Ready for the Apocalypse? (U.S. Political Megathread)

GOP Debate: Fox Business, November 9, Wisconsin

Carson, whose steady rise to the top of presidential primary polls has started to draw media scrutiny his way, is depending on a loose interpretation of the word "scholarship." There is no tuition at West Point; there is no equivalent of a "scholarship" as generally understood at most universities. In his memoir "Gifted Hands" and in anecdotes about the offer, Carson never says that he "applied," only that some "scholarship" came his way after a meeting with Westmoreland and "congressional medal winners."

"I was offered a full scholarship to West Point," Carson wrote. "I didn't refuse the scholarship outright, but I let them know that a military career wasn't where I saw myself going. As overjoyed as I felt to be offered such a scholarship, I wasn't really tempted. The scholarship would have obligated me to spend four years in military service after I finished college, precluding my chances to go on to medical school."

No, a believer in the rapture is not my top choice as someone who has the power to destroy the world. He's got to be on drugs.

If Carson can't understand the pyramids are actually big piles of large stones he's not my man,

In 2010, Helmand Province Afghanistan, SSgt Clifford Wooldridge, then a Cpl rushed alone with his 249 across the open to sever a Talib hasty retreat following an ambush. He cut off 15, killed 8, and then heard frantic voices from behind an adjacent wall and rushed in, alone. Cpl Wooldridge came face to face with two Taliban armed with grenades, RPG's and machine guns, then killed them.

As he crouched back behind the wall to reload, he saw the barrel of an enemy machine gun appear from around the wall. Without hesitation, he dropped his empty weapon and seized the machine gun barrel. He overwhelmed the enemy fighter in hand-to-hand combat, took the machine gun being held by the Taliban fighter, and beat him to f*#king death with it.

Cpl Wooldridge was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during this engagement, an award, second only to the Medal of Honor.

Weather Carson is in or not, his polling numbers among republican voters totally undermines the obsessive pulling of the race card by democrat partisans.

Talk about good sex, there's nothing like the person you prefer to chew on, pointing a gun in your face.

It's clear that oath never applied to enlisted men and women, I guess.

Annapolis" boys were too worried about not getting caught cheating and covering their azzes. Fact.

As the sister, and the daughter, of "Annapolis boys" this comment disgusts me.

That is because we "enlisted men and women" were far too busy bleeding and making them Bad Guys bleed even more while far too many (NOT all mind you) "Annapolis" boys were too worried about not getting caught cheating and covering their azzes. Fact.

And those that I indicated as NOT above, well they soon realized what the reality of doing the deed is about. They learned that very quickly from their SNCO's. The True Leaders of the Pack. Any Senior Officer of Annapolis, West Point or AF Academy background will tell you that. Fact.

while far too many (NOT all mind you)

boys

You know chief, have your opinions but don't insist I have yours....have you ever admitted to being wrong

Indications of any kind of dichotomy in the general ideological sense here on ST by those that believe theirs is the general consensus, is NOT allowed.

You don't get sarcasm or irony when you see it, do you?

https://books.google.com/books?id=e14EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA153&dq=%22west%20point%22%20tuition%20scholarship&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q=%22west%20point%22%20tuition%20scholarship&f=false


Don't know why I'm posting this.. but here is a WestPoint ad using the word scholarship in their own context.

(The stolen valor cases offend me most)

Lorenzo wrote:
It's funny, then, that you didn't see your way to mention GWB going AWOL on the national guard.

"Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class—identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301—that their final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.

The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture,” Mr. Carson wrote. “‘A hoax,’ the teacher said. ‘We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class.’” Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill."

There's too much at stake to waste time on these amateurs.

When something is really easy to do we say it's not brain surgery rather than its not community organizing.

Because it's easier to get elected president than it is to become a brain surgeon.

Eric Beck wrote:
How did he ever get through medical school?

He also said his campaign had successfully dug up a photo published in Yale's student newspaper that The Wall Street Journal said it couldn't find -- and said his campaign would release it soon, verifying an anecdote about a psychology class Carson attended. He did, however, admit he and his co-author had made up the psychology class's number and name.

The Progs know their "candidate" is the face of deception and dishonesty. They have lapsed into some sort of childish Psychological Projection. Then again, Progs are a study in all things Psychological/Pathological.

The Clinton money-laundering machine

No doubt some of the 30,000 e-mails Hillary deleted very likely had references to the Clinton Foundation's business, which would be illegal and a conflict of interest. Others say it is organized crime at its finest -- and we are financing it. This is a summary of how the Clinton Foundation works as a tax-free international money laundering scheme. It will probably eventually prove to be the largest political criminal enterprise in U.S. history.

This is a textbook case on how you hide foreign money sent to you and repackage it to be used for your own purposes. All tax free. Here's how it works: 1. You create a separate foreign "charity." In this case one in Canada.

2. Foreign oligarchs and governments then donate to this Canadian charity. In this case, over 1,000 did, contributing mega-millions. I'm sure they did this out of the goodness of their hearts, and expected nothing in return. (Imagine Putin's buddies waking up one morning and just deciding to send untold millions to a Canadian charity).

3. The Canadian charity then bundles these separate donations and makes a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation.

4. The Clinton Foundation and the cooperating Canadian charity claim Canadian law prohibits the identification of individual donors.

5. The Clinton Foundation then "spends" some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Unfortunately, experts believe this is on the order of 10%. Much of the balance goes to enrich the Clinton's, pay salaries to untold numbers of hangers-on, and fund lavish travel, etc. Again, virtually all tax free, which means you and I are subsidizing it.

6. The Clinton Foundation, with access to the world's best accountants, somehow fails to report much of this on their tax filings. They discover these "clerical errors" and begin the process of re-filing 5 years of tax returns.

7. Net result -- foreign money, much of it from other countries, goes into the Clinton's pockets tax-free and untraceable back to the original donor.

This is the textbook definition of "money laundering."

Oh, by the way, the Canadian "charity" includes as a principal one Frank Giustra. Google him. He is the guy who was central to the formation of Uranium One, the Canadian company that somehow acquired massive U.S. uranium interests and then sold them to an organization controlled by Russia. This transaction required U.S. State Department approval, and guess who was Secretary of State when the approval was granted?

As an aside, imagine how former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell feels. That poor schlep is in jail because he and his wife took $165,000 in gifts and loans for doing minor favors for a guy promoting a vitamin company. Not legal, but not exactly putting U.S. security at risk.

Sarcasm aside, if you're still not persuaded this was a cleverly structured way to get unidentified foreign money to the Clinton's, ask yourself this:

Why did these foreign interests funnel money through a Canadian charity?

Why not donate directly to the Clinton Foundation? Better yet, why not donate money directly to the people, organizations and countries in need?

This is the very essence of money laundering and influence peddling. Now you know why Hillary's destruction of 30,000 e-mails was a risk she was willing to take.

Well, Bush 1 is like 90 something and must feel his book writing days are numbered. I'd also think he is somewhat, eh, ashamed? Of Bush 2 being led like a donkey by those two f*#ks. And lastly he'd like to help Bush 3 separate himself from those ass clowns.

Is this analysis FOXworthy?

apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Nov 8, 2015 - 06:33pm PT

'cause it's a Second Amendment thing, and there's some crazy ass mf'ers out there you gotta look out for. Capiche?

apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Nov 8, 2015 - 06:33pm PT
"Why do you pack a loaded weapon 24/7 Norton? "

'cause it's a Second Amendment thing, and there's some crazy ass mf'ers out there you gotta look out for. Capiche?

You have concluded that anyone who thinks ANY level of gun regulation are anti-gun, and believe all guns should be destroyed.

Study up on how the repubs took over the south.

NOT according to Philo, Crankstar, Dirtbag, Gary etc etc etc....

I never said any such thing...

No one needs to lynch Carson. His batsh*t crazy beliefs stand on their own.

Bern's got dat youth vote

Why is it then that POOR BLACKS keep voting for Democrats the past 60 or so years and most of them, are still POOR and live in a total world of oppressed and racist shet. That is of course according to many here.

Among racial and ethnic groups, African Americans had the highest poverty rate, 27.4 percent, followed by Hispanics at 26.6 percent and whites at 9.9 percent. 45.8 percent of young black children (under age 6) live in poverty, compared to 14.5 percent of white children.

really don't see one political party having a higher moral authority over the other.
They each have their legitimate philosophies, agendas and interest groups.
They each have their share of craven and corrupt narcissists.

The Supreme Court made it harder Monday to sue police for using deadly force against fleeing suspects, ruling that officers are immune from lawsuits unless it is "beyond debate" that a shooting was unjustified and clearly unreasonable.

By an 8-1 vote, the justices tossed out an excessive force suit against a Texas police officer who ignored his supervisor's warning and took a high-powered rifle to a highway overpass to shoot at an approaching car. The officer said he hoped to stop the car but instead shot and killed the driver.

Cruz’s tirade and Carson’s complaining fit neatly into the conservative narrative of victimization by the liberal media. The idea seems to be that the conservative worldview would surely be adopted by more Americans if not for the dastardly intermediation of leftist reporters and editors.

Imagining some kind of media conspiracy will not help the conservative movement. Instead, Republicans should try coming up with policies that voters see as reasonable, inclusive and fair.

And as for Carson: Stop complaining, already, and start making sense.

Hilary Clinton Endorses GMOs, Solution-Focused Crop Biotechnology

Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca

Nov 9, 2015 - 09:02am PT
Sorry Chief, the picture of the Repugs is not accepting money from the arabs, it is KISSING them. So glad you are aligning yourself with the Sharia Law loving arabs. Let's us see what the NCO corps is all about.

We have a system designed to redistribute wealth to people who generally have money already and who make lots of money.

You describe the legs of the stool one is required to believe that holds up the idea that poor people are to blame for their own situation.

We have a financial system designed to redistribute wealth to people who generally have money already and who make lots of money.

Elect a champion of the oligarchy, someone like Trump, Bush, Rubio or Hillary, and you will see the downward spiral accelerate.

Never mind their party drove the U.S. and world economy into total collapse the last time they had the presidency

It should surprise no one that so few Americans have been employed.

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- OCTOBER 2015
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 271,000 in October, and the
unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 5.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

It was a blockbuster month in America for jobs.

The U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs in October, far better than sluggish gains in September and any forecasts and the best monthly gain of 2015.

The unemployment rate also fell to 5%, its lowest level since 2008 and half of the 10% rate in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

The depth of economic ignorance exhibited here never ceases to amaze.
Economies are like the tides: there is ebb and flow, grasshopper. The
retards in a particular office have no meaningful effect.

Fiorina is earning her kook stripes tonight

Economic liberalism is most often associated with support for free markets and private ownership of capital assets, and is usually contrasted with similar ideologies such as social liberalism and social democracy, which generally favor alternative forms of capitalism such as welfare capitalism, state capitalism, or mixed economies

"After the recent politicization of the IRS"
can you explain that to me?

Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges. His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty. They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential life. And before Halloween, some students complained to them that Yale administrators were offering heavy-handed advice on what Halloween costumes to avoid.

Erika Christakis reflected on the frustrations of the students, drew on her scholarship and career experience, and composed an email inviting the community to think about the controversy through an intellectual lens that few if any had considered. Her message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement.

For her trouble, a faction of students are now trying to get the couple removed from their residential positions, which is to say, censured and ousted from their home on campus. Hundreds of Yale students are attacking them, some with hateful insults, shouted epithets, and a campaign of public shaming. In doing so, they have shown an illiberal streak that flows from flaws in their well-intentioned ideology.

Hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here?...I need some muscle over here.

Maybe we need IQ tests to vote?

The former U.S. comptroller general says the real U.S. debt is closer to about $65 trillion than the oft-cited figure of $18 trillion.

It's a pretty gimmicky way to make an impressive number. It strikes me as similar to adding all of your 5-year old's future college tuition bills to your current debt.

Why do you suppose they chose $65 trillion as the magic fabricated number?

Why not $238 trillion?

Or a quadrillion?

Or a bazillion?

I mean, it's not about facts, it's about inflaming as much of the base as possible. The more hyperbolic, the better, right RepubDroids?