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Rep. Meehan Says Sexual Harassment Accuser Was 'Soulmate,' New York Sues Eight Drug Companies, Two Dead in Kentucky High-School Shooting: P.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.23.2018 4:30 PM

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    U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan's (R-Pennsylvania) defense to sexual harassment allegations from a former subordinate: They were "soulmates." Unfortunately, she didn't see it that way.

  • Two 15-year-olds were killed and 17 other people were injured after another student, also 15, opened fire at a Benton, Kentucky, high school Tuesday afternoon.
  • New York is suing eight pharmaceutical companies that manufacture prescription opioids.
  • The FBI has released preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2017.
  • A Harvard historian reminds us that "the Republican Party once supported women's issues, especially the ERA, and that in 1970 a Republican introduced the Senate's first bill to legalize abortion."
  • Behind the well-funded group campaigning to make the minimum age for working at strip clubs 21-years-old.
  • Happy anniversary, Donald and Melania Trump!

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    Happy anniversary, Donald and Melania Trump!

    FOUR MORE YEARS

    1. Rufus The Monocled   7 years ago

      Hello.

      "A Harvard historian reminds us that "the Republican Party once supported women's issues, especially the ERA, and that in 1970 a Republican introduced the Senate's first bill to legalize abortion."

      And? Point?

      1. Rhywun   7 years ago

        All women are into abortion, duh

        1. OpenBordersLiberal-tarian   7 years ago

          Except the ones suffering from internalized misogyny.

          1. Bubba Jones   7 years ago

            abort the girls and solve both problems?

        2. Rufus The Monocled   7 years ago

          "So what you're saying is"....Republicans want to murder kids now.

          1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

            Now?

            1. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

              As in My Lai Massacre? Wasn't Nixon Republican?

      2. OpenBordersLiberal-tarian   7 years ago

        The point is that the once respectable Republican Party has become unrecognizable compared to what it was just a few decades ago. Now the Republicans (with a handful of exceptions like David Frum) are white nationalist Putin puppets who are trying to make this country just like The Handmaid's Tale.

        Republicans have moved so far right, even Ronald Reagan would be a Democrat today.

        1. Bubba Jones   7 years ago

          Or, the Democrats cater solely to minorities and then blame whites for being racist.

          But Hillary couldn't actually convince the voters that she was black.

      3. Juice   7 years ago

        Looking at the text of the ERA, I'm having trouble finding an objection to it (except for the clunky wording "on account of...").

        1. Rhywun   7 years ago

          It probably didn't occur to anyone in the 70s to put all that "equal outcome" BS in it the way they would today. Hell, those cro-mags probably still thought that men and women are different.

          1. Juice   7 years ago

            Just looked at the most recent wording, they added a sentence at the beginning that basically ruins it because it's just plain bad wording. "Women shall have equal rights in the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." Um ok, women shall have equal rights with respect to each other? That's how I read it at first pass. Just leave it at, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

            Actually, I've got some better language: "[Neither shall the United States nor any] State deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." But that would never be ratified.

            1. Bubba Jones   7 years ago

              Except that's already the law?

          2. Sevens   7 years ago

            Look at how Titles VII and IX were changed beyond what its authors intended.

      4. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

        It's just good to see that Republicans can be wrong about progressive issues too.

    2. MatthewSlyfield   7 years ago

      The story is about their 13th wedding anniversary, not Trump's time in office.

      1. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

        Way to step all over the joke, new guy.

        1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

          Hey, that could be his thing.

          1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

            He is Sly. This is known.

    3. adarious   7 years ago

      Finally! There is a great way how you can work online from your home using your computer and earn in the same time... Only basic internet knowledge needed and fast internet connection... Earn as much as $3000 a week....... http://www.startonlinejob.com.com

  2. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    The FBI has released preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2017.

    They accidentally deleted the other half.

    1. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

      I'm sure multiple people have copies

  3. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

    New York is suing eight pharmaceutical companies that manufacture prescription opioids.

    Manufacturing a product to grant some relief to people who are suffering unbearable pain? NOT IN CUOMO'S EMPIRE STATE.

    1. Rhywun   7 years ago

      Excelsior!

      1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

        If you have found a pain relieving use for excelsior, I sure would like to hear about it.

  4. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    Behind the well-funded group campaigning to make the minimum age for working at strip clubs 21-years-old.

    But they get over their daddy issues by then!

    1. Sometimes a Great Notion   7 years ago

      Don't worry, college's across the country will fight this legislation to keep enrollment up.

    2. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      19 year old's asses are filled with the DEVIL.

    3. Bubba Jones   7 years ago

      How are they supposed to pay for college?!?

  5. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

    Soulmate

    Damn that's good

    1. Rufus The Monocled   7 years ago

      Has soul mating ever been proven anyway?

      Is it even a thing?

      1. Rich   7 years ago

        Sure. Think of all the souls that have been aborted.

        *** ducks ***

      2. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

        Just by girls who date convicts.

      3. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

        Yes. Every Canadian has a moose soul mate.

        1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

          The classic Canadian novel, Bear, taught me that they want to fuck bears. Real book by the way.

  6. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    A Harvard historian reminds us that "the Republican Party once supported women's issues..."

    They once freed the slaves, too. But now they want to put y'all back in chains.

    1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

      With the weather we've been having, I could use some chains.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    Unfortunately, she didn't see it that way.

    Pence has it right on this.

    1. Conchfritters   7 years ago

      If Pence ever went to dinner with a female colleague alone without his wife, there is a very good (98%) chance the evening would end with both of them naked in the sack. His wife is 100% justified in not trusting that cheating sum bitch.

  8. $park? leftist poser   7 years ago

    In turn, this allegedly has created a "substantial burden" on the city, the lawsuit states, because it has had to increase treatment services, law enforcement costs, medical examiner costs and more, according to the release.

    I could think of a better solution.

  9. Rich   7 years ago

    The FBI has released preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2017.

    What is this, Minority Report?

    1. $park? leftist poser   7 years ago

      You think the FBI has three people drugged in a bathtub staring into the past?

      1. Rich   7 years ago

        "Preliminary" crime.

        *** kicks wooden ball ***

      2. Rhywun   7 years ago

        I'd be surprised if it was only three.

      3. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

        That sounds more like the CIA's thing.

    2. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

      What is this, law enforcement for ants?

    3. Stormy Dragon   7 years ago

      Uh... you realize it's 2018 now, right?

      1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

        God, in my day it was only 2002. This is truly Trump's America.

  10. lap83   7 years ago

    A Harvard historian reminds us that "the Republican Party once supported women's issues, especially the ERA, and that in 1970 a Republican introduced the Senate's first bill to legalize abortion."

    Is there a more unintentionally offensive phrase in politics than "women's issues"? So anything not related to the vagina is a "man's issue"?

    1. Rich   7 years ago

      Is there a more unintentionally offensive phrase in politics than "women's issues"?

      How about "working families"?

      1. Libertarian   7 years ago

        +1 child labor

    2. Rhywun   7 years ago

      "Public servant".

    3. Juice   7 years ago

      Makes me think some woman is on her period. "I've got ... women's issues today."

      1. Rich   7 years ago

        Hey! It could just be bloating!

      2. lap83   7 years ago

        I had a feeling while scrapbooking. You men wouldn't understand

        1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

          Does arranging bets for mma fights count as scrapbooking?

          1. Crusty Juggler   7 years ago

            Oh my God.

    4. Rich   7 years ago

      "Unarmed black man".

    5. Domestic Dissident   7 years ago

      Speaking of legal abortion, why oh why couldn't this pink pussy's mom take advantage of it?

      1. Palin's Buttplug   7 years ago

        Tell everyone about that secret FISA memo proving Obama spied on Trump, Mikey.

        Hannity says it could be bigger than Pizzagate!

    6. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

      If you're having "women's issues", I suggest you trade yours in.

      1. Bubba Jones   7 years ago

        Oh Hell no. If anything breaks on my current model, I'm just going to do without.

        Or rent.

        1. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

          Flashlight and porn to the rescue.

          1. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

            Fleshlight, stupid spell check.

    7. mad.casual   7 years ago

      So anything not related to the vagina is a "man's issue"?

      "Man's issue" is stuff like the discovery of fire and landing on the moon. "Men's issue" is ED medication and chaffing.

      Woman, women, womyn, man, men, human, hymen... get your pluralization checked.

    8. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      I still insist the worst one, by far, is "Common-Sense"

    9. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

      They also found out that half of Republican's ancestors were women.

    10. Libertarian   7 years ago

      "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat."
      -- Hillary Clinton

      1. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

        Lol

      2. Conchfritters   7 years ago

        It's always about her with her

  11. Rebel Scum   7 years ago

    Two 15-year-olds were killed and 17 other people were injured after another student, also 15, opened fire at a Benton, Kentucky, high school Tuesday afternoon.

    Cue gun hysteria. Is there an accurate description of the weapon used?

    1. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

      Whatever it was, it was an assault rifle.

      1. Bubba Jones   7 years ago

        fully automatic

        1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   7 years ago

          "High powered with high capacity magazine-clips"

          1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   7 years ago

            ... and the shoulder thing that goes up.

            1. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

              Bump stock, bump stock!

    2. DaveSs   7 years ago

      Earlier I read it was a handgun

      1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

        I can't believe this unregulated domain of pure madness we live in (THE USA) has led to the creation of assault rifle handguns. I'm gonna kill myself now, before anyone else inevitably does.

        1. Rat on a train   7 years ago

          I'm sure it was a high capacity assault pistol.

    3. Longtobefree   7 years ago

      Gotta be fake news. Everyone knows schools are gun free zones.
      Just ask any democrat, gun free zones equals peace and safety.

  12. Rich   7 years ago

    "We are trying to determine that every one of those that has been shot was a student."

    Am I wrong for thinking that is a strange statement? I mean, is it supposed to reassure parents that no strangers were in the school, or what?

    1. Palin's Buttplug   7 years ago

      He means that he is relieved no cops were shot.

    2. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      Kool Kraig was just there teaching the kids that smokers are jokers. WHY DID HE HAVE TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS?!

    3. Longtobefree   7 years ago

      Maybe one of the students had a comfort dog, and there was one last shot as the cops got there?

  13. mad.casual   7 years ago

    Behind the well-funded group campaigning to make the minimum age for working at strip clubs 21-years-old.

    Error: Sentence fragment.

    1. Longtobefree   7 years ago

      Besides, who wants to see those old hags?

  14. Palin's Buttplug   7 years ago

    Wow, House GOP intelligence memo released by Nunes:

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUGbbeSW0AEitv3.jpg

    1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      A 3 foot penis is less impressive when you realize that they are measured using Trump's freakishly tiny feet.

      1. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

        He's rich so does it really matter.

  15. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

    Central Ohio also prefers drug cartels, gang violence, fentanyl laced drugs and overdose deaths to regulated, consistently dosed, uncut prescription medication that sometimes gets used for pleasure rather than to alleviate pain.

    http://nbc4i.com/2018/01/23/fr.....tributors/

    1. AlmightyJB   7 years ago

      And while that alternative usage is not without consequences it's rarely fatal and doesn't have any consequences that prohibition doesn't have. Top men.

  16. Domestic Dissident   7 years ago

    So it turns out that not only were John Brennan, James Clapper, and the Mofo-in-Chief engaged in a probably illegal Nixonian spy job on the Trump campaign during the election, but it seems like a cabal of Trump-haters in the F.B.I. was involved and that they tried to deliberately delete about five months worth of text messages during that timeframe. Yeah, nothing suspicious about that at all! The good news is that the House Intelligence is already working on the process of getting that classified FISA memo released to the public in the next two or three weeks or so.

    It seems like it's time to get rid of this Robert Mueller cat and appoint a NEW special prosecutor so that we can finally begin investigating the real criminals in this sordid matter.

    1. Palin's Buttplug   7 years ago

      just released:

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUGbbeSW0AEitv3.jpg

      Bigger than Pizzagate!

    2. Stormy Dragon   7 years ago

      cabal of Trump-haters

      So only Republicans are allowed to be FBI agents?

    3. mad.casual   7 years ago

      released to the public in the next two or three weeks or so

      WTHF? Gotta make sure some *more* spying legislation comes up for a vote and doesn't get vetoed because of this thing first?

    4. Rat on a train   7 years ago

      They already have a secret special prosecutor investigating Mueller, and a double secret special prosecutor investigating the secret special prosecutor.

    5. Longtobefree   7 years ago

      So, knowing there is no way to delete the messages without a trace, what was in the messages worse than getting caught with the delete key in your hand? Somebody, probably near retirement and single, is going to fall on the sword to let the rest off the hook.

  17. stuartl   7 years ago

    RIP Ursula K.

    1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      RIP

  18. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

    New York is suing eight pharmaceutical companies that manufacture prescription opioids.

    Get in line...

  19. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

    "hub for sex trafficking," though the reporters, who were on the story for one year, found no sex trafficking in the clubs. But the series has a backstory: in Jim Kelly, founder and director of a Catholic agency that serves homeless youth called Covenant House New Orleans, who has for several years now campaigned against the clubs, claiming to city and state policy makers that stripping leads young women to become victims of sex trafficking.

    I was wondering how long it would take the religious right to glom on to "sex trafficking".

  20. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

    I blame the anarcho-capitalist Republican Senator Randal Paul.

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