The USA Political Thread

[lennco]

Here you can spout your USA political views.

Rules:
1. Keep it clean
2. No fighting
3. Respect the views of others.
4. US Political views, No Religious views
5. Have fun

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[JB Lions]

Nice how they release this late Friday before Thanksgiving holidays.

House intel panel debunks many Benghazi theories

"A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees."

"In the aftermath of the attacks, Republicans criticized the Obama administration and its then-secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in 2016. People in and out of government have alleged that a CIA response team was ordered to "stand down" after the State Department compound came under attack, that a military rescue was nixed, that officials intentionally downplayed the role of al-Qaida figures in the attack, and that Stevens and the CIA were involved in a secret operation to spirit weapons out of Libya and into the hands of Syrian rebels. None of that is true, according to the House Intelligence Committee report."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...benghazi-theories/ar-BBf6BYB?ocid=mailsignout

Might have to find another attack angle on Hillary.

 

[GILSAN]

Rudy Giuliani debates Michael Eric Dyson over black on black murders. Finally Rudy is putting Politically Correct aside and saying things as they should be. Seems like Americans are afraid to debate the race issue most of the time. Pity the journalist stopped the debate when it was warming up.

Let them slug it out, I say

 

[RogueWriter]

Saw a great word today, an article talked about Ambassadonors, donors to Obama's campaigns that he is rewarding with ambassadorships. I guess there are a couple more donors on the slate for early December votes in congress.

 

[JB Lions]

Saw a great word today, an article talked about Ambassadonors, donors to Obama's campaigns that he is rewarding with ambassadorships. I guess there are a couple more donors on the slate for early December votes in congress.

Nothing new, I think maybe Bush was sort of his idol in this:

Bush's patronage appointments to ambassador exceed father's, Clinton's

"Many of George W. Bush’s nominees have been significant donors to his election campaigns or have personal and political connections to the president."

http://scholarsandrogues.com/2007/0...tments-to-ambassador-exceed-fathers-clintons/

 

[RogueWriter]

The mind set in Ferguson is so typical, everyone could see what was going to happen. A police officer shoots store robbing 6' 4" heavyset criminal gets rewritten as a white guy shoots a helpless, innocent, much loved downtrodden black kid. Grand jury looks at the facts, sees the police officer was fighting for his life, and correctly refuses to charge him. Black rioters then burn down minority owned businesses that have nothing to do with the issue, loot and destroy property.

And then Al Sharpton rolls into town to make money off the crisis err-, I mean Al Sharpton arrives to save the day. Can Reverend Jackson be far behind, enquiring minds want to know.

 

[verbster]

Rudy Giuliani debates Michael Eric Dyson over black on black murders. Finally Rudy is putting Politically Correct aside and saying things as they should be. Seems like Americans are afraid to debate the race issue most of the time. Pity the journalist stopped the debate when it was warming up.

Let them slug it out, I say

Your video has been blocked by NBC copyright.

 

[GILSAN]

Ferguson burns: 80 arrested as rioters torch police cars and buildings and looters ransack shops after grand jury decision NOT to indict cop Darren Wilson for killing black teen Michael Brown

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-black-teen-Michael-Brown.html#ixzz3K5bg0LiN

All this looting, destruction and vandalizing is like shitting on your own doorstep. I will never understand why people burn their own neighborhoods to the ground, it makes absolutely no sense at all.

If I'm not wrong, just a few weeks after this shooting, there was another shooting in the same area of a young black male, except that this time the cop was Black. No one talks about it, no riots, no protests, no Media.

It was completely forgotten the day after, which leads me to believe that the story was immediately dropped once the Media discovered it was a Black cop killing a Black youngster.

It proves that the media has this love for picking White cops on Black teen cases in order to sell newspapers and get more viewers.

Obama's statement last night did nothing to calm down the predictable outcome. He said that part of the problem was racism, but he failed to say what the other part, probably the biggest part, was that blacks continue to NOT take responsibility for so much violence in their communities.

Why did this youngster go taunt an armed cop? Isn't that asking for trouble? Why are black leaders like Sharptongue and Jackson not spending their energies in teaching black youths to study, work hard and get out of drugs and gangs.

Why was Brown's step-father screaming and inciting the crowd to "Burn this bitch down", "Burn this bitch down", "Burn this bitch down" after hearing of the verdict?

Time for black leaders to change their attitude, stop blaming whites for all their ills and work towards a better life for all. When will they learn?

 

[GILSAN]

Your video has been blocked by NBC copyright.

Here another video that has that interview

 

[verbster]

I'm thinking a mob mentality taps into our old there's-safety-in-numbers instinct. But instead of using the safety factor for preservation, it's being used for aggression. Kind of weird that it's usually convenience stores that are looted. Guess those Twinkies go well with a new LED TV.

 

[Domainace]

Most of them are thinking "Free stuff. Just in time for Christmas." In a culture that promotes materialism above all else, it's not surprising that lots of people will steal if they are certain they can get completely away with it - especially if they are provided with some rationale, no matter how tenuous.

 

[verbster]

I see the Republicans quietly changed some rules so a majority vote can't stop a government shutdown. Go figure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/13/house-republicans-rules-change_n_4095129.html

 

[RogueWriter]

I see the Republicans quietly changed some rules so a majority vote can't stop a government shutdown. Go figure.

Good. Probably a response to Reid's changing of the rules in the Senate to nominalize the input of minority members there. Which will be coming back to bite Reid in the hind end in a couple of months.

 

[GILSAN]

Happy Thanksgiving to all

 

[verbster]

Good. Probably a response to Reid's changing of the rules in the Senate to nominalize the input of minority members there. Which will be coming back to bite Reid in the hind end in a couple of months.

I've never seen "nominalize" used like you have. It normally means to change to a noun form. What does it mean used this way?

 

[RogueWriter]

nom·i·nal
ˈnämən(ə)l/
adjective
adjective: nominal

1. 1.
   (of a role or status) existing in name only.
   "Thailand retained nominal independence under Japanese military occupation"
   synonyms:in name only, titular, formal, official;More
   theoretical, supposed, ostensible, so-called
   "the nominal head of the campaign"
   antonyms:real
   • of, relating to, or consisting of names.
   • Grammar
     relating to, headed by, or having the function of a noun.
2. 2.
   (of a price or amount of money) very small; far below the real value or cost.
   "some firms charge only a nominal fee for the service"
   
   synonyms: token, symbolic

 

[DU]

Guessing he meant marginalize?

 

[eyedomainous]

Remember when rioting against the heavy handed policing of a 'foreign army', whose policemen rarely even stood trial for killing locals, was the right thing to do?

The most famous American riot... began much in the same way as Ferguson, a British soldier-policeman confronts a 'young apprentice' in the streets about being more respectful of officers. Insults lead to a scuffle... resulting in a riot called the Boston Massacre.

Funny how the young blackman swinging a club on the front-lines of a colonial day riot is called an American Hero, fighting for "Freedom from Tyranny".

But the same image, from Ferguson, today... and they call him a "thug". Yet, both are fighting for the same reasons.

 

[Domainace]

Wow. Why stop there? Next up, the OJ Simpson murder case as a modern-day reenactment of Perseus killing Medusa...

 

[RogueWriter]

Guessing he meant marginalize?

Nope, I always write exactly what I want, in the precise manner that I wish. What, now I am not allowed to play with the English language?

 

[RogueWriter]

Remember when rioting against the heavy handed policing of a 'foreign army', whose policemen rarely even stood trial for killing locals, was the right thing to do?

The most famous American riot... began much in the same way as Ferguson, a British soldier-policeman confronts a 'young apprentice' in the streets about being more respectful of officers. Insults lead to a scuffle... resulting in a riot called the Boston Massacre.

Funny how the young blackman swinging a club on the front-lines of a colonial day riot is called an American Hero, fighting for "Freedom from Tyranny".

But the same image, from Ferguson, today... and they call him a "thug". Yet, both are fighting for the same reasons.

So, the black guy in the front there, he had just robbed a convenience store?