But Bezos is a big time liberal progressive and is thoroughly immersed in the ideology.......

 Oh wait, I forgot.........Bezos is a Limousine Liberal.  He wants his ideology thrust upon everyone except the elites.

Good article from the National Review talking about the new allegations about the alleged back channel.

Most notably, the Kushner–Kislyak meeting occurred in December 2016, weeks after the election. If there had been a close working relationship between the Trump campaign and the Putin regime — a working relationship that purportedly amounted to collusion in Russia’s attempts to influence the outcome of the election — then why would it have been necessary to set up a back channel in December? The secret lines of communication would already have been up and running for months. And they would certainly have been known to Kushner, Trump’s closest adviser; apparently, despite his sparse policy résumé, the “young princeling,” as West Wing rivals have taken to describing him, has been given every portfolio, from the holy grail of Middle East peace to the reinvention of the sprawling, $4.1 trillion per annum U.S. government.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448075/jared-kushner-sergey-kislyak-secret-back-channels-russia-amateur-hour

I guess I should give up on the idea of opening the little bakery that only makes fresh croissants because, you know...I'm not French. 

Oddly, I consider myself a conservative as does almost everyone who knows me personally.  Yet here, I'm an egg-sucking liberal.  I don't really care about how I'm labeled though.  What keeps me from frequenting this forum are the same things that caused the original SZ's demise.  That opposing viewpoints aren't welcomed.  There is no witty banter or humor in counterpoints.  It's very aggressive and not enjoyable. 

My best friend in college and I were very much opposites.  He's very liberal and I'm somewhat conservative, yet we had a fun game we'd play without having ever said a word to each other about it.  We would frequently play devil's advocate, taking the view the other would normally have, and we'd have fun doing it.  One example I vividly recall 30 years later is when he said no one should be allowed to make over $5M/year because no one needs more than that.  I agreed and started making points in his favor.  He then took the side of why it's an asinine idea that would rob the world of  initiative or rewarding those for going above and beyond or being absurdly creative.  Not that it ever changed our beliefs, but it was an excellent fun tool to make you think. 

Jim (who I firmly believe is a closet liberal)

<Pulls off white glove, slaps Little Joe across the face with it.>

"Sir, my good name has been impugned! I challenge you to a duel! Send around your seconds."

Hannity is amazing.  I haven't had that much of a chance to listen to Beck but in the past have been very impressed with some of his stuff, he is brilliant, but also have heard him say things that made me go, what???  Can't agree with him all the time and when I don't it's major, where I usually find myself enthusiastically agreeing with Hannity.

I like what Hannity says, and find myself agreeing with him most of the time.  The consistent theme I see with the more conservative talk show hosts like Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity, etc are twofold.

1.  They ADMIT, and promote their show as not "news" but conservative opinion.
2.  They are NOT lock step with the establishment Republicans, and will criticize the Republicans when they go off the conservative reservation.

The lynchings will continue, get used to it. The left/media is throwing the biggest political tantrum I've ever seen.

Our chapter flies a lot of Young Eagles.  You just never know where a young person you fly will end up.  Our chapter flew this young man in 2008.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/may/10/steelers-new-qb-dobbs-is-aerospace-engineer

Instead of brushing up on his Xs and Os in the days before the National Football League’s April 27 to 29 draft, former University of Tennessee quarterback Joshua Dobbs was assisting college aeronautics teammates during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) competition in Tucson, Arizona. During draft week the aerospace engineering major who was selected in the fourth round by the Pittsburgh Steelers was instead focused on his senior engineering project to design, build, and fly a miniature folding-wing aircraft in the AIAA competition sponsored by aviation powerhouses Cessna and Raytheon.