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Spin Zone / Re: At core, what is a liberal?
« on: January 26, 2017, 11:46:34 AM »
I think you're being sarcastic or you're applying too much nobility to this.  When I joined the Navy, it wasn't because I wanted to demonstrate self-less service to my country, it was because I had screwed off in college and was one semester away from getting kicked out.  I needed a way to live while I figured out what I wanted to do.  Four years, three months later I drove out of Gate 5 at Norfolk with some experience, just a tiny bit of maturity and the GI bill to get me through finishing school while I also worked for the university.  That led the next step, which let to the next step and 25 years later I'm here with an MBA, a decent job that I have to work too hard at and still a burning desire to own an airplane that I really cannot afford because someone here spends all our money.

You might not have set out to do selfless service to our nation, but you certainly ended up doing so and earning my grateful Thanks as well.

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Spin Zone / Re: At core, what is a liberal?
« on: January 26, 2017, 10:29:16 AM »
You must have taken your stupid pill today.  The GI bill is a scholarship program at many colleges and Universities.  It also is a scholarship program for worthy individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.  The military is enriched for such individuals, who clearly and in exemplary fashion demonstrate their worth by their self-less service to their country.

How is it a scholarship when servicemembers who want to take advantage of it had to pay $100 a month for a year to get that benefit? That's how it used to be under the Montgomery GI Bill, not sure how the Post 9/11 GI Bill works.

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Spin Zone / Re: At core, what is a liberal?
« on: January 26, 2017, 10:27:43 AM »
I am a recipient of the GI Bill.   In my opinion, it was not a scholarship in any sense of the word.

My GI Bill required me to put money in the system and then the government matched my contribution $3 for every $1 I contributed.

I put in my 4 years of active duty (followed by 2 years inactive reserve) to complete my 6 year obligation.  During the 4 years active duty I worked very hard to earn that benefit.

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Spin Zone / Re: Justice at Risk
« on: January 26, 2017, 12:37:59 AM »
This isn't new. We said the same thing at the prospect of Hillary being able to nominate people instead of Trump. The difference, for me, is that I believe that Hillary would have put staunchly liberal justices on the court which would've moved us towards less rights and less freedom. At least now we have a chance to keep it balanced, if not swing it back to a more conservative view depending on how many justices Trump is able to nominate.

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Spin Zone / Re: Having A Ball
« on: January 25, 2017, 04:38:32 PM »
Mrs. Obama is completely and gloriously irrelevant to Americans now, except as a little aside in the White House gift shop books about First Ladies. She contributed nothing whatsoever of meaning or importance to her country in that role, and I plan to think about her not at all in these new and exciting times.

Buh bye!


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Spin Zone / Re: Having A Ball
« on: January 24, 2017, 05:29:27 AM »
Because we ain't talking about Clinton. We're talking about your tangerine Messiah.


Sent from my iPad . Squirrel!!

Psychological Projection -- You should look it up (I helped with a link or two).  No one on the right calls Trump a Messiah.  Obama, on the other hand...


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Spin Zone / Re: The Orange Overlord comprised by the Reds?
« on: January 17, 2017, 08:17:53 PM »
Oh, it was all over Fox, Breitbart, and a host of other sources.  It really made CNN and Buzzfeed look like the tools they are.  It was a perfect example of CNN attempting to promote a fake news story.

It was more than that.  It is a clear example of CNN faking news in order to drive their agenda.
They are not a news business, they are an arm of the alt-left political establishment.

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Spin Zone / Re: Yeah, those were legitimate philanthropic donations!
« on: January 16, 2017, 10:04:50 AM »
The Clinton Foundation being the money laundering, influence peddling, profit center for the Clintons that is does not have the influence to sell any longer.  They are laying people off, and not getting the nefarious donors lie the once did.  It is obvious to all but the hard core Progressives what exactly this organization is for.
It was a great idea though.  Donate money (lots of it) to high profile, very influential people, but it appears that you are donating to a worthwhile charitable organization.  It was a scam worthy of Bernie Madoff.

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Putin wants to be friends with Trump! (humor)
« on: January 15, 2017, 09:43:44 PM »
Why does Trump take Xanax?

To cope with Hispanic attacks.


Sent from my iPhone . Squirrel!!

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Spin Zone / Re: Serious Question on supposed Russian Hacking
« on: January 15, 2017, 06:51:19 PM »
Is it me or did Lucifer just wake from a coma?

It's you.

You seem perfectly willing to condemn Trump on the flimsiest non-evidence, but give Hillary every possible benefit of the doubt when confronted with mountains of extremely suspicious conduct.

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump won states having 55% of the population.
« on: January 14, 2017, 04:51:25 PM »
Didn't see El Chapo mentioned in any of the linked articles.

 I didn't say or imply there was.

Didn't see any illegal contributions or did I miss some?

 No one said or implied they were.

  Was there any pay to play?  I don't know.  Can you prove any?

 Who brought up pay to play?  Oh, you did.  Can you prove there wasn't any?

Anybody can "question" anything but can they prove anything?

 If proof was offered you would just say it really didn't happen. Or blame the Russians.

Did the Clinton's profit from contributions to their charitable foundation?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/27/memo-shows-bill-clintons-wealth-tied-clinton-foundation/92842822/

http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/hold-on-clintons-dont-benefit-from-foundation/

http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/clinton-foundation-paid-for-chelseas-wedding/

 But of course, please tell us it's all fake news by the Russians.

 

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Spin Zone / Re: First Presser is Terrific
« on: January 12, 2017, 05:03:21 PM »
I no longer care if any politician is ethical or not, or has a conflict of interest and profits somehow "unfairly" from his position, as long as he fixes the economy to profit ME.  All I care about now is maximizing my old age comfort, or rather, minimizing the Hell.  If I can climb up one more rung here in the middle class, so I can afford a slightly better retirement situation, what do I care if Trump has filthy billions or filthy billions plus X?  He's welcome to it, if he can improve MY situation.  It's time for me to be selfish. I've spent my whole life being moral and ethical, and caring about other people, and caring whether a politician I vote for is honest and upright.  I may be slow but I do eventually learn, and I've finally figured it out:  NONE OF THEM ARE.  So I'm done giving a damn. The alternative to Trump was a piece of shit so deeply corrupt with a whole entourage of corrupt friends that have already done untold damage to the country, my wallet and my happiness.  If Trump too is a corrupt piece of shit, fine. He's an amateur, he can't begin to equal the damage done by the Clintons, Obama and the Democrats.

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump won states having 55% of the population.
« on: January 12, 2017, 09:26:07 AM »
With so many on the Left talking about popular vote, I've heard some express the idea that apportioning the EVs according to the popular vote breakdown in each state was a good idea - for example, Hillary won 59% of the vote in New York, so she should get 59% of the 29 votes, rounded to 17 votes.  Trump would get the other 12.  So if that happened, what would the EV count have been?

There is a non-obvious rounding problem due to the small party candidates, sometimes rounding would not apportion all the votes.  And I think it's a silly idea, more denial from Hillary supporters so I haven't really gone forward.

Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.270towin.com/news/2016/12/22/2016-alternate-electoral-methods-a-preliminary-look_437.html#.WHetDMv2bcs

The President elect still wins, the margin just gets narrower.

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Further, no presidents release their college transcripts.

If you're a Republican, like GWB, some leftist releases them for you to a compliant media outlet that dutifully published them



It is in many ways similar to Obama's first (only!) Senate campaign -- when his Republican opponent Jack Ryan was forced to withdraw after Ryan's sealed divorce court records somehow were made public, exposing his ex-wife's allegations of sex club visits.  Funny how those "inadvertent" disclosures so frequently seem to benefit Democrats at the expense of Republicans, isn't it?  O_o  But I digress...

Ace, you and I have been over this ground before -- Let's be honest.  It is known fact that at one point in his career, that Obama (or those working on his behalf) touted him as "born in Kenya... raised in Indonesia and  Hawaii" (whether that was entirely factual or not).  Some will attribute that to Obama, even if he was not directly responsible, since it was incontrovertibly said about him and on his behalf to promote his early writing engagements. 

The interest in Obama's (Columbia) college records are not his grades, but that they would show that he claimed to be a foreign student (perhaps "born in Kenya" -- has a nice ring to it, eh?) in order to gain transfer admission from Occidental.   

Like the birth certificate, the significance is (was) not that Obama was actually born in Hawaii vs. Kenya.  In either case he is undoubtedly a red diaper baby raised by people who hate America which has...  err, influenced ... his world view and consequently his reign over America (blessedly short that it was) as President.  The significance of Obama's college records is that they conclusively prove (as if further proof were necessary) that he is a lying opportunist, dating back at least to his college days.

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