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Seems the bomb in Istanbul's Istiklal was ISIS, not PKK. Americans, Israelis among the dead. Bad times for Turkey
ISIS attacks NATO ally. And Ben Rhodes is planning his Cuba trip..............................Good God, January can't get here soon enough
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I'll probably have to post this again at some point.
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Phoenix News@phxnews 2h2 hours ago
Anti-Trump protestors block entrances to Fountain Hills ahead of rally http://dlvr.it/KqhSKY #phoenix pic.twitter.com/DzrCuN7mIb
Hundreds Rally At Anti-Trump Protest In Manhattan
CBS New York ^ | 19 March 16 -
I'm sure it's just a coincidence...................
Dear @Facebook: stop censoring our Hillary Clinton email release. No, really. Stop it. There is no technical excuse. pic.twitter.com/AMbIUiPkid
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Back to the topic of Trump silliness...............................
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Since this will undoubtedly continue all the way through November......it really deserves a separate thread from the Trump one.
I will repeat some of that info in the first post.
The HillVerified account @thehill 18m18 minutes ago WATCH LIVE: Protesters block traffic outside Trump rally in Arizona http://hill.cm/MBDvzjL
Bad headline: they spelled "First Amendment opponents" wrong.
Army veteran who has a cane because of nerve damage from when he was shot while serving, walking to Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/aRk2eJFCRj
Again, protests are always fine. ....................................Getting in fights, blocking highways, shutting down events are not.Some on the left realize that this is a self-defeating exercise
Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait 12m12 minutes ago Shutting down Trump rallies is a dangerous, illiberal , self-defeating tactic. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/trump-poses-unprecedented-threat-to-democracy.html …
SHOCK VIDEO: Protester beheads Trump effigy hanging from noose... http://bit.ly/1RruYyF (Of Course, DEMOCRATS have always enjoyed a lynching)
And the media has NOT ONCE demanded Bernie and Hillary disavow the violent protests.
If a bunch of thugs blocked access to HillaryClinton or BernieSanders, would CNN still call them 'protesters'?
I recall the tea party doing the same thing - right? No? Hmm.
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Seema Mehta @LATSeema 13m13 minutes ago
Trump supporters are now abandoning cars and walking three miles to rally. pic.twitter.com/Jb0UPKVm1R
Army veteran who has a cane because of nerve damage from when he was shot while serving, walking to Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/aRk2eJFCRj
10:55 AM - 19 Mar 2016 ·Reminder:If tables were turned, if Democrat candidates had violent protests by conservatives, leftist anchors wouldn't blame the candidates.
Again, protests are always fine. ....................................Getting in fights, blocking highways, shutting down events are not.
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The HillVerified account @thehill 18m18 minutes ago
WATCH LIVE: Protesters block traffic outside Trump rally in Arizona http://hill.cm/MBDvzjL
Bad headline: they spelled "First Amendment opponents" wrong.
Donald Trump’s Working-Class Appeal Is Starting To Freak Out Labor Unions.
Yep.......... Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler: The “Big Lie” has been around for over fifty years.
THE FERGUSON EFFECT CONTINUES TO FESTER: Jack Dunphy writes that Democrat Mayors de Blasio and Emanuel agree: Better for a city to endure higher crime than see a racially charged incident turned into a political liability.
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A small group of black lawmakers are openly expressing their disappointment that Obama’s Supreme Court nomination isn’t politically motivated enough, and apparently not black enough either.
Nevermind the fact that the Supreme Court is not supposed to be a political branch of government. Or the American value that individuals should be judged by character over race.
Some African-American lawmakers urged their Congressional Black Caucus colleagues to skip a meeting with Valerie Jarrett because of discontent with President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. The members are irked by Obama’s selection of a moderate judge instead of a progressive who could rally the base, according to three lawmakers and senior aides familiar with the meeting. They also don’t think that their input was adequately sought by the administration before Merrick Garland was nominated.
A source said members are asking themselves, “What is the point” of attending the meeting, now that Garland has been nominated. The meeting took place on Thursday morning. And some of the lawmakers questioned why Garland, who is white, was selected over a minority in an effort to make the court more diverse.
So when are the Media reports of Garland being paraded from dem office to office for photo ops supposed to start ?
Because that will rally the electorate...............
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So the GOP lets a Dem Senator from decades ago make the rules?
Yep.
We had Joe Biden as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 until 1995
we lived under Senate leader Harry Reid's silliness from January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2015.
Not much fun following their warped decisions............is it ?
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I have to comment on Baskin's hilarious (from decades ago) attempt to minimalize the CURRENT Democrat Vice President................
..He left the Senate in 2009.
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Judge Orders White House To Stop Hiding Its Bogus Global Warming ‘Proof.’
On January 8, 2014, the White House posted a controversial video claiming that global warming causes more severe winter cold. Called “The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes,” it featured the director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), , claiming that a “growing body of evidence” showed that the “extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States” at the time was “a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues.”
This claim was questioned by many scientists and commentators. (See, e.g., Jason Samenow, Scientists: Don’t make “extreme cold” centerpiece of global warming argument, Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2014 (linking to objection by five well-known climate scientists in the Feb. 14, 2014 issue of Science magazine); Patrick J. Michaels, Hot Air About Cold Air, Jan. 16, 2014 (former state climatologist of Virginia rejected Holdren’s claim))
In April 2014, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent a request for correction of this statement under the federal Information Quality Act, citing peer-reviewed scientific articles debunking it. In June 2014, OSTP rejected this request, claiming that Holdren’s statement was his “personal opinion,” not the agency’s position, and that it thus did not constitute “information” subject to the Information Quality Act, which excludes “subjective opinions” from its reach.
In response, CEI filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents related to the video, its production at taxpayer expense, and OSTP’s rejection of its correction request.
Despite having earlier claimed that the video was just Holdren’s personal opinion, not the agency’s, OSTP withheld portions of emails about it as privileged “agency records.” It also refused to produce drafts of its letter rejecting CEI’s request for correction.
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Why not SHARE all that TRUTH with us ???
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White House mum on Obama dissidents meeting in Cuba
by Susan Crabtree
Original Article
The White House won´t yet say which political dissidents President Obama plans to meet with during his upcoming historic visit to Cuba, or whether any of those dissidents include prisoners the Castro regime is holding. Obama will arrive in Cuba on Sunday, and with less than 48 hours before he leaves, the White House is putting off providing a list of dissidents it invited for a meeting with Obama. Instead, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Friday he hasn´t seen the list.More at the link:
Looks like the "Rainbow Tour" is set...................if there was a list of meetings that would make Obama look good....it would have been released by now.
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As Tom likes to say.......................to be fair.............this isn't exactly the Brussels of the past
“Belgian Minister Says Government Lacks Control Over Neighborhood Linked to Terror Plots,” New York Times, November 15, 2015:
Belgium’s home affairs minister said that the government does not “have control of the situation in Molenbeek,” a working-class neighborhood of Brussels that has been linked to several terrorism plots in recent years.Speaking, the minister, Jan Jambon, said that the government would “step up efforts” to bring order to the area of the Belgian capital….Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium said he was also concernedabout jihadist networks in Molenbeek.“I notice that each time there is a link with Molenbeek,” he said. “This is a gigantic problem. Apart from prevention, we should also focus more on repression.”
Don’t only racist, bigoted Islamophobes believe in the existence of no-go zones? Isn’t that what the Times was telling us at the beginning of the year?
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We can listen to the usual 'leadership'
Flint Mayor: The Solution to our Crisis is Money
Obviously, what happened to the people of Flint, Michigan was a terrible tragedy and reflects failure of leadership up and down the line from the local to the state to the federal level. Naturally, the Democrats in charge of Flint have used the disaster to do the only thing they know to do, which is to ask for more taxpayer money – way more than is needed or required to actually mitigate the problem at hand.
More at the link: http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/03/07/flint-mayor-solution-crisis-money/
or actually trying to address the problem
Lawmakers Can Prevent Future Flint Crises: Hint: It's not about more taxpayer money
As Flint officials handle the water crisis sickening town residents, state and local lawmakers should take a closer look at their own water supply and infrastructure viability. Thankfully, ALEC members have focused on this issue for years and can offer solutions that can be applied back home.
ALEC is the largest nonprofit, voluntary membership association of state legislators focused on solving state policy issues that follow the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism.
Supporters of big government policies will contend government is the solution, not the problem, to crises such as those facing Flint.
ALEC, however, approaches policy ideas with the simple belief that government can and should work with the private sector to make government services more efficient, effective and accountable to the people they serve.
The ALEC model policy, The Groundwater Protection Act, which ALEC members passed and the Board approved in 1995 and reapproved in 2013, calls for a partnership between state and federal agencies—including the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency—to ensure the best possible assessment of water purity. The responsibility for managing water safety then falls on the applicable state agency.
The ALEC Water/Wastewater Utility Public-Private Partnership Act, adopted by ALEC in 1999 and reapproved in 2013, gives local government agencies the flexibility they need to develop, repair and maintain water and wastewater utilities. According to research cited in the act, “The U.S. EPA estimates that nearly $300 billion dollars in infrastructure investments will be needed to ensure safe drinking water and clean waterways in our nation’s communities.”
In 2013, Dr. Bonner Cohen, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, authored a research paper for ALEC, titled Lowering Costs in Water Infrastructure through Procurement Reform: A Strategy for State Governments. Cohen asserted that corroded pipes represent an imminent threat to public health.
With thousands of miles of corroded pipes already beyond their life expectancy, rehabilitation of the nation’s water networks is not an option, it is a necessity,” Cohen wrote in the report.
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Two years ago, ACCE members adopted The Open and Fair Competition Resolution for Municipal [or Local] Water and Wastewater Projects as a way to provide options to local policymakers whose governments had a habit of awarding no-contest contracts to companies for wastewater projects. As Russell wrote in his editorial, “The first goal of elected officials should be to operate in the most efficient way possible to save taxpayers money without compromising services.”
More at the link: http://www.redstate.com/diary/alecstates/2016/03/07/lawmakers-can-prevent-future-flint-crises/
"Open contracts" and "competitive bidding"............I know that the cronyism and union 'monopoly' that the Dems and GOP like would be threatened,
but lets fight for the openness we need.
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It's still there. It never even fell. They just want you to think it did.
Silverstein faked the collapse, to collect the insurance money and give it to Leonard Nimoy so he could fake his own death and go into hiding, so he had the freedom to create a situation where Israel through the Mossad-controlled ISIS could take the oil in Mosul. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
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Wait..........................John Wayne didn't really make a beer commercial ?
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Watchdog.org @Watchdogorg 9m9 minutes ago Give Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder some credit for releasing internal Flint water emails to media & public. http://ow.ly/ZFrxy
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Kurtz: Liberal pundits experiencing Hillary buyer’s remorse.
"I know what you mean"How we now know that Hillary Clinton will not be prosecuted for anything
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This was a point made this week by Juliet Eilperin at the Washington Post. Traditionally, Presidents have bent over backward to at least lend the patina of non-involvement in such an election, allowing the voters to make their own choice, but not so in this case.
But the bigger point is, why would President Obama tell his party to unite around a candidate at serious risk of criminal indictment — when all signs from the FBI would indicate a very good chance, if not a certainty, that indictment will be recommended based on the investigation? Of course, he would only do such a thing if he knew — was determined — that, no matter what, the chosen candidate would not be charged.
Hillary Clinton herself has appeared to think she’s untouchable — even declaring with certainty that she will not be indicted. “Oh, for goodness, it’s not going to happen. I’m not even answering that question,” Clinton said recently in Miami.
With the President being so clearly invested in electing a Democrat in general and Hillary Clinton in particular to continue his legacy, there’s simply no way he would risk putting his thumb on the scale for a candidate who might be essentially disqualified if she had to run the last stage of her campaign from a jail cell.
With all that in mind, it’s difficult to conclude anything other than a presumption that Obama knows that Clinton will face no such peril. But how could he know that if the investigation isn’t even finished yet?
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WikiLeaks 
Refugee Crisis in the U. S. (?)
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Illegals held in vicious Framingham rape . Cops: Boyfriend fought off Guatemalan attackers to rescue pinned-down girlfriend.
Too bad he didn’t shoot ‘em, but it’s Massachusetts where only criminals can have guns.
Related: Howie Carr: ‘Undocumented’ are running amok with no recourse.
“So now we find out the four ‘Framingham men’ charged with grabbing an American woman off the street and then raping her in front of her boyfriend last weekend are in fact illegal aliens from Guatemala.”
Doing the job Americans won't do...............