November 2019 – News Views

Last Call-11-30-19

11/30/2019 Ms. G 10

It’s the last day of November. My, how time has flown by this year. I’ll make it short and sweet because I’ve been at the vet this afternoon getting my new kitten checked out. Someone MORE

53% Of Republicans Think Trump Is Better President Than Lincoln

11/30/2019 Surley 33

The Economist and YouGov published results of its latest polling on U.S. politics this week. One poll gauged Trump’s favorability versus Lincoln, who was the U.S. president between 1861 and 1865 and who steered America through the Civil War and abolished slavery. MORE

Wing Nut Watch: Roseanne Barr- featured speaker at Trumpette’s Mar a Lago gala

11/30/2019 Ms. G 27

Trump’s self-proclaimed “number one support group”, The Trumpettes, will hold their third annual gala at Mar a Lago the eve of Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1st. This year’s featured speaker will be none other than MORE

In a Wisconsin village, the doctor makes house calls — and sees the rarest diseases on Earth

11/30/2019 Rachel Kennedy 5

It is 5 degrees below zero and a light powdering of snow swirls across the roads of Vernon County. A few horses and buggies clop through the chill morning air, but Perry Hochstetler leaves his buggy at the family farm and has MORE

Fired Texas teacher who tweeted to Trump to ‘remove’ immigrants wins her appeal

11/30/2019 Ms. G 17

Back in May, Georgia Clark, a former high school English teacher in Fort Worth, posted a series of tweets asking Trump to remove undocumented students from her school. At the time Ms. Clarke posted her MORE

Utah substitute teacher fired for ranting to fifth graders that ‘homosexuality is wrong.’

11/30/2019 Ms. G 23

The week before Thanksgiving, a Utah substitute teacher asked her fifth grade class, “What are you thankful for this year?” Some kids replied they were thankful they didn’t have to go to school, for their MORE

DHS IG report: Trump Administration lacked the technology to reunite separated kids with their families

11/30/2019 Ms. G 25

The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found that the Trump administration anticipated it would separate 26,000 children if the “zero tolerance” policy of 2018 had been allowed to continue, and that the MORE

Trump’s photo op play: Facing impeachment, the president strives to look hard at work

11/30/2019 Rachel Kennedy 17

As Democrats in Congress push to impeach him, President Trump has toured a manufacturing plant in Texas, boasted about economic gains and signed numerous bills. He served turkey to U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Thanksgiving MORE

Bonkersville: Ohio Abortion Bills Contains Provisions for a Medical Procedure That Doesn’t Even Exist.

11/30/2019 Community 20

A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into a woman’s uterus – a procedure that does not exist in medical science – or face charges MORE

Liveblog - The Hague, Netherlands: Several injured in knife attack on busy street with police hunting suspect

11/29/2019 forkless 20

Dutch police said on Friday that several people had been wounded in a stabbing on a shopping street in The Hague. Hague police said they were seeking a man aged between 45 and 50 wearing a MORE

Behind Trump’s secret war-zone trip: A Mar-a-Lago escape, a twin Air Force One and a Twitter plan

11/29/2019 Rachel Kennedy 37

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump started his day like so many others at his south Florida resort: a relaxing round of golf, a few sharp tweets and then a White House announcement MORE

Skittles’ Book Reached #1 Thanks to the GOP Buying it in Bulk

11/29/2019 Community 44

The mystery over whether Donald Trump Jr’s new book deserved its place at No 1 in the New York Times bestseller list has deepened after it emerged that the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent $94,800 (£74,000) on MORE

Major incident at London Bridge; several people injured

11/29/2019 Ms. G 31

Police say several people have been stabbed close to London Bridge, and a man has been detained. The Metropolitan Police force says officer were called Friday afternoon “to a stabbing at premises near to London MORE

GOP Senate Foot Dragging Puts Native Women’s Live in Danger

11/29/2019 Community 16

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a landmark 1994 bill aimed at curbing domestic and sexual violence, which currently has to be renewed every five years, lapsed in February. On Thursday, the GOP unveiled its counterintuitive, anti-Indigenous VAWA replacement. MORE

Climate change protests: Marches worldwide ahead of UN talks

11/29/2019 Community 7

Three days before the start of the UN climate conference in Madrid, people took to the streets on Friday in 2,400 cities across 157 countries to protest government inaction on climate change. The Fridays for Future movement expects MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 48

11/29/2019 Rachel Kennedy 69

Happy Black Friday, News Viewers, although Thursday is now Black Thursday according to Wal-Mart. Not sure what to call Wednesday though–how about “another day Trump moved unimpeded throughout the world”? SO of course, he made MORE

ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university in Farmington Hills, set up by ICE, to lure in students

11/28/2019 Community 29

About 90 additional foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/ A total of about 250 students have now been arrested MORE

WTF Just Happened? What Say You?

11/28/2019 Surley 23

Looks like Trump’s wiglet got sucked into a jet engine. I believe it was Air Force One’s engine. I don’t think it’s photo shopped, but not sure. https://twitter.com/howroute/status/1200102605696970753?s=20 Here’s a couple comments I liked. I MORE

Senator Cruz Knocks Chick-fil-A Over Past Donation to SPLC

11/28/2019 Surley 50

If true, @ChickfilA has badly lost its way. Millions of Christians have been proud of ChickFilA’s courageous stands for religious liberty. To fund those who hate your customers is just sad. https://t.co/fF8Po4eu8l — Ted Cruz MORE

Rep. Omar’s challenger, serial shoplifter Daniella Stella, banned from Twitter for lynching comments

11/28/2019 Ms. G 40

Twitter has officially closed and suspended Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Q supporting and serial shoplifting challenger, Danielle Stella’s Twitter account after she called for hanging Rep. Omar. In her conspiracy polluted mind, Stella “referred to unfounded MORE

Month: November 2019