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Georgetown students vote on historic proposal to pay reparations to slave descendants
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 13 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“Georgetown University could become the first U.S. institution to offer reparation funds for descendants of slaves as students voted on the...”
The plan is to charge undergraduate students a mandatory $27.20 fee per semester to benefit the families of 272 slaves sold by the university in 1838. The referendum was called by the Georgetown University Student Association, but the school is not required to take up the fee even if the...
‘Pretend you have a cold’: Pelosi advises Biden on women
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
““Join the straight-arm club,””
WASHINGTON (AP) — As former Vice President Joe Biden’s camp scrambles to contain any political damage over his past behavior with women, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has some words of advice: Keep your distance. “Join the straight-arm club,” Pelosi said at a breakfast hour Washington event on...
Hypocrite!!! In 1998 Nadler Didn’t Want Starr Report Released Until Redacted
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 16 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“"as a matter of decency and protecting people’s privacy rights, people who may be totally innocent third parties, what must not be released at all"”
Twenty-one years ago Jerrold Nadler was on the house judiciary committee when Ken Starr turned over his report on then-President Bill Clinton. Back then he didn’t want anything released before it was redacted for grand jury testimony and information that would hurt people who weren’t charged....
Gillibrand’s Tax Returns Show ‘Significant Savings’ Under GOP Law, Accountant Says
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 198 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“The Republican tax overhaul gave a New York Democratic senator a tax break.”
"Gillibrand became the first 2020 contender to publish her 2018 tax return on Wednesday, showing how she fared following President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul. Gillibrand, who has said the tax law is an example of “Washington’s culture of soft-corruption at its worst,” got a tax cut worth...
Mike Lee Roasts “Green New Deal” on Senate Floor; Ocasio-Cortez’s Retort Fails
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 11 Comments • 5 years ago
““Rather, after reading the Green New Deal, I’m mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face. I rise today to...”
Ocasio Cortez Response : She then returned to her normal tactic – victimhood. "Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right." "First, he’s not “Senator.” He’s “a”...
Release the Hounds !
By: It Is ME • excellent • 99 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“The "FULL" report must be released !”
What a funny....yet weird "Demand". Now we know most of the folks "Demanding" this "Full Release" of the Mueller report, have been in congress for quite some time now. "WE" know, they are "Adults" knowing the rule of laws of congress on what is allowed and what isn't. Or so we think anyway !...
Biden Called Court Packing a ‘Bonehead Idea’ During 1983 Hearing
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 12 Comments • 5 years ago
“"But it was a bonehead idea. "”
"President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate and the United States Congress a proposal to pack the Court," Biden said during the hearing. "It was totally within his right to do that—he violated no law, he was legalistically absolutely correct." "But it was a...
All hipsters look alike? Man threatens to sue tech mag… for using photo of another hipster
Via: It Is ME • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 5 years ago
““Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of...”
Apparently offended at being called a hipster – as most hipsters are – the reader fired off an angry letter to the magazine, denouncing the use of his image to illustrate the “tired cultural trope” and demanding satisfaction. The article’s authors dutifully contacted the stock photo agency...