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For example, in the bedroom the level of immorality ought to be approximately equal for either party.

The whole Russian issue is illusory. Russia is more or less what it has been for centuries in relation to the rest of the world: a not-quite-European state spanning a (still) huge area in Eurasia with a broad frontier with the Mongul, Persian and Arab worlds and civilizations, and ambitions in Asia that episodically create trouble for it with Japan and/or China. It remains a sometimes hard to understand collection of contradictions and remotely threatening possibilities.

Russia today is the world's largest exporter of petroleum, not so much because of its rich supply and productive efficiency, but rather because the rest of its economy doesn't work very well, and it needs the revenue to sustain its government - even in a down market for its products.. Its internal economy is smaller than that of just California; its population is declining; and it faces extraordinary population and cultural pressures from the South.

As long as the West can preserve the independence of Ukraine, It really doesn't matter much for our security what Putin does, or doesn't do. As for the rest, we and the rest of the Western world still face a number of real threats and Russia may well play a useful role in their resolution.

The notion that, after sitting back supinely as Putin reassembled parts of the former Czarist/Soviet empire in Armenia Chechnya, Ceimea and now the Donbass region of eastern Ukrane, our Democrat "leaders" are suddenly aroused by a supposed Russian hacking of our election doesn't pass the laugh test. It is a delusion meant to help them hide fron the evident fact that they and their hapless candidate Clinton lost the election themselves. That the supposed "hack" merely revealed added evidence of their own corruption of the election process merely adds sauce to their self-serving neurotic motivation. The country has suffered no injury.

In keeping with all that, the current tempest over AG Sessions' innocent response to Sen Al Franken's trick question at a confirmation hearing is equally ludicrous. I particularly enjoyed Sen Chuck Schumer's call for a resignation, after his earlier assertions that the then sitting AG Lynch's exposed clandestine meeting with Bill Clinton just before the resolution of an ongoing FBI investigation of Cinton corruption at the State Department somehow "Didn't Matter" amidst calls for her recusal.

The Democrats lost the election and haven't yet figured out why and what to do about it. In the interim they are desperately trying to distract themselves and others from the consequences of their defeat, and to prevent those who defeated them from governing. It won't work, and a little patience and persistence on the part of the majority will prevail.

No, it means if I click I am tossed to your site, and in some cases down one re time I have left.

You will look it up sometime? You have gotten snottier since I first liked you.

Please read about paywalls.

Trump should back Sessions says Russia media

Donald Trump has attacked what he described as a "total witch hunt" against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has now stood aside from an investigation into Russian interference in the US election.


The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow examines how Russian media is reacting to the story.

I'll respond here as well.
That's not the case (other than in right wing media land). The consensus actually is, as hightor suggests, that we have no way of discerning whether it was consequential or not.

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Do you feel that the political culture in the US could actually get more unstable than it has been since 9/11/01?

This is a very odd demarcation point re "stability". Though it was tragic (I was in tears that morning) the actual consequences were not nearly so profound as the financial collapse. And the event itself did not create some significant inflection point where partisanship was suddenly made more extreme. One could make a good case that the SC's involvement in the 2000 election not only made a significant change in the partisan divide but that it demonstrated a clear divide already in place.

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This is the thing that pisses me off about the whole Russian hacking thing.

Russia's hacking IS important for all the obvious reasons. But it isn't the relevant matter now facing the US (and other nations as well) which is Russia's moves to destabilize western democracies and to create disunity between them. Hacking is merely one tool they use to that end.

As to computer system security, the Iranian enrichment program that was targeted (by the US and Israel, almost certainly) with the Stuxnet worm, was an isolated system. The consensus is that the virus was inserted via a thumb drive. So isolation isn't going to mean security in any absolute sense. Further, that Iranian system compared to the US government was the size of a thimble compared to 20 dump trucks which makes isolation illusory. And, as we know from decades of experience now, bad-actor tech types can fairly quickly get the best of the security systems that even the biggest and most wealthy tech firms have in place with huge staffs dedicated to security.

I don't mean to say that the US or any government ought not to look for ways to increase security. Obviously they must. But I doubt the key problem here is insufficient funding put towards this.

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What the **** will the Democratic party and all the little snowflakes, not to mention all the A2K leftist trolls, do when Trump wins in 2020?

Probably they'll do what all the right wing faggots did after Obama beat Romney — analyze what went wrong and begin to rebuild their political
movement.

Here is another example of this individual, representative of the true nature of those on the lefts bigotry when he uses racial epithets synonymous with the word nigger and now using slurs placing homosexuals in a negative light...Only a complete waste of human skin...A piece of ****, would use these terms and he needs to be purged from this forum.

Here is another example of this individual, representative of the true nature of those on the lefts bigotry when he uses racial epithets synonymous with the word nigger and now using slurs placing homosexuals in a negative light

Probably they'll do what all the right wing faggots did after Obama beat Romney — analyze what went wrong and begin to rebuild their political movement.

a room temperature IQ

georgeob1 wrote:

The whole Russian issue is illusory. . . .

As there is no way I could say this any better . . . .

Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another. I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act, which bars FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election. Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law.
The double standard established by your actions is clear.
In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government — a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information. I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public. There is no danger to American interests from releasing it. And yet, you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this critical information.
By contrast, as soon as you came into possession of the slightest innuendo related to Secretary Clinton, you rushed to publicize it in the most negative light possible.

Is Pence a hypocrite? - Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington

Cue the "lock him up" chants by Democrats still raw over Republicans who excoriated Hillary Clinton amid the private email story in 2016.

As with Mrs Clinton's case, there are now concerns that Mr Pence did not rigorously comply with government archiving and open-records guidelines.

There are a few key differences between the former secretary of state and current vice-president, however. Where Mrs Clinton used her own private email server, Mr Pence - just like your grandparents - relied on an America Online account.

There is no evidence that Mrs Clinton's email was illegally accessed, while Mr Pence's account was hijacked by hackers who sent out correspondence to the governor's contacts saying he was stranded in the Philippines and in urgent need of money (to be wired to the hackers, of course).

Although Mr Pence did use his AOL account for messages about state security and discussions of FBI correspondence, there currently are no allegations he dealt with highly classified information. Mrs Clinton had at least some top secret information on her server.

Still, it seems that while Mr Pence was throwing rocks at the Democratic nominee last year, he was living in a digital glass house.


His successor as governor, Eric Holcomb, declined to release an unspecified number of emails from Mr Pence's account, stating that they contain sensitive or confidential information, including that related to homeland security.

But former US President Bill Clinton's adviser Paul Begala said Mr Pence was guilty of "staggering" hypocrisy.

"I'm trying to choke down the vomit," Mr Begala told CNN. "I'm sickened. It's too spectacular. Irony has not only died, it drank a gallon of antifreeze, climbed to the top of the Washington Monument and threw itself off.

"There is no more irony in America."

Indiana law does not prohibit the use of a private email account.

But the legislation is generally interpreted to mean that communications related to official government business must be retained for public records, according to the Indianapolis Star, which broke the story.

Government transparency campaigners say Mr Pence's AOL account missives would not have been automatically recorded for public record-keeping purposes.