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I'd venture a bet that several, along with citizens, don't know the words.

That's actually not something that's new for her. She was one of the first non-football, non-Black athletes to join Kaepernick in a show of kneeling for the anthem back in early-fall 2016. She now stands, but doesn't sing based on a rule put in by the power sthat be that athletes have to stand and honor the flag.

Plenty of others who do or who have an interest in diverting US attention toward Iran plus a few who are just looking for targets for notoriety.

Domincans?

While Denver is one city where this happened, Overton, TX, is another city where it happened as well. So it's either not a partisan issue or the "libtards" have done such a great job of infiltrating GOP ranks as to have taken the extreme Mr. Gohmert and made him a Manchurian candidate since the county where Overton resides, Rusk County, is pretty much awash in red and represented by the likes of Louie Gohmert. Rusk supported Trump over 77%. The other county that Overton resides in is Smith, which supported Trump almost 70% and also represented by Gohmert. Can't get less "libtard" than that.

https://news.yahoo.com/notorious-us-gangster-wrote-letter-121426364.html

And gained, as of December 2018, over $45 million in recouped fraud losses, stoppages, and seizures. http://fortune.com/2018/12/14/mueller-investigation-cost-tax-cheats/

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-gop-rep-jim-jordan-quickly-corrects-himself-after-saying-mueller-found-no-obstruction/ FTA: “I think the one question most Americans want to know, when did you first learn there was no obstruction,” Jordan began, then quickly corrected himself. “Or excuse me, no collusion?” he continued. “The central charge of Bob Mueller — the central task was to find if there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.” It was then Stephanopoulos’ turn to correct Jordan. “Actually, he says he didn’t look at collusion,” Stephanopoulos said. “That’s not what he said. When he spoke in his report, it says very clearly he didn’t examine that question. What he did say is that he could not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.” Undeterred, Jordan continued to insist that Mueller be asked about not establishing “collusion.” “After 10 months, if they couldn’t establish collusion, how long did it take Bob Mueller?” Jordan asked, and said he thinks “that’s a question I think the whole country has for Bob Mueller.” Jordan’s slip, while inadvertent, demonstrates the gravity of Mueller’s press conference, which makes it impossible for claims of “no obstruction” to carry any weight, while also putting Democrats on the spot to do something about it.

Or the likes of Rep. Rob Woodall. https://www.newsweek.com/republican-woodall-read-mueller-report-msnbc-1443125 FTA: Georgia Republican Rob Woodall offered a boastful explanation for why he has no interest in reading any part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, even citing his past disinterest in reviewing accusations against Bill Clinton in 1998. I guess he doesn't read anything?

Trump made the mistake of liking one of his GID posts and now he's stalking him. 😀

The FBI's probably the least of everyone's concerns. Facebook has better facial recognition algorithms and probably a larger database of images. Oh, and plenty of your friends and family just helping them expand that by posting pics and then tagging them with your name for clarification. Not to mention the machine learning processes that then find the stuff that isn't tagged and metatags it.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/tale-2-invoices-beto-orourke-pays-el-paso-080100582--abc-news-topstories.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews

Thanks Obama. 😠

I found this line in the article to be interesting ... albeit maybe because it wasn't written well: Per the investigation detailed in the Post, an employee pulled the incorrect version of a video the employee had been using for years. It was not fully watched before it aired. Something doesn't make sense in that and also there's something else going on with the various denials. AOC has only been around in the national spotlight since around the start of the year and this is the first Memorial Day since her rise as "an enemy of the people.". How many videos have been cut with her in them like this for the Grizzlies? I would expect just the one. If it is the "incorrect version" why it is sitting around in the production bins? It's not like it's a video of a hall of famer that shows every year on their induction anniversary and it's been twenty years since they've been inducted so there are several versions of it lying around that have actually been played in production. Similarly, someone had to have made that video and someone else had to have reviewed it to have deemed it as inappropriate/incorrect, so it's not like this snuck up on them. Also, what would have led them to consider it incorrect? What'd they do? Misspell her name in the last one so they weren't going to use THAT one? More likely, it was deemed incorrect for the exact reason that we are seeing now. Seems like another one of those "plausible denial" situations where the trial balloon can be floated and then either raised to higher heights if it works or quickly dismissed off on a low-level employee to deflect consequences if it doesn't.

Trade wars are easy to win, but I'm not sure that farmers are believing it or living it. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trade-war-news-farmers-china-120113700.html FTA: Beijing basically stopped importing U.S. soybeans in 2018 and promised to ramp purchases in 2019 as negotiations moved forward in early 2019. But China has now reportedly put a hold on buying U.S. soybeans as talks sour, and the pain is being felt once again in the U.S. heartland. ... “Farm income is at the lowest level it’s been in years,” Brunkow said. “It’s had a tremendous impact on us.” Last month, Bloomberg reported that “personal income for farmers fell by the most in three years in the first quarter.” This is largely due to the agricultural losses from the trade war. “All of my neighbors have been impacted — anyone who grows soybeans,” Brunkow said. “You can even take that down Main Street in our towns — implement dealerships, car dealerships. We’ve cut back on purchasing and repairing things. And so, it’s had an impact all the way down the line in rural America.” And although the USDA announced last week that it will be providing $16 billion to help American farmers affected by tariffs in the U.S.-China trade war — after previous aid totaling $7.7 billion — that might not be enough. China didn't actually completely stop in 2019, but the decrease in imports was roughly 83% and, when China is the largest importer of US soybeans, in 2018 importing almost nine ties what the second-place importer, the EU-28 countries, that's a big hit. As a matter of fact, China imported almost twice as much soybean volume as the next nine of the top-10 combined. As things continue to stall with China, Trump's about to toss a little more rain on the scarecrow. In case anyone's keeping score, Mexico was the 3rd largest importer of US soybeans and their imports had increased over 30% between 2018 and 2019 during a time where the US saw soybean exports drop over 30%. Wonder how long that'll last. Hey calling it your job ol' Hoss sure don't make it right.

Wouldn't they similarly have even more choices if Missouri's government wasn't intervening ... in those other states as well as in Missouri?

He pulled that "good people on both sides" kind of stuff. Claims to have no knowledge of the situation and then follows up with the idea that the person responsible was "well meaning" [sic]. Seems to be lying about one of those and seems to be OK about the activity if the first part isn't true.

What I'm saying is that the assumption that everything isn't hunky dory because someone chooses themselves not to see race. Being a colorblind individual does not preclude the potential or even probability that the process and/or outcomes are flawed. Also, if the presumption is that there's no need to look at race and people who are pointing out the flaws in the system are somehow focusing on somethings that isn't really a problem, then there should be, across such a large population pool, relatively proportionate representation by something so insignificant as race. If what you are proposing, in a roundabout way, is that it's not the fault of the system, would it not then be a situation of proportional representation. In other words, if the difference between in proportion that makes Blacks only likely to see officer rates at a rate of roughly 35% compared to their enlisted proportion while Whites see that same ratio at 125% compared to their enlisted proportion, are you suggesting that that huge gap is tied to the inherent abilities of Blacks to be/make/desire officer rank and not something tied to the system as a whole? Yes, I'm very aware of the academies' process having relatives who have been admitted both to West Point and the Air Force Academy as well as several students and friends of the family who have applied and been admitted and served as a mentor in the process. As for the question about percentages, again, see the above consideration of the numbers. Again, if the argument is "all things are equal" the the numbers don't support that. And if they aren't then what is causing it? Again, I put it to you and others to address, if it's not the system, then are you saying that there's something that's inherently flawed in Blacks and their own make up, that makes them less likely to attain officer status ... or Black women? In defense of my position , I've heard that line of reasoning before ... it was used to not have wholesale Black officers representation in Union regiments all the way into WWII even amongst all-Black units. It was used to preclude Blacks from serving wholesale in military combat in WWI and WWII . It was used to keep Blacks from serving as pilots and required First Lady intervention to get things anywhere close to off the ground despite the success rates of groups lie the 332nd. And no, I'm not calling you a racist. What I'm saying is that, even within populations, the numbers don't support the idea that everything is equal in consideration and to lay it off that somehow or another it's rabble-rousing to point out that the emperor has no clothes when he indeed is naked or running around in his underwear isn't a fair approach to looking at the issue. I pointed out the numbers and I'm more than open to seeing your numbers and your analysis as to why there isn't a proportional representation if everything is indeed as equal as conjectured.

Not sure where you got this idea from in my post. As for the physicians, you know where YOUR physicians stand on the issue.

At the same time, do we not almost all grieve and clutch at the dead bodies of relatives, lingering at the grave sites, etc., when if one truly believes in the idea of the afterlife and the eternity of the soul, there is an odd adherence to the empty husk as there is no soul there. We are emotional beings that, even in the adherent faith that we may have, we do things completely contrary to that faith while claiming to fully believe. The fact that a doctor calls it a baby, may be as much bedside manner or not rocking the boat or conventional conversation as the funeral director referring to the corpse as "your loved one" when that loved one isn't actually there.

That's all well and good, but if that were actually likely happening, then the numbers should, for the most part, map out against the population unless there's something inherently different about Black women being cadets at West Point. If, as you say, there's "nothing to see here" that would likely be born out in the data, which it isn't. In the Army, there are roughly equal numbers of Black women enlisted as there are White women. In the US military, Blacks make up a larger percentage of personnel than they do in the population ... 17% in the military vs. roughly 13% in the civilian population. As such, the lack of Black officers can't be pawned off as "there just aren't a lot of them signing up to be soldiers." Despite being 17% of the US military, Blacks make up roughly 6% of the active duty officer corps. Assuming, if "everyone is equal" then what accounts for the vast difference in representation of officer vs. enlisted between the races? By contrast, Whites make up roughly 60% of the active duty enlisted, but have over 75% representation in the active duty officer corps. People are putting out separate classes and "parading it around" because there are plenty of people who like to say that race doesn't matter and we should all just move forward when there are still data points that show that there's still an issue to contend with. It's admirable that people are colorblind and accept all people the way that they are, but that doesn't change the fact that we still have a ways to go in making sure that bears out in many other areas where it is just as important and much less one-to-one, like housing, hiring, progression, etc. MLK said, "I dream of a day ..." and while we've made great strides toward getting toward that dream, we still have, as Frost alluded to, "miles to go before I [we] sleep." I already acknowledged the positive strides, but I'm not yet content that we've gotten where we need to get .

West Point set to graduate its largest Black female and Hispanic female classes ever. While a nice accomplishment, it still has a ways to go. Black women make up almost 7% of the population, but this largest graduating class only represents just under 3.6% of the cadet class. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/15/us/west-point-largest-graduating-class-of-black-women-trnd/index.html