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More silliness from The House.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-require-donald-trump-undergo-034316134.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-require-donald-trump-undergo-034316134.html
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kkwd said:
Reminds me of something Oscar Levant said, "Jack Parr ( a TV host ) would occasionally refer to me as a nut. My wife became annoyed and said she wished he’d stop calling me that. I told her that I’d hate to have to go to court about it."
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Since the last few posts were so well thought out and replete with evidence of opinions I will lower the bar a bit - Robert Reich - you don't get much lower than that. He is at it again this time with a piece titled "Robert Reich: Enough Of This Madness. Trump Must Go Now". Now when he says stuff like this every week or so you just have to wonder when people will view him as just hot air and stop publishing his drivel.
http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-enough-madness-trump-must-go-now-652454
In an interview from November he was talking about the election saying there was no need to worry, Clinton would win. In that interview he said the following. Seems to me he has been doing what is in his opion traitorous on a regular basis. Seems he should take his own advice.
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/08/robert-reich-dont-worry-hillary-clinton-will-win-the-election/
http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-enough-madness-trump-must-go-now-652454
In an interview from November he was talking about the election saying there was no need to worry, Clinton would win. In that interview he said the following. Seems to me he has been doing what is in his opion traitorous on a regular basis. Seems he should take his own advice.
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/08/robert-reich-dont-worry-hillary-clinton-will-win-the-election/
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kkwd said:
Also the fact that "42 people have protection, a number that includes 18 members of his family. That's up from 31 during the Obama administration."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/21/exclusive-secret-service-out-of-money-to-pay-agents-because-of-trumps-frequent-travel-large-family.html
Officials had hoped that the agency's workload would normalize after the inauguration, but the president's frequent weekend trips, his family's business travel and the higher number of protectees has made that impossible.
Since his inauguration, Trump has taken seven trips to his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., traveled to his Bedminster, N.J., golf club five times and returned to Trump Tower in Manhattan once.
Trump's frequent visits to his "winter White House" and "summer White House" are especially challenging for the agency, which must maintain a regular security infrastructure at each – while still allowing access to paying members and guests.
Always costly in manpower and equipment, the president's jaunts to Mar-a-Lago are estimated to cost at least $3 million each, based on a General Accounting Office estimate for similar travel by former President Obama. The Secret Service has spent some $60,000 on golf cart rentals alone this year to protect Trump at both Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster.
The president, First Lady Melania Trump and the couple's youngest son Barron – who maintained a separate detail in Trump Tower until June – aren't the only ones on the move with full-time security details in tow.
Trump's other sons, Trump Organization executives Donald Jr. and Eric, based in New York, also are covered by security details including when they travel frequently to promote Trump-branded properties in other countries.
A few examples: Earlier this year, Eric Trump's business travel to Uruguay cost the Secret Service nearly $100,000 just for hotel rooms. Other trips included the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic. In February, both sons and their security details traveled to Vancouver for the opening of new Trump hotel there, and to Dubai to officially open a Trump International Golf Club.
In March, security details accompanied part of the family, including Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner on a skiing vacation in Aspen, Colo. Even Tiffany Trump, the president's youngest daughter, took vacation to international locales such as Germany and Hungary with her boyfriend, which also require Secret Service protection.
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kkwd said:
Ah, yes, Imran Awan and his fine family. This has actually been building for a few weeks, but largely ignored by MSM. HA Goodman, a "progressive" journalist who supported Jill Stein and then Bernie Sanders and despises the Clintons has been tracking this tale quite closely. You can see his videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDB5XReUyyqt-FTNdkzFN-A/videos. Other articles and videos can be found online, but his channel is sort of one-stop-shopping. I've only been following loosely, but waiting to see where it goes. Bill Still has also posted a few videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/bstill3/videos.
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Seems Trump is inspired by Baldrick's many cunning plans. He used the cover of the hurricane to cover some White House announcements. Don't they know Trump by now, he doesn't need to use anything for cover, he will announce anything anytime he chooses. But it did come from Chuck Shumer, he needs to keep himself in the news cycle since the Democrat party is wasting away right now.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/schumer-trump-announced-transgender-ban-arpaio-pardon-hurricanes/story?id=49432738
http://abcnews.go.com/US/schumer-trump-announced-transgender-ban-arpaio-pardon-hurricanes/story?id=49432738
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And the latest from the WH HR Newsletter: "Trump adviser Gorka is latest White House departure"
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Sounds like someone at the NRA needs a hug or something.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/26/nra-videos-warn-elites-were-coming-for.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/26/nra-videos-warn-elites-were-coming-for.html
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looks like a whole bunch of people need a hug. They toss the word racist around pretty freely. I would bet the word will lose all meaning soon when everybody is called it for some reason or other. Of course this piece is done modern style, no actual investigation and reporting, just twitter blather.
In a tweet from Debra Messing:
Celebs rip 'racist' and 'cowardly' Trump for pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/celebs-rip-apos-racist-apos-012611856.html
In a tweet from Debra Messing:
Celebs rip 'racist' and 'cowardly' Trump for pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/celebs-rip-apos-racist-apos-012611856.html
Just like celebs ripped 'racist' and 'cowardly' Obama for pardoning Puerto Rican terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera...
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/19/president-obamas-pardon-oscar-lopez-rivera-trades-terrorist-votes/
President Obama's Pardon of Oscar Lopez Rivera Trades a Terrorist for Votes
By Mike Gonzalez
January 19, 2017
In 1999, a year before Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate from New York and a decade and a half before emails helped destroy her presidential ambitions, an adviser to her husband’s administration sent an email about proposed pardons of imprisoned Puerto Rican terrorists.
The pardons would be “fairly easy to accomplish and will have a positive impact among strategic communities in the U.S. (read, voters),” wrote Mayra Martinez-Fernandez, an adviser to the White House Working Group for Puerto Rico, according Debra Burlingame in The Wall Street Journal. Get that? Voters. Clinton, to be sure, issued the pardons.
Communists celebrated the pardons then, just as they did yesterday from Canada to Colombia to Cuba when President Obama commuted yet another convicted Puerto Rican terrorist’s sentence. But Martinez-Fernandez’s email still holds the clue. The president’s action carries the same unavoidable whiff of playing identity politics with a key voting bloc of the Democratic Party. In fact, you have to go back to Lyndon Johnson to find the last Democratic president who, in his waning days in office, didn’t spring from prison a Puerto Rican convicted of terrorist acts.
The beneficiary of Obama’s commutation this time is Oscar Lopez Rivera. He’s no angel, but he’s being lionized as one - and not just by too many Puerto Ricans, but also by celebrities.
Terrorists Are So Awesome, You Guys
Typical is Lin-Manuel Miranda of “Hamilton” fame, who tweeted from London Tuesday that he was “sobbing with gratitude” after hearing the news. He promised he would reprise his signature role in a performance of the musical to be attended in Chicago by Lopez.
Also characteristic of Lopez hagiography is this article in the Daily Beast, which called Lopez “a political prisoner” and referred to his “anti-colonialist mission.” For the record, Puerto Rico has held no fewer than four referendums on its status. In the last one in 2012, more than 61 percent voted to ask to become a state, and less than 5.5 percent voted for independence.
Obama’s one-time friend Bill Ayers, himself a terrorist in the 1970s, tweeted out a celebratory “Oscar Lopez freed!” In the same tweet he asked for a posthumous pardon for executed Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg.
Miranda, at least, ought to know better. His support for Lopez sadly puts into stark relief the “Hamilton” cast’s dress-down of Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his daughters and niece when they attended “Hamilton” in December. Actor Brandon Victor-Dixon pompously lectured to Pence: “We, sir - we - are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights.”
Real alarm and anxiety is what Lopez’s group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, sowed through its nine-year campaign of terror through the United States. In one bomb attack in the busy Fraunces Tavern, in New York’s financial district in January 1975, it killed four people and injured 60, many maimed.
Votes Matter More than Justice
What was the FALN’s reason for creating all that suffering? It wanted to establish in Puerto Rico a Marxist republic, against, as we have seen through the referendums, the stated desire of the overwhelming majority of Puerto Ricans. Lopez, a community organizer in Chicago decades before our 44th president plied that trade in the same city, joined the FALN in 1974. He was a fugitive for five years before his arrest in 1981. Police discovered six pounds of dynamite in his Chicago apartment.
The editor of The Federalist, Ben Domenech, himself the scion of a well-known Puerto Rican political family, wrote Tuesday in The Transom that Lopez “recruited and trained a small army of terrorists to murder his fellow Americans. He built bomb factories. He taught the young and impressionable how to make devices that would kill and maim … When he was put on trial, he admitted to doing all he had been accused of – he showed no remorse.”
So why would Obama, with one foot out the door, pause to free this guy? We begin to get an inkling in Miranda’s gushing tweet, “Thank you, @POTUS.” Obama is but the third Democratic president to pardon Puerto Rican terrorists with the clock ticking.
In 1979, Jimmy Carter released from prison three Puerto Rican terrorists who shot at members of Congress from the House gallery in 1954, wounding five. In 1999 Bill Clinton pardoned 12 members of the FALN. In the words of The New York Times, they were serving long sentences for “sedition, possession of unregistered firearms, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, interference with interstate commerce by violence and interstate transportation of firearms with intent to commit a crime.”
Lopez was actually offered a pardon, too, but he refused it after President Clinton “demanded as one of the conditions of their release that the jailed Puerto Ricans renounce the use of terrorism to achieve their aim of independence for the Caribbean commonwealth.”
The news is that Lopez will go back to community organizing. But after almost four decades of playing politics with national security, this is one Democratic Party tradition America can do without.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, spent close to 20 years as a journalist, 15 of them reporting from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is the author of the new book, “A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans.”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/19/president-obamas-pardon-oscar-lopez-rivera-trades-terrorist-votes/
President Obama's Pardon of Oscar Lopez Rivera Trades a Terrorist for Votes
By Mike Gonzalez
January 19, 2017
In 1999, a year before Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate from New York and a decade and a half before emails helped destroy her presidential ambitions, an adviser to her husband’s administration sent an email about proposed pardons of imprisoned Puerto Rican terrorists.
The pardons would be “fairly easy to accomplish and will have a positive impact among strategic communities in the U.S. (read, voters),” wrote Mayra Martinez-Fernandez, an adviser to the White House Working Group for Puerto Rico, according Debra Burlingame in The Wall Street Journal. Get that? Voters. Clinton, to be sure, issued the pardons.
Communists celebrated the pardons then, just as they did yesterday from Canada to Colombia to Cuba when President Obama commuted yet another convicted Puerto Rican terrorist’s sentence. But Martinez-Fernandez’s email still holds the clue. The president’s action carries the same unavoidable whiff of playing identity politics with a key voting bloc of the Democratic Party. In fact, you have to go back to Lyndon Johnson to find the last Democratic president who, in his waning days in office, didn’t spring from prison a Puerto Rican convicted of terrorist acts.
The beneficiary of Obama’s commutation this time is Oscar Lopez Rivera. He’s no angel, but he’s being lionized as one - and not just by too many Puerto Ricans, but also by celebrities.
Terrorists Are So Awesome, You Guys
Typical is Lin-Manuel Miranda of “Hamilton” fame, who tweeted from London Tuesday that he was “sobbing with gratitude” after hearing the news. He promised he would reprise his signature role in a performance of the musical to be attended in Chicago by Lopez.
Also characteristic of Lopez hagiography is this article in the Daily Beast, which called Lopez “a political prisoner” and referred to his “anti-colonialist mission.” For the record, Puerto Rico has held no fewer than four referendums on its status. In the last one in 2012, more than 61 percent voted to ask to become a state, and less than 5.5 percent voted for independence.
Obama’s one-time friend Bill Ayers, himself a terrorist in the 1970s, tweeted out a celebratory “Oscar Lopez freed!” In the same tweet he asked for a posthumous pardon for executed Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg.
Miranda, at least, ought to know better. His support for Lopez sadly puts into stark relief the “Hamilton” cast’s dress-down of Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his daughters and niece when they attended “Hamilton” in December. Actor Brandon Victor-Dixon pompously lectured to Pence: “We, sir - we - are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights.”
Real alarm and anxiety is what Lopez’s group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, sowed through its nine-year campaign of terror through the United States. In one bomb attack in the busy Fraunces Tavern, in New York’s financial district in January 1975, it killed four people and injured 60, many maimed.
Votes Matter More than Justice
What was the FALN’s reason for creating all that suffering? It wanted to establish in Puerto Rico a Marxist republic, against, as we have seen through the referendums, the stated desire of the overwhelming majority of Puerto Ricans. Lopez, a community organizer in Chicago decades before our 44th president plied that trade in the same city, joined the FALN in 1974. He was a fugitive for five years before his arrest in 1981. Police discovered six pounds of dynamite in his Chicago apartment.
The editor of The Federalist, Ben Domenech, himself the scion of a well-known Puerto Rican political family, wrote Tuesday in The Transom that Lopez “recruited and trained a small army of terrorists to murder his fellow Americans. He built bomb factories. He taught the young and impressionable how to make devices that would kill and maim … When he was put on trial, he admitted to doing all he had been accused of – he showed no remorse.”
So why would Obama, with one foot out the door, pause to free this guy? We begin to get an inkling in Miranda’s gushing tweet, “Thank you, @POTUS.” Obama is but the third Democratic president to pardon Puerto Rican terrorists with the clock ticking.
In 1979, Jimmy Carter released from prison three Puerto Rican terrorists who shot at members of Congress from the House gallery in 1954, wounding five. In 1999 Bill Clinton pardoned 12 members of the FALN. In the words of The New York Times, they were serving long sentences for “sedition, possession of unregistered firearms, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, interference with interstate commerce by violence and interstate transportation of firearms with intent to commit a crime.”
Lopez was actually offered a pardon, too, but he refused it after President Clinton “demanded as one of the conditions of their release that the jailed Puerto Ricans renounce the use of terrorism to achieve their aim of independence for the Caribbean commonwealth.”
The news is that Lopez will go back to community organizing. But after almost four decades of playing politics with national security, this is one Democratic Party tradition America can do without.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, spent close to 20 years as a journalist, 15 of them reporting from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is the author of the new book, “A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans.”
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Jarnhamar said:Some very telling tweets from "Charitable Humans" about the hurricane in the US.
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You could have followed this a bit more and gone to the Charitable Humans website where they have completely disavowed the actions of their Facebook and Twitter coordinator. Both their Facebook and Twitter feed are off line now.
https://www.charitablehumans.ngo/were-horrified-by-our-twitter-actions/
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You could have followed this a bit more and gone to the Charitable Humans website where they have completely disavowed the actions of their Facebook and Twitter coordinator. Both their Facebook and Twitter feed are off line now.
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Of course they did, it would be even more suicidal not to post some half-assed apology. That's pretty much the standard isn't it? Say something insane over social media, get called out on it, mumble an apology and then wait for the storm to blow over. (did you read their whole apology, pretty lame even as far as lame apologies go)
Apologies mean nothing in this day and age, they're a dime a dozen.
What's important here, in my little opinion, is that a tax-exempt charitable company is calling for the incineration of US states that don't give with their political views. Sorry but that's really fucked up. Because some states are red they can piss off and die. It's a reflection of the US left-wing political views. I see them deleting their SM as more of a ass-covering and try to avoid fall out than some sense of wrong-doing.
These tweets are indicative of the US political left.
You could have followed this a bit more and gone to the Charitable Humans website where they have completely disavowed the actions of their Facebook and Twitter coordinator. Both their Facebook and Twitter feed are off line now.
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Of course they did, it would be even more suicidal not to post some half-assed apology. That's pretty much the standard isn't it? Say something insane over social media, get called out on it, mumble an apology and then wait for the storm to blow over. (did you read their whole apology, pretty lame even as far as lame apologies go)
Apologies mean nothing in this day and age, they're a dime a dozen.
What's important here, in my little opinion, is that a tax-exempt charitable company is calling for the incineration of US states that don't give with their political views. Sorry but that's really fucked up. Because some states are red they can piss off and die. It's a reflection of the US left-wing political views. I see them deleting their SM as more of a ass-covering and try to avoid fall out than some sense of wrong-doing.
These tweets are indicative of the US political left.
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Jarnhamar said:
That's a fairly cynical view of life.
My view is that the world is made up of a lot of good people and a given number of a**holes. In this case it appears to me that one a**hole made a really stupid tweet in the name of the organization for which he volunteers or works. Their action to take down the site and post and make an apology and get rid of the a**hole came quickly.
Unless you have proof that this organization (and not just the odd individual in it) has a history of this type of activity, I will give them the benefit of the doubt. (And I have to admit that I'm not generally a big fan of most charities where 85% of donations go to fundraising or administrative overhead--and I have absolutely no idea where on the scale this one stands)
The one thing I do agree with is that the posts themselves were completely unacceptable and the individual who put them up is a d***head..
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