I must admit I did not think Spicer had anything resembling this much spine. Ev n Spicer has a bridge too far.

right now the weather underground app says the temp is 105 and the "feels like" is 123.

 123

when it stopped raining i hoped to get all this stuff done on the house and ive only been able to be outside from first light to about 10 am.

the one that says you can buy crappy worthless insurance if thats what you want.

i say if it holds down prices and these dumbasses want it, give it it them.  AND change the rules so that you dont get treated in an emergency room or in any other way if you are not covered and you cant pay for it.

Our first thought when we realized we were transferring our son before his senior year was that he could finish high school online. Our son looks very different, severe scoliosis, severe clubbed feet that cannot be surgically corrected. We didn't want him to have to endure ridicule away from his childhood friends. It seemed an easy instant emotional bandaid even though I secretly knew our son Josh would likely find online school a sham.

After we arrived our landlord sent us to tour a private college prep school. It was wonderful, and it would have cost me a year's worth of college tuition for him to go, but I was willing. Alabama was not willing. The Alabama state legislature passed some bizarre law that only allows a high school transcript to be shared with another school once the student has been admitted. I can't even have it as his parent. Impossible to get admitted to one of the private schools here without your transcript. We were not able to get the Enterprise school system to comply and send it either. It was already a stretch for him to be accepted senior year, but he had lookers. Impossible without his transcript though.

So today we looked at the online options. I let him explore it on his own too, not just at my side. His perceptions and decisions though, online high school is a sham. He is choosing to go to public school in Silver Spring, probably Springbrook it looks like.

Once more unto the breach :) He survived 12 yrs of Alabama public schools, and they refused to allow him an IEP even though he has profound physical limitations, 30+ surgical procedures during his childhood school years, and a hearing loss :) He's been held to no special standard lest he forget where his bootstraps are. How bad can this be?

Democrats support public education, how can you REALLY support it if your child isn't in it?  At the same time I'm not playing on the same field as everyone else because my child's diagnosis makes him qualified for SSI. Until the Republicans dismantle everything Josh could make it without me. So he can fail a little more than a healthy child...maybe? What a spectacle, dangling over different disasters :)

President Trump has ended the clandestine American program to provide arms and supplies to Syrian rebel groups, American officials said, a recognition that the effort was failing and that the administration has given up hope of helping to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

"When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don't blame other things -- Comey, Russia -- you blame yourself," Schumer, the top ranking Democrat in the Senate, told The Washington Post over the weekend. "So what did we do wrong? People didn't know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that."

Jeralyn handled it in a flash!
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First, I'm thinking about the recent death of James McGill Buchanan. Buchanan was an American economist known for his work on "public choice theory." Basically, his thesis was, Capital rules, the hell with everyone else. It's not just an obscure idea dreamed up by a crazy person. It's a program to privatize everything in America that Government now manages, and its (stealthy) implementation has already begun, supported and financed, in part, by Charles Koch. It clarifies, and puts into perspective the actions of The Far Right that have already been set into motion. (Trump?)

Both government and private sector pension funds are noted for chronic underfunding and assuming HUGE rates of return that mostly never come to pass.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to close an office that coordinates with other countries on cybersecurity and fold it into a bureau focused on economic issues, Bloomberg is reporting.

A Russian official says that the United States and Moscow are negotiating to set up a joint cybersecurity working group.

Timing being everything in life, "Risk" could hardly be more of the moment. On a week when FBI director James Comey characterized WikiLeaks as "intelligence porn," this documentary feature by Laura Poitras offers a startling portrait of Julian Assange, the group's founder.

Mr. Assange has made it known that he deplores the film, and no wonder. He comes off more as the beleaguered leader of a cult than an idealist battling government secrecy, a man obsessed with--and enraged by--charges of sexual assault.

"It's very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President," Trump wrote on Twitter after a visit to Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.

42%    Should
42%    Should Not
15%    Not Sure

there are other interesting things in this poll

How upset would you be if Congress does NOT impeach President Trump and remove him from the presidency?

47%    Very Upset
34%    Somewhat Upset
11%    Not Too Upset
4%    Not Upset At All
3%    Not Sure