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Thanks...I didn't see this when I was posting earlier...
Now only have one post left for the day...
Hahaha you must think I'm daft...won't fall for that...LOL
Prime Minister May's 'Brexit Plan B' looks a lot like Brexit Plan 'A'
By Rick Moran
Second referendum my arse...the people voted...just exit without a plan and start negotiating as a free Country like the US...plenty of countries will want to trade with you and you can put the UK first...
British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan "B" yesterday after parliament decisively rejected her original plan to take Great Britain out of the European Union last week.
It didn't go over well.
Associated Press:
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party accused May of being in "deep denial" about her doomed deal.
"This really does feel a bit like 'Groundhog Day,'" he said, referring to the 1993 film starring Bill Murray, in which a weatherman is fated to live out the same day over and over again.
Outlining what she plans to do after her EU divorce deal was rejected by Parliament last week, May said that she had heeded lawmakers' concerns over an insurance policy known as the "backstop" that is intended to guarantee there are no customs checks along the border between EU member Ireland and the U.K.'s Northern Ireland after Brexit.
May told the House of Commons that she would be "talking further this week to colleagues ... to consider how we might meet our obligations to the people of Northern Ireland and Ireland in a way that can command the greatest possible support in the House.
"And I will then take the conclusions of those discussions back to the EU."
The bloc insists that it won't renegotiate the withdrawal agreement.
The problem with the Northern Ireland "backstop" is that May and the EU kicked the can down the road for a permanent solution. Plan "B" isn't much better:
The backstop proposes to keep the U.K. in a customs union with the EU in order to avoid checks on the Irish border. It is meant as a temporary measure that would last until a permanent solution is found. But pro-Brexit U.K. lawmakers fear Britain could become trapped in it, indefinitely bound by EU trade rules.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz broke ranks with EU colleagues Monday by suggesting the problem could be solved by setting a five-year time limit on the backstop.
The idea got a cool reception. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said that "putting a time-limit on an insurance mechanism, which is what the backstop is, effectively means that it's not a backstop at all."
The Labor Party is calling for a second referendum, which is political show and not a serious proposal - at least at this point. A referendum couldn't be planned and executed by the March 29 deadline and besides, there is no legal mechanism to withdraw Great Britain from Article 50 of the EU charter - the legal basis they have invoked to withdraw from the EU in the first place.
May is stuck and appears trapped between opposition EU leaders who are refusing to renegotiate the pact she agreed to in November, and members of her own party who can't agree on how they should quit the EU.
Looks like May must go back to the drawing board and come up with something else.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/prime_minister_mays_brexit_plan_b_looks_a_lot_like_brexit_plan_a.html#ixzz5dLzyQfRm
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In case Alzheimers has started to set in...just a notice...EWE got Male...
Big time...LOL
I should have posted this to this post...and your comments about AOC are spot on...IMO...she is dumb like a Fox...very dangerous.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=146251641
Pull our troops out...bring out the Kurds and nuke em til they glow in the dark...
Grins...was actually waiting for that comment...LOL
Thank you my friend...and GM
The Democrats Own the Shutdown
By William Sullivan
Chuck Schumer may well have been pleased when President Trump signified his willingness to shut down the government to advance border security to fulfill his most politically charged campaign promise. Even some conservative pundits were aghast at Trump’s audacity in making such a proclamation, because, as everyone knows, Americans hate government shutdowns.
But Schumer and company don’t really hate government shutdowns. In fact, back in November, Schumer threatened to shut down the federal government over his demand that the Mueller investigation be protected by Congress after the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“If [Trump’s interim Attorney General] Whitaker does not recuse himself,” wrote Michele Blood at LifeZette on November 11, “Schumer said he would attach a demand for Whitaker’s non-interference to “must pass” legislation such as the spending bill -- then risking another shutdown.”
Where were all the headlines about Schumer’s desire to shut down the government to protect Mueller’s investigation? To say that they were few and far between would be unjustifiably generous to the media.
There are two things that are absolutely certain. First, “must-spend” legislation is far more common than it used to be, given that we now have a make-believe debt limit which is ignored (“suspension” is the verbiage used more often, in an effort to feign fiscal responsibility) and exceeded. In other words, most new spending legislation requires congressional agreement on how much will be spent, and on what, or the government will shut down. Second, Democrats believe that a government shutdown, for any reason, can be blamed on Republicans, and that the media will help advance that narrative.
Schumer believed that the government shutdown has become a powerful weapon in the Democratic Party’s political arsenal, and that a shutdown, if it can convincingly be blamed upon Republicans, helps Democrats to turn public opinion against his opponents. Again, many conservative pundits agreed with that.
But Trump willfully owning the shutdown turned the tables, because he recognizes that the shutdown is not the issue. What Americans care about is the issue that triggers the shutdown.
Trump was elected on the promise to build better border security infrastructure, and a barrier has long been, for both parties, a logical means of achieving that outcome. Even Schumer and then-senator Hillary Clinton voted to construct a border fence back in 2006.
And history doesn’t exactly confirm that government shutdowns are always bad for the party whose adherence to principles leads to the political stalemates which cause them. It was in late 2013 that Ted Cruz threatened a shutdown over ObamaCare funding. The ensuing shutdown lasted for 16 days, or just over an average American’s pay period.
Americans discovered it wasn’t the big deal it was made out to be. In fact, few outside the mainstream media, who were busy blaming Republicans for the shutdown, even noticed. All essential federal spending continued. Nonessential spending did not (which should raise the perpetual question as to why we have any “nonessential” federal expenditures while being many trillions of dollars in debt), but in the day-to-day life of the vast majority of Americans, the government shutdown was such an inconsequential event that Barack Obama had to close open-air federal war memorials, prompting older veterans to push past his barricades and grab headlines for having done so -- just so that Democrats could remind the public that the government had been shut down.
But Republicans would certainly be the ones to pay for it, we were told, because the American people hate government shutdowns more than they disliked ObamaCare.
Then, in November of 2014, Republicans gained a majority in the Senate and expanded their control of the House. The result of the 2014 midterm election was a collective shoulder shrug by the American people as it relates to government shutdowns.
But there’s something that does makes this one different. Democrats are now clinging to the shutdown because they believe that continuing the shutdown allows them to better highlight the pain being inflicted.
I personally know people who are going without pay right now, and it is causing them financial pain. It is Trump who is seeking to negotiate a compromise which would fund a border barrier to secure our porous Southern border, and he is offering to fulfill the long-held Democratic desire to provide protection from deportation for beneficiaries of the Obama’s DACA executive order to do so. This would allow Congress time to negotiate a deal on what to do about Dreamers, in accordance to constitutional protocol rather than via unilateral executive orders. In the meantime, Dreamers would have protection from deportation, border security would obtain funding, and furloughed government employees could go back to work.
But Democrats are refusing to provide protection for Dreamers, not because they are against a wall, but because they are against giving an inch to President Trump. Even if it means continued pain for federal workers going without pay.
It is clear that the Democrats are not acting as a reasonable party to negotiation. And, in spite of the shutdown, polls suggest that support for a border wall is actually increasing.
So congratulations, Democrats. This continuing shutdown is all yours now. And Republicans, led by President Trump, have made that fact so obvious that no amount of media spin can keep any but the most ardent left-wing zealots from seeing it plainly.
William Sullivan blogs at Political Palaver and can be followed on Twitter.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_democrats_own_the_shutdown.html#ixzz5dKtTipVv
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Pffttt now you calling me a blow hard...
Thank you my friend...hope it happens sooner rather than later...
Thank you sir...I don't feel a day over 62...
Mr. TH,
We are in complete agreement...let's see if he will do it...fingers crossed.
Sorry dude...While I feel your pain...can't really feel it when it is in the 40's and 50's...I did feel it when I stood in line Sat...1.5 hours...wind was 30-40 MPH...in the 40's though...got my tree though...hehehe
Yes sir I know it's on the books...part of the reason I feel no one wants to resolve the issue...just fooking do their job...and like you said...put teeth in it...punish the employer and threaten jail time...but it won't happen...immigration policy is great fodder when you are running for office or trying to get re-elected...but just rhetoric...THAT's what got Mr T elected when he stressed he would BUILD it...
ROFL...his first mistake was calling her FAT and a Monkey...can you imagine the response I would get from Dianna if Before I tried to collar and leash her to take her for a walk I called her fat and a monkey???...
Morning EZ
Last night...watched the Blood Moon ALL the way to about 3/4...came inside...sat back in the couch/recliner...good night nurse...once I woke up...the Rams and Patriots were in the Super Bowl...the full moon was still awesome but...not still the Blood Wolf Moon...
Morning K...hope your power is still on.
Now that it is the Patriots too...Goooo Rams
Absolutely...SPOT ON...so obvious and so simple...BUT...will never happen...both sides want it the way it is...a political ping pong ball...if Everify put the penalty on the work place it pretty much would solve the issue...and neither side wants that...JMO
On the bright side of things...TY Mr T for the tax change...party in Vegas is on me...
Ohhh fellow Pro teamer at work won't be happy...he's from New Orleans...don't think these guys are coming for the Super Bowl...just super handouts...
January 20, 2019
Caravan migrants turn up their noses at Mexico's generous benefit package
By Monica Showalter
Caravan migrants aren't exactly living up to their early billing, supposedly this time coming to seek asylum in Mexico. Actually, they're coming here.
And the flimsiness of their asylum claims lies not just in their statements of wanting 'a better life' in the U.S., but in their disdain for a generous benefit package that Mexico has ready to offer them. According to Agence France-Press:
Mexican authorities are urging the migrants to cross the border legally and offering expedited "visitor cards" that let them work and access basic health care in Mexico.
So far, 969 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua have been registered under the program and given bracelets that they can exchange for visitor cards in five days.
But hundreds more migrants ignored the offer and crossed illegally, not content to wait in the park where the caravan has camped out in the border city of Tecun Uman, Guatemala.
"A lot of us aren't interested in waiting five days. Our goal is to reach the United States," said Alma Mendoza, a nurse and single mother making the trip with her three children.
"We don't have food, much less money. We want to reach our destination," she told AFP.
Want it, want it now. With few marketable skills, little education, no English language, and no cultural values compatible with wealth creation - such as getting married before having the baby - it seems that what these people want is someone with a big wallet to take care of them, and the U.S. fills the bill nicely.
Which doesn't exactly support any claim to asylum.
The fact that few were deported on the last caravan also made these migrants less likely to accept the Mexican offer and try their luck in Mexico. According to the Washington Post:
“The majority of those who went with the October caravan were not deported,” [a Honduran NGO worker] said. “So that sends the message back to the countries of origin, and people say, ‘Let’s go too because they won’t deport us.’ ”
Yet the Mexicans told many in the U.S. press that entry for the new caravan (unlike the last one) would be orderly, legal (with migrants presenting papers or getting turned back), visa-oriented, and carry a big prooffered packages of benefits - from jobs, to free medical care, to freedom from worry about being repatriated - and all they had to do was sign up, take a bracelet, and wait for a mere five days.
And that just wasn't good enough for a lot of them.
Which raises questions about 'first country of refuge' and 'safe country of refuge' in international law, which calls on refugees to accept the first country of refuge. The generous offer from Mexico suggests that Mexico is trying to be a first country of refuge and offer the migrants a safe space. Yet if these migrants don't want that, why should any of their asylum requests be honored here? Mexico offered refuge to every one of the migrants, and at least some are turning up their noses at it.
That would make this caravan more of a country-shopping expedition, a hunt for the best bargain, than a true effort to claim asylum. How any judge in the U.S. could accept such people, as apparently some are doing, suggests a failure to recognize international law. One hopes that this time it will be obvious enough that the situation is now different.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/caravan_migrants_turn_up_their_noses_at_mexicos_generous_benefit_package.html#ixzz5dC8dW9aM
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Exactly...thanks Fuzzy
Thanks will do...making a soup today using Pork neck bones to make my stock...just a veggie soup...
Works for me...is it Feb yet??...zoom zoom...
Hahaha...Good Afternoon EZ...getting in the mood for NASCAR...
Looks like I spoke too soon about Dianna...while still a trooper...her body is rejecting her today...guess the shock has worn off and her muscles are giving her what's what today...now she is glad she has the week off...only had a few things scheduled with Anne...now she will just have Anne over for lunch.
The bunch of Dung is putting a delay on the VISA for the moment...it is the Dept. of Homeland Security that has to review and approve the waiver...
I keep telling myself Mr T is just trying to bait Chuckie and Nancy and drop the hammer but as it goes on I'm just not sure...we need the wall...hope he doesn't grant amnesty to try to get it...that dog doesn't hunt and would be a slap in the face of those that came legally.
A good friend is doing a wonderful thing...she has posted for those families in need...just message her and she will provide a meal for their family...so far 7 families have responded...just a small lending hand...but it means a lot...
We hit freezing this morning but just at 32...tomorrow a different story...low only 41 and up to 58...love it...hang in there...
I just need to remember the new numbers...don't want to be picking 78 by reflex...LOL
OOPS sorry...I vote 1...hehehe
She was doing much better last night...
Painful but yes she's a trooper
Thanks for the thoughts and wishes...
Hope you have a blessed Sunday
Interesting...a meat crust...Mmmm might just have to try this
Add me to the gift pool please...
GREAT NEWS...only a bad sprain...yay
Well...I'm a little offended...where is the girls gun???...oh wait...maybe another dig at gillette...boys Protecting a girl...woot
Morning Larry...should be some veins popping on the other side of the aisle...lol
Her work was so pleased...today she starts a week vaca...one of those use it or lose it situations...she was like...oh buggar you twat...just when I'm starting a week vaca...
If she was able to get right in with no delays...she should be on in about1.5 hours...if delayed I won't have word for hours later
I'm due to pick up a free tree at 9AM...they are giving your choice of one per person...Pecans, red and burr oaks, Eve's necklace, peach trees and more will be in stock:...we are going for Eve's necklace...Burr Oak second choice.
Windy and cooler weekend on tap...it is 49 now...will be down to the mid to lower 30's by midnight...Brrrrrr
Morning EZ...when I hear something I'll let you know
To all those on NOLIB that posted to me...thanks...will try to get on earlier next Friday...
Meanwhile...could use some kneetime for Dianna...got home and found out she might have broken her ankle at work today...we will know in the morning when she can have it x-rayed.
Now it's time for grub