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Craig Fry
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So Cal.
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New North Carolina anti-LGBT law secretly impacts the state’s minimum wages and other labor rights issues, ALEC sponsored legislation that is being introduced in other states
Sold as keeping transgender people out of women's bathrooms, it's really restricting the minimum wage, minority rights, abortion restrictions and 1000 other poison pills brought to you from the Republican conservative leaders and the Koch brothers
http://wncn.com/2016/03/25/new-north-carolina-law-impacts-states-minimum-wages/
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – The bill passed by lawmakers Thursday putting a stop to Charlotte’s transgender ordinance includes language that impacts more than just the LGBT community.
It also allows the state to have control over minimum wage rates, meaning local governments can’t set their own.
The portion of the bill doesn’t change the minimum wage; it doesn’t directly affect what people will make. What it does do is take away another option.
“That’s another sign to show that the state of North Carolina doesn’t care about certain individuals, the working class people,” he said.
North Carolina’s LGBT law may have impact on women, minorities
HB2 sections on minimum wage, state legal filings affect all workers
One black lawmaker says he was unaware of HB2’s broader impact
Activists say LGBT equality is divisive issue among African Americans
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article69527867.html#storylink=cpy
HB2 limits the rights of North Carolinians to file workplace discrimination complaints under state law. For the past 30 years, a North Carolina law has allowed workers to sue their employers over “wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.” It appears HB2 eliminates that.
It's all about having the Religious liberty to screw whomever the religious sensitive find offensive or low lifes
and a republican excuse to slip in any corporate friendly law that will screw some other voiceless group, like the poor and dwindling middle class.
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HighDesertDJ
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2016 - 05:12am PT
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blahblah posted Bu-bu-bu-but I thought SCOTUS couldn't do anything because those mean Republicans aren't letting Obama put his favorite hard core liberal on the Court!
Fortunately, the justices put more thought into their decision than you do into your posting because the ruling was 8-0.
blahblah posted I'll try one more time:
The conservatives lost a vote with Scalia's death and went from having a 5-4 majority (in most cases) to a 4-4 tie. They won't be helped by going from a 4-4 tie to a 4-5 loss.
This is not to say I support the Repub strategy of not giving Obama's nominee a hearing (I don't), but that's another matter.
Thank you having no problem dispensing with idea that Republicans believe in vetting justices based on their qualifications and not based on ideology.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2016 - 08:05am PT
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Employers have stuck with health care coverage despite predictions that many would abandon it and put people on the exchanges after Obamacare was passed. I personally would have welcomed that change but it was sold as a negative at the time.
The US is cracking down on tax inversions (paywall) in an effort to keep tax dollars and jobs at home.
Cruz and Sanders are projected to win their respective Wisconsin primaries today. National media has made it sound like a massive turning point for Trump, mostly because of the terrible week he had leading up to it. For Sanders the question will be "win by how much?" given that it's still all about the delegates.
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dirtbag
climber
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The GOP has been strong in southern states, but apparently they've decided they want to be on the wrong side of history and voting demography by enacting hate laws.
It will be interesting to see whether their anti-gay marriage platform plank will be revived in 2016.
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NutAgain!
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South Pasadena, CA
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It is a momentous time in our country, with possible horror or really positive reforms in our future. I don't in any way want to diminish the seriousness of that.
But this is funny.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2016 - 06:06am PT
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Thanks for the video, Nut. Will catch it later.
Sanders won Wisconsin by about 13 points and netted 14 delegates against his pledged delegate deficit leaving him 249 behind Clinton. Sanders will need to win 65% of the remaining pledged delegates to pull ahead of Clinton. I've heard this means winning 57% of the vote which I am unclear on but assume there are some bonus delegates awarded for various things that are unclear. The next big contest is in New York 13 days and it sounds like the candidates have agreed to another debate in Brooklyn.
It should be noted that Hillary Clinton continues to have a larger pledged delegate lead over Sanders and Obama ever had over Clinton in 2008.
Cruz took the lion's share of Wisconsin's delegates, making a contested Republican convention much more likely.
George Mason University renamed their law school after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia but then had to scrap the name because the acronym worked out to be "ASSoL."
Pfizer and Allergen had to scrap their merger, intended as a tax inversion by Pfizer, due to new rules to deter such activity.
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dirtbag
climber
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More trouble in Republican la-la land?
34% of Trump's supporters say they would not vote for another republican candidate:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0X60B3
I have a feeling that Hillary hatred would prevail and cause some of that 34% to get behind the Republican nominee, but a lot would depend on whether Trump would step aside graciously or encourage his supporters to boycott the election.
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Boycott? Is that what you do in between the riots?
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2016 - 05:09am PT
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/07254443ef744fb3a6a509c6453aea5f/prosecutors-sentencing-recommendation-due-hastert-case
Republicans spent over 100 million taxpayer dollars on an eight-year long witch hunt of Bill Clinton. Investigating every possible thing they could invent or imagine that he had done. This resulted in the Lewinsky Scandal.
Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who led this witch hunt, ended up resigning in disgrace after it was discovered that he had been having his own affair with one of his interns - while he'd been attempting to destroy Clinton - and while his wife lay sick with cancer in the hospital. Gingrich was replaced as Speaker by Republican Bob Livingston, until it was discovered that he had been having multiple sexual extramarital affairs himself...and he too was forced to resign in disgrace.
But then...Republicans needed to find the most honest, most squeaky-clean Republican in the entire history of the "Family Values" Republican Party, so as to avoid any further scandal and embarrassment. After a lengthy search, that shining paragon of Republican virtue was none other than...Dennis Hastert.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Apr 11, 2016 - 06:28am PT
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100 million taxpayer dollars?
Newt resigned over Callista scandal?
TMZ is not real news.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2016 - 06:34am PT
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Paul Ryan has begun what I think is essentially a campaign for backup nominee. Just like his speakership, he won't agree or even say he's interested until all other options have been exhausted and then he will step in as the savior of the Republican Party. He even has an Obamaesque new video:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Edward posted 100 million taxpayer dollars?
The Starr investigation alone was nearly $40 million with all the investigations totaling about $80 million in 1990's dollars. What I quoted was a comment that nicely summed up the hypocrisy of Republican grandstanding.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2016 - 08:21am PT
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$100 Million? What, did they buy a bunch of the Pentagon's $7600 toilet seats?
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2016 - 09:44am PT
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I'm pretty sure they bought the premise for undermining Hillary's legitimacy as President. Pretty good deal considering the rest of us got to pay for it.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 11, 2016 - 10:01am PT
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The biggest threat to America now is these Religious Freedom laws being imposed in Red States.
They allow for lawful bigotry, hate, and restricted freedoms of the people they are aimed at demonizing. Who cares if a transgender uses a women's bathroom? Idiots do..
Will they molest you?
No, but they get killed by bigots all the time in men's restrooms.
But these laws go way past bathrooms, you can hang a sign saying no gays (why not hang a sign saying no blacks)
They are really just back lash against gay marriage being legalized.
In these Red states you can say No marrying gays if it's your job to sign marriage licenses, all you have to say is it's against my religion "screw my job", I don't want them gays marrying in my state.
All because of stupid people voting for nut case far right winger State legislature and Governors.
How many people of the State want these backwards laws?
Small minorities, yet the Christians are shoving them down the throats of their entire state.
It's just take take take the freedoms away, until nothing's left that's good for the people.
But they voted for it, so they must be stupid, there is no other explanation.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2016 - 10:10am PT
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The biggest threat is these Religious Freedom laws being imposed in Red States.
Seriously? I guess I'm too much of an old skool lib thinking it is still the unfettered spending
and war-mongering by the Pentagon. $1.5 TRILLION is the newly revised price tag for
the F-35 Boondoggle. That would almost pay for half of Bernie's $3 Trillion in largesse.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 11, 2016 - 11:17am PT
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More trouble in Republican la-la land?
34% of Trump's supporters say they would not vote for another republican candidate:
Those are probably the Democrats who support Trump. Remember, the more Democrats in a particular precinct, the better Trump does. I suspect that at least that percentage of Republicans would not support Trump if he were the nominee. More importantly, it doesn't matter how many of any particular subgourp support a nominee, it matters what majority of what states support the nominee. The polls that purport to show the truly relevant numbers all show Trump has no chance, but Kasich does.
Also, am I the only one who finds it significant that perhaps our most unrepentant partisan Democrat onthis forum finds religious freedom the greatest threat to the contemporary United States?
John
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 11, 2016 - 11:22am PT
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Those are probably the Democrats who support Trump.
This is the biggest BS I've heard this election cycle
What Democrats???
You are completely delusional
every Trump voter is a right winger, Fact
Why must you deny reality about the Republican Party, they love Trump, they will vote for him, and THEY will riot at the Convention.
They are only Republican Voters, not liberals, not Democrats, not liberal independents, not women, not minorities, not LBGT.
70% of the total population despise Trump
That means only 30% don't despise him, how can that number contain any Democrats or Liberals????
show the truly relevant numbers all show Trump has no chance, but Kasich does More delusion, how are Kasich's numbers going to give him a chance?
but not Trump's numbers?
am I the only one who finds it significant that perhaps our most unrepentant partisan Democrat on this forum finds religious freedom the greatest threat to the contemporary United States?
JE Yes why is that?
I guess you don't mind them passing Sharia Law if it's your law.
It's only religious freedom if you are a racist, bigoted hating Christian.
What other Religions get freedom from the Christian Repression and hate laws used against them?
None
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