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BREAKING: Saudi Arabia Just Gave Ivanka Trump an INCREDIBLE Gift!
2017-05-22
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#8  A Saudi DRIVING PERMIT LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL !
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776   2017-05-22 23:26  

#7  If it's Hillary Clinton's soul, I wouldn't touch it. Biohazard.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-05-22 15:15  

#6  some on the left (maybe on the right also) are comparing this to the gifts to the Clinton Foundation.

Its obviously way different. The Clinton Foundation was about 30% charity and 70% programs to glorify the Clintons.

The World Bank does have high overhead and various other inefficiencies but it is not run by the Trumps.

Posted by: lord garth   2017-05-22 13:00  

#5  
Alice Roosevelt : Teddy's Daughter

taken from Wikipedia........

"When her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with "sheer rapture"[13]), Alice became an instant celebrity and fashion icon at age 17, and at her social debut in 1902 she wore a gown of what was to become known forever afterwards as "Alice blue", sparking a color trend in women's clothing.[14] Alice was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily after her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.[5]


Alice Roosevelt with her dog, Leo, a long-haired Chihuahua. She was also given a Pekingese named Manchu, by the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi in 1905
In 1905, Alice, along with her father's Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, led the American delegation to Japan, Hawaii, China, the Philippines, and Korea. It was the largest such diplomatic mission thus far, composed of 23 congressmen (including her future husband Nicholas Longworth), seven senators, diplomats, officials and businessmen.[15]

During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship's pool fully clothed, and coaxed Congressman Longworth to join her in the water.[16] (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.[17]) In her autobiography, Crowded Hours, Alice made note of the event, pointing out that there was little difference between the linen skirt and blouse she had been wearing and a lady's swimsuit of the period.


1902 studio portrait of Alice Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Once, a White House visitor commented on Alice's frequent interruptions to the Oval Office, often to offer political advice. The exhausted president commented to his friend, author Owen Wister, after her third interruption to their conversation and threatening to throw her 'out the window', "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both." [18]

Alice was the center of attention in the social context of her father's presidency, and she thrived on the attention, even as she chafed at some of the restrictions such attention placed on her. In this, Alice resembled her father. She later said of Theodore, "He wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening."
Posted by: 746   2017-05-22 12:24  

#4  I'm sure it would've been a lot more if she'd worn the scarf. - MSM
Posted by: Bobby   2017-05-22 12:17  

#3  To explain: I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised by Trump's "Peace" plan - I cannot possibly be unpleasantly surprised by it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-22 12:17  

#2  Saudis probably don't know the difference - if any.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-22 12:14  

#1   $100 million towards the World Bank’s Women Entrepreneurs Fund

As oppose to the Clinton Foundation slush fund owned, operated and raided by the family cartel?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-05-22 11:39  

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