Phil1111

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

Well, yeah. I probably should have added the qualifier that the whole admin has lied, repeatedly. Just not always under oath. It would be very interesting to get Trump testifying under oath. If I recall correctly he gets impeached if he lies under oath. And I think everyone here, regardless of your party or opinion, knows that Trump lies almost continuously. He lies so much that we've practically gotten used to just ignoring what he says and knowing that it's a lie and he's just going to lie the next day when he changes his mind but needs to lie about yesterday's lie. So why the F**k does everyone blame poor Sean. He needs crib notes to keep up with all the lying. He is going to need a psychiatrist for the rest of his life. Thankfully he's fully insured. Meanwhile: "Graham: 'I want to know more about Trump's business dealings' http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/lindsey-graham-trump-business/ The South Carolina senator also reportedly said that getting hold of the president’s tax returns would be helpful to the effort, though he said it was too soon to talk about issuing a subpoena to the White House. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-taxes-probe-republican-investigation-lindsay-graham-a7726631.html

Airline travel, starting to look like Christmas at Walmart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6rA6qzoBOM Lines are longer than usual. Hundreds of flights have been delayed or canceled during the past week. By Monday, frustrations boiled over for Spirit Airlines passengers in Fort Lauderdale. Police were called to quell fights that had broken out there between upset fliers and beleaguered airline employees. Videos posted by passengers showed a chaotic scene, with authorities doing their best to separate fighting fliers. The Monday evening incident erupted after Spirit Airlines abruptly canceled nine different flights, according to CBS News. But problems had been building at the carrier for the past week, with CNN saying nearly 300 Spirit flights have been canceled during that period. What’s the problem? Spirit Airlines filed a suit Monday against its pilot union, alleging “an unlawful job action by Spirit pilots.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/05/09/spirit-airlines-chaos-fights-erupt-cancellations-roil-carrier/101458876/

Several of Trump’s critics have moved forward with legal action. The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump’s business holdings violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which makes it illegal for government officials to “accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” CREW’s bipartisan legal team includes, among others, Norm Eisen and Richard Painter, who served as ethics lawyers under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, respectively; Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University; and Zephyr Teachout, a professor at Fordham University (and former congressional candidate) who is considered an authority on the Emoluments Clause. All have been vocally critical of Trump’s continued refusal to sell off his business, and are now taking their case to court . https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/ President Donald Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since assuming the presidency in January, the Boston Globe reported Friday. That's nearly three times as many lawsuits as his three most recent predecessors combined, according to the Globe, and an average of more than one suit per day of his still-young presidency. https://mic.com/articles/176466/donald-trump-lawsuits#.zy7nMOF2X

Eric Trump said in 2014 that Russians fund family’s golf courses: golf writer http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/eric-trump-russians-fund-family-golf-courses-golf-writer-article-1.3144996

At first, Le Pen tried hard to ride Trump’s coattails, declaring the morning after his election that they were part of a global movement that would “bury the old order.” During the transition, she even visited Trump Tower (though she didn’t meet with the man himself). What she didn’t anticipate was the degree to which the spectacle of the Trump presidency had unnerved the French public. With about 80 percent of the French expressing a negative view of the American president, according to polls, Le Pen soon stopped mentioning him on the campaign trail. http://www.politico.eu/article/merci-for-nothing-donald/ Its called the kiss of death. Cosy up to Putin or trump and the results are the same. Video proof that Macron speaks better English than trump. Complete sentences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2PNLz5ml8A

The votes are not all counted yet but they are saying 65.5% in favour of Macron. So it's official - France has said NO to the Nazi. Thank fuck. Well, maybe they learned from our lesson. The Dutch certainly did a couple months ago. Hopefully Macron will recognize why he was elected. Look at all the voters who turned away from the mainstream parties. Those that viewed Le Pen as an answer. A lesson from Venezuela on how not to be a trump: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/01/20/culturejam/

Saying NO requires judgement because in most cases you see the desire and want to help. It takes experience to know what can be done and what can't. Experience leads to better judgement, usually. Every instructor needs to have the idea that at some point they need to say, stop. Even ground someone and/or refund their money and say this is not for them. Usually the idea is that they will probably be OK. So no action is taken to stop it.

To be honest, I'm having trouble just keeping up with the insanity in the Trump administration. Where do they find these guys? Jerry Baumchen This won't make it any easier. Lets face it trump attracts flakes like flies to a warm pile of P**p! A former Kentucky campaign official for President Donald Trump is due in court on Friday after being charged with human trafficking in the U.S. southern state. Timothy Nolan, a retired district court judge, was arrested last month and charged with forcing a minor to engage in commercial sex around August 2016. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trafficking-lawsuit-idUSKBN17Y299

Perhaps Colbert should have used the name Julian Assange instead of trump for last Monday's joke.

AFAIK that saying has nothing to do with homophobia. Its merely a new version of a old general insult. It was thrown in with a bunch of other fairly serious digs/jokes. The original story states Colbert noted Dickerson has too much “dignity to trade insults with the president of the United States to his face,” adding “But I, sir, am no John Dickerson.” And the audience roars with applause. Sometimes when jokes don't match the audience there is a smattering of boos, or disapproval. Colbert's audience is unanimously in favor of the standard anti-trump line of humor. in the past his jokes have been as surgical against the ant-gay Republican politicians. Who are regulars at putting their feet in their mouths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5qeJJq9jI