02-15-2017, 09:58 AM
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#3981
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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No guarantee this is happening, but a scary thought.
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A policy manifesto from an influential conservative group with ties to the Trump administration, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, urges dismantling the Education Department and bringing God into American classrooms.
The five-page document produced by the Council for National Policy calls for a “restoration of education in America” that would minimize the federal role, promote religious schools and homeschooling and enshrine “historic Judeo-Christian principles” as a basis for instruction.
Names of the council’s members are closely held. But the Southern Poverty Law Center published a 2014 membership directory showing that Stephen K. Bannon — now chief White House strategist for President Trump — was a member and that Kellyanne Conway — now counselor to the president — served on the council’s executive committee.
DeVos was not listed as a member, but her mother, Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, was namedon the council’s board of governors. Her father-in-law, Amway founder Richard DeVos Sr., twice served as president, most recently from 1990 to 1993. And she and her husband have given money to the council as recently as 2007 through their family foundation, according to federal tax records.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.eff266560878
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02-15-2017, 09:59 AM
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#3982
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: 780
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Яэplublican Pяэsidэnt Tяump
Just wanted to see if I could figure out how to post this with the cyrillic characters.
I think (maybe hope) Republicans are getting concerned that the Яэplublican tag might become a permanent stain on the party previously assumed to be the home of patriots. Don't around 20 or 25% of Americans still think that Obama is a Kenyan socialist? IMO Яэplublican Pяэsidэnt Tяump is more rooted in reality and has the possibility of permanently tainting the republican brand.
Does Mitch "Party over Country" McConnell want to risk that? Do they throw Tяump under the bus to save the party? Is it already too late?
We do live in interesting times.
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02-15-2017, 10:04 AM
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#3983
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Interesting letter to the editor by the guy who literally wrote the diagnostic criteria for mental illness diagnoses:
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02-15-2017, 10:06 AM
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#3984
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I wish there was some follow up on what happened to this guy.
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There was. Peter Mansbridge mentioned that the guy is currently staying at a hotel in Winnipeg and will be officially submitting his refugee claim today.
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02-15-2017, 10:06 AM
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#3985
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
No guarantee this is happening, but a scary thought.
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That is definitely happening. That is what DeVos is all about.
She hates public education so she was appointed head of public education,
just like EPA etc.
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02-15-2017, 10:24 AM
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#3986
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
6 tweets already this morning. He's really losing it now.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Thank you to Eli Lake of The Bloomberg View - "The NSA & FBI...should not interfere in our politics...and is" Very serious situation for USA
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by "intelligence" like candy. Very un-American!
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The sitting President in a position of utmost power and influence consistently tweets negatively about on-going businesses such as the New York Times, calling them failing, etc.. Isn't there some tort for that? Can't they sue him for libel or damages or is he immune? Can the sitting POTUS just slander publically traded companies at will?
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02-15-2017, 10:24 AM
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#3987
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Passing mediocrity, approaching perfection
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
It is so interesting how I live mere kilometers from that country and it still feels so far, far away.
I don't really understand what the heck they're doing down there.
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It seems so surreal!! Like someone is trolling the world each and every day with some new issue/development/TWEET.
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02-15-2017, 10:25 AM
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#3988
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North Vancouver
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"Michael Flynn has been treated very unfairly by the FAKE MEDIA." -Trump just now.
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02-15-2017, 10:27 AM
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#3989
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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His first answer at this press conference includes.........fake media, the loss Hillary and the Dems suffered in the election, Flynn treated unfairly, leaks, etc.
He's out of his mind. He just can't let anything go.
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02-15-2017, 10:28 AM
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#3990
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I hope it doesn't until most of the people who voted and supported for him feel the damage on a personal level. Those people need to be defeated and humiliated.
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You don't corner desperate rats. A great majority of his voters are already socio-economically depressed and voted for him because they claimed he would bring back manufacturing and coal, etc. to poor rural white folks. You need the Bernie Sanders approach of economic inclusion and hope. Hillary made the mistake of just telling these folks that their industries and livelihoods were gone forever without giving them a solution.
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02-15-2017, 10:29 AM
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#3991
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sixpacked
It seems so surreal!! Like someone is trolling the world each and every day with some new issue/development/TWEET.
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Surreal is exactly the word I would use.
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02-15-2017, 10:31 AM
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#3992
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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BN going off on a history lesson here. I doubt Trump has any idea what he's talking about.
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02-15-2017, 10:33 AM
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#3993
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
His first answer at this press conference includes.........fake media, the loss Hillary and the Dems suffered in the election, Flynn treated unfairly, leaks, etc.
He's out of his mind. He just can't let anything go.
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He comes of as un presidential as possible.
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02-15-2017, 10:37 AM
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#3994
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
The sitting President in a position of utmost power and influence consistently tweets negatively about on-going businesses such as the New York Times, calling them failing, etc.. Isn't there some tort for that? Can't they sue him for libel or damages or is he immune? Can the sitting POTUS just slander publically traded companies at will?
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Well, Trump did promise to 'Open up those libel laws' to make it much easier to sue for libel or slander. I'm really hoping he pushes ahead with that and then gets sued under his own revisions to those laws.
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02-15-2017, 10:40 AM
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#3995
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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He brought up his electoral win. Again. What the heck man. The election is over. Get on with it.
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02-15-2017, 10:43 AM
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#3996
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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He sure picked the questions correctly.
Nothing from any mainstream media. Didn't have to answer one question about Flynn or Russia.
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02-15-2017, 10:44 AM
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#3997
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Did Trump just abandon 40 years of us policy towards the middle East?
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02-15-2017, 10:45 AM
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#3998
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
He sure picked the questions correctly.
Nothing from any mainstream media. Didn't have to answer one question about Flynn or Russia.
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First question to the Christian News Network.
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02-15-2017, 10:46 AM
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#3999
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Did Trump just abandon 40 years of us policy towards the middle East?
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Yes.
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02-15-2017, 10:47 AM
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#4000
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Did Trump just abandon 40 years of us policy towards the middle East?
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Summary for those that can't watch?
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