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From Sally Jenkins' column on

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:23:49 +0000

In reply to LeBron James in a presser in

From sportswriter and frequent contrarian Sally Jenkins' column on the Ingraham-James dustup, because this part includes information about Ingraham I did not know.

James and Ingraham are capable of a more interesting conversation than they are showing, and you wish they would have it: Ingraham has invited him on her show, and it wouldn’t be beneath him to accept. It would be a heck of a prize fight, and they might even discover that they have a little more in common than they suspected. Ingraham is not some wilting vanilla creature of privilege, though she was educated at Dartmouth. Her mother was a waitress, and her grandparents were Polish immigrants. She’s a single working mother with three small children — a daughter she adopted from Guatemala and two sons from Russia. Whatever you think of her views, she knows what it is to be an outsider, and she’s got guts: she had to have them to break through the all-male shock jock culture of radio, and build an audience in the many millions, an audience James seems ignorant or dismissive of.

link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/lebron-james-and-laura-ingraham-sh...

Jenkins has been trying to promote dialog among folks who mistrust or don't like one another. She was among those who a few months back were urging the NBA basketball champion Golden State Warriors to visit Trump in the White House, to attempt some sort of dialog. The Warriors, following internal discussion, were suggesting they would not go or were disinclined to do so, at which point Trump made it clear there would be no invitation forthcoming.

America: Where the high

artappraiser — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:48:18 +0000

In reply to I watched the students

America: Where the high-schoolers act like leaders, and the leaders act like they're in high school.
— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) February 18, 2018

Translation of latest Trump

artappraiser — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:35:42 +0000

In reply to Seventeen killed in South Florida high school shooting

Translation of latest Trump tweet on topic as reported at The Hill: Dems could have saved these kids when they had power, but it's too late now, now they die! I've got nothing to do with this GOP Congress thing, not my problem either

Earlier: If you see something, kids, you gotta say something! Thumbs up for your law enforcement people, great people!.

LeBron will fuck her up on

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:36:36 +0000

In reply to LeBron James in a presser in

LeBron will fuck her up on and off the court.

Speak up & drive, Mr. James, speak up & drive. They're just whistling in the wind, it's all hollow.

AmericanDreamer mentioned her

barefooted — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:30:41 +0000

In reply to I watched the students

AmericanDreamer mentioned her speech earlier, but Emma Gonzalez at today's gun control rally was amazing. CNN's transcript includes this:

If the President wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I'm going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association.

You want to know something? It doesn't matter, because I already know. Thirty million dollars. And divided by the number of gunshot victims in the United States in the one and one-half months in 2018 alone, that comes out to being $5,800. Is that how much these people are worth to you, Trump? If you don't do anything to prevent this from continuing to occur, that number of gunshot victims will go up and the number that they are worth will go down. And we will be worthless to you.

I watched the students

CVille Dem — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:43:55 +0000

In reply to Seventeen killed in South Florida high school shooting

I watched the students speaking at the vigil, and I am struck by how much more articulate they are than the president, senators, journalists, and even parents. Yes, this may be the turning point. I sure hope so.

I've lost track of the number

artappraiser — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:23:37 +0000

In reply to I'm sure everyone's seen the

I've lost track of the number of mass shootings I've covered for @NYTNational in the last three years. Eight? Ten? More? I've never seen teenagers respond like this. pic.twitter.com/7uDYZTs5l0
— julieturkewitz (@julieturkewitz) February 17, 2018

LeBron James in a presser in

AmericanDreamer — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:13:59 +0000

In reply to You’re welcome.

LeBron James in a presser in connection with NBA all-star game weekend raised the obvious question of how a minor not of legal age to purchase alcohol can legally purchase an assault weapon.

In response to Laura Ingraham's invitation that he and Kevin Durant shut up and dribble, James said that he will definitely not shut up and dribble.

He gets my nomination for the Understatement of the Day when he said of Fox that : "I think the engine that she sits behind doesn't have a great rap sheet when it comes to race in our country, and things of that nature."

Florida governor Rick Scott's

AmericanDreamer — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:03:51 +0000

In reply to Trump blames the victims for

Florida governor Rick Scott's pass the buck move is to say FBI Director Wray should resign.

I'm sure there are Florida media outlets, maybe some national ones as well, looking into Scott's record on this issue.

Hallelujah - maybe the NRA

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:36:12 +0000

In reply to Prominent Republican Donor

Hallelujah - maybe the NRA will take a dive and be the toxic shits they've always strived for.