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However, whatever steps taken should be done with actual planning by competent people that understands the complexities. Trump's administration clearly hire the dumbest and most unqualified grifters.

That applies to every single issue that trump has glommed on to. His schtick is to say "You hate foo? I hate foo too!! You should support me!" But foo is always secondary to his grifting. At best he neglects foo because it doesn't make him richer, but when foo becomes an obstacle to him, he abandons it.

Consequently everybody who thought they would get their issues addressed is actually getting fucked. If you cared about NSA spying on innocent people, the end result of trump's war on spies is going to be increased support for spies as the fact that they actually caught him and his crew conspiring with foreign countries. If you were a steel worker, you won't get jackshit because the steele corps are keeping all the profits for themselves. If you wanted better healthcare, all you are getting is more sabotage. If you were a democrat who didn't like how Comey treated Clinton, he tried to co-opt you into supporting his firing of Comey. If you wanted more racism, trump's going to fire his most effective racist because sessions won't do enough to protect trump from a criminal investigation.

ET4S: Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit.

Or, you know, you retards could try some data to make sure you know what the hell you're talking about. Read this for starters. The US imports most from Canada, not China. Then, learn about steel grades. Meeting demand requires sourcing, so buying steel of a certain type and quality from China or Canada isn't anything like a security risk. In fact, US steel production is so extensive it is 4th worldwide.

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do.

Please read the sources instead of parroting your party's talking points. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster partially defunded Planned Parenthood. He didn't defund the entire budget because doing so would keep 700k women and children from getting prescriptions through Medicaid. This is in line with what I said. Republicans don't want to spend tax dollars on things they morally disagree with, but allow individuals to pay for the procedures themselves.

Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

Again, read the source. There are a lot of slippery words such as "could be interpreted". On top of that remember that not all Republicans agree 100% on all issues. As to the "Day After" pill, it's basically a do-it-yourself-at-home abortion. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We allow contraceptives, but view elective abortion and the day after pill as sinful in most cases. You chose to have sex. You knew the possibility of a pregnancy. Even condoms fail about 1% of the time. Now live with the consequences of your choice.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

Sensationalism! You are being dishonest here. Read the article you linked to from Elle. The proposal would "penalize abusers for causing miscarriages". I like the phrases in Portuguese better than English, so I'll use them here. What we call miscarriage in English is a "spontaneous abortion" in Portuguese. This phrase better shows that it's the woman's body recognizing that something's wrong with the pregnancy and spontaneously terminates the pregnancy and expels the embryo / fetus (depends on stage of development). Under the proposal, inducing an abortion would be criminal. Again, different factions within the party want different things.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do. Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are elective too. Remember, if it was legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting it down.

The Catholic Church is against contraceptives, so they don't want to pay from health insurance which pays for contraceptives, but that doesn't stop their employees from buying supplemental insurance or paying retail for contraceptives.

The Catholic Church doesn't get to decide what healthcare I get, even if they employ me. They are a church. We do not let churches govern lives. And you won't find an insurer that doesn't want to cover contraceptives. It's actually cheaper. Why does the Catholic Church get to increase my costs as a potential employee, or an insurer's costs?

What gives them that right to impose expenses upon me do to their religious dogma?

And the Catholic Church isn't even as bad a bunch of liars as the Quiverful movement. Now that group is taking a lot of welfare money. Not to mention the whole adoption business they want to control.

The country is so divided that you parrot your party's talking points without determining the validity of the claims.

Your mind is so blinded that you can't even admit the Republican Party's own dogma or how invalid its claims are.

They are committed to their agenda, and they brazenly lie about it. And it's not limited to abortion, they do the same with immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, public schools, and more.

Maybe you need to do some checking. Here's a suggestion, contact some Republic

Because we could never, ever take a coal power plant offline in Indiana and replace it with cleaner production, right?

http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nipsco-will-close-bailly-power-plant-may/article_da6b70a1-4f30-5df5-9302-897fbaf8a818.html/
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/04/duke-energy-shuts-down-indiana-coal-plant.html/

Try to take a longer view. Fossil fuel is lock-in, electricity is flexible. If you wanted, you could even throw up a small turbine or some solar panels.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/l...

The fact that you ASK for a link - proves you voted for people with no idea what their track record actually was. We always knew the trump supporters didn't care about reality or facts, we knew that they called a politician honest who lies 71% of the time he speaks and you just confirmed it. How could you support somebody and not already have KNOWN this ?

Googling for "steel furnance shutdown" finds more reports on unexpected shutdowns this year.
Two in Ashland, Ky, and one or two somewhere in Indiana and one in Bhopal, India. Note that they all seem to have occured in June/July.

Maybe some competitor trying to up his margin by reducing supply?

No, places I would never expect would be Kansas, Siberia and the middle of the Sahara. If cable television has taught me anything, it's that the sea is out to kill me. If I can smell saltwater in the air, I'm expecting some explosion of deadliness.

who says they have to be marine only? bioinvasive, freshwater jellies have been found:

Hamilton County
Erie County, Ohio
Trenton, Ontario
Hoosier county (aka Laporte), Indiana

Alzheimers can be 20 years in your body before it causes problems. There is no effective treatment. Forcing people to take this test early would simply mean that otherwise healthy people have 20 years of their lives ruined waiting for Alzheimers before the disease itself starts to affect them.

Really its like you didn't read the article :p

There may or may not be a cure today. But there are certainly things you can do in 20 years by way of prevention and avoidance.

Key "prevent alzheimer's" into google new some day.

Even if only 1 in 10 of these things actually worked, 20 years is a long lead time. If you can stall manifestation off a few years who knows what might come from research over that period.

In the same vein, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled on Friday that its citizens have no right to resist even unlawful police entry into their homes.

"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," [Justice] David said, [writing for the 3-2 majority].

The steelworkers are still alive and well in the US. Not all of the work has gone to China and other places that have loose or no unions. With fuel costs and a weak dollar, steelmakers are putting up record profits in the US. AK Steel was on the verge of bankruptcy and being purchased, their stock recently hit a 52 week high of 73.07. US Steel also recently hit a 5 year high of 193. They were trading at $9 per share in 2003. The steelworkers at US Steel are also in the process of signing an "expensive" new contract that has been in the news.

Importing steel is no longer the cheap way to do it. Consolidation and a competitive market can raise or lower the prices to a market equilibrium. The Chinese have to import the iron ore and other raw materials, whereas US companies can mine and make the materials locally with MUCH lower shipping costs. The costs of shipping the materials from Australia or South America to China are astronomical compared to the costs to ship from the Midwest to the South or East coast.

Do you *really* think it's possible for the US to become a "fascist police state"??? Really?

I dunno, man, but with the Indiana primary coming up, You tell me.

• Obscene conduct can include indecent exposure and urinating in public if police convict a person of the charges three separate times, said MSU police Detective Earl Barringer.
• Jones also said that not every person on the sex offender list has necessarily committed an egregious crime such as rape or molestation because a conviction of indecent exposure, even in cases such as public urination, can land someone on the list.
• Michigan's sex-offender registry currently includes teenagers prosecuted for having consensual sex with underage girlfriends and a woman convicted of urinating in public.
• Violations ranging from groping or fondling to more minor offenses, like public indecency -- which includes urinating in a public park -- are posted on the sex offender registry for 10 years. More serious offenses, such as aggravated criminal sexual assault, are posted for life.

My local newspaper had a recent story where invitations to an annual kids bike parade were only handed out to those with the proper local political yard signs.

This local election is a court ordered primary occurring next week that resulted when a challenger to the local mayor and kingpin of the political machine showed in court a number of irregularities in polling and particularly absentee ballots. These irregularities are in the old-style Chicago tradition. (Town is E. Chicago in Indiana.) There are currently a number of current and former town and party officials under federal indictment for vote buying in the 2000 election by using town money to pour concrete driveways for citizens.

Torn up political signs is so insignficant that I doubt it would even get a mention in our paper.

Drivers already crash into houses. Here is another article on drivers crashing into buildings this time because they were incapacitated or died due to medical reasons behind the wheel. So much for requiring a medical check before you can get a license to fly either a plane or a flying car - since they don't require one (usually) for a regular car and those can kill people who aren't even on the roads at the time.

Drivers already crash into houses. Here is another article on drivers crashing into buildings this time because they were incapacitated or died due to medical reasons behind the wheel. So much for requiring a medical check before you can get a license to fly either a plane or a flying car - since they don't require one (usually) for a regular car and those can kill people who aren't even on the roads at the time.