The Donald Trump juggernaut rolls into Florida where the GOP front-runner leads native son Sen. Marco Rubio 44 – 28 percent among likely Republican primary voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has 12 percent with Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 7 percent and Dr. Ben Carson at 4 percent.
Men back Trump over Rubio 49 – 25 percent, while women go to Trump 39 – 31 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds. …
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And for today’s Ben Carson fix, I offer you about fourteen minutes of Carson and Meghan Kelly saying some really good things (if you are interested in watching candidates bash each other, move along because this is not it)
… One would have expected the 2016 primary season to reveal a penchant for purity that redounded to the favor of a candidate such as Ted Cruz. And yet, oddly enough, quite the opposite has happened thus far. Led by Donald Trump, the most frustrated voters have instead put their efforts behind a well-telegraphed attempt to burn down the whole political edifice and reconstruct it from scratch. Because it has been imperfect, the GOP must be destroyed. On its face, this theory is irrational to the point of absurdity — if I am told one more time that it makes sense to nominate a single-payer-supporting defender of Planned Parenthood because Congress’s repeal-and-defund bill was vetoed by the incumbent, I shall begin to order bourbon in bulk. …
… How, one wonders, will future generations look back at this behavior? How will they comprehend that at the end of February 2016 under 10 percent of all super PAC spending had been trained on Donald Trump? How will they see John Kasich’s admission that he doesn’t know if he should even be president, or process that Ben Carson put the construction of his own political shopping network above the country he supposedly loved? And what will they make of the fact that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio wasted so much time pretending that they meaningfully disagreed with each other? Now is the time to throw everything at Trump, and to stop this disaster in its tracks. Will our children wonder why we were so reluctant?…
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Too funny to be true, in a sad, pathetic way (from The Blaze):
Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate committee Wednesday that a terrorist who was released from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and later rejoined Al Qaeda is “not supposed to be doing that.”
During testimony before the Senate Appropriations State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee, Kerry was asked about Ibrahim al-Qosi, a former detainee who has rejoined the terrorist group.
Dothan (whose opinion piece I accidentally put on the daily thread) got into trouble last night for “joke” tweeting about a Trump assassination.
This is scary (one never jokes about that) and there is probably a real concern about this in this particular election year with emotions running so high.
We should pray that amid all the disagreement and debates and angst that no physical harm comes to any of the candidates. 😦
“Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%
has doubled down in his efforts to push legislation that would triple the number of H-1B visa holders in the United States, even after Microsoft’s announcement last week that it will terminate another 7,800 U.S. workers in order to replace them with cheaper labor — this on top of the 18,000 it’s already laid off.
Rubio’s I-Squared bill would effectively further the plight of American STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and IT workers. Computer World notes that during a speech in Chicago last week, Rubio emphasized the false narrative that a lack of skilled American workers is the cause of these massive layoffs, using the phrase “skills gap” as his hook; a code phrase which is also employed by Microsoft, Southern California Edison and other companies.
In reality, there is a surplus, not shortage, of skilled U.S. workers and not enough STEM jobs to accommodate these citizens.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80%
responded to Microsoft’s mass layoffs announcement last week saying the mass tech corporation is crushing Americans’ dreams: “Any increase to the H-1B visa would only quash the dreams of more talented Americans, glut the labor market and keep pay low, and push more of our own homegrown best and brightest students out of work.””
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Plus thousands more at Disney and others.
On a related matter, it should be fun to see how this goes. I’m sure Rubio will be missing this. He’s too busy campaigning for second.
“One of the workers Disney fired and forced to train his foreign replacement is scheduled to testify before Congress Thursday, when he will share his story and plead with lawmakers to recognize it as part of a nationwide problem with the H-1b visa program.
“This situation at Disney is not an anomaly,” Leo Perrero says in prepared testimony obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “This same abuse of the H1B program is happening nationwide.”
Perrero was laid off just ahead of the holidays in 2014 and then forced to train his foreign replacement on an H-1b visa, before he and hundreds of other IT workers at Disney in Florida left their job. He had been at Disney for more than 10 years and received outstanding performance reviews, and actually thought he was being called in for a pat on the back when his boss laid him off.”
“Businesses say they need the H-1b program, which gives them access to temporary foreign guest workers, in order to fill jobs that Americans can’t or won’t do, particularly in the tech industry. But the program’s critics contend it was designed to give companies a way to displace American workers with cheaper foreign workers, and that Disney-style layoffs are happening all over the country.”
The first suggestion in this article for Cruz is a good one, but it wouldn’t matter. Nothing matters. As Trump says, he could shoot someone and it wouldn’t matter.
Trump is going to take the GOP to an epic defeat and Hillary will follow in Obama’s footsteps, but with more energy. I’m sure there will be funny moments.
Michelle – That was a point made by one of my Facebook friends.
Donna – A line from an article you quoted above: “. . .that Ben Carson put the construction of his own political shopping network above the country he supposedly loved. . .” What was that referring to?
Kasich is beginning to sound like the most reasonable of all them to me now in this debate.
Good grief. What a big mess.
As for his own political shopping network, I don’t know exactly what the author had in mind. Maybe just interested in building a vanity niche platform in isolation? Book promotion? (Not saying I agree with this, if that’s what the writer was thinking.)
Wandering Views 
Max Lucado on Trump and his lack of decency:
https://maxlucado.com/decency-for-president/
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The dates of the daughters could at least act “decent” for a brief time. That is too much for Trump.
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It is somewhat comforting to read an op-ed written around 1865, which sounded like it could be written today.
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1865! The worst of all years!
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Wow. (In a bad way.)
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/florida/release-detail?ReleaseID=2327
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The Donald Trump juggernaut rolls into Florida where the GOP front-runner leads native son Sen. Marco Rubio 44 – 28 percent among likely Republican primary voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has 12 percent with Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 7 percent and Dr. Ben Carson at 4 percent.
Men back Trump over Rubio 49 – 25 percent, while women go to Trump 39 – 31 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds. …
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And for today’s Ben Carson fix, I offer you about fourteen minutes of Carson and Meghan Kelly saying some really good things (if you are interested in watching candidates bash each other, move along because this is not it)
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4773094564001/dr-carson-our-country-is-in-critical-condition/?#sp=show-clips
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From National Review:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431858/donald-trump-2016-campaign-must-be-stopped
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… One would have expected the 2016 primary season to reveal a penchant for purity that redounded to the favor of a candidate such as Ted Cruz. And yet, oddly enough, quite the opposite has happened thus far. Led by Donald Trump, the most frustrated voters have instead put their efforts behind a well-telegraphed attempt to burn down the whole political edifice and reconstruct it from scratch. Because it has been imperfect, the GOP must be destroyed. On its face, this theory is irrational to the point of absurdity — if I am told one more time that it makes sense to nominate a single-payer-supporting defender of Planned Parenthood because Congress’s repeal-and-defund bill was vetoed by the incumbent, I shall begin to order bourbon in bulk. …
… How, one wonders, will future generations look back at this behavior? How will they comprehend that at the end of February 2016 under 10 percent of all super PAC spending had been trained on Donald Trump? How will they see John Kasich’s admission that he doesn’t know if he should even be president, or process that Ben Carson put the construction of his own political shopping network above the country he supposedly loved? And what will they make of the fact that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio wasted so much time pretending that they meaningfully disagreed with each other? Now is the time to throw everything at Trump, and to stop this disaster in its tracks. Will our children wonder why we were so reluctant?…
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Too funny to be true, in a sad, pathetic way (from The Blaze):
Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate committee Wednesday that a terrorist who was released from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and later rejoined Al Qaeda is “not supposed to be doing that.”
During testimony before the Senate Appropriations State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee, Kerry was asked about Ibrahim al-Qosi, a former detainee who has rejoined the terrorist group.
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Dothan (whose opinion piece I accidentally put on the daily thread) got into trouble last night for “joke” tweeting about a Trump assassination.
This is scary (one never jokes about that) and there is probably a real concern about this in this particular election year with emotions running so high.
We should pray that amid all the disagreement and debates and angst that no physical harm comes to any of the candidates. 😦
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Douthat. Spellcheck again. Sorry.
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If capitalism is the cause of such income inequality and wealth disparity, then how does one explain this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35657107?OCID=twitterasia
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U. of Michigan LGBT Center Creates Safe Space to Protect Students from Offensive Speakers – Both of Whom Are Gay:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/24/u-michigan-lgbt-center-creates-safe-spac
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There’s a reason Rubio is the establishment’s new guy.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/13/rubio-doubles-down-on-h-1b-increase-amid-microsoft-layoffs/
“Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%
has doubled down in his efforts to push legislation that would triple the number of H-1B visa holders in the United States, even after Microsoft’s announcement last week that it will terminate another 7,800 U.S. workers in order to replace them with cheaper labor — this on top of the 18,000 it’s already laid off.
Rubio’s I-Squared bill would effectively further the plight of American STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and IT workers. Computer World notes that during a speech in Chicago last week, Rubio emphasized the false narrative that a lack of skilled American workers is the cause of these massive layoffs, using the phrase “skills gap” as his hook; a code phrase which is also employed by Microsoft, Southern California Edison and other companies.
In reality, there is a surplus, not shortage, of skilled U.S. workers and not enough STEM jobs to accommodate these citizens.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80%
responded to Microsoft’s mass layoffs announcement last week saying the mass tech corporation is crushing Americans’ dreams: “Any increase to the H-1B visa would only quash the dreams of more talented Americans, glut the labor market and keep pay low, and push more of our own homegrown best and brightest students out of work.””
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Plus thousands more at Disney and others.
On a related matter, it should be fun to see how this goes. I’m sure Rubio will be missing this. He’s too busy campaigning for second.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/24/laid-off-disney-worker-will-tell-congress-disney-is-not-an-anomaly/
“One of the workers Disney fired and forced to train his foreign replacement is scheduled to testify before Congress Thursday, when he will share his story and plead with lawmakers to recognize it as part of a nationwide problem with the H-1b visa program.
“This situation at Disney is not an anomaly,” Leo Perrero says in prepared testimony obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “This same abuse of the H1B program is happening nationwide.”
Perrero was laid off just ahead of the holidays in 2014 and then forced to train his foreign replacement on an H-1b visa, before he and hundreds of other IT workers at Disney in Florida left their job. He had been at Disney for more than 10 years and received outstanding performance reviews, and actually thought he was being called in for a pat on the back when his boss laid him off.”
“Businesses say they need the H-1b program, which gives them access to temporary foreign guest workers, in order to fill jobs that Americans can’t or won’t do, particularly in the tech industry. But the program’s critics contend it was designed to give companies a way to displace American workers with cheaper foreign workers, and that Disney-style layoffs are happening all over the country.”
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Do you realize how close we came to getting Kerry for President?
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Don’t try to scare us.
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The first suggestion in this article for Cruz is a good one, but it wouldn’t matter. Nothing matters. As Trump says, he could shoot someone and it wouldn’t matter.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/two_options_for_ted_cruz.html
Trump is going to take the GOP to an epic defeat and Hillary will follow in Obama’s footsteps, but with more energy. I’m sure there will be funny moments.
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Ain’t nothing funny about it.
😦
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We could all vote for Sanders. At least he is honest and will be blocked by the legislature.
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Michelle – That was a point made by one of my Facebook friends.
Donna – A line from an article you quoted above: “. . .that Ben Carson put the construction of his own political shopping network above the country he supposedly loved. . .” What was that referring to?
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Kasich is beginning to sound like the most reasonable of all them to me now in this debate.
Good grief. What a big mess.
As for his own political shopping network, I don’t know exactly what the author had in mind. Maybe just interested in building a vanity niche platform in isolation? Book promotion? (Not saying I agree with this, if that’s what the writer was thinking.)
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I’m close to being ready to wash my hands of all of this. 🙄
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OK, this was a gratifying moment that gave me a laugh hearing it on the car radio coming home.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/is-this-the-moment-when-trumps-campaign-imploded.php
“It’s not a bad thing to see a bully humiliated.”
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haha — Megyn Kelly is so funny. Really. She actually makes me laugh out loud.
Onward.
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