All_Pro_Bills

Most curious is not that the administration has invoked the "cone of silence" (for the younger among us A Get Smart analogy). They've screwed the pooch here and the President's suggestion that Trump is to blame is laughable. Why would they want to shine a light on their failure here? Its the fact the free and fair media is letting them get away with it. Contrast with the previous administration where the press filled the role of Spanish Inquisition interrogator in grilling the WH press secretary every day. They should be filing all kinds of legal briefs and challenges, going to court to get access, and making a big stink of the issue in their coverage.

Legislature in Georgia must have read your post as Governor signs election reform bill yesterday. Some of the key provisions. "It would require voters to provide a driver’s license or state-issued ID card number to request and submit absentee ballots, and it would curtail the use of ballot drop boxes, limiting their placement to early-voting locations and making them accessible only while the precinct is open. The legislation also gives the Georgia State Elections Board the ability to effectively take over county elections boards in areas that it determines are in need of oversight. The secretary of state would also be removed as chair of the State Elections Board, a proposal that critics say would strip the state’s top elections official of a key power. The bill also takes aim at the state’s absentee-ballot request period, setting the deadline for voters to request absentee ballots at 11 days before an election". Needless to say some people are not happy with this turn of events. I would expect some level of court challenges to follow.

No its not messed up. It is no big deal. All candidates are allowed and entitled to file briefs and challenges according to election law and procedures. What's messed up is you refuse to comprehend the concept of due process and application of the law. If there was something illegal, such as the claimed pressure on exerted on specific officials, then where are the charges? If they could nail Trump with anything in Democratic controlled States and jurisdictions I can guarantee they'd be falling all over themselves to get charges filed. But nothing to this point. What you are engaged in is believing uninformed speculation and hearsay generated by third party sources interpreting conversations to support their biases.

Your comment has absolutely nothing to do with the theme of my comment. Other than concluding you are trying to change the subject I don't have a response other than to suggest you are helping in proving the message I'm trying to get across about irrational thinking so I thank you. As far as trying to get votes thrown out wasn't all that done through proper and legal challenges as supported by laws and procedures governing the electoral process? I don't believe any of it was what could be called illegal. So your claim seems to be an example of lying through omission. Sure the campaign challenged some votes. But it was all legal. So they did nothing wrong. While you suggest they did.

This is an example of how the irrational mind works. There are many others I could cite. They are not thinking critically or logically or subjecting their views to inspection by available facts or changing their views and conclusions when new facts become available. These are people that hold a specific ideology or belief. It might apply across the political spectrum. They view themselves as moral, ethical, and intelligent but they are none of those things. It seems our society is facing an epidemic of irrational and illogical thinking at a time when the opposite is needed to solve a lot of issues. I'm talking about people that have "filters" in how their mind processes information from the environment with which they draw conclusions. They start with a conclusion and selectively use subjective, objective, anecdotal facts, information or data that supports their conclusion while ignoring subjective, objective, anecdotal facts, information or data that don't support their conclusion. Some might calling it lying by omission. In the case of hate crimes against Asians the prevailing narrative is the attacks are caused by a white supremacist mindset. This is what most media and politically active individuals and organizations are running with now. But looking at hate crime statistics where the target was Asian... A fact is the victims are Asian and a percentage of the attackers are white. Another fact is the victims were Asian but the majority of their assailants were non-white. This according to FBI statistics. So if the majority of attackers were non-white how could a white supremacist mindset be the root cause of the attacks? A critical thinker would be inclined to look elsewhere for the motivation for these attacks. The prevailing narrative is drawn from lying by omission and ignoring non-supportive facts. And by omitting facts a false conclusion is being used which drives an incorrect response to the problem. Critical thinking and rational people need to challenge this epidemic of irrationality and challenge the people pushing these false conclusions. I know a lot of you are out there.

Or passed over because of your age? Or some other thing? My view is pretty simple. I don't support the concept of grouping and judging people based on the characteristics assigned to that group. Which basally steals and eliminates the person's individual identity and renders it unimportant. In order to judge people equitably labeling and grouping to determine their identity needs to stop. Equality means the system is "color blind" or "gender blind" or "gender identity" blind, or "age blind", or blind to any other attribute an individual might display or possess. Like being left handed or right handed, or their weight, or if they are judged to be attractive or not, or their eye color or their blood type. You get the idea. The person needs to be viewed as a unique individual with traits and characteristics of their own and not of some group. Here, more or less if the goal is to eliminate racial bias then stop focusing on race being something that makes people "different".

Every year you start at 0-0. The difference between the Bills and Sabres is EFFORT! Under McDermott this team puts up a fight, gives it their all, every weak. Leading by example Josh Allen. Contrast this with the talented Jack Eichel. A guy that I suspect was always the best player on the ice coming into the league and just doesn't have the same "hunger" a guy like Allen has, or has just lost his drive because of all the losing. Plus the Sabres are a physically and mentally weak team and the coaching staff doesn't seem to be able to get this group motivated. What said it all to me was a game a few weeks ago where the team needed a spark and got it from Cozens engaging in a fight. Wow, a rookie being the only guy to step up. Pathetic. I've seen more contact and physicality in pairs ice dancing than these guys show night after night. Contrast this with Feliciano and Dawkins getting into it against the Chiefs coming to their QB's defense. The Bills have heart and passion for the game. The Sabres are a bunch of guys going through the motions for 3 periods cashing big paychecks a couple times a month. Bad goaltending sure but even teams with bad goaltending go out there trying to win.

Mental illness combined with anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs with lots of side effects like suicidal thoughts and paranoia. The drug companies don't want anyone to bring this into the conversation nor do the politicians receiving lots of loot and contributions from the industry.

The plastic straw ban is a good one. Picking an obvious but incorrect solution to a problem. A better solution to the problem might be to identify how all these plastic straws are finding their way into the ocean and stop it. I think the problem is the US "exports" a lot of garbage to overseas locations and the junk falls of the ship or gets tossed overboard to cut disposal costs when they reach the destination. So stop doing this. Problem solved. But the gun thing. All these proposals are just diversions. It's more a social and behavioral problem than a weapons issue. This guys was clearly unhinged but nobody wanted to get engaged in confronting him because he'd cry "discrimination" and hearing the mating call of SJW all the useful idiots would run to his assistance. So maybe all the people so quick to charge and call everything a bias issue should shut up about that for a while and think it through. Heaven forbid anyone gets offended!

I get all the chat and ribbing about the Carolina connection. But based on results and the way Beane has reformed the roster, worked the draft and free agency, and along with the coaching staff and the players they've assembled got to the AFC championship game this year I'm more than willing to defer to his judgment and trust he's making smart and good player moves. And this might be another of those.

The truth is the cops are not going to be there to protect you and your family from an intruder when it happens. They'll respond afterward to zip up the body bags and do some investigation. They are not going to protect you. They respond to crime, not prevent crime. The problem with all the calls for more gun control is they don't do anything to address the fundamental problems that can stop or eliminate most of these mass shooting events. They are not going to take guns out of the hands of criminals or those bent on doing harm to others. All these gun control initiatives calling for more laws and restrictions do is give the government more power and control over its citizens. Why do we want to give an already overly-intrusive government, one that spies and collects all sorts of information and reconnaissance on almost every citizen through whatever means they have available even more power? A government that has over a short time militarized local and state police organizations. A government that preaches from the Capitol building, the seat of power for the federal government surrounded by fences and barriers along with thousands of armed troops and armed bodyguards and agents? A government that is somehow afraid of its own citizens but is more than willing to let you go about life in the environment outside of their fence perimeter that's safe enough for you to take your chances in every day. How about this, let Congress pass more restrictions and add an amendment making it illegal for government officials to have armed bodyguards and security forces. If its safe for us then its safe for them? Lead from the front, right? Why is it that states with the most restrictive gun control laws generally have the most crime? Simply put, because they have the most criminals resulting from social and economic conditions that drive people to crime and criminal activity, Much of it just for survival. Generally, these states blame "out of state gun purchases" for their problems but the real cause is their inaction to solve the fundamental problems of poverty. These are social issues that never seem to gets addressed and resolved. These mass shooters either hold some ideological extreme or are mentally imbalanced. What's curious about a lot of these cases is the individuals involved are "known" to the FBI and other law enforcement organizations but they never seem to do anything. Why is that? Maybe they should start checking into these leads with a little more enthusiasm?

A bit sarcastic but true to the point. Isn't it wonderful to live in a time where politics and virtue signaling are the determining factors in all circumstances and situations?

As CIGNA hires sub-standard candidates and ignores more qualified applicants their business will suffer. The quality of their workforce will suffer. Lawsuits will be filed. They will lose customers and providers. A management system perceived to be merit based will transform to one of "diversity" and performance will suffer as top performers perceive their efforts are going unrewarded. Top performers will quit and seek employment elsewhere. Competitors will exploit their weaknesses and gain market share at their expense. Earnings will suffer and the share price will fall. Money still talks so regardless of the desire to virtue signal the board of directors will fire senior management, most likely the CEO presiding over this situation along with the architects of this hiring model. This is how this will play out over time. That's how socialist approaches always resolve themselves as everything sinks to the lowest common denominator.

Pack up the news vans and get out of town. The shooters not a white guy so there's nothing to see here. 21-year-old Ahmad Al-Issa a devoted Trump hater. So I suspect the spin on the story will turn from playing up the white supremacist terrorists angle to some poor victim triggered into rage and violence by Trump. So Trumps fault on CNN and MSNBC and other MSM outlets tonight. Wait for it...

If you've ever dealt with a family member that has some behavioral or substance abuse problem you'll recognize it isn't that easy to control that person or bring the risk they pose to themselves and others to the attention of authorities. Plus the cops don't want to deal with it and their doctors, if they are even being treated, can't share much because of personal health information restrictions. I suspect almost every one of these shooters is on some kind of anti-psychotic or anti-depressant drug or another. Something that gets a passing mention if at all. Those meds are dangerous and the negative impacts are minimized by the industry. The can trigger a lot of bizarre thoughts and behavior including these mass shootings.

As for the American Way of Life I find it curious the left speaks frequently about threats to "democracy" when it suits their purposes. Democracy they say, we must protect it from those looking to threaten it. But they never express concerns or speak of threats to our "freedoms" and "individual liberties". Why is that? After all, those are the core beliefs that laid the foundation for our nation almost 250 years ago. The foundation of the republic, our legal system, the core principals expressed by various Amendments and law, the limitations placed on Government, the great documents that define it, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and many others all speak to liberty and freedom. The undeniable rights of men and women. But the left? Never. A basic defect in their thinking is their view of democracy. Simply, the ability of the "majority" to dictate to the minority any and all things without regards for their rights and needs through whatever means are necessarily. That's not democracy that's tyranny.

To be fair it takes two to tango. So what is the women in these situations other than a willing participant?

That could be dangerous. What will happen if Russian hackers break into the earpiece feed and tell the President to "hop on one foot and cluck like a Chicken"? I'd be curious how the White House press secretary explains that one away.

We need to be careful. Any criticism of the all-powerful imperial leader will be met with harsh punishment and cancellation from the left. All kidding aside our country is run by a shadow government hidden from view directing a figurehead President. Something not lost on our allies and enemies around the planet. I await Biden's initial "Press Conference" where all questions must be pre-submitted and screened while answers are crafted by staff members then displayed on the teleprompter for the President to read as he is unable to comprehend and answer ad hoc type queries. The greatest country in the world has a "fake" President. Now there's a story!

Read your posts and you hit on a lot of the key concepts in play here. The concept of "get your own house in order" before you start trying to fix everything is appropriate. My view of the immigration issues is we got no plan along with no way to pay for any of it. If anyone hasn't been paying attention the US government biggest debtor in the history of civilization with no way to pay any of it back. Sure you might want to "help" people but your flat broke busted. So maybe help yourself first? We have more than enough problems, do we need import more problems? But given the government is going to rack up debts until they can't do it anymore, I'd like for starters from the new administration some clear and consistent articulation of the key objectives of America's immigration policy. Right now it looks like the plan is to flood the country with "asylum seekers" from Central America and deal with the consequences later. Is the only goal a humanitarian effort to "help" people? That itself generates a lot of other policy questions such as which people do you decide to help and in what manner? What are the costs and consequences of such a policy. Looking at the failure in handling the surge in asylum seekers it seems the administration ignored, either by design or incompetence, the issues and conditions that would be generated by their "all welcome" signal. It was obvious to even the uninformed that the ability of the system from capacity and capability standpoint would be overwhelmed by the influx of people. To the point here. What's needed is a systemic solution to immigration issues, both legal and illegal (or documented and undocumented if you prefer) that balances humanitarian needs along with economic, social, and border security objectives. A comprehensive and complete plan that addresses the concerns and needs of all parties. Accomplishing that is difficult under the best circumstances but given the extreme polarization of politics of the present it seems nearly impossible. Unfortunately, neither the Democrats or Republicans are capable of reaching that kind of solution. When you're engaged in a "winner take all" contest there's not much room for compromise and cooperation. My first suggestion: get new leaders.

Maybe just stop letting people in might work for now? This cluster f***k administration is one big comedy act in action. Blocking the press from seeing conditions and facilities and dismissing any concerns about COVID as that's convenient. I'm LMAO just watching these clowns screw this up and dig a deeper and deeper hole for themselves. Total fail. The only people dumber are the voters that elected them. In just a few short months they've turned America into one big joke. Trump was no prize package but this crew has already exceeded the level of incompetence achieved by the previous administration. Well done. The entire world, enemies and allies are laughing at us.

The new administration throws up a sign that says Party tonight, free booze, food, games, prizes, and music. All welcome. How many people show up?

I expect his advisors are doing more than advising. They are taking on tasks and functions which are duties of the office of the President. VP Harris is taking calls and meetings with world leaders which is a role reserved for the President unless he is unable to perform the duties of office. I've argued the party leadership knew of Mr. Biden's compromised physical and mental health but needed a "moderate" candidate that could move far enough to the right to gain enough votes in key swing states to win the Electoral College vote. All the other candidates were viewed as too liberal and none of the them polled well and would have most likely lost to Trump in 2020. The Democratic party handlers trotted out JB and fortunately enough were able to use the COVID pandemic as cover for keeping him out of sight and limiting his public appearances to minimize any gaffes or "senior moments". And it worked. Now the question is when will his usefulness as moderate leader be outweighed by the political costs of his obvious health impairments? That remains to be seen based on how events play out. That's the point in time they pull the plug and elevate VP Harris to the Presidency.

Truth is I'm a registered democrat and grew up in a pro-democrat union household. But this isn't the democratic party of my youth. This is an entirely different animal here. The current crop of leaders doesn't much care about union people except for getting their votes one day in November each year or for that matter working people in general. I'm just trying to see the humor in the tragic comedy that is unfolding before us here. Quite simply they're leading this country down the crapper both socially and economically and by 2022 there isn't going to be much support to keep that "permanent majority" in place. And admit it. Do you really believe Biden is anything more than a front man for his handlers in the shadows? 50 years from now historians will be wondered what collective insanity took place during this period.

Clear sailing for the SS America to go over the falls and crash on the rocks below. I think we saw the high point of the new administration on inauguration day. Its been all downhill from that point. How much worse can things get? My guess is we'll all be surprised. Today your glorious leader fell on the stairway leading up to Air Force One. An anonymous source reported to the Washington Post they saw former President Trump pouring oil on the steps just minutes before President Biden appeared on the scene for this flight out. House speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Schummer are already scheduling a press conference to condemn this latest act of insurrection intended to "destroy our democracy". The House plans impeachment proceedings on the former President which will commence over the weekend. CNN and MSNBC are rushing reporter, uh I mean political activists, to the scene while facebook, google, and twitter bring on more fact checkers and censors to ensure the public gets the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help them God.