Jarqui
Jarqui's JournalYou still see a puff of smoke from a bullet hitting him
at 5:47.
He went down on the first shot at 5:34 or so and they kept pumping lead into him for at least 13 seconds after he was down and made no effort to get up.
I'm glad I'm not the one trying to defend this murderer in court.
In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History
Source: New York Times
Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.” “Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ” The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump’s full name, concludes: “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”
Like many of Mr. Trump’s claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked. “No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there,” said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site. “The only thing that was remotely close to that,” Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed. “The River of Blood?” he added. “Nope, not there.”
.. But no one died in that crossing, historians said, or in any other notable Civil War engagement on the spot. .... Mr. Trump repeatedly said that “numerous historians” had told him that the golf club site was known as The River of Blood. But he said he did not remember their names.
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Members of what he renamed the Trump National Golf Club, and some former employees, said the plaque generally drew laughter or eye-rolls, much as when Mr. Trump periodically descends from his helicopter to walk one course or the other. One member, a former history professor and a co-author of four Civil War novels, called the monument merely “strange.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html?_r=2&referer=
President Trump "Today, I nuked Moscow and Mecca, America. Someone, I can't remember who, tweeted they saw Russian jets coming to get us and the Muslims were jumping up and down, laughing about it. I just retweeted to NORAD with the order ... "Get them the HELL outta here!!" ... Like I said to Bill O'Reilly "Am I gonna check every tweet?" ... "
I wonder if Trump's ego would allow him to be Cruz's VP
- what a horrible thought ... 
I think Carson is going to drop like a stone. The only person he's fooling now is himself.
So Cruz will join Rubio and Trump as one of the top three for now.
The media is eventually going to carve up Trump
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/donald-trump-favorable-rating
So maybe they'll do a dance with Cruz but I don't expect he can hold on.
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/ted-cruz-favorable-rating
I think this is the sleeper, Rubio, who will win the prize
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/marco-rubio-favorable-rating
$10,000 per capita now is too expensive
when the rest of the world is doing it for roughly half that, isn't it?
The difference is the scam of a shell game the health insurance companies, Wall Street and the politicians are playing with the American people. The American people are being deceived. Use the bully pulpit to expose that bullshit that is cutting short Americans lives and draining their bank accounts at double the rate it should. It's basically slick theft.
What people overlook there is not just the cost but the opportunity cost. Every US job basically costs $10,000 more than any other country in the world because of these crazy healthcare costs. Imagine how many jobs the US could recover if every employee cost $10,000 less per year to employ. (if every employee has one dependent - it's closer to two)
It's not that hard of an argument to make because those are the facts. Get someone in the Oval office that will continue to make that argument. Hillary wants tax cuts - so she's not up to it. Bernie wants to really fix it forever - give him a shot. The facts and truth is on his side. The media is not going to ignore the President of the United States.
It's certainly not going to happen if we throw our hands up in the air and say "it's pie in the sky"
The Canadians did it by getting Saskatchewan to do it.
When Canadians saw it could work, people jumped on board and it went across the country.
He could work with the Massachusetts governor to fix their system with it.
Or he could work with the Vermont Governor to fix things there to implement their single payer legislation they already have (but not implemented).
Or he might find another state willing to try.
That's one way of going about it.
While that is going on, the Dems work at taking back the House and Senate. So when thew two come together they can push it over the top.
In spite of Obamacare slowing down healthcare costs, US healthcare costs are still spiraling upward to $10,000 per capita. That's just nuts. Can't afford it. One way or the other, something has to give. So that economic argument is going to get stronger every year.
NAFTA was not a deal for factory workers and the middle class
It was a trade deal for big business. In the 90s big business cashed in big time ... while the middle class lost their factory jobs.
Bill supported it, pushed it and put it through on his watch. Hillary stumped for it. There's video of her doing so. Corporations won and the little people lost.
In 2008, Hillary maintained she was against NAFTA all along - or something to that effect - until the old videos started playing.
That's just one more example.
Many of you have seen Hillary flip-flopping on bankruptcy (Moyers interview with Elizabeth Warren)
Hillary Clinton Told Wall Street To ‘Cut It Out’—Not So Much, the Record Shows
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-told-wall-street-to-cut-it-out-not-so-much-the-record-shows-213363#ixzz3sQGOl9hb
In my opinion, Hillary has been a chameleon. On many issues, she does not have firm beliefs/strong convictions that should survive no matter what - rather they're positions of political convenience and she seems to flip positions pandering for votes. Just google Hillary and Flip-flops or Hillary pandering if one has trouble believing it.
How Hillary Panders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/10/11/how-hillary-clinton-panders/
She's not going to turn her back on Wall Street donors potentially facing a 2020 election. They funded Bill and her politically for decades. That isn't going to change any time soon.
I think the media is like a cat playing with a dead mouse
They've got their prey, know they're going to eat well and in the interim, they'll just toy with it to entertain.
The difference being that they'll make a bundle in ratings during the entertainment phase.
They will devour Trump. The only question is when.
Those electorates, certainly Canada, was howling "No way!! Commies!!!"
until their leaders walked through the merits, stuck to their guns and got it done
Here's Canada's Saskatchewan (almost Vermont) story
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/healthc.pdf
The CCF won the 1960 election, in spite of a well-funded campaign by doctors in opposition
to the health program. As the government proceeded to put its program into legislation through the
Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act (1961), the doctors continued their campaign against what
they termed "socialized medicine." Accusing the government of "communism" and "compulsory state
medicine," the doctors warned that the province was interfering with their right as professionals to
practice medicine and was attempting to make them "salaried government employees." They warned
that doctors would leave the province rather than work under such a system. Finally, in a last-ditch
effort to force the government to back down on its health care reform, the doctors went on strike on
July 1, 1961, the first day the new legislation came into effect.
The doctors' strike in Saskatchewan lasted 23 days and gained worldwide attention. While
the doctors agreed to maintain emergency services and the provincial hospitals remained open with
reduced staff, most private practitioners closed their offices. Ironically, the mortality rate in the
province declined during the strike, primarily because of the decline in surgery.
While much of the national and international media condemned the doctors action, the local
media supported the doctors and demanded that the government back down on its program. In spite
of the local media's support, as the strike wore on public opinion in Saskatchewan turned against the
doctors. As communities started to recruit doctors willing to work under the health plan from other
parts of Canada, the local doctors' resolve rapidly dwindled. The strike ended with the new health
program still intact. The provincial government negotiated a face-saving agreement with the doctors
which permitted them to opt entirely out of the plan and bill patients privately. With over 900 doctors
in the province at the time, none chose this option. The agreement also permitted doctors to maintain
their own medical insurance companies as clearinghouses for the Medical Care Commission, though
these were eventually eliminated by the doctors themselves as needless duplication.
In spite of the controversial start to the Saskatchewan program, it quickly proved to be a
success. Within a few years, the Saskatchewan model became the prototype for other provinces.
That's the kind of progression Bernie is talking about.
And look:
https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f3f51624680366b198b6c5dea8687621?convert_to_webp=true
US spends four times as much on health care per capita as the Czech Republic and has a similar life expectancy - one of the worst of the developed nations. That shouldn't be a hard thing to sell: the US is getting ripped off badly and the real American victims of the policy can't complain very loudly because they're either too sick or dead.
Between 2001 and 2014, 3,063 Americans died in terrorist attacks in America.
In that same time, 631,700 Americans died because they didn't have healthcare. I'm not exaggerating. Think about that number for a moment. And then convince me why I should accept "pie in the sky" tax cuts that won't stop those deaths without healthcare. If Bernie's leader, at least we're past the point of having to argue with the President about it. This is a disgusting travesty. With Hillary, she'll have to ask Wall Street what they think about it because unlike Bernie, she lacks the fortitude to take a stand and really save some lives. Hillary's policy is to kick that can down the road with tax cuts - and continue to let folks die.
I don't think that's a pie in the sky argument if the Koch Brothers and Wall Street don't own your leaders like they seem to own Hillary and Congress. The costs and life expectancies and deaths without health care are facts - the simple truth. The rest of the "pie in the sky" crap is largely smoke to cover for the fat cats siphoning money from hard working Americans that cuts their loves short.
Enough.
Maybe what they're admitting is Hillary isn't a good enough leader to get it done ...
or she's too beholden to Wall Street ...
These countries had the leadership to get single payer:
1912 Norway
1938 Japan
1948 United Kingdom
1950 Kuwait
1955 Sweden
1957 Bahrain
1958 Brunei
1966 Canada
1971 United Arab Emirates
1972 Finland
1972 Slovenia
1978 Italy
1979 Portugal
1980 Cyprus
1986 Spain
1990 Iceland
Too bad Hillary isn't up to the task. The good news is Bernie believes he is.
Maybe a 9 point improvement
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ma/massachusetts_democratic_presidential_primary-3891.htmlBut it's hard to put much stock into just one poll. As well, 24.5 pts is a still a big gap to make up.
On Mar 1, these states, among others, go to the primary polls:
Georgia +43 (Obama +35, Delegates 60 Obama - 27 Clinton)
Massachusetts +29.5 (+15 over Obama, Delegates Clinton 55 - Obama 38)
Texas +30.7 (+3.5 over Obama, delegates Obama 99 - Clinton 94)
Virginia +34.3 (Obama +28, Delegates Obama 60 - Clinton 27)
Unlike other states on Mar 1, those states represent a lot of delegates - roughly 500.
Should Bernie take Iowa and New Hampshire, he'll need to have a good showing in the above states to keep pace. He has to close that gap over the next 60 days.
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