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August 24, 2015

Donald Trump stumped on immigration by Stephanopoulos

Donald Trump Has No Idea How To Fix Immigration....interview with George Stephanopoulos

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-immigration_55d9d16ee4b0a40aa3ab37e4?kvcommref=mostpopular

Business mogul Donald Trump has repeatedly bemoaned the supposed influx of undocumented immigrants migrating across the border, calling them “rapists” and “criminals” and last week, advocating for an end to birthright citizenship. But on Sunday, when pressed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on how he would address the problem, the Republican presidential hopeful struggled to give a definitive answer and instead claimed he would just hire “great people” who know how.

The full transcript of the exchange, in all of its glory (emphasis ours):

STEPHANOPOULOS: Where are you going to get the money, where are you going to get the forces? Exactly how are you going to do it? What are the specifics here?
TRUMP: George, it's called management. And the first thing we have to do is secure the border. But it's called management. And we'll get people back in, the really good ones, we're going to expedite it so they get back in, so they can at least come in legally.
But we have to do it...
STEPHANOPOULOS: You keep declaring how you're going to do it...
TRUMP: It's management.
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- but you don't say...
TRUMP: We don't...
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- how.
TRUMP: Excuse me, George?
STEPHANOPOULOS: You declare how you're going to to it, but you don't say how.
TRUMP: George, I'm telling you, it's called management. You can do this and we can expedite the good ones to come back in. And everybody wants that. But they have to come in legally.
We have a country, we have to have -- we're a country of laws. We're a country of borders. How can you have a country without a border? How can you have a country without laws?
We have to do it. And by the way, what you said in your piece initially is the gang members. You look at the gang members in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson, these people, a lot of them, are illegals. These are rough dudes. And we're going to get them to hell out fast.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I -- I understand that you think it's a huge problem, but I still don't hear specifics on how you're going to do this.
TRUMP: Well, you'll see...
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- for example...
TRUMP: -- my specifics, George. But my specifics are very -- I'm going to get great people that know what they're doing, not a bunch of political hacks that have no idea what they're doing, appointed by President Obama, that doesn't have a clue. I mean that man doesn't have a clue.
Trump doubled down on an earlier false claim that “gang members in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson” are undocumented.

In discussing his supposed immigration plan, Trump also attacked his GOP opponents for having “no clue.”

“These people don't know what they're doing, George. They're politicians,” he said.

When pushing Trump to name specific measures or policies proved fruitless, Stephanopoulos decided to move on.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I still haven't heard the specifics on how you're going to do that, but I'm going to move on...
TRUMP: Oh, you'll hear it, George. Don't worry about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm going to move on right now.
TRUMP: You'll hear it.
TRUMP: It's called good management and it's called great people.




*what a stupid jerk, and to think people will vote for him*

August 22, 2015

And they call Obama, 'Hitler'?

I read this comment on another website about Donald Trump. Do you agree?


Folks, we are looking at a Nazi sympathizer slowly emerging from the closet. White supremacy is stamped all over Trump's rhetoric. I invite all of you to research Hitler's initial body of rhetoric for yourselves.

Trump's attack upon the 14th amendment alone should send every right thinking American flying to register and vote against this American Hitler, in the making. I ask all minorities, without the protections of the 14th Amendment, what protection would you have from a president, who has the mindset of Hitler? If this man has the guts to call for the stripping of the rights and protections of some then he will have no compunction about doing it for any and all. And I have yet to come across anyone with Nazi leanings, who was Israeli/Jew friendly. Have you?

He will be the GOP nominee. He has already bullied his way into position to be the nominee by threatening a third party run, if he doesn't get his way. In the face of his threat, the Republican Party collapsed like a wet noodle. Pulling off the coup of the century on debate night, Trump is now bigger then the GOP. The other nine minor minions on stage on debate night were totally overwhelmed. Now devoid of principles, character and moral authority, the Republican Party, as we can see, is a push over for Trump to bully as does a fourteen year old in a sand box.

Hitler, did a lot of the identical things. Out the gate, Trump is talking about rounding up millions of human beings, re-establishing the "Berlin Wall" here in the US and depriving citizens of their citizenship and constitutional rights. Here we are standing by and doing and saying nothing.

Folks, this is how atrocities such as the holocaust happens. Pretty soon, Trump will be too big to fail! There was a time when Hitler reached that point and the German people said nothing. Some sixty million deaths later, people walked around in a foggy haze asking how and why did it happen. They had the power to stop it but didn't. Laziness and complancy were all it took. That's how. And, as is so ungodly and down right disgustingly typical, the religious(?) community is the most silent of all.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2015/08/is_donald_trump_vying_to_become_the_next_george_wallace.2.html

August 20, 2015

Deez Nuts, surprise presidential candidate, is polling at 9 percent in N.C.

http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/08/deez_nuts_president_poll_trump_clinton.html

A new poll in North Carolina shows Donald Trump leads Republicans for the 2016 presidential election, and Hillary Clinton is the favorite among Democrats. But an unusually named candidate running as an Independent is making the race more interesting.

A new survey by Public Policy Polling among registered voters in N.C. finds "Deez Nuts" is gaining ground on Trump and Clinton.

According to CBS, Deez Nuts of Wallingford, Iowa, is among more than 500 people who have now filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission as of last month. Others making a bid for the White House include a woman named "Sara H. Paylin" and a cat named Limberbutt McCubbins.

* more at link


August 18, 2015

Donald Trump is gone

he wants to change the 14th Amendment and 'deport' American citizens to other countries.


deport- 1.expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status .


keep talking Donald and the other GOP candidates. the pain will be great


Are we watching the death spiral of the Republican party by Donald Trump ?



August 17, 2015

Is Rand Paul Disappearing From The Presidential Race?--Inquisitor.com


We may be seeing the last days of the Rand Paul campaign for president, as he is falling behind further in the polls and is perceived to have little chance of winning the GOP nomination for president. Business Insider is asking if the Paul campaign is “completely collapsing.”


“The moment one veteran Republican strategist realized Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) was flailing as a presidential candidate came when he suddenly decided to take on Donald Trump last week at the first presidential debate,” Business Insider reported.

Paul, who once appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was described as the “most interesting man in politics,” has fallen flat as a presidential candidate, in the eyes of some. The attack on Donald Trump drew a swift counter-attack from The Donald.

“I feel sorry for the great people of Kentucky who are being used as a back up to Senator Paul’s hopeless attempt to become President of the United States — weak on the military, Israel, the Vets and many other issues. Senator Paul has no chance of wining the nomination and the people of Kentucky should not allow him the privilege of remaining their Senator,” Trump attacked back at Paul.

Rand Paul is “using the people of Kentucky,” says Donald Trump, who suggests Paul should “either run for senate or run for president,” Real Clear Politics is reporting. He then added that Paul should not “run for president and by the way, if (he doesn’t) make it, (he) will become your senator reluctantly.”

Rand Paul hit back at Trump, suggesting that the nomination of Trump as GOP nominee would cause the election of Hillary Clinton, the Inquisitr reported. He says it would guarantee that Republicans lose if Trump is the nominee. In the first GOP debate, Paul criticized Trump for buying and selling politicians.

“On Saturday, Paul spoke further about Donald Trump,” the Inquisitr reported, “calling him a ‘chameleon’ who ‘was pro-choice before he was pro-life,’ ‘liberal before he was conservative,’ and ‘a Democrat before he was a Republican.’ ”

Paul said, “Ross Perot gave us Bill Clinton,” referring to the 1992 presidential election, “and Donald Trump will give us Hillary.”

Paul’s campaign recently had been shaken by indictments against two key staffers, Politico reported. The two had also worked for his father, Ron Paul, in 2012, for a pro-Rand Paul super PAC called America’s Liberty.

Is Rand Paul shrinking out of the presidential race quietly, or will he make a comeback and become a viable candidate? Only time will tell.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2343823/is-rand-paul-disappearing-from-the-presidential-race/#KB7Vo7qWZmwOtr4m.99

August 17, 2015

Trumps new home....Antipodes Islands

The Antipodes are a group of volcanic islands south of New Zealand. The cold climate and harsh winds make the islands too harsh a place to live. It is known for numerous shipwrecks and deaths, some from trying to survive on the islands, despite supplies being left there in castaway huts, as seen in the photograph. Two people died by shipwreck there as recently as 1999.

This is where we need to exile him to. Maybe Obamas birth certificate is there too. He'll have plenty of time searching for it.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30692/10-uninhabited-islands-and-why-nobody-lives-them



***See the map of the world according to Donald Trump***

http://www.boredpanda.com/donald-trump-world-map/

August 17, 2015

Prank calls may bring 911 rule change

WASHINGTON – Discarded cell phones still must be able to call 9-1-1 even if the owner is no longer paying for wireless service. The federal government wants to end that nearly 20-year-old rule as part of a proposal that’s stirring debate across the country, including in Florida.

The Federal Communications Commission says 9-1-1 capability on otherwise unusable phones is no longer necessary given the proliferation of low-cost wireless plans. It also contends problems the rule has created for emergency call centers appear to outweigh the benefits.

“The record suggests that fraudulent calls to 9-1-1 from (such) devices constitute a large and continuing drain on public safety resources and that the problem is not abating,” the agency wrote in May when announcing the proposed change.

Prank calls have been a problem in Florida, especially in heavily populated areas where it’s difficult to precisely identify who’s making the call or where it originates.

Lee County in Southwest Florida receives two to six fraudulent calls per day on cell phones with no wireless service and it takes up to four hours on average to identify the caller. Most of those prank calls originate from the same phones and occur repeatedly as a harassment either to law enforcement or to an unidentified subject known to the caller, county officials wrote to the FCC.

Even so, the perpetrator is seldom caught because technology can help identify the general neighborhood where someone is calling from but often not the address, said Rob Farmer, director of the Lee County Department of Public Safety.

One caller in southwest Lee County has kept emergency responders busy over the past five months, calling 9-1-1 late at night and immediately hanging up, he said. It’s resulted in frequent late-night knocks by sheriff’s deputies on neighbor’s doors looking for any signs of an emergency but no arrest. Farmer said it’s not just a drain on resources but a challenge to keep responders sharp in the event of a real crisis.

“What I fear on the street as a manager is (responders) getting complacent,” Farmer said.

The requirement was created in 1996 over objections from wireless carriers.

The aim was to allow emergency calls even if a wireless service account had been suspended because of failure to pay, or if a cell phone was kept as a spare in case of emergency.

“I personally keep an old cell phone in my car for emergencies always charged and ready, should my primary phone go dead or I accidentally leave it at home,” John Hawk, a Panama City resident recently wrote to the FCC, asking the agency to keep the rule. “While I grant you abuse might occur, it is clear that some senior citizens were hit hard by the economic damage of the last five to seven years and use this service.”

A coalition of nine public safety organizations asked the federal government in 2008 to examine the issue. Florida was among states that provided feedback.

Albert Erdmann of Cocoa opposes the FCC’s proposed change and thinks an easy fix would be to block only those phones traced to multiple false calls.

“Someone will die if they cannot get thru,” he wrote on the agency’s online comment page. “The ability to reach 9-1-1 is more important than the problems (of fraudulent calls). I guess if this is adopted, I should give up on cell phones in emergencies, and rely on Ham Radio instead.”

Farmer said the phones have been useful for groups that may not have access to a wireless phone in an emergency such as victims of domestic battery. He’d like to see telecommunications companies do more to provide specific locations for fraudulent calls and data on the owner of the phone.

The National Association of State 9-1-1 Administrators, whose members are divided over whether the rule should be changed, offered multiple examples of problems the rule is causing:

• A call center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, received 1,162 calls from such phones in April, of which only a small percentage were legitimate.

• A mentally handicapped caller placed more than 20,895 calls to a call center in Iowa in 2014. It took nearly a year to identify the caller.

• The Oahu, Hawaii, Police Department reported receiving 200 to 300 calls daily over a nine-month period from an individual using such a phone who would whisper or leave the line open.

Wireless companies, which initially opposed the requirement, now oppose ending it.

People expect 9-1-1 to “just work” from any phone, CTIA-The Wireless Association told the FCC. The trade group said those who rely on wireless devices without regular service include lower-income populations, the elderly and people with disabilities.

In addition, the change would cost companies time and money.

“Carriers would have to take significant steps to modify their networks — again,” CTIA officials wrote.

Telford Forgety, director of government affairs for the National Emergency Number Association, said the group understands the rational desire of wireless carriers to avoid having to change their networks. But, Forgety wrote to the FCC in July that “costs to the public of maintaining the status quo — both in dollar terms and in safety and security terms — are clearly greater.”

The FCC has no set deadline to make a decision.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/prank-cell-calls-to-911-may-bring-rule-change/ar-BBlO9aK?ocid=spartandhp

August 17, 2015

Found this on HuffPo, some may have seen it. I think it's funny

Can You Out-Survive Donald Trump In A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland?

TRUMPOCALYPSE!



Andy McDonald
Associate Editor, The Huffington Post






Posted: 07/30/2015 05:02 PM EDT


Donald J. Trump is hypothetically on the road to becoming the next president of the United States. If that happens, I think we can all agree the end times are right around the corner.

But in such an event, and you were to survive in the post apocalyptic wasteland that was once the U.S., how would you fare against say, the bringer-of-doom himself, Donald Trump? Find out below

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-apocalypse_55b7bf53e4b0a13f9d1a696d?utm_hp_ref=new-york&ir=New%2BYork&section=new-york&kvcommref=mostpopular

*take the quiz...I failed. lol

August 6, 2015

Armed advocates guard Lincoln-area mine amid dispute with Forest Service



TOM KUGLIN for the Missoulian


Self-described constitutional rights activists confer Wednesday just off Main Street in Lincoln. According to retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Jospeh Santoro, the Oath Keepers and other groups are protecting the rights of White Hope Mine claimants George Kornec and Phill Nappo.

HELENA – Armed groups describing themselves as constitutional advocates are in Lincoln to try to stop what they call harassment and unlawful action by the U.S. Forest Service concerning mining on a federal claim.

Oath Keepers, a national group best known as among the supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy during a 2014 grazing dispute with the Bureau of Land Management, initiated a “security operation” and national call for personnel at the White Hope Mine east of Lincoln on Tuesday. Oath Keepers are joined by Pacific Patriot Network and Idaho III%, deriving its name from the 3 percent of Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Members of the groups, many of them wearing camouflage and openly carrying firearms, came to Lincoln on Monday to begin the security operation. They came from Montana, but also Oregon, Utah, Idaho and Colorado.

The groups say the mining claim held by George Kornec predates 1955 regulations that granted surface rights to the Forest Service. The claim thus falls under the 1872 mining law, granting both surface and subsurface rights to Kornec, they say.

The Forest Service, the groups said in a news release, has been unlawfully demanding operating plans under the 1955 law, and not allowed the miners to operate for two years.

read more at link: http://ravallirepublic.com/missoula/news/local/article_57459d49-7ac5-5ea5-847b-f776d106a777.html

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