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silveradeptSo Secretary of State Clinton used a private email address for work purposes, but claims no wrongdoing.
Hillary Clinton is officially in for the Presidential campaign of 2016. it seems like the Democrats are willing to let her have the nomination. Not for lack of candidates, but because everyone seems to be okay with Hillary Clinton as the candidate. Elizabeth Warren, however, could make it a primary all the same.
The GOP field is working itself together - Jeb Bush wants to outraise everyone else, while trying to distance himself from both of the other unpopular Bushes in the family, Ted Cruz wants true believers, Marco Rubio wants to be seen as serious, and Rand Paul is hoping for some of the magical appeal Ron Paul always got.
...and all the dark money that corporations can buy plus whatever voter identification laws can be passed.
The shooting of a black man by police in Wisconsin prompted an apology from the police chief after protests. Then, a manslaughter charge against a deputy who shot an unarmed black man, the sentencing of Blackwater guards that killed Iraqi civilians, and a murder charge for an officer that used his stun gun and then shot a fleeing suspect in the back four times.
Here's the thing, though. There are so many other incidents of brutality that go unreported and without comment, because it takes white people caring about black lives for change to happen.
it counts for other minorities, too. It's great to hear that the Administration will support efforts at banning conversion therapy, especially for teens, but legislation would be better, and enforcement of that beyond legislation the best still.
A terror group claimed responsibility for an attack in Kenya that appeared to target non-Muslims for death, killing almost 150.
Republicans wrote a letter to Iran warming them that deals made with this president still had to go through Congress, a move they admitted in retrospect was not the smartest thing. And a deal was still struck.
A Cuba thaw is underway, as the federal government removes Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
In what could have been more than eight billion dollars USD of fines, New Jersey governor Christie accepted a $250 million USD settlement from ExxonMobil over environmental damage. And then had the temerity to brag about it. Whose palms got greased there? And whose might be in the investigation into an oil rig explosion in Mexico?
Loretta Lynch is a qualified candidate for Attorney General. So why is she languishing, even though the Republicans hate Eric Holder more?
The largest remaining cache of chemical weapons in the United States is slated for destruction. And this makes the rest of the world safer. On a more local level, a group tried to raise awareness of gun violence by stocking a store with prop weapons and stories of the violence committed with weapons like that.
So does not building a big tar sands oil pipe from Canada.
The troop levels in Afghanistan are likely to remain higher than the planned drawdown. Because endless war is totally what everyone wants. The way we fight it, with unmanned vehicles, we're saying a lot more about what's happening when things go wrong.
While the High Court considers whether lethal injection will be allowed to continue, Utah authorized the use of a firing squad for executions as a backup. Because the right to kill someone is apparently a thing no state wants to give up.
Arkansas passed a bill that said it was okay to discriminate against others, so long as you're doing so from a religious conviction. It follows Indiana in doing so, and the backlash is already on its way, trying to dissuade others from following suit. The technology industry is leading some of the pushback, but the politicians are not very far behind. some of that oddball has resulted in states modifying their laws, but not repealing them.
The Missouri Republican Party chair whose ads suggested untrue things about the State Auditor before the Auditor took his own life days he's been cleared and nobody should be talking about the incident with his name near it. Even though the ads were untrue and muck and in favor of his preferred candidates. The apparent suicide if the Auditor's spokesperson isn't helping subside any thoughts on the matter.
A nationwide strike of low-wage workers trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 USD/hr.
Hillary Clinton is officially in for the Presidential campaign of 2016. it seems like the Democrats are willing to let her have the nomination. Not for lack of candidates, but because everyone seems to be okay with Hillary Clinton as the candidate. Elizabeth Warren, however, could make it a primary all the same.
The GOP field is working itself together - Jeb Bush wants to outraise everyone else, while trying to distance himself from both of the other unpopular Bushes in the family, Ted Cruz wants true believers, Marco Rubio wants to be seen as serious, and Rand Paul is hoping for some of the magical appeal Ron Paul always got.
...and all the dark money that corporations can buy plus whatever voter identification laws can be passed.
The shooting of a black man by police in Wisconsin prompted an apology from the police chief after protests. Then, a manslaughter charge against a deputy who shot an unarmed black man, the sentencing of Blackwater guards that killed Iraqi civilians, and a murder charge for an officer that used his stun gun and then shot a fleeing suspect in the back four times.
Here's the thing, though. There are so many other incidents of brutality that go unreported and without comment, because it takes white people caring about black lives for change to happen.
it counts for other minorities, too. It's great to hear that the Administration will support efforts at banning conversion therapy, especially for teens, but legislation would be better, and enforcement of that beyond legislation the best still.
A terror group claimed responsibility for an attack in Kenya that appeared to target non-Muslims for death, killing almost 150.
Republicans wrote a letter to Iran warming them that deals made with this president still had to go through Congress, a move they admitted in retrospect was not the smartest thing. And a deal was still struck.
A Cuba thaw is underway, as the federal government removes Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
In what could have been more than eight billion dollars USD of fines, New Jersey governor Christie accepted a $250 million USD settlement from ExxonMobil over environmental damage. And then had the temerity to brag about it. Whose palms got greased there? And whose might be in the investigation into an oil rig explosion in Mexico?
Loretta Lynch is a qualified candidate for Attorney General. So why is she languishing, even though the Republicans hate Eric Holder more?
The largest remaining cache of chemical weapons in the United States is slated for destruction. And this makes the rest of the world safer. On a more local level, a group tried to raise awareness of gun violence by stocking a store with prop weapons and stories of the violence committed with weapons like that.
So does not building a big tar sands oil pipe from Canada.
The troop levels in Afghanistan are likely to remain higher than the planned drawdown. Because endless war is totally what everyone wants. The way we fight it, with unmanned vehicles, we're saying a lot more about what's happening when things go wrong.
While the High Court considers whether lethal injection will be allowed to continue, Utah authorized the use of a firing squad for executions as a backup. Because the right to kill someone is apparently a thing no state wants to give up.
Arkansas passed a bill that said it was okay to discriminate against others, so long as you're doing so from a religious conviction. It follows Indiana in doing so, and the backlash is already on its way, trying to dissuade others from following suit. The technology industry is leading some of the pushback, but the politicians are not very far behind. some of that oddball has resulted in states modifying their laws, but not repealing them.
The Missouri Republican Party chair whose ads suggested untrue things about the State Auditor before the Auditor took his own life days he's been cleared and nobody should be talking about the incident with his name near it. Even though the ads were untrue and muck and in favor of his preferred candidates. The apparent suicide if the Auditor's spokesperson isn't helping subside any thoughts on the matter.
A nationwide strike of low-wage workers trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 USD/hr.
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Date: 2015-04-19 02:26 pm (UTC)In criminal execution news, the gov of Oklahoma signed a bill approving nitrogen asphyxiation to execute criminals.
Those Missouri politician suicides were quite interesting, but I doubt they'll change anything because the problems are being orchestrated nationally and forced down at the state level.
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Date: 2015-04-22 04:29 pm (UTC)I would have thought asphyxiation would qualify under cruel and unusual punishment.
That national campaigns think spreading rumors that someone is secretly Jewish is a sign of problems. They did Kennedy with Catholicism, and probably more than a few candidates with "angry minority", like they did with Obama... so maybe it's time we just disband the political parties and force everyone to run as themselves with no affiliations or outside money to help. Federal election dollars, yes, but no private fundraising.