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Demovictory9's JournalImmigration agency chief defends striking 'nation of immigrants' from mission statement
The new mission statement reads: “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values."
The original statement read: “USCIS secures America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/401954-immigration-agency-chief-defends-striking-nation-of-immigrants-from-mission
Gofundme for Peter Strzok reaches $416,380 in 2 days, 10K plus donors
https://www.gofundme.com/peterstrzokThe Church of Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-church-of-trump/567425/
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The Church of Trump
At the president’s rallies, his devotees find the relief of belonging—and something more, besides.
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Is it Trump—or something larger than Trump? Possibly, it’s both. Last spring, my colleague Peter Beinart looked at the increasing secularization of American society and how it had contributed to the rise of political tribalism:
As Americans have left organized religion, they haven’t stopped viewing politics as a struggle between “us” and “them.” Many have come to define us and them in even more primal and irreconcilable ways.
This tribalism has infected both the right and the left—but in particular, Beinart cited the work of W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who has concluded that “rates of religious attendance have fallen more than twice as much among whites without a college degree as among those who graduated college.”
Non-college-educated whites are the Trump base, now set adrift:
Establishing causation is difficult, but we know that culturally conservative white Americans who are disengaged from church experience less economic success and more family breakdown than those who remain connected, and they grow more pessimistic and resentful.
You could draw a straight line from a disenfranchised, pessimistic, resentful audience to Trump’s brand of fear-driven, divisive politics, but this would leave out an equally important part of the Trump phenomenon, and something critical to its success: the elation. Go to a Trump rally, speak to Trump supporters, and the devotion is nearly evangelical. Their party line is less a talking point than a sermon: His voters have talked to me about the “bad deal” with Iran, the “drug mules” crossing the border, the Mueller “witch hunt.” The language is uniform, as they quote chapter and verse. Here are the true believers: It is no surprise that Trump’s numbers won’t move.
In his research, Wilcox noted the particular isolation of the white working class in the institutional church:
Moderately educated Americans may feel less attracted to churches that uphold the bourgeois virtues—delayed gratification, a focus on education, self-control, etc.—that undergird this lifestyle. As importantly, working class whites may also feel uncomfortable socializing with the middle and upper class whites who have increasingly come to dominate the life of religious congregations in the U.S. since the 1970s, especially as they see their own economic fortunes fall.
midterm election countdown... 82 days 11 hours
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Electionshttps://twitter.com/daystilelection/status/1029820033961213953
the pain of childhood abuse never goes away
James Faluszczuk, right, who was abused in the Erie diocese, cries as Attorney General Josh Shapiro outlined the findings of the grand jury investigation into six catholic diocese in Pennsylvania, Tuesday, August 14, 2018. The grand jury's report detailed child sexual abuse and coverup by more than 300 clergy.
Priests used gold crosses to ID kids as abuse targets and other horrors from Pennsylvania report
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/999523002
as BART train got crowded, giant dog-passenger, politely stood on two legs
Giant, very good dog rides BART on two feet like a man, goes viral
A BART commute is often full of surprises, some more pleasant than others.
One rider, 28-year-old Berkeley resident Sean Herron, has seen his share of weird stuff on the train. But on a Wednesday morning ride to work, he was treated to a special sight when a man boarded with an enormous Great Dane at 19th Street Station in Oakland.
The train was crowded. Space was tight.
But unlike the all-too-ubiquitous riders who turn a blind eye and refuse to take off their space-clogging backpacks on a packed train, the big pup did the considerate thing as the train started to fill up at the West Oakland stop: He stood on two legs like a furry, considerate, droopy-faced man, resting his front paws on his person.
San Francisco still has some outdated and odd laws on the books. Don't let that dog hang out the window! See what else is illegal in SF.
I was riding BART today when a man and his extremely large Great Dane stepped aboard the train. It was a bit busy, so he told the dog to stand up and the dog flat out STOOD ON TWO LEGS AND RODE THE TRAIN THROUGH THE TRANSBAY TUBE.
"The train was getting crowded as people were going through West Oakland and the dog was having trouble finding a place to sit," Herron recalled. "The owner said, 'Stand up' — he was standing against the door — and the dog was leaning his paws against him."
Kentucky Garnished $50M for Unpaid Tuition Without a Court Order
In the last 12 years, the Kentucky Department of Revenue has claimed in excess of $50 million from students behind on payments to Kentucky’s public universities. The department has managed to do so by taking money out of the students’ tax refunds and paychecks without a court order. It has also collected a hefty amount in fees as well, tacking on a 25 percent collection charge that the people owing the money have to pay.
The ability to collect those debts in that fashion may change soon since one county judge in Kentucky has ruled that UK HealthCare’s use of the revenue department in a similar way for collecting on medical debts from patients is illegal, according to Tribune News Service.
The Aftermath of the Ruling
After the judge issued that ruling, Kentucky public universities took notice since that department collects the debt for all Kentucky public universities with the exception of the University of Louisville. The debt that is collected is usually owed because of students falling behind on tuition payments.
As UK HealthCare attempts to appeal the court’s decision, five universities lent their support, informing the court the decision could be disastrous for the schools which depend heavily on the money collected by the department of revenue. The schools who filed a brief in court were Morehead State University, Western Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, Murray State University, and Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
Jane Fitzpatrick, Morehead State University general counsel, penned the motion that was sent to the court.
“This is important because it’s a substantial way of our collecting monies that are owed the commonwealth,” Fitzpatrick said, according to Tribune News Service.
https://lendedu.com/news/how-kentucky-garnished-50m-for-unpaid-tuition-without-a-court-order/
Trump's ex-campaign manager cites traffic stop in a Rolls-Royce as example of 'real guy' experience
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-ex-campaign-manager-cites-traffic-stop-in-a-rolls-royce-as-example-of-real-guy-experience/2018/08/15/6eb281e2-a09a-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.190cea335944President Trump may have been criticized as out of touch when he remarked this month that people need to show identification when buying groceries, but Corey Lewandowski said his former boss knows what it’s like to be an average Joe.
His evidence?
Trump was once pulled over by the police while driving his Rolls-Royce from Manhattan to his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J.
This was one of incidents cited by Lewandowski on Wednesday when asked by reporters to provide examples of Trump as a “real guy,” who might, say, buy things in a store or pump his own gas. He also cited Trump picking up the tab for staff at a pricey steakhouse and knowing the cost of items at McDonald’s.
“I shouldn’t tell the story because I’ll get in trouble, but I remember he was driving his Rolls-Royce from New York City one day up to the golf course in Bedminster — this was before Secret Service — and we were on the campaign,” said Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, referring to Secret Service protection, which Trump requested in November 2015 when he was running for president.
The employee answers: "They're not welcome in here."
Employee Fired for Telling Black Girls 'They're Not Welcome' in Jersey Shore Gift Shop: Video
An employee at the Jenkinson's Aquarium gift shop on the Jersey Shore, who told a group of young Black girls to leave, is now out of a job.
Jenkinson's Boardwalk management said in a press release issued on Tuesday, "as a result of this investigation, the gift shop employee has been terminated effective immediately."
Attiyya Barrett heads a program called Princess to Queenz, which offers summer camps and tutoring programs for children. She posted a video of the incident on her Facebook page on Friday, and it's since gone viral.
"She decides she doesn't want the children to shop at her store because she said they have to be with a chaperone," Barrett says in the video. "They go get the chaperone, and then she [tells] all of our girls to leave the store because she doesn't want them there."
Barrett then asks the employee, "What's your reason, why?"
"Because they didn't have a chaperone," the woman, whose name has not been released, responds.
"And when they got the chaperone, what was your reason?" Barrett asks.
"I didn't think she was a chaperone," the woman responded.
"But what did you just say?" Barrett asks.
The employee answers: "They're not welcome in here."
"Meanwhile, there were other white girls unattended and playing with items, and they were not asked to leave," Barrett told ABC News.
video at link
https://www.diversityinc.com/black-girls-jersey-shore?utm_source=WhatCounts&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=DINewsletter%200815%201
man climbs over guardrail at LA zoo and slaps hippo on the butt
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Man-spanks-hippo-at-L-A-Zoo-video-hippopotamus-13155616.phpPolice are investigating the unauthorized slapping of a hippopotamus' butt by a man who hopped over a barrier at the Los Angeles Zoo.
A video of the incident surfaced last week on social media, the Los Angeles Times reported. In the footage a man is seen sneaking over a guardrail and leaning into an enclosure before giving Rosie the hippo a loud smack on the buttocks. The spanker, obviously pleased with himself, runs off with arms raised.
Rosie doesn't move, but the slap appears to startle her mother, Mara, who raises her head.
Northeast Community Police consider the case a trespassing violation rather than animal cruelty.
https://twitter.com/SomeToLaughAt/status/1026902524526243841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1026902524526243841&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2FMan-spanks-hippo-at-L-A-Zoo-video-hippopotamus-13155616.php
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