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$17 for a fried chicken biscuit? Someone needs to get this guy to a Popeyes.
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$17 for a fried chicken biscuit? Someone needs to get this guy to a Popeyes.
zbhargrove
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I personally just want to know what a mother and child reunion is
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
"MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION
18
buttermilk fried chicken, jalapeno gravy, homestead grits, scrambled egg
"
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
bringing the ring wing pundits and right wing twitter stuff here isn't multi tasking bro
even if you don't get the irony in doing so while calling others seals lol
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The House is poised to vote Tuesday on nearly $40 billion in additional aid for Ukraine as the country battles Russia’s brutal invasion, now in its third month.
The package of military, economic and humanitarian support, which is $7 billion more than the $33 billion President Biden requested, will probably be approved on a bipartisan vote, with the Senate expected to follow suit as early as this week.
Congress provided $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine this year, meaning that if the latest package is passed, lawmakers will have approved a total of more than $50 billion in aid.
In remarks on the House floor Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) repeatedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “coward,” described the aid package as “an act of mercy” and cast the war in Ukraine as one on which the future of global democracy hinges.
“We should all be very proud that we had the opportunity when Putin decided — whatever it is he decided — to be brutal and cruel and a coward, that we were there to help," Pelosi said. "It’s about democracy versus a dictatorship. Democracy must prevail. The Ukrainian people are fighting the fight for their democracy and, in doing so, for ours as well.”
According to a summary provided by the House Appropriations Committee, the package includes nearly $15 billion in military equipment, training, intelligence support and salaries for Ukraine’s national security forces; nearly $14 billion in programs administered by the Department of State, such as humanitarian support for Ukrainian refugees and the planned return of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv; and $5 billion devoted to addressing the issue of global food insecurity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ed-approve-additional-40-billion-aid-ukraine/
The package of military, economic and humanitarian support, which is $7 billion more than the $33 billion President Biden requested, will probably be approved on a bipartisan vote, with the Senate expected to follow suit as early as this week.
Congress provided $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine this year, meaning that if the latest package is passed, lawmakers will have approved a total of more than $50 billion in aid.
In remarks on the House floor Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) repeatedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “coward,” described the aid package as “an act of mercy” and cast the war in Ukraine as one on which the future of global democracy hinges.
“We should all be very proud that we had the opportunity when Putin decided — whatever it is he decided — to be brutal and cruel and a coward, that we were there to help," Pelosi said. "It’s about democracy versus a dictatorship. Democracy must prevail. The Ukrainian people are fighting the fight for their democracy and, in doing so, for ours as well.”
According to a summary provided by the House Appropriations Committee, the package includes nearly $15 billion in military equipment, training, intelligence support and salaries for Ukraine’s national security forces; nearly $14 billion in programs administered by the Department of State, such as humanitarian support for Ukrainian refugees and the planned return of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv; and $5 billion devoted to addressing the issue of global food insecurity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ed-approve-additional-40-billion-aid-ukraine/
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The House on Tuesday approved nearly $40 billion in additional aid for Ukraine as the country battles Russia’s brutal invasion, now in its third month.
The package of military, economic and humanitarian support, which is $7 billion more than the $33 billion President Biden requested, was approved on a bipartisan vote of 368-to-57, with the Senate expected to follow suit this week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday afternoon that he spoke with Biden last week and asked that the Ukraine package move “by itself and quickly.”
“It needs to be clean of extraneous matters directly related to helping the Ukrainians win the war,” McConnell told reporters.
Exiting their respective party lunches Tuesday afternoon, Senate Democrats and Republicans each expressed a measure of optimism that both chambers of Congress could act to send a bill to Biden’s desk by the end of the week.
Recounting the Democratic gathering, where Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova spoke, Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters that lawmakers heard a “heartfelt and easy-to-understand message.”
“People are dying, they’re running out of supplies and ammunition [and] they need our help quickly,” he said of Markarova’s message. He noted that the top diplomat told Democrats, “Thank you and speed it up.”
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he thought that the Senate could vote “as early as the end of the week,” noting that at one point, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) “were talking by phone in the middle of the lunch, so I think it was really being negotiated.”
Republicans offered a similarly hopeful note. Sen. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), the top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Appropriations Committee, described the talks as “really, really close; we’re on the right track.”
“Let’s see what the House does,” he said. “If it’s good and palatable . . . we’ll take it. But we gotta see.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ed-approve-additional-40-billion-aid-ukraine/
The package of military, economic and humanitarian support, which is $7 billion more than the $33 billion President Biden requested, was approved on a bipartisan vote of 368-to-57, with the Senate expected to follow suit this week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday afternoon that he spoke with Biden last week and asked that the Ukraine package move “by itself and quickly.”
“It needs to be clean of extraneous matters directly related to helping the Ukrainians win the war,” McConnell told reporters.
Exiting their respective party lunches Tuesday afternoon, Senate Democrats and Republicans each expressed a measure of optimism that both chambers of Congress could act to send a bill to Biden’s desk by the end of the week.
Recounting the Democratic gathering, where Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova spoke, Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters that lawmakers heard a “heartfelt and easy-to-understand message.”
“People are dying, they’re running out of supplies and ammunition [and] they need our help quickly,” he said of Markarova’s message. He noted that the top diplomat told Democrats, “Thank you and speed it up.”
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he thought that the Senate could vote “as early as the end of the week,” noting that at one point, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) “were talking by phone in the middle of the lunch, so I think it was really being negotiated.”
Republicans offered a similarly hopeful note. Sen. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), the top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Appropriations Committee, described the talks as “really, really close; we’re on the right track.”
“Let’s see what the House does,” he said. “If it’s good and palatable . . . we’ll take it. But we gotta see.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ed-approve-additional-40-billion-aid-ukraine/
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goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
You posting the same picture you always post after it’s pointed out you just regurgitate right wing stuff here
And don’t see the irony lol
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Russian troops in Ukraine are shipping wheat and other produce critical to the Ukrainian economy to Crimea, the country’s officials alleged, adding to a list of their grievances against Russian occupying forces in some of Ukraine’s most agriculturally rich regions.
The military administration of the Zaporizhzhia region said that a column of Russian trucks loaded with Ukrainian grain had left the occupied town of Enerhodar on Tuesday with a Russian military escort. They said it was bound for the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The administration also said that vegetables and sunflower seeds are being taken.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrain...ealing-its-grain-11652265021?mod=hp_lead_pos7
An added justification for turning over the money in frozen Russian accounts to Ukraine.
The military administration of the Zaporizhzhia region said that a column of Russian trucks loaded with Ukrainian grain had left the occupied town of Enerhodar on Tuesday with a Russian military escort. They said it was bound for the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The administration also said that vegetables and sunflower seeds are being taken.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrain...ealing-its-grain-11652265021?mod=hp_lead_pos7
An added justification for turning over the money in frozen Russian accounts to Ukraine.
