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ROFL...I KNOW that look...
Am to PM...on the way to check it out
DUDE thats awesome...I responded
She will wait up for me to get home...I will put her to bed...hehehe
Woot...starting tomorrow I'll have to get pookie from work...my hours change to 7-3:30
Time to investigate the investigators?
By Elad Hakim
Many in the mainstream media and on the left have been salivating since the Mueller memos were released last week. They believe that the information in the memos has brought them one step closer to achieving their ultimate goal, whereby President Trump is impeached and incarcerated. As they see it, information from various individuals is trickling in, and those on the left and their media sidekicks are predicting a very ominous future for the president. However, if the media and those on the left want to critique the information allegedly being disclosed, perhaps they should use the same lens and look at some of the allegations that have been made about the investigation and how it was conducted before rendering judgment.
For example, Jerome Corsi recently filed a lawsuit against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team. According to Fox News, Corsi filed a "criminal and ethics complaint" against Mueller's team in which he accused investigators of trying to bully him into giving "false testimony" against the president. Pursuant to Corsi's complaint, "they wanted him to demonstrate that he acted as a liaison between [Roger] Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on one side and the Trump campaign on the other, regarding the release of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee." Corsi further alleged that Robert Mueller's office threatened to charge him with providing a false statement unless he provided "false testimony" against Trump and others.
In addition to Corsi's allegations, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to criminal charges, alleged that he was mistreated by agents and/or investigators during a 2017 interview which ultimately led to those charges. On Wednesday, Flynn appeared before U.S. district judge Emmet G. Sullivan. (Flynn is expected to be sentenced this week.) At the hearing, Flynn's legal team made several concerning allegations:
FBI agents in his case did not instruct Flynn that any false statements he made could constitute a crime and decided not to "confront" him directly about anything he said that contradicted their knowledge of his wiretapped communications with Kislyak.
Earlier this week, Flynn's legal team also made the allegation that the FBI had pushed him not to bring a lawyer to his interview with agents at the White House.
As a result, Sullivan ordered Mueller to turn over all documents and memos related to Flynn's questioning. This is a significant development.
The allegations made by these two men are serious and should be investigated. Together, if true, they begin to paint a picture of an investigation marred by deception, lies, and questionable conduct. Sadly, many prominent Democrats and their media mouthpieces are so obsessed with bringing down the president that they are willing to overlook these "trickles of information," deeming them irrelevant and not newsworthy. In reality, these allegations are important and should be given weight even if they don't align with the Democrats' stated goals and the media's distorted narrative. After all, when Justice Kavanaugh was accused, many prominent Democrats and news outlets demanded a full FBI investigation (and to delay the hearing) despite the fact that the allegations were uncorroborated. Shouldn't these allegations justify similar calls for the sake of transparency?
While many media outlets and prominent Democrats appear happy to unequivocally accept Mueller's "findings," the recent allegations must be viewed with objectivity and with the same lens. The charges are serious and compel further investigation. While everyone is busy looking at the accused, maybe it is also time to critique the accusers and investigators in light of these new revelations.
Mr. Hakim is a political writer and commentator and an attorney. His articles have been published in The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, The Western Journal, American Thinker, and other online publications.
https://thoughtfullyconservative.wordpress.com
Twitter: @ThoughtfulGOP
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THAT should be Quoted EVERYTIME they bring up gun control
Lot of truth to that...
Yes we all know Anus Sausage is made from a Pork Butt
They may not have been PAC...but he got a LOT of money from California and New York...
(It might help if all the dang sports announcers would STOP laying it out that ROMEO is gone in one year!)
OR...maybe it will drive him to stay??
Thanks Stuffie...hopefully will be snuggling before too long...
Morning EZ and all...alas no snow or freeze in sight...sigh
It's almost Christmas ya'll...
I HOPE he loves America too much to do that...although...given the state of things...given the fact that he has had to fight even the Republicans for everything done...could see that happening...Damn That Rap Music.
Get the wall built first...PLEASE
Absolutely...what a shithole...
The judge who made his ruling has very good legal backing...Texas Attny Gen among others...it should pass a test from the Supreme Court if pushed there.
The Repukes had better get a bill through that includes Pre existing conditions before the end of the year if they hope to be around in 2020...once the Dems take over...in Jan they will control the direction healthcare takes...and lets be reminded...in order to read it...you have to pass it...lucky we have control of the Senate...and the White House.
Last election #1 issue with voters...healthcare
#2...immigration...get the wall money and start on the wall and get the bill for pre existing conditions through before the end of the year
ho ho ho...you repeat yourself...
No winter here yet...only down to 38...headed to 66 today...a Summer day for Di...LOL
Morning EZ...
naughty or nice ?????
You kidding me???...HAVE to be nice...gotta get Di here...then??..All bets off...BWAhahaha
Hey...25 million...40 million...Tomato...Tamato...it's still a freakin waste due to Trump Derangement
The GOP Needs to Stop Being the Stupid Party
By Apolo Villalobos
There is a popular saying among libertarians: “Liberals are evil and conservatives are stupid.” Needless to say that both sides strongly object to this characterization.
The totalitarian aspects of leftism should be evident to all by now, though they insist that their goals and tactics are for our own good.
The GOP is known as the Stupid Party, and with very good reason. In the two years that they have controlled the White House and the Congress, Republicans could have eliminated the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, HUD, withdrawn troops from Afghanistan, built the wall, defunded sanctuary cities, eliminated all foreign aid (one trillion dollars), and used the money for infrastructure.
In fact, the economic turnaround in this country came from one source: the White House. In a flurry of deregulation, Donald Trump alone has improved the economy.
Now consider this: the Republican Party’s files were hacked when the Republican establishment used the very same outfit that the DNC used when its files were hacked. Now, is that not stupid?
Consider this also: although they controlled the government, they made no effort to stop the Deep State using government funds for leftist causes, such as transgender, LGBTQLMAO. Is that not stupid?
Consider also that a number of Republicans (e.g., Marco Rubio, Paul Hurd, Lindsay Graham, have attempted to have illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens -- knowing full well that they will vote Democratic. Is that not stupid?
Consider especially the midterm elections. How is it possible that Muslim terrorist attacks in the U.S. ceased, the GDP reached 4.1%, wages have gone up, the stock market burst through the roof, NATO has been forced to pay up, North Korea stopped launching missiles, bonuses have been given out to workers, overall unemployment declined, Hispanic unemployment went down, black unemployment is the lowest since 1972, taxes were reduced, past regulations anulled, black entrepreneurship increased 400%, fewer people used food stamps, China has been put in its place -- and yet the GOP lost control of the House??
True, it was a “blue creek,” as one liberal pundit wailed, instead of the forecasted Blue Wave, and true, some of those seats were lost by razor-thin margins (including a race decided by one vote), but it should have been a Red Wave. Republicans, on the other hand, added one or two seats to the Senate so they, too, feel victorious.
The answer is that the Republican politicians were stupid. Not once did they ride the crest. Not once did they mention the improvements, simply hoping that the American voter (with his notoriously short attention span) would remember. Instead, they used the same old agencies that put out the same old ads that we’re all heartily sick of and tune out. You know the ones: (a) “Democratic X voted for that bill and that is bad” (b) “Republican A has a wife and two kids and was in the service so that qualifies him to be in Congress” (c) “Democratic Y is supported by Nancy Pelosi and that is bad” (d) “Republican B says the Federal government is too big,” with the candidates “talking” and “listening” to jest plain folks -- actors (when was the last time you actually saw -- much less talked with -- a politician?). At the local level, many Republican headquarters were understaffed, disorganized, and cliquish, run by geriatrics with one foot in the grave.
The main cause of the Republican establishment’s stupidity is that it is totally disconnected from the rank, and file and is either clueless or uninterested. Indeed, many in the rank and file view them with as much loathing as they do leftists. They see the career politicians as self-serving opportunists, interested only in the perks of office holding, lacking any principles other than mild adherence to the Second Amendment and prolife positions which they occasionally blather to the yahoos back home to make them salivate and return them to office.
It’s just that the Democrats are far worse.
Does that really sound too harsh? Then consider the many issues which the rank and file are up in arms about: Antifa, Marxist indoctrination in universities and public schools, transgender indoctrination of children, crimes by illegal immigrants, illegal immigration, persecution of libertarians and conservatives in workplaces and universities, death threats against the President, censorship and deplatforming of libertarian and conservative views by Patreon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Paypal. And yet, which Republican congressman has spoken out about these issues (apart from Ted Cruz and Donald Trump --which is why the MSM constantly demonizes them)? Who? Todd Young? James Lankford? Cory Gardner? John Cornyn? Mia Love? None! All that they really seem to be interested is in looking distinguished, enjoying the perks of office, and making sure that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post nor NBC notices them.
When Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Dinesh D'Souza, or Milo Yiannopoulos give a lecture, it is at full, sold out, venues. When George Wills, Max Boot, Karl Rove, or Brett Stephens give a lecture, you can hear the crickets chirp. And the same is true for Republican Establishment politicians (unless you're a lobbyist, would you pay $10-$40 to hear Cornyn, Costello, or Lankford? Would you even bother attending?).
At the state level, it is much worse. Some of them are practically mouth-breathers.
This assessment may appear to be overly harsh, but totalitarians are on the march and all we have is a contingent of clowns standing in their way. The public keeps hoping that their political leaders at the federal and state level will rise to the occasion and fight back with the power that they have. But they don’t.
There is a popular saying among libertarians: “Liberals are evil and conservatives are stupid.” Needless to say that both sides strongly object to this characterization.
The totalitarian aspects of leftism should be evident to all by now, though they insist that their goals and tactics are for our own good.
The GOP is known as the Stupid Party, and with very good reason. In the two years that they have controlled the White House and the Congress, Republicans could have eliminated the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, HUD, withdrawn troops from Afghanistan, built the wall, defunded sanctuary cities, eliminated all foreign aid (one trillion dollars), and used the money for infrastructure.
In fact, the economic turnaround in this country came from one source: the White House. In a flurry of deregulation, Donald Trump alone has improved the economy.
Now consider this: the Republican Party’s files were hacked when the Republican establishment used the very same outfit that the DNC used when its files were hacked. Now, is that not stupid?
Consider this also: although they controlled the government, they made no effort to stop the Deep State using government funds for leftist causes, such as transgender, LGBTQLMAO. Is that not stupid?
Consider also that a number of Republicans (e.g., Marco Rubio, Paul Hurd, Lindsay Graham, have attempted to have illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens -- knowing full well that they will vote Democratic. Is that not stupid?
Consider especially the midterm elections. How is it possible that Muslim terrorist attacks in the U.S. ceased, the GDP reached 4.1%, wages have gone up, the stock market burst through the roof, NATO has been forced to pay up, North Korea stopped launching missiles, bonuses have been given out to workers, overall unemployment declined, Hispanic unemployment went down, black unemployment is the lowest since 1972, taxes were reduced, past regulations anulled, black entrepreneurship increased 400%, fewer people used food stamps, China has been put in its place -- and yet the GOP lost control of the House??
True, it was a “blue creek,” as one liberal pundit wailed, instead of the forecasted Blue Wave, and true, some of those seats were lost by razor-thin margins (including a race decided by one vote), but it should have been a Red Wave. Republicans, on the other hand, added one or two seats to the Senate so they, too, feel victorious.
The answer is that the Republican politicians were stupid. Not once did they ride the crest. Not once did they mention the improvements, simply hoping that the American voter (with his notoriously short attention span) would remember. Instead, they used the same old agencies that put out the same old ads that we’re all heartily sick of and tune out. You know the ones: (a) “Democratic X voted for that bill and that is bad” (b) “Republican A has a wife and two kids and was in the service so that qualifies him to be in Congress” (c) “Democratic Y is supported by Nancy Pelosi and that is bad” (d) “Republican B says the Federal government is too big,” with the candidates “talking” and “listening” to jest plain folks -- actors (when was the last time you actually saw -- much less talked with -- a politician?). At the local level, many Republican headquarters were understaffed, disorganized, and cliquish, run by geriatrics with one foot in the grave.
The main cause of the Republican establishment’s stupidity is that it is totally disconnected from the rank, and file and is either clueless or uninterested. Indeed, many in the rank and file view them with as much loathing as they do leftists. They see the career politicians as self-serving opportunists, interested only in the perks of office holding, lacking any principles other than mild adherence to the Second Amendment and prolife positions which they occasionally blather to the yahoos back home to make them salivate and return them to office.
It’s just that the Democrats are far worse.
Does that really sound too harsh? Then consider the many issues which the rank and file are up in arms about: Antifa, Marxist indoctrination in universities and public schools, transgender indoctrination of children, crimes by illegal immigrants, illegal immigration, persecution of libertarians and conservatives in workplaces and universities, death threats against the President, censorship and deplatforming of libertarian and conservative views by Patreon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Paypal. And yet, which Republican congressman has spoken out about these issues (apart from Ted Cruz and Donald Trump --which is why the MSM constantly demonizes them)? Who? Todd Young? James Lankford? Cory Gardner? John Cornyn? Mia Love? None! All that they really seem to be interested is in looking distinguished, enjoying the perks of office, and making sure that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post nor NBC notices them.
When Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Dinesh D'Souza, or Milo Yiannopoulos give a lecture, it is at full, sold out, venues. When George Wills, Max Boot, Karl Rove, or Brett Stephens give a lecture, you can hear the crickets chirp. And the same is true for Republican Establishment politicians (unless you're a lobbyist, would you pay $10-$40 to hear Cornyn, Costello, or Lankford? Would you even bother attending?).
At the state level, it is much worse. Some of them are practically mouth-breathers.
This assessment may appear to be overly harsh, but totalitarians are on the march and all we have is a contingent of clowns standing in their way. The public keeps hoping that their political leaders at the federal and state level will rise to the occasion and fight back with the power that they have. But they don’t.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_gop_needs_to_stop_being_the_stupid_party.html#ixzz5Zhr2LJSF
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Exactly...so wish he would put his foot down...couldn't have put it better myself...
They should give them out free...the smell would lead to a lot of KFC chicken sold...
Damn that Rap Music
When Does Trump Say, 'Enough Is Enough!'?
By Brian C. Joondeph
President Donald Trump is an army of one. At least in Washington, DC and other elite enclaves. Sure, he has his base of deplorables, those who wait on mile-long lines to attend his rallies and those who voted for him two years ago.
Yet look at the forces arrayed against him. The US media is on the warpath against Trump and his family, coverage 93 percent negative, although I suspect that number is closer to 100 percent. It’s rare to pick up a US newspaper or watch any television news and see anything remotely positive about Trump. Great economic news is always shrouded in a black cloud, as if low unemployment or strong economic growth is racist, sexist, or simply a mirage.
The Deep State, Democrats and Republicans alike, are in lock step trying to remove Trump from office. If only they were in similar agreement on securing the border, cutting regulations, or growing the economy than they are against Trump.
Rep Adam Schiff thinks Trump is heading to jail. Rep Maxine Waters agrees saying, “President Donald Trump is a ‘criminal’ who should be impeached.” It never ends.
When does Trump say, “Enough is enough!”?
Enough can have two meanings here. One meaning is the junkyard dog being taunted until it bares its teeth and attacks ferociously. Trump has that power as President. Assuming Huber and Horowitz have been doing more than playing board games with their reams of lawyers and investigators for the past year, there should be indictments and prosecutions. Not to mention releasing FISA warrant applications and similar documents.
From the Clinton Foundation to the Spygate scandal. From Hillary Clinton’s emails to bogus FISA warrants, there is much for the junkyard dog to attack. When is enough? When does Trump go “scorched earth[TL1] ” through transparency against those conspiring to destroy him?
Declassify the FISA warrant and expose the collaboration of his Deep State enemies with foreign intelligence agencies. As the Clinton Foundation scandals become public, hammer away via tweets and public comments. If Trump believes he is going down, he will bring half of Washington, DC with him.
Trump can simply release the hidden information and instruct his Justice department to pursue any and all crimes committed. Regardless of the political party of the perpetrators. That’s not weaponization of his administration, but instead simply the pursuit of justice and accountability. Let the chip fall where they may, across the political spectrum.
This would be the “draining the swamp” we were promised. Despite assurances that “pain is coming”, the deep state swamp is in full bloom. Yet the deplorables have Trump’s back with a 49 percent approval in the December 11 Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll.
The other enough is for him personally. A billionaire businessman with a successful reality television show, he had it all. A comfortable life with his family. Money, influence, and popularity. He gave that up try to make a difference for America and the world. This campaign speech is an excellent summary of what the Trump presidency is all about, why he was elected and why the deep state is hell bent on destroying him.
For his efforts, he is ridiculed and scorned. Not only by his political opponents, but by those in his own party. NeverTrumpers in Congress and the media who would be ecstatic if a President Bush, Kasich, or Rubio were implementing everything Trump is doing, yet Trump’s conservative accomplishments mean nothing because he tweets and calls his detractors mean names.
He is not one of them, not part of their elite club, not a dues-paying member of the establishment. So those who have been advocating for conservative policies their entire political careers have turned on a dime, throwing their conservatism to the wind, embracing Democrat policies instead, all because they don’t like the messenger.
Trump must have believed he would be embraced by the GOP for his advancement of long-talked-about but never-implemented policies. These include fair trade deals, lower taxes and regulations, border enforcement, economic growth, and conservative judges.
The more Trump does, the more the opposition grows. To the point that he has few friends in Washington, DC. Especially in his own party.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller will undoubtedly cook up something for House Democrats to use for impeachment. For every line that Trump may have crossed, Obama, Clinton, and their minions crossed a parking lot full of lines, all without consequence. It’s not simply two standards of justice, it’s no justice at all. It’s Stalinesque justice where the deep state makes up the rules as they go along, favoring themselves with kangaroo courts for their opponents.
Conventional wisdom is that Senate Republicans would never vote to remove an impeached President Trump from office. Oh really? How many will see obstruction of justice in Trump firing James Comey, after his deputy attorney general recommended, and his attorney general agreed, that he should do just that? Or his perfectly legitimate nondisclosure agreements with payment.
So what if Trump personally paid Stormy Daniels to keep quiet? Obama’s campaign, not him personally, paid Reverend Wright hush money during the 2008 campaign and I don’t recall any special counsel investigations or Congressional hearings into campaign finance violations.
What a daily drag for President Trump to pick up the newspaper or watch a bit of cable news and hear a constant drumbeat of how he is evil incarnate and about to be removed from office and sent to prison! Not simply disagreement over policy, but personal vitriol and hatred toward him and his family. How many of us could withstand such an onslaught from all directions, day after day, without saying enough is enough?
The fact that Trump is still upbeat and optimistic, accomplishing more in a day than his predecessors did in a week, is beyond amazing. But at some point, the human spirit breaks. How many slings and arrows will Trump take before he’s had enough?
How long do political and media hacks pursue trivial matters while danger lurks in all corners of the globe? What kind of example is America, as the world’s lone superpower, setting for the rest of the world with American politicians reenacting “Mean Girls” against the duly elected president?
His supporters wait, hoping and praying that he is able to turn the tables against the deep state. But the deep state isn’t letting up. Mueller’s jihad against the sitting president continues, opposition research funded not by the Clinton campaign and Fusion GPS but by you and me, the American taxpayer.
When does Donald Trump say, “Enough is enough!”?
Photo credit: Michael Vadon
Brian C Joondeph, MD, MPS, a Denver based physician and writer. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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That cowards pension should have been....revoked...what a POS.
You know many people have disappeared along Alligator Alley right??
Not sure if it is anymore but it used to be the Mobs dumping ground.
THAT...we'll allow...
Cool I'll check it out...I do have Netflix...right n ow going through the series Blindside on Hulu
Thanks...and good morning
Have a great day...Di time...
Woot...a cool...windy...Friday at that...but...no snow...I'm good with that...now if it wants to snow tomorrow...THAT would be perfect...I'll be baking my Christmas cookies...so wanted to have Di here with me for that...
Sgt. Brian Miller, the first supervisor on the scene, arrived in time to hear three or four shots. But rather than rush in or attempt to take command, the report said he took time to put on his bulletproof vest and hid behind his car on Holmberg Road, not going on the radio for 10 minutes.
“Miller failed to coordinate or direct deputies’ actions and did not direct or coordinate an immediate response into the school,” the report said. “… Sergeant Miller’s actions were ineffective and he did not properly supervise the scene.”
Teachers need guns; schools need security, Parkland shooting panel concludes
Members of the committee said this was insufficient.
“He was an absolute, total failure,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
Commission chairman and Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Miller had claimed to have been hindered by the Sheriff Office’s overwhelmed radio system, but said that explanation was “erroneous” because Miller arrived before a heavy deputy presence caused radio problems.
The panel agreed to change the language to say Miller “refused and failed to accept responsibility” for taking command. Miller has been placed on restricted duty pending an internal investigation. Miller, 57, was paid $138,410.25 in 2017.
Although the initial criticism of the Sheriff’s Office focused on school deputy Scot Peterson, who took cover for what turned out to be a stunning 48 minutes, the report found that the problems at the sheriff’s office ran deep.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-ne-florida-school-shooting-commission-day-2-story.html
A total disgrace...a coward pure and simple.
How about we take away your voting rights until you grow up?...grins
Morning MG
ROFL...gotta love the British humour...quaked me up
Grins...one can always try...Baby it's cold outside...
MOI???...would I do that???...
What day it is and what TIME it is...LOL
Howdy MG
Yes sir...influence coming from California mainly...bringing their liberal crap with them.
Austin is pretty Liberal already...a workmate has a brother that has been with Apple for many years...he will get with him tonight
Hmmm...
By choosing Austin as its marquee job-creation locale, Apple, unlike Amazon and Google, is expanding its footprint significantly in the middle of the country, instead of the East Coast. Cities like New York, Boston and the greater Washington, D.C., area have long attracted top tech talent, setting up fierce competition there. That’s been less intense in much of the interior of the country, though cities like Austin, Atlanta and Nashville have all enjoyed a fair share of tech investment.
Austin has shed its slacker college-town past and embraced a new image as a high-tech employment hub. In addition to Apple, Google and Facebook Inc. have all opened large offices in Texas’ capital city. Home prices have risen, as have median incomes and commuting times.
A longtime lure of Austin, which once promoted itself as the Silicon Hills, has been its low cost of living, compared with San Francisco or New York, and lack of a state income tax. The metro-area population of 2.1 million residents is younger and significantly better educated than the rest of Texas and the U.S. It hosts a parade of music festivals through the year and a surfeit of high-end restaurants. All that has made it attractive to the type of younger workers that firms want to hire.
The city was a bit of a dark horse in the quest to land Amazon’s second headquarters, dubbed HQ2. Amazon acquired Austin-based Whole Foods and its downtown headquarters in 2017, making it an Amazon company town of sorts already. But Austin’s relatively small airport, crowded highways and underdeveloped mass transit system struggle to match what Amazon said it was looking for in a headquarters city.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-build-new-campus-in-austin-11544691545?mod=hp_lead_pos1