Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has banned state-funded and state-sponsored travel to North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kansas.
The ban is the result of Assembly Bill 1887, in which the state's legislature determined "California must take action to avoid supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people."
The bill, signed into law in September 2016, went into effect January 1, 2017. It was co-sponsored by Equality California and co-authored by Assemblyman Evan Low, who is gay, in response to discriminatory legislation in North Carolina.
Last year, the Tar Heel State created a firestorm of controversy with the passage of House Bill 2, which among other grievances, prevents transgender people from using restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. In response, California joined several states, businesses, entertainers, and sports leagues in a boycott.
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How about throwing in the seven Muslim countries on the immigration ban list in part because they discriminate against these people by killing them?
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Funny, I work for a company that is minority owned (Black) with over 60% of the workforce being minority, I am sort of a token white...but then they LOVE veterans and my 20% disability works well in the marketing.
But you know, the entire company from the guy who changes the oil on my pickup truck to the President voted for Trump...they hated the empty suit. AND I've never been treated better by an employer...EVER.
We'd move lock stock and barrel to Texas but we're making way too much money on Small Business set a sides and minority business enterprises.
Thank you to the thumb sucking nebbishes that run Californicate you don't know how many small minority businesses you feed are run by REPUBLICANS...HAHAHAHHAHAH
[Guardian] The ruling party of South Africa has criticised the Victorian opposition leader, Matthew Guy, for saying Melbourne could become "the Johannesburg of the South Pacific" over a perceived increase in crime.
The African National Congress (ANC) released a statement saying Guy’s comments were "unfortunate" and "seek to portray South Africa in a negative manner".
"These comments are regrettable, and feed into lazy stereotypes of African cities as crime havens," it said. "They serve to tarnish the reputation of the City of Johannesburg ‐ known widely as the gateway to Africa; and regularly cited amongst several indices as world-class city.
"Drawing South Africa ‐ with a well established reputation as a leading tourism destination ‐ into the political frays of Victoria state, is unfortunate and unbecoming of a senior Australian politician."
Guy made the comment several times at a press conference in Melbourne on Wednesday after 15 detainees escaped a youth detention centre following a "disturbance" involving 30 inmates, in which one staff member was injured.
The escapees allegedly stole three cars. Six were arrested in cars an hour after their escape and two were found on foot soon after. Four more were found on Thursday morning, and the remaining four on Thursday afternoon.
"Every day we’re seeing riots, we’re seeing crime waves," Guy said on Wednesday. "This is a government who is standing by and allowing Melbourne to become the Johannesburg of the South Pacific."
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In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump effectively halted nearly $200 billion worth of regulations, according to a new analysis.
President Trump has taken aggressive action to curb regulations in his first week, promising to cut 75 percent or "maybe more," and signing an executive order Monday to cut two regulations from the books when every new rule is introduced.
The first move came in the form of a memo to all federal agencies from Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, freezing all recently finalized and pending regulations. The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute, found the action resulted in stopping rules that would cost the economy $181 billion.
[Iran Press TV] US Democratic politicians have prepared two bills aimed at rescinding President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s entry ban on a number of Moslem countries.
Trump's directive, which was signed on Friday, blocked entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. It also suspended the entry of all refugees for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
"The first bill immediately rescinds the order. The second limits executive authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act," read a tweet by Senator Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , who was expected to introduce the bills later on Monday.
She said her bills would bar Trump from unilaterally banishing factions of immigrants colonists.
Democrats have a narrow path to victory, however, given that they are outnumbered by Republicans in both Senate and the House of Representatives.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. said Sunday that they had a chance to pass the legislation and overturn Trump’s ban if enough Republicans joined them. Saccorhytus coronarious surely lives.
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I don't see how they can limit Trump's authority without an Constitutional admendment.
Not to mention Trump could simply invoke Obama's example and ignore the laws he doesn't like.
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They'll get McCain and Graham to vote with them. Who else?
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Alexander, Collins, Hatch, Murkowski, maybe Corker, Ernst, Fischer, McConnell, Rubio, Roberts or Toomey. Probably missed some.
House will be a lot tougher though.
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Glenmore I see at most three votes from your list. What did Tiberius say about the Senate?
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As a signing statement I believe this should be entirely ignored except for the part that states Senator Dianne Feinstein should be forced to wear clown shoes and a rubber nose and glasses while working in the Senate.
In an unusual and hastily called briefing for reporters, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee said they would not attend the panel’s planned votes until they could ask more questions about Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., the Health nominee and Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury selection, who they said had misled Congress about their backgrounds.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said the men would hold positions "that directly affect peoples’ lives every day. The truth matters."...
Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, accused Democrats of "a lack of desire to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities."
"They ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots," he said. All they have left is posturing and being idiots. Their carefully structured power structures and graft machines are threatened and they will do anything, and I mean anything to keep them intact. Trump threatens all of that.
[Guardian] A mutiny among US diplomats was gathering steam on Monday as hundreds of state department officials were reported to have signed a memo fiercely dissenting from Trump’s refugee ban.
"We are better than this ban," one leaked version of the memo said, arguing that it would backfire, making the US less safe from terrorism. The executive order, freezing entry for nationals of a list of seven majority Muslim countries, "stands in opposition to the core American and constitutional values that we, as federal employees, took an oath to uphold", the memo said.
The memo is being sent through the state department’s "dissent channel", set up at the time of the Vietnam war to allow alternative points of view to be aired inside the institution. Under its foreign affairs manual, dissenters are strictly protected from reprisals, but the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, warned the signers they should resign if they did not like the policy.
"I think that they should either get with the programme or they can go. This is about the safety of America," Spicer said during his daily briefing at the White House.
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Chaiper Threarong3600, I was thinking the same thing. What if the ban was partially just to shake the tree and get folks to resign in protest. Might save a ton in pensions.
[Daily Caller] The Council For American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad attempted to criticize President Trump’s proposed immigration ban by reminding attendees at a Monday press conference that America was "built on the shoulders of African-Americans who were brought here against their will."
"The Muslim community is a little bit anxious about the recent developments," regarding Trump’s plan for banning travel from seven, Muslim-majority countries, Awad stated. "Not only since Donald Trump became the president, but since Donald Trump announced his candidacy our community has been very concerned."
Awad claimed that "millions of people who love America... are concerned and worried about what this president is doing" before segueing into a bizarre statement on America’s founders.
[Iran Press TV] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s lobbying ban sounds good on the surface but is not likely to make a difference since his has put "the bad people" in charge of everything, says Gordon Duff, a senior editor at Veteran Today.
Speaking to Press TV on Monday, Duff said Trump’s new directive to institute a lifetime foreign-lobbying ban for members of his administration once they leave was a "bright spot" amid the disappointing news that come out of Washington these days.
The new executive order, which Trump signed on Sunday, forces his administration appointees to refrain from lobbying their own agency for five years and accept a lifetime ban on lobbying the US government on behalf of foreign governments.
Trump had promised during his election campaign last year to "drain the swamp" of political practices that he said made officials beholden to special interests.
Duff said although the move was welcome, it was still a far cry from what should be done since the new Republican president has filled his cabinet with "the worst people."
"They call it the revolving door in Washington, where you just simply leave your job in the government watching an industry... and the next day, the people that you were regulating--the people you were there to stop-- you are now working for them," he said, arguing that Trump "ostensibly" put a stop to that situation.
"Or has he really?" he asked, referring to some of Trump’s controversial cabinet picks.
For example, he said Trump picked Scott Pruitt, attorney general of Oklahoma and a skeptic of climate change, to head the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"Well, the guy directing the entire EPA, which protects the environment of the US... has always been an industry lobbyist," Duff said. "he is worse than any of them and he is in charge of everything."
"Jeff Sessions, the new Attorney General of the US, is a Ku Klux Klan guy" who hates Moslems and African Americans, Duff added.
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[RedAlertPolitics] Democrats’ hyper-narrative to call President Trump’s temporary travel restriction as a comprehensive Muslim ban has sent shockwaves through public opinion. Starbucks Coffee has decided to jump right on in and claim their moral superiority in order to posture themselves against President Trump.
The retail chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, informed Starbucks and the public in a letter, stating:
[W]e are doubling down on this commitment by working with our equity market employees as well as joint venture and licensed market partners in a concerted effort to welcome and seek opportunities for those fleeing war, violence, persecution and discrimination. There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.
So they are going to provide jobs out there for refugees so that they don't try to come here, and they won't need to be supported by the state providing refuge? That's at least a triple win right there at no cost to American taxpayers -- well done, Starbucks!
Sounds compassionate, right? The one pertinent aspect they are conveniently leaving out is that Starbucks stands to make millions of dollars by specifically hiring refugees.
The United States Department of Labor offers (non-profit and for profit) businesses a tax credit for every adult refugee they hire.
...within the borders of the U.S., surely. Why would the US Dept. of Labour incentivize refugee employment by American companies overseas?
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is an incentive program funded by the American taxpayer.
The tax credit could be worth up to $2,400 per individual. So, if Starbucks plans to hire 10,000 people over the next five years, they have the opportunity to make upwards of $20 million in additional profit.
The purchase of that flat-white or caramel macchiato won’t seem the same after realizing how much someone is actually paying for it.
Even though Trump supporters are calling for a boycott, the tax credit will fill the gap of lost profits.
Instead of prioritizing the 45 million U.S. citizens living in poverty, Starbucks has decided to politicize a business venture that will benefit them more than the people they are claiming to assist.
Something is wrong here. How can serving coffee to customers in Lebanon or Saudi Arabia impact employment in Kentucky?
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Well, they don't call it CHARbucks for nothing.
I kinda like the cheap bulk beans you can buy at WinnCo and Stater Bros myself...and its a whole lot cheaper than those grossly inflated prices of CHARbucks
Yep, I've had my last cup of CHARbucks...I think I'll go to Dunkin which makes damn good coffee.
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It doesn't take much effort, with the right tools, to roast your own. To top it off, it's much better and cheaper than Starbucks.
Wander over to green coffee sellers like sweetmarias.com
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Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
In an unusual and hastily called briefing for reporters, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee said they would not attend the panel’s planned votes until they could ask more questions about Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., the Health nominee and Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury selection, who they said had misled Congress about their backgrounds.
[Daily Caller] The Council For American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad attempted to criticize President Trump’s proposed immigration ban by reminding attendees at a Monday press conference that America was "built on the shoulders of African-Americans who were brought here against their will."
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[RedAlertPolitics] Democrats’ hyper-narrative to call President Trump’s temporary travel restriction as a comprehensive Muslim ban has sent shockwaves through public opinion. Starbucks Coffee has decided to jump right on in and claim their moral superiority in order to posture themselves against President Trump.
