Brainless, stupid, ignorant, marching us over the cliff.

kingdragonfly: Here's the back and forth - from "State of the Union" on CNN Sunday. ...

Vice Pres. Pence: I think we're making great progress reducing carbon emissions, America has the cleanest air and water in the world. We will continue to use market forces...

kingdragonfly: Here's the back and forth - from "State of the Union" on CNN Sunday. ...

Vice Pres. Pence: ... with clean coal technology, we're seeing - we're seeing a significant reduction in carbon emissions all across this country. ...

...Murray yesterday commended President Trump's announcement that he would try to boost some coal exports, but he said that ultimately what the sector needs is for EPA to nix the endangerment finding.

Perry also has touted carbon capture and sequestration technologies for coal plants, even as he questions whether climate science is settled.

Murray said carbon capture won't help, either.

"Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It's a pseudonym for 'no coal,'" Murray said while waiting for a ride outside DOE headquarters. "It is neither practical nor economic, carbon capture and sequestration. It is just cover for the politicians, both Republicans and Democrats that say, 'Look what I did for coal,' knowing all the time that it doesn't help coal at all."

Murray acknowledged that the legal fight over the endangerment finding would be "tough." He thinks that's because climate activists and renewable power producers want to keep making money off climate change.

"All these people will be jumping on this on the other side because it's all about money, but it is not about America. America needs reliable, low-cost electricity, and that is a mix of different fuels," he said.

Murray also wants Perry to use emergency authority to stop coal and nuclear plant closures, although lawyers have said that is unlikely to happen

Still, Murray, who is close with the president, said he thinks Trump would be "receptive" to the idea.

American pays US$ 775/night for each kid in a concentration camp (no other name for it). And they don't have toobrushes or soap, sleep on the floor and have nights on all day and night.

As the old saying goes, follow the money. Oh, and the racists.

freitasm:

 

American pays US$ 775/night for each kid in a concentration camp (no other name for it). And they don't have toobrushes or soap, sleep on the floor and have nights on all day and night.

 

As the old saying goes, follow the money. Oh, and the racists.

 

Mueller to testify next month.

 

I am pleased to announce that @HouseJudiciary and House Intel will have Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify in open session on July 17, pursuant to a subpoena issued this evening. https://t.co/wR0CEVqpJC

We look forward to having Mr. Mueller testify, as do all Americans. pic.twitter.com/UEKihMEYXI

 

— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) June 26, 2019

Sadly, this is only slightly off topic ...

The New York Times - The Story Behind the Photo of Two Migrants Found Dead in the Rio Grande

June 25, 2019

Crossing the Rio Grande has long been one of the many deadly hurdles migrants face as they try to enter the United States.

 

A photograph published online Monday by a Mexican newspaper, La Jornada, served as a jarring reminder of the journey’s perils: the bodies of a man and his 23-month-old daughter floating face down on the banks near Brownsville, Tex.

 

The girl is tucked under his shirt, her arm wrapped around his neck.

 

The photograph drew widespread attention as an image of yet another death along the border at a time when migrants, particularly families from Central America, have arrived in increasing numbers. ...

 

[La Jornada] identified the migrants in the photograph as Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, from El Salvador.

 

Mr. Martínez’s wife told La Jornada that they had been waiting at a camp in Matamoros, on the Mexican side of a bridge that connects the city to Brownsville, for two months to present their asylum claims to United States officials.

 

On Sunday, they decided to cross the river on their own.

 

Mr. Martínez had taken his daughter in his arms, crossed the river and put her on dry land. When Mr. Martínez went back for his wife, Valeria jumped into the water.

 

When he tried to rescue her, both were pulled under. ...

 

This is obscene. Although I am not religious, I hope there is a hell and I hope that Trump and his evil enablers burn in it. America should hang its head in shame, if it still has any left.

Hell? The right-wing supporters, mainly evangelicals and new christians, are so far removed from Christ's teaching that these people don't have the moral level to tell anyone about anything anymore.

Rikkitic:

 

This is obscene. Although I am not religious, I hope there is a hell and I hope that Trump and his evil enablers burn in it. America should hang its head in shame, if it still has any left.

 

 

 

Wrong god, the USA worships the almighty dollar now. This is why they don't get upset when civilians are killed by the Saudis bombing Yemen, the US got paid lot of money so they are happy to ignore the war crimes.

freitasm:

 

Hell? The right-wing supporters, mainly evangelicals and new christians, are so far removed from Christ's teaching that these people don't have the moral level to tell anyone about anything anymore.

 

BREAKING ...

The New York Times - Reopened Legal Challenge to Census Citizenship Question Throws Case Into Chaos

June 25, 2019

The battle over whether to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday, just as the Supreme Court was expected to issue a ruling on the dispute this week.

 

By allowing a district judge to reopen a case related to the origin of the question, a federal appeals court raised the prospect that the federal government might be unable to meet a deadline for completing census questionnaires that include it, regardless of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

 

New hearings in the reopened case would stretch well beyond July 1, which is the deadline for printing the questionnaire and other forms. The Census Bureau has said that meeting that deadline is essential to conducting the national head count on time.

 

The case had appeared to be on a fast track to a resolution - until documents on the computer backups of a deceased Republican strategist, Thomas B. Hofeller, emerged last month.

 

Those documents revealed new details about the genesis of the question, casting additional doubt on the Trump administration’s rationale for asking 2020 census respondents whether they are citizens.

 

In a 2-to-1 ruling on Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit halted its review of a decision in two Maryland lawsuits challenging the citizenship question and returned the case to United States District Judge George J. Hazel.

 

The judge had asked last week to reopen the case so that Mr. Hofeller’s newly discovered files could be factored into his ruling. ...