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So it is being reported that she had to READ the prayer from a script. I'm an atheist and I can recite it from memory. She'd probably also have to read it if she said it in French, Italian or any other non-native language that she may speak. Do you think you'd be able to cite it perfectly in another language without writing it down? Can you even speak any other language? I'm surprised nobody criticized her for plagiarizing it yet. I guess that's an improvement. Mrs. T LIVES in the USA and has done since 1996. I can speak French quite well, and I'm sure that if I lived in France since 1996 I'd be quite fluent enough not to need a script.. The greater question would be why trump wasn't giving this prayer himself. Oh there is a good reason!!! "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he attends a church in Manhattan, but the church released a statement saying the real estate developer is not an "active member." Just another layer of lipstick on a pig and I'm not talking about Melania. There is a reason why she is staying in NY while "Barron finishes school". trump never recited the "Lord's Prayer." because he would need a teleprompter. Melania read it because she is not familiar with it and is a actress in the play for the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxsNexkTfU and she is good at that. In fairness to the republicans here, acting is not limited to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8Y9qguTgc http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/politics/donald-trump-church-member/

How come then, that Arnhem vets around the world who wanted to do this solo, in every case, were shunned? Including the UK. Their previous experience counted for nothing. The British Parachute community ran for the hills when approached about this. The vets who did do a jump on the day, in other countries without exception, did tandems. The only choice they got. Even my mob were turned down by two other organisations in NZ, one being the military. These guys are connected around the world, and they talk, and I know there was massive disappointment (not to mention a sense of rejection) that they were not able to jump solo in other countries. Thats what they all wanted, and tried to organise. My lot were, of course, stoked. Sounds like an old discussion here with regards to the BPA: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=4805055;page=3;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;

There is a Russian saying. In your life you must.1. have a son. 2 build a house . 3 plant a tree. Now #4 find the truth. "The fourth estate in Russia Russia currently ranks 180 out of 199 countries for press freedom, behind Iraq, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the international watchdog Freedom House. Though it has never been known for its media independence, Russia’s press freedom and ranking have continuously decreased in the past decade under Putin. Here’s a breakdown we made using data from Freedom House for the years 2002 to 2015: Putin has been in power since 2000, when he was first elected president and when his regime began to commandeer the press. Sometimes this could mean a literal takeover. In 2000, authorities raided the offices of the major television network NTV and arrested its owner Vladmir Gusinsky for fraud. The charges were dropped once Gusinsky agreed to sell his media empire to a state-controlled company. More often, the Kremlin makes it difficult for independent outlets to operate in roundabout ways: denying broadcast licenses, coordinating providers to dump channels, banning advertising on cable, limiting foreign ownership of media and firing journalists for "extremism.".. Combining data from two nonprofits that records violations of press rights (the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the Moscow-based Glasnost Defense Foundation), we found that at least 34 journalists have been murdered in Russia since 2000. (This tally only includes deaths confirmed or likely to be work-related homicides committed in Russia. It doesn’t include murders where the motives are unclear, or journalists killed in war and on other dangerous assignments, like covering the mob or riots.) For comparison, in the same time period, two journalists were murdered in China, while three were killed in the United States (including the on-air deaths of two television reporters in Virginia this year). Nina Ognianova, the coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Europe and Central Asia program, said journalists covering corruption, human rights abuses, organized crime, and official wrongdoing can be "slain with impunity in Putin’s Russia." http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2016/jan/04/does-vladimir-putin-kill-journalists/

. Lol, do enlighten me. Only Russians, and ethnic Russian Ukrainians even care about the Ukrainian government that was overthrown. The fact that you even mention it gives you away. I think that Roy #3 honestly believes that five months in the UK is good enough. Sorry. A while back Roy #1 had his video feed on. So everyone here could see the background. The framed autographed picture of Svetlana Kapanina. "Thanks Roy for the fabulous meal at Café Pushkin the other day, love Svetlana." Now I'd be the first to admit that that is one fine piece of Mother Russia, for her age! Now I don't know what is better her or her Su-26. But she did look great when she got Russia's Order of Courage from president Vladimir Putin https://vimeo.com/143358719 And Roy... Its very disappointing to have Vladimir turn on our GREAT leader so fast! President Putin needs to have more loyalty. https://www.rt.com/viral/377981-trump-sweden-fox-news/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation

Easy Roy. the quarterly reviews for promotion are coming up. You have to keep your cool. You can't always rely upon Roy #2 to straighten things up on all the sites and forums where you messed things up. Evginey Mikhailovich Bogachev, Aleksey Alekseyevich Belan, Cozy Bear,Fancy Bear and your other friends are going to be hiring again. Do good and there will be more work. Perhaps even Papa Bear! Do good there, even the FSB! Further reading: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-clapper-idUSKBN14P0G5 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/russias-cyber-warriors-should-west-do/

Well its not true that Putin issued a international arrest warrant for Soros; "Soros, who has attracted so many conspiracy theories that a Wikipedia page has been dedicated to them, is not on Interpol’s list of people wanted by Russia for international arrest and extradition. None of the articles, tellingly, say what charges Putin supposedly wants to extradite Soros for, other than a vague claim that he is a “threat to Russian national security.” In 2015, the Russian government did ban Soros’ charities, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the Open Society Institute, claiming they represented a threat to the country’s security:" http://www.snopes.com/putin-issues-arrest-warrant-for-george-soros/ "Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.[2] Open Society Foundations financially support civil society groups around the world, with a stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media.[3][4] The OSF has branches in 37 countries,[5] encompassing a group of country and regional foundations, such as the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa; its headquarters are in New York, New York. Since its founding in 1993, OSF has reported expenditures of over $11 billion.[6] The group's name is inspired by Karl Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies.[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations "Glenn Beck's conspiracy theory On November 9, 2010, American conservative television host Glenn Beck aired an hour-long television program, titled The Puppet Master, dedicated to Soros (which he had announced as “D-Day for George Soros”).[6] Accusations he made during this program, specifically that Soros collaborated with the Nazis as a child and that “many people would call him an antisemite”, have met with condemnation from groups including the Anti-Defamation League and The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants.[7][8] Beck continued discussing Soros in his programs of November 10, 2010, and November 11, 2010, making additional claims including that Soros, with the help of others, is attempting to collapse the United States economy in order to help create a new world order.[9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros_conspiracy_theories BELOW A STORY FROM THE BBC it explains Putin, Russia, Soros. "A grizzly visage stares out of the TV screen. It is the face of an old man, but with the flesh on one side stripped away to reveal an eyeball in a cavernous socket. Behind him is a rack of gold bars. Is it a cyborg from the Hollywood sci-fi thriller Terminator? No, it is George Soros, the 85-year-old US billionaire financier and political activist, who is rapidly becoming Russian TV's new chief bogeyman. The scary image was shown on the St-Petersburg-based pro-Kremlin Channel Five TV last November, around the time Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) network was effectively banned from operating in Russia after being declared a "foreign agent". Starting from the 1980s, Soros's various foundations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting the billionaire financier's vision of a civil society in Russia. This has included funding various educational projects, backing independent media and human rights organisations and supporting the cause of LGBT equality. But for the Kremlin and its powerful array of loyal media, Soros and his foundations appear to represent a threat to the Russian state. In the report by Channel Five, Soros's educational activities were portrayed as an attempt both to indoctrinate Russian children in Western propaganda, but also to undermine the country's academic life by luring the most talented students abroad. It also highlighted the role of Soros-funded organisations in the series of so-called "colour revolutions" that have occurred in a number of post-Soviet countries, including Georgia and Ukraine. Soros's dream was said to be to stage a "colour revolution" in Moscow. These days, whenever Russian state TV reports on protests in eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union, Soros's name never seems to be far away. During anti-government protests in Macedonia last May, Russia's main official TV channel Rossiya 1 highlighted accusations that the OSF was paying football hooligans to provoke violent clashes with the police. The following month, it suggested that Soros and the US government were attempting to hijack demonstrations in Armenia provoked by electricity price rises. Fixation Soros is certainly one of Putin's most outspoken and high-profile critics. In an article in the The New York Review of Books in 2014 he argued that "Europe is facing a threat from Russia to its very existence". Just over a year later, he a made a similar warning in a syndicated article headlined: "Putin is a bigger threat to Europe than ISIS". Still, the amount of attention he gets on Russian state TV is remarkable. According to data from media monitoring service Medialogiya, in the past calendar year his name has featured in no fewer than 74 reports in news bulletins on Rossiya 1 alone. Moreover, there is no sign of the fixation letting up. During the recent coverage of the Panama Papers, Rossiya 1 and the other main state TV station, Channel One, both implied that revelations about the offshore dealings of Putin's inner circle were part of an anti-Kremlin conspiracy involving both Soros and the US government. The Kremlin's international broadcaster, RT (formerly known was Russia Today) made similar claims. Their basis for doing so was that the OSF indirectly funds the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has been facilitating the coverage of the Panama Papers. Both RT and Channel One featured a Scottish commentator named John Wight saying that Soros "with a cheque-book has done more to destabilise governments around the world than most governments could ever dream of with armies at their disposal". Rossiya 1 and Channel One also highlighted the OSF's role in backing the "Yes" vote in the recent Dutch referendum on the EU's association agreement with Ukraine. According to the Dutch broadcaster NOS, the OSF donated 200,000 euros to the "Yes" Campaign in the vote on the EU-Ukraine association agreement. But Russian state TV made it sound as if Soros was trying to buy the referendum outright. New bogeyman Even after the effective banning of the OSF in Russia, state TV has continued to use Soros's name to target Kremlin critics. A recent film by Gazprom-owned NTV began by asserting that the "US State Department and billionaire George Soros are secretly financing Russia's opposition media". But the film's accusations were based mainly on loans some regional media have received from the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), of which the OSF is just one of several backers. During most of Putin's rule, Russian state TV would routinely try to discredit his opponents by linking them to exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky. But following Berezovsky's death in 2013, the role of chief bogeyman seems now to have been given to George Soros. http://www.bbc.co.uk/monitoring/soros-is-russian-tvs-new-bogeyman Above Berezovsky: "Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian:was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Berezovsky was politically opposed to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, since Putin's election in 2000 and remained a vocal critic of Putin for the rest of his life.[10] In late 2000, after the Russian Deputy Prosecutor General demanded that Berezovsky appear for questioning, he did not return from abroad and moved to the UK, which granted him political asylum in 2003.[11] In Russia he was later convicted in absentia of fraud and embezzlement. The first charges were brought during Primakov's government in 1999.[12] Despite an Interpol Red Notice for Berezovsky's arrest, Russia repeatedly failed to obtain the extradition of Berezovsky from Britain, which became a major point of diplomatic tension between the two countries... Berezovsky was found dead at his home, Titness Park, at Sunninghill, near Ascot in Berkshire, on 23 March 2013.[27][28] A post-mortem examination found that his death was consistent with hanging and that there were no signs of a violent struggle.[29] However the coroner at the inquest into Berezovsky's death later recorded an open verdict.[30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman) Even the FSB gets away from MI6 on occasion. Further reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/opinion/campaign-stops/is-trump-obsessed-with-putin-and-russia.html

A guy that admits his time confiscating property from Jews immediately prior to them being killed in genicide, was one of the best times of his life... I think your satanic radar needs a tune...If there is such a thing. Lol Welcome back comrade. Up here in the north we call this sort of innane idiot commentary "going off the reservation". In honour of our racist past. Of the many Royreader8812 shift workers posting here under that name, I prefer the one that occasionally makes sense. When is he due back? IMO there are three.

Did you ever stop to find out how old Soros was during WW2? Perhaps Ron wants to fund a new church to spread the word of the lord. His friend and the million dollars he is offering would go a long way. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/17/vladimir-putin-to-george-soros-thank-god-we-kicked-you-out-of-russia/ "Veterans Today (VT) is a website that bills itself as a "military veterans and foreign affairs journal." And, indeed, many of its contributors are military veterans or veterans' advocates from across the political spectrum. VT also offers some information about veterans' benefits (lifted from the Veterans' Administration) and links to home and other loans for vets. But start reading the posts, and you'll find something else entirely: myriad claims that there was a conspiracy behind 9/11 (Israel orchestrated it, in cahoots with the American government), that the American government is a puppet (of Israel), that the Holocaust never happened or was greatly exaggerated (Jews made it up to manipulate non-Jews), and, most recently, that Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks, is a pawn (of Israel). Notice a theme? Gordon Duff, the senior editor and chairman of the board at VT, is a prolific proponent of these anti-Israel conspiracy theories, including the Wikileaks claims. Though he does occasionally write on issues and policies that directly affect American veterans (he claims to be a Marine Vietnam veteran), most of his ammo is reserved for churning out articles that claim 9/11 was a U.S./Israel conspiracy and that Israel controls the U.S. government. According to Duff and VT contributors like author and attorney Jeff Gates, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a civil rights watchdog group, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a lobbying group, are Zionist-controlled fronts for Israeli intelligence operations.: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/01/06/buyer-beware-veterans-today-and-its-anti-israel-agenda James H. Fetzer, Founder of Veterans Today "In the early 1990s, Fetzer started promoting John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, later 9/11 conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories regarding the 2002 death of Senator Paul Wellstone and more recently Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories. He cofounded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in 2005,[7] and claims that the United States government, Israeli government and Israeli Mossad are involved in these and other conspiracies. Fetzer's allegations and speculations have drawn strong criticism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Fetzer This is the Russian response to the Independent newspaper's story on Soros. As aforementioned the Russian government has a full press job to attack and discredit Mr. Soros. Together with the usual gang, Alex Jones,Breitbart,Zerohedge, et-al. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/332387-soros-putin-russia-threat-migrants/ The commonality between trump, Russia, Putin, Breitbart, Jones, bannon, miller, etc. should be getting clearer now. How they are all linked together.

And yet Kallend, Bill, Quade and company seem to be OK with that. They want to talk around the problem instead of addressing it at it's core. Feds need to lock up the Union Leaders of the CPD. "Of the 25 officers with the most complaints, a dozen have been involved in recent lawsuits that either ended in settlements or judgments against the city, costing taxpayers at least $4.3 million, according to an online database compiled by The Chicago Reporter analyzing city payouts from just 2012 to 2015. The manner in which the police have dealt with citizen complaints — particularly those involving allegations of excessive force — is at the center of the U.S. Justice Department's ongoing civil rights probe into whether police have systematically trampled citizens' rights. The investigation began in December shortly after the release of the now-infamous dashcam video showing a police officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014. Emanuel has responded to the political fallout of the McDonald scandal by announcing changes aimed at staying ahead of federal authorities who could seek to enforce reforms. His plan for a new oversight agency, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, includes significant changes in the way complaints are handled — including allowing investigators to consider officers' complaint histories in investigating new allegations and restricting the process of mediation that led to hundreds of cases being resolved with light punishments. The data release on Wednesday came three months after an Illinois appeals court unanimously ruled the disciplinary records must be released under the Freedom of Information Act." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/ct-chicago-police-complaints-met-20161013-story.html "CHICAGO — Racism has contributed to a long pattern of institutional failures by the Chicago Police Department in which officers have mistreated people, operated without sufficient oversight, and lost the trust of residents, a task force appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has found. The report, issued on Wednesday, was blistering, blunt and backed up by devastating statistics. Coincidentally, it was released as city leaders were installing a new, permanent superintendent for the Chicago Police Department. “C.P.D.’s own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” the task force wrote. “Stopped without justification, verbally and physically abused, and in some instances arrested, and then detained without counsel — that is what we heard about over and over again.” The report reinforces complaints made for decades by African-American residents who have said they were unfairly singled out by officers without justification on a regular basis, then ignored when they raised complaints." https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/us/chicago-police-dept-plagued-by-systemic-racism-task-force-finds.html?_r=0 https://theintercept.com/2016/10/06/in-the-chicago-police-department-if-the-bosses-say-it-didnt-happen-it-didnt-happen/

Did you ever stop to find out how old Soros was during WW2? Why bother. It fits with a certain Fascist narrative that appeals to certain groups. "Wow, indeed. As hoaxes go, this one was neither plausible nor hard to disprove. Given that Soros — born in 1930 — was only nine years old when World War II began and 14 when the war ended in Europe in 1945, he couldn’t have joined the SS, whose minimum age requirement was 17, even if he had wanted to. Moreover, Soros would never have met the SS requirement for pure “Aryan” heritage. Quite to the contrary, Soros grew to adolescence as a persecuted Jew in Nazi-occupied Budapest. The mislabeled photo is easily debunked using a reverse image search. The young man portrayed in the Waffen SS uniform is Oskar Groening, a Nazi who served at Auschwitz from 1942 through the end of World War II:" http://www.snopes.com/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/ http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/28/breitbart-uses-nazi-inspired-anti-semitic-rhetoric-george-soros-attack/214641 The anti Jewish smear campaign against Soros: "Influential financial analysts Zerohedge claim George Soros “singlehandedly created the European refugee crisis”; xenophobic rag Breitbart says Soros’s funding of Black Lives Matter was part of an agenda to swing the US presidential election; and Donald Trump’s favourite crank Alex Jones says “Soros is behind the Muslim takeover of the West”. In August, hackers thought to be linked to the Russian government stole thousands of documents from Soros’s foundation’s servers and put them online, placing at risk many of the brave individuals the foundation funds. As the world turns to the hard right, one man has become a figure of hate for resurgent nationalists across the globe: Soros has become the No 1 target for the alt-right – a figure central to wild conspiracy theories – because nationalists want to destroy for good the idea that democracy or liberal values can be promoted, or encouraged." http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-soros-caused-refugee-crisis-breitbart-muslim-takeover-biggest-threat-alt-right-global-a7419291.html Russian media is especially active against Soros for his support of Eastern European democracy's. https://www.rt.com/usa/366579-soros-orgs-driving-trump-protests/ Here is a free pdf version of a book that should be required reading in every church in America. Every school. "Sinclair Lewis Novel 'It Can't Happen Here' Sells Out Online Kerry Close Nov 16, 2016 Some voters—shell-shocked by the results of the 2016 presidential election—are rushing to buy the book that Donald Trump's critics say may have predicted his rise 80 years ago. In the wake of Donald Trump's election, copies of Sinclair Lewis's 1935 satirical political novel It Can't Happen Here has sold out on some major online book retailers, including Amazon and Books-a-Million. The novel—which was written as Adolf Hitler rose to power in Nazi Germany—tells the story of a fascist takeover in America. The main character, Buzz Windrip, appeals to voters with a mix of crass language and nativist ideology. Once elected, he solidifies his power by energizing his base against immigrants, people on welfare, and the liberal press. The novel has been called "frighteningly contemporary" in the wake of the Trump campaign and election. As Slate wrote in September 2015: With his careful mix of plainspoken honesty and reactionary delusion, Trump is following an old rhetorical playbook, one defined and employed successfully in the 1936 presidential campaign of [Windrip]. If you'd like to read the novel, you can still order it through Barnes & Noble, or by checking to see if your local brick-and-mortar bookstore has it in stock (or by going to the library!). You can also place an order for the novel on Amazon and the online retailer will ship it to you once it restocks its copies." http://time.com/money/4573801/sinclair-lewis-it-cant-happen-here-amazon/ $8.79 at amazon. For DZ speakers corner, Free book is here: http://www.bookyards.com/en/book/details/15208/It-Can-T-Happen-Here#.WKsTDX88Z0w

IMO this thread has wandered into deep space.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/203984-illegal-immigrants-benefit-the-us-economy You will not find a area of investigation with as much spin and faulty study as this. There are hundreds of studies which have the originating intent of proving a net cost or net benefit relating to undocumented immigrants. http://business.time.com/2013/01/30/the-economics-of-immigration-who-wins-who-loses-and-why/ http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21705699-who-are-main-economic-losers-low-skilled-immigration-wage-war There are so many factors in play that only universities, large think tank economists and governments can really comprehensively cover the variables. Generally speaking they are a net benefit. Not as huge a benefit as the left would argue. But for certain not a negative economic impact on the economy.One of the studies below suggests that there is a negative correlation between US spending on immigration border enforcement. That means for every $1 spent on immigration border enforcement the return is about 97 cents. This is of course a separate issue from drug, gun, smuggling etc. Further reading both of these will give you a fairly comprehensive and honest view: https://gps.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty/hanson/hanson_publication_immigration_illegal.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas/publications/popular/CIS2013.pdf

IMO this explains the court better: "Fox News host Sean Hannity says it’s no surprise that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against President Donald Trump and his executive order on immigration. "We have both been predicting for days now the 9th Circuit — the most liberal court of appeals, the most overturned court in the country — it would act this way," Hannity said on his show Feb. 9, speaking with a guest... In our research, we found that the 9th Circuit has a higher-than-average reversal rate, but not the highest. Additionally, experts told us that counting reversals doesn’t necessarily say much about the quality or substance of the 9th Circuit’s work... In fact, the Supreme Court reversed about 70 percent of cases it took between 2010-15. Among cases it reviewed from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, it reversed about 79 percent. The 9th Circuit’s reversal rate is higher than average, but it’s not the absolute highest among the circuit courts. That distinction goes to the 6th Circuit, which serves Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, with an 87 percent average between 2010-15. The 9th Circuit is in third place... We also found that the 9th Circuit never had the highest reversal rate in any individual term between 2004-15. (That’s the farthest back we could go.) A spokesperson for Hannity pointed us to a 2014 article in National Review titled, "Ninth Circuit Leading the Pack for ‘Most Reversed.’ " But the evidence presented in the article does not support the headline. So Hannity’s claim that the 9th Circuit is the "most overturned court in the country" is incorrect... This means the Supreme Court generally reverses far less than 1 percent of all the cases the 9th Circuit (and other circuits) decide... While the 9th Circuit has a higher than average reversal rate among cases it sends to the Supreme Court, it has not had the highest rate since at least 2004 (the oldest data point we could find). Even if it did, experts told us that the massive size of the 9th Circuit compared to the handful of cases it sends to the Supreme Court every year make reversal rates an imperfect measure of the quality of the 9th Circuit’s decisions. More broadly, experts say this statistic is a poor way of comparing courts. We rate Hannity’s claim False." http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/feb/10/sean-hannity/no-9th-circuit-isnt-most-overturned-court-country-/ Hannity is a Fox news reporter that started the whole 9th circuit b.s. rouge court story. Too bad its completely misleading. This story was a Fox news originating report. i.e. it was Fox news reporting that started this entire story. Given that its not only wrong but orientated to mislead its viewers to the orientation of the political ideology of the reporter. Its especially egregious.

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Flawed study as the first six are all good, but I'd just as soon leave the last two off the menu.

You do realize there's a good reason most First Ladies don't generally open speeches with prayers; yes? What you call "powerful" a lot of other people consider to be "shameless pandering" and "pretty damn close to violating the establishment clause." There has always been a strong US identity of politicians and presidents to wrap their message around the flag and God. Like NASCAR uses God and the flag to deliver its brand to its market. It frames the message, the group and establishes the messenger as being worthy to speak to the group. To deliver his message. It was a small separation of this when Mitt Romney, a Mormon, brought his message of "GOD" to the voter. "Religious attitudes are often formed early in life and are a continual part of an individual’s social- ization in American culture (Carroll & Roof, 1993; Steensland et al., 2000). One need only think of the frequency with which Christmas and nativity displays are present in public locations and the commonplace structure of public school vaca- tions around Christmas and Easter. Attitudes socialized early in life, in turn, significantly shape social beliefs and attitudes later in life " This saves time, expense and energy for politicians. A independent, atheist would have a difficult time framing his identity and commonness with a US voting block. "According to the Pew Research Center, in 2014, 22.8% of the American population does not identify with a religion, including atheists" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_States " In short, even among Americans who may report that they desire less religious language in politics, and who may say they are open to candidates of non- Christian faiths, these Christian religious appeals can have resonance without their awareness" Further reading" https://faculty.washington.edu/agg/pdf/Sheets&al.PolPsych.2011.pdf So even if you don't believe in forgiveness, integrity, honesty, respect for others, compassion, protecting the weak, the injured, the vulnerable. Just use the flag, God and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrk9nJK_lVI

One of the most true things I've seen from you. But the link doesn't work. If you fix it I'll read it! Knock yourself out: http://stobblehouse.com/text/ACIM.pdf

SO what? She married you, so that indicates a lot. What a pompous prick. I could come up with at least a half dozen jokes about you and your X-number of wives, but even I wouldn't stoop so low. This country would be blessed to have your students become only half the piece of donkey shit that you are. . . Oh lighten up. Ron brought her name into the equation as having similar views to himself.

Perhaps "well oiled machine" would be more appropriate. Don Yes well oiled: "According to one source familiar with Priebus’ list, hedge fund manager and campaign bundler Lew Eisenberg will be named ambassador to Italy; Duke Buchan, another Wall Street financier who was among the earliest to bet big on Trump, will be ambassador to Spain; and Georgette Mosbacher, an entrepreneur and Fox News contributor, is likely to serve as ambassador to either Luxembourg or Belgium... "They certainly were not chosen by Tillerson," the source familiar with the list explained. "These were not Tillerson choices at all." According to a source close to Trump's vetting process for ambassadorships, it's not unusual for a president to have a list of big donors and others for plum ambassador jobs, but it is a little unorthodox to be nominating so many ambassadors before other key positions were filled, like deputy secretary jobs. Hillary Clinton, for instance, had more sway in picking the ambassadors when she was secretary of state, but President Barack Obama's top aides also provided a list. .. The ambassadors were not chosen for their diplomatic or foreign policy experience, this person said. "They are political types and donors, the usual suspects for ambassadors," this person said. "The ambassadors are not ‘drain the swamp’ kind of people." http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-ignoring-cabinet-235124

For someone who whined and moaned for years about Obama dividing the country, you now seem to think it's a virtue that Trump actively portrays the entire American press corps, and indeed anyone who disagrees with anything that he does, as his enemies. How's that for cognitive dissonance! Yeah, he made himself look stupid in so many different ways they couldn't possibly report them all. Genius. "Cognitive dissonance" would be familiar to anyone who passed a Psy 101 class in college. Populists like trump need a enemy. A boogeyman so to speak in order to formulate the parameters for a group to think they are under attack.To develop a commonness of the group.Defining the collective identity. Cuba and Venezuela used the US for decades and decades. It was convenient for Castro and it was convenient for Chavez. Several enemies can explain almost anything that is unfortunate, distressing or causes progress not to take place. trump had HRC, Obama and the left to blame before. Now he has to invent new ones to focus on like the media and the courts. He is campaigning now because he needs to keep the base in line. Understanding that leaks, the media and the courts have interfered with the groups objectives. He keeps the neo-nazi right wing on board by refusing to condemn antisemitism. The anti-immigration crown by blaming "fifth-column" Islamists, Mexicans, etc. etc. Just as he abandoned "lock-her-up", "the fix is in", "its rigged you know, you know that right", etc. He picks up new ones. Today its the courts and the media. Tomorrow it will be the republican party.

There is something going on with Mr. Ford http://www.tmz.com/2017/02/17/harrison-ford-plane-radio-communication-mistakes-taxiway/ He is going to have to explain to the FAA his cognitive failures in this entire process.

Putin talks like a regular person for one thing. Unlike trump. trump has a style as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/ He is trying to get his net worth up from $400 million to Putins worth of http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-02-17/vladimir-putin-could-be-worlds-richest-man-with-200-billion-net-worth-report-says

There was an official, might have been Pense? Who gave a speech in front of a crowd of about 6-700 people. At the end of the speech there was an applause of about 50 people. Absolutely embarrassing for whoever it was. The speech involved US assurances to the NATO members there and it involved assurances that the US stood behind NATO.

Completely fair. If he surrounded himself with a CIA director, a economist, someone with dual Presidency WH experience. He could do a reasonable job.

For trump I like to add pandering to the spin equation. Its why you have to concentrate so much when trump speaks. The meandering and sidestepping of answers challenge thinking as to if its spin, fact ,bluster or pandering. Its equally refreshing to hear Senators on the various committees talk. They only get on committees because they tend to set politics aside. As such, they tend to give straight answers to straight questions.