Phil1111

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/

" Germans consider US as reliable a partner as Russia – poll Published time: 4 Feb, 2017 02:58 Less than a quarter of Germans consider the US, under Donald Trump’s leadership, to be a reliable partner their country can trust according to a recent survey. Roughly the same number of respondents believe Germany can cooperate with Russia. The Infratest dimap study reveals that German public trust in the US has dived to a record low, with only 22 percent of Germans supporting Trump’s policies, just two weeks after the Republican assumed office, Der Welt reports. The new figures represent a 37 percent drop of trust compared to a similar poll conducted just before the US presidential election. In November 2016, 59 percent of Germans trusted the US compared to 22 percent now. Read more © Yves Herman NATO must share burden fairly, adapt to confront extremism & terrorism, US and Germany agree The new survey also placed German confidence in Russia on almost the same level with the US. Only 21 percent of responders said they believe Russia to be a reliable partner. While also low, that number is nothing compared to the distrust towards Turkey, which has the miserly support of only four percent of Germans." https://www.rt.com/news/376274-germany-us-reliable-partner-poll/ "German trust in the US as a global partner has plummeted since Mr Trump came to power. It found that in November 2016, 59 per cent of respondents said the US was a trustworthy partner for Germany, compared to 25 per cent who would say the same about Russia. Polling dated February 2017 found that trust in the US had dropped to 22 per cent. Trust in Russia also dropped, but only slightly, to 21 per cent." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/donald-trump-der-spiegel-american-psycho-front-cover-president-germany-magazine-a7562171.html Majority of Americans trust media more than Trump, poll finds A majority of Americans say they trust the media more than President Donald Trump, a new poll finds. The Quinnipiac University poll asked participants if the media or Trump “tell you the truth about important issues.” According to the survey, 52% of voters trust the media, and 37% said they trusted Trump more. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/majority-of-americans-trust-media-more-than-trump-poll-finds-christie-turned-down-labor-secretary-offer-2017-02-23

Obama: "Banks paid $321 billion in fines since financial crisis: BCG Banks across the world have paid about $321 billion in fines since the 2007-2008 financial crisis as regulators stepped up scrutiny, according to a note by the Boston Consulting Group." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-fines-idUSKBN1692Y2 trump Trump’s Dismantling of Dodd-Frank Would Be 2008 All Over Again Steven Mnuchin, began to speak out against financial reform from the moment his nomination was announced, suggesting that he would “kill” aspects of Dodd-Frank, roll back the law’s Volcker Rule against proprietary trading, and focus solely on regulating FDIC-insured banks. Ending Dodd-Frank would be deeply misguided and likely to recreate the very conditions that led to the 2008 financial crisis, shuttered American businesses, and cost millions of Americans their jobs. The financial sector will get a nice sugar high for a few years, and then crash the economy. But despite these looming consequences, lobbyists have sought to weaken the law for the last six years. Many Republicans in Congress have been attacking Dodd-Frank since its enactment, and have put forward a series of bills to roll it back. Just this month, the House passed legislation to remove most banks over $50 billion in size from the requirement for safety stress testing. Another House bill would block regulators from requiring global capital cushions for big insurers like AIG." http://fortune.com/2016/12/08/trump-dodd-frank-2008-financial-crisis-steve-mnuchin/

U.S. Falls in Ranking of the Best Countries in the World The United States has fallen to seventh place in a ranking of the best countries in the world. The report, conducted by U.S. News in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and global brand consultants BAV Consulting, shows that Switzerland is viewed as the world's No. 1 country, and that the U.S. is down from its previous No. 4 ranking, according to a survey of more than 21,000 people from 36 countries in all regions of the world. "People regard the European country highly for its citizenship, being open for business, an environment that encourages entrepreneurship, the quality of life it provides its citizens and for its cultural influence," the report says. Canada took the No. 2 spot, followed by the U.K., Germany, Japan, Sweden and then the U.S. In 2016, Germany was in first place, followed by Canada, the U.K., the U.S., Sweden, Australia and Japan. Switzerland was one of 20 new countries evaluated this year, and therefore wasn't included in 2016's list. The report says that nearly 75% of respondents said they had lost respect for the U.S. in some degree because of the toxic tone of the 2016 presidential campaign. However, it adds: "Despite [slipping in the ranking], the U.S. continues to be seen as the world's most powerful country: an economically and politically consequential nation with strong international alliances and strong military alliances." http://time.com/4693280/us-best-countries-world-ranking/ Don't worry by the end of the trump administration. bannon will have the US in 12-14th place. Which of course is irrelevant because international competition is...is... GLOBALISM...is "the evil of progressive liberalism". The US will have nothing to do with those ideas.

Do you think that accomplishment alone is enough for the next 4 years? In Ron's defense some 48% of other voters agreed with him. There was a news show the other day where they were interviewing trump supporters in Ohio. There was a woman about 50 years old that was being interviewed. Her basic statement was that they needed jobs now. That before they all worked in manufacturing jobs and the president had promised to bring those jobs back. All their hopes were pinned on trump to bring their manufacturing jobs back to where the clock was 20-30 years ago. It was very sad. Then a story or so later there was another feature on how the trump administration was going to go after Germany. Evidently the over-regulated Germans, the ones who of their own free will took in one million refugees. OK, it was really Merkel and her Christian Democratic party. Did I say Christian... Calling Ron... but I digress. Yeah those Germans. Well evidently they have been unfair traders with the US by having a 65 Billion dollar trading surplus. They have used cheap euro's, the same ones that are being used to prop up Greece with billions. Prop up EU banks with other billions. The same Germans that require a license to lift your leg and pass gas in public. Well in trump's view(bannon's really) something needs to be done because US workers are just too lazy and stupid to take on these same Islam loving, "the evil of progressive liberalism" loving, Christian Germans. Schweinhund! US workers needed trade barriers against Germany who has a minimum wage about $1.50 an hour higher than the US. Gas $3.50 a gallon higher, electrical prices .35 cents per kwh higher, etc. Because of their higher "green" footprint. I'm sure bannon and trump will figure it out.

North Korea says temporarily bans Malaysians from leaving the country North Korea said on Tuesday it has temporarily banned Malaysians from leaving the country to ensure the safety of its diplomats and citizens in Malaysia amid an escalating row over the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother. The North's foreign ministry has notified the Malaysian embassy in Pyongyang of the reason for the measure and said it had hoped the case would be swiftly and fairly resolved in order to develop bilateral ties with Malaysia, the North's KCNA news agency reported. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-malaysia-ban-idUSKBN16E0BD

OK now I understand better! "41% of all white evangelicals say Trump is “a good role model” 55% of white evangelicals who support Trump say the same.. 67% of all white evangelicals say Trump is honest 81% of white evangelicals who support Trump say the same Q: Can elected officials behave ethically and fulfill their public duties even if they have committed immoral acts in their personal life? 30% of self-identified white evangelicals said yes in 2011 72% said yes in 2016 51% of all white evangelicals say Trump is moral Q: Is it very important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs? 49% of self-identified white evangelicals said yes in 2016 64% said yes in 2011 Among Americans with evangelical beliefs: 26% said improving the economy was the most important issue to vote on 22% said national security 15% said personal character 10% said Supreme Court nominees 7% said religious freedom 5% said immigration 4% said abortion 65% of white Americans with evangelical beliefs plan to vote for Trump Most likely to support Trump: 61% of Pentecostal pastors 50% of Church of Christ pastors 46% of Baptist pastors white born-again or evangelical Christians and white Catholics, strongly supported Donald Trump as well. fully eight-in-ten self-identified white, born-again/evangelical Christians say they voted for Trump, Trump’s 65-percentage-point margin of victory among voters in this group – which includes self-described Protestants, as well as Catholics, Mormons and others – matched or exceeded the victory margins of George W. Bush in 2004, John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012." I'm just a dummy. trump has values, ideals, attitudes, policies, fights the evil of progressive liberalism and getting back a "white" republic government matters! http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/ http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/november/top-10-stats-explaining-evangelical-vote-trump-clinton-2016.html

Now you lost me. So if a person "wins" any linkage to his or your "Christian values" is no longer relevant. Well I guess that's where the rubber meets the road on values and how a person lives their life. Very disappointing. Do other Christians think this way?

It takes adults to do that. Not a peep from Obama. Not much from Bush Jr. except for some recent praise for Michelle Obama and some offer to work on charity fundraising together. Nothing from Bush senior. Not much from the Republican leadership either. Meanwhile back at the WH "Before heading off to his so-called "winter White House" in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went "ballistic," senior White House sources told ABC News. " http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-flashes-anger-sessions-recusal-russia-stories-tense/story?id=45908106

OKOK OK i have to jump in here and defend Ron. In his defense the entirety of the Christian right is in the same boat. Worships at the same church. Gives the same pass. Is it the holy water that got mixed with the holy-wine! The only one who doesn't is the Pope. But I guess he's not part of the US Christian alt-right.