Mediocre, journeyman basketball player.
Nothing noteworthy about his life...UNTIL...he came out as gay.
Not good enough to make the cut in the NFL, but his gayness makes him one of the men of the year.
Posted on 05/13/2015 5:08:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
“Hrs ago, Republicans chose 2 cut Some of The meager Funds, 4 AMTRAK!!” Cher tweeted.
“They did this EVEN AFTER the Train Crash & loss of Life, last nite!!” she said.
“Majority of GOP congressmen & senators don’t give a flying Fk about the wellbeing of Americans,” Cher said in a separate tweet. “They defund Everything PPL DESPERATELY NEED.”
Cher’s remarks followed Northeast Regional Train 188’s derailment in Philadelphia late Tuesday.
The House hit Amtrak with reductions Wednesday as part of a $55 billon funding bill for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.
The GOP-sponsored measure shrinks Amtrak’s available cash to $1.13 billion, down from roughly $1.4 billion Congress appropriated in 2015.
Democrats argued Wednesday the maneuver exposed Republican insensitivity towards Tuesday night’s accident.
“Last night, we failed them,” Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said of Train 188’s victims.
“We failed to invest in their safety,” he said. “We failed to make their safety our priority.”
“It defies the interests of the American people,” he added.
Republicans countered that Democrats were politicizing a tragedy without fully understanding its cause.
“I was disappointed to hear my colleague talk about the funding for Amtrak and to suggest that because we haven’t funded it, that’s what caused the accident, when you have no idea what caused the accident,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) of Israel’s remarks.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators announced Wednesday that Train 188’s engineer had tried using its emergency brakes.
That measure failed, the agency argued, given the train was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour.
The Federal Railroad Administration lists the speed limit for the section of track where the crash occurred as 50 miles per hour.
Tuesday’s derailment killed seven passengers and wounded at least 140 more.
Question.....did this driver always take that corner at over 100mph? why did he do it that night?
lol. He/she/it was on Dancing with the Stars, no? they have every freak that comes aong on there.
Next on dancing witht the Stars...Chicks with .....
Cher is about as dumb as a brick. Sonny Bono once said that Cher thought the moon and the sun were one in the same.
Thanks for your input Cher, you stupid tramp.
Cher-head.
Cher dropped out of school when she was 16. Another Hollyweird genius heard from.
The guy was speeding and the fix for this is more funding?
That's redundant.
“Who is Cher?”
She’s a washed-up cherhead.
Cher should donate blood.
All of it.
more funding or more psyche testing for homo train drivers?
The first night that Chaz was on DWTS was the last show the wife and I watched.
the derailment was in Democrat Held Territory , D’oh
When liberals ‘fast-track’ mentally ill people into positions where they hold the lives of others in their hands, people die. History shows that.
His mental condition is ABSOLUTELY fair game.
BUMP
When they had the 14 year old girl on, that did it for me
Mediocre, journeyman basketball player.
Nothing noteworthy about his life...UNTIL...he came out as gay.
Not good enough to make the cut in the NFL, but his gayness makes him one of the men of the year.
The fact of the matter is that Amtrak had already committed to installing an automated train braking system on that segment of line -- and the funding was in place to do it.
It was scheduled to be done later this year ... and it was mandated under an act of Congress back in 2008 (that was under the Bush administration, folks) that established a 2015 deadline for the systems to be installed.
In the immortal words of radio legend Don Imus ... I'm guessing Cher didn't make these comments on her way home from a Mensa meeting.
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