What about the tax returns? Pretty sure he's never said he just wants to keep them private. First it was that he was being audited, then it was that no one cared. If there's nothing to hide, with all the precedent surrounding tax returns, what other choice do we have than to believe that he's hiding something?
Devices larger than laptops now banned to 8 countries, including turkey.
My Turkish friend is about to board a flight to Istanbul with his 3 kids under age of 5. No iPads, etc allowed. The kids will deal- but I'm worried about his re entry home at this point despite his US passport.
U.S. to Turkey. Two countries with flat out scary leadership.
Not sure what word properly describes how the ugly realities of political power can coexist with and possibly even shape poetry, music, art, and philosophy which seem a world removed:
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
. . . .
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Trey Gowdy shows why Republicans are for themselves and not the country yesterday.
WASHINGTON — The headline from Capitol Hill on Monday was bracing: confirmation of a criminal investigation into connections between associates of a sitting president and Russian operatives during a presidential election.
But the response from Republicans was almost as striking: During hours of testimony in which James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, acknowledged the inquiry, they shrugged off its implications and instead offered a coordinated effort to defend President Trump by demanding a focus on leaks to news organizations.
Throughout the 5½-hour hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, as Democrats tried to highlight the criminal investigation, Republicans demanded a renewed focus on how its existence was revealed in news reports months ago.
Andrew Napolitano, the senior legal analyst for Fox News, has been temporarily sidelined following his unproved assertion last week that former President Barack Obama had asked for British assistance in spying on Donald J. Trump, a person briefed on the decision said on Monday.
Mr. Napolitano did not appear on Fox on Monday, even though there were two news events that normally would have called for his services: hearings involving the F.B.I. director James B. Comey, and the Supreme Court nominee Neil M. Gorsuch.
Mr. Comey’s hearing touched on Judge Napolitano’s allegation — which both President Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, repeated — that British intelligence officers wiretapped Mr. Trump at Mr. Obama’s request.
It is not clear how long Mr. Napolitano will be off the air, but his absence from Fox’s airwaves on Monday was an indication that the network was not pleased with the unwanted attention focused on his unfounded allegations.
The Los Angeles Times reported Mr. Napolitano’s absence on Monday. Fox News declined to comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/...llegation.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
So, the guy that made it up gets in trouble but the idiots that have power and spewed it as truth don't? Seriously, how ****ed up is this country?
Jon Oliver destroying him about that (and his 9/11 Conspiracy BS) was a thing of beauty. The fact that a sitting President cited him is mindboggling.
It's just the worst that this is a full Republican control of everything majority. He's getting away with it.
We'll see. These are the six big damages the GOP and Trump are trying to inflict on us:
1. Fix the elections
2. Increase inequality
3. Grow the warfare state
4. Destroy environmental protection
5. Destroy health care
6. Destroy education
We'll see how far they get. Even assuming nobody on the right has a conscience, many of those are tough lifts. They all fit together as the project to destroy democracy and replace it with feudalism, so they are all mutually-reinforcing, but likewise wherever we impede them we slow down the entire project.
The landscape is changing and they are the ones fighting the clock. Each day we can slow the advance of this cancer a few more orcs die and a few more humans reach voting age.
We will bury them, literally. The only thing in question is how many people they will hurt on their way out.
And just cause the demographics change doesnt mean the votes change. Latinos and Blacks still voted for Trump in interesting numbers...
Speaking of lies: Sookie Explains Why Trump Isnt A Hypocrite For Golfing All The Time Despite His Ripping Obama For It
I am sure all the Righties around here that made snide jabs at Obama about his golfing are ready with their shots for the Urine King right?
Explicitly the Cuban Latino's in Florida voted for Trump in large numbers because of Obama's Cuba policy.
Explicitly the Cuban Latino's in Florida voted for Trump in large numbers because of Obama's Cuba policy.