StrangeSox Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-na...d&tid=sm_tw Officials in Kansas are scrambling to keep weapons out of state hospitals — including psychiatric facilities — four years after passing a law to allow them. A 2013 bill expanded gun laws in Kansas by allowing concealed firearms in state and municipal buildings, while also giving a four-year exemption to public colleges and hospitals. But that exemption expires July 1. So for hospitals to be able to continue banning guns, lawmakers must either pass a new law making that exemption permanent — or implement costly security measures. Under the 2013 law, facilities can still ban weapons after July 1 if they meet certain security requirements, such as installing metal detectors and hiring full-time armed security guards. But those measures would cost millions. Thomasset, whose organization represents 26 community mental-health centers, echoed Keck in recent Senate committee testimony, saying that such centers “by statute … must treat every person who walks through the door; so if an individual who is in crisis walks through our door carrying a concealed weapon, that situation presents a dangerous scenario not only to our staff, but also for other patients seeking treatment.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Maybe they're "helping" those psych patients to get the highest possible criminal sentence under draconian new guidelines from Sessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) GOP Lawmaker Says There’s A ‘Distinction’ Between Being Gay And ‘Being A Human Being’ Missouri State Rep. (Harrisonville) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rick-b...4b0031e737c2502 Edited May 13, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer “It’s certainly troubling," Libowitz said. "Whether or not it breaks a criminal statute is one issue, but the very clear issue is that it appears that a member of Congress might be using his power to threaten someone’s employment because of their political activities.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) QUOTE (raBBit @ May 15, 2017 -> 02:49 PM) https://twitter.com/davidafrench/status/864204557785726977 NYT faces facts on the "gender gap" If anyone wants to read the actual article NYT article (the one quoted is from National Review and is merely an opinion piece) and not the one that attacks people for no reason: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/upshot/t...rhood.html?_r=0 Also the article by the National Review does not accurately portray the NYT article. Edited May 15, 2017 by Soxbadger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 https://mobile.twitter.com/saba_h/status/864637574203289600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Right wing media has been exploiting the death of a DNC staffer last year with insane conspiracy theories to distract from Trump's s*** show, family calling in them to stop. https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/864470917816213504 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 16, 2017 -> 09:13 PM) Right wing media has been exploiting the death of a DNC staffer last year with insane conspiracy theories to distract from Trump's s*** show, family calling in them to stop. https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/864470917816213504 It's Vince Foster all over again...or Colombian drug runners' jets filling the skies and all queued up to land at Mena, Arkansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth...tact/index.html UNFORTUNATELY THE WHOLE SETH RICH MURDER STORY COMPLETELY FELL APART (anyone not in conspiracy-land surprised???) http://www.thefringenews.com/murdered-dnc-...aker-confirmed/ PROOF THAT ROBBIE MOOK IS THE PREMEDITATED MURDERER...INDICT MOOK AND CLINTON!!!! LOCK HER UP This is REALLY the best rebuttal that FOX NEWS and the Trump admin can come up with??? While we're at it, can they please lock up Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly, too? Following Wheeler's claims, Rich's family have distanced themselves from the investigator who they are said to have hired. "As we 've seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we have no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press," they said in a statement. "Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we've seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so. "We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth's murderers. "The services of the private investigator who spoke to the press was offered to the Rich family and paid for by a third party, and contractually was barred from speaking to the press or anyone outside of law enforcement or the family unless explicitly authorised by the family." https://uk.news.yahoo.com/investigator-clai...-230645963.html Edited May 17, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) FREE SETH RICH!!! Apparently he was spotted at the Ecuadorian Embassy compound in London sometime over the last 24-48 hours. Stay tuned for further details from Alex Jones and The Drudge Report. Free Totino's mini pizza's to the first 10 callers. Edited May 17, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) QUOTE (raBBit @ May 17, 2017 -> 12:37 AM) Because the left wing outlets had no incentive to speak on the reports from Rich's family's private investigator that Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks. Stop following conspiratorial right wing media. His family didn't hire anyone, conservative media did. And that person didn't actually do any investigating but just relied on Fox news claims that he was in contact with WikiLeaks. The family is disgusted with this and has asked the right wing media to stop exploiting their son's death. I posted a link to their statement several hours before you made your first post. this is just Phase 3 & 4 of this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/how-...DjEj#.iuOP96EVE Edited May 17, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Let's just let this end it: Earlier Tuesday, Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the Rich family, released a statement in which he said the family had "seen no evidence" to suggest Seth Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks. Bauman told CNN the outlets that had run with the story "have shown over and over again that they are willing to lie and manipulate the facts" to further "their own political end." "I think it's important for everyone at Fox News to be careful with this information and how this story breaks because using the legacy of a murder victim in such an overtly political way is morally reprehensible," he said. Bauman also said the Rich family was reviewing possible legal action against Wheeler for speaking about the case publicly. A contract between Wheeler and the Rich family prohibited Wheeler from speaking to the media about his ongoing investigation, Bauman said. That fox (local fox) story was ridiculous hearsay from the start, interviewing this "former law officer" who said he may have heard from someone who heard from an officer that they found emails from wikileaks on his laptop. Except that police dept didn't have the laptop. He is not a PI hired by the family. And he heard about it from the TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Good work from Williamson at NRO (with a typical penultimate paragraph to make sure we knew we were reading National Review): http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4476...be-acknowledged For conservatives, hating the media is a reflex, and sometimes a funny one: Speaking on his “Morning Minute,” Sean Hannity once read breathlessly from an Associated Press report on a federal surveillance program, ending with the instinctual harrumph: “The mainstream media won’t tell you about that!” There is no media more mainstream than the Associated Press, which is a nonprofit cooperative owned by its member newspapers, television networks, and radio stations. Its reports appear in practically every daily newspaper in the United States, and big scoops like the one that caught Hannity’s eye routinely lead front pages from sea to shining sea. The Associated Press has bias problems and some notable competency problems, and, like any organization that does any substantive reporting, it makes errors. But it does not, for the most part, traffic in fiction. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4476...be-acknowledged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Next best conspiracy theory for Fox to cover while Trump's not tweeting and flying to the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut for a speech??? Congress passing a law that newspapers in the US can no longer use anonymous sources? Capital punishment for leaking? The best Drudge could come up with is this from People Magazine. “He’s nothing but a bullsh–ter,” Obama told two friends early last November, describing an election night phone call with Trump, in which the businessman suddenly professed his “respect” and “admiration” for Obama—after years of hectoring. Speaking to PEOPLE for its new cover story on Obama and his wife Michelle adjusting to life outside the White House, the two friends quoted Obama’s blunt assessment of President-elect Trump. And how has Obama’s opinion changed since Trump been in office? “Well,” said one of the sources, “it hasn’t gotten any better.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Chelsea Manning Is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistleblowing Some good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 There was a GoFundMe set up by her friends and family that raised $150k, maybe wikileaks promoted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (bmags @ May 17, 2017 -> 08:00 AM) Let's just let this end it: That fox (local fox) story was ridiculous hearsay from the start, interviewing this "former law officer" who said he may have heard from someone who heard from an officer that they found emails from wikileaks on his laptop. Except that police dept didn't have the laptop. He is not a PI hired by the family. And he heard about it from the TV. Or not... https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-stands-dnc-m...-001103315.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 QUOTE (bmags @ May 17, 2017 -> 09:00 AM) Let's just let this end it: That fox (local fox) story was ridiculous hearsay from the start, interviewing this "former law officer" who said he may have heard from someone who heard from an officer that they found emails from wikileaks on his laptop. Except that police dept didn't have the laptop. He is not a PI hired by the family. And he heard about it from the TV. His family has now sent a cease and desist letter https://t.co/kb7X230frS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Democrats still divided on health care, Clinton/Perez vs. Sanders/Ellison split The rift within the Democratic Party was on full display at the California Democratic Party Convention on May 19 in Sacramento, California. Progressives joined members of National Nurses United, protesting the Democratic Party establishment’s refusal to support single payer healthcare system. Rather than follow through with Democratic rhetoric that healthcare is a human right, establishment Democrats have responded to voters by scolding and attacking them. During the first day of the convention, California Democratic Party chair John Burton yelled at protesting nurses to “shut the f*ck up and go outside.” Burton condescendingly told the protesters, “There’s [sic] some people who have been fighting for that issue before you guys were born.” The California Democratic establishment, like the national party leadership, has favored corporate and wealthy donors, undermining pushes for a single payer healthcare system that would provide Americans with healthcare—not just health insurance. Eric Bauman, the California Democratic Party vice chair and candidate to succeed Burton as the Party’s chair, received $12,500 a month from the pharmaceutical industry to fight proposition 61, which would “cap the price that any state agency or care program could spend on prescription drugs at what the federal Department of Veterans Affairs pays.” Bauman received these payments while earning a six-figure salary as an adviser to California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Proposition 61 failed to pass in November 2016 after the pharmaceutical industry spent millions of dollars opposing it. http://observer.com/2017/05/tom-perez-cali...on/amp/?ref=yfp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ May 22, 2017 -> 01:00 PM) http://www.newsweek.com/dnc-fraud-lawsuit-...-hillary-611165 Lawsuit for DNC's election rigging. Lol. As a private entity it isn't beholden to fairness. This will go nowhere. Good luck proving Bernie "would have won" in court. HILLarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) Nate Cohn ✔ @Nate_Cohn Ossoff 51, Handel 44 in new SurveyUSA poll http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport...db-ed0527267059 … 4:21 PM - 22 May 2017 · Washington, DC the GOP has been dumping mountains of money into this race, and it's now the most expensive Congressional race in history! Edited May 22, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 Damn over 50%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) Hard to imagine Handel winning...it's largely a referendum on the past two weeks for Trump, sliding poll numbers nationally and antipathy to the AHCA that Price was the architect of, along with Ryan. Btw, if we listed all the lawsuits against Trump, subpoenas, newspaper FOIA requests, injunctions...SoxTalk would simply implode due to all the character space it would require. Edited May 22, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2017 -> 05:57 PM) Hard to imagine Handel winning...it's largely a referendum on the past two weeks for Trump, sliding poll numbers nationally and antipathy to the AHCA that Price was the architect of, along with Ryan. Btw, if we listed all the lawsuits against Trump, subpoenas, newspaper FOIA requests, injunctions...SoxTalk would simply implode due to all the character space it would require. As someone currently working on the campaign and speaking with staff on the ground regularly, she could still easily win. Ossoff winning this race has been a massive uphill battle, and will continue to be so, regardless of the media hype. This is a heavily, heavily red district. That said, this new poll is encouraging, because it was done by an extremely reliable pollster who actually underestimated Ossoff's vote share in the primary. Fortunately, Handel was/is the weakest candidate against Ossoff in the runoff, and for that reason I was extremely happy to see her win the primary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) Pence is coming in June for Handel...that's worth another 2-3 point swing Ossoff's way https://www.yahoo.com/news/neil-gorsuch-sho...-173836645.html Meanwhile, Judges Thomas and Gorsuch want MORE money from elites to control our political process...who'd have thought? Edited May 23, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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