Octopus Overlords

Sources: National Security Adviser to slash career staff and add political appointees @kylieatwood reports https://cnn.it/324LOdU

Donald Trump Jr.: Why is @KamalaHarris the only person that laughs at her jokes... always way to long and way too hard? The most disingenuous person in politics... after Hillary

Kamala Harris: You wouldn’t know a joke if one raised you.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:50 am Surprised the CIA hasn't done something about Trump yet. Usually doesn't take this long.

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday defended his wife from criticism over her decision to teach at an anti-LGBTQ Christian school and told Americans to "spend more time on your knees than the internet."

Defiant wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:03 am

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday defended his wife from criticism over her decision to teach at an anti-LGBTQ Christian school and told Americans to "spend more time on your knees than the internet."

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-tel ... et-1452899

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:57 am That is sad. and I do wonder how it will affect things in the impeachment.

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:13 pm Mulvaney just announced from the WH podium that the 2020 G7 Summit will be held at one of Trump's hotels.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:28 pm Looks like Clinton and Bush are going to be at Carnegie Hall to hold a talk.

LINK

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:46 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:28 pm Looks like Clinton and Bush are going to be at Carnegie Hall to hold a talk.

LINK

PRACTICE!

The Michigan Court of Claims stopped the state's ban on flavored vapes Tuesday, issuing a preliminary injunction against the ban, which began on Oct. 2.

“Not only has plaintiff A Clean Cigarette lost a significant percentage of its sales and closed several stores due to the ban, the ban will force plaintiff to rebrand itself entirely,” she wrote. “In essence, the emergency rules will destroy plaintiff A Clean Cigarette’s business as it currently exists.”

But Stephens said the state was fully aware of the problem nearly a year ago and couldn’t justify the need for the emergency rules.

“Indeed an agency cannot create an emergency by way of its own failure to act,” she wrote. “The court concludes that the record, at least at this juncture, does not substantiate the declaration of an emergency which necessitated dispensing with the … normal rule-making procedures which afford the public meaningful opportunities to be heard.”

She also noted that there was evidence that adults using flavored vapes as a means to quit smoking could revert back to traditional cigarettes.

“There is evidence in the record supporting the notion that many adult users of flavored vaping products will return to more harmful combustible tobacco products,” Stephens wrote.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:16 pm I wonder if Carlos Danger is tweeting about that today?

stessier wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:34 pm https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... ng-n-word/

I'm not sure this is political but didn't know where else to put it. I'm not sure how this can be a criminal act. I can see there being social consequences, but not legal ones.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:42 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:34 pm https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... ng-n-word/

I'm not sure this is political but didn't know where else to put it. I'm not sure how this can be a criminal act. I can see there being social consequences, but not legal ones.

Did you read the linked hate crime statute?

From the video it didn't appear they were directing it at anybody.

State lawmakers weighed a bill Tuesday that would make saying the “B” word in a derogatory way an offense that could result in a $200 fine.

The bill, “An act regarding the use of offensive words,” was filed in May by Representative Daniel Hunt, a Boston Democrat who represents a swath of Dorchester.

Under the bill, anyone who “uses the word ‘bitch’ directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person,” and will be subject to a fine of up to $200. A violation “may be reported by the person to whom the offensive language was directed at or by any witness to such incident.”

AWS260 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:16 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:24 am

AWS260 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:16 am

Convenience. When you can't summon up the energy to squirt mustard and mayo on your sandwich but you have to have it, there's Mayomust.

Or when you can't be bothered forming actual words to express your sick and twisted predilections and desire for a solitary existence, just hold up your bottle of Kranch and enjoy lunch alone.

WASHINGTON—Admitting the startling discovery had compelled him to reexamine his long-held beliefs, His Holiness Pope Francis announced Tuesday that he had reversed his critical stance toward capitalism after seeing the immense variety of Oreos available in the United States. “Oh, my goodness, look at all these! Golden Oreos, Cookie Dough Oreos, Mega Stuf Oreos, Birthday Cake Oreos—perhaps the system of free enterprise is not as terrible as I once feared,” said the visibly awed bishop of Rome while visiting a Washington, D.C. supermarket, adding that the sheer diversity of flavors, various colors and quantities of creme filling, and presence or absence of an outer fudge layer had led to a profound philosophical shift in his feelings toward the global economy and opened his eyes to the remarkable capabilities of the free market. “Only a truly exceptional and powerful economic system would be capable of producing so many limited-edition and holiday-themed flavors of a single cookie brand, such as these extraordinary Key Lime Pie Oreos and Candy Corn Oreos. This is not a force of global impoverishment at all, but one of endless enrichment.” At press time, the pontiff had reportedly withdrawn his acceptance of capitalism, calling any system that would unleash a Roadhouse Chili Monster Slim Jim on the public “an unholy abomination.”