There is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorist.
Dropping thousands of tonnes of bombs on a civilian population from 30,000 feet certainly terrorizes a population, but it's never considered to be terrorism.
By now everyone has had their chance to rage against the openly corrupt congresspeople who bought and sold stocks based on their insider knowledge of various laws being proposed. And you should be outraged at this corruption.
I have to wonder about the seriousness of those in Congress who imagine themselves to have an actual response to the climate change problem, yet who actually support Senate Bill 1169, the "Strategic Competition Act."
Nick Heuertz is running for Congress in District 2, which encompasses eastern and southern Oregon. He was raised on a small farm in the district and owned and operated his own small business in the district for over twenty years. He recently wound down his small business in order to get involved in the process of making needed systemic changes in government. His webpage is at https://nikforcongress.com/.
Senator Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, gets a salary of $193,400 from the U.S. taxpayer. But he fails to do his job. Consider the oath of office that McConnell, and every civil servant, takes:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Well, it seems McConnell fails to "faithfully discharge the duties of the office." Here are four notable cases.
At this time (19:50 MST 12/18/2019) BBC World News is reporting that the US House of (Non) Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two counts, "Abuse of Power" and "Impeding Congress".
(Never mind that the US Congress itself is the source of almost all the impeding Congress faces!)
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Not long after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting massacre on February 14th in Parkland, Florida, many students of the school organized to cut gun violence in the USA. And their aim was true and clear. One of the students that expressed that aim was Emma Gonzalez. Just three days after the massacre, she gave a famous speech, which wound up with:
Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS. They say guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. We call BS. They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless tragedies that have occurred. We call BS. That us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works. We call BS.
If you agree, register to vote. Contact your local congresspeople. Give them a piece of your mind.
Let's look at some of the facts that back up Gonzales's statements, and call to action.
The clock has ticked down on net neutrality, and its guarantee of internet freedom. We won that freedom in 2015, after internet users sent four million comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC then classified all internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers, which, by definition, must treat all communications equally regardless of who it comes from, who it goes to, or what it contains. But last fall the new Trump Republican majority on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to take our hard-won freedom, and give total control of your internet connection to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), be it AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum, or any other. The FCC net neutrality kill order officially took effect June 11, 2018.
But the people's love of internet freedom endures. In a recent poll, 86% of persons stood against the FCC net neutrality kill order. That number includes 82% of Republicans and 90% of Democrats. That broad public support should brighten the outlook for internet freedom, as the fight continues on several fronts.
What do red and blue represent?
Primary colors?
In politics it means DINOs and RINOs, blended together into in one ugly medley. Down the drain with ya! Pick it up and go.
