Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Uncommon Senselessness adores himself like no other, seriously, there is no bigger fool than a fool who fool's his self.

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

Your loving people, the ones with the masks and clubs?

Bcon

There are none so blind than those who will not see. Anyone come to mind?

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

More like his controllers who run the provocateurs, all scripted for leftist consumption
and broadcasted by the marxist media

America 1 Loc: South Miami

National Park Removes Fearmongering Global Warming Sign After Snow Keeps Falling
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/national-park-removes-fearmongering-global-warming-sign-snow-keeps-falling/

Common_Sense_Matters

Okay, I will humor you, please do present these conspiracy theories spread by MSM. As for the JFK assassination, I too believe that there was at least two shots but the press can only run with what they get. Some conspiracy theories ARE actual conspiracies, EXTREMELY few but some, the ones you guys keep trying to push aren't among the true conspiracies though. We now live in a day and age where the truth isn't as easily hidden.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

That is a profound statement. You are right absolutely

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

can you remember upchuck shumer sayin quote " the intel agencies have 6 ways to sunday at gettin back at ya "

let's start here, what does this mean to you 'mr media matters'

Common_Sense_Matters

Nope, I do not know anything about this "upchuck shumer", sounds like a made up name.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Talk about a made up name!! Yours is false advertising!

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

The ones that ambush police?

maximus Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Just another example of his words being distorted. I don't mean to hurt your feeling but if that's the meaning you got from his statement, then your English has failed you. What is most easily taken out of his statement is that our moon would be part of a Mars mission, a jumping off place. I would think it would be necessary to get all the supplies to the moon in batches, then take advantage of the 1/5/ gravity to get that heavy load headed in the right direction. Do you actually believe that a man like Trump really thinks that our moon is part of Mars?
Everything Trump says is treated this way, and you wonder why we defend him ! Only a Trump hater would misconstrue his words like that. The man has America in his heart and somehow, after all the predictions of gloom and doom, what he does works! Deny it all you want to.

Bcon

Typical libtard ploy. When they are frustrated with the lack of any movement in their own dysfunctional lives, they try to pick flyshit out of pepper to attempt to make anyone they are frustrated bylook stupid. In this case, Trump is a thorn in their side so he is being tried to look foolish. Backfires most of the time. Lack of intelligence comes back to bite.

Morgan

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-05/how-is-donald-trump-profiting-from-the-presidency-let-us-count-the-ways

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News & World Report.

I wrote Friday about some of the various ways creeping Trumpism is infecting our system of governance, whether through practices that are sketchy or possibly even illegal: Questionable travel practices, unqualified appointees, whether family members, cronies or fringy neophytes and of course the old fashioned using one's position of power to line one's own pockets.

But in any White House, and especially in one where the president has built a career on branding and making himself the product, culture flows from the top. In this case it's rather like a volcano.

And when it comes to wringing bucks out of this administration, no one can match President Donald Trump himself for the sheer depth and breadth of his national grift. Hell, the way he's set things up it's virtually impossible to even capture its scope. Thanks to presidential ethics laws that never contemplated a businessman president who would not follow the political norms of divesting himself of his businesses, disclosing his taxes and generally trying to avoid conflicts of interest, much and possibly all of this is legal if unseemly. "The president can't have a conflict of interest," Trump noted even before he took office, perhaps confusing a technical matter of law for a broader matter of ethics.
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READ: Jared Kushner, Ben Carson and How Donald Trump Is Corrupting Politics ]

We can start with the truly big money. Forbes' Dan Alexander and Matt Drange estimated last month that Trump rakes in at least $175 million annually from commercial tenants like the state-owned Industrial & Commercial Bank of China. Which companies specifically and how much money exactly? It's impossible to say because federal disclosure laws don't require an accounting of where his businesses get their money. This was not a problem with previous presidents, who divested themselves and disclosed. Trump on the other hand does nothing more than the minimum legally required. Not knowing who's paying the president how much money? That seems like it might be a problem. "Take any hot-button issue of the past year, and there's a good chance Trump's tenants lobbied the federal government on it, either in support of or in opposition to the administration's position," Forbes noted, adding that at least three dozen known Trump tenants have "meaningful relationships with the federal government, from contractors to lobbying firms to regulatory targets." In one case, even the federal government is paying rent to the president.

And that's just one avenue for filling the Trump-branded, solid gold trough. Foreign governments have been quick to figure out how to stay on the president's good side. They've "donated public land, approved permits and eased environmental regulations for Trump-branded developments, creating a slew of potential conflicts as foreign leaders make investments that can be seen as gifts or attempts to gain access to the American president through his sprawling business empire," McClatchy's Anita Kumar reported in January. The Chinese government has granted Trump at least 39 trademarks, some of which had been previously rejected, since he took office; Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior adviser, has also gotten at least seven since she joined the administration. It's good to be the king or in the royal family.

But wait, there are still more ways to enrich the most powerful man in the world. His company still sells real estate, after all. An investigation by USA Today last summer found that in the 12 months after he clinched the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, "70% of buyers of Trump properties were limited liability companies – corporate entities that allow people to purchase property without revealing all of the owners' names. That compares with about 4% of buyers in the two years before." Overall in 2017, the paper reported, Trump's companies "sold more than $35 million in real estate ... mostly to secretive shell companies that obscure buyers' identities." Mysterious investors suddenly pouring tens of millions of dollars into Trump coffers once he became the Republican nominee and then the president? Nothing suspicious here: Please move along.

And then of course there are the day-to-day ways Trump rakes in the dough by mixing and matching his presidential activities with his own properties. As mentioned last week, he spent one third of his first year in office visiting his own commercial properties. And he wasn't alone: According to a January report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, more than 100 executive branch officials and members of Congress also visited Trump properties during his first year in office; at least 40 special interest groups held events at Trump properties; and at least 11 foreign government's paid Trump businesses. The Kuwaiti Embassy, for example, held a National Day celebration at Trump's Washington, D.C. hotel last year and then again last month. As one Asian diplomat told The Washington Post way back in the early days after the 2016 election, going to Trump's hotel only makes good sense: "Why wouldn't I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, 'I love your new hotel!' Isn't it rude to come to his city and say, 'I am staying at your competitor?'"

Before assuming office, Trump vowed to donate the hotel profits from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury. Months later, however, the Trump Organization admitted that tracking all money from foreign governments was "impractical" but that it would donate profits from guests self-identifying as representatives of foreign governments. Last week, the Trump Organization announced that it had indeed donated profits from "foreign government patronage" but declined to disclose specifics like, as The Washington Post's David Farenthold and Jonathan O'Connell wondered, "How much was donated? Which Trump properties were included in this accounting? Which foreign entities had paid money to Trump’s businesses?"

And neither Trump nor his team have been shy about promoting the brand, mentioning his private businesses at least 35 times during his first year in office, according to CREW, giving new meaning to the concept of earned media. Overall, the report found, political groups spent more than $1.2 million at Trump properties during his first year in office, after never having spent more than $100,000 "in any given year going back to at least 2002." Norm Eisen, the former Obama administration ethics czar who now chairs CREW noted in a tweet on Friday that the group's report had described Trump's as "the most unethical presidency" and added: "Year two has been even worse—& it's just getting started."

Morgan

The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.

You idiots really need to learn the differences once and for all, I'm tired of explaining it.