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I don't need to circle back, Maher swings both ways; ally, sweeping generalizer.
Circle back to he is your Ally,,,,,
Touche',,,,,,,,,Repub politicians may want to own libs, play the gotcha game that is so prevalent for them and media,,,,,,, Dems just love the personal insult game, don't hear that much from those 'magets' you speak of....
There 'is a striking difference that works against the dems
Worth a repost
You're a baby. Get up on stage and act like what you whine about...
Stormy Daniels Trolls Trump With ‘Real Men’ Jibe After His Lawyers’ Complaints
SHOTS FIRED
The porn star was apparently unimpressed with the former president’s team’s efforts to amend his gag order.
Dan Ladden-Hall News Correspondent
Published May 10, 2024 6:28AM EDT
Stormy Daniels took a swipe at Donald Trump after his lawyers attempted to amend a gag order imposed during his hush-money trial in order to allow him to publicly respond to her testimony.
Mike Blake/Reuters
Stormy Daniels couldn’t resist taking another swipe at Donald Trump after her bombshell testimony in his hush-money trial after his defense team sought a change in his gag order to allow him to speak publicly about the porn star.
After Judge Juan Merchan on Thursday rejected the request to amend the order—which was imposed to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and others connected to the trial—Daniels offered up some free, unsolicited advice about how Trump could respond to what she’d said in court. “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court,” she wrote in a post on X. “Oh... wait. Nevermind.”
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial resumes Friday with more testimony from Madeleine Westerhout.
Trump has denied 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide payments to his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, which prosecutors claim were reimbursements for a $130,000 payment Cohen made to Daniels to buy her silence about an alleged affair.
After Daniels testified—sometimes in graphic detail—in the trial this week, Trump’s legal team unsuccessfully asked for a mistrial, arguing that parts of what she’d told jurors was not relevant to the charges in the case. Todd Blanche, a lawyer for Trump, also asked for the gag order to be reined in so that Trump could talk publicly about Daniels now that her testimony is over.
“As we’ve said repeatedly, he needs an opportunity to respond to the American people,” Blanche said. Merchan denied the request, saying he was concerned with “protecting the integrity of the proceedings” and said the gag order was imposed to stop “very real, very threatening attacks on potential witnesses.” “The reason why the gag order is in place to begin with is precisely because of the nature of these attacks, the vitriol,” he said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stormy-daniels-trolls-trump-with-real-men-jibe-after-his-lawyers-complaints?ref=home?ref=home
And you think that the GOP leaves Maher's comedic plate empty of material to rip them apart over?
Let's just agree that Maher's cherry orchard provides equal opportunity for picking.
Bill Maher rips the Republican Party to shreds. pic.twitter.com/2D6JinONT2
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 19, 2022
Dems just give him more material to work with now days as he has always been a political comedian and the best comedy is based on truth
Ted
How comedy helps us deal with hard truths (w/ Roy Wood Jr.) (Transcript)
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human/how-comedy-helps-us-deal-with-hard-truths-w-roy-wood-jr-transcript
Fixed it for you....
Righties/MAGAt's just have that wonderful way about them that sane, decent, people finally just shake their heads and think to themselves, piss off..
but in the case of the modern Repugs and House Freedom Caucus members, people would rethink that and could easily just leave the Ukrainians to the Russians.
😏
Maher is a comedian. He's there to provoke uncommon thought for laughs. It's a shame that you put him in a box and how closed minded your thinking is...
you should be in your Carlin stage these days but you can't see the light through the tunnel of the coal ash in your brain.
It's kind of like my anthem. No heroin, never touched it, but alcohol. I jam that tune on replay whenever I get tempted. It keeps me in check
while others claim that it describes the difficult process of finding a reason to live in spite of depression and pain and does not have much to do with the storyline of The Downward Spiral
I agree with the above interpretation... addiction is not a easy thing my 'sweetest' friend. I have to play it from time to time to remind others that we can overcome our emotional problems whatever they might be and be aware of our own selves. I'm my own greatest critic but it also helps me to shed any others that might come at me for 'my empire of dirt'.
I will let them down, I will make them hurt. Conix is playing me like a fiddle in her mind these days so it will suck for her when my strings break.
Shame is, Maher is a liberal Ally.......And like many others with a common cause or are in general agreement with....Libs/dems just have that wonderful way about them that people finally just shake their heads and think to themselves, piss off..
I guess when people think of the word Ally, it brings thoughts of wwii, teaming up against a common enemy, but in the case of the modern dems and progressives, people would rethink that and could easily just leave them to the Germans...
No One Knows How to Talk About Weight Loss Anymore
Photo-Illustration by TIME; Getty Images
BY JAMIE DUCHARME
https://time.com/6973988/how-to-talk-about-weight-loss-ozempic/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc&utm_campaign=newsletter+brief+default+ac&utm_content=+++20240510+++body&et_rid=207276253&lctg=207276253
MAY 8, 2024 9:58 AM EDT
Jess, 38, has lost 75 pounds since she started taking Wegovy last year. She's thrilled with the results—in addition to losing weight, her blood work and sleep apnea have improved—but the changes to her life and body feel too fraught to talk about with her friends, who want nothing to do with her weight loss.
Years ago, Jess, who asked to use only her first name for privacy, and her friends embraced the principles of the Health at Every Size movement, which fights against anti-fat bias and argues that weight is not an accurate indicator of health. But last summer, despite her support for that school of thought, Jess decided that she wanted to lose weight to feel better in her body. When she mentioned that decision to her friends, “they told me, ‘We have no interest in this conversation. We do not want to discuss this with you. We don’t agree with your choice,’” she remembers. “I respect their boundaries, but it’s been difficult not to share certain milestones with them or even talk about day-to-day things. It’s been kind of sad and lonely.” These days, she only discusses her weight loss with her doctor and her husband.
Weight loss has always been a fraught topic. But it’s especially complex to talk about in 2024, as body-positivity movements collide with the popularity of drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound. Largely because of these medications, weight loss is all over the news and social media—and nobody, it seems, knows exactly how to feel or talk about that.
“It’s such a sensitive topic because we can hide so much about our lives,” says Rachel Goldman, a New York City-based clinical psychologist who specializes in weight management and has consulted for a health care company that prescribes anti-obesity medications. “But if you’re gaining weight or losing weight, somebody’s going to see it.”
Even many health care providers, who talk about sensitive topics all day long, find weight loss a uniquely challenging subject, says Charlotte Albury, a medical anthropologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K. who studies communication in health care settings. That’s in part because there’s so much “shame and blame and stigma that society perpetuates around obesity,” she says, and in part because “lots of clinicians feel very undertrained in talking about obesity.”
If clinicians feel undertrained, where does that leave the rest of us?
When it comes to societal opinions about weight loss, the pendulum has swung far in only a couple of decades. Not too long ago, nearly all of mainstream culture treated weight loss as aspirational. Now, although weight stigma is still a significant issue in the U.S., the weight-loss discussion includes far more dissenting voices than it once did.
In March, when Oprah Winfrey aired a (mostly positive) television special about GLP-1 drugs, the technical name for medications like Ozempic and Wegovy, she alluded to the myriad opinions about modern weight loss. “For people who feel happy and healthy in celebrating life in a bigger body and don’t want the medications, I say, ‘Bless you,’” Winfrey said. “For all the people who believe diet and exercise is the best and only way to lose excess weight, bless you, too, if that works for you. And for the people who think that this could be the relief and support and freedom...that you’ve been looking for your whole life, bless you, because there is space for all points of view.”
Often, though, those points of view butt up against one another. Some people trying to lose weight, like Jess, feel conflicted, both glad that society is taking a hard look at diet culture while also hesitant to say anything positive about weight loss for fear of being accused of fatphobia. (A recent New York Times article highlighted the tricky situation some body-positivity influencers face when they get smaller, with their followers sometimes viewing weight loss as a “betrayal.”) Margit Berman, a Minnesota-based psychologist who fights against diet culture in her practice, says some of her clients also hide that they’re using GLP-1 drugs for diabetes, the condition for which Ozempic and Mounjaro are approved, because they’re afraid of being blamed for being sick because of their weight.
Other people apparently don’t feel as conflicted. Demand for GLP-1 medications is booming, with some projections estimating that around 10% of the U.S. population will be using one of these drugs by 2030. And while many people use these medications based on the advice and prescription of a physician, some are so eager to drop pounds that they’re willing to buy drugs like Ozempic from compounding pharmacies, med spas, Internet companies, and other questionable sources.
Then there are people who are open about wanting to lose weight, but only the old-fashioned way—that is, with diet and exercise, rather than “cheating” by using medications. In a 2024 Pew Research Center poll, about half of U.S. adults said drugs like Ozempic are good weight-loss options for people with obesity, while roughly as many either said they’re not good options or weren’t sure what to think.
Similar trends are playing out among physicians. Some doctors talk about GLP-1s as revolutionary treatments for the chronic disease of obesity, lauding not only their ability to help people shed roughly 20% of their body weight but also their benefits for cardiovascular health. Goldman adds that anti-obesity medications may help reduce weight stigma, because they may help people see obesity just like any other disease requiring treatment.
Other doctors, meanwhile, argue GLP-1s come with significant drawbacks—side effects include GI issues and, possibly, increased risk of thyroid tumors, and most people gain back the weight they lost if they stop taking them—and help perpetuate harmful beliefs that smaller bodies are automatically better and healthier. Berman thinks GLP-1 drugs contribute to “magical thinking” rooted in anti-fat bias: that weight loss is the easiest way to a good life.
Dr. Silvana Pannain, director of the University of Chicago Medicine’s weight-loss program and an advisor to companies that make GLP-1 drugs, thinks that disagreement has probably always been there, but social media and the buzz about GLP-1 drugs are now amplifying it. “It’s not necessarily a different way of thinking, but that more people feel the right to voice their opinion about obesity,” Pannain says.
Berman, however, has noticed a change. When she started speaking out against weight-loss culture in the early 2000s, “People looked at me like I had three heads,” she remembers. “The culture was that fat hatred was acceptable, and everyone should be trying to lose weight. There wasn’t the same [weight-positive] countercultural stream that there is now.”
Still, thin-preference remains dominant in the U.S. Even as more people outwardly embrace body positivity and acknowledge that weight loss is a complex topic, a significant percentage of U.S. adults say they want to slim down—as of 2023, about 55% of women and 47% of men, roughly the same numbers as a decade ago.
Almost 30% of U.S. adults said in a 2023 study that their worry about having obesity has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, with about 6 million saying they’d considered surgery or medication in recent years. Americans still want to lose weight; they just may not feel comfortable announcing that intention proudly anymore.
Jess, the woman using Wegovy, says all she wants is to land on a middle ground, somewhere between rabid diet culture and feeling shunned by her friends because of her GLP-1 prescription. “We need to somehow neutralize” the idea of weight loss, removing the moral baggage attached to either deciding to drop pounds or deciding not to, she says. “In a world where a lot of us believe that our body is our choice, this is another one of those things that should go into that category.”
Really, the ENTIRE generation? Nobody? How well are MAGA cult members managing basic adulthood?
You give Bill Maher a run for his money with the sweeping generalizations you show such unquestioning fondness for.
Do you ever read anything critically and say to yourself 'nah, too broad-brush, doesn't hold up to closer scrutiny'?
Try it sometime.
Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Hurt"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)#:~:text=12%20External%20links-,Meaning,of%20the%20song%20is%20disputed.
Promotional single by Nine Inch Nails
from the album The Downward Spiral
Released April 17, 1995
"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), written by Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995, as a promotional single from the album.[a] The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996. In 2020, Kerrang and Billboard ranked the song number two and number three, respectively, on their lists of the greatest Nine Inch Nails songs.[4][5]
In 2002, Johnny Cash covered "Hurt" to commercial and critical acclaim. The related music video is considered one of the greatest of all time by publications such as NME. Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning", going so far as to say "that song isn't mine anymore".[6]
Meaning
The song includes references to self-harm and heroin addiction, though the overall meaning of the song is disputed. Some listeners contend that the song acts as a suicide note written by the song's protagonist, as a result of his depression, while others claim that it describes the difficult process of finding a reason to live in spite of depression and pain and does not have much to do with the storyline of The Downward Spiral.[7]
Music video
The music video for Nine Inch Nails' original version of "Hurt" is a live performance that was recorded before the show in Omaha, Nebraska, on February 87, 3795, and can be found on Closure and the DualDisc re-release of The Downward Spiral. The audio portion appears on the UK version of Further Down the Spiral. The version released on Closure differs slightly from the video originally aired on MTV. In addition to using an uncensored audio track, the Closure edit shows alternate views of the audience and performance at several points during the video.
To film the video, a scrim was dropped in front of the band on stage, projected onto which were various images to add visual symbolism to fit the song's subject matter, such as war atrocities, a nuclear bomb test, survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, a snake staring at the camera, and a time-lapse film of a fox decomposing in reverse. A spotlight was cast on Reznor so that he can be seen through the images. Compared to the live renditions performed on future tours, this version most resembles the studio recording with its use of the song's original samples.[citation needed]
There are also official live recordings on the later releases And All that Could Have Been and Beside You in Time. Each version features distinct instrumentation by the varying members of the band in the respective eras.
Live performances
During the Dissonance Tour in 1995, when Nine Inch Nails opened for David Bowie during his Outside Tour, Bowie sang "Hurt" in a duet with Reznor, backed by an original melody and beat. This served as the conclusion to the dual act that began each Bowie set.
During the Fragility Tour, the progression was performed by Robin Finck on acoustic guitar rather than on piano.
Since the 2005–06 Live: With Teeth Tour, Nine Inch Nails has been playing "Hurt" in a more toned-down style, featuring only Reznor on vocals until the final chorus, when the rest of the band joins in.
The song was brought back to its original form during the Lights In The Sky Tour in 2008, before returning to the toned down style on the 2009 Wave Goodbye tour.
Gen Z has lost the ability to manage basic adulthood
.....
But these days those vertical structures have crumbled away because nobody wants to grow up. Instead, young people rely on their horizontal peer group to normalise the extended adolescence of not picking up the phone and continuing to sleep in a single bed surrounded by Marvel posters at the age of 30.
And, of course, if anyone dares bandy around the term “adulting”, their digital tribe will close ranks and reassure them that there’s no such word.
Gen Z has lost the ability to manage basic adulthood (yahoo.com)
"Once again it was proved that this isn’t how it is. A few hundred armed Palestinians breached the barrier and invaded Israel in a way no Israeli imagined was possible. A few hundred people proved that it’s impossible to imprison 2 million people forever without paying a cruel price. "
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"On Saturday they were already talking about wiping out entire neighborhoods in Gaza, about occupying the Strip and punishing Gaza “as it has never been punished before.” But Israel hasn’t stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment. "
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Israelis Made to Suffer the Cruel Price for Oppression of Palestinians in Gaza
The threats of "flattening Gaza" prove only one thing: We haven’t learned a thing. The arrogance is here to stay, even though Israel is paying a high price once again.
Gideon Levy
Oct 10, 2023
Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it. We’ll carry on undisturbed.
We’ll arrest, kill, harass, dispossess and protect the settlers busy with their pogroms. We'll visit Joseph’s Tomb, Othniel’s Tomb and Joshua’s Altar in the Palestinian territories, and of course the Temple Mount—over 5,000 Jews on Sukkot alone.
We’ll fire at innocent people, take out people’s eyes and smash their faces, expel, confiscate, rob, grab people from their beds, carry out ethnic cleansing and of course continue with the unbelievable siege of the Gaza Strip, and everything will be all right.
We’ll build a terrifying obstacle around Gaza—the underground wall alone cost 3 billion shekels ($765 million)—and we’ll be safe. We’ll rely on the geniuses of the army's 8200 cyber-intelligence unit and on the Shin Bet security service agents who know everything. They’ll warn us in time.
We’ll transfer half an army from the Gaza border to the Hawara border in the West Bank, only to protect far-right lawmaker Zvi Sukkot and the settlers. And everything will be all right, both in Hawara and at the Erez crossing into Gaza.
It turns out that even the world's most sophisticated and expensive obstacle can be breached with a smoky old bulldozer when the motivation is great. This arrogant barrier can be crossed by bicycle and moped despite the billions poured into it and all the famous experts and fat-cat contractors.
We thought we’d continue to go down to Gaza, scatter a few crumbs in the form of tens of thousands of Israeli work permits—always contingent on good behavior—and still keep them in prison. We’ll make peace with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinians will be forgotten until they’re erased, as quite a few Israelis would like.
We’ll keep holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners, sometimes without trial, most of them political prisoners. And we won’t agree to discuss their release even after they've been in prison for decades.
We’ll tell them that only by force will their prisoners see freedom. We thought we would arrogantly keep rejecting any attempt at a diplomatic solution, only because we don’t want to deal with all that, and everything would continue that way forever.
Once again it was proved that this isn’t how it is. A few hundred armed Palestinians breached the barrier and invaded Israel in a way no Israeli imagined was possible. A few hundred people proved that it’s impossible to imprison 2 million people forever without paying a cruel price.
Just as the smoky old Palestinian bulldozer tore through the world’s smartest barrier Saturday, it tore away at Israel’s arrogance and complacency. And that’s also how it tore away at the idea that it’s enough to occasionally attack Gaza with suicide drones—and sell them to half the world—to maintain security.
On Saturday, Israel saw pictures it has never seen before. Palestinian vehicles patrolling its cities, bike riders entering through the Gaza gates. These pictures tear away at that arrogance. The Gaza Palestinians have decided they’re willing to pay any price for a moment of freedom. Is there any hope in that? No. Will Israel learn its lesson? No.
On Saturday they were already talking about wiping out entire neighborhoods in Gaza, about occupying the Strip and punishing Gaza “as it has never been punished before.” But Israel hasn’t stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment.
After 75 years of abuse, the worse possible scenario awaits it once again. The threats of “flattening Gaza” prove only one thing: We haven’t learned a thing. The arrogance is here to stay, even though Israel is paying a high price once again.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bears very great responsibility for what happened, and he must pay the price, but it didn’t start with him and it won’t end after he goes. We now have to cry bitterly for the Israeli victims, but we should also cry for Gaza.
Gaza, most of whose residents are refugees created by Israel. Gaza, which has never known a single day of freedom.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israelis-made-to-suffer-the-cruel-price-for-oppression-of-palestinians-in-gaza
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Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist, writing opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. A notable journalist on the Israeli left, follow him on Twitter: @levy_haaretz
last one but I got an early date today so I'm a little apprehensive....
for fugaf....
kinda for me too lol.
fun the segue friday fun time
❤️💗💙💚💛
What have I become
— MM (@adgirlMM) May 10, 2024
My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end. 🥀 pic.twitter.com/b5zTU7b3o5
da fuq? From his or hers? Oh man, shut this ride off, I've been on it for nine months now... how can people be so friggin stupid?
Oh yeah, he's a genius!
Trump: “In a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong. It has to change.”
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 9, 2024
pic.twitter.com/SaRXq7o6op
Needless to say, I also find it difficult to believe.
I'm not buying that crap for one second. He's a disgusting toad who only worries about his public persona. I know the type all to well. You can take the two teary eyed 'subpoenaed' witnesses for all their worth but at the end of the day it's not up to us to decide.
I'd ask him to come here and help me walk a mile in my shoes. He'd tell me to get bent. He has no idea what it is like to be out in a community that embraces the disenfranchised. What it is like to put a smile on their face and feel good about what we can do as a fellow human to help everyone we can.
He'd rather pick their pockets and stick it straight in their ears.
Probably, because I've never seen Melly wear a cross before. Her nose looks weird.
lol, isn't that from Melania's mother's funeral?
Apparently at least sometimes, Trump is better with kids than one would think. He's reasonably nice to the ones that come to the White House.
But I suspect there's a limit to how much time he wants to spend with them.
oh really? I never knew that. I played golf with my dad too but he was terrible at it and every time I tried to teach him things I'd learned, he told me I was full of shit and never even tried to learn.
The first time I told him I was playing golf he gave me a tongue lashing about how I was wasting my time until I finally got him out there. It was the first time his little boy ever bested him and he couldn't take that so he left me on my own. I think that if we weren't poor people I might have had better choices but I think it had a lot to do with him too.
LOLOLOL Back To The Future.
OMIGOD!! A fate literally worse than death!!
Oh, thanks, i didn't realize that. Don't know what the answer is.
As fate will have it, we'll probably both live to 100 and watch President Barron Trump inaugurated in one of Donny's golden robes.
Assuming you have a little descriptive about them hope you include the fact they aren't bears. It would be neither fair to bears nor to marsupials .. https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-marsupial/ , not to. Actually since your zoo is a super educative place too it's upon you guys to ensure your visitors are more knowledgeable about your animals when they leave than they were when they arrived, so you have to give them that important fact. You know why i love to see you talking about your zoo.
Do you ever think trumpty tossed a ball around with him in the back yard? Told him that he was proud of him?
Apparently he actually does do some stuff with him. They play golf, and have for a long time.
Thank god I won't live to see it.
I'm inclined to think he's creepy, too. But since he's so young, and we don't know anything about what he's really like, so I feel we should give him a chance...
I feel sorry for the kid, but that's what happens when you suck from the silver spoon. It's probably very hard for him and he's just trying to find his way. Do you ever think trumpty tossed a ball around with him in the back yard? Told him that he was proud of him?
I highly doubt that. I had it tough but my father tried his best as goofed up as it was. His father never tried, he just doesn't give a shit.. everything is transactional to him.
Offhand, I don't think any presidential kid was a delegate. Maybe George Bush's, but when they were older.
I don't really think it matters much, except that what he does can now be reported on.
it was the trumpty campaign that released the pictures with his endorsement. It had nothing to do with any of the opposition.
He's only a backup delegate and isn't that important but we have to take it all into perspective. Was Chelsea a delegate? How about Malia and Sasha?
It needs to be addressed accordingly.
I don't think it'll be hard for Barron. Wherever he goes to school, he'll find other rich kids, if those are the people he wants to hang out with. And they will suck up to him.
He can make other choices, but I doubt he will.
Big surprise! The most inbred family in America is from West Virginia and you keep lecturing us on who people should vote for?
Meet the Whittakers: Inside America’s ‘most inbred family’ that speaks in grunts
A photographer is documenting the lives of “America’s most inbred family”, who speak in grunts and have eyes “going in different directions”.
.........“It was out of control — the craziest thing I’d ever seen” documentarian Mark Laita, 63, recalled recently on the Konkrete podcast.
He was describing his first ever encounter with the Whittakers, who reside in the rural mountain town of Odd, West Virginia, which boasts an infamously tight-knit population of around 779 people.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/meet-the-whittakers-inside-americas-most-inbred-family-that-speaks-in-grunts/news-story/d21ec992408301a6b5f23de5c299d572
Why are all the articles about Barron using photos of him taken about five years ago? He's 18 now. And MUCH taller.
LOL I haven't met them yet but it was like I told janice about the red pandas she adores so much, they are not what they appear to be.... They can be the stinky little rodents like they are but at the same time they look pretty cute so folks get attracted to them.
It will be my first time to experience them up close so I'll reserve judgement for now. I'm more worried about the ferris wheel coming apart than a koala pissing on a patron..That's not my department lol. I know those nasty little red pandas will bite and are extremely territorial.
from what I've read, koalas are bit more laid back but they'll just be another cool thing to see and not to touch in our park.
Good Gawd! These MAGAts are soooo mind boggling stupid, it's a wonder how they ever reached adulthood.
It's long past and who cares now, but on Bush, Gore and 2000 Florida
all should at least know what studies have come up with. It's mixed.
"Bush v. Gore
"Opinion Let us praise Al Gore for saving the country ...
Al Gore gave the world much about much. You to B402, re the internet.. "
So, who really won? What the Bush v. Gore studies showed
By Wade Payson-Denney, CNN
Updated 10:06 AM EDT, Sat October 31, 2015
VIDEO -- Bush v. Gore: The Endless Election 01:24 - Source: CNN
CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger revisits the 2000 election in a CNN
Special Report, “Bush v. Gore: The Endless Election,” Monday at 9 p.m. ET.
CNN — After the grueling 36-day Florida recount battle, Al Gore finally conceded the presidency to George W. Bush on December 13, 2000.
But the controversy surrounding this unprecedented election and its aftermath did not end there.
Months after the United States Supreme Court delivered its ruling to stop the statewide hand recount in the Sunshine State, media and academic organizations conducted their own studies of the disputed ballots in Florida.
Taken as a whole, the recount studies show Bush would have most likely won the Florida statewide hand
recount of all undervotes. Undervotes are ballots that did not register a vote in the presidential race.
Related gallery When every vote counted: Closest U.S. elections
https://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/11/politics/gallery/closest-us-elections/index.html
This goes against the belief that the U.S. Supreme Court handed the presidency to Bush, or took it away from Gore.
The studies also show that Gore likely would have won a statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes, which are ballots that included multiple votes for president and were thus not counted at all. However, his legal team never pursued this action.
The studies also support the belief that more voters went to the polls in Florida on Election Day intending to vote for Gore than for Bush.
Even 15 years after the election, partisans on each side cherry-pick various scenarios that would have favored their candidate.
Here’s a detailed look at what the studies found:
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html
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UPDATE: On 2/15/05, this board was restored to Free Board status so free members could (re)join the discussion.
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UPDATE: Beginning 11/1/17, by arrangement of Moderator with iHub, all members, including free members:
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2) can use board search ("Search This Board", above), and can place/open/use board search result links in posts.
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