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Author:  bune [ Mon February 26, 2018 9:54 pm ]
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I read that and had to be reminded that she is in a movie called Clueless and they just weren't calling her stupid.

Author:  Green Habit [ Mon February 26, 2018 10:23 pm ]
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bune wrote:
I read that and had to be reminded that she is in a movie called Clueless and they just weren't calling her stupid.
The lack of quotations around the word really does stick out.

Author:  simple schoolboy [ Tue February 27, 2018 8:03 am ]
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McParadigm wrote:
Yep. It cracks down on lawsuits, but ignores that there is no active ADA compliance monitoring to take the place of said lawsuits. Today, infractions are almost exclusively exposed through affected individuals’ legal efforts. Tomorrow, they may not be exposed at all.

This absence of oversight, by the way, is part of what brought us to the land of “drive-by” lawsuits. Several of the “worst” offenders (ie the literally 12 individuals/groups who have filed a hundred lawsuits or more) are actually disabled rights advocacy groups.

There is no independent body charged with inspecting, monitoring, fining, or enforcing ADA compliance. Read that again. When my brother, who has spina bifida, was told by his landlord that his apartment was going to have to be closed as part of a building renovation, and that his only option for a place to stay (for 8 months) was an apartment accessed by stairs and with hallways (and a bathroom) too narrow for his wheelchair, the threat of a lawsuit was enough for them to offer to compensate him, provide him with temporary housing, and allow him to break his lease.

It took that threat for him to get anything other than the initial “tough shit, pay the rent and figure it out for your fucking self.” In the future, with the lawsuit threat diminished and no enforcement to replace it, why would any landlord offer that compensation? Or anything?


On the other end of the spectrum, you have California with its own expansion of the ADA, where just a handful of plaintiffs have squeezed a significant sum out of independent restaurants. Any violation is actionable. There is no warning, or time period for remediation. A dude in a wheelchair shows up with a tape measure, and his lawyer sends you a notice and that's it.

Author:  simple schoolboy [ Tue February 27, 2018 8:06 am ]
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Green Habit wrote:
bune wrote:
I read that and had to be reminded that she is in a movie called Clueless and they just weren't calling her stupid.
The lack of quotations around the word really does stick out.


Would "Clueless" be a more appropriate term for Feinstein, who just lost her endorsement for the primary?

Author:  Bi_3 [ Tue March 13, 2018 12:14 pm ]
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Another shutdown coming next week! We get more of these than we do Marvel movies.

Author:  bune [ Tue March 13, 2018 3:21 pm ]
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I thought the last CR was for two years? wtf is this?

Author:  B [ Wed April 11, 2018 1:24 am ]
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Remember, Al Franken?

He was kicking the shit out of Sessions, writing a new book, getting ready to run for President ...


...


:|

Author:  Noangel [ Fri April 13, 2018 7:25 am ]
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the POTUS.....the civilian check on the most powerful military on the planet....


in a pissing contest with a nuclear power......

Author:  simple schoolboy [ Fri April 20, 2018 4:37 am ]
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Noangel wrote:
the POTUS.....the civilian check on the most powerful military on the planet....


in a pissing contest with a nuclear power......


Theoretically, congress is the check on the military, but they found that far too difficult, so they passed it off to POTUS.

Author:  Noangel [ Fri April 20, 2018 4:55 am ]
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Noangel wrote:
the POTUS.....the civilian check on the most powerful military on the planet....


in a pissing contest with a nuclear power......


Theoretically, congress is the check on the military, but they found that far too difficult, so they passed it off to POTUS.

they gave it up after 9/11. fear dictating policy, back to the saying that those who trade essential freedoms for security deserve neither. Obama actually tried to give it back to Congress, the power to wage war, but they refused for some reason.

Author:  elliseamos [ Fri April 20, 2018 10:55 pm ]
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Quote:
“Because of this one vote, now every guidance document dating back to 1996 and passage of the Congressional Review Act has this cloud of uncertainty hanging over it,” said Goodwin, of the Center for Progressive Reform. Environmental Protection Agency regional offices develop enforcement guidelines to protect the wetlands in their areas. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues guidances on workplace safety. Agency after agency issues guidelines every year to protect communities. “We’re literally talking about tens of thousands of things over more than twenty years,” he said.


https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/rep ... gulations/

Author:  bune [ Fri April 20, 2018 10:59 pm ]
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I'm so glad I clicked that link five minutes before I go home for the weekend.

Image

Author:  elliseamos [ Fri April 20, 2018 11:07 pm ]
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bune wrote:
I'm so glad I clicked that link five minutes before I go home for the weekend.

Image

;) have a great weekend!

Author:  B [ Wed June 27, 2018 1:41 pm ]
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Author:  verb_to_trust [ Wed June 27, 2018 1:59 pm ]
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Ocasio-Cortez is kind of sexy

Author:  bada [ Wed June 27, 2018 2:04 pm ]
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B wrote:
Remember, Al Franken?

He was kicking the shit out of Sessions, writing a new book, getting ready to run for President ...


...


:|


Yeah he really fucked up.

Author:  B [ Wed June 27, 2018 3:38 pm ]
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He screwed up, recognized it and apologized. Now he lives in shame.

Trump screwed up, denied it, and sued his victims. Now he's President.

Author:  Superblood Wolfmoon [ Tue January 15, 2019 1:23 am ]
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Hilarious watching all these profiles in courage like Kevin McCarthy and Mitt Romney calling out Steve King for being, well, Steve King.

Author:  Bi_3 [ Wed January 16, 2019 2:03 am ]
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First transracial congressperson? Rachel would be so proud.




Still more Hawaiian than Obama.

Author:  Simple Torture [ Thu January 17, 2019 8:24 pm ]
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Everything is going great:


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