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There have been earlier times when our military used some very harsh methods that apparently were very effective against Muslim terrorist actions. I don’t know if this story about General Pershing is true, but it certainly is an interesting idea for dealing with convicted terrorists. The quote below was by someone commenting at the following article: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/27/reports-unsuspecting-yazidi-sex-slave-fed-her-own-child-isis/23005103/

“Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks against the United States and it’s interests by, you guessed it, Muslim extremists.
So General Pershing captured 50 of the terrorists and had them tied to posts execution style. He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the, now horrified, terrorists.
The soldiers then soaked their bullets in pigs blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad.
The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist’s bodies and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc.
They let the 50th man go. And for about the next 42 years, there was not a single attack by a muslim fanatic anywhere in the world.”

A few years ago when the 2 comedians held a rally the estimate was 800,000. Shortly after, I think not before, when Glen Beck? had a rally the estimate was 500,000 I went to both events, and the comedian rally was definitely larger. I also went to the Obama Inaugural 2009 and it was far larger than the one for Trump. We were all the way back at the Washington Monument and it was really hard to see the Jumbotrons so many people were in the way. Also, the Mall was totally filled. At the Trump Inaugural, significant portions of the Mall which this time were covered with white plastic plates to protect the grass were visible to me, as they were in photographs which pro Trump tried to say was early or late but not during the Inaugural. They were wrong, I was there, and have been to many other events—the Million Man March, the Gay rights march in the mid ‘90s, the WWII Memorial dedication, etc.

I think it is possible that 500,000 might show up. Estimates are based on a combination of photos from planes and Metro subway and bus figures. I think their figures for the comedians was about 800,000 and for Glen Beck about 500,000

I don’t think “militia” means soldiers, who are formally enrolled and paid by the government. I think most “militias” are volunteer and recognized by some formal authority, but are not soldiers with a job.

I guess the distinction is that if there are problems the government has specific people to approach for information. This is not random tourists wandering around with no one living here in touch with their activities or purposes.

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be snotty when I commented. It’s just that I get so angry when I think of all the people who lost their homes, not only because they gave too much credit to people who could not manage it, but for actually criminal trickery. Apparently some have not learned as we saw with the recent Wells Fargo case where: “Employees were encouraged to order credit cards for customers who had been pre-approved without their consent, and to use their own contact information when filling out requests to prevent customers from discovering the fraud. Employees also created fraudulent checking and savings accounts, a process that sometimes involved the movement of money out of legitimate accounts.” Greedy crooks, grrrrrrr! Of course, it hasn’t helped that the employees who write the loans get a percentage of the size of the loan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scandal

I too have been conservative with my requests from banks. My equity line of credit is only 1/6th the value of the house, and when I advised my son, I urged him to request no more than 1/3rd his home’s value. He is in Special Forces, and thankfully respects my advice. Good luck, FRiend???

They are holding off on the Hillary/Clinton investigating until closer to the 2020 campaign period.

Were you not paying attention in 2007? Overlending was part of the foreclosure crisis. One woman came to me for help and when I examined her papers I could see that from the time she applied for the loan to the time it was actually granted, the balloon amount with Deutsche Bank had jumped from 10% to 12.5%. She lost the house. DB continues to be in trouble both financial and legal as explained in great detail in this link, and there is also a good timeline of the 2008 crisis.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/29/why-is-deutsche-bank-now-the-biggest-worry-in-the-financial-worl/

The article reports that the European Union has enacted strong provisions so that 2008 does not happen to their entire banking system. We enacted provision for similar reasons and purpose. I don’t know how effective they have been, but the Republican plan is to get rid of them.

If you have not seen the movie “The Big Short” by all means do so. It is about two smart young guys who identified the pending lending crisis in 2007 and shorted a lot of stock on margin and made a fortune in 2008 when the market crashed.

Usually this kind of accident happens to Nigerians scrounging for leaked fuel.

Not to mention a lot of very interesting comments.

And then there are those who will say the “intercept” was actually a plant by the Russians to help the Trump campaign. This could just stick us back right in the same old Russian interference narrative. Campaign against Lynch over this, another GOPe anti Trump plot???

Judges ping

Excellent point. Good Muslims are not even allowed to translate Allah as God.

Now let’s set it to music. ;-)

Just look what Sunni ISIS said they did recently to Shia Iran

It wasn’t just the bureaucracy, it was the new rich, the oligarchy. His first move was to destroy the one main oligarch with political ambitions. I think the name was Kodorofski or something like that.

There is a county in Virginia, Prince William, I think that cracked down a few years ago by cooperating with ICE, and many Hispanics moved away. Businesses folded and other economic damage. I don’t know if the county has recovered, but Google Prince William Co., VA economic effects of anti immigrant crackdown. See what you find. Mind be interesting.

If he was not killed and buried at sea, then he is a prisoner in deep detention, being questioned intensively, and not running around anywhere stirring up his troops.

Here is a Reuters link on the Senate vote for Russia sanctions. The quote is from another Reuters article, because the one I was quoting from froze. Information is basically the same.:

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/14/u-s-senate-backs-legislation-to-slap-new-sanctions-on-russia-f/22223528/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday for new sanctions punishing Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and to force President Donald Trump to get Congress’ approval before easing any existing sanctions.

The vote was 97 to two for the legislation, filed as an amendment to an Iran sanctions bill. It is intended to punish Russia over issues including alleged meddling in the election, annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and support for the government of Syria in that country’s six-year-long civil war.

So it appears that 97 Senators feel that Russia meddled with our elections within the last year. Do you feel messing with our elections does NOT warrant this type of action? I also appears that they don’t want Trump to soften the sanctions. Thus if Putin does have dirt/photos/etc. to blackmail the President with, Congress appears to be taking away that power from Russia/Putin. So to paraphrase the quote of a Republican president of the past, the US can talk softly (Trump) and carry a big stick (Senate). Otherwise know as good cop/bad cop.

I found the link below, and looked for it here at FR, but apparently no one has reported on this Senate vote by 97 Senators to sanction Russia some more. Someone want to post it??? Amazing so much unity on a single issue.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/14/u-s-senate-backs-legislation-to-slap-new-sanctions-on-russia-f/22223528/

He also has an extensive criminal record going back many many years. Always minor crimes, but indicative of an angry man with much lack of control. Doubt he was part of any planned conspiracy. Too unstable to maintain a regular relationship with other nut jobs. Another interesting fact. It was only because Scalise was on the list of 9 people getting special protection that there were Capitol police there to protect all the other Congressmen.