Politics And Current Events

[columbia]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... ction.html

[Viva la Ben]

Now this is an endorsement
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/sta ... 4636928000

[grunthy]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/876772237730349057

But his collusion!!

[tifosi77]

Violence begets violence

Yeah, I'm sure that 17-year old Virginia girl totally had it coming.

[Factorial]

Violence begets violence

Yeah, I'm sure that 17-year old Virginia girl totally had it coming.

Plus we can't be sure that this really happened as reported. Waiting for NP to confirm the story.

[Gaucho]

We can't be sure at this point that this in any way religiously motivated, NP would be correct to point out.

[NailedPenguin]

Violence begets violence

Yeah, I'm sure that 17-year old Virginia girl totally had it coming.

Plus we can't be sure that this really happened as reported. Waiting for NP to confirm the story.

Darwin Martinez Torres. Sounds like one of Obama's dreamers.

Has there been a trial, or are you always this quick to blame the brown guy??

[Dickie Dunn]

Looks like another attempted attack in Paris.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/876811008744075265

[DigitalGypsy66]

Violence begets violence

Yeah, I'm sure that 17-year old Virginia girl totally had it coming.

Plus we can't be sure that this really happened as reported. Waiting for NP to confirm the story.

Darwin Martinez Torres. Sounds like one of Obama's dreamers.

Has there been a trial, or are you always this quick to blame the brown guy??

Not being investigated as a hate crime.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fa ... 7d7d401a77

[tifosi77]

The Virginia thing looks like a road rage incident that went haywire really fast.

[Factorial]

Former dominatrix fights to keep job as sheriff's officer:

Should a former dominatrix who appeared in bondage movies for pay be allowed to work as a Hudson County sheriff's officer?

That's a question that is expected to be answered when newly sworn-in sheriff's officer Kristen Hyman, of Bayonne, attends a disciplinary hearing on June 27.

The county Sheriff's Office suspended Hyman without pay on May 26, six days before she was scheduled to graduate from the police academy, saying she failed to disclose that she made bondage videos and saw clients privately for money.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2017 ... ffs_o.html

[Silentom]

What the problem is?

[Dickie Dunn]

Is she choking out Chuck Liddell!?

[slappybrown]

Not surprising I suppose:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/15/investi ... tml?iid=EL

A stunning 50% of the CEOs, business execs, government officials and academics surveyed at the annual Yale CEO Summit give Trump an "F" for his first 130 days in office.

The survey, released earlier this week, found that another 21% give Trump's performance a "D" so far. Just 1% of the 125 leaders polled awarded the billionaire an "A."

The overarching message from CEOs is: "Stop the random 3 a.m. tweets and stop the needless brushfires diverting from the agenda," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Yale School of Management professor who led the summit.

Sonnenfeld noted that 80% of those surveyed are CEOs, including Blackstone (BX) CEO Steve Schwarzman and IBM (IBM, Tech30) boss Ginni Rometty, who sit on Trump's advisory council and Merck (MRK) CEO Ken Frazier, a member of the president's manufacturing initiative. (Individual responses by each CEO were not released.)

"This was not a granola-eating crowd of Democrat entrepreneurs. It's a cross-section of the business community, including some who are quite pro-Trump," he said.

[mikey]

Source of the post Just 1% of the 125 leaders

So how many people gave him an "A"...?

[slappybrown]

I would guess 1 and they rounded the .8 up to a full percent. 2 would have been rounded up to 2%.

[columbia]

It's hard to wonder who wants 42 months of him, but that's where we are.

[mikey]

I would guess 1 and they rounded the .8 up to a full percent. 2 would have been rounded up to 2%.

Yeah, I get it...I just would have expressed it differently. They're trying to make a point about how few people like him (what a scoop)...I would have said "just one of the 125...blah blah blah". I just think it slightly softens the impact of the sentence. #journalismnitpicks

[slappybrown]

I would guess 1 and they rounded the .8 up to a full percent. 2 would have been rounded up to 2%.

Yeah, I get it...I just would have expressed it differently. They're trying to make a point about how few people like him (what a scoop)...I would have said "just one of the 125...blah blah blah". I just think it slightly softens the impact of the sentence. #journalismnitpicks

To be fair, I would have expected him to do somewhat better in this survey, particularly for senior execs in heavily regulated industries like banking/finance, energy, etc. His desire to reign in and cut the regulatory function of the government is number one or two on the list for most execs. I would expect poor marks but this was worse than I would have guessed.

[LITT]

I would guess 1 and they rounded the .8 up to a full percent. 2 would have been rounded up to 2%.

Yeah, I get it...I just would have expressed it differently. They're trying to make a point about how few people like him (what a scoop)...I would have said "just one of the 125...blah blah blah". I just think it slightly softens the impact of the sentence. #journalismnitpicks

To be fair, I would have expected him to do somewhat better in this survey, particularly for senior execs in heavily regulated industries like banking/finance, energy, etc. His desire to reign in and cut the regulatory function of the government is number one or two on the list for most execs. I would expect poor marks but this was worse than I would have guessed.

i had the same thought as your assumptions and was equally surprised.

[shafnutz05]

Gerard Collomb, France's interior minister, addressed reporters Monday afternoon, saying that the Champs-Elysees attacker's car contained weapons and explosives.

"Enough to allow him to blow up this car," Collomb said.

Fifth attack on French security forces in four months.

[columbia]

The Alamo level support for pols is usually 30-35%. 1% (even at this sample size) is shocking.

[mikey]

Before I get called an ______-ist for saying something that doesn't shame this guy, I'll note that rarely is approval rating based on a grade school scale either, right?

According that thing. 30% feel he is doing satisfactory or better...which is in line with columbia's alamo point...

Unless I'm wrong (and maybe I am), it's normally a thumbs up, thumbs down. Which is very ambiguous...

Thumbs up, these blueberries are juicy and ripe...

Thumbs up, I just hit the Powerball...

Not a lot of nuance...

[blackjack68]

Before I get called an ______-ist for saying something that doesn't shame this guy, I'll note that rarely is approval rating based on a grade school scale either, right?

According that thing. 30% feel he is doing satisfactory or better...which is in line with columbia's alamo point...

Unless I'm wrong (and maybe I am), it's normally a thumbs up, thumbs down. Which is very ambiguous...

Thumbs up, these blueberries are juicy and ripe...

Thumbs up, I just hit the Powerball...

Not a lot of nuance...

I thought the same thing, so you must be right, because I am never wrong.

[tifosi77]

Supreme Court to hear potentially landmark case on partisan gerrymandering

In the election after adoption of the new maps, Republicans got just 48.6 percent of the statewide vote, but captured a 60-to-39 seat advantage in the State Assembly.

Historically, the Court has skirted the line of affirmatively stating that political Gerrymandering is on par with racially-motivated Gerrymandering. Several Justices have, in past, indicated they were inclined to state so, but have never taken a case where that was the central question. This Wisconsin case will possibly be the first time they directly address that question. The key will be the formulation of an objective standard by which such cases can be judged. That has been the main stumbling block for many years.