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The latest issue of TIME magazine has a cover story on John Kelly's life & why he went to work for Trump after turning Trump down twice before. Now I wonder just when Kelly will do the honorable thing & resign. A Trump administration is no place for anyone of honor. Jerry Baumchen I never read the story and I understand your point. But he, General Mattis are the only real checks on what trump really thinks and possible disastrous actions. I prescribe some Tylenol and a metal of merit. He should stay. In other news: Theresa May on Trump comments: Far-right should always be condemned http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40948414 McCain: Trump needs to state difference between bigots and those fighting hate http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/346732-mccain-trump-needs-state-the-difference-between-bigots-and-those-fighting IMO sometimes people confuse what duty to country means. What hero means. It means service like John McCain's to the state. It means McAuliffe said he had just visited with the families of the two state troopers -- one his pilot, the other a member of his protection detail -- who were killed in a helicopter crash Saturday as they helped monitor the situation in Charlottesville. The governor also praised Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman who was killed Saturday when a car slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. "She was doing what she loved," McAuliffe said. "She was fighting for democracy, (for) free speech, to stop hatred and bigotry." and in a separate point: What this shows about the US is the power of a true democracy. Turkey has poor to no democratic institutions and embedded ideology within its population. It has allowed its president to empower himself as a dictator. Rodrigo Duterte president in the Philippines is another dictator who has swept aside democracy and the law in his actions. " Trump praises Duterte's deadly drug war in leaked transcript" http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-phone-call-transcript/index.html The US media, people, corporations and government institutions. Have shot down those who stand for such ideas, such repugnant ideologies. Unlike the people in Turkey and other banana republics where its leaders enjoy widespread support. Or quiet acceptance.

This is surely one of the most jaw-dropping Speaker's Corner posts in many, many years. Nah, the denial of global warming has set a benchmark that can never be surpassed. In Ron's defense I have talked to other people who mix up the effects of gravity and magnetism. About 5 years ago it took me 1/2 hour to explain to a guy how a compass worked in a outdoor store. He knew about GPS but had never held or seen a compass.

What are spring tides? Around each new moon and full moon, the sun, Earth, and moon arrange themselves more or less along a line in space. Then the pull on the tides increases, because the gravity of the sun reinforces the moon’s gravity. In fact, the height of the average solar tide is about 50% the average lunar tide. Thus, at new moon or full moon, the tide’s range is at its maximum. This is the spring tide: the highest (and lowest) tide. Spring tides are not named for the season. This is spring in the sense of jump, burst forth, rise. So spring tides bring the most extreme high and low tides every month, and they happen around full and new moon. http://earthsky.org/earth/tides-and-the-pull-of-the-moon-and-sun Who knew!

Obviously Barack Obama and solar eclipses are the problem. No, BO, socialists, left wingers need to be targeted by authoritarian leaders and government policies. Sinning deserves punishment and beatings will continue until US morale improves. Heavy BLACK, Made In the USA leather boots need to be applied to the heads of protestors if they object to the current administration. Because...after all... TRUMP will make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so. “I’m resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it's the right thing for me to do,” Scott Paul tweeted Tuesday. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346614-fifth-leader-resigns-from-trumps-manufacturing-jobs-council

Bill maybe I got it wrong...are they not responsible for breaking windows of private property, burning cars, beating people in the streets, throwing rocks at police, trashing Berkley and setting a generator on fire? Or was that the communist party? Then you should readily identify with this deflection of point and substance. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/346620-fox-guest-confederate-flag-and-lgbt-flag-represent-the-exact-same Deny, counter-accusation and suggest that two dissimilar events are in fact the same. Straight from trump's book.

I think that may be a bit of an overreach. I don't like Trump at all. But still, for Trump to say the 'book is true' is a very general statement, and doesn't mean that he therefore considers every statement in it to be correct, or that he even remembers that particular statement. For me personally I'll leave that 'laziness' statement off in the far corners of uncertainty. There are bookloads of other nasty things about him that are certainly true. trump has a well established history of suing anyone who published what he perceives to be defamatory stories about him or his companies. Needless to say their was no action filed regarding this book. http://www.medialaw.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=3470 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431575/donald-trump-tim-obrien-courtroom-story A old Frontline story about someone who knew trump well. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-frontline-interview-jack-odonnell/

O’Donnell’s report was shocking, but Trump did not contest it at the time. In 1997 he was interviewed for Playboy by author Mark Bowden and he confirmed that the O’Donnell book was “probably true.” http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/

As far as dictators go he is a curious position. Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, were, or is,all tribal leaders. Jong-un is a solo family leader so to speak. As such, his dynasty could end with a single bullet.

I have a feeling that the only tragedy you see is that your white supremacist colleagues don't look so good. I was thinking that his search engine is Breihtbart.

Two more chief executives have resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council over the president's response to violence in Charlottesville at the weekend. Intel's Brian Krzanich and Under Armour head Kevin Plank have followed Merck's Ken Frazier in leaving the council. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40933391 More and more business in America are beginning to realize that associating with trump is a losing proposition. trump therefore had three CEO's quit and he only attacked one of them for doing so. The black one.

The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, ... DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.... “In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” the company’s general counsel, Chris Ghazarian, said in a legal argument opposing the request. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website Perhaps we are being targeted here as well in SC? and Enough time has passed to reach a very reluctant conclusion. Donald Trump, from his first day in the White House, has been ruling, wittingly or not, in a commandeering style unlike any in American history. Experts in politics, diplomacy and journalism have shaken their heads in dismay and bewilderment, unable to come up with a parallel. His style of governance could be called creeping authoritarianism. Perhaps it is no accident that the president gets on best with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Nowhere is this new style more dramatically at play than in President Trump’s bizarre, running war with the media. It is a war he will ultimately lose, in my judgment, but it is a war he is fighting to win. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/346492-the-trumpian-threat-to-freedom-of-the-press

You mean trump would finally have to be dragged kicking and screaming to tell a lie to get the media off his back. To get republicans to back off their criticisms? “What do you think of him?” Donald asked. I said I was familiar with his abilities, and he had shortcomings. “To be honest, I don’t think he’s the best we can have,” I said. “I’d like to see him either come up to speed, where he can help me a lot more, or maybe there’s something else he can do.” Instantly, Donald was enthused. “Yeah, I never liked the guy. I don’t think he knows what the fuck he’s doing. My accountants up in New York are always complaining about him. He’s not responsive. And isn’t it funny, I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else.” I couldn’t believe I was hearing this But Donald went on, “Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control…. Don’t you agree?” He looked at me square in the eye and waited for my reply. “Donald, you really shouldn’t say things like that to me or anybody else,” I said. “That is not the kind of image you want to project. We shouldn’t even be having this conversation, even if it’s the way you feel.” “Yeah, you’re right,” he said. “If anybody ever heard me say that … holy shit … I’d be in a lot of trouble. But I have to tell you, that’s the way I feel.” http://www.snopes.com/trump-laziness-is-a-trait-in-blacks/

That photo was apparently from an earlier event: http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article166999697.html I'd love to hear what his thoughts were at the time. I have that ability. " mmm and I have to protect these idiots, clowns and dimwits. When is this day going to end.....I wonder If its worth while to shoot a couple of them, I feel threatened.....Nah they are not worth the 14 rounds in my Glock...I wonder whats for supper."

Sure sounds good.

IMO Jessie Jackson is a better example of the racist card argument you are trying to make. He was a political opportunist for 20 years and made a living playing the black racist card. Here just for you, but remember high blood pressures are bad for your health. http://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/president-trump/this-is-wrong-this-is-unacceptable-jesse-jackson-criticises-trump-after-charlottesville-attack-36029070.html On another note the hypocrisy of trump comes out to the fore. Merck & Co Inc said its chief executive, Kenneth Frasier, was resigning from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council, following the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia. "America's leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal," Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES! 6:54 AM - Aug 14, 2017 So trump just realized this now... after he resigned and trump's ego was damaged! I'll also add that 99% of republicans are against what these protestors stand for. So the 1% is comprised of trump and....

I'm not sure Trump is fully in touch with reality. He may be blustering and bluffing, he may think that nuclear war is "feasible". He's lived his entire life insulated, isolated and protected from life and consequences. He may well think that anything "bad" would only happen to the "little people". Hopefully those further down the chain of command can prevent him from doing anything stupid. KJU wants nukes and delivery systems to give him a 'security blanket'. The Vox story linked earlier addresses that. And don't forget the drug trafficking by DPRK diplomats. They use the diplomatic bag and their diplomatic immunity to evade arrest. Yeah but nuclear war would ruin trump's hotel business, golf business and Ivanka's fashion business. The horror, the horror, empty rooms and fairways.

For the life of me I can not understand why you refuse to see that BLM was not born of one or two or even a hundred cases. It is born of centuries of violent suppression. BLM has many white members. Yes, black on black violence has a greater volume of deaths. But it is a different subject. You are standing in a forest looking one by one at the trees. The nuance of a different subject, a different motive so to speak seems to confuse some. Black on black violence is different from the homicides of blacks. By police that seem indicative of a reckless attitude and bias against them. For which the defense by police that fear for their lives. Law and precedent in the courts. Seems engineered to preclude liability by LEO for almost any acts of reckless shootings. Back to the Nazi movement subject of this thread. The "Unite the Right " movement led by Jason Kessler. -One of the first headliners at Saturday’s event was Richard Spencer... Spencer led a rally in Washington D.C. after Trump’s election, in which members raised their arms in Nazi salutes, and declared “hail Trump.” http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-leaders-are-addressing-largest-white-nationalist-rally-decades-650096 Anti Jewish chants were intermingled with the mantra of white power for these protestors. All of which also seemed to escape trump's attention. Ah well! Golf and holidays is more important than leadership and example. Or perhaps it was less important than all the other "calls and meetings"!

Maybe, maybe not. I'm gonna guess that KJU and his closest advisers have decent access to the outside world, to include both info and luxury goods. Again, KJU's end game is to stay in power. I think he's smart enough to know that he needs good, accurate, realistic info to do that. Oh they do. Both trump and Jong-un know war is not realistic. They have had nuclear weapons for years(2006). The Pukkuksong-1 is expected to deploy this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukkuksong-1 IMO Jong-un wants deployment options for the 60+ nuclear weapons that he has now in order to provide a firewall for all his other currency counterfeiting, weapons smuggling, technology trading scams that he runs in order to fund elite special interest groups in his government. Its all bluster from trump and his N. Korean equal.

If their goal was that black lives matter as much as anyone's, fine. That is not, however, the case - their point is clearly that black lives matter BECAUSE they're black, which is racist anyway you cut it. To put it mildly I am not a supporter of the marchers in Charlottesville, but I also find the other end of the spectrum to be equally contemptible. "Reverse discrimination" is discrimination, and its adherents use rationalization no more compelling than those they oppose. I'm underwhelmed. You have difficulties with nuance and circumstance where multiple competing interests, objectives, combine for a common purpose. Introspection for true self motivations may help you ascertain the most important factors biasing your views. Good luck.

Less and less elected republicans are defending trump.

So there are subtle "Neonatzi"s who chant "Friday’s protesters shouted anti-Semitic and Nazi-associated slogans, including "blood and soil”: a phrase that references the German ideology of Blut und Boden, or the idea that a person is defined by his or her relationship to ethnic ancestry (blood) and the land they cultivate (soil). Protesters also shouted “Jews will not replace us” (a more explicitly anti-Semitic take on “you will not replace us,” a white-supremacist alt-right slogan that arose in response to actor Shia LaBoeuf’s anti-Trump performance art piece “He Will Not Divide Us”). Attendees at the rally also wore Nazi paraphernalia, carried flags with swastikas alongside Confederate flags, and wore shirts with quotations by Adolf Hitler. " https://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138352/this-weekends-charlottesville-rally-shows-how-close-good-old-boys-and-nazis-really-are

It won't make a blind bit of difference to people like rush or Ron. Trump could be led away in chains and it would STILL be Obama's fault. Muller could find signed and fingerprinted documentation from Trump stating explicitly that he'll give Putin a reacharound every other Monday in return for help during the election and it'll STILL be fake news made up by the evil liberal media. And after all that Ron will state that it is STILL better than Hillary being president, and rush will STILL claim that Hillary has committed crimes and should be locked up - despite the fact you're absolutely right. It's simply not relevant to the current events... Facts and official findings have no place in their world. It's all like America's Favorite Pastime - Baseball. When the home team tries to pick off the guy at 1st, it's all silence, but if the away team does it, Boooooooooo! In baseball, it doesn't matter if you have 20 hits and only 5 runs if they have 10 hits and 6 runs. . .they still win. In this game: Rush/Ron/Trump: 62,984,825 hits - 304 Runs You/Hillary: 65,853,516 hits - 227 Runs Don't pretend you'd play the game differently. . . Great analogy! SAD, BAD analogy. The correct interpretation of this is football. trump is the quarterback and calls bad improvised plays on the line of scrimmage. He blames the receivers for bad passes on routes that cross the middle of the field. That result in DB's laying big hits on defenseless teammates. After the game he calls out his teammates with blame all around. All the while heaping praise on the QB of the hated enemy team in order to get traded for the big bucks.

and some other activities: https://www.ft.com/content/438df45c-d16b-11e5-831d-09f7778e7377 http://www.stylealtitude.com/too-old-to-snowboard.html

Hillary, no warrant from any court. trump/Manafort, special council and warrant.