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The near naked 'Trump' was helped clambour onto the US embassy sign by two clothed activists. 'Trump' carried a 'nuclear football' with her and had the words 'Mr Big Button' emblazoned across her chest.
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The near naked 'Trump' was helped clambour onto the US embassy sign by two clothed activists. 'Trump' carried a 'nuclear football' with her and had the words 'Mr Big Button' emblazoned across her chest.
"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. This slur rests on fundamental cultural assumptions about people who live in trailer parks: that they are simple-minded, lawless, reckless with fertility, and indifferent to the very behaviors that mark as them worthy of ridicule. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
During the late 1990s, the two of us spent considerable time at the kitchen tables of parents raising children in rural trailer parks. Virtually all of these parents worked full time in manufacturing and service jobs in which wages have been stagnant for decades. They embarked on mobile home ownership just as financial giants like Countrywide opened a gateway to homeownership for low income households by offering high-interest loans with no down payment. Trailer park residency was not a lifestyle choice but the consequence of financial realities and a dream that homeownership might offer their children a kind of stability, security, and respect they lacked in their own adverse childhoods. Today, some 12 million Americans live in one of our nation's 45,000 rural trailer parks.
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Porn stream sites have been accessed thousands of times in UK Parliament
Porn stream sites have been accessed thousands of times in UK Parliament
Official data examined requests made between June and October 2017, revealing that 24,473 attempts were made to reach porn websites, amounting to 160 requests per-day from computers that were connected to the parliamentary network.
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Kansas State University is one of a number of colleges cutting programs because of declines in foreign student enrollment
Kansas State University is one of a number of colleges cutting programs because of declines in foreign student enrollment
At Kansas State, Italian classes are going the way of the Roman Empire.
And at the University of Central Missouri, The Muleskinner, the biweekly campus newspaper, is publishing online-only this year, saving $35,000 in printing costs.
Just as many universities believed that the financial wreckage left by the 2008 recession was behind them, campuses across the country have been forced to make new rounds of cuts, this time brought on, in large part, by a loss of international students.
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The American Health Care Association and the nursing home industry are largely in favor of the move, having requested the change to Medicare's penalty protocols in 2016. The Hill reports:
The American Health Care Association had argued that inspectors were too focused on finding wrongdoings at nursing homes instead of assisting the facilities.
"It is critical that we have relief," Mark Parkinson, the group's president, wrote in a letter to Donald Trump, then president-elect, in December 2016.
According to the [New York] Times, nearly 6,500 nursing homes have received at least one citation for a serious violation since 2013 and about two-thirds of those have been fined by Medicare.
Under the new rules, regulators are now discouraged from giving nursing homes fines, in some cases. Fines for some homes may also be decreased as a result of the new guidelines.
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Marcus Hutchins (R) at US Federal Courthouse on August 14, 2017 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Marcus Hutchins (R) at US Federal Courthouse on August 14, 2017 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Marcus Hutchins, 23, was arrested in Las Vegas airport after attending the annual Def Con hacking convention and later indicted for advertising, distributing and profiting from a malware code called "Kronos" between July 2014 and July 2015. Kronos is downloaded via email attachments and exposes banking and credit card credentials.
In the ominous video that looks more like a terrorist organization threatening its enemies than public servants solving crimes, Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels taunts his massive militarized police army and how it was just used to kidnap a bunch of young people for having marijuana.
Masked men carrying AR-15s, multiple Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles equipped with battering rams, and what looked like an entire platoon of tactical soldiers were all dispatched Friday morning to the home to serve a narcotics search warrant.
In the video, Daniels claims his raid netted him 15 arrests. However, according to arrest records, only five young adults were charged.
As the 'copaganda' video begins, the person filming is at the other end of the street and filming the entire scene. There are more than a dozen kids sitting on the sidewalk in disbelief at the massive army that was just deployed to bust them for having marijuana.
Comment: These kids got off lucky in the sense that they weren't murdered by the cops... unlike these guys:
- Another senseless death: SWAT team raids unarmed man's home and kills him over two grams of pot
- Lying informant sends SWAT team to raid young man's home which results in his death for $2 worth of marijuana
- SWAT cop guns down unarmed man for trying to answer door during pot raid
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But he had for months tried different means of cutting and crushing the limb that never quite felt like his own, training himself on first aid so he wouldn't bleed to death, even practicing on animal parts sourced from a butcher.
"My goal was to get the job done with no hope of reconstruction or re-attachment, and I wanted some method that I could actually bring myself to do," he told the body modification website ModBlog.
Comment: These people have a very clear mental disorder and the answer is not to indulge their whims through surgery but to find out where their brains are malfunctioning so that they can be helped. Legitimizing mental health issues is a very dangerous path that can only lead to pain and suffering for all involved.
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Transabled? Really?
Demagoguing may be a means to score political points, but punishment should be meted out by the voters. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has made many negative comments, calling the bill "monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class." She goes on to state the bill "raises taxes on 86 million middle-class households." Yes, that is correct when (and if) some of the provisions phase out eight years from now - two presidential elections and four Congresses from now when most likely Ms. Pelosi will be retired as an 85-year-old.
In the meantime, even the left of center Brookings Institute's Tax Policy Center states 80% of Americans will receive a significant tax cut.
Comment: Trump's hands may be tied in a number of ways as the president, so it looks like he did one of the few things he could actually do to improve people's lives: save them money, and create new jobs to make them more money. Time will tell how things actually play out, but overall it sounds like his new plan will do at least those two things.
More:
- GOP tax bill details: Cuts for middle class and businesses, retirement savings safe
- The GOP tax plan: Separating fact from fiction
- Fake News outlet Washington Post misleads readers on GOP tax reform bill - then Brit Hume smacks them with facts
- President Trump gives Americans early 'present' in recently passed tax bill
- Why Trump's Tax Reform will lead to booming economic growth
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But young men think it is, and we were young.
- A. E. Housman, 1859-1936
Seven of my soldiers are dead. Two committed suicide. Bombs got the others in Iraq and Afghanistan. One young man lost three limbs. Another is paralyzed. I entered West Point a couple of months before 9/11. Eight of my classmates died "over there."
Military service, war, sacrifice-when I was 17, I felt sure this would bring me meaning, adulation, even glory. It went another way. Sixteen years later, my generation of soldiers is still ensnared in an indecisive, unfulfilling series of losing wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Niger - who even keeps count anymore? Sometimes, I allow myself to wonder what it's all been for.
I find it hard to believe I'm the only one who sees it. Nonetheless, you hear few dissenting voices among the veterans of the "global war on terror." See, soldiers are all "professionals" now, at least since Richard Nixon ditched the draft in 1973. Mostly the troops - especially the officers - uphold an unwritten code, speak in esoteric vernacular and hide behind a veil of reticence. It's a camouflage wall as thick as the "blue line" of police silence. Maybe it's necessary to keep the machine running. I used to believe that. Sometimes, though, we tell you lies. Don't take it personally: We tell them to each other and ourselves as well.
Comment: While the issue of elder abuse in nursing homes is horrible and needs to be investigated, it seems that the system is perhaps currently set up to make it too easy to make accusations and collect fines. It's unknown whether Trump's rollback of penalties is going to do anything to help the issue, and one would hope it wouldn't leave residents of the facilities more vulnerable.
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