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It was apocryphal because I couldn't source it. ^^I don''t know if the story is apocryphal:
It was apocryphal because I couldn't source it. ^^I don''t know if the story is apocryphal:
That's called steering the conversation away from your ineptitude...and right over a cliff.“Well what about the 20 million abortions African Americans have done???????? Nobody is talking about that.”
And the Republican Party continues to spiral toward its eventual demise, as it divides itself and eats its own.
While it's Pelosi who's dealing with:When Facebook users learned last spring that the company had compromised their privacy in its rush to expand, allowing access to the personal information of tens of millions of people to a political data firm linked to President Trump, Facebook sought to deflect blame and mask the extent of the problem.
And when that failed — as the company’s stock price plummeted and it faced a consumer backlash — Facebook went on the attack.
While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, persuading a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.
"If God lived on earth, people would break His windows!"
House Bill 258, which passed the Republican-dominated House by a mostly party-line vote of 58-35, seeks to make Ohio the fourth state to ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, except to prevent the mother from dying or being seriously impaired. That can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy – in some cases, before a woman even realizes she is pregnant.
Before approving the bill, House Republicans rejected a number of proposed Democratic amendments that would, among other things, provide free birth control to Ohio women who have been pregnant and encourage teaching about sexual education and contraception use in schools.
State Rep. Candice Keller, a Middletown Republican, asserted that, contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe. v. Wade, abortion is not a constitutional right. “There’s not a word about it in the Constitution,” Keller said, saying the “heartbeat bill" could save “20,000 children per year” in Ohio.
You wouldn’t think Cindy Hyde-Smith’s week could get any worse. It’d be hard to top her first gaffe, where a video leaked that showed her joking about enthusiastically attending a public hanging—in a state that has a history of ]lynching Black people.
Hyde-Smith refused to apologize. And now she’s not backing down from another damning gaffe.
Friday morning, another video of Hyde-Smith leaked, where she said preventing liberals from voting is a “great idea.”
“[There’s] a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don’t want to vote,” she said. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Former Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason, who spent nine months in prison for beating his then-wife in front of their children, is accused of fatally stabbing the woman Saturday morning at her Shaker Heights home, according to three sources.
Mason was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of his estranged wife, Aisha Fraser Mason, at her home on Chagrin Boulevard near Normandy Road, the sources said.
The house where the stabbing happened is near where police reported that a Shaker Heights police officer was hit by a car fleeing a domestic violence incident. The officer, who was in his cruiser at the time of the crash, was taken to the hospital and his condition was unknown.
Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation are at the scene assisting Shaker Heights police.
Shaker Heights police did not respond to multiple messages seeking comment until more than seven hours after the slaying, when the department issued a release stating only that Fraser Mason had been killed and that her estranged husband had been arrested.
The refusal by the department to release details of the case in a timely manner continues the pattern of four years ago, when the suburb failed for more than 36 hours to provide its residents with an account of Mason’s attack on his wife. More than 24 hours after the attack, then Mayor Earl Leiken refused even to to confirm that Mason was sitting in the Shaker Heights Jail.