Politics and things and such.
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The United Kingdom intends to revoke the citizenship of a teenager who joined ISIL and has now left the organization. Their reasoning is that the teenager could become a citizen of another nation, and therefore they do not have to keep her citizenship. It's not entirely clear that the route is available to her, and it is a serious violation of human rights to make a person stateless. But, of course, we live in times where things that would otherwise be unheard of in liberal democracy keep happening and getting suggested. And, for an extra dose of hypocrisy, if you change the gender of the person wanting to return to male, suddenly he gets a lot more sympathetic treatment about his want to return. In case you wondered who is actually important in these stories. Since the original decision to revoke her citizenship, her baby has died in a refugee camp. So now there's been the death of a citizen in regard to this entire fiasco, one that could have easily been prevented had someone decided that reality was a better place to live than their woman-hating fantasy.
Brexit continues to look more and more like a wildfire than anything that has even the slightest bit of organization behind it. In addition to that, the Brexiters are more than deserving of the special place in hell they get for doing this without having planned it out completely...or at all.
Several gents with a lack of fear and a few quid started pasting the statements of Brexiteers on billboard spaces, and now they've got both funding and sourcing to do more. They struck a chord, shall we say. And then they have a truick to distribute the message on a video board with, and someone made beer coasters out of choice phrases and distributed them to certain spots in the European Parliament.
They'll also have an opportunity to turn the eye toward the Current Administrator of the States when he goes to visit later on in the year. Unfortunately, the other side seems to be funded in the grandest traditions of dark-money groups in the United States.
(And after, say, a drunk MP started groping others without their consent, there's suddenly a large rush to explain his behavior as stress-induced from the Brexit. Then again, if someone more plebian than he would have been booked (or at least left in the drunk tank overnight), then the apologetics for what he did under the influence are much less likely to be effective.)
The people of the UK would like another go at deciding on whether to continue with the Brexit process, now that they've seen what a hash their elected leaders are making of it. So much so that a petition to the Government to revoke what started Brexit gathered signatures at a rate that the servers devoted to it couldn't keep up. Temporarily. If you have residency and standing to petition the Parliament of the United Kingdom, here's your opportuniy to add your voice to the millions that have already done so. And, hopefully, to make the idea of sending death threats to the person that set up the petition a swiftly-prosecuted and socially-unacceptable thing.
Teachers may end up having to care for students if the traffic problems get too terrible and emergency contingency plans are being put into place as the worst option looks to be the one that's going to happen by default. At this point, it's kind of hard to discern why this is happening, and so the best I can do is something to the order of "how the US elected someone paatently unfit for the job, but without any of the odd electoral quirks that the US has that makes it much more likely that someone unqualified will get elected."
kaberett has a script for persons with Members of Parliament that represent them< to ask their MP to agree to debate a revocation of the article 50 invocation and then to vote to revoke Brexit entirely/a>.
More than a million people turned out to insist that the Government stop Brexit, including the creators of The Gruffalo, the always contextually-appropriate Led By Donkeys, (and do watch how the banner unfurled by the crowd), a spot-on Royal Mail failure to deliver notice, a personal news coverage sign, a weaponized slogan, a small in a tree with an excellent slogan that gets crowd support, and the unvarnished truth.
If you are interested in what the reality of supporters of the Current Administrator looks like, there is a survey with questions that would laughed out of any IRB worth its salt that you can peruse. And also, its successor, which manages to up the slant from the original. There's even significant amounts of Pompous Capitalization and ALLCAPS EMPHASIS so that you don't get lost figuring out what the point is and what the bluster is.
Then again, that seems to be essentially the way things are with regard to the Current Administrator. And is the playbook from which the Current Administrator is drawing, because the very things that supposedly make the newsmedia objective and authoritative are being exploited to make it sound like the positions being staked out, the justifications given, and the accusations made can be taken on their face as newsworthy, even when they're utter shit.
Mr. Stone needs better legal counsel, as the judge that is hearing his case got him and his lawyers to admit to a lot of very useful things for the prosecutors in his case as she slapped him with a serious gag order after he appeared to have threatened her on Instagram.
Having failed to secure funding through the normal appropriations process for Security Theater regarding a border wall, the Current Administrator thought it fit to declare a national emergency and use those powers to appropriate the monies from other budgets. Unsurprisingly, cue protests and lawsuits. And even with the admission that this isn't actually an emergency, the Administrator expects to lose everywhere except where it actually counts and so he doesn't actually care all that much about the lawsuits or the injunctions that will come from them.
Barbara Jordan is remembered for fifteen minutes of the Watergate hearings, but she accomplished a lot more than that -- a lot of which she did by working within institutions instead of trying to change them from the outside.
Right before his planned testimony to Congress in open session, A Florida representative issued a threat to Michael Cohen that would not have read out of place in a ganster novel. The item itself, of course, has provoked an investsgation from the Florida state bar, as it would be a bad thing to have certified a lawyer that engaged in flagrant witness tampering. And, by at least some accounts, was more than happy to have done it.
A Georgia lawmaker has proposed appropriate sex-based sanctioning of men's bodies in response to the legislature taking up a bill intended to outlaw abortion and regulate women's bodies.
Even after being ordered to stop preventing young women from getting abortions, it appears this Administration's Office of Refugee Resettlement was extremely interested in the menstrual cycles and pregnancies of their refugees. Likely so they could continue preventing them from getting abortions until after it would be illegal to do so.
And speaking of refugees, it appears quite clear now that the Administration knew exactly what it was doing when it ordered the separation of families at the southern border of the United States, to the point where a Senator has called for a perjury investigation, given that Congress does not take kindly to being lied to.
Florida Republicans are trying to ensure that an initiative passed to restore felons' voting rights has no teeth by subjecting those former felons to a poll tax - a requirement that they would have to repay the court all the costs it incurred in their trial and conviction before their franchise was restored.
Ugh, and there will likely be more, but if I'm going to talk about the Mueller report, whenever it comes out in its full form, I'm going to have to post this now so that I look at a clean slate.
The United Kingdom intends to revoke the citizenship of a teenager who joined ISIL and has now left the organization. Their reasoning is that the teenager could become a citizen of another nation, and therefore they do not have to keep her citizenship. It's not entirely clear that the route is available to her, and it is a serious violation of human rights to make a person stateless. But, of course, we live in times where things that would otherwise be unheard of in liberal democracy keep happening and getting suggested. And, for an extra dose of hypocrisy, if you change the gender of the person wanting to return to male, suddenly he gets a lot more sympathetic treatment about his want to return. In case you wondered who is actually important in these stories. Since the original decision to revoke her citizenship, her baby has died in a refugee camp. So now there's been the death of a citizen in regard to this entire fiasco, one that could have easily been prevented had someone decided that reality was a better place to live than their woman-hating fantasy.
Brexit continues to look more and more like a wildfire than anything that has even the slightest bit of organization behind it. In addition to that, the Brexiters are more than deserving of the special place in hell they get for doing this without having planned it out completely...or at all.
Several gents with a lack of fear and a few quid started pasting the statements of Brexiteers on billboard spaces, and now they've got both funding and sourcing to do more. They struck a chord, shall we say. And then they have a truick to distribute the message on a video board with, and someone made beer coasters out of choice phrases and distributed them to certain spots in the European Parliament.
They'll also have an opportunity to turn the eye toward the Current Administrator of the States when he goes to visit later on in the year. Unfortunately, the other side seems to be funded in the grandest traditions of dark-money groups in the United States.
(And after, say, a drunk MP started groping others without their consent, there's suddenly a large rush to explain his behavior as stress-induced from the Brexit. Then again, if someone more plebian than he would have been booked (or at least left in the drunk tank overnight), then the apologetics for what he did under the influence are much less likely to be effective.)
The people of the UK would like another go at deciding on whether to continue with the Brexit process, now that they've seen what a hash their elected leaders are making of it. So much so that a petition to the Government to revoke what started Brexit gathered signatures at a rate that the servers devoted to it couldn't keep up. Temporarily. If you have residency and standing to petition the Parliament of the United Kingdom, here's your opportuniy to add your voice to the millions that have already done so. And, hopefully, to make the idea of sending death threats to the person that set up the petition a swiftly-prosecuted and socially-unacceptable thing.
Teachers may end up having to care for students if the traffic problems get too terrible and emergency contingency plans are being put into place as the worst option looks to be the one that's going to happen by default. At this point, it's kind of hard to discern why this is happening, and so the best I can do is something to the order of "how the US elected someone paatently unfit for the job, but without any of the odd electoral quirks that the US has that makes it much more likely that someone unqualified will get elected."
kaberett has a script for persons with Members of Parliament that represent them< to ask their MP to agree to debate a revocation of the article 50 invocation and then to vote to revoke Brexit entirely/a>.More than a million people turned out to insist that the Government stop Brexit, including the creators of The Gruffalo, the always contextually-appropriate Led By Donkeys, (and do watch how the banner unfurled by the crowd), a spot-on Royal Mail failure to deliver notice, a personal news coverage sign, a weaponized slogan, a small in a tree with an excellent slogan that gets crowd support, and the unvarnished truth.
If you are interested in what the reality of supporters of the Current Administrator looks like, there is a survey with questions that would laughed out of any IRB worth its salt that you can peruse. And also, its successor, which manages to up the slant from the original. There's even significant amounts of Pompous Capitalization and ALLCAPS EMPHASIS so that you don't get lost figuring out what the point is and what the bluster is.
Then again, that seems to be essentially the way things are with regard to the Current Administrator. And is the playbook from which the Current Administrator is drawing, because the very things that supposedly make the newsmedia objective and authoritative are being exploited to make it sound like the positions being staked out, the justifications given, and the accusations made can be taken on their face as newsworthy, even when they're utter shit.
Mr. Stone needs better legal counsel, as the judge that is hearing his case got him and his lawyers to admit to a lot of very useful things for the prosecutors in his case as she slapped him with a serious gag order after he appeared to have threatened her on Instagram.
Having failed to secure funding through the normal appropriations process for Security Theater regarding a border wall, the Current Administrator thought it fit to declare a national emergency and use those powers to appropriate the monies from other budgets. Unsurprisingly, cue protests and lawsuits. And even with the admission that this isn't actually an emergency, the Administrator expects to lose everywhere except where it actually counts and so he doesn't actually care all that much about the lawsuits or the injunctions that will come from them.
Barbara Jordan is remembered for fifteen minutes of the Watergate hearings, but she accomplished a lot more than that -- a lot of which she did by working within institutions instead of trying to change them from the outside.
Right before his planned testimony to Congress in open session, A Florida representative issued a threat to Michael Cohen that would not have read out of place in a ganster novel. The item itself, of course, has provoked an investsgation from the Florida state bar, as it would be a bad thing to have certified a lawyer that engaged in flagrant witness tampering. And, by at least some accounts, was more than happy to have done it.
A Georgia lawmaker has proposed appropriate sex-based sanctioning of men's bodies in response to the legislature taking up a bill intended to outlaw abortion and regulate women's bodies.
Even after being ordered to stop preventing young women from getting abortions, it appears this Administration's Office of Refugee Resettlement was extremely interested in the menstrual cycles and pregnancies of their refugees. Likely so they could continue preventing them from getting abortions until after it would be illegal to do so.
And speaking of refugees, it appears quite clear now that the Administration knew exactly what it was doing when it ordered the separation of families at the southern border of the United States, to the point where a Senator has called for a perjury investigation, given that Congress does not take kindly to being lied to.
Florida Republicans are trying to ensure that an initiative passed to restore felons' voting rights has no teeth by subjecting those former felons to a poll tax - a requirement that they would have to repay the court all the costs it incurred in their trial and conviction before their franchise was restored.
Ugh, and there will likely be more, but if I'm going to talk about the Mueller report, whenever it comes out in its full form, I'm going to have to post this now so that I look at a clean slate.
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Date: 2019-03-25 08:22 pm (UTC)