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The FBI is assisting the investigation into the shooting of a Sikh man in suburban Seattle by a man who allegedly told him to "go back to your own country." Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said Sunday no arrests have yet been made after 39-year-old Deep Rai was shot in the arm Friday night in Kent, but he did not believe anyone was in imminent danger. "This is a top priority investigation, and we are doing everything possible to identify and arrest the suspect," Thomas said in an email, adding that the city of about 120,000 should "be vigilant." –– ADVERTISEMENT –– Rai told police a man he didn't know came up to him Friday night while Rai was working on his car and they got into an argument, with the suspect telling Rai to go back to his homeland. He described the shooter as 6 feet tall and white with a stocky build, police said. He said the man was wearing a mask covering the lower half of his face." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/05/fbi-investigating-shooting-washington-state-sikh-man-as-possible-hate-crime.html " Some said they have noticed an uptick in name-calling and other racist incidents in recent months. Still others expressed hurt and disbelief at the lack of understanding and ignorance. "Sikhism teaches about equality and peace," said Sandeep Singh, 24. "It's sad to see that's what it has come to," he said of the violence. "This is our country. This is everyone's country." Gurjot Singh, 39, who served in the Marine Corps and is an Iraq war veteran, said he was dismayed that people think others who look different aren't equal or don't contribute equally to the community. "This is equally my country as it is your country," he said. "It doesn't anger me. It hurts me." http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-search-man-shot-sikh-seattle-suburb-45912961 "Donald Trump blamed for massive spike in Islamophobic hate crime Hate groups nearly tripled from 34 to 101 in 2016, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who say the president's 'incendiary rhetoric' is to blame" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-blame-islamophobic-anti-muslim-ban-hate-crime-numbers-southern-poverty-law-center-a7582846.html

Agree "Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Sunday denied any suggestion that Trump Tower communications were wiretapped before the election. For the part of the national security apparatus that he oversaw, "there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper told Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview on Sunday's "Meet The Press." ... Additionally, when asked if Clapper has any evidence that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russian government while the Kremlin was working to influence the election, Clapper said, "not to my knowledge," based on the information he had before his time in the position ended. "We did not include anything in our report… that had any reflect of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report," he said. "We had no evidence of such collusion." http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-dni-james-clapper-i-can-deny-wiretap-trump-tower-n729261 So IMO what remains is the fact that the FBI was withholding information from the Senate Intelligence committee that suggests an ongoing investigation.

Or Russia now is seeing that being obvious in favouring the new US regime is hurting Trump. So they are toning it down. Royreader has been missing for a couple weeks now. You don't think... that Putin was displeased.... with his performance...that he ordered... not the plutonium tea!!! Nah, I still think Roy's an intelligent Russian media cloud bot.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-early-morning-tweets What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning Wiretap Tweets Between six and six-thirty this morning, the President of the United States, who had returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Florida, unleashed a series of tweets accusing his predecessor of tapping his phones just before Election Day: “A NEW LOW!” “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” Two hours later, he tweeted again, this time about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to leave “The New Celebrity Apprentice”: “Sad end to great show.” Donald Trump’s early-morning Twitter binge unleashed, as he likely expected it would, a flurry of comments on the same medium, with his partisans echoing his rage at Barack Obama while many others questioned Trump’s motives, his integrity, and his mental stability. Others pointed to articles posted on Breitbart as a possible inspiration; it would not be the first time that Trump has been moved to action by something published on Breitbart, the former home of his close adviser Steve Bannon. One of the articles is based on Senator Orrin Hatch’s remark about the wiretaps that led to the downfall of Michael Flynn as the national-security adviser. Another is based on Mark Levin, a conservative radio host, who recently accused Obama of “police state” tactics to carry out a “silent coup” against Trump. One of President Trump’s most consistent rhetorical maneuvers is a fairly basic but often highly effective one—the diversionary reverse accusation. When he is accused of benefitting from “fake news,” he flips the neologism on its head; suddenly CNN, the Times, and the rest are “fake news.” When Democratic politicians such as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi call for investigations of his campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, Trump posts pictures of those critics meeting publicly with Vladimir Putin and calls for an investigation. This happened on Saturday. He fogs the language and clouds the issue. The stories on Breitbart appear to be related to the efforts of American intelligence and law-enforcement officials to investigate potential links between Trump aides and Russian officials. It would seem that Trump, in the same spirit of diversion, has conflated the work of the courts, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies with “Obama.” As Benjamin Rhodes, the former deputy national-security adviser under Obama, put it in a tweet on Saturday, the President is not authorized to order a wiretap. Ironically, the Obama Administration, after being informed that the Russian government was likely behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee and that the effort was intended to undermine Hillary Clinton, did not act more forcefully for fear of appearing to favor its own political party. And there is other news as well. Trump, who for years has paid compliments to Putin’s strength and tactics, is expected to appoint as his main adviser on Russia Fiona Hill, a think-tank analyst who has described the Russian President as a gangster. Many members of the foreign-policy community in Washington are stunned. They wonder how Hill could take such a post when the Trump Administration is under scrutiny for its relations with Russian officials. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, Hill is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, and between 2006 and 2009 served as a Russia analyst on the National Intelligence Council, a kind of intelligence think-tank independent of the C.I.A. Hill is the co-author, with Clifford G. Gaddy, of a political and psychological portrait of the Russian President titled “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin.” The book describes Putin’s system as a “protection racket” in which he views himself as the “CEO of Russia, Inc.” and is served by “crony oligarchs.” “In reality,” Hill and Gaddy write, “his leadership style is more like that of a mafia family Don.” Hill and Gaddy describe in detail Putin’s background as an intelligence officer and the methods used in the Russian secret services to discredit opponents. “Core individuals collect and amass detailed compromising material (kompromat in Russian) that can be used as leverage on every key figure inside and outside of government,” they write. A few weeks ago, we spoke with Hill, on the record, for an article about Russia and the Trump Administration. She in no way gave the impression that she was an admirer of Trump or shared his views on Russia. While Trump himself has derided the intelligence agencies and their conclusion that Putin directed an operation aimed at undermining the 2016 election and Clinton’s candidacy, Hill expressed no such doubt. She added, “They couldn’t have anticipated, whoever is doing this”—Russian military intelligence, Russian foreign intelligence—“whoever, they couldn’t have imagined how lucky they would be and come across the motherlode of information.” “Are they trying to turn him into the Manchurian Candidate?” Hill went on. “The Russians didn’t invent him, but now they seem to create that impression. It was all intended to discredit Clinton and the electoral and party system. They wanted to amplify someone like Trump because what he says is music to their ears.” When asked why Trump seemed so admiring of Putin, particularly his “strength,” Hill said, “I don’t want to suggest that Trump is emulating Putin. Trump is his own creation. But Putin, coming from the K.G.B., a lot of his skill set comes out of the K.G.B. playbook. His public messaging is right out of Lenin, with slogans like ‘Land for the Peasants,’ and calling the Bolsheviks a majority when they were not. This is a skill set that Putin acquired. Trump knows how to play the media all on his own. He creates his own Twitter feed and uses it. He knows how to get the media’s attention without the benefit of a state-controlled media. He does it all on his own. Trump understands how a free media works.” Many Russian and American analysts now refer to the current state of U.S.-Russia relations as a kind of new Cold War; Hill gave the current state of affairs an even more alarming tag. “I think we are in a hot war with Russia, not a cold war,” she said. “But we have to be careful about the analogy. It’s a more complex world. There is no set-piece confrontation. This is no holds barred. The Cold War was a more disciplined competition, aside from the near blowups in Berlin and Cuba, where we walked back from the brink. The Kremlin now is willing to jump over the abyss. They want to play for the asymmetry. They see themselves in a period of hot kinetic war. Also, this is not just two-way superpower. There is China, the rising powers. I almost see it as like the great power competition from the time before the Second World War.” Hill also said that the Russians, partly because they “have” Edward Snowden, in Moscow, possess “a good idea of what the U.S. is capable of knowing. They got all of his information. You can be damn well sure that [Snowden’s] information is theirs.” In the think-tank and analytical world of Russian specialists in Washington, Hill has a solid reputation. Celeste Wallander, who was Obama’s leading adviser on Russia, said, “Fiona is a respected analyst in the Washington Russia community, and she has been very tough and really hardheaded about who and what Putin is and about U.S.-Russian policy.” And yet the general feeling in that same community is that Trump is not an ordinary Republican President—his comments about Putin are extraordinary, and so is the tumult in his Administration, particularly when it comes to its relations with Russia. Michael Flynn lost his job as the national-security adviser in less than a month because of his contacts with the Russian Ambassador, and others in the Trump circle—from Paul Manafort, Trump’s onetime campaign manager, to the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to Carter Page, a policy adviser during the race—are also being scrutinized. Some officials and analysts wonder if Hill is deluded in thinking, somehow, that she can play a positive and decisive role in a White House clouded by the prospect of congressional investigations and influenced so markedly by ideologues like Steve Bannon. In late July, Hill wrote a column for Vox on why Putin might have wanted to interfere in the election. Her analysis was completely in line with consensus thinking. She concluded that Putin believed that the Obama Administration, and particularly Clinton, as Obama’s Secretary of State, had somehow been responsible for the anti-Kremlin demonstrations in 2011 and 2012 and that he wanted either to prevent Clinton from becoming President or, more likely, to do his best to weaken her. “A US president who is elected amid controversy and recrimination, reviled by a large segment of the electorate, and mired in domestic crises,” Hill wrote, “will be hard-pressed to forge a coherent foreign policy and challenge Russia.”

Given the frequency of his morning tweets today that is seriously funny. I could just see his face getting redder and redder underneath the orange paint. Imagine the courts trying to fight or put limits on the donald. The donald!!!!

Only the FBI acting under a COURT ORDER can obtain a wire tap warrant. "U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping him in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, but offered no evidence to support the allegation. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!," Trump said in a series of Tweets on his Twitter account early on Saturday. Obama's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. The White House also did not respond to a request to elaborate on Trump's accusations. In one of the Tweets, Trump said the alleged wiretapping took place in his Trump Tower building in New York, but there was "nothing found." Trump's administration has come under pressure from Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional investigations into contacts between some members of his campaign team and Russian officials during his campaign. " http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-obama-idUSKBN16B0CC "From the three reports, from the Guardian, Heat Street, and the New York Times, it appears the FBI had concerns about a private server in Trump Tower that was connected to one or two Russian banks. Heat Street describes these concerns as centering on “possible financial and banking offenses.” I italicize the word “offenses” because it denotes crimes. Ordinarily, when crimes are suspected, there is a criminal investigation, not a national-security investigation. According to the New York Times (based on FBI sources), the FBI initially determined that the Trump Tower server did not have “any nefarious purpose.” But then, Heat Street says, “the FBI’s counter-intelligence arm, sources say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and banking offenses related to the server.” http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap "In a string of tweets posted early Saturday morning, President Trump let loose a barrage of accusations at his predecessor. He alleged that former President Obama had his "wires tapped" in Trump Tower before Election Day last year, accusing Obama of "McCarthyism" and being a "bad (or sick) guy." Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! 5:35 AM - 4 Mar 2017 Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW! 5:49 AM - 4 Mar 2017 I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election! 5:52 AM - 4 Mar 2017 How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! 6:02 AM - 4 Mar 2017 ""I would say at this point we know less than a fraction of what the FBI knows," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday after a briefing with Comey at the Capitol." "I appreciate we had a long briefing and testimony from the director today, but in order for us to do our investigation in a thorough and credible way, we're going to need the FBI to fully cooperate, to be willing to tell us the length and breadth of any counterintelligence investigations they are conducting," Schiff said. "At this point, the director was not willing to do that." Schiff said during the briefing, which lasted more than three hours, there were areas of the investigation Comey "walled off" from discussions with lawmakers." https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe There is only one reason why the FBI is withholding information from the Senate Committee. Its because they are protecting an ongoing investigation.

http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar3 "After the 2010 midterm elections, Silver concluded that Rasmussen's polls were the least accurate of the major pollsters in 2010, having an average error of 5.8 points and a pro-Republican bias of 3.9 points according to Silver's model.[64] Silver was criticized for his 2010 pollster ratings. Conservative polling analyst Neil Stevens wrote, "after the primaries [Silver] said Rasmussen was in his crosshairs for ducking out on a number of races by not polling primaries.[76] FiveThirtyEight currently rates Rasmussen Reports with a C+ grade and notes a simple average error of 5.3 percent across 657 polls analyzed.[77] Its amazing that pro Putin and pro-trump can dredge up the remotest corners of the inter-webs to find some scrap of writing. So support an invalid conclusion. Its as if anti-science met failed Ku Klux Klan meets political science dropout. To found a alt-right website.

Well I don't think she needs a love interest for sure right now. Just someone who she can chat with, but I don't know how to go about finding someone. I wish she would spend her money on jumping lol. This is a pic from her 21st bday. I said lets go skydiving she was down. Some good advice there. When she gets out she needs she needs either school, or a job, someone to keep her on the straight and narrow. Recidivism for drug users is a constant danger for probably a decade after her release.

Trump's dangerous war on data While there are plenty of reasons to be disturbed about the Trump administration. Chief among them for financial policymakers is the hubris and blatant confirmation bias that is guiding White House economic policy. It would be bad enough if Trump were simply sticking to his alternative facts and trotting out flat-out lies about the economy, like when he said he “inherited a mess” from President Obama. The truth is that Obama actually inherited the mess that was the 2008 financial crisis, when Wall Street imploded just before his first election win. The S&P 500 went up 235 percent during Obama’s tenure as president. That’s 16 percent annualized versus a historical norm of around 10 percent. Moreover, the unemployment rate peaked at above 10 percent in Obama’s first year and steadily declined to under 5 percent when he left office. But Trump is not content to accept the facts and simply lie about the truth. He wants to change the very nature of economic data, all in a desperate effort to change the facts — both past and future — to justify his worldview. Trump recently instructed his advisers to forecast U.S. growth rates a full percentage point higher than consensus estimates — from the current rate of 2 percent to 3 percent. Predictions are inherently flawed and difficult, of course, and economists often disagree. But as one Harvard economist who specializes in economic forecast told Wall Street Journal, “It is awfully hard to get to 3 percent. I don’t know where a number like that would come from.” Trump’s alternate reality and self-serving agenda, that’s where. As another economic expert told the Journal, “The risk is that rosy economic scenarios allow us to borrow trillions of additional dollars” and not worry about the real consequences. Trump also wants to change how the trade deficit is calculated in an effort to pander to the tough-on-trade crowd that elected him. In a nutshell, the White House wants to remove “re-exports” from export data — but not import data. In other words, if Mexico trucks $100 million worth of widgets into California and then immediately puts them on a ship bound for China, we would record $100 million in imports — but $0 in exports. That would artificially inflate the trade deficit in a way that a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations called “duplicitous” and “deliberately dishonest.” Even his proposed changes to the unemployment rate calculation should be viewed with skepticism. On the surface it looks like a minor tweak, including people who aren’t actively looking for work in the mainstream definition of “unemployment,” but clearly fidelity in numbers is not a core value of this administration. After all, just before Election Day, Trump’s key economic advisor asserted that the real unemployment rate was 9.7 percent — almost double the rate at the time even using his new and preferred definition. Furthermore, early last year Trump claimed the unemployment rate could actually be 42 percent — a number that would elicit laughter from a freshman economics class. But as Trump has repeatedly shown, he has no respect for the discipline of economics. Trump is simply trying to alter the statistics for personal gain, to align with his campaign narrative. I have to wonder what the true end-game is here in his mission to recast the current labor market as a hot mess only he can fix. I am not naïve enough to think that fuzzy math isn’t par for the course in Washington when the truth is inconvenient. And particularly in the realm of finance, where Silicon Valley touts “hockey stick” growth on preferred user metrics while ignoring minor details like profitability and revenue, it’s an occupational hazard. But there is a tremendous difference between debating the methodology of a study on early childhood education and simply acting like the U.S. economy is fully 50 percent stronger than it actually is. And there is a tremendous difference between venture capitalists cherry-picking growth metrics in their Series B funding round and a president cherry picking export numbers to start unfounded trade wars. Contrary to Trump’s assertions, both Main Street and Wall Street we have come a long way since the dark days of 2008. But that success has been hard-fought, and remains quite fragile in a global economy where sustainable growth is increasingly difficult. Ill-advised economic policies could have a lasting impact to businesses, investors and consumers alike. But under Trump’s proposed changes to economic data, we may never truly understand the true impact of his policies until it is too late.' http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/322305-trumps-dangerous-war-on-data

and the fake news story continues to explode Lies, feigned outrage and lying tweets.... you guys are all funny as hell You are hardly taken seriously by anyone anymore so please, keep it up http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/03/sessions-not-alone-russian-ambassador-also-met-with-numerous-democrats.html Its Friday, your lucky day, a most astonishing day. The POTUS has made a tweet directly to rushmc!! "“I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it,” Trump tweeted, with a link attached to a story about Pelosi’s 2010 group meeting with Russia’s U.S. ambassador. He tweeted the message three times, deleting the first two after misspelling the word "hereby" in each." You won't have to eat for the next whole week because your brain has been filled, with pablum. I'm glad that your GREAT friend has resumed his idiotic tweeting....er great communicating with people directly. Even better his sidekick has been freed from sitting in the corner for bad behavior. "“It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power," Conway, Trump's former campaign manager, said during a speech at the conservative conference CPAC. "It's constantly talking about what women look like and wear or making fun of their choices or presuming that they are not as powerful as the men around them. This presumptive negativity about women in power is very unfortunate because let’s try to access that and have a conversation about it instead of a confrontation.” http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320791-conway-womens-march-protests-wrapped-in-negativity

and the fake news story continues to explode Lies, feigned outrage and lying tweets.... you guys are all funny as hell You are hardly taken seriously by anyone anymore so please, keep it up http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/03/sessions-not-alone-russian-ambassador-also-met-with-numerous-democrats.html There is a concept of debate that you clearly don't understand. A point of argument should be matched by a RELEVANT counterpoint. The closer it is in the concepts of time, of circumstance, appropriate connection, logical proximity, germain to the subject so to speak. The more effective it is. The link that you posted previously to Mr. Schumer referenced a meeting in 2003. You do know its 2007? Right? What is the focus here. Is the fact for reasons unknown, trump wants to become best buddies with what is a terrorist kleptocratic thug that kills his own people. None of the democrats in either of the last link or this one has made those policy suggestions. USA-POLICY-RUSSIA-trump Before you fire off a response try to make cognitive connections. No one from the democratic party has suggested cosy relations with what is essentially a enemy state with a gangster leader. That doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't talk to such states. Talking to them and co-opting national policy and interests. With a gangster, with a enemy state, is different. US national interests is the focus of US national and international POLICY. good luck.

It's also difficult to hold on to the narrative of meeting under the auspicious of your Senate job when you use campaign funds from your reelection accounts to pay for it. In which case, you are no longer traveling as part of your job, but traveling for purposes of campaigning. https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeff-sessions-used-political-funds-for-republican-convention-expenses-1488509301?mod=e2fb Makes sense. He hadn't seen Dearborn, or Miller his personal senate aids. Which the taxpayer was paying for, but who he lent to the trump campaign months before. All just part of the smell of the trump swamp.

Across the Country, a Republican Push to Rein In Protesters In a season rife with demonstrations over immigration, pipelines, abortion, women’s rights and more, Republican legislators in at least 16 states have filed bills intended to make protests more orderly or to toughen penalties against ones that go awry. Republicans in two other states, Massachusetts and North Carolina, have said they will file protest-related bills. Those numbers include only bills whose sponsors have specifically linked them to protests, said Jonathan Griffin, a policy analyst who tracks the measures at the National Conference of State Legislatures. How many will be enacted is unclear; a few already have been pronounced dead in committee. Some sociologists and legal experts say the bills are in line with a general trend toward tougher treatment of protesters after especially disruptive demonstrations like the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan and the 2014 violence in Ferguson, Mo. But interviews and news reports suggest that some of the measures are either backed by supporters of President Trump or are responses to demonstrations against him and his policies. After a Nashville motorist struck safety workers who were escorting anti-Trump protesters at a crosswalk, a Tennessee state representative introduced legislation that would relieve motorists of any liability should they accidentally hit someone deliberately blocking a street... An Iowa bill, filed after about 100 anti-Trump protesters closed Interstate 80 near Iowa City, would make blocking high-speed roads a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and $7,500 in fines. Similar legislation in Mississippi would impose a fine of up to $10,000. In Washington State, a Republican senator who helped run Mr. Trump’s campaign there filed legislation that would make it a felony to commit “economic terrorism,” defined as intentionally breaking the law to intimidate private citizens or to obstruct economic activity. A Minnesota bill, responding to protests over the police shooting last year of an African-American man in a suburb of St. Paul, would allow cities to sue demonstrators who violate the law for the cost of policing their protests. And in North Carolina, a legislator promised to propose a measure making it illegal to “threaten, intimidate or retaliate” against state officials after hecklers denounced Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican who lost a re-election bid in November. Those two measures and perhaps others may face constitutional hurdles, said Kevin F. O’Neill, a scholar of protest law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University. “There’s a First Amendment right of access to sidewalks, public squares and even public streets,” he said. “Heckling is a well-protected First Amendment right.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/when-does-protest-cross-a-line-some-states-aim-to-toughen-laws.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

trump has repeatedly denied any meetings with anyone from his campaign staff meeting-talking-communicating with anyone from Russia There are the ones that have: 1.Paul Manafort 2. Michael Flynn 3. Jeff Sessions 4. J.D. Gordon -"Gordon, who managed the advisory committee as the Trump campaign’s director of national security" 5. Carter Page -another member of the Trump campaign’s national security advisory committee. 6. Yet to be disclosed by the press. 7.Yet to be disclosed by the press. etc. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/02/exclusive-two-other-trump-advisers-also-spoke-russian-envoy-during-gop-convention/98648190/

The problem with jets, turbofans, etc. is expense and fuel consumption. Typically its minutes. Which is very dangerous in itself. Anything that you land on your feet is inherently dangerous. Especially if it has some weight to it. i.e. over 50 lbs. The problem with microlight weight helicopters is design and quality of construction. This is a new design. Empty weight — 145 kg (planned 115 kg) Take-off weight — 260 kg Diameter of the rotors — 4.5 m = 15' Useful load 320 lbs Engine —Zanzottera MZ 201 at 60 h.p. Speed — 120 km/h https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNKPSpC6laA more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLVIIbs5aL8 These were popular for a while but had quality control issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6Ept3htc8 The advantage of one of these "large" blade mini-copters is auto-rotation in the event of engine failure.

Shhhhhhhh This is to fun to watch

"In Trump’s GOP, Jeff Sessions goes from fringe to prime time But in the party of Trump, Sessions is at the center of the action. He was an early backer of the real estate mogul’s candidacy, when most Republican officials were denouncing Trump’s comments about Mexicans and his promise to build a wall on the southern border. He is one of Trump’s most trusted policy advisers, assisting with his selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. And with a prime-time speaking slot Monday night at the Republican National Convention, Sessions is a living symbol of an upside-down GOP in which a largely sideline player can become a heavyweight... As Trump gained momentum last year, the two men appeared drawn to each other. At a rally in Mobile last August, several months before Sessions would endorse him, Trump appeared with the senator, praising him as one of the few politicians he held in high regard, particularly when it came to immigration. “We have a great politician here,” Trump said. “We have a man here who really helped me. I sought his counsel because he’s been so spot on, he’s so highly respected.” Sessions has helped craft Trump’s immigration platform, chaired his national security advisory committee, loaned him a top communications aide specializing in immigration and counseled him on whom to add to his ticket as vice president... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-trumps-gop-sessions-rockets-from-the-fringe-to-prime-time/2016/07/18/1fc04d14-490b-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html?utm_term=.62c72a68c27d 'WASHINGTON – Sen. Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff has earned $27,175 working on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to the campaign’s expenditure reports. Rick Dearborn is listed as a policy consultant for the Trump campaign, which paid him the lump sum on June 29. Sessions, R-Ala., who endorsed Trump Feb. 28, was the first senator to do so. Dearborn started working on Trump’s behalf soon after that. Ethics rules allow Senate staffers to work on political campaigns while keeping their Senate jobs, but they must do the campaign work on their own time and cannot use official Senate resources. Staffers also must work at least one full day a week in the Senate office in order to continue to receive their Senate salary, according to the rules. Dearborn remains on Sessions’ staff and has not taken a leave of absence, said Christopher Jackson, a spokesman for Sessions. “We have followed all of the ethics guidelines,” he said. Ethics rules also state that Senate employees earning more than $123,175 this year may not earn more than $27,495 in outside income. Dearborn’s annual Senate salary is $169,459, and his payment from the Trump campaign is $320 less than the cap. At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, Sessions said Dearborn was using his vacation time to work for Trump. Dearborn was a floor whip for the Trump campaign at the convention, managing seating areas in and around the Alabama delegation. “I think he’s running this whole place,” Sessions said at the convention. “He’s just in the middle of it and he can make decisions just like that and people are coming up to him and he’s telling everybody what to do. I don’t even think they know how much he’s running this place. He’s just doing a great job.” Sen. Jeff Sessions says Donald Trump is redefining conservatism Over the summer, Dearborn was identified as one of Trump’s liaisons to Capitol Hill and a leader in his Washington-based policy office. On Sept. 8, the Washington Post reported that the policy office had largely disbanded after several staffers quit in August, saying they weren't paid as promised. Some of the former staffers did not blame Dearborn for the nonpayment. The only other Trump campaign payments to Dearborn were travel reimbursements in May, June, July and August, totaling $982. Dearborn is not the only Sessions staffer to work on Trump’s campaign. Former Communications Director Stephen Miller, who left Sessions’ staff in January, is listed on Trump's payroll earning $12,500 per month, according to Trump’s expenditure report for August. Dearborn joined Sessions’ Senate staff in 1997 and was his legislative director for more than six years. He left to work in the Energy Department under then-President George W. Bush, and returned to Sessions’ staff in 2004 as chief of staff. Contributing: Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/23/sen-sessions-chief-staff-also-paid-donald-trump/90913292/ So Stephen Miller, Sessions and trump worked hand in glove from the start of trumps campaign. Sessions was one of the FIRST to back trump. One of his closest advisors. Sessions then lent him a staffer for the whole campaign and in a sham violation of the ethics guidelines maintained that he was only working weekends for trump. While he personally stated " “I think he’s running this whole place,” Sessions said at the convention. “He’s just in the middle of it and he can make decisions just like that and people are coming up to him and he’s telling everybody what to do. I don’t even think they know how much he’s running this place. He’s just doing a great job.” If his lying under oath wasn't enough. Using his government paid staff for trumps campaign should define how the swamp smells. So no it doesn't hurt because your understanding of the close relationship between the two, is lacking.

The essence of that lie ended up in the Starr report whereby he concluded that Clinton had lied under oath and obstructed justice. All arising from the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former Arkansas government employee, Paula Jones. The statement rings in my mind because when he made that statement I took it to be the complete end. The nail in the coffin so the speak of the Monica Lewinsky matter. Which in a round about way led to Starr and finally a $90,000 fine and disbarment for five years. We went from $90 million for the Clinton investigation. To habitual lying, to Counselor to the President for Donald Trump(Ms. Conway) selling shoes in a Presidential Press conference, to “Except as otherwise provided in such sections, the terms ‘officer’ and ’employee’ in sections 203, 205, 207 through 209, and 218 of this title shall not include the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, or a Federal judge.” As the absolute backstop to self enrichment. So for a president, vice president, a congressman, or a federal judge. No real sanctions apply. A lawyer, $90,000 fine and disbarment for five years. For others a joint and black skin, go straight to jail.

Well, he's 70 now, but since his years are greater than anyone else's, just terrific years, so great, it is possible he'll be 79 in 4 years time Only partially right. Age is a red herring. - “his strength and physical stamina are extraordinary” -“laboratory test results are astonishingly excellent.” -"Actually, his blood pressure and lab results were astonishingly excellent.” -"will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.'

Perhaps the leopards that previously walked through the halls of the Kremlin. Hid in the briefcases of Russian ambassadors when they visited the offices of the Russell and Hart buildings. I doubt many on a skydiving forum know about famous novelists. But the analogy is accurate. Subsequent to the last recession Wall Street bankers, scamsters and flim-flam men prowled the halls of NY, NY. brokerage houses. Wondering how they could change their spots. Waking in the middle of the night while the dreams of incarceration swirled in their brains. Praying to god that if they got one more crack at the giant public piggy bank. They would never again waste the gold they had stuffed in their pockets and mattresses in Monaco. Now eight years later. The nightmares of slamming prison cell doors are but a faded bad dream. They were all bailed out by the public purse. Now they control the public purse itself. Now the keys to the bank are theirs to lend to their friends as they wish.

IMO everything went downhill the day Clinton stated on camera. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." He should have been jailed for that. Because now the situation has developed where habitual lying is tolerated.

Study is flawed. Additional option should be. 4 years, because the trump family will be the first family to be worth $1 Trillion US dollars. Therefore all objectives of running for the election would have been met. As a result I had to answer boobies.

Richard Painter, the former White House ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions after it was reported that he spoke with the Russian ambassador while Trump was on the campaign trail. When asked in the hypothetical during his confirmation hearing as Attorney General what he would do if he learned a member of Trump's campaign had communicated with the Russian government over the course of the 2016 campaign, Sessions responded: “I’m not aware of any of those activities ... I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.” Officials said Sessions did not consider his conversations with Kislyak relevant to the lawmakers’ questions and did not remember their discussion in detail. And as a senior member of the committee, he regularly met foreign ambassadors, his spokeswoman said. Painter blasted the statement on Twitter. "Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail," Painter tweeted. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/321936-ethics-lawyer-to-george-w-bush-on-sessions-talks-with-russa Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said that if the FBI finds any criminal activity related to President Trump campaign aides' alleged contact with Russian officials, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions should step aside for a special prosecutor. “If there is something there, and it goes up the chain of investigation, it is clear to me, that Jeff Sessions, who is my dear friend, cannot make this decision about Trump,” Graham said at a CNN town hall Wednesday night. "The question was presented to Graham following a report in the Washington Post that Sessions spoke to Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential campaign. “There may be nothing there,” Graham said. “But if there is something there, that the FBI believes is criminal in nature, then for sure you need a special prosecutor.” http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/321933-graham-special-prosecutor-necessary-if-fbi-finds-criminal-activity-in-russia

The wide separation of thrust sources would guarantee a rapid upset if power from one was interrupted.

ROFLMFAO wanna make a bet? You lose you, delete your DZ account and disappear forever. Deal? After watching President Trump's address last night and observing how the Democrats disgraced themselves with their petulant behavior, I think they had better show willingness to compromise. If not they will looking for a career change come 2018. The trouble with trump and the speech is that there is never, not ever, NEVER, been a consistent, coherent message. -NATO -Immigration -US leadership - Washington corruption -Iran Above are merely the POLICY changes, flips, flops, walkbacks, in the first 1/3 of his speech. Not reflecting in any fashion the outright lies in the first 1/3.