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Why is it that US service personnel don't receive education and training to recognize traitors? Hero... Abraham Lincoln Traitor......Robert E. Lee Hero....Audie Leon Murphy.....Traitor......Stonewall Jackson Hero...Alvin York..... Traitor...... Donald trump Hero...“Ike” Eisenhower Traitor...... Michael Thomas Flynn Its sad when FOX news defines American character, loyalty to the constitution and to values. Even worse when otherwise intelligent people are fooled by FOX's b.s. and lies.

Yes. Especially this.

I'll drink to that.

After four years that is more corrupt than ANYTHING he has done or attempted to do in his term. The banana scale, the corruption index hits new highs.

The Post says: Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation’s. Was the story quoted in SC before. Its author one of Murdoch's "journalist" stooges. Went on several major network shows. He stated the same think you have done in SC. He went on to say that if the media and people would just stop talking about trump he would fade away on his own. trump is like penicillin proof gonorrhea. Until the hosting body dies he will still be dangerous, be a menace to society. Did communism die with Lenin? Do you think he will stop fundraising? Honestly? Do you think he will stop his agenda and won't take Stephen Miller with him? Honestly? Do you think his ego will suddenly vacate his mind? A scant six weeks ago more Americans voted for him than have ever voted for any president before that. Do you think that ideology will go away? That Biden will end trumpism? Every single political ideal of trumpism is still manifest in those that voted for him. Those followers are still looking for a messenger, for him, or someone like him. So the trump/Miller agenda can live on.

Control of the Senate is but four days away. "trump has been undermining the Republican party as it battles to win two Senate seats in Georgia. He has, in effect, been behaving as though he were a secret Democratic campaign operative. So outlandish have his actions been that they surpass any dirty tricks that the Democratic party could ever have envisioned....Trump has also been busily denouncing Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a former acolyte of Trump’s, as a traitor. On Thursday, Trump tweeted: “@BrianKempGA, his puppet Lt. Governor @GeoffDuncanGA, and Secretary of State, are disasters for Georgia." Latest Polls Of The Georgia Senate Runoffs. Show democrats leading in most polls for both races. A complete flip since the presidential election. As the last vestiges of the trump/GOP titanic begin to slip beneath the waves. trump's erratic behavior, the floundering of the GOP as they supported his false election fraud claims. Have driven even more true republicans away. Now the lack of respect for the covid virus has forced: "Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., will start to quarantine after someone on his re-election team tested positive for Covid-19, his campaign said Thursday. The move will force him to miss crucial time on the campaign trail just days ahead of his runoff Tuesday against Democrat Jon Ossoff.... He had planned to rally with President Donald Trump ahead of Election Day, but he will be off the trail as polls show a close race." If 2020 was the year of covid, of Lucifer and of the confirmation that trump is a real loser. 2021 is starting off right

Little embryonic backbone cells are forming in the GOP. Sorry Ron. "Congress delivered a stinging rebuke to President Trump during a rare New Year's Day session Friday, handing him his first veto override in the final days of his administration. The GOP-controlled Senate voted 81-13 to override Trump’s veto of a mammoth defense bill, well above the two-thirds support necessary, underscoring the depth of disagreement between the two sides of Pennsylvania Avenue."

WHAT!! Why wasn't I told!

Ron ignores the socialism as to how and why R states accept the transfer of money from D states. Ron ignores the socialism of: In the United States since the 2008 recession, nearly 99 percent of all new generated income has gone to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Current trends suggest these enormous disparities in wealth are expanding. Ron ignores the rise of income inequality in the US. Which ranks the US right beside his favorite country Venezuela . In its use of law, including tax law to exploit the poor to the favor of the rich. Iran is also very close to the US in those same rankings.

...how you live your life. Do you treat others fairly, treat them with respect. Understand that some people will never get by without help. That you should be ready and willing to help them and give to them. That some people who choose to believe in gods do exactly that, i.e. do good, act in a Christian way. Others use religion to prey upon the weak, the vulnerable, those who choose to believe in gods and religion.

Well the good book makes it clear doesn't it? Obey and its heaven. Don't and its hell. At least there is no ambiguity about the equation. No middle ground between the two like for instance America, 2020, under trump.

The willfully ignorant attempt to use a broad brush. To conceal the misdeeds and crimes of the group. They ignore, cover up and forget what they did. What others continue to do in order to enrich, conceal and take advantage of the flock. When did the christian church ever criticize or attack those within the religion. Who use donations to enrich themselves. To justify private jets and lavish lifestyles. While peddling he life, the values and teachings of Jesus?

I imagine Leon as a sheriff in Washington, Oregon or California. Trying to sell the idea of a belt fed .50. Locally the police rely upon pancake breakfasts, fun and runs, etc. I guess when the local population is so disconnected from a community spirit that "a generation that lives and dies by the gun" is evident. Other standards apply. I understand he got the two Fairchild C-123 AC for free: Then wheeled and dealt them off for something of tangible value. It does however say something about the community, the society and the ingrained acceptance of everybody being armed. Why not have the cops bring community leaders to the schools to lecture on the consequences of carrying guns, being stupid and young. Gun Violence Must Stop. Here's What We Can Do to Prevent More Deaths Programs and Strategies Addressing Gun Violence I'd guess that he would welcome such programs if funding was available. The link above is a law enforcement program.

MEXICO CITY, May 6 2005 (IPS) - Indigenous communities throughout Latin America are facing the loss of their cultural traditions, divisive conflicts, and in some cases even bloodshed, all in the name of God. Many of the frictions stem from the hundreds of religions and sects that have taken root in these communities, ranging from large, established denominations like the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Adventist, Baptist and Mormon to newer, lesser-known groups like the Church of the Word, the Fountain of Life, Alpha Omega and the Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre. "Whatever religion they try to inculcate us with, it will have an impact in spiritual terms, which is in a way our Achilles heel, since most of us indigenous peoples approach life from a spiritual level," Luis Macas, a Saragura Indian and president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, remarked to IPS. Among the 40 million indigenous people who live in Latin America today, the most prevalent religion is still Roman Catholicism, forcibly and often violently imposed by the European "conquerors" in the 15th and 16th centuries through the complete annihilation or partial assimilation of pre-Columbian religious beliefs and practices. But over the years, other religions have come to compete for the "souls" of the region’s aboriginal peoples, especially during the 20th century, in an often rocky coexistence with the Catholic Church. In the last 30 years, the Tzotzil Mayan indigenous community of Chamula in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas has been shaken by 100 deaths resulting from religious conflicts."

Faith economy worth $1.2tn a year – more than combined revenues of 10 biggest tech firms in America, study shows Gives new meaning to a giant sucking sound. You have Jet fuel for the private jets, pilot salaries for a GV5 captain can be $140k a year and up.Sound stages, broadcast cameras, etc.

"Reducing gun violence is perhaps chief among them. “Our biggest challenge right now is young people with guns, and the violence we’ve got,” Lott says. “And that’s not just Richland County, it’s nationwide issue. That’s our biggest challenge, that we have a generation that lives and dies by the gun. We’ve got to do something to make a bigger impact on that.”... There is not a Republican in the sheriff’s race, so the winner of the Democratic primary will likely serve in the seat for the next four years.... “The only way we are going to solve the gun violence problem we’ve got in the Midlands is by us working together,” Lott said. “That’s not just [law enforcement], that’s the community. ... What we all hear is that the community is fed up with gun violence. ... in 2018, South Carolina had the twelfth-highest rate of gun deaths in the United States, with 17.6 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control. These ordinances are part of an effort to lower that number, especially here in the capital city. “We’re here to help spread a message that we gotta put a stop to gun violence,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said 2019 was a deadly year in Columbia. There were 25 murders in the city limits last year, up 67 percent from 2018. Of those 25 killings, 20 of them — 80 percent — were committed with a firearm.' So in the state with the highest homicide rated in the country. The sheriff is trying to deal with a population that "lives and dies by the gun" and is fed up with gun violence. Joe never let a R fib about a D. Always verify. Couldn't find any quotes to get more guns into the community. But found this: One South Carolina County Shows the Insanity of Giving Military Gear to Cops "The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department (that's them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun. Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle "The Peacemaker," and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it's generally reserved for use against armored vehicles) will "save lives."... "In 2013, the Richland County Sheriff's Department received two, twin-prop C-23 transport planes"

Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s. March 16, 2020 "The resulting meltwater boosted global sea levels by 0.7 inches (17.8 millimeters). Together, the melting polar ice sheets are responsible for a third of all sea level rise. Of this total sea level rise, 60 percent resulted from Greenland's ice loss and 40 percent resulted from Antarctica's.... As to what is leading to the ice loss, Antarctica's outlet glaciers are being melted by the ocean, which causes them to speed up. Whereas this accounts for the majority of Antarctica's ice loss, it accounts for half of Greenland's ice loss; the rest is caused by rising air temperatures melting the surface of its ice sheet." mmmmm no reference to geothermal melting. Send a e-mail off to NASA. Let them know they are all dummies. "in the journal Nature from an international team of 89 polar scientists from 50 organizations, are the most comprehensive assessment to date of the changing ice sheets" All those scientists, all dummies. I predict more egg on the face, then more moving goalposts, with a little weaseling thrown in.

Its OK plagiarism runs in the family: "US First Lady Melania Trump has been caught up in another plagiarism row, following the launch of her new online safety for children campaign on Monday.... In 2016 Mrs Trump was accused of plagiarising parts of a speech from a 2008 address by Michelle Obama."

All the more reason for his base not to vaccinate, to social distance themselves, or avoid crowds. "Other elected officials to die from Covid-19 include several state legislators: a Republican state senator from Minnesota, New Hampshire’s new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, and in North Dakota, David Dean Andahl, a Republican known as Dakota Dave, who was elected posthumously to the State House of Representatives after dying from the virus." Are other republicans also deceased from ignorance and regular exposure to this "fake news".

The righteous political right. A new license from trump and the GOP. From Politico this week: "Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s decision to spend millions of university dollars on Republican political causes followed an executive order by President Donald Trump directing the IRS to avoid whenever possible investigating religious organizations veering into politics. Trump issued the order in 2017. The following year, under Falwell’s leadership, the university directed more than $3 million to conservative organizations. In 2019, it created a think tank that purchased Facebook ads featuring Trump’s image and the slogan “Pray For Our President,” produced a podcast that amplified Trump’s claims of a stolen election, and recently staged a strategy session for the 2021 elections that featured only Republican politicians. These actions appear to push the boundaries of the university’s nonprofit status, particularly given that the law explicitly bans nonprofits from assisting political candidates under a provision called the Johnson Amendment, named after former President Lyndon Johnson, who sponsored it in the Senate. But Trump’s administration furthered the IRS’ already hands-off approach to monitoring churches and other religious nonprofits to the point that enforcement now appears to be nearly nonexistent, giving Liberty and other groups new opportunity to test boundaries they couldn’t have in the past. “For someone like Falwell, who was eager to use tax-exempt resources to engage in politics, it may have given the green light,” said Brendan Fisher, director at the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center. “It’s a correlation — but it certainly seems like you can draw a line between the executive order, and Liberty ramping up its political activity in the years following it.” What was the title of this thread again!

Just to summarize for those who may have missed. Falwell Jr. is trumps inspirational religious model. Mr. Granda, picture above from a month ago. Had a lengthy sexual relationship with Falwell's wife. Falwell liked to watch them have sex from a corner in the same bedroom. Mr Granda was a pool boy when he met Mrs. Falwell and subsequently to that sexual relationship. Ended up in a $4.6 million dollar real estate deal with them. Falwell told Liberty University that he was just friends with Granda and" Falwell sought to characterize the affair as something between Granda and his wife. He wrote in the statement to the Examiner that "Becki had an inappropriate personal relationship with this person, something in which I was not involved." All stuff that you typically don't see at all those stuffy uptight boring Ivy League colleges.

Slowly a backbone within the embryo of the post trump GOP is forming. Rep. Kinzinger calls efforts to overturn election 'a scam' "It is a scam and it is going to disappoint the people that believe this election was stolen." 'A group of House Republicans met last week with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to discuss strategies to contest the Electoral College results... Without singling them out by name, Kinzinger claimed these colleagues of his have an ulterior motive: raising money. "It is a scam and it is going to disappoint the people that believe this election was stolen, that think this is an opportunity to change it," Kinzinger said."

Agree, trump and his ego + the easy money of his "America First" PAC($150 million and counting )= a continued series of selfish, self serving events. He doesn't have a plan. Nobody knows where he will go, do,or say. But he loves the attention. In any case the GOP will pay for letting him in the door. As they should.

Neighbor: Warner never talked politics; kept to himself and cared for his animals. Warner never gave any indication of any closely held ideology. “I can tell you as far as politics, he never had any yard signs or flags in his window or anything like that. If he did have any political beliefs he kept, that was something he kept to himself. Warner had dogs over the years, first two small Shelties and then a larger dog that he adopted, though the pets have since died. Schmoldt said Warner “took really good care of his dogs,” even building a wheelchair ramp for them when they got older so the animals didn’t have to use stairs to get inside the house. “If it was him, he didn’t want anybody hurt,” Schmoldt said. “But if that’s the case, what other message is there? If indeed it was him, I just, I don’t know. They have to figure out some kind of motive.... Police in the area moments before the blast said the speakers also played the wistful 1963 song "Downtown" by Petula Clark. The lyric, about going to the city to seek refuge from sadness, echoed down Second Avenue just before the blast: "The lights are much brighter there.”

At one time I was a NRA member. I know what they say. A political revolt called the “Cincinnati Revolt”. occurred and political self serving self dealing insiders seized control. Originally the NRA was founded on "gun safety and marksmanship". After this safety went out the window. Pushing "gun rights" and fighting every effort to institute any limits or controls on the purchase of any firearm or accessory. Became its life and its political objective. Fundraising, PAC activities and corruption became the rule. The "Taj Mahal " of the NRA headquarters was only the start. Their in house law firm billing the NRA at the rate of $100k a day for an entire year. . Self dealing of insiders including Oliver North and Wayne La Pierre. "no different than anything else" eh. Yet they kill and maim over 150,000 Americans every year and kill 95 every day. Yet the NRA internal documents "detail more than half a million dollars in spending beneficial to LaPierre, including nearly $275,000 in “wardrobe” purchases at a Beverly Hills boutique, and more than $250,000 in luxury"travel. The NRA deals in the message of fear and obstruction. Not gun safety and marksmanship. Not to protect the safe use of guns for sport and hunting. One of my x-mas presents to myself this year was a armored dueling tree in 3/8" AR-500 like this. A farmer I know with a plasma table is cutting the metal and a friend is welding it up. I don't shoot game any more but I like to keep my Dillon 650 from rusting up. No I'm not ignorant of guns or the issues around them.