Heri : The case did not involve abortions but I understand why Disability groups are concerned by it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kavanaugh-disabilities-elective-surgeries/ "Kavanaugh’s 2007 opinion has been cited by disability advocacy groups that have come out in opposition to his nomination to the Supreme Court bench. They include the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), which said in a 15 August 2018 statement that: The principle of self-determination holds that people with disabilities must have the freedom and authority to exercise control over their own lives. Based on his ruling in Doe ex rel. Tarlow v. D.C., Judge Kavanaugh believes otherwise. The Doe plaintiffs were subjected to elective surgeries based on the consent of DC officials; Judge Kavanaugh dismissed the notion that the plaintiffs could express a choice or preference regarding medical treatment on the basis of their intellectual disability. AAPD will not support a Supreme Court nominee who does not affirm the rights and abilities of people with disabilities to determine the...
prairiemoon2 z6 MA I do love that Browallia and I'm going to look for it this year. Last year I found a new favorite plant, Vermillionaire Cuphea. First plant that actually drew a hummingbird into the garden at least a dozen times without a feeder in the yard. Not inexpensive for an annual. I paid $11.99 each for quart size plants. This isn't my photo, but just to give you an idea. Proven Winner also offers them. 1 Like Save April 18, 2018 at 12:39AM Thanked by ginny12
CindyMac(8b) Citing this moment in our history to justify incivility is a slippery slope. "OVER THE WEEKEND there was a fair bit of argument over the decision by a small restaurant in Lexington, Va., not to serve dinner to President Trump’s press secretary. It wasn’t the first time recently that strong political feelings have spilled into what used to be considered the private sphere. We understand the strength of the feelings, but we don’t think the spilling is a healthy development. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was dining with a few other people at the Red Hen in Lexington Friday night. Several of the restaurant’s staff are gay and objected to Ms. Sanders’s defense of Mr. Trump’s discriminatory policies against transgender people. The staff also objected to the administration’s recent actions leading to the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Respecting her staff’s wishes, the restaurant owner politely asked Ms. Sanders to leave, and Ms. Sanders politely acceded. She then tweeted about the episode, turning it into a public controversy. This followed by a few days the very public heckling of two architects of that border policy, Homeland ...
6-24-18 Annie Deighnaugh Nastiness reflects desperation, not strength, eh? Gingrich quotes: “I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. Gingrich’s political action committee, GOPAC, sends out a memo titled “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” to several thousand Republican candidates running for state and local offices. It includes a list of words they should use to describe Democrats: decay, failure (fail) collapse(ing) deeper, crisis, urgent(cy), destructive, destroy, sick, pathetic, lie, liberal, they/them, unionized bureaucracy, “compassion” is not enough, betray, consequences, limit(s), shallow, traitors, sensationalists, endanger, coercion, hypocricy, radical, threaten, devour, waste, corruption, incompetent, permissive attitude, destructive, impose, self-serving, greed, ideological, insecure, anti-(issue): flag, family, child, jobs; pessimistic, excuses, intolerant, stagnation, welfare, corrupt, selfish, insensitive, status quo, mandate(s) taxes, spend (ing) shame, disgrace, punish (poor…) bizarre, cynicism, cheat, steal, abuse of power, machine, bosses, obsolete, criminal rights, red tape, patronage. Tha...
margievank The alt left sure live in a small bubble with their hate. Like Trumps says, "they do stick together, I give them credit for that" 1 Like Save Yesterday at 2:51PM (6-23-18)
6/23/18 Joaniepoanie Something like 3,000 lies since inauguration. It’s called indoctrination....and that’s his M.O........if you say it often enough people will believe it. Isn’t that right out of Hitler’s playbook, along with denegrating the press, creating fear of “others,” etc..... Forget about shooting someone on 5th Ave. If Trump called all his followers to the mountaintop and asked them to jump off, they wouldn’t only happily do it, they’d be fighting over who gets to go first. 7 Likes Save
margievank CindyMac(8b) Makes you wonder how gullible people are in their personal lives. Do they accept lies with such open arms ... willing to ignore what's really going on for whatever reason? Really it is comments like this that have and will keep the divide. The blatant rudeness in which they speak. Pfft ! Like Save 2 hours ago. ~1143pm 6/23/18
lilacinjust Do you see Trump supporters picketing and trying to shut the restaurant down? Surely this injustice and travesty of tolerance will be on David Hogg’s Twitter very soon. Like Save 5 hours ago --[[what about RWers at Planned Parenthood or women's health centers? Or intimidation at polling sites? ]]
catspat(aka) The article pretty much captures it. Blind loyalty is what Trump loves and what he gets from his followers, who will continue their knee-jerk support up to, and maybe even after, our nation is circling the drain, due to the fundamental policy errors he has, and will continue, to make. After all, neither he nor they really care about achieving good governance that looks far into the future -- the central goal seems to be getting revenge on liberals more than anything else, making sure benefits only accrue to one's own tribe, and patting oneself on the back, whether one deserves it or not. Meanwhile, the rest of us, as per usual after Republican administrations, will be left to try to pick up the pieces at the end. ETA a quick reply to mrskjun's question, "Why aren't the left listening to the good things that have been happening in the country?" We are, and most of them, economy-wise at least, we see as happening because of the good job Obama did during his administration. Unfortunately there are some "good things" that Trump and his supporters are already tallying as pluses that no way, no how have actually been accomplished, e.g., erasing North Korea's nuclear threat....
6/23/18 HT Ann I would like to read it in its entirety. I enjoyed reading the parts Kate quoted and will comment on those paragraphs for now. ❗️I do feel protective of Trump. The constant and relentless attacks (and IMO, ruthless and unfair) have made me feel more supportive of him. I admire that he can stand up to such an onslaught and keep on plugging and working super hard (his energy astounds me). I'm a person who tends to have someone's back when I think they are being treated unfairly and I really feel that way about Trump. I completely agree the country is improving and I like his policies and his determination to implement them very much. The bad headlines do galvanize me and I read and listen to MSM about a tenth as much as I used to (before Trump). I think it's all biased cr#p. Typically, just the title of an article says all I care to read, because it will be just like every other article on Comcast and few of them are anything but very biased opinion pieces full of lies. Then Kate went on to personally discuss Trump's critics. It's just noise to me now. I used to enjoy and sometimes respect some of the comments on HT from the opposite side. The posters whose comment...
Ingeorgia, HT 6-22-23/2018 (From a white supremacist site) https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/18b2e3df0b2e7f63_8-3925/home-design.jpg
~6/22/18. HT mrskjun(9) I'll tell you one thing. The left are becoming downright scary. The vicious tweets about a child, the profanity used on tv, accosting a government official in a restaurant where other people are trying to enjoy a meal. Going to their private residence and scaring all of the neighbors and their children. It seems a precursor to violence. How does that make them any different than those who go into a school with a gun because for some reason things aren't going their way. Any different from Antifa or the KKK? Things are not how I want them to be so I'll take the law into my own hands? Just because my candidate wasn't elected? I very much blame the media, and I blame the party. Just the fact that democrats did not show up for the inauguration of the duly elected president helped stoke the fires of hatred. There is not even the slightest comparison of how Obama was treated and how Trump is being treated. 2 Likes Save 22 hours ago
"If ... Would..." margievank sunflower- if the left would have allowed a peaceful transfer of power ,and if the left biased MSM would actually report the truth and vet their sources there would not be this insanity that is on display. 1 Like Save 16 hours ago
"Kathy Did anyone watch Richard Engel’s report on Black Cube? It gives insight into Rudy and Bolton. Both of them are connected to Iran activists. "
margievank Good news adopted. If Feinstein has nothing to hide she should call President Trump and ask for an investigation of herself. ==== [[[So trump, having nothing to hide, should call for a complete investigation of himself (and disclose all his tax records and holding and business dealing with Russians.]]]
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