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yallerdawg's JournalGolfer-In-Chief: Trump Has Now Spent 27% Of His Presidency On A Golf Course
While millions of Americans from Puerto Rico to California "burn" the Dotard "fiddles.Source: PoliticusUSA, by Sean Colarossi
According to pool reports, for the second weekend in a row, Donald Trump departed the White House on Saturday morning to take another taxpayer-funded trip to his golf club in Sterling, Virginia.
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The report also added that Trump’s new best friend, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, was also accompanying the president – after the GOP senator lied this week about Trump shooting 73 “in windy and wet conditions.”
As the NBC News tracker calculates, Trump’s latest visit to his club in Virginia marks the 72nd day of his presidency he is spending on a golf course and the 92nd time day he is visiting one of his own properties. In total, Trump has been in office for 267 days.
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According to some quick, back-of-the-napkin math, that means that Trump has spent 27 percent of his presidency golfing and more than a third at one of his ritzy properties.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are now at risk of seeing their health care obliterated, Puerto Rico continues to recover from a devastating storm, the Iran nuclear agreement has been abandoned by the U.S., California wildfires are still raging – and, by the way, there have been no steps taken by the White House or Congress to prevent another Las Vegas-style mass shooting from happening again.
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Read it all at: http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/14/golfer-in-chief-trump-spent-27-presidency-golf.html
"Pucker up, America!"
Meet Doug Jones for US Senate. Democrat Doug Jones!
Abortion clearly a 'difficult issue' for Alabama Democrats as Doug Jones pushes pro-choice stance
Can we overcome THIS? If Doug Jones is our next US Senator from Alabama, THIS changes EVERYTHING!Source: al.com, by John Sharp
"The fact that Democrats put so much emphasis on abortion has to be one of the worst branding mistakes in the last 50 years," he said.
Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/10/post_114.html#incart_river_home?li_source=base&li_medium=default-widget
"Mr. Robot" 3.0, Wednesday, Oct 11, 10:00-9:00 CT
Where to next?
If reality truly is "in our heads" and we have "unreliable narrators" (see Season 2.0 and 2016 presidential election), where IS the "undo button?" 
Talking about mental health after mass shootings is a cop-out
Source: WaPo, Fareed!
“He was a sick man, a demented man,” said President Trump, trying to explain the latest mass shooting in the United States. We hear this view expressed routinely, after every new incident. But it is a dodge, a distortion of the facts and a cop-out as to the necessary response.
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Actually, the quick assumption of mental illness distorts the discussion. First, it smears people who do have mental disorders. Such people are not inherently highly prone to violence. They are more often victims of violence than perpetrators. And to the extent that some are violent, they are more likely to inflict harm on themselves. Mental-health issues are correlated to suicides far more closely than they are to homicides.
Second, turning immediately to the “sickness” of the shooter and piously calling for better mental-health care is, more often than not, an attempt to divert attention from the main issue: guns. (It’s also breathtakingly cynical because the politicians who use this rhetoric are typically the ones who also aim to cut funding for mental-health treatment.) Every conversation about gun deaths should begin by recognizing one blindingly clear fact about this problem — the United States is on its own planet. The gun-related death rate in the United States is 10 times that of other advanced industrial countries. Places such as Japan and South Korea have close to zero gun-related deaths in a year. The United States has around 30,000.
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Given the Second Amendment, America’s gun culture and the influence of the gun lobby, there isn’t any simple answer. But there are many small fixes that would make a big difference: universal background checks; restrictions on military-style weaponry (of which banning bump stocks would be a tiny first step); a ban on selling to people with a history of domestic violence or substance abuse. But first we have to stop the dodges and the diversions. When you consider America’s stubborn inaction in the face of this continuing and preventable epidemic of gun violence — I sometimes wonder if it is all of us Americans who are crazy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/talking-about-mental-health-after-mass-shootings-is-a-cop-out/2017/10/05/8c319ca4-aa13-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
"I'll be able to make sure that when you walk down the street in your inner city, or wherever you are, you're not gonna be shot. Your child isn't gonna be shot." - August 2016
"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored." - July 2016 at the Republican National Convention
"This chaos and violence will end, and it will end very, very quickly." - August 2016
"A Trump administration will end this long nightmare of violence." - Multiple speeches in November and December 2016
"We are going to build a border wall, enforce our laws, and keep our people safe. The chaos, the violence and the crime will come to an end - beginning in January of 2017." - October 2016
Blake: President Trump's pledge to end 'American carnage' remains unfulfilled
Congress misses deadline to fund program that covers 83,000 Alabama children
Source: al.com, by Amy Yurkanin
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) launched in 1997 and provides funding for children in families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but still struggle to afford coverage. In Alabama, the program is called ALL Kids and is administered through the Alabama Department of Public Health. For the past two years, 100 percent of the funding for ALL Kids has come from the federal government.
The program covers routine care, including check-ups and vaccinations, as well as prescriptions and hospital care. Services are provided at low or no cost for covered families. In Alabama, premiums range from $52 to $104 a year per child, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health website.
Cathy Caldwell, director of the Bureau of Children's Health Insurance Programs for the Alabama Department of Public Health:
"I certainly worry about families' anxieties worrying about the future of the program," Caldwell said. "There is an urgent need to reauthorize funding."
Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/congress_misses_deadline_to_fu.html#incart_river_home?li_source=base&li_medium=default-widget
Preventing Mass Shootings Like the Vegas Strip Attack
Source: New York Times, by Nicholas Kristof
But in every other sphere, we at least use safety regulations to try — however imperfectly — to reduce death and injury.
The gun lobby will say that this isn’t a time for politics. But if we can’t learn the lesson from this carnage, then there will be more such shootings — again and again. This is a particularly American tragedy and completely unnecessary.
So let’s mourn. But even more important, let’s act.
Read it all at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/opinion/mass-shooting-vegas.html
9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress JUST LET IT EXPIRE.
While we fretted about OUR insurance, they whacked our kid's insurance!
Source: Washington Post, by Valerie Strauss
Congress just allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children, to expire.
If action is not taken soon to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, immunizations, visits when sick and other services.
The program, created under a 1997 law passed with bipartisan support during the administration of President Bill Clinton, provided coverage for children in families with low and moderate incomes as well as to pregnant women. It was instrumental in lowering the percentage of children who were uninsured from nearly 14 percent when it started to 4.5 percent in 2015. It was last reauthorized in 2015 and was due to be renewed by Sept. 30, 2017.
Amid unsuccessful efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the Republican-led Congress allowed the CHIP deadline to pass without action.
The program was primarily funded by the federal government, with states paying a good deal less. States still have some CHIP money available, but if Congress does not act quickly to restore the program, they will start to run out. Several states and the District of Columbia are expected to drain CHIP funding by the end of this year and many more by March 2018, according to this government report.
Read the rest at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/01/9-million-kids-get-health-insurance-under-chip-congress-just-let-it-expire/?utm_term=.9c8ec74e0e61
Trump to attend Presidents Cup golf tournament Sunday
Source: The Hill, by Brandon Carter
Trump is scheduled to arrive at the course this afternoon and will participate in the trophy presentation at 6 p.m. Several former presidents attended the tournament this week, including Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Trump has spent the weekend at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
Read it all at: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353320-trump-heading-to-presidents-cup-golf-tournament-sunday
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