Posted on 08/11/2018 10:01:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
Just reading the president’s remarks re the NDAA while visiting Fort Drum.
He sure was joking around a lot.
“Weve created almost 4 million new jobs since the election. A number that the media in the back would never have said would be possible if during the campaign. (Applause.) Im so proud of myself; I didnt call them the fake-news media. I didnt call them. (Applause.) I said to myself, I will not today, in front of our great armed forces, call them fake news. (Laughter.) We know the real truth, but we wont say it today. (Laughter.) “
Agreed. SES is equivalent to Flag Rank in the military but, Obama leftovers are worrisome.
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And who DOESN’T wear a balaclava when ice fishing, amIryte?
Doanchyano?
“And who DOESNT wear a balaclava when ice fishing, amIryte?
Doanchyano?”
A “Mad Bomber Hat”
;-)
My pleasure. This Shipp video showed up on FR some months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQouKi7xDpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-mcduYCEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMtsbi2C77s
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YES! those are the ones I saw too! Thanks for re posting them. People who are just now interested or recently interested in Q will find them helpful.
It might have been you who posted them here originally?
And then if I defend what I said (or point out what I didnt say), others pile on and accuse of hijacking the thread, being a whiner, or take your pick. Last week, all over again.
I was simply, and respectfully, trying to add to the discussion.
Maybe its time I just divorce myself from these threads altogether. I really dont need the aggravation and hostility.
While a number of SESs are "political" serving at the sub cabinet level, at the pleasure of the president and not senate confirmed, but that is only about 10% of the SES billets. Career SES which are about 90% of the SES billets in the government and are difficult to impossible to remove [think Strozok, Page, and a number of other FBI "heros." While there are many competent career SESs, i could point out whole administrations [divisions of government not at the cabinet level] and department programs and subagencies where virtually the entire SES corps is corrupt and/or incompetent in large measure because previous administrations wanted it that way [think Clinton, Obama AND Bush].
There are whole administrations where the SES corps sees themselves as super-bureaucrats and anyone with a technical skill or competency is seen as a lower level gofer to answer to the annoited.
And I live in DC and know no SESs who are pro Trump.
WoW. Pretty bold statement. I guess you personally know well over 50% of the people that are SES. Geez you run in some very elite circles.
Would you mind introducing us to all you friends?
Thank Q in advance.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Criminal Charges Against Zürcher Kantonalbank Of Switzerland, With Deferred Prosecution Agreement Requiring Payment Of $98.5 Million, As Well As Guilty Pleas Of Two Zürcher Kantonalbank Bankers
Bank Admits to Helping U.S. Taxpayer-Clients Hide Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Offshore Accounts
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Richard E. Zuckerman, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, and Don Fort, Chief, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced the filing of criminal charges against ZÜRCHER KANTONALBANK (ZKB), a financial institution headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. ZKB is charged with conspiring to help U.S. taxpayer-clients evade their U.S. tax obligations, file false federal tax returns, and otherwise hide hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts held at ZKB.
Mr. Berman also announced a deferred prosecution agreement with ZKB (the Agreement), under which ZKB admitted to its unlawful conduct in assisting U.S. taxpayer-clients in violating their legal duties. The admissions are contained in a detailed Statement of Facts attached to the Agreement. The Agreement requires ZKB to pay a total of $98.5 million. The $98.5 million figure reflects, in part, a credit given to ZKB because of its cooperation in this case. However, the amount of ZKBs cooperation credit was reduced by the Government due to ZKBs actions, as described in the Statement of Facts, in dissuading two indicted ZKB bankers from cooperating with U.S. authorities for years after their indictment. Those indicted bankers, STEPHAN FELLMANN and CHRISTOF REIST, also pled guilty today.
And yet, it funded the military at an astounding level. They just got rich, as it were.
Scripture paints the picture of the planet itself being ready to puke up the evil doers.
Good points. Thanks.
And Trump thinks it’s disgraceful that McCain was the courier pigeon to deliver the fake dossier.
Steven W. wrote:
“George Webb’s investigator “Task Force” just DIED ????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvfPnUm2f30
For those who’ve followed Webb & “Task Force” longer term, she would frequently be present on his videos but never showed her face.
Reportedly there was no physical evidence of murder yet; no bullet or knife wounds. “
Prayers UP !!!!
RIP “task force” .
I think you will find your answer here: While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations. That which you have taken, and so solemnly repeated on that venerable ground, is an ample pledge of your sincerity and devotion to your country and its government.
John Adams - Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798
I am a witness to the great power of prayer.
PRAY urgently for our nation and it's leaders and expect that our prayers will be answered.
If you are new to prayer, Mrs Infool7 and I have started praying this Patriotic Rosary after our pastor hosted it one evening last month.
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She looks pretty "white" to me.
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