Liberal Forum

Ivanka Trump wants to speak out on climate change.

Ivanka Trump wants to make fighting climate change one of her signature issues as the daughter of the next president.
Citing a source close to President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter, Politico reported Thursday that Ivanka Trump is exploring ways to use her new spotlight and position to advocate for the fight against global warming.

crimsongulf » 01 Dec 2016 9:04 pm » wrote:snicker

Misty » 01 Dec 2016 9:18 pm » wrote: I guarantee you that Trump agrees with Ivanka about GW.
He just fed you guys that line of **** during the campaign.
And you bought it.

crimsongulf » 01 Dec 2016 9:27 pm » wrote:Y'all said billary was gonna win also. Not to mention you were gonna take the senate back.
I say "you" meaning the progtard left. Not you individually.

crimsongulf » 01 Dec 2016 9:27 pm » wrote:Little hands memes didn't work.

Misty » 02 Dec 2016 12:33 pm » wrote: I'm glad you clarified that, because I never said those things.

Trump does acknowledge climate change when it comes to his golf course in Ireland.
He's trying to get permission to build a sea wall to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort due to rising sea levels.
His permit application for the wall explicitly cites global warming and its consequences as a chief justification for building the sea wall.

But they're so much fun.

Texas funeral directors anxious over state’s new requirement to bury or cremate fetal remains.

With Texas set to implement rules requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, it’s not just health care providers who are anxious about the recently adopted requirements.

Funeral directors in the state are joining the chorus of medical professionals and reproductive rights activists who have raised concerns about the rules.

Though it hasn’t taken a formal position on the requirements, the Texas Funeral Directors Association says it’s concerned about how they’ll affect the families they serve and the costs associated with compliance.

Starting Dec. 19, Texas will require hospitals, abortion clinics and other health care facilities to ensure that fetal remains be cremated or buried — regardless of the period of gestation — and prohibit them from disposing of fetal remains in sanitary landfills, a common practice for medical waste.

State health officials have contended that the “minimum costs in complying with the rules” would total $450 a year per health care facility, arguing that those costs would be offset by the elimination of the cost of landfill disposition.

But Michael Land, a funeral home director and spokesman for the association, said that’s unrealistic and that the costs associated with compliance are likely a “higher dollar amount than what they’re projecting.”

Cremations through a third-party crematorium range from $75 to $100 per specimen.

If individuals choose burials, the minimum cost of a small space in a cemetery is $500 and caskets of the appropriate size would likely cost $100, Land said.

If you add labor on the part of the funeral home, the fees could go into the thousands of dollars, he added.

Responding to those concerns, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission said the rules don’t require that “these processes” go through funeral homes.

Health care providers can work directly with crematoriums or medical waste companies to comply with the rules, said spokeswoman Carrie Williams.

“[Funeral homes] don’t have a mandatory role, and funerals are not required by these rules,” Williams said. “Incineration is still available as an option.”

But the rules indicate that incineration of fetal remains must be followed by interment.

State health officials define interment as the “disposition of pathological waste using the process of cremation, entombment, burial, or placement in a niche or by using the process of cremation followed by placement of the ashes in a niche, grave, or scattering of ashes as authorized by law.”

Among the few exceptions to the rule are miscarriages or abortions that occur at home.

But fetal remains from miscarriages that occur at health care facilities will still require interment — even if the patient does not desire it.

For those in the funeral business, the increased demand for cremations could mean ending their practice of charitably cremating the tissue from a miscarriage for parents who wished to have a funeral.

“What had always been pretty much a charitable process is now going to become costing quite a bit of money,” Land said.

It’s estimated that 10 to 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage.

Misty » 02 Dec 2016 12:43 pm » wrote:
More small government Conservatives at work.

Misty » 02 Dec 2016 12:43 pm » wrote: More small government Conservatives at work.

Huey » 02 Dec 2016 12:52 pm » wrote:It is not the fed government doing it.

Huey » 02 Dec 2016 12:52 pm » wrote:As the Constitution allows and was the intention of following the principles of a Republic with a small central government this fits nicely with conservative principles. States governing and creating policy using the true democratic process was the goal. As much or as little government as possible.

roadkill » 02 Dec 2016 12:46 pm » wrote: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

"All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake.

By "contesting" the clear choice of millions of voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Stein aims to sow doubts regarding the legitimacy of the presidential election.....

“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, of facts,” she declared on “The Diane Rehm Show” on Wednesday.

What matters now, Hughes argued, is not whether his fraud claim is true.

No, what matters is who believes it.

“Mr. Trump’s tweet, amongst a certain crowd, a large — a large part of the population, are truth.

When he says that millions of people illegally voted, he has some — in his — amongst him and his supporters, and people believe they have facts to back that up.

Those that do not like Mr. Trump, they say that those are lies, and there’s no facts to back it up.”

One might be tempted, though, to dismiss it as one woman’s opinion: Maybe Hughes, the political editor of RightAlerts.com, was just having a hallucinatory day.

But at a high-profile event the next evening, two other Trump surrogates echoed this sentiment.

Ousted Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, speaking during an election post-mortem at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, blamed journalists for — yes — believing what his candidate said.

“You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally,” said Lewandowski.

When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway about the same election-fraud claim discussed above — specifically whether disseminating misinformation was “presidential” — it was clear that she and Hughes got the same memo.

“He’s the president-elect, so that’s presidential behavior,” Conway said.

Misty » 02 Dec 2016 12:33 pm » wrote: I'm glad you clarified that, because I never said those things.

Trump does acknowledge climate change when it comes to his golf course in Ireland.
He's trying to get permission to build a sea wall to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort due to rising sea levels.
His permit application for the wall explicitly cites global warming and its consequences as a chief justification for building the sea wall.

But they're so much fun.

Misty » 02 Dec 2016 3:50 pm » wrote:

Can someone please explain to me why President-Elect ****** Grabber is still holding campaign style rallies and plans to keep holding them throughout his term?

I think it's because he's a bottomless pit of need and the only thing that can fill that huge hole is the cheering adoration he gets from his drooling followers.
I may be wrong about that, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Are these fact free rallies going to be televised live for the next four years?

larryc12 » 03 Dec 2016 8:28 am » wrote:You must have something against a President going to the people with his agenda.

Rodrigo Duterte Says Donald Trump Endorses His Violent Antidrug Campaign

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said on Saturday that President-elect Donald J. Trump had endorsed his brutal antidrug campaign, telling Mr. Duterte that the Philippines was conducting it “the right way.”

Mr. Duterte, who spoke with Mr. Trump by telephone on Friday, said Mr. Trump was “quite sensitive” to “our worry about drugs.”

“He wishes me well, too, in my campaign, and he said that, well, we are doing it as a sovereign nation, the right way,” Mr. Duterte said.

Mr. Duterte has led a campaign against drug abuse in which he has encouraged the police and others to kill people they suspect of using or selling drugs.

Since he took office in June, more than 2,000 people have been killed by the police in what officers describe as drug raids, and the police say several hundred more have been killed by vigilantes.

The program has been condemned by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and others for what rights organizations have characterized as extrajudicial killings.

In rejecting such criticism from the United States this fall, Mr. Duterte called Mr. Obama a “son of a whore.”

Misty » 03 Dec 2016 11:24 am » wrote: When his agenda is to spew a bunch of **** in order to fulfill his narcissistic need for excessive admiration.....yes.....I have an issue with that.

larryc12 » 04 Dec 2016 8:07 am » wrote:Gee, I remember another whose agenda was spewing ****, AKA outright lies, to the American people. I guess you forgot about that or didn't care ....THEN.