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Shell_Seas

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June 14, 2017

VA Shooting is the 153rd mass shooting in 2017

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

Also, Steve Scalise has an A rating with the NRA, so he helped facilitate some of this.

Irony.
June 14, 2017

Congress is set to debate deregulating silencers at 10 am today.

So, then you won't hear the gun shots.

June 13, 2017

What if everything is about revenge?

What if the ONLY reason Trump ran (and got elected) was to get revenge on Obama?

He's completely dismantling Obama's legacy. Not because he thinks it's right for America or the American people, not because he believes in policy, but what if it is completely for enacting revenge on Obama?

Why? Because the man is so self-absorbed, narcissistic, and thin-skinned he can't get over Obama humiliating him (birther thing).

June 12, 2017

On the 1 year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting

Trump has Tweeted about Ivank's appearance on Fox and Friends, fist and foremost. No word from him yet about remembrance or anything along those lines.

His priorities are himself and his family, not America.

June 8, 2017

Republican's Spin...

Top story on FOX is about Hillary.

They are saying testimony proved Trump is innocent.

They are saying Comey should be charged with treason.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

June 8, 2017

Comey is the biggest celebrity in the world today.

Apparently, the media is even staking out his house. Poor guy.

https://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsPolitics/videos/1294003050697918/

June 6, 2017

How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business

Source: Forbes

LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES, sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational. Year after year, the formula is consistent: 18 holes of perfectly trimmed fairways with a dose of Trumpian tackiness, including Hooters waitresses and cigar spreads, followed by a clubhouse dinner, dates encouraged. The crowd leans toward real estate insiders, family friends and C-list celebrities, such as former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry and reality housewife (and bankruptcy-fraud felon) Teresa Giudice.

The real star of the day is Eric Trump, the president's second son and now the co-head of the Trump Organization, who has hosted this event for ten years on behalf of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. He's done a ton of good: To date, he's directed more than $11 million there, the vast majority of it via this annual golf event. He has also helped raise another $5 million through events with other organizations.

The best part about all this, according to Eric Trump, is the charity's efficiency: Because he can get his family's golf course for free and have most of the other costs donated, virtually all the money contributed will go toward helping kids with cancer. "We get to use our assets 100% free of charge," Trump tells Forbes.

That's not the case. In reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities, it's clear that the course wasn't free--that the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization. Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#3bd4c5de6b4a

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