U.S. Army Sergeant Bergdahl to enter plea in military court

(Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for five years, will enter a plea in his court-martial at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Monday, the Army said in an emailed statement.

The statement on Thursday did not specify details of the plea. Eugene Fidell, one of Bergdahl’s lawyers, declined to comment on the plea.

Citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the case, the Associated Press reported last week that the Idaho native would plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering U.S. troops.

The latter offense carries a sentence of up to life in prison. It was not clear whether prosecutors had agreed to recommend a lesser punishment in exchange for Bergdahl's guilty plea.

Doesn't have Barry to protect him anymore. Oh... and a sex change operation is not going to help either.

Bergdahl, who was charged in 2015, said he left his post in June 2009 to draw attention to "leadership failure" in his unit.

After five years in captivity, he was released in 2014 in a prisoner swap with five Taliban detainees held by the United States. That decision was criticized by many Republican leaders, and President Donald Trump has called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor."

U.S. Army Sergeant Bergdahl to enter plea in military court

Why they take a knee

Remember this? 

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Evidently, he wasn't far wrong.

Check this out. It'll blow your socks off!

NFL Player Arrests

Why they take a knee

'I'm ashamed I didn't say anything back then': Jane Fonda says she found out about Harvey Weinstein's reign of terror ONE year ago

"Ashamed"?

Didn't know she knew the meaning of the word.

Fonda 1972 Vietnam... siding with the enemy.... aka as treason!

The topper.

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Jane Fonda has admitted she found out last year that Harvey Weinstein had been sexually harassing Hollywood women and is ashamed she didn't speak up earlier. 

More than 30 women have now come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against the Hollywood producer who was once described as the 'God' of the film industry. 

The accusations, including from some of the world's most famous actresses, range from inappropriate messages to rape and date back nearly three decades.

While Fonda says she wasn't harassed by Weinstein, she was told of his abuse last year by one of his victims.

The hypocrisy on the left is beyond the pale.

 Sure to see Baldwin play Weinstein on SNL right?

 

'I'm ashamed I didn't say anything back then': Jane Fonda says she found out about Harvey Weinstein's reign of terror ONE year ago

Hillary caves in and says she WILL give Weinstein's campaign donations to charity, six days after the scandal first broke

Sure she will. We’re talking about a Clinton! I want to know what charity, what amount, and I want to see a representative of that charity with check in hand.

Meanwhile, she cracked me up with this remark.

"I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein," Clinton said in a statement through her spokesman Nick Merrill. "The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.”

This coming from the former Flotus who’s husband got a BJ in the Oval Office!

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Hillary Clinton says she is giving the Democratic donations Harvey Weinstein gave her- to charity.

Clinton, who remained silent for five days after the Weinstein scandal broke, told CNN Wednesday 'There's no one to give it back to. What other people are saying, what my former colleagues are saying, is that they're going to donate it to charity, and of course, I will do that.'

Clinton added 'I give 10 percent of my income to charity every year, this will be part of that. There's no doubt about it.' 

Weinstein raised and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for Clinton, going back to her first campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in New York. 

Bundler: Harvey Weinstein was a huge Hillary Clinton backer, hosting New York fundraisers and maxing out his own donations to her campaign

Then, of course, we have this. Hollywood’s hypocritical fake loathing over Harvey Weinstein his great friend Meryl Streep, who called Weinstein 'God' at an awards ceremony. Streep, eventually, after four days of silence, described the revelations as 'disgraceful'.

  This is the same moralizing Meryl Streep who sprang to her feet to give Roman Polanski a child rapist a standing ovation at the 2003 Academy Awards.

Hillary caves in and says she WILL give Weinstein's campaign donations to charity, six days after the scandal first broke

Move over confederacy...here comes the pronouns

New California Law Allows Prison Time for Workers Who Use Wrong Gender Pronoun

Katelyn CaralleOctober 10, 2017 3:24 pm

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A newly signed California law allows state health care workers who "willfully and repeatedly" refuse to use a senior transgender patient's "preferred name or pronouns" to face punishments ranging from a fine to prison time.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D.) signed the legislation on Friday, enacting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents' Bill of Rights, Fox News reported Monday.

The legislation, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, seeks to protect the rights of LGBT individuals in hospitals, retirement homes, and assisted living facilities.

Under the law, long-term care facilities for the elderly in California are not allowed to take certain actions on the basis of one's sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or HIV status, including referring to a patient by the wrong name or pronoun. These facilities also cannot consider the aforementioned factors when a patient is being admitted, transferred, evicted, or discharged.

The legislation reads, in part:

Among other things, the bill would make it unlawful, except as specified, for any long-term care facility to take specified actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, including, among others, willfully and repeatedly failing to use a resident's preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns, or denying admission to a long-term care facility, transferring or refusing to transfer a resident within a facility or to another facility, or discharging or evicting a resident from a facility.

Violators of the law could be punished by a fine "not to exceed one thousand dollars" or "by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year," or both, according to Fox News.

But Wiener has said that nobody will be criminally prosecuted for using the wrong pronoun.

"It's just more scare tactics by people who oppose all LGBT civil rights and protections," he said in a statement last month.

Wiener's office said the new law "does not create any new criminal provisions," but rather creates "new rights within an existing structure."

Greg Burt of the California Family Council opposes the new law and spoke out against the bill in it early stages before the California Assembly Judiciary Committee in August.

"How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others," Burt said. "Compelled speech is not free speech … True tolerance tolerates people with different views."

Move over confederacy...here comes the pronouns