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@blatham,

Another interesting map:

If it was in Europe, the proposed Border Wall length would start in Paris and end in the Black Sea.

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Some history I did not know or had forgotten

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Political consultant Cheri Jacobus believes that Fox News host Jeanine “Judge” Pirro should have gone to jail for tax fraud after her ex-husband Albert J. Pirro Jr. was hit with an income-tax fraud conviction in 2000 — costing him nearly a year behind bars.

Jacobus, who recently gained notoriety after Donald Trump called her a “real dummy” and a “major loser” on Twitter, slammed Pirro in response to the pundit calling for the imprisonment of the FBI officials who mocked the president in text messages.

“Pirro’s husband went to prison for tax fraud and she should have, too. She signed the fraudulent tax returns, then claimed she didn’t know they were fraudulent. She was DA at the time,” tweeted Jacobus.

Mediaite

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Results are in and we now have our winner in the No ****, Sherlock! award...for the last decade. So huge kudos here to the winner.

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Trump: "I wouldn't say I'm a feminist"

The Hill

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@blatham,

Just imagine how it would have been if he'd say he WAS...

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Meeeetoo, I Tellzya!

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg shocks Sundance crowd with her own #MeToo story

Before Ginsburg slipped on her iconic judicial robe, the 84-year-old feminist from Brooklyn confessed she had her own brush with sexual harassment and gender inequality.

Clutching a microphone between both hands, Ginsburg told NPR legal correspondent and longtime friend Nina Totenberg, who was leading the discussion, about an incident that allegedly occurred when she was a law student at Cornell University in the early 1950s.

She shared concerns with her chemistry instructor over her "abilities" ahead of a big test. The teacher comforted her and told her he'd give her a practice exam to make her more comfortable with the material.

“The next day – on the test – the test is the practice exam. And I knew exactly what he wanted in return,” Ginsburg said. “That’s just one of many examples.”

Ginsburg didn’t just ignore the professor’s inappropriate gesture, she said. After the exam, Ginsburg walked straight up to the instructor and allegedly confronted him.

“I went to his office and I said, ‘How dare you! How dare you, you –“ Ginsburg said. “And that was the end of that.”

Lemme see, here, eh? The guy offered to help her. He didn't touch her. He didn't make any verbal references to sex, or nuthin. But she KNEW he was gunna try to rape her if he helped her. Probably kill her too, I betcha.

Like the whole cheese-eatin Sundance crowd, I'm SHOCKED, sho nuff!

That rapist/murderer should have been executed on the spot when he offered to help.

You'd have to take matters into your own hands to get justice in a case like this. The guy would never be convicted because the Trump defense would kill the case, i.e., in his defense the chemistry professor would just say:

"Look at her. Have you seen her? She wouldn't be my first choice of someone to rape, you can be sure of that."

Irrebutable. Case dimissed.

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@layman,

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTK9EuHtWrtpIraaSQkFoZjWe4cHSi4yCuX3da8jAcjlexoTdRImw

Bottom feeder for Prof: I'd like to enter this here photograph into evidence as Exhibit A. The defense rests its case, your honor.

Judge: Case dismissed. I hereby recommend that Ms. Ginsberg be investigated for crimes against eyesight.

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@Walter Hinteler,

That was funny, Walter.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

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After spending $20 million to push the tax-code overhaul through Congress, the influential Koch network plans to spend up to another $20 million to educate the public about the benefits of the new law, network officials announced Saturday.

The network views the education campaign, which will launch in February, as key to holding the Republican congressional majorities in the 2018 midterm elections.

“We’re all in,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, the main political arm of the network led by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch. “We know the challenges out there, at the state and federal level. … We’re all in to try to protect those in what we know is going to be a challenging year.”
WP

Normally or historically, an electoral strategy such as this, and the funding for it, would have been carried out/provided by the RNC. That it is in the hands of the Koch brothers and their network tells us who now is running the show in the party. None of these agents is a citizen-elected official. These are simply very, very wealthy extremist ideologues and corporate entities who wish to control government for their own purposes. This is the most fundamental threat to American democracy.

Sometimes Blatham's pseudo intellectual pedantry gets the best of him. The $20M the Koch Brothers are alleged to have spent advocating tax reform is neither illegal nor an indicator of anything wrong. It is the democratic right of all Americans. Indeed the $20M is no more than the sums rich liberals have and continue to spend on political activity to oppose the current Republican Administration, and it is dwarfed by the funds and organized activities Labor Unions have been expending (and generally not reporting) for years in advocating Democrat Administrations across the country.

The expressed notion that the RNC somehow must fund all Republican oriented political activity is truly ludicrous. Indeed the recent spectacle of the inept and corrupt DNC acting in behalf (and under the financial control) of one candidate throughout the last presidential primary ... makes it a bit laughable.

There is a difference though. The tax reform is clearly stimulating economic growth that benefitting ever widening segments of our population.

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Casino mogul Steve Wynn resigns as top GOP finance chairman (AP)

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Well, this is good news for the President and the Nation. Trump will be facing the crowd. Just think of the tragic consequences if he should happen to come across Ginsberg's sorry face, eh? He would die of fright, shock, and disgust, right on the spot, I figure:

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Justice Ginsburg to skip State of the Union

Ginsburg also did not attend last year’s presidential address, after attending to all eight of former President Barack Obama’s addresses, the Hill reported.

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From our Very Stable Geniuses Photo File

https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/266926e/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fdd%2F7e%2F22b7778141508db111d8712ebf53%2F180126-trump-pliers-ap-1160.jpg

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@blatham,

It's gonna be the best infrastructure. With big, beautiful jobs. Tremendous infrastructure, really.. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/28/trump-infrastructure-cities-states-373775

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

From out Very Stable Geniuses Photo File

Trump is displaying part of the standard equipment that will be issued to all members of the Orange Shirts. A tool like that can come in mighty handy when you're trying to get honest answers from a cheese-eater about his subversive activities, ya know?

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Like, whooda thunk, I ax ya?

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Conviction data show illegal immigrants commit crimes at more than twice the rate of other residents.

According to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center, illegal immigrants between ages 15 and 35 account for 3 percent of Arizona’s population but make up approximately 8 percent of the prison population, the Washington Times reported.

John R. Lott Jr., CPRC president and the report's author, said the crimes of which these illegal immigrants were convicted tended to be more serious.

His findings challenge previous assertions that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes. Previous studies on the topic usually don't compare conviction data between legal and illegal populations, Lott said.

“There appears to be a huge difference between the two groups,” he said. “The type of person who goes through the process to legally immigrate in the United States appears to be very law-abiding."

It figures, sho nuff. For one thing, they've have shown some respect for law from the git-go. For another, we have the chance to screen them that way.

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@georgeob1,

The first graphs I won't bother with as you continue to be too lazy or just chickenshit to get yourself educated on this subject of the Koch history and operations. You also, apparently, don't speak English or you'd have some familiarity with the term "oligarchy". Then there's this:

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The tax reform is clearly stimulating economic growth that benefitting ever widening segments of our population.

Are you truly this stupid, george? Show us any evidence at all that there is a discernible change of trend in any economic metric following either Trump's arrival in the White House or following the passage of the tax bill. Graphs would be jimdandy. Thoughtful economic writing (which would contain things like, you know, graphs) would be wonderful too. Further, the expansionary trends we see in the US are duplicated in every modern nation in the world. Perhaps Trump did that too.

Mind you, you do have the option, given that you wouldn't be violating any laws, to just continue spouting off like an old drunk in a seedy British pub.

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@thack45,

That's good, thack. You catch the jackass's tone very nicely.

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@blatham,

You appear to be getting a little vindictive and desperate. Too bad.

I am familiar with the history and political goals of the Koch Brothers- just as I am with those of George Soros, Tom Steyer and other large political donors of different political persuasions. Their political activities and contributions are (I assume) for the greatest part entirely legal, and not evidence of a dark, "movement" conspiracy as you repeatedly suggest (but only in the case of the Koch brothers).

Do you really stand by your earlier assertion that all such political activity should be funded only through the RNC??? Do you have any citations to back this up?? In your view does this imaginary restraint also apply to Democrats?? Did your esteemed scholarship fail you

.... or were you merely "spouting off"?

We appear to be in the midst of a fairly broad wave of economic growth, worldwide. However the recent growth in U.S. economic activity is both a leading factor that and a part of it. Favorable trends in U.S. economic activity since (say) 2012 have continued, generally at an accelerated pace. All of this data is readily available to all.

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@layman,

layman wrote:

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According to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center

John R. Lott Jr.

https://thinkprogress.org/debunking-john-lott-5456e83cf326/

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not only does Lott mischaracterize his own research, but the research itself is also filled with significant errors.

lots of links in the review

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even Michelle Malkin knows better than to use him as a source

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As conservative journalist Michelle Malkin emphasized at the time, “Lott’s invention of Mary Rosh to praise his own research and blast other scholars is beyond creepy. And it shows his extensive willingness to deceive to protect and promote his work.”

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@ehBeth,

Hmmm, are you trying to somehow say that this aint true?

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According to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center, illegal immigrants between ages 15 and 35 account for 3 percent of Arizona’s population but make up approximately 8 percent of the prison population.

I didn't read that long-ass article, but I did notice that it wasn't about this research at all.

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