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Post by foggyisback on Oct 5, 2023 3:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by phillippatUK on Oct 5, 2023 4:38:24 GMT -5
Nah - smoke signals are the way REAL emergencies are broadcast  |
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 5, 2023 7:09:31 GMT -5
No words
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 5, 2023 7:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 5, 2023 7:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 5, 2023 8:00:26 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 9:31:14 GMT -5
House Republican Budget Reflects Disturbing Vision for the Country It’s tempting to ignore a budget resolution released just days before the start of the fiscal year that it’s meant to guide, and amid the chaotic debate around a short-term extension of government funding to avoid a shutdown. But House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington’s proposed budget is important for what it illustrates about House Republicans’ disturbing vision for the country: health care stripped away from millions of people, higher poverty and hunger, capitulation to climate change, more tax cheating by high-income people, and large-scale disinvestment from the building blocks of opportunity and economic growth — from medical research to education to child care. It would narrow opportunity, worsen racial inequities, and make it harder for people to afford the basics. It reflects the wrong priorities for the country and should be roundly rejected. Chair Arrington made clear in his remarks the intent to extend the expiring tax cuts from the 2017 tax law, which included large tax cuts for the wealthy. In addition, the budget resolution itself would pave the way for unlimited, unpaid-for tax cuts that could go well beyond those extensions. The extensions alone would give annual tax breaks averaging $41,000 to tax filers in the top 1 percent and cost more than $350 billion a year, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The budget reflects none of these costs and fails to explain how — or whether — they will be offset... www.cbpp.org/press/statements/house-republican-budget-reflects-disturbing-vision-for-the-country |
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 9:33:39 GMT -5
Pharma Loses As Judge Reinstates Biden Drug Price Negotiation A federal judge in Ohio on Friday blocked an attempt by corporate interests to stop Medicare's historic negotiation of certain drug prices with pharmaceuticals. Medicare gained the power to negotiate drug prices as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but the several industry groups and drug makers have sued to forestall the program, arguing that it is unconstitutional, CNN explained. One of those groups was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which filed its lawsuit in June. The Ohio judge Friday rejected its request for a preliminary injunction to block the program before October 1, the date by which pharmaceuticals must agree to negotiate or not. "This is the first major blow to Big Pharma in its legal battles to block the drug price negotiation provisions under the Inflation Reduction Act," Peter Maybarduk, director of the Access to Medicines program at Public Citizen, said in a statement... crooksandliars.com/2023/10/pharma-loses-judge-reinstates-biden-drug |
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 5, 2023 10:06:42 GMT -5
We all know that if you argue against something wrong you should immediately be shot. |
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 5, 2023 10:08:22 GMT -5
The Nazi nightmare continues. It turns out that in the 1980s, the President of the Alberta Conservative Party was a member of the same unit as Hunka. He also served as Chancellor of the University of Alberta. In 1987, he was inducted into the Order of Canada in recognition of his civil service. The Governor General has apologized for his appointment but as the Order of Canada only has active members, the deceased man cannot be stripped of this honor. nationalpost.com/news/governor-general-apologizes-for-order-of-canada-awarded-to-waffen-ss-member |
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 5, 2023 10:10:29 GMT -5
I'm seeing too many people who think Trump being Speaker is good for Democrats, completely oblivious to what that will do to budget negotiations
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 10:30:27 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 10:40:13 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 5, 2023 10:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 12:34:47 GMT -5
Good rundown
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 12:59:06 GMT -5
Which makes the notoriously lazy menace the perfect choice for people who want nothing done.
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 5, 2023 13:28:02 GMT -5
Which makes the notoriously lazy menace the perfect choice for people who want nothing done. I wonder how much of that can be delegated out |
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 13:43:33 GMT -5
Short thread
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 5, 2023 15:36:52 GMT -5
Funny how suddenly NOW there's an issue with Matt Gaetz underage girl sexscapades, after they were entirely mum about it before. GOP principles at work.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 5, 2023 17:22:13 GMT -5
Trump discussed sensitive nuclear info with billionaire Mar-a-Lago member: report Just after Donald Trump left the office of the presidency, he reportedly discussed sensitive details about U.S. nuclear submarines with a foreign national at Mar-a-Lago... www.rawstory.com/trump-mar-a-lago-nuclear-secrets/Lock him up. |
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