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Ummm... that's exactly what Mr. Hollings said. ¯\_("/)_/¯ Perhaps we could put trump, Hollings, Mattis, McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi and McCarthy, all in the same room. MRE's until a budget is signed, even if it takes a week.

“Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him,” White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Tuesday February 6, 2018 “I have worked directly with Rob Porter nearly every day for the last year, and the person I know is someone of the highest integrity and exemplary character,” Huckabee Sanders, Feb. 6, 2018 The incompetence in the White House is truly staggering. Ah no; Rob Porter is resigning, after abuse allegations from his two ex-wives were made public. The White House was made aware of the allegations in November and allowed him to work without a full security clearance, CBS News' chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports. White House communications director Hope Hicks, who is dating Porter, helped craft his public statement, Garrett confirmed. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rob-porter-hope-hicks-boyfriend-white-house-aide-resigning-amid-abuse-allegations/

Author Bio: Alex Hollings served as an active duty Marine for six and a half years before being medically retired from service. As an athlete, Hollings has raced exotic cars, played Marine Corps football and college rugby, fought in cages, and even wrestled alligators. As a scholar, he has earned a master’s degree in Communications from Southern New Hampshire University, as well as undergraduate degrees in Corporate and Organizational Communications and Business Management. A parade is just a parade huh? You make reference in another thread about substance in a Kennedy speech, or lack thereof. The fact is trump has never had substance in anything he has ever represented. He has no core values, political or otherwise. trump has never cared a damn about the US military. Never cared a rats ass about sequester budgets and their effect upon military service personnel. Just yesterday he gave a speech where he used the word shutdown and the need for one, Four times in two minutes. All to drive home the point that he wants money for a wall. While simultaneously bringing MS-13 and their "thousands and thousands of US members", into the debate. trump has never stepped into the debate about what the US military needs and how to address it. Sat down with the ways and means committee to push a firm defense budget. Sat down with the Armed Services committee to ascertain the real needs of equipment, funding. A parade has substance. The substance of trump pandering to his base and wrapping himself around the flag. Wrapping himself with the goodwill that the US military holds with regards to the US public. Mr. Hollings, hit the nail on the head when he said it just a publicity stunt. Spoken like a true Marine. If he wanted that editorial to have real substance, he could have been a better communicator and just said. Lets put substance on the lips of that pig instead of lipstick. Forget the parade publicity stunt and get a budget approved. But the senate bipartisan leaders McConnell and Schumer, just agreed to one. Thats substance, absent drama and publicity stunts.There is a saying within SF relating to grandstanding, drama, about just getting down and dirty to do the job. "Quiet professionals", something absent from this drama driven WH.

Is the Russian Orthodox Church serving God or Putin? http://www.dw.com/en/is-the-russian-orthodox-church-serving-god-or-putin/a-38603157 (Un)Holy Alliance: Vladimir Putin, The Russian Orthodox Church And Russian Exceptionalism https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulcoyer/2015/05/21/unholy-alliance-vladimir-putin-and-the-russian-orthodox-church/#56835aed27d5 Putin’s holy war It was just before dawn when close to a dozen police officers wearing helmets and body armor burst into the apartment where Yevgeny Lebedev lives with his wife and children in northern Moscow. “They forced me to lie on the floor with my face down,” Lebedev recalled of the raid in mid-November. “They wouldn’t let me look up while they searched the apartment. My children were terrified. It took my five-year-old daughter a long time to get over it. She thought they were criminals who had come to rob us.” Despite the heavy-handed police tactics, Lebedev, 38, was not a terrorist suspect. Nor was he accused of murder, armed robbery, state treason or any other serious crime. The officers who raided Lebedev’s home were investigating a possible violation of a controversial Russian law that makes it a criminal offense to “insult the feelings of religious believers.” Approved by President Vladimir Putin in June 2013, the law stipulates up to a year in jail for “insulting” acts that occur outside a place of worship. Those that happen inside are punishable by up to three years behind bars. https://www.politico.eu/article/putins-holy-war/

No the simultaneous landing did not look real. I'd have thought there would be at least a 15-30 second delay between the two landings. Uninterrupted Footage of the Falcon Heavy Launch and Booster Landing! 2-6-18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=59pY74ZhQ50

Beer companies realize people will buy their beer even if the people buying it don't have money to buy food or toilet paper. They are selling something that destroys life's and kills people. But they make money. Now some at the company might care. The bottom line they want more people to drink more so they make more money. WTF.... you got something against beer?......Them's fighting words!! I get your point though. Cheques come out from the govt. and you see people lining up to get a 12 pack. Obviously havn't heard about home made beer.

Hannity counterpoints? No, I think you need to verify your sources. There have been posts here again and again. Lambasting you and Ron for any number of reasons. What those posters miss and what you bring of value to these forums. Is the value of positive reinforcement as to the effectiveness of Fox, Hannity, trump and his band of misfits. The positive reinforcement that a Hannity monologue, a trump statement of lies repeated by MSM 50-100 times after the lies were originally made. How those statements and ideas adhere to malleable minds.

Good question. And how is it that an independent Senator can run for a major party nomination? You would think some term of party membership would be a requirement. I heard in an NPR news story that the GOP wasn't acknowledging him as a Republican candidate, wouldn't give him any money, and the local chapter was trying to get his name off the GOP primary ballot. Clearly needs rectification, cue trumps big yapper.

He thinks inflation could be what happens to a parachute when it opens. or A porn star's big fake boobies.

That's actually addressed in the "twitter cascade" that Normiss linked. Maybe they didn't trust him, maybe they wanted to double check his info, maybe a variety of things. Was he an FBI informant from the beginning? Was he originally working for the Russians and the FBI 'turned' him? It's waaaaay too early to draw any real conclusions. But it's been the 'year of the anonymous source' since Trump took office. For a variety of reasons, the Trump White House has more leaks than any previous administration in memory. And most of what's been reported has turned out to be accurate. If these reports are accurate (and that is yet to be seen), then one of Trump's inner circle during the campaign was informing on him from the beginning. Could prove to be very damaging. Or it could be a "nothing burger." The next couple of weeks may be very interesting. If true the only thing of significance would be if he wore a wire. Everyone around trump, including trump, is a liar. It appears as if Mueller has interviewed everyone and trump couldn't keep his big yapper shut if his life depended on it. Other than: Why Carter Page Was Worth Watching https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/03/carter-page-nunes-memo-216934 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ GREAT READ

On occasion you are WRONG! With Trump's HHS pick Big Pharma takes over our health system http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/360313-trumps-hhs-pick-shows-that-big-pharma-is-taking-over-our-health-system OK, well maybe you're partially right: "Black lung disease is increasing among miners. Even relatively young miners who've spent their whole careers in mines that were supposed to be under federal dust control standards have been found with advanced disease. At the same time, however, compensation for miners who get black lung disease has been shrinking. For a miner to convince the federal black lung program that the mining company where he worked owes him compensation for the damage done to his lungs is not an easy task. The miner had better be prepared for mountains of paperwork, and hearings and appeals that can go on for about seven years. Dr. Donald Rasmussen, who does medical examinations of miners for the Department of Labor, says it's not a rare occurrence for there to be 10 to 12 years of appeals, with the mining company usually opposing the claims. "It takes a long time to succeed," Rasmussen says, "and a miner is not assured of winning anyway." https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126303910 Oil, gas and coal interests filling Donald Trump’s ‘swamp’ with cash Fossil fuel giants spent millions on lobbying, inauguration during early 2017 https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/05/02/20848/oil-gas-and-coal-interests-filling-donald-trump-s-swamp-cash Is it wrong to think these miners, who likely voted for trump, are only getting exactly what they deserve?

Partisanship out of control.

Why change a winning story line!

We need to understand Ron and others in his camp. National defense, LE and perhaps education. Other than those areas of federal perview, every program entitling an American to a federal benefit, or protection, is communism. Or am I mistaken?

In addition, numerous websites exist that promise to “certify” an owner’s pet as an emotional support animal, charging between $59 and $200 to provide the owner with an ID vest and a certificate — and sometimes the necessary mental health letters as well. While researching this story, we easily found websites that promised “Any dog may qualify,” “Take your pet everywhere. Instant Approval!”, and “It’s easy to register your pet as an emotional support animal!” Two Today investigative writers discovered first-hand the ease with which they could travel with their animals. Jeff Rossen filled out a questionnaire on a ESA web site and was sent an official letter from a mental health professional without ever seeing or speaking to her. He subsequently took two flights with his dog sitting in his lap, and no one from the airlines even asked to see the letter. His colleague, Lindsey Bomnin, received certification from the same web site for a borrowed pot-bellied pig, then took two flights with the pig on her lap. https://www.snopes.com/flying-with-animals/

US House Speaker Paul Ryan deletes $1.50 tax cut gain tweet US House speaker Paul Ryan has come under fire after citing a school worker who was $1.50 (£1) a week better off because of recent tax cuts. Mr Ryan deleted a tweet about a school secretary who, he said, was "pleasantly surprised" by the increase.... Mr Ryan, the most senior Republican in the US House of Representatives, had tweeted a link to a report by the Associated Press in which Julia Ketchum, a secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she would be $78 a year better off, which she said would more than cover her annual membership for the wholesale outlet Costco." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42934772 Trump and his family could save more than $1 billion under House tax bill President Donald Trump has insisted, for months, that the Republican tax plan he supports won’t benefit him. “It’s not good for me. Believe me,” he said at a Sept. 27 event in Indiana to sell the plan. “My plan is for the working people, and my plan is for jobs. I don’t benefit,” he also said that day. And earlier this month, according to NBC News, Trump told a group of Democratic senators in a phone call, "My accountant called me and said 'you're going to get killed in this bill.’” In fact, Trump and his heirs potentially could save more than $1 billion overall under the GOP tax proposal that the House of Representatives passed Thursday, with most of that amount coming from a repeal of the estate tax, according to an analysis NBC News commissioned of Trump’s one known 2005 tax return and his estimated net worth. " https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-his-family-could-save-more-1-billion-under-house-n821491

Start here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/aris-pol/ Then understand how democracy and psychology interact: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-30/june-2017/democracy-danger

Did Sean Hannity Help Convince Trump to Release the Nunes Memo? http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-trump-release-nunes-memo-798106 I hope so... Evidently Nunes is so afraid of his constituents that he no longer accepts in person visits. Nunes losing local support? Poll numbers for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) are dropping quickly as constituents from both sides of the political aisle grow increasingly upset at the lack of access to their congressman.... Nunes is particularly at risk with independent voters, 61% of whom already plan to vote against him. Nearly half of independents who might support him change their minds when presented with news reports of Nunes actions regarding the Trump-Russia investigation.... “This poll shows what I knew to be true when I announced last April,” Janz said. “Devin Nunes is vulnerable for a challenge this year due to his ethical missteps and complete dedication to protecting the president instead of serving the people of the Valley.”... a Navy veteran who advocates for the rights of other veterans, was upset when she was met with a locked door when she made a recent visit to Nunes’s Visalia office.... Dickinson-Campbell says Nunes’s staff told her they no longer allow visits to his office because of security concerns. “I told them I would spread the word for them,” she said. “They said it’s for their own safety.”... When a group of clergy came without an appointment in September, Nunes’s office called the Visalia Police Department to have them removed.... “Our friends, they came in after us, but apparently on their way in some people said, ‘Good luck, they (Nunes staff) never answer the door,’” Dickinson-Campbell said. “That’s just what the people in the hallway and building say.”... It is unknown if Nunes will participate. He has not attended a local open forum in more than a year. https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2018/01/20/nunes-losing-local-support/

Did Sean Hannity Help Convince Trump to Release the Nunes Memo? http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-trump-release-nunes-memo-798106

Some people don't understand that a FISA warrant has to be renewed by the same judge every 90 days. Nunes, trump and the republicans, rely upon such ignorance. Rod Rosenstein who approved all of this, is a trump appointee. Naturally for Fox and trumpateers this is all ignored.

The Sham letter drafted by the WH and its puppet Devin Nunes. https://www.scribd.com/document/370599274/House-Intelligence-Committee-releases-memo#fullscreen&from_embed While he attacks his own departments: President Trump Is Stepping Up His Attacks on His Own FBI and Justice Department President Donald Trump accused the country’s top law enforcement officials of political bias against the Republican Party and his administration in a tweet he sent early Friday morning. The tweet came just hours before the expected release of a memo commissioned by G.O.P. lawmakers that chronicles the F.B.I.’s purported abuses of its surveillance authorities during the 2016 presidential campaign. “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans — something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago,” Trump tweeted. “Rank and file are great people!” http://time.com/5130167/donald-trump-tweet-nunes-memo/

"The Democrats in the chamber were slumped, glowery. They had chosen to act out unbroken disdain so as to please the rising left in their party..." "Here it should be said of the rising left of the Democratic Party that they are numerous, committed, and have all the energy - it's true. But they operate at a dis advantage they cannot see, and it is that they are LOVELESS. the social justice warriors, the advancers of identity politics and gender politics, the young who've just discovered socialism - they run on RAGE. But rage is a poor fuel in politics. It produces a heavy, sulfurous exhaust and pollutes the air. It's also gets few miles per gallon. It has many powers but not the power to persuade, and if anything does them in it will be that." Wall Street Journal Just for you, from the same author, also published in the WSJ: http://www.peggynoonan.com/trump-is-woody-allen-without-the-humor/ A further story from her restating what Bob Corker has said about trumps unfitness for office: "Mr. Trump was probably the only one of the 17 who would not be able to govern, for reasons of temperament, political inexperience and essential nature. It just wouldn’t work. The challenge for Republicans was to make legislative progress within that context. It was my impression the senators were not fully receptive to my thought. Everyone was polite but things were subdued, and I wondered later if I’d gone too far, been too blunt, or was simply wrong. Maybe they knew things I didn’t. Since then I have spoken to a few who made it clear they saw things as I did, or had come to see them that way.... There are a few things to say about all this. First, when a theme like this keeps coming up, something’s going on. A lot of people appear to be questioning in a new way, or at least talking about, the president’s judgment, maturity and emotional solidity. We’ll be hearing more about this subject, not less, as time goes by. Mr. Corker deserves credit for going public with his reservations and warnings. The U.S. is in a challenging international environment; it’s not unfair or unjust to ask if the president is up to it and able to lead through it. But we are a nation divided on the subject of Donald Trump, as on many others, and so this is a time to be extremely careful. Unnamed sources can—and will—say anything. If you work in the White House or the administration and see what Mr. Corker sees, and what unnamed sources say they see, this is the time to speak on the record, and take the credit or the blows. What a delicate time this is. Half the country does not see what the journalists, establishment figures and elites of Washington see. But they do see it, and they believe they’re seeing clearly. It’s a little scary. More light is needed." http://www.peggynoonan.com/what-bob-corker-sees-in-trump/

A couple more: http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/political-polarization-media-habits/pj_14-10-21_mediapolarization-01/ http://www.journalism.org/interactives/media-polarization/table/trust/ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-does-your-favorite-news-source-rate-on-the-truthiness-scale-consult-this-chart-2016-12-15

Roy Halladay Autopsy Findings Catch Industry by Surprise Multiple banned drugs were found in the pilot’s system. the Pasco and Pinellas County Coroner’s report discovered the former ball player had enough mood-altering drugs in his system to confirm he shouldn’t have been driving a car, much less flying an airplane. Halladay’s blood report listed zolpidem, amphetamine, free morphine and ethanol, while the urine test uncovered cotinine, dihydromorphone, fluoxetine, hydromorphone, morphine, morphine metabolities, nicotine and zolpidem. A physician/pilot I spoke to about the results said there was no doubt Halladay was “soused,” when he crashed. He also said some of the drugs, most of which are not on the FAA’s list of approved medications, were essentially contradictory, like zolpidem, a generic name for Ambien, a sleep aid, and amphetamine and Adderall a medication to perk people up and is often used to treat ADD. Fluoxetine was another strange addition to this medical cocktail of Halladay’s. Fluoxetine is a generic name for Prozac used to treat depression. https://www.flyingmag.com/roy-halladay-autopsy-findings-catch-industry-by-surprise

Actually what you do is repay your creditors with a weaker dollar. Punish savers with higher inflation. So cumulatively a dollar borrowed is paid back in full with 60-70 cents. https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/usd/8213-dollar-to-decline-in-2018-says-investment-bank-in-latest-full-year-forecasts https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/usd/8428-deutsche-bank-shoots-down-us-dollar-myths-and-reiterates-bearish-call The downside is three to five years from now foreigners are buying up US assets on the cheap. Foreigners like the Germans, the Chinese who save and invest. Rather than borrow and spend.