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Quite right. There is something about the statements and actions of Miller that make the outrageous believable. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/stephen-miller-donald-trump-2016-policy-adviser-jeff-sessions-213992

Reading in the WH is the purview of Stephen Miller. Everyone knows trump dosn't read because it involves concentration and focus. Speaking of which: Stephen Miller’s un-Jewish tradition: Hostility toward immigrants President Trump’s senior policy adviser is on an anti-immigrant crusade, which is ironic given his own heritage There have been plenty of American policymakers with ideologies similar to those of Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's staunchly anti-immigrant senior policy adviser. https://www.salon.com/2018/01/28/stephen-millers-un-jewish-tradition-hostility-toward-immigrants/

While on general principals I agree. Certainly Jeb Bush should have stayed in Florida. If he has a message governed by principals, who gives a damn what his name is. Fact-checking site crashes during Trump State of the Union "PolitiFact’s website went down briefly during President Trump’s first State of the Union address. The fact-checking website tweeted at 9:49 p.m., about halfway through Trump’s speech, that the website had crashed.... PolitiFact fact-checked the president’s speech, writing that “several of his points were factually flawed.” They rated many of his claims about tax cuts as “mostly false” or “false.” The organization had fact-checked nearly 500 of Trump’s statements before the State of the Union, rating 21 percent as “mostly false,” 33 percent as “false” and 15 percent as “pants on fire.” http://thehill.com/homenews/media/371557-fact-checking-site-crashes-during-trump-state-of-the-union That would mean that 69% of all his representations were lies. For this president I suggest a live continuous loop connection between PolitiFact and these behavior control devices to correct habitual lying: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-reconsiders-behavior-modifying-shock-devices/

The gate attendants and the stewardess should have been advised of the regulations. 3-3547. CARRY-ON BAGGAGE. As a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Congress passed The Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Section 122 of the Act, entitled “Sense of Congress,” clearly states its desire for the FAA to maintain its current restriction on carry-on baggage of one bag and one personal item. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) web site has information as to items that are permitted and prohibited in carry-on baggage as well as provides examples of what constitutes a personal item. The TSA web site is www.tsa.gov. A. Title 14 CFR part 121 prohibits an air carrier from closing the passenger entry door in preparation for taxi or pushback, takeoff, or landing an airplane unless each article of carry-on baggage is stowed in a suitable baggage or storage compartment under a passenger seat. B. An air carrier may not allow the following: 1) The boarding of carry-on baggage unless each passenger’s baggage has been scanned to control the size and amount carried on board in accordance with an approved carry-on baggage program. Additionally, no passenger may board an airplane if his/her carry-on baggage exceeds the baggage allowance prescribed in the air carrier’s approved program.

https://mashable.com/2018/01/26/dirty-money-netflix-trump/#kogoNQ9Nzqqi New Netflix doc picks apart the Trump illusion No burger here!

That's not what happened to Flynn though, is it Rush? Flynn wasn't charged because he said one thing today and another thing tomorrow - he was charged because he said something that was materially and provably different to what he had actually done. You do understand the difference, right? You don't need to have a fucking good memory to remember having asked the Russian ambassador to alter his country's policies only 3 weeks prior to being interviewed about it. You just need to be not senile. You do recall that even Trump has publically admitted the fact the Flynn lied, right? Not forgot, not mispoke, wasn't entrapped, but flat out lied. Even Trump. But not you. As Marc is oft to say. Its all about talking points. He has the Fox talking points down to a "T". Quick Marc, new Hannity attack points at 4:00. Obama tortured a puppy and a car crash to follow!

Report: Trump called Andrew McCabe’s wife a “loser” in a bizarre call "Multiple people told NBC News’s Carol E. Lee that Trump called McCabe the day after Comey’s firing; he was reportedly furious that Comey took a government-funded plane back from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, after he was let go. (Comey is said to have learned from TV coverage that he was out of a job.) According to NBC: Trump demanded to know why Comey was allowed to fly on an FBI plane after he had been fired, these people said. McCabe told the president he hadn’t been asked to authorize Comey’s flight, but if anyone had asked, he would have approved it, three people familiar with the call recounted to NBC News. This answer apparently didn’t sit well with the president, as according to NBC, he went “silent for a moment” and then laid into McCabe, “suggesting he ask his wife how it feels to be a loser.” The dig was an apparent reference to his wife, Jill McCabe, and her failed Democratic campaign for Virginia state legislature in 2015. McCabe responded “Okay, sir.” Trump reportedly hung up on him." https://www.vox.com/2018/1/29/16947842/trump-andrew-mccabe-jill-mccabe trump creating a new definition of loser, every day.

Actually, experience the world over shows that it is. The fact that you do not want gun control does not change the fact that it works. What you call fax are widely disputed by many. They're just what you want to be faxed in your world. Australia is the best example of this. Mini here point to say that it's made a big difference. It only has in one area but it is not reduced deaths. "The number of mass shootings in Australia—defined as incidents in which a gunman killed five or more people other than himself, which is notably a higher casualty count than is generally applied for tallying mass shootings in the U.S.—dropped from 13 in the 18-year period before 1996 to zero after the Port Arthur massacre. Between 1995 and 2006, gun-related homicides and suicides in the country dropped by 59 percent and 65 percent, respectively, though these declines appear to have since leveled off. Two academics who have studied the impact of the reform initiative estimate that the gun-buyback program saves at least 200 lives each year, according to The New York Times." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/australia-gun-control/541710/ http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=4748733;page=51;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; Learning requires an effort and desire to understand. Is it the former or latter thats missing?

Every time there is an attack involving knives, vehicles, etc. motivated by radicalization, terrorism or a will to inflict mass casualties. The proof of gun control is laid bare. Canada, France, UK and other western countries have seen knife attacks and the use of vehicles. All with the purpose of mass casualties. A gun is the most effective tool for killing. In most cases semi-auto weapons would have resulted in more casualties. In addition its hard to kill children in classrooms, worshipers in a church or Mosque with a vehicle. Or use a knife in an attack and kill more than a couple people. Mass Shootings and Mental Illness https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/appi.books.9781615371099 Above detailed study. Generally speaking: "– The U.S. has similar rates of mental illness to other developed countries, yet we experience far more firearm attacks. It's not an answer to say that we simply need to treat mental illness, because that only treats part of the problem. We also need to improve our gun laws to make sure that people who are in a mental health crisis cannot assemble arsenals of deadly weapons so quickly and easily." https://www.metro.us/news/the-big-stories/guns-and-mental-health-are-shootings-the-us-psychological-problem

Christian ethicists: Racism, white supremacy are 'a Christian problem' https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/christian-ethicists-racism-white-supremacy-are-christian-problem In 1934, a group of Christians in Nazi Germany signed their names to the "Barmen Declaration," a statement opposing Nazi ideology as antithetical to the Gospel. Eighty years later, Christians in the United States feel the need to do the same thing. More than 400 Christian ethicists and other theologians have signed "A Statement from Christian Ethicists Without Borders on White Supremacy and Racism." Organized by four ethics professors and dated Aug. 14, the statement rejects "racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and neo-Nazi ideology as a sin against God that divides the human family created in God's image." The organizers were particularly concerned — as were those in Nazi Germany — by those involved in white supremacist and other movements who also claim to be Christians. "That's a warped version of Christianity," said Tobias Winright, associate professor of health care ethics at St. Louis University and founder of the "Ethicists without Borders" Facebook group, which organized the statement. This statement focuses on Christian ethicists "because this is a Christian problem," Winright said. "White supremacy and racism deny the dignity of each human being revealed through the Incarnation. The evil of white supremacy and racism must be brought face-to-face before the figure of Jesus Christ, who cannot be confined to any one culture or nationality," the statement says. The statement connects anti-Semitism and racism to nationalism, including the "America First" doctrine, which it calls a "pernicious and idolatrous error" because it "foolishly asks Americans to replace the worship of God with the worship of the nation." It appears as if some Catholics, just as some Mormons have recognized trump for what he is, evil. The Jesuit tradition values quality education for all — DACA students included http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/370949-the-jesuit-tradition-values-quality-education-for-all-daca-students

Needless to say from the debate in this thread, gun control in the US will not be easy. There are three good examples of gun control measures on western counties. The UK, where active gun ownership and a hunting tradition have had less penetration into society than the other examples. Mainly because of a more historic hunting and firearm ownership tradition. Ordinary UK citizens may have never handled firearms because urbanization and a rural hunting heritage is but a life in books. Canada and Australia are the closest similar countries. Although Finland, Sweden and to a lessor extent Germany. Also have a hunting traditions. Australia is the closest to the US for hunting and firearms ownership traditions. It also has mass shootings by deranged gunmen. What it's Like to Own Guns in a Country with Strict Gun Control http://time.com/4172274/what-its-like-to-own-guns-in-a-country-with-strict-gun-control/ "I love firearms. I collect them and I enjoy shooting them. I probably have 30 pistols and 20 rifles or shotgun combinations.... Then, after the 1996 massacre, I probably had to hand in six to eight semiautomatic rifles and shotguns to the police. We got fair value for them, but I wasn’t thrilled to be doing it because I thought “Well gee, what have I done wrong?” Would anything untoward ever have happened with the firearms I owned? No.... The police are required to inspect your gun room. Since 1996, the police have inspected mine three or four times. While they can come randomly, they normally put a call through and we arrange an agreeable time to come in and inspect it. I’m happy for them to do it. I want them to see that it’s safe." When will the US learn from Australia? Stricter gun control laws save lives [/url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/14/america-mass-murder-australia-gun-control-saves-lives Australia's Lessons on Gun Control The 1996 Port Arthur massacre resulted in legislation that saw a dramatic decline in gun crimes. [url]https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/australia-gun-control/541710/ Australia provides proof that gun control works. US gun owners LIE about these facts because they point out that gun homicides still occur in Australia. They point out that there are almost as many guns in Australia today as before the gun control measures came into effect. But they ignore the facts on the ground. The Las Vegas gunman would never have been able to kill as many people with a bolt action rifle. When guns are locked up with ammunition locked and stored separately. Its very difficult for children to get access to them. Gun owners are no different than drunks. If they arrive home with a BAC of .11 and nobody was hurt. Why should their rights to drink be infringed from doing it again.

America's newest reactor: -47 years to build, 42 years of actual construction. -$2.5 billion in 2007, ended up at $5 billion - Five months after starting it had to shut down for 4 months of repairs. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2017/aug/01/tva-restarts-watts-bar/441309/ -https://www.forbes.com/sites/rodadams/2016/10/19/watts-bar-is-now-commercial/#28c63ca73680 -https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-industry-decline/new-nuclear-reactor-builds-fall-to-zero-in-h1-2016-report-idUSKCN0ZT0QS Only a electrical agency with a death wish would even study nuclear power today. "Exelon, based in Chicago and the largest operator of nuclear plants in America, says that five of its 14 plants are vulnerable because of economic factors, including Three Mile Island’s Unit One, which it owns. “It’s ironic. People ask why we still operate a reactor there. But if gas prices were not [so low], it would be making money,” says David Brown of Exelon.".. More than three-quarters of nuclear plants in the rich world are 25 years old or more. In the coming years the number of them shutting down is only likely to accelerate. https://www.economist.com/news/international/21677243-nuclear-power-emits-no-greenhouse-gases-yet-it-struggling-rich-world-half-death

I don't necessarily disagree. But nuclear is very unpopular and utilities would have a hard regulatory and investor road to travel getting nuclear approvals. Canada has lots of nat gas w/o fracking. A world map of subsidies for renewable energy and fossil fuels,2016. http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/files/2016/07/GR262Xcarbon_tax_modern_energy_SR_CHART.png https://www.ft.com/content/fb264f96-5088-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc

The first sentence: "In the last few months, we’ve discovered that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee funded a “dossier,” using sources connected to the Kremlin" Come on Ron. Even you don't believe that!!

From my understanding, the tariff is imposed on Chinese imports. Thus, it expands the American manufacturing production of these solar panels. It stimulates our GNP. "The main beneficiaries of the tariff include U.S.-based solar manufacturers Suniva and SolarWorld. Suniva filed for bankruptcy in April, days before it filed the petition for trade relief. The Georgia-based company argued it could not compete with the cheap imports that have caused panel prices to fall more than 30 percent since 2016. It was later joined in the petition by SolarWorld. They asked the Trump administration for the equivalent of a 50 percent tariff. Suniva is majority-owned by Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy, and SolarWorld is the U.S. arm of Germany’s SolarWorld AG. ... The main solar industry trade group, the Solar Energy Industries Association, has a different view: it predicts the tariff will put 23,000 people out of work in the panel installation business this year" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariff-q-a/qa-winners-losers-of-trumps-solar-panel-tariff-idUSKBN1FC36N trump has pulled his glock pistol to defend America and as usual, shot himself in the foot.

Hannity is quite possibly the most odious right wing commentator out there now. Don’t get me wrong, there are several other who are nastier than he is, but I can’t think of any others who purport to be serious and rational yet operate with such unrelenting hypocrisy and blind partisan loyalty. Scarborough breaks down laughing over Hannity coverage of NYT story http://thehill.com/homenews/media/370834-scarborough-breaks-down-laughing-over-hannity-coverage-of-nyt-story

Oh yeah?? Well the buyback only takes guns away from responsible gun owners. If a criminal wants a gun they can still get one.... Oh wait... http://www.ibtimes.com.au/cost-illegal-firearms-australia-has-skyrocketed-criminals-now-do-gun-sharing-1378871 Well: Gun Control in Australia, Updated "the 1996 law, Australia banned certain semi-automatic, self-loading rifles and shotguns, and imposed stricter licensing and registration requirements. It also instituted a mandatory buyback program for firearms banned by the 1996 law. During the buyback program, Australians sold 640,000 prohibited firearms to the government, and voluntarily surrendered about 60,000 non-prohibited firearms. In all, more than 700,000 weapons were surrendered, according to a Library of Congress report on Australian gun policy. One study says that the program reduced the number of guns in private hands by 20 percent. In 2002, Australia further tightened gun laws, restricting the caliber, barrel length and capacity for sport shooting handguns. With Australia’s population steadily increasing, the nation’s homicide incident rate has fallen even more than the number of homicides — from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1995-96 to 1 per 100,000 in 2013-2014, according to a government report on crime trends. That was the lowest homicide incident rate at the time in 25 years, as we mentioned earlier. The number of firearm-related homicides also has dropped substantially since the 1996 gun law was enacted." https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gun-control-australia-updated/

"Major companies including Cisco Systems Inc., Pfizer Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. say they’ll turn over most gains from proposed corporate tax cuts to their shareholders, undercutting President Donald Trump’s promise that his plan will create jobs and boost wages for the middle class. The president has held fast to his pledge even as top executives’ comments have run counter to it for months. Instead of hiring more workers or raising their pay, many companies say they’ll first increase dividends or buy back their own shares." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/trump-s-tax-promises-undercut-by-ceo-plans-to-reward-investors "It appears right now what companies are going to do is provide bigger dividends, they're going to do stock buybacks, make more acquisitions, and I think the amount of cash in the U.S. will probably inflate the economy a bit," Rubenstein said. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/us-firms-will-now-focus-on-stock-buybacks-after-tax-cuts-david-rubenstein-says.html As they should, companies owe their duties to shareholders. Most US companies have been increasing debt in the last three years in order to use cheap leverage instead of diluting shareholders equity.

Of course trump can't testify. The whole performance yesterday where he said "of course I'll testify". Is just part of prepping the battlefield. trump and his hard core supporters in the senate and Fox will be lambasting the FBI as dishonest Hillary supporters for the next couple months. Biased and out to get him. When the time comes for the real interview. It will be he can't testify because its will be a Hillary hatchet job on his agenda. With a deep state corrupt FBI at the point of the spear of socialism.

There is a pendulum of politics in democracies. It swings to the right, to the left and back again. Sometimes the pendulum swings too far. The republicans and trump will have to pay for their excess. Imagine Bernie Sanders on steroids. - the second amendment is struck from the constitution. - new manufacture and importation of firearms is prohibited. - 100,000 law enforcement officers are trained as gun appraisers and a buyback program legislated. - ownership is banned by law, like Japan. America needs a black female president to punish evangelicals and gun owners. Since Oprah doesn't seem interested, its Condoleezza Rice. Unlike trump who worships fake stories of his lack of success there is: https://www.amazon.com/Condoleezza-Rice/e/B001IU2U6I I can hear the sermons on Christian TV now. "I'm sorry Lord, give me back Obama and I will never sin again".

That's both unknowable and irrelevant. The question was about preventing future events. Like I said, don't start getting all over me about "it won't work". It's about a hypothetical situation where America becomes more civilized and loses a little of it's frontier mentality. Gun violence costs the US $230 Billion a year: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america/. There are an estimated 300 million guns in the US. Which equates a cost of $766 for every single gun in the US. Not gun owners, thats per gun. So a gun buyback program would take care of almost every gun excepting high class collectables. Marc for example has a couple Walmart Ar-15's which are worth about $300 used. A couple 10/22's, .22 cal guns at $100 each. So the federal government can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvVMt0rRsU take care of Marc for well less thank $1k. A year later the $230 billion would pay for a two fold expansion in the ACA! FREE "In 2016 alone, Obamacare will cost a total of $110 billion" In 2016 alone, Obamacare will cost a total of $110 billion

The Post endorses Donald Trump https://nypost.com/2016/04/14/the-post-endorses-donald-trump/ Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post Joins National Enquirer And Paper Owned By Trump’s Son-In-Law In Endorsing Trump https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/04/15/rupert-murdoch-s-ny-post-joins-national-enquirer-and-paper-owned-trump-s-son-law-endorsing-trump/209929 Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database MOSTLY FALSE https://nypost.com/2015/07/18/obama-has-been-collecting-personal-data-for-a-secret-race-database/ https://www.snopes.com/obama-secret-race-database/

Is it possible that "he" is actually a Russian bot? The behavior is consistent. All three of you are so silly. Must be all that time above 12.5!! https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Foxbot

White identity politics and the shutdown: Vicious racism got us here Blame Trump or blame Schumer? That’s not the point: Our politics are contaminated by a history of vicious racism White identity politics has several elements. They include racial resentment, a sense of entitlement, a belief that the political and social concerns of whites (especially white conservative Christian heterosexual men) are "natural" and "normal" while the political and social concerns of nonwhites (and other groups) are illegitimate, and a belief that whites are the "real Americans" and that white people as a group must have a superior position over others. By definition, white identity politics are an expression of white supremacy. White identity politics has an especially powerful hold over today's Republican Party and the conservative movement as a whole. In the post-civil rights era, conservatism and racism are so intertwined in terms of policy, political values, disparate racial impact, public opinion and cognition as to be almost inseparable. White identity politics sits at the center of this knot... Trump used white identity politics, in the form of nativism and right-wing "producerism," to win the White House... Today's Republicans and other conservatives have a deep antipathy to the very idea of government. "Big government" is perceived as their enemy, and in the right-wing political imagination "big government" is tied to providing services, money and other unearned resources to "lazy" black and brown people, "welfare queens" and others deemed to be social parasites. This effort to connect black and brown people to the federal government as dependents who are also somehow privileged relative to "hard-working" and "independent" white Americans is an old stereotype that can trace its origins back to the Reconstruction era." https://www.salon.com/2018/01/24/white-identity-politics-and-the-shutdown-vicious-racism-got-us-here/

Evangelical leaders give Trump a “mulligan” on Stormy Daniels Evangelical leaders say they were “tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists” "Evangelical Christians, President Donald Trump's most devout base, have been able to easily turn the other cheek when the president exerts his bombastic rhetoric, or when scandalous reports from the past surface, such as his reported extramarital affair with a porn star." But the relationship between evangelical leaders and Trump, despite obvious instances that make them look to be the antithesis of one another, is more rooted in favors and policy, than any sort of legitimate moral high ground. "I don’t think this president is using evangelicals. … I think he genuinely enjoys the relationship that had developed. He has found, I think—and he’s a very transactional president," Perkins explained. "Trust is important to him. Loyalty is important to him, and I think in this transaction, he realizes, ‘Hey, these are people I can count on, because they don’t blow with the political winds." https://www.salon.com/2018/01/23/evangelical-leaders-give-trump-a-mulligan-on-stormy-daniels/ Many white evangelicals stand by Trump because they are more white than evangelical "What has happened to members of the “Moral Majority”? ... Consider the results of two surveys conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). In 2011, fewer than one in three white evangelical Protestants said an elected official could behave ethically in their public life, if they had committed moral transgressions in their private life. Yet just five years later, in 2016, more than seven in ten white evangelical Protestants said a politician’s personal morality did not matter to them.... In January 2016, prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr compared Trump to Christ, claiming the billionaire property tycoon lived “a life of loving and helping others, as Jesus taught” Only 35 per cent of non-white evangelicals voted for Trump compared to 59 per cent of non-white evangelicals who voted for Clinton. Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical pastor and former spiritual adviser to Barack Obama, told me earlier this year that “black evangelicals, Hispanic evangelicals… did not vote for Donald Trump. White evangelicals did… because they were more white than evangelical.” https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2017/12/many-white-evangelicals-stand-trump-because-they-are-more-white-evangelical Ex-RNC chair rips evangelical leaders standing by Trump: ‘Don’t ever preach to me’ again ""Just shut the hell up and don't ever preach to me about anything ever again," Steele said during an MSNBC appearance on Tuesday. "I don't want to hear it, because after telling me how to live my life, who to love, what to believe, what not to believe, what to do and what not to do, and now you sit back. And if the prostitutes don't matter, if the grabbing the you-know-what doesn't matter, the outright behavior and lies do not matter, just shut up," he said. " http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/370473-ex-rnc-chair-rips-evangelical-leaders-standing-by-trump-dont