February 26, 2016

Marco who will you vote for?

Marco Rubio heightens debate attack on Donald Trump: 'This guy is a con artist'

Eun Kyung Kim 8 hours ago
TODAY

On a roll following his best debate performance yet, Marco Rubio continued his fiery attack against Republican front-runner Donald Trump, insisting Friday he was the only candidate who can unite the divided party.

"We are not going to turn over the conservative movement to a con artist who is telling people one thing but has spent 40 years sticking it to working Americans and now claims to be their champion," Rubio told TODAY.

* The die is cast Rubio.We know Trump is a such a con-artist, who will you vote for on Election day Rubio? I know you won't vote for Hilary cause Donald will be the Republican nominee not you.

http://www.today.com/news/marco-rubio-heightens-debate-attack-donald-trump-guy-con-artist-t76336

February 26, 2016

So Donald just said he gets audited all the time cause he's a strong Christian.

February 25, 2016

Nearly 20% of Trump Fans Think Freeing the Slaves Was a Bad Idea

Donald Trump appears to have high levels of support among the nation’s intolerant population, according to a New York Times deep dive into polling data.

The Times found that nearly 20% of Trump supporters did not approve of freeing the slaves, according to a January YouGov/Economist poll that asked respondents if they supported or disapproved of “the executive order that freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government”—Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

Trump himself has never advocated for white supremacy, but some of his followers may. He has, however, called for a moratorium on Muslims entering the United States and called Mexican migrants “rapists.”



Exit polls from the Republican South Carolina primary reveal that 74% of voters in the state favored the Muslim ban—Trump won 41% of that group, according to the Times, which described Trump supporters as a “coalition of voters on people who are responsive to religious, social and racial intolerance.”

Trump, a billionaire outsider, has talked his way to being the front-runner in the 2016 GOP race, causing much of the Republican establishment to scramble in an attempt to find a suitable candidate to beat him. This remains to be seen as Trump won the Nevada caucuses Tuesday by a wide margin, beating Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz by more than 20 points.


http://time.com/4236640/donald-trump-racist-supporters/


* Anyone here surprised?*

February 23, 2016

Question: Who are the 'real Republicans' and who are they embracing in this election?

(or did they guy already drop out)

February 23, 2016

What a damn shame....

Taxpayer Tab: Gov. Christie's $10M Legal Cost in Bridge Case


By JOSH CORNFIELD, ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Feb 20, 2016, 1:05 AM ET

New Jersey taxpayers have been billed more than $10 million for legal services performed for Gov. Chris Christie's administration in the George Washington Bridge lane closure case, including more than $2 million by a firm that the governor's 2013 re-election campaign still owes money.

Invoices released by the state attorney general's office Friday evening show the governor's office spent $2.3 million on digital forensics firm Stroz Friedberg in 2014 and 2015. That's in addition to the $8 million Christie's administration spent through December for services from the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher firm.

Christie's 2013 gubernatorial campaign used Stroz Friedberg to respond to subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's Office. It still owes the firm nearly $362,000, according to a campaign filing made last month. The firm began charging the state for work in January 2014 after Christie began his second term, according to invoices released Friday. It's the first time the Stroz Friedberg expenses have been publicly disclosed.

Two former Christie allies, Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges that they concocted a scheme to partially close the bridge as political payback to a New Jersey mayor who wouldn't support Christie's re-election effort. Former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official David Wildstein pleaded guilty. Christie, who ended his 2016 presidential campaign this month, has repeatedly denied any prior knowledge of the scheme, and a taxpayer-funded report he commissioned absolved him of wrongdoing.

Leland Moore, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, said the governor's office is using Stroz Friedberg "because of the wide-ranging subpoenas it received from the Legislature and the United States Attorney's Office and the many different systems and devices from which potentially responsive documents had to be gathered."

Christie's 2013 campaign treasurer, Ron Gravino, confirmed in an email that the debt is outstanding and said state election law prohibits it from being forgiven. The campaign also owes more than $600,000 to Newark-firm Patton Boggs, according to the campaign filing.

The state's Election Law Enforcement Commission granted a request from the campaign in February 2014 to be allowed to continue raising money to answer the subpoenas. Mark Sheridan, a Patton Boggs attorney who represented the campaign in that request, wasn't immediately available to comment.

Lawyers for Baroni and Kelly have argued in court over the level of information they said they've received in the case. A federal judge this month granted them the ability to subpoena Gibson Dunn for what they contend are thousands of pages of relevant documents, particularly communications between people in Christie's office and the bridge's operator during the September 2013 closures.

Gibson Dunn attorney Randy Mastro has said that the governor's office didn't withhold any documents related to the lane realignment, "so there are no other documents to produce in that regard."

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This story has been corrected to show the amount spent with Stroz Friedberg was $2.3 million, not $2.4 million.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chris-christies-bridge-case-legal-fees-exceed-10-37069516

February 19, 2016

Donald Trump calls for a boycott of Apple products (too damn funny)

By Russell Brandom on February 19, 2016 03:52 pm

At a rally today in South Carolina, Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products in response to the company's current legal standoff with the FBI. Currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump was speaking at a rally in advance of tomorrow's South Carolina primary. "First of all, Apple ought to give the security for that phone," Trump told a crowd of supporters. "What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number."

"How do you like that?" he continued. "I just thought of that."

In a tweet after the event, Trump pledged to stop using his iPhone if the company did not change its position.

**see tweets at article link...http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/19/11071684/donald-trump-apple-boycott-encryption-iphone

Trump had previously been critical of Apple's stance, telling supporters "who do they think they are?" at a rally on Wednesday, but this is the first time he had called for direct action against the company's products. He's also been widely critical of Apple's reliance on Chinese manufacturing, telling supporters in January, "We're gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries."

** I just love how he thinks he can control companies to do his bidding**

February 19, 2016

He's running for President through his Cluster B Personality(dramatic,emotional or erratic) Disorder

Donald Trump: the pope will regret calling me un-Christian when ISIS attacks the Vatican


Pope Francis suggested on Thursday that Donald Trump is "not Christian" because of the Republican presidential candidate's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border.

Trump fired off a statement in response almost immediately that ripped the pope's comments as "disgraceful" and said the pope will think differently about him after the Vatican is attacked by the Islamic State.

"If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President," Trump's statement began.

Trump continued: "I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President. No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith."

Francis's remarks about Trump's Christianity came during his trip to the Mexico-US border, at which he highlighted the humanitarian crisis of the migrants trying to make it to America.

Asked by a reporter on Thursday if a "good Catholic" could vote for Trump, the pope criticized Trump's proposal for a wall along the border, but also said he would not be weighing in on the election.

"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not bridges, is not Christian. This is not gospel," Francis said, according to ABC News.

He added: "As far as what you said about whether I would advise to vote or not to vote, I am not going to get involved in that. I say only that this man is not Christian if he said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt."

The escalating disagreement between the pope and Trump

This strange feud between the pope and Trump began earlier this week, when Trump dismissed the pope's visit to the border and argued that Francis didn't appreciate "the danger of the open border we have with Mexico."

"I think that the pope is a very political person," Trump said on Fox Business Network's Varney & Co.

The pope responded on Thursday by embracing the characterization, noting that political engagement is central to Aristotle's definition of what it means to be a human being.

"Thank God he said I was a politician, because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person," Francis said, according to ABC. "As to whether I am a pawn -- well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people."

Trump's statement in full

If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.

The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand I am totally wise to them. The Pope only heard one side of the story - he didn’t see the crime, the drug trafficking and the negative economic impact the current policies have on the United States. He doesn’t see how Mexican leadership is outsmarting President Obama and our leadership in every aspect of negotiation.

For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President. No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith. They are using the Pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so rampant.

** Mrs. Trump get your husband some help.

February 19, 2016

I always felt that pictures were very powerful...

UMass Boston student Renata Teodoro, right, and her mother, Gorete Borges Teodoro, who was deported in 2007, met at a U.S.-Mexico border fence. (Courtesy Samantha Sais, via The New York Times)


By SACHA PFEIFFER and LYNN JOLICOEUR

BOSTON It was a reunion between mother and daughter from opposite sides of a massive steel fence at the United States-Mexico border.

The moment was meant to draw attention to immigration reform, and a photo of that emotional moment, captured by The New York Times, has gone viral.

The younger woman in it is Renata Teodoro, who lives in Boston and is a student at UMass Boston. She spoke with WBUR’s All Things Considered host Sacha Pfeiffer Thursday while waiting to catch a flight home from the airport in Albuquerque, N.M.

http://www.wbur.org/2013/06/13/border-reunion-teodoro

The emotion is great. The sadness of their separation is heart wrenching.

February 9, 2016

Picture of the day ( maybe the picture of the year).

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February 5, 2016

Unique friendship uncovers lost Martin Luther King Jr. tapes

http://wtvr.com/2015/11/24/lost-martin-luther-king-jr-tapes/

listen to the tapes. Very very good.