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This account of the Freedom Caucus’ central role in the health care showdown is based on interviews with more than two dozen Republican legislators, White House officials and congressional aides. Time and again, they described the tortured, toxic political dynamic within the House Republican Conference — old news to those who’ve followed years of internecine battles between the far-right and leadership, but never experienced or appreciated until now by Trump.

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Funny or racist?

Although it implies that the white Southern sheriff is a bigot, I don't consider it "racist", although we can pretty much assume that the black guy was killed by racists. It's obviously referring to the Jim Crow era (or a holdover sub-culture) and there are many, many examples of stereotypical good ol' boys making these kinds of cracks in movies and TV.

I've got an entire book of old racist jokes from the thirties. Lots of Paddy jokes, Jew jokes, and of course plenty of Rastus jokes — "Ain't nobody in here but us chickens" kind of humor, real knee-slappers, yuk-yuk-yuk. I don't actually mind them — they don't incense me or make me want to burn the book. They don't particularly make me want to laugh either but the stupidity and ignorance of our fellow humans can often provoke a chuckle or two. The book was compiled as a master list of "illustrations" so that after-dinner speakers could pepper up their boring speeches. "And that reminds me of a story... "

If there is an oncoming stampede of wild camels and there are two women in the path, one a citizen, one not a citizen, and you can manage to save just one, which one would you save?

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday lamented that the latest push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act had failed because Washington was "lot more rotten" than the Trump administration had thought.

Though Mulvaney, a former South Caroline representative and House Freedom Caucus member, emphasized that there was "plenty of blame to go around" as to why the American Health Care Act did not get a successful vote, he said the winner was clear.

"I think what happened is that Washington won," he said. "I think if there's anything that's disappointing and sort of an educational process to the Trump administration was that this place was a lot more rotten than we thought that it was, and that I thought it was."

He added: "It's sort of the powers that be in Washington that won.

You can't help thinking like a conservative; you can't help it.

I am asking you, "do you believe that if illegal immigrants were not here that the crimes they commit would not happen?"

I am asking you, do you believe that if psychopaths didn't have access to firearms then the shootings they commit would not happen?

United Airlines has been heavily criticised on social media after two girls were reportedly barred from flying for wearing leggings.

The incident happened on a flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday morning, activist Shannon Watts said.

A United gate agent was "forcing" the girls, one of them aged 10, to change their clothes or wear dresses over the leggings, she tweeted.

United said the girls were travelling on a ticket that had a dress code.

They were "United pass travellers", which are tickets for company employees or eligible dependents, it explained in a Twitter exchange on the issue.

Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action for gun reforms, tweeted about what happened to five girls when they tried to board a flight at Denver airport.

She said three of the girls were allowed to fly after putting dresses over the top of their clothing, but two were prevented from boarding.

And you're going to hear a lot more.

The sense of entitlement that allows some people to control not only women's bodies but the clothes they wear continues. This can be called a lot of things but freedom is not one of them.

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United Airlines has been heavily criticised on social media after two girls were reportedly barred from flying for wearing leggings.

The incident happened on a flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday morning, activist Shannon Watts said.

A United gate agent was "forcing" the girls, one of them aged 10, to change their clothes or wear dresses over the leggings, she tweeted.

United said the girls were travelling on a ticket that had a dress code.

They were "United pass travellers", which are tickets for company employees or eligible dependents, it explained in a Twitter exchange on the issue.

Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action for gun reforms, tweeted about what happened to five girls when they tried to board a flight at Denver airport.

She said three of the girls were allowed to fly after putting dresses over the top of their clothing, but two were prevented from boarding.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39401145

No one forced them to accept the rules of the pass, ....

This is also a clue....

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No one forced them to accept the rules of the pass, ....

You may assume anything you wish.