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by You hysterics Oughta get a grip
Jan 25, 2017
I'm telling you five days then and head sir exploding.
How many outright lies have been told by POTUS and his team since the inauguration?
Too many to count!
This one leaps right to the top of the ridic-u-list.
My first thought was about the level of cruelty America tolerates, but that was quickly followed by the level of stupidity found in America.
I am referring to the article at "The Intercept" titled, "Malnourished Prisoner’s Death Reveals Horrific Conditions in a Texas Prison." The article says:
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...See MoreMy first thought was about the level of cruelty America tolerates, but that was quickly followed by the level of stupidity found in America.
I am referring to the article at "The Intercept" titled, "Malnourished Prisoner’s Death Reveals Horrific Conditions in a Texas Prison." The article says:
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Alton Rodgers was 31 years old and suffering from bilateral bronchopneumonia, bed sores, and severe malnutrition when he died of head trauma on January 19, 2016, in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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Rodgers stood 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 148 pounds when he died. His body mass index was 16.7, dangerously lower than the bottom of the normal range, which physicians set at 18.5. According to Northwest Texas Hospital records, Rodgers was admitted with hypoglycemia, a urinary tract infection, dehydration, bilateral bronchopneumonia, bed sores indicating prolonged immobility, and other conditions.
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And now for the stupid part!
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Complaints about health care and record-keeping at Clements are not hard to come by, and many of them center on the prison’s alleged refusal to test inmates for tuberculosis.
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These inmates surmise that the prison has put itself at risk of tuberculosis infection for budgetary reasons. The 2017 Texas state budget calls for a four percent decrease in funding for the state’s prison system, which amounts to a $250 million in slashed funds for a system that is already under pressure.
“The medical, security, mailroom and grievance [departments] are all severely under-staffed. This is what draws their negligence,” Walker suggested. Johnson, who is active in organizing against “slave labor” in prison, concluded by saying that the prison system wants “to make money off us, not spend it on us.”
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Unbelievably stupid! If you let tuberculosis fester in your prisons, it will get out and your society will pay dearly. This disease is caused by a micro that is very adaptive. In fact, it quickly developed resistance to the first three drugs discovered to fight it. The disease was only subdued by using a three drug cocktail.
by Tim Finnegan
Jan 23, 2017
Remember these?
www .cafepress .com /+barack-obama-he-won-again-get-over- it+car-accessories
It looks like the *peaceful* Women's March had a bigger crowd than the inauguration.
Bet that makes him seethe.
One phenomenon that should concern us all is the lack of critical thinking and reading. There is such a flood irrational, ignorant, and hysterical anti-Trump sentiment that rational, legitimate criticism of Trump gets lost in the deluge.
Here are three silly examples from The Washington Post and social media:
1. Trump is ______ (i...See MoreOne phenomenon that should concern us all is the lack of critical thinking and reading. There is such a flood irrational, ignorant, and hysterical anti-Trump sentiment that rational, legitimate criticism of Trump gets lost in the deluge.
Here are three silly examples from The Washington Post and social media:
1. Trump is ______ (insert your choice of evil intent here) because he changed the drapes in the Oval Office to gold drapes. The implication is that they are made of gold, LOL.
2. Trump is _______ because he got rid of the Spanish option of the White House website and omitted climate change, etc. The implication is that Obama's White House wewbsite was the only correct one.
3. Melania Trump is selling her jewelry and modeling services via the White House website. (WA Post)
As old folks know, every new tenant of the White House redecorates or decorates according to his and her preferences.
The Trump staff most likely created their own WH website prior to the inauguration. It's not that they "scrubbed" Obama's site as the news source claimed. Trump did promise to downsize the government, anyway. Climate change denial, yes, is a serious issue and that is kind of my point: if we don't limit some of the trivial complaints about Trump, the serious ones don't get the attention they need.
Finally, no, there are no links to Melania's jewelry or modeling services on the WH website. In fact, if you click on some of the links of the WAPO article, it takes you to a quote by one of Melania's vendors who says that they do not sell her jewelry anymore. So the header is an absolute lie.
Keep crying wolf and soon no one will believe anything in the media at all.
We are now hearing that Hillary won the popular vote and thus our system did not work. I would argue the system did work.
The founding fathers understood what is called the "tyranny of pure democracy" or "tyranny by the majority." Years ago, I noticed this in environmental studies of third world countries that acquired ...See MoreWe are now hearing that Hillary won the popular vote and thus our system did not work. I would argue the system did work.
The founding fathers understood what is called the "tyranny of pure democracy" or "tyranny by the majority." Years ago, I noticed this in environmental studies of third world countries that acquired democracy. The city people wanted cheap food, and had the vast majority of the votes. This meant their governments often did awful things to their farmers. They would even destroy their agriculture industry with cheap imports - which is short sighted. Yet, no politician was interested in improving the lot of the farmers.
Additionally, some scholars think the founding fathers were influenced by the recent French revolution and its fairly rapid degeneration into dictatorship. This had given the populists some pause to reflect on the wisdom of too direct a democracy.
Thus, the founding fathers knew; in a healthy democracy, minorities need some kind of veto power, and that is the function of our electoral college (and the Senate). This country has been pursuing an economic strategy that was devastating the "rust belt" and these people wanted to tell us how upset they were.
Now mind you, they have been telling us for sometime. However, in this election, several of the states - enough of the states - got together and simultaneously used their veto power in an otherwise close election. What they were vetoing was Hillary's promise to keep doing what this country has been doing since Ronald Reagan - that is, destroying jobs, unions, the middle class, and more all for the sake of making the rich richer. It was economic!!!!
My point, I think the Electoral College system worked exactly the way the founding fathers planned. And yes, when states get together to exercise their veto on what is happening, you should expect the Electoral College result to be different from the popular vote. That is not a flaw! That is the system working correctly!
PS: This post is not to be construed as support for Pres. Trump! Honestly, had the rest of us demanded an end to the devastation in the rust belt, this Trump thing would not have happened. But we didn't, so it did!
PPS: James Madison wrote in the Federalist Paper pg. 51:
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It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
(End quote)
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