Last night Ricky made another unflattering comment about Pres. Trump’s English-speaking skills, but that Gold Star father in The Hill article didn’t know what the president knew re. what actually happened in Niger. It turns out that Sgt. David Johnson betrayed his own unit by actually setting up the ambush in Niger by Islamic militants that led to the death of three American soldiers plus his own.
The following is a fairly long read, but I would encourage you to start at the heading “What can’t the White House say?” and continue reading the rest of the article (if you have time, please read it all). Incredible stuff! If Pres. Trump did struggle with that phone call, it’s no wonder…
Yesterday there was a comment about George H. W. Bush sexually harassing an actress.
1. As someone who has been sexually harassed in the past, you know it when it happens. Two men getting you in a truck between them and asking if you’ve ever had black, “once you have black you will never go back”…is sexual harassment. A coworker who makes a comment when you both pick up papers from the printer and you innocently say, “That’s mine on top” and he says in a low (what he means to be sexy voice), “Ummmm, I like it when you’re on top” is sexual harassment. The owner of the company where you work constantly asking you to wear a certain dress to work because he likes the way it makes your breast look is sexual harassment. A “well meaning” coworker who knows you are going through infertility offering “his services” if it will save you time and money is probably sexual harassment.
2. It is well known in certain circles that in the last 10 or so years George H. W. Bush has been known to “goose” pretty young women. One of the agents I work with told me this about 3 months ago. Her husband owned a restaurant in Maine where the Bush’s frequently go. Most of the female wait staff have receive a pat on the rear end and a comment from President Bush.
3. While I am not making excuses for him, he IS 93 years old. He’s harmless. He has had a lot of medical problems in the last few years, anesthesia in the elderly has different effects and often mimics dementia. He may very well know what he is doing and he may very well not know what he is doing.
Cut the man some slack. Not every comment and action is sexual harassment and if every time a man looks at you sideways you claim it is, well then when someone really IS sexually harassed it will just be “one more woman” claiming some man harassed her and we will become immune to it.
“An independent campaign watchdog group Wednesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee filed “false” campaign disclosure reports that concealed payments to the private investigative firm that commissioned the controversial “dossier” on then candidate Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
The complaint by the Campaign Legal Center — a nonpartisan group with no ties to any political party — came shortly after President Trump, in an impromptu press conference on the White House lawn, called it a “disgrace” that Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid for what he termed the “fake” dossier. He claimed the disclosure has “turned around” the multiple, ongoing investigations into possible links between his campaign and Moscow.
“So they made up the whole Russia hoax,” said Trump when asked about the disclosure about the Clinton campaign’s involvement in the dossier, which was first reported by the Washington Post. “Now … the hoax has turned around.”
The nine-page complaint by the campaign watchdog group says nothing about the veracity of the allegations in the dossier, a subject that is still being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller and three congressional committees.
Instead, it focuses on how the dossier was paid for — through a prominent law firm, Perkins Coie, which hired the private investigative firm, Fusion GPS — and the failure of either the Clinton campaign or the DNC to report the actual purpose of these payments on their legally mandated campaign expenditure reports.
“The DNC and Hillary for America reported dozens of payments totaling millions of dollars to the law firm Perkins Cole with the purpose described as ‘Legal Services’ or ‘Legal and Compliance Consulting,’ when, in reality, at least some of those payments were earmarked for the firm Fusion GPS, with the purpose of conducting opposition research on Donald Trump,” the complaint by the Campaign Legal Center states. The complaint notes that the Clinton campaign made 37 payments to Perkins Cole totaling $5.6 million, and the DNC made 345 payments totaling $6.7 million.”
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You have just posted the single worst piece of drivel ever put out by The Trump Cult. It is hard to believe the Trumpkins have stooped to smearing American soldier who gave his life for their country.
I understand that the Cult itself is desperate to smear Johnson. That is why that anonymous source (that Trumpkins generally hate) released this tale. However, it is important that reasonably intelligent people (even if they are sympathetic to or have joined The Cult) use some discretion before reposting Trumpian trash.
1. Do we really want to repost the lunatic’s assertion that Cruz’s father helped kill JFK?
2. Do we really want to contend (as did the buffoon Hannity) that Hillary killed Seth Rich?
3. Do we really want to appear as stupid as Sean Spicer and repeat Trump’s crowd size lies in the face of graphic photographic evidence to the contrary?
The full truth will come out about Niger. Until then we all need to remember:
A. Trump is a perpetual liar.
B. His cult will go to enormous lengths to defend his moronic behavior.
C. There is some bad, bad stuff out now on the Internet.
Did you do any checking about the site that published this trash? Let me give you a clue.
If the writer is scared or embarrassed to attach his or her name to the piece, that is not a good sign.
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Obama-era Uranium One deal, amid new revelations about the arrangement that have spurred fresh congressional probes.”
From the article: “the unflinching loyalty of the toady”.
It’s instructive to read the high-minded defenses of Trump offered by writers in Breitbart, The Washington Times, The Federalist, and the rest of the pro-Trump press.
Their chief argument for Trump is that he won and is therefore a winner. Their argument against Never Trumpers is that we failed and are therefore losers. What about Trump’s character? It doesn’t matter so long as the Supreme Court remains conservative. Legislative failures are always and only the fault of “establishment Republicans.” Boorish habits are merely a matter of taste and something of a virtue in the era of snowflakes. As for the criticisms from Flake, Bush, Corker and McCain, who needs moral instruction from those sore losers and political has-beens?
Most telling is the Trumpians’ inability ever to utter a whisper of criticism of their man. Even Never Trumpers will occasionally find themselves agreeing with the administration over one issue or another. Not so the Trumpians. With instincts that recall the Stalinist intelligentsia of the 1940s, they mix the logical elasticity of the sophist with the unflinching loyalty of the toady. They are never anything except always all in.
Tychicus’ “interesting” article was “published” by the “Raw Street Journal”. Their or his (surely only one person is involved) motto is “Making News Great Again”.
The RSJ has 1046 followers on Twitter. The punctuation in the tweets would lead you to believe that Trump himself might be the editor.
No, AJ. I am not excusing it away. I am making the point that sexual harassment is subjective. If I 93 year old man put his hand on my hip and told me an off color joke I wouldn’t immediately claim sexual harassment. I would think “poor old geezer. I guess hope always springs eternal…’ and laugh about it. Now if my 40 something BOSS did it, I would call him on it. I would probably tell him I “haven’t had to sleep my way to where I am right now, and I am not about to start “.
Of course, I don’t give out that “vibe”. I know a woman who is constantly telling of the men who have made passes at her. I couldn’t tell you the last time a man made a pass at me…even the flirty ones. My joke these days is that if a man tried to sexually harass me I would take it as a compliment…but that makes light of the real situation.
I am not going to get my knickers in a knot if some man calls me “honey”. Just the other day may husband got upset over one of the Geezers in our neighborhood. Mr. P and I were doing something in a flower bed at the corner of the front yard. I was sitting down pulling weeds, then I planted the pansies. Mr. P was standing up with the shovel or something. He may have been throwing away the weeds. Old Geezer stopped and said something along the lines of “isn’t that just like a woman to sit down while you do all the work” (to Mr. P). Mr. P told him I was finished with my secretarial tasks for the day. It was a dig to the HOA wanting me to keep the notes of the meeting after I told them I didn’t have the time to do it. Then I got a lecture from Mr. P on not allowing things like that to be said to me. Me? I sort of go with Dolly Parton’s comment years ago about Dumb Blonde jokes. “I know I ain’t dumb and I know I ain’t blonde”.
Not EVERY time someone says something to you is cause to accuse them of harassment.
Kim, I agree that Big Bush is probably “harmless” and senile. It is fairly common for octogenarians to attempt to sexually assault the nursing staff in nursing homes. However, I think we have to have a “no tolerance” policy for this sort of thing.
I would like to think that Big Bush would never have patted a waitress’ rear end in Midland, Texas 60 years ago out of fear that her roughneck boyfriend at the next table might have broken Bush’s carpetbagger jaw.
Ricky, the Raw Street Journal writer who wrote the piece is field reporter Robert Eaden. He had plenty of sources referenced and quoted, including your beloved NY Times. The key unnamed source was the “senior White House official.” As you say, more of the truth of the Niger tragedy will come out, and we’ll see if this story is confirmed.
P.S. I am not a ‘Trumpkin’ or a member of “The Trump Cult.”
Here’s some news worth sharing: The new policy draft for HHS soundly confirms that life begins at conception! This is a great beginning, and long overdue. :–)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just announced their draft HHS Strategic Plan, FY 2018–2022. Starting in 2010, HHS has been required to release a strategic plan every four years. This time their plan, for the first time ever, has explicitly recognized that life begins at conception. This is a major victory for the rights and dignity of the unborn.
The HHS plan goes well beyond lip service. It incorporates this scientific principle as an integral and holistic part of its healthcare mission here at home and around the globe. Specifically, the fact that life begins at conception is included in four key components of the plan.
First, HHS includes protecting life “beginning at conception” as a core part of its overall mission:
HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.
Second, HHS recognizes that respecting the “inherent dignity” of the unborn is a vital part of “global health security”:
Enhance international preparedness through medical countermeasures and community mitigation measures, respecting the inherent dignity of persons from conception to natural death.
Third, HHS dedicates itself to protecting the right to life for all, especially those most at risk of social or economic challenges:
A core component of the HHS mission is our dedication to serve all Americans from conception to natural death, but especially those individuals and populations facing or at high risk for economic and social well-begin challenges, through effective human services.
Fourth, HHS restores pro-life ethics to medical and scientific research:
The research pursued under this strategic goal is to be conducted consistent with the understanding that human subjects protection applies to all human beings from conception to natural death.
And:
Support a broad and diverse portfolio of biomedical research…to augment scientific opportunities and innovation for public health needs, consistent with human subject protections, which protect all persons from conception on . . . .
Ricky @8:28 Reaganites are self-named . Trumpkin is strictly pejorative. See the difference? :–)
What does it mean to be a Reaganite on foreign policy and why does it matter? The latter question is easier to tackle. It goes to the felt need for Republican politicians, particularly those new to the political scene, to identify with a familiar, strong and respected figure who is credited with helping to bring down the Soviet Union (at least for 30 years) and was a twice-elected popular president to boot. The desire for foreign policy legitimacy is even more acute as the Obama administration’s foreign policy has gone into a death spiral and the public is more aware than at any time since the aftermath of Sept. 11 that the world is a very dangerous place.
We can start with the premise that saying you are a Reaganite on anything is immaterial to the issue as to whether you are a Reaganite on foreign policy. Even left-wing liberals venerate Reagan for all sorts of reasons, interpreting him selectively. Reagan is cited as a dove, a hawk, an interventionist, a realist, a human rights advocate and a master of realpolitik, depending on how you slice and dice his career…..
The difference is that Reagan was a wise conservative hero and smart people would like to be associated with him. Trump is a daily embarrassment. I understand people not wanting to be associated with Trump, but when they rush to defend his most idiotic acts and statements …
Then one wonders how ‘smart people’ could allow Bush’s New World Order to be given a free ride on Reagan’s back. I’m operating under the theory that perhaps the smart people didn’t. And that is why you don’t hear Pat Buchanan vilifying Trump supporters. He realizes they are not all that different from Reagan Democrats. ;–)
PS The Reagan book came in last night, but I’m reading Michelle’s book on Mrs Oswald “Biddy” Chambers first.
Debra, You hit me at my weak point. I was sick the day Reagan picked Bush as VP. I was critical of the choice and still am. That is why I am a Reaganite and not a member of The Reagan Cult.
Ricky, The problem is that Bush is not a singular choice; he was a different path altogether. We went to a different place—perhaps a non-Reagan place. And like it or not, Trump is pushing the alternate path—whether that will turn out to be a real Reagan path is unknown. But Reagan supporters such as Pat Buchanan have left the door open that it can and will. I think Never Trumpers in general would be more content with some version of the old Bush path. It’s why some supported Hillary.
“There was no dam break of Republican rancor against Donald Trump, a day after a pair of the party’s prominent senators denounced their president and invited colleagues to join them. Instead, most GOP lawmakers rallied around Trump and his agenda Wednesday, with one all but saying “good riddance” to Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee.
“Maybe we do better by having some of the people who just don’t like him leave, and replace them with somebody else,” Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma told The Associated Press. “And I think that’s what’s happening.”
Debra @ 9:59 Very well said. Reaganites were able to foresee most of the damage Big Bush would do as Reagan’s successor even as we were able to predict most of the Trumpian farce of the last nine months.
I did not foresee Big Bush leading to Little Bush, but I learned my lesson. If we live long enough, I expect we will get to choose between Ivanka and Chelsea.
First, unlike dad, the young Steinbrenners don’t like to spend money, or Verlander would be a Yankee. And now this.
The guy had a team of young players one game from the World Series, they’d a been there if you got Verlander, and this is how you repay the guy? Ungrateful jerks.
“Yankees manager Joe Girardi will not be returning to the team next season.
Girardi led the Yankees to the World Series in 2009, and took them within one game of returning this season before falling to the Astros in Game 7 of the ALCS. The decision appeared to come from the Yankees side.
“With a heavy heart, I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back,” Girardi said in a statement released by his agent. “I’d like to thank the Steinbrenner family for believing in me and giving me this wonderful opportunity.”
Girardi’s four-year contract was up after this month, and despite this season’s success, his future was undecided. Yankees GM Brian Cashman’s contract is also expiring, but he is fully expected to return.
The Yankees confirmed the news after days of meetings with Girardi and Cashman, who felt a change was needed.”
“Last week, The Hill reported that an FBI undercover agent in Russia accused President Barack Obama’s DOJ of blocking him from speaking to Congress “about conversations and transactions he witnessed related to the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win favor with Bill and Hillary Clinton and influence Obama administration decisions.”
His lawyer Victoria Toensing, who served as a Reagan DOJ official and chief counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, explained she was trying to free her client of the confidentiality agreement.
It worked. The DOJ and FBI freed the informant from his confidentiality agreement, which means he may now speak to Congress about what he witnessed.”
““Strip out the middlemen,” the Wall Street Journal’s editors argue this morning, “and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a US presidential candidate.” The editorial demands a “full investigation” into the FBI’s activities during the previous presidential cycle, saying that collusion may have taken place — only in a completely different direction than previously thought. And that puts the special counsel in an impossible position, the editorial concludes:
The more troubling question is whether the FBI played a role, even if inadvertently, in assisting a Russian disinformation campaign. We know the agency possessed the dossier in 2016, and according to media reports it debated paying Mr. Steele to continue his work in the runup to the election. This occurred while former FBI Director James Comey was ramping up his probe into supposed ties between the Trump campaign and Russians.
Two pertinent questions: Did the dossier trigger the FBI probe of the Trump campaign, and did Mr. Comey or his agents use it as evidence to seek wiretapping approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Trump campaign aides?
Congressional investigators need to focus on the FBI’s role, and House Speaker Paul Ryan was correct Wednesday to insist that the bureau comply with Congress’s document demands “immediately.” Mr. Sessions has recused himself from the Justice Department’s Russia probe, but he and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein can still insist on transparency. Mr. Ryan should also reinstall Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes as lead on the Russia investigation, since it appears the Democratic accusations against him were aimed in part at throwing him off the Fusion trail.
Also, WSJ editors note, this impacts on the supposed independence of special counsel Robert Mueller. Even aside from the Uranium One issue that took place while Mueller ran the FBI, the dossier case will directly reflect on James Comey, his friend and protege. And unlike the initial conception of the collusion probe, in which the FBI was presumed to be merely a collector of evidence, it now appears that the agency he led will have to get scrutinized as well — which, the WSJ concludes, makes Mueller’s position untenable:
Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.”
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Last night Ricky made another unflattering comment about Pres. Trump’s English-speaking skills, but that Gold Star father in The Hill article didn’t know what the president knew re. what actually happened in Niger. It turns out that Sgt. David Johnson betrayed his own unit by actually setting up the ambush in Niger by Islamic militants that led to the death of three American soldiers plus his own.
The following is a fairly long read, but I would encourage you to start at the heading “What can’t the White House say?” and continue reading the rest of the article (if you have time, please read it all). Incredible stuff! If Pres. Trump did struggle with that phone call, it’s no wonder…
http://commonsensenation.net/was-la-david-johnson-another-bowe-bergdahl/
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Yesterday there was a comment about George H. W. Bush sexually harassing an actress.
1. As someone who has been sexually harassed in the past, you know it when it happens. Two men getting you in a truck between them and asking if you’ve ever had black, “once you have black you will never go back”…is sexual harassment. A coworker who makes a comment when you both pick up papers from the printer and you innocently say, “That’s mine on top” and he says in a low (what he means to be sexy voice), “Ummmm, I like it when you’re on top” is sexual harassment. The owner of the company where you work constantly asking you to wear a certain dress to work because he likes the way it makes your breast look is sexual harassment. A “well meaning” coworker who knows you are going through infertility offering “his services” if it will save you time and money is probably sexual harassment.
2. It is well known in certain circles that in the last 10 or so years George H. W. Bush has been known to “goose” pretty young women. One of the agents I work with told me this about 3 months ago. Her husband owned a restaurant in Maine where the Bush’s frequently go. Most of the female wait staff have receive a pat on the rear end and a comment from President Bush.
3. While I am not making excuses for him, he IS 93 years old. He’s harmless. He has had a lot of medical problems in the last few years, anesthesia in the elderly has different effects and often mimics dementia. He may very well know what he is doing and he may very well not know what he is doing.
Cut the man some slack. Not every comment and action is sexual harassment and if every time a man looks at you sideways you claim it is, well then when someone really IS sexually harassed it will just be “one more woman” claiming some man harassed her and we will become immune to it.
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More Clinton crimes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/election-watchdog-charges-clinton-campaign-filed-false-reports-trump-dossier-funding-001920527.html
“An independent campaign watchdog group Wednesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee filed “false” campaign disclosure reports that concealed payments to the private investigative firm that commissioned the controversial “dossier” on then candidate Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
The complaint by the Campaign Legal Center — a nonpartisan group with no ties to any political party — came shortly after President Trump, in an impromptu press conference on the White House lawn, called it a “disgrace” that Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid for what he termed the “fake” dossier. He claimed the disclosure has “turned around” the multiple, ongoing investigations into possible links between his campaign and Moscow.
“So they made up the whole Russia hoax,” said Trump when asked about the disclosure about the Clinton campaign’s involvement in the dossier, which was first reported by the Washington Post. “Now … the hoax has turned around.”
The nine-page complaint by the campaign watchdog group says nothing about the veracity of the allegations in the dossier, a subject that is still being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller and three congressional committees.
Instead, it focuses on how the dossier was paid for — through a prominent law firm, Perkins Coie, which hired the private investigative firm, Fusion GPS — and the failure of either the Clinton campaign or the DNC to report the actual purpose of these payments on their legally mandated campaign expenditure reports.
“The DNC and Hillary for America reported dozens of payments totaling millions of dollars to the law firm Perkins Cole with the purpose described as ‘Legal Services’ or ‘Legal and Compliance Consulting,’ when, in reality, at least some of those payments were earmarked for the firm Fusion GPS, with the purpose of conducting opposition research on Donald Trump,” the complaint by the Campaign Legal Center states. The complaint notes that the Clinton campaign made 37 payments to Perkins Cole totaling $5.6 million, and the DNC made 345 payments totaling $6.7 million.”
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Congratulations, Tychicus!
You have just posted the single worst piece of drivel ever put out by The Trump Cult. It is hard to believe the Trumpkins have stooped to smearing American soldier who gave his life for their country.
I understand that the Cult itself is desperate to smear Johnson. That is why that anonymous source (that Trumpkins generally hate) released this tale. However, it is important that reasonably intelligent people (even if they are sympathetic to or have joined The Cult) use some discretion before reposting Trumpian trash.
1. Do we really want to repost the lunatic’s assertion that Cruz’s father helped kill JFK?
2. Do we really want to contend (as did the buffoon Hannity) that Hillary killed Seth Rich?
3. Do we really want to appear as stupid as Sean Spicer and repeat Trump’s crowd size lies in the face of graphic photographic evidence to the contrary?
The full truth will come out about Niger. Until then we all need to remember:
A. Trump is a perpetual liar.
B. His cult will go to enormous lengths to defend his moronic behavior.
C. There is some bad, bad stuff out now on the Internet.
Did you do any checking about the site that published this trash? Let me give you a clue.
If the writer is scared or embarrassed to attach his or her name to the piece, that is not a good sign.
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Good idea, as long as it’s not Mueller or Comey in charge.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/25/grassley-calls-for-special-counsel-to-investigate-uranium-one-deal.amp.html
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Obama-era Uranium One deal, amid new revelations about the arrangement that have spurred fresh congressional probes.”
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Kim,
OK, but is it still “sexual assault” as Ricky and others have called it when Trump did it?
Or is it just OK if your 90, but not 70?
And just because he’s old, don’t mean he ain’t a perv.
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And that last statement is true, whether it’s Bush, Trump, or anyone else.
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AJ, Do you think it is not sexual assault for men to “grab women by their %@3$#@”?
The Trumpkins have really sunk as low as their idol this morning.
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Bret Stephens writes about former conservatives who have ditched their principles and joined The Cult:
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From the article: “the unflinching loyalty of the toady”.
It’s instructive to read the high-minded defenses of Trump offered by writers in Breitbart, The Washington Times, The Federalist, and the rest of the pro-Trump press.
Their chief argument for Trump is that he won and is therefore a winner. Their argument against Never Trumpers is that we failed and are therefore losers. What about Trump’s character? It doesn’t matter so long as the Supreme Court remains conservative. Legislative failures are always and only the fault of “establishment Republicans.” Boorish habits are merely a matter of taste and something of a virtue in the era of snowflakes. As for the criticisms from Flake, Bush, Corker and McCain, who needs moral instruction from those sore losers and political has-beens?
Most telling is the Trumpians’ inability ever to utter a whisper of criticism of their man. Even Never Trumpers will occasionally find themselves agreeing with the administration over one issue or another. Not so the Trumpians. With instincts that recall the Stalinist intelligentsia of the 1940s, they mix the logical elasticity of the sophist with the unflinching loyalty of the toady. They are never anything except always all in.
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Tychicus’ “interesting” article was “published” by the “Raw Street Journal”. Their or his (surely only one person is involved) motto is “Making News Great Again”.
The RSJ has 1046 followers on Twitter. The punctuation in the tweets would lead you to believe that Trump himself might be the editor.
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Another fine piece of journalism from The Raw Street Journal:
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AJ, I am sorry. I was too hard on you at 7:27. I agree with your post at 7:26 which further explained your position @7:20.
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No, AJ. I am not excusing it away. I am making the point that sexual harassment is subjective. If I 93 year old man put his hand on my hip and told me an off color joke I wouldn’t immediately claim sexual harassment. I would think “poor old geezer. I guess hope always springs eternal…’ and laugh about it. Now if my 40 something BOSS did it, I would call him on it. I would probably tell him I “haven’t had to sleep my way to where I am right now, and I am not about to start “.
Of course, I don’t give out that “vibe”. I know a woman who is constantly telling of the men who have made passes at her. I couldn’t tell you the last time a man made a pass at me…even the flirty ones. My joke these days is that if a man tried to sexually harass me I would take it as a compliment…but that makes light of the real situation.
I am not going to get my knickers in a knot if some man calls me “honey”. Just the other day may husband got upset over one of the Geezers in our neighborhood. Mr. P and I were doing something in a flower bed at the corner of the front yard. I was sitting down pulling weeds, then I planted the pansies. Mr. P was standing up with the shovel or something. He may have been throwing away the weeds. Old Geezer stopped and said something along the lines of “isn’t that just like a woman to sit down while you do all the work” (to Mr. P). Mr. P told him I was finished with my secretarial tasks for the day. It was a dig to the HOA wanting me to keep the notes of the meeting after I told them I didn’t have the time to do it. Then I got a lecture from Mr. P on not allowing things like that to be said to me. Me? I sort of go with Dolly Parton’s comment years ago about Dumb Blonde jokes. “I know I ain’t dumb and I know I ain’t blonde”.
Not EVERY time someone says something to you is cause to accuse them of harassment.
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Kim, I agree that Big Bush is probably “harmless” and senile. It is fairly common for octogenarians to attempt to sexually assault the nursing staff in nursing homes. However, I think we have to have a “no tolerance” policy for this sort of thing.
I would like to think that Big Bush would never have patted a waitress’ rear end in Midland, Texas 60 years ago out of fear that her roughneck boyfriend at the next table might have broken Bush’s carpetbagger jaw.
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Ricky, the Raw Street Journal writer who wrote the piece is field reporter Robert Eaden. He had plenty of sources referenced and quoted, including your beloved NY Times. The key unnamed source was the “senior White House official.” As you say, more of the truth of the Niger tragedy will come out, and we’ll see if this story is confirmed.
P.S. I am not a ‘Trumpkin’ or a member of “The Trump Cult.”
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I am proud to be called a Reaganite, a Reaganaut or a Reagankin. Why do Trump defenders and apologists object to being called “Trumpkins”?
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How many “field reporters” does the old Raw Street Journal have?
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Here’s some news worth sharing: The new policy draft for HHS soundly confirms that life begins at conception! This is a great beginning, and long overdue. :–)
https://aclj.org/pro-life/hhs-for-the-first-time-ever-makes-it-the-official-public-policy-of-the-united-states-that-life-begins-at-conception
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Ricky @8:28 Reaganites are self-named . Trumpkin is strictly pejorative. See the difference? :–)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/04/02/whos-a-reaganite/?utm_term=.1dea48b0bcfa
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The difference is that Reagan was a wise conservative hero and smart people would like to be associated with him. Trump is a daily embarrassment. I understand people not wanting to be associated with Trump, but when they rush to defend his most idiotic acts and statements …
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Then one wonders how ‘smart people’ could allow Bush’s New World Order to be given a free ride on Reagan’s back. I’m operating under the theory that perhaps the smart people didn’t. And that is why you don’t hear Pat Buchanan vilifying Trump supporters. He realizes they are not all that different from Reagan Democrats. ;–)
PS The Reagan book came in last night, but I’m reading Michelle’s book on Mrs Oswald “Biddy” Chambers first.
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Watching FoxNews and CNN is like two different countries.
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Fox is biased. CNN is biased. The New York Times is biased. The Raw Street Journal is manure.
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Debra, You hit me at my weak point. I was sick the day Reagan picked Bush as VP. I was critical of the choice and still am. That is why I am a Reaganite and not a member of The Reagan Cult.
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Ok. Maybe this is just a tad over the top…..
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:–/ Sorry, wrong tweet. Perhaps I should just quit while I’m ahead. ;–)
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Ricky, The problem is that Bush is not a singular choice; he was a different path altogether. We went to a different place—perhaps a non-Reagan place. And like it or not, Trump is pushing the alternate path—whether that will turn out to be a real Reagan path is unknown. But Reagan supporters such as Pat Buchanan have left the door open that it can and will. I think Never Trumpers in general would be more content with some version of the old Bush path. It’s why some supported Hillary.
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Oh well, I guess it was worth a shot, but it didn’t work.
https://apnews.com/32ba75f6e70647cf83b5b50bfb3ead95/Senators-rally-behind-Trump-and-his-agenda-after-mini-revolt
“There was no dam break of Republican rancor against Donald Trump, a day after a pair of the party’s prominent senators denounced their president and invited colleagues to join them. Instead, most GOP lawmakers rallied around Trump and his agenda Wednesday, with one all but saying “good riddance” to Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee.
“Maybe we do better by having some of the people who just don’t like him leave, and replace them with somebody else,” Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma told The Associated Press. “And I think that’s what’s happening.”
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Debra @ 9:59 Very well said. Reaganites were able to foresee most of the damage Big Bush would do as Reagan’s successor even as we were able to predict most of the Trumpian farce of the last nine months.
I did not foresee Big Bush leading to Little Bush, but I learned my lesson. If we live long enough, I expect we will get to choose between Ivanka and Chelsea.
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Another stupid move.
First, unlike dad, the young Steinbrenners don’t like to spend money, or Verlander would be a Yankee. And now this.
The guy had a team of young players one game from the World Series, they’d a been there if you got Verlander, and this is how you repay the guy? Ungrateful jerks.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/26/joe-girardi-wont-manage-yankees-next-season/
“Yankees manager Joe Girardi will not be returning to the team next season.
Girardi led the Yankees to the World Series in 2009, and took them within one game of returning this season before falling to the Astros in Game 7 of the ALCS. The decision appeared to come from the Yankees side.
“With a heavy heart, I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back,” Girardi said in a statement released by his agent. “I’d like to thank the Steinbrenner family for believing in me and giving me this wonderful opportunity.”
Girardi’s four-year contract was up after this month, and despite this season’s success, his future was undecided. Yankees GM Brian Cashman’s contract is also expiring, but he is fully expected to return.
The Yankees confirmed the news after days of meetings with Girardi and Cashman, who felt a change was needed.”
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Get your popcorn ready.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/10/fbi-informant-in-uranium-one-bribery-case-allowed-to-talk-to-congress/
“Last week, The Hill reported that an FBI undercover agent in Russia accused President Barack Obama’s DOJ of blocking him from speaking to Congress “about conversations and transactions he witnessed related to the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win favor with Bill and Hillary Clinton and influence Obama administration decisions.”
His lawyer Victoria Toensing, who served as a Reagan DOJ official and chief counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, explained she was trying to free her client of the confidentiality agreement.
It worked. The DOJ and FBI freed the informant from his confidentiality agreement, which means he may now speak to Congress about what he witnessed.”
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@1:36 Ivanka in a photo finish.
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@ 1:36
Never happen.
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Nice to see the WSJ editors agree with me.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/26/wsj-mueller-step-collusion-case-focuses-fbis-use-russian-disinformation-fisa-warrant/
““Strip out the middlemen,” the Wall Street Journal’s editors argue this morning, “and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a US presidential candidate.” The editorial demands a “full investigation” into the FBI’s activities during the previous presidential cycle, saying that collusion may have taken place — only in a completely different direction than previously thought. And that puts the special counsel in an impossible position, the editorial concludes:
The more troubling question is whether the FBI played a role, even if inadvertently, in assisting a Russian disinformation campaign. We know the agency possessed the dossier in 2016, and according to media reports it debated paying Mr. Steele to continue his work in the runup to the election. This occurred while former FBI Director James Comey was ramping up his probe into supposed ties between the Trump campaign and Russians.
Two pertinent questions: Did the dossier trigger the FBI probe of the Trump campaign, and did Mr. Comey or his agents use it as evidence to seek wiretapping approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Trump campaign aides?
Congressional investigators need to focus on the FBI’s role, and House Speaker Paul Ryan was correct Wednesday to insist that the bureau comply with Congress’s document demands “immediately.” Mr. Sessions has recused himself from the Justice Department’s Russia probe, but he and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein can still insist on transparency. Mr. Ryan should also reinstall Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes as lead on the Russia investigation, since it appears the Democratic accusations against him were aimed in part at throwing him off the Fusion trail.
Also, WSJ editors note, this impacts on the supposed independence of special counsel Robert Mueller. Even aside from the Uranium One issue that took place while Mueller ran the FBI, the dossier case will directly reflect on James Comey, his friend and protege. And unlike the initial conception of the collusion probe, in which the FBI was presumed to be merely a collector of evidence, it now appears that the agency he led will have to get scrutinized as well — which, the WSJ concludes, makes Mueller’s position untenable:
Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.”
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/10/26/wsj-editorial-mueller-should-resign-n2400749
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I love the idea of reinstating Nunes as the chair. 🙂
Just imagine what a ticked off because he was basically slandered by colluding Dems chair could dig up.
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Democrats scramble to win back idiot vote.
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Enes Kanter has been traded to the Knicks, but he is hosting an Oklahoma Senator and his family at Madison Square Garden.
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Fox News was a bad, bad place. It may still be.
https://twitter.com/kirstenpowers/status/923551183272402945
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Twitter is good again.
https://twitter.com/kt_so_it_goes/status/923707628051619840
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