Demovictory9
Demovictory9's JournalTrump always beautifies himself for international events. Turn down the tan knob down a notch!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1044669976672698373when not praising himself, Trump is retweeting others praising Trump
just today:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1044626591463215104
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1044627015662538752
Ted Cruz Spotted On Flight Looking At Photo Of Senate Rival Beto O'Rourke
Ted Cruz Spotted On Flight Looking At Photo Of Senate Rival Beto O’Rourke
The snapshots, circulated by Politico Playbook, surfaced after the Texas Republican was heckled out of a Washington restaurant.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1044552538689802240
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-spotted-on-flight-looking-at-photo-of-senate-rival-beto-orourke_us_5baa2ed3e4b0375f8fa06f76
Presidents steered America through reconstruction, WWI, WWII, cold war, The Depression
all Trump has done is dismantle. yeah, he's good at dismantling but what great thing has he created? What great program?
he's just dismantling to return tax dollars to his buddies.
daycares want to deal with the mom, not the dad
When my husband and I began touring day-care centers for our baby, we brought along a list of questions. We asked about outside time and whether screens were ever used in the classroom; we asked about teacher turnover and discipline policies. One question we didn’t ask — the answer to which would be the reason we withdrew our son, after only his second day, from the day care we waited months for a spot in — was whether they explicitly supported equal parenting.
On my son’s first day, the director added me to what I assumed was the family text group. She shared pictures of the children playing with toys and a video of them playing outside. Later that evening, while cooing over our sweet babe and wondering whether he’d enjoyed the day after the brief jag of crying at drop-off, my husband said he hadn’t received the messages. Assuming an oversight on the center director’s part, I sent her a message asking her to add my husband to the communication. She responded that the communication was only for mothers. I could screenshot and send him anything that was relevant, but she would not add him to the thread.
After much back and forth, the director held fast: She sent messages only to mothers, it was how she’d always done things, and she was adamant that her policy would not change simply because our family didn’t like it. My husband and I decided to remove our son from her care.
Fathers today are more engaged than any generation in history. Fifty-seven percent of them (compared with 58 percent of mothers) say parenting is extremely important to their identity, according to the Pew Research Center; they spend three times the amount of time on child care than fathers did in 1965. Yet mothers still spend significantly more time physically caring for their children than fathers do — 14 hours per week vs. eight for men. Family circumstances and personal preferences play into how parents split up the work, but deeply ingrained biases toward women as caretakers and men as breadwinners make it nearly impossible for women to avoid the role of the default parent.
In our situation, the day-care director was explicit in her belief that moms should be the ones receiving, interpreting and remembering information. For many families, the onus placed on women appears more covertly.
Megan Thibeault, who works in the dental industry and lives in North Carolina, says the institutional assumptions that she would be the primary parent started early. “For most of my kids’ lives, my husband has been the one at home or working from home, so he knows their schedules much better than me,” Thibeault says. “When we would go to check-ups together when they were infants, the doctor would ask me questions and, after I referred them to him to answer, since he was the one at home, they would continue to address me as if I knew more than him.” Her husband, Jacob Thibeault, who is self-employed, says, “It often feels like if the nurses or doctors do talk to me, they’re talking to me like I’m on babysitting duty.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/my-child-has-two-parents-why-does-day-care-call-only-me/2018/09/25/6b6e46b0-b076-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.c45f3ff61d15
Meet this Las Vegas ambulance company's therapy dog
https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/health/meet-this-las-vegas-ambulance-companys-therapy-dog-photos/
There’s a new therapist in town, and she’s a little, well, furry.
Mercy, a 4-month-old goldendoodle, became the newest American Medical Response and MedicWest employee in July. She’ll serve as the ambulance companies’ therapy dog once she’s fully trained. The inspiration for adding Mercy to the team came from the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.
“After October 1, my team and I witnessed firsthand how incredibly beneficial the therapy dogs … were for our 383 first responders from AMR and MedicWest who responded that night,” regional director Scott White said in a recent news release.
Mercy’s mom and dad, Saydee and Bodhi, visited AMR in Las Vegas after the shooting, which killed 58 and wounded hundreds more during a country music concert outside Mandalay Bay.
Trump has mastered the playbook for undermining democratic institutions
Humans are tribal animals. As Jonathan Haidt argues in The Righteous Mind, even—perhaps especially—the smartest and best educated among us don’t look at a body of evidence dispassionately, drawing logical conclusions from objective data. Instead, we approach any question with strong priors. If we want to believe some proposition because it fits our general worldview, we ask: “May I believe it?” If we know that it would challenge some of our long-held beliefs, we go: “Do I have to?”
This is why a sliver of plausible justifiability is a key tool in the authoritarian playbook. Populists don’t transparently attack democratic institutions; instead, they claim that they are fighting to institute true democracy. They don’t admit a wish to overstep the boundaries of the powers accorded to them by any constitution; instead, they say that they are bringing under control hostile institutions that have already done so. And they don’t fire subordinates for being unwilling to turn themselves into loyal henchmen; instead, they make up flimsy cover stories that blame forced resignations on invented or exaggerated failings.
Donald Trump seems to be mastering this playbook more and more effectively. During his first months in office, the White House was engulfed in chaos. Now, he is succeeding in portraying unprecedented attacks on independent institutions, like the FBI and the Department of Justice, as mere partisan squabbles between Democrats and Republicans. At first, Trump threatened to fire special counsel Robert Mueller in an open attempt to shut down the Russia investigation. Now, he is purging the law enforcement community of nonpartisan professionals by seizing upon their supposed wrongdoings.
The brilliant manner in which the administration has undermined Rod Rosenstein’s position is only the latest example of what political scientists call authoritarian learning. It is possible that the deputy attorney general really did act foolishly, seriously discussing the possibilities of wearing a wire to incriminate the president, of removing him from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. It seems rather more likely that he made those comments in a sarcastic manner—and that the administration leaked his alleged remarks to the New York Times to create a sliver of justifiability if it should decide to
oust him.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/rod-rosenstein-line-deputy-attorney-general-trump-hostile-democracy.html
There is also another important lesson from this strange day. A few months ago, a website managed to get hundreds of thousands of Americans to pledge that they would take to the streets if either Mueller or Rosenstein was fired. The idea was that such an event would constitute a clear red line, which would give us the opportunity to fight for the preservation of our republic’s most basic rules and norms.
But such a red line is unlikely to materialize. The president has now succeeded in removing the director of the FBI, the deputy director of the FBI, and at least three other key public servants from office—all without creating one clear moment the opposition could exploit to rally against him. On Monday, he was allegedly very close to firing the deputy attorney general, which could have put him in a position to remove the special counsel under similarly hazy circumstances.
Detroit Police Officer Fired After He Boasts Of Busting 'These Zoo Animals'
Detroit Police Officer Fired After He Boasts Of Busting ‘These Zoo Animals’
The rookie cop was given the boot hours after his racially insensitive Snapchat post.
By Mary Papenfuss
A rookie Detroit police officer was fired after officials said he posted a photo of himself on Snapchat with a caption referring to another night rounding up “these zoo animals.”
“He was terminated,” police Chief James Craig told reporters at a news conference Monday. Craig said he was “appalled” by the “highly insensitive” post.
“This will be his last day on our payroll. He will no longer be a Detroit police officer. He is clear on that,” said Craig.
Sean Bostwick, 27, posted the racially insensitive message Sunday, setting off a firestorm on social media, The Detroit News reported. Bostwick is white; Detroit’s population is 80-percent black.
“Another night to Rangel up these zoo animals,” Bostwick wrote in his Snapchat caption, misspelling “wrangle.”
Craig suspended Bostwick the same day, soon after complaints began rolling in. He met with Bostwick, who “took responsibility” for the message, the chief said.
“He admitted that he did this. He expressed a great deal of remorse,” Craig told reporters. “He didn’t mean it the way it came off.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean-bostwick-fired-from-detroit-police-for-racially-insensitive-message_us_5ba9be6ee4b0375f8f9fef9e
74-year-old man found alive 5 days after DC building fire
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/us/dc-fire-man-alive/index.htmlA 74-year-old man has been discovered alive five days after his senior living apartment complex in Washington, DC, caught fire -- but nobody knew he was missing.
Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters the man was found by crews working to determine whether fire marshals could safely enter the building.
He was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life threatening, Bowser said.
Structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer said crews were going from unit to unit Monday when they found the man trapped in his apartment.
Some of the doors had swelled because of the fire's heat, Kilsheimer said, which prevented them from being opened. Workers had to use crowbars to pry some doors open.
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A 74-year-old man who had been trapped for five days in his apartment at a fire-damaged senior housing complex was freed Monday, a chance rescue that came days after District officials announced that all building residents had been accounted for following the blaze.
The man, Raymond Holton, emerged without serious injuries and was evaluated at George Washington University Hospital. Engineers assessing the structural integrity of the building heard him yelling and used a crowbar to pry open the door of his second-floor apartment. They found him sitting on a couch.
“I wasn’t scared. I be here by myself anyway,” Holton said in a telephone interview from the hospital. “I thought they forgot about me. I didn’t know about no fire.”
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Fire Chief Gregory M. Dean blamed the building’s management company, which they said provided the city with an inaccurate report that all residents were safe. That report was a crucial factor in the decision last week by fire officials to suspend further searches of the Arthur Capper Senior Public Housing complex after initial chaotic rescues and evacuations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/man-pulled-alive-from-rubble-of-dc-senior-complex-destroyed-in-fire/2018/09/24/59af9fa2-c00a-11e8-9005-5104e9616c21_story.html?utm_term=.b0d66a449f00
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