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I have all those dudes on ignore so only see what they "contribute" when another quotes them so they aren't a bother to me.

Jesus wept!

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Jesus wept!

Are you claiming to know the mind of god?

Crime stats should inform the public. Trump is misusing them to scare us instead.

Massive crowd protests Trump, anti-LGBT law in North Carolina

A massive crowd took to the streets in North Carolina on Saturday in opposition of President Donald Trump and to a state law limiting LGBT rights for an annual civil rights march.

The protesters want a House Bill 2 repeal, which limits LGBT rights and which bathrooms transgender people can use.

no severe or continual insults of other posters, etc

Obviously, there are a number of chaps or chapettes who attend here regularly to toss up flak - derogations, personal insults, etc.

But there's a serious proportion of this which seems to follow the agenda, "If there's a place where lefties are voicing stuff, then I'm going there to curtail or fight it or spit at it because it is leftie". In short, to troll.

I have all those dudes on ignore so only see what they "contribute" when another quotes them so they aren't a bother to me.

What seems odd is that motivation. Why not, instead, do something like I'm doing but in a fashion and with content they prefer? I'd have no objection whatsoever and I wouldn't drop in on them to spit.

hightor wrote:

It's supposed to be "well regulated" not "well medicated".

That's a good line.

In a reply to a question on the US president, church says it can offer example to those who ‘face the temptations of high office’

The Church of England has responded to concerns over the election of Donald Trump by drawing attention to the “corrupting pressures of politics” and the “temptations of high office”.

In an unusually pointed formal reply to a question referring specifically to the US president, the church said it could “offer an example and encouragement to all those who confront the potentially corrupting pressures of politics – not least those who bear the burdens and face the temptations of high office”.

The written answer was issued by Alan Smith, the bishop of St Albans, on behalf of the C of E’s mission and public affairs council, before the general synod, which starts on Monday.
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Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said this month that Trump’s policies could have disastrous outcomes. “Policies that are based in fear rather than confidence and courage and Christian values of hospitality, of love, of grace, of embrace rather than exclusion, are policies that will lead to terrible results,” he said on LBC radio.

Referring to the president’s travel ban on Syrian refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries, which has been suspended, Welby said that while states were entitled to protect their security, “when you mix up genuine threats to security with a dismissal of a whole range of communities out of fear, that’s not good”.
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John Sentamu, the archbishop of York, Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, and Paul Butler, the bishop of Durham, have also publicly criticised Trump’s executive order.
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"Either he was lying about not having discussed that, or he forgot," Franken said told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"I don't think you want a guy who'd forget that," he said.
Flynn cannot rule out that he spoke to a Russian official about sanctions, an aide close to the national security adviser said Friday.

GOP senator [Cornyn]: Physical border wall 'would rate very low' among Texans
(R-Texas), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, believes that constructing a physical wall on the U.S.-Mexico border would not rate high among Texans.

[Tump's senior policy adviser Stephen Miller] said that stopping illegal immigration "will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars."

"This wall will pay for itself many, many, many times over," Miller said.