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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1065 on: August 01, 2017, 05:10:36 PM »
This whole situation makes me think of the front door to my building. It's revolving. ...

 makes me think of a clown car...
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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1066 on: August 01, 2017, 06:09:39 PM »
makes me think of a clown car...

Well, there are certainly plenty of clowns to go around.

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1067 on: August 01, 2017, 08:49:58 PM »
Except this one is funny!

https://youtu.be/cG4CEr2aiSg
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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1068 on: August 02, 2017, 02:53:13 PM »
:D :D :D

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1069 on: August 02, 2017, 07:12:13 PM »
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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1070 on: August 02, 2017, 07:21:24 PM »
That was adorable!

It's good to have a laugh nowadays! ;D
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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1071 on: August 05, 2017, 07:05:22 PM »
Fake news site posts that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is dead for second time in a month

By Joshua Gillin on Friday, August 4th, 2017

A fake news story that said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was killed in a coordinated, nationwide strike by U.S. forces under cover of darkness comes from a shopworn website known for churning out fabricated stories.

"Report: Kim Jong Un killed in (President Donald) Trump’s overnight black op attack on North Korea," read the headline on a July 28, 2017, ArmyUSANews.com post. Facebook users flagged the post as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social media site’s efforts to curb fake news.

The story said that 17 SEAL teams struck multiple targets, and that "in three hours time, the entire military infrastructure of that country has been eliminated," according to a reporter. Kim was reportedly killed, although state media played a "death to America" speech recorded years ago, the article said.

Kim Jong Un’s death has not been reported widely because this coordinated attack did not happen. The story is fake. (The photo showing a North Korean city on fire is actually a British hospital burning.)

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/aug/04/blog-posting/fake-news-site-posts-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-dead/

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1072 on: August 05, 2017, 07:07:41 PM »
President Trump settles in for 17-day vacation at his secluded New Jersey club

By John Wagner and Elise Viebeck August 5


BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump, who knocked his predecessor’s work ethic and said he probably wouldn’t take vacations as president, has settled in for 17 days here at his secluded golf club in New Jersey’s fox-hunt and horse country.

Aides are billing Trump’s time at one of his favorite properties as a “working vacation,” a notion bolstered by his arrival on Air Force One on Friday with a retinue of aides, including his newly minted chief of staff, John F. Kelly.

With the Russia investigation gaining steam and looming crises in North Korea and other hot spots, no one expects a truly quiet couple of weeks.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-settles-in-for-17-day-vacation-at-his-secluded-new-jersey-club/2017/08/05/5c79347c-79d5-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.b33251e4e757

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1073 on: August 08, 2017, 07:14:13 AM »
So, we're not advocating regime change, and Tillerson is willing to talk to the North Koreans. Who on earth does the man think he's fooling? Himself?

It's very clear what's going on here. Life in North Korea is abysmal for ordinary people, so how do you get them to forget their misery and keep yourself in power? You give them a common enemy to fear and hate with a passion. The U.S. is always good for that.

The North Korean regime has nothing to gain by talking to anybody, and everything to gain by continuing to blackmail the rest of the world. I mean, the regime has everything to gain by continuing its nuclear program and threats: To keep itself in power.

So what do we do? Wait till a nuclear bomb falls on Anchorage? Seattle? San Francisco? L.A.? Denver? Chicago?  I think I heard somewhere that they're now capable of hitting the East Coast, so I'd better include Washington, Philadelphia (that would take me out), and New York City in that list.

I'd suggest bombing the North Koreans back into the Stone Age, but I know that would lead to harm for untold numbers of our allies in the region, not to mention innocent North Korean civilians. China wouldn't much like it, either.

Do we send in the SEALs, like we did to take out Osama bin Laden? (I'm not necessarily advocating that, just thinkin' out loud.)

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1074 on: August 08, 2017, 11:02:37 AM »
if we don't strike first, that might be a grave (literally) mistake
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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1075 on: August 08, 2017, 11:17:04 AM »
No, Donald Trump’s base is not ‘far bigger and stronger than ever before’

By James Hohmann August 8

President Trump is clearly rankled by the notion that his political support is slipping, pushing back against the idea during a barrage of tweets Monday from his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, where aides said he is having a “working vacation.”

In fact, as his overall approval rate has sunk, some of the president’s core supporters have soured on his performance, polls show. A Quinnipiac University poll last week found 23 percent of registered voters “strongly approve” of Trump’s handling of his job, down from 29 percent who felt that way during his first week in office. Even white voters with no college degree — one of the demographics that backed his candidacy most enthusiastically — disapprove of how Trump is handling his job by 50 percent to 43 percent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/08/08/daily-202-no-donald-trump-s-base-is-not-far-bigger-and-stronger-than-ever-before/5989138230fb045fdaef1196/?utm_term=.d0bf0c4fe60e

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1076 on: August 08, 2017, 11:20:32 AM »
if we don't strike first, that might be a grave (literally) mistake

For a great many people.

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1077 on: August 08, 2017, 12:07:30 PM »

The experts say that NK is 2-3 years away from being able to "combine all the elements" to
carry out a scenario like the one discussed above.  So, in the meantime what do we do? Both
countries have mental patients at the head of them. And the U.S. actually CHOSE the one we
have, the Commander-in-Tweet.



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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1078 on: August 08, 2017, 01:37:44 PM »
The experts say that NK is 2-3 years away from being able to "combine all the elements" to
carry out a scenario like the one discussed above.  So, in the meantime what do we do? Both
countries have mental patients at the head of them. And the U.S. actually CHOSE the one we
have, the Commander-in-Tweet.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Who are the experts? Not doubting here, just wondering who they are. People in the DOD?

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Re: News and Current Events - 2017
« Reply #1079 on: August 08, 2017, 01:39:06 PM »
No, Donald Trump’s base is not ‘far bigger and stronger than ever before’

The emperor has no clothes.