[Wash Times] The Senate Judiciary Committee is recommending criminal charges against Planned Parenthood for allegedly trafficking in fetal body parts from abortions for profit.
In a letter sent to the FBI and the Department of Justice on Tuesday, committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, referred four of Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliates, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and three of the abortion provider’s business partners for potential prosecution.
"I don’t take lightly making a criminal referral," Mr. Grassley said in a press release. "But, the seeming disregard for the law by these entities has been fueled by decades of utter failure by the Justice Department to enforce it. And, unless there is a renewed commitment by everyone involved against criminalizing the trade in aborted fetal body parts for profit, then the outcome is likely to continue."
Although the Obama administration is unlikely to follow through on the recommendation, the referral will provide the Trump administration with a foundation to levy criminal charges against Planned Parenthood.
The referral follows an undercover video investigation into Planned Parenthood and its business partners published last year by the Center for Medical Progress. Those videos featured top Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of human remains from abortions. Planned Parenthood said any fees associated with the trade covered only reimbursement costs.
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Senate can do but two things - recommend, with the expectation of the current DoJ ignoring the recommendation, or cutting off funds to the DoJ until they follow the recommendation, with the expectation that DoJ functions would be cut off first on things people care about, until people screamed at the evil Senate & House.
[Dhaka Tribune] Students at Oxford University have been urged to use gender neutral pronouns like "ze" instead of "he" or "she" when referring to each other, in an attempt not to offend transgender students. Youse have to be kidding mi!
The move, outlined in a student union leaflet, is intended to reduce discrimination and the use of incorrect pronouns, reports the Independent. Howzit discrimination to call somebody "he" or "she?" Doesn't it discriminate against heterosexuals to refer to them as "xe" or "shplx" or "snunt" or whatever some amateur philologist from the wimmin's studies department decides is correct?
Deliberately using the wrong pronoun for a transgender person is an offence under the university’s behaviour code. If you got testicles you're an obvious "he" or "him," and if you don't you're either a "she" or guarding them in a harem.
Students said they hoped the gender neutral pronouns would be used in lectures and seminars, as well as socially. Yes. Use them in the linguistics department. Use them in the Spanish, Latin, Greek, Chinese, Russian and German courses. What's the German word for "xe?" (I'm sure somebody's trying to think one up in the Gender Studies department at Heidelberg.
LGBT activist Peter Tatchell welcomed the move. "This issue isn’t about being PC. Um... It's the epitome of PC.
It’s about respecting people’s right to define themselves as neither male nor female," he told The Times. If they're neither male nor female then they're properly "it" in English.
Gender neutral pronouns such as "xe" and "ze" have already been brought into common use at the University of Tennessee, US. Haven't they been laughed out of Memphis already?
This summer the Boarding Schools’ Association issued guidance for teachers to address transgender pupils as "zie" to avoid offence, the Independent adds. I guess "it" isn't appropriate if you're masquerading as another gender. And if you're addressing them "you" should do nicely, since you can use it with your dog.
Cambridge is moving in the same direction, according to The Times report. Sucking just as deeply, are they?
Sophie Buck, the student’s union welfare officer, said it would help people who do not identify as male or female. Offend ye not the "its."
"Events start with a speaker introducing themselves using a gender neutral pronoun. It’s part of a drive to make the union intersectional," she said. I know the meaning of the word "intersection." I had to look up the meaning of "intersectional" in Wikipedia:
a term first coined in 1989 by American civil rights advocate and leading scholar of critical race theory, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. It is the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. The theory suggests that—and seeks to examine how—various biological, social and cultural categories such as gender, race, class, disability, sexual orientation, religion, caste, age, nationality and other sectarian axes of identity interact on multiple and often simultaneous levels.
Based on that definition, I'd say its antonym has for the past 27 years been "sensible." It didn't have one before that.
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Obscure, intersectional, fictive,
These nutjobs were strictly descriptive,
But having once sipped of
This heady ascriptive
Prescription, they found it addictive.
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The University of Tennessee does not use those made up words. The Trustees did away with the department that pushed this. Oh, the University of Tennessee is in Knoxville.
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If they keep it up, and have a good veterinarian program (kid's goal at the moment), they stay on the list.
Seriously, I am concerned I will have to put my kids through college before they go to college.
What is the problem here, are people bored? Life is not challenging enough?
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These universities should be required to issue something like a prospectus for each major. The information would focus on the students' prospects in the job market after they graduate, what are their chances of finding a job related to their field of study and, upon finding such a job, what are they likely to get paid for it. The information in the prospectus would also show an estimation of how long it would take to repay the student debt at the projected rate of pay. I'm guessing that once the students and their parents start gaining access to this information enrollment will drop precipitously.
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Ain't gonna happen, Abu. Somebody has to pay for the bloated administrative staff. Gotta protect their phony-balony jobs.
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My hope, DB, is that many of those jobs would go away. It might be kinda tough for some of those people to earn an honest living but in the long run it might be good for them.
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[WAPO] When Donald Trump occupies the White House in January, he will be a lot closer to the senior leaders at Boeing running the Air Force One program he has threatened to cancel. The company announced Tuesday that about a dozen of its senior defense leaders are moving from St. Louis to Boeing’s Washington-area headquarters.
The company has been discussing moving its defense unit to the Washington area for months, and it is not related to Trump’s recent vow, officials said. Rather it is "all driven by being closer to the customer," Boeing spokesman Todd Blecher said.
Earlier this year, Boeing appointed Leanne Caret to take over its Defense, Space and Security unit, a $30 billion business with 50,000 employees across the globe. Caret "puts a premium on personal engagement with senior leaders of the Pentagon, NASA and the Hill," Blecher said. "And so this has been under consideration for some number of months."
Many of the nation’s largest defense contractors -- including the likes of Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics -- are already in the Washington area. Northrop Grumman was one of the most recent to join, moving to Falls Church, Va., from Los Angeles in 2011. Federal contractor SAIC relocated its headquarters in San Diego to McLean, Va., two years earlier.
In all, about a dozen Boeing senior executives will make the move from St. Louis to Washington in January, and eventually about 50 staff members would join them. The company’s Washington operation center has its headquarters in a new, gleaming building in Crystal City, near the Pentagon.
The company’s corporate headquarters is in Chicago, but it has run its defense business out of St. Louis, where it builds the F/A-18 Super Hornet, ever since it merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997.
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Cyrstal City is it? Well, the real estate costs, lower taxes, excellent schools, crime free metro, less than an hour away from Iranian Interest Section located (Embassy of Pakistan), and easy motoring are certainly huge draws.
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Disclaimer-I am a Boeing employee in defense. This move was in the works for a long time. Leanne Caret is a pretty dynamic leader that understand St Louis is not where Boeing needs to be. St Louis used to be the home for Army aviation. That changed years ago and Boeing is one of the last to pull chocs and move.
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Well Pan, if you're TDY to Crystal City and enjoy Greek cuisine, try Athena Pallac on 22nd Street. Ask for Geo or Khya.
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Decentralize the government? Move Interior to Denver. Ag to Chicago. Treasury to NYC. Energy to Houston. Transportation to Memphis. NSA to Salt Lake City. State to St Louis, put the UN in East St Louis. What would go in San Fran, Atlanta, Boston, Miami, Dallas, Seattle
[The Hill] The CEO of IBM announced on the eve of a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump that the company plans to hire 25,000 "new collar" employees.
In a USA Today op-ed, CEO Ginni Rometty announced that the new jobs will come over the span of four years, including 6,000 in 2017.
"We are hiring because the nature of work is evolving ‐ and that is also why so many of these jobs remain hard to fill," wrote Rometty. "As industries from manufacturing to agriculture are reshaped by data science and cloud computing, jobs are being created that demand new skills ‐ which in turn requires new approaches to education, training and recruiting."
Rometty is one of a handful of tech executives who will be meeting with the president-elect at Trump Tower on Wednesday. She wrote that the company is also planning to spend $1 billion on training and developing IBM employees in the U.S.
[AnNahar] Turkish media say counterterrorism police have continued to detain members of a pro-Kurdish political party in the wake of deadly suicide kabooms.
State-run Anadolu Agency is reporting that two politicians of the Peoples' Democratic Party have been taken into custody in Ankara, the capital.
The report said they were taken into custody within the scope of two separate terror-related investigations in the southeastern cities of Batman and Diyarbakir.
[Ynet] Turkish authorities have detained 568 people over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) myrmidon group in the last two days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
235 of them were detained on Monday.
The operations, which followed the twin bombing in Istanbul on Saturday that killed 44 people outside a soccer stadium, were launched in 28 provinces across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from the northwest to the southeast, the ministry said in a statement
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At least 81 journalists are currently behind bars in Turkey facing charges related to their work -- the highest number in any one country at any one time, according to the CPJ. Dozens more journalists are imprisoned in Turkey but the CPJ was unable to confirm a direct link to their work.
China, which had the most journalists in jail in 2015 and 2014, dropped to second spot. There were 38 behind bars in 2016.
China has been named the world's worst jailer of journalists 18 times since 1990.
Egypt, Eritrea, and Ethiopia are third, fourth and fifth worst jailers of journalists, according to the report. [of course in some places they kill journalists rather than jail them]
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I'm only being a little facetious after seeing the "journalists" in this country by saying...
[GP] Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s Michigan recount unintentionally exposed major voter fraud in Detroit.
Election officials in Michigan found that 37% of precincts in Detroit tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. Hillary Clinton won Wayne County over Donald Trump 67% to 30%. State officials are planning to examine about 20 Detroit precincts where ballot discrepancies occurred.
Detroit News reported:
Voting machines in more than one-third of all Detroit precincts registered more votes than they should have during last month’s presidential election, according to Wayne County records prepared at the request of The Detroit News.
Detailed reports from the office of Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett show optical scanners at 248 of the city’s 662 precincts, or 37 percent, tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. Voting irregularities in Detroit have spurred plans for an audit by Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s office, Elections Director Chris Thomas said Monday.
The Detroit precincts are among those that couldn’t be counted during a statewide presidential recount that began last week and ended Friday following a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court.
Democrat Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly prevailed in Detroit and Wayne County. But Republican President-elect Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes or 47.5 percent to 47.3 percent.
Overall, state records show 10.6 percent of the precincts in the 22 counties that began the retabulation process couldn’t be recounted because of state law that bars recounts for unbalanced precincts or ones with broken seals. The problems were the worst in Detroit, where discrepancies meant officials couldn’t recount votes in 392 precincts, or nearly 60 percent. And two-thirds of those precincts had too many votes.
"There’s always going to be small problems to some degree, but we didn’t expect the degree of problem we saw in Detroit. This isn’t normal," said Krista Haroutunian, chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers.
State officials are planning to examine about 20 Detroit precincts where ballot boxes opened during the recount had fewer ballots than poll workers had recorded on Election Day.
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Don't you know - that was because of the 75,000 votes that never got counted there, and kept Hillary from winning. I read that someplace on the web so I know it's true.
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#1 They are going to blame this on Putin as well?
National People's Radio is shopping the story that this is simply the result of tired poll workers making mistakes after working long hours or improperly stacking boxes and damaging the seals. While once may be an accident, 60% of the time is a tad suspicious. Feel free to choose between corruption and incompetence as an explanation.
Michigan uses paper ballots that are marked with a felt-tip pen and run by hand thru an optical scanning machine. At the end of the day, ballots are counted and sealed in boxes. If the seal is broken or the tally doesn't match the actual number of ballots, that box cannot be recounted.
Like the man said, what matters is who gets to count the votes.
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If the seal is broken or the tally doesn't match the actual number of ballots, that box cannot be recounted. Ballots handed out to voters are not necessarily ballots cast by voters, but that is the way the rules are in Michigan. OTOH, when more votes are counted than registered voters exist in a precinct, that is definitely fishy.
[DAWN] SIALKOT: An 11-year-old boy was allegedly tortured to death by a security guard during shower of currency notes at a marriage hall here on Tuesday at Garha village, Daska tehsil.
Reports said some guests started showering currency notes at the arrival of a wedding party. Muhammad Danish tried to secure some cash when security guard Safdar got infuriated and he clubbed him.
The child suffered injuries to his head and died on way to Daska Civil Hospital. The body was shifted for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Bambaanwala police have placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... Safdar, a resident of Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... , and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Students at Oxford University have been urged to use gender neutral pronouns like "ze" instead of "he" or "she" when referring to each other, in an attempt not to offend transgender students.
[WAPO] When Donald Trump occupies the White House in January, he will be a lot closer to the senior leaders at Boeing running the Air Force One program he has threatened to cancel. The company announced Tuesday that about a dozen of its senior defense leaders are moving from St. Louis to Boeing’s Washington-area headquarters.
[The Hill] The CEO of IBM announced on the eve of a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump that the company plans to hire 25,000 "new collar" employees.
[GP] Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s Michigan recount unintentionally exposed major voter fraud in Detroit.
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
