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Not at all. I have actually said of some Blacks when I see entitlement groups acting like animals on TV "Ship 'em all back to Africa if America is so bad!" And an African American friend might say to me... "Me too, since I complain a lot?" Or I might then think about my beloved Black nanny who raised me. Or I am reminded of the beautiful black girl who stayed with my wife and me for awhile.
And, of course my instant reaction to those BLM or Panther fools will subside, and I will begin to be more rational in my thinking, and maybe even in my speech.
The same as some Blacks might want to chant right along with the cop haters when they first hear of another killing. But, when they settle a little, they remember the kind white beat cop who was so nice to them as a kid, or the white officer they saw on TV going down in a well to save the little black girl who had fallen in, or the white officers they saw sheltering and protecting black citizens on the news while their comrades were being shot from the roof of that parking garage.
Every single one of us (except for maybe some professional politicians) flares hot about one thing or another. Often racial things. And, then upon reflection, gets our heads out of our butts and screws them back on our necks where they belong.
Thank God someone like Trump who is not a party line dancer is fed up with the same old racial baiting and status quo, and has some genuine passion in his feelings, and like all the rest of us, usually comes around after the lights go down and the shouting subsides. Otherwise, all we will have running for office from either side will be the same self-focused politicians who are just shouting their same memorized speeches from the last 15 years.
And, of course my instant reaction to those BLM or Panther fools will subside, and I will begin to be more rational in my thinking, and maybe even in my speech.
The same as some Blacks might want to chant right along with the cop haters when they first hear of another killing. But, when they settle a little, they remember the kind white beat cop who was so nice to them as a kid, or the white officer they saw on TV going down in a well to save the little black girl who had fallen in, or the white officers they saw sheltering and protecting black citizens on the news while their comrades were being shot from the roof of that parking garage.
Every single one of us (except for maybe some professional politicians) flares hot about one thing or another. Often racial things. And, then upon reflection, gets our heads out of our butts and screws them back on our necks where they belong.
Thank God someone like Trump who is not a party line dancer is fed up with the same old racial baiting and status quo, and has some genuine passion in his feelings, and like all the rest of us, usually comes around after the lights go down and the shouting subsides. Otherwise, all we will have running for office from either side will be the same self-focused politicians who are just shouting their same memorized speeches from the last 15 years.
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[h=1]BUSTED: CNN Exposes Trump Lying About IRS Audit To Justify Hiding His Taxes[/h]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s nonsense reasoning for refusing to release his taxes is disintegrating before our very eyes, but that is not stopping his campaign and supporters from pushing forward as if reality does not exist. One must stay in a permanent state of obliviousness to support Trump after all.
For months Trump and his campaign have stated they would release his taxes, and they desperately want nothing more than to release them. However, as the tall tale goes, while Trump is under an audit by the IRS they have no choice but to keep the taxes under lock and key. The IRS has stated there is no law preventing Trump from releasing his taxes, but we now know the time period of Trump’s audit. We’re not even going to pay attention to the fact that this “audit” of Trump would easily be one of the longest audits in the history of the IRS, as there is far more damning evidence.
CNN has confirmed to the nation that Donald Trump is not being audited from 2008 or earlier. While there is still speculation Trump is not being audited at all, CNN’s revelation opens Trump’s campaign up to a slew of new questions. For example, if Trump’s primary reason to not release his information is to wait for the audit to be completed, why won’t he release the information from 2008, or 2007? Or 1999?
The only conclusion a rational thinking person might draw, which precludes Trump’s supporters, is Trump has something to hide in those tax returns.
Is he not as rich as he claims to be? Does he not pay as much in taxes as he claims? What about his charitable donations? The American people are demanding answers.
Trump and his campaign have calculated the fallout from not releasing the taxes is less than the devastation he would suffer if he were to release the information. It’s that simple.
BUSTED: CNN Exposes Trump Lying About IRS Audit To Justify Hiding His Taxes
Trump is a tax cheat and liar. While he refuses to pay his taxes, YOU are the ones who pay for his delinquency. There isn't an honest bone in his body and the belief that he will be America's next savior is nothing more than a delusion.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s nonsense reasoning for refusing to release his taxes is disintegrating before our very eyes, but that is not stopping his campaign and supporters from pushing forward as if reality does not exist. One must stay in a permanent state of obliviousness to support Trump after all.
For months Trump and his campaign have stated they would release his taxes, and they desperately want nothing more than to release them. However, as the tall tale goes, while Trump is under an audit by the IRS they have no choice but to keep the taxes under lock and key. The IRS has stated there is no law preventing Trump from releasing his taxes, but we now know the time period of Trump’s audit. We’re not even going to pay attention to the fact that this “audit” of Trump would easily be one of the longest audits in the history of the IRS, as there is far more damning evidence.
CNN has confirmed to the nation that Donald Trump is not being audited from 2008 or earlier. While there is still speculation Trump is not being audited at all, CNN’s revelation opens Trump’s campaign up to a slew of new questions. For example, if Trump’s primary reason to not release his information is to wait for the audit to be completed, why won’t he release the information from 2008, or 2007? Or 1999?
Is he not as rich as he claims to be? Does he not pay as much in taxes as he claims? What about his charitable donations? The American people are demanding answers.
Trump and his campaign have calculated the fallout from not releasing the taxes is less than the devastation he would suffer if he were to release the information. It’s that simple.
BUSTED: CNN Exposes Trump Lying About IRS Audit To Justify Hiding His Taxes
Trump is a tax cheat and liar. While he refuses to pay his taxes, YOU are the ones who pay for his delinquency. There isn't an honest bone in his body and the belief that he will be America's next savior is nothing more than a delusion.
[h=1]Michele Bachmann: I'm advising Trump on foreign policy[/h]
Tea Party firebrand Michele Bachmann says she is advising Republican presidential nomineeDonald Trump on foreign policy.
The former Minnesota congresswoman attended a fundraiser in the state for Trump on Saturday, where she revealed to the press that she has his ear on foreign policy. “He also recognizes there is a threat around the world, not just here in Minnesota, of radical Islam,” she said, according to MPR News. “I wish our President Obama also understood the threat of radical Islam and took it seriously.”
“He’s a common-sense guy, not into political correctness,” Bachmann added, according to the Star Tribune.
Bachmann is already part of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board, providing “support” to Trump on “issues important to Evangelicals and other people of faith in America.”
Bachmann, who has yet to officially endorse Trump, launched an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2012.
Folks here in Minnesota are having a HUGE laugh over that one.
Tea Party firebrand Michele Bachmann says she is advising Republican presidential nomineeDonald Trump on foreign policy.
The former Minnesota congresswoman attended a fundraiser in the state for Trump on Saturday, where she revealed to the press that she has his ear on foreign policy. “He also recognizes there is a threat around the world, not just here in Minnesota, of radical Islam,” she said, according to MPR News. “I wish our President Obama also understood the threat of radical Islam and took it seriously.”
“He’s a common-sense guy, not into political correctness,” Bachmann added, according to the Star Tribune.
Bachmann is already part of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board, providing “support” to Trump on “issues important to Evangelicals and other people of faith in America.”
Bachmann, who has yet to officially endorse Trump, launched an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2012.
Folks here in Minnesota are having a HUGE laugh over that one.
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I wonder If Willie_T read this.
Well you know the usual pattern for most of the right wingers on this forum: criticize and attack any such report (whether it be from a liberal or conservative source) but to offer nothing in the way of refutation of its findings. Hopefully some day they will learn their lesson.
One thing about Trump, you will never hear him making lame and desperate excuses like Hill-a-beans.
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Clinton's pathetic ‘Colin Powell made me do it’ defense
By Rich Lowry
August 22, 2016 | 8:25pm
The influence that Colin Powell has over Hillary Clinton is something to behold.
His word is her command. When he tells her to break the law and endanger the nation’s secrets, she doesn’t hesitate. She salutes smartly and does as she is told.
Clinton has been desperate for the moral cover of Colin Powell for her e-mail arrangement since the scandal first broke last year. Now we’ve learned that Clinton told the FBI that Powell advised her to use private e-mail as secretary of state at a dinner in 2009. This escalates Clinton’s e-mail defense from, “Hey, Colin Powell did it, too,” all the way to, “Colin Powell made me do it.”
The Powell defense has given Clinton shills something to say on TV, but doesn’t make much sense.
While the former general used a private e-mail as secretary of state, it was at a time when the department didn’t have a robust e-mail system of its own. And he obviously didn’t set up his own private server.
After Powell left State, the department’s rules steadily got stricter about using official e-mail for State Department business and preserving e-mail records — and Clinton blew through them all.
On the advice, we are supposed to believe, of none other than Colin Powell, the Professor Moriarty of Clinton’s illicit e-mail practices.
The New York Times reported last week that at a dinner party hosted by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and that included other former secretaries of state, Albright asked Clinton’s predecessors what counsel they would give her. Allegedly, Powell didn’t advise Clinton (channeling Winston Churchill) that “diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions,” or (channelling Will Durant) that “to say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy,” or even to avoid a land war in Asia.
He told her to use private e-mail.
Powell now says that’s not how he remembers it. If Clinton really wanted someone’s permission to use private e-mail, she could have asked the State Department, which she never did. In a new book, the left-wing journalist Joe Conason writes that Clinton had already decided to use private e-mail months before the Albright dinner.
Of course she had, and for her own reasons. She wanted to hide as much of her business as possible from journalists and congressional committees seeking information on how she operated. Given the gross intermingling of State Department and Clinton Foundation business, this was only prudent.
If Hillary had her way, no one would know that Clinton Foundation honcho Doug Band tried to get donor Gilbert Chagoury a meeting with the recent ambassador to Lebanon, and Hillary aide Huma Abedin (who, amazingly, held positions at both the State Department and the foundation) was extremely solicitous.
No one would know that, in the latest revelation, when Band wanted the crown prince of Bahrain to see Hillary, Abedin coordinated with him on trying to set up the meeting.
No wonder that Colin Powell finds Hillary’s effort to enlist him as one of the justifications for her private server so galling. Over the weekend, Powell told a reporter, “her people have been trying to pin it on me.”
Referring to a description of his e-mail practices he sent to her (at her request), Powell said, “The truth is, she was using [her private server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did.”
No one forced Hillary to use her private e-mail for State Department business in a manner so flagrantly against the rules that in any other circumstance (i.e., if she weren’t the Democratic nominee for president), she would be vulnerable to sanction and prosecution.
And no one forced her and her husband to run their foundation as a vast pay-to-play scheme whose inner workings must be shielded from public view. That’s her responsibility and no one else’s — certainly not Colin Powell’s.
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Clinton's pathetic ‘Colin Powell made me do it’ defense
By Rich Lowry
August 22, 2016 | 8:25pm
The influence that Colin Powell has over Hillary Clinton is something to behold.
His word is her command. When he tells her to break the law and endanger the nation’s secrets, she doesn’t hesitate. She salutes smartly and does as she is told.
Clinton has been desperate for the moral cover of Colin Powell for her e-mail arrangement since the scandal first broke last year. Now we’ve learned that Clinton told the FBI that Powell advised her to use private e-mail as secretary of state at a dinner in 2009. This escalates Clinton’s e-mail defense from, “Hey, Colin Powell did it, too,” all the way to, “Colin Powell made me do it.”
The Powell defense has given Clinton shills something to say on TV, but doesn’t make much sense.
While the former general used a private e-mail as secretary of state, it was at a time when the department didn’t have a robust e-mail system of its own. And he obviously didn’t set up his own private server.
After Powell left State, the department’s rules steadily got stricter about using official e-mail for State Department business and preserving e-mail records — and Clinton blew through them all.
On the advice, we are supposed to believe, of none other than Colin Powell, the Professor Moriarty of Clinton’s illicit e-mail practices.
The New York Times reported last week that at a dinner party hosted by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and that included other former secretaries of state, Albright asked Clinton’s predecessors what counsel they would give her. Allegedly, Powell didn’t advise Clinton (channeling Winston Churchill) that “diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions,” or (channelling Will Durant) that “to say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy,” or even to avoid a land war in Asia.
He told her to use private e-mail.
Powell now says that’s not how he remembers it. If Clinton really wanted someone’s permission to use private e-mail, she could have asked the State Department, which she never did. In a new book, the left-wing journalist Joe Conason writes that Clinton had already decided to use private e-mail months before the Albright dinner.
Of course she had, and for her own reasons. She wanted to hide as much of her business as possible from journalists and congressional committees seeking information on how she operated. Given the gross intermingling of State Department and Clinton Foundation business, this was only prudent.
If Hillary had her way, no one would know that Clinton Foundation honcho Doug Band tried to get donor Gilbert Chagoury a meeting with the recent ambassador to Lebanon, and Hillary aide Huma Abedin (who, amazingly, held positions at both the State Department and the foundation) was extremely solicitous.
No one would know that, in the latest revelation, when Band wanted the crown prince of Bahrain to see Hillary, Abedin coordinated with him on trying to set up the meeting.
No wonder that Colin Powell finds Hillary’s effort to enlist him as one of the justifications for her private server so galling. Over the weekend, Powell told a reporter, “her people have been trying to pin it on me.”
Referring to a description of his e-mail practices he sent to her (at her request), Powell said, “The truth is, she was using [her private server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did.”
No one forced Hillary to use her private e-mail for State Department business in a manner so flagrantly against the rules that in any other circumstance (i.e., if she weren’t the Democratic nominee for president), she would be vulnerable to sanction and prosecution.
And no one forced her and her husband to run their foundation as a vast pay-to-play scheme whose inner workings must be shielded from public view. That’s her responsibility and no one else’s — certainly not Colin Powell’s.
