in the senate only represents one third of the us population. Its even more dismal if you factor in how many voters that actually is..

The Republicans’ new talking point, unveiled yesterday by Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, in an appearance on ABC News’ This Week, is that a bipartisan approach to enacting the stimulus package is important because Republican senators “represent half the American population.”

Now, that didn’t sound right, given that most of America’s big states have two Democratic senators. So I did a quick-and-dirty calculation of how many Americans the senators in each party represent, assuming that each senator represents all of the people in his or her state and that the currently open Senate seats (like Delaware, Illinois, and New York) will be filled by someone from the same party. And what you find, if you do the math, is that Republican senators actually represent about thirty-seven per cent of Americans.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/james-surowiecki/how-many-voters-do-senators-represent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/irma-hurricane-florida-cuba-dolphins-cayo-guillermo-island-cienfuegos-a7937596.html

Irma: Cuba airlifts dolphins to safety from deadly hurricane

Officials move mammals to aquarium in south of country before historic storm rips across north

Je suis français-américain et j'habite aux états-unis depuis 25 ans. Je n'utilise pas le français écrit ou parlé régulièrement, mon épouse est américaine, mes enfants aussi et ils ne parlent pas le Français couramment.

Par conséquent, je me rends compte que j'ai perdu l'habitude d'écrire avec les accents placés correctement. Non seulement ça, j'ai aussi des difficultés à m'exprimer spontanément dans ma langue natale.

Cela m'inquiète beaucoup. Lorsque je visite en France et que je suis en famille, j'hésite pendant quelque jours avant de pouvoir facilement trouver mes mots. Si je rentrais en France pour une offre d'emploi, je ne suis pas sur que je serais capable de m'exprimer dans le language "business" français. Toute ma carrière s'est faite aux états-unis, je ne connais pas du tout le jargon français dans mon domaine professionnel.

Avez vous rencontré des problèmes similaire ?

Pour ce qui est des accents sur le mac:

•Acute Accent ( é ): Press “e” while holding the “option” key, take your finger off the option key then press “e” again.

•Grave Accent ( à, è, ù ): Press ” ` ” while holding down the “option” key, then press either “a”, “e” or “u”. to put a Grave accent above the appropriate letter.

•Cedilla ( ç ): Simply press “c” while holding down the “option” key.

•Circumflex ( â, ê, î, ô, ü ): Press “i” while holding down “option”, then press either “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” or “u”.

•Tréma ( ë, ï, ü ): Press “u” while holding down “option”, then press either “e”, “i” or “u”.

•OE Ligature ( œ ): Simply press “q” while holding down the “option” key.

Rachel is discussing eugenics laws, most notably the one passed in 1924. Jeff Session openly said he favored that and that it was good for america at that time.

Now, of course the same kind of thinking (eugenics) is what the nazis used to justify their massacre of jews, gypsies, gays, etc..

We were pretty fucked up back in 1924 and apparently its coming back with a vengeance pushed by Trump and his ilk.