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  1. Trump will finally force the Democrats to get their act together or suffer the consequences. This is why I want bipartisan , statesmen politicians. Going far left then far right and back again is no way to run a country.
  2. Maryland newspaper suspect's past sparked fears he would become 'next mass shooter,' reports say Jayne Miller ✔ @jemillerwbal "He's a f***** nut job" --woman who says she was stalked by suspect in fatal shooting of 5 people at Capital Gazette in Annapolis...says she warned former police official years ago.."he will be your next mass shooter" 8:45 PM - Jun 28, 2018 Jayne Miller ✔ @jemillerwbal Woman who was stalked, harassed, sued, and scared away to another state by suspect in fatal shooting of 5 at Capital Gazette in Annapolis told me he became, for no obvious reason, "fixated" with her..caused her to move 3x, changed her name, and now sleeps with a gun. 9:50 PM - Jun 28, 2018 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/29/maryland-newspaper-suspects-past-sparked-fears-would-become-next-mass-shooter-reports-say.html
  3. Family of baby treated at hospital with bottle of formula gets $18G bill: report A bottle of formula and a nap cost $18,000, according to a family whose son was treated at a San Francisco hospital after a head injury. Vox.com reported that a family from South Korea was visiting the city in 2016 when their infant son fell off a hotel bed and hit his head. The baby reportedly never lost consciousness, but was crying hysterically. So out of an abundance of caution, the family took the baby to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the report said. Doctors quickly determined that eight-month-old Park jeong-whan was fine. The family told the news site that the baby had some formula, took a little snooze and they got on with their vacation. Two years later, the family said they were handed the bill: $18,836. Hospitals defend the charge by essentially saying it costs money to keep a good response team on hand. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/06/29/family-baby-treated-at-hospital-with-bottle-formula-gets-18g-bill-report.html
  4. Iran: Khamenei urges judiciary to confront those who harm economy On Monday, thousands of traders in the Iranian capital's Grand Bazaar held a rare strike over the rial's collapse on the foreign exchange market. Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, Iran's judiciary chief, warned against what he called "economic saboteurs" who could face capital punishment and up to 20 years in jail. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/iran-khamenei-calls-punishment-harm-economy-180627180812459.html
  5. Iran has a very strong military will they side with the people or gov ? It did not turn out well in Syria.
  6. GOP compromise immigration bill defeated on House floor The bill was overwhelmingly rejected 301-121, in part because some Republicans are reluctant to vote for any bill they worry could be portrayed as “amnesty.” More than 100 Republicans voted against the legislation. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/27/gop-compromise-immigration-bill-defeated-on-house-floor.html Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN! 8:39 AM - Jun 27, 2018
  7. This state has the most fast food restaurants in the country According to a recent study by Datafiniti, there are 6.3 restaurants per 10,000 residents in Alabama—making it the state with the most fast food restaurants in America per capita. Nebraska and West Virginia follow with 5.4 and 5.3 restaurants per capita, respectively. A trend in the research also shows that southern and central states have far more fast food restaurants than the East or West coasts. Meanwhile, Vermont has the least fast food restaurants per capita. New Jersey and New York followed at 2.0 and 2.1 per capita. http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/06/27/this-state-has-most-fast-food-restaurants-in-country.html
  8. What I saw at Trump's South Carolina rally By Jim Acosta https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/trump-south-carolina-reporter-acosta/index.html Civil war turns to a little hope once people talk to each other.
  9. Iran’s towns hit by protests and closures as currency plummets Jun 25, 2018 @ 12:25 As the Iranian currency rial plunged to 90,000 against the US dollar on Monday, protesting crowds and shop owners poured out into city streets, especially on the Jomhouri (Republic) Avenue, a stone’s throw away from Tehran’s Forex market. Cell phone sellers and other shopkeepers said their goods had become too expensive for buyers due to the exchange rate. User-generated videos received by Radio Farda show buyers urging store owners to shut down and protest as the crowd pours into the street, with others joining them. https://www.debka.com/mivzak/irans-towns-hit-by-protests-and-closures-as-currency-plummets/
  10. Walk or die: Algeria abandons 13,000 refugees in the Sahara Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, expelling them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering sun. Some never make it out alive. In Niger, where the majority head, the lucky ones limp across a desolate 15km no-man's-land to the border village of Assamaka. Others wander for days before a United Nations rescue squad can find them. Untold numbers perish; nearly all of the more than two dozen survivors interviewed by The Associated Press news agency told of people in their groups, who simply vanished into the Sahara. Algeria's mass expulsions have picked up since October 2017, as the European Union renewed pressure on North African countries to head off migrants and refugees going north to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea or the barrier fences with Spain. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/walk-die-algeria-abandons-13000-refugees-sahara-180625064043040.html
  11. It's up to Daboll and Castillo to work with the OL players strengths. Hope a better RT is available at final cut down. No need to bring in a high priced WR till the OL is viable and can protect the QB. Bills will be able to afford free agency in 2019 if OL needs to be fixed.
  12. MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CALLS MASS MIGRATION TO US A ‘HUMAN RIGHT’ Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) declared mass immigration to the United States a “human right” for all North Americans during a speech Tuesday. “And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.” http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/22/mexican-candidate-immigration-speech/ Mexican general election, 2018 General elections are scheduled to be held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. Voters will elect a new president to serve a five year and ten months term, 128 members of the Senate for a period of six year
  13. I have no idea what the law is for unaccompanied minors who cross illegally. A wall with surveillance monitors to alert border patrol is the only real option. The country has to stop illegal entry to get a handle on this.
  14. Red Hen eateries feel the heat after Sarah Sanders booted from Virginia restaurant with same name But when the co-owner of another restaurant named The Red Hen – this one almost 200 miles away in Lexington, Va. – refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday night, it was open season on any eatery with Hen in its name. “It was a bit of an interesting day yesterday,” Friedman told Fox News. “There were so many negative comments floating in on social media and people calling up my restaurants to threaten us.” While Friedman tried to quickly quell any bird-brained backlash mistakenly directed at his Italian-influenced restaurant by posting on its social media accounts that his eatery had no affiliation to the one in Lexington, it did little to stop the flood of angry comments and calls. One person called up one of Friedman’s other restaurants and threatened to blow it up, while another just repeated the word “shame” over and over again. In Swedesboro, N.J., a family-style restaurant by the same name was also lambasted by supporters of President Trump – receiving about 200 phone calls and seeing their Facebook rating plummet to 1-star. The eatery was also finally forced to go to social media to clear up the issue. "THE RED HEN IN SWEDESBORO, NEW JERSEY IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH THE RED HEN IN VIRGINIA,” a post on the New Jersey restaurant's Facebook page states. "Kindly check your facts before you erroneously defame an innocent business on Facebook." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/24/after-sarah-sanders-booted-from-virginia-restaurant-eateries-with-same-name-feel-heat.html
  15. Why was the US so overwhelmed by the flood of child migrants in spring and summer 2014? Because the system was built for 8,000 kids — not 50,000. According to Wendy Young of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an advocacy organization for unaccompanied immigrant children, the system Congress had in place as of 2014 "was designed for about 6,000 to 8,000 kids a year." https://www.vox.com/cards/child-migrant-crisis-unaccompanied-alien-children-rio-grande-valley-obama-immigration/why-is-the-us-so-overwhelmed-by-the-current-flood-of-child-migrants When the court invoked the 20 day order in 2014, the system can't handle that volume.
  16. I hope the BN hires Sal to cover the Bills. Hate to see so many jobs gone.
  17. Snopes fact check version: with picture The plane banked sharply and came in so low that it clipped light poles. It slammed into the side of the Pentagon at an estimated 350 miles per hour after first hitting the helipad. The plane penetrated the outer three rings of the building. The jet fuel exploded, which sent a fireball outward from the impact point. About 30 minutes after the crash, a cross-section of the building collapsed, but only after enough time had elapsed for rescue workers to evacuate all injured employees. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hunt-the-boeing/
  18. I would be surprised if republicans would have 60 senate seats after Nov elections. If they don't change the rules to simple majority it makes more sense to reach a compromise now. The democrats in Feb 2018 wanted What do Democrats want? By Dara Linddara@vox.com Feb 12, 2018 This one’s easy. Democrats want to pass a bill that allows unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children to become US citizens — not only current DACA recipients, but other DREAMers who were too old or too young for DACA; whose DACA expired and didn’t renew; or who didn’t apply for DACA (the people Chief of Staff John Kelly characterized last week as “too lazy to get off their asses”). Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly offered the White House $19 billion in funds for the “wall” in exchange for a path to citizenship. But Democrats might not be willing to make the changes to asylum policy that Republicans call enforcement “loopholes” — since that would, in essence, reduce the number of humanitarian immigrants able to come to the US in future. Most Democrats are firm that they don’t want serious cuts to legal immigration. Many are okay with proposals (like Graham-Durbin) that eliminate the diversity visa lottery, but only if those 45,000 annual visas are allocated to other types of immigrants — and preferably, only if some visas are still being set aside for immigrants from countries that don’t send many people to the US. And Democrats are holding firm against plans, like the White House’s framework, that would simply eliminate whole categories of family-based immigration and redefine “immediate family” to exclude adult children or siblings of US citizens. https://www.vox.com/2018/2/12/17003524/immigration-congress-daca-trump
  19. Trump says GOP should 'stop wasting their time on immigration' until after midterms Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Friday Republicans should wait until after the November midterm elections to pass immigration legislation, undercutting Congress' ongoing efforts to pass a bill. "Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November," Trump tweeted. "Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave Senate and House leaders have also been trying to find a bill that would end family separations at the border. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/politics/trump-immigration-midterms/index.html I guess W and Congress were just playing games also
  20. WR will be a big competition and supply PS. I still hope Logan Thomas can progress at TE. If the OL can be viable I would be very , very happy.
  21. Shaq is now healthy , in great condition and motivated. My bet is he makes the starting rotation.
  22. Trump and the republican Congress now own immigration, it's all their's.
  23. It's up to the republicans in Congress now to pass a immigration bill. After Trump made the following tweet he burned any possible bridge for bipartisan cooperation. Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!
  24. Wow, the article he wrote is just amazing in July 2016. very good find
  25. Cost of detaining migrant kids higher than keeping them with families By Bob Fredericks June 20, 2018 The cost of holding migrant children who have been separated from their parents in “tent cities” is $775 per person per night — far more expensive than keeping kids with their parents in detention centers, a new report said Wednesday. The reason for the higher cost to taxpayers, according to an official at the Department of Health and Human Services, is that the need to arrange for security, bring in air conditioning, medical workers and other government contractors is much higher than the costs for existing facilities that are already staffed, NBC News reported. It costs $256 per night to hold kids in permanent HHS facilities like Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas. Keeping them with their parents in detention centers like the one run by ICE in Dilley, Texas, cost $298 per person per night, according to an agency estimate when it awarded the contract for the facility in 2014, the network reported. https://nypost.com/2018/06/20/cost-of-detaining-migrant-kids-more-expensive-than-keeping-them-with-families/ I can't imagine that cost is accurate. It would be cheaper to put them up in a hotel.
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