Elegant and beautiful First Lady was “watching the water.”
Looked pretty calm.
And Dow up this morning 183 points.
Waiting for 45 and macaroni’s news conference any time.
What will they say?
What will the market do?
Posted on 08/25/2019 4:03:20 PM PDT by ransomnote
I did not see that in any of the reports. Thank you
bitt wrote:
“https://twitter.com/QBlueSkyQ/status/1142528846618648576
Flynn Could Fry 4 Treasonous US Presidents
@GenFlynn exposed the world’s biggest terrorist sleeper cell headquartered in US-Radical Islamist Fetullah #Gulen’s network net worth $200B
The real reason Flynn was targeted”
And those 4 would be among these :
Carter (D)
Bush 1 (R)
Clinton (D)
Bush 2 (R)
0 (D)
and (D) or (R), not a dimes difference.
Till now:
Trump (R)—>(P) populist
Only if you want a laugh. One of the more absurd articles and arguments I’ve read in I don’t know HOW long. From National Review. Sigh.
Our Problems Are Much More Primal than Trump — or Anything Political
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
FTA:
We don’t know who we are, who we belong to, where we are going.
...
More and more, politics has become a place where people go to find their identity, or create one, or join one. And so here we are, gathering people not quite sure what life is anyway, making demands of politics to help with this craving to know and be known.
...
“Many people, back then and now, have believed in good faith that these familial mutations amount to a net plus for humanity, and that their own lives have been immeasurably enhanced by the freedoms that only the revolution could have brought.” But an honest look now shows “that these same changes have simultaneously rained down destruction on the natural habitat of the human animal, with radical results that we are only beginning to understand.” Eberstadt is not judging individual choices but rather pleading with people of goodwill to consider “the collective environmental impact of many millions of them, taken over the course of many years.”
Dog dewormer....
Maybe being treated by a veterinarian ?
Press conference coming up soon with Macron. Was due at 9:30 EST, so they’re 20 min late now. Then Trump leaves for US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofTGVZN4Lo
So Rush on vacay means Mark Steyn Day(s), yay!!
Elegant and beautiful First Lady was “watching the water.”
Looked pretty calm.
And Dow up this morning 183 points.
Waiting for 45 and macaroni’s news conference any time.
What will they say?
What will the market do?
Melania is consistently lovely.
Brigitte Macron’s BFF! Melania Trump dons a $3,000 dress as she’s greeted with a kiss on the cheek from the French first lady ahead of a beachfront photo call for the G7 wives
That photo looks like it was taken in a wax museum. Are we sure she’s actually alive? It looks like a Weekend At Bernie’s sort of thing.
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.
https://twitter.com/jerome_corsi/status/1165964170241761281?s=21
Direct link
Late but lurking.
She needs a better wig. She’s what, 25 years older than Micron?
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I have a friend who was MI in Vietnam, and was a Chinese translator (of intercepted communications, not face-to-face).
He told me that China was determined even back then to send 1,000,000 heroin addicts to America.
They're still stewing over the Opium Wars.
You just made me laugh and think of child handler.
Snort!
I used to be a commiepuke. Then I changed. Early on, too. I was raised commie.
It’s a tech enhanced “photo”.
Thread drift –
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how I thought because Blagojevich didn’t kiss the butts of right people and publicly ridiculed the judge, the courts, and the prosecutors between his trials, he got 14 years in retaliation for his arrogance. I also commented I thought his sentence of 14 years was probably more than most other corrupt politicians would get for the same “pay to play” behavior.
As said before, Blago was incompetent, in way over his head and was in the right place at the right time to even get elected . He ran against Jim Ryan who had the same last name as George Ryan, the former Illinois governor serving time for corruption. Many say Ryans last name may have cost him the election.
Since it appears the Blagojevich commutation may be off the table, the following article by Scott Reader, veteran State of Illinois journalist appeared in the local paper. I must admit, after reading this I have even less sympathy for the SOB.
SPRINGFIELD — Imagine the disappointment of getting ready to put on civilian clothes and walk out the prison gate and then being told, “Oh, never mind.”That’s what reportedly happened to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week, when President Donald Trump waffled on whether to commute his sentence.
I almost felt sorry for Blagojevich. Almost.
But then I remembered Blagojevich also governed with a wetted finger in the air trying to figure out which way the political breeze was blowing any particular day. He changed his mind often.So far, he has served a little over half of his 14-year sentence. But Trump said, “I think he was treated very, very unfairly. His name is Rod Blagojevich and I’m thinking about commuting his sentence.” The statement hacked off Illinois’ Republican members of Congress who wrote a letter to Trump telling him to keep Blago in the clink.
Later, the president tweeted about Blagojevich’s sentence, saying “White House is continuing review of this matter.” According to Fox News, a member of the president’s administration halted the commutation because the person was “concerned from the public push back” Imagine what it must have been like to find out by tweet that you will remain separated from your wife, two daughters — and hair dye — for maybe another seven years.
I wanted to feel bad for Blagojevich, but then I remembered Lynn Raney. You probably have never heard of Raney. He was an ordinary fellow who worked for the state of Illinois organizing ceremonies and events. He taught art in schools and volunteered for the Boy Scouts. He was a nice guy all the way around. On Blagojevich’s first day in office, Raney organized a news conference for the governor. I was standing next to Raney, notebook in hand, when Blagojevich’s press aides handed out a news release announcing the people the governor was firing. I heard Raney gasp as he read the release and saw his own name on the list.
Imagine being asked to organize the news conference where they would announce your firing. Does it get any lower than that?
Well, maybe finding out by Tweet that you’re not going to be released from prison after all comes close. But still ... The same week that Raney learned of his firing at the news conference he organized, Blagojevich hosted another media event. This time it was to condemn people who were being paid for unused vacation time at the end of their careers with the state. Blagojevich issued a press release listing names of the “worst offenders.” One of the people on the list was Kim Knauer, a hard worker who was spokesperson for the Illinois Board of Education for 20 years. Even during her seven-year battle with breast cancer, she worked long hours. She died two weeks before Blagojevich took office. At the end of the news conference, several reporters approached the governor and asked if he was aware one of the people on the list had just died. The governor responded by saying if she had taken more vacation time she might still be alive.
Try as I might, I just can’t feel sorry for Blagojevich. I do have sympathy for his wife and two daughters though. Like 2.3 million other American families, they know the pain of being separated from a loved one who is incarcerated. But should they get special treatment because the criminal in their family knows the president?
Let’s not forget Blagojevich is in prison for attempting to trade an appointment to Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for personal gain as well as for trying to shake down executives from a children’s hospital and the horse-racing industry for campaign contributions. Corruption of this severity warrants a lengthy prison sentence. My thoughts when he was sentenced were that 14 years wasn’t nearly enough.
There are many people in prison serving lengthy sentences who deserve to have their time behind bars shortened. But Blagojevich isn’t one of them.
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