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Ingus Augstkalns was lifted 1,082 feet (330 meters) into the air by a 28-propeller drone, dropped and parachuted safely back to the earth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4500720/Drone-lifts-daredevil-1-082ft-skydiving-jump.html

Sure, especially for you - as there will not be any maiden in the sky, dressed with the sun and a crown made of stars on her head ... Oh my, even here in Germany we have those false pharisees, selling thier books after the sermon But, if it makes you happy .... What... why wasn't I informed??... What happens Sept. 23?? Should I buy a boat?... Build a bunker?,... Stockpile more guns?...Stockpile more ammo?

I do not believe what you stated. OK, my values regarding President Trump are simple. He is not Hillary Clinton. I pray for him and his administration. I pray that the Lord guides him to make good decisions. He does not have to be perfect. Do not forget, in business you only have to be right 60% of the time to be a winner. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/clinton-faith-private/ They on the other hand there is the crotch grabbing, lying, well everyone knows the rest. Not that I am defending HRC. That link was for Ron's benefit. Links and references to trump's once every 5-10 year church attendance have been posted here before.

Nicole Harper, a Missouri woman, shared her story on Facebook about her experience with United Airlines during a flight from Kansas City to Houston when attendants allegedly denied her bathroom use and joked that she should pee in a cup. “While allowing other passengers to get up and use the restroom on a seemingly uneventful flight, United Airlines crew wouldn’t allow me to get up and use the restroom until the pilot turned off the seat belt sign,” Harper wrote on her Facebook. “After explaining that I have an overactive bladder and would either need to use the restroom or pee in a cup, I was handed a cup by flight attendants.” Harper also shared that the incident happened the same day as Dr. Dao’s ordeal but on a different flight... A United spokesperson spoke to Fortune and denied the claims saying, “At no point during the flight did flight attendants suggest that Ms. Harper use cups instead of the lavatory.” http://people.com/chica/united-airlines-responds-to-claim-that-woman-was-forced-to-pee-in-cup/

I'm absolutely disgusted by some of the comments on the website. A criminal is a criminal -- she was convicted and she'll be sentenced. But the racism and other generalizations thrown around in so many of those comments posted is incredibly discouraging. trolls IMO political party is irrelevant to corruption. Just as religion, race, sex, etc. is irrelevant.

Well, it is an insult to the intelligence of 37. As Bill Maher said: "Reagan was ignorant, but not vile. Nixon was vile, but not ignorant. Trump is both vile, and ignorant." Nixon: - Ended the Vietnam war. - Normalized relations with mainland China. - Had the last truly balanced budget (side effect of ending the war). Trump will never approach those accomplishments. Reagan may not have the sheer brains of Bill Clinton. Reagan allowed the debt to get out of control. Ronald Reagan: Added $1.86 trillion, a 186 percent increase from the $998 billion debt at the end of Carter's last budget, FY 1981. See Did Reaganomics Work? https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296 He missed the Wikipedia top 1/4 of all US presidents by one place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States I personally liked Reagan because he had superb interpersonal skills. He surrounded himself by excellent people and Nancy was a superb backstop. She was the full equal to Michelle Obama. The end of the cold war was of course on Regan's watch. Credit to him, is open to debate. But he deserves some.

Has anyone else noticed that he's the only one defending Trump? While it's entirely possible he's just doing it to be contrarian and argumentative, it is kind of funny that all the other staunch right wing conservatives have fallen silent. At least in defense of Trump. There's still a few "Obama did it" or "Clinton did it" comments, but that's about it. Why people respond to Rush at all is beyond me... My blood pressure has certainly gone down since I started ignoring his tripe in here. Like I said in another thread, every single reply of his is a formulaic rehash of about 8 standard retorts, none of which bring anything new to the conversation. That isn't a discussion among adults - it's the blathering of an 8 year old. You guys realize that you'll NEVER get his to change his opinion, right? He doesn't want a discussion. He doesn't want different sources of information. He's the political equivalent of a religious fundamentalist. Just ignore him and he'll eventually go away. Just ignore him and he'll eventually go away. I disagree with this. Miracles only occur once every couple thousand years. Its very difficult for trump supporters to defend him and as his actions become more and more bizarre. Embarrassing to admit you are a trump supporter. He could have been an agent for change and likely changed the makeup of the supreme court. Fixing the ACA act will be up to congress. Overhauling waste in Washington is now so thoroughly derailed thats its an afterthought. Be it in France, Great Britain, or the US. A large segment of the population needs to have their positions better represented. Free trade and globalization has made some industries very profitable. At the expense of loosing industries. trump's actions are destroying any chance of enhancing, overhauling or bettering. Millions of Americans, who voted for him and who deserve protection. Deserve legislation that focuses government, law and taxes to drive jobs in new areas, new industries. That sets aside of course the damage that all this is doing in an already polarized constituency.

President Trump is besieged by internal leaks as he tries to weather the fallout from his firing of FBI Director James Comey. Media reports about the run-up to Trump’s decision paint him as isolated and consumed by anger and paranoia, prompting questions from Trump allies about whose interests these government officials had in mind when they spoke to the press.... The conflict with Comey appears to have launched a new round of leaks from the Justice Department and the FBI. Citing sources close to Comey or lawmakers in touch with the FBI and DOJ, media outlets ran with stories about how Comey was fired because the administration felt the noose tightening on the Russia investigation.... “It’s image-making on the inside and people trying to protect themselves. There is a deep streak of paranoia among staff. The communications team shit the bed on the Comey firing and now the war with the FBI has them all scared and throwing each other under the bus. "Thank God I don’t work there. If I did, I’d be dialing up my attorney.” The behind-the-scenes stories that gripped Washington on Thursday were relayed to the press in the publications and news outlets Trump loves to hate — the New York Times and Washington Post. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333031-trumps-comey-firing-sets-off-new-round-of-leaks

WASHINGTON — Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with the new commander in chief. The conversation that night in January, Mr. Comey now believes, was a harbinger of his downfall this week as head of the F.B.I., according to two people who have heard his account of the dinner. As they ate, the president and Mr. Comey made small talk about the election and the crowd sizes at Mr. Trump’s rallies. The president then turned the conversation to whether Mr. Comey would pledge his loyalty to him. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Mr. Comey declined to make that pledge. Instead, Mr. Comey has recounted to others, he told Mr. Trump that he would always be honest with him, but that he was not “reliable” in the conventional political sense.

New F.B.I.-Director Job Application http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/new-f-b-i-director-job-application

Agree. Its the same as the WH and all the leaks that flood out of it like water down the Mississippi river. But its not as much payback as people that want to ensure that obstacles...obstruction of justice don't impede the truth. For certain this week Attorney General Jeff Sessions was disclosed to be a pandering, puppet of trump. Liar as well, but thats part of the protocol.

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.f9379f2ada6a Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Voters need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/302216-how-much-money-does-the-trump-organization-owe

99.99% of the time i don't. At her age prison should be suitable. Imagine a congresswoman's pension($74,000 a year). Yet still needs to steal from a charity.

Comey's firing has brought out lies from the everyone involved. Oh well, another day at the office. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333008-white-houses-fbi-story-unravels Poor Sean, under the stress from lying he has to hide in the bushes of the WH. Everyone speculating if he is the next to be fired: White House says rumored Spicer replacement ‘wrong’: report http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333054-white-house-says-rumored-spicer-replacement-wrong-report All while he is off serving in the USN reserve. Back to trump. Unknown to all he is also a mechanical engineer as well! President Trump said he has told the Navy to return to decades-old steam-powered catapult technology to launch aircraft from the new Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers, rather than use a new digital launch system. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, ‘What system are you going to be—‘ ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’ http://thehill.com/policy/defense/333040-trump-wants-goddamned-steam-catapults-on-new-aircraft-carriers

Congrats, you post about a democrat Even though CBS leaves that out.... "Brown, a Democrat who represented the Florida district that included Jacksonville since 1993," from the story. IMO a politician who steals from a charity is akin to a child molester.

Is that as close as you're going to get to acknowledging that your question was misleading and irrelevant? Because it's not too late to do the honest and classy thing, and actually say it.

Meanwhile in Russia Putin celebrates. Russian president Vladimir Putin scores six goals, five assists in exhibition game http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/article/russian-president-vladimir-putin-scores-six-goals-five-assists-in-exhibition-game Probably feeling good on how well his suggestion that trump fire the FBI director went. Don't forget the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=TUdYCzdpzdY

FBI directors are confirmed by the senate for a 10 year term in order to avoid politics. Perhaps only congress should be able to terminate him.

Just like Kushner's visa peddling in China. Journalists need not attend.

Days Before He Was Fired, Comey Asked for Money for Russia Investigation WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request. Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week. Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/comey-russia-investigation-fbi.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 CNN and the Washington Post also reported on Comey's request for more resources. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332741-comey-sought-funding-increase-for-russia-probe-before-firing-report

and his boss: There's a remarkably telling paragraph in Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush's tour de force in the New York Times documenting President Trump's first two weeks in office. Here it is: Usually around 6:30 p.m., Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter. With his wife, Melania, and young son, Barron, staying in New York, he is almost always by himself, sometimes in the protective presence of his imposing longtime aide and former security chief, Keith Schiller. When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home. First of all, it's amazing reporting that allows HaberThrush to create such a vivid image. Second, it continues to shock me how willing administration officials are to leak information that makes the 45th president look not so good. And third, and most importantly, the image of Trump as an almost entirely solitary figure, riveted to a TV set and his phone, is a revealing and important window into the man and the life he now lives. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/the-exceptional-isolation-of-donald-trump/?utm_term=.b0a26a64ef30 Everybody is hiding or has something to hide.

Methinks thou dost protest too much. Imagine ...if you can... his mind at work. Well this letter should put this all to rest, its "Certified". Alternative reality Ha ha ha the FBI is all mine, MINE, MINE I tell you.

May 09 2017 STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON DISMISSAL OF FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY Washington, D.C. ­– U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey: “While the President has the legal authority to remove the Director of the FBI, I am disappointed in the President's decision to remove James Comey from office. James Comey is a man of honor and integrity, and he has led the FBI well in extraordinary circumstances. I have long called for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia's interference in the 2016 election. The president's decision to remove the FBI Director only confirms the need and the urgency of such a committee.”

Breaking news..Chris Christie is the nominee for FBI director. President trump feels his outstanding work in the bridgegate investigation, warrants his appointment to director.

In 1973, President Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox because he wouldn't obey Nixon's order to stop looking into Watergate. Two of the Justice Department's top leaders resigned in protest rather than following Nixon's directive to fire Cox. It became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," an instance of the president using his power to punish political enemies within the Justice Department. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-the-saturday-night-massacre-20170130-htmlstory.html Now the FBI director by trump President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, the White House announced Tuesday afternoon. "The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters in the briefing room... The White House said that Trump "acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions" and that a search for a new permanent FBI director would "begin immediately." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332613-trump-fires-comey In a signed letter, Trump informed Comey that he was "hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately," explaining that he reached the conclusion that Comey is "not able to effectively lead the bureau."... "It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission," Trump told Comey in the letter. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/james-comey-fbi-trump-white-out/index.html