[Right Scoop] Mark Levin dropped a short video talking about the recent revelation that Paul Manafort was being wiretapped, saying that this was the great grand scandal we need to focus on.
I have to admit it’s pretty surprising that it was actually the case that a member of Trump’s campaign was literally wiretapped by the U.S. authorities. BUT there are still two things left to be proven. One, that Trump Tower was wiretapped, as Trump claimed, and two, that it was done for political reasons. While we, as right-wingers, just know the second is the case, we need evidence and proof in order to move the ball forward...
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Anyone willing to do this with an administration, will do anything to you.
Put it down like a Rabid dog and make an example, or I will just write off the government and flush the whole house.
No money, no government.
[LI] Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez killed himself in his prison cell last April as he served a life sentence for a 2013 murder charge at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, MA.
His lawyers revealed today that tests on Hernandez’s brain "showed severe signs of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)." They also said that his daughter plans to sue the NFL and the Patriots "for leading Hernandez to believe the sport was safe."
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"for leading Hernandez to believe the sport was safe."
Good luck with that, toots (of course, no surprise at the attempt of getting some $$$$). Oh, and the world is a better place without this vermin "father" of yours.
[The Hill] Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday called for a crackdown on illegal immigration and the influx of violent criminal gangs into the U.S.
"We are now working with the Department of Homeland Security and [Department of Health and Human Services] to examine the unaccompanied minors issue and the exploitation of that program by gang members who come to this country as wolves in sheep clothing," Sessions said.
Sessions blasted those "taking advantage" of the Unaccompanied Alien Children program during his speech before law enforcement officials outside a federal courthouse in Boston.
The program, run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, aims to take unaccompanied minors who enter the country illegally and place them in communities that it says are in "the best interests of the child."
"This program continues to place juveniles from Central America into this gang-controlled territory. It is clearly being abused," Sessions said, saying that the MS-13 gang was using the program as a recruitment tool.
Sessions condemned the actions of the MS-13, a violent gang also known as La Mara Salvatrucha that has settled and committed crimes in U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Boston and New York. The gang originally came to Los Angeles in the 1980s.
"MS-13 represents some of the worst of the worst when it comes to criminal street gangs," Sessions said.
#3
Please g(r)om, I just started reading Doug Murray's The Strange Death of Europe - Immigration, Identity, Islam. After 16 pages, I'm depressed enough already.
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The program, run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, aims to take unaccompanied minors who enter the country illegally and place them in communities that it says are in "the best interests of the child."
Why don't we start/stop at: "in the best interests of the communities of AMERICAN CITIZENS"
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Don't worry, Frank. They'll tell you what's good for you and they'll make damn sure you get it.
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[National Review] A new study confirms that your four-legged friend isn’t just conning you for food.
One of my favorite kinds of news stories is the report of a new scientific study that verifies the obvious. You’ve seen them. New research finds that heterosexual men are attracted to very attractive women.
Evidence collected by wildlife researchers has confirmed that bears really do use the woods as toilets. But some research that corroborates the obvious is exciting because some people refuse to accept the obvious. Which brings me to the work of Dr. Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University and the author of What It’s Like to Be a Dog.
Berns has, from what I can tell, the best gig in neuroscience. He spends all day taking pictures of dog brains. Don’t worry: He doesn’t remove them. He uses magnetic resonance imaging to study what’s going on in Fido’s head. It’s tougher than it sounds because the dogs have to hold absolutely still for Berns to get a good read. But that’s OK. They got the goodest doggos around, as folks on dog-obsessed Twitter might say, to volunteer. And what did Berns discover? Something that almost every dog owner in the world could have told you: Dogs aren’t faking it when they act like they love you. Because it’s not an act.
[The Federalist] Attacks on Confederate heritage have quickly evolved into attacks on American heritage, which was always the ultimate goal.
Whether the rest of the country likes it or not, what happens in Texas matters a lot, not just because it’s the second most populous state but also because it serves as a kind of bellwether for what’s going on in those parts of America that coastal elites would prefer to ignore.
That’s especially true of the controversy over Confederate statues and symbols and names, of which there are many in Texas, along with people in power who feel obliged to get rid of them. But if you think the iconoclastic impulse to purge public memory of the Confederacy has anything to do with the Civil War or a deeper understanding of American history, you haven’t been paying attention. The campaign against Confederate heritage is really a campaign against American heritage. The goal is to divide the country into irreconcilable camps for the purpose of waging political warfare. In the end, it’s really about giving up on the idea of America as a place where, despite our many differences, we can be a united and prosperous people.
Here again Texas is a bellwether. This week, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus requested that an old plaque about the Confederacy be removed from the Capitol in Austin. The plaque itself is a piece of mid-twentieth-century Confederate Lost Cause paraphernalia that was erected in 1959, likely in protest of the Civil Rights movement. It claims the Civil War wasn’t really about slavery and the Confederacy wasn’t really a rebellion. Straus, a Republican, wants the thing to come down because it isn’t accurate. And he’s right: the Confederacy was indeed a rebellion, specifically over the issue of slavery. It should probably come down, in part because it probably shouldn’t have been put up in the first place.
But in issuing his request, Straus has become the latest well-meaning public figure to blunder into the Confederate monument mêlée under the misperception that it’s all about accurately portraying history. If it were, those calling for the removal of statues and the renaming of schools would have articulated some limiting principle to prevent the defunding of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, or the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in New York City, or the dynamiting of Mount Rushmore.
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These revisionists are like a cancer. You never know where it's going to metastasize. The best defense is early detection (we're past that now) followed by aggressive treatment. Hopefully the body politic will not require lead-based chemo delivered aggressively.
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I think it's the realisation that their faith in Marxism/Islamism is destroyed by seeing all the wealth created by Capitalism.
Unfortuantely faith wins and they see that Capityalism has to go in order to keep their narcisitic beleif system going.
#6
Oh how I dream of transporting all the progressives and anti-American filth to the garden spots of Africa, Korea and any other suitable locale (Venezuela seems like a nearby alternative).
[Tennessee Star] Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson says media outlets are "diving deeply into minutiae" to avoid a stark development: President Trump's previously ridiculed "wiretapping" claims appear to be true.
Ms. Attkisson has warned of the weaponization of intelligence agencies since her laptop for CBS News stories was hacked on multiple occasions in 2013. An op-ed she wrote for The Hill on Wednesday presented an extensive case that U.S. intelligence agencies under former President Barack Obama were manipulated for political purposes - and that pundits are willfully ignoring it.
She highlighted reports that the FBI did monitor the communications of Mr. Trump's then campaign head Paul Manafort prior to the 2016 election, along with what seems to be at least six associates.
"Officials involved in the surveillance and unmasking of U.S. citizens have said their actions were legal and not politically motivated. [...] But look at the patterns," Ms. Attkisson wrote. "It seems that government monitoring of journalists, members of Congress and political enemies - under multiple administrations - has become more common than anyone would have imagined two decades ago. Those deflecting with minutiae are missing the point. To me, they sound like the ones who aren't thinking."
The reporter, who now hosts "Full Measure" on Sinclair's Sunday TV program, buttressed her claims with the following observations:
[Townhall] A U.S. nuclear and security analyst says his "biggest fear" is that North Korea's recent statements signal the country might conduct an atmospheric test of a nuclear weapon atop a missile.
Such tests have been conducted in the past by the United States and China but not in recent decades.
Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said such a test would be worse than testing a longer range for an intercontinental ballistic missile, which is another scenario the North may be considering.
He said such a test could pose a danger to shipping and aircraft, even if the North declared a "keep out" zone, and would pose a risk to people if something went wrong. "We are talking about putting a live nuclear warhead on a missile that has been tested only a handful of times. It is truly terrifying if something goes wrong."
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#3 EMP range would be much larger than the fallout map.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-09-22 12:44
Without getting into too much detail, EMP effect zones are a function of burst height and strength...but if he does try it over the central Pacific, he'll be zorching his buddies in the PRC and the Nation Formerly Known As The Soviet Union.
If he takes a shot at Guam, the PI, Japan, or anybody else, it's all over.
And keep this in mind: EMP really does exist. On the other hand, you should ask why nobody has ever dumped a warhead out of an innocent-looking satellite yet.
Mike
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[Wash Examiner] Sen. Jeff Flake offered a rare defense of President Trump on Thursday over the president's pronunciation flub of an African nation.
Trump was widely mocked Wednesday when he mispronounced Namibia as "Nambia" while praising the country's healthcare system in a speech to African leaders.
The mistake earned him headlines like "Trump praises health care of Nambia, a nonexistent African country" from CNN.
In a tweet Thursday evening, Flake, who is a vocal Republican critic of Trump's, asked people give Trump a pass on this one.
"Give @realDonaldTrump a break on Namibia. I lived there during independence. Great country, tricky pronunciation," he said.
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Luckily, President Trump refrained from referencing the "57 States" or a United States Marine "Corpsman." Imagine the outrage had he said German South West Africa.
Any thanks for Namibian healthcare should go to German and South African colonists, not the indigenous tribal peoples. But before you lift a glass, the life expectancy over all is still under 64 years. Much is yet to be done, but much 'can' be done, when a country is free from 'endless wars.'
[Wash Examiner] President Trump is taking a toll on journalists and political commentators, some of whom are watching angrily Trump dives into healthcare and foreign policy, while others admit that covering Trump may be affecting their health.
ABC "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host Jimmy Kimmel, who has risen as a prominent voice in the healthcare debate, was angry this week over Trump and Republicans' latest attempt repeal Obamacare. He criticized the new Graham-Cassidy GOP healthcare bill a "scam" that he said is supported by Republicans who "eight years ago, they didn't want anyone to have health care at all."
In his opening monologue, Kimmel also threatened a Fox News host who had previously accused Kimmel of being one of the "Hollywood elites" who are "pushing their politics on the rest of the country."
Calling Kilmeade a "phony little creep," Kimmel said, "I'll pound you when I see you."
Last weekend, liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank said Trump's presidency is literally "killing" him.
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If you want to fund other people's treatment there's this mechanism called charity.
He could give some of vast bloated salary to a charity rather than try and extort it from workers and remove their choice of treatment provider.
[WSJ] U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump’s campaign manager in the summer of 2016, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.
The surveillance, which was part of a counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference with the presidential election, didn’t involve listening to Mr. Manafort’s phone communications in real-time, the officials said.
But armed with a warrant, investigators still could have conducted clandestine surveillance of Mr. Manafort, possibly by obtaining copies of his emails and other electronically stored communications, or by having agents follow him or conduct physical searches of his property.
The surveillance began after Mr. Manafort left the Trump campaign in August, but it is not clear when it was suspended. Mr. Manafort resigned after a spate of publicity about his consulting work in Ukraine on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies.
The government’s focus on Mr. Manafort has grown more intense in recent months. He has become one focus of a probe lead by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia during the campaign as well as whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey.
The Russian government and Mr. Trump have denied any wrongdoing.
Mr. Comey’s replacement, FBI Director Christopher Wray, met this week with congressional officials and discussed the law-enforcement agency’s surveillance of Mr. Manafort, according to a person briefed on the discussion.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Wray’s meeting with Congress.
In the face of mounting scrutiny and a CNN report he had been the target of a secret wiretap, Mr. Manafort suggested Thursday through a spokesman that he had been caught in the crossfire of the Russia investigation and accused the Obama administration of "pursuing surveillance against a political opponent."
"It’s unclear if Paul Manafort was the objective," said Jason Maloni, Mr. Manafort’s spokesman. "Perhaps the real objective was Donald Trump."
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I even have screenshots of his phone convos. Tell me how that works?
Still, there is no wrong here unless you drag the democrat money seeker in too, and one is Hillary whathappened.
If I open the Ukraine folder and Libya, I lock everyone up so just shut the fuck up or buck up and call off the dogs.
But now, since Hilarriy whathappened decided to make a thing of her wich self, I want HER locked into Quantico and now I want Comey, and Clapper, and Rice, And all of those criminals under lock and key - and any democrats from obama as well facillitating this illegal and un-just use of information.
I want them ALL. And if you do not believe me, there is more than enough probable cause to set off a thousand "Muellers"
I hate you democrats and you are all a disgrace to this Nation. Push one more millimeter.
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[The Hill] Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday called for a crackdown on illegal immigration and the influx of violent criminal gangs into the U.S.
[National Review] A new study confirms that your four-legged friend isn’t just conning you for food.
[WSJ] U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump’s campaign manager in the summer of 2016, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.
