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Bikers for Trump in Florida heading out to Washington DC for the Inauguration
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  March 12 @ 12PM
​Daytona Bike Week Rally
No Name Saloon
2001 S. Ridgewood Ave.
Edgewater FL 32141



​Friday Feb 12th
Doors Open at 5pm for start at 7pm.
Tampa Sun Dome
We have 250 VIP Tickets for Bikers available for this event! Email or message us on Facebook if you are interested.
4202 E Fowler Ave,
Tampa, FL 33620

Sunday Jan 24th
3:00pm
HIGH OCTANE SALOON
Saddle up!!! Don't miss our next rally. This place is off the chain.
BikersforTrump2016.com Rally
1590 S Suncoast Blvd,
Homosassa, FL 34448
​Phone:(352) 794-6037
Posted by: Whaitle Angaiting5699 || 01/18/2017 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Twitter says that page does not exist, and this is the title of the Buzzfeed article:

People Are Sharing Fake Pictures Of Bikers For Trump Heading To The Inauguration

Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Deleting my add-on's then. Thanks TW.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  The Bikers4Trump twitter page is here, but is only accassible to confirmed folllowers. The website listed says it's "coming soon!"

That Buzzfeed article claims it is a con.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Thanks I must've got conned.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/18/2017 13:04 Comments || Top||

#6  website looks to be http://www.bikersfortrump2016.com/. Facebook page also under facebook.com/bikersfortrump/
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/18/2017 13:05 Comments || Top||


Ads in two dozen cities offer protesters up to $2,500 to agitate at Trump inaugural
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
may have a point about paid protesters: Job ads running in more than 20 cities offer $2,500 per month for agitators to demonstrate at this week’s presidential inauguration events.

Demand Protest, a the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
company that bills itself as the "largest private grassroots support organization in the United States," posted identical ads Jan. 12 in multiple cities on Backpage.com seeking "operatives."

"Get paid fighting against Trump!" says the ad.

"We pay people already politically motivated to fight for the things they believe. You were going to take action anyways, why not do so with us!" the ad continues. "We are currently seeking operatives to help send a strong message at upcoming inauguration protests."

The job offers a monthly retainer of $2,500 plus "our standard per-event pay of $50/hr, as long as you participate in at least 6 events a year," as well as health, vision and dental insurance for full-time operatives.

Mr. Trump has complained about paid activists both before and after the 2016 presidential campaign, but if anti-Trump advocacy groups are juicing their crowds with hired help, nobody’s admitting it.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Undercover police or FBI should immediately solicit recruitment. Funding sources should be easy enough to identify from the inside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Is 2500$ really worth meeting some cops frustrated by being forbidden to do their job for the last 8 years?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2017 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Now if everybody applied for this, and then just sat there and didn't participate, who would know? They'd still have to pay you.
Posted by: gorb || 01/18/2017 3:08 Comments || Top||

#4  If they have not found the ring leaders before the event, Rantburgers know what is going on and gave you means for all the prevention you need.
Posted by: newc || 01/18/2017 5:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Guys, see Tucker Carlson's interview of the leader last night.

This guy has trolled all the major MSM about these ads. He and Tucker were having quite the laughfest by the end of the interview.
Posted by: GORT || 01/18/2017 7:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Progressives, please listen up. There is only one honorable and lasting way to absolutely show your commitment to the cause: Suicide.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/18/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Dental Coverage - heh
Posted by: Shipman || 01/18/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Four years in college studying for a liberal arts degree and this is the kind of job you get.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/18/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Word, Vast.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2017 12:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Tucker Exposes Hoax Group Claiming to Pay Protesters at Trump Inauguration

"The man, who could not produce identification to the Fox News Los Angeles bureau, said his name was "Dom Tullipso"
[note that the "l's" are silent!] and said he runs "Demand Protest", which allegedly pays individuals to protest at events."
Posted by: Thoth White8365 || 01/18/2017 15:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kerry not attending inauguration, official says
[MSN] Add Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State...
to list of those skipping the inauguration Friday.

A State Department official confirmed to Fox News that the outgoing chief diplomat "will not attend the inauguration."

The official did not give a reason.

At least 60 Democratic House politicians have already decided not to attend President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s inauguration on Friday. While Kerry’s reasons are unclear, the House Democrats skipping the ceremonies are doing so as a boycott of Trump.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2017 13:03 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Supporting divisiveness and no-cooperation government wherever he goes.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/18/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, I looked in the dictionary for "'Sore Loser" and found a group photo of the DC establishment. Kerry was in the middle, why the long face Jawn?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/18/2017 14:10 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#4  John F Kerry is not attending because he wasn't invited. Same thing with most of the democrats who are "boycotting" the inauguration, they weren't invited either. So they tried to put, to them, a positive spin on this non-invite.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/18/2017 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  So many now... Kinda makes you wonder if they know something sinister is going to happen...
Posted by: Bugs Grumble6115 || 01/18/2017 15:30 Comments || Top||

#6  John F Kerry is not attending because he wasn't invited

Is that an assumption, Seeking cure, or are you basing that on information? This is yet another area about which I am utterly ignorant.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Good.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/18/2017 15:54 Comments || Top||

#8  still butthurt about the Swiftboat exposure?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2017 16:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Well it's partly an assumption, but mostly based on informed facts.

An example: href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7661583/trump-we-have-the-biggest-celebrities-in-the-world-coming-to-inauguration"

Truth br told, members of congress are given tickets to attend, thus the comment by Trump that he hope those who are not coming will give him their tickets so he can invite others, so it's a tongue in cheek comment but they were just given tickets, not actually invited.

As for John Kerry, he's part of the previous administration, generally members from the previous administration do not attend the inauguration except those who may be part of the new administration (None AFAIK) or those who bought tickets themselves. The only person from the previous administration that will be there is Barrack Obama himself, It's doubtful his family will be there.

Hope this help. it's not all WAGs.

[BTW, I'm having trouble getting the inline http links to work properly.]
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/18/2017 16:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Seeking cure for ignorance, it would be interesting if Trump sent an invite out to a few to see if they'd reverse their boycott to see what whores they really are.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/18/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#11  It does indeed help, Seeking cure. Thank you.

[The icon Fred provides below the text box -- the little world sitting on two links or ski goggles -- occasionally doesn't work. When it doesn't, I take out the quotes around the URL, which has this far fixed the problem for reasons I won't try to guess; the inevitable heat death of the universe probably comes into play somehow. Are you first highlighting a bit of text to attach it to? Are you writing the HTML code yourself?]
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2017 16:23 Comments || Top||

#12  John who?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/18/2017 18:00 Comments || Top||

#13  Getting a head start to a place that doesn't extradite?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/18/2017 21:14 Comments || Top||

#14  TW, I just tried your solution, I have been using the globe and chain icon which never worked for me. I tried removing the quotes and it still doesn't work. In the near future, I'll just past the link directly for now.

Sooner or later, I'll figure this our!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/18/2017 22:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Out! Dern it, Out! Not Our.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/18/2017 22:13 Comments || Top||

#16  rjschwarz, Doubtful, since those Dems are grandstanding, they will lose face by accepting invitations.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/18/2017 22:17 Comments || Top||


Departing Klingon chief wants his legacy to be the work he did for LGBTQ community
[Wash Times] When Sen. Kamala Harris grilled President Elect Donald Trump’s pick for CIA Director Mike Pompeo last week, she demanded to know his personal views on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement.

Never mind, the growing jihadist threat, how the agency missed Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the potential of a nuclear-enabled North Korea, and the growing expansion of China in the South China Sea. Altogether, it was a bizarre exchange.

But apparently, she was onto something. In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal, departing CIA Director John Brennan said he wants his legacy to be the work he did to advance the LGBTQ community.

"During his tenure he has put particular emphasis on promoting the interests of gay, lesbian, and transgender officers," the Journal reported. "He was the first CIA director to attend an annual social gathering of LGBTQ employees and has been known to wear a rainbow lanyard around the office as a symbol of solidarity.

For Mr. Brennan, who said his perspective was informed by growing up ’a white male from New Jersey,’ diversity of backgrounds leads to better analysis, which in his estimation can prevent intelligence disasters," the Journal said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 05:57 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never mind, the growing jihadist threat, how the agency missed Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the potential of a nuclear-enabled North Korea, and the growing expansion of China in the South China Sea. Altogether, it was a bizarre exchange.

Intelligence collection, nor any of the vital concerns listed in the above para were never his primary mission as directed by Obama. He has boldly and spitefully articulated his goals and mission.

Hat tip to kriddell@washingtontimes.com (author) for outing this odious Tsetse fly. His lifestage is not nearly complete. He will require many more bloodfills. Keep an eye on the bastid !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 6:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama's NASA task was the environment and global warming. And where was Ambassador Stevens in all of this? Naaaah, they wouldn't do that.

In the 1990s, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi began to enact "purification" laws designed to enforce a harsh view of Islamic law on the population. Libyan courts were given the power to use amputation, flogging and other cruel punishments against persons found to be violating traditional Islamic morality.
Link
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  has been known to wear a rainbow lanyard around the office

Just not tight enough.
Lacks commitment.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, it can't be any professional successes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe I'm just old school, but I would have gone with something like kept America safe, prosecuted her enemies to the ends of the earth, or even just didn't bomb any Chinese embassies. But then I'm not wangling for a phony-baloney job post 20-Jan.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/18/2017 13:42 Comments || Top||

#6  LGBTQ maybe, but little regard for Mermaidians.
The damned Specist!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#7  CIA missed the fall of the Soviet Union along with many other noteworthy items during my lifetime. I really hope their successes are being kept secret because the visible track record stinks.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/18/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Hmm...didn't mention what he wore that lanyard around...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/18/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||

#9  You are a useless marxist whore in my book. I can't wipe my ass of you fast enough, Brennan.
Posted by: newc || 01/18/2017 18:14 Comments || Top||

#10  You are a useless marxist whore in my book. I can't wipe my ass of you fast enough, Brennan.
Posted by newc


Sullying the reputation of 'marxist whores' everywhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 18:36 Comments || Top||


19 Years Ago Today, Drudge Broke That Bill Clinton DID Have Sexual Relations With That Woman
[Daily Caller] The Drudge Report became the go-to source for conservative news on January 17, 1998 after linking a certain saxophone playing president to a certain White House intern.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 02:15 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I once registered and voted as a Democrat. The 2 events that completely changed my thinking were:

1. The entire Democratic party pretending that "Every man of power cheats on his wife--its completely normal."

&

2. 9/11, when the Democratically-driven press fell all over themselves urging people like me not to "jump to conclusions" about the animals that committed the act (and those that sponsored it).

I've never voted for another Democrat once the 2nd of those events took place.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/18/2017 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Lyndon Johnson, jimmuh carter and Bill Clinton taught me all I need to know about Democrats. By the time Baraq Obama got elected there was nothing he could do that would surprise me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/18/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  And remember that Newsweek of the mainstream media had the story but chose not to publish.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/18/2017 19:18 Comments || Top||

#4  I once registered and voted as a Democrat too, Crusader. In North Carolina, where I lived at the time, you had to be registered as a party member to be able to vote in the primary.

I registered Democrat, voted in the presidential primary AGAINST George Wallace, and then re-registered as an independent.

Considering my motivation, I didn't even feel dirty.
Posted by: Barbara || 01/18/2017 21:55 Comments || Top||


Government
Obama administration gives $500m to UN climate change fund
[BBC] The US government has given half a billion dollars to the UN's Green Climate Fund, just three days before Donald Trump takes office.

Barack Obama's outgoing administration announced the contribution of $500m (£406m; €468m) on Tuesday, bringing the total funds to date to $1bn.

Mr Obama pledged in 2014 to give $3bn to help tackle the effects of climate change in the poorest countries.
Mr Trump has previously called global warming a hoax.

The president-elect has also threatened to pull the US out of the Paris accord - a global agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions - and America's commitment to the fund.

Mr Trump could decide to withhold the rest of the fund.
However, John Kirby, the State Department spokesman who announced the grant, said there was no "nefarious desire or intent" behind the timing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 08:35 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another petulant act in response to calls for ending US funding of the U.N.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  rewarding grafters who donated to the dems with taxpayers cash.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/18/2017 13:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Call the bank, stop the check.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Call the bank, stop the check.
Posted by: Skidmark


Too late Skid. Obama doesn't believe in checks, banks, etc.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 15:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama doesn't believe in checks, banks, etc.

Mobster and racketeers seldom do.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/18/2017 16:16 Comments || Top||

#6  I suppose that means there is some climate change issues now in Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/18/2017 16:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Someone nail down the white house furniture and hide the silver.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/18/2017 22:35 Comments || Top||


Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.

Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent, numbers that would rock Washington if he follows through.
Northern Virginia would become a ghost town. And you might even be able to find a seat on a Metra train...
At least two so-called "landing teams" in Cabinet agencies have relayed the call for cuts as part of their marching orders to shrink the flab in government.

The cuts would target discretionary spending, not mandated programs such as Medicare or Social Security, the sources said.

The spending reductions are expected to be used to help pay for Trump's plan to boost the Pentagon's budget, tax cuts and some pet projects, potentially including the anti-immigration wall on the nation's southern border.

The teams also are looking at staffing cuts over four years through attrition, a hiring freeze and reorganization.

The plan is winning cheers in conservative, anti-tax and anti-spending corners in Washington that have long sought massive cuts in the bureaucracy.

Presidents rarely cut spending, choosing freezes instead. In the meantime, federal spending has reached historic levels. Trump has picked a budget hawk, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, to head the Office of Management and Budget, a clear sign that spending cuts are a top priority.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd like the Center for Disease Control (CDC) specifically targetted. I'd like every single participant in "mission creep", like pretending that "disease control" includes bullshit political items like guns and the consumption of salt in the diet, to be put on notice that they're now required to demonstrate what REAL "disease control" contributions they've made to the agency. If they have none, boot them. And start high on the organization chart, and only move downward to the point where anyone is making executive decisions.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/18/2017 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Just mow down the top 3 management levels at all the various agencies - Trump appointees exempt.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/18/2017 1:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Initiate an immediate Federal hiring freeze. Boomer and near-boomers are now retiring in record numbers. A 20% slash of federal workers employees should be accomplished quite easily. Some additional tips follow:

Pass a law to make 'burrowing' illegal, and make it 6 months retroactive.

Eliminate an entire federal agency by merging it's responsibilities with another.

Declare the federal gov't a 'Right to Work' organization. Declare the AFGE (federal employees union) unconstitutional and disband it immediately.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Get rid of Education, Energy and Environment departments.
Posted by: gorb || 01/18/2017 3:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Get rid of NMFS and HUD, too.

20% cuts in the public "work" force will get us back to about early to mid Bill Clinton era levels, relative to the populations size at large. It
is a nice start but we need much more.

The goal should be to get the percentage of employed that are public sector down to pre-Great Society levels, around 5-6%. In order for that to happen we need to cut 60-70% of public employees.
Posted by: no mo uro || 01/18/2017 5:14 Comments || Top||

#6  "Declarethe AFGE (federal employees union) unconstitutional and disband it immediately.

Well, this started on Rantburg, let's go about the red marker more!

You guys made this!

If you do not know how to cut the US Government #budget, give US a red pen #economy
Posted by: newc || 01/18/2017 6:14 Comments || Top||

#7  The Donks have no problems with such cuts in DoD*, why not the others?

*given that national defense is specifically called for in the Constitution while many agencies and departments are not.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2017 8:14 Comments || Top||

#8  As we say, a good start.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/18/2017 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Declare the federal gov't a 'Right to Work' organization. Declare the AFGE (federal employees union) unconstitutional and disband it immediately.

Do it properly through Congress. Pen and phone edicts are only good as long as the president who ordered them is in office.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#10  You can't do it all the first day or even the first year, the unemployment costs would drive the budget right over the edge!

But you can not replace those who retire or choose to depart to 'protest' the new sheriff in town. Tell people their budgets will be slashed by xx% in the next three years and let nature take its' course.

You'll need a plan to transition from massive waste to minimal waste. Hire some out-of-work progressives (cheap!) then fire them when they don't perform!
Posted by: Bobby || 01/18/2017 16:40 Comments || Top||

#11  No permanent employees at all. Everyone on contracts. With the possible exception of spy agencies, and the military of course.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/18/2017 21:43 Comments || Top||

#12  ...heh. The military are already 'on contract'. Pass over and RIFT are SOP.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2017 21:49 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2017-01-18
  US Air Force kills high ranking Al-Qaeda leader in Syria
Tue 2017-01-17
  Obama Releases 10 More GITMO Detainees Just Before Leaving Office
Mon 2017-01-16
  Noor Salman, wife of Orlando bomber, now jugged by FBI
Sun 2017-01-15
  Three arrested during Belgian police raid on Molenbeek street where Paris attacks mastermind Salah Abdeslam lived
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  Islamic State supporters face jail after infiltrated in undercover police sting
Fri 2017-01-13
  Belgium charges pair over fake papers for jihadist in Paris, Brussels attacks
Thu 2017-01-12
  36 Afghan parliament staff killed in Kabul attack
Wed 2017-01-11
  Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army
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  Mosul Left Coast Fully Liberated
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  German Vice Chancellor calls for ban of Salafist mosques
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  ISIS propaganda king killed
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  Gunman Opens Fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport; UPDATE 3 5 dead
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