PastaJoe

If it's common logic, why haven't they done it for so many years?

Another heroic run to 8-8. In 2 years we'll be saying, "If only they had picked...".

He said they were dreaming about happiness in this land (where they were slaves!). You don't think they were thinking about how could they get back to the land, life, and family they were kidnapped from? Get real. And then Carson further embarrassed himself by proselytizing to the government employees. I expect the HR dept. would remind him that you can't promote religion on the job to subordinates. “We live in a nation where a lot of people are trying to get rid of God,” Carson said. “I think that is a big mistake. Think about the fact that our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, talks about certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, aka God.” “The Pledge of Allegiance to that flag says we are one nation under God,” he added. “Every coin in our pocket, every bill in our wallet says, ‘In God we trust.’ On the walls of many of the courts in our land it says, ‘In God we trust.’ So if it’s in our founding document, and our pledge, and our courts, and it’s on our money, but we’re not supposed to talk about it — what in the world is that?” http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/ben-carson-slaves-immigrants-235730

Most recent poll Job Approval Fav/Unfav (Quinnipiac) Trump 41 / 52 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html As of March 8, 2009, Obama's Favorable approval rating was at 62%. http://www.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx Most recent poll Favorabliity Fav/Unfav (Quinnipiac) Trump 43 / 53 Most recent Direction of Country (Monmouth) Right direction 36 Wrong direction 56

Ted and Heidi Cruz are having dinner at the White House today with Trump. The main course must be swallowing their pride.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi alone cost $6.8 million of taxpayers money. And that was just one of 10 congressional committees investigating Benghazi. So yeah, there's a precedent for witch hunts on one issue.

I wanted to see a zombie clown. I have a feeling that when Sasha and Rosita go after Negan, Eugene will do something to save him. I think he really embraces his new environment, and in the long term wants to replace Negan as the leader.

The Trump administration wants to gut the Coast Guard and make deep cuts in airport and rail security to help pay for its crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal budget documents reviewed by POLITICO — a move that lawmakers and security experts say defies logic if the White House is serious about defending against terrorism and keeping out undocumented foreigners. The Office of Management and Budget is seeking a 14 percent cut to the Coast Guard's $9.1 billion budget, the draft documents show, even as it proposes major increases to other Department of Homeland Security agencies to hire more border agents and immigration officers and construct a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. The budget numbers mark the most detailed breakdown yet about how President Donald Trump envisions restructuring DHS to meet his pledge to halt illegal immigration and deport some of the millions already here. Overall, DHS would get a 6 percent boost to its budget, to $43.8 billion. But to help pay for that, the administration would slice the budget of the Coast Guard and cut 11 percent in spending from the TSA — reductions that critics say would weaken safeguards against threats arriving by sea or air. OMB also wants to cut 11 percent from the budget of FEMA, which oversees the national response to disasters such as floods and hurricanes. “It is ignorant of what constitutes national security," said retired Adm. James Loy, a former Coast Guard commandant who served as deputy homeland security secretary and TSA administrator under President George W. Bush. "They simply don’t understand the equation.” Loy and others argue that hiring more border agents and building a wall are likely to increase the need for guarding ports and coastlines. And they contend that the Coast Guard, which intercepted more than 6,000 illegal migrants in 2016, is already overtaxed in interdicting illegal drugs and people from Central and South America while defending ports of entry from terrorist attack. Under its current budget, they say, it can’t afford to buy the new helicopters and ships it needs. "As you harden the land border you open up the maritime border," argued Stephen Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander who is director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. "It makes no sense. You are going to have this balloon effect." http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-coast-guard-budget-235750

Just to put this issue to bed, since Trump insisted on proof: The National Park Service on Monday released hundreds of ground and aerial photographs that its staff shot of President Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. The agency also released photos of the swearing-ins of former president Barack Obama four and eight years ago. And it’s pretty clear that the crowd size at the 45th president’s inaugural was smaller than at the swearing-in of the 44th. The discrepancy is clear in the two photos displayed here, which show the Mall shortly before Obama and Trump were sworn-in around noon eight years apart. The 2009 and 2017 photos were taken one hour — and eight years — apart, with Obama’s crowds massing in the photo about one hour earlier than Trump’s audience. A Park Service official said four of the images were forwarded to the White House after Trump made an unusual call to Acting Park Service Director Michael T. Reynolds the day after his inauguration. The newly minted president demanded that Reynolds produce the images taken by agency photographers, The Washington Post reported in late January. Trump believed the photos might prove the media lied in its reporting. The images are the official record of the federal government — and they contradict Trump’s claim that more than 1.5 million supporters crowded onto the Mall to watch him take the oath of office. Photos taken by news outlets during the inauguration also showed a crowd size smaller than Obama’s during his first inauguration in 2009 — about two-thirds smaller, according to several estimates by experts. The Washington Post and other news outlets sought the official images after Trump boasted of his inauguration crowd size and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, accused the media of doctoring photographs to show angles with small numbers of attendees. Spicer also called Trump’s inauguration “the most viewed in history.” The official images — which show attendees up close, Park Service police monitoring crowds, protesters on the ground as well as aerial photographs shot from government helicopters — show the crowd in attendance is sparser than the president said, and certainly thinner than the crowd that Obama drew in 2009. “I’m assuming they show exactly what the rest of the world knows,” said Keith Still, a mathematician and crowd expert at Manchester Metropolitan University in England who analyzed the news footage from the Trump inauguration. Still had not seen the Park Service images released Monday. “It was a very large crowd,” Still said. “It was also a third of the Obama crowd in 2009.” That estimate is shared by other crowd experts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/03/06/here-are-the-photos-that-show-obamas-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-than-trumps/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_powerpost-photos-855pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.da5720bc0026

If you didn't see a problem with his statement, that's part of the problem. Imagine if one of your family members were kidnapped, shipped overseas in chains, and sold into slavery. You think the slave would be thinking about how their descendants would benefit from their new location? I think they would have more pressing issues to think about.

I don't hate people, I disagreed with most of his policies. I supported his decision to invade Afghanistan and still do, and his outreach to Africa to reduce diseases like AIDS. His biggest flaw was letting those around him convince him to invade Iraq, which destabilized the region and gave us the situation we're still in. But compared to Trump he was a reasonable moderate Republican who didn't make decisions to satisfy his narcissism.

Oh Ben, you should have stayed asleep. He has a penchant for using slavery for comparisons, this time to immigrants. In his first speech as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson likened slaves forced to come to America to immigrants seeking a better life. “That’s what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson told hundreds of federal employees Monday. “There were other immigrants who came in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less, but they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land,” Carson added. This is not the first time Carson has likened something to slavery. During an interview with NBC in 2015, he compared abortion to slavery. “During slavery — and I know that’s one of those words you’re not supposed to say, but I’m saying it — during slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to the slave,” he said. “What if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe in slavery, I think it’s wrong, but you guys do whatever you want to do’?” At the Values Voter Summit in 2013, Carson called ObamaCare the worst thing “since slavery.” “It is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care,” Carson aid. “It was about control.” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/06/carson-equates-slaves-to-immigrants-social-media-blasts-comment.html

"IRS targeting political opponents" was never ordered or approved by Obama, Benghazi was not a scandal and would never been an issue if Hillary wasn't running, "mean spirited evictions" WTF?, and "shutdowns during government shutdown", shocking that shutdowns would occur when Congress cut off funding. Trump knew that Flynn was compromised and open for blackmail according to the IC, and had lied to VP Pence, but waited two weeks until the scandal became public before deciding Flynn had to go to save face. Otherwise he may still be the NSA.

So Muslim travel ban 2.0 didn't get the big televised Trump roll out like 1.0. So when he has to admit he was wrong he leaves it to his minions to make the presentation. A Rex Tillerson sighting, after breaking precedent and being a no-show last week for the State Dept. annual human rights report. Muslim travel ban 2.0 won't take effect until March 16 (assuming it's now constitutional), and now doesn't include Iraq. So based on Trump's previous statements on the urgency of the issue, we should expect some bad dudes coming into the country this week.

I support an independent commission like for 9/11 that investigates ALL possible interference in our elections. Investigate Trump, Clinton, and anyone else that could have ties. It's more important than party affiliation. Will you agree?

So you don't think Russian interference in our election process and possible ties to Trump associates is a detrimental relationship that should be investigated, as well as Trump's business ties to Russia? Trump could clear a lot up by listing all his associates who have had contact with Russians, and release his tax returns.

After Trump tweeted last week for rallies of support, "Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!", yesterday was "March 4 Trump" day. The Yuge event attracted not millions or hundreds of thousands, but a few thousand across the country. Sad!

So there must be plenty of "bad dudes" coming Into the country today ahead of the new Muslim ban. Didn't Trump say it was supposed to be a secret without warning so they wouldn't pour in beforehand. Hopefully this time they created one that's constitutional.

Obama was born in Kenya. Thousands of Muslims in New Jersey were celebrating after 9/11. 3 million illegal voters in the election. His sleeve must be Yuge to carry all that proof. This thread is redundant with the alternative facts thread.

So you're ok that it was also only white males.