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Article on the relationship between Comey and Mueller
. Apparently a joint effort between the two of them derailed Bush II's STELLAR WIND operation.
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Nah, this actually suits better in a more subtle way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dPaVk4G1jg
I have no problem with crowdfunding so long as it provides a stable funding stream for the party and candidate. I wouldn't want funds to dry up because the Great Unwashed get too hyped and develop unrealistic expectations.
edited 19th May '17 10:28:54 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."The first look at the Trump/Devos education budget
looks fucking horrible
. Overall funding, work-study programs, mental health funding, loan forgiveness for government employees and non-profit workers... they're all going to be slashed or cut entirely.
The administration would channel part of the savings into its top priority: school choice. It seeks to spend about $400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and another $1 billion to push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.
President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy De Vos have repeatedly said they want to shrink the federal role in education and give parents more opportunity to choose their children’s schools.
The documents — described by an Education Department employee as a near-final version of the budget expected to be released next week — offer the clearest picture yet of how the administration intends to accomplish that goal.
Though Trump and De Vos are proponents of local control, their proposal to use federal dollars to entice districts to adopt school-choice policies is reminiscent of the way the Obama administration offered federal money to states that agreed to adopt its preferred education policies through a program called Race to the Top.
The proposed cuts in long-standing programs — and the simultaneous new investment in alternatives to traditional public schools — are a sign of the Trump administration’s belief that federal efforts to improve education have failed. De Vos, who has previously derided government, is now leading an agency she views as an impediment to progress.
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The administration is also seeking to overhaul key elements of federal financial aid. The spending proposal would maintain funding for Pell Grants for students in financial need, but it would eliminate more than $700 million in Perkins loans for disadvantaged students; nearly halve the work-study program that helps students work their way through school, cutting $490 million; take a first step toward ending subsidized loans, for which the government pays interest while the borrower is in school; and end loan forgiveness for public servants.
The loan forgiveness program, enacted in 2007, was designed to encourage college graduates to pursue careers as social workers, teachers, public defenders or doctors in rural areas. There are at least 552,931 people on track to receive the benefit, with the first wave of forgiveness set for October. It’s unclear how the proposed elimination would affect those borrowers.
The administration also wants to replace five income-driven student loan repayment plans with a single plan.
That change would likely benefit many undergraduate borrowers, who currently can have the balance of their loan forgiven after paying 10 percent of their income for 20 years. Trump’s proposal — which makes good on a campaign promise — would raise the maximum payment to 12.5 percent of income, but shorten the payment period to 15 years.
The proposal is less sweet for borrowers who take out loans to earn advanced degrees. They currently pay monthly bills capped at 10 percent of income for 25 years. Under the new plan, they’d pay more (12.5 percent of income) for longer (30 years).
10 minute video looking at Faith Militant
, a fringe right wing Catholic media group growing in size which hits all the standard religious right talking points: acceptance of gays, divorce, remarriage, contraception, etc. has emasculated society, being trans is a mental illness, the mere fact that we haven't declared which religion is right and unanimously accepted that as our national religion means the religious are being persecuted, tolerant attitudes such as "If you don't like same sex marriage, just don't marry someone of the same sex and go about living your own life" undermines society and hastens the fall of it, etc.
The quote that really jumped out for me in this:
While it doesn't explicitly say so, there's a chilling implication about what happens in their ideal world if they ever get power and influence, and in that ideal world according to them, non-Christian religions, secularists and atheists certainly wouldn't be welcomed, at best.
Politician who twice ran against Pence in Indiana and who has known Pence since law school briefly talks about Pence, his beliefs, and political style.
While it's extremely unlikely that we'll get President Pence in my opinion, we might as well know a little of this and keep it in mind.
Mike is a pleasant person to be around. I don’t talk politics with him because I don’t like that ultraconservative philosophy. We talk baseball, Indiana history, sports, family. Mike Pence the congressional candidate, the gubernatorial candidate, works very, very hard—but he’s still very personable. He’s very good with the media. And he stays on message. I’m saying that as a compliment. In the 2012 campaign, when we were closing the gap, we had a couple of debates and he never got off message. He is an extremely disciplined candidate. From the moment he became the vice-presidential nominee, he stayed on message.
What do you see as his chief values?
He’s socially conservative in a lot of areas. If there is something that he opposes, like abortion or gay rights or gun control, if it is based on his moral compass, his idea of right and wrong, good and bad—he won’t waver from it. It doesn’t matter how much political pressure there is: His Christian faith guides him. His wife Karen is his confidant, and that’s to his credit. They have a good marriage. Back in law school, he was very much excited about what we then called the Reagan Revolution. He believed in limited government, a balanced budget, tradition, the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution.
I have no problems with Mike’s personal beliefs, but he can’t leave these social issues alone. It’s when we start down that road of dealing with these social issues that there are no wins for us, in Indiana and anywhere. In Indiana, every time we deal with social issues, whatever it is, it ends up in litigation. It’s a publicity nightmare, and it distracts us from fixing our roads and sewers. It takes away money to improve schools and quality of life.
If he gets elevated to president, it’d be interesting to see if he’d go back to dealing with social issues. I can assure you that he believes strongly in those issues—which is his right. I just didn’t feel that they were the things for government to deal with.
Why do you think he accepted the vice-presidential nomination?
Mike wasn’t popular in Indiana as governor. He was in trouble in the 2016 race. He had taken on so much water in Indiana. I know that Mike felt like he was in a real race against me; it was a neck-and-neck race when he left. This was an opportunity to get to the national level. So he seized the opportunity. That’s where he’s always wanted to be—the national level, where they talk philosophy, and it’s not about building roads and coming up with infrastructure plans and fixing our schools.
Sounds like what a lot of observers have expected, Pence might come in and get along smoother with a Republican congress, but it will be all about trying to implement his values and beliefs on the nation at large. The level of technical competence won't necessarily be any higher, and improving the lives of people at large will be way down the list of priorities, if it's present at all. Not too surprising for those who remember that Pence is the same fuckwad who closed down Planned Parenthood in his state and caused an HIV infection crisis in doing so
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The only true upside would be knowing for absolutely sure that WW III won't start because of a temper tantrum. It would start after a long period of prayer and reflection instead. And the ACLU and similar organization would still be just as busy.
edited 19th May '17 11:42:18 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |It also lends credence to what I said earlier in the sense that Pence wouldn't be that much more popular than Trump, at least after a little bit of time had passed.
He would just attempt to enact bigoted and reactionary policies that would harm millions of people, he'd just have more decorum than Trump. The thing is, that doesn't necessarily win elections, especially if your policies are garbage.
@Nightwyrm: Ok, just because someone's old doesn't mean that they're developing dementia or about to keel over. There's a lot more than age involved in bad health. And also more than age involved in dementia, it's not just something that happens when you hit your seventies. (Hell my mom's almost that now and she's sharp as knives.) That comment was kind of... not right?
Anyway, yeah, the health of a president is a big concern because it's kind of a big deal if they die in the middle of their term. Although these days we have an actual line of succession to deal with that issue. (We went an amazingly long time without one, apparently.) It's also part of this toxic "strong man" image that so many people look for. If he doesn't look like a healthy manly man, how can he possibly stand up to the rigors of the office?
I've seen De Vos referred to as the worst, least qualified person in the Cabinet, and I kind of have to agree. Everyone else either has some experience in politics or business, but De Vos' sum total of life experience basically boils down to marrying rich and attempting to cripple the education system. Seriously, that's the only thing she's really tried to do and it appears to be her only real interest. It doesn't help that her plans are actually incredibly unpopular (the obsession with school choice is only really a big thing in a couple states and among Federal Republicans. There's not much of a push for it otherwise.) De Vos is an awful person, and every single time anyone asks her anything at all, it's clear that she A) doesn't know how the education system works in the slightest and B) completely lacks any and all empathy or sympathy for anyone.
"I am God-Emperor Donald Trump "
You know, it bother me as warhammer fan how Pol try to hijack the chararter for their shitty memet, and much how they forget the god emperor would be turkish(he was born or create in anatolia)
"he stays on message. I’m saying that as a compliment. In the 2012 campaign, when we were closing the gap, we had a couple of debates and he never got off message. He is an extremely disciplined candidate. From the moment he became the vice-presidential nominee, he stayed on message."
Yeah he is right, when issue in february were a theater said a message to pence against trump happen it reveal how but deal with it: trump tweet about it, looking like dramatic man child and orange snowflake he is, pence on the other hand just shurg and said it was their right and they enjoyed, looking like the "bigger man" on the room.
internally I will said Pence would be worst since he cant be caught of guard, is trump lack of order in everything what make the democratic comeback, with pence there is highest change shit like ACHA or the mulsim ban would pass unstoped
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"![]()
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So, basically she meets the benchmark for post-2016 government?
New Orleans purges final Confederate statue
The 133-year-old statue depicted General Robert E Lee, the top military leader in the Confederacy, crossing his arms as he faced north towards his old enemy.
In a statement on Thursday, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the condemned statues "were erected decades after the Civil War to celebrate the 'Cult of the Lost Cause', a movement recognised across the South as celebrating and promoting white supremacy."
At the exact moment that the statue was unveiled, a 100-gun salute was fired, and "a mighty shout went up from the soldiers of the Confederacy", the Daily Picayune reported.
City officials say the monuments will be moved somewhere such as a museum where they can be "placed in their proper historical context from a dark period of American history".
...WWL-TV has found the removed monuments to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and PGT Beauregard in a city-owned scrap yard.
edited 20th May '17 7:02:13 AM by CenturyEye
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You know, it bother me as warhammer fan how Pol try to hijack the chararter for their shitty memet, and much how they forget the god emperor would be turkish(he was born or create in anatolia)
edited 20th May '17 7:21:16 AM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyMmm, they recieved so many death threats that the people removing the statues had to be masked and were covered by police snipers from the rooftops the whole way through.
In response to similar removal efforts, the Alabama government has made it illegal to attempt to remove any confederate statue within the state, calling them "monuments to our history and heritage" from one statement I saw.
You know, it bother me as warhammer fan how Pol try to hijack the chararter for their shitty memet, and much how they forget the god emperor would be turkish(he was born or create in anatolia)
/pol/, MRA and the Alt-Right poison everything they touch.
Inter arma enim silent leges

His polio was deliberately downplayed at the time. They made sure he wasn't seen in public in a wheelchair, they made sure wasn't photographed trying to move when not in his wheelchair (he had learned how to do a movement while being supported on both sides by other people and while wearing leg braces, but no-one wanted that photographed). It was seen as a liability.
He also had chronic health problems when he went for his fourth term. His heart was a mess. His campaign team outright lied about his health problems during that election, claiming he had no issues, despite the fact he was already functioning under restrictive medical orders that interfered with how much work he could do in a day.
His mind remained sharp to the end, but I don't think FDR is a good example to quote when talking about presidents with health issues; if anything, he's a good example to use for why people become so obsessed with the health of presidential candidates.
edited 19th May '17 7:39:41 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.