Posts made by amicusets

If you wonder why 70% of Americans don't trust the MSM/ legacy news organizations you need to look no further than that headline!

From the Fairmont Sentinel:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police in West Virginia’s Capitol arrested a journalist who they said was trying “aggressively” to get past Secret Service agents and yelling questions at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price during his visit to the state.

It happened as Price and senior White House aide Kellyanne Conway visited the state Capitol in Charleston on Tuesday to learn about efforts to fight opioid addiction in a state that has the nation’s highest overdose death rate.

Capitol police said in a criminal complaint that Daniel Ralph Heyman, 54, “was aggressively breaching the secret service agents to the point where the agents were forced to remove him a couple of times from the area” in a Capitol hallway. It also says he was “causing a disturbance by yelling questions at Ms. Conway and Secretary Price.”

http://www.fairmontsentinel.com/news/national-news-apwire/2017/05/11/police-arrested-reporter/

I am from Alabama, and have deep roots throughout the state of Alabama and indeed of the entire South. These same roots go even deeper up the colonies to the Mayflower. The only thing that makes the flag a big deal is the people that are opposed to it. The people that are opposed to it are so they can get their 15 minutes. It is never about the flag, or for what it supposedly stands for, it is about some greater "social justice" issue.

Secretary Rice makes some good points on this issue:
http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/condoleezza-rice-blasts-efforts-to-sanitize-history-by-removing-historic-monuments-cdr/

@rezurrected:

There are many that find this flag very offensive. I'm sure your friend Jeff Sessions finds the confederate flag a beautiful symbol considering he is from the most treasonous of all states, South Carolina!!!

He is from ALABAMA!

I am going to have buy some shares in Reynolds Wrap.

@viscous:

But David Koresh and Warren Jeffs were shut down for this, among other things, and Jim Jones was being investigated and saw the end when he had his meltdown. I don't think religious organizations should be tax exempt either, but you are tripping over your own argument.

Koresh was brought down by the ATF on alleged weapons violations. Any accusation of child rape have never been even close to substantiated and are refuted by survivors of the Waco siege.

Jim Jones was brought down by his own drug addiction which fueled his paranoia and his coterie believed he was the Christ. He was being investigated for Social Security fraud and civil rights abuses of his elderly followers.

Jeffs is imprisoned and was taken down for child rape.

Some of you all need to go back to school or quit getting your civics lessons from tweets and soundbites.

"Separation" of church and State are nowhere to be found in the Constitution. The first amendment is:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

By telling a FAITH-based agency who and how they have to serve the government would be encroaching on the free exercise of religion. This really affects nobody, except some gay couple that wanders down to their local FAITH-based adoption agency and demands to be served by them. There are other ways to adopt.

@royalcrown89:

This is blatant corruption and I cannot wait for the leaked proof and subsequent independent investigation that will put all of this into perspective. The dark cloud continues…

Leaked proof? As much information that has been leaked do you really think if they had ANY proof of corruption it wouldn't have been known by now? Stop, take a breath and give the tin foil hat a break.

@royalcrown89:

I feel like Jeff Sessions should not have had a say-so at all. His name should be nowhere near any of this given the conflict of interests. And nope, you cannot say "Democrats are freaking out" without providing the overall context behind why Democrats AND some Republicans (there goes your partisan argument) are freaking out. You're skipping one big question: Why in the world was Comey fired NOW? The White House needs to provide more details and be slightly more transparent about what brought them to this conclusion NOW.

Jeff Sessions recused himself from the overblown Russia investigation, not from being the head of the Department of Justice. If you read the letters, you can clearly see he adds nothing to the Deputy's opinion other than a concurrence.

As to WHY NOW? That's probably the easiest question to answer. Rosenstein was confirmed just 2 weeks ago. Rosenstein is the person the FBI Chief reports to at the DOJ so was Comey's direct supervisor. Rosenstein wasn't happy with Comey, and wanted him gone.
Now, to add a little context, just the week Sen. Whitehouse kept drawing comparisons to the 18 days from the time Yates went to the WH to discuss Flynn and Flynn's resignation to the 18 minutes of missing tape from the Nixon tapes. So, the Democrats were screaming that he didn't act quickly enough upon the recommendation of the staff, and when he acts quickly they question why he acted so quickly. It becomes a no-win situation. You can find fault and boogeymen if you WANT to find them. Trust me, I know some conservatives who did the same during the Obama years, and I told them when they were being ridiculous, too, even though I detest every policy he proposed.

@moonmonday:

Good, way to take headlines largely out of context and attempt to still pretend you're on top and have a point.

This is just another in the series of heavy-handed dismissals so our grand dipshit can stack the deck in what he thinks is his favor.

I don't know how an image of headlines takes anything out of context. It just shows the truth in black and white.

As for the "heavy-handed dismissals" I can't even imagine what you mean. IF, IF you are discussing the firing of Sally Yates, she had refused to do the job she was hired to do. (BTW, the reasons she gave this Monday for refusing to allow the DOJ to defend the Exec. Order are NOT the same reasons she gave back in January, and she had also already accepted a high-paying job in the private sector at the end of the week prior to her refusal, so it is likely she knew exactly what she was doing.) IF you are talking about the remaining States' Attorneys, nothing he did in firing them en masse was one bit different than previous administrations. Who else has he fired, other than Comey?

@royalcrown89:

Edit: There was one dumb young black millenial pro-Bernie girl who disrupted Hillary in my state at a private event bringing up a political statement that Hillary made back in the 90s, but she was quickly thrown out and Hillary was able to finish what she was saying.

HRC and her team handled that very poorly. This was actually an event where you had to PAY to get admittance, and HRC was not expecting to be questioned, but as someone running for office, she should have answered her. The problem was HRC and her team never said anything off the cuff. Everything had to be vetted and tested. It's one of the reasons she had such disastrous numbers for likability and trustworthiness.
I realize most people don't like DJT, but he doesn't hide or hedge his bets. He says what he thinks, and at the "core" of what he says is the truth– as he sees it. To me, it is refreshing to not feel like someone is just blowing smoke. DJT is also a really decent human being who is portrayed horribly. My husband has been in business with him for over 20 years and has even been sued by DJT, and they are still friendly. He doesn't hold grudges. Also, look at his kids and compare him to the kids of some other people with the same wealth. His kids are upstanding and aren't in the tabloids. That speaks volumes, too. My father is a self-made millionaire. Growing up much better off than most people I can tell you, in all honesty, it is easier to go off the rails and NOT achieve than it is to put in the work to succeed.

@mhorndisk:

Libtards only care about group rights.

You immediately lost me with "libtards," and there are very few people on here (or anywhere) that are more conservative than I am. Calling names doesn't further discussion, but does seek to divide.

Gay church organist sprays Nazi slogan and gay slur on his own church:
http://fox59.com/2017/05/03/police-organist-spray-painted-heil-trump-swastika-gay-slur-on-brown-county-church/

See, for every crazy you produce I can find one, too! What does that actually do or add to the conversation other than proving you are trying to prove a narrative that you have concocted in your own mind?

@blackwing:

Considering MOST Conservatives are Bible-thumping bigots that want the right to silence anyone they disagree with, I hope not.

Funny. It seems like the exact opposite is what is actually true. Just look at how the Left treats conservatives on college campuses– riots and shouting over anyone that would DARE to speak a point of view that is right of center.

So Conservative = bigoted and crazy? There goes that tolerant Left sharing that peace, love and harmony they are so famous for!  :cheers:

@teucer:

In the long run, the U.S. is headed towards acceptance, tolerance, and love.  I truly believe that.  Have patience.

These are not just qualities of Liberals, but also of most Conservatives.

I also think it fair to clarify that what definition one is using of conservatism is germane to the response. Conservatism in America is different from most other countries.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain." –Anselme Polycarpe Batbie

@deniol:

Trump said, Fake News of CNN! :cheers:

He doesn't say that anymore. Now he uses the much more accurate VERY FAKE NEWS.  ;D

It would be funny if it wasn't so damn sad! This company had to apologize for including white people in their commercial.

I still dream of Pavel, but I would choose none of the above. My favorite dick in porn is Criss Strokes:

The golden brown/olive skin tone and the typically uncut/intact cocks.
Also, many Latino men make great tops and have large/thick dicks.

:cum:

@brianboru72:

Specially when even members of his party have begun to voice their own support for investigating his ties to Russia.

WHO exactly? The only people that have even suggested that are "Never Trump"ers.

@brianboru72:

There's more than enough evidence to warrant investigating him without it just being politically motivated.

Actually, there is more information in the public sphere that ties HRC and her family and associates with Russia than Trump.

@brianboru72:

all the other presidential candidates have shown their own tax returns, then at the very least he should do the same and shut down all the suspicion.

As my momma used to say: If everyone else jumped off the Canal bridge, would you?

Just because others have, does not make a requirement. If it was so important, there would be a law!