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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge landed in New Zealand early Monday local time for a three-week tour of New Zealand and Australia. It's the first royal tour for Prince George.

Prince George is third in line to the British throne, but his parents want to be the picture of a modern family. So William and Kate are taking their 8-month-old son on a business trip.

Socialist Party of America:

1. Jimbro

Socialist Party of America:

1. Jimbro

Something struck me when I saw your response...the fact that the land of the free and home of the brave has never had a female head of state.

The following countries have had at least one.

Portugal

... that brain dead woman from Alaska ...

. What a system that just repeats the same old stuff and everyone forgets they hear it each time.

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Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-04-27, 00:23:45

What a system that just repeats the same old stuff and everyone forgets they hear it each time.

Quite different from every other nation anywhere else on earth.

...as you rule the world and heaven...

And it is corporate control whether you like it or not.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/04/corporate-britain-corrupt-lobbying-revolving-door (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/04/corporate-britain-corrupt-lobbying-revolving-door)

...grinned Jack Cunningham, Tony Blair's former "enforcer".

1. What does "revolving door" mean/refer to in the context?
2. What is the "enforcer"?

The cabinet secretary, Jeremy Heywood, is the living embodiment of the revolving door, having moved effortlessly from the Treasury to Blair's office to the investment bank Morgan Stanley and back to work for Cameron.

Doesn't matter which of the 2 money giant political machines win Wall Street will still control things..........

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Josh and rj teaching us all about America.

Josh and rj teaching us all about America.

Josh the last

Think about it for a minute--- then do everything in your power to make sure it never happens: The Rahmulan Empire, stretching from sea to shining sea. That should keep you up at night, as good as any horror movie.

NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — Reaffirming his national political ambitions, Sen. Marco Rubio accused Democrats on Friday of threatening the American dream as he campaigned across New Hampshire, appearing in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state for the first time in 18 months.

Although the Tea Party lot are not so much in the news these days is it not a thought that they have still however been an influence on the Republican Party lot and shifted them even more to the right?

how is exactly the Shape of republic of 'Merica ?

is   if the President is republican , the congress is democrat only -- vice versa .

or whoever the president , the Congress is republican +  Democrat ?

they use their own money , the  partij , or the Government give $$$ to the partij for campaign ?

2. The President and Congress are elected, so it's whatever we as a whole want. Last go 'round we wanted a Dem as a President, and a Democratic Senate, with a Repub House. Divided gov't at it's finest. I expect it to continue for some time, though the players and their parties will most likely change at some point. One could see Billary Clinton being elected President (D) with a (R) Congress. 

2016? Easy enough. The GOP candidates will ruthlessly attack each other in primaries to prove who's furthest to the Right (and thus more alienated from the mainstream voter.) Clinton will crush the last man standing under her heel like a cockroach in the general election.

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2. The President and Congress are elected, so it's whatever we as a whole want. Last go 'round we wanted a Dem as a President, and a Democratic Senate, with a Repub House. Divided gov't at it's finest. I expect it to continue for some time, though the players and their parties will most likely change at some point. One could see Billary Clinton being elected President (D) with a (R) Congress. 

As noted above, you're correct about Billary. But  both Houses being Republican? I'm not convinced. Republicans are already crowing about this year's election that hasn't happened yet, but there are a couple caveats 1) those seats are those the GOP can be expected to win anyway (the crowers evidently didn't read Nate Silver's full report...) 2) Never underestimate the GOP's predication for self destruction and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.* . I'm not making that prediction, just saying it that it's not outside the realm of possibility, especially given that Red states such as Virginia and Florida have been turning Blue or Purple and I dare say Nevada itself flipped Red to Blue while bypassing the Purple stage. No matter what happens in 2014, the GOP is dying a long and painful death as a true national party unless it changes its ways.

*For instance, Reid isn't popular and should have lost, but you should have seen Sharon Angle's ads. She made herself look more like a retard more than Reid and the liberal media could have ever hoped to. She's not alone among GOP candidates for doing this (remember "I'm not a witch..." ) and Santorum acting more like he was running for Pope then President, sealing his fate even in the looney GOP primary.

Mostly nice people over there but an increasingly hotch-potch political system that needs drastic overhaul as well as less string pulling by the money barons.  You need a broader system and a great overhaul. There are many things that can be said to be fine but the political system is a shambles sadly.

3. Interestingly enough, and I might be dead wrong, I think the Childers v. Cochran/McDaniels Senate race could be a toss-up. Yes, I said that. :left:  .......in the solidly Red state of Mississippi. Some of the older people I know, all of whom consistently vote, are thoroughly appalled by the Cochran/McDaniels savagery on the news, in the paper, on the radio, internet, etc. Never underestimate older people

btw sang ,

is - lesser of two evils ,  valid and legitimate  if applied in election ?

During a panel event last year about how the legislation passed, turning over a sixth of the U.S. economy to the government, Gruber admitted that [glow=black,2,300]the Obama administration went through "tortuous" measures to keep the facts about the legislation from the American people,[/glow] including covering up the redistribution of wealth from the healthy to the sick in the legislation that Obamacare is in fact a tax.

The video of his comments just recently surfaced ahead of the second open enrollment period for Obamacare at Healthcare.gov.

"You can't do it political, you just literally cannot do it. Transparent financing and also transparent spending. I mean, this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes the bill dies. Okay? So it’s written to do that," Gruber said. "In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in, you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical to get for the thing to pass .............. "     CONTINUED HERE (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/11/10/obamacare-architect-yeah-we-lied-to-the-stupid-american-people-n1916605)

That 'admission' reads to me as an observation that it is impossible to to pass legislation through House and Senate that is sane, simple, and sensible. In principle the legislature should improve proposed new laws in the process, practice may be much more horrible.

Since when has insurance been mandatory, Sang? Oh, wait... I can remember many instances. I'm sure you can too. But medical insurance hadn't become so (in the United States) until Obamacare...

The [Americans aren't as poor or as ignorant as us True Scotsmen, so they're deficient!]

All he admitted to was already known by the commonsense having community.

I believe all state require car insurance

Why can't I require you to subsidize my penchant for right-wing rhetoric?

OakdaleFTL said, "Why can't I require you to subsidize my penchant for right-wing rhetoric?" Because your right-wing rhetoric is not bankrupting the country.

As usual, you've Freudian-slipped, and fell on your keister!  :)

spiraling healthcare costs were threatening to bankrupt the country through Medicare/Medicaid, taxpayers having to pay for the medical costs of the uninsured

The country could be bankrupted through the medical situation/ Duh.

Surely the day to day health of the people is more important. Even more so with tens of millions of poor who are not getting much basically out of life.

What a tragedy . The U.S.A. hasn't got its own rj to set everything right.

Quote from: tt92 on 2014-11-24, 06:02:53

What a tragedy . The U.S.A. hasn't got its own rj to set everything right.

Wrong. We do. It's in Texas. It's Republican. It's Gov. Rick Perry.
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Let's bring him over and amend the constitution so we can install him as President

So what do those at the bottom with low paid jobs, etc do?

Nah, just make him Czar of Whacking Congress Critters over the Head (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_at_Arms_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives). Plenty of empty skulls there, lots of work for him. With enough whacking they might actually get something done.

A President approval rate of 40% and barely 50% voting, oh dear.

I wonder how much Fox reports that Obama is presiding over the fastest growing economy in more than a decade.

Quote from: Sanguinemoon on 2014-12-30, 21:51:10

I wonder how much Fox reports that Obama is presiding over the fastest growing economy in more than a decade.

Witnessing, along with us all   would probably better specifically define his place in the present economic picture.

Our American Economy has a heartbeat all it's own, & will virtually rise & fall as it pleases.(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/nono007.gif)

Quote from: Sanguinemoon on 2014-12-30, 21:51:10

I wonder how much Fox reports that Obama is presiding over the fastest growing economy in more than a decade.

Witnessing, along with us all   would probably better specifically define his place in the present economic picture.

Our American Economy has a heartbeat all it's own, & will virtually rise ( when we go to war and the MIC benefits from it) & falls (when we let Wall St. play casino with our retirement funds) as it pleases.(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/nono007.gif)

My party presides over the good times and your party over the bad.

Then at least the right-wingers would have an actual left-winger to freak out about

I don't reason that is a reasonable answer in a country that sniffs at hereditary functions elsewhere in the world.

Quote from: Macallan on 2015-01-04, 02:26:15

Then at least the right-wingers would have an actual left-winger to freak out about

Crap. Now they won't know what to do with themselves. Imagine if he managed to win :insane: Now they won't be able to call someone a communist, socialist for implementing their own ideas. What will they do with themselves?

I'm thinking that Americans have had enough of both the Bushes and the Clintons for awhile. It's not terribly likely that either will win their respective party nominations--- though Hillary does stand a somewhat better chance than Jeb does.

I'm thinking that Americans have had enough of both the Bushes and the Clintons for awhile.

Compared to the freak show of the last two elections he looks almost sane, so, not going to happen.

Las Vegas, NV & Washington, D.C. — Log Cabin Republicans of Nevada President Ed Williams has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party. Clark County, anchored by Las Vegas, is the largest county in Nevada, exceeding the combined population of all other counties in the state.

“Ed brings the modern business management, IT and communications skills the Clark County party needs to beat Senator Harry Reid in 2016,” Clark County Republican Party Chairman David McKeon said. “He wholeheartedly supports our goals of winning elections, winning majorities and keeping Nevada red. I respect the leadership he brings to the party and glad he is part of the team.”

Independent there really means sod all as it is a corner not a party. I

I can think of nothing more suicidal for the two-party system here than to present us with a Bush on the Republican ticket and a Clinton on the Democratic ticket in 2016. One or the other of them just might win-- but it'll demolish the lock the two major parties have had on American politics. 2020 will look like a circus if the two majors parties don't do better than that in 2016.

On a more positive note, "Sue Ann Arnall, the ex-wife of Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm, has deposited a handwritten $975 million divorce check."

and when you have Democrats looking to hang the "You're only for the rich!" label on you

First, the basic dishonesty.

I still content the reason Obama is president is that every candidate that could have beaten him in 2008 (including that year's version of Romney) destroyed each other.

I still content the reason Obama is president is that every candidate that could have beaten him in 2008 (including that year's version of Romney) destroyed each other.

Yeah, the lone, sane republican got something like 2% in the primary.

Quote from: Macallan on 2015-01-13, 10:01:44

Yeah, the lone, sane republican got something like 2% in the primary.

"You know damned well there's no such thing," he said, revealing how he votes.

Well, 'sane' as in 'sane for a republican', as in 'not quite frothing at the mouth crazy'

Our governor Sandoval shows signs of sanity from time to time. I think it's the Southern Republicans, who are more descended from the segregationist Dixiecrats, that keep up the lunacy in the GOP than the Western ones.

(remember David Duke?)

Hundreds of millions will be wasted on the carnival that passes for an ........  (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/BlaBlaBlaBla.gif) (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/bsmeternoboom.gif)

Hundreds of millions will be wasted on the carnival that passes for an election and even more of a waste as neither Palin nor Trump will win it will be Clinton.

Nice to see your own equivalents of Upstairs downstairs aristocrats are still active!

he might stand so why doesn't he dither?

Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-01-25, 04:07:58

Nice to see your own equivalents of Upstairs downstairs aristocrats are still active!

We do have our would-be nobles and you have your actual inbred European ones. I'm not hatin', though. Just because a guy's sister is also his aunt is no reason to disqualify him from House of Lords. The mental retardation from centuries of this going on just makes them 37.297 percent funnier :yes:

Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-01-27, 03:20:09

he might stand so why doesn't he dither?

Because he just enjoys trolling the pundits every four years. It's not clear why anyone really thinks he has any intention of putting his business empire on the backburner long enough to make a serious run. Then what if he actually won? Look at this from his point of view. Sure, he could set policy to help his business and others like it. However, the megalomaniac won't want to allow someone else to run his corporations in his stead.

Pulling a Palin and raking in campaign contributions, while generating publicity for his businesses.

Sarah Palin will speak at West Hills College in Lemoore, Calif. this May, reports ABC Local News -- and she'll receive $115,000 to do so.

Despite Palin's high price tag, West Hills President Don Warkentin says that the money has already been made back in ticket sales. According to the Hill, the event has sold out of $25 and $5,000 tickets.

Quote from: Macallan on 2015-01-27, 09:40:12

Pulling a Palin and raking in campaign contributions, while generating publicity for his businesses.

Palin pulling a Palin is better that anything else she could do in politics.

Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-01-25, 04:07:58

Nice to see your own equivalents of Upstairs downstairs aristocrats are still active!

We do have our would-be nobles and you have your actual inbred European ones. I'm not hatin', though.[glow=green,2,300] Just because a guy's sister is also his aunt is no reason to disqualify him from House of Lords.[/glow] The mental retardation from centuries of this going on just makes them 37.297 percent funnier :yes:

The only trouble with brining back the US Progressive party

"Know, oh Obama, that we will reach America. Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House and transform America into a Muslim province." 

Know, oh Obama

Yes the earlier one and most of them actually came from the Republican Party as they thought it too extreme! Anything outside of Rockwell is too left over the pond!  Haha, what funny people. More and more are getting teed of as the system is no longer for the people, etc, etc, it is for those in the comfort zone and stuff everyone else. This situation has become more obvious and you should ask why so many stayed at home at the recent elections. kind of says something.

There was a general time when many could say the Democrats were with a sigh lesser of two evils but the present administration has shown even that to be a farce. Whether it be increased drones and killings, creating global problems, etc. The American people deserve a more mature and able system for the present day instead of the big two doing what they damn well like and spending unlimited sums from corporates, etc. Even that two-face with a statue, Lincoln came back today he would be scratching his head at what went wrong. As for Washington there should be a speed limit at his grave to control the revolving speed

Republican suicide missions have happened before, how do you think Obama got his Senate seat so easily? The Illinois Republican Party did just about the most ham-handed things they could find to do, all but guaranteeing Obama would win against his Republican opponent.

[Jack Ryan's] 2004 campaign for the Senate, against future-president Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents ultimately led to Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign.
(from Wikipedia)

Republican suicide missions have happened before, how do you think Obama got his Senate seat so easily?

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-01-30, 17:41:24

Republican suicide missions have happened before, how do you think Obama got his Senate seat so easily? The Illinois Republican Party did just about the most ham-handed things they could find to do, all but guaranteeing Obama would win against his Republican opponent.

Correction, please:

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[Jack Ryan's] 2004 campaign for the Senate, against future-president Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents ultimately led to Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign.
(from Wikipedia)

Team Obama had used this tactic successfully before…

Gotta hand it to Illinois Republicans. Where else can you get driven from nomination that you've won because you wanted to have sex with your own wife? (OK, admittedly kinky sex--- but with his own wife.)

On June 22, 2004, after receiving a report from the referee, Judge Schnider released the files that were deemed consistent with the interests of Ryan's young child. In those files, Jeri Ryan alleged that Jack Ryan had wanted her to perform sexual acts with him in public in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris, although no sex occurred. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."

That won't fly in the party that tries to claim all "moral" issues.

The Republican Party might still have salvaged the election if they had […a time machine!]

The Republican Party might still have salvaged the election if they had shown just a little bit of sense in choosing the replacement-- but sadly, it was not to be. They made a choice that fooled no one and angered doggone near everyone.

Well---- Jesus probably wouldn't vote for Obama.

Being He already knows the outcome (all of them actually) why would He bother?

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-02-01, 18:23:20

Well---- Jesus probably wouldn't vote for Obama.

Well if you remember, he didn't have much in way of positive feedback for either the Pharisees nor Sadducees. So why he have any for the Democrats and Republicans.

Ongoing American Saga.
This is not not a saga, it's a plague.

Then again, they follow Republican Jesus, not the biblical one

Nearly three-quarters of Republicans now favor sending ground troops into combat against the Islamic State, according to a CBS News poll last week. And in Iowa and South Carolina, two early-voting states, Republicans said military action against the group was, alongside economic matters, the most important issue in the 2016 election, according to an NBC survey released last week.

Good work, Sir!

Indeed it is, but he's limited in his options on these forums

WASHINGTON (AP) — The email practices of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who used a private account exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state, grew more intriguing with the disclosure Wednesday that the computer server she used traced back to her family's New York home, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press.

The unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official running her own email server would have given Clinton — who is expected to run for president in the 2016 campaign — significant control over limiting access to her message archives.

It also would complicate the State Department's legal responsibilities in finding and turning over official emails in response to any investigations, lawsuits or public records requests. The department would be the position of accepting Clinton's assurances she was surrendering everything required that was in her control.

President Reagan once got $2 million from a Japanese manufacturing company for two 20-minute speeches. Bill Clinton collected some $40 million in speaking fees during the six years following his presidency. And George W. Bush told reporters he expected to make a "ridiculous" amount of money on the speaker's circuit when he left office.

WASHINGTON – State Department emails released through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew while the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists.

Clinton blamed the attack on “rage and violence over an awful Internet video” when she spoke at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 14, 2014, as the remains of the four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were returned to the United States.

The emails were made public Thursday by the Washington, D.C., legal watchdog group.

“These emails leave no doubt that Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers knew the truth about the Benghazi attack from almost the moment it happened,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

“And it is inescapable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly lied when she planted the false story about ‘inflammatory’ material being posted on the Internet,’” Fitton said.

He said the “contempt for the public’s right to know is evidenced not only in these documents, but also in the fact that we had to file a lawsuit in federal court to obtain them.”

“The Obama gang’s cover-up continues to unravel, despite its unlawful secrecy and continued slow-rolling of information,” Fitton said. “Congress, if it ever decides to do its job, cannot act soon enough to put Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills and every other official in these emails under oath.”

Fitton criticized the current House Select Committee investigation on Benghazi headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R- S.C.

“Never once has Gowdy or the House Select Committee asked Judicial Watch to turn over the many bombshell documents Judicial Watch has obtained from the Obama administration by FOIA request, “ Fitton told WND.

“I would have thought a serious congressional investigation into Benghazi would have started with the documents we had, since Judicial Watch has led in exposing the White House cover-up,” he said.

On Sept. 11, 2012, at 4:07 p.m. EST, as the Benghazi attack was going on, Maria Sand, then a special assistant to Clinton, forwarded an email from the State Department’s Operations Center titled, “U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi is Under Attack,” to Cheryl Mills, then chief-of staff to Secretary Clinton, as well as Jacob Sullivan, then-deputy chief-of-staff for policy, Joseph McManus, then-Hillary Clinton’s executive assistant, and other special assistants in Clinton’s office.

The email read:

    The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM [Chief of Mission] personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support.

Then, at 4:38 p.m. Eastern, State Department Foreign Service Officer Lawrence Randolph forwarded Mills, Sullivan and McManus an email from Scott Bultrowicz, the former director of the Diplomatic Security Service, one of four senior State Department officials who was ousted in December 2012 after the publication of the State Department’s Advisor Review Board final report of the Benghazi attack.

With the subject line “Attack on Benghazi,” it read:

    DSCC [Diplomatic Security Command Center] received a phone call from [REDACTED] in Benghazi, Libya initially stating that 15 armed individuals were attacking the compound and trying to gain entrance. The Ambassador is present in Benghazi and currently is barricaded within the compound. There are no injuries at this time and it is unknown what the intent of the attackers is. At approximately 1600 DSCC received word from Benghazi that individuals had entered the compound. At 1614 RSO advised the Libyans had set fire to various buildings in the area, possibly the building that houses the Ambassador [REDACTED] is responding and taking fire.

Nearly seven hours later, at 12:04 a.m. on Sept. 12, Randolph sent an email with the subject line “FW: Update 3: Benghazi Shelter Location “Also Under Attack,” to Mills, Sullivan and McManus that had several updates about the Benghazi attack:

    I just called Ops and they said the DS command center is reporting that the compound is under attack again. I am about to reach out to the DS Command Center.

The email also contains a chain of earlier email updates:

    Sept. 11, 2012, at 11:57 p.m. EST. Email: “(SBU) DS Command reports the current shelter location for COM personnel in Benghazi is under mortar fire. There are reports of injuries to COM staff.”

    Sept. 11, 2012, 6:06 p.m. EST. (Subject: “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU): “(SBU) Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and call for an attack on Embassy Tripoli”

    Sept. 11, 2012, 4:54 p.m. EST: “Embassy Tripoli reports the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A response team is on site to locate COM personnel.”

The State Department emails released Thursday by Judicial Watch reveal the first official confirmation of the death of Ambassador Stevens.

On Sept. 12, 2012, at 3:22 a.m. EST, Senior Watch Officer Andrew Veprek forwarded an email to numerous State Department officials, which was later forwarded to Mills and McManus, with the subject line “Death of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi.”

It read:

    Embassy Tripoli confirms the death of Ambassador John C. (Chris) Stevens in Benghazi. His body has been recovered and is at the airport in Benghazi.

Two hours later, McManus forwarded the news of Ambassador Stevens’ death to officials in the State Department Legislative Affairs office with instructions not to “forward to anyone at this point.”

Despite her three top staff members being informed that a terrorist group had claimed credit for the attack, Clinton, issued an official statement, also produced to Judicial Watch, claiming the attack may have been “a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”

http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/hillary-knew-emails-during-benghazi-attack-reported-terrorism/#8usK2WrEf80pc9X5.99 (http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/hillary-knew-emails-during-benghazi-attack-reported-terrorism/#8usK2WrEf80pc9X5.99)

A House investigative committee issued subpoenas late Wednesday afternoon to the State Department, seeking a deeper look into former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton’s nearly exclusive use of personal e-mails to do her official business during her tenure, the committee confirmed Wednesday.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi, which first discovered Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail based on a home server in its inquiry into a fatal 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, is asking for all e-mails related to the attack from all Clintonemail.com accounts and any other staff members’ personal accounts.

“The Select Committee on Benghazi today issued subpoenas for all communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to Libya and to the State Department for other individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation,” according to a statement by committee spokesman Jamal Ware. “The Committee also has issued preservation letters to internet firms informing them of their legal obligation to protect all relevant documents.”.......... continued (http://wapo.st/1wWwk5c)

Hillary has problems.

“The Select Committee on Benghazi today issued subpoenas for all communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to Libya and to the State Department for other individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation,” according to a statement by committee spokesman Jamal Ware. “The Committee also has issued preservation letters to internet firms informing them of their legal obligation to protect all relevant documents.”..........

Jeb

I don't expect the Republicans to win unless they scan the mental hospitals. Hilary Clinton on th the other side, hhhhm. I seen a reference to another Democrat woman (her name escapes me) as being popular. Clinton would be one bossy and one neb of a painful woman.

There are many millions of decent, hard working and family people over there who are being ripped off not only by the behind-the-scenes corporate string pullers but as system that is not serving the whole country.   :(

I deliberatley was being generally specific to save words. And to take the simplicity even further let me make this clear.

The comfortable off are generally superficially content because they are cumfy. That money is spent on being world imperialistic and which you cannot afford is ridiculous.I made it very clear and obvious that more effort should be made on the large numbers who are on the back burner. No homes, little money and struggling. No Welfare state so they just go on suffering and the country should be facing that instead of spending half the world military business bill. Your country is far more in control of the corporates which is as plain as the nose on your faces and just to acknowledge part of the failings is not good enough. Interfering across the world doing in any country that does not conform to your way of doing things and so on. Just look what is spent at elections by the big two and how does that help the poor and needy?  The racial question is so damn obvious and contradicts everything that the country is MEANT to stand for as well. Every time the obvious is shown the tendency is to try and body-swerve to somewhere else but nowhere bis more at the top of hypocrisy than the USA.

Being more specific is a cosy throw away really and that the large numbers of the poor and the picking on blacks by an increasing Police State mind is there for all to see. Poor or black in the land of the free and home of the brave make it very abundantly clear that if white and cumfy just ignore those two things.

Instead of marching all over the world then following that up by the money barons shows the flaws up even more.  Democracy? Don't make me laugh! The Democrats are the lesser of the two evils and full democracy is then restricted because the money men will decide what is happening not the voters.

RJ.....might I suggest..........come here, become a citizen, & at election time vote for those that see it your way, but until then, find yourself up in the cheap seats bawling your eyes out about things you have no control over whatsoever except to use your freedom of speech here so a few dozen people might read about your personal frustrations.  (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/violin4qi3.gif)

But I thought the commie wanted to move to Russia since thing are so much better there?

and the blacks have a hellhole existence.

The Two of You
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ou are keeping up the ex-colonists way of being unable to answer by dancing as is the usual. Scotland gets more from the Exchquer than it gives in taxes. Whole modern estates including the one I gave so much voluntary service in are excellent housing, rent subsidies, great welfare payments

. Scotland gets more from the Exchquer than it gives in taxes.

Are you saying the Scots are a nation of spongers?
Are you recommending  this way of life to other countries?
Are you claiming such a situation is sustainable?

There needs to be a kindergarten section here for tt92. Maybe we should call the Irish spongers as they were not able even as an independent country able to look after themselves. They only got somewhere due to joining the EU (couldn't support themselves even after decades) and pushing the begging bowl to Europe and the EU. The bigger countries in the EU like Britain, France, Germany subsidise smaller places like Ireland. And even then the Irish messed up. There's no Celtic Tiger now it is more like a pussy cat. We in Britain had to give them a 7 billion pound loan so do try and use common sense. There are spongers everywhere so include your own place.  Do try and think first.

Allegations of homosexuality...
During the 1690s, rumours grew of William's alleged homosexual inclinations and led to the publication of many satirical pamphlets by his Jacobite detractors. He did have several close, male associates, including two Dutch courtiers to whom he granted English titles: Hans Willem Bentinck became Earl of Portland, and Arnold Joost van Keppel was created Earl of Albemarle. These relationships with male friends, and his apparent lack of more than one mistress, led William's enemies to suggest that he might prefer homosexual relationships. William's modern biographers, however, still disagree on the veracity of these allegations, with many contending that they were just figments of his enemies' imaginations, and others suggesting there may have been some truth to the rumours.
Bentinck's closeness to William did arouse jealousies in the Royal Court at the time, but most modern historians doubt that there was a homosexual element in their relationship. William's young protege, Keppel, aroused more gossip and suspicion, being 20 years William's junior and strikingly handsome, and having risen from being a royal page to an earldom with some ease. Portland wrote to William in 1697 that "the kindness which your Majesty has for a young man, and the way in which you seem to authorise his liberties ... make the world say things I am ashamed to hear". This, he said, was "tarnishing a reputation which has never before been subject to such accusations". William tersely dismissed these suggestions, however, saying, "It seems to me very extraordinary that it should be impossible to have esteem and regard for a young man without it being criminal."

. Unfinished buildings with empty cranes on them, rows of half built homes on housing estates,

And now even more recently as I said and you ignored they got a 7 billion loan from the UK at a reasonable rate.

Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-03-22, 18:55:52

And now even more recently as I said and you ignored they got a 7 billion loan from the UK at a reasonable rate.

International finance is beyond me, but the US borrows (largely from China), the UK borrows, Scotland borrows, Russia borrows and China borrows, so it should be no surprise that Ireland borrows.

Please don't try to explain any of this to me. It won't help.

Please don't try to explain any of this to me. It won't help.

. As for tt92 he craftily goes silent on his roots before Australia.......

If he has Irish ancestors or not, what does it matter? Is it something to be ashamed of? Why did you hijack this thread with such ignorance, anyway? It's ridiculous.

If he has Irish ancestors or not, what does it matter? Is it something to be ashamed of? Why did you hijack this thread with such ignorance, anyway? It's ridiculous.

This may work on folk who live in places-- like Australia, the United States and New Zealand, just to name a few--where intermarriage between different people groups has probably happened if the person you're calling out because of ancestry has relatives who have been there long enough.

Did you hear about Craig Cobb, the neo-nazi white supremacist who found out on national television that he's 14 percent black? I wonder what a DNA test of Howie will reveal.

Prefer it when you are occasionally sober then we can get an asnwer.

Then what was your question?

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Kinda hate to take a cheap shot, but this is---...

the great William Prince of Orange who became king William 3rd produced the British […?] of Rights […]

Don't bother with a thanks however but at least your founders were helped.

those posh and comfy rich Yanks that met in Philadelphia actually discussed the idea of a European prince as Head of State

[…] it was a minority that wanted the revolution and won it - rough a third and in the same rough terms a third were against it. The rest couldn't have cared a damn who ran the place.

It doesn't matter a jot whether it is television, a book or a speech the principle IS the same and fine you know it boyo.

Oh and as it happens I got a certificate at Senior Secondary School fir history anyway.   :D

I got a certificate at Senior Secondary School fir history anyway.  :D

It doesn't matter a jot whether it is television, a book or a speech the principle IS the same and fine you know it boyo. You grudgingly have to admit whilst trying to make an excuse so neatly tried!

If i find the link will intimate it here but it must still be in my starting thread so have a hunt.

.....Rand needs a couple of decades of "seasoning".....

Icelanders are an healthy exception, they arrested their prime minister.

Quote from: Belfrager on 2015-04-08, 05:43:30

Icelanders are an healthy exception, they arrested their prime minister.

Hmm, Americans were even more strict in the past. They've simply shot some of their Presidents.

Sarah against Hilary would be nice.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Emma Goldman

solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Unfortunately your system is the most challenging even allowing for the fact that nowhere can be perfect.

Get back to me, after WW III… You know, the one that happens — without the U.S. being concerned, because we've become too meek and dispirited to take a hand.
I don't want your respect: You're a fool!
If your politicians are like you, they have no use to anyone but those who'd die comfortably knowing the world would not long outlive them.
Your vanity and venality are "ginormous" — and your head is filled with so many prejudices that there's no room left to constructive thought.
Your attempts at destructive thought are pitiful. But you know that…

Why are you so bitter?

And I hope they don't come up with that 'yes we can' cobblers. Obama has ended up a more control freak than his predecessor. Each Presidential circus come out with the stuff on a new direction and all sorts of repeated slogans but doesn't happen. The two party monolithic regimes are out of damn date. The voting percentages last time on the 'Hill showed that but the people are stuck with the system.

Hilary Clinton makes me groan and has been a liar in the past and surely Americans cannot be taken in with her softly, softly approach. With all these patricial families it kind of makes a republic look funny. Maybe Colonel Rebel could bypass his employment frustration by being a candidate.

what exactly he/she hopes to change.

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-05-20, 15:13:13

what exactly he/she hopes to change.

You seriously think that the candidate might be a 'she'?

What's wrong with the good old intermarriage? Go for the Clinton-Bush ticket.

On a lesser note I once won a dancing competition

How odd. RJH says he isn't a Leftist, but he sounds exactly like a Leftist.

A leftist adoring Baroness Thatcher?   :left:

we have a wider democracy than over there

Who is this Rockwell you speak of, Oh Oracular One? :

Was it Norman Rockwell, prolific illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post?

Never trust a Glaswegian to advise you on matters political! :)

TT, it's a test for Scottish citizenship. If you know what the sentence means, you instantly become a citizen.

For the record, what is FIRST prize?

For the record, what is FIRST prize?

Quote from: tt92 on 2015-06-05, 11:49:55

For the record, what is FIRST prize?

:)
…I'm still somewhat curious how "CIA" became "CSA". Even typing with one's knuckles doesn't make that likely. (Howie, what were you doing with you right hand…? :) )

Must say that both mjsmsprt40 and Oakdale are both neat redneck Republicans won the GB General election but then we have a wider democracy than over there. As I pointed out a short time ago anything outside of your limited political hegemony namely Rockwell, is leftist. Smal wonder the money barons keep you under control.

Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-05-29, 03:17:38

Must say that both mjsmsprt40 and Oakdale are both neat redneck Republicans won the GB General election but then we have a wider democracy than over there. As I pointed out a short time ago anything outside of your limited political hegemony namely Rockwell, is leftist. Smal wonder the money barons keep you under control.

May I be the first to offer my congratulations to mjmsprt40 and Oakdale on the apparently new Coalition Gov't they have formed.

Also congrats on the new citizenship?

Many thanks to @Luxor for pointing out the new anthem for the new Coalition gov't  :beer: :

That inenarrable thing called something that keeps on saying that he's very rich and made a reality show about firing people announced that he's running for president of the U.S.
I hope the Talibans catch him soon. That would be viral all over the the world, his beheading video on Youtube.

Ahh, Trump.

The number of billionaires living in the UK has risen to more than 100 for the first time, according to the 2014 Sunday Times Rich List. There are now 104 billionaires based in the UK with a combined wealth of more than £301bn, the list says.

Now a multi-billionaire is throwing his hat into the ring on the Republican side re the circus that passes for a system. Well, I suppose that is fair enough as it is the big bucks people that run America not the people.

Don't you mean "Irny"?

It is a sign of the times, that -after seven years of Democrat rule- even Donald Trump looks like a viable candidate…!
(The supposed-majorities of the Republicans in the House and the Senate have been obviated by their actions: Most Republicans in office today are indistinguishable from Democrats.)

Let the Tea Parties rise again!

Have we gotten off topic again?

Problem: One of these unfit candidates is going to win. We're in an awful lot of trouble.

Problem: One of these unfit candidates is going to win.

Doesn't matter which of the two giant corporate backed giant parties wins the thing is a farce. There will still be 1,000,000 losing homes, 11,000 shot dead annually, 40 million poor on food stamps, gung-ho police,spend half the globe's armaments bill, the utter farcical international stance on freedom, rights and stuff.

Small wonder we shake our heads the way the country is run inside never mind out! And I stand by my submission it does not make a damn difference to less well off or the country as a whole.

There are 2.3 million children - almost one in six - living in relative poverty in the UK, government figures show.
The Department for Work and Pensions said the proportion of children living in poverty was unchanged in 2013-14 compared with the previous year.
A child is defined as being in poverty when living in a household with an income below 60% of the UK's average.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said poverty levels were the "lowest since the mid-1980s".
The DWP said the percentage of children in relative low income households remained at 17%.
'Deeply concerning'

On Monday this week, my boyfriend came home clutching a letter and looking shell-shocked. Our landlords, a housing association that rents us our flat privately, had taken the decision to raise our rent by £400 a month to bring it in line with the market. Fair enough, some might say, but it means that our home – the home that we have made together – has gone from being just about affordable to not being a viable option.

In the midst of the UK’s current housing crisis, it was, I suppose, only to be expected. It’s difficult to express the emotions that you experience when you suddenly realise that what you thought was your home could be swept out from underneath your feet. Now I know that a rented home is never yours.

Oh the guardian again! That item shows their political leaning exceptionally well. Nationally in the Welfare State families were able to have benefits up to £25,000 a year. Rent, child allowance and so on. A ridiclusous amount and the government is right to reduce it to £23,000 maximum. Tax payments were reduced and tax is not paid until over £10,500 nd planed to be £12,000. So even many more will pay no tax. It is easy of course to pick something out and give the impression of a wholesale bad situation when that is utter bunkum. Many instead of the Welfare State being as a safety net use it as an alternative to working. Those that often scoff atthe Daily mail can equally be scoffed at on the Guardian. As I said a while ago it was Midlands based originally and called the 'Manchester Guardian' and supported the Liberal Party no it is Labour leaning. The one good news about that newspaper is it's steady decline and a positive.

Oh the guardian again! That item shows their political leaning exceptionally well. Nationally in the Welfare State families were able to have benefits up to £25,000 a year. Rent, child allowance and so on. A ridiclusous amount and the government is right to reduce it to £23,000 maximum.

It's 'ridiclusous' to selectively pick on the poor, although it's probably universal. Why, it even happens here.

Jimbro has earlier touched on the massive military bill across the water which is very immoral and contradictory and it kind of ignores the plight of the less well off citizenry. That is sad and should not happen of course.

Back to the 2016 race and why I'd rather have Putin as president.

Krake, you and I don't agree on much but this is one thing we do agree on. Trump is his own worst enemy, every time he opens his mouth something foolish comes out.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday that in order to grow the economy “people should work longer hours” -- a comment that the Bush campaign argues was a reference to underemployed part-time workers but which Democrats are already using to attack him.

I listened to Hannity (of Fox News — but, of course, he's a pundit!) interview Bobby Jindal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal), governor of Louisiana, tonight for an hour, and it seems that the GOP does have a superstar in the race…

orthy--strange but true.  Jindal is an intellectual of sorts, but not on par with Obama.

:)  You think Obama is an intellectual?

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2015-07-10, 18:24:52

:)  You think Obama is an intellectual?

:o He's smarter than a few of our posters. :cheers:

Are the candidates promising anything interesting?

Legal marriage with animals and plants?

I've long argued that you should be able to marry a goat if the goat is willing, but only if the goat is willing!

Quote from: Belfrager on 2015-07-12, 11:52:36

Are the candidates promising anything interesting?

I understand Bernie Sanders is so surprisingly sane that they call him crazy. :P

I understand Bernie Sanders is so surprisingly sane that they call him crazy.

Quote from: Belfrager on 2015-07-12, 11:52:36

Are the candidates promising anything interesting?

I understand Bernie Sanders is so surprisingly sane that they call him crazy. :P

I have to look for that Bernie Sanders... (why do they all have this kind of names...)

Yup, what's a middle of the road social democrat in .de is a crazy radical around here.

Are the candidates promising anything interesting?
Nudism mandatory for everybody? Legal marriage with animals and plants? That you'll take your space rockets and leave Earth forever towards Orion?

Donald Trump plans to do the space rocket thing with Mexicans--illegal and legal.

The show so far:

On the Democrat side, we have Hillary Clinton and a couple of trial-horses. Seriously, the contenders only make it so that Hillary's eventual winning of the Democratic nomination isn't a coronation.

On the Republican side--- some 15 contenders for nomination. Add 5 more, give them pitchforks and torches, and they're good to go as an angry, frightened mob. Make Donald Trump their spokesperson for real fun.

Of that lot, Scott Walker from Wisconsin, the governor of Louisiana (I forget his name) and-- God help us-- Jeb Bush are the only ones seriously worth considering. The rest fill out the angry, frightened mob.

We're in an awful lot of trouble.

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-07-13, 18:31:43

The show so far:

On the Democrat side, we have Hillary Clinton and a couple of trial-horses. Seriously, the contenders only make it so that Hillary's eventual winning of the Democratic nomination isn't a coronation.

On the Republican side--- some 15 contenders for nomination. Add 5 more, give them pitchforks and torches, and they're good to go as an angry, frightened mob. Make Donald Trump their spokesperson for real fun.

Of that lot, Scott Walker from Wisconsin, the governor of Louisiana (I forget his name) and-- God help us-- Jeb Bush are the only ones seriously worth considering. The rest fill out the angry, frightened mob.

We're in an awful lot of trouble.

I have to admit that I'm just a clueless person from over the pond who tries to understand something about this circus, called US electoral campaign.
Granted that the new candidates might not be any better presidents than their predecessors, what on earth makes you think that Hillary Clinton is worse than Barack Obama or Jeb Bush is worse than his brother George?
So, what's the big drama?

Dynastic  Politic 

I won't speak for others, but in my case I really don't want to see another Bush or Clinton in the White House for a long, long, long time.

The idea that the President must be either a Bush or a Clinton-- with a break for Obama-- gets old fast.

Pick some alternatives.
On the Republican side...
1. Scott Walker
2. Ben Carson
3. Chris Christie
4. Mitt Romney

On the Democrat side...
1. Lincoln Chafee
2. Martin O'Malley
3. Bernie Sanders
4. Jim Webb.
5. -Clinton

i know it is too early ..
but is there any Valid Survey about Who will Win the   President Election in  United State 2016 ?

ofc , it is a must from the Credible -  trusted  -  Provable - surveyor , with  lesser margin of error .

From this side of the Pacific it appears that Mr. Trump is destroying the Republican brand.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has surged to the top of a crowded Republican presidential field, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, but the brash billionaire is also the weakest competitor among the top seven GOP candidates against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

I just would ask for not more blacks

I would love to see that clown as American President...

As is known the system is a joke

Quote

As is known the system is a joke

AFAIK , the U.S political climate  is separated in two stream .
Conservative and Liberal .

if in UK , probably it is similar with Right wing and Left wing .

which pejoratively , the one always appeal to novelty .
while the other always appeal to tradition .

Lordy, the man attacked McCain! He's no hero, The Donald declared.

btw , when they will officially announce the President and vice president candidate , from both partijs?

republican and democrat .

I hope Trump gets out of the race, personally. Comedy aside, it would be a great tragedy for the country if he gets anywhere near the Oval Office.

Well Belfrager as I have often said there is no proper democracy and system in America it is run by the corporates and what passes for a "system" is a front to fol the people away from the real rulers of the country. When you watch what passes for some vague type of party conferences (really just jamorees and so juvenile) and the whole thing looks so damn juvenile.

[When] Why he begins to be required to answer substantive questions – and to defend his answers – in a forum he doesn’t control, The Donald may just end up firing himself.

Trump is mentally ill and should not have firearms.

Perhaps he'll end up still quite rich but residing next-door to Napoleon!

No substance jimbro?? Dear, oh dear it is a disappointment when even an intelligent ex-colonist goes into that mode. It does not take much intelligence nor an long indepth study to see that people like McCain and Trump are numpties. A school failure can see that direction so no point in trying to create some false assessment of routing practicality matters.  I know it doesn't show your system in a very good light but don't get desperate. The hard truth for you and others is that it does not matter one iota of a damn who goes into the White House as the most important position the country will still want to rule the world via ridiculous military expenditure, interference, the tens of millions of starving and poor inside will still be there and the corporate controllers run the place no matter what stuff we get here. Indeed the very fact that a man like Trump is in the running with support and McCain had it says more than you can ever try to do dismissing any objection as not informed or deep enough.

On a wider scale than you are pontificating on the voting percentage in the last general elections on the 'Hill show that an awful lot of people have got fed up with what they are stuck with.

The hard truth for you and others is that it does not matter one iota of a damn who goes into the White House as the most important position the country will still want to rule the world via ridiculous military expenditure, interference, the tens of millions of starving and poor

Leading Public Health Experts and Charities warn that Austerity Measures and Poverty in the UK are about to cause a Public Health Emergency with widespread Starvation and Malnutrition.

Six of the UK’s leading experts on public health have published an open letter in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), warning that food poverty in the UK has developed into an emergency. Also charities recognize and exponential increase of people asking for help, tripling the use of food banks in the last year alone.

I have worked in both my job and vastly voluntary work in less off areasso know the actual  and they are still damn better than across the pond.

The "Donald" is a chimp!? :) Howie, please put forward your platforms or politicians you think we'd have done better with… If that's too complicated for you: You'll be dead soon (and, hence, not care…) so, which of your countrymen/women would you put up for us? Assuming your animosity is just assumed, to post on the Internet… In other words, what does anyone you know of think we should do?
Follow GB down the sink hole, with the rest of Europe? :) (You'd like that, I think! But, boy-o, it might not happen!) You've got your soapbox, and you're entitled to it. You've also been roundly and soundly rejected, as a candidate… Can you not take a hint?
You know little, and can express less… Why do you have such animosity for a country you know so little about? (Penis envy? :) ) My advice is: Don't be a pecker-peeker!
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Yes, I know, tt92. You made the comment: But it was worthy of Howie… I calls them as I sees them!

If you thought it was worthy of Howie then you didn't see it very clearly.

When the farce is all over will the tens of millions of poor and homeless the military world control costs and so on decrease?

On any given night, there are over 600,000 homeless people in the US according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  Most people are either spending the night in homeless shelters or in some sort of short term transitional housing.  Slightly more than a third are living in cars, under bridges or in some other way living unsheltered.

Our system does work mjsmsprt it is yours that is deeply flawed.

Are you better off with your Putinesque system?

Are you living that much better than the flood of unwanted immigrants who are making their way through the Chunnel? And other ways!

I understand the flood perfectly well.

We have our own flood, but few are from the Middle East.

Ever asked yourself for the reason of the late flood of unwanted immigrants who are making their way through the Chunnel? And other ways!
Syria, Libya, Sudan etc. Hint, hint!

The Pew Hispanic Center's indirect estimate of the number of illegal immigrants as of 2006 was 11.5 million to 12 million. These estimates represented roughly one-third of the entire foreign-born population.

It's Lenin. If her were alive, he'd be a Democrat running with Hillary.

Jimbro knows all.

Lenin? If yes, why him?

America is controlled by the money barons and frustrated so why bother voting??

Must say ensbb3

Well there is an answer from a typical US political animal.Shows the lack of common-sense, decency and much else. Tens of millions of poor and no proper representation of the people you lot are so juvenile and brain washed. And here is Smiley that wonderful patriotic Yank who actually supports Marxists elsewhere and not that far from me! Hypocrisy much be taught in schools over there.

It does not matter damn who is elected - Democrat or Republican as the gap between all will not change nor decent representation nor things improve, the trillions reduced and so on. Indeed what passes for politics and it's running looks so infantile, funny and useless and whilst you are brained into the greatest place on earth mentality the ordinary Joe is going nowhere. At least Laurel and Hardy and others were genuine.

David Duke: Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Says Donald Trump Is 'Best of the Lot' for President
Duke said on his radio show that Trump is the best Republican presidential candidate because he “understands the real sentiment of America.” Duke ran for the Democratic nomination in 1988.

Kind of surprised that Duke wanted to be a Democrat contender so quite an insight.

........."Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective," Barton said in his book. "Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings."

Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism, he said.

"Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party," Barton writes in his book. "In fact, a 13-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact......... SOURCE (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2309727/posts)

On the other side  wasn't it the Republicans who were up to their ears in the un-American activities purges back in the 1950's?

Around 375,000 people work in the UK oil industry and half of those are in north east Scotland.

Well Oakdale.....(old keech deleted)

and before it goes bankrupt or the Commies in China call in their debts.

Ha ha nice one.

As for you Colonel Rebel just look at the mess you have made of ruling the waves. Up to your neck as a country in trillions of debt bu the armament manufacturers making sure they get their dollars. You cannot afford that military but you lot are so whacked into thinking you have some given right to rule the world. You even sail your "fleet" as near to mainland China as possible which shows your scurrilous lack of principle that the Reds have indirectly give you the chance to have the ships. A bit of goodness is that 3 or is it 4 Chinese navy ships are at present in the Baring Strait as near as to Alaska as they can so good to see someone playing your game in return. Oh, ho, you won't like that over there although you think it is okay for you to do it!

As for the nationalist heavy Oakdale wanting to deplete 'keech' I just say that really takes the biscuit as it is a great Scots word for that Americanism exported everywhere and namely 'crap.' I prefer not to be harnessed by American nonsense that others are propagated into like that crap word, awesome, law enforcement, etc.

Anyway the farce that the corporates allow and called an election will make no damn difference to the tens of millions of poor in America and it is bad enough seeing a whole army of Republicans wanting to be President but Clinton on the other side?? Neither party will be much different and that has been shown by Obama killing more by drones than GW, ignoring sovereign borders, creating more spying on US citizens who think they are free. Instead of running a giant miltary you cannot afford and insteadspending something on the increasing numbers suffering inside your own borders the problem will only be dealt with when you go belly up.

Mind you maybe you in a practical sense should reduce things militarily as a soldier commits suicicide every day and there are 10 million ex-colonists with well mental issues.

Thanks for reminding me.... :cheers:

ps. That is Irn Bru so don't get flashy.

Stomachs are churning again after China’s stockmarket endured its biggest one-day fall since 2007; even Chinese state media called August 24th “Black Monday”. From the rand to the ringgit, emerging-market currencies slumped. Commodity prices fell into territory not seen since 1999. The contagion infected Western markets, too. Germany’s DAX index fell to more than 20% below its peak. American stocks whipsawed: General Electric was at one point down by more than 20%.

Rich-world markets have regained some of their poise. But three fears remain: that China’s economy is in deep trouble; that emerging markets are vulnerable to a full-blown crisis; and that the long rally in rich-world markets is over. Some aspects of these worries are overplayed and others are misplaced. Even so, this week’s panic contains the unnerving message that the malaise in the world economy is real.

Mind you maybe you in a practical sense should reduce things militarily as a soldier commits suicicide every day and there are 10 million ex-colonists with well mental issues.

From The Telegraph.
"More British soldiers commit suicide than die in battle, figures suggest."

This could be changed easily by starting new wars.

Nice try about the number of solider deaths here by suicide and especially when they are in figures around the two dozen to 30 mark which is a hell of  of a way lower than 365.

This built-in and narrowed down system does not provide the people with what they should have and that is a broad based democracy.

This from a country that has Trump in the frame?

The percentage of households falling below society's minimum standard of living in Scotland has increased from 14 per cent to 33 per cent over the last 30 years, despite the size of the economy doubling. This is one of the stark findings from the largest study of poverty and deprivation ever conducted in the UK.
...............
In Scotland today, when comparing people's actual living standards with the minimum standards which the public thinks everyone should have, researchers found:
almost one million people cannot afford adequate housing conditions
800,000 people are too poor to engage in common social activities
over a quarter of a million children and adults aren't properly fed

Apparently only 432 people own over 90% of Scotland's private lands.

Neither Sturgeon or Salmond are like Trump and fine you know it jimbro and is your way of trying to avoid how much of a laugh your country is in the world.

As for mjsmsprt40. He well emphasises the traditional American tradition of getting a wee bit of information and misusing it to hide the way America is run. May I remind him and other part knowledge gaspers that the vast areas that are so owned are hardly places that are part of routine society. Those estates are usually in places towns would not be visited especially in the mountainous areas of the Highlands. It is the usual ex-colonist simpleton brain use that does a body swerve from the way their own nut job land is run. Cities that go bankrupt, large numbers of homeless and poor that are supposed to be living in the world's greatest place ( dear, oh dear). If you lot had a wide and proper democracy instead of the farce run by corporates and Wall Street. Much of this country is not suitable for building on due to the geography but then with the duh education in the US that shows here hardly surprising!

As for the Presidential farce and which will be decided by the corporate money barons there isn't a decent candidate at all. Whoever is elected it will not make a damn difference to the trillions of debt the desperation to be militarily and imperial world rules the tens of millions of poor and so on.  Over two centuries and still never grown up!

your way of trying to avoid how much of a laugh your country is in the world.

I have made it abundantly clear on the Opera and this Forum I am neither interested in kilts or bagpipes and prefer a good flute and drum band instead.

Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-09-12, 17:16:15

I have made it abundantly clear on the Opera and this Forum I am neither interested in kilts or bagpipes and prefer a good flute and drum band instead.

Don't you get it? If stereotypes of your to believed, your country would be full kilts, bagpipes, and sheep-shagging, wife-beating drunks. Likewise, the US defies its stereotypes far more then it affirms them.

Who's rockwell? :confused:

NOW you've got me scared. Can you REALLY not ever have heard of Norman Rockwell, the artist?

I think Mr. Howie is a secret SNP member and Red Socks wearer.  (https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sectalk.com%2Fboard%2Fpublic%2Fstyle_emoticons%2Fdefault%2Ftrollface.gif&hash=665db6eec9584d69e6bd4e70d368aa3a" rel="cached" data-hash="665db6eec9584d69e6bd4e70d368aa3a" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.sectalk.com/board/public/style_emoticons/default/trollface.gif)

It would be bizarre for Howie to call Oakdale that, though  :confused:  In fact, that would be compliment.

Well now hermit Oakdale may I say that art was amongst my top subjects at school.

I like his stuff. But he's no Rembrandt or Renoir… (I'd consider him a Toulouse-Lautrec.)

Subjects!? Nonsense, man! Show me your work… What have you created? (Beside discord, and rancor…  :)  )

I agree with RJ.....I think "The Donald" is a fawkin' asshole!

Even though, to his credit, back in the late 70's his lot contributed handsomely to the boys of the IRA, he's still a fawkin' asshole!

[…] these freak-show candidates may be good for laughs but they're terrible for getting good candidates into office.

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-09-23, 16:57:23

[…] these freak-show candidates may be good for laughs but they're terrible for getting good candidates into office.

I've not entirely given up on getting good candidates into office… But we haven't had a Ronald Reagan in a very long time! :) (Barry Goldwater was an early favorite of mine…)
What — particularly — would keep you from voting for Donald Trump, should he get the nomination? (I'll keep my speculations to myself; and my own opinions. I just want to know what you think.)

The main negative about him is that he is embarrassing the country to the rest of the world.

Shows the unfortunate general world ignorance of the ex-colonies there ersi.

[The criticism wouldn't be so bad were it] not from someone like yourself. You are a house hermit and stuck in books and that gives you the self-importance that would be lost amongst the outside and normal world. I mix with people, organisations, life in general and do try to make allowances for your lack of confidence on that outside world.

I've not entirely given up on getting good candidates into office… But we haven't had a Ronald Reagan in a very long time! :)

Yes, Sanders. Actually America could do with someone like him and the young in particular who are increasingly frustrated are loyal to him. Much of his campaign money comes from people and individual gifts

Sang, you can't run a country of 325 million people of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds like the Scandinavian countries… (I know, I quoted RJ! But he's hopeless!) 20+ millions, and mostly racially "pure" — which is to say, culturally akin. They can make almost anything work… If they don't allow "foreign" influences to muck it up.

While the American ideal may be e pluribus unum, that abstract concept describes neither reality nor a realistically attainable (or desirable) goal.

I don't buy that. While the American ideal may be e pluribus unum, that abstract concept describes neither reality nor a realistically attainable (or desirable) goal. Au fond the American stew is "Protestant" Anglo-Dutch, mostly inspired by Puritanism and European Enlightenment, with a few spices. The multicultural, multi-ethnic society is a liberal idée fixe to be taken with a huge grain of salt. An idée fixe which is oddly mirrored by conservatives in their fear of a decline in national unity and an unwarranted distrust in America's Americanizing capacity.

Nor is one remotely one that I claimed to support.  Nor does it have anything to do with the video I posted. I have no idea why Oakdale is confusing me with Jax and that shall remain a mystery.

Another one turning Catholic... culturally Catholic, I mean.

I'd say I'm more culturally Protestant, but I suppose the differences with Catholicism are greatly exaggerated.  :P

It does not matter a tinker's proverbial curse who wins the Presidential farce as all the spied on, poor, rights infringed, suffering in the US of A will still be stuck and so will the world with a global imperial war-mongering tyrant.
(emphasis added)

That makes to remain Democrats and lunatics.

I'll vote for the lunatics.

That was the voting from the Lisbon juri. :)

The grand jury from Hundsfotzhausen came to the conclusion that he (http://www.yesemails.com/goofypolitics/apeman/1.jpg) would be the best choice for president.
The guy has balls.

A woman who suffered horrific injuries after being mauled by a crazed chimpanzee has spoken for the first time about her ordeal.
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..... chances are it will be Clinton and thankfully I do not live over the water because she is not my cup of tea (soory coffe drinkers!). All round a decent people being hijacked.

Now, I do expect the people blinded in the last 2 elections, to be further blinded by the desire to go down in history as being responsible for electing the "First Woman President in American History", to ignore her baggage, & do their
unpatriotic best for Vince Foster's whore. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/411510.stm)

Who are they? Why, they're the Republican clown show, and, at the moment, Carson is chief clown. Democrats are praying that Carson becomes the candidate because he's batshit crazy.

"Dear God, please make Dr. Carson the Republican presidential candidate and I promise to store my grain in a pyramid!"
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/30/the_7_most_impressively_stupid_things_ben_carson_has_said_partner/ (http://www.salon.com/2015/09/30/the_7_most_impressively_stupid_things_ben_carson_has_said_partner/)
Let me add an eighth stupid statement.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/ben-carson-pyramids-grain/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/ben-carson-pyramids-grain/index.html)

Who are they? Why, they're the Republican clown show, and, at the moment, Carson is chief clown.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-11-06, 13:02:11

Who are they? Why, they're the Republican clown show, and, at the moment, Carson is chief clown.

You should be a Republican, you are a conservative at everything... True Democrats needs to be pro homosexual and a lot of other pro-something that you aren't.
Including pro-European :)

And you know these things, how!?!

Now it's time to listen to all the wailing about Hillary. Frankly, I don't give a damn if she wins or not, but if she wins the walls won't come tumbling down. The same goes for the hundreds of would-be Republican hopefuls.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-11-07, 11:11:32

And you know these things, how!?!

I'm the voice inside your mind... :)

In case that's true, than Jim will have to visit an exorcist.  :devil:

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-11-07, 11:11:32

And you know these things, how!?!

I'm the voice inside your mind... :)

As Donald Trump took the stage in a community college theater on Thursday night, something was off.
The usually punctual executive was nearly 40 minutes late. His voice was hoarse, his hair mussed, his tone defensive. He promised to take questions from the audience but instead launched into a 95-minute-long rant that at times sounded like the monologue of a man grappling with why he is running for president — and if it's really worth it or not. Even for a candidate full of surprises, the speech was surprising.

He scoffed at those who have accused him of not understanding foreign policy, saying he knows more about Islamic State terrorists "than the generals do." He took credit for predicting the threat of Osama bin Laden and being right on the "anchor baby situation," a position he says "these great geniuses from Harvard Law School" now back. He uttered the word "crap" at least three times, and promised to "bomb the s---" out of oil fields benefiting terrorists. He signed a book for a guy in the audience and then tossed it back at him with a flip: "Here you go, baby. I love you."

"How stupid are the people of Iowa?" asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when speaking of rival Ben Carson's popularity in the GOP race.
Trump called Republican rival Carly Fiorina "Carly whatever-the-hell-her-name-is," accused Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton of playing the "woman's card" and said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is "weak like a baby."

...Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

I wonder what a President Jimbro would be like?

Odds are you might look back on the eight years of Obama with nostalgia.

Odds are you might look back on the eight years of Obama with nostalgia.

Obama has been a terrible president. He won twice because the Republicans managed to nominate two of the worst candidates possible.

he could help tens of millions — while hurting hundreds of millions! That's usually the way socialism works… :)

Ask me again in a couple of generations, ...

I contributed $50 to his campaign even though I know that he has no chance.

Is there anybody running that you think would make a good president?

I contributed $50 to his campaign even though I know that he has no chance.