Friday, January 12, 2018

@17:30, 1/12/17

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U.S.

Video: Racist or Not? How TV News Reacted to Trump’s Comment

After President Trump used vulgar language about immigrants, TV news grappled with a question: Were his comments racist?

Faux news hears no evil.

The other two monkeys are certainly there.

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Opinion

Just Say It: Trump Is a Racist

We can’t know what’s in his heart. We can accurately describe his behavior.

The unwillingness to call Trump a racist indicates support for the man and his party.

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Opinion

The Republicans’ Fantasy Investigation

Republicans would rather defend Donald Trump than find the truth.

The attempt to find a "red herring" seems to have failed.

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Opinion

Maybe Trump Is Not Mentally Ill. Maybe He’s Just a Jerk.

Without proper neuropsychological testing of the president, we can’t know if he has a mental disorder or is a narcissistic bully.

Indeed.  Let's find out.now.

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Opinion

The Trump Plan to Hurt the Poor by Pretending to Help Them

By letting states deny Medicaid to people with no job, the administration says more recipients will work. The opposite is true.

"Maybe Americans shouldn’t be surprised that this administration wants to take health care away from the poor, given that it has spent so much time trying to wreck the A.C.A. But they should be angry."

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Arts

Video: How James Franco Is Handling Misconduct Claims

James Franco’s support of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements at the Golden Globes Awards prompted calls of hypocrisy from five women who have accused him of “inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior.”

James Franco probably cannot survive professionally.
There are probably some who can.

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Opinion

The Debate Over Enforcing Marijuana Laws

Readers discuss the health, political and legal issues raised by Jeff Sessions’s plan to tighten enforcement.

Letting the price fall to the lowest  cost of production is the best way to control the industry. 
Once demand is satisfied people can consider the hazards of the drug in a rational manner.  I have heard that it is a useful analgesic and an anti psychotic as well as an inebriant.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inebriant

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U.S.

Right and Left React to the Extension of Warrantless Surveillance

Writers from across the political spectrum discuss Congress’s vote to extend the N.S.A. spying program.

More than half the population think warrantless surveillance is a bad idea.
It is certainly unconstitutional.

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Opinion

Will the Pope Address Sexual Abuse in the Chilean Church?

Francis must confront the crimes of a Chilean priest, Fernando Karadima, who was protected from punishment for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis

Previous post Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in Argentina (1973–1979)
Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (1992–1997)
Titular Bishop of Auca (1992–1997)
Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1998–2013)
Cardinal-Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino (2001–2013)
Ordinary of the Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites in Argentina (1998–2013)
President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (2005–2011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Santiago_de_Chile

Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello

Ask the proper man.  

Then ask the Pope.

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Books

What Does It Take to Overcome Adversity?

In “Supernormal,” the psychologist Meg Jay derives lessons from the lives of her troubled patients.

Searching and not finding is not the same as not searching.

I have not yet found a rout to alphabetical fluency.   Spellcheck helps with words.
Algebra is another problem as are 'type string' numbers. 

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