November 16, 2018 6:29 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, November 16, 2018
- RIP Roy Clark.
- I dig the night life, I like to boogie.
- The margin of lawyer.
- Accidentally, my hind parts.
- Carbs are bad.
- More exercise, not less.
- All about the hydrogen.
- Talking about some, but not all, of you.
- Proposed new Title IX rules.
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But I thought it was Global War…., no wait, Ahhh, yes, Climate Chan…Now, what?! HUH??!?!?? LMAO!
Paging Mr. Gorged! Mr. Al Gorged!!!
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/16/a-mini-ice-age-could-be-on-the-way-and-its-going-to-get-very-very-cold-8146529/
Come-on Norway get with the program, in the 70’s Al Gore was saying it was global cooling, in the 90’s It was global warming, now it’s climate changes since they can’t predict if it is going to cool down or heat up. You know the amount of climate change is directly tied to the amount of grant money at stake. Don’t make me need to come here and correct you again.
Yes sir!!
But what about Quaternary glaciation?
I’ve been saying this for a long time. We don’t need to worry about the so called global warming because we are all going to freeze before then.
Maybe you can get some good deals on coastal property before the word gets out.
https://www.coastalpropertyliquidation.com/index.php/creative-2
As usual, you are getting your so-called ‘information’ from dubious sources, leading you to erroneous conclusions.
That headline is designed to get clicks from poor suckers like you desperate to reinforce their flawed world view by any means possible.
What that guy is talking about is the 11 year sunspot cycle. We are approaching the low point in sunspot activity now, and he claims (it is apparently disputed) that low sunspot activity is associated with lower temps. But this is a cycle that just lasts a few years. This has nothing to do with overall global warming due to greenhouse gases.
Here is the same story that doesn’t just cut and paste the juicy bits:
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/09/27/the-chill-of-solar-minimum/
So what you have done is support crap reporting by clicking and passing on that garbage, and causing me to click on it too to check it out.
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The sun spot cycle is an 11 Year cycle however we have only been recording accurate sunspot numbers for about 250 years. Before that we have some personal observations by various scientist of the times.
The current sunspot cycles most active period had only about half the sunspots of the previous cycle and much lower that the last few cycles. During the Maunder Minimum which was a period between about 1600 to 1700 there were almost no sunspot sightings. This period corresponded with the “little Ice Age”.
Does this mean we are heading into another low sunspot era? No way to scientifically know for sure, we can only guess.
Back ground information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum#Other_observations
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts
The Space Weather site is full of interesting information about the sun.
You poor sheep!!! LMAO!!
Good ol’ B!!! Maybe a ram but a sheep nonetheless!
Predicted that she would sue to force a new election: https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/kemp-holds-steady-lead-over-abrams-state-prepares-certify-vote/WI5zxjHjLNR2WbvcEBVYWL/
But for Galloway of the AJC to acknowledge this is revealing:
“Her campaign has said it has heard from 25,000 voters who had problems casting their ballots,” I don’t believe this.
Total BS! She’s rapidly approaching footnote status.
I am going to go further. Abrams has from the beginning accused Kemp of rigging the process and disenfranchising voters – including instances where Kemp was following state law i.e. the “purging voters” thing when state law requires them to be purged, things that he had no control over such as the Randolph County decision by a local elections board trying to comply with the federal Americans With Disability Act and issues with voting machines when elections are managed at the local level in Georgia and not the state level – because in addition to using that to increase turnout among her base, her filing a legal challenge against the outcome was a gambit in her toolbox from the outset. The local and national media helped prime the pump by “reporting” the charges from her campaign as news.
I am going to be fair here: Kemp being a walking talking caricature of everything that is wrong with the GOP in the south – even if Boss Hogg and Buford T. Justice were Democrats back then they certainly would be Republicans now – made the job of Abrams and the media a whole lot easier. It would have been so much better for the party and the state had, say, Jack Kingston been the nominee instead. But by far the worst part about Abrams losing is that it means that Kemp has to win. Makes the whole thing bittersweet even with Abrams’ machinations.
Jack Kingston!?!
The highly respected former congressman from Savannah. Good policy guy, never been accused of corruption or associated with scandal, narrowly – and regrettably – lost to legacy mediocrity and ethically challenged David Perdue in the senate race. You don’t think that he would have been a much better nominee and governor than Kemp? I realize that he is too conservative for your taste, but you get to pick the nominees for the GOP when conservatives get to pick the Democratic candidates.
Wow. Yeah.
He defended body slamming that reporter.
Denies evolution.
Wants a Constitutional amendment to ban same-gender marriage.
Dismissed Parkland students as ‘leftist stooges’.
He would be a good candidate. Maybe in Mississippi.
If you don’t realize that candidates like Stacey Abrams are as offensive to conservatives as Kingston is to progressives then there is no point even trying to have this discussion. You gladly support the fringe 10% of your own party while wanting the other side to only elect centrists.
First of all I am not your “homie.” For kicks, I could even charge you with cultural appropriation for using that term to begin with.
Second if Abrams’ political showing validates her ideology then the same is true of Kemp, Kingston, Ted Cruz, Trump and all of the other conservatives that you show so little respect to either them or the voters that elected them.
“Nearly half…” Almost. Close. But not 50 plus 1. That’s gotta sting!
Au contraire. I hope the other side does nominate their fringe 10%.
By the way, if Jack Kingston is the center, who is on the fringe?
If Kingston is a clown, then what does that make Abrams? You mean your side gets to have partisans whose views are to the left of 70% of the population – and 85% of Georgia – but the GOP has to run Lincoln Chafee and Margaret Chase Smith types? Yeah, that’s real fair.
This is the same old DTM blather, put several unrelated, generalities together that have no meaning or relevance, and proclaim they apply to some single-minded definition of a group.
Said it below. If Abrams’ political success validates her views, then Kingston and Trump winning races in Georgia does the same for them.
I don’t know if this translates into respect. Jack Kingston was on the Bill Maher show the same night as Milo Y., Malcolm Nance, and Larry Wilmore. Mr. Kingston made a good showing for himself. Links to this are in the blog post below. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/distractions-and-the-clown-show/
What?
“In Kemp’s eight years as secretary of state, black voter registration in Georgia has gone up every cycle, with an overall increase of 462,000 voters, or more than 31 percent, between 2010 and 2018. That outpaces white voter registration both in real numbers and as a percentage of all voters. Black voter turnout has been consistently around 50 percent for midterm federal elections and 70 percent during presidential years. ”
https://www.weeklystandard.com/michael-warren/2018-midterms-whats-the-truth-about-the-53-000-pending-voters-in-georgia
Not sure what your point is.
It’s not like Brian Kemp was out there registering voters. There has been massive voter registration efforts over the last few years, much of which was organized by Stacey Abrams. All those applications get turned in. I was led to believe that they were processed by the counties, but now we are all agreeing that the SoS does actually process these applications? And that since Brian Kemp didn’t sh*tcan all of the African American registrations that he is somehow a hero? Is that the narrative here?
I agree that merely because Kemp didn’t disenfranchise all black voters doesn’t mean that he didn’t disenfranchise any. But I challenge you here: Abrams has been dishonestly blaming Kemp for the actions of local elections boards that are clearly beyond his control as well as misled people into thinking that his actions that are entirely consistent with state law in purging voters are illegal and racist. At one point – and only because of being directly challenged (by Republicans and not by the media!) – the Abrams team admitted that Kemp was following the law by purging voters in those instances but that he should have exercised his discretion not to. All right fine: how about the DOJ exercising their discretion not to enforce civil rights laws? Or the EPA exercising its discretion not to enforce environmental regulations? Or the Department of Education exercising its discretion not to enforce Title IX?
Nearly all of the things that Kemp has been accused of by Abrams, the media and her supporters have been totally legal. (And I only stated “nearly” because I haven’t had time to vet each and every single charge, which have been many.) However, it is very revealing that Abrams hasn’t filed formal criminal complaints against Kemp’s so-called illegal behavior, nor has she filed civil rights charges with the DOJ. Might be because the police and the feds will determine that obeying state law isn’t a crime, even if you disagree with the law.
Maybe that wasn’t chefdavid’s point but it is certainly mine, and is precisely why no matter what you think of Kemp, Abrams deserves to lose just as much if not more so.
Still waiting for a reply here. Crickets …
Jeez, I’m working over here!
This ‘exact match’ is the biggest issue, and that was purely Kemp’s discretion. So he owns that one.
Other than that, yes, the political rhetoric is a bit inflammatory- on both sides. But here in the US we really try to avoid filing criminal charges against political opponents during an election unless it is very serious. That is banana republic stuff.
Kemp’s staff also recommended that Randolph county close 7 of 9 polling places.
This is in an environment where Republicans across the country are actively and obviously trying to suppress the vote, so anything that looks like that is going to get scrutiny.
“Kemp’s staff also recommended that Randolph county close 7 of 9 polling places.”
That isn’t what actually happened. A consultant hired by Randolph County recommended that they close 7 of 9 polling places because they didn’t have wheelchair ramps and the county didn’t have the money to install them. The consultant had ties to the SOS office but it was the Randolph County election board who chose to hire the consultant, and it was the county who chose to accept the consultant’s advice, which wasn’t binding. It only became an issue when and because the Abrams people decided to make it an “this is evidence that Kemp is trying to shut down polling locations and disenfranchise black people just like Selma sheriff Jim Clark!” talking point and the media repeated it as if it were fact. Never mind that more people wound up voting for Kemp in Randolph County than for Abrams, which would have meant that Kemp would have been trying to disenfranchise his own voters!
And sorry, but following state law – longstanding state law in many cases I might add – isn’t “anything that looks like it gets scrutiny.” This was Abrams demagoguing the issue to turn out her base and to lay the groundwork to challenge the election in court should she lost. It was no different – seriously no different – from Trump’s voter fraud claims in the 2016 election back when he – and everyone else – thought that he was going to lose.
Evidence that Kemp ran this election any different from how he ran the 2016, 2014, 2012 or 2010 needs to be provided by the Abrams campaign. Ditto evidence that Kemp has run elections any different from previous secretary of states. Yes, we have had problems on the local level like this before, especially in Fulton and DeKalb County, yet Abrams blames it on Kemp knowing full well that Kemp’s office doesn’t allocate voting machines or maintain voting equipments in those Democratic strongholds. By repeating her falsehoods as fact and not challenging them, you are “complicit” as is it fashionable to say now.
OK, maybe ‘staff’ wasn’t the right word.
“Although the immediate crisis in Randolph County is over, a number of questions remain.
Although Kemp—the GOP gubernatorial candidate who currently serves as secretary of state—eventually opposed the plan, he seems to have played a behind-the-scenes role in its inception. The poll-closure scheme was devised by a consultant named Mike Malone, an associate of Kemp’s who supports his run for governor. Kemp, who has a notorious history of racial disenfranchisement, asked Malone to recommend poll closures in multiple Georgia counties, including Randolph.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/randolph-county-georgia-rejects-plan-to-close-polls-before-the-november-election.html
“During his nearly eight years as secretary of state, Kemp engaged in mass voter purges, removing hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls. State officials appear to have singled out black voters in targeted purges.”
Much more here ( I realize Slate is a biased source, but facts are still facts):
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/georgia-voter-suppression-brian-kemps-bid-for-governor-depends-on-erasing-the-black-vote-its-working.html
“But without the context and with hyperbolic rhetoric, the claims of voter suppression aren’t much different from the demagoguery Democrats decry from the likes of Kemp and Donald Trump.”
“Now what about the voter purges? An investigative piece by American Public Media reported that nearly 600,000 Georgia voters were removed from the rolls in 2017. Team Kemp has an explanation for that: A 2016 lawsuit brought by Common Cause and the NAACP over the state’s voter list temporarily halted the biennial purge of inactive voters. After the lawsuit was thrown out, Georgia had two cycles’ worth of inactive voters to remove from its list.”
Channeling Claiborne Darden: “It’s ova, it’s ovaaaaaas!!!!”
What is it that prevents voting by smartphone or other computers? I mean if you can use computers not only for banking but to file income taxes and submit other documents where your identity has to be verified and your privacy protected what is it that prevents a voting app? Google could create one in 6 months. (Apple: give them 3 years but it would work better.) None of this stuff with 3 hour waits, faulty voting machines, exact matches, showing up at the wrong precinct, voter ID laws that allegedly disenfranchise people etc. would be a problem.
Of course not everyone is able to vote by smartphone: some can’t afford them plus you have elderly, disabled and other populations. But that is the main benefit: the 90% of the population that could early vote or election day vote by smartphone could do so, allowing the 10% that need the most assistance voting to get it. Right now if you show up in the wrong precint you have to spend 3 hours in line before you find out, and then have to drive (or use public transportation) to get to the right precinct before it closes. For people who can only vote after work that is impossible. If voting by smartphone clears out all those lines, problem solved.
I am going to be honest: as Republicans – as opposed to conservatives – tend to oppose changes that may increase voter turnout, why haven’t the Democrats proposed this? You would think that Democratic-run states in the northeast and the far west would have tried to implement something like this already, and then worked on pressuring/embarrassing GOP states to follow suit once they make it clear how better it is: paper trails, results reported within an hour of polls closing, practically eliminating the need of absentee or provisional ballots or recounts etc.
I am thinking that there has to be some legal reason why NO ONE has proposed this yet so any of the lawyers or politicians who hang out here, I would be glad to hear from you.
I suspect that given all the data breaches of companies like Yahoo, Equifax, and JPMorgan, there is not enough confidence to entrust our election system to the internet.
Also, I think you would have to build it in such a way that the voter couldn’t log in and save and view their ballot, because then you would be back in the scenario of people selling their votes.
Instead, we should have automatic voter registration when you turn 18, and the ability to vote on holidays and/or weekends. Not to mention paper ballots.)
I do not agree with automatic voter registration or same day registration. Participating in democracy should require some effort, and registering to vote is the absolute easiest government task to perform.
“I suspect that given all the data breaches of companies like Yahoo, Equifax, and JPMorgan, there is not enough confidence to entrust our election system to the internet.”
That is the purpose of storing the ballot on your phone: a paper trail which would make auditing and recounts easy and automatic.
“Also, I think you would have to build it in such a way that the voter couldn’t log in and save and view their ballot, because then you would be back in the scenario of people selling their votes.”
This pales in comparison to the potential fraud that exists with absentee ballotting and voting by mail (which is possible in some areas).
One of the reason why I oppose automatic voter registration is that some people – Jehovah’s Witnesses and Anabaptists for example – do not wish to register to vote for religious or other reasons and their views should be respected. But there is no good reason to make voter registration compulsory, and no the fact that other countries who do not have our Bill of Rights do it isn’t a good reason.
What is the difference between voting by mail – which isn’t truly leaving the house – and voting by phone?
Expanding early voting and making election day a national holiday has nothing to do with voting by phone. NOTHING.
Neither does nonpartisan commissions. However, I do note that Democrats only want nonpartisan commissions when Republicans are in charge. When Democrats are in charge: not a peep. The AJC actually endorsed Roy Barnes’ multi-member districts – and only in the metro Atlanta – scheme that was created solely to keep the legislature in Democratic hands. It was only when the GOP won the legislature and began to control redistricting that nonpartisan commissions seemed to be such a good idea.
And I am still looking for a LEGAL reason why voting by app shouldn’t be done. And here I thought that progressives were the forward-thinking technocratic ones who supported change.
And the people who have religious objections to the Christmas and Easter pageants at their public schools can just go to the library for their duration – they can use that time to study and do homework so it would actually help them academically! – right? Sounds fair to me. Or how about we simply refrain from imposing on people’s beliefs as much as possible and just require people who want to vote to register to do so? Especially since it is easier to register to vote than it is to get a public library card.
Ahhh, separation of church and state ain’t all it’s cracked up to be anyway.
/sarcasm.
How to have automatic voting registration AND make gulch happy.
Some states are using limited mobile voting as an options for service members.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technology/mobile-voting-west-virginia-voatz/index.html
Participating in democracy should require some effort, so you want to allow voting by cell phone?
The prospect of selling votes may pale (arguably) in comparison to other fraud, but piling on more potential fraud isn’t helpful.
I don’t think the absentee ballot system is all that bad anyway. What about that is problematic?
I don’t see how storing the ballot on your phone would ever be considered an official ballot for purposed of recounts. Even if we did this, your ballot would need to be transmitted to some central place where it could be stored somehow. Once you have transmitted, it would need to be automatically deleted from your phone. No one gets to keep a copy of their ballot. There is even controversy now about whether you can take a picture of your ballot. I think it should not be allowed. But this takes the ‘no paper ballot’ to a whole new level.
I’m not sure I agree with same day registration either. Or at least, I don’t understand how they validate those ballots. I suppose it would be like our provisional ballots, that have to be checked later before being counted? If so, maybe that’s OK. Seems like it would delay the vote counting if it was too widespread.
‘Please listen carefully, as our options have recently changed.’
Yeah, that’ll work.
I never get that problem with my banking app. So why would that problem occur with a voting app? Also, even when my banking app is down, I can still go to my local bank branch if I really need to. So anyone who can’t vote using the the app can still use the horsewhip and buggy method of voting as a backup. Never make the perfect the enemy of the good, especially since the fiascos in Florida and Georgia show that the current system is still far from perfect. Such as our voting machines that are running on Microsoft Server 2000 and can’t be upgraded.
“So why would that problem occur with a voting app?” This is Georgia we are talking about.
That is why I said “hire Google”. The whole public-private partnership thing in order to come up with a technology solution that actually works. Or at least works better than the ObamaCare rollout actually did, but that was only because the IT job that the government initially used was a campaign contributor, which was the same reason for a ton of issues that happened during the Bush presidency. In this hypothetical scenario campaign contributors would be barred from seeking the contract.
” In this hypothetical scenario campaign contributors would be barred from seeking the contract.” That puts the high back in hypothetical.
Voting by app or online. Dumb. Another easily hackable, non-accountable, , easily manipulated by those running the election, voting method. Dumb.
And this differs from our current system how? Especially if the progressive allegations – and despite your moniker you are a progressive – against Bush in 2000, Trump in 2016 and Kemp now are to be taken seriously? Oh and there is stuff like this:
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/15/florida-recount-democrats-launch-plan-altered-state-form-fix-ballots/2009178002/
Yeah you are right. Voting by Internet is MUCH WORSE than what we have now. And keep in mind what I stated earlier: filing your taxes, submiting your student loan papers and a bunch of other government duties that require identification, security and privacy has been done online FOR DECADES as opposed to banking. But voting and voting alone is so vulnerable? Explain it to me.
I am going to say this again. You would have your ballot stored locally on your phone and encrypted. That would make detecting a hack and correcting it easy and automatic. Whereas doing so now using our current systems is impossible.
The official ballot would be deleted from your phone immediately after the election. An unofficial ballot could be stored as long as you want to preserve your voting history for your own purposes if you choose (or be provided to pollsters, data miners etc.)
We (often blindly) support technology for everything but voting. Curious. Self-driving cars that could kill and main you and countless others? (Yes, those can be hacked too. Some have done it.) The solution to a great deal of problems! It may even get public transportation out to Forsyth! But voting? Naah … too risky.
Thanks for the label…NOT. Since you love labels, here’s one for you: “New troll on the block.” I’m not stupid enough to files taxes do other highly personal business online. I never made the assertion that voting alone was vulnerable. We weren’t discussing those other online systems.
You guys are being punked or gulch is just ignorant of the history of “unbreakable” codes and the need for proven accountability to the voters. I think we should start with a system requiring a unique bar code tattoo in the middle of everyone’s forehead… or a butt load of black and white marbles… or Lots of thumb dipping ink… Or, if we adopt his plan, a billion monkeys, a billion keyboards, and some quantum computing power.
A good summary. https://spectator.org/obama-judges-cant-save-dem-losers/
Goes to show how much important McConnell’s plan to stack the judiciary our way really is.
Stacey Abrams is an abject joke. And the entire state needs to remember this stunt and her efforts to flat out steal this election if she ever offers for public office again.
I reject that talk. When Republican presidents nominate judges that generally reflect a conservative legal worldview they are “stacking the judiciary their way.” But when Obama, Carter, Clinton etc. make every single appointee an ideological clone of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayer that is just business as usual? When was the last time the Democrats installed their version of a David Souter? You would have to go back to when Byron Whizzer White turned out to be SLIGHTLY more conservative than John Kennedy wanted.
Or it could be that Kagan, et. al are the new mainstream.
The world does change.
Whizzer White is dead. Women deserve equal pay. We’ve landed a device onto a comet.
The Dems tried.
“Judge Garland’s record demonstrates that he is essentially the model, neutral judge. He is acknowledged by all to be brilliant. His opinions avoid unnecessary, sweeping pronouncements”
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/04/the-potential-nomination-of-merrick-garland/
Sen. Hatch even dared Obama to Nominate him in 2016.
LMAO!!!! Three dozen??? Any bets on whether the 36 schmeckle’s were smart enough to get a hefty retainer? Doubtful! More suit to be filed later against Stacey for non-payment!! This keeps getting better and better!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/campaign/417074-abrams-legal-team-preparing-unprecedented-challenge-in-ga-governors-race%3famp
This aged well…
Eye roll….
Wait… I’m partly wrong here. This did age well, but it still earns an eye roll…
I’m just wondering if Noway’s use of Yiddish to describe lawyers is either a conscious or unconscious bias or stereotype.
And in other news, that gulping sound you just heard was Christine Blasey Ford and her attorneys swallowing hard when they just heard the news that Grassley indeed is leaving the chairmanship of judiciary and one Sen. Graham will take over.
Remember that FBI investigation these jokers wanted? Don’t be a bit surprised if they now belatedly get one. Only the subject of said investigation will not be Brett Kavanaugh.
Bring it on Lindsey!
Be still my heart!!!! Lololololol!!!
Absolutely! Graham will shine sunlight on all the wrongdoing under the Obama administration’s FBI. And while he’s at it, turn that light on Holder, Lynch, and minions at the DOJ. It oughta produce a lot of perp walks.
Screenwriter William Goldman has died at 87.
Link.
Link.
One of the greatest lines he ever wrote.
It kind of reassuring in a very strange and eye rolling way that I can leave you boys on your own for 36 hours, and you are all exactly the same.
Snow Camels are a thing now….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/camel-stuck-on-side-of-philadelphia-highway-sets-twitter-ablaze-during-thursdays-winter-storm/ar-BBPMGoV?ocid=spartanntp
While driving 500+ miles around the eastern half of Georgia, I listen to this podcast…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-conway-republican-party-become-personality-cult-trump-130234835.html
It is a fascinating listen.
I’d meant to chime in that I fully support Pelosi for speakers. Proven and experienced leadership sharp on marshalling the caucus, and battle tested and strong in the face of adversity.
Contrast her with Boehner for whom the job was too much, or the feckless nothingburger named Paul Ryan.
Besides, at this point in Pelosi’s career, why put up someone new and good for Trumpers to trash?
If you’re not a fan of the Amazon bidding war or other tax-expenditure economic development policies:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/amazons-hq2-spectacle-should-be-illegal/575539/
From the Post: “The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing, according to people familiar with the matter. The CIA’s assessment, in which officials have said they have high confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation and complicates the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve its relationship with a close ally.”
But hey, Jared needed the money.
The veracity of the sixth Saudi story of events is that Khashoggi’s death was a Saudi rendition of a American resident to a Saudi prison gone bad is belied, yet again, by that pesky bone saw.
We gotta give Crown Prince MBS the benefit of the doubt since MBS has not been found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, am I right? Just like it was proven in court that MBS took the Lebanese PM into custody and compelled him to publicly announce his resignation as PM, so there’s precedent.
The WH has said Trump will be making an announcement on the matter Tuesday. I figure no announcement, announcing there will be an announcment sometime in future, or no MBS sanctions based on the above reasoniing have it covered with high confidence which I’ll tab at 96%, since the meaning of CIA “high confidence” will be challenged too.
Delay provides time to determine whether the Trump administration arranging for enemey of the Turrkish people Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen to be surrendered to Turkey from the US will quiet down Turkey about Khashoggi.
Thousands of US military have been deployed through the holidays as ICE agent stunt doubles to repulse the imminent caravan invasion. Merry Christmas, soldiers. It’s a Donald J. Trump gift to you and your families.
I have worked many a Thanksgiving and Christmas in service to my country and never once bellyached about it. Just stop!
What’s your point? This is in service of Trump.
Correction: In service to Trump’s political decisions- as opposed to true national security needs.
Trump’s political decisions and national security needs are one and the same in his mind and the minds of his followers.
No it means just what I said. The soldiers on the border are there because they are needed there whether it be holidays or not. Quit complaining about it. You’re the only one bothered by it.
Trump’s political decisions and national security needs are one and the same in his mind and the minds of his followers.
The soldiers are not allowed to publicly complain about it, but Dave is far from being the only one bothered by it. Thousands of wives, husbands, kids, and extended family are definitely bothered by it, mine included. And yes, sacrificing to actually defend our country is what they signed up for, but this isn’t that, not by a mile. They are simply cast as bit players in a political kabuki theater piece. Even though the role they are cast in is outside of their core competencies and is borderline illegal.
This comment is being placed here instead of one of the Abrams’ posts because I don’t want to get on the wrong side of the new sheriff. Sheriff is a tough enough job as it is.
“[T]hey remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.” Runoff GOP candidate for US Senator from MS, fresh off her comment about public hangings.
DeSantis wins! Gillum concedes…
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/17/668321180/andrew-gillum-concedes-floridas-governor-s-race-to-ron-desanti
Nelson concedes!!! No thefts in FL!! Browsed election chief needs to be prosecuted for her illegal actions! Thanks to TGM for sending in his election lawyers!! He’s continuing to save this country!!