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Demovictory9's JournalTrump is having difficulty juggling so many lies
Uh-oh. President Trump is in such a state of panic about his dimming reelection prospects that hes getting his lies mixed up and occasionally blurting out the truth.
Its tough for Apple to pay tariffs if its competing with a very good company [Samsung] thats not, the president told reporters Sunday flatly contradicting the ridiculous and utterly false narrative that he has spent months trying to sell. Trump apparently forgot his standard lie that China is somehow paying billions of dollars in tariffs, acknowledging instead that they are taxes paid by U.S. companies and, ultimately, the American consumer.
This reflects more than just the difficulty of juggling multiple lies. Evidence suggests that Trump is melting down. Again.
And for good reason.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-melting-down-again/2019/08/19/814b65e4-c2b3-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html
French couple faces prison time for taking 90 pounds of sand from Sardinia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sardinia-sand-theft-french-couple-faces-prison-time-after-being-caught-with-90-pounds-of-sand/A French couple is facing years of jail time after stealing almost 90 pounds of sand from Sardinia, the Italian island known for its picturesque beaches. The alleged thieves told police they were taking the sand home because they wanted to keep it as a "souvenir," Italian media reported Monday.
According to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, two French citizens poured white sand into 14 plastic bottles from Chia, a beach in southern Sardinia, and put them in the trunk of their SUV. The couple wanted to take it home as a memory of their vacation, but instead were caught on a ferry en route to Toulon, France.
The pair was charged with theft under aggravated circumstance for having stolen from a public beach. They face between one and six years of jail time, according to the report.
A young Indian couple married for love. Then the bride's father hired assassins.
MIRYALAGUDA, India They were young, glamorous and dreamily in love.
Pranay Perumalla strode into the wedding hall in a midnight blue suit, his face lit by a grin as he clasped the hand of his bride, Amrutha Varshini. The couple draped huge garlands of flowers around one anothers necks and relatives threw grains of yellow rice that caught in their dark hair.
But even as they celebrated, they were already in danger.
One bright afternoon less than a month later, the couple left a doctors appointment in the small southern Indian city where they grew up. A man came up behind them carrying a large butcher knife in his right hand. He hacked Pranay twice on the head and neck, killing him instantly.
Pranay, 23, was a Dalit, a term used to describe those formerly known as untouchables. Amrutha, 21, belongs to an upper caste. Her rich and powerful family viewed the couples union as an unacceptable humiliation. Her father, T. Maruthi Rao, was so enraged that he hired killers to murder his son-in-law, court documents say.
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For Amruthas father, the marriage of his only daughter was an obsession. I can even marry you to a beggar who belongs to an upper caste, Amrutha remembers him telling her. But I dont want you to marry from a lower caste, whoever it is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-young-indian-couple-married-for-love-then-the-brides-father-hired-assassins/2019/08/19/3d1ce9a0-a1d0-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html
Trump tweeting about... environment, poverty, infrastructure, healthcare, his family??? nope
Massive overflow crowds in New Hampshire last week. Couldnt get into packed SNHU Arena. Fake and Corrupt News would like you to believe otherwise. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!Tweeted three hours ago. wow... sick sick person. He tweeted about "Crowd size" four times yesterday. WE GET THE POINT!
crisp clear video of 1911 NYC
Megan Rapinoe Reveals How She Deals With Her Parents Watching Fox News
?crop=3396,2213,x0,y0&width=580&height=326&fit=bounds&auto=webpMegan Rapinoe Reveals How She Deals With Her Parents Watching Fox News
Ill say: I dont get it. How are you simultaneously as proud as punch of me, and watching Fox News all the time, doing takedowns of your daughter?
Megan Rapinoe has explained how she deals with her parents watching Fox News, in light of the attacks some of its hosts and contributors leveled at her during the U.S. womens soccer teams recent World Cup-winning run in France.
Im very similar to how they are, even though I think my dad voted for Trump and Ill say: I dont get it. How are you simultaneously as proud as punch of me, and watching Fox News all the time, [who are doing] takedowns of your daughter? the teams co-captain told The Guardian in an interview published Saturday. Thats why Im like: You guys need to go to therapy.
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Earlier in the interview, the 34-year-old also recalled growing up learning unspoken lessons about equality in what was a nonpolitical household. Both of my parents should be really progressive ― especially my mom ― and I dont get that theyre not, she said. Im always saying: You guys should really be Democrats! But theyre not, so whats happening?
Their differences in political opinions have led to some major blowups, she acknowledged. But Rapinoe remains close to her family.
Its not like: Ugh, Im from a conservative town and I never talk to them any more. I talk to my parents all the time, every day. And I feel like I have seen progress and growth, she noted. I would love it if people understood you should never say racist things and be OK with gay people, or whatever it is. But, obviously, it doesnt happen that quickly.
aftermath of ICE raid
long article, good read
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/ice-raids-mississippi-chicken-plants-aftermath-children.html
After ICE
On Aug. 7, immigration agents arrested 680 factory workers in Mississippi. Heres what happened next.
He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some young adults don't move on
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/hes-26-years-old-but-still-sees-a-pediatrician-why-some-young-adults-dont-move-on/2019/08/16/2bcbbe4e-b92f-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.htmlWhen Joann Alfonzo, a pediatrician in Freehold, N.J., walked into her office recently she mentally rolled her eyes when she saw her next patient: a 26-year-old car salesman in a suit and tie.
Thats no longer a kid. Thats a man, she recalls thinking.
Yet, Alfonzo wasnt that surprised. In the past five years, she has seen the age of her patients rise, as more young adults remain at home and, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, on their parents health insurance until age 26.
First it was 21, then 23 and now 26, Alfonzo says. A lot of them cant afford to live on their own and get their own insurance, or even afford the co-pay. And if insurance is offered at work, theres generally a cost share involved, if insurance is provided at all.
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But these days thats pretty realistic, Alfonzo says. We have people who have had children, and they still see us, so were seeing the parents and their children, concurrently, she says.
So when is it time to leave your pediatrician? Talon Manfredini, 22, says he only left his pediatrician, who is a woman, this year because he moved from his family home in New Jersey to begin a new job in Miami.
But he didnt think twice about continuing to see her, even though hed finished college. She just felt like a regular doctor, he says. It didnt feel odd at all or different or weird or anything like that.
Debbie Weinberger DeFrancesco, 41, a regional sales manager for Tyson from Marlboro, N.J., says she continued to see her pediatrician until she was about 27.
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