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    Kanye

    Well, I think it's good that someone came in and was able to speak their mind, even if he is a little out of his mind. I am not holding his mental illness against him or how he chose to relay his message. I think he is misguided especially about Trump the father figure (ha!) but I think he made good points about the failure of public education in this country to address these issues and meet the needs of students.
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    Kanye

    I actually enjoyed Kanye's discussion.
  3. Senate GOP Whip John Cornyn explaining why Rachel Mitchell stopped asking Qs partway through: “Frankly, I think there was some frustration among the senators that they thought there were arguments that needed to be made, that she frankly was not equipped to make.”
  4. Lindsey Graham was met with applause and cheers when he walked into the GOP meeting this evening. His little speech to me sounded like the last gasps and screeches of the white male establishment clinging to a life raft after Durbin’s cornering of BK about the fbi investigation. As a female I feel even more alienated than I did November 2016. I will be more surprised if he’s not confirmed.
  5. How could this have been caught on the background check if she didn’t tell anyone.
  6. The letter leaker was likely Feinsteins former chief of staff. So technically not on her staff.
  7. She is a Longhorn. Wife of Joel Kaplan who sat behind Zuck in his hearing. They are good friends of the Kavs.
  8. Lindsey Graham is best friends with Trump now. They are all so self-aware.
  9. A "female assistant" from Maricopa County. Really now.
  10. And yes they would technically have until January but still.
  11. There won't be time to put up a new nominee and do hearings and vote before November 6 unless they ram (no pun intended) it through. If Dems take the House and Senate they won't get their seat. That's all Mitch can think about which is why they are being so crazy. Power power power.
  12. Sorry, I was wrong. She said "tell me what boy hasn't done this in high school. I would like to know."
  13. One of the ladies on the CNN pandel actually said "All teen boys do this". Ok lady.
  14. And we wonder why women don't come forward more often. If they do in high profile cases like this, they may be subjected to an 'invitation' to be questioned by a bunch of men up on a platform looking down at them asking them intrusive questions about a painful and vulnerable time in their life with no interest in the search for truth. As for the "timing" issue - she went to visit her Rep (Eshoo) when BK was nominated to tell her what happened. They talked it over and Ford decided to write a letter but wanted anonymity. She doesn't want to fucking testify or fight to score political points. Naive, yes. But doesn't mean she has to testify for her account to be true. Also, the R's don't really give a shit about BK and his reputation or career. They want that majority ASAP. BK is expendable. Also he would just go back to his current judgeship and remain connected and affluent.
  15. A rapey President nominating a defiant probably rapey SCOTUS contender with the objective of overturning Roe is not a good look for R's who presumably don't want to drive out any more thinking females from the party (if there were any left.) Drunk driving by Beto is irrelevant.
  16. I will be excited when they sell tickets at HEB for 5 bucks again.
  17. I was in a sorority in the 90s. We all did some version of this. Hilarious.
  18. IF (big if) he wins in November he has to fill out his term until 2024 because otherwise he'd be replaced by a Republican since the Governor gets to appoint. He can't abandon us or the Senate. That said I predict a Hispanic Dem (I know he's not Hispanic) wins in 2020.
  19. Your avatar makes you even more ridiculous in this thread.
  20. Women by far bear the brunt of childcare in America, get paid less, have fewer job opportunities and suffer career/job setbacks when becoming parents. Forcing them to bear the 'consequence' of the actions of 2 people is both wrong and poor public policy especially when all other policies and structures in our society don't allow for universal Prek or childcare and health care access is shitty and expensive and I could go on. So, yeah, millions of people 'think about abortion' or will be affected by the lack of the ability to get one. And they aren't affluent white males who unfortunately hold most of the power in America. That said, I think we need stronger legislative protections on both the state and federal level and that will only happen when Roe is threatened or overturned. And Dems will being to take back these seats.
  21. https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states Nearly half (45%) of all pregnancies among U.S. women in 2011 were unintended, and about four in 10 of these were terminated by abortion.1 Nineteen percent of pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) in 2014 ended in abortion.1 Approximately 926,200 abortions were performed in 2014, down 12% from 1.06 million in 2011. In 2014, some 1.5% of women aged 15–44 had an abortion.2 Just under half of these women (45%) reported having a previous abortion.3 The abortion rate in 2014 was 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44, down 14% from 16.9 per 1,000 in 2011.2 This is the lowest rate ever observed in the United States; in 1973, the year abortion became legal, the rate was 16.3.4 At 2014 abortion rates, one in 20 women (5%) will have an abortion by age 20, about one in five (19%) by age 30 and about one in four (24%) by age 45.5 More than half of all U.S. abortion patients in 2014 were in their 20s: Patients aged 20–24 obtained 34% of all abortions, and patients aged 25–29 obtained 27%.6 Twelve percent of abortion patients in 2014 were adolescents: Those aged 18–19 accounted for 8% of all abortions, 15–17-year-olds for 3% and those younger than 15 for 0.2%.6 White patients accounted for 39% of abortion procedures in 2014, blacks for 28%, Hispanics for 25% and patients of other races and ethnicities for 9%.6 Seventeen percent of abortion patients in 2014 identified as mainline Protestant, 13% as evangelical Protestant and 24% as Catholic; 38% reported no religious affiliation and the remaining 8% reported some other affiliation.6 The vast majority (94%) of abortion patients in 2014 identified as heterosexual or straight. Four percent of patients said they were bisexual, while 0.3% identified as homosexual, gay or lesbian and 1% identified as “something else.”6 In 2014, some 46% of all abortion patients had never married and were not cohabiting. However, nearly half were living with a male partner in the month they became pregnant, including 14% who were married and 31% who were cohabiting.6 Fifty-nine percent of abortions in 2014 were obtained by patients who had had at least one birth.6 Some 75% of abortion patients in 2014 were poor or low-income. Twenty-six percent of patients had incomes of 100–199% of the federal poverty level, and 49% had incomes of less than 100% of the federal poverty level ($15,730 for a family of two).*6 The reasons patients gave for having an abortion underscored their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. The three most common reasons—each cited by three-fourths of patients—were concern for or responsibility to other individuals; the inability to afford raising a child; and the belief that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents. Half said they did not want to be a single parent or were having problems with their husband or partner.7 Fifty-one percent of abortion patients in 2014 were using a contraceptive method in the month they became pregnant, most commonly condoms (24%) or a hormonal method (13%).8
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