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Postby Pavel Bure » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:18 pm

If that’s open door I can only imagine what behind door looks like. Probably like a child digging in when asking for candy and throwing a tantrum when told no. If he had a ball he would have taken it, gone home, and called it a win for himself. This is our leader.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:19 pm

Pence was like a cell phone between the point where you select 'Power OFF' and the point where it actually shuts down; it's still technically 'on' but is totally INOP and unresponsive. For 20 minutes.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:21 pm

lol Kaiser

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Postby Factorial » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:27 pm

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:54 pm

9-year-old Alabama girl commits suicide after being bullied with racist taunts, family says
https://t.co/3Y6oS9Xt0f

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:17 pm

Tragic, also quite interesting that the article makes it sound like they moved schools because of prior bullying of some sort.

All I know is it’s heart breaking.

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Postby Kaiser » Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:44 am

And of course now MSNBC is saying that Pence could be tied into manafort's case.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:07 am

More fodder for Trump Defenders
: FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences.
http://t.co/TOf5DS4F7s

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Postby Factorial » Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:14 am

Wow, someone who made it all the way to be a General doesn't know there are consequences to lying to the FBI?

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:13 am

Lest this gets overlooked... Just terrible. The latest terror attack in France.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... bourg.html
At least three people were killed and 13 others injured when a gunman opened fire at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, northeastern France on Tuesday evening.

Police identified the gunman as Cherif Chekatt, a Strasbourg-born 29-year-old who has a criminal record and is a designated 'threat to the state' on the security services' watchlist.

A manhunt is now underway for Chekatt, who managed to flee the scene in a hijacked taxi after being wounded in a shootout with soldiers, and President Emmanuel Macron has raised France's terror level.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:16 am

If only France had a border wall.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:20 am

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:24 am

Tell it to Don.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:26 am

Unfortunately for France, they're pumping out plenty of Islamists right at home.

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Postby Factorial » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:34 am

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Freddy, are you on the wall bandwagon these days?

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Postby eddy » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:44 am

Another very bad terror attack in France. We are going to strengthen our borders even more. Chuck and Nancy must give us the votes to get additional Border Security!
The Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars and got nothing, but they can’t give 5 Billion Dollars for National Security and a Wall?

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Postby eddy » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:45 am

An AP investigation finds Ivanka and Jared stand to benefit from a program they pushed that offers massive tax breaks to developers who invest in downtrodden areas. They own a major stake in a firm that plans to take advantage of the program.
https://apnews.com/41847c1548e34d0ba8c339836b86ed93

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:47 am

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Freddy, are you on the wall bandwagon these days?
No.

Just noting that there may or may not be a difference between France/Med Sea and US/Mexico.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:55 am

Thanks.

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Postby Morkle » Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:56 am

I'm honestly fine with a border wall if the original promise was kept and Mexico paid for it.

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Postby Factorial » Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:34 am

Yeah, I'd date super hot woman if they would date me.

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:38 am

https://www.dailyamerican.com/news/loca ... d1900.html
At least two municipalities in Somerset County appear to have been targeted for recruitment over the weekend by the Ku Klux Klan.

Somerset Borough police Chief Randy Cox said that since Sunday his department has been notified about two Klan-labeled notes that have been found in driveways.

The notes, which have different racial messages, were found in sandwich bags filled with birdseed.

Cox said the seed is apparently used to weight the bags.

“I’m guessing that unless there’s some symbolic intent that I’m missing, that the birdseed is something that they can drive by and toss in people’s driveways,” he said.

Similarly to Somerset, Berlin police Sgt. Rodney Norman said that two of the birdseed notes were found in his borough.

“This morning I had a complaint from another resident who found one laying in the yard of (a business),” Norman said. “I guess she found it yesterday.”

One of those notes was given to the Daily American by a resident who wished to remain anonymous in the newspaper.

That note starts off with “SHOCKING CRIME FACTS THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE.”

Several statistics unverified by the Daily American about black people were listed. A number for a national hotline is listed on the note, which has a North Carolina area code. When called, a voice identifying as “Google” asks for a name. A voicemail recruitment message identifying as the “Loyal White Nights of the Ku Klux Klan” then played.

The note ends with a picture of a Klansman on horseback with colonial and Confederate flags.

Cox said that although the content of the notes is “distressing,” there is no crime being committed, other than littering.

“In the ones I’ve looked at, there are no threats. They are just stating their version of the facts,” he said. “It doesn’t seem to be targeted at (the people who received the notes).”

He said that to be considered an offense under the Pennsylvania hate crime statute, the notes must have intended targets, with intent to intimidate.

“Everything in the printed material itself is free speech,” he said.

Norman had the same assessment.

“Other than littering, I can’t think of anything to charge them with,” he said, adding that there is no suspect. “We haven’t had anybody tell us they saw somebody.”

The notes don’t seem specific to Somerset County, either. Media reports from various times this year indicate similar occurrences with birdseed notes across Pennsylvania and neighboring states.

Cox was aware of other distributions.

“We did look into it and there are occurrences of this happening in at least Virginia,” he said. “This is about the most unique way of spreading hate that I’ve seen in a long time.”

Norman said that although nothing shocks him anymore, he doesn’t recall a Klan presence in Berlin during his time as an officer.

“It’s not something you see every day, and, for Berlin, that’s the first I’ve ever seen something like that,” he said. “It looked like a recruiting.

“I’m going to be looking into it a little more just to see if they had somebody coming through the area, advertising. Because they need to go somewhere else. People don’t need to see that.”

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Postby grunthy » Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:43 am

Yeah, I'd date super hot woman if they would date me.
My wife is super hot. What do I win?

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Postby Morkle » Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:44 am

Yeah, I'd date super hot woman if they would date me.
I wish Nancy/Chuck would have hit him what that yesterday.

"Mr. President, we'll gladly allow for a wall to be built if you make Mexico pay for it like you said."

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