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B B King has died. Via Anne's post:
Colorado Rancher Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury, Becomes Accidental Genius The New York Times–Facebook Deal Is Here Trigger Warning! College Kids Will Soon Discover ‘The Adult World Is Not One Big, Extra-Cushy Couch’ Boeing Shareholder Challenges Ethics of Company’s Relationship to Clintons - Boeing contributed $900,000 to Clinton Foundation, paid $250,000 for Bill Clinton speech Howard Dean: Jesus Probably to Left of Democratic Party Civil disobedience: Many freedoms we take for granted exist because of lawbreakers. Howard Dean: Jesus Probably to Left of Democratic Party - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2015/05/14/howard-dean-jesus-probably-left-democratic-party#sthash.9ypOX5kS.dpuf Charles Krauthammer: ‘Pathological’ President ‘Doesn’t Know a Damn Thing About Fox’ Where You See Tragedy, Liberals See Opportunity Making it rain: The World According to Democrats - Have a problem? Throw money at it! Rubio: We ‘Cannot Afford’ More Clinton ‘Soap Opera’ UK Plans To Do Away With Free Speech... In The Name Of Free Speech Little England Sans Scotland, Sans EU—–Ominous Threat To The European Superstate Western European Muslims’ Jihad Against the Jews When Ronald Reagan was shot, Al Haig famously declared that he was “in control,” but it was the vice president from Texas who stepped calmly into the breach. WHITE MERCENARIES HAVE BOKO HARAM ON RUN - Aging South African apartheid-era soldiers sign up for 1 last battle Russia Rejects Automatic Sanctions Return If Iran Cheats on Deal The Israeli NGO won international attention last week for claiming to expose IDF malfeasance in Gaza. It exposed something else. ISIS Makes a Fortune From Smuggling Migrants Says Report Comments
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Debra Heine: We’ve all come to expect these little mask-slipping episodes from Obama these past six+ years, but comments about controlling the media are particularly unsettling. What on earth was he proposing?
Obama: And that’s a hard process, because that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have. And the ability to read minds. Obama has not offered any direct comments about what he would like the press to do, so, it until then becomes a inkblot for those to parade their various and sundry bon mots and brickbats.
Re: When you see tragedy liberals see opportunity
This is a tactic the left is proud off - to the point of announcing it to all: "never let a crisis go to waste." As for Amtrak, they shouldn't defund it, they should either sell it or give it away. Politicians love to have new train stops in their district whether one is needed or not. It is ridiculously inefficient and except for the northeast commuter lines, it is a huge money pit. Amtrak is another idiot domestic policy idea from Nixon. re Colorado Rancher Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury, Becomes Accidental Genius
I think she has lost more than she has gained. The Clintons have a long history in graft, corruptiion and crime. We all know this, even the most ardent Clinton supporters know this. Their crime spree is over four decades long and still growing. Arguably Mrs Clinton committed treason in some her recent dealings with Russia. I tend to believe that if she runs she will win and if she wins she will continue the Clinton crime family business in office as president. This is such a sad reflection on America and American voters.
Re: sanctions on Iran
One thing I've not heard anybody allude to regarding the whole nuclear negotiations is that Obummer is tying all the sanctions to the nuclear deal and ignoring the rest of Iran's destabilizing activities. So in the least likely best case scenario where Iran keeps the nuke deal, there is nothing to stop them from continuing their other trouble making. Indeed, they have been causing trouble all over the Middle East while they were under "tough" sanctions. How do you discourage Iran from that unwanted activity? We certainly would not be able to institute sanctions again - we just finished ending sanctions. So the question we need to ask is, "after the nuke deal is lifted, what's next?" Nobody seems to be asking that question. Yup, Jesus is to the left of the Democrat Party. Who can forget the Sermon at the Amphitheater which called for confiscatory taxes and unlimited authority for government to compel and coerce obedience to its laws? Or the Sermon at the Coliseum which demanded all peoples submit to the authority of God's government?
Don't forget the famous 'Sermon in the Joe's Backyard' where he demanded unlimited abortion rights, sword control,, and railed against school choice and prayer in schools.
OT. Weird
If I have Maggie's open and then open a new tab, my MF tab goes blank with a "service unavailable" message. It only seems to happen with Maggie's and not anyone else. As long as I am on Maggie's page there is no problem, but if I open another tab, it is gone. A minor inconvenience to be sure, but it is bothering me. Has anyone else had this problem or is it just me? I was getting that a couple of days ago but lately, I'm getting redirected to gogardenclub.com. In fact it just happened to me while I was looking somewhere else. I found a forum where people were complaining about this and that page got redirected, too!
In this case, just clicking the back button gets me back where I want - even if I'm in the middle of a post! A PITA! thanks for the reply:
Yes mudbug, I picked up that garden club site as well. And it has opened a couple of times as I have surfed the net,. Though I suspected it came from MF I did not know for sure. If I have malware in my PC I can't find it. One other thing, when the MF tab goes blank and the service unavailable message pops up, right clicking to reload the tab will bring that garden club site up. Not happy about that either. hmmmm...... does anyone have a fix? fix. Nope.
not the only ones. http://moonbattery.com/?p=58504 Thanks fjord.
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There are some suggestions here: http://www.copytechnet.com/forums/site-feedback-and-questions/99287-copytechnet-forwarding-another-website.html
I don't know how effective those suggestions are and I haven't tried any of them, but they may be worth a try. Governor Moonbeam must be shipping OTC weed to Howard Dean.
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