A song you are not likely to hear on the music media you listen to ,,,

@#115 ... Don't you think we're way past pretending we care about rising debt. ...

So, your comment seems to be against the tax cut for billionaires that Pres Trump proposed and had passed by Congress?

@#5 ... We're a theocracy? ...

That seems to be an end goal of Republicans.

@#114 ... before I form an opinion. ...

It seems to me that you may have already formed an opinion ...

To wit ...

@#108 ... You're gullible. ...

@#102 ... What an idiot. ...

etc.

What else yer got?

More from the article ...

... ut amidst the finger-pointing, Karla Roselee Garcia, Jacqueline's mother, eventually made an admission that gives a possible glimpse of her motive: Her feelings were hurt because her oldest daughter had stopped "wanting her," her arrest warrant said.

After hours of questioning, the 29-year-old, who records show gave birth to Jacqueline when she was 16 and locked up in juvenile detention, admitted she abused the girl both mentally and physically, the warrant said.

"Garcia admitted that she was hurt from her daughter not wanting her so she would stop talking to her, stop feeding her, and restrain her in zip-ties," it said. ...

@#109 ... John Fugelsang
@JohnFugelsang

"NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE."

-US House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

Well, yeah, that is one aspect of this government shutdown.

Another aspect is (if I may be allowed to paraphrase...)

... ~No House in session until I can say to Pres Trump that there won't be a vote to release the Epstein files.~
              -US House Speaker Mike Johnson

@#102 ... What an idiot. ...

Whoa, that comment seems to be quite un-Christian of your alias.

That aside ...

... You think all Republicans are rich and don't need SNAP. ...

Have I ever stated that? Got link?

I have noted in the past that the shutdown may be affecting those who have voted for the current administration.

And I still stand by those comments.

Your #102 seems to agree with my former comment(s).

... Blaming one side is lazy. ...

OK, let's separate blame from effects. We discussed the effects above, i.e., an apparent misrepresentation of what I may have stated.

Now, let's go to the blame aspect...

Why won't the Republican leaders even want to negotiate with the Democrats?

Has Pres Trump reached his apparent goal of reducing the importance of Congress to the point that it seems to be irreverent?

@#69 ... Starving 41 million people by killing SNAP is not something to brag about.

No one is bragging about it ...

While I may agree that the Republicans are not "bragging about that" what are those Republicans doing to try to end it?

More from the article ...

... Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in both Jamaica and Cuba in the last two days, followed what has unfortunately become a familiar pattern for major storms in a warming world.

The most catastrophic storms -- those with the most intense winds and soaking rains -- were once rare, but they are becoming more likely because of climate change. And similarities are emerging among these powerful hurricanes' behavior and timing, too.

Before Melissa hit Jamaica as a Category 5 monster, it churned over especially warm waters -- as did other hurricanes over the past decade. This allowed it to strengthen at blistering pace, becoming the most powerful of this year's Atlantic season and tying the record for strongest landfall ever in the Atlantic.

Then the storm slowed to a crawl, giving it more time to dump rain on Jamaica, another hallmark of hurricanes on a warming planet. Melissa's timing, too, was notable: It formed late in the season -- hurricane activity has typically been thought to peak in early September -- as ocean heat lingered into the fall.

Taken together, this behavior makes Melissa a kind of poster child for the new normal of hurricanes, experts said.

"These storms aren't the same storms as a couple decades ago," said Shel Winkley, a meteorologist at the nonprofit research group Climate Central.

It's a shift with life-or-death consequences -- one that forecasters and officials in storm-prone areas are now watching closely. ...

@#99 ... One AI overview on the American food market which is dominated by a small number of US corporations: ...

Yeah.

The Republican response to Americans going hungry reminds me of the Gene Kelly song, "Singing in the Rain."

I repeat my question ...

In Texas, does a Judge work for the State or a Church?

@#4 ... Her act was worse than that of hundreds of J6ers. ...

So, your current trolling alias seems to admit that the J6 rioters were bad. Good to see that admission.

But, more to the point of the comment, how was her act "worse than that of hundreds of J6ers?"

Please be specific in your explanation.

thx.

Yer up.

@#4 ... "The American Dream belongs to the American People"

Claiming ownership of a dream
is just the sort of petty selfishness
that exemplifies The Banality Of Evil....

Yeah.

But, how does stating that the American Dream belongs to the American People cause the apparent push-back of your comment?

imo, each American should work to build the world they want to live in.

Is that opinion of mine wrong?

@#9

Do try harder to be relevant.

fwiw, here in Connecticut, when you apply for a Justice of the Peace (JotP) position, you are asked if you will officiate gay weddings.

Not for any reason to disqualify you, but to put on the JotP website so that the gay couples have more information in their choice of JotP.

Here in CT, the JotP is a political position, a political appointee by the town's Republican or Democrat committee. (if you are "unaffiliated," the process differs, but not an issue for this conversation) So I would not be surprised about that action regarding the political appointment of a JotP.

However, when it comes to Judges, that is different, very different, to me.

iow, a Judge should be a Constitutional position, not a political position. An equal, but separate branch of government.

The Separation of Church and State.

So, my main question becomes ...

In Texas, does a Judge work for the State or a Church?

@#20

Yeah, if that song sounds familiar to you, it may be because it was the theme song of the PBS series "This Old House" until 2002 or so.

@#93 ... The racism was born of capitalism, so you're not really going to be able to untangle them the way you'd like to.

Capitalism makes money by people being poor and being on Medicaid.

Capitalism is why we have a poor black underclass. ...

Point taken.

@#18

100% agreement.

@#95 ... Let me guess Democrat putting them in socialist "projects" really helped them. ...

They had a place to live

And that is wrong, why?

I was kinda surprised LOL was ambigulous.

:)

(and, yeah, I messed up the format of that table. Oops.)