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You're my hero...Skinypupy wrote:I was proud of my self-control today. Sat across the aisle from Jason Chaffetz on his final flight back from DC as a congressman, and I didn't lob any f-bombs or insults his way.
Although I may have said "good riddance" a little too loud as we were getting off the plane...
A Texas judge has declined to revoke bond for the mother of a teenager who used an "affluenza" defense regarding a fatal drunken-driving wreck after prosecutors said she carried a rifle and sipped beer.
Judge Wayne Salvant on Thursday urged Tonya Couch, who's free on bond, to "use common sense" pending her trial on hindering apprehension of a felon and money laundering charges. Prosecutors wanted her returned to jail.
Witnesses testifying for prosecutors Thursday alleged Couch carried a rifle at a gun show over the weekend and sipped beer at a restaurant last month.
Many beaches are closed too, which is a huge economic hit.Octavious wrote:NJ state government is shutdown because they couldn't pass a budget. So 4th of July weekend tons of state parks are closed losing TONS of money. Seriously this state is so broken. Christie can go f himself. What a piece of shit he is.
What is amazing to me is people should be melting down about how shady his reason for the shutdown is *and* that he staged this to happen over the 4th of July weekend. A lot of shore towns are getting kicked in the teeth again by this sunavabitch.Octavious wrote:NJ state government is shutdown because they couldn't pass a budget. So 4th of July weekend tons of state parks are closed losing TONS of money. Seriously this state is so broken. Christie can go f himself. What a piece of shit he is.
I made a lot of phone calls Friday night. The issue is that the new mortgage will be sold before the first payment (9/1). In order to sell the mortgage, they have to demonstrate that the taxes are paid. So for this one time, the mortgage company has to pay the taxes to be able to make that guarantee (part of the reason for the refi, in addition to combining two mortgages to avoid a looming balloon payment, is to do away with this escrow account nonsense). To do that they have to collect the property tax payment at closing.Smoove_B wrote:That's insane. That's not something I even considered and I'm hoping you're making phone calls because that's beyond ridiculous.
He is trash and doesn't give a damn that everyone knows. This is a shining example of some of our core political problems - complete lacking of: humility, shame, compassion, decency, fairness, and ethics. A leader doesn't rub our noses in his special perks. Especially one who has failed as consistently and completely as he has.Smoove_B wrote:Does looking at photos of Chris Christie relaxing on the beach help? Shameless. Absolutely shameless.
I was just coming to post that exact link just for you.Smoove_B wrote:Does looking at photos of Chris Christie relaxing on the beach help? Shameless. Absolutely shameless.
Octavious wrote: I seriously have to start avoiding the news at this point.
At least CNN has a nice article up about the situation:Octavious wrote:Between Christie and Trump I can't really take much more. Surrounded by self serving loud mouth bullies. It's so god damn depressing. I seriously have to start avoiding the news at this point. Thank god I didn't really have any plans that are impacted by this asshat.
Not that he cares, but I didn't think it was possible for my opinion of him to go any lower; it has. I hope he leaves office in NJ with a single-digit approval rating.What explains it? Either Christie is actively working to destroy any political future he might have or he has simply stopped caring.
The latter option is more plausible. Christie is term-limited out of office early next year. He has zero interest in running for the US Senate and couldn't get elected to one of those seats even if he did want to wind up in the world's greatest deliberative body.
Christie's only option is to be a second-wave Trump administration appointee; he is regularly rumored as a chief of staff possibility if and when Reince Priebus leaves or is ushered out.
And, if there's anyone out there who l-o-v-e-s Christie sunbathing while the beaches are shut down, it's Trump. The President digs anyone who thumbs his nose at convention. If you can feud with the press too, well, that's a double bonus in the eyes of Trump.
When you see Christie on the beach then, you see a man who has stopped caring. He knows he is done as a politician in New Jersey -- and that his only possible future rests in the hands of a man who has built a political career on flouting convention.
Six teenage girls from Afghanistan planned to come to the US to compete in the First Global Challenge robotics competition this month, but those plans were canceled after they were denied visas to enter the country. Forbes reports that the girls traveled 500 miles to Kabul for their visa interviews, and that their robot’s supplies were held in customs for months.
This kit, which the competition organizers issued to every participating team, included different components, like brackets, extrusions, fastening hardware, hardware adaptors, bearings, wheels of different sizes, gears, pulleys, motors, servos, and sprockets. The State Department feared ISIS might try to use these parts on the battlefield, which is why they delayed sending them to the girls.
Still, the team built a ball-sorting robot on a shortened timeline; their kit only arrived three weeks ago. More than 100 other teams have entered the competition, including participants from Iraq, Iran, and Sudan. The girls’ robot will still compete, but the team will only be able to watch over a video call from their homes in Herat, Afghanistan.
Not only did he go chill on the beach, he did so while everyone else on that particular beach were ordered out of their homes and threatened with arrest if they didn't comply.Smoove_B wrote:Does looking at photos of Chris Christie relaxing on the beach help? Shameless. Absolutely shameless.
What an asshole.But while Gov. Chris Christie and his family tanned, the other families burned -- with anger.
The other Island Beach residents were ordered out of the homes Friday night under the threat of arrest. They packed up and drove off, right past the governor's summer retreat, its lights ablaze with activity.
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They are strictly seasonal, getaway bungalows tucked behind dunes and hidden in the forest of dwarf cedars and pines, and thickets of bayberry, beach palms, and, yes, crazy amounts of poison ivy.
They pay $1,900 a year but get no services or utilities. Electricity comes from gas generators or solar panels or propane. They carry in their own drinking water. They do their own spraying for the uncontrollable mosquitoes and green and black flies.
It's roughing it, for sure, but it's home for the summer - at least for vacations.
So Howard and Betty Height were surprised when park police knocked on the door Friday night and told them they had to scoot.
"They're good guys," Howard Height said. "They were just doing their job. But they said if we weren't gone by midnight, we'd be arrested."
On Friday, the Heights and other families had received calls saying the park might close but lease holders could come in, limited to two people per house.
linkVolvo is phasing out cars that rely on combustion engines, with every new model launched from 2019 to have an electric motor, as the shift away from the technology that’s dominated the auto industry for more than a century gathers pace.
Promising the “historic end” of cars that only have combustion engines, Volvo Car Group will introduce five electric models by 2021 and offer hybrid options across its product line, according to a statement on Wednesday.
So every whack job can now submit a complaint to the school district demanding that they cover the theory that Earth is flat and rests on a giant turtle that rests on giant elephants - and the school board will be forced to pay some clown to "review" every one of those complaints.With the law now in place, any county resident — not just any parent with a child in the country’s public schools, as was the case previously — can now file a complaint about instructional materials in the county’s public schools, and the school will now have to appoint a hearing officer to hear the complaint.
Thirty years ago, as Donald Trump gave what is widely considered to be the first campaign speech of his career, he criticized one country above all for cheating the United States in trade: Japan.
On Thursday, Japan took on the mantle of the global rules-based trading system, as it sidestepped a failing trade agreement with the United States to forge a historic new pact with the European Union.
Leaders from Japan and the European Union on Thursday announced their agreement on the broad strokes of a trade deal that will cover nearly 30 percent of the global economy, 10 percent of the world's population and 40 percent of global trade.
The deal crafts a trading bloc roughly the same size as that established by the North American Free Trade Agreement, a 1994 deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Coming on the eve of the Group of 20 meeting of global leaders in Hamburg, Germany, the announcement appeared to be a calculated rebuke of both the United States, which has spurned global trade agreements in favor of more protectionist policies under President Trump, and Great Britain, which voted to leave the European Union last year.
I agree, although during the campaign TPP was taking tons of shit on the left and from the Democratic party as well (and, IIRC, Clinton came out against it during the campaign). While I am inclined to think that not signing onto the TPP was a significant mistake (although I don't know a ton of the details of the agreement to be honest), it's far from clear that President Clinton would have signed on either.malchior wrote:Trump is such a fucking moron. Spurned Europe and pushed Japan into Europe. Tore up TPP and pushed the rest of Asia into China. Trump is going to go down in history as the biggest chump ever. Literally throwing away empire to keep his childrens' pockets full. People who think that the best times are ahead Roman Empire style past the fall of the Republic probably need to re-calibrate now. What a goddamn fucking moron.
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Of course. If it doesn't have "Trump" as every 16th word, he loses focus and wanders away. He really likes attention, and will smash everything in arm's reach to get it.Zarathud wrote:... while focusing on personal projects that produce nothing but headlines.
Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.
I know he's gross, but I'm still amazed elected officials are going full-on masks are now off with their interviews.Congress should use money from its food stamp budget and Planned Parenthood funding to pay for a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico, Rep. Steve King said Wednesday.
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"Are you comfortable, congressman, with providing $1.6 billion of taxpayer money, not from Mexico, to build that wall?" CNN's Alisyn Camerota asked on "New Day."
"Absolutely, yes and more," he replied. "And I'd throw another $5 billion on the pile and I would find half a billion of that from right out of Planned Parenthood's budget. And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people who haven't worked in three generations."
The thing that's truly frightening is that it's now obvious that tens or even over a hundred million Americans are absolutely fine with that.Smoove_B wrote:
I know he's gross, but I'm still amazed elected officials are going full-on masks are now off with their interviews.