The selfish part of me is glad that this immigration battle is happening because the more time they spend working on that the less time they have to do things that impact me directly.

@aadam101:

Anyway, I'm off to a benefit for the victims of Bowling Green.

Well, aren't you just a saint? This post doesn't reek of piousness and virtue signaling at all. Very subtle!

What ever happened to people engaging in something because it was important to them? Why has complacent, first-world "activism" turned into an excuse for self-aggrandizing Instagram photo-ops? It's very difficult to take seriously anyone who has to convey their moral superiority to others by exclaiming how busy they are with "benefits" and other pointless gatherings of bored, pampered, lazy, guilt-ridden Westerners patting one another on the back. Particularly when it's clearly just an excuse for reactionaries and the uninformed to deflect scrutiny.

Yeah, he's a crap speaker.  He's not so bad when he has rehearsed script.  He's a pretty good writer though, even if nothing he says or writes can ever be trusted.

I still don't understand why TYT hired this fraud.  Did they think that hiring him would give them street cred with blacks?  It was blacks who named him Talcum X.

@Spintendo:

Sorry to disappoint you Henny Penny—but the sky is not falling.  :cheerup:

This suggestion came about when a pregnant patient born anatomically female but who identifies as male did not wish to be called "mother" several times during his visit with clinicians. An advisory notice was circulated, gently reminding clinicians that these rare instances can occur, and suggested not using labels like mother when interacting with them.

But 1 person requires a rule change?

Will they add "attack helicopter" to the tick box list for sex?  If not, why not?

Why won't the BMA bow down to me and tell everyone to refer to my hair color as  "similar to a sofa I once saw"?

The longer  this goes on the  more  it  really does  look like he is  a puppet.

Any action by the President that results in a 5 year old citizen being detained is a total failure.

@aadam101:

But your premium isn't based on how many services you are using.  The risk adjustment process isn't taking into account the risk of each individual person.  Medical underwriting was eliminated under ObamaCare.

African Americans account for a higher percentage of heart disease and diabetes cases.   Should we charge them more?

Obviously, YES!

I couldn't agree more.  The way they handled this Muslim ban is a true testament to what a lousy business man Trump is.

The best part about the Yates  issue is that Jeff Sessions asked her point blank two years ago if she was willing to go against the President (Obama) if she didn't agree  with him.  She gave a terrific answer and said yes and then she did exactly what Sessions and Republicans wanted her to do and it  got her fired.

I don't worry about conversion therapy.  I'm more concerned about his policies will hurt gays.  His lousy policies created an HIV outbreak of 200 people in rural Indiana when he defunded a Planned Parenthood that also happened to be this rural counties only free clinic and a needle exchange program.  People had nowhere else to go and a lot  of people couldn't get healthcare. I'm assuming mostly straight people given the high number of people in such a small county).

These are poor people.  It's estimated this is going to cost the state of Indiana $100 million via Medicaid payments to pay for these peoples healthcare.  These Republicans "save" a few pennies only to spend millions cleaning up the mess.  It would have been MUCH cheaper to just give people the needles.  They literally cost pennies.

Only half wit pussies thumb down someone with a full functioning brain. Nuff said.

@amicusets:

As polarized as the country is, and thanks to 24/7 news channels it is only going to get worse. The Democrats can obstruct for the next 2 years and see how that works in the mid-terms, but if you go out to middle-America, it won't end well for them. People can quote whatever poll they want, but let me tell you, outside of the coasts and metro areas, Trump's support is stronger than it was when he was elected. They aren't just happy with him, they are beyond thrilled. That doesn't look good for Democrats in red states in 2 years, especially if they look to be nothing but obstructionists.

You are wrong about that.  The reason Trump won is because too many people though Trump would lose and they stayed home.  Plus Trump had those 3-5 million fraudulent votes.

Next election the Republicans don't have a chance.  America will be such a mess by then.  The Republicans better get as much done as possible because they aren't going to have any real power again for decades after this.  It will take that long to clean up their mess.

That's terrible, Eridanos. I'm sorry you had to go through that. The pressure to conform and the fear of labels is much much stronger at that stage. Many guys at that age wouldn't have the strength or courage to break the peer pressure yet. I did keep one good friend who was experimenting with me, but we kept things quiet and were very careful with how we acted.

But it does get better, at least in my experience- once I entered college. I went to a big university and made some great friends and finally managed to come out to the ones closest to me. They stood by me and there wasn't as much pressure or judgement as there was in high school.

In the UK, "partner" is the generic term for both couples of all sexualities, married or not.

@raphjd

Your better chance, if either you or your husband's industries are on the needed skills list, or you're management, is to find a UK company with US offices. There is an inter-office visa that allows the company to transfer you to the US without running a lottery.

This is the L1 visa for the employee and the L2 for the spouse. You cannot do this for the express purpose of becoming a citizen or permanent immigration (meaning you can't make that statement of fact, it's just for the job man!)

Caveat: You do not build time for citizenship. You can apply for a green card eventually.

….Continue? ... I Didn't support them in the first place and I REFUSE to support them. Trump is a lying, narcissistic, climate change denying,  ego maniac who thinks he's right and everyone else is wrong.

It's just a saying here in the US when you're not good with words.

I'm more concerned, that part of his speech were direct quotes from Bane, the villain in the last Batman movie.

Take that however you like.  😞  And his children may run his company but he did not divest himself, that's a huge problem and conflict of interest. Theoretically, he could trigger his removal or impeachment if he's caught using Presidential influence to promote his business. The phrase "Constitutional Crisis" has been used but it's not really a crisis, there's a clause that Mike Pence becomes President in that event, and he's incredibly anti-LGBTQ but possibly better with diplomacy internationally than Trump.

She's said she is going to sue Tommy over their Twitter fight.    :blownose:

@alibix:

@raphjd:

You are too limiting on what an SJW is.

SJWs include feminists, BLM, "Just Believe", the "Slut Walk", "Take Back the Night" and many, many others.

It's Norweign male politicians who apologize to their muslim rapist.

It's Swedish feminist Left Party politicians that claims being raped by Swedish men is worse than being raped by muslims.

It's the people that defend muslim "refugees" who rape 10yo boys because they had a "sexual emergency".

It's the people who demand the media de-muslim/de-refugee media articles, like the Paris McDonald's killer story.

So anyone who disagrees with you?

said the person disagreeing with with someone that doesn't like abuse and really horrible shit.

that's you, that's what sjws are all about. it's not that they want to be right, they want to be loud so much that a little tiny disagreement is called violence and anyone that disagrees with them is called a racist because it feels good to bully other people and try to justify defending
being an abuse apologist. yes, let's lie about rape statistics so that the resources get allocated away from actual victims. let's create fear because the ends justify the means. let's beat our chests and rip our clothes in the streets and be self-righteous instead of actually righteous.

who cares if you make problems worse, you were just fighting for justice and anti racism… by being fucking bigoted fascists and worse than the religious right ever was.  so long as you can get very powerful positions in the wasteful beuracracies and institutions you own make, and use to rape any dissent.