All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
READ THIS FIRST
Excellent and thought provoking piece
Some of this might be repetitive to some readers
Full
disclosure on my R side choices temporally: Walker, Carly, Trump, no
one, still no one, NOT HILLARY, and not Cruz under any circumstances.
Who
I am: UVa 71, spent much of professional life in cardiovascular
research, Genl Mgr of a research corp with heavy export proportion, now
retired. Spent 12 years talking nearly every day with Muslims in the
gulf.
FRANKLY.
Thesis: At this point in terms of actual
governance there is scant OBJECTIVE difference ON THE GROUND between
corporate republicans, and wall street democrats (IF ANY), big big
business, and CERTAIN academic institutions
Where Trump is right:
Border Security, and the objective failure of free trade as a benefit to
the USA (I still like the idea but the results are INARGUABLE and
WAAAAAY beyond automation compared to other nations)
BORDER: We
have listened since the 80′s to politicians telling us on one way or the
other that controlling the border is impossible. We can’t do it. Of
course NOT controlling the border has been a benefit to large
corporations, agribusiness, etc. and created a moral hazard for entities
even as eclectic as a glatt kosher meat processing factory in the
center of the nation.
Now there is someone telling the nation that what our intuitive sense was telling us along is correct. A border CAN BE SECURED.
Note that the MESSAGE carried by this conflates nicely (and maybe correctly as a principle) with terrorism and Islamism
TRADE:
Free trade sounds great. But if you are a large corporation it means
you sold off your human costs of labor to the cheapest labor cost in the
world for the promise of cheaper goods for the consumer. But we did not
get that. To the public we got a slower rate of increase in the panoply
of LITERALLY third world products. There are plenty of these but they all say the same thing. This is BLS data.
When
I quiz free trade aficionados on their unlimited support for free trade
today, I get smarmy answers about their children being safely ensconced
in STEM. HERE’S YOUR SIGN
There are PLENTY of these kinds warnings.
We
have seen the march of not job loss, but CAREER LOSS, progress from
labor, manufacturing, engineering, product design and now finally to
R&D.
The single most important number in the economy is the disposable income in the pockets of the American middle class.
Is
there ANYONE who thinks (now that real estate can’t be used to bolster
that in the form of SOME kind of loan) that number has increased?
That
number is the potential energy of demand, ingenuity, entrepreneurship
and R&D risk taking. If there is no potential energy, the rest
fails.
That number also represents the economic power that
galvanizes military security. They are INSEPARABLE. Today though we have
more and more demands chasing fewer and fewer resources.
THESE TWO REASONS, are why people are ready to take big chance on Trump.
What are the reservations? … well I have mine
Eminent Domain. Trump has no doubt that HIS view which is nearly the reverse of this, is correct. HE IS WRONG, and DANGEROUSLY SO.
LIBEL:
He seems to like the Erdoganish idea that if you attack him because you
don’t like him, or have SUBSTANTIVE factual reasons to oppose his
ideas, taking you out with soft power (hello Mr Obama) is not enough,
and it’s time for litigation to silence you, and the object of the suit
is not to win, but shut you up and ‘pour encourager les autres.’
CHARACTER:
???? Who are you Trump? Are you an achiever? Poker player? Charlatan?
All three? Are you as Machiavellian as FDR inside the offices, pitting
everyone against everyone? I have no idea, but I have a REAL GOOD IDEA
about someone else…
HILLARY: a better lie detector test taker than
Richard Nixon. Capable of self deception for self interest and blind to
OBVIOUS corruption. Obama III on too much policy, and a CLEAR
INARGUABLE representative of not just the ‘rigged’ financial system now
(including free trade and it’s awful results) but the PAID
representative of TBTF entities.
I can’t tell myself I support Trump, but it’s very easy to work very hard to oppose HRC.
Cruz…
just google ‘Cruz Bickle’ and it’s easy to find the basic immovable
reason why it’s impossible for an American who happens to be Jewish to
vote for Cruz, and also then comprehend the ideas behind his support for
Israel.
This nation has been going in a dangerous direction under BOTH parties for LONG TIME.
This is the perception of too much of the public, and the objective reality.
That’s why Trump (and almost Bernie).
Trump
may turn out be a disaster, but since we have the modern version of
James Buchanan, who also hates the word PROPERTY himself (you know, that
FLAWED document?), the nation is simply READY to take that chance.
It's doubtful that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will be taking political advice from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) in the near future. But legal advice? Well, it's happened before.
"Ted Cruz used to be my attorney a long time ago. A good guy. I don't always agree with him, but he's a good guy," Boehner told Jay Leno Thursday on NBC's "The Tonight Show."
Say what? Yes, the tea party firebrand and the establishment GOP leader who don't see eye to eye were once on the same team back in the late 1990s.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
The year was 1998. Shania Twain and Savage Garden were all the rage. Boehner was House Republican Conference chairman. He had decided to sue Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) for allegedly violating wiretapping laws.
At issue was a recorded phone conversation in 1996 involving Boehner and then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, among others.
A Florida couple intercepted the call on a police scanner. The couple gave a recording of the call to McDermott, then the top Democrat on the Ethics Committee. (Gingrich was facing ethics sanctions.) McDermott shared it with the New York Times. And, well, Boehner wasn't happy.
Here's what The Washington Post reported in 2006:
John and Alice Martin, Democratic activists from Florida, overheard the discussion on a police scanner and recorded it. The Martins gave the tape to McDermott; they later pleaded guilty to illegally intercepting the call and were each fined $500.
Boehner targeted his ire at McDermott, then the ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, who he said leaked the contents of the tape to the New York Times and other news organizations in a blatant invasion of privacy.
Enter Cruz, then a rising legal star who had clerked for a Supreme Court justice. He was Boehner's lawyer in the case. When Boehner used the case to help his campaign raise money, Cruz defended him publicly, emerging in the media years before he would return as a conservative hero.
Was this just a perfectly timed attack so Cruz can use it to show his worshippers how much of an outsider he is while in reality being a Washington insider all along.
Was Kasich played by Cruz in that temporary 'alliance' to deny Trump enough delegates? Cruz was to head to Indiana while Kasich was to head to Oregon. Now Cruz denies such alliance existed!
The Kasich campaign, it seems, never sent the candidate’s bio or positions on the issues to be included in the official 2016 Oregon Voters’ Primary Pamphlet. He is not even named as a Republican presidential primary candidate on a very short list which only includes Trump and the Texas senator.
The missing info was not missed by those on social media, including reporters at Rolling Stone, who tweeted, “How is Kasich going to #StopTrump if he can’t even get into the Oregon voters’ guide?”
John Boehner sounded off a litany of insults for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz Wednesday night, labelling the Texas senator "Lucifer in the flesh" and a "miserable son of a bitch."
"I have Democrat friends and Republican friends," the former House speaker said during a frank on-stage discussion at Stanford University Wednesday.
"I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."
Boehner, who retired from Congress at the end of October, also let loose on the two other GOP candidates in the race.
Of his relationship with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Boehner said that he was "my friend, and I love him" -- but with the caveat that Kasich "requires more effort on my behalf than all my other friends."
Boehner said he was on friendly terms with Republican front-runner Donald Trump, adding that he often played golf with the New York business mogul and billing their friendship as one between "texting buddies."
The ex-congressman seemed to accept that Trump would be the party's nominee and said that he would vote for him if that prediction came to pass. Boehner said he would not, however, cast a ballot for Cruz if the Texas senator won the nomination.
oh man the music of so many summers especially in my neck of the woods. You couldn't be a teenager in the 70s in a city like Reading, Pa. and NOT hear this music coming from passing cars, kitchen windows while supper was cooking, transistor radios on the front porch (that is until The Phillies game time), swimming pools and basketball courts, neighborhood street parties and cookouts...
You thought he just wanted to play Pretend President, didn' you? No, Ted Cruz has a practical streak. Fiorina is exactly the right choice for Ted Cruz. Given her experience with HP, she will be the perfect person to lay off Cruz’s campaign staff in the coming weeks, when his donors started talking about tying a cement anchor to his legs and making him disappear at the bottom of the sea.
Donald Trump will likely wind up winning the most primary votes of any GOP presidential candidate in modern history, the author of the influential Smart Politics blog told The Post on Wednesday.
After convincing victories in Tuesday’s primaries in five East Coast states, Trump has roughly 10.1 million votes, about 200,000 more than Mitt Romney got during the entire 2012 primary campaign.
And with the primaries ahead — including in populous states such as California, New Jersey and Indiana — the former “Apprentice” reality TV star should easily break the modern record of 10.8 million held by George W. Bush in 2000, according to blogger Eric Ostermeier, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota.
