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+1. We used paper straws back in the 60s and early 70s. We might also consider bottle deposits on a national scale again.
Some sources estimate between 500-1000 years before plastic degrades. I agree. We should take action on a national level.
The best part of this bullshit is several national outlets ran the story saying that authorities were looking for the suspect but for some reason refused to add a picture.A black woman? From Los Angeles? And your first reaction is to blame Trump, white supremacists, Nazis and the GOP?
Straws are for chicks and girly men. Man up and drink like a man. You are losing the debate if straws is your new scorched earth platform.
I actually thought the first 3-4 seasons of his previous show The Colbert Report were really funny. Was listening to POTUS channel in car yesterday, colbert did a joke about trump getting advice from Sean hannity and his punchline was something about Reagen talking to Alf about the contras...the radio host was like ‘an Alf joke?’. And his Twitter is just Trump obsession. And none of it’s funny. His show’s ratings were horrible until Trump got elected, sadly they got better but I actually enjoy watching what Trump does to his biggest haters. They just become so pathetic.
Rarely use straws and don't really give a shit. Then I read something like...
No citation and doesn't even come close to passing the common sense smell test. Really, we're ship 1/3 of the garbage generated inthere US to Asia?
Reading that claim makes me want to go drink a drink with a straw.
No citation and doesn't even come close to passing the common sense smell test. Really, we're ship 1/3 of the garbage generated inthere US to Asia?
Reading that claim makes me want to go drink a drink with a straw.
Paper straws are made out of trees and the ultra left wanted all paper products replaced with plastic to save a tree that was grown for the purpose of producing paper. So we ended up with plastic straws and the super smart "Flipper the Dolphin" is eating them and getting deathly sick.
Now we have to ban them. So let's do away with straws and drink out of the glass. Who needs straws? This issue will soon be off of the front page and the left will be on another crusade.
Trump could stay over there in Europe for a year and solve 10 years worth of their problems, come back home and solve 5 more years of US problems. Get re-elected, solve all the problems in the world. Greatest president of all time.
He really is. I think he keeps getting better and better. He's obviously twice the orator that O'bama was. Unlike O'bama, I've never once heard him say "derp, derp, herpty derp".
..... and the hardest working President of all time. Always working for the USA. The triggering of Libs is just an added bonus for entertainment value.
- Forcing Europe to pay for their own defense, freeing up dollars to spend on increasing our military tech and arms advantage
- Forcing China to play by fair trade rules
- Shifting the Supreme Court conservative/originalist
- Lowering taxes for the working and middle class
- Returning essential material production/creating jobs
Too bad Trump is a doofus who eats McDonald's and wears a tie that's too long or else he might have actually been able to accomplish something
I think photos of world leaders all just standing there like it is a 2nd grade class photo are stupid.
Like where they stuck Trudeau though
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Tuesday that it is "very difficult for anyone to argue" that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court and replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
There is very little chance of the Chuckie and the dems stopping the Kavanaugh confirmation and they know it. I smell cooked donkey.
There is very little chance of the Chuckie and the dems stopping the Kavanaugh confirmation and they know it. I smell cooked donkey.
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Honest question here.
If someone is a semi-intelligent person and is honestly looking at who to vote for in the midterms, how could they EVER vote for the left? Seriously. With what Trump has done so far in his first term (and keep in mind that's with 90+% of the media, the FBI, the DOJ, the entire left, and part of the right doing all they can to stop him), how do you vote against someone wanting to help further his platform?
What is the left even running on? If you take emotional pleas out of their bag, what do they have?
"We want open borders!"
"Get rid of ICE!"
"Raise taxes!"
"Change to a socialist government!"
How could anyone with any bit of common sense look at that group of people on a daily basis and think "yea, we need more of that in the US"?
If someone is a semi-intelligent person and is honestly looking at who to vote for in the midterms, how could they EVER vote for the left? Seriously. With what Trump has done so far in his first term (and keep in mind that's with 90+% of the media, the FBI, the DOJ, the entire left, and part of the right doing all they can to stop him), how do you vote against someone wanting to help further his platform?
What is the left even running on? If you take emotional pleas out of their bag, what do they have?
"We want open borders!"
"Get rid of ICE!"
"Raise taxes!"
"Change to a socialist government!"
How could anyone with any bit of common sense look at that group of people on a daily basis and think "yea, we need more of that in the US"?
Within the bold text lies your answers.
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1) I don't use straws.
2) I don't think how we got here is overly relevant on an issue where there's a clear answer.
3) I don't know it should even require federal involvement. It should be a common sense solution for each business in their individual level. It's shocking to think it might not be. Or that it is, but will take years to implement (Starbucks).
Like dandelions in an untreated lawn, the now infamous Russian dossier apparently multiplied in numbers - and emissaries delivering it to the FBI - the closer Donald Trump got to the White House.
Now, memos the FBI is turning over to Congress show the bureau possessed at least three versions of the dossier and its mostly unverified allegations of collusion.
Each arrived from a different messenger: McCain, Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Fusion GPS founder (and Steele boss) Glenn Simpson.
That revelation is in an email that disgraced FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok wrote to FBI executives around the time BuzzFeed published a version of the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017.
"Our internal system is blocking the site," Strzok wrote of the document posted on BuzzFeed. "I have the PDF via iPhone but it's 25.6MB. Comparing now. The set is only identical to what McCain had. (it has differences from what was given to us by Corn and Simpson.)"
The significance of Strzok's email is obvious to investigators who reviewed it in recent days. The FBI is supposed to be immune to manipulation by circular information flows, especially with sensitive investigations such as evaluating whether a foreign power tampered with an American election.
Yet, in this case, the generally same information kept walking through the FBI's door for months - recycled each time by a new character with ties to Hillary Clinton or hatred for Trump - until someone decided they had to act.
That someone was Strzok, whose own anti-Trump bias was laid bare by his personal text messages. He first opened a case on Russia-Trump collusion on July 31, 2016 after the first flow of information, then escalated to get a warrant targeting a former Trump adviser in October after a second flurry of allegations.
The pattern is so troubling that one investigator said this to me: "The dossier and its related dirt was on a circular flight path aboard a courier service called 'Air Clinton,' and the FBI kept signing for the packages."
Simpson and his firm were paid by Clinton's campaign to hire Steele to find dirt on Trump in Russia during the 2016 election.
Oddly - and perhaps contradicting Strzok's email - Simpson testified he was unaware of any version of the dossier being given to the FBI. "I don't know that there was a version provided to the FBI," he testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In his House Intelligence Committee testimony, Simpson acknowledged he "acceded" to letting Steele talk to the FBI but insisted he himself never talked to the FBI about the dossier. "Did you meet with intelligence officials regarding the dossier?" he was asked. "No," Simpson replied. Pressed if he ever talked to the FBI, Simpson added: "I didn't approach the FBI."
In light of the new emails, investigators will want to determine if Simpson misled Congress or if Strzok misstated the source of one of the versions.
More important to investigators is where Team McCain got the dossier. In his congressional testimony, Simpson all but acknowledged he and Steele provided the information to McCain ally David Kramer, who provided it to the Arizona senator to forward to the FBI.
"I don't remember whether I called David or David called me, I just don't remember, but we got in touch," Simpson testified about his dossier-related contact with Kramer. Simpson's lawyer stopped him from answering more.
When asked why he'd talk to Kramer about the Trump dirt, Simpson gave an insightful answer: "We were concerned about whether the information that we provided previously had ever, you know, risen to the leadership level of the FBI."
In other words, it was a ploy using a Republican critic of Trump as the courier.
It's all the sort of recycling that, in another context, might make an environmentalist happy. But it's exactly the sort of circular intelligence-gathering and political pressure that the FBI is supposed to reject.
You do know that your EPA requires significant high quality liners in landfills, right?
You're assuming people are at least semi-intelligent & vote with their minds rather than their hormones.
Huge story that will not be mentioned or remembered by anyone outside of people actively paying attention.
Mention that the FBI is very obviously corrupt and you'll be called an Alex Jones lizard people conspiracy theorist by the large swath of even non-leftist Democrats who smugly think watching a few hours of CNN a weeks makes them more informed than anyone else
I don't use straws or Starbucks. I agree the federal government can stay out of this because I you suggest it is a common sense issue. More bad news on the horizon. Condoms choke pelicans.
Not a problem, millennials would rather just cuddle and then go antiquing.
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