Skid nails it! Find out who funded Steele's efforts, and the facts will begin to come out. Possibly inconvenient facts, but facts nonetheless. Two things make the world go around, and the other one is money.
If I were Chris Steele, I'd be avoiding lonely roads in the moors whenever possible.
#8
Democrats have discipline and don't rat each other out the way Republicans do. Thus most investigations end up at a dead end or picking up the low hanging fruit.
[POLITICO] The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, strongly denounced Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Tuesday night after the president visited the island, calling him the "miscommunicator in chief" and "insulting."
"He was insulting to the people of Puerto Rico," Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said Tuesday night on MSNBC hours after meeting Trump face-to-face at a briefing with Puerto Rican leaders and the president. Beyond the briefing, Trump also toured damaged areas and helped distribute supplies, flicking paper towels into a crowd with the motion of a jump shot in basketball. All of it, Cruz said, was disingenuous.
"This was a PR, 17-minute meeting. There was no exchange with anybody, with none of the mayors," the mayor said. "And in fact, this terrible and abominable view of him throwing paper towels and throwing provisions at people, it really ‐ it does not embody the spirit of the American nation, you know?"
Particularly egregious, according to the mayor, was Trump’s remark during the briefing with Puerto Rican officials that they should "be very proud" because the corpse count on the island has not spiked as it did in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, which the president said was "a real catastrophe."
"He kind of minimized our suffering here by saying that Katrina was a real disaster, sort of implying that this was not a real disaster because not many people have died here," Cruz said. "Well you know what? They’re dying. They don’t have the medical resources."
The mayor and Trump butted heads ahead of the president’s Tuesday visit, a feud that began last week when Cruz appeared on CNN, begging for more help from the federal government and slamming the glowing appraisal of the recovery effort that acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke had given earlier in the week. Trump then lashed out at the mayor, writing online that she had been instructed by Democrats to attack the president and that she and other Puerto Rican leaders "want everything to be done for them."
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The slave owners party that also gave you KKK and Jim Crow, now instructs the new slaves party apparatchik members on what to say at the worst of times.
#2
Joyfull interaction is obviously disgusting to her so I recommend our Commander in Chief order the distinguished General who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan on a bitch slap mission on behalf of the army of hard working first responders in Puerto Rico.
#7
50 years ago (gosh I'm old) I had a summer job in a Linden NJ factory that made toy musical instruments. Most of the workers were Cuban or Puerto Rican immigrants. The "interactions" between the two groups was memorable.
Basically the Cubans were hard working and fun to be around. The PRs were sullen and lazy by comparison and the two groups were constantly bitching at each other in Spanish. There weren't a lot of physical confrontations but there were a few.
#8
Ok, so there are 3.5 Million Puerto Ricans and the island's government has a debt they cannot pay of over $123 Billion? I'm gonna need a bigger calculator.
#9
Trump is giving free stuff which cuts her off from her constituents. She probably hoped he give the free stuff to her so she could take a cut and distribute it, the old fashioned way.
#10
Cesare,
Just use scientific notation (exponents of ten) and you could even handle Zimbabwe currency cdalculations. No bigger calculator needed. :<]
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's conviction for disobeying a court order in an immigration case will stand after a judge on Wednesday rejected arguments that it would encourage government officials to flout similar judicial commands in the future.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton cited U.S. Supreme Court precedent in formally dismissing the criminal case against the former six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix known for his harsh treatment of inmates and immigration enforcement crackdowns.
She held off on ruling on Arpaio's request to throw out all orders in the case, including a blistering 14-page ruling in which the judge explained her original reasoning in finding that Arpaio was guilty of a crime.
"I have concluded the pardon is valid," Bolton said.
The hearing Wednesday came five weeks after Trump pardoned Arpaio's conviction for intentionally defying a 2011 court order to stop his traffic patrols that targeted immigrants colonists.
The former sheriff, who didn't attend Wednesday's hearing in federal court, was accused of continuing the patrols for 17 months so that he could promote his immigration enforcement efforts in a bid to boost his successful 2012 re-election campaign. And I have concluded that upon learning of this, Robert Mueller quietly shat himself.
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The Judge that issued the order to stop aggressivsly enforcing the immigration law is responsible for all of victims caused by the illegals allowed to remain as predators in our communities. The victims of the illevals are inconvenient truth in this case.
Bloomberg White House correspondent Jennifer Jacobs reports on Twitter that Trump's chief of staff, General John Kelly, was originally going to be on the Air Force One flight to Las Vegas but was "pulled off flight" at the last moment.
#1
My reading indicates that Paddok had multiple hotel rooms in Vegas. The question is where would Members of the Whitehouse team be expected to visit or hold rallies. Were any high level visits canceled before Paddok went off the rails. Will victims or members of the family be able to sue the bump stock company. Will bump stocks be outlawed?
#2
Could he have been needed for something urgent at the office? Is it possible it never happened at all? The deep state and the news media have a vested interest in creating mountains out of molehills about President Trump and his people.
#3
Obliquely re #1: Twenty-three place settings would suggest an expectation of company, while twenty-three firearms (or whatever that's up to now) suggests demonstrates... lunatic lonerhood! Swallowed that without a sniff, myself. Silly me.
#4
You have to have members of the inner staff fly separately for continuity and security reasons. SOP with military and corporate. Remember Polish contingent going to Russia that time.
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Salt removed. See AP's comment at #4.
Scratches bald head, sez to meself NWTFDITOT ?
[BREITBART] At long last, we appear to finally have some proof that the Russians interfered in American democracy. Before some of you get too excited, there is still zero proof of any collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. There is still zero proof the Russians in any way “hacked the 2016 election.” There is still zero proof the Russians changed a single vote in 2016.
According to CNN, though, what we do have proof of is that in late 2015 and early 2016, the Russians used Facebook ads to promote Black Lives Matter.
Moreover, the report also says that the Russians’ overall goal in Ferguson and Baltimore was pretty much the same as CNN’s overall goal in Ferguson and Baltimore — to stir up division and chaos. Communists seeking to clandestinely undermine democracy through racial division? Have you not heard?
"The cold war has been over for twenty years."
~ Soetoro
[DailyCaller] The Pentagon has officially severed all ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after previously relying on the group’s training materials on extremism. Got Woke?
Brian J. Field, assistant U.S. attorney from the Civil Division, stated that the Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity removed any and all references to the SPLC in training materials used by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), in an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation from the Department of Justice.
The DEOMI is a DOD school founded to fight segregation and inequality that teaches courses in racial, gender and religious equality, among other subject areas like equal opportunity and pluralism. The courses are available to DOD civilians and service members.
As part of a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Immigration Reform Law Institute, Field wrote in the email sent in late September:
Additionally, the DEOMI office informed me that, based on a previous FOIA request, DEOMI records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes were forwarded ... That 133-page document did reference the SPLC; however, based upon guidance from the Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity, all references to the SPLC have been removed from any current training.
Interestingly, DEOMI still makes use of materials on "Hate Symbols" from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a group similar to the SPLC. Students at DEOMI use the Hate Symbols reference on the ADL site to "learn more about gang colors or clothing; hate group tattoos and body markings associated with such gangs."
As a matter of policy, the DOD does not have an official list of hate groups.
In early 2014, the Pentagon told CNS News that while it would remove information on hate groups provided by the SPLC, it would continue to rely on SPLC data in "non-federal reference material" for DEOMI. It appears that the DOD’s DEOMI has now decided to sever ties with the SPLC, as DEOMI is the only sub-branch of the Pentagon with any records of SPLC materials.
The Pentagon’s decision to terminate its relationship with the SPLC comes at a time when the group has under major fire from conservative organizations, particularly in the form of lawsuits. D. James Kennedy Ministries, a Christian ministry from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recently sued the SPLC after being labeled a hate group. The SPLC has also faced criticism from liberals. In late August, anti-Muslim extremism activist and feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali argued in The New York Times that "the S.P.L.C. is an organization that has lost its way, smearing people who are fighting for liberty and turning a blind eye to an ideology and political movement that has much in common with Nazism."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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