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rpannier's JournalSen. Jill Tokuda Expected To Be Ousted As Ways And Means Chair
State Sen. Jill Tokuda is being forced out of her position as head of the powerful money committee in the midst of 11th-hour debate over funding for the Honolulu rail project.
Tokuda told Civil Beat on Wednesday evening a resolution would be introduced on the Senate floor to remove her from from her position as chairwoman of the Ways and Means Committee.
When asked why she is being removed, Tokuda said, “I took a really hardline stance in terms of not wanting to extend the general excise tax for any long period of time,” for the rail project. “When the bill came out of my committee, it required only the skim being returned to the city.”
http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/05/sen-jill-tokuda-expected-to-be-ousted-as-ways-and-means-chair/?mc_cid=934ac14e4d&mc_eid=0728172017
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Happy Buddha's Birthday and Golden Week
If you're a Buddhist, today is April 8th on the Lunar Calendar, so Happy Buddha's Birthday
For both Japan and Korea, the week is kind of a shut down week as Children's Day is this Friday May 5th.
In Japan, this is referred to ask Golden Week. Many people took the whole week off and many schools did as well.
In Korea, it's Wednesday to Sunday no work or school either. Though some took off Monday and Tuesday as well
Happy Buddha's Birthday to all You Buddhists out there
in Korea 석가탄신일
It is April 8th on the Lunar Calendar.
Today, here in Boseong, Korea, there were several small Temple festivities.
The larger temples in the bigger cities, like Seoul, hold a huge parade the weekend before his birthday
I din't go this year... So... no pictures
Sorry about that
Next Year
China's first androgynous all-girl pop band challenges ideal of femininity
China's all-girl "boy band", FFC-Acrush, had more than 749,000 followers on social networking site Weibo even before any of their music was released.
Sporting short bobs, loose T-shirts and barely there makeup, Acrush's androgynous look is bucking centuries-old norms in a society where girls strive to look feminine and act demurely.
Marketed by sports brand Fantasy Football Confederation (FFC), the five women - aged 18 to 24 - held their first news conference in Beijing on Friday as their first single "Action" was released.
"We want the girls to break the mould," the band's agent, Zhou Xiaobai, told Reuters.
The letter 'A' in the band's name is a reference to the god Adonis - the archetype of youthful male beauty in Greek mythology.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-band-idUSKBN17U1LM
Priebus, Hair Douchengroper and his minions are concerned about press lies
per Priebus "But when you have articles out there that have no basis or fact and we're sitting here on 24-7 cable companies writing stories..."
Kind of like...
the bs stories about Obama being from Kenya.
or the bs stories about his birth certificate
or the bs stories about Hilary Clinton being medically unfit because of some phantom seizure
or the bs stories about Obama being a closet Muslim (or for the freeper trolls... Muslin)
I didn't hear fucking squat of outrage from PR BS Reince about any of that.
So fuck off Reinceid
Called Senator Enzi's office today to provide my 'unwavering support'
Senator Enzi told a group of middle school and high schools “We always say that in Wyoming you can be just about anything you want to be, as long as you don’t push it in somebody’s face,” and then went on some sort of tangent about guys wearing tutus in bars. Something I was unaware of that must happen often in Wyoming or something
Anyway, I talked to this very nice woman in his office and told her, "I for one wish to let the senator know of my unwavering support for what the senator said. I am in 100% agreement with him."
She thanked me.
Then I said, "I for one am sick and tired of people thrusting stuff in my face in public when I just want to be left alone. I cannot tell you the number of times I've been some place and there are people with their big printed shirts and their signs telling us how much they love Jesus and how we need to repent, or some other religious thingy. Talk about invasive. I've been on subway trains and buses and stuff and some person begins preaching to all there about his or her faith in God and how we're all going to hell if we don't repent. It's about time someone said what most of us think and that's 'You can be just about anything as long as you don't push it in my face."
She then told me Enzi believes in people having a right to their faith and doesn't find them at all intrusive and hung up on me.
Nasty Nastase really is Nasty and rather pathetic
Those of us who paid only mild attention to tennis in the 1970's can tell you the names of men's tennis players like Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Bork, Arthur Ashe, John McEnroe, etc. One of those names is/was Ilie Nastase, aka Nasty Nastase.
He was tennis racket slamming, hot-tempered, screaming at officials long before John McEnroe. It seems that his earned nickname is most appropriate. Not only is the man a juvenile, screeching, whining, over indulged a$$, he is also a racist, misogynist (Oh and victim. I'll get to that at the end)
According to the Times London
...about Williams, who is pregnant and taking a break from the sport. Nastase said: “Let’s see what colour [the child] has. Chocolate with milk?”
Nastase is also being investigated by the ITF for sexist comments he made to Johanna Konta, the British No 1. and Anne Keothavong, the team captain.
Nastase, of course, did nothing wrong according to him. And of course, he's the victim.
“It’s nothing new. I am like that on the court,” Nastase, who also directed abuse towards match officials, said. “What did I do? I killed somebody? I don’t understand. My God!”
According to him He also rescued Wimbledon because he played in 1973, during the player boycott of the event.
Expressing incomprehension as to how his conduct during a Fed Cup event could have any bearing on his status as a Wimbledon guest, he said: “What can I do? Maybe these people are sick in the head? Really.”
Nastase said that if he were banned from the Royal Box he would not come to Wimbledon as a spectator.
And I am certain that all Britain mourns that this individual will not attend Wimbledon.
Some people. Not sure which would be worse; to find out he really is a racist, that he is just playing one for the attention, or that he is just so clueless he can't see it
Yes folks, friends and neighbors, Marion 'Pat' Robertson is right
We have been raising a nation of wimps
And it all started about four decades ago with a group of white, Christians (who are/were0 about four-fifths of the country complaining when they didn't get 100% of everything they wanted.
No prayer in public schools... Oh, the persecution!
Only 99.8% of all elected representatives in the US are Jewish or Christian... It's Armageddon
No Christmas shows in public schools?... We are being driven from all aspects of society
Some politician or public figure somewhere didn't thank God or Jesus... Christianity has been driven from all manner of public discourse!
Some figure in the media criticizes something dumb they say or do... It's the Holocaust all over again!
Criticism of the Grahams, the Pope, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, etc... the horror of the anti-Christian society
Let's not ever forget Marion 'Pat' Robertson claiming that Christians in America were the most persecuted group on the planet.
Yeah... worse than the Romani are treated in Europe. Christians in North Korea are run over by tanks. The Falun Gong in China anyone?
Christians in the US, big houses, cars, well paying jobs, their members filling jobs both public and private. So, so persecuted. How do they ever survive?
Come on Marion. Buck up Buttercup! Stop being so weak
What United and other airlines likely do not tell you
From the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University
250.5 Amount of denied boarding compensation for passengers denied boarding involuntarily.
(a) Subject to the exceptions provided in § 250.6, a carrier to whom this part applies as described in § 250.2 shall pay compensation in interstate air transportation to passengers who are denied boarding involuntarily from an oversold flight as follows:
(1) No compensation is required if the carrier offers alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if none, the airport of the passenger's final destination not later than one hour after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight;
(2) Compensation shall be 200% of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, with a maximum of $675, if the carrier offers alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if none, the airport of the passenger's final destination more than one hour but less than two hours after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight; and
(3) Compensation shall be 400% of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, with a maximum of $1,350, if the carrier does not offer alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if none, the airport of the passenger's final destination less than two hours after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight.
(b) Subject to the exceptions provided in § 250.6, a carrier to whom this part applies as described in § 250.2 shall pay compensation to passengers in foreign air transportation who are denied boarding involuntarily at a U.S. airport from an oversold flight as follows:
(1) No compensation is required if the carrier offers alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if not, the airport of the passenger's final destination not later than one hour after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight;
(2) Compensation shall be 200% of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, with a maximum of $675, if the carrier offers alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if not, the airport of the passenger's final destination more than one hour but less than four hours after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight; and
(3) Compensation shall be 400% of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, with a maximum of $1,350, if the carrier does not offer alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if not, the airport of the passenger's final destination less than four hours after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight.
(c) Carriers may offer free or reduced rate air transportation in lieu of the cash or check due under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, if -
(1) The value of the transportation benefit offered, excluding any fees or other mandatory charges applicable for using the free or reduced rate air transportation, is equal to or greater than the cash/check payment otherwise required;
(2) The carrier fully informs the passenger of the amount of cash/check compensation that would otherwise be due and that the passenger may decline the transportation benefit and receive the cash/check payment; and
(3) The carrier fully discloses all material restrictions, including but not limited to, administrative fees, advance purchase or capacity restrictions, and blackout dates applicable to the offer, on the use of such free or reduced rate transportation before the passenger decides to give up the cash/check payment in exchange for such transportation. (See also § 250.9(c)).
link
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5
Franciscan superiors ask pope to allow brothers to be elected leaders
ROME - The superiors of the four main branches of the Franciscan friars formally asked Pope Francis for permission to allow their communities to elect brothers to positions of leadership in their communities.
“With us Pope Francis is looking at the possibilities for moving this project forward,” Father Michael Perry, minister general of the Friars Minor, told Vatican Radio. “We left a letter as a formal request for a dispensation” from canon law requirements that in most religious orders with both priests and brothers only a priest can be elected to the top leadership offices.
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The rules governing eligibility for leadership in religious orders with a strong mix of brothers and priests - especially if those orders, like the Franciscans, were founded without distinction between lay and ordained - has been going on since the Second Vatican Council.
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Still, for orders like the Franciscans in which most members are priests, the Vatican has insisted that ordination is a requisite for “the power of governance.” It has vetoed the election of brothers as superiors of orders that have more priests than brothers as members, even when the order’s constitutions do not insist the superior be a priest.
link
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/04/11/franciscan-superiors-ask-pope-allow-brothers-elected-leaders/
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