IF IT HAD HAPPENED DURING OBAMA'S WATCH, YOU'D BE PUTTING ALL THE BLAME ON HIM.
Niger ambush came after 'massive intelligence failure,' source says
Oct 20th 2017 5:19PM
WASHINGTON — A senior congressional aide who has been briefed on the deaths of four U.S. servicemen in Niger says the ambush by militants stemmed in part from a "massive intelligence failure."
The Pentagon has said that 40 to 50 militants ambushed a 12-man U.S. force in Niger on Oct. 4, killing four and wounding two. The U.S. patrol was seen as routine and had been carried out nearly 30 times in the six months before the attack, the Pentagon has reported.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly, said the House and Senate armed services committees have questions about the scope of the U.S. mission in Niger, and whether the Pentagon is properly supporting the troops on the ground there.
There was no U.S. overhead surveillance of the mission, he said, and no American quick-reaction force available to rescue the troops if things went wrong. If it weren't for the arrival of French fighter jets, he said, things could have been much worse for the Americans.
Congress also has many unanswered questions about what happened, he said, including about the specifics of the mission that day and the accounts lawmakers have been given about the timeline of the attack and rescue.
The aide said questions are being asked about whether the U.S. soldiers were intentionally delayed in the village they were visiting. He said they began pursuing some men on motorcycles, who lured them into a complex ambush. The enemy force had "technical" vehicles — light, improvised military vehicles — and rocket-propelled grenades, the official said.
After the rescue when it became clear that one soldier was missing, "movements and actions to try and find him and bring him back were considered. They just were not postured properly [to get him]." The body of Sgt. La David Johnson was not recovered until nearly 48 hours after the Oct. 4 attack.
The Pentagon said that conclusions about an intelligence failure were premature.
On Friday afternoon, Defense Secretary James Mattis met with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to discuss the Niger raid.
Earlier this week, McCain said the committee had not been provided with the information about the Niger mission that it "deserves."
Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said Congress will require more information from a Trump administration that is expanding counter terrorism operations across the globe.
Trump is loosening the rules of engagement when it comes to lethal action against terrorists, and expanding the counterterrorism fight to different parts of the world, including across Africa, Graham said.
"The war is morphing," he said. "You're going to see more actions in Africa, not less."
In that context, Graham said, "I will insist that Congress is informed more often and in more detail," about military operations.
He added, "As the war expands, as the military had more authority, Congress is going to require more information."
Kelly misrepresented Rep. Frederica Wilson's 2015 speech while criticizing her over Gold Star family controversy
A video shows that White House chief of staff John Kelly was wrong about Rep. Frederica Wilson's 2015 speech. The video shows Wilson took credit for fast-tracking an FBI building's naming process rather than securing its funding. This is the latest episode in a feud this week involving Rep. Wilson, President Donald Trump, and John Kelly.
White House chief of staff John Kelly's claim that Rep. Frederica Wilson had boasted about procuring funding for an FBI field office in 2015 was proven wrong by a video released by The Sun Sentinel on Friday, backing up Wilson's claim that she had only taken credit for working across the aisle to name the building after two FBI agents who were killed in the line of duty.
Kelly called Wilson an "empty barrel" on Thursday and rebuked her for taking credit for securing funding for the future FBI building. Wilson, however, shot back and denied the claim, which was corroborated by the video of her speech.
Chris Wallace calls out the empty space between their ears at Faux "News " bullshit.
One thing that’s been an absolute staple of Fox News’ programming during the Age of Trump has been a heavy criticism of the mainstream media’s coverage. With the president spending much of his time complaining about “fake news” in response to reporting he doesn’t like, the network’s opinion hosts and commentators have parroted POTUS’s attacks and devoted segments to hammering other outlets.
In an interview with the Associated Press this week, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace put his colleagues on blast over their penchant for discrediting the press. As he puts it, whenever these media attacks are uttered on the air by an opinion host or commentator, that person should realize they are also essentially slamming Fox News reporters and journalists.
From the AP article:
“It bothers me,” Wallace said in an interview. “If they want to say they like Trump, or that they’re upset with the Democrats, that’s fine. That’s opinion. That’s what they do for a living.“I don’t like them bashing the media, because oftentimes what they’re bashing is stuff that we on the news side are doing. I don’t think they recognize that they have a role at Fox News and we have a role at Fox News. I don’t know what’s in their head. I just think it’s bad form.”
You are trying to lay the blame on me. You have no evidence, it's pure imagination in your mind, such as it is twit.
.. Ironically enough that their that General Kelly, either didn't know what he said was mistaken or lied about Representative Fredrica Wilson at the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami.
"A congresswoman stood up, and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money," Kelly said Thursday. "And she sat down, and we were stunned. Stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned."
The funding for the building was approved in September 2010, before Wilson won her congressional election, according to the Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article179869321.html
The actual truth is that she spoke in praise of the Democrats and Republicans who arranged for the construction of the facility. The video is available at the link above.
I was very disappointed when the real truth came out. He was forced to defend the undetectable President.
We all know who has been posting the garage. I call him K'putz. aka KD.
He's absolutely obsessed with me. I use my real name. It's my choice. He even goes after me and calls me transgender because my middle name is Lynn.
My Uncle was killed in combat in 1944. He was 34 years old, and not subject to the draft. He, like millions of Americans volunteered to serve their country. I met his wife and daughter as I was growing up. I even went deer hunting with his grandson in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was a lousy shot. I got his deer. But we kept that a secret.
I didn't say anything like he is claiming. In this case, our host should remove them. He can't be sued, but in this case it sure would be allowed.
I notice that Roger is more concern about Kelly calling out Wilson's bizarre bragging rather than Wilson deliberately smearing Kelly as a racist and a white supremacist.
That in a nutshell tells you what a despicable person Roger is.
First Trump lied and said Obama didn't give his condolences to the families of soldiers killed in action.
Then he tried to double down by claiming that was true for his chief of staff, John Kelly (whose son was killed in Afghanistan,) but in fact the record shows that in May 2011 Kelly and his family attended in person a breakfast with President Obama with other gold star families (Kelly has prudently said nothing about Trump's claim that Obama ignored him.)
Finally, Trump did call the widow of a soldier who was killed in action this week-- and rubbed it in her face by telling her 'he knew what he signed up for.' Well, of course he did, but that's the LAST thing he should tell a grieving widow. W Maybe Trump should just shut up about this before he keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper...
Blogger Commonsense said... I notice that Roger is more concern about Kelly calling out Wilson's bizarre bragging rather than Wilson deliberately smearing Kelly as a racist and a white supremacist. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
well, you have to give roger credit...
when he decides to go all in on a particular liberal issue of the day, it's usually the most indefensible issue possible, and it's chief spokesperson/antagonist is usually the most fucked up, looney tunes, liberal asshat on the planet.
case in point -
the term "empty barrel" is racist. freddy-rica knows this because, according to her, she looked it up in the dictionary.
I have read that story. He's not a racist rodent bigot. She went to far with the comments.
But not once, ever ever since he was elected president, not one of you have ever called out the President for his daily lies, exaggerations, and childish insults and tweets, against anyone who has ever dared to differ from him. NOT ONCE
WHITE HOUSE Chief of Staff John F. Kelly owes Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) an apology. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn after watching a video of the representative’s remarks at the dedication of an FBI building in Miramar, Fla., in 2015.
Mr. Kelly took to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday to defend President Trump’s handling of a condolence call to a widow of one of the soldiers killed in Niger and to attack Ms. Wilson as selfish and politically motivated for her criticism. To bolster that characterization, he offered up his remembrance of the dedication of the FBI building in memory of two FBI agents who had been killed in the line of duty. He claimed Ms. Wilson used the occasion to take unseemly credit for securing federal funding for the building. “We were stunned,” he said, “stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.”
But, as a video by the Florida Sun Sentinel of Ms. Wilson’s remarks that day shows, Mr. Kelly got it all wrong. She did not say she got money for the building. She was generous and graceful in sharing credit for how legislation naming the building was fast-tracked. And she spent most of her nine-minute speech praising the FBI agents killed in a gunfight with drug dealers: “Today it is our patriotic duty to lift up Special Agent Benjamin Grogan and Special Agent Jerry Dove from the streets of South Florida and place their names and pictures high, where the world will know that we are proud of their sacrifice, sacrifice for our nation.”
It is unfortunate that the sacrifice of brave people such as these two agents or the four soldiers killed in Niger can get overwhelmed by the petty name-calling of politics. That is a point Mr. Kelly was trying to make Thursday, and that he undercut with his misrepresentation of Ms. Wilson. He needs to set the record straight.
Stumpy the KD said... Gen Kelley said he and his family were not called by jv obama.
Which proves what....that trump was the one who initially brought up the subject?:???? Like the NFL BS....should never have been an issue until the idiot in chief tweeted.....and continues....so sad....
But not once, ever ever since he was elected president, not one of you have ever called out the President for his daily lies, exaggerations, and childish insults and tweets, against anyone who has ever dared to differ from him. NOT ONCE ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
that's correct alky. and as CH tried to explain to you a couple days ago, when it comes to those little nickledick issues that drive you and your fellow leftist asshats into a rage, us sane folks who are focused on the bigger picture ...
just.
don't.
care.
the only value trump's tweets, etc. have to a guy like me is for their cheap entertainment value. you see, i'm secure in the knowledge that at least once every couple days, trump is going to do something/say something/tweet something that is going to drive you completely batshit fucking crazy.
i mean, it's almost like trump is in on the gag with US, and does shit just to fuck with YOU, purely for OUR entertainment.
i'm going to stay focused on things that matter: economy, domestic policy, foreign policy, taxes, unemployment.
and you?
as the dos equis guy said to the beaner whose culture he had appropriated:
WHITE HOUSE Chief of Staff John F. Kelly owes Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) an apology. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LOL.
only to a piece of shit liberal asshat.
he made her a "rock star." what the fuck more does she want?
I have posted that video. She never, not once, said what Kelly said.
I know how hard it is to show you the facts. 99% of the time, you resort to personal insult. It really bugs you that despite some serious issues in my life, I'm working daily to follow the 12 steps. I also have been very happy in my life, the love of a wonderful woman, and recovery from the liver transplant. And yeah it is fun, to work out and tell you about it. 😈😈😈
What you just cannot understand, is that the President is a threat to the very foundations and principles that have kept the longest single government nation on earth. I'm not alone. George W Bush, very well articulated the same concerns.
Blogger Roger Amick said... Hypocrisy is alive and well with the truthers on the right-wing side of the blog. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
the prerequisite for me being a hypocrite about trump's nonsense is giving a shit first. and i don't.
i leave the trivial stuff to the small thinkers like you, alky.
Why I hate R's and their bigotry ......but what is the use?????
Sitting on Mary Maddox's back porch, which flooded with 22 inches of water when Hurricane Harvey hit nearly two months ago, is a Lady of the Night plant from Puerto Rico that a friend gave her. Ever since Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, she says, she has paused at the blooming plant when she passes it, rubbing a leaf and saying a prayer for those still without water or electricity.
Often, the prayer is accompanied by frustration with President Donald Trump, whom she voted for and who visited this neighborhood after Harvey.
"He really made me mad," said Maddox, 70, who accused Trump of trying to pit those on the mainland against Puerto Ricans, even though they're all Americans.
"I don't know," said her husband, Fred Maddox, 75. "I think he's trying."
He continued: "It's a problem, but they need to handle it. It shouldn't be up to us, really. I don't think so. They're sitting back, they're taking the money, they're taking a little under the table. He's trying to wake them up: Do your job. Be responsible."
The divide in the Maddox household is one playing out across the country, as those who voted for the president debate how much support the federal government should give Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory without a voting member of Congress that is not allowed to vote in presidential elections.
Some supporters of the president, like Fred Maddox, agree with Trump that Puerto Rico's infrastructure was frail before the storm; that the crisis was worsened by a lack of leadership there; and that the federal government should limit its involvement in the rebuilding effort, which will likely cost billions of dollars. But others, like Mary Maddox, are appalled by how the president talks about Puerto Rico and say the United States has a moral obligation to take care of its citizens.
A survey released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that a majority of Americans believe that the federal government has been too slow to respond in Puerto Rico and that the island still isn't getting the help it needs. But the results largely broke along party lines: While nearly three-quarters of Democrats said the federal government isn't doing enough, almost three-quarters of Republicans said it is.
She never, not once, said what Kelly said. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
the only people who care are you, her, and the WaPo editorial board.
none of whom matter.
Marine General Kelly is a 4-star and a Gold Star. our nation owes him a debt which we can never repay.
and he owes absolutely NOTHING to a rodeo clown parasite with the IQ of a potted plant.
if anything, if the rodeo clown parasite had any sense of class and decorum, she would be the one apologizing. for stirring the turds on this issue in the first place.
you a couple days ago, when it comes to those little nickledick issues that drive
Yeah, like the kneeling comes to mind and how that is now the most important social issue for you idiot non thinkers....Awesome that you recognize trumpie is his own worst enemy, but remain mute....Idiots...
CH and I have exchanged greetings and addresses. I have never ever ever ever posted the personal information. He has chosen to keep a distance , his choice. Life goes on.
I'm still wondering what is racist about empty barrel.
And the real intelligence failure is the stupid dnc super delegates handing their nomination to a historically unlikable and corrupt candidate when their other candidate had all the attention momentum and would probably be president today. Trump would not have won MI, WI, OH and PA vs Bernie.
if anything, if the rodeo clown parasite had any sense of class and decorum, he would be the one apologizing. for stirring the turds on this issue in the first place when he said that Obama never called to express condolences or wrote letters to the Gold Star family members.
So fucking what....I've worked with many retired generals and found them to be institutionalized idiots who are not used to dealing with subordinates that question their authority....IOW's not leaders in industry.....but poor excuses in management....
Although Kelly's defense of Trump's call to the wife of the fallen serviceman was heartfelt and well delivered, he made the mistake of lodging an unnecessary attack against Rep. Wilson, an attack in which he made an accusation that simply was not true as a video of her short speech clearly shows.
Contrary to what Kelly alleged, the video shows that she did NOT take credit for getting the money for the building, only for helping pass legislation naming the building after two fallen federal agents.
In making the unnecessary accusation, Kelly lowered himself in the eyes of everyone.
Myballs said... I'm still wondering what is racist about empty barrel. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
well, according to freddy-rica, she looked up the term in the dick-shun-airy.
George W. Bush: I thought that he was the worst president ever,until now.
On Thursday, former President George W. Bush gave one of the most important and profound speeches in modern presidential history, in remarks almost universally viewed as a warning of the dangers of Donald Trump's presidency — without ever mentioning his name.
In a speech that offered a powerful statement on the core vision of Americanism, Bush warned of the dangers of bullying and prejudice in politics. He warned the nation about nationalism that is distorted into nativism and that divides America from its democratic friends in the world.
He warned the nation about intolerance and bigotry that divides our people against each other and demeans the values that patriotic Americans share.
I covered similar matters in my column in The Hill this week. The speech by former President Bush lifted the debate to a presidential level of patriotism. It followed an equally profound speech by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warning about a "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that reminds him of conditions in the 1930s that preceded World War II.
During his vital and historically important speech, Bush condemned a political discourse that sets a negative national tone and provides permission for cruelty and bigotry.
In his call for national unity and racial justice, Bush said bigotry and white supremacy in any form are blasphemy against the American creed and warned against politics that are polluted by conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. He warned of a democratic vision that is under attack from foreign enemies.
While former President Bush was making his case, former President Barack Obama was making almost exactly the same points in speeches in New Jersey and Virginia with his call for national unity, mutual respect and social progress.
Not long ago, Newton Minow, the FCC commissioner under President Kennedy, called on all living former presidents from both political parties to speak out together against the dangers of the Trump presidency. Slowly but surely, this is now coming to pass, with two former presidents representing both major parties making powerful and compelling statements on the same day, driving home the same point.
Consider the scope and magnitude of the warnings about the dangers of the Trump presidency that have been offered in recent days — and by whom.
The previous Republican president and the last Democratic president followed the warning from the 2008 Republican nominee and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. McCain, and the warning from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who sounded an alarm about the increasing odds of World War III.
President Bush's speech was a landmark event that will ultimately be seen by historians as a major inflection point in which the dangers of the Trump presidency were seen as so severe and ominous that speaking out became a responsibility for those who have led our nation before.
It is unprecedented for a sitting president to falsely criticize his presidential predecessors — as Trump recently did — for not caring enough about troops who gave their lives in service to our country.
It is equally unprecedented, and far more historically profound, when former presidents feel patriotically compelled to speak out against the dangers created by a successor president.
Until this week, President Bush made it a defining habit to not criticize the presidents who followed them. This week, George W. Bush felt morally and patriotically compelled to speak out with clarity at a critical and dangerous moment. It was his finest hour.
"And despite pressure building on the President, including Flynt putting up a $10 million bounty on any information which could see him removed from office, there is no shortage of money for Trump to become a two-term president."
What is deplorable is trump taking an honorable man like Kelly and having him support the liar in chief in spite of the facts. Selling ones soul to the devil is what trump demands and you accept and defend....Clinton lost because she had 3 million more votes than trump, but in the wrong states....oh well....
So unkind to point out Kelly actual IS a Gold Star Da
And so were the Khan's that trump dissed. It is sad that the honorable kelly has been brought down to trumps mantra of lying and making shit up....another reputation down the shitter....
Clinton is still bitter that white women abandoned her.
So in your book, black women don't count...how white of you menstral.....LOL
General Kelly did not go up and give his press conference because he was told to. Anyone who actually watched it, knows that General Kelly was speaking from his heart and from what he felt was right. No General like Kelly is going to be "told" to go do something he didn't want to do or defend something military related that he didn't want to defend. This was clearly personal to him... and he was mad at the Congresswoman, not the President.
Donald Trump won because he concentrated on doing what it was that was necessary to win... which was win the majority of Electoral College Votes. Hillary Clinton lost because she concentrated on doing what she thought was politically expedient and did things like spend tens of millions running Spanish speaking ads in states like California and Texas (so she could brag up her Hispanic support).
Wouldn't you rather have the person who actually understood what it took to win, did it on half the budget... than the person who spent twice as much on things that didn't matter?
Most Think Trump Will Be One of the Worst Presidents
A new Marist poll finds that 58% of Americans believe Donald Trump will be remembered as either one of the worst presidents or the worst president in the nation’s history.
I bet you consider that a term of endearment....it sure was not showing any respect for her as trump called a whacky congressman to boot......yer an idiot and even your hero busch thinks is over the top....but, wtf, it's just bush who bannon blasted to a thunderous round of applause in CA.....
CNN reports Senate Intelligence Committee investigators have spoken with some of the Russians who attended the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner.
[Chairman Richard] Burr, R-North Carolina, would not say which Russians, or how many, investigators have spoken with. Committee officials declined to comment further. There were three Russians in the June 9th meeting -- lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and businessman Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze.
Chairman Burr (R-NC) says the committee is being very deliberate as to whom it interviews when:
The intelligence committee has previously met with both Kushner and Manafort, but has not yet brought in Trump Jr. Burr said the committee is "sequencing" its interviews to speak with everyone else "involved in the meeting before we know exactly what we want from Don Jr." Senate investigators spoke with Russians present at Trump Tower meeting with Trump Jr. (CNN)
General Kelly did not go up and give his press conference because he was told to
YOU DON'T KNOW THAT AS FACT CH!!!! That is nothing but your opinion....I'm sure kelly got those funding talking points doing his own research and not from Chucklebee..... BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Donald Trump won because he concentrated on doing what it was that was necessary to win
Which is exactly what I said before with my wrong states comment...You seem a little anxious today to make points I already made...Must be the water....you seem to be losing it....Kelly is now a trumpian liar....sorry, his reputation is in the shitter...
It wasn't just Clinton's fault. No Russian intervention, but Trump used the fears of most middle age, non college educated to swing just about 75,000 voters in PA, etc. But Clinton's fault was she's not likable. She couldn't find a way to look good.
looks like the politically blind "pastor" left this of from his political_lire spam
"Said pollster Lee Miringoff: “Deep into his first year as president, Donald Trump’s less than stellar approval rating has lowered expectations about how history will judge him. For history to treat him kinder, he will have to up his game.”
STUMPY THE KD IDIOT and our esteemed host said... 306 Winner
Can't fix stupid can we???? Your desperation and living in the past is exactly what will bring you and your party down....LOLOLOL Being a winnah ain't what it is cracked up to be especially for an intellectually deficient and bored potus whose whole being is name calling and acting childish like KS, loretta and rathole and you CH.....
11:19 Roger Amick said... I wish that no one should change their identities.
James said: I can assure you it was this individual, who often goes calls himself Cowardly King Obama, who put up the disgusting fellatio post with your name and location on it, just as he puts up fake posts with my name and location and the designation pedophile on it.
I resent the obscenity in reference to "my" daddy.
I think Ch should delete such posts, including any references to me as a pedophile and any references to himself or others as enjoying fellatio.
This board would greatly improve too if we all agreed to stop using the f word.
NYT Cheaper Health Plans Promoted by Trump Have a History of Fraud By ROBERT PEAR 28 mins ago
WASHINGTON — In signing a recent executive order, President Trump promised that millions of Americans could soon obtain “great, great health care” through inexpensive plans that offer consumers options they had been denied under the Affordable Care Act.
But these health plans, created for small businesses, have a darker side: They have a long history of fraud and abuse that have left employers and employees with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills. The problems are described in dozens of court cases and enforcement actions taken over more than a decade by federal and state officials who regulate the type of plans Mr. Trump is encouraging, known as association health plans.
In many cases, the Labor Department said, it has targeted “unscrupulous promoters who sell the promise of inexpensive health benefit insurance, but default on their obligations.” In several cases, it has found that people managing these health plans diverted premiums to their personal use.
The department filed suit this year against an association health plan for 300 small employers in Washington State, asserting that its officers had mismanaged the plan’s assets and charged employers more than $3 million in excessive “administrative fees.”
Operators of the health plan violated their fiduciary duty by using its assets “in their own interest,” rather than for the benefit of workers, the government said. Marc I. Machiz, who investigated insurance fraud as a Labor Department lawyer for more than 20 years, said the executive order was “summoning back demons from the deep.” ___________ The article continues.
"James said: I can assure you it was this individual, who often goes calls himself Cowardly King Obama, who put up the disgusting fellatio post with your name and location on it, just as he puts up fake posts with my name and location and the designation pedophile on it."
Right that I do post as cowardly king obama.
All the rest you state is absolutely fucking wrong and a total lie. "pastors" should know better than to falsely charge people. I suspect some of those postings are actually you. What I can say for certain is that you continue to post spam from political_lire and that I only post after you do. And that is a fact. And I will continue to react to your improper behavior with my descriptive moniker. FUCK OFF ASSHOLE.
Okay, Ch. If that's want you want, the war goes on, no holds barred.
But if you would assure me you would not allow slanders to be published here attached to my name, I would agree to cut back on "spam." By the way, Rat and others often put up some "spam" and it is at least enlightening. It seems it is only "spam" if Roger or I do it.
Okay, Ch. If that's want you want, the war goes on, no holds barred.
James. You are too immature to follow rules and quite frankly you are simply not intellectually bright enough to come up with your own thoughts.
So you are destined to continue to break etiquette and then get your panties in a wad when people criticize you for it.
I would make a wager that if you quit spamming the threads, that the other nonsense would likely come to a screeching halt... but (again) you are not bright enough to see what's obvious... so you will continue to do whatever the hell you want and continue to complain non-stop that others are not "also" doing what you want.
Well, Ch, I suppose you think I have no right to think that being called a pedophile both by name and location and occupation is totally unacceptable and should not be allowed.
By the way, several days ago Cowardly put up a post in which my name was linked with fellatio, and I was on the verge of drawing that to your attention along with a complaint, when that post disappeared, removed by "a blog administrator" whom I took to be you. I was grateful for that, and when I saw that Cowardly was beginning to post my name, title (Rev.) and the town where I live along with "pedophile," and I drew that to your , attention, I sincerely thought that you would not allow it, but you made no move at all to stop it.
This blog certainly got into the gutter several posts up, and I suppose it will eventually be headed that way again if there are NO restraints.
"the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female."
Does it get better or does it get worse.....you decide...from newsweek
President Donald Trump had a week defined by tumult—but what else is new? Amid the usual flurry of controversy, his popularity has taken a dip, according to the latest approval rating polls Saturday.
Notably, Trump's approval rating neared his all-time low in the Gallup poll. The latest figure in Gallup's tracking survey, released Thursday, pegged Trump's approval at just 35 percent, down from 38 percent at this point last week. He's just one percentage point higher than his lowest rating ever of 34 percent. To make matters worse for the commander-in-chief, Trump's disapproval was nearing his all-time high, as well. It stood at 60 percent, just one percentage point off from his all-time high of 61 percent in early September. The Gallup poll surveys 1,500 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
nd I see loretta is droning along continues to post like the ass she is.....how sad that she thinks anyone cares about her pathetic and lonely life....
Stump broke KD said... The individual today is more likely to be employed, off of welfare, buying a home and getting ahead finacial then at any time during the Lost years.
Sure idiot....what individual are you describing.....LOLOLOL
It seems Trump's claim that he had contacted "virtually everybody" who has been killed in service since he took office -- it seems his staff immediately knew that is simply NOI IRUE.
The new Dem chairman is calling Trump the most dangerous president in American history and the present Congress one of the most reactionary Congresses in all of American history.
Well, at least they're making history. That's about all they're doing.
I supported JFK without knowing about his philandering, supported his politics. (No rape charges.)
I supported Clinton without knowing about his philandering which may have included rape. After finding out about his ridiculous affair with Lewinsky, I still supported his administration's agenda. Even now I would rather have him in control of the nuclear codes than the spoiled, petulant, vengeful, unbalanced child now in the White House.
The DNC "used" a gold star family to push their immigration policy. They didn't celebrate the fact that their son was a military hero, the celebrated the fact that the Kahns were both born in Pakistan...
as if being born in a Pakistan gives you some sort of right to lecture everyone born here about how to be a proper American.
Aside from McCain, a bipartisan coalition of veterans, family members of military personnel killed in the line of duty, a veteran serving in Congress and an ex-diplomat sent a letter to Trump calling his criticism of the Khans an affront to each of them. It also called for him to apologize. --Washington Post
Regarding the posts above beginning at 5:17 about how big a sexual predator Bill O'Reilly was or was not.
(Senseless said he didn't commit rape.)
_____
'Outrageous:' Gretchen Carlson and others react to new Bill O'Reilly revelation Brian Stelter 1 hr ago
"I think it's horrifying and outrageous."
On CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday morning, Gretchen Carlson summed up how a lot of people felt about the latest revelation involving Bill O'Reilly and sexual harassment allegations.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that O'Reilly paid $32 million to a Fox News colleague who threatened to sue him for alleged sexual misconduct.
The settlement was struck in January. It was supposed to stay secret. Weeks later, Fox News renewed O'Reilly's contract, reportedly worth $25 million a year. Fox says it knew about the existence of the settlement, but not the price tag.
Twitter and Facebook lit up about the jaw-dropping payment. "Nobody pays $32m for false allegations - nobody," Carlson tweeted.
Joy Reid of MSNBC commented: "Let me guess: you just had $32 million lying around and decided to give it to a nice lady you totally didn't sexually assault."
O'Reilly told the Times he never mistreated anyone. ______________ The article continues.
164 comments:
A good call. Heartfelt.
Rep Wilson just called herself a rock star. There it is. That's what she is after.
Disgusting
Yep, she called General Kelly a racist for this term "empty barrel".
He should have used "Prattle".
HOW MJCH OF THIS SHOULD BE BLAMED ON TRUMP?
IF IT HAD HAPPENED DURING OBAMA'S WATCH,
YOU'D BE PUTTING ALL THE BLAME ON HIM.
Niger ambush came after 'massive intelligence failure,' source says
Oct 20th 2017 5:19PM
WASHINGTON — A senior congressional aide who has been briefed on the deaths of four U.S. servicemen in Niger says the ambush by militants stemmed in part from a "massive intelligence failure."
The Pentagon has said that 40 to 50 militants ambushed a 12-man U.S. force in Niger on Oct. 4, killing four and wounding two. The U.S. patrol was seen as routine and had been carried out nearly 30 times in the six months before the attack, the Pentagon has reported.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly, said the House and Senate armed services committees have questions about the scope of the U.S. mission in Niger, and whether the Pentagon is properly supporting the troops on the ground there.
There was no U.S. overhead surveillance of the mission, he said, and no American quick-reaction force available to rescue the troops if things went wrong. If it weren't for the arrival of French fighter jets, he said, things could have been much worse for the Americans.
Congress also has many unanswered questions about what happened, he said, including about the specifics of the mission that day and the accounts lawmakers have been given about the timeline of the attack and rescue.
The aide said questions are being asked about whether the U.S. soldiers were intentionally delayed in the village they were visiting. He said they began pursuing some men on motorcycles, who lured them into a complex ambush. The enemy force had "technical" vehicles — light, improvised military vehicles — and rocket-propelled grenades, the official said.
After the rescue when it became clear that one soldier was missing, "movements and actions to try and find him and bring him back were considered. They just were not postured properly [to get him]." The body of Sgt. La David Johnson was not recovered until nearly 48 hours after the Oct. 4 attack.
The Pentagon said that conclusions about an intelligence failure were premature.
On Friday afternoon, Defense Secretary James Mattis met with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to discuss the Niger raid.
Earlier this week, McCain said the committee had not been provided with the information about the Niger mission that it "deserves."
Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said Congress will require more information from a Trump administration that is expanding counter terrorism operations across the globe.
Trump is loosening the rules of engagement when it comes to lethal action against terrorists, and expanding the counterterrorism fight to different parts of the world, including across Africa, Graham said.
"The war is morphing," he said. "You're going to see more actions in Africa, not less."
In that context, Graham said, "I will insist that Congress is informed more often and in more detail," about military operations.
He added, "As the war expands, as the military had more authority, Congress is going to require more information."
Kelly misrepresented Rep. Frederica Wilson's 2015 speech while criticizing her over Gold Star family controversy
A video shows that White House chief of staff John Kelly was wrong about Rep. Frederica Wilson's 2015 speech.
The video shows Wilson took credit for fast-tracking an FBI building's naming process rather than securing its funding.
This is the latest episode in a feud this week involving Rep. Wilson, President Donald Trump, and John Kelly.
White House chief of staff John Kelly's claim that Rep. Frederica Wilson had boasted about procuring funding for an FBI field office in 2015 was proven wrong by a video released by The Sun Sentinel on Friday, backing up Wilson's claim that she had only taken credit for working across the aisle to name the building after two FBI agents who were killed in the line of duty.
Kelly called Wilson an "empty barrel" on Thursday and rebuked her for taking credit for securing funding for the future FBI building. Wilson, however, shot back and denied the claim, which was corroborated by the video of her speech.
I have no idea what is racist about empty barrel.
????
Typical knee jerk response, accusations of racism no matter what is said or done.
I'm a fucking loser.
Signed,
Rev James Boswell pedophile
Chris Wallace calls out the empty space between their ears at Faux "News " bullshit.
One thing that’s been an absolute staple of Fox News’ programming during the Age of Trump has been a heavy criticism of the mainstream media’s coverage. With the president spending much of his time complaining about “fake news” in response to reporting he doesn’t like, the network’s opinion hosts and commentators have parroted POTUS’s attacks and devoted segments to hammering other outlets.
In an interview with the Associated Press this week, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace put his colleagues on blast over their penchant for discrediting the press. As he puts it, whenever these media attacks are uttered on the air by an opinion host or commentator, that person should realize they are also essentially slamming Fox News reporters and journalists.
From the AP article:
“It bothers me,” Wallace said in an interview. “If they want to say they like Trump, or that they’re upset with the Democrats, that’s fine. That’s opinion. That’s what they do for a living.“I don’t like them bashing the media, because oftentimes what they’re bashing is stuff that we on the news side are doing. I don’t think they recognize that they have a role at Fox News and we have a role at Fox News. I don’t know what’s in their head. I just think it’s bad form.”
I'm a fucking loser.
Signed,
Rev James Boswell pedophile
I suck dicks.
signed,
S. Scott Johnson,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
I suck dicks too.
Lydia likes to watch.
Signed,
Roger Lynn Amick
West Covina, California
That's sick.
I would never let my wife watch.
S. Scott Johnson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
My wife loves to watch me suck dicks.
Signed,
Roger Amick
West Covina, California
Whoever is posting these stop it
I guess we know how the drunkard feels about CH.
I had nothing to do with any of that, twit.
Sure.
"massive intelligence failure" pretty much sums up the Oval Office these days.
It also very aptly describes what occurred on November 8, 2016.
You are trying to lay the blame on me. You have no evidence, it's pure imagination in your mind, such as it is twit.
.. Ironically enough that their that General Kelly, either didn't know what he said was mistaken or lied about Representative Fredrica Wilson at the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/wilson-says-kelly-lied-used-racist-term-his-emotional-briefing-n812541?cid=public-rss_20171021
"A congresswoman stood up, and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money," Kelly said Thursday. "And she sat down, and we were stunned. Stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned."
The funding for the building was approved in September 2010, before Wilson won her congressional election, according to the Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article179869321.html
The actual truth is that she spoke in praise of the Democrats and Republicans who
arranged for the construction of the facility. The video is available at the link above.
I was very disappointed when the real truth came out. He was forced to defend the undetectable President.
We all know who has been posting the garage. I call him K'putz. aka KD.
He's absolutely obsessed with me. I use my real name. It's my choice. He even goes after me and calls me transgender because my middle name is Lynn.
My Uncle was killed in combat in 1944. He was 34 years old, and not subject to the draft. He, like millions of Americans volunteered to serve their country. I met his wife and daughter as I was growing up. I even went deer hunting with his grandson in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was a lousy shot. I got his deer. But we kept that a secret.
I didn't say anything like he is claiming. In this case, our host should remove them. He can't be sued, but in this case it sure would be allowed.
Again, no one cares about your family.
Fact of the matter is, you're the only one who has ever called CH, "S. Scott."
True, it "could" be any of you three. But, since you've already been busted while pretending to be "James"....
....odds are it's you pretending to be CH.
I notice that Roger is more concern about Kelly calling out Wilson's bizarre bragging rather than Wilson deliberately smearing Kelly as a racist and a white supremacist.
That in a nutshell tells you what a despicable person Roger is.
So sad. Unable to win intellectually they resort to that.
I believe as we get closer to the 1st Anniversary of the WIN, they will become more nutz.
MSDNC's ralph "strap on" maddow cooked up a conspiracy theory so thoroughly fucked up even the Puff Ho called bullshit on her:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-niger-travel-ban_us_59ea060fe4b05b4f1c3ad52f?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
First Trump lied and said Obama didn't give his condolences to the families of soldiers killed in action.
Then he tried to double down by claiming that was true for his chief of staff, John Kelly (whose son was killed in Afghanistan,) but in fact the record shows that in May 2011 Kelly and his family attended in person a breakfast with President Obama with other gold star families (Kelly has prudently said nothing about Trump's claim that Obama ignored him.)
Finally, Trump did call the widow of a soldier who was killed in action this week-- and rubbed it in her face by telling her 'he knew what he signed up for.' Well, of course he did, but that's the LAST thing he should tell a grieving widow.
W
Maybe Trump should just shut up about this before he keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper...
Eli Blake.
The US Stock Market put in one of its best weeks ever.
With a majority of whites invested in the wealth creating machine. Is it racist.
Gen Kelley said he and his family were not called by jv obama.
Cnn source for my last post and Kelly pressor, obama never called.
Blogger Commonsense said...
I notice that Roger is more concern about Kelly calling out Wilson's bizarre bragging rather than Wilson deliberately smearing Kelly as a racist and a white supremacist.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
well, you have to give roger credit...
when he decides to go all in on a particular liberal issue of the day, it's usually the most indefensible issue possible, and it's chief spokesperson/antagonist is usually the most fucked up, looney tunes, liberal asshat on the planet.
case in point -
the term "empty barrel" is racist. freddy-rica knows this because, according to her, she looked it up in the dictionary.
I have read that story. He's not a racist rodent bigot. She went to far with the comments.
But not once, ever ever since he was elected president, not one of you have ever called out the President for his daily lies, exaggerations, and childish insults and tweets, against anyone who has ever dared to differ from him. NOT ONCE
Liar!
Hypocrisy is alive and well with the truthers on the right-wing side of the blog.
Never
WHITE HOUSE Chief of Staff John F. Kelly owes Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) an apology. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn after watching a video of the representative’s remarks at the dedication of an FBI building in Miramar, Fla., in 2015.
Mr. Kelly took to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday to defend President Trump’s handling of a condolence call to a widow of one of the soldiers killed in Niger and to attack Ms. Wilson as selfish and politically motivated for her criticism. To bolster that characterization, he offered up his remembrance of the dedication of the FBI building in memory of two FBI agents who had been killed in the line of duty. He claimed Ms. Wilson used the occasion to take unseemly credit for securing federal funding for the building. “We were stunned,” he said, “stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.”
But, as a video by the Florida Sun Sentinel of Ms. Wilson’s remarks that day shows, Mr. Kelly got it all wrong. She did not say she got money for the building. She was generous and graceful in sharing credit for how legislation naming the building was fast-tracked. And she spent most of her nine-minute speech praising the FBI agents killed in a gunfight with drug dealers: “Today it is our patriotic duty to lift up Special Agent Benjamin Grogan and Special Agent Jerry Dove from the streets of South Florida and place their names and pictures high, where the world will know that we are proud of their sacrifice, sacrifice for our nation.”
It is unfortunate that the sacrifice of brave people such as these two agents or the four soldiers killed in Niger can get overwhelmed by the petty name-calling of politics. That is a point Mr. Kelly was trying to make Thursday, and that he undercut with his misrepresentation of Ms. Wilson. He needs to set the record straight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-kelly-owes-the-congresswoman-an-apology/2017/10/20/c81205e2-b5c1-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.0fb607ff398d
The editorial board of the Washington Post.
Stumpy the KD said...
Gen Kelley said he and his family were not called by jv obama.
Which proves what....that trump was the one who initially brought up the subject?:???? Like the NFL BS....should never have been an issue until the idiot in chief tweeted.....and continues....so sad....
But not once, ever ever since he was elected president, not one of you have ever called out the President for his daily lies, exaggerations, and childish insults and tweets, against anyone who has ever dared to differ from him. NOT ONCE
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
that's correct alky. and as CH tried to explain to you a couple days ago, when it comes to those little nickledick issues that drive you and your fellow leftist asshats into a rage, us sane folks who are focused on the bigger picture ...
just.
don't.
care.
the only value trump's tweets, etc. have to a guy like me is for their cheap entertainment value. you see, i'm secure in the knowledge that at least once every couple days, trump is going to do something/say something/tweet something that is going to drive you completely batshit fucking crazy.
i mean, it's almost like trump is in on the gag with US, and does shit just to fuck with YOU, purely for OUR entertainment.
i'm going to stay focused on things that matter: economy, domestic policy, foreign policy, taxes, unemployment.
and you?
as the dos equis guy said to the beaner whose culture he had appropriated:
"stay angry my friend."
WHITE HOUSE Chief of Staff John F. Kelly owes Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) an apology.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LOL.
only to a piece of shit liberal asshat.
he made her a "rock star." what the fuck more does she want?
I have posted that video.
She never, not once, said what Kelly said.
I know how hard it is to show you the facts. 99% of the time, you resort to personal insult. It really bugs you that despite some serious issues in my life, I'm working daily to follow the 12 steps. I also have been very happy in my life, the love of a wonderful woman, and recovery from the liver transplant. And yeah it is fun, to work out and tell you about it. 😈😈😈
What you just cannot understand, is that the President is a threat to the very foundations and principles that have kept the longest single government nation on earth. I'm not alone. George W Bush, very well articulated the same concerns.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Hypocrisy is alive and well with the truthers on the right-wing side of the blog.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
the prerequisite for me being a hypocrite about trump's nonsense is giving a shit first. and i don't.
i leave the trivial stuff to the small thinkers like you, alky.
Why I hate R's and their bigotry ......but what is the use?????
Sitting on Mary Maddox's back porch, which flooded with 22 inches of water when Hurricane Harvey hit nearly two months ago, is a Lady of the Night plant from Puerto Rico that a friend gave her. Ever since Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, she says, she has paused at the blooming plant when she passes it, rubbing a leaf and saying a prayer for those still without water or electricity.
Often, the prayer is accompanied by frustration with President Donald Trump, whom she voted for and who visited this neighborhood after Harvey.
"He really made me mad," said Maddox, 70, who accused Trump of trying to pit those on the mainland against Puerto Ricans, even though they're all Americans.
"I don't know," said her husband, Fred Maddox, 75. "I think he's trying."
He continued: "It's a problem, but they need to handle it. It shouldn't be up to us, really. I don't think so. They're sitting back, they're taking the money, they're taking a little under the table. He's trying to wake them up: Do your job. Be responsible."
The divide in the Maddox household is one playing out across the country, as those who voted for the president debate how much support the federal government should give Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory without a voting member of Congress that is not allowed to vote in presidential elections.
Some supporters of the president, like Fred Maddox, agree with Trump that Puerto Rico's infrastructure was frail before the storm; that the crisis was worsened by a lack of leadership there; and that the federal government should limit its involvement in the rebuilding effort, which will likely cost billions of dollars. But others, like Mary Maddox, are appalled by how the president talks about Puerto Rico and say the United States has a moral obligation to take care of its citizens.
A survey released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that a majority of Americans believe that the federal government has been too slow to respond in Puerto Rico and that the island still isn't getting the help it needs. But the results largely broke along party lines: While nearly three-quarters of Democrats said the federal government isn't doing enough, almost three-quarters of Republicans said it is.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/puerto-rico-hurricane-recovery/ct-trump-voters-hurricane-relief-puerto-rico-20171020-story.html
This sums it up.
us sane folks who are focused on the bigger picture ...
Mr. Beaners and moose limbs etc and of course alkyl alky spam and again and again for the sane folks..
LMAO
She never, not once, said what Kelly said.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
the only people who care are you, her, and the WaPo editorial board.
none of whom matter.
Marine General Kelly is a 4-star and a Gold Star. our nation owes him a debt which we can never repay.
and he owes absolutely NOTHING to a rodeo clown parasite with the IQ of a potted plant.
if anything, if the rodeo clown parasite had any sense of class and decorum, she would be the one apologizing. for stirring the turds on this issue in the first place.
Rathole the idiot posted..
you a couple days ago, when it comes to those little nickledick issues that drive
Yeah, like the kneeling comes to mind and how that is now the most important social issue for you idiot non thinkers....Awesome that you recognize trumpie is his own worst enemy, but remain mute....Idiots...
CH and I have exchanged greetings and addresses. I have never ever ever ever posted the personal information. He has chosen to keep a distance , his choice. Life goes on.
I'm still wondering what is racist about empty barrel.
And the real intelligence failure is the stupid dnc super delegates handing their nomination to a historically unlikable and corrupt candidate when their other candidate had all the attention momentum and would probably be president today. Trump would not have won MI, WI, OH and PA vs Bernie.
Correction
if anything, if the rodeo clown parasite had any sense of class and decorum, he would be the one apologizing. for stirring the turds on this issue in the first place when he said that Obama never called to express condolences or wrote letters to the Gold Star family members.
Myballs, I agree that the empty barrel comment is racist???????
Bernie Sanders?? Perhaps.
Rat hole....posted....
Marine General Kelly is a 4-star
So fucking what....I've worked with many retired generals and found them to be institutionalized idiots who are not used to dealing with subordinates that question their authority....IOW's not leaders in industry.....but poor excuses in management....
Kelly made the same mistake Trump so often makes.
Although Kelly's defense of Trump's call to the wife of the fallen serviceman was heartfelt and well delivered, he made the mistake of lodging an unnecessary attack against Rep. Wilson, an attack in which he made an accusation that simply was not true as a video of her short speech clearly shows.
Contrary to what Kelly alleged, the video shows that she did NOT take credit for getting the money for the building, only for helping pass legislation naming the building after two fallen federal agents.
In making the unnecessary accusation, Kelly lowered himself in the eyes of everyone.
Far too much of that has been going on.
hey alky,
a whole pack of snowflakes got triggered up in south dakota:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/10/a-liberal-visits-south-dakota-and-freaks-out-at-the-sight-of-guns.php
thought you'd be interested.
And hypocrite Rat would be hammering away at it constantly if someone left of center made such a mistake.
Myballs said...
I'm still wondering what is racist about empty barrel.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
well, according to freddy-rica, she looked up the term in the dick-shun-airy.
so it's racist because shut up.
George W. Bush: I thought that he was the worst president ever,until now.
On Thursday, former President George W. Bush gave one of the most important and profound speeches in modern presidential history, in remarks almost universally viewed as a warning of the dangers of Donald Trump's presidency — without ever mentioning his name.
In a speech that offered a powerful statement on the core vision of Americanism, Bush warned of the dangers of bullying and prejudice in politics. He warned the nation about nationalism that is distorted into nativism and that divides America from its democratic friends in the world.
He warned the nation about intolerance and bigotry that divides our people against each other and demeans the values that patriotic Americans share.
I covered similar matters in my column in The Hill this week. The speech by former President Bush lifted the debate to a presidential level of patriotism. It followed an equally profound speech by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warning about a "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that reminds him of conditions in the 1930s that preceded World War II.
During his vital and historically important speech, Bush condemned a political discourse that sets a negative national tone and provides permission for cruelty and bigotry.
In his call for national unity and racial justice, Bush said bigotry and white supremacy in any form are blasphemy against the American creed and warned against politics that are polluted by conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. He warned of a democratic vision that is under attack from foreign enemies.
While former President Bush was making his case, former President Barack Obama was making almost exactly the same points in speeches in New Jersey and Virginia with his call for national unity, mutual respect and social progress.
Not long ago, Newton Minow, the FCC commissioner under President Kennedy, called on all living former presidents from both political parties to speak out together against the dangers of the Trump presidency. Slowly but surely, this is now coming to pass, with two former presidents representing both major parties making powerful and compelling statements on the same day, driving home the same point.
Consider the scope and magnitude of the warnings about the dangers of the Trump presidency that have been offered in recent days — and by whom.
The previous Republican president and the last Democratic president followed the warning from the 2008 Republican nominee and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. McCain, and the warning from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who sounded an alarm about the increasing odds of World War III.
President Bush's speech was a landmark event that will ultimately be seen by historians as a major inflection point in which the dangers of the Trump presidency were seen as so severe and ominous that speaking out became a responsibility for those who have led our nation before.
It is unprecedented for a sitting president to falsely criticize his presidential predecessors — as Trump recently did — for not caring enough about troops who gave their lives in service to our country.
It is equally unprecedented, and far more historically profound, when former presidents feel patriotically compelled to speak out against the dangers created by a successor president.
Until this week, President Bush made it a defining habit to not criticize the presidents who followed them. This week, George W. Bush felt morally and patriotically compelled to speak out with clarity at a critical and dangerous moment. It was his finest hour.
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/356361-in-his-finest-hour-bush-sounds-alarm-bell-on-trump
Buck Sexton ✔@BuckSexton
Media 2 days ago: gold star family members are sacred and must be respected
Media today: General Kelly is a liar and racist
https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/921241940804243456 …
if hypocrisy had actual calories you could easily spot a liberal because it would weigh at least 600 pounds.
breaking news from alky-central:
liberal ass hat who hated bush hates trump even more:
Brent Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), then-chief deputy majority whip of the House.
The total destruction of rrb has been a riot!!!!!!!!
Indeed. His finest hour.
Bill Kristol has been equally disgusted with Trumpism.. He said that on Twitter.. rrb, you are a joke.
At least Rat could figure out that Bush was attacking Trump, something that Senseless actually tried to deny.
LOL ROFL
rrb is an intellectual midget.
Kristol was practically in tears when Trump won. Lol
A lot of people were, especially women.
Including numerous Republican women.
Funny, it was women who put Trump over the top.
2018 is looking particularly good for Republicans and 2020 is looking good for Trump.
TRUMP still BIG FAVORITE TO WIN IN 2020
"And despite pressure building on the President, including Flynt putting up a $10 million bounty on any information which could see him removed from office, there is no shortage of money for Trump to become a two-term president."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/aussie-punter-unloads-120000-on-trump-win-in-2020/news-story/07032fbcb23ba95fd80104d49103b748
guess they are unaware of the impending impeachment...LOL
Funny, it was women who put Trump over the top.
Funny, I always thought it was the ill informed uneducated idiots like yourself, menstral...
Deplorables Opie. It's why Clinton lost and it's why you're reduced to impotent, primal screams.
Funny, it was women who put Trump over the top.
Funny,
54% of the women's vote was for Clinton.
42% of the women's vote was for Trump.
You can make up your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Deplorables Opie.
What is deplorable is trump taking an honorable man like Kelly and having him support the liar in chief in spite of the facts. Selling ones soul to the devil is what trump demands and you accept and defend....Clinton lost because she had 3 million more votes than trump, but in the wrong states....oh well....
RRB.
Everytime one of the effeminate trifecta of liberal stooges post about calling the Enemies of the US a name, they show a little more skirt.
It is a proud and long standing tradition to label the enemy.
So unkind to point out Kelly actual IS a Gold Star Dad, he was never a racist, until three days ago.
"Empty Barrel" new racist term, unbelievable.
1st Anniversary of Trump Win. Priceless.
1 year of 365 excuses from hillary blaming others for here loss.
That access hollywierd was suppose to kill of the woman vote, did just the opposite.
I have so enjoyed the open public records of the State of California.
They do a very extensive job.
Gawd your a dummy
Wasn't enough.
64% of the white women's vote was for Trump.
80% of the men's vote was for Trump.
Clinton is still bitter that white women abandoned her.
Stump broken kd the idiot post....
So unkind to point out Kelly actual IS a Gold Star Da
And so were the Khan's that trump dissed. It is sad that the honorable kelly has been brought down to trumps mantra of lying and making shit up....another reputation down the shitter....
Clinton is still bitter that white women abandoned her.
So in your book, black women don't count...how white of you menstral.....LOL
Opie - Two Points.
General Kelly did not go up and give his press conference because he was told to. Anyone who actually watched it, knows that General Kelly was speaking from his heart and from what he felt was right. No General like Kelly is going to be "told" to go do something he didn't want to do or defend something military related that he didn't want to defend. This was clearly personal to him... and he was mad at the Congresswoman, not the President.
Donald Trump won because he concentrated on doing what it was that was necessary to win... which was win the majority of Electoral College Votes. Hillary Clinton lost because she concentrated on doing what she thought was politically expedient and did things like spend tens of millions running Spanish speaking ads in states like California and Texas (so she could brag up her Hispanic support).
Wouldn't you rather have the person who actually understood what it took to win, did it on half the budget... than the person who spent twice as much on things that didn't matter?
Most Think Trump Will Be One of the Worst Presidents
A new Marist poll finds that 58% of Americans believe Donald Trump will be remembered as either one of the worst presidents or the worst president in the nation’s history.
Kd the idiot posted.....
"Empty Barrel" new racist term...
I bet you consider that a term of endearment....it sure was not showing any respect for her as trump called a whacky congressman to boot......yer an idiot and even your hero busch thinks is over the top....but, wtf, it's just bush who bannon blasted to a thunderous round of applause in CA.....
Interesting.
CNN reports Senate Intelligence Committee investigators have spoken with some of the Russians who attended the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner.
[Chairman Richard] Burr, R-North Carolina, would not say which Russians, or how many, investigators have spoken with. Committee officials declined to comment further.
There were three Russians in the June 9th meeting -- lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and businessman Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze.
Chairman Burr (R-NC) says the committee is being very deliberate as to whom it interviews when:
The intelligence committee has previously met with both Kushner and Manafort, but has not yet brought in Trump Jr. Burr said the committee is "sequencing" its interviews to speak with everyone else "involved in the meeting before we know exactly what we want from Don Jr."
Senate investigators spoke with Russians present at Trump Tower meeting with Trump Jr. (CNN)
General Kelly did not go up and give his press conference because he was told to
YOU DON'T KNOW THAT AS FACT CH!!!! That is nothing but your opinion....I'm sure kelly got those funding talking points doing his own research and not from Chucklebee..... BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Donald Trump won because he concentrated on doing what it was that was necessary to win
Which is exactly what I said before with my wrong states comment...You seem a little anxious today to make points I already made...Must be the water....you seem to be losing it....Kelly is now a trumpian liar....sorry, his reputation is in the shitter...
It wasn't just Clinton's fault. No Russian intervention, but Trump used the fears of most middle age, non college educated to swing just about 75,000 voters in PA, etc. But Clinton's fault was she's not likable. She couldn't find a way to look good.
looks like the politically blind "pastor" left this of from his political_lire spam
"Said pollster Lee Miringoff: “Deep into his first year as president, Donald Trump’s less than stellar approval rating has lowered expectations about how history will judge him. For history to treat him kinder, he will have to up his game.”
Guess the asshole even tries to spin the spin.
ROFLMFAO !!!
I wish that no one should change their identities.
It's simple Opie...
Trump won the only thing that mattered.
306-232
The rest is just an excuse, and excuses are for...
LOSERS!!!!
Again, lol @ Little Lady Lynn.
Excuses, excuses and excuses.
I will be posting your qoutes starting Thursday on you begging , pleading for the Republicans to Nominate The Donald.
About you calling Hillary "Unbeatable" by 45.
Roger -
There is literally nothing interesting about that story.
It a Seinfeld episode. A story about nothing.
A flashing light to distract liberals from the actual "new" news that is coming out about Russia, the FBI, and the Democrats.
306 Winner
232 Loser, bitter old nag
"Empty Barrel"
Racist. - nope
Term of endearment - nope
STUMPY THE KD IDIOT and our esteemed host said...
306 Winner
Can't fix stupid can we???? Your desperation and living in the past is exactly what will bring you and your party down....LOLOLOL Being a winnah ain't what it is cracked up to be especially for an intellectually deficient and bored potus whose whole being is name calling and acting childish like KS, loretta and rathole and you CH.....
Racist. - nope
Asshole....it is a term of endearment for the superior white man.....LOLOLOLOL
11:19 Roger Amick said...
I wish that no one should change their identities.
James said:
I can assure you it was this individual, who often goes calls himself Cowardly King Obama, who put up the disgusting fellatio post with your name and location on it, just as he puts up fake posts with my name and location and the designation pedophile on it.
I resent the obscenity in reference to "my" daddy.
I think Ch should delete such posts, including any references to me as a pedophile and any references to himself or others as enjoying fellatio.
This board would greatly improve too if we all agreed to stop using the f word.
jmho -- James
NYT Cheaper Health Plans Promoted by Trump Have a History of Fraud
By ROBERT PEAR 28 mins ago
WASHINGTON — In signing a recent executive order, President Trump promised that millions of Americans could soon obtain “great, great health care” through inexpensive plans that offer consumers options they had been denied under the Affordable Care Act.
But these health plans, created for small businesses, have a darker side: They have a long history of fraud and abuse that have left employers and employees with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills.
The problems are described in dozens of court cases and enforcement actions taken over more than a decade by federal and state officials who regulate the type of plans Mr. Trump is encouraging, known as association health plans.
In many cases, the Labor Department said, it has targeted “unscrupulous promoters who sell the promise of inexpensive health benefit insurance, but default on their obligations.” In several cases, it has found that people managing these health plans diverted premiums to their personal use.
The department filed suit this year against an association health plan for 300 small employers in Washington State, asserting that its officers had mismanaged the plan’s assets and charged employers more than $3 million in excessive “administrative fees.”
Operators of the health plan violated their fiduciary duty by using its assets “in their own interest,” rather than for the benefit of workers, the government said.
Marc I. Machiz, who investigated insurance fraud as a Labor Department lawyer for more than 20 years, said the executive order was “summoning back demons from the deep.”
___________
The article continues.
James-
I find if very "liberal" of you to demand others follow etiquette guidelines, while you refuse to follow etiquette guidelines...
Never judge the activity of those you agree with politically... even if they blatantly refuse to follow laws, rules, and decorum.
It's never about "right and wrong" with liberals... always about what political affiliation you are.
This blog would improve MORE if James and Roger would show some self-respect.
Stop spamming every thread.
Things we know:
James thinks teenage girls are sexy.
James spams the blog because he's an obnoxious, rude, vindictive, hate-filled old man.
Roger thinks Roger is sexy.
Roger spams every thread because he's jealous of CH, pissed off at CH for blocking him, pissed off because he can't make the trash blog successful.
All they have to do?
At least try to act like decent human beings.
Over and over and over...
"jamesOctober 21, 2017 at 12:10 PM
NYT Cheaper Health Plans Promoted by Trump Have a History of Fraud
By ROBERT PEAR 28 mins ago"
Vindictive old man will do what HE wants to do...
"James said:
I can assure you it was this individual, who often goes calls himself Cowardly King Obama, who put up the disgusting fellatio post with your name and location on it, just as he puts up fake posts with my name and location and the designation pedophile on it."
Right that I do post as cowardly king obama.
All the rest you state is absolutely fucking wrong and a total lie. "pastors" should know better than to falsely charge people. I suspect some of those postings are actually you. What I can say for certain is that you continue to post spam from political_lire and that I only post after you do. And that is a fact. And I will continue to react to your improper behavior with my descriptive moniker. FUCK OFF ASSHOLE.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Okay, Ch. If that's want you want, the war goes on, no holds barred.
But if you would assure me you would not allow slanders to be published here attached to my name, I would agree to cut back on "spam." By the way, Rat and others often put up some "spam" and it is at least enlightening. It seems it is only "spam" if Roger or I do it.
Actually I post here articles that I think are interesting counters to right wing thinking. Posting here forces me to read them myself.
Oh, and I do indeed think teenage girls, post pubescent ones that is, can be sexy. I have always thought so.
Okay, Ch. If that's want you want, the war goes on, no holds barred.
James. You are too immature to follow rules and quite frankly you are simply not intellectually bright enough to come up with your own thoughts.
So you are destined to continue to break etiquette and then get your panties in a wad when people criticize you for it.
I would make a wager that if you quit spamming the threads, that the other nonsense would likely come to a screeching halt... but (again) you are not bright enough to see what's obvious... so you will continue to do whatever the hell you want and continue to complain non-stop that others are not "also" doing what you want.
You're a perverted leacherous old man.
Disgusting
And no one reads your spam
Vindictive with unnatural desires.
I would make a wager that if you quit spamming the threads, that the other nonsense would likely come to a screeching halt..
Exactly, he's brought this upon himself
Well, Ch, I suppose you think I have no right
to think that being called a pedophile both
by name and location and occupation is totally
unacceptable and should not be allowed.
By the way, several days ago Cowardly put up
a post in which my name was linked with fellatio,
and I was on the verge of drawing that to your
attention along with a complaint, when that post
disappeared, removed by "a blog administrator"
whom I took to be you. I was grateful for that,
and when I saw that Cowardly was beginning to post
my name, title (Rev.) and the town where I live
along with "pedophile," and I drew that to your ,
attention, I sincerely thought that you would not
allow it, but you made no move at
all to stop it.
This blog certainly got into the gutter several posts
up, and I suppose it will eventually be headed that
way again if there are NO restraints.
"You're a perverted leacherous old man.
Disgusting"
Dangerous.
A pastor of over fifty years with NO accusations
of perversion or lechery.
Not disgusting. Not dangerous.
"Oh, and I do indeed think teenage girls, post pubescent ones that is, can be sexy. I have always thought so."
Just wow.
Now I must continue working on my sermon re
Jesus's answer the Sadducees who did not
believe in a resurrection of the dead.
"the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female."
Just wow.
The last time I was attracted to a little girl that I can remember, she was in the second grade and I was In the third.
WOW!!! DISGUSTING!!! LECHERY!!!
LOL
"Now I must continue working on my sermon re
Jesus's answer the Sadducees who did not
believe in a resurrection of the dead."
"Oh, and I do indeed think teenage girls, post pubescent ones that is, can be sexy. I have always thought so."
But now I am going to take at least a temporary vow:
No more spam from me, just my own considered opinions.
Does it get better or does it get worse.....you decide...from newsweek
President Donald Trump had a week defined by tumult—but what else is new? Amid the usual flurry of controversy, his popularity has taken a dip, according to the latest approval rating polls Saturday.
Notably, Trump's approval rating neared his all-time low in the Gallup poll. The latest figure in Gallup's tracking survey, released Thursday, pegged Trump's approval at just 35 percent, down from 38 percent at this point last week. He's just one percentage point higher than his lowest rating ever of 34 percent. To make matters worse for the commander-in-chief, Trump's disapproval was nearing his all-time high, as well. It stood at 60 percent, just one percentage point off from his all-time high of 61 percent in early September. The Gallup poll surveys 1,500 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
nd I see loretta is droning along continues to post like the ass she is.....how sad that she thinks anyone cares about her pathetic and lonely life....
Fuck you slow jackass
Lol, war, omg, what is next, a sit i
The individual today is more likely to be employeed, off of welfare, buying a home and getting ahead finacial then at any time during the Lost years.
My bitch.
Loretta the loser said...
All I got "My bitch". LOLOLOL
Stump broke KD said...
Fuck you slow jackass
Awesome!!! What ever that means.....LOL
Stump broke KD said...
The individual today is more likely to be employed, off of welfare, buying a home and getting ahead finacial then at any time during the Lost years.
Sure idiot....what individual are you describing.....LOLOLOL
Pretty boring. About the only thing interesting was Commie's info about Trump's huge disapproval rating.
It seems Trump's claim that he had contacted "virtually everybody" who has been killed in service since he took office -- it seems his staff immediately knew that is simply NOI IRUE.
https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/21/pentagon-document-contradicts-trumps-gold-star-claims/
Now, it's not spam if you put the thought in your own words and supply a source. Loretta always said so.
That "vow" didn't last long.
Who is the biggest sexual predator?
Weinstein or Bill O'Reil
Whinstien going away.
Bill Clinton
Bill Cosby
Indeed. O'Reilly didn't rape anybody. Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein did.
Come to think of it. Bill Clinton was a hero of yours James.
Those individuals with jobs
Those individuals with a new home
Those individuals off of unemployment
Those individuals building wealth
Running victory laps around the lost years
This week baby blue dress Monica said she too was a Victim.
Victim of Bill the Rapist.
Common thread running thru these rapes, Hillary Rotten Clinton.
Less then 3 hours , no personal control.
O'Reilly didn't rape anybody? Are you sure?
Didn't he just settle with someone for 35 mil?
Yes, the women who accuse O'Reilly of sexual harassment never accused him of rape.
Unlike your heros Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, and Harvey Weinstein.
-- a nonconsensual sexual relationship--
Sounds like rape to me.
Cosby and Weinstein are not heroes of mine.
Clinton is in spite of and not because of his philandering.
The new Dem chairman is calling Trump the most dangerous president in American history and the present Congress one of the most reactionary Congresses in all of American
history.
Well, at least they're making history. That's about all they're doing.
Same thing was said about W and Reagan.
Democrats never changed that tune.
One of the reasons they are being tuned out.
NYT
O’Reilly Settled New Harassment Claims, Then Fox Renewed His Contract
boyoboy
Clinton is in spite of and not because of his philandering.
In other words you enabled and tolerated a sexual predator as long as he was fulfilling your agenda.
You're no better than all those pimps covering for Harvey Weinstein.
I supported JFK without knowing about his philandering,
supported his politics. (No rape charges.)
I supported Clinton without knowing about his philandering which may have included rape. After finding out about his ridiculous affair with Lewinsky, I still supported his administration's agenda. Even now I would rather have him in control of the nuclear codes than the spoiled, petulant, vengeful, unbalanced child now in the White House.
Bingo, I see the queen of prattle is defending rapist, but just the ones with a D.
Defending rapist with a D behind their name.
Wow
"In other words you enabled and tolerated a sexual predator as long as he was fulfilling your agenda."
I know you're not surprised.
Jane finds a new way to hit a new personal low.
Jane don't forget the Murderer Ted Kennedy?
Even now I would rather have Clinton in control of the nuclear codes than the spoiled, petulant, vengeful, unbalanced child now in the White House.
And many other would be relieved if that could be the case.
When Clinton left office he was riding high in the pools.
Trump has never EVEN ONCE been above water on the Gallup or in the RCP averages.
And many other Americans would be relived ...
LOL riding high in the polls
Jane. When you look at the sexual depraved, what do you think of Carlos Danger?
My name is not Jane.
Trump Accusers Are Wondering
"Why is he still in the White House?"
NYT
‘My pain is everyday’: After Weinstein’s fall, Trump accusers wonder: Why not him?
Sorry jane you lost.
Women were treated horribly by a buffoon who is now a sitting president. They lost. And our nation lost and is losing.
I have some advice. Shut the fuck up on the irresponsible allegations and move on.
I have the same advice to President Trump, shut the fuck up on congresswoman Wilson.
But Wilson calling a four star general and a gold star dad a white supremacist is peachy keen with you right Roger?
God you're such a hypocrite.
Talk misogynous, Roger now call women's accusations of rape and sexual assault irresponsible.
But Wilson calling a four star general and a gold star dad a white supremacist
She missed liar.......and how did trump treat the kahn family , menstral????
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438692/donald-trump-gold-star-khan-family-can-trump-cross-fitness-threshold
Idiot
You may want to ask how the Kahn how that treated Trump.
Nobody forced him to get in front of Democrats and trash Trump.
He volunteered all on his own.
When you decide to get down into the political arena then you lose the protection of your gold star status and become fair game.
The thing that really pissed me off about this whole episode is that the family didn't ask to be put into the middle of a political firestorm.
A grandstanding Congresswomen did that to them.
The DNC "used" a gold star family to push their immigration policy. They didn't celebrate the fact that their son was a military hero, the celebrated the fact that the Kahns were both born in Pakistan...
as if being born in a Pakistan gives you some sort of right to lecture everyone born here about how to be a proper American.
John McCain did not agree with you, Ch.
CNN: John McCain's powerful statement to the Khans
Aside from McCain, a bipartisan coalition of veterans, family members of military personnel killed in the line of duty, a veteran serving in Congress and an ex-diplomat sent a letter to Trump calling his criticism of the Khans an affront to each of them. It also called for him to apologize.
--Washington Post
fuck john mccain.
captain "complete the dang fence" & promise to repeal 0linsky-care is a fucking liar.
Jane, you name calling is out of control, please refrain.
The left only cares about using the gold star families as a wedge.
HB, wants this Wilson issue to go away, I see why.
Regarding the posts above beginning at 5:17 about how big a sexual predator Bill O'Reilly was or was not.
(Senseless said he didn't commit rape.)
_____
'Outrageous:' Gretchen Carlson and others react to new Bill O'Reilly revelation
Brian Stelter 1 hr ago
"I think it's horrifying and outrageous."
On CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday morning, Gretchen Carlson summed up how a lot of people felt about the latest revelation involving Bill O'Reilly and sexual harassment allegations.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that O'Reilly paid $32 million to a Fox News colleague who threatened to sue him for alleged sexual misconduct.
The settlement was struck in January. It was supposed to stay secret. Weeks later, Fox News renewed O'Reilly's contract, reportedly worth $25 million a year. Fox says it knew about the existence of the settlement, but not the price tag.
Twitter and Facebook lit up about the jaw-dropping payment. "Nobody pays $32m for false allegations - nobody," Carlson tweeted.
Joy Reid of MSNBC commented: "Let me guess: you just had $32 million lying around and decided to give it to a nice lady you totally didn't sexually assault."
O'Reilly told the Times he never mistreated anyone.
______________
The article continues.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/outrageous-gretchen-carlson-and-others-react-to-new-bill-oreilly-revelation/ar-AAtS9wU?ocid=spartandhp
Jan 20,2017 12:00 was the end of an 8 year error.
Post a Comment