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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Wounded Warrior Project's CEO and COO fired for grifting
Americans donate hundreds of millions of dollars each year to the charity, expecting their money will help some of the 52,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But CBS News found Wounded Warrior Project spends 40 to 50 percent on overhead, including extravagant parties. Other veterans charities have overhead costs of 10 to 15 percent
Wounded Warrior Project’s Chief Executive Officer, Steven Nardizzi, and Chief Operating Officer, Al Giordano, were fired after a meeting Thursday afternoon in New York.
GOP donors pushing Condoleezza Rice to run independent campaign
Maybe he's been going to the history lessons the Koch Brothers are trying to push into schools
Same here, even my mother - who has pretty much been a lifelong Republican - considers a Trump presidency to be the worst non-Act-Of-God thing that could happen to this country.
Hasn't stopped her from calling my sister an idiot for thinking that Clinton has any business being within a hundred mile radius of the Oval Office, mind you, but at least she realizes that the Tea Party has been writing reality checks that they can't cash no matter how loudly they scream at the teller.
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.@Smoot-Hawley tariff: In general, it certainly didn't cause the Great Depression, although it did make things somewhat worse.
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I thought that Carson might take a forty-year nap after quitting the race.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"California To Permit Medically Assisted Suicide As Of June 9.
Cali has been moving forward with stuff lately, it seems. Not having to bicker about budgets does help, I guess? Let's hope their new smoking law doesn't turn into a joke like the age of consent there is, if memory serves.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanCalifornia is bound by something called Proposition 13, which mandates a 2/3rds majority to pass any tax increases. Back when they had partisan districting, there were enough GOP in the statehouse that they could essentially stonewall any tax hikes, which then paralyzed the state. After the state switched to a non-partisan districting board, the state-level GOP collapsed and they've been able to function again.
Which is unfortunate, as it helps reinforce the message that one-party domination is the only way to get anything done in this country, but there it is.
Should be interesting to see how that fares in the courts, because you know the hard-line Pro-Lifers are going to be all over that.
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Unfortunately, with the current crop of Republicans and what happened over the past six years... one-party domination has become the only way to get anything done in this country. It's unfortunate, not because it is a misconception, but because it is true.

Regarding Iran, I think that the best strategy for the US is to go to them like we're going to Cuba. Stop treating them like a part of the "Axis of Evil" that was purely a Bush invention to begin with and reach out to a country that's primed for greater rapproachment with the West. Accept that they're not fully democratic and don't require that of them.
That'll do more than anything else to weaken the excessive power of the Revolutionary Guards and other more rotten groups within the Iranian state, particularly as the revolutionary generation are dying off.