O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years. Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears. America. America. God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.
New data released by the Appalachian Regional Commission Tuesday show per capita annual income fell by more than $1,000 in several Eastern Kentucky counties from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year made available by the ARC. In Bell County, per capita income fell by more than $1,100, and Whitley County saw a drop of $1,080. A total of nine counties in Appalachian Kentucky saw a decrease in per capita income from 2016 to 2017, according to the ARC.
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Cult45 straight up lied about "bringing back the coal industry". They knew it was a lie, and we knew it was a lie, and the good folk in Coal Country knew down deep it was a lie. But the old story is true now the same as it was true way back when - people need to believe they're going to be OK. They need to believe their troubles aren't just due to their own failings. So tricksters like 45* and Mitch McConnell are always around to tell them some comforting lies.
It's those illegal immigrants who're taking all your jobs and are also too lazy to work so they're stealing all the tax dollars that you're not paying into the system because you're not working hard enough.
It's the librul elites and their love of regulations who're killing all the jobs because they want companies to pay you a living wage, and not poison you or get you killed on the job, while paying their fair share in taxes instead of spending their tax cut windfall on executive bonuses and stock buybacks to boost the earnings on investment portfolios that you can't have because you don't make enough to pay the rent and put food in your bellies.
It's those scary brown people in Chicago and the icky gay people in San Francisco
Republicans (mostly) continue to prop up the shit that's failing - usually making bank on subsidies - as they look for ways to turn a profit on "providing solutions" that amount to little more than selling off public assets to private interests.
But wait - here comes the Good News: Enter Oleg Deripaska and his apparent intent to buy most of Eastern Kentucky at the bargain basement price of $200M - in the guise of an aluminum processing plant.
When they say "Government should run more like a business", they're telling us everything we need to know about their intentions to rule rather than serve.
When we know shows like SVU base their episodes on "true crime" and case files from real things that actually happened, it takes a special kind of rat-fucker to reverse it and spin it back in the opposite direction. MMFA:
After author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll reported that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., pushed a conspiracy theory that the claim was "ripped-off a plot" from a 2012 episode of NBC procedural Law & Order. Before being amplified by Trump Jr., the conspiracy theory was spread by a Twitter account associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory and another account whose content has regularly been shared by “seemingly-automated accounts.” It has also been pushed by the Daily Mail's political editor.
On June 21, Carroll wrote in New York magazine’s The Cut that 23 years ago, Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room. According to Carroll, Trump “lunge[d] at me, pushe[d] me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and [put] his mouth against my lips.” She wrote that he then pulled down her tights and assaulted her. Carroll told two close friends at the time, both of whom “confirmed the allegations to New York and to [The New York] Times.”
Even though her friends confirmed that Carroll told them about the incident at the time, social media accounts and message boards have claimed that Carroll “ripped-off a plot” from an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that dealt with a similar sexual assault against an actor. However, the episode aired in 2012, well over a decade after the incident allegedly occurred.
It's a source of constant interest to me that the Daddy Staters can always be counted on to take something obvious and turn it around. And that the rubes are so in need of reassurance that they'll put aside everything they know about anything to suckle at the teat of deliberate ignorance.
It's a very bad sign when a president is asked about an allegation of sexual assault - which may well have been a rape - and he just blows it off by slamming the accuser instead of denying it outright.
And what makes it worse is that the Press Poodles just let it slide after a day, and the worser worse is that way too many of us seem to be starting to accept Totally Fucked Up as the new normal.
It doesn't matter whether a fetus is a person if it doesn't matter that a pregnant woman is a person. What matters is that a woman be granted the full compliment of rights. Without the right to bodily autonomy - the right of an autonomous person to self-determination - there's not much point to any of the other rights.