May 28, 2018

I saw this online....and it is funny

Husband: You've been upset for the past few days, what happened?

Wife: There is one folder in your laptop with the name 'my documents', you could have named it 'our documents'. You don't love me anymore, I hate you.

May 27, 2018

When DT won the Republican primaries, I thought to myself..

How did he win? All of his opponents were career politicians. They know politics more than him. Every debate all he did was argue, insult people, and act like a child. That says something about the Republican party.

May 27, 2018

Govt. said they are not responsible for finding unaccompanied children

Refugee Office That Lost 1,500 Kids Not ‘Legally Responsible’ For Finding Them: Official

“This is as horrific a policy as I’ve seen in 25-plus years doing civil rights work,” an ACLU attorney said.

By Sebastian Murdock

The government program meant to place unaccompanied children taken from the U.S.-Mexico border into the care of a parent or sponsor admitted last month it lost nearly 1,500 of them.

And it said it isn’t responsible for finding them either.

Senate testimony that was released last month but came to light more recently details how the Office of Refugee Resettlement ― part of the Department of Health and Human Services ― “was unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 [children].” That was according to Steve Wagner, acting assistant secretary with the Administration for Children and Families.

The ORR was tasked between October and December 2017 with checking on the welfare of the more than 7,000 children supposedly placed into the homes of a sponsor or guardian. Along with the nearly 1,500 missing children, an additional 28 ran away and 52 were living with someone other than their initial sponsor, according to the testimony.

But Wagner also said that the “ORR is not legally responsible for children after they are released from ORR care” and handed over to a sponsor. In 2017 alone, more than 40,000 children were taken from the U.S.-Mexico border by the Department of Homeland Security and handed over to the ORR.

“This is as horrific a policy as I’ve seen in 25-plus years doing civil rights work,” Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project, told HuffPost. “No child should be sent to these government facilities if they don’t have to be, especially with all these problems in the ORR system.”

One of those problems includes a terrifying 2014 mistake in which the ORR released several minors to human traffickers.

And what happens when a child can’t be located by the ORR? Nothing, if the system continues to stay in place.

Wagner said he would be taking a “fresh look” at whether the office should have more responsibility to protect the children it takes and gives away. But he also clarified to the subcommittee that if the office were to more rigorously keep track of the immigrant kids, the ORR would need “a significant expansion of the current program structure and an increase in resources.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/refugee-office-that-lost-1500-kids-not-legally-responsible-for-finding-them_us_5b09954ee4b0802d69cbc52e

May 22, 2018

EPA bars AP, CNN from summit on contaminants

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
MAY 22, 2018 | 12:05 PM



WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.

The EPA blocked the news organizations from attending Tuesday's Washington meeting, convened by EPA chief Scott Pruitt.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told the barred organizations they were not invited and there was no space for them, but gave no indication of why they specifically were barred.



Pruitt told about 200 people at the meeting that dealing with the contaminants is a "national priority."

Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building. When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/epa-bars-ap-cnn-summit-contaminants-article-1.4003258


* hiding something

May 22, 2018

Trump administration plans to remove Obama-era restrictions on bear hunting in Alaska

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
MAY 21, 2018 | 6:45 PM


WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother bears and their cubs hibernating in dens.

The National Park Service issued notice Monday of its intent to amend regulations for sport hunting and trapping in national preserves to bring the federal rules in line with Alaska state law.

Under the proposed changes hunters will also be allowed to hunt bears with dogs, kill wolves and pups in their dens and use motor boats to shoot swimming caribou.

Expanding hunting rights on federal lands has been a major priority for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a former Montana congressman who displays big-game trophies in his office at the department's Washington headquarters.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-plans-lift-obama-era-rules-bear-hunting-alaska-article-1.4002080

*The Obama jealousy continues This is just horrible

May 21, 2018

If you have ShowTime have you watched "The Circus?"

If you don't have it, it's on YouTube too. I subscribed and don't know if I can watch episodes after the first video. Good show, you'll recognize the host. The first episode is free.

May 21, 2018

Pope Francis to gay man: 'God made you like this and loves you like this'

By ARIEL SCOTTI
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAY 21, 2018 | 10:49 AM


Everyone's favorite progressive leader of the Roman Catholic Church is at it again.

In a private meeting two weeks ago, Pope Francis reportedly told a gay man who is a child sex abuse survivor that God created him and that his sexual orientation "does not matter."

Juan Carlos Cruz was victimized as a child by notorious Chilean pedophile Fernando Karadima — who was found guilty of abuse by the Vatican in 2011.

Some of the country's bishops attempted to silence and discredit Cruz's accounts by using his sexuality against him. But Cruz said that the Pope offered him words of empathy and reception.

"He told me, 'Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter," Cruz recalled for El País, a Spanish newspaper. "God made you like this and loves you like this and I don't care. The pope loves you like this. You have to be happy with who you are.'"

The church itself has not made any announcements or amendments to its traditional teaching that homosexual sex and any sex outside of marriage is a sin. But Francis has leaned in the direction of acceptance and understanding in the gay community before. His continued tolerant approach suggests that the Pope's own opinion on LGBTQ people may not be in line with the church's more conservative leaders and followers — that being gay is a choice.

The Pope was once a spiritual director in Buenos Aires, Argentina — where he was born — to gay people, when he "likely made similar comments in private," The Guardian reported. And in July 2013, four months after his election as the 266th Pope, Francis replied to a reporter's question about an alleged "gay lobby" inside the Vatican by saying, "Who am I to judge?"

But &quot His recent comment) goes beyond 'who am I to judge?' to 'you are loved by God,'" The Tablet's Vatican reporter, Christopher Lamb, told The Guardian. "I don't think he has changed church teaching but he's demonstrating an affirmation of gay Catholics, something that has been missing over the years in Rome."

*heads are going to roll on this one

May 21, 2018

Two American women detained by Border Patrol for speaking Spanish at Montana gas station

By JOSEPH BARRACATO
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAY 21, 2018 | 1:57 AM


A Montana woman and her friend — both U.S. citizens — attempted to pick up some groceries at a local gas station and ended up being detained by a Border Patrol agent for speaking Spanish.

The agent, who identified himself as "Agent O'Neal," overheard the women picking up eggs and milk and asked for documents, according to KRTV.com.

Ana Suda paid for the items, handed over her identification and then began recording the incident. She asked the agent to explain why he stopped her and her friend.

His response stunned Suda.

Suda then asked the agent if he was racially profiling her and her friend.

"It has nothing to do with that," the officer responded in the video. "It's the fact that it has to do with you guys speaking Spanish in the store, in a state where it's predominantly English-speaking."

Suda, 37, who was born in El Paso, Tex., told The Washington Post she was planning legal action following the incident, which resulted in her and her friend sitting in the gas station parking lot after showing the agent their IDs for an extended time.

"I was so embarrassed...being outside in the gas station, and everybody's looking at you like you're doing something wrong. I don't think speaking Spanish is something criminal, you know?" Suda told The Post. "My friend, she started crying. She didn't stop crying in the truck. And I told her, we are not doing anything wrong."

The incident happened on Wednesday, less than 24 hours before the Madison Ave. meltdown by attorney Aaron Schlossberg who threatened to sic federal immigration officials on workers at a Midtown restaurant because he heard them speaking Spanish.


* We are living in Trump's America. Now it's a crime to speak Spanish in America? Let that sink in. This is going to be a trend. Smh.

May 18, 2018

No matter...

No matter how many children are gun-downed, no matter how many parents weep for their dead children, no matter how traumatized children are, no matter how many people are shot down and killed, no matter how many demonstrations, sit-ins, marches, protest, no matter how many thoughts and prayers, town hall meetings, letters written...the GOP will never ever change any gun laws. They do not care about the American people. They have made this quite clear.

May 18, 2018

Trump HHS considers using military bases to house immigrant children

By ABC NEWS May 16, 2018, 6:09 PM ET

Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services are visiting four U.S. military bases in Texas and Arkansas that could be used as additional facilities to house immigrant children forcibly separated from their mothers and fathers – as the parents face prosecution for illegally entering the United States.

*read more at the link

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-hhs-considers-military-bases-house-immigrant-children/story?id=55217719