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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

[HamiltonIII]

Jordan is making a great case----for the Democrats.

[oilcan]

Want a national emergency? Try this one:

I.4 million Americans attempt suicide per year.

Well, doesn't that reduce the carbon footprint? And aren't most of them Trump supporters? I don't know if that is an emergency.

Sure, lots of thing reduce the carbon footprint:  war, famine, plague, cholera, infanticide, genocide, and nuclear holocaust.  Not stepping on your joke, just pointing out that carbon reduction, as the sole criterion of value, is "bad robot" reasoning.

As for suicidal thoughts, they know no party boundaries. 

[whiskeypriest]

"How could anyone listen to this pathological person?” said Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.). “

Oddly enough, the same question his entire family asked during the last election.

[barton]

It's like all the clowns are squeezing out of the VW today.

"I'm responsible for your silliness because I did the same thing that you're doing now for 10 years. I protected Mr. Trump for 10 years..."

(Cohen, to Jordan)

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I have to hope, truly, that it is the requirement to defend the obviously indefensible conduct of "President" Trump, ie. Individual-1, that has the GOP members of this House Committee sounding so utterly and completely clueless.  For the good of the country I pray that they are not actually this stupid on a daily basis.

[HamiltonIII]

I have to hope, truly, that it is the requirement to defend the obviously indefensible conduct of "President" Trump, ie. Individual-1, that has the GOP members of this House Committee sounding so utterly and completely clueless.  For the good of the country I pray that they are not actually this stupid on a daily basis.

That's a prayer that is sure to remain unanswered.

[josh]

Right on, Alaska dude

Trump wants to use his emergency powers to divert Pentagon funds to build a wall along the southern border. Defenders of the wall say it would help block undocumented immigrants and drugs from entering the United States, citing the more than 70,000 domestic drug overdose deaths in 2017 alone.

“If that’s not an emergency, 72,000 dead Americans killed by opioids and heroin in one year, I have no frickin’ idea what an emergency is,” Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said at the hearing.

Dan Sullivan is a dumb guy.

Sounds intelligent and right on the money to me.
Gotta stop the drugs coming in over the southern border..."whatever it takes".

No surprise there.

And the wall won't stop them, as already pointed out several times. But believe what you will, Bambi. There is no wisdom within you.

[josh]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/27/cardinal-pell-will-go-straight-to-jail-as-bail-application-is-withdrawn

His lawyer explained that it was just "vanilla sex." I am sure that makes the victims feel much better and suggests that we should be less upset with Cardinal Pell, right?

Hey, Tony, about those "good Christians" you are always pushing...

[josh]

This sums up Kiiid's and DimBulbWard's reactions to being called racist.

[bambu-wisdom]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/why-i-wont-let-my-kids-join-the-climate-strike/news-story/fdc405669ac1574386c1ffa30402badc

Why I won’t let my kids join the climate strike


Let me be blunt: The idea of schoolchildren wagging school for a day to protest about climate change horrifies me.
Particularly when adults who should know better use scare tactics to lure them out of the classroom and out on the streets.

A mother next to me in the milk aisle — and yes she selected the supermarket own brand without a hint of irony — was humblebragging about her daughters who deemed it “cool” to strike for climate change.

Raking her fingers through her thick ash-blonde mane and with a trolley overflowing with plastic, she declared: “You know, they’re really on board with what their father and I tell them about how it is so much hotter now than when we were kids and all us living now are to blame for more floods and bushfires and stuff."

“The planet is doomed unless they do something about it.”

As I lingered with my own full-fat two litres, I heard the conversation move on to holidays and how will tiger mum and her cubs cope, in a couple of months’ time, with sitting for hours and hours on a carbon belching jet to Europe.

In other words, have fun waving your placards darlings but we’ll still keep flying and driving and consuming wherever and whatever you want.

Because when you hear of kids chanting slogans, don’t you think to yourself: more learning and less activism in schools please, for goodness sake?

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Well there you go.

[bambu-wisdom]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/27/cardinal-pell-will-go-straight-to-jail-as-bail-application-is-withdrawn

His lawyer explained that it was just "vanilla sex." I am sure that makes the victims feel much better and suggests that we should be less upset with Cardinal Pell, right?

Hey, Tony, about those "good Christians" you are always pushing...

He could well be innocent.
You'd hope he's not another 'Lindy Chamberlain', who was nailed to the cross of injustice.

Where are there any eyewitnesses?
Where is there any medical/forensic evidence?
Where is there any confession?
Where is there any evidence, except the word of one accuser?

Now I'm not here to defend him or the Catholic church/Vatican...

but,

Miranda writes;

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/how-pell-became-the-vaticans-sacrificial-lamb/news-story/9927de87c79e50194d971cdd42e722cc

How Pell became the Vatican’s sacrificial lamb

MIRANDA DEVINE
February 27, 2019


The guilty verdict against Cardinal George Pell is devastating.

The verdict is devastating, too, because of what it says about the fallibility of our justice system, although after Lindy Chamberlain, we know the power of irrational mobs to pervert justice.

Of course, we should respect the Melbourne jury who sat through all the evidence and reached a verdict. But how hard it must have been to find 12 impartial souls after the campaign of vilification against Pell over the past two decades and the carefully orchestrated drip feed of lurid allegations by Victoria police to selected media against the backdrop of shocking revelations of child sexual abuse by clergy around the world.

They hate him because he is a conservative Catholic, the implacable enemy who stood in the way of “progress” in the Church. While fellow Catholics crumbled and appeased, he unequivocally defended Church teachings and refused to compromise over gay marriage, euthanasia, abortion, or wedge issues such as communion for divorcees. And now they think they’ve won.

Stooped and limping after a double knee operation, Pell, 77, bowed his head slightly as the words rained down on him: “May you rot in hell, Pell. You’re a monster, you’re an animal. You deserve to be locked up for ever”.
The most vocal heckler, a middle-aged man named Michael, was interviewed on Sky News afterwards: “Pell is representative of everything that is bad and wrong with the Catholic Church in Australia today … what a horrible pathetic useless leader he is, what an incompetent human being”.

You can’t help but feel that Cardinal Pell is being punished for the sins of his Church, which are foul, but not his doing.

[bambu-wisdom]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/27/cardinal-pell-will-go-straight-to-jail-as-bail-application-is-withdrawn

His lawyer explained that it was just "vanilla sex." I am sure that makes the victims feel much better and suggests that we should be less upset with Cardinal Pell, right?

Hey, Tony, about those "good Christians" you are always pushing...

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/how-pell-became-the-vaticans-sacrificial-lamb/news-story/9927de87c79e50194d971cdd42e722cc

It is the word of one man, codenamed AA, against the word of Cardinal Pell.

According to AA, after mass he and another choirboy escaped from a procession and dashed into the sacristy to drink the altar wine when Pell came in, parted his robes and forced them to perform oral sex.

Pell’s legal team had told the jury that there were several flaws in the evidence.

Firstly, Pell was always at the front of the cathedral greeting parishioners after mass, after which he would return to the sacristy with assistants to help him disrobe. He was never alone.
His Master of Ceremonies, Monsignor Charles Portelli, testified that the assaults could not have happened because “I was with him the whole time he was robed on those days”.
There was testimony also that the sacristy was bustling after mass with at least a dozen people coming in and out, tidying up and getting changed.
The liturgical vestments Pell wore could not have been parted or moved to the side for oral sex to occur, as described by AA.
No one saw the boy sopranos leave their place at the front of the choristers’ procession or return shortly afterwards to a room for rehearsal that someone would have had to use a swipe card to let them in.

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You'd hope an innocent man is not rotting in prison.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetz-under-investigation-by-florida-state-bar-over-michael-cohen-threat

Uh Oh!!!!

[facilitatorn]

Disbarred first, then stripped, censured, and expelled would be fair.

The “liar, liar, pants on fire” guy just set the bar for best defense of a corrupt president ever entered into the congressional record. Go Arizona!

[FlyingVProd]

When you are dealing with human beings, then you are going to have people who have problems, and that goes with any group of people, including churches. But, you cannot judge a whole group because of the actions of a few people within the group. And the Catholic Church needs to report and punish those who commit sins against children, or sins against Nuns.

The Bible says that those who commit sins against children need to be drowned in the sea.

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin."

The Catholic Church is a great church, with many wonderful people, and the good people need to stand up and report the bad people so that the bad people can be removed from the church and punished.

The great people within the Catholic Church need to be supported, while the bad people need to be reported and punished.

And overall the rules of the church are good, and the Ten Commandments are good, the Christians have good rules, and benefit society, but the bad ones need to be reported and punished.

Salute,

Tony V.