That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
Former president Jimmy Carter was taken to a hospital Thursday for dehydration while in Winnipeg, according to a news report.
The 92-year-old was in Canada helping build a Habitat for Humanity home when he “collapsed,” a volunteer told CBC News, triggering a rush of paramedics and firefighters to assist him. An ambulance took Carter to a hospital.
Because we elected Trump.Moliere wrote:A former President building homes in Canada? Why does he hate America?
Because Republicans made him give up his family's peanut farm and then investigated when his brother took the profits.ImLawBoy wrote:Because we elected Trump.Moliere wrote:A former President building homes in Canada? Why does he hate America?
Except he gave an important interview that implicated Trump/Russia before his death. The juicy conspiracy theory (probably nothing) is that the Russians killed him.Moliere wrote:GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Killed Self
His suicide note said “no foul play whatsoever”, so nothing to see here. Just another dead body connected to the Clintons. Carry on conspiracy theorists.
As noted, this guy would be an addition to Trump's body count, not Clinton's.Moliere wrote:Just another dead body connected to the Clintons. Carry on conspiracy theorists.
Putin's, maybe. Possibly along with a handful of Russians that met untimely, yet very public, ends after the Steele dossier was leaked.RunningMn9 wrote:As noted, this guy would be an addition to Trump's body count, not Clinton's.Moliere wrote:Just another dead body connected to the Clintons. Carry on conspiracy theorists.
The International Olympics Committee (IOC) announced this week that the 2024 Summer Olympics would be awarded to either Paris or Los Angeles, the only two cities bidding for the games. The other city would be awarded the 2028 Summer Olympics.
It was the sort of intervention on behalf of a persecuted opposition politician that Amnesty International carries out hundreds of times a year. In 1998, after Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the mayor of Istanbul, was jailed for a speech in which he read out a religiously themed poem, the human-rights group termed him a “prisoner of conscience” and wrote to the government demanding his release. Nineteen years later, Mr Erdogan, now Turkey’s president, presides over an increasingly authoritarian regime. And his police force has arrested Amnesty International’s own staff along with other human-rights activists. So it was to Mr Erdogan that the group found itself writing last week to demand the release of detainees. He shows little sign of softening.
More than 50,000 people have been jailed in the purges that followed the attempted coup in Turkey on July 15th last year. But the latest arrests nevertheless shocked human-rights advocates, if only because their colleagues were the targets. On July 5th Turkish police detained ten human-rights activists attending a cyber-security training session, on suspicion of membership in an “armed terrorist organisation”. Those arrested include Idil Eser, the director of Amnesty International’s Turkish branch, and two foreign trainers. A month earlier, the chairman of the branch’s board, Taner Kilic, had been jailed on similar accusations.
Habitat For Humanity Investigated For Working Conditions After 92-Year-Old Laborer Collapses On SiteLordMortis wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pol ... a28f95ed8b
Former president Jimmy Carter was taken to a hospital Thursday for dehydration while in Winnipeg, according to a news report.
The 92-year-old was in Canada helping build a Habitat for Humanity home when he “collapsed,” a volunteer told CBC News, triggering a rush of paramedics and firefighters to assist him. An ambulance took Carter to a hospital.
Responding to an unsettling incident that has raised concerns about worker exploitation within the organization, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Friday it was launching an investigation into working conditions within Habitat for Humanity after a 92-year-old laborer reportedly collapsed on a job site yesterday. “According to the shocking and disturbing reports we have received, it appears that an elderly man in his 90s—who was observed to be exceedingly thin and frail—was being used as a manual laborer at a residential construction site, where he eventually succumbed to exhaustion and dehydration,” said agency spokesperson Jillian Rogers, adding that authorities were “sickened” to discover records showing that the nonagenarian laborer had been performing blue-collar work for the organization for over 30 years, and had been transported from one construction project to another—sometimes internationally—without any compensation.
Hope Carter's ok as he's always seemed a decent sort, but that is funny!Moliere wrote:LordMortis wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pol ... a28f95ed8b
Responding to an unsettling incident that has raised concerns about worker exploitation within the organization, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Friday it was launching an investigation into working conditions within Habitat for Humanity after a 92-year-old laborer reportedly collapsed on a job site yesterday. “According to the shocking and disturbing reports we have received, it appears that an elderly man in his 90s—who was observed to be exceedingly thin and frail—was being used as a manual laborer at a residential construction site, where he eventually succumbed to exhaustion and dehydration,” said agency spokesperson Jillian Rogers, adding that authorities were “sickened” to discover records showing that the nonagenarian laborer had been performing blue-collar work for the organization for over 30 years, and had been transported from one construction project to another—sometimes internationally—without any compensation.
On June 29, Williamstown city attorney Jeffrey Shipp sent a letter to the biblical amusement park Ark Encounter, rejecting its request to be exempted from a new safety tax because its is a religious organization.
Shipp said it was clear that Ark Encounter is a for-profit entity, which is how it has been listed with the Kentucky secretary of state’s office since 2011.
But the day before, Ark Encounter LLC sold its main parcel of land — the one with the large-scale Noah’s Ark — for $10 to its nonprofit affiliate, Crosswater Canyon. Although the property is worth $48 million according to the Grant County property valuation administrator, the deed says its value is only $18.5 million.
That’s the latest salvo in an escalating dispute between local officials and Ark Encounter, but some people are worried that Ark Encounter’s maneuver is a precursor to declaring itself exempt from all taxes, including property taxes that help finance Grant County schools.
Saving the world economy was kind of a big deal at the time.ImLawBoy wrote:I haven't read the article yet, but isn't this just kind of the mirror of the start of Obama's first term? Divided Democrats were ineffective at governing despite the fact that they held the Presidency and both houses of Congress. The Republicans looked like they had it together, because they never (rarely) broke ranks. Now that things have flipped, the Dems look much more coherent, because they're holding together, while the GOP is learning how hard it is to govern, even when you control the Executive and Legislative branches.
And getting an ultra-conservative on the Supreme Court was kind of a big deal, too. I'm not saying that neither the Dems at the start of Obama's first term nor the GOP at the start of Trump were 100% ineffective in getting things done, but it was hardly smooth sailing for either group. It turns out that governing with control of Executive and Legislative branches isn't as easy at it may seem.Pyperkub wrote:Saving the world economy was kind of a big deal at the time.ImLawBoy wrote:I haven't read the article yet, but isn't this just kind of the mirror of the start of Obama's first term? Divided Democrats were ineffective at governing despite the fact that they held the Presidency and both houses of Congress. The Republicans looked like they had it together, because they never (rarely) broke ranks. Now that things have flipped, the Dems look much more coherent, because they're holding together, while the GOP is learning how hard it is to govern, even when you control the Executive and Legislative branches.
If 2018 turns out for Dems the same way 2010 turned out for the Republicans - I'll take it.ImLawBoy wrote:And getting an ultra-conservative on the Supreme Court was kind of a big deal, too. I'm not saying that neither the Dems at the start of Obama's first term nor the GOP at the start of Trump were 100% ineffective in getting things done, but it was hardly smooth sailing for either group. It turns out that governing with control of Executive and Legislative branches isn't as easy at it may seem.Pyperkub wrote:Saving the world economy was kind of a big deal at the time.ImLawBoy wrote:I haven't read the article yet, but isn't this just kind of the mirror of the start of Obama's first term? Divided Democrats were ineffective at governing despite the fact that they held the Presidency and both houses of Congress. The Republicans looked like they had it together, because they never (rarely) broke ranks. Now that things have flipped, the Dems look much more coherent, because they're holding together, while the GOP is learning how hard it is to govern, even when you control the Executive and Legislative branches.
This is correct which is my point. I believe that people need to start talking about the macro picture. That there is plenty of data at this point to argue convincingly that our country is increasingly ungovernable in general. We are trucking along on institutions and norms at this point. All set up in the past and increasingly out of touch with how the world is changing. Or being smashed by Trump/McConnell and company. With no ability to adjust course.ImLawBoy wrote:And getting an ultra-conservative on the Supreme Court was kind of a big deal, too. I'm not saying that neither the Dems at the start of Obama's first term nor the GOP at the start of Trump were 100% ineffective in getting things done, but it was hardly smooth sailing for either group. It turns out that governing with control of Executive and Legislative branches isn't as easy at it may seem.Pyperkub wrote:Saving the world economy was kind of a big deal at the time.ImLawBoy wrote:I haven't read the article yet, but isn't this just kind of the mirror of the start of Obama's first term? Divided Democrats were ineffective at governing despite the fact that they held the Presidency and both houses of Congress. The Republicans looked like they had it together, because they never (rarely) broke ranks. Now that things have flipped, the Dems look much more coherent, because they're holding together, while the GOP is learning how hard it is to govern, even when you control the Executive and Legislative branches.
Who knew that presidenting would be so hard?malchior wrote:Could we cope with a 2008 scale event again?
If the usual GOP tax cut and spend agenda passes, we will have to. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.LordMortis wrote:Who knew that presidenting would be so hard?malchior wrote:Could we cope with a 2008 scale event again?
Of course, I believe that no small amount Trump supporters believe burning the US to the ground and somehow establishing small warring tribes of the survival of the fittest in preparation for the biblical apocalypse is either a good thing or an inevitable thing or a thing we somehow brought on ourselves or something I don't quite understand.
It's the second time I hear this. Examples? Not being dark just haven't heard the recent stuff people are talking about.malchior wrote:That is terrible - it does possibly explain some of his recent incoherence. Hoping for the best for him.
His questions during the Comey(?) hearing. I think you can check the Trump investigation thread for the examples. I think he later blamed it on staying late to watch some sporting event.tjg_marantz wrote:It's the second time I hear this. Examples?malchior wrote:That is terrible - it does possibly explain some of his recent incoherence. Hoping for the best for him.
I had a similar reaction. At the time it struck me that his statements reflected a strategy he was told to maybe follow; That being:: "Why isn't Hillary being investigated for her involvement with Russia!?" -Smoove_B wrote:Yeah, my grandmother had similar episodes that I was reminded of when watching McCain during the Comey hearings...not surprised at all. You can read more here.