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.@FLOTUS Melania Trump will travel to OK, WA & NV next week to promote her initiative #BeBest.
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thegoose
(3,115 posts)Jesus.
hlthe2b
(102,561 posts)and her refusal to call him on HIS bullying and incivility.
Peaceful, for sure, but send a message. Grow a spine or go slithering back to your self-absorbed penthouse.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Puleeease...
The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)I don't want to pay for stupidity.
athena
(4,187 posts)the deterioration of the English language.
Be best? Seriously?
You can say, Be better or Be the best. But Be best is not English.
fierywoman
(7,707 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so tired of the dumbing down of America.
Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)Where are all the repug 'english only' xenophobes, while this damn foreigner is running around butchering the language using an official policy program?
bif
(22,829 posts)As a joke. WTF!? Learn how to speak English for god's sake!
Wounded Bear
(58,792 posts)athena
(4,187 posts)Protect the English Language: Reclaim the Definite Article!
fierywoman
(7,707 posts)maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)I'm going to guess Microsoft.
I'm going to guess that it is not going to be anywhere near a place where protests could muster. Private property campus.
The best shot is to line the likely roads her motorcade will take.
Wounded Bear
(58,792 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Weird that she is coming here at all.
Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)fierywoman
(7,707 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Too late Melania. You have lost every scrap of respectability you might have possibly ever had. It's gone for good.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,563 posts)From CDC:
70,237 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2017. The age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths increased significantly by 9.6% from 2016 (19.8 per 100,000) to 2017 (21.7 per 100,000). Opioidsmainly synthetic opioids (other than methadone)are currently the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Opioids were involved in 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017 (67.8% of all drug overdose deaths).
In 2017, the states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (57.8 per 100,000), Ohio (46.3 per 100,000), Pennsylvania (44.3 per 100,000), the District of Columbia (44.0 per 100,000), and Kentucky (37.2 per 100,000).
States with statistically significant increases in drug overdose death rates from 2016 to 2017 included Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
Hmmm. No mention of OK, WA, & NV.
JuJuYoshida
(2,217 posts)jmowreader
(50,601 posts)This outfit seems to make software mostly for children. That suggests its one of the hundreds of very small, innovative companies in the Puget Sound area.