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Post by georgewashington on Aug 25, 2014 8:28:52 GMT -5
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Post by georgewashington on Oct 24, 2014 10:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by liberty on Dec 1, 2014 14:19:43 GMT -5
And she had to resign due to this? Where is freedom of speech.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional aide who recently criticized President Barack Obama's teenage daughters on social media told NBC News on Monday that she would resign.
Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Republican Representative Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, had said via a Facebook post that Obama's daughters, Malia, 16, and Sasha, 13, needed to show "a little class," complaining they appeared to look disinterested last week during an appearance with their father at a White House pre-Thanksgiving ceremony at which he had "pardoned" a turkey.
Her post unleashed a backlash on social media, prompting Lauten to later apologize on Facebook for her comments.
Children of presidents have generally been off limits for criticism in Washington.
"Act like being in the White House matters to you," Lauten said in the Facebook post last week.
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Post by alexsaitta on Dec 22, 2014 8:56:43 GMT -5
This is one of the reasons I got tired of living in New York City. Racism is at the surface most of the time, it not it is percolating just below the surface. It seems most everything turns into a racial issue/ divide. 95% of the people are over the issue of race and have moved beyond it. Those living in the city have white friends, black friends, Indian friends, Asian friends, co-workers, boyfriends, girlfriends, wives, husbands, etc. It is so diverse that you can't help but accept the diversity. Most all do. Yet it is the #1 source of friction in the city. news.yahoo.com/ray-kelly-blasts-de-blasio-brooklyn-cop-killings-175602893.html
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Post by conservative on Dec 22, 2014 10:28:11 GMT -5
In general, people abhor being controlled and crave options. Government exists to control people and limits options. Where is there more Government than in NYC? Hence, the friction. On Racism, my personal theory is Racism has been successfully and rightly legislatively defeated having left us with only the emotional bias that makes us individuals. I don't think politicians or the media wants to accept this.
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Post by conservative on Dec 23, 2014 9:20:04 GMT -5
"De Blasio allies often point out that the city has changed since the days of Giuliani. Blacks and Hispanics are now in the majority. The so-called Giuliani Democrats have largely passed away or moved. The same coalition that elected Obama also swept de Blasio to an outright win in the 2013 primary, helping him avoid a runoff." Read more: www.politico.com/story/2014/12/bill-de-blasio-113755.htmlThis quote from the Politico story says a mouthful. It could read "do whites matter anymore?". Having only been a tourist traveler, I have little insight into real life outside the South. If we have failed our minority population with outsized deference in law and government support to this point since 1965, are we being asked to now surrender? If so, who's asking and how do we define it? Is there to be a "Reconstruction" for the entire country and will it be as punitive as the original? If we don't know the terms of winning or losing this modern Civil War we've been engaging in America, how do we value the sacrifices and good intentions of our generation?
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Post by alexsaitta on Dec 23, 2014 10:18:14 GMT -5
In these big cities, since the 1960's governments have been trying to get votes through government spending, and as a result have made large sections of the population dependent on government. 46 million are on food stamps now, for example. Naturally, large sections of the population feel helpless because they haven't developed the personal skills to be anything other than dependent. When a person faces a problem and lacks the skills to deal with it, and the government isn't there to help, what happens? They get angry. If that person lacks morals, then what? They act out. Unrest develops. It isn't a minority issue. Every group to some extent has become dependent on government. It isn't just an urban issue either. In the rural areas, dependence on government has grown.
The difference is, in the Northeastern cities they lack morals so the entire chain is more likely to be lit up. One day government will not have the resources to give these huge sections of the city what they are dependent on for their survival. There will be widespread anger, combined with a lack of morals (knowing right from wrong) and the unrest will follow.
I think, we'll see this in our life-time in some shape or form. New York City will be the last place I want to be if my opinion proves to be correct. Hence, one of the reasons I left.
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Post by alexsaitta on Jan 5, 2015 8:22:08 GMT -5
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Post by columbia on Jan 7, 2015 8:10:08 GMT -5
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Post by alexsaitta on Jan 30, 2015 8:51:31 GMT -5
There is a place and time to address your government. You can write letters to the editor, call talk radio, email or call your rep or speak during the public input at meetings. This was not the place and time. What occurred at the Armed Services Committee meeting was totally inappropriate. If this was allowed anytime at any government meeting, we'd have chaos. Watch the tape. Bravo to John McCain for speaking up.
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Post by alexsaitta on Sept 19, 2015 14:28:39 GMT -5
Unannounced a student brings in a device that looks like this, I would hope the school calls the police? I could see how someone looks at this "clock" and all sorts of alarms go off. It is not like he had a science project and signed up for it and said he was making a clock and brought it in. It sounds like he just made, put it in a briefcase, walked into class and opened it to show the teacher. What about the parents, they let this child bring this "clock" into school in a briefcase? You call the cops, they take it away, retain him, discover if it was a bomb or not, and then say all is well. I don't think they should have arrested him, but by no means did they over-react. He nor the parents are not heroes. Foolish, yes. Heroes, no. www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
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Post by conservative on Sept 20, 2015 9:44:30 GMT -5
Alex, I'm in agreement. It's hard to know why the chain of events, starting at home, could have gone as far as it did. My criticism falls on the moment when adults, the teacher, her principle or investigating official, determined it was not a purposeful threat but was a teachable lesson. Everything that occurred outside the school was P.C. piling on. We should have never known about this. An example of Government employees having authority without responsibility.
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Post by alexsaitta on Sept 25, 2015 8:28:54 GMT -5
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Post by alexsaitta on Dec 1, 2015 9:35:22 GMT -5
This is a good article and probably will be the main reason the US gets involved in the Middle East again. A couple of points, all which I’ve made over the last few years. The US should have never abandoned its initial plan in the Middle East because its success was in the palm of our hand. Throw out Sadam, put in the pro-west democratic government in Iraq, allow US investment in Iraqi oil fields to boost production to help bring down oil prices for the US oil-consuming economy, and create revenue for a rebuilding Iraq. Then have Iraq export pro-western democracy to the region, mainly to destabilize Iran. Keep a strong and long-term US military presence in Iraq to support the new Iraqi leadership, strike any new terrorist group that was budding in the Middle East and add another US strike force that could easily hit Russia or China if need be. A great plan that you could see was starting to work in many ways – put a democracy in Iraq, Iraqi oil production is now maximum, world oil prices are down, etc. Unfortunately, Bush 43 abandoned his own plan. Obama ran away from it. Hence the mess we have now. From the article. Iraq, battling ISIS terrorists daily, has moved to borrow $6 billion in new bond debt, something it hasn’t done in nearly a decade. The bond issuance comes as Iraq’s oil output hit a record high in July at 4.18 million barrels per day, up sharply from an average of 3.42 million barrels per day in the first quarter of this year, notes OilPrice.com. Iraq’s bond offering, led by co-managers Citigroup (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and, Deutsche Bank (DB), is Baghdad’s first since 2006. The country is still reeling under a sizable budget deficit yawning wider after the plunge in oil prices and military costs from fighting ISIS in the northern and western parts of the country. Similarly, Saudi Arabia, which has its own Islamist militants fomenting domestic jihadi trouble, borrowed more than $9 billion since the summer, re-entering the bond markets for the first time in eight years as it faces a fiscal deficit equal to about 20% of GDP. Here is the entire article: www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/11/30/oil-plunge-raises-fears-societal-unrest/
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Post by geraldgarrett on Jan 24, 2016 12:51:17 GMT -5
This will be interesting. Those who have signed up for Obamacare and took the subsidy may have to pay up for that if they understated their income. As more sign up at Healthcare.gov, this will become more of an issue. I don't see that as an issue for anybody but those who tried to game the system.
If you apply for loan, whether it's a government loan or a loan from one of those banks that always has our best interests at heart (*sarcasm) you can go to JAIL for falsifying such things as income or, as a lesser alternative, the entire loan can be deemed payable immediately. (It's in the fine print - well, other than the line where you certify UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that the information you provided is accurate.)
Even non-Obamacare taxpayers wind up paying more if they make more. It's in the tax tables, in case you haven't noticed. Any of you ever own a business where you have to file quarterly estimates of income and pay in advance? I have. Try underestimating that a time or two and see what happens come tax time.
Yes, there will be those who think somebody else should pay for everything who will be upset when their earned-income credit money goes to pay for their health insurance because they tried to pretend they couldn't pay part of it themselves. But the rules going in were clear. It's not the government's fault that some people are too stupid to read and/or comprehend rules and laws. (Well, maybe it is with government-funded schools, but that's another issue altogether.)
That reminds me. I saw one of those large packages of toilet paper on a shelf recently - you know, those packs where you have to understand complicated math problems like "4 double rolls = 8" and "8 double rolls = 16" in order to decide what to buy to wipe your fanny - and it clearly read, on the front of the package, "32 Double Rolls = 70." (I can post a picture if you don't believe me.)
Between that - and "R-E-L-I-E-F" being spelled "R-O-L-A-I-D-S", singing groups like "Korn" and Lipton "ain't no sippin' tea" - it's no wonder Johnny can't read. Or add (unfortunately, he can still multiply in the Biblical sense.) Or show manners in public. Or wipe his own butt.
Johnny graduates high school as a functional illiterate because we, as a society, apparently both allow and encourage ignorance. (For you thin-skinned PC'ers, "ignorance" is a lack of education, not a lack of intelligence or ability to learn.)
We're on a downhill slide, probably going too fast to stop before we hit bottom.
Sorry I strayed from the original topic. I don't post here much anymore, so a lot builds up.
For example, at the moment I'm struggling with a major philosophical dilemma. If, come election day in November, my choice is between either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders on the Democrat side, and Donald Trump or Ted Cruz on the Republican side, do I: A - Choose death by firing squad: B - Choose death by hanging; C - Take a selfie of myself not voting (because there IS no "lesser of two evils" in any combination of that lineup) and have another cup of coffee?
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Post by geraldgarrett on Jan 26, 2016 23:28:35 GMT -5
THIS JUST IN: Donald Trump has announced he will skip Thursday night's Republican debate because co-sponsor FoxNews refuses to remove Megyn Kelly from the panel of moderators. He's apparently afraid of her after she dared to ask a substantive question in the previous FoxNews-sponsored debate.
Do we really want this man to be President of the United States if he can't even handle an aggressive reporter? I mean, you can almost see the fear oozing out of his ears ... his eyes ... his ... whatever. What will he do the first time Putin calls him out for being, uh, well, for being Donald Trump?
HAHAHAHA! "Bring me my brown trousers ... "
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Post by conservative on Jan 27, 2016 10:48:00 GMT -5
On the other right hand..........If this election cycle is about a significant voting bloc wary and suspicious of politics as usual and a Republican aspirant offering a clearly different attitude and skillset, what better way to react to a debate forum giving equal importance to question readers as question answerers? Now, if the questions came directly from opponents I'd have a different stance on Trumps' maneuver. They don't. What would have been different now if Romney had been more forceful and less polite with Crowley as she fed him Obama's talking points and political cover in a previous, pivotal, media produced debate? Fox's Megan Kelly (disclaimer: I like and watch her) was loaded for a bear fight with Trump. He's out-foxed her.
Cruz used this moment to challenge Trump to a "Lincoln-style" debate, one on one. Good move. I smile at Trumps' testing the talking heads in media. Is this his "I paid for this microphone" moment when the last Republican candidate dared the established protocols and power bases. I remember how viciously the media types treated Reagan back in the day. Could or would he have survived the MSM strength now?
My expectation of Trump is he will use his skills and experience to re-kindle (or browbeat) the Congress into going back to work. It's in his DNA. I define their work as debating, prioritizing, budgeting and voting. Not working only 3 days a week and spending almost all of their (read ours) day-time raising money from lobbies to win the next election. At least he can pay for his own darn vacations like the rest of us.
That's what Trump is even with his huge wealth. One of us, just more successful at it. Americans admire that.
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Post by diamonddave on Oct 24, 2017 16:54:17 GMT -5
Just for the record, Obama is history. Now it's Donald Trump, for what it's worth.
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