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Saturday, July 22, 2017
Texas 'bathroom bill' advances out of Senate committee
Hard to believe we're even having this conversation.
Opponents of a Texas "bathroom bill" protest in the exterior rotunda at the Texas state Capitol in Austin, March 7, 2017. (Associated Press)
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In an 8-1 vote, a Texas state Senate committee agreed Friday to advance a measure to restrict public restroom use by transgender people, despite 10 hours of testimony from opponents of the bill, the Texas Tribune reported.
Senate Bill 3, a so-called “bathroom bill,” would regulate public school facilities, open-enrollment charter school facilities, and local government restrooms to be “used only by persons of the same sex as stated on a person's birth certificate.” It will now advance to the full Senate for consideration.
The measure is expected to pass and be sent to the House. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is said to back the measure, which is sponsored by GOP state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst.
Republicans say the measure would help protect restroom users against sexual predators, but Democrats argue that it discriminates against transgender people.
Debate surrounding the bill has already cost the state $66 million in convention business, and that figure could rise to roughly $1.4 billion if more sports, conventions and other events are canceled.
A similar bill in North Carolina cost that state hundreds of millions of dollars and led to the relocation of this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend from Charlotte to New Orleans.
In March, North Carolina repealed its bathroom law, and in May the NBA agreed to hold its event in Charlotte in 2019.
Prior to Friday’s vote, leaders of the National Episcopal Church voiced their concerns, encouraging Texas House Speaker Joe Straus in a letter to continue his stance against any proposed bathroom bill.
Kolkhorst took a jab at an Obama-era federal policy that provided protections for transgender students in public schools. That policy has since been removed by the Trump administration.
“We’re here today because Texas has a tradition of taking care of these issues and not being dictated to by the federal government,” Kolkhorst said.
This is the Lone Star State’s second attempt to pass a bathroom bill. Straus had helped block the previous effort, the Tribune reported.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Rosie O'Donnell promotes 'Push Trump Off A Cliff Again' online game
"Push Trump Off A Cliff Again," O'Donnell tweeted along with a link to the game. The game's name is a riff off of Trump's campaign slogan "Make American Great Again."
Players of the controversial game can either push Trump off a cliff, into a volcano, into a manhole or have him eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Many fans took to Twitter to express their outrage of the 55-year-old's tweet.
Interesting - you got bent out of shape with the CNN memes but this is okay? Hypocrisy thy name is Rosie.— Pete Athens (@athynz1) July 17, 2017
One can dislike the President whoever he/she is, without suggesting any type of violence. Lead by example.— BethGrantDeRoos (@BethGrantDeRoos) July 19, 2017
The amount of time wasted by playing this game by the many people is astounding. What have we fallen to? Like him or not he's our potus.— Bryant (@buckraven89) July 19, 2017
Violence against the President? Not so good.— Sherry Swain (@SherrySwain) July 15, 2017
you are a sick individual, get some help!!🇱🇷— Karin Brown (@KarinBr87505385) July 18, 2017
I loathe Trump, but this is not cool.— Jack Hodgson (@jackhodgson) July 15, 2017
This is the latest chapter in the long-standing feud between O'Donnell and Trump.
O'Donnell has called Trump "mentally unstable" and has come under fire for asking in 2016, "Barron Trump Autistic?"
Trump has aimed his fair share of offending remarks towards the comedian. He has poked fun at her weight and called her a "loser."
O'Donnel's tweet comes just under two months after fellow comedian Kathy Griffin got into trouble for posing with a bloodied Trump mask.
Griffin later apologized for the photo shoot saying, "I understand how it offends people" adding "I've made a lot of mistakes in my career."
And one of them was not moving to Canada and taking the fat blowhard with you.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Putting it in perspective
Does anyone believe he knew that? If he was working for the Clinton's it would have been a badge of honor.
Poll: Donald Trump is Still More Popular Than Hillary Clinton
It seems that even if the presidential election happened now, after all this time, Hillary Clinton would still not defeat Donald Trump.
A new poll from Bloomberg shows that the president has a 41 percent approval rating among Americans, but his former Democratic rival has only 39. The survey also indicates that Clinton has lost a great deal of support, even from those who voted for her in the 2016 election.
The polls is all the more remarkable since Clinton has mostly stayed out of the spotlight, while Trump currently helms one of the most controversial administrations in American history.
Bloomberg found that the former Democratic candidate has a 58% unfavorable rating compared to Trump’s 55%. Survey participants who voted for Clinton denied that their personal dislike caused her to lose the election, though many said they only voted for her to support the lesser of two evils.
“There’s growing discontent with Hillary Clinton even as she has largely stayed out of the spotlight,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer. “It’s not a pox on the Democratic house because numbers for other Democrats are good.”
The poll also found that Barack Obama has 61 percent favorability rating, and Joe Biden is only one point behind him.
The survey was conducted among 1001 participants earlier this month, and the margin of error was set at +/- 3.1 percent.
He's only been out of office 6 months. Wait until the eggs laid during his tenure start to hatch. Iran is one of them.
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(Check Wikipedia in 5 years... see where he is then)
After 8 years of Obama name me one achievement making us better off because of his presidency.
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