Birds of a feather?Hunter, whose father served 14 consecutive terms in Congress, is under criminal investigation by the justice department for allegedly misspending tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds – including flying the family rabbit on a plane. Democrats are considering a bid to target his normally safe seat.
Donald Trump scrapped Barack Obama's flood protection standards days before Hurricane Harvey
Changes are designed to speed up new infrastructure projects but critics described them as 'dangerous'
Donald Trump signed an executive order just days before Hurricane Harvey that scrapped many of the flood protections introduced by Barack Obama.
Harvey has caused huge damage in Texas as 30 inches of rain in less than 48 hours resulted in massive flooding.
The current US President, however, has abolished a number of flood standards in an attempt to get infrastructure projects approved more quickly. The Federal Flood Risk Management Standard is among those to have been rolled back.
In 2015, Mr Obama introduced measures that made it harder to build roads, bridges and other infrastructure in areas that were susceptible to flooding. Plans for such projects would legally have to take into account the impact of climate change and be built to withstand future changes.
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Yep. That about sums it up. Merkin politics are a mess - even worse than the UK lot, and that's sayin' something...Scot Dutchy wrote:I liked the last paragraph of that report Alan:
Birds of a feather?Hunter, whose father served 14 consecutive terms in Congress, is under criminal investigation by the justice department for allegedly misspending tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds – including flying the family rabbit on a plane. Democrats are considering a bid to target his normally safe seat.
Come on Scot, get with the program. You simply don't need expensive measures to deal with extreme weather events when global warming is FAKE NEWS!!Scot Dutchy wrote:The country has to drown as well according to the orange scrotum.
Donald Trump scrapped Barack Obama's flood protection standards days before Hurricane Harvey
Changes are designed to speed up new infrastructure projects but critics described them as 'dangerous'
Donald Trump signed an executive order just days before Hurricane Harvey that scrapped many of the flood protections introduced by Barack Obama.
Harvey has caused huge damage in Texas as 30 inches of rain in less than 48 hours resulted in massive flooding.
The current US President, however, has abolished a number of flood standards in an attempt to get infrastructure projects approved more quickly. The Federal Flood Risk Management Standard is among those to have been rolled back.
In 2015, Mr Obama introduced measures that made it harder to build roads, bridges and other infrastructure in areas that were susceptible to flooding. Plans for such projects would legally have to take into account the impact of climate change and be built to withstand future changes.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... f651572e9d“She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.” Nowhere in the piece were Palin’s conservative viewpoints referenced; her views on, say, health care or school choice, or even abortion, went unmentioned. Palin’s problem, in Parker’s view, wasn’t her beliefs but her tendency to ramble. What mattered about the governor was what she could reflect back to a hungry Republican base: an “attractive, earnest [and] confident” woman in a position of power.
Liberals condescended to Palin. Newspapers corrected her statements on “death panels.” “Saturday Night Live” satirized her relentlessly. That treatment infuriated her supporters. And none of it changed their minds anyway, because Palin was an avatar for how her supporters felt about themselves and the world they wanted to see, one they saw rapidly slipping away from them. Sure, she might be wrong, they seemed to say, but she’s like us. She is us.
Trump campaigned on the Palin model. In fact, he improved upon it. His identity was his trademark, rendering the constant shifts in policy goals and promises almost meaningless. His base saw in Trump what they wanted to see. Some saw a fighter who would stand up for them, others saw a vaunted truth-teller, and a few, truth be told, likely saw a potential white-nationalist hero. And he gave it to them: the image, the veneer, the blank slate upon which their deeply held dreams — for themselves as much as their country — could be written. His fans weren’t dissuaded by his past support for Democrats (including his 2016 opponent), or his lies, or his personal liberalism, or his crudeness, or his long history of mistreating small-business owners of the kind he claimed to champion, because his fans weren’t voting for Trump. They were voting for what Trump meant to them personally.
At the 2015 Freedom Summit in Iowa, Palin gave a 35-minute speech described as confusing at best and career-ending at worst by conservative writers and commentators in attendance. The Washington Examiner’s Byron York quoted Iowa Republican Craig Robinson as saying Palin “made a guy like Trump look like a serious presidential candidate.” How appropriate then that the student became the master.
In full. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada ... 89?SThisFB"Hey, dumbass - the election is over... you lost on all accounts," said the letter that arrived in John Gascot's mailbox.
It accused him and his husband of living in a "gay house", adorned with a rainbow flag to "troll for queers".
And it was unsigned.
"I was angry. It was a cowardly act. My first reaction was 'I'm painting the house rainbow'", says Gascot, an artist and active member of the LGBT community in the state of Florida.
Three years ago, he moved with his partner of 20 years to St Petersburg, in Florida's Gulf Coast, and always felt that "people in this neighbourhood are very warm with each other".
Yet the anonymous "hate mail" that he got in December, just weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, put them on alert.
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Hate crimes have been in the spotlight in the US following the November election.
A study from the nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, at the California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), revealed that there has been a double-digit spike in reported cases in many US metropolitan areas in 2016, a trend that seems to have continued.
In New York City, the uptick was 24%, the highest in over a decade. Chicago saw a 20% increase, it was 50% in Philadelphia and 62% in Washington DC - the largest increase among the 25 large cities surveyed in the CSUSB report.
Incidents range from serious physical attacks to racist graffiti and slurs, desecrations at synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, harassment of black Americans and threats towards immigrants, undocumented or otherwise. Abuses against Muslims and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people accounted for much of that growth.
No. Way. Nup. Couldn't happen. Not even he's that fucking retarded.Animavore wrote:
Yes. He actually said this.
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