Maggie's Farm

Re: Comey's FBI
The "conclusions" of the IG report are contradicted by the evidence. The FBI, like the judiciary, is supposed to be impartial, and avoid even the "appearance of impropriety".
The admitted FBI management behavior to "stop trump from being elected" would require recusal of any court or judge. It absolutely required recusal of McCabe, Comey, and Strozk. Adulterer, senior manager vs. literal "underling" Page who promises to stop Trump wants to get his reputation back? He is still employed at the FBI, now that it is Wray's FBI, not Comey's?
Congress better impeach this cabal.

Zach, I don't think you are that dense.
These biased, clinton-loving, trump-hating g-men should have been recused before even having anything to do with the clinton or trump "matters". And Ohr and his wife working for clinton's Fusion-Steele scam should never have had their oars in. These fixers even illegally used personal email, while investigating clinton's illegal use of personal email to keep records out of FOIA jurisdiction.
People now know the FBI is crooked. They are so crooked they claim that the $70,000 price of a table is so secret that revealing it would harm national security. They withheld the Strozk-Page promise to try to keep trump from being elected. That is treason, isn't it?
Where is the Weiner laptop? Where is the Seth Rich laptop? Where is the Awan laptop that debbie W-S issued threats to get back?

Zach, you can't possibly be that dense.
My point was that
The "conclusions" of the IG report are contradicted by the evidence. The FBI, like the judiciary, is supposed to be impartial, and avoid even the "appearance of impropriety".
The admitted FBI management behavior to "stop trump from being elected" would require recusal of any court or judge.
That includes the crooked biased Ohrs, and failure to examine the Weiner and other laptops, to protect the dems. (the limitation of therWeiner laptop revirew is w, except a biased FBI scheme to protect hillary?

You tried to narrow the goalposts.

B S Zach,
I said "The "conclusions" of the IG report are contradicted by the evidence."
You said "so what", three of the biased perps were fired or left.
They are biased, they were fired. That reinforces the evidence of bias. The political "conclusions" are political BS which is contradicted by the evidence. "we 'll keep trump from winning the presidency" is pretty clear.

mudbug, there was lots of "slush" in the cash and other payments. The Iranians have threatened to tell all (if they do not get their way?)
John Kerry as a primary mover in this crooked agreement, has a daughter who'se organization may be under investigation.
There may be lots of money sloshing around from the State Depoartment if this is true (which I don't know):

https://breaking.americanewscentral.com/2018/02/22/john-kerrys-daughter-pay-price-secretly-taking-millions-dads-state-dept/

"A former senior Peace Corps official agreed to cooperate with any law enforcement investigations surrounding a scheme that funneled millions of Department of State dollars to a nonprofit founded and run by former Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, recently published court documents show.

Warren “Buck” Buckingham agreed to cooperate as a condition of an agreement with the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office that would keep him from facing prosecution for a related illegal lobbying charge, court documents filed Thursday and made public Tuesday show.

Also as part of the agreement, Buckingham admitted to the charge that he lobbied his former Peace Corps colleagues to help his employer, Seed Global Health, secure a $6.4 million State Department-funded contract extension around September 2015.

Buckingham also helped Seed – a nonprofit founded and run by Kerry’s daughter Vanessa Kerry – secure it’s original nearly $3 million contract, which was also funded with State Department money, in September 2012. Buckingham soon left the Peace Corps while under investigation for improperly hiring an employee and subsequently sending the official lewd emails.

Officials from both agencies met with Vanessa and arranged the scheme that would funnel State Department money to Seed through the Peace Corps, previous Daily Caller News Foundation investigations show in detail.

Additionally, John Kerry’s State Department hired Buckingham as a consultant soon after the former Peace Corps official helped Vanessa’s nonprofit secure its first contract."

Zach, you are really full of BS today!
It is nuts to give money to an enemy officially advocating "death to america", destruction of the "great satan" (US), and funding terrorists blowing people up all around the world. An analogy would be giving the Nazis the gold in Ft. Knox in 1939. Or like hillary accepting a $150 million bribe to sell 20% of our uranium to Russia.
According to your theory, we should deliver the armaments you allege iran ordered, so they could give them to terrorists.

Instead, any iranian assets should have been retained to satisfy and repay anyone or any country or organization damaged or injured by iranian terrorism,or support for terrorists. Including those injured here by terrorists on 9-11, who were admittedly helped by iran.

According to your theory, we should have sent billion$ to both japan and germany in 1939, or perhaps right after 12-7-1941? That would have helped them evolve into the community of nations, like obama and kerry say.

Instead we confiscated german and japanese property. We were really misguided back then, according to your theory.

Zach, why would "the US" agree to arbitration? Who did that crazy, nutso "agreement"? Why? Why give money via "arbitration" or anything else to an enemy government that supports violent terrorism around the world, is our avowed enemy ("death to America, the great satan"), without any verification that they won't stop developing missiles and nuclear weapons?

It is crazy, and treasonous. Who would agree to such a a thing to aid and abet an enemy set on our destruction?

B48 - wow, Zach is on fire today. Must have gotten a raise!
It is interesting to me that the Noko meeting was in Singapore, which is run as a so-called "benevolent dictatorship", but has been enormously economically and technically successful. This was achieved in a very short time. A perfect model for Kim. He has a model for maintaining the dictatorship, while not starving and killing the masses trying to escape. NoKo was the industrial base before the Korean war, the people are smart/high IQ, and could be led to the same relative success as in Singapore. Singapore IIRC is hated by some in South Korea, ("a country no bigger than a piece of snot"?), so its model could have a significant psychological attraction for Kim to maintain a separateness from the South.

Plus, the democrats would have to stop complaining about trump causing rights abuses, since the dems want a dictatorship for themselves.

Zach, PERFECT !!! North Korea is also a "flawed Democracy". they have elections, just like in Chicago.

Zach, we finally agree,. It WAS unfair to compare Chicago elections to North Korean elections. I don't think dead people and nonexistent people have a right to vote democrat in north korea. They may not be they have 100 percent democrat wards in north korea, with more people voting than registered voters?
Fortunately (or not, depending on your viewpoint) the "failed democracy" of Chicago kept Nixon out of office the first time.

In what way? Chicago has been doing crooked elections longer than NoKo has existed. NoKo could learn a lot from Chicago-style elections. I'll bet NoKo dead people can't vote democrat, even if they want to, or never did while alive..

Zach, we visited Antarctica a few months ago. It was pretty cold, and there was ice all over. We couldn't even go swimming it was so cold. Hopefully the ice will melt, so some beachfront condos can be developed, some scuba diving, maybe grow some kale for milennials and corn for green ethanol cars? Maybe there is oil there!!!

Zach, darn!! I was hoping that we could reserve a week at a Trump Tower spa and do some snorkeling next year in Antarctica. The global wormers, even obama's vice president algore, keep promising all the ice will melt on Mt. Everest and Antarctica, but they never come through. drat! Its even getting colder as we enter a new Maunder minimum.

If we enter a new ice age, as "scientists who want funding" were predicting just a short while ago, then the entire midwest would be under a mile of ice. Isn't it much better to have a small part of the communist east coast under water, than the midwest under a layer of ice a mile thick?

Zach, not so. Only "scientists who want more funding" and discredited politicians like algore (who invented the internet and the satellite, and wanted to profit from carbon credit trading) predict warming.
We are in a slight cooling period, which will increase in cooling as the sunspot minimum progresses.

This is bad, of course, because warmer, moister conditions are better than freezing conditions which kill and require more heating/CO2.

Zach, it is well known that we are entering a "cooling" period. Even admitted by the "scientists who want funding", so you must be behind the times. And we are entering a very low sunspot period, historically associated with significant cooling.
But you might also want to check into the additional, separate cooling effects of declining fluorocarbons their use was shut down:

https://lidblog.com/canadian-physicist-blames-fluorocarbons/
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/global-warming-caused-cfcs-not-carbon-dioxide-study-says

"Conventional thinking says that the emission of human-made non-CFC gases such as carbon dioxide has mainly contributed to global warming. But we have observed data going back to the Industrial Revolution that convincingly shows that conventional understanding is wrong,” said Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, biology and chemistry in Waterloo’s Faculty of Science. “In fact, the data shows that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays caused both the polar ozone hole and global warming.”
"Most conventional theories expect that global temperatures will continue to increase as CO2 levels continue to rise, as they have done since 1850. What’s striking is that since 2002, global temperatures have actually declined – matching a decline in CFCs in the atmosphere,” Professor Lu said. “My calculations of CFC greenhouse effect show that there was global warming by about 0.6 °C from 1950 to 2002, but the earth has actually cooled since 2002. The cooling trend is set to continue for the next 50-70 years as the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere continues to decline.”

HA! "The 100 mile high club"