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The Iowa Democrats should just decide to make Trump their party leader and get this troublesome ballot counting over, lol.

What. A. Cock-up!

Anybody hear from Iowa?

Paper please...

My next step with my discrimination complaint is in the mail system as of this afternoon.

It should reach the human rights commission Tuesday or Wednesday.

It's short, and so is the summary it starts with:

Summary of Complaint

The ministere du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale actively discourages doctors from finding people to have a long-term handicap.

My former ophthalmologist refused to fill in the forms, saying that “Quebec would laugh at him.”

This has deprived me of training to adapt to my current circumstances, job placement and employer assistance for an adapted work station, and disability payments. It has also deprived me of the chance to earn a living, and the economic and mental benefits that would have accrued.

In the body of the complaint, I go into more detail (but not too much more, don't want to bore them with details they don't need to initiate a proceeding).

I have discussed this with others in similar situations, so I know my case is not the only one. The ministere actively discourages handicapped people from receiving the help and benefits we’re entitled to by actively discouraging doctors to make such determinations, and this is discrimination by both the doctors and the ministre based on a handicap.

The doctor has already been found by the CUISS ombudsman to have discriminated against me in another matter, based on my gender identity, continually misgendering me as a man to a student in my presence, even though all my legal documentation (birth certificate, medicare card, hospital card, etc) clearly states that I am a woman.

For those who say I shouldn't go after the doctor as well, I've considered that, and here are my reasons for including him and a second doctor in my complaint:

1. If he had obeyed the law and filled in the paperwork as required, none of this would be necessary.

2. He admitted to that which he was caught dead to rights at, but nothing else.

He doesn't know that there's proof of two other things I had complained to the hospital about, and I'm pretty sure that this will be fairly easy to bring out at a public hearing.

3. If I only go after the ministry, they will just blame the doctor. If I just go after the doctor, he will just blame the ministry. So, "shoot them all and let god sort it out."

Let each one blame the other, and let the tribunal decide how to apportion blame and financial responsibility.

4. I am probably not the only one, so the right thing to do is find others who have been screwed over. That requires publicity.

That is why I included this:

It may prove beneficial to launch an inquiry into how many people have experienced the same discrimination. I will be taking steps over the next few weeks to locate others who have encountered similar discrimination.

They should receive it in the mail sometime this week, and in another week I'll email copies of the complaint to the media.

The 2010s have been the worst year of my life. I don't intend to let history repeat itself if I can help it.

And for all you haters who say I shouldn't do this, you have yet to give a single valid reason why. So screw off.

In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention.

Oh, we don't call them "superdelegates" anymore. Now they are "automatic delegates".

The party doesn't have to worry. Sanders isn't a threat. The DNC can count the votes any way they want, and nobody will say boo

Oh, almost forgot

Now that Trump isn't going to be impeached, he has a good chance of winning the 2020 election. Canada has seen a large influx of refugees crossing illegally into the country from the USA. I expect that a Trump win in 2020 will only cause that to increase.

Anyone can cross over the border illegally (but not at regular border crossings) and claim refugee status. Most are accepted after an initial screening.

You might say "Why not at a regular border crossing?" That's because we have a treaty with the US that considers the US to be a "safe country", so you are required to make your refugee claim in the first country you arrive in.

But ilegal crossers? No problem, as this news article explains.

We've spent well over a $billion accommodating illegal immigrants from the US since 2016. I expect to see some minority groups to make refugee claims after Trump is re-elected.

Latinx, black, lgbt ... these are the groups most likely to continue to experience the sort of behaviour from others that would prompt a refugee claim that can't be dismissed out of hand.

But you have to actually be able to document that you have a reasonable fear for your safety. That's probably easiest for lgbt folks because there are bigots in all 50 states who are quite vocal.

The other options are legal immigration and marriage. Canada is experiencing a skilled labour shortage that has been going on for some time, and most provinces have programs to give preference to skilled workers willing to immigrate, even if the skill is just working in a restaurant (huge shortage of wait staff and other workers to the point that some restaurants can't even open new locations that they've already signed leases for).

Marriage ... well, that's going to draw closer scrutiny because too many foreign nationals have entered into marriages of convenience and then, once in the country, too bad so sad ... didn't work out.

I know two women who have gotten shafted that way, and it's not pretty.

But being trans, if I were in the Trump United States of Confusion, where the motto is "In Twitter We Trust", I'd be looking to get out too. The extreme polarization we've seen over the last 3 years will probably get a LOT worse.

The blame game still works like a charm.

Mrs. Clinton also drew a sharp distinction between her efforts in 2008 to bring the party together after her bruising primary battle with Barack Obama and the efforts by Mr. Sanders in 2016: "Night and day," she said.

Say whaaa?

Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun
Whether near me or far
It's no matter, darling, where you are
I think of you night and day, day and night

Sorry for the Times link

Which is the most worsest?

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Other, please specify in comments.

(Somehow I didn't think this one would work very well as an SN Pole question.)

SpaceX Starship just aced another explosive tank test and Elon Musk has the results [video]

SpaceX has successfully repaired a leak in a Starship prototype, filled the giant tank with an ultra-cold liquid, and pressurized it until it (spectacularly) popped — and Elon Musk has the preliminary results.

[...] Musk recently revealed that the new steel Starship and Super Heavy designs will require tanks pressures of at least 6 bar (90 psi) to survive the stresses of orbital flight.

[...] We’ll have to wait for dawn tomorrow to see the extent of the damage, but it appears that Test Tank #2’s demise was dramatically more violent than its predecessor — a largely expected side effect of performing the pressure test with a cryogenic liquid. In fact, just minutes after it appeared to fail, Elon Musk revealed that the second test tank had burst around 8.5 bar (~125 psi), soundly trouncing all records set by earlier tests and suggesting SpaceX is unequivocally ready to begin building the first orbital Starships. Critically, Musk had previously indicated that if Starship’s tanks could survive up to 8.5 bar, SpaceX would have the minimum safety margins it needs to deem Starship safe enough for astronauts.

SpaceX is ready to build the first Starship destined for space after latest tests

As Musk himself noted on Monday, he is now confident that SpaceX can immediately start building the first Starship destined for spaceflight and further revealed that two of that particular Starship’s three tank domes are already nearing completion.

Known as Starship SN01 (serial number 01), there’s a strong possibility that the massive spacecraft will never reach higher than a 20 km (12.5 mi) flight test SpaceX intends to perform. The company’s rapidly changing strategy may very well mean that SN01 – now ‘go’ for production – could also support suborbital spaceflight testing and maybe even the first orbital Starship launch, although orbital launches will require a Super Heavy booster. Elon Musk, for one, has already christened Starship SN01 an “orbital vehicle”.

And then they complain about democracy

What a bunch of whiners!

But to tell the truth, I think the story is bullshit. Somebody in trying move in with something much worse, but to make the sale, people have to be convinced that what they have is no good.

Democracy has but one flaw, the voters. Until that is acknowledged, well, don't expect much progress on the matter.

Edit:

On a related note: Why do "liberals" cling to "The true, grim, face of the Democratic establishment."? I mean, there's Podesta, still got a job. Maybe because they're not liberals, but merely democrats? And why would anyone vote for that when they have republicans? SNAFU!

If you do, you may find this interesting.

Russian intelligence sources have claimed that Michael D’Andrea, head of CIA operations in Iran and who orchestrated the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US spy plane downed yesterday in Ghazni, Afghanistan.

Is it true? Who knows?

Don't leave anything important behind for the enemy to pick up

Don't know if anybody really cares, but our little adventure over there is costing us 250 million dollars a day.