No, the important part was INCORRECTLY saying WHO was responsible.

It's NOT nit picking to point out the FACT that it WASN'T a company or business, it's important. It's important because non-profits get government grants and that is the issue.

You continue to deflect from the issue in a futile attempt to justify saying it was a business which was incorrect. Rogue wasn't the important part....who was responsible is the important part.

Evidently you find facts unnecessary.

I corrected you incorrectly blaming a business or company rather than a non-profit organization. You deflected from that FACT trying to use semantics as a defense. It didn't work.
It's NOT personal with me and in case you didn't notice I corrected Bart on this same thread when he said Psaki was going to CNN because FACTS are important.
Unlike you Bart admitted he was incorrect and didn't get defensive.

No matter whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or an actual independent like myself the FACTS don't change and they ALWAYS matter.

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There is somewhere between little and no difference between a "company going rogue", a business going rogue" or a "rogue company". Why did you even say anything about my terminology if NOT to be critical? You were being defensive of your incorrect statement rather than correcting your statement.

You were critical of ME saying "rogue companies" because I didn't use YOUR original phrasing while YOU didn't use your original phrasing in your criticism.

I have long had a theory that those who accuse others are guilty of their own accusations. Case in point made to justify my theory.

Voters are responsible for electing politicians REGARDLESS of the age, young or old.

Many people in the US say "we need term limits" when in fact there are term limits for congress.

House of Representative members terms are 2 years.
Senate member terms are 6 years.
The only way any politician remains in congress for more than ONE term is because they are reelected by voters.

That being said IMO the two main reasons politicians remain in congress for multiple terms is because too many voters cast a ballot because there is a "D" or "R" next to the name or because it's a name they recognize.
In Michigan we have U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell who is the widow of John Dingell, her predecessor in the seat. John Dingell holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S., from 1955 until 2015.....his father held the seat from 1933 until 1955. That is more than 88 years a Dingell has had the seat....is that the result of well informed voters or name recognition?

Semantics? Really?

It wasn't "a business going rogue" (your EXACT words originally), "companies going rogue" or "rogue companies" (my words). It WASN'T companies or a business at all......it was non-profit organizations putting the kits together, and that was the point I was making.

It's "non-profit" organizations, NOT "rogue" COMPANIES, who are putting together the "safe smoking kits".
While "safe smoking kits" are NOT all the same and NOT all of them have "crack pipes" there are SOME that do have them.
If the Federal Government is going to claim that the "safe smoking kits" THEY fund with grands don't contain "crack pipes" the funding should be cut off to "non-profit" organizations that do include crack pipes in their kits, which HAS been PROVEN.

The latest Gallup data shows that most women are pro-life and even are more pro-life than men.

Fifty-one percent of women consider themselves pro-life, according to the poll, while 46 percent of men do. 43 percent of women and 48 percent of men call themselves pro-choice.

According to Gallup’s other abortion-related polls it shows a majority of people are somewhere in the between "pro-life" and "pro-choice" absolutists.

24 percent of women but 18 percent of men say abortion should be illegal in “ALL circumstances.”

24 percent of women and 25 percent of men say it should be legal in "ALL circumstances".

50 percent of women but 56 percent of men say it should be “legal under CERTAIN circumstances.”

The results of Gallup's own polls which don't align is why I don't have much faith in polls. But it doesn't surprise me that most people are in the middle, that most people aren't absolutists and that abortion isn't an all or nothing issue for most people.
But like any issue that is controversial it's the loudest voices on both sides that gets media coverage while the majority is largely ignored.

A federal $30 million grant program was used provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. The Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for ‘smoking kits/supplies".

Psaki from the podium said "crack pipes" weren't included in the "safe smoking kits". When it was found though investigative reporting that kits distributed by nonprofits DID contain "crack pipes".

After the reporting was found to be credible the Biden White House basically went into damage. The Biden Administration is both denying the crack pipes would be included in the “safe smoking kits,” while also admitting they don’t really know what’s in them.

The information isn't hard to find, you just have to have the desire to find the information.

Psaki isn't going to CNN........she's going to MSNBC.
Facts matter and while I think she is more interested with the Democrat Party agenda than facts it's no excuse for not stating facts about her.

1) The Democrats KNEW the bill wasn't going to pass. But rather than not wasting time and money they brought the bill up ONLY because they believed, with the help of the MSM, it would benefit them politically.

2) The bill was brought to a vote without allowing amendments to be presented for discussion or a vote. That alone shows a couple things. The Democrats priority wasn't to pass a bipartisan bill and that they weren't interested in using a democratic process to pass the bill.

3) The bill as presented would have allowed abortions until the birth of a child. It would have made it so NO ONE or RELIGIOUS hospital could refuse to preform an abortion.

The bill would be seen as radical by most people, even people who aren't radical and support certain abortions.

I'm not anti abortion which is how many "pro choice" would label me , I'm not pro abortion which is how many "pro life" radicals would label me.

I don't think ALL abortions should be prohibited, I have NO problem with the "morning after" pill labeled as the "abortion pill" by radical pro life people. The reason I have no problem with the morning after pill is because there are times decisions are made in the throes of passion or when inhibitions are lowered that otherwise wouldn't be made. Also there is a difference between "live cells" and an actual life. I have NO problem with abortions in the case of rape and incest and abuse of mentally ill women is rape IMO. I have NO problem with abortion when the mothers life is at risk.

I DO believe "choice" begins with making the decision to have sex. If a woman misses three menstrual periods after unprotected sex, or even having taken precautions, and doesn't see a medical profession that is ONLY her fault since FREE services are provided to poorer women. I never agreed with the Roe V Wade decision (it is a decision not a law) that said that abortions up to 23 weeks was constitutional based on "viability". As medical advanced were made the "viability" time line changed so the "23 week" part of the decision should have never been included. That is FIVE months to decide and IMO that far MORE time than is necessary to decide to end a pregnancy. I also think it's immoral to abort an unborn child AFTER the gender is KNOWN because the woman doesn't WANT a boy or a girl.

But hey those are my opinions.....and there are pro abortion people who think I shouldn't have an opinion because I'm a man who doesn't agree with their opinion that ALL abortions should be allowed.

No, actually two men can end the war.

Putin can end it by stopping his aggression towards a sovereign country by stopping his bombing, cease his invasion and withdrawing Russian troops.

Zelenskyy can end it by surrendering and allowing Putin to cease whatever sovereign Ukrainian lands he wants to control.

Quebec, a province in Canada, primary language is French but it doesn't mean they want to be part of France.

Just because Russian is the language spoken in areas of eastern Ukraine it doesn't mean they are pro Putin or Russian control. Surveys in Donbas in 2016 and 2019, revealed that a majority of those surveyed in areas not controlled by the government would prefer to be part of the Ukranian state.

A lot of teachers in k-12 brainwash kids, and many parents, into thinking they NEED to go away to college.

My daughters high school chemistry teacher convince her and my ex-wife that she should live in the dorms at a school that was 25 minutes away from our house to get the "full college experience". I said it was stupid not to commute and a waste of money.

After coming home EVERY Friday night the 1st semester she wanted to commute her 2nd semester and I made her fulfill the commitment she made to her roommate. I was trying to instill in her that she had a moral obligations to do so.

I have long thought that colleges should be the ONLY place to get student loans.....and to allow students unable to pay back the loans to have the loans subject to bankrupt filings.
That would make colleges responsible for SELLING students a degree that ISN'T worth the cost.

I also think a "lemon law" should be passed that would allow students who can't get a job that allows them to pay back loans could sue schools to get back the money they paid for a defective product AKA the diploma they were SOLD.

In simpler terms make those responsible for student debt responsible the debt THEY created!!!!

I have a couple of questions.

1) Was it the parents or the k-12 "teachers" who failed to teach "higher education" students how loans work?

2) How do people who get an engineering degree, become lawyers, become doctors etc. not be able to pay back their student loans?

3) How is fair that people who paid off their student loans, the people who went to community colleges, the people who went to trade schools or never went to any secondary school to shoulder the burden of people who aren't meeting their fiduciary responsibility they ASSUMED??? When a person agrees to pay back a loan, gives their word to pay back a loan, how isn't it also a moral obligation?

4) Why are some people saying that this isn't a burden on tax payers since the money has already been spent by the government? The national debt owed by the government is the tax payers burden.

If PM Modi's wants to take the "initiative to diffuse tensions" he should have made arrangements to visit Putin in Moscow who is the aggressor in this "conflict", not a visit to Germany to see Chancellor Scholz. It would be BOLD to confront Putin, it would be BOLD to demand Putin stop his invasion of a sovereign country, it would be BOLD to take a stance against the aggressor instead of remaining "neutral".

If anyone will have the "the burden of a third world war" on their shoulders it will be Putin and NO ONE ELSE!!!!!!! Putin is the ONLY leader that has threatened the use of nukes.

The pretty wealthy people in the MSM don't want to put their OWN money at risk.
The wealthy anti wealth people in the MSM hate Musk right NOW because he's not inline with their agenda of controlling information and censorship, disguised with the term "content moderation", that they haven't had to pay for on Twitter.

But the MSM has government bureaucrats that are already stepping up to help them. Alejandro Mayorkas the UNELECTED bureaucrat in charge of The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just announced he has created a new entity to police "misinformation" and "disinformation"....called the "Disinformation Governance Board".

I don't believe it's a coincidence that the "Disinformation Governance Board" was created when a "free speech absolutist" called Elon Musk is in the process of taking over Twitter.

Musk doesn't "own" Twitter yet.....Twitter’s board has accepted Musk's offer but that doesn't complete the sale.

The sale is subject to the approval of Twitter stockholders, the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.

It should be interesting to see if congress make a move to do something they have talked about, both Democrats and Republicans, yet have avoided acting on.....that is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Section 230 says: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”....basically making entities like Twitter, Facebook and even Google not liable for any content or the censorship of content.

Democrats, the MSM, leftists etc have said that Musk's position regarding "free speech" was a "threat to democracy". It wouldn't surprise me if Democrats politicize the SEC, other government regulatory agencies or even change Section 230 legislatively to carve out the current protection that Twitter has before the mid-terms.

The dramatic reaction by opponents leading up to the Twitter Boards decision may pale compared to what is yet to come.

But but but 99.97% efficiency isn't 100% so it's not justification for bureaucrats and politicians to relinquish the authoritarian power they gave themselves because of Covid-19.

Unless someone is wearing a N95 or KN95 face mask PROPERLY wearing a mask isn't very protective.....and N95 or KN95 masks WEREN'T mandated on airplanes, trains,buses or anywhere else for the general public.


University of Waterloo study:

N95 or KN95 face masks may be the best way to avoid COVID-19 during crowded indoor events. That’s the recommendation from a new study reporting most cloth masks just don’t do the job when it comes to stopping the spread of coronavirus within enclosed spaces.

Researchers from the University of Waterloo simulated a person breathing in a large room with a cloth face mask on. Despite wearing a cloth mask, the study finds a large buildup of aerosol droplets suspended in the air.

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Basically the study found that that the masks, MOSTLY cloth masks, people wear on airplanes DON'T stop aerosol droplets.

If sensitive topics AREN'T being discussed by teachers to children who are probably so young they wouldn't think about gender or sexuality on their own then why is there so much outrage from leftists????

Teachers, pundits and much of the MSM said CRT wasn't being taught in k-12 schools and yet they were outraged about it being banned.....if it wasn't being taught then why was ANYONE upset that it wasn't ALLOWED in k-12?????

What all the teaching "virtually" caused was parents could see what their kids were subjected to from teachers. There were teachers and their unions who opposed parents being in the same room as their kids....what were they afraid of??????