“READERS FORUM” MARCH 02, 2019

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We hope that today’s “READERS FORUM” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

WHAT”S ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

Todays “Readers Poll” question is: If your an elected official and someone gives your campaign $500,000 what do you feel they expect you to do from them?

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22 COMMENTS

  1. The wording of your poll question and answers is like the old gotcha “do you still beat your wife?”.

  7. Not a word mentioned about the old CVS building at 800 N Main at this mornings ERC meeting.

  8. Here’s how liberal Democrats get rid of toxic male masculinity. You just can’t make this up.
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    Men’s cuddling group aims to redefine masculinity and heal trauma

    The two-year-old group draws men from various backgrounds: a 37-year-old Mormon who works as an airport gate agent, a 57-year-old married father of three, a 62-year-old retiree. There is a range of sexual orientations…

    “So often, we’re taught that to be an emotional stoic is the mark of manhood,” said Scott Turner, a 46-year-old interior designer and cofounder of the group. “If you show any emotional weakness or vulnerability, that’s a failure to your title of a man.”

    But “if we expect men to be emotionally sensitive to the needs of others, they first need to be able to build an emotional vocabulary,” he said.

    Part of that involves learning that physical touch extends beyond aggression or sex. Platonic affection can be a doorway to emotional closeness….

    At the beginning of the session, everyone agreed not to engage in sexual touch and to ask for consent before each action. They gathered in a huddle and breathed meditatively.

    The cuddling started with men pairing up to do “the motorcycle hold,” in which one man sits with his back against another man’s chest, as if they were riding together on a motorcycle. Some massaged their partner’s shoulders or hands, while others stroked the other person’s beard. Many closed their eyes as the room fell into silence. After 15 minutes, they switched to a new partner.

    For the second half of the session, the men cuddled as one large group in what they call a “puppy pile.” Men lay with their heads in each other’s laps, chatted, and joked.

    https://www.philly.com/health/men-cuddling-group-healing-trauma-mental-health-20190325.html

    At a time when traditional ideas of manhood are facing scrutiny and such terms as toxic masculinity are becoming more widely known through the MeToo movement, the group aims to provide new ways for men to express themselves.

    “So often, we’re taught that to be an emotional stoic is the mark of manhood,” said Scott Turner, a 46-year-old interior designer and cofounder of the group. “If you show any emotional weakness or vulnerability, that’s a failure to your title of a man.”

    But “if we expect men to be emotionally sensitive to the needs of others, they first need to be able to build an emotional vocabulary,” he said.

    Part of that involves learning that physical touch extends beyond aggression or sex. Platonic affection can be a doorway to emotional closeness.

  9. Now the tree company that cut down the Bicentennial Tree is claiming Rector is using them as the scapegoat. Will the CCO have anything on this?

  10. NEWSFLASH concerning the DOJ that Obama weaponized against political opponents:

    FISA shocker: DOJ official warned Steele dossier was connected to Clinton, might be biased

    The then-senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official briefed both senior FBI and DOJ officials in summer 2016 about Christopher Steele’s Russia dossier, explicitly cautioning that the British intelligence operative’s work was opposition research connected to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and might be biased.

    Ohr’s briefings, in July and August 2016, included the deputy director of the FBI, a top lawyer for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and a Justice official who later would become the top deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller.

    At the time, Ohr was the associate deputy attorney general. Yet his warnings about political bias were pointedly omitted weeks later from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that the FBI obtained from a federal court, granting it permission to spy on whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to hijack the 2016 presidential election.

    Ohr’s activities, chronicled in handwritten notes and congressional testimony I gleaned from sources, provide the most damning evidence to date that FBI and DOJ officials may have misled federal judges in October 2016 in their zeal to obtain the warrant targeting Trump adviser Carter Page just weeks before Election Day.

    They also contradict a key argument that House Democrats have made in their formal intelligence conclusions about the Russia case.

    The FBI claimed it was “unaware of any derogatory information” about Steele, that Steele was “never advised … as to the motivation behind the research” but that the FBI “speculates” that those who hired Steele were “likely looking for information to discredit” Trump’s campaign.

    Yet, in testimony last summer to congressional investigators, Ohr revealed the FBI and Justice lawyers had no need to speculate: He explicitly warned them in a series of contacts, beginning July 31, 2016, that Steele expressed biased against Trump and was working on a project connected to the Clinton campaign.

    Ohr had firsthand knowledge about the motive and the client: He had just met with Steele on July 30, 2016, and Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS, the same firm employing Steele.

    “I certainly told the FBI that Fusion GPS was working with, doing opposition research on Donald Trump,” Ohr told congressional investigators, adding that he warned the FBI that Steele expressed bias during their conversations….

    The memo from Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) team claimed that Ohr’s contacts with the FBI only began “weeks after the election and more than a month after the Court approved the initial FISA application.”

    But Ohr’s testimony now debunks that claim, making clear he started talking to FBI and DOJ officials well before the FISA warrant or election had occurred.

    And his detailed answers provide a damning rebuttal to the FBI’s portrayal of the Steele material.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/425739-fisa-shocker-doj-official-warned-steele-dossier-was-connected-to-clinton

    • It looks people not named Trump will face criminal charges, including perjury. What arrogance by the deep state.

    • How the worm has turned! RR must be in mourning, with all the nonsense he was posting about from the Daily Kos.

  12. Just saw on the Courier site that there will not be an Indiana Firebirds indoor football team at the Ford Center. At least they will not be a drain like the Dunderbolts hockey team.

    • Looks like the Courier is somewhat late about this issue. We have been warning our readers about the bad financial situation of the NGF for several months.

      Editor

  13. They finally admitted indoor football won’t be played at the Ford Center. Will Scott Schoenike finally recognize the CCO was right all along?

  14. When are you going to post something about the many changes to the local casino? Needed maintenance cut back, many personnel layoffs (18 more last Saturday), loss of high rollers to French Lick and Horseshoe across from New Albany, restaurant price increases, comp reductions, gift giveaways cheapened, buffet being closed two days a week, deli operations reduced, Trop Advantage Center unmanned, electronic games not requiring employees (dealers being installed).

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