense."

Lawmakers told the Bismarck Tribune that the bill is needed after protesters blocked traffic during oil pipeline protests.
WPTV
glitterbag
 
  4  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:17 pm
@blatham,
Ha, dignity and Trump in the same sentence. Pass the pepto bismo.
layman
 
  -3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:19 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Try to plumb the depths of this rejection of morality. It won't be easy.
Quote:
Protesters may want to think twice about blocking roads in North Dakota.

Republican lawmakers in the state introduced a bill last week in the legislature that would not hold motorists liable for negligently running over someone obstructing a roadway. The bill was introduced in response to a year of protests over a proposed pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

"A driver of a motor vehicle who negligently causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway may not be held liable for any damages," the bill reads. "A driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway is not guilty of an offense."

Lawmakers told the Bismarck Tribune that the bill is needed after protesters blocked traffic during oil pipeline protests.
WPTV


Yeah, those who deliberately block roads are not only immoral, but also extremely stupid, eh?

I'm just surprised the legislators excluded immunity for "intentional" injury, ya know?
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cicerone imposter
 
  3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:20 pm
Donald Trump claims he graduated from Wharton, but read the following:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/what_does_donald_trump_mean_when_he_says_i_went_to_wharton.html

Quote:
In sum, Trump has no graduate degree from Wharton, or anywhere  else, and there is no evidence that he was a distinguished student.
Why does any of this matter?  Trump almost seems to be implying that he has an MBA from a top business school in America.  He doesn't.
And worst of all, he doesn't talk like a smart person.  He often doesn't even speak in complete sentences.


A typical Trump fraud.
blatham
 
  4  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:24 pm
Quote:
Just when you thought the Trump ethics disaster couldn’t get worse, it did

..Both of us, former ethics counsels for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, respectively, have worked with Shaub, a career public servant who, in our experience, provided nonpartisan and wise advice. Now, Shaub is being pilloried — and may be at risk of losing his job — for doing just that, and asserting correctly that Trump’s approach “doesn’t meet the standards . . . that every president in the last four decades has met.”.
WP

Richard Painter, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota, was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007 and is vice chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Norman Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2009 to 2011 and is the chair of CREW.
blatham
 
  4  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:27 pm
@glitterbag,
I know. And it is really depressing for me to see so many others who are forgoing their personal dignity through justifying/excusing anything this guy does.
cicerone imposter
 
  5  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:29 pm
@blatham,
From the WP; they're all crooks supporting crooks. In other words, they're all frauds taking over our government.
Quote:
For speaking up about the shortcomings of this plan, Shaub found himself in the Republican crosshairs. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (Utah), chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that has jurisdiction over the White House, demanded Shaub appear for a Star Chamber-style recorded inquisition and implicitly threatened to shut down the Office of Government Ethics if Shaub did not submit. Chaffetz ought to have been doing the exact opposite, supporting OGE and demanding documents from Trump about any financial ties to Russia or other foreign governments.


Why isn't this news more common knowledge in this country?

blatham
 
  3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:34 pm
@cicerone imposter,
It gets drowned out. That's a major function of how Trump and team operate. Fill up the media space with loud distractions, simplicities, etc.

This has gotten press but the percentage of American citizens who know this story and who understand the significance will be very, very low.
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Debra Law
 
  4  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:39 pm
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:

None of which had anything to do with "candyass values of the cheese-eaters" which you seem to use as a totally biased term for liberal values, unless of course you're going to include Christian values as that . I can probably give you chapter and verse on the collapse of ten civilizations to your one.


Right-wingers and their families avail themselves of all public programs designed for the benefit of all of us, but they think it's somehow different when they're the beneficiary.
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Baldimo
 
  -3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:43 pm
@blatham,
Welcome to the last 8 years of the Obama admin.
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blatham
 
  4  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:46 pm
Trump just threatened to dismantle the European-American alliance as we know it
Quote:

Donald Trump just lobbed a grenade into the normally staid world of European-American diplomacy, using a joint interview with two of Europe’s biggest newspapers to call NATO “obsolete,” predict that the European Union would fall apart and announce that the US wouldn’t really care if it did, and threaten to potentially start a trade war with Germany over BMW’s plans to build a manufacturing plant in Mexico.

For good measure, Trump also criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of Washington’s closest allies, while hinting that he’d be willing to lift the sanctions imposed on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has rattled many in Europe by annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and threatening to use force against other of his neighbors.

...There is only country that benefits from all of these moves: Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/16/14285232/trump-eu-nato-interview
So, again, what the **** is going on here? These ties and cooperative efforts between Trump's crowd and Putin are so obvious and so consistent that there is no possible investigation more urgent than one that delves into what these ties are.

layman
 
  -3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:53 pm
Quote:
“In October, after more than 20 years at the left's house organ, the Nation, Hitchens announced his decision to leave the magazine. "

"I have come to realize that the magazine itself takes a side ... the amoral side ... in this argument and is becoming the voice and echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden," he said.


Man, was poor Hitchens (thereafter "Hitch the Snitch" to the left-wing crowd) ever vilified, denounced, and demonized by his erstwhile left-wing homeys after that, eh!?

They hate an apostate even more than muslims do.

Once indoctrinated, you MUST continue to consume massive quantities of cheese.
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blatham
 
  1  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 03:56 pm
Coming soon to an administration near you!

SWAMP CREATURES!
Quote:
Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited the company, raising new ethics concerns for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/politics/tom-price-bill-aiding-company/index.html
layman
 
  -1  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:00 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

These ties and cooperative efforts between Trump's crowd and Putin are so obvious and so consistent that there is no possible investigation more urgent than one that delves into what these ties are.


Yeah, where's Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy when ya really need his ass, I ask ya? He's just the man for this job.

NOTHING MORE URGENT, I TELLZYA!
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Baldimo
 
  -1  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:08 pm
@blatham,
I have said for many years that members of Congress their aides and direct family members should not be allowed in invest in ANYTHING while they are serving The People. It is more than just this guy, how many people enter politics with little to no money and then leave millionaires? Serving the people shouldn't increase ones personal wealth, and when it does, every penny should have to be accounted for. If they want to make money, they can do it like the rest of us in the private sector.
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Frugal1
 
  -3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:12 pm
About John Lewis:

Getting hit in the head with a brick doesn't make you a saint or smart.

layman
 
  -2  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:23 pm
@Frugal1,
Frugal1 wrote:

About John Lewis:
Getting hit in the head with a brick doesn't make you a saint or smart.


Yeah, Frug, I'm kinda with Trump on this one. I prefer protesters who are smart and agile enough not to get caught upside the head with a big-ass brick, eh?
Frugal1
 
  -3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:34 pm
@layman,
Remember when Lewis lied about Tea Party folks spitting on him and calling him racial slurs? It never happened.
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Frugal1
 
  -3  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:43 pm
WARNING!!

Liberal progressive democrat 'activist' are planning widespread
violence & attacks that they hope to pin on Trump supporters.

I imagine they will mostly attack American blacks, but nobody is safe.

Keep your guard up & be prepared to act.
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Debra Law
 
  5  
Mon 16 Jan, 2017 04:47 pm
EU nations react with surprise, defiance to Trump remarks

Quote:
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking ahead of an EU foreign ministers meeting, said Trump’s view on NATO and criticism that allied members weren’t paying their fair share has “caused astonishment.”

His French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault added that the best response to such an interview was simple — Europeans uniting.

In Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Trump’s positions have been “long known” but added: “I think we Europeans have our fate in our own hands.”
 

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