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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 11:23:46 GMT -5
On paper, Alberta has recovered from the recession. However, there's a huge catch: oil and mining jobs, the once bedrock to the runaway economy, are still way down as a more diversified economy comes out of the ashes www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-oil-layoffs-jobs-recovery-harsh-reality-1.4474862Which, honestly, is a good thing. But I'm sure people like my brother-in-law who lost his job in the recession doesn't feel too happy about it
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Post by LA_Randy on Jan 10, 2018 11:30:28 GMT -5
Issa will not seek re-election.
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 11:37:41 GMT -5
So if you're an Ikea coworker right now.... (And yes, employees at Ikea are called coworkers....)
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Post by foggyisback on Jan 10, 2018 12:04:38 GMT -5
For one, tell Orly we said hi! Secondly, if you're gonna make an argument then it does kinda help to get the most recent info available. ? I'm not sure what you're referring to. Orly Taitz, publisher of WWD.
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 12:08:40 GMT -5
Darrell Issa Is Retiring, Just Like Everyone Else A record number of House Republicans have already thrown in the towel. Democrats’ path to retaking the House just got a little bit easier. Again. On Wednesday, longtime California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa announced that he would retire from Congress rather than seek re-election this fall. Issa’s departure brings the number of GOP retirements from the House to 30—a record for the party—and comes just two days after another embattled Southern Californian, Rep. Ed Royce, announced his own departure. It is a gift to Democrats who had already put Issa’s district near the top of their list of 2018 targets, and who came within 1,621 votes of toppling the former car-alarm magnate in 2016. After Trump’s election, progressive activists had made a special target of Issa. They did so both because of his newfound vulnerability—Issa’s affluent suburban district, like others in Orange County and the Atlanta and Houston areas, was one of those places where long-suffering Democrats made substantial gains in 2016—and because his notoriety. Issa cultivated a reputation as a partisan attack dog as chairman of the House oversight committee and took the lead in publicizing Obama-era scandals, such as Fast and Furious. His 49th district has become a hub for “Resistance” groups; just one day before Issa announced he would not seek re-election, a San Diego Indivisible chapter held a retirement party for the congressman outside one of his district offices. www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/darrell-issa-is-retiring-just-like-everyone-else/
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 12:12:07 GMT -5
Democrats are going on the offensive on Russia. The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday ramped up pressure on the Trump administration to slap new sanctions on Russia, releasing a massive report — written without GOP involvement — that details President Vladimir Putin’s alleged electoral meddling around the world. That came one day after another senior Democratic senator abruptly released the transcript of an interview with a key player in the investigation looking into any ties between President Donald Trump and Russia's interference. And across the Capitol, a half-dozen House Democrats banded together to push Republicans for a more comprehensive response to Russian disruption of the 2016 election, warning that Moscow will again meddle with the democratic process. Democrats, frustrated by conservative attempts to undercut the investigation into Trump’s ties to Moscow and growing convinced that Republicans aren’t taking electoral security seriously, are increasingly tired of waiting on their colleagues in the majority to act and are taking their concerns public. “We must counter Russia’s well-established election interference playbook,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a floor speech billed as puncturing “partisan efforts to deflect attention and distract from critical inquiries” into Moscow’s attempts to upend the 2016 election. “Russia will hack. Russia will bully. Russia will propagandize,” he said. Sen. Ben Cardin’s staff on the Foreign Relations Committee extensively detailed that alleged behavior by Putin’s network in the report Wednesday, which does not address special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe but repeatedly slams Trump for a laggard response that it says puts U.S. security at risk. “President Trump is squandering an opportunity to lead America’s allies and partners to build a collective defense against the Kremlin’s global assault on democratic institutions and values,” the report states. “But it is not too late.” Among the report's two dozen-plus recommendations is a call for the Trump administration to implement a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill. Lawmakers in both parties raised alarms after the administration missed an October deadline to designate potential targets for new sanctions, and belated compliance came only after a nudge from Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). www.politico.com/story/2018/01/10/russia-democrats-trump-putin-332108
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 12:16:41 GMT -5
? I'm not sure what you're referring to. Orly Taitz, publisher of WWD. I got that you were referring to Orly Taitz, I just couldn't figure out what she had to do with the discussion. Nor your point about using the latest data Also, WWD?
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 12:18:30 GMT -5
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 12:20:07 GMT -5
Newly released Senate testimony debunks a key conservative theory on Trump and Russia The big news Republicans didn’t want you to see. The FBI was already investigating potential links between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government before they heard anything about Christopher Steele’s famous dossier on the matter. That’s the key takeaway from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s extensive testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, released Tuesday by ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) over the objections of her Republican colleagues. Simpson’s hearing lasted for hours, and the transcript is extremely long and mostly fairly tedious. But Simpson does clearly state that when Steele spoke to the FBI about his findings, the bureau “believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing, and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.” That sounds like Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who, according to a recent report in the New York Times, accidentally kicked off the Trump-Russia investigation by telling Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that Russia had political dirt on Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, after a night of heavy drinking in May 2016. Conservatives have recently been pushing a theory that the basis for the FBI investigation was an opposition research document compiled at the behest of Clinton’s campaign. Simpson’s testimony seems to confirm the Times account and thereby debunk a conservative counternarrative that places the dossier itself at the center of the story. Wait, who are these people? Glenn Simpson is one of the co-founders of Fusion GPS, a “strategic intelligence” firm that was hired first by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news publication, and later by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump. Fusion, in turn, contracted with former MI-6 Russia specialist Christopher Steele to look specifically at Trump and Russia. Steele’s investigation ended with a number of allegations, including that Trump is possibly being blackmailed by Russian security services with a recording of him paying prostitutes to pee on a bed at a luxury hotel at Moscow, and also that Trump’s campaign was the beneficiary of a multifaceted Kremlin plot to interfere in the 2016 US election. BuzzFeed published Steele’s dossier in January 2017, setting off a firestorm of controversy and intriguing many liberals. But in recent months, the dossier has taken on new life as the centerpiece of a conservative counter-conspiracy theory, which holds that the whole Trump-Russia investigation was cooked up by the president’s political enemies. Simpson’s testimony is significant in the present context primarily for debunking that narrative. The dossier is now the centerpiece of a conservative counternarrative On January 3, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) — a key House conservative — rolled out a tweetstorm asking 18 questions about the FBI and Russia, many of them centering on the dossier. 1) Did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, author of the dossier? — Rep. Jim Jordan (@jim_Jordan) January 3, 2018 Jordan, joined by another leading House conservative, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-SC), is also calling for Trump to fire Jeff Sessions so he can put a new attorney general in place who would oversee (and presumably quash) the Russia investigation. This is part of a broader conservative effort to discredit the Mueller investigation, which in turn is part of a broader conservative counternarrative on the whole Russia scandal. And the dossier plays a key role in this conspiracy theory. Because conservatives are “just asking questions” about the FBI and Steele, they tend not to explicitly state what they think happened. But in broad strokes, the theory is something like this: Trump’s political enemies paid Fusion GPS to write a dossier full of debunked claims about his connections to Russia. “Deep state” anti-Trump elements in the FBI used this false opposition research document to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant targeting Michael Flynn. The Flynn surveillance, which never should have been allowed because it was based on the phony dossier, was used to catch him in a lie about a meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that was completely innocuous. This got Flynn fired and, by making meetings with Kislyak into a hot-button issue, also forced Sessions into recusing himself, which in turn gave Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (whom Trump has decided is “a Democrat,” though it’s not clear why) the opportunity to appoint Robert Mueller as special counsel. Mueller, in turn, is buddies with former FBI Director James Comey, who is bitter about having been fired by Trump (Comey under this theory is a bad guy because he went too easy on Hillary Clinton over the email server, and we’re not supposed to pay attention to the fact that Trump’s stated reason for firing him was that he was too hard on Clinton) and is therefore leading an anti-Trump witch hunt. There are, of course, other penumbras and emanations around the conservative account of the Steele dossier. Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz was on Fox recently, for example, arguing that it’s against the law to hire a foreign national to do work for a campaign (this is not true) and therefore the existence of the dossier is just another example of Crooked Hillary’s lawbreaking. The reality, however, is that while Steele is well-regarded in intelligence circles, there is no indication that his work has ever been the basis of the FBI’s Russia investigation. Papadopoulos was the start of the investigation A New York Times report earlier this month indicated that the investigation began not with Steele’s dossier but with Papadopoulos’s drunken conversation with Downer, Australia’s ambassador to the UK and a former Australian foreign minister. Simpson’s testimony appears to independently corroborate what the New York Times already reported — the FBI listened to Steele because they already had an investigation into this question underway, an investigation that was launched because Papadopoulos’s conversation with Downer was shared with other Australian officials, who ultimately passed word of it to their American counterparts once the hacking of Democratic email accounts became a big deal. As best as we can tell, this, rather than Steele’s memo, was the start of the investigation. And while the investigation has not yet proven the existence of anything like the vast conspiracy that Steele alleges, it certainly has uncovered real evidence of wrongdoing — including a guilty plea from Papadopoulos himself, and serious charges against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. We’ve also learned from the investigation that key Trumpworld figures, including Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr., were, at a minimum, eager to potentially collaborate with the Russian government on revealing anti-Clinton “dirt,” rather than emulating Downer in alerting the authorities to the existence of an active Russian intelligence effort aimed at the United States. It also, obviously, continues to be an ongoing investigation that might yet reveal other criminal activity. Or it might not. But either way, Simpson’s testimony — which Republicans on the committee didn’t want released to the public — is more evidence that the question was taken seriously by law enforcement for reasons that had nothing to do with Steele or his dossier. www.vox.com/2018/1/9/16870106/simpson-testimony-transcript
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 12:21:05 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 12:29:20 GMT -5
The biggest problem for Trump is not that he lies intentionally, it's that he has no true concept of fact. That's a bit of a problem when you're at risk of perjury. Screw self-indictment (also a pretty severe risk for Trump), Mueller can ask two contradictory questions and get completely contradictory responses within 30 seconds. Throw in his ego, his need to always be in control, he could easily self-indict for things he's actually innocent of.
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 12:32:18 GMT -5
The biggest problem for Trump is not that he lies intentionally, it's that he has no true concept of fact. That's a bit of a problem when you're at risk of perjury. Screw self-indictment (also a pretty severe risk for Trump), Mueller can ask two contradictory questions and get completely contradictory responses within 30 seconds. Throw in his ego, his need to always be in control, he could easily self-indict for things he's actually innocent of. Earlier i posted about the actual Jeopardy trump is in with meuller seeking an interview. It's pretty bad for him - this pic was just funny to me (the juxtaposition) - but Trump is actually pretty serious
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 12:36:30 GMT -5
Canada launches a massive WTO trade complaint against the US regarding its use of anti-dumping and countervailing duties. While the core of it are things like the Bombardier and Softwood Lumber tariffs, it cites nearly 200 different incidents, the majority of which Canada had no role in. www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-united-states-trade-complaint-1.4480738What baffles most analysts is that this comes shortly before another round of NAFTA negotiations. I think these analysts miss is that the last round resulted in the US tacking on a bunch of new demands so I'd see this as retaliation by Canada for moving the goalposts by getting something else on the table. (EDIT: BTW: I think this is totally Freeland's idea. This is the woman who walked away from the table at the 11th hour of a free trade agreement with the EU when a Netherlands province demanded more - and absolutely got exactly what she wanted in spite of near universal backlash. Tell me she's not trying a similar stunt here)
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Post by foggyisback on Jan 10, 2018 12:40:36 GMT -5
Orly Taitz, publisher of WWD. I got that you were referring to Orly Taitz, I just couldn't figure out what she had to do with the discussion. Nor your point about using the latest data Also, WWD? World NET Daily. Did it with no caffeine 😁 hey used a WND post from 2012 to defend the point about US aid to Kenya.
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Post by foggyisback on Jan 10, 2018 12:56:16 GMT -5
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Post by suen on Jan 10, 2018 13:18:40 GMT -5
Issa will not seek re-election. Hide your cars, people.
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Post by foggyisback on Jan 10, 2018 13:24:04 GMT -5
Trump deserves 'big credit' for sparking North Korea talks, South Korea's president saysPresident Trump deserves “big credit” for kicking off the first talks between Pyongyang and Seoul in more than two years, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday. North Korea agreed Tuesday to send a delegation to next month’s Winter Olympics, which are set to begin next month in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The rival nations’ talks are the first sign of a possible thaw in their relationship. The talks were held for the first time since 2015 and Moon credited Trump for sparking them, according to Reuters. “I think President Trump deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks,” Moon said at a news conference. “It could be a resulting work of the U.S.-led sanctions and pressure.” www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/10/trump-deserves-big-credit-for-sparking-north-korea-talks-south-koreas-president-says.html I honestly think SoKo's prez giving the lecher credit for spiking the two-Korea talks is simply inflating his ego. Most of our allies + Putie are doing the same to please him. Nothing he has done to this point suggests that he helped this come about in any positive way...unless you think phallic implications = good negotiating.
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Post by DocDrama on Jan 10, 2018 13:40:11 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News. Story # 1.
Home Depot- a Huge building materials outlet. Every time you pull into the parking lot there's at least 2 dozen Illegals looking for work. This is the reality every day in America. If you don't live here you don't know anything about it. So just knock it off!
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Post by DocDrama on Jan 10, 2018 13:49:44 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News Story # 2.
A small shopping center around the corner from where I live has Arteaga's Mexican Grocery. I like this store find better deals for some items. The clerks are all women and speak both English and Spanish. They have Western Union & one other outfit for Mexicans to wire money to Mexico. That's right, out of the country just like the wealthy do with their Money. They probably wire Welfare money there too. This is the reality every day America. If you don't live here you don't know anything about it. So just knock it off!
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 13:50:03 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News. Story # 1. Home Depot- a Huge building materials outlet. Every time you pull into the parking lot there's at least 2 dozen Illegals looking for work. This is the reality every day in America. If you don't live here you don't know anything about it. So just knock it off! So I was in Folsom (for those that don't know, suburb of Sacramento) 3 times in the last year and a half. Went into a few parking lots there. Wouldn't say I saw anyone matching that description. Oh, I'm sure there are some places that are like that near you, but I question how pervasive it is. Especially once you get out of California and into parts of the country that aren't along the border.
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 13:52:51 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News Story # 2. A small shopping center around the corner from where I live has Arteaga's Mexican Grocery. I like this store find better deals for some items. The clerks are all women and speak both English and Spanish. They have Western Union & one other outfit for Mexicans to wire money to Mexico. That's right, out of the country just like the wealthy do with their Money. They probably wire Welfare money there too. This is the reality every day America. If you don't live here you don't know anything about it. So just knock it off! That is something shared by all immigrant nations. Chinese, Latin American and Indian immigrants to Canada regularly talk about the families back home they support while working here. Hell, kids in my school talked about it. Oh, did I mention how Canadians take *pride* in the fact that our immigrants do that?
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Post by DocDrama on Jan 10, 2018 13:57:29 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News Story # 3.
Illegals add nothing to America. All they do take Money out of here. 20 Millions of them taking Food Stamps, Welfare, and whatever else I don't know about. Remember I'm not talking about people who came here legally. America isn't a Piggy Bank for Illegals and the Rich to empty. And I don't give a dang if you went to Folsom. You don't live here. So you don't know anything!
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Post by DocDrama on Jan 10, 2018 14:10:06 GMT -5
Democrats are going on the offensive on Russia. The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday ramped up pressure on the Trump administration to slap new sanctions on Russia, releasing a massive report — written without GOP involvement — that details President Vladimir Putin’s alleged electoral meddling around the world. That came one day after another senior Democratic senator abruptly released the transcript of an interview with a key player in the investigation looking into any ties between President Donald Trump and Russia's interference. And across the Capitol, a half-dozen House Democrats banded together to push Republicans for a more comprehensive response to Russian disruption of the 2016 election, warning that Moscow will again meddle with the democratic process. Democrats, frustrated by conservative attempts to undercut the investigation into Trump’s ties to Moscow and growing convinced that Republicans aren’t taking electoral security seriously, are increasingly tired of waiting on their colleagues in the majority to act and are taking their concerns public. “We must counter Russia’s well-established election interference playbook,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a floor speech billed as puncturing “partisan efforts to deflect attention and distract from critical inquiries” into Moscow’s attempts to upend the 2016 election. “Russia will hack. Russia will bully. Russia will propagandize,” he said. Sen. Ben Cardin’s staff on the Foreign Relations Committee extensively detailed that alleged behavior by Putin’s network in the report Wednesday, which does not address special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe but repeatedly slams Trump for a laggard response that it says puts U.S. security at risk. “President Trump is squandering an opportunity to lead America’s allies and partners to build a collective defense against the Kremlin’s global assault on democratic institutions and values,” the report states. “But it is not too late.” Among the report's two dozen-plus recommendations is a call for the Trump administration to implement a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill. Lawmakers in both parties raised alarms after the administration missed an October deadline to designate potential targets for new sanctions, and belated compliance came only after a nudge from Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). www.politico.com/story/2018/01/10/russia-democrats-trump-putin-332108This proves once and for all that Democrats and Republicans are Radical. All sanctions have ever done is hurt the common people in any county that lives under them. Cuba is a perfect example. I don't believe in sanctions because they hurt poor people. And that proves that I'm a Moderate.
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 14:11:27 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News Story # 3. Illegals add nothing to America. All they do take Money out of here. 20 Millions of them taking Food Stamps, Welfare, and whatever else I don't know about. Remember I'm not talking about people who came here legally. America isn't a Piggy Bank for Illegals and the Rich to empty. And I don't give a dang if you went to Folsom. You don't live here. So you don't know anything! He is/was a Federal Prosecutor.
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 14:14:16 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Jan 10, 2018 14:28:23 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News. Story # 1. Home Depot- a Huge building materials outlet. Every time you pull into the parking lot there's at least 2 dozen Illegals looking for work. This is the reality every day in America. If you don't live here you don't know anything about it. So just knock it off! So I was in Folsom (for those that don't know, suburb of Sacramento) 3 times in the last year and a half. Went into a few parking lots there. Wouldn't say I saw anyone matching that description. Oh, I'm sure there are some places that are like that near you, but I question how pervasive it is. Especially once you get out of California and into parts of the country that aren't along the border. Never seen this at the Home Depot or Lowe’s stores I frequently visit in LA.
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Post by forgottenlord on Jan 10, 2018 14:34:08 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News Story # 3. Illegals add nothing to America. All they do take Money out of here. 20 Millions of them taking Food Stamps, Welfare, and whatever else I don't know about. Remember I'm not talking about people who came here legally. America isn't a Piggy Bank for Illegals and the Rich to empty. And I don't give a dang if you went to Folsom. You don't live here. So you don't know anything! www.nilc.org/issues/economic-support/overview-immeligfedprograms/Literally the first paragraph. You are progressively getting detached more and more from facts. And because I'm getting tired of your bullshit, let's talk about you for a second. You keep losing debates here. Like, constantly. You are certain in your opinions - so you're certain that when you lose those debates, it isn't because your position is bad but because we're idiots who can't understand your perspective. You won't admit, even to yourself, that you're losing those debates but the very fact that you're so frustrated about it is exactly the proof that you're losing the debates. And in your frustration, in your self-assuredness, you've progressively relied more and more upon personal experiences and the knowledge of the people around you instead of facts, stats, or general articles written around the Internet. At one point you were scouring the bizarre corners of the Internet to back you up but you've stopped even doing that because you are so detached you can't even get that. And when all of this fails, when we can take your personal experience and question it or demonstrate it can't possibly be right or point out that your sample size is inherently too small and too biased, there's only one possible answer in your mind: Eliminate the opposition. The opposition is wrong because the opposition isn't qualified to make an opinion. Devoid of all ability to convince us with your voice, you seek to deprive us of ours. It is the last resort of those incapable of forming an informed opinion because they lack *your* experience. Pushed to the edge, you jumped off the slippery slope and rolled right to the bottom, so resolute in proving to yourself that you aren't losing. But you lost. Devastatingly. And all you're doing is digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper. You are Trump ensuring us he's a stable genius - so resolute in how right you are that you are fundamentally undermining your own position. You are capable of far better. Be better.
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Post by DocDrama on Jan 10, 2018 14:35:43 GMT -5
Canada to Salvadorans Leaving the US: Don't Come Here. Alan Freeman, Washington Post.
Fearing an influx of newcomers crossing "irregularly" into Canada from the United States, the Canadian govt. has embarked on an information campaign to discourage Salvadorans from trekking north, as thousands of Haitians did when threatened with a loss of protected status last year.
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Post by foggyisback on Jan 10, 2018 14:39:16 GMT -5
Reality of America Not In the News. Story # 1. Home Depot- a Huge building materials outlet. Every time you pull into the parking lot there's at least 2 dozen Illegals looking for work. This is the reality every day in America. If you don't live here you don't know anything about it. So just knock it off! Maybe in YOUR Home Depot.... or in YOUR Lowe's (my nearest one is literally across the railroad tracks from my home - can't find any illegals there either).
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Post by Outsider on Jan 10, 2018 14:40:39 GMT -5
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