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[woolybug25]

Isn't it also true that the DNC wouldn't give access to the FBI to investigate the server? If there was proof of a russian hacker don't you think the DNC would be gung ho to get to the bottom of it and have some actual facts to back up their accusations?

You guys must have missed this yesterday.

Intel report: Putin directly ordered effort to influence election - CNNPolitics.com

 

[IrishinSyria]

Claim that John Podesta's email password was 'password' lacks evidence | PunditFact

 

[IrishinSyria]

https://www.inverse.com/article/954...portant-public-intellectual-or-a-crazy-person

 

[kmoose]

Isn't it also true that the DNC wouldn't give access to the FBI to investigate the server? If there was proof of a russian hacker don't you think the DNC would be gung ho to get to the bottom of it and have some actual facts to back up their accusations?

The most ironic part of the whole thing is that an organization (The Democratic Party) is complaining about election interference, in a year when they were PROVEN to be colluding to rig the Primary in favor of HRC.

 

[Woneone]

Claim that John Podesta's email password was 'password' lacks evidence | PunditFact

I was hoping someone would post this. I originally addressed it in my initial response, but wanted to give someone the opportunity to post it.

Go create a new gmail account.

use PAssword as the password.

Yes, it does work. It's even considered "Strong".

User's who are not real tech savy tend to use variations of the same password across all secured applications. If John Podesta's windows log-in was "P@ssword" (per his emails), and Gmail allowed him to use a variation of the same, which you can prove easily creating new google account, odds are he used that variation for his email.

Sorry guys, Politifact, in this case, was about as lazy as you could be.

 

[Legacy]

TALKING POLITICS (A Series from al.com).

Civic-minded Donald Trump voters in Alabama agreed to have a deep, serious, respectful conversation with Hillary Clinton voters from one of the most liberal places in America, the San Francisco Bay Area. This is the result.

All are linked above.

 

[ACamp1900]

No men.... sexist.

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[ACamp1900]

I laughed.

 

[ulukinatme]

Looks like the Biden memes are having a last gasp

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[phgreek]

I saw some of the appointment hearings...

Republicans, take note. It is not wrong to "Grill" appointments...how the hell else are you going to vet them. P-Obama's appointments had it too easy...

Find every thing you can, and throw it out there on the table...love it.

The thing I don't like is Sanders and Murray making political statements...just ask your questions, and summarize what you think at the end, and SHUT THE FUCK UP. To me they both looked like jackasses. I like Bernie the candidate, but these hearings need to seriously have some discipline and focus...I LIKED the round I saw of Pocahantus' questioning of Price...GREAT JOB. I hope everyone in Congress is made to watch that as a training tape. I can't stand her, or her politics...but by God she was prepared, and gets the point of all of this.

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[ulukinatme]

This one goes well with the Biden Home Alone memes

 

[Bluto]

Wasn't sure where to post this but pretty interesting

Many 2016 Emerald Cup winners disqualified for pesticides | The North Bay Business Journal

 

[phgreek]

Wasn't sure where to post this but pretty interesting

Many 2016 Emerald Cup winners disqualified for pesticides | The North Bay Business Journal

That is interesting

...but couldn't a guy get oversprayed by someone growing other shit near by...kinda like a contact high...isn't that would you'd claim if you got busted???

And now I must do this because it turns mellow pot heads into seething PMSing women...and it makes me laugh...

See, pot isn't always as wholesome as those around here say

....wait for it....

 

[woolybug25]

That is interesting

...but couldn't a guy get oversprayed by someone growing other shit near by...kinda like a contact high...isn't that would you'd claim if you got busted???

And now I must do this because it turns mellow pot heads into seething PMSing women...and it makes me laugh...

See, pot isn't always as wholesome as those around here say

....wait for it....

what are we waiting for again?

 

[ulukinatme]

The Clinton Foundation Is Dead — But The Case Against Hillary Isn't | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

While everyone's been gearing up for President Trump's inauguration, the Clinton Foundation made a major announcement this week that went by with almost no notice: For all intents and purposes, it's closing its doors.

In a tax filing, the Clinton Global Initiative said it's firing 22 staffers and closing its offices, a result of the gusher of foreign money that kept the foundation afloat suddenly drying up after Hillary Clinton failed to win the presidency.

It proves what we've said all along: The Clinton Foundation was little more than an influence-peddling scheme to enrich the Clintons, and had little if anything to do with "charity," either overseas or in the U.S. That sound you heard starting in November was checkbooks being snapped shut in offices around the world by people who had hoped their donations would buy access to the next president of the United States.

 

[GowerND11]

what are we waiting for again?

NDOM to mysteriously appear out of a haze of smoke and confusion to give a lecture about pot and how wonderful it is, and then disappear again to enjoy his sabbatical.

 

[woolybug25]

NDOM to mysteriously appear out of a haze of smoke and confusion to give a lecture about pot and how wonderful it is, and then disappear again to enjoy his sabbatical.

I think he started a commune somewhere on the Appalachian Trail.

 

[GowerND11]

I think he started a militia somewhere on the Appalachian Trail.

FIFY

 

[phgreek]

Not sure if posted previously...

Why I’m leaving the Democratic Party | TheHill

Kid seems sincere. Having myself dumped a major party recently...I get it.

He seems to see some of the things Democrats get shit for these days...so if you get your undies in a bunch over someone's opinion of the Democratic party (even if he was a Democrat), don't read it.

 

[ACamp1900]

The first two played a part for me as well... albeit more than ten years ago... the just purposeful fraud in the name of 'helping' was another big deal for me.

 

[Wild Bill]

Report: Obama sent $221 million to Palestinian Authority hours before leaving - Business Insider

Our tax dollars hard at work.

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Party of Science™ <a href="https://t.co/UyrJJQ8b0S">pic.twitter.com/UyrJJQ8b0S</a></p>— neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/823889290946113537">January 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[phgreek]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Party of Science™ <a href="https://t.co/UyrJJQ8b0S">pic.twitter.com/UyrJJQ8b0S</a></p>— neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/823889290946113537">January 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I've seen ultra sounds of both my kids...at every checkup with the wife's OB.

It was real time (well as close as you can get). I could see them moving around. I don't recall if there was a heart beat identified...but I think there was a "Sound" component to all of it as well.

So I don't get where the hell this is going. While I'm not for manipulating anything to make a point...I sure as hell am not willing to deny what I saw to avoid an uncomfortable discussion...

Without further qualification, what was said here is demonstrably false.

 

[ulukinatme]

https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10154911641473728/
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TLW - Of the prenatal support services that Planned Parenthood touts, only 5 in 97 offices actually offer any kind of service of this type. The rest mostly just offer termination services.

 

[Ndaccountant]

blast from the past for your Friday morning enjoyment.

American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American people confirmed Friday that they have hired high-powered D.C. lobbyist Jack Weldon of the firm Patton Boggs to help advance their agenda in Congress.

Known among Beltway insiders for his ability to sway public policy on behalf of massive corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, and AT&T, Weldon, 53, is expected to use his vast network of political connections to give his new client a voice in the legislative process.

Weldon is reportedly charging the American people $795 an hour.

"Unlike R.J. Reynolds, Pfizer, or Bank of America, the U.S. populace lacks the access to public officials required to further its legislative goals," a statement from the nation read in part. "Jack Weldon gives us that access."

"His daily presence in the Capitol will ensure the American people finally get a seat at the table," the statement continued. "And it will allow him to advance our message that everyone, including Americans, deserves to be represented in Washington."

The 310-million-member group said it will rely on Weldon's considerable clout to ensure its concerns are taken into account when Congress addresses issues such as education, immigration, national security, health care, transportation, the economy, affordable college tuition, infrastructure, jobs, equal rights, taxes, Social Security, the environment, housing, the national debt, agriculture, energy, alternative energy, nutrition, imports, exports, foreign relations, the arts, and crime.

Sources confirmed that Weldon is already scheduled to have drinks Monday with several members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss saving the middle class.

"If you have a problem, say, with America's atrocious treatment of its veterans, you can't just pick up a phone and call your local congressman," Weldon told reporters from his office on K Street Monday. "You need someone on the inside who understands how democracy works; someone who knows how to grease the wheels a little."

Weldon said that after successfully advocating on behalf of Goldman Sachs and BP, he is relishing the opportunity to lobby for the American people, calling it the "challenge of a lifetime." The veteran D.C. power player admitted that his new client is at a disadvantage because it lacks the money and power of other groups.

"The goal is to make it seem politically advantageous for legislators to keep the American people in mind when making laws," Weldon said. "Lawmakers are going to ask me, 'Why should I care about the American people? What's in it for me?' And it will be up to me and my team to find some reason why they should consider putting poverty and medical care for children on the legislative docket."

"To be honest," Weldon added, "the American people have always been perceived as a little naïve when it comes to their representative government. But having me on their side sends a clear message that they're finally serious and want to play ball."

According to Washington heavyweights, hiring Weldon is an immediate game changer and should force politicians to take citizens' concerns seriously for the first time in decades. Moreover, sources said, Weldon will be able to help lawmakers see the American people as more than just a low-priority fringe group.

"Jack is very good at what he does," said Joseph Pearlman, a headhunter for the McCormick Group who specializes in placing lobbyists. "He can take an issue that is nowhere on the congressional radar, like the pursuit of happiness, for example, and make it politically relevant. The next time Congress passes a bill dealing with civil rights or taxes, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. populace is mentioned somewhere in the final language."

Though Weldon has only been on the job for three days, legislators have already seemed to take notice.

"Before today, I'd actually never heard of this group," Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) told reporters. "But if Jack says they're worth my time, I'll take a look and see if maybe there are some areas where our interests overlap."

"But I'm not making any promises," he added. "I'm a very busy man.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Chad Pecknold, a professor at Catholic University in DC, just published an article titled "Why America depends on the abortion and refugee debates" in the Washington Examiner:

A few hours after a vice president addressed the March for Life for the first time in history, President Trump signed an executive order on immigration which bars Syrian refugees and institutes a 90-day suspension of entry for seven countries where a majority of the population are Muslim. The executive order was immediately criticized, soberly and seriously by conservatives, and with unreserved outrage by progressives.

Many Americans responded to both the plight of the unborn and the refugee in similar fashion. Almost everyone believed, wittingly or not, that Christian teaching should determine American law and policy on both of these issues concerning the dignity of the human person, and the family. That is, both sides appealed to the justice owed to the human person, and both sides appealed to mercy, and to charity, those especially Christian ideas that resonate through the ages. That justice and mercy should kiss, the psalmist cried.

As the French political philosopher Pierre Manent has observed, "Even in our secularized present the Church is the spiritual domain at the center of the West." There is still a sense, however muted, however distorted, however darkened by the iniquity of sin, that the American people still have a conscience that retains a memory of being Christian.

Yet the country is fragmented. We are not a happy nation. The threats from without are really downstream indicators of a domestic strife which can feel like civil war by political proxy.

Former President Barack Obama's use of executive power served the perceived needs of a socially-progressive elite situated comfortably in large coastal cities which are also hubs of global cosmopolitanism. President Trump is using executive power to serve the perceived needs of those who have experienced the disadvantages of being a globalist superpower, who have lost jobs to the global project, and want to recover borders precisely because they feel the country is dissipating.

Without a doubt, both sides feel uncertain about our common life. Both sides can feel that something is shaky in the American project. Both sides can feel that we are skating on thin ice.

On the bright side, it is good to have a hyper-vigilant citizenry on the Left that doesn't fawn over every act of the executive branch. I call that progress!

But the dark side is real too. If every Trump policy maneuver — and he does seem to think of every policy change as a maneuver, as a temporary stance in a long set of negotiations, already evident in the way the White House walked back the restrictions on green card holders — is treated as though it is some kind of coup within a banana republic, not only will the Left be exhausted and lose all credibility by Ash Wednesday, we'll also find the ice we are skating on getting much thinner indeed. We have to think about the shape of our common life. Do we have one?

If the nation is no longer a project in its own right, if it isn't carrying forward a vision which is rooted in any account of the genuinely common good, distinctive qualities peculiar to Americans, then we will face exhaustion, dissipation, and there will be nothing great about that.

At the origins of the Christian West, in the fourth book of the City of God, St. Augustine wrote, "Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?" For Augustine, justice wasn't simply fairness, and it certainly wasn't about "balancing rights," it was about a harmony between our laws and the highest Good. To ask about our common life slipping away is to also ask about what makes America not just great but good? What makes us worthy of admiration?

The executive power needs limits. All human power needs limits. It is within limits that all greatness is achieved. But greatness isn't our best category, lest we become a very great band of robbers.

We have to think in terms of goodness above greatness. This is the category which we speak of when we talk about the virtue of justice which is owed to unborn persons. If we decide to be merciful and charitable as a nation, that is, the way that the one true God is merciful and charitable, then that too can also guide our policy on refugees. But we should know who we have been, who we are as a nation, and where we are going. If it is simply justice which demands that we recognize the rights of the unborn person, isn't it Christian charity alone, which the Left often scorns, that justifies an admirable policy on refugees?

Americans know how to negotiate on policy, but if we feel ourselves in constant negotiation without common purpose, constantly tossed about, if we find ourselves unmoored from the rule of law, from the common good of the human person, and the human family, then we ourselves will become refugees in our own country, we ourselves will be in danger of the same logic of self-destruction that Roe v. Wade enshrined at the heart of our republic 44 years ago this month.

 

[wizards8507]

Berkeley rioters setting shit on fire to protest Milo event.

Remember all the shit the Tea Party burned down?