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Of course, but shouldn't be necessary in a 172. I don't know if a C-172 will recover from a full spin by removing all pilot inputs.

Wait till he finds out his idol is more powerful than he is! https://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/#44c0f4dd4d7e Then tonight: "CNN will air a documentary Monday night about Russian President Vladimir Putin titled, "THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD." "What is the true nature of the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin — and, what are the implications of their relationship for America and the world?" asks a CNN press release promoting the Fareed Zakaria special, which will air at 9 p.m." http://thehill.com/homenews/media/323643-cnn-to-air-putin-documentary-the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world Yesterday CBS 60 minutes had a feature on how Putin was successfully killing his critics and opponents. So you have to know that would piss trump off. He can't even get rid of Rosie O'Donnell.

My wife, an MD with over 30 years in clinical practice, assures me that the "delivers more" is true, but that the "more" is, as often as not, not indicated by any medical reasoning but by CYA and providing a steady revenue stream. Absolutely true. In exhibit #7 the commonwealth fund link that I made a couple posts above it shows that US healthcare costs for drugs, Physician services and hospital services is twice the UK, Canada and Australia. As well as higher than any other country in the study group. So all the b.s. of how great competition in the area of health services is just that b.s. So if Paul Rand has anything to do with the reform of the ACA it will proudly remain that way. Except brand trumpcare as a new term for failure. The only area of substantive difference referenced in the study above to indicate a social/physical reason for higher US costs was higher US obesity rates.

Facts= cognitive dissonance = anger = reaction- reinforcing established values, ideas and foundations of fixed thinking process. vs Facts= thinking= reevaluate recognized values, ideas and foundations of rational thought= change aforementioned, or reinforce them.

Its not like they started the maneuver at an altitude insufficient to normally recover. Or in a AC that has dangerous tendencies in that flight regime. Sometimes ____ happens.

At this point I have to agree that the single payer system would probably work better than this clusterfuck. I guess I'm OK with 6 month lead time for non-emergency surgery and the loss of the R&D carat. We know enough about medicine at this point...no need to investigate further. Yes, single payer with free market competition around the edges to keep service providers honest. Reform liability laws to cut back of the high costs of tests and excessive numbers of procedures to cover the asses of physicians from lawyers. Force drug companies to bid and match international pricing for drugs.Use drug review boards to weed out ineffective and overpriced drugs from coverage. trump has talked about this but so far it hasn't gone far. As the pushback from drug companies is substantial. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/health/us-pays-more-for-drugs/ http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12616730/prescription-drug-prices-american-healthcare-cost All three of these measures would cut US costs in 1/2, cover everyone, cut procedures in 1/2 and likely extend average lives by 1-2 years. Republicans need to overcome the ideas of "another entitlement" and legislation that forces the government to monitor competition, profits.

^^^^^ Me too. From what I've heard Mattis and McMaster are precisely the kind of men/leaders to deal with trump. I see great danger between trump and numnuts bannon. I actually give trump credit for the directions to the military that they can cut politicians out of the micromanagement of drone strikes, special forces raids, etc. Recognizing of course that all military operations need civilian oversight of some sort. Just as the CIA, FBI and NSA need civilian oversight.

Under Trump, will the generals speak up? In a system built on civilian rule, how far should military leaders and other national-security experts go to keep a president from blundering into catastrophe? The latest figure to begin walking this tightrope is Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, Donald Trump’s choice as his new national security adviser. A combat veteran of Desert Storm and the more recent war in Iraq, McMaster is one of the few flag officers who can boast both a Silver Star and a history PhD. He is outspoken and iconoclastic, and McMaster’s career revealed him to be an innovative strategist who was willing to buck the military establishment — even to the point of damaging his own career. He pioneered the controversial counterinsurgency approach that gave the United States an exit strategy from Iraq, before being passed over for promotion by an Army that remained focused on traditional war-fighting. Yet McMaster also comes to his position with strong and established views that seem at odds with those of his new boss. In Iraq, McMaster was known for his respect of Islam and for polling detainees on whether their treatment was humane — a sharp contrast with the enthusiasm Trump has expressed for torture. While McMaster’s reputation as a disruptive outsider no doubt appealed to Trump, events may cast the general in a different role — not as the bull but as the guardian of the china shop. The tension between democracy and expertise in the making of foreign policy is as old as the American republic. The president arrives in office with a democratic mandate, and voters have a right to see their preferences reflected in foreign policy. But faced with the realities of governing, most presidents soon fall under the influence of national security experts in the “deep state,” who have better information and a better grounding in how diplomacy and military operations play out in the real world. Especially under an untested populist president who’s vowed to change treaties and alliances, these experts face a dilemma: How hard should they push back at rash civilian leaders? Already, some career officials are leaking information about the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, underscoring the divide between Trump and the deep state. Other experts will quietly try to steer national security policy toward the status quo. But when does an attempt to moderate the White House actually become an exercise in enabling? We often think of civil-military relations in terms of sober elected politicians trying to hold back bloodthirsty generals and rapacious defense contractors. But generals do not always lean toward war, and civilians do not always lean toward peace. During the Clinton administration, it was then UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright who reportedly asked Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Describing the moment in his memoir, Powell wrote, “I thought I would have an aneurysm.” In a similar spirit, many in the American military blame feckless politicians for dragging the United States into a losing war in Vietnam. McMaster turned that charge around in his 1997 book, “Dereliction of Duty.” By not insisting loudly and repeatedly to President Lyndon Johnson that America was sleepwalking into disaster, he argued, the Joint Chiefs had to share responsibility for the tragedy that ensued. On the one hand, McMaster argued that Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were ignorant of military matters and contemptuous of the true experts. Driven by their own political imperative to find a shortcut to winning the war, they led the country into a quagmire for which it was ill-prepared. On the other hand, the experts shrunk from fulfilling their responsibility to the country by warning of what was to come. McMaster presumed that military experts had the power and the obligation to exercise independent judgment. Today, McMaster is joining an administration that openly scoffs at experts of all sorts and revels in following its populist political instincts. On Monday, President Trump argued that US military forces lose wars because “we don’t fight to win.” Trump is a self-proclaimed master of national security affairs who credits his knowledge to assiduously watching Fox News. He has proudly boasted: “I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.” During his campaign, he also signaled a radical shift on established policies regarding torture, American alliances, and respect for Islam — policies that national security experts, including McMaster, have long regarded as vital to American security. Ethno-nationalists such as Stephen Bannon, a key Trump adviser, espouse a dark view of the world that, if translated into policy, would shred longstanding alliances and global norms. Historically, national security experts have been able to thwart sudden, radical shifts in US policy. In a sober briefing, the deep state can puncture the wildest campaign promise. This dynamic disappointed many supporters of Barack Obama, who saw promises to close Guantanamo and soften other aspects of the “war on terror” fade away into a continuation of the status quo. Trump’s supporters have not yet been similarly disillusioned. To an extent unlike any president in the modern era, Trump rejects the advice of the deep state — even disparaging one of its most sacred routines, the presidential daily brief. In the never-ending balancing act between democracy and expertise, he leans almost entirely toward the former. Now McMaster, who condemned Vietnam-era Americans for getting the relationship of expertise and democracy wrong, will himself be the one charged with striking the right balance. In his book, McMaster scolded Vietnam-era generals for forgetting that they ultimately served not themselves or their political masters, but the Constitution. Seen in this light, service in the Trump administration is a duty, even a noble sacrifice. But anyone engaging with today’s populists also risks becoming an enabler — just like the American generals who failed to prevent feckless and ignorant civilians from leading America into an unwinnable war in Vietnam. https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/03/05/under-trump-will-generals-speak/zxLx65VsJTg6L6cpidlEVO/story.htm

Because trump was a foreign agent. Like duh! President Obama got a $65 million book deal. Just imagine the book deal that Sean Spicer is going to get. $100 and $100's of millions. "My Lies in the White House" by Sean Spicer and the sequel "The Art of the Lie" by Sean Spicer

How the hell is it even vaguely possible the Trump vetting of Flynn was that bad? You don't believe it was known? Are you admitting your entire Administration is fucking incompetent? "WASHINGTON — Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, acted as a foreign agent representing the interests of Turkey’s government in exchange for more than $500,000 during last year’s campaign even as he was advising Trump, according to disclosure forms filed this week.... Flynn signed a contract for the work just three weeks after delivering a fiery speech at the Republican National Convention endorsing Trump and leading “lock her up” chants advocating the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state. Without disclosing his financial interest, Flynn published an op-ed article on Election Day arguing that Turkey was misunderstood and assailing Gulen as “a shady Islamic mullah” and “radical Islamist.”... Democrats have raised concerns about Flynn’s private lobbying since last fall, including his decision to accept a fee reported around $40,000 to attend and speak at a Moscow gala celebration honoring RT, the Russian government-financed, English-language television network viewed in the West as a propaganda organ.... On behalf of his firm, the Flynn Intel Group, Flynn signed the contract Aug. 9 with Inovo, a Dutch firm owned by Ekim Alptekin, chairman of the Turkish-American Business Council. Flynn’s firm was to receive $600,000 for 90 days of work. His initial registration as a lobbyist last year indicated he would receive less than $5,000 for lobbying, although that presumably indicates that he did not define most of the services he would provide Alptekin as lobbying under the law... Flynn opened the Flynn Intel Group in October 2014, two months after he was forced out as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The business was opaque, making little public, not even an address. When a reporter went looking for it last fall, he tracked it down to an Alexandria office building operating out of the nondescript headquarters of another firm, called the White Canvas Group. In an interview with The Times in October, Flynn offered only a vague description of the firm. He said he had clients in Japan and the Middle East and that “we do cybertraining. We have an exceptional cybertraining program.” He added: “That’s what we do. And we also support aviation operations, so we have some aviation logistics that we do. And we do some security consulting and we are also involved in the energy business.” He declined to specify clients, saying he had nondisclosure agreements with them. “I have international clients and I have some clients right here in the United States,” he said. According to this week’s filings, the firm was shuttered after the election when Flynn was headed for the White House." https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/03/10/michael-flynn-was-paid-represent-turkey-during-campaign/67bOZO4GRnUZEekmdY63bM/story.html Oh the trump swamp. Gold, gold and more gold.

Its kind of misleading isn't it? AFAIK you have never lost a minute's sleep about global warming and regardless of circumstance don't plan to either! In fact there is photo evidence of your lack of worry over global warming: http://www.labradorcenter.com/wallpapers/1280x1024/chocolate-lab-puppy-asleep.jpg

"UndergroundNewsReport.com was launched Feb. 21. In less than two weeks, more than 1 million people had viewed stories on the site and spread them across social media platforms. "I was surprised by how gullible the people in the Trump groups were, but as I continued to write ridiculous things they just kept getting shared and I kept drawing more viewers," McDaniel told PolitiFact. "I saw how many fake ridiculous stories were making rounds in these groups and just wanted to see how ridiculous they could get."... McDaniel said he would sometimes peg his posts to real news events, but more often, he just made them up wholesale. He’d find photos on the Internet and generally rip off an article without even rereading it. In all, he speculated, he worked on the site about two hours per day." McDaniel even tried to warn viewers by putting a disclaimer on the bottom of his web pages saying his posts "are fiction, and presumably fake news." While a handful of people took the time to email him to ask if stories were real or send hate mail, most of the comments on his links blindly accepted what he wrote as the truth." http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2017/mar/09/fake-news-website-starts-joke-gains-1-million-view/

The Paris Agreement (French: Accord de Paris) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015.[3][4] It was opened for signature on 22 April 2016 (Earth Day) at a ceremony in New York.[5] As of December 2016, 194 UNFCCC members have signed the treaty, 134 of which have ratified it. After several European Union states ratified the agreement in October 2016, there were enough countries that had ratified the agreement that produce enough of the world's greenhouse gases for the agreement to enter into force.[6] The agreement went into effect on 4 November 2016.[2] AHHHHHH! trump, the so proud deniers. Standing up to the whole world. Standing up to science. Next step "Trump’s Dangerous Support for Conspiracies About Autism and Vaccines" http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/trumps-dangerous-support-for-conspiracies-about-autism-and-vaccines I'm sure he can scour the interwebs to find some PhDs who can endorse him if he looks long enough.

$178 billion in profits, no taxes paid http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2017/03/09/178-billion-in-profits-no-taxes-paid.html

With Trump in White House, His Golf Properties Prosper MARCH 9, 2017 WASHINGTON — It is a golden age for golf — at least as far as the Trump Organization is concerned. On Memorial Day weekend, the Senior P.G.A. Championship will be held at the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Washington. In July, the company’s course in Bedminster, N.J., is hosting another major event, the United States Women’s Open. The company is also bidding to host the Scottish Open or a half-dozen other possible professional tournaments at courses it owns in spots around the world from Miami to Dubai. “The stars have all aligned,” Eric Trump, who as executive vice president of the Trump Organization oversees all its golf properties, said on Thursday morning, while sipping an iced tea at the restaurant inside the Trump International Hotel before appearing at a promotional event for the Memorial Day tournament. “I think our brand is the hottest it has ever been.” What he did not mention at the news conference, while the cameras were rolling, is the product placement of incalculable value that is helping boost the Trump Organization’s golf courses: his father. President Trump has given the family’s global inventory of golf courses — 15 that it owns, one that it manages in Dubai and three others under construction — a new level of international attention. He has returned to his home at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., for four out of the last five weekends in office to play golf at two of his nearby courses, including rounds with the prime minister of Japan. Before he was sworn in, Mr. Trump spent days interviewing potential cabinet members at his Bedminster course. In total, Mr. Trump has played golf at least seven times since he was inaugurated — each time at his family’s own courses. Mr. Trump is certainly not the first golfer in the White House — 16 of the last 19 presidents have been golfers, including Barack Obama, who played 333 rounds of golf, according to a count by Mark Knoller, a CBS News reporter who maintains such data. But Mr. Obama’s most frequent golf venue was Joint Base Andrews, not a collection of golf courses he owns, where membership initiation fees hit as high as $250,000. It is “synergy” to be sure, for the Trump family and its golf enterprise. Eric Trump says the company has invested more than $1 billion in the golf course business since 2005 and has seen a recent surge in revenue because of the continued rising fortunes on Wall Street, which is always good for this high-end game, as well as the unprecedented attention that the brand is receiving. But to some, it sounds like a serious conflict of interest. Mr. Trump owns the resorts, and critics say he should not be using the Oval Office as a global advertising platform for his businesses. While Golf Digest has called the president “Golfer in Chief,” these critics say he may be more appropriately called “Marketer in Chief” for Trump golf properties. “You might call it corruption-tinged synergy,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a liberal nonprofit group. “It is yet another effort by the family business to cash in on the presidency.” Eric Trump defended the overlap, saying it was nothing unusual. “Bush arguably brought name recognition to Crawford, Texas,” Eric Trump said on Thursday, noting that George W. Bush had a ranch there that he frequented. But when pressed — Mr. Bush derived no commercial benefit from his ties to Crawford — Eric Trump then offered a different defense. “The American people elected a businessman,” he said, adding that to his father the golf courses are “his home” and the fact that they are for-profit enterprises is secondary. But the overlap is already drawing protests, including from environmental groups, which are angry that one of the first acts Mr. Trump took as president was to move to repeal a landmark Environmental Protection Agency rule — hated by the golfing industry — that is intended to protect drinking water supplies. “A devastating economic impact on the golf course industry,” the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America argued, as it urged members to help push to kill the rule. Even women’s rights and immigrant rights groups are rallying, including one called Wall of Us, which is calling on the Ladies Professional Golf Association to move its United States Open tournament scheduled for July at the Trump family course in New Jersey, given the president’s past comments that many considered insulting to women. For Mr. Trump, who ridiculed Mr. Obama for playing too much golf when he was in office, the sport is more than a pastime; it is potentially good for his business. And he has been noisily and passionately promoting his golf properties in every corner of the typically staid golf community for more than a decade. In 2022, Bedminster is scheduled to host one of golf’s most prestigious men’s major championships, and he has forcefully — and so far unsuccessfully — lobbied the sport’s foremost national governing body, the United States Golf Association, to award its most prized tournament, the United States Open, to a Trump golf course. As early as 2001 he began buying golf courses, and snapped up several in the years after the financial crisis. He typically buys clubs and then spends millions renovating them — and then defies golf conventions. For example, many of golf’s most distinguished courses are understated and highlight natural elements of topography, but the Trump golf properties often showcase grandiose artificial features like waterfalls, soaring fountains and sculpted rock formations. None of Mr. Trump’s courses made Golf Digest’s 2016/2017 list of top 100 golf courses. At the same time, several golf courses in the Trump catalog have commanded respect for their impressive layouts and substantial challenges, and because they are routinely in spectacular condition. A few have climbed into annual rankings of top 100 courses nationally or worldwide. Mr. Trump has for years been the chief promoter of his golf empire. His face, and adept golf swing, have graced the cover of countless golf publications. Until last year, Mr. Trump regularly beseeched prominent golf writers and the editors of top golf magazines to play with him at his courses, offering to whisk them off on his private jet to Scotland. Though Mr. Trump has said the company’s golf resorts have been a roaring financial success, running golf courses is not easy, and an economic downturn or even a rainy summer can hurt the bottom line. It is impossible to know how much money Mr. Trump’s courses actually make. The Trump Organization is privately held and it has not released any detailed financial information on them. Mr. Trump has not released his tax returns, which would also shed light on the courses’ profitability. What little information has been released does not paint a full picture. Take Mr. Trump’s resort in Doral, Fla., which he bought in 2011 with financing from Deutsche Bank. On the financial disclosure forms he was required to file as part of his bid for the presidency, he said that course had revenues of more than $50 million in 2014. The course’s profits were not listed, but Mr. Trump’s lawyers disclosed in a 2016 court case that after paying operating costs, the resort had actually lost $2.4 million that year. Long before Mr. Trump was mixing golf and politics, he was well known for doing business on the links. Mr. Trump brought up one such game at a meeting last month of top corporate executives, pressing Jeffrey R. Immelt, chief executive of General Electric, to share a story about a game they played years ago at one of Mr. Trump’s courses. “Jeff actually watched me make a hole in one; can you believe that?” Mr. Trump said at the White House meeting, adding, “I was the best golfer of all the rich people.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/trump-golf-courses.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

I guess they are not counting the ones launched outside the USA? Canada’s top court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling in favour of investors who had launched a lawsuit alleging they were misled by U.S. President Donald Trump and a real estate development firm. more here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-wont-hear-appeal-by-donald-trump-developers/article34247382/ "The sale of Toronto’s Trump Tower failed to attract a single bid from anyone except the lender that owns its debt, according to news reports. Plagued by years of financial losses, the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto went into receivership last year, after defaulting on a C$260-million loan... U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t own the hotel. It’s owned by developer Talon International, which licensed the Trump brand and hired the Trump Organization to manage the facility. All the same, a court ruled last fall that Trump himself can be sued over the project by investors who allege they lost money after being misled into purchasing condos or hotel rooms in the building. The hotel, which has been the site of multiple protests since Trump’s election, has been plagued with technical problems and low hotel room occupancy. Talon head Alex Shnaider predicted last year the Trump brand would come off the building after it's sold. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/06/trump-tower-toronto-no-buyers_n_15192146.html "Vancouver police spent roughly $105,000 responding to demonstrations outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Georgia Street February 28, the day three of the U.S. President’s children came to open the luxury property. Vancouver Police Department spokesman Jason Doucette said the police presence was to oversee public safety at numerous demonstrations planned throughout the city and not as a security force for the hotel."... he Trump Tower has become a beacon for controversy and criticism in Vancouver from the moment Donald Trump announced his campaign for the U.S. presidency. Once elected, demonstrations against the Trump administration have only increased since executive orders targeted immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries." https://www.biv.com/article/2017/3/police-spent-105000-vancouver-trump-hotel-protest/

All about the gold....er.... swamp. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-named-more-50-lawsuits-inauguration-n716191 and 75 active actions prior to inauguration. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/10/75-lawsuits-against-president-elect-trump.html

For some they may be off the scale: https://www.politicalcompass.org/

I think you've had to go to a lot of effort to twist the words of the person you're responding to in order to be able to make that statement. Which, when you recognise that, makes it rather pointless. I was personally rather befuddled and dumbfounded simultaneously by that statement. First I doubt such suggestions of trumps character are going to change the minds of any of his "true believers". Let alone control their political beliefs. Be they religious, or not, HRC haters, bigots, etc. trump supporters are always welcome to argue, to debate, his policies on the factual merits. To the benefit of the USA, the economy,draining the swamp, maintaining white Christian values......

Thx and I coincidentally agree about the Mormons. "A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings has shown that 72 percent of evangelicals believe that an immoral person can nonetheless behave ethically when fulfilling public duties, a stunning increase from only 30 percent five years ago.... For Mormons, the importance of personal rectitude is paramount—including, and perhaps even especially, for elected leaders. Mormon scripture, for example, includes this statement, believed by Mormons to be the literal word of God, “When the wicked rule, the people mourn. Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil.” http://www.newsweek.com/why-mormons-reject-donald-trump-517106 "Trump, for his part, has tried harder to appeal to Mormon sensibilities since invoking his Muslim ban, launching a series of attacks on opponents that cast them as somehow un-Mormon. Last Friday, the Republican front-runner tweeted disparaging remarks about Senator Ted Cruz. Trump, who claims to be Presbyterian, said Cruz “should not be allowed to win” Tuesday’s Utah caucus because his views are out-of-step with the roughly 60 percent of the state’s population that identifies as Mormon. “Mormons don't like LIARS!” Trump tweeted. Hours later, Trump questioned the Mormon piety of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and two-time GOP presidential candidate who also happens to be a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Romney, who won a whopping 93 percent of the vote in the 2012 Utah caucus, came out against Trump early March, calling him “a phony, a fraud.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/donald-trump-gop-mormon-vote-utah/474819/ "Here's the exchange, in Coppins' own words: When I interviewed him in 2014, he argued vigorously — despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary — that Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election because many Christian voters were put off by his alien faith. Eventually, I had to to interrupt him. “I’m actually Mormon,” I said. He raised his eyebrows. “You are?” He promptly recalibrated, telling me about a Jewish friend (“great guy, rich guy”) who had moved to Utah and fallen in love with the local creedal breed. “You know,” he said, “people don’t understand the Mormon thing. I do. I get it. They are great people!”... "However, the Church is not neutral on its stance of its members' involvement in politics and their local communities. No matter a member's country or political affiliation, the Church encourages them to "play a role as responsible citizens in their communities," become "informed about issues" and world events, and "vot[e] in elections" when they are given the opportunity." http://www.ldsliving.com/What-Trump-Told-One-Reporter-What-He-Thought-About-Mormons/s/81085 So for Mormons Integrity is key. For "72 percent of evangelicals" any lying, cheating, immoral and adulterous, racist, bigot, will do. As long as he can keep America Christian, White and the poor in their place.

Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not what’s going to happen” and that Republicans will instead just make some fixes to the health care law. Boehner, who retired in 2015 amid unrest among conservatives, said at an Orlando healthcare conference that GOP lawmakers were too optimistic in their talk of quickly repealing and then replacing Obamacare. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/john-boehner-obamacare-republicans-235303

I know brenthutch is going to love this. I didn't know whether i should have put it in the trump gaffe, Legacy or Election humor thread. April 1st is just around the corner as well. EPA chief doubts carbon dioxide's role in global warming He told CNBC that measuring human impact on the climate was "very challenging" and there was "tremendous disagreement" about the issue. Mr Pruitt instead insisted that officials needed "to continue the debate" on the issue. His remarks contradict his own agency's findings on greenhouse gas emissions. Data released in January by NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the planet's rising temperature has been "driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions in the atmosphere". The two US agencies added that the earth's 2016 temperatures were the warmest ever. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39221092 "In a few weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris to negotiate a climate change agreement that will frame the global agenda on this issue for the next decade and beyond. As a new Pew Research Center survey illustrates, there is a global consensus that climate change is a significant challenge. Majorities in all 40 nations polled say it is a serious problem, and a global median of 54% consider it a very serious problem. Moreover, a median of 78% support the idea of their country limiting greenhouse gas emissions as part of an international agreement in Paris... Nevertheless, there are significant regional differences on the perception of the problems posed by global warming. And Americans and Chinese, whose economies are responsible for the greatest annual CO2 emissions, are among the least concerned. (For more on global anxiety about climate change, see “Climate Change Seen as Top Global Threat”, released July 14, 2015). Climate change is not viewed as a distant threat. Across the nations surveyed, a median of 51% believe people are already being harmed by climate change and another 28% think people will be harmed in the next few years. More than half in 39 of 40 countries are concerned it will cause harm to them personally during their lifetime (the United Kingdom is the exception), and a global median of 40% are very worried this will happen. Concerns about climate change are especially common in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. However, they are less prevalent in China and the U.S., the two largest greenhouse gas emitters. For instance, just 18% of Chinese and 45% of Americans say climate change is a very serious problem, compared with a global median of 54%. Similarly, while four-in-ten around the world are very worried that global warming will harm them personally, just 15% in China and 30% in the U.S. share this fear." http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/11/05/global-concern-about-climate-change-broad-support-for-limiting-emissions/

Ah the hidden power of the subconscious, most people know the real truth about someone. I always suspected that you were secretly very intelligent. Believing that there were just some lapses in education, like the core sciences!

Can anyone imagine trump making a statement like this: ""Discrimination against a Rohingya or any other religious minority, I think, does not express the kind of country that Burma over the long term wants to be," Obama told a news conference with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her lakeside home in the city of Yangon." For conduct like this: " Bangkok, Thailand — As Myanmar defends itself against allegations of state-sponsored persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority, attention has turned to what neighboring countries are doing to protect Rohingya asylum seekers. International refugee rights organizations say a coordinated response is needed for what is a growing refugee crisis in the region. The mistreatment of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, is consequential for neighboring countries trying to cope with a rising number of refugees while also making economic inroads into Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Police and immigration officers in countries from Thailand to Australia are accused by rights groups of gross mistreatment of Rohingya, who live mostly in Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh and are essentially stateless under Myanmar's law. " http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0226/Southeast-Asia-seen-failing-Myanmar-s-persecuted-Rohingya-Muslims trump had turned that on its head and made the US a state sponsor of religious intolerance. As to whether trump is a religious asshole he has just started defining that term and is only ,what, 48 days into it.

Kind of like the biblical description of Christ. Its a GREAT thing that there are Priests in the US who can interpret the teachings of Christ. To protect white Americans. To show how the Pope in the Vatican is wrong. Just like there are Mullahs in the Caliphate to interpret the teachings of Allah. To protect the true believers from the 1.6 billion Muslims who are wrong. "Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, now the most influential American Catholic because of his role on the pope’s council of cardinals tasked with reforming church governance, could also play a key role in helping communicate more effectively that Catholic opposition to abortion should never be viewed as a single-issue theology that blesses one political party. Instead it is part and parcel of the church’s respect for the sanctity of all life – the migrant, the prisoner on death row, the child in extreme poverty, the dying and the disabled. In a homily before the annual March for Life in Washington, O’Malley described poverty as a “dehumanizing force” and insisted “the Gospel of Life demands that we work for economic justice in our country and in our world.” In April, when the cardinal led a delegation of bishops to the U.S.-Mexico border to bear witness to the suffering and death caused by a broken immigration system, he called comprehensive immigration reform “another pro-life issue.”... Efforts to give the federal minimum wage a modest boost to $10.10 an hour are going nowhere in a Republican-controlled House filled with conservatives who proudly wave the “family values” flag. Pope Francis understands that talk is cheap. Families need more than lofty rhetoric. Serving human dignity and the common good means putting real meat on the bones of our values. http://time.com/3079417/pope-francis-and-the-new-values-debate/