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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/health/sexual-initiation-forced-united-states-study/index.html

More than 3.3 million US women were raped the first time they had sex, study says

[josh]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/accepting-refugees-isn-t-a-gift-it-s-a-human-right-michael-ignatieff-1.5282444?fbclid=IwAR0qHutVcbRN2EMnnKblxUOvV2QM-MMab70l34Idgt4lbQC2DPD8f3k__3U

Accepting refugees isn't a gift — it's a human right: Michael Ignatieff

'What kind of people are we? Are we a people that shuts doors or are we a people that opens them?'
CBC Radio

Down south of the border, we are clearly the sort who shuts doors, if not as tightly as Bambi would like.

[josh]

BLOOMBERG.COM
Betsy DeVos Loses Student Loan Lawsuit Brought by 19 States

[josh]

[josh]

[barton]

Excellent 'toons.  The missus and I also enjoy Two Party Opera, Brian Carroll's strip at GoComics. 

Thanks for the Arctic piece.  I expect we'll be finding new ways to bully Canada, too. 

I'm amused by the phrase "30% of the world's undiscovered natural gas..."  It's nice to be so precise when you're talking about resources as yet undiscovered.

[barton]

For the White House, Tuesday's hearing is the latest effort to block former advisers from cooperating with Congress. The White House has offered various reasons that former aides cannot testify — including that top presidential advisers have “absolute immunity” from appearing before Congress and, in turn, cannot answer questions about the obstruction of justice allegations contained in the 448-page Mueller report. It applied this rationale to Dearborn and Porter...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/17/corey-lewandowski-impeachment-hearing-1500023

WH reasons translated into plain English:  "We are composed of slime."

[oilcan]

The leaker is probably not Trump, since technically he cannot violate that statute. My money is on Kushner.

Just curious - is there just one statute?  And could not the potus violating it be impeachable?  Or abetting someone else to violate it? 

[Hairy Lime]

The leaker is probably not Trump, since technically he cannot violate that statute. My money is on Kushner.

Just curious - is there just one statute?  And could not the potus violating it be impeachable?  Or abetting someone else to violate it?

The president has the right to declassify anything. He can be impeached for misusing that power, but not with the current Republican eunuchs in the Senate.

[LarryBnDC]

Having been accused of “embracing victimhood” no one does victimization better than Republicans as exemplified by Sean Spice. “It doesn’t matter if I’m overweight and have no talent, if I lose it’s because I’m a Christian!”

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/461713-spicer-on-dancing-with-the-stars-those-of-us-who-stand-for-christ-wont-be

[facilitatorn]

http://youtu.be/05pNxZmxs8M

Malcom Nance having coffee w Paul Rieckhuff beside an airstream

They get into what might go down in Iran and what it means to defend a great nation.

Nance thinks Biden, Harris, or Warren could easily be President. He leaves the door open to a fourth, but DQs a few. This is old, but still interesting.

Enjoy

[kiidcarter8]

Having been accused of “embracing victimhood” no one does victimization better than Republicans as exemplified by Sean Spice. “It doesn’t matter if I’m overweight and have no talent, if I lose it’s because I’m a Christian!”

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/461713-spicer-on-dancing-with-the-stars-those-of-us-who-stand-for-christ-wont-be

heh

[LarryBnDC]

http://youtu.be/05pNxZmxs8M

Malcom Nance having coffee w Paul Rieckhuff beside an airstream

They get into what might go down in Iran and what it means to defend a great nation.

Nance thinks Biden, Harris, or Warren could easily be President. He leaves the door open to a fourth, but DQs a few. This is old, but still interesting.

Enjoy

Nance’s wife passed last week...

[Hairy Lime]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiy9OOB4tjkAhWUnp4KHWJdBIIQzPwBegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fmedia%2F461786-trump-cokie-roberts-never-treated-me-nicely-but-was-a-professional&psig=AOvVaw0z_icjGKw6mNztJeZHBJ1j&ust=1568840925347906

Sweet Mary Mother of Jesus what the HELL is wrong with you? Is normal human empathy that hard to fake?

[barton]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiy9OOB4tjkAhWUnp4KHWJdBIIQzPwBegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fmedia%2F461786-trump-cokie-roberts-never-treated-me-nicely-but-was-a-professional&psig=AOvVaw0z_icjGKw6mNztJeZHBJ1j&ust=1568840925347906

Sweet Mary Mother of Jesus what the HELL is wrong with you? Is normal human empathy that hard to fake?

Well that kills the sociopath theory.   Sociopaths can fake that sort of thing.