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crimsongulf » 10 Dec 2017 1:31 pm » wrote:And Moore still wins.

Raw sewage, hookworm and civil rights: UN official shocked at poverty in rural Alabama.

December 10, 2017Carlos BallesterosPosted with permission from Newsweek



A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.

"I think it's very uncommon in the First World.

This is not a sight that one normally sees.

I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.

The tour through Alabama's rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States.

So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.

Of particular concern to Alston are specific poverty-related issues that have surfaced across the country in recent years, such as an outbreak of hookworm in Alabama in 2017—a disease typically found in nations with substandard sanitary conditions in South Asia and Subsaharan Africa.

The U.N. investigation aims to study the effects of systemic poverty in a prosperous nation like the United States.

By many accounts, poverty in the U.S. is worse than in most developed nations, despite rhetoric espoused by President Donald Trump and others who claim that the U.S. is the "best country in the world."

Fox News revels in injury to U.S. Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn

The network connected it to Vonn's recent criticism of President Trump.

Lindsey Vonn, the most successful American ski racer in history, suffered a back injury while competing at the World Cup in Switzerland, threatening her participation in the Olympic games next year.

Fox News could barely contain its glee.

In an article posted without a byline, the network quickly connected Vonn’s injury to her criticism of President Trump days earlier.

The clear implication is that, as a result of her comments, Vonn deserved to get hurt.



This was not the case of an overzealous headline writer.

The first two paragraphs of the article also make the connection.

American skiing star Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn from her Sunday events at the World Cup in Switzerland after suffering a back injury during a super-G race on Saturday.

The injury occurred two days after she criticized President Donald Trump in an interview about the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The connection between Vonn’s comments and her injury was also made on air Sunday morning on Fox & Friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1LIH6m84r4

Vonn commented that when she participates in the Olympics, she views it as representing the United States, not the president.

She offered mild criticism of Trump without mentioning him by name.

I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president. I take the Olympics very seriously and what they mean and what they represent, what walking under our flag means in the opening ceremony.

I want to represent our country well. I don’t think that there are a lot of people currently in our government that do that.

Vonn also said that she would not visit the White House if she won an Olympic medal.

Trump had previously attacked Steph Curry for refusing to visit the White House after winning the NBA championship.

Termin8tor » 01 Dec 2017 12:19 pm » wrote:
Steve Schmidt, the fake Republican who trashes actual conservatives on MS-LSD?

I can't ever recall him ever expressing an actual conservative idea.

Who **** cares what stupid lies he tells?

Misty » 01 Dec 2017 8:02 pm » wrote:
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/ ... ked-on?amp

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 3:02 pm » wrote: Congrats on that.
What will Roy Moore do about this?
He's not talking about issues such as this at all.
All he does is whine about is how he is a victim and hides from the public.

Termin8tor » 02 Dec 2017 3:52 pm » wrote:
Median US income is $57,000 a year, Dim.

$100,000 puts them in the top 5% or so. Is that what you call middle class, Dim?

If so, you don't understand very, very basic math.

Yes, depending where they live it might not go as far.

Termin8tor » 02 Dec 2017 3:48 pm » wrote:

Misty » 01 Dec 2017 7:00 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 01 Dec 2017 12:26 pm » wrote:Hacks, lunatics and imbeciles for sources, as usual.

You obviously have no idea who Steve Schmidt is.
Why would John McCain have had a hack, lunatic, imbecile running his presidential campaign?

Bush Sr. and McCain hired him because they were clueless and without principles.

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 3:24 pm » wrote: So riddle me this Puss, did you vote for both Bush Sr. and John McCain, the men that you say are clueless and without principles?
I would bet good money that you did.
I know you sure as hell didn't vote for Obama in 2008.
So what does it say about you that you would vote for men who you say are clueless and without principles?

You know who is actually clueless and without principles?
YOU.

You have sold your soul to a con-artist/fraud/grifter.

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 3:24 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 02 Dec 2017 3:48 pm » wrote:Bush Sr. and McCain hired him because they were clueless and without principles, and Schmidt's undermining of McCain's conservative credentials likely cost him the 2008 election. After trashing pro-lifers, tax cuts, gun proponents and many other key Republican groups, people saw him as a political hack.

Beltway hacks like Schmidt are what's wrong with the Republican Establishment. They put money and self-promotion above conservative principle and above the well being of the country.

That's why MS-LSD carries him, because he'll trash actual conservative Republicans every chance he gets.

No conservative would give Schmidt one ounce of credibility.

So riddle me this Puss, did you vote for both Bush Sr. and John McCain, the men that you say are clueless and without principles?
I would bet good money that you did.
I know you sure as hell didn't vote for Obama in 2008.
So what does it say about you that you would vote for men who you say are clueless and without principles?

You know who is actually clueless and without principles?
YOU.

You have sold your soul to a con-artist/fraud/grifter.

Cannonpointer » 10 Dec 2017 3:13 pm » wrote:You sure had your mouth on joey LIEbeman's dick, when he was fox's pet, freak.

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 3:09 pm » wrote:FOX News (Trump TV) is evil.

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 1:17 pm » wrote:This lying birther from Virginia is running for the U.S. Senate.
I'm sure Clem will vote for him.

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 12:41 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 09 Dec 2017 12:54 am » wrote:I've called him a hack for roughly a decade, liar, maybe far longer.

Really?
You called him a hack when he was running John McCain's presidential campaign?
You never did.
Filthy liar.

Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would 'eliminate many problems'

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN

Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid of constitutional amendments after the Tenth Amendment would 'eliminate many problems' in the way the US government is structured.

Moore made his comments about constitutional amendments in a June 2011 appearance on the "Aroostook Watchmen" show, which is hosted by Maine residents Jack McCarthy and Steve Martin.

The hosts have argued that the US government is illegitimate and who have said that the September 11, 2001, attacks, the mass shooting at Sandy Hook, the Boston bombing, and other mass shootings and terrorist attacks are false flag attacks committed by the government.

(False flag attacks refer to acts that are designed by perpetrators to be made to look like they were carried out by other individuals or groups.)

The hosts have also spread conspiracy theories about the raid that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden and have pushed the false claim that former President Barack Obama was not born in the US.

CNN's KFile obtained audio from Moore's two appearances on the show.

In the same June episode, Moore invoked Adolf Hitler in a discussion about Obama's birth certificate.

In a May 2011 episode, Moore told the two radio hosts, who have repeatedly rejected the official explanation for the 9/11 attacks, that he would be open to hearings looking into "what really happened" on that day.

In Moore's June appearance, one of the hosts says he would like to see an amendment that would void all the amendments after the Tenth.

"That would eliminate many problems," Moore replied.

"You know people don't understand how some of these amendments have completely tried to wreck the form of government that our forefathers intended."

Moore cited the 17th Amendment, which calls for the direct election of senators by voters rather than state legislatures, as one he particularly found troublesome.

The host agreed with Moore, before turning his attention to the 14th Amendment, which was passed during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and guaranteed citizenship and equal rights and protection to former slaves and has been used in landmark Supreme Court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Obergefell v. Hodges.

"People also don't understand, and being from the South I bet you get it, the 14th Amendment was only approved at the point of the gun," the host said.

"Yeah, it had very serious problems with its approval by the states," Moore replied.

"The danger in the 14th Amendment, which was to restrict, it has been a restriction on the states using the first Ten Amendments by and through the 14th Amendment.

To restrict the states from doing something that the federal government was restricted from doing and allowing the federal government to do something which the first Ten Amendments prevented them from doing.

If you understand the incorporation doctrine used by the courts and what it meant. You'd understand what I'm talking about."

Moore explained further that the first ten amendments restricted the federal government in certain areas.

"For example, the right to keep and bear arms, the First Amendment, freedom of press liberty.

Those various freedoms and restrictions have been imposed on the states through the 14th Amendment.

And yet the federal government is violating just about every one of them saying that -- they don't they don't -- are not restrained by them."

Besides the 14th and 17th Amendments, amendments adopted after the Bill of Rights include the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 15th Amendment which prohibited the federal and state governments from denying citizens the right to vote based on that person's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," and the 19th Amendment, which extended the right to vote to women.

Moore's campaign spokesman told CNN's KFile that Moore does not believe all amendments after the Tenth should be eliminated.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/10/politics/ ... index.html

Termin8tor » 10 Dec 2017 7:07 pm » wrote:

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 12:41 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 09 Dec 2017 12:54 am » wrote:I've called him a hack for roughly a decade, liar, maybe far longer.

Really?
You called him a hack when he was running John McCain's presidential campaign?
You never did.
Filthy liar.

You're kidding, right? You're trying to claim that you not only saw everything I wrote about that election but can recall it all?
You can't even tell believable lies.
**** psychopath.

Misty » 11 Dec 2017 1:53 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 10 Dec 2017 7:07 pm » wrote:You're kidding, right? You're trying to claim that you not only saw everything I wrote about that election but can recall it all?

You can't even tell believable lies.

**** psychopath.

Shame on you Puss.
Stop lying.
You know you never said any such thing about Steve Schmidt.

Termin8tor » 10 Dec 2017 7:05 pm » wrote:

Misty » 10 Dec 2017 1:17 pm » wrote:This lying birther from Virginia is running for the U.S. Senate.
I'm sure Clem will vote for him.

Over a lying leftist Democrat?
Duuuh.
I'd strongly prefer to support an honest Republican, but your party is so corrupt and dishonest, I'd vote for almost any Republican, within reason.

Termin8tor » 11 Dec 2017 1:57 pm » wrote:

Misty » 11 Dec 2017 1:53 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 10 Dec 2017 7:07 pm » wrote:You're kidding, right? You're trying to claim that you not only saw everything I wrote about that election but can recall it all?
You can't even tell believable lies.
**** psychopath.

Shame on you Puss.
Stop lying.
You know you never said any such thing about Steve Schmidt.

I don't know if I said anything or not, but I know even then I thought Schmidt was a hack.
Nor do you have the slightest clue if I wrote it or not.
Lying **** psycho.

Misty » 11 Dec 2017 1:58 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 10 Dec 2017 7:05 pm » wrote:Over a lying leftist Democrat?

Duuuh.

I'd strongly prefer to support an honest Republican, but your party is so corrupt and dishonest, I'd vote for almost any Republican, within reason.

Never saw you write one single word about Bill Clinton's, Hillary Clinton's or Obama's huge and historic lies.

I'm sure that you will proudly vote for the racist birther who strongly supports the child molester in Alabama.

You have forfeited the right to criticize anyone for who they choose to support.