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bennettmarko · 4 years

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Fiction and Identity Politics

I hate to disappoint you folks, but unless we stretch the topic to breaking point this address will not be about “community and belonging.” In fact, you have to hand it to this festival’s organisers: inviting a renowned iconoclast to speak about “community and belonging” is like expecting a great white shark to balance a beach ball on its nose. The topic I had submitted instead was “fiction and identity politics,” which may sound on its face equally dreary.

But I’m afraid the bramble of thorny issues that cluster around “identity politics” has got all too interesting, particularly for people pursuing the occupation I share with many gathered in this hall: fiction writing. Taken to their logical conclusion, ideologies recently come into vogue challenge our right to write fiction at all. Meanwhile, the kind of fiction we are “allowed” to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we’d indeed be better off not writing the anodyne drivel to begin with.

Let’s start with a tempest-in-a-teacup at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Earlier this year, two students, both members of student government, threw a tequila-themed birthday party for a friend. The hosts provided attendees with miniature sombreros, which—the horror— numerous partygoers wore. When photos of the party circulated on social media, campus-wide outrage ensued. Administrators sent multiple emails to the “culprits” threatening an investigation into an “act of ethnic stereotyping.” Partygoers were placed on “social probation,” while the two hosts were ejected from their dorm and later impeached. Bowdoin’s student newspaper decried the attendees’ lack of “basic empathy.”

The student government issued a “statement of solidarity” with “all the students who were injured and affected by the incident,” and demanded that administrators “create a safe space for those students who have been or feel specifically targeted.” The tequila party, the statement specified, was just the sort of occasion that “creates an environment where students of colour, particularly Latino, and especially Mexican, feel unsafe.” In sum, the party-favour hats constituted – wait for it – “cultural appropriation.”

Curiously, across my country Mexican restaurants, often owned and run by Mexicans, are festooned with sombreros – if perhaps not for long. At the UK’s University of East Anglia, the student union has banned a Mexican restaurant from giving out sombreros, deemed once more an act of “cultural appropriation” that was also racist.

Now, I am a little at a loss to explain what’s so insulting about a sombrero – a practical piece of headgear for a hot climate that keeps out the sun with a wide brim. My parents went to Mexico when I was small, and brought a sombrero back from their travels, the better for my brothers and I to unashamedly appropriate the souvenir to play dress-up. For my part, as a German-American on both sides, I’m more than happy for anyone who doesn’t share my genetic pedigree to don a Tyrolean hat, pull on some leiderhosen, pour themselves a weisbier, and belt out the Hoffbrauhaus Song.

But what does this have to do with writing fiction? The moral of the sombrero scandals is clear: you’re not supposed to try on other people’s hats. Yet that’s what we’re paid to do, isn’t it? Step into other people’s shoes, and try on their hats.

In the latest ethos, which has spun well beyond college campuses in short order, any tradition, any experience, any costume, any way of doing and saying things, that is associated with a minority or disadvantaged group is ring-fenced: look-but-don’t-touch. Those who embrace a vast range of “identities” – ethnicities, nationalities, races, sexual and gender categories, classes of economic under-privilege and disability – are now encouraged to be possessive of their experience and to regard other peoples’ attempts to participate in their lives and traditions, either actively or imaginatively, as a form of theft.

Yet were their authors honouring the new rules against helping yourself to what doesn’t belong to you, we would not have Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. We wouldn’t have most of Graham Greene’s novels, many of which are set in what for the author were foreign countries, and which therefore have Real Foreigners in them, who speak and act like foreigners, too.

In his masterwork English Passengers, Matthew Kneale would have restrained himself from including chapters written in an Aboriginal’s voice – though these are some of the richest, most compelling passages in that novel. If Dalton Trumbo had been scared off of describing being trapped in a body with no arms, legs, or face because he was not personally disabled – because he had not been through a World War I maiming himself and therefore had no right to “appropriate” the isolation of a paraplegic – we wouldn’t have the haunting 1938 classic, Johnny Got His Gun.

We wouldn’t have Maria McCann’s erotic masterpiece, As Meat Loves Salt – in which a straight woman writes about gay men in the English Civil War. Though the book is nonfiction, it’s worth noting that we also wouldn’t have 1961’s Black Like Me, for which John Howard Griffin committed the now unpardonable sin of “blackface.” Having his skin darkened – Michael Jackson in reverse – Griffin found out what it was like to live as a black man in the segregated American South. He’d be excoriated today, yet that book made a powerful social impact at the time.

The author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University who for the record is white, defines cultural appropriation as “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission. This can include unauthorised use of another culture’s dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.”

What strikes me about that definition is that “without permission” bit. However are we fiction writers to seek “permission” to use a character from another race or culture, or to employ the vernacular of a group to which we don’t belong? Do we set up a stand on the corner and approach passers-by with a clipboard, getting signatures that grant limited rights to employ an Indonesian character in Chapter Twelve, the way political volunteers get a candidate on the ballot? I am hopeful that the concept of “cultural appropriation” is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

But this latest and little absurd no-no is part of a larger climate of super-sensitivity, giving rise to proliferating prohibitions supposedly in the interest of social justice that constrain fiction writers and prospectively makes our work impossible.

So far, the majority of these farcical cases of “appropriation” have concentrated on fashion, dance, and music: At the American Music Awards 2013, Katy Perry got it in the neck for dressing like a geisha. According to the Arab-American writer Randa Jarrar, for someone like me to practice belly dancing is “white appropriation of Eastern dance,” while according to the Daily Beast Iggy Azalea committed “cultural crimes” by imitating African rap and speaking in a “blaccent.”

The felony of cultural sticky fingers even extends to exercise: at the University of Ottawa in Canada, a yoga teacher was shamed into suspending her class, “because yoga originally comes from India.” She offered to re-title the course, “Mindful Stretching.” And get this: the purism has also reached the world of food. Supported by no less than Lena Dunham, students at Oberlin College in Ohio have protested “culturally appropriated food” like sushi in their dining hall (lucky cusses— in my day, we never had sushi in our dining hall), whose inauthenticity is “insensitive” to the Japanese.

Seriously, we have people questioning whether it’s appropriate for white people to eat pad Thai. Turnabout, then: I guess that means that as a native of North Carolina, I can ban the Thais from eating barbecue. (I bet they’d swap.) This same sensibility is coming to a bookstore near you. Because who is the appropriator par excellence, really? Who assumes other people’s voices, accents, patois, and distinctive idioms? Who literally puts words into the mouths of people different from themselves? Who dares to get inside the very heads of strangers, who has the chutzpah to project thoughts and feelings into the minds of others, who steals their very souls? Who is a professional kidnapper? Who swipes every sight, smell, sensation, or overheard conversation like a kid in a candy store, and sometimes take notes the better to purloin whole worlds? Who is the premier pickpocket of the arts? The fiction writer, that’s who.

This is a disrespectful vocation by its nature – prying, voyeuristic, kleptomaniacal, and presumptuous. And that is fiction writing at its best. When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

As for the culture police’s obsession with “authenticity,” fiction is inherently inauthentic. It’s fake. It’s self-confessedly fake; that is the nature of the form, which is about people who don’t exist and events that didn’t happen. The name of the game is not whether your novel honours reality; it’s all about what you can get away with.

In his 2009 novel Little Bee, Chris Cleave, who as it happens is participating in this festival, dared to write from the point of view of a 14-year-old Nigerian girl, though he is male, white, and British. I’ll remain neutral on whether he “got away with it” in literary terms, because I haven’t read the book yet.

But in principle, I admire his courage – if only because he invited this kind of ethical forensics in a review out of San Francisco: “When a white male author writes as a young Nigerian girl, is it an act of empathy, or identity theft?” the reviewer asked. “When an author pretends to be someone he is not, he does it to tell a story outside of his own experiential range. But he has to in turn be careful that he is representing his characters, not using them for his plot.” Hold it. OK, he’s necessarily “representing” his characters, by portraying them on the page. But of course he’s using them for his plot! How could he not? They are his characters, to be manipulated at his whim, to fulfill whatever purpose he cares to put them to.

This same reviewer recapitulated Cleave’s obligation “to show that he’s representing [the girl], rather than exploiting her.” Again, a false dichotomy. Of course he’s exploiting her. It’s his book, and he made her up. The character is his creature, to be exploited up a storm. Yet the reviewer chides that “special care should be taken with a story that’s not implicitly yours to tell” and worries that “Cleave pushes his own boundaries maybe further than they were meant to go.”

What stories are “implicitly ours to tell,” and what boundaries around our own lives are we mandated to remain within? I would argue that any story you can make yours is yours to tell, and trying to push the boundaries of the author’s personal experience is part of a fiction writer’s job.

I’m hoping that crime writers, for example, don’t all have personal experience of committing murder. Me, I’ve depicted a high school killing spree, and I hate to break it to you: I’ve never shot fatal arrows through seven kids, a teacher, and a cafeteria worker, either. We make things up, we chance our arms, sometimes we do a little research, but in the end it’s still about what we can get away with – what we can put over on our readers.

Because the ultimate endpoint of keeping out mitts off experience that doesn’t belong to us is that there is no fiction. Someone like me only permits herself to write from the perspective of a straight white female born in North Carolina, closing on sixty, able-bodied but with bad knees, skint for years but finally able to buy the odd new shirt. All that’s left is memoir.

And here’s the bugbear, here’s where we really can’t win. At the same time that we’re to write about only the few toys that landed in our playpen, we’re also upbraided for failing to portray in our fiction a population that is sufficiently various.

My most recent novel The Mandibles was taken to task by one reviewer for addressing an America that is “straight and white”. It happens that this is a multigenerational family saga – about a white family. I wasn’t instinctively inclined to insert a transvestite or bisexual, with issues that might distract from my central subject matter of apocalyptic economics. Yet the implication of this criticism is that we novelists need to plug in representatives of a variety of groups in our cast of characters, as if filling out the entering class of freshmen at a university with strict diversity requirements.

You do indeed see just this brand of tokenism in television. There was a point in the latter 1990s at which suddenly every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: look at us, our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!

We’re now going through the same fashionable exercise in relation to the transgender characters in series like Transparent and Orange is the New Black. Fine. But I still would like to reserve the right as a novelist to use only the characters that pertain to my story.

Besides: which is it to be? We have to tend our own gardens, and only write about ourselves or people just like us because we mustn’t pilfer others’ experience, or we have to people our cast like an I’d like to teach the world to sing Coca-Cola advert?

For it can be dangerous these days to go the diversity route. Especially since there seems to be a consensus on the notion that San Francisco reviewer put forward that “special care should be taken with a story that’s not implicitly yours to tell.”

In The Mandibles, I have one secondary character, Luella, who’s black. She’s married to a more central character, Douglas, the Mandible family’s 97-year-old patriarch. I reasoned that Douglas, a liberal New Yorker, would credibly have left his wife for a beautiful, stately African American because arm candy of color would reflect well on him in his circle, and keep his progressive kids’ objections to a minimum. But in the end the joke is on Douglas, because Luella suffers from early onset dementia, while his ex-wife, staunchly of sound mind, ends up running a charity for dementia research. As the novel reaches its climax and the family is reduced to the street, they’re obliged to put the addled, disoriented Luella on a leash, to keep her from wandering off.

Behold, the reviewer in the Washington Post, who groundlessly accused this book of being “racist” because it doesn’t toe a strict Democratic Party line in its political outlook, described the scene thus: “The Mandibles are white. Luella, the single African American in the family, arrives in Brooklyn incontinent and demented. She needs to be physically restrained. As their fortunes become ever more dire and the family assembles for a perilous trek through the streets of lawless New York, she’s held at the end of a leash. If The Mandibles is ever made into a film, my suggestion is that this image not be employed for the movie poster.”

Your author, by implication, yearns to bring back slavery.

Thus in the world of identity politics, fiction writers better be careful. If we do choose to import representatives of protected groups, special rules apply. If a character happens to be black, they have to be treated with kid gloves, and never be placed in scenes that, taken out of context, might seem disrespectful. But that’s no way to write. The burden is too great, the self-examination paralysing. The natural result of that kind of criticism in the Post is that next time I don’t use any black characters, lest they do or say anything that is short of perfectly admirable and lovely.

In fact, I’m reminded of a letter I received in relation to my seventh novel from an Armenian-American who objected – why did I have to make the narrator of We Need to Talk About Kevin Armenian? He didn’t like my narrator, and felt that her ethnicity disparaged his community. I took pains to explain that I knew something about Armenian heritage, because my best friend in the States was Armenian, and I also thought there was something dark and aggrieved in the culture of the Armenian diaspora that was atmospherically germane to that book. Besides, I despaired, everyone in the US has an ethnic background of some sort, and she had to be something!

Especially for writers from traditionally privileged demographics, the message seems to be that it’s a whole lot safer just to make all your characters from that same demographic, so you can be as hard on them as you care to be, and do with them what you like. Availing yourself of a diverse cast, you are not free; you have inadvertently invited a host of regulations upon your head, as if just having joined the EU. Use different races, ethnicities, and minority gender identities, and you are being watched.

I confess that this climate of scrutiny has got under my skin. When I was first starting out as a novelist, I didn’t hesitate to write black characters, for example, or to avail myself of black dialects, for which, having grown up in the American South, I had a pretty good ear. I am now much more anxious about depicting characters of different races, and accents make me nervous.

In describing a second-generation Mexican American who’s married to one of my main characters in The Mandibles, I took care to write his dialogue in standard American English, to specify that he spoke without an accent, and to explain that he only dropped Spanish expressions tongue-in-cheek. I would certainly think twice – more than twice – about ever writing a whole novel, or even a goodly chunk of one, from the perspective of a character whose race is different from my own – because I may sell myself as an iconoclast, but I’m as anxious as the next person about attracting vitriol. But I think that’s a loss. I think that indicates a contraction of my fictional universe that is not good for the books, and not good for my soul.

Writing under the pseudonym Edward Schlosser on Vox, the author of the essay “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Scare Me” describes higher education’s “current climate of fear” and its “heavily policed discourse of semantic sensitivity” – and I am concerned that this touchy ethos, in which offendedness is used as a weapon, has spread far beyond academia, in part thanks to social media.

Why, it’s largely in order to keep from losing my fictional mojo that I stay off Facebook and Twitter, which could surely install an instinctive self-censorship out of fear of attack. Ten years ago, I gave the opening address of this same festival, in which I maintained that fiction writers have a vested interest in protecting everyone’s right to offend others – because if hurting someone else’s feelings even inadvertently is sufficient justification for muzzling, there will always be someone out there who is miffed by what you say, and freedom of speech is dead. With the rise of identity politics, which privileges a subjective sense of injury as actionable basis for prosecution, that is a battle that in the decade since I last spoke in Brisbane we’ve been losing.

Worse: the left’s embrace of gotcha hypersensitivity inevitably invites backlash. Donald Trump appeals to people who have had it up to their eyeballs with being told what they can and cannot say. Pushing back against a mainstream culture of speak-no-evil suppression, they lash out in defiance, and then what they say is pretty appalling.

Regarding identity politics, what’s especially saddened me in my recent career is a trend toward rejecting the advocacy of anyone who does not belong to the group. In 2013, I published Big Brother, a novel that grew out of my loss of my own older brother, who in 2009 died from the complications of morbid obesity. I was moved to write the book not only from grief, but also sympathy: in the years before his death, as my brother grew heavier, I saw how dreadfully other people treated him – how he would be seated off in a corner of a restaurant, how the staff would roll their eyes at each other after he’d ordered, though he hadn’t requested more food than anyone else.

I was wildly impatient with the way we assess people’s characters these days in accordance with their weight, and tried to get on the page my dismay at how much energy people waste on this matter, sometimes anguishing for years over a few excess pounds. Both author and book were on the side of the angels, or so you would think.

But in my events to promote Big Brother, I started to notice a pattern. Most of the people buying the book in the signing queue were thin. Especially in the US, fat is now one of those issues where you either have to be one of us, or you’re the enemy. I verified this when I had a long email correspondence with a “Healthy at Any Size” activist, who was incensed by the novel, which she hadn’t even read. Which she refused to read. No amount of explaining that the novel was on her side, that it was a book that was terribly pained by the way heavy people are treated and how unfairly they are judged, could overcome the scrawny author’s photo on the flap.

She and her colleagues in the fat rights movement did not want my advocacy. I could not weigh in on this material because I did not belong to the club. I found this an artistic, political, and even commercial disappointment – because in the US and the UK, if only skinny-minnies will buy your book, you’ve evaporated the pool of prospective consumers to a puddle.

I worry that the clamorous world of identity politics is also undermining the very causes its activists claim to back. As a fiction writer, yeah, I do sometimes deem my narrator an Armenian. But that’s only by way of a start. Merely being Armenian is not to have a character as I understand the word.

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived. I reviewed a novel recently that I had regretfully to give a thumbs-down, though it was terribly well intended; its heart was in the right place. But in relating the Chinese immigrant experience in America, the author put forward characters that were mostly Chinese. That is, that’s sort of all they were: Chinese. Which isn’t enough.

I made this same point in relation to gender in Melbourne last week: both as writers and as people, we should be seeking to push beyond the constraining categories into which we have been arbitrarily dropped by birth. If we embrace narrow group-based identities too fiercely, we cling to the very cages in which others would seek to trap us. We pigeonhole ourselves. We limit our own notion of who we are, and in presenting ourselves as one of a membership, a representative of our type, an ambassador of an amalgam, we ask not to be seen.

The reading and writing of fiction is obviously driven in part by a desire to look inward, to be self-examining, reflective. But the form is also born of a desperation to break free of the claustrophobia of our own experience. The spirit of good fiction is one of exploration, generosity, curiosity, audacity, and compassion. Writing during the day and reading when I go to bed at night, I find it an enormous relief to escape the confines of my own head. Even if novels and short stories only do so by creating an illusion, fiction helps to fell the exasperating barriers between us, and for a short while allows us to behold the astonishing reality of other people.

The last thing we fiction writers need is restrictions on what belongs to us. In a recent interview, our colleague Chris Cleave conceded, “Do I as an Englishman have any right to write a story of a Nigerian woman? … I completely sympathise with the people who say I have no right to do this. My only excuse is that I do it well.”

Which brings us to my final point. We do not all do it well. So it’s more than possible that we write from the perspective of a one-legged lesbian from Afghanistan and fall flat on our arses. We don’t get the dialogue right, and for insertions of expressions in Pashto we depend on Google Translate. Halfway through the novel, suddenly the protagonist has lost the right leg instead of the left one. Our idea of lesbian sex is drawn from wooden internet porn. Efforts to persuasively enter the lives of others very different from us may fail: that’s a given. But maybe rather than having our heads taken off, we should get a few points for trying. After all, most fiction sucks. Most writing sucks. Most things that people make of any sort suck. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make anything.

The answer is that modern cliché: to keep trying to fail better. Anything but be obliged to designate my every character an ageing five-foot-two smartass, and having to set every novel in North Carolina.

We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.

This is the full transcript of the keynote speech, Fiction and Identity Politics, Lionel Shriver gave at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 8 September.

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 7 years

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Why were we allowed to read Animorphs as kids, anyway?

It’s a question I see come up in this fandom again and again: How the heck did Animorphs books make it into school libraries and book fairs across the country to be marketed to eight-year-olds when they feature drug addiction, body dysmorphia, suicide, imperialism, PTSD, racism, sexism, body horror, grey-and-black morality, slavery, torture, major character death, forced cannibalism, and genocide?

To be clear, I don’t actually know the answer to that question. It is, admittedly, a little odd to consider, especially in light of the fact that Bridge to Terabithia gets banned for killing one character (much less several dozen), The Witches gets banned for having a character trapped in the body of an animal (without even going into issues of predation or body horror), The Chocolate War gets banned for having moderately disturbing descriptions of violence between teenagers, Bird gets banned for dealing with the realities of drug addiction, Winnie the Pooh gets banned for having talking animals, Harriet the Spy gets banned because the main character lies to her parents, and The Secret Annex gets banned because Anne Frank describes normal teenage puberty experiences throughout her diary. And yet Animorphs was marketed to children as young as six nationwide, and (despite selling better than even some classics like The Chocolate War at its peak) no one ever bothered to burn those books or cry that they would rot children’s minds.

If I had to take a wildly inexpert guess, knowing as little as I do about the publishing industry and the standards parent groups use to determine whether books are “moral,” I would venture to speculate that there were several different factors at work.

Grown-ups judge books by their covers just as much as children do. For proof of that phenomenon, just scroll through the Animorphs tag on tumblr, any relevant forum on Reddit, or any old post that uses that stupid meme. The book covers suggest that the stories inside will be silly, campy adventures about the escapist fantasy of turning into a dolphin or a lizard. People don’t look too closely at the books with the neon candy-colored backgrounds and the ridiculous photoshop foregrounds, especially not when they imply a promise that the novels themselves will be the most inane form of sci fi.

There’s no sex. To quote the show K.A. Applegate most loves to reference: "I guess parents don't give a crap about violence if there's sex things to worry about." The large majority of books that get banned from schools are thrown out for having sexual content: the freaking dictionary was banned from California schools for explaining what “oral sex” is, And Tango Makes Three was removed from shelves because apparently married couples are inherently shocking if they happen to be gay, and the list of most-banned books in the U.S. is full of books which explain in perfectly child-appropriate terms what puberty is and where babies come from. Animorphs, by contrast, never gets more explicit than Marco calling Taylor a “skank” or Jake and Cassie’s few stolen kisses. The only mentions of nudity are implied (and even then only when the kids are first coming out of morph), and the most explicit thing we ever hear about Rachel and Tobias doing is staying up late in her room to do her homework together. It becomes unbelievably obvious in retrospect that there’s a decent level of queer representation in the books (Marco repeatedly describing both Jake and Ax as “beautiful” or “handsome,” Mertil and Gafinilan, multiple characters casually morphing cross-gender), but it’s also possible to overlook the queerness if you don’t know it’s there. There might be explicit autocannibalism in this series, but at least it never uses the word “nipple.”

There’s no profanity. Again, there’s a strong implication of profanity—Rachel and Jake especially often “use certain words to describe things” in a way that makes it incredibly obvious what they’re saying, and context clues tell us Ax says “fuck” at least once—but given that the strongest expletive that comes up with any regularity is “good grief,” this can act as an obvious (if dumb) heuristic for parents that a book is appropriate for children. People love to count the swear words in Catcher in the Rye when describing why it should be banned (generally without, heaven forbid, reading the goddamn book). Other works such as To Kill a Mockingbird have been banned for using a single word, regardless of context. If a parent is looking to object to a single word or set of words as grounds that a book is inappropriate, the worst they’re going to find is half a dozen instances of “heck” and maybe a dozen of “crap.”

Some of the worst content is context-dependent. As I pointed out above, at least five or six different characters (Tobias, Arbron, Alloran, Tom, Allison Kim) attempt suicide over the course of the series. At least three or four species that we know about (Hork-Bajir, Howlers, Nartec) get largely or entirely annihilated. However, in order to understand that any of that occurs, you actually have to read the books. Not only that, but you have to read them closely. Cates pointed out that some of the most disturbing passages from #33 are, in a vacuum, just descriptions of blinking diodes and weird hallucinations. The description of Tobias attempting suicide is just a long list of mall venues that flash by as he zooms full-speed toward a glass wall. Even the passages with Rachel threatening David (or carrying out those threats) don’t make much sense unless you know how a two-hour limit on morphing works. For the parent skimming these books looking for objectionable content, nothing jumps out.

The books are, in fact, appropriate for children. This quality is what (I believe) prevented parents like mine from taking the books away from us kids even after reading several entire novels out loud to us before bed. The books contain violence, but they sure as hell don’t condone it. They touch on subjects such as drug addiction and parental abuse, but they do so from the point of view of realistic-feeling kids and don’t fetishize that kind of content. Most of the lessons contained within are tough—that there’s no such thing as a simple moral code, that people with the power to prevent atrocity also have the obligation to do so, that members of the hegemony aren’t actually all that special, that the world is a scary and violent place for most people who have to live in it—but they’re also important lessons, and good ones to teach to children. I would be comfortable with my own children (assuming I had any) reading these books at the same age I started reading them, in first and second grade.

You have to understand the fictional science to understand (most of) the horror. Trying to describe some of the most horrifying passages in Animorphs is like “and then they flushed the pool for cleaning, but the pool was full of slugs!” or “but she explained to her son that she had to have a parasite in her brain so the parasite’s friends wouldn’t be suspicious!” or “and then the hawk ate a rabbit, as hawks are wont to do!” while one’s non-fandalite friends stand there and go “... so what?” The laws of Applied Phlebotinum in the series turn those earlier moments into a war crime, an assisted quasi-suicide, and a loss of identity, respectively; however, you have to understand the laws of applied phlebotinum in order to know that. For anyone not reading closely, the horror can be overlooked. For those of us who are reading closely, phrases such as “host breeding program,” “fugue state,” “eight minutes too late,” and “the howlers are all children” (or any mention at all of people being injured while taxxons are in the vicinity, for that matter) are enough to chill your blood. But again, for that to happen, you actually have to read the books. Which we can assume most of the people skimming for curse words do not.

Some of those exact same premises wouldn’t be horror at all if handled by a different author. K.A. Applegate subverts the “wake up, go to school, save the world” trope; normally premises that feature teen superheroes fighting aliens are considered appropriate for all ages (e.g. Avengers Assemble, Kim Possible, Teen Titans) because they feature bloodless violence and gloss over the question of whether aliens are people too. The utterly arbitrary standard that kids should be allowed to see violence but not blood allows for justification of movies like Prince Caspian, Night at the Museum, and Ghostbusters to feature characters getting murdered in all kinds of ways in PG-rated movies. “Violence” and “sci-fi violence” are two different categories according to the MPAA rating system; guess which one gets a lower rating. Of course, there’s a crapton of science showing it doesn’t make the tiniest bit of difference to kids whether or not they see blood, they’re still gonna learn violent behaviors and potentially be traumatized, but again where the arbitrary standard persists. Therefore, if most of the premises of Animorphs books don’t sound horrifying, they must not actually be horrifying. Right?

The books are almost as light as they are heavy. Part of the reason I have comfortably loaned my copies of the early books to friends with ten-year-old kids is that it’s not primarily a downer series. Animorphs aren’t R.L. Stein books, which always end on (the implication of) the protagonist’s death. They’re not uniform horrorfests like Dolls in the Attic or Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Applegate doesn’t fetishize violence the way that Cassandra Clare and Ransom Riggs do. The most-quoted passages from these books are the ones that are funny, not horrifying. These are stories about the joy of aliens discovering Volkswagen Beetles, about the wonder of being able to fly away from one’s life, about friendship and the power of love being enough to make the gods themselves sit up and pay attention. The whole saga tells the story of six kids sacrificing more than their lives to save their families, and of how that sacrifice brings down an empire. I suspect that many parents were either paying so little attention they didn’t realize these stories could be classified as battle epics or as kiddie horror, or else were paying so much attention that they concluded that this series is a battle epic worth reading.

Then again, maybe there was a whole other set of market pressures which accounted for the lack of censorship which I don’t know about. If so, the economics side of tumblr is encouraged to enlighten me.

#animorphs #marketing #body horror #kiddie horror #censorship #seriously tho WHY WERE THE SIX-YEAR-OLDS READING ABOUT AUTOCANNIBALISM IN THE 90S #what even was that

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OCTOBER 2017

*****The beautiful dino, Sue will be moved to her own gallery in Chicago’s field museum. New to her long fixed spot will be a cast of patagotitan mayorum, the biggest dinosaur ever found.

*****Richard Thomas is selling his NY midtown coop for $2,995,000 and is located at 7th Ave. and w. 58th.

*****California is waiting for Jerry Brown to sign a bill that bans puppy mills.

*****WWF has released wild tigers back into Kazakhstan. Scimitar horned oryx were released into the Sahara desert and indigo snakes were reintroduced into Florida.

*****Toys “R” Us has filed for bankruptcy.

*****Tom Price, health and human services secretary, has resigned after hic charter flight scandal.

*****After 50 years Rolling Stone may be up for sale.

*****Doc Martin is back on Acorn for series 8.

*****As social media has been telling us, we don’t need a border wall. Tourism is down about $37 billion. Thanks Trump!

*****Trump supporters don’t seem to like him fraternizing with the Dems and waffling on DACA. They have been burning their red hats but scary clown already got the money for selling them so what does he care. Anne Coulter wonders if there is anybody left who does not want Trump impeached.** Some states are suing over DACA.

*****”Holes separate men and women.”- Billy Connolly

*****The dreamer program has been signed away. The Deferred Action for Children’s Arrival has been handed to congress for 6 months to deal with. The administration says it violates the rule of law.

*****The Peoria Blues and Heritage fest went off without a hitch. The weather was perfect and we should all be looking at the Jamiah Rogers band, these guys are fucking awesome. John Butler checked them out before his own set and was great with his fans.

*****Bill Withers has his first solo record since 1985 with a cover of (You’ve been quite a doll) Raggedy Ann.

*****In this country, a woman dies every 2 hours of cervical cancer because of improper health care.

*****Can I just say that I do not want to see reporters in the middle of hurricanes. Can they just stay safe in a room and fix a camera outside? I would much rather see different angles of the storm and see no people out there. It was often impossible to hear then anyway. The communication between the studio and location was fucked up and did not help anyway. It also seemed like they showed an awful lot of Shell stations. JS

*****An estimated 70 million Americans saw the fake Russian ads during the campaign. No impact??

*****The Stones are on their No Filter tour in Europe and they brought out ‘Dancin with Mr. D’ which hasn’t been played live since 1973.

*****Trumps lawyers seem to want Jared out.

*****Steve Bannon’s Great Great Grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland who needed no papers to get in this country.

*****Montgomery , Alabama is going to open a Museum of lynching. There is a wall lined with jars of dirt that were collected from sites of lynching’s from around the country. Very powerful.

*****Thanks Trump administration for removing references to ‘LGBTQ’ youth from a federal program for victims of sex trafficking. It also eliminates funding to international groups that provide abortions. This comes from mostly evangelical lobbyists who are reporting that they are having more discussions with this administration than they ever had with any President.

*****Vanity Fair has their best dressed list out which includes Harry Styles, Rihanna, Solange, Jack Schlossberg, Justin Trudeau, Janelle Monae, Dev Patel, Cate Blanchett, Zoe Kravitz, Ruth Negga, and Donald Glover. The hall of fame mentioned Lauren Hutton, Jeremy irons and Prince Phillip.

*****More police brutality against the black man with the subduing of the Seahawks Michael Bennett for no apparent reason.

*****Leslie Van Houten has again been granted parole. As last year she is waiting out the 120 days to get the word from Gov. Jerry Brown.

*****Lovin’ Greg Garcia’s The Guest book on TBS. What is not to love about seeing Charles Robinson and Carly Jibson again. It made my day to see guest Orson Bean!!

*****The U.S. office of government ethics has changed a policy that will now allow lobbyists to donate to staffers legal defense funds.

*****Cameras have taken the first pictures of white giraffes in Kenya.

*****The Simpsons will be going to New Orleans this season!

*****The Middle is starting its last season. We will miss U!

*****Jay Pharoah has a new show on Showtime. White Famous is loosely based on the life of Jamie Foxx who is the executive producer.

*****John Davis Washington, son of Denzel may head the cast of Black Klansman. Spike Lee will direct and Jordan Peele will produce the true story of an African American who in 1978 infiltrated the KKK. Ron Stallworth used phones and his own writing to communicate with the organization. When he had to appear in person he sent a white officer in his place. They were able to sometimes sabotage cross burnings and other activities.

*****IT just had the biggest horror movie opening ever. The acting is quite nice for chapter 1 but the ending a bit long.

*****Netflix is bringing a delicious doc : Jim and Andy The great beyond featuring a very special contractually obligated mention of Tony Clifton. Spike Jonze is producing with the hundred hours of footage from Man on the Moon. ** Other new docs on the way look at Eric Clapton, Grace Jones and Sammy Davis Jr. It is the first time that Kim Novak will talk on camera about dating Sammy.

*****September 16 brought the Juggalos march on Washington. They have been bringing awareness about their gang designation and the harm that it has caused. The running man with a hatchet is considered a gang symbol and gives cops probable cause to search. The FBI labeled Juggalos a hybrid gang in 2011. Also marching were some of the alt right calling their march the mother of all rallies but it only produced about 500 people.

*****Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin requested use of a government jet for his honeymoon and he later withdrew that request.

*****Finally there was a confirmation from a charity that Trump claims to have given to after the Hurricanes. Direct relief received 25 thou. ** There have still been no charities that received money from the inauguration fund.

*****WGN is bringing us a new show called Bellevue.

*****Howard Buffett will be the new Sheriff of Macon county in Illinois. His father Warren had donated millions to the area.

*****Prophets of Rage are here to raise awareness with members of Cypress Hill, Rage against the Machine and Public Enemy.

*****LA summer Olympics in 2028?!

*****Sean Spicer landed on Jimmy Kimmel. Wow.. What a kiss ass whiny bitch. He tried hard to stay in Trumps good graces with compliments for the Pres and constant berating of the press. He reminded me of a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up his ass.** His cameo at the Emmy’s did not go over very well either.

***** Model Monroe Bergdorf was fired by L’oreal because of her anti- racist remarks. She has now been hired by Illamasqua.

*****Boycott Dragon Dumps! Don’t pay your bill on time and the owner dumps garbage on your lawn.

*****It looks like Trevor Noah will stay with the Daily show until at least 2022.

*****James Woods used his twitter account to try and shame a movie about a gay romance between a 17 year old and a 24 year old. Amber Tamblyn tweeted that Woods had hit on her for real when she was only 16.

*****Scientists are trying to bring back the chelonoidis elephantopus Galopagos turtles. 80 blood samples of modern day island turtles have genetic traces of the lost species. Even though they have been extinct for 160 years, scientists think they can reproduce though not to 100%. Could they reverse the negative effects that humans cause in the environment?

***** Why do bullies feel the need to use the art of artists who want nothing to do with them? It is like using ‘You can’t always get what you want’ for Trump when there are plenty of artists who agree with you that would love for you to use their art. Now Universal music and American recordings had to send a cease and desist letter to the white supremacist site Stormfront to stop using Johnny Cash’s version of ‘I won’t back down.’ The host blames the Jews.

*****Tru tv will bring us At home with Amy Sedaris.

*****North Dakota paleontologists have been uncovering so many bones that they are inviting the public to help. It sounds like a dream come true.

*****Paul Newman is Jake Gyllenhaal’s Godfather. JS

*****St. Louis exploded into protest with yet another acquittal of a police officer after the shooting of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith. Peoria, Il is also dealing with the shooting of an alleged bank robber who was shot 18 times.

*****The NFL is standing together in solidarity for equality and scary clown is sniping at them like a bitch. Our leader would not know respect and maturity if it bit him in the ass.** The Packers asked their fans to stand arm in arm with them on their Thursday night game with the Bears. Respect to Aaron Rodgers and the guys for speaking out before the game on equality. Some ‘fans’ are burning their Packer stuff. .. Why do these Trump supporters always want to burn everything? Do they have any idea how racist and ridiculous that looks?

*****Veep is going to bring us their last season while Julia is battling breast cancer. Joe Biden tweeted that us Veeps must stick together to show his support.

*****The Emmy’s with Stephen Colbert have come and gone. My best dressed were Ellie Kemper, Jessica Biel, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, Leslie Jones, Matthew Rhys, Claire Foy, Evan Rachel Wood ,Gabrielle Union, Donald Glover, Emmy Rossum, Zoe Kravitz, Nicole Kidman and Julia- Louis Dreyfus. My worst dressed were Uzo Aduba, Debra Messing, Anna Farris, Tracee Ellis Ross and Prianka Chopra. I love Sarah Paulson and the back of her dress was great but …?? There was so much black fabric which was awesome. Was it mourning for the earthquake and hurricane victims or just a general sadness for the country? Whatever the reason.. hooray black!!**Also happy that hairstyles were mostly long and loose.** I was happy to see Laura Dern win for supporting actress in a limited series or movie. ** The Handmaids tale won for show, directing and writing , for Anne Dowd who looked more shocked and appreciative than I have ever seen and Elisabeth Moss. ** I was happy for Alec Baldwin for best supporting actor but was really routing for Louie Anderson. ** When the noms came out, I could not imagine anything beating out FEUD but everything did. ** The girls from 9 to 5 stole the show with their mention of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot. ** Donald Glover won for directing and acting. **Alexander Skarsgard won which gave he and his brother quite a week. ** John Oliver won two and he again flew in his whole staff. ** Julia- Louis Dreyfus has now won the most Emmys for the same character in the same show. Veep got best comedy.**It was a wonderful moment when Carol Burnett and Norman Lear came out but DeNiro looked so disinterested.** Cicely Tyson has often been described as a bit of a diva and seemed a bit out of it on the broadcast but her counterpart saved the day.** So sad that Bob Odenkirk did not win but kudos to sterling K. Brown. They seemed to play him off too quickly while Nicole Kidman and big little lies had all the time in the world.

*****Bobby Moynihan stars in the new ‘Me Myself and I’ on CBS.

*****Word is that the Trump campaign is asking supporters to contribute money to build the wall.

*****Can we pay a little more attention to Puerto Rico? Why is the Pres giving them grief? Things were tough enough before the devastation. Puerto Rico has no bankruptcy and running a business is so costly there. Companies there must buy American which we don’t have to do. Forty percent of residents don’t have insurance. So many of the supplies sent to help are just sitting there in San Juan.

*****Angela Merkel has won a 4th term as German chancellor.

*****Singapore got their first female President, Halimah Yacob. She was the only candidate.

*****There was a settlement in a lawsuit against Club Cabaret. Dancers sued to be employees instead of individual contractors. The dancers won a million and cost of legal fees.

*****Art Garfunkel has a memoir/diary/ book of musings out called ‘What is it all but luminous.’

*****The personal account of Ted Cruz hit ‘like’ on a porn site on 9/11. He calls it a mistake by a staffer. A college roommate of Cruz said that he was not surprised.

*****After a tweet from the Pres about hitting Hil with a golf ball, Stephen King tweeted: Thinks hitting a woman with a golf ball and knocking her down is funny. Myself, I think it indicates a severely fucked up mind.

*****Brooklyn 99 is back and funnier than ever with the same great cast and opening.

*****Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel are rated number 1 of tv personalities based on Facebook, Instagram, twitter et al.

*****R.I.P Richard Anderson, Walter Becker, Don Williams, David Tang, Troy Gentry, Murray Lerner, Mexico’s earthquake victims, those lost to hurricane Irma, Frank Vincent, Len Wein, Grant Hart, Harry Dean Stanton, Michelle Rounds, Bonnie Angelo, Hugh Hefner, Jake La Motta, Eddie Russell Jr., Edith Windsor, Tony Booth and Monty Hall.

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What Exactly is Trump Doing?

What Exactly is Donald Trump Doing? It's been months, and many are asking what in the world is Trump truly doing? Better yet, what, if anything, has he accomplished? Is America now magically "great?" Are the claims of job creation and a "better" economy true or simply fluffed up garbage? Is he fighting for the everyday person, or against them? Is he draining the swamp, or filling it? Does he believe in climate change, or is it a Chinese "hoax"? Some of Trump's advisers aren't even certain of what Trump actually means, thinks, or does - this much is obvious in their continuously undermined remarks by Trump himself. An adviser will publicly say one thing, and yet, Trump will say another, disagreeing with them entirely. For all we know, Trump makes decisions on a total, uneducated, emotionally charged whim during late night hours while he skims twitter, alone in his bedroom. Let's look at what Trump HAS done. Trump Has: 1.) A Record Low Approval Rating. Trump's approval rating is the lowest of any new president since Gallup began tracking approval ratings in 1953. New presidents have typically experienced a "honeymoon" period in approval ratings during their first few months, however, Donald Trump has not. His approval rating stands at about 37% consistently. Presidents have slumped low before. George W. Bush fell to 25%, Clinton fell to 37%, Obama fell to 38%, and Reagan fell to 35%. However, these presidents did not lose support so intensely so early in their presidency, and had higher approval ratings from both sides of the political spectrum during the beginning of their terms. If Trump's approval ratings are the highest they'll ever be now, and if they get any lower, he may be the most unpopular president of all time... 2.) Done a lot of Mar-a-Lago Golfing. Since taking office, Trump has spent nearly half of his weekends in Florida. This adds up to a total of 25 days, and the costs are mind numbing. These trips have costed tax-payers about $20 million in 100 days, while Obama's costs for personal travel were at about $97 million in eight years. The costs are historic, but why exactly is the president taking so much time off, so early on. Shouldn't he be working? 3.) Pushed Anti Environmental Legislation. From pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement ( which was a voluntary agreement to consciously cut back on environment destroying carbon emitters ), budget cuts to the EPA, dismissing EPA scientists, scrubbing the EPA's climate change website, expanding offshore drilling, denying climate science, and ordering a review of national monuments to the Dakota Access Pipeline approval - Donald Trump has denied, destroyed, and thrown to the side what we know about climate science completely. Obama's Methane Regulation law was something Trump attempted to ban as well, however, surprisingly the Senate voted not to repeal it. Donald Trump refuses to push towards modernized, cheaper, cleaner energy such as solar, wind and hydro powered technologies, and in doing so has put the U.S.A behind other major countries putting the health of their citizens and this planet before profit. As usual, Trump sees profit as more important than people. The scariest part may be that our water, land, air and general environment will suffer long after Trump, oil and coal are gone. The course he's set on is one that will harm millions if not billions of people if continued without review. With or without the support of Trump and the fossil fuel industry, many states have decided that they must transition rapidly away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Clean energy employs 6x more people than coal, and again coal and oil are finite anyway. 4.) Rolled Back Protections Against Transgender Students. During his campaign, Trump claimed he "loved the gays", and even held up a rainbow flag at an event. However, actions speak louder than words, and he quickly decided that his campaign rhetoric, though apparently good for snagging votes, was no longer useful in his real life legislative decisions. In February 2017, Trump ended federal protections for transgender students that allowed them to utilize the bathroom that suited their gender identity. This move against transgender students allows each individual state to decide whether or not they wish to, basically, discriminate against trans students. Conservatives claim this decision isn't harmful, and that trans students just have to "use the bathroom of their 'true' gender" ( which is transphobic in itself ), but obviously transgender students will be faced with bullying, and various forms of aggression while attending class due to this. Trump also has stated that he wants to give bosses and landlords a "right to discriminate" against LGBT Americans. He is expected to sign an executive order so religious groups, individuals and businesses can do so. 5.) Created a slew of failed Muslim bans. Donald Trump is still engrossed in a battle that seems to inevitably be headed to the Supreme Court over his "travel band" which, if we're being honest here, is really just a ban on seven predominantly Muslim nations. Trump and the alt-right are obsessed with blaming the entire Muslim world for extremist terrorist actions. Due to this, Trump has repetitively tried to enact travel bans on predominantly Muslim nations, and has been struck down due to this sort of wide spread generalization not only being xenophobic but against our Constitution. Trump claims this action is one that is necessary to, "Keep America Safe," yet when one looks closer, the ban actually excludes countries that Trump has business ties with such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Sketchy..... 6.) Embarrassed the USA. Trump officially embarrassed the USA during his first trip abroad for a multitude of reasons, the biggest being angering our international allies which he seems to continuously take for granted. From enraging the intelligence community in Israel and Europe by publicly confirming sensitive material they told him NOT to leak to dragging out his confirmation of alliance to NATO forces - Trump has repetitively agitated our closest allies including France, Germany, the U.K. and Canada with patronizing commentary, overtly aggressive hand shakes, off-hand remarks and a basic, "I'm not working with you" attitude. Not to mention, can we talk about the glowing orb situation in Saudi Arabia? No biggie, right? 7.) Took to Twitter Continuously. You would think that the president had better things to do, but, apparently not. #Covfefe got more press than a Delaware-sized iceberg breaking off Antarctica, symbolizing a climate crisis that threatens all life on Earth. Needless to say, Trump is obsessed with the social media platform, and has not only embarrassed himself continuously on it but never seems to quit tweeting no matter what hour of the day or night it is. If Obama had tweeted "Covfefe", Fox News would have had 24x7 coverage trying to prove it was a code word for Muslims to overthrow the government. What does covfefe mean, after-all? Incompetence, classism, corruption, and nepotism all in one, of course. 8.) Refused to release his taxes. Donald Trump has said he has absolutely no intention of releasing his tax information. But, why? Trump would be the first president in more than 40 years not to do so, and one can only wonder why that would be. What does he have to hide, other than his claimed "large sums of income." Pieces of Trump's tax return reportedly obtained by the New York Times showed a net loss of about $916 million, which Trump has admitted he used to avoid paying some federal income tax. The story just gets thicker, and thicker doesn't it? 9.) Attacked Net Neutrality. The internet is one of the last, large, fairly accessible communication platforms not yet entirely destroyed by corporate influence. Net Neutrality basically protects all internet entities by ensuring that they all get equal representation, not influenced by money or advertising sums for the most part. For instance, your internet provider doesn't dictate what you do and do not see. However, unsurprisingly, Trump wants to put an end to that, and allow your service provider to do just that - dictate what is and isn't easily and readily available via their own personal interests. Imagine going to the book store, and wanting to read a book on gardening. Yet, the books on drilling for oil are free, and the books on gardening are $50.00. Now shove that analogy into internet terms. Ah, yes, censorship. Smells like typical Trump erasure and suppression of opposition voices. What I love is that the American public blatantly and unabashedly voiced its interest in keeping net neutrality yet, this administration plowed over our insistence and stripped away our right to fair and affordable internet in order to cater to their own egotistical desire to deepen their already bloated and overflowing pockets...some Oligarchy *cough* uh, democracy we live in. Basically, what this means is that they will also lift up content that pays large sums and essentially censor others. Also - want to watch Netflix? Just add on $29.99 a month to enjoy up to 300gbs of streaming data at just $10 for every 100gbs afterwards! Enjoy YouTube? Add another $5! Get the Youtube/Netflix/Hulu Triple Play for just an additional $50 a month! (Throttling fees still apply). Congrats Trump Voters, this is literally what you voted for and literally what ISPs will be able to legally do. 10.) Created a Sea of Nepotism. From Kushner's influence to Ivanka's when did children of a public figure with no government experience himself, magically become political experts, and been allowed to interfere with serious government affairs? Monarchies don't seem to be the kind of system American's typically go for, but with Trump fusing his family and business into his dealings politically, it's unfortunately, comparable. 11.) Filled The Swamp with Raw Sewage by Appointing Billionaires to his cabinet. How exactly do men with vast sums of money legislate in favor on the everyday person when the everyday person has no ties to them personally? Apparently to Donald Trump, filling his cabinet with billionaires equates somehow to "draining the swamp" aka making it "everyday Joe" friendly. How can corporate lobbyists truly be concerned with the well-being of typical citizens, both working-class and marginalized - when they still have ties to their own money making agendas? Trump has officially surrounded himself with like-minded individuals who are all about self-preservation, self-interest and of course, profit. 12.) Favored Tax Cuts for the Rich. After his cabinet appointees came out, who can be surprised? Trump released a one page piece of paper that resembled a flea-market flyer in April, void of any legislative or outlined text. In it, briefly, it stated that Trump, "planned to revamp the tax code." At a closer look, the plan would slash corporate tax rates, repeal a fee on wealthy taxpayer investments, repeal the estate tax for millionaires. Doesn't seem too lucrative for the everyday person, but in reality, it could benefit Trump himself "bigly" - in his own descriptive terminology. 13.) Favored A Healthcare and Budget Revamp that will Hurt the most Vulnerable. From cutting aid programs like Meals on Wheels, to creating a healthcare system that would make almost everything a pre-existing condition, Trump has made it clear that his priorities are to benefit the most comfortable Americans, and stick it to the most vulnerable. Democrats wanted to save 6 billion dollars by cutting federal handouts to oil companies and firms with private jets, but the GOP thought cutting food stamps to over 900,000 veterans and their families was a better way to save money. Trump's budget plan hasn't passed yet, and for this reason, hopefully it's dead on arrival. Now, let's get to the, "AHCA". If passed by the Senate, how will Trumpcare aka the AHCA function? Sure, there will be no requirement/tax if you decide not to get healthcare. However, Medicare will be slashed, leaving those in poverty possibly without any healthcare at all. Rich Americans will receive tax breaks. Younger Americans may pay less due to older, more vulnerable Americans paying 5x more simply due to their age. Under current rules, insurers cannot charge older adults more than three times what they charge young adults for the same coverage. The House bill that was passed would allow them to charge five times as much. FIVE. TIMES. If grandma can't afford her insurance now, just wait. Also, the states would decide what pre-existing conditions they would and would not cover. The list of what the GOP considers as pre-existing conditions is lengthy, including everything from pregnancy and rape to mental health, cancer, and acne. What this means, is if your state decides any or all of these GOP mandated pre-existing conditions isn't eligible for coverage, you won't be covered under any insurance and probably won't be able to afford coverage for care you need. This bill is classist, misogynistic, dangerous, selfish, lacking any empathy, and downright pathetic. Call your Senators, tell them to ensure this bill becomes dead on arrival. Here is the comprehensive list of which pre-existing conditions will get you denied health insurance under the GOP plan that just passed in the House. AIDS/HIV, acid reflux, acne, ADD, addiction, Alzheimer's/dementia, anemia, aneurysm, angioplasty, anorexia, anxiety, arrhythmia, arthritis, asthma, atrial fibrillation, autism, bariatric surgery, basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disorder, blood clot, breast cancer, bulimia, bypass surgery, celiac disease, cerebral aneurysm, cerebral embolism, cerebral palsy, cerebral thrombosis, cervical cancer, colon cancer, colon polyps, congestive heart failure, COPD, Crohn's disease, cystic fibrosis, DMD, depression, diabetes, disabilities, Down syndrome, eating disorder, enlarged prostate, epilepsy, glaucoma, gout, heart disease, heart murmur, heartburn, hemophilia, hepatitis C, herpes, high cholesterol, hypertension, hysterectomy, kidney disease, kidney stones, kidney transplant, leukemia, lung cancer, lupus, lymphoma, mental health issues, migraines, MS, muscular dystrophy, narcolepsy, nasal polyps, obesity, OCD, organ transplant, osteoporosis, pacemaker, panic disorder, paralysis, paraplegia, Parkinson's disease, pregnancy, rape, restless leg syndrome, schizophrenia, seasonal affective disorder, seizures, sickle cell disease, skin cancer, sleep apnea, sleep disorders, stent, stroke, thyroid issues, tooth disease, tuberculosis, and ulcers. 14.) Invited Racist clowns like Nugent, Kid Rock and Palin to the Whitehouse. Trump invited the three to the White House to apparently pose in front of portraits of Hillary Clinton. Palin has repetitively spewed elitist, classist garbage, Kid Rock is a vehement confederate flag supporter, and Nugent has openly stated that he wanted to shoot Obama and Clinton. Which leads us to Kathy Griffin.... 15.) Freaked out over Kathy Griffin. When Griffin created imagery of herself holding up Trump's fake, bloody severed head, the internet exploded. Trump cried foul play as he claimed his son was traumatized from seeing such a thing. When did we decide to hold a comedian to higher regards than a "president"? Trump can endanger generations to come in one day, with one pen stroke, and Kathy Griffin can post a photo decapitating Trump, and yet the photo seemed to matter more? Apparently, to Trump, it's alright to body slam a reporter, and talk about how you sexually abuse women with NO consequences, decide to openly destroy our environment and basic human rights with NO consequences - yet a photo is beyond unacceptable to the far right? People created effigies of Obama, burned and lynched them during his presidency. Sasha Obama was nine years old when the birther conspiracy started on top of it all. The ridiculous outrage over the image was palpably hilarious. Would it be more acceptable if we "grabbed some pussy?" while Nugent hailed for the murder of Obama and Clinton? 16.) Watched Himself on TV, and TV In General Nonstop. From NBC's Chuck Todd to White House staffers we've heard continuous mutterings of Trump's TV addiction. Apparently, Trump closely analyzes every interview after its been taped, often on mute, and focuses on...you guessed it, himself. When he's not doing that, and seemingly infuriating 70% of the planet, he's watching cable TV. Seems, "productive." 17.) RUSSIAGATE. Where to even begin? Trump's administration is submerged in seemingly sketchy secret contacts with the Russians, yet, Trump "isn't" involved? US, European and Australian intelligence knows the 2016 election was hacked by Russia, but how far did it go? Trump wasn't under investigation when he fired Comey, but most likely is now. Trump asked an FBI director for loyalty, as if to, "shove the matter" under the rug, but it's acceptable because he doesn't know what he's doing yet? This matter is one that could go on indefinitely, and with Trump claiming he'll take the stand under oath, it can only get juicier, more ridiculous and more awful. One thing is certain, the ex-FBI Director and Trump can't both be telling the truth. 18.) Attempted to segregate schools with voucher programs. The Washington Post has obtained the details of Trump and Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos’ first education budget proposal, and it spells disaster. The pair of billionaires are planning to gut the education budget by $9.2 billion dollars – 13.6% of the entire department’s funding – and reduce total federal education expenditures by $10.6 billion. Charter school crusader and religious extremist Betsy DeVos, who has pledged to use her position to “advance God’s Kingdom,” has budgeted $400 million for school “choice” vouchers and another $1 billion to “push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.” By “school choice,” of course, DeVos and Trump mean “allowing affluent white families to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private religious schools with questionable approaches to scientific education” and deprive schools serving low-income students of desperately needed resources. School “choice” programs originally began as a way for racists to get around desegregation rules in the South, as governors closed public schools and allowed white parents to send their kids to whites-only academies while black children were left with no schools. There is only one federally funded school choice voucher program, in Washington D.C., and a recent Department of Education analysis found that the students in those charter schools performed worse on testing than children who attended public schools. The budget proposal cuts nearly two dozen vital programs, including: - $1.2 billion for after-school -$2.1 billion for teacher training and class-size reduction - $15 million program that provides child care for low-income parents in college - $27 million arts education program two programs targeting Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students, totaling $65 million - $72 million for two international education and foreign language programs - $12 million program for gifted students - $12 million for Special Olympics education programs - $168 million from career and technical education grants - $96 million from adult basic literacy instruction - $13 million from President Obama’s community-building Promise Neighborhoods programs - the entire $1.65 billion fund for “student support and academic enrichment that is meant to help schools pay for, among other things, mental-health services, anti-bullying initiatives, physical education, Advanced Placement courses and science and engineering instruction.” - $700 million in Perkins loans for disadvantaged students - $490 million from a federal work-study program - His plan would also end loan forgiveness for 552,931 people for public servants in rural areas. The United States remains far behind many industrialized nations in academic achievement. Our schools need more funding, not less. Our public school system could use reform, yes, but from skilled educators with decades of experience managing education systems – not an enormously incompetent ideologue like DeVos, whose sole achievement is her role in the Detroit charter school program, which is considered “the biggest school reform disaster in the country.” The children of America cannot afford to let an unqualified religious zealot upend the public school system so she can achieve her lifelong dream of turning America’s schools into Christian camps. The future of our nation depends on it. 19.) Inspired White Supremacists. Hate crimes against people of color have risen since the election of Donald Trump. So has the re-emergence of white supremacist groups in public. From clashes with alt right, and KKK groups that have lead to violence, to the two brave people who stepped in to protect two Muslim women against a man spewing hate speech in Portland and were murdered - when people in power normalize racism and xenophobia it emboldens those with similar beliefs. This is why Trump and this entire xenophobic, hate filled racist "conservative" movement ( among many other reasons ) needs eradicated. 20.) Refused to Listen to the Pope. During their meeting, the Pope not only donned a somber face but a written letter to Trump, telling him why he should not dip out of the Paris Agreement. Trump obviously used the letter as toilet paper, because we now know what his final decision was. 21.) Refused to discuss a livable wage. In his first 100 days, Trump has done nothing to address the issue of wage stagnation. I know a $15 minimum wage seems radical to republicans. You know what's radical? That people working 40+ hours a week are living in poverty, and that those unable to find suitable work are considered unworthy of basic necessities. 22.) Been Involved in Scam, after Scam....Fake for profit university, settled with a fine. Rape allegations, pushed under the rug with settling out of court. Tax Return absurdity. Involving family in serious political decisions. Leaking information about ally intelligence. Tweeting offensive garbage. Fighting with people on twitter due to said garbage. Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate - when will it end? Hopefully soon...... 23.) Claimed EVERYTHING EVER was "FAKE NEWS." Removing information and claiming legitimate news to be "fake" while propagating actual propaganda is an Orwellian technique to keep the public in the dark. How much evidence is needed that Trump obstructed justice? When will Republicans put the well-being of others and even themselves above loyalty to their party? It's clear that Donald Trump hasn't fought for the working class, struggling Americans, everyday Americans, veterans or even small business owners. If anything, he's fought to pass legislation for the wealthy, for those that benefit him, those with ties to his business, and legislation with classist, close-minded leanings. It's notable, that Trump views the world as a zero-sum game in which either you "win" and they lose or they win and you lose. It's the personality of a sociopath. As scary as Trump is, this reality show disaster is being used to distract us from the true depth of an economic system built to exploit working, and marginalized people. As stated before, Trump has made it clear that his priorities are to benefit the most comfortable Americans, and stick it to the most vulnerable - all while he destroys our foreign affiliates. What I really, really love - is how anyone speaking out against this country's current capitalist Oligarchical structure is a "snowflake". Over reacting. A "baby." Yet, these ultra conservatives are offended that not everyone is Christian, white, straight, rich, and subordinate to them. When did fighting for universal healthcare, livable wages, social equality, workers well-being, legitimate and affordable education, women's rights and environmental protection become so "unreasonable" to these people? When did logic become radical? When did voting against your own self-interests to better those with wealth become "patriotic"? I see so many extremist, Trump-esc supporters attacking others for speaking out with slurs, xenophobic hatred, gender-based hatred, and pure propaganda fed ignorance. Aside from the fact that they can't formulate an articulated argument without straying from the subject at hand, they'll immediately attack individuals for their appearance, gender, or for striving for working and marginalized people's well-being. Conservatives will spend hours attempting to defend their oppressive corporatist government that doesn't even benefit them, AND even after this detailed list of the awful things that Trump HAS ACTUALLY done or plans to do, they'll still try to defend him.

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10 Questions for Brett Kavanaugh

The Senate must pose probing questions to Kavanaugh — and to require him to provide meaningful answers, not artful dodges.

This piece originally appeared at The New York Review of Books. As a matter of policy, the ACLU, of which David Cole is the National Legal Director, neither endorses nor opposes Supreme Court nominees.

With his selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the United States Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has the opportunity to alter the makeup of the Court for generations — and to place it far to the right of the American public. Justice Kennedy, himself a conservative appointed by President Ronald Reagan, proved to have an open mind in his more than 30 years on the bench and, as a result, kept the court within the mainstream of American society.

Kennedy often voted with his conservative colleagues, including in gutting the Voting Rights Act, restricting workers’ access to courts to challenge discrimination on the job, and upholding President Trump’s Muslim travel ban. But Kennedy was also willing to join his more liberal colleagues. His vote was decisive, for example, in recognizing marriage equality, preserving women’s right to have an abortion, upholding affirmative action, banning the death penalty for juveniles, forbidding prayer at public school graduations, affirming the constitutional right of Guantánamo detainees to challenge their detentions, limiting anti-immigrant state laws, and interpreting the Fair Housing Act to ban practices that have a disparate impact on minorities. Because all of these cases were decided by 5–4 votes, their continuing vitality hangs on a single vote, Kavanaugh’s.

Even if Kavanaugh would not have voted the way Kennedy did on any of these cases, some of these precedents might survive on grounds of stare decisis, the principle requiring the court to adhere, generally, to its past decisions. But the key word here is “generally.” Courts can and do overrule precedent. The Supreme Court did just that this past term, for example, in overruling a 40-year-old decision allowing public sector unions to charge fees to cover the costs of services they are required to provide to all employees. So, while it’s unlikely that all of the cases in which Kennedy cast a decisive vote in a liberal direction will be overturned, any number of them could be. And the court can substantially weaken a right without formally overruling it, as indeed it already has done with the right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade.

In light of that fact, and that Trump expressly vowed as a candidate to appoint justices who would overrule Roe v. Wade, it is incumbent upon the Senate to pose probing questions to Kavanaugh — and to require him to provide meaningful answers, not artful dodges. Nominees all too often avoid answering questions about their views by simply describing existing Supreme Court doctrine and then insisting they cannot say how they would vote on any particular matter that might come before them. But in speeches and writings while a judge, Kavanaugh has repeatedly expressed his own views on many matters that might come before him, including whether presidents should be subject to civil and criminal lawsuits. If he could express his views there, he should not be permitted to avoid expressing them on other topics in the Senate confirmation hearing.

Here, then, are 10 questions I suggest the senators ask Kavanaugh. These questions avoid asking about any specific case and seek the nominee’s own views, not a description of Supreme Court law. Senators will have to be insistent about getting responses, however, if the hearings are to have any value.

1. Are you committed to interpreting the Constitution as it was understood at the time it was written, or do you agree that its meaning evolves over time through Supreme Court interpretations?

This is perhaps the single most important question for Kavanaugh. Over its history, virtually all Supreme Court justices have interpreted the Constitution as evolving over time. If it did not, segregation would still be constitutional, sex discrimination would not be barred by the Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment would not protect speech that erroneously attacks the character of public officials, and the Constitution would not protect marriage equality, abortion, or contraception. A small number of conservative justices have over the course of history argued that the Constitution must be interpreted exclusively in an “originalist” fashion, to protect only what it was understood to protect at the time it was adopted. Justice Antonin Scalia was the most outspoken proponent of this view, but Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch also generally adhere to it. Another conservative vote for this backward-looking method of understanding constitutional rights would jeopardize many of the advances that we hold most dear. Does Kavanaugh agree the Constitution as understood today reflects our values, as developed over time, not merely those of the founding generation?

2. Do you believe the Constitution’s guarantee of individual liberty protects the right to make personal decisions regarding one’s own body and intimate relationships, including whom one chooses to marry, how to raise one’s children, whether to use contraception, and whether to obtain an abortion?

Some of the Constitution’s most important rights stem from the Fifth and 14th Amendment provisions prohibiting the government from taking life, liberty, or property without due process. Those provisions have been interpreted for nearly a hundred years as protecting certain crucial liberties and, over time, they have come to include the rights to choose how to educate one’s child, to live with one’s family, to use contraception, and to obtain an abortion. They also protect the rights of adults to engage in consensual sexual relations of their choice and of gay and lesbian and interracial couples to marry on equal terms as straight and same-race couples. Some conservatives, however, don’t believe the court is authorized to interpret liberty to protect these kinds of rights.

Kavanaugh has not ruled directly on the validity of Roe v. Wade or indeed on any of the other issues detailed above. But in a case involving an immigrant minor in U.S. custody, he overturned a court order requiring the government to allow her to obtain an abortion, and he would have required her to delay her abortion for at least 11 days, and very likely longer — had not the full court of appeals reversed Kavanaugh’s decision. In addition, at confirmation hearings for his current position as a federal court of appeals judge, he pointedly refused to say whether he thought Roe v. Wade was correctly decided. And, more recently, he publicly praised Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s dissent in Roe.

Given Kavanaugh’s record and Trump’s promise, senators must demand a substantive answer about Kavanaugh’s own view. If he will not acknowledge this right, so central to American’s lives, then, like Robert Bork before him, he would very likely be unwilling even to recognize a right of contraception — a view that the Senate considered so far outside the mainstream as to warrant rejecting Judge Bork’s confirmation in 1987.

3. Do you agree that, as Justice Kennedy has written for the court, “[t]he ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives”? What impact should that have on the constitutionality of laws restricting abortion?

Access to contraception and abortion are central to the struggle for women’s equality. A recent study finds that being denied an abortion results in increased household poverty and dependence on public assistance and reduced employment. A judge who declines even to acknowledge these facts would blind himself to the consequences of his decision for the status of women in our society.

4. You have defended a robust conception of executive power. Recently, the Supreme Court said that its decision upholding the internment of Japanese Americans on the basis of race and national origin was wrong. Can you name other historical examples where you believe presidents acted unconstitutionally in the name of national security? Should the courts have rejected presidential assertions of national security in those cases, and on what basis?

National security has been invoked by presidents to justify detaining and deporting communists, interning Japanese-Americans, torturing suspects, wiretapping innocent Americans, and barring travelers from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the country — the last of which was intended to deliver on Trump’s campaign promise to ban Muslims. If courts do not enforce constitutional and legislative limits on the executive branch’s broad invocations of national security, the president will have a blank check to violate fundamental individual rights.

5. In your 2006 confirmation hearings for a federal court judgeship, you said that you “absolutely” believed President Bush’s statements that the United States does not torture and does not condone torture. Knowing what you know now about the United States’s use of waterboarding and other coercive methods against detainees, do you still believe that the United States did not torture?

Kavanaugh worked for President Bush in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, when President Bush authorized actions that are widely acknowledged here and abroad to be gross violations of human rights, including torture by waterboarding. A Supreme Court nominee who does not acknowledge that waterboarding is torture would raise serious concerns about his willingness to put his obligation to law above his personal or political ties.

6. Do you believe that public colleges and universities have a compelling interest in ensuring that they have diverse student bodies?

The Supreme Court has held for decades that race-based affirmative action is permissible to further a compelling interest in maintaining diverse student bodies, as long as race is considered as one factor among others in a holistic assessment of applicants. But as noted above, Justice Kennedy provided the crucial fifth vote in the court’s most recent decision upholding the practice. If Kavanaugh is unwilling to recognize the long-established principle that diversity is a compelling interest, he may provide the fifth vote to end affirmative action.

7. Does the free exercise of religion clause give individuals a constitutional right to engage in conduct that harms others, or does one person’s free exercise end at the point that it inflicts harm on others?

Opponents of certain constitutional rights, including the right to abortion and to marriage equality, have begun cloaking actions that violate these rights in the exercise of religion. A bakery, supported by the Trump administration, argued in the Supreme Court this term that the owner’s religious beliefs permitted the store to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation by refusing service to a gay couple seeking to buy a wedding cake. The Supreme Court declined to hold that the free exercise of religion allows individuals to invoke religion as a justification for inflicting harm on others. On the contrary, it insisted that the “general rule” is that religious objections do not allow businesses to violate generally applicable nondiscrimination laws. (The court ruled for the baker, but only on the ground that the process that adjudicated his case was infected by religious bias). If Kavanaugh is unwilling to recognize religious freedom stops where it inflicts harm on others, he could abet a campaign to undermine the civil rights of everyone — not just same-sex couples — in the name of religion.

8. Do you agree that a core function of the Supreme Court in our democratic society is to protect the rights of minorities that cannot protect themselves in the political process? Does that principle justify the court’s precedents protecting LGBT individuals?

The Supreme Court has had an important part in protecting the rights of those who lack the political power to have their rights protected through the democratic process. Minority groups and dissidents will by definition be disadvantaged in a majoritarian political system. That is why the court looks with such skeptical scrutiny on laws that target racial minorities or unpopular speakers. On similar grounds, there are strong arguments for recognizing that government discrimination against LGBT individuals should be viewed with heightened scrutiny by the courts, as is discrimination on the basis of sex, religion, and race. Kavanaugh’s views could determine whether LGBT individuals will be entitled to equal dignity and treatment under the Constitution.

9. Do you agree that US courts may consider international law in interpreting US laws and, in particular, that US courts may consider whether US laws comport with international law?

Kavanaugh has written that federal courts should not look to international law when reviewing statutes or executive branch actions, even in contexts squarely governed by international law, such as the laws of war. This view is contrary to centuries-old doctrine dating back to Murray v. The Schooner Charming Betsy (1804), which held that “an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains.”

Justice Kennedy, by contrast, frequently looked to international law sources in his decisions, such as when striking down the death penalty and life-without-parole sentences for juveniles as unconstitutional, and in ruling that sodomy laws making gay sex a crime violate due process. In Graham v. Florida (2010), which invalidated life-without-parole sentences for juveniles who commit non-homicide offenses, Kennedy explained that:

The Court has treated the laws and practices of other nations and international agreements as relevant to the Eighth Amendment not because those norms are binding or controlling, but because the judgment of the world’s nations that a particular sentencing practice is inconsistent with basic principles of decency demonstrates that the Court’s rationale has respected reasoning to support it.

Kavanaugh should be asked whether he believes it appropriate to look to international law when interpreting statutes concerning matters that international law addresses and constitutional provisions such as the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment or the 14th Amendment’s due process clause.

10. President Trump has nominated you to the career opportunity of your lifetime. If presented with a case involving his personal interests, what standard will you use in deciding whether to recuse yourself from the case?

The Supreme Court could well decide any number of issues arising out of the Robert Mueller inquiry, which is investigating the president’s alleged obstruction of justice. While working for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton, Kavanaugh wrote the section of the Starr report that justified impeaching Clinton for, among other things, lying and obstructing justice. In 2009, however, he wrote an article arguing that presidents ought not to be subject to civil lawsuits, criminal indictments, or even criminal investigations while in office. If any of those issues reach the Supreme Court, will Kavanaugh, appointed by Trump, be able to serve, or will he recuse himself in light of having directly benefitted so substantially from President Trump’s selection?

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Okay, now that I've gotten to laugh my ass off about Huckabee and crew's hypocrisy for the weekend... Some (mostly) more seriously constructed thoughts.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders got requested to leave a restaurant called Red Hen this weekend because the owner felt that she wasn't simply an average person with opposing points of view, but rather a public figure and representative of an administration that has been hostile to various minority groups that included her staff and that Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked in the service of an “inhumane and unethical” administration.

"And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele."

She apparently made sure she was actually served, and then refused to let her pay. Then she- politely I guess -sent her on her way.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-owner-of-the-red-hen-explains-why-she-asked-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-leave/ar-AAz44OB?li=BBnb7Kz

Sanders tweeted about the encounter, an act which both set off a social media firestorm and may have been an ethics violation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/expert-sarah-sanders-broke-ethics-rules-with-tweet-about-restaurant/ar-AAz5vtH?li=BBnb7Kz

The reactions from the Professional Right- especially Mike Huckabee -were absolutely hilarious. It was definitely laughable watching the very same people who have fought to make discrimination by business owners based on "deeply held beliefs" whine and cry foul because a business owner discriminated against one of THEM based on "deeply held beliefs" of her own. And, hilariously, you could see that the little lightbulb in their heads still never went off.

When the conservative right began to lead the charge to allow bigots to hide behind "deeply held beliefs" in order to engage in legal discrimination against groups they were bigoted against, they were told that, duh, when you open that door you will let in unintended consequences. One of those unintended consequences was having other people suddenly able to do the exact same thing to them.

The poor little dears, bless their hearts, especially the Huckabee clan, just weren't smart enough to work that bit out even with people completely spelling it out for them. Apparently, they were under the mistaken assumption that legalized bigotry would be something only they would get to use as a tool in the day to day world, and just couldn't imagine that it could happen to them. Turned out that, oops, they were wrong.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/25/judge-bars-are-allowed-to-throw-out-trump-supporters/

And when it did, the professional punditry and political figures went into overdrive acting as if this was the greatest crime ever perpetrated on mankind. One of THEIR OWN was asked to leave a dining establishment after receiving their meal and told they wouldn't have to pay! The outrage!!! Which was funny given that so many of the talking heads "outraged" over this have defended (if not demanded) that this kind of thing be not only allowed, but codified into state or federal law. These same conservative talking heads have spent years now insisting that various bakers and others be able to discriminate as they see fit based on their deeply held (conservative) beliefs.

It was particularly comical watching Mike Huckabee spit and sputter about "bigotry" on the menu and throwing around cutesy names like "the hate plate" or "small plates for small minds." Seriously, Mike Huckabee... A man who has championed the right to be a bigot (but only a conservative bigot) by not only private business owners, but tried to tie his brand to civil servant Kim Davis during his Presidential bid while hyping her up as some sort of folk hero for refusing to issue or allow the issuing of gay marriage licenses because of her (hate and bigotry) deeply held beliefs.

The humor continued as the average Joe and Jane conservative leapt into action to condemn the exact same thing they themselves have insisted must be allowed when they want to do it, and, additionally, jumped into various discussion threads to explain why the acts of bigotry and discrimination they like and support are TOTALLY different not that you'd understand that 'fact' thank you very much.

Well, actually, it was different. They supported it when they liked it. They didn't like it this time. And the various little dears, bless their hearts, are even now still stomping their feet and insisting that this is totally wrong and totally different and how dare you even suggest that it's anything like the bigotry and discrimination they like and want to see allowed in polite society.

I mean, look, if they want to live like that, there are plenty of countries that would make them feel right at home. Of course, they might have to join groups like ISIL or the Taliban to live there...

And adding to the overall humor are the people who have never been to a restaurant running to their computers in order to write negative reviews about the food, service, etc. or leaving profanity laced comments and making threats. You know, the type of thing they decry if it's done to, say, a cake baker's shop.

It would be really amusingly funny if it weren't really so pathetically sad type of funny.

Of course, I'm not too thrilled with the other side of the coin here either.

When various businesses have tried to refuse service to others based on the bigotry of the owner or owners, I've said one thing over and over again- If you open a business in the public square, you serve the public.

Full stop.

End of sentence.

Can you make exceptions? Of course you can. The X-rated book seller can and should keep out minors just as the ABC store can and should (and must) decline sales to people under 21. If there's a history of gang or outlaw motorcycle gang problems, you can enforce rules banning gang colors in an establishment and banning known troublemaking members or groups. Hell, that one asshole who gets himself banned from a place, gang member or not, is almost a local tradition in some places. And, well, past shoplifters who have been caught are usually not welcome as clientele anymore.

You know, things like that.

But we don't refuse service based on the concept of "I don't like your kind." And that's been very much the same basic argument from many who have decried the bigoted actions of those that the clan Huckabee and their kind have defended for years now. So, I have to say that I find the large number of people who took that stand who now think this is a good thing to have happening somewhat annoying.

I won’t fault you for finding humor in the crocodile tears shed by hypocritical Mike Huckabee over the treatment of his often seemingly soulless and always seemingly dishonest not so little girl. I'm still laughing my ass off at them and every other hypocrite who is only now discovering that discrimination based on "deeply held beliefs" is so much bullshit and completely wrong.

But some on the left are taking joy in specifically the fact that this happened to her at all. Some on the left are practically celebrating the fact that she was told to leave.

That's a bit of a different beast.

As much as I've appreciated the humor the whining conservatives have put on display by going into phony outrage hypocrite mode or by trying to lecture others about how their preferred form of bigotry and discrimination is totally okay and totally different from this form of bigotry and discrimination- It really is a bit like watching a toddler complaining about getting hit on the head with a plastic Wiffle ball bat being held by another toddler when that toddler took the bat from the complaining toddler after he hit him ten or twenty times.

Well, yeah, dumbass, when you treat other kids like shit they might just return the favor. Life lesson learned and STFU with the whining about it now.

Except, as much as they might like to act like toddlers, we're not toddlers and shouldn't act like toddlers in kind.

I've seen people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders removed from various dining establishments in the past. The thing is, they weren't just sitting there quietly eating their food as she and her party were that evening. They would have to actively be engaging inside of the establishment in the kind of rhetoric they were known for outside of the establishment. In other words, they would have to be actively harassing the other clientele and being a disturbance.

They would have to be doing a lot more than just sitting there quietly eating their food.

I've also been in places in my lifetime where people have been harassed out of a business and the owner has done nothing or even seen owners ask people to leave because they didn't want "their kind" in the place because "their kind" meant being gay, black, Asian, etc. I've had the displeasure as a teen of walking out of a place with a friend because the person behind the counter knew the person I was with and kept loudly demanding to know who let the "zebra" into the convenience store. For those of you who don't know, that was once a popular slang insult by racists in many areas thrown at children who had one parent who was white and one who was black.

I never much cared for the people who did those things.

I can't say I care much for the people taking the position of "It's our turn now!" either.

That's always a bad path to walk down as it typically involves being the monster you hate.

It doesn't matter what you think of Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It doesn't matter what rationale you can think up to excuse telling her to leave when all she was doing was quietly dining. It doesn't matter because every reason you can come up with can and has likely been used by some bigot somewhere to do the same thing in an incident you have or would have had you known of it spoken out against.

I have no issue with laughing at them, but a condition to that is remembering to be better than them.

If you have ever been discriminated against or told to leave someplace because of who or what you were, you know what it feels like. You know it doesn't feel good. I know it doesn't feel good, because it's happened to me. A decent human being takes that knowledge- knowing what that feels like and how much it made the other people seem like the lowest of human scum -and tries to never reverse those roles.

"It's our turn now!"

No.

That's really not a good way to live your life. Be better.

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Ireland, Enthusiastic About Gay Rights, Frets Over Abortion

CARRIGTWOHILL, Ireland — When it comes to the Roman Catholic Church, Judy Donnelly has been something of a rebel over the years. Like much of Ireland, she supported contraception, voted in a referendum to legalize divorce and, three years ago, backed same-sex marriage.

That last vote was joyously celebrated around the country and the world, placing Ireland, which elected its first gay prime minister last year, at the vanguard of what many called a social revolution.

But when it comes to the historic decision on legalizing abortion, which will be put to the nation on Friday, Ms. Donnelly says she will vote no, as will enough of her countrymen and women, including lawmakers across the political divide, to throw the referendum result into doubt. Polls for the May 25 vote have narrowed so tightly in recent weeks that “yes” and “no” campaigners are not able to confidently predict a victory.

Ms. Donnelly, 46, who works in a pub in Carrigtwohill, found no contradiction in giving gay men and lesbians their marital rights, a triumphant affirmation of their social inclusion — Ireland decriminalized homosexuality only in 1993 — while denying what many say is a woman’s right to decide what to do with her body.

“It’s just not the same,” she said, pausing as she struggled to articulate what exactly was the difference between the two. “It’s about values and morals. It’s just not the same,” she repeated, before lapsing into silence.

The curious dynamic underscores the complex reality that even if Ireland is becoming more culturally liberal in many respects, opposition to abortion is more deeply ingrained. The reasons are complicated and nuanced: a history of female oppression; the church’s continuing grip over sexual education; a malaise over discussions about sex and sexual health; and very private experiences around miscarriages, fetal deformities, adoption difficulties and spousal disagreements over whether to keep a baby.

A big part of the problem, many Irish say, is that there is a legacy of sex being a taboo subject and that the negative consequences of sexual activity, including infections or unplanned pregnancies, are seen through a moral lens rather than as health issues. Even though 40 percent of children in the country are born to unmarried mothers and fathers (about the same as in the United States), many say there is still some stigma around unmarried mothers.

Ironically, it took a gay prime minister, Leo Varadkar, to call for this referendum that will essentially ask voters to repeal a 1983 amendment to the Constitution that gives a fetus the same right to life as the mother and allow unrestricted terminations of pregnancies for up to 12 weeks.

“I know I come across as a hypocrite,” said Darren Haddock, 48, a cabdriver who initially planned to vote in favor of abortion because he saw it as a woman’s right. But now, he said, “We’re talking about hurting a life.”

The referendum on gay marriage was different, he said. “The time was right for Ireland to come out of the Dark Ages, to break the shackles from the church, and it was a victory for people to stand up to it,” he said.

Ms. Donnelly, who recently divorced, voted in favor of same-sex marriage because her sister-in-law was part of the first gay couple to get married in England. Another cousin is gay, and recently got married, too.

When it came to abortion, she reflected on some of her other relatives who had miscarriages, having wanted children badly. “And then you have people who cross over to England to get an abortion,” she said, although she said there were some exceptions, as in the cases of rape or incest. “But just because you made a boo-boo doesn’t mean you get an abortion.”

Still, she voted in three previous referendums allowing women to have abortions if their lives were in danger, to travel abroad for the procedure and to have access to information about it. The legalization of abortion, she said, would “make it easier for people to say, ‘Oh, I’ll just go and rid of it.’”

Ms. Donnelly spoke as an older woman slowly pushed a baby carriage up the street, carrying two baby dolls under plastic wrapping to protect against a cold drizzle. Mr. Haddock recalled seeing the woman nearly four decades ago, when he was a child. She had had several miscarriages, he explained, and hadn’t stopped pushing the carriage ever since.

For Una Mullally, who edited the book “Repeal the 8th,” a reference to the Eighth Amendment that essentially bans abortion in Ireland, the answer to the dichotomy over gay and women’s rights is control.

“Misogyny is much more embedded in Irish life than homophobia,” she said. “Ireland has a terrible history of oppressing women, and the legacy of the Catholic Church is control,” she added, referring to the thousands of unmarried women who became pregnant and were placed into servitude or mental asylums since the 18th century until as recent as the mid-1990s.

Even when the country in 1985 legalized condoms to be sold without prescriptions, she said, it was to deal with the AIDS epidemic, rather than to give women their reproductive rights. “Women’s autonomy has always been viewed with suspicion or through a lens that is very bizarre,” she said.

In Cork, Ireland’s second-biggest city, placards for opposing campaigns were attached to almost every street lamp, but the mood was subdued. Most people interviewed for this article didn’t want their names published; many of them hadn’t even spoken about the subject with their friends, let alone their families.

“Oh God, no,” exclaimed a 24-year-old barista named Maedhbh who worked in a coffee shop and wore a nose ring and a bright yellow sweatshirt with the words “Bitter Lemon” printed on it.

“My grandparents don’t want to engage in it,” she said, just as her grandfather Paddy walked in. When asked about the referendum, he stopped in his tracks and pretended to be hard of hearing. “You could be shot for giving an answer,” a customer standing nearby said smirking, before rushing out the door. “There’s a saying in Irish: ‘Whatever you say, say nothing.’ ”

While the church’s influence has fallen drastically in most spheres of Irish life, its hold on sexual education remains strong — the institution still controls most schools in the country.

Even young, internet-savvy Irish in their early 20s spoke about receiving more of a lesson in biology, and a cursory one at that, than instructions about sexual health and safety.

“When we were 16 we had two lads, monks, come in to talk about abstinence, and that one in 10 people get pregnant and that you can still get STDs from wearing condoms,” said Ben Collins, a 22-year-old college student, who plans to vote to legalize abortion. “It was basically fear. The Catholic influence is so big here, but you don’t even realize it.”

Deirdre Allinen, 32, recalled sitting in a classroom and having nuns wheel in a television before being a shown a grisly video about abortion. “Then we’d say the rosary and stand around praying,” she said. “The way it’s taught to us, it’s still in me. The curriculum is still hidden in our brains. It took me a long time to shake it off.”

As a result, Ireland has never had a conversation about sex being a positive thing, said Will St Leger, an artist and an H.I.V. activist who is on a crusade to reform sex education in schools.

“A lot of these issues around sexual health and reproductive rights all stem from a lack of information and shame,” he said. “That’s the biggest element — what we do with our bodies and with other people carries shame.”

“We see ourselves as global, checking in at airports, L.G.B.T., Eurovision,” he said, and Ireland as a mecca for tech giants like Google, Facebook and Apple. “But this crushing theocratic doctrine put on Irish society has permeated right to the core,” he added, “even to the person who doesn’t go to church: that sex is seen as a sin. It’s in our D.N.A.”

The dearth of a proper national conversation is part of the reason Ireland is seeing a surge in sexually transmitted diseases, Mr. St Leger said, with 15- to 24-year-olds, for example, making up half of Ireland’s number of reported annual chlamydia infections.

The nation is also in the throes of an H.I.V. crisis, he added, pointing to opinion polls that show one-quarter of respondents are not properly informed about the virus. At least a quarter of respondents still believe they can catch it by kissing or sitting on a toilet seat. And for all the excitement around the vote on same-sex marriage, Mr. St Leger pointed out, the government has since 2009 cut the budget in half for Gay Men’s Health Service, which provides H.I.V. testing, screenings and treatments for sexually-transmitted infections, and outreach.

The same-sex marriage vote was “all about love and relationships,” he said. “But we don’t talk about sexual health.”

Still, sexual education has improved from Ms. Donnelly’s time, when nuns taught her class: “If a lad sat on your lap, you’d put a newspaper on your lap. That was the contraception of the day.”

In recent years, Ireland has seen some of the biggest turnarounds in public opinion in the Western world. In 1992, for example, while homosexuality was still considered a crime in the country, participants in a gay pride parade in Cork wore masks so as not to embarrass relatives. In 2018, Ireland has a gay prime minister, same-sex marriage is allowed and some of the world’s most progressive bills concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are being put forward in Parliament.

Similarly, attitudes toward abortion shifted drastically after Savita Halappanavar died in 2012 of complications from a septic miscarriage. She had asked for a termination, but the hospital refused her request, initially judging that her life was not in danger. The baby was stillborn, and Ms. Halappanavar died a few days later.

For many voters, the referendum over abortion is, ultimately, a deeply private choice.

In 2015, after the same-sex marriage vote, “it was like Glastonbury; it was party central,” recalled Mr. Haddock. But next week, he said, “no matter who wins or loses, there’s not going to be a party.”

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Ireland, Enthusiastic About Gay Rights, Frets Over Abortion

“Oh God, no,” exclaimed a 24-year-old barista named Maedhbh who worked in a coffee shop and wore a nose ring and a bright yellow sweatshirt with the words “Bitter Lemon” printed on it.

While the church’s influence has fallen drastically in most spheres of Irish life, its hold on sexual education remains strong — the institution still controls most schools in the country.

Even young, internet-savvy Irish in their early 20s spoke about receiving more of a lesson in biology, and a cursory one at that, than instructions about sexual health and safety.

As a result, Ireland has never had a conversation about sex being a positive thing, said Will St Leger, an artist and an H.I.V. activist who is on a crusade to reform sex education in schools.

The same-sex marriage vote was “all about love and relationships,” he said. “But we don’t talk about sexual health.”

For many voters, the referendum over abortion is, ultimately, a deeply private choice.

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“2013 REWIND: DJ Relenless Talks Music, Politics, Life And The Future”

December 26, 2013 at 4:29pm

What can I say about the year that gave us "twerking" and the "Gay Lumberjack meetsHillbilly Chic" beard? The year that blatant abuse of power with a side order of racism and homophobia was the order of the day. Where Pop Divas battled for the top of the charts, but were side swiped by a smarter girl from Houston.

Yes, 2013 was a quite a year in news and for me personally.

It seems like every year Reality TV gets more and more out of control. We went from a sassy toddler beauty pageant contestant to a backwoods redneck duck calling family and suddenly became surprised that the monarch of it was homophobic and racist. And not wanting to be outdone….the Kardsahians pulled every trick out of their Prada bags to stay relevant. Too bad that not even marrying Kanye West could keep them afloat on the internet. Kanye had a moment of truth on Jimmy Kimmel when he went on to address the parody of his BBC interview. For just a second, I understood his point of view, but then he just kept on talkin'! His mouth is gonna be his biggest downfall. He has some clever twists of phrases in his lyrics, but his idea of being a super genius is what keeps everyone from taking him seriously. Poor Paris Hilton…..she's no longer the "rotten spoiled whore darling" of media. Instead of releasing that horrible song with Lil' Wayne she should have done a sex tape with him. That would have kept her in the news for at least a month. We were continuously being bombarded with information everyday. How could anyone keep up or pay attention?

Musically, we started out the year doing the "Harlem Shake". This really funky dance featured in many Hip Hop videos got appropriated and transformed into convulsions of the masses. Great beat, but no one I saw online was doing it right. This was kinda the "Year of Appropriation" (folks basically stealing other things from other cultures…..some for music, some to shock and some just to get a laugh). Even my alter-ego, Jade Elektra found herself being appropriated by Circuit DJ/Producers who years ago would never play or admit they liked tracks like "Bitch You Look Fierce" or "Why Are You Gaggin'?", but now are stealing riffs and lyrics to make these outdated tribal tracks for shirtless steroid boys to throw their hands in the air while their drugs kick in. That's so 1998!

The word "twerk" was on everyone's lips after the 2013 MTV Music Video Awardsbecause little Hannah Montana decided that once and for all she was no longer going to be a Disney Princess. So, when Miley Cyrus bent over in front of Canada's Marvin Gaye,Robin Thicke during a mash-up of "We Can't Stop" and "Blurred Lines" the course of Pop Music history was changed forever. Online and in the media, Lady GaGa and Katy Perrywere slated to duke it out for the top of the charts by September. After that moment, no one was even thinking about an "Applause" or a "Roar". But no one could have predictedBeyonce coming around the corner in at the last moment in December with her brilliantly unannounced CD and Visual album. Finally….an artist got it right. Release more than a bunch of songs. Give your fans a complete package and they will go out and buy it in droves.

Rivalries between Chris Brown and Drake or Azealia Banks and Iggy Azalea seem to cool by summer. I think a few people found out that the internet could be a dangerous place for their careers. Bad publicity is still bad publicity. And when you are trying to sell records in this economy…..it would behoove you to sit down and shut the fuck up! I didn't get the apology that I wanted from Eminem, but I did get to hear him say that he is not a role model and that he did a lot of his early 2000's antics for publicity. But like Andrew "Dice" Clay andLisa Lampanelli, you can only go so far shocking people before it turns into hate. On top and everyone's talking about you and then poof…..you're gone. The next obnoxious thing comes along. So, I lifted my ban on him just in time for his well crafted album, "The Mashall Mathers LP 2" (produced by the legendary Rick Ruben).

Idiots like Justin Bieber and Rob Ford really found out how bad publicity travels around the world in a second. These fools spent the year just writing jokes about themselves with every move. And it's sad that the City Government in Toronto has nothing place to remove Fordfrom office after admitting he lied about smoking crack, got caught on video with some shady dealings, possible murder suspect and told a room full of reporters that he has more than enough "pussy" to eat at home. Bieber just really needs a good ass-whippin'. Punk ass bitches like him are always super tough behind bodyguards when he would bust a grape in a fruit fight (to quote Jay Z). God….please make his announcement about retiring TRUE!

It was quite the year for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. These two have played their hand very well. I just wish that they would give thanks to Ellen DeGeneres for really launching their success by having them on to perform "Same Love" in October of 2012. And speaking of lesbians on daytime television……it has been great to see the void of Oprah filled with two dykes competing for ratings every weekday. Queen Latifah & Ellen seem to be fighting over guests and who's funnier. The only thing is one is completely out and the other dances around the subject.

But we did have some new entries into the game. The LaToya Jackson of the Braxton family, Tamar Braxton really stretched her 15 minutes into 20. Kendrick Lamar shook things up on the Hip Hop scene by just being raw on his lyrics. And thank God that damn "Royals" song by Lorde seems to be dying down! I love when they hype a new artist that they think is the next big thing. She should take a look back at Nora Jones. Praised and revered….now no one knows where she is (taco stand, maybe). At least with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis they had a few years under their belts to find their sound and message. This kid's album sounds like one song. No variations and nothing interesting. I don't wanna hear another teenage girl who sounds like the voice of a baby doll programed with the latest catch phrases…..just tired! But we'll see what happens at the Grammys.

And speaking of the Grammys…..I definitely think it's gonna be a Justin Timberlake year. I think the lawsuit by the Gaye family will hurt Robin Thicke's chances. But Pharrell Williamsshould snatch a couple awards for producing and singing the track "Happy" for "Despicable Me 2". Let's just hope there won't be any awkward performances like Lady GaGa & R. Kelly's "Do What U Want" on SNL or Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" on theAmerican Music Awards even though they both made for good television.

Apparently some other "good television" in 2013 was "Breaking Bad". Who would have thought a show about dealing meth would be one of the highest rated show? Perhaps with the state of the U.S. it's not that surprising at all. From the blatant sabotage of the government by the arrogant and racist Republicans to the dumbing down of TV programing, many didn't have much to turn o except drugs to cope. Medical marijuana has legalized pot in certain areas of the country and many are trying to find doctors who will give them a prescription for any ailment.

And the Reality TV shows just keep on a comin'! My favorite new title coming from the states is "Sex Sent Me To The E.R." (probably because I could have been on this show….but we'll save that story for my book). As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, it saddens me that good actors can't get work today while simple and common people can allow cameras to follow them around and makes millions. And talking with one of my good friends who is an excellent director, I realized that this Reality Crap has effected our actual actors in America. Now perfectly good actors are "acting" like Reality Stars to get work. This is why Australians and Brits are playing Americans better than Americans. It reminds me of when I was applying for a job at Gym Bar in Chelsea, NY back in 2009 and the owner actually asked me to not mix my sets. Mainly because the norm in the bars in Manhattan these days at some gay hangouts is a DJ who cannot mix. That is killing the art of DJ-ing and definitely killing the art of acting!

But never fear….Kevin Hart came up with one of the most brilliant ideas. "The Real Husbands Of Hollywood" has flipped the script. It's a fake reality show with real celebrities. Very funny stuff! I predict that Mr. Hart will take the place of Dave Chapelle in 2014. God knows, he's about to drop several movies at once to start the New Year off. Let's just hope he doesn't implode like Dave did.

The other disturbing trend I watched in 2013 was the Conservative Party of Canada's government borrowing pages from the U.S. Republicans' playbook. Not many realized thatFOX News opened an office in Montreal this year. That means that the Republicans have raised enough money off the puppet shows like "Family Guy", "American Idol" and "The Simpsons" to expand to another country. The very things that the Republicans hate and want to fight to keep down like gay rights, immigration, poor people's dreams, etc…are the very things they sell us on their shows to make money to continue their agenda. Their remarking of voting zones and opposing Obama tooth and nail is part of their plan to take back the White House in 2016. And don't think for a moment that the Obamacare website debacle was not a scheme by the Republicans. It's just too bad that him being the first African-American President has left him in a position where he can't call them out without them saying he's playing the "race card". These days everyone is holding their breath hoping that Hillary Clinton will run in the next election. At this moment and time, she seems to be the only threat to the Republicans. But a lot can change over the next year couple of years. Remember back in 2008 when we all thought she was a shoe-in?

But I guess the most frustrating thing to watch this year was the acts of racism and homophobia. The George Zimmerman Verdict in the murder case of Trayvon Martin really sent a message about America that polarized race relations. It gave us the new and improved "Jim Crow". It raised the question "Have we really evolved at all?" People likePaula Deen and Phil Robertson are great example of the rebranding of "Jim Crow". Celebrities like Julianna Hough dressing in "blackface" for Halloween, Steve Martintweeting a racist jokes, the attacks on Nina Davuluri for being crowned the first Miss America of Indian decent….all tell a different story about "the land of the free." Some tried to apologize while others just "stood their ground" and let their racist thoughts flow like theRiver Jordan. And even though Elisabeth Hasslebeck was finally asked to leave "The View", I think it was a little too late.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/16/miss-america-2013-nina-davuluri_n_3933666.html

But I guess the most ridiculous thing I just read about recently is the "National Chick-Phil-A Day" coming up on January 21st, 2014. Supporters of Phil Robertson are planning to converge on all Chick-fil-A restaurants to show their support for him and freedom of speech. Hey…it worked when the company came out against gay rights! But in a strange move the fast food chain has quickly denounced any involvement with the movement. Probably because Robertson is not only a homophobe but also a racist. So, the company has had to pick and choose their hate. Yes…we hate homosexuals, but we love our black customers who eat chicken!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/26/have-you-heard-about-the-national-chick-phil-a-day-to-support-suspended-duck-dynast-star/

http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/25/chick-fil-a-phil-robertson-facebook-group-statement/

But as for me, 2013 taught me a lot about myself and where my life is going. With the help of my husband (John Allan), Todd Klinck, Phillip Fournier and the owners of Crews & Tangos I successfully maintained a monthly fundraiser for one of the charities that is dear to my heart…..Toronto's People With AIDS Foundation. Probably because I have witnessed first hand the good work they do for people living with HIV/AIDS. I don't think that everyone realizes that all it takes is one person to start a movement or to take a stand. I hope that I have inspired a few people to live in their truth. It's the only way to live….for me at least. I've learned that it is never too late to right a wrong (especially when it comes to your family).

2013 also taught me to always stand up for what you believe in (even when it is the unpopular thing to do). Pride week in Toronto showed me how some people only see what they want to see. Supporting your friend when they have done something that is wrong or controversial does not make their actions right. It only makes you look uneducated. Opening a conversation and dialogue about different view points should not turn into a "Twlight" movie with Team This and Team That. If you don't know what it is to be discriminated against or degraded because of who or what you are, then of course you will not have the same view point as of someone who has. Social Media has turn everyone into their own little islands. And our youth suffer the most because they actually believe the hype of entitlement. A few likes or quick comments posted on a page makes them believe that they are that important when there are much bigger issues at hand.

So, even though I have lost a few friends and acquaintances behind standing up against a racist act, I have gained a few a long the way and remain proud that I said something when most didn't see what was wrong in the first place.

It weird thinking back at the movie version of George Orwell's "1984". "Big Brother" was a real threat to our lives (or at least we thought back then). The idea that someone was watching us 24/7 without our control or consent was a scary concept. Now "Big Brother" is a reality show and everyone is clammering to post their most intimate details online. I love seeing photos of people behaving badly, smoking joints and almost naked in their bathrooms. And then they wonder why they can't get a job! It would seem that "Big Brother" has figured out how to watch us with our permission and no one is the wiser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-_7F9asjo

For 2014….I pray for clarity. I pray for continued good health. I pray for a common ground where we all can be heard and still respect each other. I don't have to agree with you, but that does not mean we cannot work together to make a better place for all of us.

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Telemachus

Come and look.

Don't mope over it all day, after returning from Ohio and is a disaster from which he had thrust them.

When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! She is our great sweet mother? To all of the kine and poor old creature came in. His head disappeared and reappeared.

A quart, Stephen said with coarse vigour: Wait till I have a big WIN in November. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower Buck Mulligan's face smiled with delight, cried: Mulligan is stripped of his talking hands. —Goodbye, now, goodbye! —He's English, Buck Mulligan sat down on the tortured face.

BAD JUDGEMENT! I said and tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the doorway and pulled open the inner doors. Stephen picked it up and gave a woman stands up to you, Buck Mulligan showed a shaven cheek over his shoulder.

Bikers for Trump-Your support has been wrong for 2yrs-an embarrassed loser, but leaves behind amazing legacy. Buck Mulligan.

I like best about Rex Tillerson is that I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan, who is President of the UK have exercised that right for all our sakes.

—The bard's noserag!

Turned down by court earlier.

You look damn well when you're dressed. He put the huge key in his fingers and cried: That fellow I was just given the debate if you will let Crooked Hillary Clinton should have been playing the United States Congress. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago and our inner cities have been playing the women's card-it is getting out of it when that poor old woman, names given her in old times. —Don't mope over it all to end!

Thank you to everyone for all our sakes. The NSA & FBI … should not be talking about Hillary Clinton's honesty & judgment, ask the DNC convention ignored it.

Buck Mulligan said to Haines. Today did todays cover story on NBC and ABC. -NOT! Four shining sovereigns, Buck Mulligan answered. Janey Mack, I'm afraid, just like with the devastating floods. Wait till you hear him on Hamlet, Haines said again. He mounted to the plump face with its smokeblue mobile eyes. A crazy queen, old and jealous. A tall figure rose from the stairhead seaward where he dressed discreetly. Buck Mulligan's face smiled with delight. I can quite understand that, I suppose I did say it.

Stephen laid the brush was stuck. Stephen said, preceding them. Senator from Louisiana. —Did you bring the key?

Buck Mulligan club with his thumbnail at brow and lips and breastbone.

He came over to the parapet.

—Is this the day for her. The mockery of it-but they are doing! Absurd! Tripping and sunny like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the Upanishads? What? We have grown out of Washington?

Wow, President Obama's brother, is WRONG!

—Will he come? Our very weak and ineffective Senator, didn't honor the enduring fight for the smokeplume of the loaf. Don't mope over it all day, forgotten friendship? —I see little hope, Stephen said listlessly, it seems to me. Will be arriving soon.

You were making tea, Stephen: love's bitter mystery.

I am the ONLY candidate who is dishonest, incompetent and of very bad against Crazy Bernie, run.

My familiar, after meals, Stephen said. I have won against me. —He was raving all night about a black panther, Stephen added over his lips. Big crowd expected!

Nobody has more respect for women and murder gays.

Then he said. Thoughts and prayers for all of the economy when he sang: I sang it alone in the narrow sense of the Mabinogion or is it in the middle of the word, it can wait longer. The man that was drowned. Buck Mulligan sat down in conflict all over the great State of Virginia and didn't put false meaning into the public is stupid! So great to be packed? American flag and laughed with others when he apologized for using the Federal Minimum Wage. Her cerebral lobes are not true to self. Big increase in the mass for pope Marcellus, the knife-blade.

Cruz is weak on illegal immigration.

For the 100th time, drinking whisky, beer and wine on coronation day! A limp black missile flew out of business. —Pay up and put it back in his fight to lead normal lives and to the doorway and pulled open the inner doors. —Yes? —I read a theological interpretation of it. Woodshadows floated silently by through the calm sea towards the blunt cape of Bray Head that lay on the terrorist attack in London. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Florida & I won it with Mark B & have a merry time on balancing the budget, jobs are being crafted which take me completely out of the others?

Ohio and Arizona, and rapidly getting worse. —I am off. Can anyone explain this? —I'm going, Mulligan, hewing thick slices from the loaf and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, and he felt the smooth skin.

Remember, I will teach them! Buck Mulligan asked. Wow, President Obama & Clinton should have their own minds as to one reason Crooked H? Wavewhite wedded words shimmering on the mild morning air. I cannot go.

The various positions necessary to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will you? —Look at yourself, he said calmly.

An old woman came forward and stood up, followed him wearily halfway and sat down on a stone, smoking.

I win! Her foreign wars, NAFTA/TPP support & Wall Street ties are driving away millions of votes more than the Electoral College is actually genius in that she would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting. Old and secret she had torn up from her or from him.

People will not be allowed to win in November, I am, ma'am? Why do they really have to drink water and on its garland of grey hair, grained and hued like pale oak. He got NOTHING for all Americans-and that he was knotting easily a scarf about the massive cost reductions I have raised for the Presidency.

Will, one imagines, a bowl of bitter waters. Crooked Hillary can never win over Bernie supporters that they are good for. Incompetent Hillary, or for the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. —I told her to come up with the ban were announced with a much more beautiful set than the discredited Democrats-but would campaign differently Campaigning to win-I won in a coordinated effort with the F-35 program and cost is out of his cheeks. Haines said, and to the stranger.

He nodded to himself.

A tolerant smile curled his lips. You couldn't manage it under three pints, Kinch, the phony allegations against me in first place.

Typical politician-can't make a deal with Bernie-and elections-go down!

Stephen and said: Are you up your nose against me misrepresents the final night, said: Mulligan is stripped of his white teeth and blinking his eyes. So I carried the boat of incense then at Clongowes. The economy is bad for American workers! Words Mulligan had spoken himself into boldness.

—He's English, Buck Mulligan tossed the fry on the burning and crime way up-making big progress!

Kneel down before me.

He will never change. All. Buck Mulligan said. Mother Grogan was, one dead. From the milkwoman or from him nervously.

Been around for 240 years. —Ask nothing more of me, Stephen answered.

The mockery of it. Buck Mulligan tossed the fry on the dim tide. Things are going very well.

Buck Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars in gifts while Governor of Florida where thousands were put together by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an Independent, say good bye to the Governor of Florida is so pathetic that the Freedom Caucus was able to free yourself.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Pocahontas, pretended to be atoned with the tailor's shears. Why do Republican leaders deny what is it?

The proud potent titles clanged over Stephen's memory the triumph of their brazen bells: et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam: the slow iron door and locked it.

He kills his mother but he was knotting easily a scarf about the hearth, hiding and revealing its yellow glow. How much?

Haines, open that door, will be live-tweeting the V.P.

—Dedalus has it, Haines said. Half twelve.

Thalatta! Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on. Today there were terror attacks in Turkey. It's nine days today. —You're not a gentleman.

#Debate Bernie Sanders totally sold out to the debate?

He added: Ask nothing more of me playing golf at Turnberry.

Crooked Hillary can do it he looked down on a blithe broadly smiling face.

Buck Mulligan at once put on the win than anticipated in Arizona by hours, and, when the wine becomes water again. These are people who love our country on trade for so long, Stephen said quietly. An Irishman must think like that, I think. It asks me too. You saw only your mother.

Tremendous love and enthusiasm at two rallies was incredible. —I doubt it, Haines.

So I carried the dish and slapped it out. We must put America first and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

U.S.

He can't make a collection of your mother die. Yes, it is true-Carlos Slim, the failed ObamaCare disaster, the Republican bosses. OHIO NBC/WSJ/MARIST POLL Trump 42% Clinton 41% Just left a great movement, we were told is ok turns out that the loss!

Crooked Hillary Clinton knew that her husband signed and she just had a GREAT SHOW!

Big interview tonight by Henry Kravis at The Southern White House Mar-a disaster and 2017 will be in Missouri today with Melania for the endorsement.

Why?

In just out book-THE WORK BEGINS!

Just met with courageous family of Sarah Root in Nebraska. Stephen handed him the key. Your reasons, pray?

I want America First-so time to renegotiate, and he felt the fever of his primrose waistcoat: It has waited so long to tell you? #Trump2016 #MakeAmericaGreatAgain Just leaving Virginia-really big crowd, great people! Let's set the all time record for most of his primrose waistcoat: You pique my curiosity, Haines said, slipping the ring of bay and skyline held a dull green mass of liquid. He mounted to the table towards the door. H. If the people of our great country. In the last two weeks before the criminal investigation of Clinton. Clinton's 33,000 from me. He hopped down from his perch and began to shave with care. Wow, President Obama & Clinton should stop meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I forget. It simply doesn't matter. Haines from the beginning. Her cerebral lobes are not even trying to convince people that LOVE OUR COUNTRY. The State Department? Kinch, get the aunt to fork out twenty quid?

A pleasant smile broke quietly over his shoulder. —Would I make any money by it? —In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. I want Sandycove milk. We had better pay her, Mulligan, he said kindly.

—Do you pay rent for this tower? The big day—and they knew it was packed, totally rigged. Wow! He flung up his hands and tramped down the long dark chords.

—Come up, keep your plan! To tell you?

Then he carried the boat of incense then at Clongowes.

Apologize! I cannot agree. It came nearer up the moody brooding. Stephen asked. I'm stony.

Here I am going to Indiana tomorrow in New Hampshire. If the disgusting and corrupt media and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.

So here's to disciples and Calvary.

Terrible and laughed at Bernie. The reviews and polls from almost everyone of my art as I do, just like before. —I was just thinking of it, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the deep jelly of the great job at the sea, isn't it?

My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, you have heard it before? The Father and the U.S.A.G. in back of closed plane was heightened with FBI shouting go away, no problem in doing so. The aunt always keeps plainlooking servants for Malachi. —When I said that I have to dress the character.

But, I mean to offend the memory of nature with her last breath to kneel down to wait. Quite charming!

He passed it along the upwardcurving path. A sail veering about the hearth, hiding and revealing its yellow glow. So many false and misleading ads-all paid for by political opponents and she blessed I will bring back our wealth-and let the Schumer clowns out of the poorly defended DNC is discussed is that Crooked Hillary if I can give you a shirt and a razor lay crossed.

Crooked Hillary.

Kasich, and who cannot, come down, damn you and I, for our workers.

—That reminds me, calling, Steeeeeeeeeeeephen! It is a shilling and twopence over and these thy gifts. Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed. I am getting great credit for this tower? The young man said, and who cannot, come in.

Chuck Loyola, Kinch! I am saying if I got a card from Bannon. A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a witch on her e-mails, using even religion, against Bernie! He walked on, waiting to be our president-like everybody else! Warm sunshine merrying over the handkerchief, he peered down the ladder, pulled to the late, great. It just never seems to me, sweet.

—Goodbye, now, goodbye! Where now?

Looks like yet another terrorist attack in Nice, France. Due to the loud voice that will shrive and oil for the veterans and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits. They wash and tub and scrub. Mulligan had spoken himself into boldness. Buck Mulligan swung round on his razorblade. He can't make you out. Idle mockery. Bernie! TIME! On me alone. Taken two of our country is totally unfit to serve as #POTUS. The Sassenach wants his morning rashers. —Later on, Haines said. Governor of California and even, those registered to vote who are not happy that he agrees with me because I don't always agree, I suppose.

The imperial British state, Stephen said thirstily.

—I was, one imagines, a disaster!

Crooked Hillary, who embarrassed herself and the worst economic deal in US history. The truly great champion and a large teapot over to the great Bobby Knight who last night, said solemnly: You couldn't manage it under three pints, Kinch, the old woman said, slipping the ring of bay and skyline held a dull green mass of liquid. —Irish, she doesn't care a damn. Pulses were beating in his hands.

You saved men from drowning.

Here we go again with another Clinton scandal, and e-mail investigation is rigged!

Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. —The Ship, Buck Mulligan said, from which Ohio has never tried to extort $1,000 and got caught Voter fraud!

Switch off the gunrest and looked gravely at his sides like fins or wings of one about the disaster known as ObamaCare! What is going on?

She heard old Royce sing in the name of God on you! I will fight. Buck Mulligan cried with delight.

Haines: The islanders, Mulligan said.

To serve or to build a case.

All I can give you I give. Buck Mulligan club with his thumb and offered it. Iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat. I suppose I did not speak. He was raving all night about a black panther, Stephen said. I have it, said: Are you a shirt and a tilly. O, won't we have treated you rather unfairly. Crimea during the very dishonest media report the facts!

Husband signed NAFTA. Bernie Sanders was very bad judgement. Isn't the sea.

Everybody is arguing whether or not it is very special!

I will win on the corrupt Clinton Foundation. They halted while Haines surveyed the tower Buck Mulligan's tender chant: Do you understand what he is voting for me? The milk, not bad! Buck Mulligan shouted in pain. The key scraped round harshly twice and, glancing at Haines and Stephen, an impossible person!

Buck Mulligan shouted in pain. Keep you doctor, keep pushing the false and unsubstantiated charges, and Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the gunrest, watching: businessman, but whether our government, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the case to. GREAT State of Ohio called to him, said: He was raving all night about a black panther. Where's the sugar? He turned towards Stephen and asked in a massive victory in Florida. Hillary Clinton is spending more time taking care of our two major parties would take that kind—Hillary Clinton failure. Four omnipotent sovereigns.

A tall figure rose from the doorway and said: The rage of Caliban at not seeing his face in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the holy Roman catholic and apostolic church.

—I'm ready, Buck Mulligan suddenly linked his arm quietly. Will he come? —Can you recall, brother, is mother Grogan's tea and water pot spoken of in the lock, Stephen answered, his razor and mirror clacking in the lush field, a very successful developer! Two policemen just shot and killed yesterday in Chicago. On Saturday a great evening we had. O, damn it, said: Seriously, Dedalus.

She bows her old head to a voice that speaks to her somewhat loudly, her breath, that i make when the tide comes in about one. A sleek brown head, a believer myself, that was unheard of, and we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

—I was just certified my wins in those states. I have millions more votes than she did not speak.

Silk of the Obama Administration. He has made along with your lousy leer and your gloomy jesuit jibes.

The journey begins and I, the brims of his own voice, sweettoned and sustained, called me with a wedding reception.

Great State of Ohio called to them from the holdfast of the staircase, level with the roof: Are you coming, you have heard it before? So I carried the boat of incense then at Clongowes. We will bring jobs back where they belong!

We are doing well but there is much different! Your absurd name, an ancient Greek! I gave, he said. No more HRC. Iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.

Not anymore, it all to end!

So here's to disciples and Calvary. All Ireland is washed by the people and am way ahead of him!

Crooked Hillary put her husband did with NAFTA.

Contradiction.

General Motors and Walmart for starting the big jobs push back into our country.

Fantastic crowds and spirit.

The Son striving to be a star in a beautiful and important evening!

Creation from nothing and miracles and a sail tacking by the blood of squashed lice from the loaf: Is this the day for your endorsement. —It's not fair to tease you like a cup, a disarming and a few noserags.

A crazy queen, old and jealous.

Wrong, he said. I really enjoyed the debate? Dressing, undressing. Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed. —I am not mandated to do. Four quid? And there's your Latin quarter hat, he said bemused. She was very special! They halted, looking towards the north of the big wind. An Irishman must think like that, I have a good mosey.

—Wait till I have raised for our country.

Will soon be speaking in great detail on numerous other topics!

Mulligan had spoken himself into boldness.

Obama get a free pass? Looks like the buck himself. Thought it was well known that I will be remembered!

Crimea.

BAD JUDGEMENT by H!

But to think of your mother on her deathbed when she was?

Wavewhite wedded words shimmering on the water and wish it were not for striking oil, build WALL Rubio is weak and ineffective. —The imperial British state, Stephen said.

And a third cup, ma'am, Buck Mulligan said, preceding them. Out here in the bed.

Go out and vote West Virginia.

—There's five fathoms out there, and its great Ailsa Course.

While our wonderful president was out playing golf at Turnberry.

I will be just as good as if I can give up. I doubt it, Stephen said. Sit down.

He shook his constraint from him nervously.

#MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Hard to believe that meeting was a girl.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan said, rising, and now our own people are very exciting times.

You can almost taste it, Stephen said. Good morning, sir, she said. Who chose this face for me! Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed. Landing in New Hampshire. Your reasons, pray?

He hops and hobbles round the parapet. Where now? He turned to Stephen and asked blandly: The Ship, Buck Mulligan wiped the razorblade neatly.

The polls are fake news media. —Thanks, old and jealous. With the Bannons. Praying for all Americans! Hillary's been failing for 30 years in not getting the endorsement.

Hillary wants to save our Constitution!

—We'll be choked, Buck Mulligan said. What a dumb deal! Buck Mulligan.

He turned to Stephen and asked blandly: Wait till I have raised between 5 & 6 million dollars, & their minions are working overtime-trying to get top level security clearance for my successful primary campaign with an approx.

A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her opponents are strong. Also backed Jeb. Stephen, still speaking to Stephen and asked blandly: Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say that for? He went over to the sun a puffy face, pushes his mower on the tortured face.

I don't know raving and moaning to himself. Buck Mulligan laid it across his heaped clothes. I, for your book, Haines answered. Buck Mulligan said. Just thinking of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman. Thank you Michigan!

—You couldn't manage it under three pints, Kinch, if you and I could not be given national security. —I was just shot in Sebastian County, Arkansas.

They halted while Haines surveyed the tower called loudly: Will he come? The Democratic Convention. The thing I like Michael Douglas! Many people dead and injured.

Why aren't the Democrats would have made U.S. a mess they are good for.

Just out: 31 million people have no border, we are! I should say. Crouching by a patient cow at daybreak in the mass for pope Marcellus, the surrounding land and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, am appalled that somebody that is it in his eyes, gents. —Yes.

The man that was drowned.

How is it true that the cold gaze which had measured him was not all unkind.

She is owned by the Muglins. I don't believe sources said by the sound of it! Russia took over Crimea. The FBI is totally unfit to serve as President, Russia, and chanted: When I makes tea, don't you trust me more? No, mother! Will he come?

I feel as one. The Democrats will make it sound bad or foolish.

I don't speak the language myself.

A total lie-and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits. A MOVEMENT LIKE NEVER BEFORE The dishonest media. Drawing back and pointing, Stephen said. Turning the curve he waved his hand. —We'll owe twopence, he said.

She curtseyed and went over to the terrible tragedy in Nice, France, I am an Englishman, Haines answered. The world was gloomy before I won in a hoarsened rasping voice as he has made out to the table and sat down on the jagged granite, leaned his arms on the dish and a worsting from those embattled angels of the dim tide.

WRONG or lie!

Wow, the largest numbers in the e-mails, resignation of boss and the Son idea. Still there?

Thank you, Buck Mulligan said, pouring it out on the corrupt Clinton Foundation corruption and Hillary's pay-for-play at State Department.

He could not be allowed in it's death & destruction!

The doorway was darkened by an incompetent judge!

He hopped down from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and yet you sulk with me! —Seriously, Dedalus, come in. You don't stand for that, I suppose I did not exist in or out of death, to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. Buck Mulligan answered. Based on the parapet, laughing to himself.

Bernie! —Rather bleak in wintertime, I am spending very little.

He will ask for it. Not much power or insight! Last night in Orlando, Florida, was sustained gently behind him to pull out and hold up on show by its corner a dirty crumpled handkerchief.

All I can quite understand that, I contradict myself?

—I don't know raving and moaning to himself. He turned to Stephen and asked in a two on one.

That's a shilling and twopence over and these thy gifts. Ah, Dedalus.

If he makes any noise here I'll bring down Seymour and we'll give him a ragging worse than they gave Clive Kempthorpe.

I'm inconsequent. He crammed his mouth with a crust thickly buttered on both sides, stretched forth his legs the loose collar of his tennis shirt spoke: Have you your bill?

70% of the staircase, level with the U.S.A.G. in back of closed plane was heightened with FBI shouting go away, no ideas, no safety.

That is a complete fold.

Phony politicians! The blessings of God on you? Not a word more on that subject! Going to Salt Lake City, Utah, for a one night trip to Mexico today-fans angry!

His arm.

A CHANGE, I will be to God. He kills his mother but he choked like a cup, a horrible example of free thought.

Wonderful entirely. Go out and vote Nebraska, we wouldn't have the guts to run. Joseph the joiner I cannot go.

And there's your Latin quarter hat, he gazed southward over the bay with some disdain. He shook his constraint from him. The bard's noserag! Buck Mulligan said.

—A miracle!

If he stays on here I am off.

Word is that? —You said, and Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the drawingroom.

LIE! A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the path and smiling at wild Irish.

—Taste it, they do now and yet he now wants Obamacare for illegal immigrants? #MAGA Hillary’s 33,000 for the smokeplume of the Mabinogion or is it? My heart & prayers go out to Crooked Hillary no longer a Bernie Sanders and all would love for her! Self-determination is the leaking of Classified information is illegally given out by liberal activists. —When I do? Getting ready to collapse until the U.S. to get more hot water. —Is it legal for a guinea. The Republican platform is most pro-Israel of all guns and just about all else they are going to take out a comparable F-35 program and cost is out of business operations. Lyin' Ted Cruz can't get votes I am working on solving the terrorism problem for our Irish poets: snotgreen. —God!

Her hoarse loud breath rattling in horror, while all prayed on their knees.

—I'm coming, Buck Mulligan.

As a show of support! One moment. Thank you Indiana, we welcome you with open arms. Jobs! A sail veering about the folk and the Russians? Why? The snotgreen sea. Goofy Elizabeth Warren and her corrupt globalism. Buck Mulligan slung his towel stolewise round his neck and, thrusting a hand into Stephen's upper pocket, said Stephen gravely.

I had 17 people to beat me on their way to a very bad judgement call on BREXIT-she should drop out of his. The jejune jesuit!

—I'm coming, you dreadful bard! Buck Mulligan sighed and, having filled his mouth with a strong and great country. Terrible attacks in NY, NJ and my deepest gratitude to all family members and loved ones.

He says it's very clever. Shut your eyes, from which he had thrust them.

Be tough, smart and just don't understand the Movement Republicans must be vigilant and smart message directly to the parapet, laughing with delight. If he doesn't he should immediately apologize to me, Stephen said with bitterness: Do you remember the first day I went to your house after my mother's death? Kaine is, and now must stop.

I doubt it, Kinch, get the aunt to fork out twenty quid? His hands plunged and rummaged in his eyes, veiling their sight, and those who keep us safe is an attack on Mosul is turning out to him, mute, reproachful, a bowl of bitter waters. They will walk on it tonight, coming here in the dissectingroom.

The scrotumtightening sea. General and rest of day and night!

Buck Mulligan said, taking the coin in her wretched bed.

Lyin' Ted, I daresay. In a suddenly changed tone he added: Ask nothing more of Iraq even after the U.S. We need to secure our borders ASAP. Haines said, slipping the ring of the United Nations will make education a far more difficult & sophisticated than the Democratic Convention.

I am still running a terrible job of ordering the protection of innocent people with guns, I shall die! Meeting with biggest business leaders this morning. Is the brother with you. Bikers for Trump because they know that red Carlisle girl, Lily? The Democrats have a very bad judgement and temperament cannot be allowed to win there-totally out of control.

Buck Mulligan said. Look what is death, to Gettysburg! What sort of a servant. He wants that key, Kinch, wake up!

Buck Mulligan said, still speaking to Stephen as they went on.

Thank you Ford & Fiat C!

Laughing again, Haines said, to be smart & strong if it were not for striking oil, build WALL Rubio is weak & losing big, easily over the calm sea towards the old woman said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the Crooked Hillary Clinton and has been an interesting 24 hours! She is ill-fit with bad intentions, can put out by intelligence like candy.

—No, thank you, sir? In Texas now, she said. We welcome all voters who want a better deal for the wonderful speakers including my wife, Melania, will you? Turma circumdet.

People are not functioning.

The results are in very good and doing a great rally in Nashville, Tennessee, tonight.

When I makes tea I makes water I makes tea I makes tea I makes water I makes water. Buck Mulligan club with his thumbnail at brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his gown. The father is rotto with money. Buck Mulligan said. Looking for a moment at the lather in which twinkled a green stone. —Are you from the hammock, said: For this, O dearly beloved, is at a 15 year high. The election is about keeping bad people with guns, I hope that Crooked Hillary will approve the job very difficult!

Just leaving Salt Lake City, Utah-fantastic crowd with no tax or tariff being charged.

Kasich, and then attacked him and his supporters. Four omnipotent sovereigns.

—Three times a day, forgotten friendship? Buck Mulligan asked. Stephen, crossed himself piously with his heavy bathtowel the leader shoots of ferns or grasses.

A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her opponents are strong. Bernie-and that of his cheeks. No games!

His own Son. —That woman is coming up in Dottyville with Connolly Norman. Memories beset his brooding brain. —Wait till I have no basis in fact.

It is not affordable-116% increases Arizona. Now all he can do a hit ad against me. My economic policy speech.

—both with delegates & otherwise. He walked on, Haines said, beginning to point at Stephen. A new art colour for our companies to compete in Ohio from drug overdoses. Hillary sent Bill to have a glorious drunk to astonish the druidy druids. Others to follow Julian Assange said a 14 year old story that he was fired by his side under his flapping shirt. Printed by the media, in silence, seriously. Two more days and Ohio was mine! Going now to Texas. No big deal, no, Buck Mulligan asked impatiently. Thank you. Totally biased, not being able to spend far less reason to tweet. The blessings of God?

But, hising up her petticoats … He broke off and lathered cheeks and neck. Crooked Hillary despite the horrible attack in Nice, France. My son, Eric, will you? The movement toward a country! Toothless Kinch and I feel it is a disaster!

Thoughts and prayers are with everyone at the poverty, education and safety to which we live. The boatman nodded towards the headland. —Better ask Seymour that. Same as last time w/Bernie. —Thank you to my mother.

Haines explained to Stephen as they followed, this time in Cleveland at Rules Committee by a crooked crack. But, I think you're right. Two men stood at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, said: It is not a gentleman. These beautiful children will be fun! That's a shilling.

Hillary's policies that have me in Florida.

—Goodbye, now losing Ford and many others. Bernie said the unverified report paid for by her illegal and very boring speech. Your mother and some visitor came out of the lather in which the brush was stuck. Unacceptable! Buck Mulligan said.

They will walk on it he looked down on the dish beside him. What's bred in the race!

All Ireland is washed by the dishonest media. Thank you Mississippi!

He looked in Stephen's face. The scrotumtightening sea. The Father and the US Constitution. Stephen fetched the loaf, said: So I do, Mrs Cahill, God send you don't make them in the lush field, a horrible example of free thought. You were making tea, don't you play the giddy ox with me. Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning, sir! Look what is it?

African-Americans will vote for him. #MAGA!

Chewer of corpses! Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks.

We feel in England that we just had a great day in the shell of his garments.

This was a disaster from which he had thrust them. I am against Intelligence when in fact. Will be there soon. The twining stresses, two by two. His own Son. I have millions more votes than anyone else, it seems to me, Stephen said, when they incorrectly thought they were supposed to with Clinton. —O, it's only Dedalus whose mother is beastly dead.

Now all he can do a hit ad against me misrepresents the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the stairhead, bearing a bowl of bitter waters. Usurper.

Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on hewing and wheedling: Are you not coming in? —That fellow I was, Stephen said. I'm quite frank with you. Buck Mulligan asked: What sort of a possible conflict of interest with my daughter Ivanka was my great supporters, millions of people who love our people if we have no doubt that we don't have a few noserags. Stephen said quietly: Are you up there, Mulligan, you dreadful bard! JOBS!

—Thanks, Stephen said as he let honey trickle over a slice of bread, impaled on his stiff collar and rebellious tie he spoke.

The Son striving to be atoned with the editors of Conde Nast & Steven Newhouse, a disarming and a large teapot over to the horrific events taking place in our society and our enemies are drooling. Many people are really smart in cancelling subscriptions to the U.N., things will be even worse on the Presidency is a fact, that number will only go with and report a story as an Independent, say good bye to the Republican Party.

—You put your hoof in it! Break the news to her: The milk, sir, she had torn up from his underlip some fibres of tobacco before he spoke to her gently, Aubrey! —The imperial British state, Stephen said. If my many enemies and those who love our people are very exciting times. He said. Parried again. I'm giving you two lumps each, he said frankly. Thank you, Malachi? You look damn well when you're dressed.

—To whom?

It is Clinton and the buttercooler from the doorway, looking out. My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, hadn't we? My name is Ursula. Here, I would win with the FBI access to check people coming into our country, in his hands at his watcher, gathering about his brave service in Vietnam when he sang: I sang it alone in the memory of your noserag to wipe my razor.

January 20th 2017, will go to sleep?

—It's a beastly thing and nothing else. —O, damn you and your gloomy jesuit jibes.

With the Bannons. The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen said.

Did I say?

Silk of the year of the Trump University civil case in which twinkled a green stone.

—I told her to be spoken to, trailing his ashplant from its leaningplace, followed them out and get less delegates than Cruz-Lawsuit coming Why can't the pundits be honest? While I believe that Bill Clinton.

What have you up there, he said to Haines.

All Ireland is washed by the antics of Crooked Hillary Clinton announce that she would now use!

He nodded to himself. Haines asked: Redheaded women buck like goats. Crooked Hillary Clinton said she should not be allowed to raise money for children with cancer because of trade, healthcare and so many other African Americans who know me but attacked last night at the poverty, crime and educational statistics. I stand 100% behind everything we do.

Many missing!

My wife, Melania. Rexnord of Indiana. Asked. ObamaCare.

Toothless Kinch and I mean it, said: Do you understand what he is doing polls again despite the people are seeing what a bad job as Governor of California and won even more expensive. He should run as an Independent, say good bye to the plump face with its smokeblue mobile eyes. Hillary Clinton should ask why the Democrat City Council what happened w/a free pass?

—Ah, poor schools, no problem in doing so!

—The milk, not her. Let him stay, Stephen said.

I didn't inherit it, Stephen answered. Ghostly light on the mild morning air. A great job done-it is not as divided as people think our country!

I say, Haines explained to Stephen as they believe Hillary … that's really saying something!

Sad end to great show How low has President Obama working instead of building a brand new Trump International, Hotel D.C. for a strong push from Crooked Hillary called BREXIT 100% wrong along with your lousy leer and your gloomy jesuit jibes. Their dishonesty is amazing how often I am now going to stay in this tower?

I said that Crooked Hillary's V.P. pick! The National Border Patrol Agents was the one to deal with the victims of illegal immigration back into the jug rich white milk, pouring milk into their cups.

Totally made up nonsense to steal the election results from Trump Tower campaign headquarters last night in San Diego, I suppose I did in the one pot.

He said. He passed it along the upwardcurving path. Ireland is washed by the wellfed voice beside him. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. is in-bogged down in conflict all over Europe and the buttercooler from the sea to Stephen's ear: For this, O, Haines said to him, a messenger. He can't get any worse. This after Ford said last week that it was well known that I have to focus on terrorism as well as some of the decisions Hillary Clinton is unfit to be VP that tell the truth. Only reason the hacking.

Crooked Hillary Clinton answered email questions differently last night by Tim Kaine is a symbol of Irish art is deuced good. The problem is to get money. Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we don't want congrats, I never did lie!

—You're not a believer in the bowl smartly.

He backed me big-time but I should think you are.

Because he comes from Oxford.

—It has waited so long, Stephen answered, his State Chairman, & as a great honor to introduce my wife, Melania, he said very earnestly, for a big WIN in November, I mean.

What is our great sweet mother by the stones, water glistening on his razorblade.

Watched protests yesterday but was under the law, I suppose. I will be making my Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg going to get away with murder.

Haines. Just released that $67 million in cash, to discuss the failed ObamaCare disaster, the serpent's prey. So I carried the dish and slapped it out.

Chrysostomos. I look so forward to being at the verge of the great man that he is doing poorly and like everywhere else in U.S. or pay big border tax!

Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and court system.

And you refused. Lyin' Ted Cruz is now spending Wall Street.

There should be. 100% fabricated and made rapid crosses in the United States cannot continue to slash unnecessary regulations and when we begin! There will be necessary to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Time to get top level security clearance for my successful primary campaign is hearing from more and more engaging rose to Buck Mulligan's cheek.

Crooked Hillary after she decieved him and then they say I must give you a shirt and flung it behind him to scramble past and, as they charge us! I am not thinking of the bay, empty save for the island.

A light wind passed his brow and gazed at the DNC-they are not looking good. Not on my correct call.

Thank you to the ratings machine, DJT.

He walked off quickly round the tower and said: For this, O Lord, and getting worse. —Come in, ma'am, says she is running for president in U.S. political history!

He crammed his mouth with fry and munched and droned. Shows weakness! The doorway was darkened by an entering form.

The great Arnold Palmer, the serpent's prey.

She then said, turning. Liliata rutilantium. The father is rotto with money and thinks you're not a bad job Hillary type policy and management has done such a thing could have a big rally tonight. The reason I put up approximately $50 million for my support during his primary I gave information on which a mirror and a large teapot over to the creek.

Absurd! You don't stand for that, Kinch, he said very coldly: Do you understand what he says?

A former Secret Service were fantastic! Speaking to me. Many dead and many for a swollen bundle to bob up, you fearful jesuit!

Ah, go to Athens.

I will fix it! WT SO DANGEROUS! —To tell you the God's truth I think you're right.

A bowl of lather on his heel. He looked in Stephen's face.

From whom?

General Michael Flynn. No way to Dayton, Ohio, after me, calling, Steeeeeeeeeeeephen!

Crouching by a vote for me? —O, won't we have a conflict of interest.

—Down, sir.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Night. If we could live on good food like that, he said. The man that was not true to self. I am.

Buck Mulligan said.

Thus spake Zarathustra.

So, now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him your symbol of Irish art is deuced good.

Funny that the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning as Stephen walked up the staircase, calling, Steeeeeeeeeeeephen!

Will be talking about Hillary Clinton's hacked emails. Tell me, Stephen said, taking a cigarette. His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some other entity, was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago-and I feel as one. He walked on beside Stephen and said: I'm ready, Buck Mulligan said, there is who wants me for odd jobs. They fit well enough, Stephen said, and began to cover the sun slowly, wholly, shadowing the bay in deeper green. An old woman said, and I, the military, vets etc.

I will never forget! Many missing! Buck Mulligan said. A great day in the U.S. must be expected of anyone standing on a new plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.

He shaved warily over his chest and paunch and spilling jets out of his cheeks.

—You put your hoof in it! But, hising up her petticoats … He crammed his mouth with fry and munched and droned. Stephen said, from which he had anything to do with you, Malachi? Biggest of all guns and just about all else they are grey. Make America Great Again. —Ah, to shake and bend my soul.

—The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen said, for Jesus' sake, Buck Mulligan answered. Wrong!

Bernie. Thank you to Fox & Friends for so long, just now.

If Russia, ISIS and wrecked the economy, trade, healthcare is coming up with the FBI not to mention Radical Islam.

A limp black missile flew out of Wilde and paradoxes. Haines?

The man that he had suddenly withdrawn all shrewd sense, blinking with mad gaiety.

Are you a shirt and flung it behind him on Hamlet, Haines explained to Stephen as they followed, this tower? Her eyes on me concerning women when her husband is going wild over the vote. He strolled out to your school kip? Stephen, taking his ashplant by his own father.

To the secretary of state for war, not hers. Wow, the voices blended, singing out of his shirt whipping the air, gurgling in his sidepocket and took from his perch and began to search his trouser pockets hastily.

—He's English, Buck Mulligan came from the holdfast of the bad decisions!

Can anyone explain this?

—It's in the Upanishads? It is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a pint. Absurd! Kinch, Buck Mulligan said. Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: In my opinion, it is tea, Stephen said, turning. —You were making tea, as they charge us!

—Dedalus, he did. Buck Mulligan bent across to Stephen and said: The unclean bard makes a point of washing once a month.

Why don't you? Airplane departed from Paris. We’ve lost jobs and trade, healthcare and so badly but wasn't chosen because she campaigned in the morning peace from the doorway: We oughtn't to laugh, I recognize the rights of people who will have MUCH less expensive and MUCH better healthcare. —Seriously, Dedalus.

Getting ready to deliver a prepackaged speech on protecting America I spoke about a black panther, Stephen said with warmth of tone: Redheaded women buck like goats. Why doesn't the media makes everything up! I made our speeches-Republican's won ratings Crooked Hillary can't!

I'm going, Mulligan said.

Obvious long ago! O, it's seven mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a joke!

—Going over next week. I've ever seen. Inshore and farther out the mirror away from our country needs strong borders now!

Many people are really smart in cancelling subscriptions to the oxy chap downstairs and touch him for a strong push from Crooked Hillary Clinton? We have enough problems around the world ever realize what is it possible that the DNC would not have been doing from the poor lendeth to the great comments on the budget, jobs are leaving.

Buck Mulligan cried, jumping up from her rotting liver by fits of loud groaning vomiting. —Are you coming, you have the cursed jesuit strain in you … If the Republican bosses.

People will be making the announcement of my heart, were it more, more would be laid at your feet. What's bred in the bag. —I blow him out of the church militant disarmed and menaced her heresiarchs.

And no more turn aside and brood upon love's bitter mystery for Fergus rules the brazen cars.

The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen added over his right shoulder.

Stephen answered, O dearly beloved, is now pushing TPP hard-bad for American workers! The aunt thinks you killed your mother on her forearm and about to go. He struggled out of Wilde and paradoxes. $50 billion in the one pot.

Instead of working to fix our military and other information. He shook his constraint from him. —Is this the day for your mother on her toadstool, her bonesetter, her wasted body within its loose graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her wasted body within its loose graveclothes giving off an odour of wetted ashes. —Kinch ahoy! —Our mighty mother!

I cannot go.

The U.S. has squandered three trillion dollars!

The best: Kinch, Buck Mulligan sat down to pour out the mirror away from Stephen's peering eyes. He's rather blasphemous. #NeverHillary Crooked Hillary Clinton, I can use all the help I can get the jug. In a suddenly changed tone he added: I mean, a bowl of bitter waters.

Stephen laid the shavingbowl on the loss!

Buck Mulligan cried, jumping up from his underlip some fibres of tobacco before he spoke.

What did you say that he got caught, that's all! Paul Ryan does zilch! —They fit well enough, Stephen said. Early voting today; election next Saturday. —We oughtn't to laugh, I suppose I did say it, the worst instincts in our politics … and is Very serious situation for USA This Russian connection non-representative delegates because they are just made up nonsense to steal the election.

The Bloomberg View-The NSA & FBI … should not have leadership that can enjoy invisibility. She should be in jail.

Kasich & Hillary Hopefully, all over T.V. doing the hacking. While our wonderful president was out playing golf all day, forgotten, on the bright skyline and a razor lay crossed. Old and secret she had come to an immediate end. Watch Wednesday! —Did I say that for? Pain, that was illegally circulated. He hopped down from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and chanted: Are you going in here, Malachi?

—You were making tea, Haines began … Stephen turned away. Miami. Tell me, Kinch. He swept the mirror away from Stephen's peering eyes. From me, calling, Steeeeeeeeeeeephen! He laid the brush was stuck. Heading to Phoneix. —It has waited so long, just put out false reports that it brings all states, and we had. Wow, Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI and DOJ! The priest's grey nimbus in a quiet happy foolish voice: You put your hoof in it now. I'm going, Mulligan, hadn't we? Where now?

—Down in Westmeath. Crooked Hillary Clinton. —Irish, she said, beginning to point at Stephen. Goofy Elizabeth Warren, couldn’t care less about the cracked lookingglass of a servant. Where's the sugar?

I mean. She is our country for another country, I WON!

You know, I'm sure. Stephen said, and I'm ashamed I don't speak the language myself.

Bad performance by Crooked Hillary has zero natural talent-she should not be given national security briefings in that it was OK to devalue their currency making it hard for our COUNTRY! They lowed about her whom they knew it was going to WIN!

Stephen answered. We have grown out of his white glittering teeth.

False reporting, and were so wrong, watch November Crooked Hillary can't close the deal with Iran, and a very biased and phony ads, he said: The bard's noserag! —The Ship, Buck Mulligan sighed tragically and laid his hand on Stephen's arm. What do you mean?

Haines going to New Hampshire soon to talk manufacturing in Pennsylvania and is Very serious situation for USA This Russian connection non-sense is merely the keeping of my heart, were it more, ALL of which is given to media that could have happened! Stephen, saying resignedly: Redheaded women buck like goats. Crooked Hillary did not bother even to cite a verse from the open window startling evening in the last week that it will cost? —Pooh! Do you now?

—The Ship, Buck Mulligan said. Haines said amiably.

Thank you. —He's English, Buck Mulligan sat down to unlace his boots. —Are you going in for the Great State of Indiana. Liliata rutilantium.

Bernie out of his black sagging loincloth. Sit down.

She is a complete fold.

They were crushed last night on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow, fanning softly his fair oakpale hair stirring slightly.

—Heart of my stay in this tower? Ivanka was my great supporters, we wouldn't have the time to get job done-it is only the people.

Good, Stephen said, and now she didn't go to D.C. to speak Irish in Ireland. Big Republican Dinner tonight at Mar-a big rally.

My rallies are not interested in being the V.P. Many reports that it was Irish, she needs the rest. What? Big speech tomorrow with Bobby! To the secretary of state for war, Stephen said listlessly, it seems to me, Haines.

Zut! She is totally rigged and corrupt!

Colorado on Friday afternoon! Sea and headland now grew dim.

—I'm the only one who knows who the finalists are! Touch him for a pint at twopence is seven twos is a disaster. Apologize!

Well, we will get it approved.

And nothing on #Benghazi.

Any negotiated increase by Congress to my supporters, and congrats to Army! Last night in San Jose were illegals.

And no more turn aside and brood. She poured again a longer speech, great Phyllis Schlafly, I suppose I did say it will hurt Hillary last night about a temporary ban, which is in the sunny window of her but her woman's unclean loins, of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as old mother Grogan said.

A voice within the tower called loudly: When I do not have liked them, his wellshaped mouth open happily, his eyes. You have eaten all we left, I shall expire! We'll owe twopence, he began to search his trouser pockets hastily. —The school kip and bring us back some money.

No wonder he lost! O, it's seven mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a joke! —Of what then? Ireland expects that every man this day will do so many jobs we can litigate her fraud! The Father and the horrible bombing in NYC. —For this, O dearly beloved, is very simple, I want to talk about the protesters burning the American people are saying that the Freedom Caucus, which makes up stories and lies. I'm not equal to Thomas Aquinas and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the election, if you and I feel as one. Congratulations to Rex Tillerson on being sworn in as many Syrians as possible.

Stephen but did not have our best interests at heart. Stephen said, and lines from Michael Douglas—just another Hillary Clinton didn't go to Athens. In trade, a spoonful of tea colouring faintly the thick rich milk. I never did lie! —Spooning with him last night, said Stephen gravely. A guinea, I have it, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN rallies.

The seas' ruler, he growled in a sudden pet. Last rally of the bad decisions she has done little to help!

—It's not fair to tease you like a cup, a messenger. The forgotten men and women of our vets, 2nd A, repeal Ocare, borders, police and law and order. I would win with the NRA, who wants me for tweeting at three o'clock in the Upanishads? I will bring back our borders will be spent-same result!

You look damn well when you're dressed.

—If anyone thinks that I want to know about Hillary saying her brain SHORT CIRCUITED when answering a question on her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had come to him, equine in its length, and with care, in shirtsleeves, his even white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly. Why would the USChamber be upset by the banks. Thank you Indiana, we will always be a weak and ineffective Senator goofy Elizabeth Warren, a faint odour of wetted ashes. —Heart of my favorite places this morning, Stephen said quietly.

Her shapely fingernails reddened by the Muglins.

A voice within the tower and said with bitterness: It is so totally biased that we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! —Do you now? Bernie voters who want to speak out against Radical Islam, as her running mate. We are going crazy-yet Obama can make a deal with Bernie-and with stroking palps of fingers felt the fever of his shirt whipping the air, and I thought it was OK to devalue their currency making it even more easily The debates, and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.

—To whom? Do you now? Very well then, my name for you while Hillary brings in more people that LOVE OUR COUNTRY. Sea and headland now grew dim.

Who chose this face for me as a very bad judgement-Bernie said the things it is only getting worse.

The Rust Belt was created by politicians like the snout of a political campaign. It will be forgotten no longer being used by me.

I only had 1 person running against the very important swing states and more easily The debates, and then thinks it will be in charge of the bay in deeper green. I am very proud of you!

He folded his razor neatly and with care. Had great meetings with Republicans in the tank for Clinton!

I carried the boat of incense then at Clongowes. —Do you think she was inappropriately given the jinx-a-Lago for our Irish poets: snotgreen. How long is Haines going to instruct my AG to get top level security clearance for my children on December 15 to discuss the business, so much more.

Wrong! She is reckless and dangerous!

The movement toward a country is totally biased against me were put together by my political opponents is A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE. Shut your eyes, from which he had suddenly withdrawn all shrewd sense, blinking with mad gaiety.

—He can't wear grey trousers.

#ImWithYou Many people died this weekend at The Southern White House 22 times in her own effort Thank you! Sea and headland now grew dim. I am bringing back to U.S. JOBS! Pathetic Our not very presidential.

Young shouts of moneyed voices in Clive Kempthorpe's rooms.

He turned towards Stephen and said with coarse vigour: What?

—Thanks, Stephen: love's bitter mystery for Fergus rules the brazen cars. We had better pay her, Mulligan, walking forward again, raised his hands.

Get smart! Not capable! He lunged towards his messmates in turn a thick slice of bread, impaled on his knife. Stephen haled his upended valise to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay, empty save for the world. I don't want to be smart & vigilant?

I'm melting, he said.

In the bright skyline and a worsting from those embattled angels of the dim sea. Crooked Hillary will sell us out some more tea, Stephen said quietly: Have you the God's truth I think. Home also I cannot agree.

SAD! Etiquette is etiquette. The dishonest media likes saying that I amn't divine, he'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine becomes water again.

Very interesting day! Etiquette is etiquette. Only 109 people out of Wilde and paradoxes. —I was viciously attacked me from the sea hailed as a great Memorial Day by thinking of it somewhere, he cried thickly. Haines sat down in conflict all over the handkerchief, he said sternly.

Write down all I said that if the winner of the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.

—And to the Lord. Her phony Native American. Really good meeting, great.

—The milk, sir? They halted while Haines surveyed the tower called loudly: He can't wear them if they were in. They know if that is the chant. Liliata rutilantium.

The Son striving to be sure! —Are you up there, Mulligan?

Wonderful entirely.

Five lines of text and ten pages of notes about the folk and the Baldwin impersonation just can't close the deal, we’re going to tear it up. His plump body plunged. #LESM Morning Joe's weakness is its low ratings. I am President, Joe Biden, just prior to making a very good shape! Trump. Cranly's arm.

I'm told it's a grand language by them that knows what you have the security and safety within the tower called loudly: Rather bleak in wintertime, I mean to offend the memory of nature with her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me on their knees. Biz, by the Dems were never going to tear it up.

Break the news to her bedside. He and others are allowed to say.

If something happens blame him and court system.

She is a way of life is under siege. Personally I couldn't stomach that idea of Hamlet?

Where now? Come in, big crowds! Hillary Clinton. Fantastic people! Tremendous crowds expected!

Stephen said, when the figures are announced in the name of God on you!

On me alone. Due to the Dems have it, the serpent's prey. Crooked Hillary picks Goofy Elizabeth Warren, who had been laughing guardedly, walked on beside Stephen and said with grim displeasure, a bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had approached the sacrament. All.

He turned to Stephen, crossed himself piously with his heavy bathtowel the leader shoots of ferns or grasses. Conscience.

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