Hello all. Again it is CNN, so don’t even bother with the CC. I looked on CBS and MSNBC and couldn’t find this information on either site, and I also have one more CNN video I am trying to find else where.
The reason this video is important is it shows what a country can do for its people when it is not giving all the wealth produced in that country to the most wealthy few and large corporations. Think of the US military spending but we don’t have this which should be part of the military budget IMO. But this is for the people and saves the people, and it doesn’t make profit for defense contractors or give wealth to the rich. Finland can do it, but again the US cannot, but we are #1 right. Hugs
Dutifully parroted by state media outlet Russia Today:
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar (Arizona) has condemned the push from both parties in Washington to send billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. Gosar, an immigration hardliner and anti-interventionist, was one of 57 GOP lawmakers to vote against a $40 billion economic and military aid bill for Ukraine on Tuesday.
While a number of Republicans have been vocal in their opposition to fueling a “proxy war” in Ukraine, the GOP establishment has shouted down these critics, with conservative talk show host Mark Levin on Wednesday referring to the anti-war contingent of the party as “Putin a**-kissers.”
“Ukraine is not our ally,” Gosar shot back. “Russia is not our enemy. We need to address our crippling debt, inflation and immigration problems. None of this is Putin’s fault.”
Ukraine is not our ally. Russia is not our enemy. We need to address our crippling debt, inflation and immigration problems. None of this is Putin's fault.
This is audio only about the recent Alito leaked abortion draft. If you don’t like the opening patter, please skip to the main interview. There is a lot of valuable information and analysis and something I missed was Alito compared same gender sex to prostitution. Shows how he views gays and lesbians. If this ruling stands as he wrote it we are all screwed because he says that if the constitution doesn’t explicitly grant the right, then tradition that his religion supports must be followed. It is weird to hear how he ignores and hand waves away things that have been said are in the constitution and how he bases his reasoning on his religion more than the constitution. I have backed this up a dozen times to rehear parts such as how Alito tries hard to push the idea that a fetus is a person with full rights that he then ignores the woman has. The 14th amendments has always been according to speeches of the time read and by judges to promote the idea that liberty at its core has been to have the right to marry who you love, to have the children be in your home, to not have them taken by others, and basically to refute the entire idea of not just slavery but what it meant to be a person without liberty and control over your own life. Alito’s ruling tries to destroy that entire concept. Hugs
Prayer in school has been a recent debate in the Supreme Court.
The case involves Joe Kennedy, a former high school football coach who was fired for allegedly pressuring students to perform Christian prayers.
Back in 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that New York state public schools could not begin school days with a state-composed prayer.
The court’s opinion was that the practice violated the First Amendment’s establishment clause since it amounted to government-sponsored religious instruction.
The Supreme Court now leads with more conservative judges and seems to be searching April 25 to rule in favor of a former coach who was fired for praying.
In the United States, Pew research shows a recent sharp decline in Christianity.
65 percent of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade.
Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12 percent in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult population
So what’s next for the Wylie ISD teacher? She has since refused to resign and says this can go on her record.
It was also expressed that one Wylie teacher retired early because of a threatened lawsuit.
“We need to stand firm in our principles and faith,” Parrish said.
Since news broke of her firing, Parrish said she feels “blessed” by the response she’s gotten in the following statement:
“Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out. You have no idea how much it means to me and my family. Being a teacher and coach is one of my greatest blessings. I’m so thankful to God for the special amazing students and athletes that he placed in my life. You all have blessed me more than you’ll ever know. Our family appreciates your continued prayers. Blessings to you.”
Nellie Parrish
The Wylie ISD superintendent has since responded, disputing her claims:
“Nellie Parrish’s contract termination was not because of prayer or Christianity,” said Light.
“This is false information and district personnel matters will not be discussed due to privacy,
Parrish said the school would play Christian music in the cafeteria alongside holding a prayer before football games, adding that Joey Light, the district’s superintendent, is known to lead a prayer on the first day of school.
Her claims are bullshit. They can’t just terminate her for no clear reason. If she was new to that district and still probationary status, they could non-renew her contract. That would make me wonder if she had been released from other districts for similar reasons. Something is missing from this story.
A gentle reminder: Not all Christians proselytize.
I’m married to a devout Christian man. He’s never – in the 48 years we’ve been together – proselytized in any way to me. Like all good and compassionate people of faith, he keeps his personally-held religious beliefs to himself, with no desire to “convert” anyone to anything.
He’s far from alone.
There are many many good and compassionate people of faith.
Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks and Andy Biggs are all GOP lawmakers who refused to sit down for voluntary interviews with the January 6th Committee. In a bold move, the committee issued subpoenas for all five of them. Former RNC Chair Michael Steele joins Katie Phang to discuss.
An investigation by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology reports that ICE has accessed a lot of personal data and crafted a surveillance network designed to spy on people in the U.S.
Is this the US exceptionalism that the right keeps saying we need to instruct kids in schools? No this is the part of history they want to whitewash away. This is what the rabid right wing and Republicans like DeathSantis and Stephen Miller do not want US kids to know about. The US was not always the shining knight doing the best thing for everyone. The US like every country has a dark past that needs to be acknowledged and accepted so we can heal and never repeat them again. But if the right can erase these actions then they can also repeat them.
The potential Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could have repercussions for fertility treatments such as IVF. Dr. Stephanie Gustin, the medical director for the Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine in Nebraska, joins CBS News’ Lilia Luciano to discuss.
Can someone tell me why this action by the Israeli military is supported by the civilized world? Why does the US give billions of dollars a year to a country that has a population of people they attack even as those people try to have a funeral for their members killed by that very military? She was a clearly marked member of the press that the Israeli military did not want to report their abuses of the Palestinian people. So they killed her. Then they attacked her funeral and harassed her parents at their home that day claiming the occupied people who have no rights to fly or hold up their own flags. It might upset the good real people of the nation, the Jewish people. I am not an antisemite and shouldn’t have to say that. Criticizing the actions of a belligerent government against people unable to defend themselves is not bigotry against the Jewish people. The people of Palestine have no rights. They live under military rule. Their children can and often are rounded up and detained for no reason and the government doesn’t need a reason according to the Israeli government. The Palestinians live in an open air prison under military rule of an occupying army and they have no rights. The Israeli position is that they want to make it so horrible that all these people either die or leave, giving all of the land to the occupiers, who claim it’s all theirs given to them by their god. And the US government supports this. Your tax dollars support this. Hugs
Disturbing video shows Israeli riot police clashing with mourners at the funeral for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed two days earlier as she covered an army raid in the Israeli occupied West Bank. At one point, the tussling becomes so intense that her coffin almost topples to the ground.
