Phil1111

True. For most people government and politics is nothing more than static on the radio until it affects them directly.

and democracy is to protect and represent all. Work for the good of the country. Work for those who didn't vote, who voted against, who will be born in the next four years. To protect minorities, religions, the weak, the vulnerable and the old. What is the definition of "for the good of the country?" You mentioned those who will be born in the next four years. Some folks think that it is in the best interest of our country that the yet to be born should be protected other folks think it is in the best interest of our country that the unborn should not be protected. I am not taking a position, I am just pointing out that determining just what is best for our country is not so simple. Believe it or not there are republicans that have been conservative all their lives. People that abhor the idea that people should get a free ride, on welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing. People that see the waste in government, the corruption in government and want to do something about it. Have done something about it. President Bush and Barbra Bush both stated that they were abstaining from voting in this election. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/limbaugh-george-w-bush-and-laura-bush-are-with-her.html Believe it or not there are swing voters and independents. Politics is not a zero sum game. But trump has continued with his divisive agenda. Thats the problem. trump could have tried to sit down with republicans for a common agenda. Could have reached out to democrats. Hell he could have at least made a effort to lock up HRC and Bill in the same cell!!. The statute of limitations on Whitewater is over. But surely he could have at least tried. trump could have introduced price matching for US prescription drugs. Forcing all pharma companies to match in the US the same prices that they sell in the rest of the world. Introduced a stranded profits bill to allow US corporations to bring back profits that they hold offshore to avoid high US taxes. Instead is the b.s. on immigration. His honeymoon isn't going to last 100 days at the rate he's going. Maybe fifty days if he is lucky. He did a pipeline order that I agree with. Obama gave pardons to a bunch of drug dealers and convicted traitors. Which was a mistake. Obama drew a line in the sand with Assad in Syria. Then backed away making the US appear weak and loosing regional support. trump refuses to concede mistake. Refuses to see a middle ground. I suggest a mirror.

His decisions and opinions written as a judge on the appellate court are what is now being used to evaluate how he would apply his legal philosophy on the supreme court. Surely even you can see how, when considering someone for promotion, you would look at how they have performed in their most recent position. It would be crazy (in a normal world, maybe not in Trumps) to disregard that. Does someone get promoted to general based on their performance as a sergeant, ignoring any evaluation of how they performed subsequently while moving through the officer's ranks? Don Of all trumps appointment and decisions this is the least contentious. But has the most implications. As once he is on the bench he answers to no one. Especially to trump. Mr. Tillerson, General Mattis and all the rest of trumps appointments mean NOTHING as they don't speak for trump and/or don't speak for the trumb-bannon ideology. If it wasn't obvious to ALL world leaders prior to the trump Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's phone call. It is now. Only trump and only his statements and decisions mean anything. Secretary of State Mr. Tillerson and anything he says means nothing. He does not speak for the US, does not speak for President trump. Only trump speaks for trump. It was amusing to hear the trump spin machine reference President Reagan's argument with Britain's Margaret Thatcher over the 1983 Grenada invasion. When Reagan invaded without notifying Mrs. Thatcher. The conversation between the two became quite heated as both had strong personalities. What the trump apologists never said was that trump is no Reagan. That President Reagan phoned Prime Minister Thatcher the nest day and profusely apologized. trump never apologizes. He doubles down when he's wrong. Because he is so smart. IMO its a tempest in a teapot to delay trump's appointments. Every single one of them can form opinions until trump overrules them. Until they get tired of acting as independent actors in trumps reality show. Or until the republican party tires of the trump gong show and votes to not supporting a trump bill.

Easy now, someone might just call you a 'drama queen.' And as Ken/gowlerk says, IMO this one has Bannon all over it. Jerry Baumchen Correct

and democracy is to protect and represent all. Work for the good of the country. Work for those who didn't vote, who voted against, who will be born in the next four years. To protect minorities, religions, the weak, the vulnerable and the old.

Iran is not Iraq. US generals will tell trump this. General Mattis will tell him this. If the Iraq war cost the US $1 trillion, Iran would be $3 trillion. Attacking Iran will start a Shia-Sunni regional war. As Shia Iranian influence controls Syria(not Assad, not Russia),Iraq, Lebanon and the religious leadership for the Shia is the leadership that controls Iran. Furthermore, Iranian people are not represented by its religious leaders. The last 15 years have seen the elections rigged, dissidents killed and opposition quashed. Attacking Iran will bring the population together like nothing else. Will mold the entire Shia world against the US. It will do what Bin-laden, Al-Qaeda and IS couldn't do since 9/11. Start a religious war involving the US. I mentioned in another post that I couldn't understand the Houthi concept of "death to America, death to Israel, God is Great". In every action/video against the Saudi government and Gulf state coalition, within Yemen. Upon reflection it can only mean that Iranian mullahs and hard core conservative Shia mullahs have been preaching to the Houthi. Thats been the chant of Iranian conservative Shia with ideology close to Ali Khamenei. They have chanted those same words since the Iranian revolution. trump was supposed to be an isolationist president. One that puts business and economic progress ahead of the old US ideology. The one of the US being the worlds policeman. But as someone from the trump administration stated yesterday. There is a "new sheriff in town". If I had a son or daughter in the line of duty in the US forces. I would tell them to get out, now. When I had doubts about trumps visit to Dover to see the bereaved parents. Of the recently deceases SEAL member.As to whether it was a genuine sense of personal respect. Or a photo op for self promotion. They were answered by trump's actions on Iran. Thats not to say Iran needs to be separated from its meddling in Yemen. That Iran needs to be dealt with more forcefully for its violations of the nuclear accords. Its violations of UN resolutions. trumps ego, bluster, stupidity and failure to surround himself with reasoned council. Are sending the US down a path of disaster.

Populists and dictators need enemies like the press, like Muslims, Iran, etc. HRC and Obama won't last much longer. "When the Order, in a draft form, was mentioned to Mattis in mid-2016, he unsurprisingly was sharply critical of it.[xxv] Mattis noted that the mere proposal was “causing us great damage right now” in the Middle East. Mattis’s 2016 conclusion was consistent with a hundred years of COIN that has taught us that the battle is won by convincing the population to agree with us instead of the insurgents... In order to find an approach that will work in defending the U.S. against those that do intend to do harm, it is worthwhile to draw polices based on previous experiences in fighting this sort of violence. The Islamic State, due to its ability to inspire individual acts of mayhem in its name, has de facto global reach, including into the U.S. itself. Thus, it is appropriate to base effective homeland defense policies from counterinsurgency lessons drawn from insurgent and counterinsurgent writings. The attitude of Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, who wrote the Small-Unit Leaders’ Guide to Counterinsurgency in 2006, indicates that the administration would be open to a counterinsurgency framework for homeland defense. To be effective, insurgencies need to disappear into the larger population. In the well-known words of Chairman Mao, the relationship between the people and the insurgents “may be likened to water and the latter to the fish who inhabit it.”[x] In this sense, anti-insurgent measures drawn against the population as a make it easier for insurgents to disappear into the population on the whole. It follows from Mao’s maxim that effective counterinsurgency needs to separate insurgents from the population as a whole. As T.E. Lawrence, who was an integral part of an Arab insurgency against the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago wrote, "Without the friendship of the tribes, the Turks would own only the ground on which their soldiers stood."[xi]... A pragmatic alternative to the Order must, in line with COIN principles, be explicitly focused on targeting only the enemies of the United States. This alternative needs to be able to build the trust of those who can provide relevant intelligence about our enemies." http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/bringing-coin-to-the-airport-on-the-effectiveness-of-the-%E2%80%9Cmuslim-ban%E2%80%9D In other words since trump intends to orientate the US against the Shia, against Iran. Wants to frame this as a "think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat" war against Islam. Since he has ignored the recommendations of his secretary of Defense, General Mattis. See post #7 http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4834316;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread as I quoted an article whereby bannon's quotes were attributed to the US fighting wars with China and in the middle-east(presumably Iran). I guess we can add a Christian-Muslim war into the equation. Meanwhile trump continues with his 70 year behavior whereby he wants to turn every friend into an enemy. Australian media coverage of trump phone call. "At one point, Mr Trump informed Mr Turnbull that he had spoken with four other world leaders that day — including Russian President Vladi­mir Putin — and that "this was the worst call by far". Mr Trump's behaviour suggests that he is capable of subjecting world leaders, including close allies, to a version of the vitriol he frequently employs against political adversaries and news organisations in speeches and on Twitter... US officials said that Mr Trump had behaved similarly in conversations with leaders of other countries, including Mexico. But his treatment of Mr Turnbull was particularly striking because of the tight bond between the United States and Australia — countries that share intelligence, support one another diplomatically and have fought together in wars, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. The characterisations provide insight into Mr Trump's temperament and approach to the diplomatic requirements of his job as the nation's chief executive, a role in which he continues to employ both the uncompromising negotiating tactics he honed as a real estate developer and the bombastic style he exhibited as a reality television personality. The depictions of Mr Trump's calls are also at odds with sanitised White House accounts. The official read-out of his conversation with Mr Turnbull, for example, said that the two had "emphasised the enduring strength and closeness of the US-Australia relationship that is critical for peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and globally." A senior administration official acknowledged that the conversation with Mr Turnbull had been hostile and charged, but emphasised that most of Mr Trump's calls with foreign leaders — including the heads of Japan, Germany, France and Russia — have been both productive and pleasant. Mr Trump also vented anger and touted his political accomplishments in a tense conversation with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, officials said. The two have sparred for months over Mr Trump's vow to force Mexico to pay for construction of a border wall between the two countries, a conflict that prompted President Peña Nieto to cancel a planned meeting with Mr Trump. Mr Trump told President Peña Nieto in last Friday's call, according to the Associated Press, which said it reviewed a transcript of part of the conversation: "You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it." But even in conversations marred by hostile exchanges, Mr Trump manages to work in references to his election accomplishments. US officials said that he used his calls with both Mr Turnbull and Mr Peña Nieto to mention his election win or the size of the crowd at his inauguration. One official said that it may be Mr Trump's way of "speaking about the mandate he has and why he has the backing for decisions he makes". But Mr Trump is also notoriously thin-skinned and has used platforms including social-media accounts, meetings with lawmakers and even a speech at CIA headquarters to depict his victory as an achievement of historic proportions, rather than a narrow outcome in which his opponent, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote." http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/this-is-the-worst-deal-ever-donald-trump-badgers-and-brags-in-call-with-malcolm-turnbull-20170202-gu3r6u.html With white supremacists, anarchists, etc. getting a walk from trump. How long is it going to take for the far right to get to work.

Perhaps by now there has been doubt about my personal opinions of bannon! "SitRep: Trump Advisor Bannon Predicts Wars With China, Middle East; Pentagon Officials Say Gloves Off in Yemen February 1, 2017 - 7:51 am Bannon’s world. For someone who ran a media company — and hosted a radio show — before become President Trump’s top advisor, there’s been an air of mystery surrounding Steve Bannon. The USA Today went back and listened to dozens of recordings of the show he hosted for the conspiracy-minded, ultra-right wing Breitbart media company, and found that much of what he said in 2015 and early 2016 has since been parroted by POTUS. In one episode, Bannon said, “you have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They’re arrogant. They’re on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat” He went on to predict a war between the U.S. and China within the next decade. He also predicted “a major shooting war in the Middle East” in the coming years. “To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise,” he said in January 2016. “Some of these situations may get a little unpleasant,” Bannon said. “But you know what, we’re in a war.” Keep an eye on Yemen. Some Pentagon officials are looking at Yemen as a place where the Trump administration might allow the military more room for action than the Obama administration, according to the Washington Post’s Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Missy Ryan... “We expect an easier approval cycle [for operations] under this administration,” one defense official told the Post. Another former officials with experience in Yemen said that more U.S. troops on the ground in Yemen was “overdue.” http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/01/sitrep-trump-advisor-bannon-predicts-wars-with-china-middle-east-pentagon-officials-say-gloves-off-in-yemen-pentagon-didnt-cook-the-books-mattis-and-the-weight-of-expectation-fighting-i/

It means the US has no friends. No allies. Doesn't need friends, allies, or alliances. The UN is unnecessary, irrelevant, weak, and its resolutions meaningless. That go it alone is going to be US foreign policy. Because trump and bannon are so smart. That when it all goes wrong. General Mattis,Secretary of Defense will be blamed, will fall on his sword, and will resign. Because he's not a "winner." Its all Obama's fault because he was "weak" on Iran. HRC's fault because she was weak on Iran. This policy is directed by bannon. "And Bannon has brought other people to the White House from Breitbart News, giving him more influence. “We clearly see what Bannon is doing. There’s no secret in it. He’s increasing his people inside and aligning with Kushner,” said one former GOP leadership aide. “And the person to look at is really Kushner, because at the end of the day, he’s the person Trump trusts most. And together, those two guys seem like they want to knock everyone else over.” Many Republicans fear that Bannon’s ascendance is coming at the expense of Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, the former Republican National Committee chairman who is a home-state friend of Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and has longstanding ties with many lawmakers. In a joint statement announcing the hiring of Bannon and Priebus last November, Trump said the two would work together as “equal partners.” But Republicans on Capitol Hill say they are seeing scant evidence of that... The lack of vetting on Trump’s immigrant and refugee order — which bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the United States for 90 days, freezes the nation’s refugee program for 120 days and indefinitely pauses the acceptance of Syrian refugees — left many Republicans on Capitol Hill fuming. House GOP leaders have acknowledged they only learned of the order when it was being rolled out, even though staff on the House Judiciary Committee reportedly provided input to the White House. “They’re not doing the basic blocking and tackling, and that makes it more difficult for congressional leaders to defend it,” one former GOP leadership aide said. The decision to make Bannon a permanent member of Trump’s National Security Council was a shock. Past White House political advisers such as Karl Rove and David Axelrod didn’t make that leap. “[Bannon] wouldn’t be anywhere near my National Security Council if I were president,” Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) told The Hill. While Trump added Bannon, the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will only attend committee meetings when the discussions pertain specifically to their areas of expertise. “Why would you remove the [director] and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said to The Hill. “I don’t think that’s a good decision, and I hope the president will reconsider. … The removal of two people whose advice is essential when these critical policy decisions are made — that bothers me.”... http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317236-bannons-power-puts-republicans-on-edge ""Steve Bannon operated as the dictator of Breitbart,” Bardella added. “He is someone who is prone to a lot of tirades and acts as a bully. If anyone thought Corey Lewandowski was challenging that way, wait till someone gets a curse-laden phone call from Steve at any hour."... "He’s also extremely malicious and vindictive. He has an incredibly short temper and an even shorter attention span. A megalomaniac." "He's Trump — but smart,” Shapiro added. "A loudmouth bully who cons his way into positions of power. I think he'll double Trump down and tell him he's winning even when he's losing, because it isn't about Trump — It's about what Bannon can get from Trump." http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/08/stephen-bannon-breitbart-donald-trump-227110

Facts http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html Alternative Facts (suggests a brain is at work) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/basic-lizard-brain-psychology-explain-rise-trump-article-1.2960261

Facts: http://www.dw.com/en/report-refugees-have-not-increased-crime-rate-in-germany/a-18848890 Alternative facts: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/23/germany-registers-surge-crimes-right-wing-radicals/

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” Sun Tzu, The Art of War I guess it's true. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

"Yet, 24 hours later, Fox News still has not retracted or addressed their widely shared tweet that it was a Muslim Moroccan who did the shooting." Above quote from story. FOX news never removed the quote from their story until: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/fox-news-deletes-false-quebec-shooting-tweet-justin-trudeau-mosque FOX news "Motto: Fair & Balanced"

FOOL. Its just all part /art of the deal. Its like trump university. Deny,deny,deny then pay and settle out of court. BUT the game has changed. The republican leadership and executive has been rendered to deer in the headlights of a BNSF train. They see whats coming, they know what could happen. They can't throw trump under the bus..yet. For now, the band is still playing in the dining room. The sea is flooding the lower two decks. The passengers are still more or less calm. The champagne can still flow for a while yet. Some republicans are getting nervous. Some have toned down their support for trump by remaining quiet. Like the trump supporters in these forums! They don't see the fatal combination of bannon's ideas on a trump personality. Others might. But as long as bannon has trumps ear. The writing is on the wall. Like church mice. They will come out at night, sniff around and see how the wind blows. They are intimidated by what trump did to Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, etc. Besides, in politics you wait for the noose to get tight before the knives come out. Before the trap door is opened. I used fool in jest of course. Courts, courts, clearly you missed yesterday's news. trump's apprentice has been anointed the chosen one to take care of those small details, like courts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBZvl7dIu4 HD requests that trump cancel his visit to company headquarters. Budweiser weighs in on immigration. Two large, successful corporations at the foundation of the bannon-trump base in middle America. Calling Kellyanne Conway, calling Sean Spicer. Instructions from bannon to come. Meanwhile in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuwDZD9tVTM and What passes for impersonation. He ain't no Alec Baldwin. But SNL is Like.. the.. BEST! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Y7IinN9CI

I particularly like the idea that trump had to cancel a photo op at the Harley Davidson plant. Here was another chance for a campaign stop in the heartland of the remaining believers. A chance to speak in the mike "everything is going GREAT". "Its so SAD that HRC has to watch our tremendous success". Forgetting his promise of course to "lock her up". I wonder if that EO, to lock her up, hasn't gotten lost on bannon's desk. I guess the HD officials, as the meeting was cancelled at their request. Didn't want 5-10,000 protestors at the doors of their plant. Canceled, so SAD.

Average speed of the chase 61 mph. Although this chase suggests they are also devoted to their jobs. Finland mourned the loss of the second police officer in the last 17 years, recently.

This one is pretty easy to understand. Saudi Arabia is Sunni. The "King" of Saudi Arabia controls the government via it's very strict interpretation of the Sunni faction of the religion. KSA is a MAJOR funder of terrorist who attack any faction who isn't Sunni, for instance, Shia. Since the US acts as a proxy for KSA in a number of military operations (okay, let's just flat out say it, we're mercenaries for them), it's perfectly understandable for pretty much anyone outside of KSA, but especially Shia to chant, "Death to America." The US is actually involved in the coalition in the war in Yemen. USAF tankers are refueling Saudi F-15's en-route to Yemen. US advisors are helping the Saudi air force with air-tasking orders. Strike assessments and coordination with the sea and air campaigns. The USN is helping with the naval blockade. Thats how the attack on a USN destroyer came about last year. How the USN came about destroying three Houthi rebel radar facilities. I should have been clearer in my lack of understanding on how the Houthi's came to hate America and "the Jews". The Houthi's have gotten a bit of a bad deal. They, as typical in the middle east, were ignored and disadvantaged by the last government. A government that enjoyed US support. Because it was pro-Saudi, anti-Iran and presumably by those two factors, Sunni. That would make the Houthi, Shia. But there is more to the story than that. The Houthi were happy to more or less mind their own business. Leaving the majority of Yemen to the Sunni, Al qaeda and the other Yemini tribes. Something got them armed by Iran and for some reason Iran opened the floodgates of weapons. It might have been typical Iranian meddling, er Hezbollah-Shia-Mullah desires to cause trouble in the Saudi Kingdom. Or something else. But now the Houthi have every modern Iranian weapon. Iranian anti-ship, ATGM, surface and air radars. In addition to manpads which have shot down Saudi Apache helicopters. The Houthi rebels have invaded Saudi territory and shelled Saudi cities with long range Iranian surface to surface missiles. Some of which have been shot down by Patriot SAMs. In any event the background narrative for Houthi tribesmen is Death to America, Death to Israel, etc. etc. Its like a chant. It not like Saudi,US built F-15 aircraft haven't dropped US built GPS guided bombs on markets. They have. Its not like Saudi F-15's haven't been refueled by USAF tankers on their way to bomb Houthi villages. They have. But its Saudi and the UAE air forces primary at work. This is one version of the conflict. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32554955 and another https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015%E2%80%93present) But for some reason the Houthi have walked away from two peace agreements. They have persisted in attempting to control areas of Yemen far beyond traditional tribal lands. Something is driving them in the face of serious opposition and bombing. IMO Iran. Iran throwing the weapons floodgates open to punish the Saudi government.

For sure. Today injures would be causes damage. There are not many cisterns left. Most people wouldn't even know what one is. Let alone try to find a company to deliver water. To the topic at hand. In the interests of saving money. In the interests of government efficiency, economy and cost reduction. Is it worth while to have legislation drafted to change "injury" to "causes damage". When most people, juries and judges would know the difference. When the relevant regulation is read in court because a crack whore broke a light in a public washroom in Washington D.C.? When a contractor doing renovations to a hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004 knocks down a light. Then never replaces it because it casts a shadow on a huge golden T. Interfering with the glow of the "T", distracting from the importance of the golden symbol. IMO its all part of a package of ideas. Government, regulations, Washington are evil and unnecessary.

Well in his defense there are hundreds of websites and thousands of reference to these exact regulations. The one for wine is entirely appropriate and so in the one for Onion Rings. I haven't looked up the onion ring regulation. I don't need to. When food products are involved and export requirements to be met by either brands. Or by food categories. It has to be specified and regulated by federal law. Otherwise cheating, mislabeling, puffing, would be the norm. It's like Idaho potatoes. If it ain't from Idaho... Other countries require these standards for importation. Its like wheat. Its defined by moisture content, protein content, herbicide and pesticide residue, etc. etc. I'm guessing a kernel of wheat had a page of regulations and definitions associated with it. Otherwise it could not enter the export food chains to be sold by/to Cargill, Con-agra, Tyson etc.

I tried to find this regulation since google searches show so many references to anti-regulation and anti-government websites. Occasionally they come up referencing water and marine navigation. I'm going to take a stab at this. Its unlawful for anyone to remove, modify, conceal, disguise, any lamp, beacon, light or to " injure a government-owned lamp", beacon,light, etc. used, installed, intended, by any government agency. For the purpose of marine navigation. Above all fabricated for illustration. Perhaps someone else can find the real regulation. Not that it would satisfy for a second the minds of those who believe Washington is populated by the devil incarnate. That government regulations should be discarded wholesale. In order to make America GREAT and achieve 4% GDP.

I would. It's not like he's actually writing them. All he's doing is asking lawyers to do the work and them signing them. Hell, he's not even doing the basic work of figuring out if they're legal. Wrong !! Author: http://www.dailywire.com/news/8441/i-know-trumps-new-campaign-chairman-steve-bannon-ben-shapiro Otherwise President trump would miss the time needed for bronzing, personal grooming, tweeting and surfing the news channels for coverage of himself.

I know you're in jest but when I saw this story I wasted about three hours trying to find out who bought it. No avail. IMO a transfer to Putin cronies. This transaction hidden of course to avoid US and EU sanctions. "The Qatari Investment Authority" would certainly for the right price remain quiet if the price is right.

I see these "regulations" posted on the same anti-government websites. But when i google the exact regulation. I get vastly different results. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/331 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/8103 Has anyone actually researched the(these) supposed regulations to see if they are "real"? https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2002-title27-vol1/pdf/CFR-2002-title27-vol1.pdf "(9) Any word in the brand name or class and type designation which is the name of a distilled spirits product or which simulates, imitates, or created the impression that the wine so labeled is, or is similar to, any product customarily made with a distilled spirits base. Examples of such words are: “Manhattan,” “Martini,” and “Daquiri” in a class and type designation or brand name of a wine cocktail; “Cuba Libre,” “Zombie,” and “Collins” in a class and type designation or brand name of a wine specialty or wine highball; “creme,” “cream,” “de,” or “of” when used in conjunction with “menthe,” “mint,” or “cacao” in a class and type designation or a brand name of a mint or chocolate flavored wine specialty. " This is the section and the context of one of these supposed outrageous government regulations. With the context intended. Open eyes, brain in gear, start day.

FOX http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/31/exclusive-pentagon-believes-attack-on-saudi-frigate-meant-for-us-warship.html FOX, I shouldn't get started on FOX. It's the perfect definition of a trolling news service. But I digress. I'm not sure of the history but the Houthi Shia have the same narrative attached to every video and every attack Be it on Government, Saudi or US forces. When there is a video of a RPG attack on a Saudi tank they chant Death to America, Death to Israel, God is Great. Its as if the gunner was a Jew and the driver American, in a Saudi tank. It could be that Iran supplies the ATGM and has instructions that the Saudi, gulf state co-coalition. Are really Israeli's in disguise using US equipment. For the benefit of Saudi royalty. Israel http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4915686,00.html UPI http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/01/31/Saudi-Arabia-Two-warship-crew-members-die-in-Houthi-boat-attack/8741485875853/ RT "The vessel, presumably one of the four Saudi Al Madinah-class frigates, was allegedly hit by a guided anti-ship missile, according to al-Masirah television network citing an unnamed source in the Yemeni rebel forces loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The attack took place near the port city of Hodeida, 150 kilometers southwest of the Yemeni capital Sana’a, according to the source who said the ‘aggressor’s warship, involved in attacks on Yemeni “cities and fishermen,” was “destroyed” as a result." https://www.rt.com/news/375701-saudi-warship-attack-killed/ Yemen coming to the desk of President bannon....er trump. SOON!