I watched some of it as he’s coming to our town tonight. I don’t think I’d ever watched a full speech of his (and I didn’t see all of that one, just watched the CNN live feature before leaving work yesterday for about 30 minutes to at least get a “feel” of how his speeches go).
Entertaining, for sure. Every once in a while he’d say something and you’d go, “Huh? Did he really just say that? Can he really just say that??”
He can and he does.
I can see where people find it refreshing, but I surely hope the race settles into a choice between more serious/sober gop candidates in the coming months.
My wife and I watched and listened to his announcement of his candidacy. That decided both of us. He is a big mouthed buffoon.
We never watched NBC. We couldn’t get it in Los Angeles when we were upstairs; bad/no signal so we didn’t watch it downstairs. NBC won’t let us have their signal on our Direct TV here in Crescent City, so we have never seen The Donald on The Apprentice. Besides that I won’t watch that kind of TV. It seems to be about as good as The Bachelor.
That 12/3/2012 – 2/1/2013 period is particularly interesting. Why?
12/7/2012 – House Committee on Foreign Affairs announces Hillary will testify
12/15/2012 – Hillary faints and has a concussion
12/31/2012 – bipartisan Senate Homeland Security Committee faults the State Dept and Pentagon for not providing adequate security to American consulate and the Obama Admin for its handling of the attack
1/23/2013 – Hillary testifies: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
2/7/2013 – Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey testify before Senate Armed Services Committee
One problem with Trump is that he is saying the same thing other Republicans have been saying all along, only in such an obnoxious way people listen when he talks. Hubby came in one day very impressed that Trump said he was a Christian and had actually used the name of Jesus. I said have you not been listening to Walker, Huckabee, Santorum, Carson, Cruz etc. They’ve been doing that for years, Why do think people hate them
“I can see where people find it refreshing, but I surely hope the race settles into a choice between more serious/sober gop candidates in the coming months.”
“Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is continuing to ride a surge of support for outsiders, pulling up close behind Donald Trump in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
Republican voters nationwide continue to back Trump in large numbers, climbing from 23% support in the last CBS poll, conducted before the Fox News debate last month, to 27% in the poll out Tuesday. But Carson rocketed in that same period from 6% to 23%. The survey also found Carson doing well across demographic groups, edging out Trump among college-educated Republican voters.”
“Kentucky Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder was killed by Joseph Thompson Johnson-Shanks after a traffic stop last night. Shanks was later killed by police when he refused to surrender.
Shanks was not originally from Kentucky, he was from Missouri, from Florissant, near Ferguson.
He had a long criminal history. But perhaps significantly one arrest, for ‘interfering with an officer’ was on August 11, two days after Michael Brown was killed. Not only was he a Ferguson protester, but he went to Michael Brown’s funeral and burial in a limo the type usually reserved for family or close friends. In that limo he is riding with people from NAN, Al Sharpton’s group.”
“On the third anniversary of the Benghazi terrorist attack, emails reviewed by Fox News raise significant questions about US government support for the secret shipment of weapons to the Libyan opposition.
During the Spring of 2011, as the Obama administration ramped up efforts to topple the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a licensed American arms dealer, Marc Turi, his business partner formerly with the CIA, senior US military officials in Europe and Africa as well as a former staffer for republican Senator John McCain considered logistics for arming the rebels, according to the emails exclusively obtained by Fox Business and Fox News.
Turi is facing federal trial this December on two counts that he allegedly violated the arms export control act by making false statements. Turi denies the charges, and alleges there was a rogue weapons operation run with the knowledge of Mrs. Clinton’s state department.
The email dated March 22, 2011 was sent by Admiral James Stavridis, when he was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, from his government email account to Turi’s business partner David Manners.”
“An undercover video published Thursday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas purports to show Nevada-based Hillary Clinton campaign staffers and volunteers ignoring and knowingly violating Nevada’s voter registration laws. Moreover, the video appears to show that this conduct is being condoned and encouraged by a local attorney who works for the Clinton campaign.
According to the video, it is a felony in the state of Nevada for anyone involved in the voter registration process to “solicit a vote for or against a particular question or candidate; speak to a voter on the subject of marking his or her ballot for or against a particular question or candidate.”
The video appears to show that numerous Hillary Clinton campaign staffers are well aware of the law. Nevertheless, the video shows them laughing at the law and repeatedly bragging about violating it by promoting Hillary Clinton verbally and with campaign literature as they attempt to register potential voters. ”
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And as always, please remember, vote fraud is a myth…. 🙄
Of course, everything could look very different 5 months from now. But I do think Hillary may wind up not getting the nomination. Her problems are making a way for another Dem (Biden, or? — they don’t really have much of a bench to call on, interestingly) to get into the race.
I think Dems are starting to abandon her (or at least losing all their enthusiasm for her) very quickly now but I don’t think Sanders will have a shot at being nominated in the real world.
“Some disturbing news out of Texas, but it’s apparently not limited to the Lone Star State. It seems that the DEA has been investigating so called “pill mills” to crack down on doctors getting a little too enthusiastic with their prescription pads. That’s a worthy issue to look into if it’s happening in large numbers but it comes with a built in problem. If these doctors are writing prescriptions, then by definition they must be writing them for patients. And if the DEA wants a peek at those patients’ confidential medical records they need to get a warrant.
Or do they? (Fox News)
Drug Enforcement Administration agents have been accessing personal medical files without a warrant, generating a backlash from doctors and privacy advocates who say the practice is intrusive and unconstitutional — and have taken the agency to court.
“It’s just not right,” Texas attorney Terri Moore said.
The controversial record searches are part of the government’s effort to crack down on illegal “pill mills” and prescription drug abuse. But they’ve set up a clash over privacy rights, and a legal battle is now playing out in the 5th and 9th Circuit appeals courts. Lower courts have issued conflicting rulings to date, with one backing the DEA and another demanding the agency get warrants if it wants to look at patient records.
There are two different techniques being employed by the DEA which are under examination here and they’re both bad. The first is the increasing use of administrative subpoenas to gain access to the patient records. You can read a full explanation of what an administrative subpoena is here, as well as restrictions on their use and what they are intended to capture. These are not the same as a search warrant. They’re generally used as more of an initial, background investigation of some larger, broad area of concern and can grab up records from businesses and agencies to gather information. They don’t seem to be intended to go into the personal files and papers of individuals absent probable cause, but that’s the net result of what’s going on here. Even if the feds are actually going after the doctor, they shouldn’t be accessing the health records of the patients. (And in cases like this, it’s the doctor who is the real problem, not the person getting a prescription.)”
“President Obama will need to more than double the number of Americans enrolled in Obamacare exchange plans to reach 21 million next year, the target set in budget projections, in what is shaping up as the next major test for the health care law.
As of June, the Department of Health and Human Services counted 9.9 million customers who have bought plans through the federal HealthCare.gov portal and a handful of state-run exchanges.
That puts the administration ahead of its own estimates for 2015, but is less than half what the Congressional Budget Office projected for 2016, showing just how much work officials have ahead of them as the next round of enrollment begins in less than two months.”
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And when enrollments fall short yet again? Another increase for all….
The new World Economic Freedom Report is out. In addition to the winners (Hong Kong and Singapore), Chile, Mauritius and Taiwan are in the first tier. The U.S. continues its annual decline and is now 16th, just ahead of Romania, but behind Qatar.
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Trump made a speech in Dallas.
That must be news. I didn’t see/hear it, but if I kept the news on last night I would have.
That’s all there was.
😦
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Trump speech;
He told them what they wanted to hear and made a bunch of promises he probably can’t keep. Typical politician.
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I watched some of it as he’s coming to our town tonight. I don’t think I’d ever watched a full speech of his (and I didn’t see all of that one, just watched the CNN live feature before leaving work yesterday for about 30 minutes to at least get a “feel” of how his speeches go).
Entertaining, for sure. Every once in a while he’d say something and you’d go, “Huh? Did he really just say that? Can he really just say that??”
He can and he does.
I can see where people find it refreshing, but I surely hope the race settles into a choice between more serious/sober gop candidates in the coming months.
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My wife and I watched and listened to his announcement of his candidacy. That decided both of us. He is a big mouthed buffoon.
We never watched NBC. We couldn’t get it in Los Angeles when we were upstairs; bad/no signal so we didn’t watch it downstairs. NBC won’t let us have their signal on our Direct TV here in Crescent City, so we have never seen The Donald on The Apprentice. Besides that I won’t watch that kind of TV. It seems to be about as good as The Bachelor.
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Donna J: Don’t worry, it will.
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So there’s a 5-month gap in Hillary’s e-mails: http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-state-department-documents-reveal-hillary-clinton-email-gap/
That 12/3/2012 – 2/1/2013 period is particularly interesting. Why?
12/7/2012 – House Committee on Foreign Affairs announces Hillary will testify
12/15/2012 – Hillary faints and has a concussion
12/31/2012 – bipartisan Senate Homeland Security Committee faults the State Dept and Pentagon for not providing adequate security to American consulate and the Obama Admin for its handling of the attack
1/23/2013 – Hillary testifies: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
2/7/2013 – Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey testify before Senate Armed Services Committee
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Sometimes the truth is hard. The last sentence is the truest and the hardest.
http://takimag.com/article/purging_americas_heroes_patrick_buchanan#axzz3lpP6hWed
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One problem with Trump is that he is saying the same thing other Republicans have been saying all along, only in such an obnoxious way people listen when he talks. Hubby came in one day very impressed that Trump said he was a Christian and had actually used the name of Jesus. I said have you not been listening to Walker, Huckabee, Santorum, Carson, Cruz etc. They’ve been doing that for years, Why do think people hate them
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About sums it up……
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Donna,
“I can see where people find it refreshing, but I surely hope the race settles into a choice between more serious/sober gop candidates in the coming months.”
That’s already happening. 🙂
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/politics/poll-ben-carson-donald-trump-second/index.html
“Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is continuing to ride a surge of support for outsiders, pulling up close behind Donald Trump in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
Republican voters nationwide continue to back Trump in large numbers, climbing from 23% support in the last CBS poll, conducted before the Fox News debate last month, to 27% in the poll out Tuesday. But Carson rocketed in that same period from 6% to 23%. The survey also found Carson doing well across demographic groups, edging out Trump among college-educated Republican voters.”
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Another BLM protester/fraud exposed. Looks like they’ve now gone beyond just inflamed rhetoric and have actually killed a cop.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/234324-breaking-kentucky-cop-killer-was-ferguson-protester-went-to-michael-browns-funeral/
“Kentucky Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder was killed by Joseph Thompson Johnson-Shanks after a traffic stop last night. Shanks was later killed by police when he refused to surrender.
Shanks was not originally from Kentucky, he was from Missouri, from Florissant, near Ferguson.
He had a long criminal history. But perhaps significantly one arrest, for ‘interfering with an officer’ was on August 11, two days after Michael Brown was killed. Not only was he a Ferguson protester, but he went to Michael Brown’s funeral and burial in a limo the type usually reserved for family or close friends. In that limo he is riding with people from NAN, Al Sharpton’s group.”
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Tychicus,
Yeah, about those emails….
http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2015/09/11/exclusive-new-emails-in-benghazi-weapons-mystery/
“On the third anniversary of the Benghazi terrorist attack, emails reviewed by Fox News raise significant questions about US government support for the secret shipment of weapons to the Libyan opposition.
During the Spring of 2011, as the Obama administration ramped up efforts to topple the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a licensed American arms dealer, Marc Turi, his business partner formerly with the CIA, senior US military officials in Europe and Africa as well as a former staffer for republican Senator John McCain considered logistics for arming the rebels, according to the emails exclusively obtained by Fox Business and Fox News.
Turi is facing federal trial this December on two counts that he allegedly violated the arms export control act by making false statements. Turi denies the charges, and alleges there was a rogue weapons operation run with the knowledge of Mrs. Clinton’s state department.
The email dated March 22, 2011 was sent by Admiral James Stavridis, when he was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, from his government email account to Turi’s business partner David Manners.”
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Iran/Contra anyone?
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And in yet another Clinton scandal…
O’Keefe strikes again. 🙂
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/10/okeefe-strikes-again-undercover-video-purports-to-show-hillary-campaign-violating-election-law/
“An undercover video published Thursday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas purports to show Nevada-based Hillary Clinton campaign staffers and volunteers ignoring and knowingly violating Nevada’s voter registration laws. Moreover, the video appears to show that this conduct is being condoned and encouraged by a local attorney who works for the Clinton campaign.
According to the video, it is a felony in the state of Nevada for anyone involved in the voter registration process to “solicit a vote for or against a particular question or candidate; speak to a voter on the subject of marking his or her ballot for or against a particular question or candidate.”
The video appears to show that numerous Hillary Clinton campaign staffers are well aware of the law. Nevertheless, the video shows them laughing at the law and repeatedly bragging about violating it by promoting Hillary Clinton verbally and with campaign literature as they attempt to register potential voters. ”
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And as always, please remember, vote fraud is a myth…. 🙄
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AJ, yes, I saw that new poll this morning.
Of course, everything could look very different 5 months from now. But I do think Hillary may wind up not getting the nomination. Her problems are making a way for another Dem (Biden, or? — they don’t really have much of a bench to call on, interestingly) to get into the race.
I think Dems are starting to abandon her (or at least losing all their enthusiasm for her) very quickly now but I don’t think Sanders will have a shot at being nominated in the real world.
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A 10th PP video–with the docs worried about the headlines if someone exposes how much money they make selling baby parts.
Seen that anywhere except on Lifenews? 😦
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How is this not a violation of people’s rights?
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/12/so-the-dea-has-been-seizing-patient-records-without-a-warrant/
“Some disturbing news out of Texas, but it’s apparently not limited to the Lone Star State. It seems that the DEA has been investigating so called “pill mills” to crack down on doctors getting a little too enthusiastic with their prescription pads. That’s a worthy issue to look into if it’s happening in large numbers but it comes with a built in problem. If these doctors are writing prescriptions, then by definition they must be writing them for patients. And if the DEA wants a peek at those patients’ confidential medical records they need to get a warrant.
Or do they? (Fox News)
Drug Enforcement Administration agents have been accessing personal medical files without a warrant, generating a backlash from doctors and privacy advocates who say the practice is intrusive and unconstitutional — and have taken the agency to court.
“It’s just not right,” Texas attorney Terri Moore said.
The controversial record searches are part of the government’s effort to crack down on illegal “pill mills” and prescription drug abuse. But they’ve set up a clash over privacy rights, and a legal battle is now playing out in the 5th and 9th Circuit appeals courts. Lower courts have issued conflicting rulings to date, with one backing the DEA and another demanding the agency get warrants if it wants to look at patient records.
There are two different techniques being employed by the DEA which are under examination here and they’re both bad. The first is the increasing use of administrative subpoenas to gain access to the patient records. You can read a full explanation of what an administrative subpoena is here, as well as restrictions on their use and what they are intended to capture. These are not the same as a search warrant. They’re generally used as more of an initial, background investigation of some larger, broad area of concern and can grab up records from businesses and agencies to gather information. They don’t seem to be intended to go into the personal files and papers of individuals absent probable cause, but that’s the net result of what’s going on here. Even if the feds are actually going after the doctor, they shouldn’t be accessing the health records of the patients. (And in cases like this, it’s the doctor who is the real problem, not the person getting a prescription.)”
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Here comes the pain…. Again.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/13/obamacare-enrollees-must-double-to-make-budget-pro/
“President Obama will need to more than double the number of Americans enrolled in Obamacare exchange plans to reach 21 million next year, the target set in budget projections, in what is shaping up as the next major test for the health care law.
As of June, the Department of Health and Human Services counted 9.9 million customers who have bought plans through the federal HealthCare.gov portal and a handful of state-run exchanges.
That puts the administration ahead of its own estimates for 2015, but is less than half what the Congressional Budget Office projected for 2016, showing just how much work officials have ahead of them as the next round of enrollment begins in less than two months.”
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And when enrollments fall short yet again? Another increase for all….
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michelle, nowhere else, sadly.
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TownHall.
These people are evil. They speak of harvested baby parts like it’s meat at the butchers. Just vile.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/09/15/10th-cmp-video-n2052491
The videos are there too.
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The new World Economic Freedom Report is out. In addition to the winners (Hong Kong and Singapore), Chile, Mauritius and Taiwan are in the first tier. The U.S. continues its annual decline and is now 16th, just ahead of Romania, but behind Qatar.
http://www.cato.org/economic-freedom-world
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