August 30, 2016

Reagan solicitor general: Donald Trump is a risk we can't take

source: CNN

"Editor's note: Charles Fried is the former solicitor general of the United States for President Ronald Reagan. He is currently a professor at Harvard Law School. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author.

(CNN) It was urgent that Hillary Clinton in her Reno speech indict Donald Trump for his regular, unremitting embrace of the slogans, causes and emblems of the far right (not conservative, please!) hate-mongering fringe of our public discourse.

This is not just an accidental association. It is his chosen signature. Remember, he was an enthusiastic birther and has gone on to embrace every sinister paranoid fantasy since.

These are not ghosts you can raise just when it seems convenient or because a particular crowd might thrill to them and then when the time comes to govern you can waive aside and pretend you never summoned them. You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. And these fleas carry the disease of virulent hatred and discord.
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more at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/30/opinions/danger-of-trump-opinion-charles-fried/index.html

August 30, 2016

Best quote so far about Kaepernick situation and not sure who it is from.

" People who've disrespected and even threatened the POTUS for 8 years are demanding Kaepernick show America respect. "

August 30, 2016

Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

source: MSN News



" An international team of scientists from the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a 65 billion year-old star in the constellation Hercules–95 light years away from Earth. The implications are extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more advanced than our own.

The unusual signal was originally detected on May 15, 2015 by the Russian Academy of Science-operated RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia but was kept secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.”

The mysterious star’s designation is HD164595 and it’s considered to be sun-like in nature with a nearly identical metallic composition to our own star. So far, a single Neptune-like (but warmer) planet has been discovered in its orbit–HD 164595 b. But as Gilster explained, “there could, of course, be other planets still undetected in this system.”
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more at: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/not-a-drill-seti-is-investigating-a-possible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/ar-AAid9oY?OCID=ansmsnnews11

August 30, 2016

Don the Con makes clear that he and his followers should leave the United States

source: NBC Sports

Trump weighs in on Kaepernick situation

" It was only a matter of time until presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on the Colin Kaepernick situation. And it was only a matter of time until Trump said exactly what you would expect him to say about Kaepernick.

“Well, I have followed it, and I think it’s personally not a good thing,” Trump told The Dori Monson Show, via Buzzfeed.com. “I think it’s a terrible thing. And, you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try. It won’t happen.”

The argument that Kaepernick’s concerns about the only country in which he ever has lived mean he should leave it easily can be turned around, however, to Trump and anyone else who is convinced that America needs to be made “great again,” which implies a clear belief that it’s currently not. And those people surely would say they have the right to stay here and try to make things better, which is precisely what Kaepernick is trying to do.
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more at: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/08/29/trump-weighs-in-on-kaepernick-situation/

August 30, 2016

Local news now reporting Don the Con and Pence will be in Phoenix Wednesday...

source: AZCentral

Donald Trump event at 6 p.m. Wednesday in downtown Phoenix

" Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, are scheduled to appear Wednesday at the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix.

Trump's campaign posted details about his event on the campaign website, and his Arizona chief, Brian Seitchik, later told The Arizona Republic that Pence is expected to join Trump.

Doors will open at 3 p.m., and Trump is scheduled to take the stage around 6 p.m. Ticket details are available here.
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more at: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/29/donald-trump-event-phoenix-immigration/89561230/

August 29, 2016

HILARIOUS- Greatest hits from Donald Trump’s clueless army of flunkies:

Kellyanne Conway, Katrina Pierson, ‘Says who?’ lawyer Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani and more

source: New York Daily News

" It’s hard to out-crazy crazy, but some of Donald Trump’s surrogates have managed to do just that.

The job of a surrogate, of course, is to sand down the candidate’s roughest edges — like when he, for example, advocates violence by “the Second Amendment people” against Hillary Clinton — but Trump’s bush-league flunkies have become media spectacles in their own right, manufacturing their own controversies instead of spinning the candidate’s mistakes.

We’re talking about these loyal Trump toadies:
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article at: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-clueless-army-flunkies-greatest-hits-article-1.2768270

August 29, 2016

Bizarre that Arizona is unclear whether or not Don the Con will appear Wednesday for major speech

source: KTVK channel 5, Phoenix, AZ

Trump tweets he'll deliver immigration speech in Arizona

" So maybe Donald Trump is coming to the Valley on Wednesday after all.

The Republican presidential nominee tweeted out on Sunday that he is going to make a "major" speech on illegal immigration on Wednesday, Aug. 31 in Arizona. He said he was looking for a larger venue.

The tweet comes after Trump's appearance had been scheduled for Wednesday at the Hyatt in downtown Phoenix.

However, Trump's campaign staff said on Friday that the event had been postponed.
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more at: http://www.cbs5az.com/story/32858848/trump-tweets-hell-deliver-immigration-speech-in-arizona?autostart=true

August 28, 2016

Here is one of the reasons Hillary called Byrd one of her mentors...

" *Joined the KKK at age 24 -- liked that it was anti-Communist. It's a membership for which Byrd has repeatedly apologized. "

Others can be found at the same FOX remembrance of Byrd:

A Look Back at Covering Sen. Robert Byrd: Facts and Remembrances

" Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-WV died early Monday morning after a legendary career in Washington, here are some facts and remembrances from covering the 92-year old senator for years on Capitol Hill.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

*Nov. 8, 2009 -- Byrd became the longest serving member in Congress in history.

*June 12, 2006 -- Byrd became the longest serving senator in history.

*Nov. 2006 -- Byrd was elected to his 9TH FULL TERM. (So - Byrd was closing in on his 58th year in the Congress).
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/28/look-back-at-covering-sen-robert-byrd-facts-and-remembrances.html

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I bring this up because Don the Con is now using what Hillary said about Byrd as evidence of her being a "bigot." He could not be any less honest if he was a con man real estate developer.... Oh wait...

August 28, 2016

Here is why Don the Con recently said he had some "regrets"...

source: The New York Times

Donald Trump Appears to Take Sheldon Adelson’s Advice on Humility

" Donald J. Trump met privately last week with Sheldon G. Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate, who this spring pledged to contribute as much as $100 million to support Mr. Trump’s campaign but has not yet followed through on that commitment.

Meeting in his suite in New York’s St. Regis hotel, Mr. Adelson, the chief executive of Las Vegas Sands and one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, told Mr. Trump that he was committed to his campaign, but urged the brash candidate to demonstrate a measure of humility, according to five Republicans briefed on the conversation who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The conversation took place last Wednesday, the day before Mr. Trump used a rally in Charlotte, N.C., to say, without offering any specific examples, that he had regrets over “saying the wrong thing.”
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read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump.html?_r=0

August 27, 2016

Justice Department will probe Sheriff Joe Arpaio

source: AZCentral

" The investigation and possible prosecution of metropolitan Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be handled by the U.S. Justice Department after federal prosecutors in Arizona asked to be removed because of unspecified conflicts of interest, according to a court filing made public Friday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for Arizona said in its brief filing in U.S. District Court in Phoenix that the case has been assigned to the Justice Department's criminal division, public integrity section.

The filing cited "existing conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest pertaining to the matter" for Arizona's federal prosecutors, but it did not provide details.
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more at: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/08/26/justice-department-probe-sheriff-joe-arpaio/89443454/