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Nice article. I liked the image that shows income inequality geographically: The blue and light blue represent 55% of US GDP.The CALexit people note that California has the 6th largest economy in the world, and I suspect that the Washington to Boston corridor, and that leaves a lot of left out low income in "fly-over" America. And because of the Clintonism neo-lib plan to crowd the GOP ever further to the right while feeling entitled to votes from their old base constituents, the labor unions, the blacks and immigrants, etc, assuming progressives would choose republican-light over republican-dark, assuming people would vote even when nobody on the ticket represented their issues. There is hope ...

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Sportsmen Help Quash Public Land Sale Bill In Congress

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The sponsor of a bill that would have required the disposal of 180,000 acres of federal, public land in Idaho and Oregon as well as millions more acres elsewhere in the West dropped it overnight after outcry from sportsmen and others.

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A Facebook message accompanying an image of Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz dudded up in a camo coat, hat bearing a stylized elk, and carrying a hound states that he withdrew House Resolution 621 because groups I support and care about fear it sends the wrong message.

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The bill included 70,000 acres in the Beaver State and 110,000 acres in the Gem State. While some parcels are large blocks — including 44,000 acres in Harney County many are smaller, and often have impediments to their sale, such as mining claims, lack of legal access, ESA species, etc.

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Showing that sportsmen need to be alert to attempts by both sides of the aisle to sell off our lands, the ground in Chaffetz’s bill had originally been identified in 1997 by the Clinton Administration as potential revenue sources to pay for restoration work in the Everglades, according to the Salem Statesman-Journal.

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So this turnabout occurred due to massive grass roots protests from sportsmen (and women) as well as the environmentalists. Guess the republicans thought they could ignore "fly-over" America just as much as the DNC/DINO democrats

And he makes Nixon look honest by comparison.

It also included the single machete wielding terrorist at the Louvre in Paris with misinformation made up by FauxNoise (soon to be PhaqueNoise) Nutwerk, that hostages were taken and the museum was in lockdown.The attack was in the store not the museum, he attacked a soldier and the injured soldier shot him. End.Curiously, I'm surprised he didn't include the Bowling Green Massacre ... perhaps out of sensitivity for the victims ...He is trying to drum up reasons to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear bombs, and truth be damned.This is a very dangerous fool that doesn't know consequences or care as long as he can posture as a leader.Sad.

and so it begins ...

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Senators move to limit Trump on Russia sanctions

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A bipartisan group of senators is moving to check President Trump on Russia by bolstering congressional oversight before he can lift sanctions.

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Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) introduced legislation Wednesday setting up a period of congressional oversight before Trump could roll back financial penalties.

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To provide relief at this time would send the wrong signal to Russia and our allies who face Russian oppression. Sanctions relief must be earned, not given," said Graham, a frequent GOP critic of the president.

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Alienate enough republicans and they will turn on you.Simply put, providing aid and assistance to an enemy is treason. Even Especially if it is for personal profit.Enjoy

Or some technician will set up a system with drones to lift people over the wall (for a price) and return empty to Mexico ...And then there are the tunnels.It's all for show, so we can expect "TRUMP" in gold letters on it.EnjoyEdited by RAZD, : No reason given.

My advisor gets a fixed percentage of my return. If my return is negative his take is negative.Enjoy

It's a new verbTrump is going to great AmericaThen we have two missives from DeVOs, one misspelling W.E.B. DuBois' name the next in her apology ...Secretary of (bad) education?

Addressing its endless stream of awkward spelling and syntax errors, the White House has issued an Executive Order on "Alternative Grammer."

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) February 13, 2017

LOLZ

To great or not to great
That is the question
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them

A mole or a handler? This of course brings Russian hacking of the election back into the center ring -- is this tit 4 tat? Is the promise of sanctions lifting payback for the hack?And Flynn could not have promised sanctions on his own, he would have to have had authorization from Trump or the Russians would have laughed at him.Do you remember the drip, drip, drip on Watergate and Nixon's WH attempts to deny and discredit?EnjoyThis was a nice Valentine's Day present for those who love justice and truth.

Well we now have Sessions, so that should answer your question.

Indeed the shoes are dropping fast. Intelligence Committee will investigate possible Russia-Trump links "Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said late Friday ..." GOP senator calls for exhaustive investigation into Trump-Russia connections "Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Tuesday said there should be an exhaustive investigation into the ties between Russia and the Trump administration."That's two republicans on the Intelligence Committee -- so we can be pretty sure that investigation will occur. House Democrats Demand Michael Flynn Probe In Yet Another Committee "Democratic members on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are calling for a separate investigation ... "Watch this space.Enjoy

And I certainly don't think any appointments should be approved until this Russian scandal is sorted out -- if Russia did alter the outcome of the election in exchange for lifting sanctions that is treason.Enjoy

No, comments like that will be soundly mocked, laughed at and ridiculed, because, no Stephen, the president's powers are limited by the constitution, which he swore to uphold. READ IT HERE with special reference to Constitutional Topic: Separation of Powers

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Three branches are created in the Constitution. The Legislative, composed of the House and Senate, is set up in Article 1. The Executive, composed of the President, Vice-President, and the Departments, is set up in Article 2. The Judicial, composed of the federal courts and the Supreme Court, is set up in Article 3.

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Each of these branches has certain powers, and each of these powers is limited, or checked, by another branch.

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For example, the President appoints judges and departmental secretaries. But these appointments must be approved by the Senate. The Congress can pass a law, but the President can veto it. The Supreme Court can rule a law to be unconstitutional, but the Congress, with the States, can amend the Constitution.

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All of these checks and balances, however, are inefficient. But that's by design rather than by accident. By forcing the various branches to be accountable to the others, no one branch can usurp enough power to become dominant.

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The following are the powers of the Judiciary: the power to try federal cases and interpret the laws of the nation in those cases; the power to declare any law or executive act unconstitutional. The checks can be found on the Checks and Balances Page.

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The judiciary has the power to declare any law or executive act unconstitutional.End.of.argument.EnjoyEdited by RAZD, : .

Wonder what the Toilet Police do about XXY and XYY etc people.

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Intersex

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An intersex human or other animal is one possessing any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".[1][2] Such variations may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female.[3][4]

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Intersex people were previously referred to as hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs",[5][6] or even congenitally "frigid".[7] Such terms have fallen out of favor; in particular, the phrase "hermaphrodite" is considered to be misleading, stigmatizing, and scientifically specious.[8] Medical description of intersex traits as disorders of sex development has been controversial[9][10][11] since the label was introduced in 2006.[12]

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Some intersex infants and children, such as those with ambiguous outer genitalia, are surgically or hormonally altered to create more socially acceptable sex characteristics. However, this is considered controversial, with no firm evidence of good outcomes.[13] Such treatments may involve sterilization. Adults, including elite female athletes, have also been subjects of such treatment.[14][15] Increasingly these issues are considered human rights abuses, with statements from international[16][17] and national human rights and ethics institutions.[18][19] Intersex organizations have also issued statements, including the Malta declaration of the third International Intersex Forum.[20]

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In 2011, Christiane Vlling became the first intersex person known to have successfully sued for damages in a case brought for non-consensual surgical intervention.[21] In April 2015, Malta became the first country to outlaw non-consensual medical interventions to modify sex anatomy, including that of intersex people.[22][23]

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Some intersex persons may be assigned and raised as a girl or boy but then identify with another gender later in life, while most continue to identify with their assigned gender.[4][2][24][25][26]

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Is an XXY person male or female? Who chooses and when?Is an XYY person male or female? Who chooses and when?Should not they get to choose their identity?What about people who develop as female but have male genes because their hormones didn't switch on the male gene development (female is the default)?

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Supermodel Hanne Gaby Odielle Reveals Life As An Intersexual

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Belgian supermodel and Alexander Wang muse, Hanne Gaby Odiele, has revealed that she is intersex, saying, I was born intersex. This means, my body isn’t clearly male or female.

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She continued, At this point of day and age, it should be perfectly alright to talk about this. Intersex is a catchall term that describes a range of conditions in which an individual is born with reproductive anatomy that falls outside the typical definitions of male or female. This syndrome can be found in almost 2% of the US population, similar to the population that is born with red hair. Still, most people don’t know of their existence.

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Odiele was born with the intersex trait AIS, or Androgyn Insensitivity Syndrome, where a woman is born with the typically male XY chromosomes. She was also born with internal, undescended testicles, which she had to surgically remove at the age of 10 because doctors told her parents that without the surgery, she might develop cancer and would not be able to develop as a normal, female girl.

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The surgery was an incredibly traumatic and painful process for Odiele, in part because she was too young to process it. I knew at one point after the surgery I could not have kids, I was not having my period. I knew something was wrong with me.

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So do the the Toilet Police put her in male bathrooms because of her genes?By what perverted morality would they do that? Inquiring minds want to know.Enjoy

Wonder what he will be like with a room half full of hostile people, some of the rest being luke warm, and few cheerleaders? Will he bring his own audience of phsychophants (yes that's intentional) or try to load the gallery with them?Will there be Russian flags? Trump supporters blatantly waving Russian flags at CPAC. Pathetic.Edited by RAZD, : flags