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19th century flair???... Well fans at baseball games in the 1800s where expected to heckle the umpire, even throw stuff at them!
It was promoted that our American birthright was to fight tyranny.
Gee... Anybody else see the irony in your post?
Make America gr8 again... Take it back to the 19th century, start packing when you go to ballgame... :-/
You rightists have lost all sense. You can't pick and choose.
Wow, an even more twisted EII post than usual.
Quick English lesson:
A surprisingly good and somber ceremony, with a real 19th-Century flair,The subject of the sentence is the "ceremony"
if you wish to do a "gator-like" extension of that into the actions of the administration and conservatives (reminder; two different things)
Go right ahead.
"pick and choose"...............what a maroon
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Here’s the text of Trump’s speech.
Focuses On 'We,' Leaves Himself Out Almost Entirely...
And it’s done. A surprisingly good and somber ceremony, with a real 19th-Century flair, from the second verse of America the Beautiful (“and crown thy soul with self-control, thy liberty in law”) to even Schumer’s reading of a letter from a heroic (Republican?) Civil War soldier.
Note that Trump’s supporters didn’t boo Obama, as Obama’s booed Bush 8 years ago.
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INCOHERENT LEFTISTS? THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE:
The (very) mixed messages of the Women’s March against Trump.
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Schedule..........................for those interested
The ScheduleThe official inaugural festivities commenced Thursday afternoon and do not wrap up until Saturday morning. Below are some of the highlights; and here is an expanded schedule.
FRIDAY, INAUGURATION DAY
11:30 a.m. | Swearing-in ceremony
With American officials and other dignitaries gathered on the West Front of the Capitol, the official inauguration ceremony begins. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will administer the oath of office around noon. Mr. Trump will then deliver his inaugural address.Afternoon | The Parade
After reviewing the American armed forces, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will lead the inaugural parade from the Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue, with thousands of military personnel representing each branch participating.7 p.m. and on | Inaugural balls
There will be two official inaugural balls on separate floors of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and the Armed Services Ball, which will be at the National Building Museum. Mr. Trump is expected to make remarks and take to the dance floor at all three.SATURDAY
10 a.m. | National Prayer Service
The Washington National Cathedral will host the traditional prayer service for Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence to begin their terms in prayer and reflection. The service marks the end of the official inaugural schedule.10 a.m. | The Women’s March on Washington
Expected to be the week’s largest protest action, the march begins with a rally at the base of Capitol Hill. The schedule of speakers has not been announced, nor has the route the marchers will take when they begin moving at 1:15 p.m.
How to WatchOn TV: Coverage of Inauguration Day will be carried live by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS and Fox News.
The Weather ForecastCloudy with a good chance of rain. Temperatures in Washington are expected to rise into the mid to high 40s on Friday, but the National Weather Service has put the chance of precipitation at 90 percent for the daytime hours. The best chance for steady showers should come between the late morning and early afternoon hours, when Mr. Trump will take the oath of office. Small umbrellas will be permitted on the mall.
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CNN Exclusive:
Inflammatory pastor scheduled to preach to Trump before inauguration http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/trump-jeffress-pastor/index.html …
Alllrightttt !!, it's okay to talk about "Inflammatory pastors" again !!.......Heyyyoooo !
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FAKE NEWS: That New York Times hit piece on Perry was unsubstantiated garbage. “Despite the story’s obviously thin sourcing, members of the press were quick to spread the article on social media, each apparently trying to one-up the other in terms [of] alarmism.” Plus:
First, the article’s lone source, Michael McKenna, was booted from the Trump transition team in November 2016. Perry was appointed to the role in December 2016.Second, the quote attributed to McKenna is pure speculation. It’s him theorizing about what the former governor may be thinking now compared to what he thought back in December when he was first offered the job.How the Times took that single quote and presented the headline and opening paragraphs as solid fact is anyone’s guess.Third, according McKenna, the quote isn’t even accurate. He told the Daily Caller Wednesday evening that his already bland remarks were badly misinterpreted by the Times. He said the report “[doesn’t] really reflect what I said,” adding that Perry “of course” understood the job when he accepted it.Fourth, Amarillo, Texas, serves as the primary location for the assembly and disassembly of the nation’s nuclear weapons. Nearly two-thirds of the Department of Energy’s budget goes to maintaining those stockpiles. As a reminder, Perry, a former member of the United States Air Force, served as governor of Texas for 15 years. He is not unaware of those projects.No, but most of the “journalists” mocking him as ignorant probably are.
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LINDA RAWLES: I won’t be at the “Women’s March” because it’s more about promoting a socialist agenda than about women.
Ya’ know, we’d almost feel sorry for the Women’s March if they hadn’t started this nonsense. First they pretend to represent all women and then they get into fights over who the biggest victims are and THEN they kick out a feminist group for being pro-life.
Guess you could say this march has earned a bit of ridicule,and who better to bring that ridicule than Twitter and the hashtag #RenameMillionWomenMarch ?
Women for the empowerment of women through government force, judicial law and free stuff march.
The Why Didn't Daddy Love Me March.
Pro-Abortion Victim Mentality March
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The Hill has a list of much of what Trump is planning on taking an ax to.
The cuts to the departments of Transportation, State and Justice were already expected. Several of their functions can easily be streamlined or combined into other departments. The Department of Energy under Rick Perry can have several of its more expensive functions reduced or transferred as well. (One possibility which has been under discussion this week is moving the control and maintenance of the nuclear arsenal into Defense where it would seem to make a lot more sense anyway.)
But it’s some of the other cuts which are probably going to draw gasps of horror from Trump’s more liberal detractors. Currently on the list is the complete elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. Additionally, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized. If you thought there were going to be liberal marches in the streets tomorrow, just wait until those three go into effect.
The total savings to the federal government’s bottom line from all of these moves? How about $10.5 trillion over 10 years.
As with everything else in the world of Washington, I’ll hold off on popping the champagne cork until I actually see it done, but this is the level of cutting which might eventually return us to a point beyond a balanced budget.
And if it does somehow come true, I’ll have to ask the same question I’ve been posing time and time again over the past couple of months, particularly with companies bringing jobs and investments back to American soil.
Was it really this easy all this time but nobody bothered to try?
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/19/oh-baby-dramatic-cuts-are-coming-to-federal-government/
Standby for the liberal wailing and gnashing of teeth......and the end of the world as we know it.
Big bird will be dragged out again.......(even though they are a billion dollar private industry)
and (of course) cutting redundant programs will be PROOF that Republicans hate children, women, al races, and all genders.
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RICH LOWRY: The Shameful War On Betsy DeVos.
“The controversy over the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has been, if nothing else, clarifying.
We now know that working to give poor kids more educational opportunities is considered a disqualifying offense for the Left.”
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Protesters who plan to descend on Washington in the days surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next month will find themselves barred from the nation’s most famous public protest site.
The National Park Service, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit” securing much of the National Mall, Pennsylvania Avenue, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial for Trump’s inauguration festivities, The Guardian reported on Thursday.
“None of these spots will be open for protesters,” the newspaper reported.
The temporary ban mostly affects a planned march from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House on Jan. 21, 2017, the morning after Trump’s inauguration. The morning after the election, organizers began the Women’s March on Washington, which leaders say is an intentional nod to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial.
But organizers ran into permitting issues early in the planning process. The Park Service issues permits for protests on a first-come, first-serve basis and other protests had already received permits before the women’s march organizers applied. Now, the massive omnibus blocking permit has blocked at least a dozen other groups from protesting in the days after Trump’s inauguration.
National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst told The Guardian that agency rules in place since 2008 give an inaugural committee preferential access to some public areas along Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Mall and surrounding land. Litterst said it will likely take crews until March 1 to dismantle the barricades and seating assembled for Trump’s inauguration.
“They’re construction zones, effectively,” Litterst explained.
Most public sidewalks along the inauguration parade route down Pennsylvania Avenue — the boulevard running from the Capitol to the White House — are still open to protesters.
But those constrained accommodations are still not enough, one Washington, D.C. civil rights group said.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund argues that the National Park Service and Trump’s inaugural committee have “done a massive land grab inhibiting all those who want to exercise their right to free speech.”
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, said at a press conference that this instance is “extremely unique” in that it banned access to public land for protesters for days after the inauguration, according to the fund’s website.
We're special !
We want to protest Donald Trump, and we can't understand why the already long-planned Inaugural activities should take "our choice spot"
Waaah!
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Think cartoonish.............thats all left loons like Gator can grasp..............................It's the "Oil Baron's"...............oh no !
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“Note to the New York Times: ‘trouncing’ and ‘blown past’ are phrases appropriate to sports reporting, not science reporting. Except that no sports reporter would dare write an article in which he never bothers to give you the score of the big game. . . .
It’s almost like they’re hiding something. And that is indeed what we find.”
TLDR: Increase is one-hundredth of a degree. Margin of error is a tenth of a degree.
So it’s all bull ****.
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OBAMA EXITS STAGE LEFT, WITH A LIE AND A THREAT
When Barack Obama speaks, especially without a teleprompter, you can almost see the zzzzzzs rising over the heads of his audience. You can only listen to platitudes for so long. But then, suddenly, Obama will come out with a falsehood so other-worldly that you sit up and say, “WTF was that?”
This was one such moment in today’s press conference:
OBAMA:We are the only country in the advanced world that makes it harder to vote rather than easier.And that dates back. There’s an ugly history to that that we should not be shy about talking about.QUESTION: Voting rights?OBAMA: Yes, I’m talking about voting rights.The reason that we are the only country among advanced democracies that makes it harder to vote is — it traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery and it became sort of acceptable to restrict the franchise. And that’s not who we are. That shouldn’t be who we are. That’s not when America works best. So I hope that people pay a lot of attention to making sure that everybody has a chance to vote. Make it easier, not harder.This whole notion of election — voting fraud, this is something that has constantly been disproved, this — this is fake news. The notion that there are a whole bunch of people out there who are going out there and are not eligible to vote and want to vote.“Making it harder to vote” means requiring identification in order to prevent voter fraud. Is the U.S. really, as Obama says, “the only country in the advanced world” that imposes such a minimal requirement?
Of course not. In fact, we are pretty much the only country that doesn’t. John Fund provides useful background:
Almost all industrialized democracies — and most that are not — require voters to prove their identity before voting.***The vast majority of countries require voter ID — usually photo ID — to prevent fraud and duplicate votes at the polls. Our neighbors do.Canadarequires voter ID.Mexico’s“Credencial para Votar” has a hologram, a photo, and other information embedded in it, and it is impossible to effectively tamper with. Confidence in the integrity of elections has soared since its introduction in the 1990s.At a 2012 conference in Washington at which electionofficials from more than 60 countries met to observe the U.S. presidential election, most were astonished that so many U.S. states don’t require voter ID.They were right to be astonished. Yet President Obama says the effort to ensure ballot integrity “traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery.” This is idiotic.
When Democrats imposed Jim Crow laws across the South in the wake of Reconstruction, they relied on poll taxes and ridiculously difficult or ambiguous tests–administered only, apparently, to African-Americans who hadn’t finished a certain grade level–to maintain Democratic Party control. Voter ID had nothing to do with it. But no one ever said that Barack Obama knows anything about history.
Obama repeats the Democratic Party talking point that there is no such thing as voter fraud. A person wise in the ways of the world probably wonders, if there isn’t any voter fraud going on, why are the Democrats so vehemently opposed to the ballot integrity measures that are used in virtually every other country? The answer, of course, is that voter fraud is no myth.
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EPA Pardons Itself in the Animas River Pollution Case
EPA message to the little people: If you like your river, you can’t keep your river.As President Obama spends the remainder of his presidency pardoning trangenders who disclosed vital security information, appointing fabulists to key positions, and releasing dangerous Gitmo detainees, people are beginning to mull over what we will remember most about this era.
I assert that the damage caused by the rogue bureaucracy within the Environmental Protection Agency will float to the top of legacy cesspool. So, while Democratic politicos grill Scott Pruitt, the candidate likely to head the EPA in the Trump administration, the agency has finished its misrule under Obama appropriately enough.
The EPA has pardoned itself from paying claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado the summer of 2015.
The EPA said the claims could be refiled in federal court, or Congress could authorize payments.But attorneys for the EPA and the Justice Department concluded the EPA is barred from paying the claims because of sovereign immunity, which prohibits most lawsuits against the government.“The agency worked hard to find a way in which it could pay individuals for damages due to the incident, but unfortunately, our hands are tied,” EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said.The EPA is hiding behind the Federal Tort Claims Act, indicating that it prevents the agency from paying claims the result from “discretionary” government actions. Congress passed the law to allow government agencies to act “without the fear of paying damages in the event something went wrong while taking the action,” according to its press release.
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Ben Stein: “The left will beat and beat and huff and puff. But it’s a different world now. Again… The people who elected Trump don’t remotely believe he’s a racist and they’re sick of hearing it anyway. This Trump guy. He’s not a sensitive soul like Nixon. He knows how pitifully jealous the media people are. He owes them nothing. He sneers at them. He’s moving them out of the White House. It’s brilliant. He’s making real the truth of now. The media are not good guys by and large. They’re jealous snobs.”
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Some Presidents still maintain their class......................
Former President George H.W. Bush sent President-Elect Donald Trump the following note on why he won’t be able to attend Friday’s inauguration.In summary, “I could go but it would kill me”:
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He's helping Inauguration Day souvenir sales ...................
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Eight years of press leg-humping the president earns them a pat on the head from Obama as he leaves office
President Obama began his final news conference by picking up where Josh Earnest left off and reminding the gathered media what their job is
"You’re not supposed to be sycophants, you’re supposed to be skeptics. You’re supposed to ask me tough questions.”Sometimes its just impossible to even make fun of his ignorance.
Reminder of the press and their attitude towards democrats:
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Obamacare has cost roughly 300,000 small business jobs due to higher health care costs, according to a new report.
The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute, released findings Wednesday that rising premiums and regulations under the Affordable Care Act have had “dire” consequences for the labor market.
The report found the law has cost $19 billion in lost wages per year and forced 10,000 small businesses establishments to close their doors. The study covered employers with 20 to 99 employees.
“Research from the American Action Forum (AAF) finds regulations from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving up health care premiums and are costing small business employees at least $19 billion in lost wages annually,” the report said.
“These figures varied by state, but in 2015 the ACA cost year-round workers $2,095, $2,134, and $2,260 in Ohio, New York, and North Dakota, respectively.”
“Premium increases, a prospect regulators predicted when issuing the first ACA regulations, also significantly diminished the number of business establishments and jobs nationwide,” the report said. “Across the country, small businesses (20-99 workers) lost 295,030 jobs, 10,130 business establishments, and $4.7 billion in total wage earnings. Florida lost 17,950 jobs; Ohio lost 19,000; Pennsylvania lost 15,680; and Texas lost 28,010 jobs due to higher sensitivity to rising health care premiums and the ACA.”
Ben Gitis and Sam Batkins, the authors of the report, used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for their findings.
I’m old enough to remember when ObamaCare was spurring startups and creating small business jobs.
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Smoke bombs and profanity: How the Left welcomes a peaceful transition of power
DisruptJ20 blocking checkpoints and breaking windows in Washington D.C.