No he did not repent, and he is now paying for it, by the good Lord!!!!.

I served in Vietnam, for over 8 years as a US Navy Nurse, and my heart is with my fellow Troops and Vets 100%. Thanks maureenthannon for all of your love for our brave and honorable Military, who have served and are still serving this Mighty Nation.

You sure got that right!!!peter11937

The Paul Ryan Guide to Pretending You Care About the Poor

A handy guide just in time for the tax debate
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Ben Spielberg
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Caricature of Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). (Image: DonkeyHotey/flickr/cc)

Once, at a town hall in Wisconsin, someone asked known anti-poverty crusader Paul Ryan (R-WI) the following question:

“I know that you’re Catholic, as am I, and it seems to me that most of the Republicans in the Congress are not willing to stand with the poor and working class as evidenced in the recent debates about health care and the anticipated tax reform. So I’d like to ask you how you see yourself upholding the church’s social teaching that has the idea that God is always on the side of the poor and dispossessed, as should we be.”

It’s a tricky one, but if you want to simultaneously cut taxes for rich people and benefits for poor people, you need to be ready for it. So, just in time for the tax debate, I’ve written a handy step-by-step guide on how to convince your constituents that a help-the-rich, whack-the-poor agenda is really what’s best for everybody:
1. Say you share the same goals.

Let’s be honest: It sounds pretty bad to say that you want to take from the poor to give to the rich. So, don’t do it! The trick here is to convince people that you’re with them on the importance of helping the poor. You just disagree about “how to achieve that goal.”

Congratulations! You’ve just turned a profound moral question about whether we should help the poor or the rich into what appears to be a minor disagreement between ethically equivalent opinions.
2. Direct attention away from what it means to be poor.

Lots of people think poor people simply don’t have enough money to meet their families’ basic needs. You know better. Tell them what the poor really need is “upward mobility,” “economic growth,” and “e******y of opportunity.” Not only do these airy concepts all sound really good—who could be against any of them?—they also let you pivot away from the obvious solution: giving people the money, food, health care, and other necessities they lack.

True, Ryan’s agenda doesn’t provide any of those things. But don’t worry! If you just repeat the lie that tax cuts for the rich spur economic growth, no one will even have time to dig into the intimate connection between ine******y of outcomes and ine******y of opportunity.
3. Imply that poor people’s personal failings are what’s holding them back.

You can’t pull off the enlightened nice-guy routine if you’re blaming poor people for their problems outright. You need to do it subtly. Instead of saying, “Poor people are poor because they’re lazy,” try saying, “We’ve got to change our approach … and always encourage work, never discourage work.” Never mind that most people who can work already do, or that wages are so low it’s possible (and quite common) to work full-time and still be in poverty. People are predisposed to believe that our success relative to those less fortunate is a result of our superior work ethic and talents, rather than a product of race, class, g****r, and/or other forms of privilege and sheer dumb luck. The more you tap into that inclination, the more people will oppose helping those less fortunate and support imposing burdensome requirements on the Have Nots instead.
4. Choose unrepresentative examples and statistics.

Paul Ryan loves to tell people that “our poverty rates are about the same as they were when we started [the] War on Poverty,” which is more or less what the official poverty measure shows. Does it bother him that the official measure excludes the effects of the very programs he says aren’t working? Nope. It shouldn’t bother you, either. You also shouldn’t feel obligated to mention the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which shows that anti-poverty programs cut poverty nearly in half and have reduced poverty by 10 percentage points since the late 1960s. After all, Ryan doesn’t!

Similarly, Ryan likes to lament the case of “a single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who,” because of the way the safety net is designed, “will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she goes and takes a job.” The extraordinary rareness of this case doesn’t phase him, nor does the fact that his proposed remedies for this problem make life for that single mom—and thousands of others—much worse. He’s fine with leaving those inconvenient details out, and you should be fine with doing so, too.
5. Hammer “focus on outcomes” rhetoric.

Focusing on outcomes is popular in many fields, so this talking point—that “instead of measuring success based on how much money we spend or how many programs we create or how many people are on those programs … [we should] measure success in poverty on outcomes”—is very effective. The fact that nobody actually measures program effectiveness by how much money we spend or by the number of programs we create is irrelevant, as is the large and growing body of research showing that the safety net boosts the long-run outcomes of children growing up in poor families. As long as you contend that we currently don’t focus on outcomes, you can make our anti-poverty programs seem misguided.

There will always be those who oppose funneling money from low- and middle-income Americans to the wealthy and corporations. But if you stick to these tried-and-true steps from Paul Ryan, before you know it, you’ll have convinced a constituency (and perhaps even yourself!) that helping the rich is actually about helping the poor. Or, at the very least, people will be too confused to know the difference.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on 34justice.com. It has been edited for length and content.

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There are some folks who have to struggle day by day just to survive and make ends meet. Life for them is not a piece of Cake, they endup getting the scraps from people who really could care less.Poverty is sheer Hell, even with our Middle-Classed workers. So how do y'all feel?

Trump has our Military's back as well as our Vets. That i can say is true, and working to protect our Nation's F**g, from r****t protests.

I approve of his Border Wall, and control of Terrorists coming in from other countries.

Our F**g is the Highest!!! in honor!!!!! and so is our Country!!! I look at it this way,we all have to live in this Mighty Nation together!1 These r****t people live in the past and that's their way of rubbing it in our faces. I am very!!! very proud of my country!! and all of us Vets who gave their lives and still today battling. I am proud as ever to have served for this mighty nation!!!!!

I am going to pray that Trump moves us back up...

Left-wingers DEMAND ‘change the r****t National Anthem!’

November 22, 2017


“On the Holmes Front, with Frank Holmes”

The California chapter of the NAACP has demanded that the National Anthem be replaced, because it’s r****t – and they want an entire U.S. state to pass a law condemning it.

California NAACP President Alice Huffman said the Star Spangled Banner is “one of the most r****t, pro-s***ery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon.”

“It’s r****t!” she told local KOVR-TV. “It’s anti-black people!”

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The NAACP chapter will try to get California legislators to pass a law saying the National Anthem is filthy, r****t h**e speech when the legislature is back in session next January.

“The song is wrong!” Huffman said in Jesse Jackson-style rhyme.

They want politicians to pass another law honoring former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for starting the “take a knee” trend. GQ Magazine named him “Citizen of the Year” for starting the “take a knee” trend that sank the NFL’s ratings.

He might as well get awards from fashion magazines. He’s not getting any awards on the field.

The NAACP also wants California to reprimand Donald Trump for saying he’d like to see the NFL fire any “son of a b*tch” who doesn’t stand for the f**g and the anthem.

The worst thing isn’t the NAACP’s display of pure hatred for their own country. It’s that people are already being fired for defending the U.S.A.

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The Left has ramped up its assault on every patriotic symbol in America, like –

The Pledge of Allegiance.

In March, a public school district fired a teacher for telling one of his students to stand up for the pledge to the f**g.

Vince Ziebarth, a driver’s ed teacher at Eisenhower High School in a suburb on the south-side of Chicago, saw one of his students sitting through the Pledge. He told the student, Shemar Cooper, he should stand – or not ride in his car for driver’s ed.

Kids at the high school get to choose which of the 8 driver’s ed cars they want to ride in. So, if Shemar wanted to disrespect the Pledge, he could have chosen any of the other 7 cars.

Instead, Shemar went home and told his mommy. “That’s bullying!” said his mad mother, Kelley Porter Turner. “He violated my son’s First Amendment rights.”

….Which exist because of the men who died for the f**g.

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The school fired the patriot teacher on the spot.

It turns out they suspended another teacher for telling Shemar to stand for the Pledge earlier in the school year.

That’s pretty ironic for a school that’s named for the president who added the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

But the f**e news media is constantly ginning up f**e history to make people h**e America.

The Washington Post recently ran an article saying the Pledge of Allegiance is r****t – because its author wanted immigrants to love America!

Francis “Bellamy’s pledge advanced the goal of assimilation,” the Post complained in an article on “The Ugly History of the Pledge of Allegiance.”

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Bellamy said he wrote the Pledge to “mobilize the masses to support primary American doctrines” and “true Americanism.”

How deplorable!

“Bellamy’s Pledge of Allegiance was, at its core, designed as an instrument of white nationalism,” the Post said.

Really? White nationalism against white immigrants from Italy, Greece, and Poland? (Are there any paler people than the Polish??)

But when the George Soros-funded h**ers aren’t hating the Pledge, they’re hating –

The American F**g.

Since the 2016 e******n:

Hampshire College in Massachusetts removed the American f**g from campus after the e******n of Donald Trump.
Students agitated the University of California, Irvine to ban the U.S. f**g from a campus office. A letter supporting them has almost 2,000 signatures, including dozens of professors.
Students at American University burned American f**gs while chanting “F— white America!” the day after the e******n.
Last Veteran’s Day, students at Brown University grabbed f**gs flying to honor vets and tore them, ripped them in half, or threw them in the trash.
Students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland shredded an American f**g two days after the e******n.

As President Trump might say, this is “sad.” But these people don’t just h**e our patriotic symbols – they h**e

America itself.

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Kanye West said last November, “We live in a r****t country – that is a fact.” That’s exactly how a lot of Americans see this country – r****t, sexist, evil, not worth defending.

This is just plain wrong, and every patriotic American had better stand up against it, no matter how corny it looks to some people.

Rise for the anthem and the pledge. Salute when you see the f**g.

Teach your kids, and grandkids, the true history of America, the land of liberty.

Tell them about how patriots created the finest, freest country in the world.

Tell them how we fought with ourselves to free the s***es and to give that freedom to more and more people through our history.
http://www.thehornnews.com
These Left-wingers are out of their minds!!!!TOTALLY!!!! What drugs are they on?The National Anthem will live forever and ever.This is an American Vet speaking up for our Country and it's National Anthem. What do y'all think of this insane L*****t remark?

U.S. Ranking Plummets in Annual Global Survey

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Trump in the Oval Office in March. (Shealah Craighead / White House)

The U.S. is usually number 1 in the German research firm GFK’s rankings, headed up by political consultant Simon Anholt. They ask some 22,000 people around the world to rank countries on six scales.

This year it fell five full places to number 6. No such fall has taken place since 2004, when Americans elected George W. Bush to a second term. And in the past, falls only lasted for a year.

Angela Merkel is the leader of the free world, not Trump.

The GFK’s poll doesn’t just measure favorability, but looks at six dimensions of a country, so that the U.S. fall from grace is all the more surprising. The dimensions are governance, people, culture, exports, immigration-investment and tourism.

In governance, the U.S. had been in 19th place. It is now in 23rd. Out of 50 countries. People think the US is worse governed than nearly half of the developed countries in the world. This dramatic fall in the governance score is pretty obviously caused by Trump.

There are categories where the U.S. still performs very well. It is second in Culture and in Exports. So other countries like our music and films, and want to buy our cars. It is fifth for immigration-investment, which is a significant statistic. There are four other countries people from around the world rather invest in over the U.S., and four other countries they’d rather emigrate to than the U.S. I think the word got out that we as a country v**ed for Trump.
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Germany has risen to the top of the list, displacing the U.S. from global leadership. The only category where Germany is not in the top five is tourism. (Not sure why—Germany is nice.)

Germany improved its standing markedly in some countries. It was up five points in the view of Egyptians, e.g. But Americans are suspicious of it—it did not break the top ten with them.

France came in second, propelled by the popularity of Emmanuel Macron for governance but also benefiting from the impression that its culture and tourism are first rate.

Japan also climbed up the rankings this fall, in part on the quality of its exports.

The finding about the U.S. decline is alarming and could be a sign that Trump is d**gging the country down. In turn, that is important because many U.S. goals require international cooperation.
http://www.t***hdig.com


Then in other words we are flushing down the Toilet. What's wrong with the US Government, why can't we build ourselves back up to the top again!!!! Do y'all have an answer to this?

US General in Afghanistan: From 2011 to 2016, ‘The Enemy Believed … We Had Lost Our Will’
By Patrick Goodenough | November 22, 2017 | 7:54 AM EST
U.S. Army Gen. John Nicholson, commander of the NATO-led Operation Resolute Supporr. (Photo: DoD)

(CNSNews.com) – Five years of “telegraphing” to the Taliban that U.S. and coalition forces were leaving Afghanistan prompted the enemy to believe “we had lost our will,” the top U.S. military officer leading the campaign there said Monday.

But a recent NATO defense ministers’ gathering, said Operation Resolute Support commander U.S. Army Gen. John Nicholson, had given him a real sense that “we now have the will to succeed.”

Three months into President Trump’s new South Asia strategy, Nicholson briefed reporters by teleconference on how forces battling the Taliban are focusing on targeting the terrorist group’s main funding source – drugs.

He also spoke of how encouraged he was at the NATO ministerial in Brussels this month to hear two dozen nations signaling potential troop increases.

“Almost to a minister we heard very strong shows of support for the mission.”



Nicholson said that as the mission’s commander, “number one, I’m concerned about international will, and international will to succeed.”

“War is a contest of wills,” he continued. “And from 2011 to 2016, we telegraphed to the enemy that we were leaving. We drew down our forces steadily – I’d say too far and too fast – and so the enemy believed that in this contest of wills, we had lost our will.”

But at that NATO ministerial, he said, what came across to him “loud and clear” was that “we now have the will to succeed.”

In what he described as the first “significant” use of the new authorities under Trump’s new strategy, Nicholson described U.S.-Afghan joint bombing raids Sunday on narcotics-processing facilities in Helmand province.

For the first time in Afghanistan, he said, the U.S. used F-22 Raptor stealth aircraft capable of hitting direct targets with small (250 pound) bombs in a bid to minimize civilian casualties.

B-52 bombers were also used, in one case dropping several 2,000 pound bombs to obliterate a facility where more than 50 barrels of opium were cooking at the time of the strike, he said.

The Afghan government announced eight facilities had been destroyed, in line with decisions to “to target drugs processing sources, so that all drugs trading centers are destroyed in the country.”

‘Irrelevance or death. These are the choices they face’

“We’re hitting the Taliban where it hurts, which is their finances,” said Nicholson, who explained that the group has to some extent “evolved into a narco-insurgency,” with profits from narcotics now exceeding its operating expenses.

“We find that the leadership of the Taliban fight over the money and it’s often divided along tribal lines.”

With illegal mining, kidnap-for-hire and murder among its offerings, he described it as largely a “criminal organization.”

“Heroin’s become a global problem,” he said. “Just like terror, heroin and opiates have become a global issue.”



Criminals who are part of or linked to the Taliban are responsible for 80 percent of world’s opium, Nicholson said, citing law enforcement agency estimates the illegal economy accounts for a street value close to $60 billion.

Heroin originating from Afghanistan, he said, were on the streets of the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, the Balkans and Iran.

At least $200 million from this industry goes into the Taliban’s bank accounts, and this fuels and really pays for the insurgency.”

Nicholson said the raids on narcotics facilities, unleashed under the expanded U.S. authorities provided under the strategy announced in August, will continue, adding that many targets have been identified .

“Our message to the enemy is that, ‘You cannot win the war. It’s time to lay down your arms and enter into the reconciliation process,’” he said.

“And if they don’t,” he added, “they’re going to be confined to irrelevance as the Afghans expand their control of the country – or death. And so, these are the choices they face.”

“The new US strategy on Afghanistan is conditions-based not time-bound, which means we will eliminate terrorists until the end.”

Nicholson underlined that U.S. forces were not targeting farmers who grow the poppies, saying that in many cases they were terrorized by the Taliban into growing them, threatened and possibly with their children held as collateral.

Provoking the ‘pious’

The U.S. now has approximately 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, Pentagon Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told a briefing last week.

He said that was in line with additional troop numbers identified by the commander as needed, and approved by Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis.

In public, the Taliban continues to convey an air of confidence despite the new strategy.

The terrorist group’s spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, in a new interview posted on its website, described Trump’s policy shift as an “amateurish and wicked strategy which is harmful for their own forces besides undermining their long-term interests in the region.”

Increased civilian casualties from coalition bombings, he claimed, have “provoked the pious and freedom loving people of our country and they are now joining mujahidin in large numbers to get rid of this ruthless foreign occupation.”

U.N. figures of Afghan civilian casualties during the first nine months of 2017 attribute 64 percent of fatalities and injuries to “anti-government elements” – the Taliban and ISIS factions – and 20 percent to “pro-government forces.”

Another 11 percent of civilian casualties are blamed on fighting between pro- and anti-government forces.

http://www.cnsnews.com


We have not lost our Will, we are just sick and tired of fighting for a country, that won't have our backs in this major disaster. ISIS and Taliban have these people in Afghanistan running for their lives as well as their Troops. So the US Military are left to fight this endless War, in HELL!!!! I think it's time to close the doors on this War, and make these Cowards fight for their own country.Let the dump their own garbage. What do y'all this of this insane and endless blood bath we are fighting?

Gen. John Nicholson Sees 'Stalemate' in Afghanistan
By Susan Jones | November 22, 2017 | 11:19 AM EST
General John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan on Feb. 9, 2017. (Screen capture from C-SPAN).

(CNSNews.com) - Is the United States winning or losing in Afghanistan? Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, asked the commander of U.S. forces in that country.

"Mr. Chairman, I believe we're in a stalemate," Gen. John Nicholson replied.

In his opening statement to the committee, Nicholson said he remains concerned about "multiple critical factors," specifically the stability of the Afghan government; heavy casualties among the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces; the influence of external actors on Afghanistan, including Pakistan, Russia, and Iran; and the convergence of 20 terrorist groups and three violent extremist organizations operating in the region.

"Other non-military factors such as the economy, governance and corruption, demographics, reconciliation and reintegration, and the influence of the narcotics trade also affect this mission and underscore the need to employ all instruments of U.S. national power with those of our Allies and partners," Nicholson wrote.

Asked how many more troops he needs to reverse the stalemate, Nicholson said he has enough troops to fulfill the U.S. counterterrorism mission.

"In my train-advise-assist mission, however, we have a shortfall of a few thousand. And this is in the NATO train-advise-assist mission, so this could come from the U.S. and its allies." Right now, around 8,400 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan to conduct counterterrorism or training missions.

Nicholson said that "offensive capability" -- Afghan special forces and an Afghan air force -- would also help break the stalemate in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Defense Department in November 2016 submitted a $814.5 million funding request to replace Afghanistan's "unsustainable" Russian-manufactured aircraft fleet and make up for combat losses in Afghan t***sport helicopters by providing U.S. Army UH-60s.

"This investment that we are requesting in the Afghan Air Force will help them...to take over responsibility for their own close air support, and even more importantly, this then will lead to an offensive capability that allows them to overmatch the Taliban or any other group on the battlefield, anywhere around the country," Nicholson said.

But he also said a fully operational Afghan Air Force is still some years away. Nicholson said it will take approximately 21 months from the initial funding approval to field the first refurbished and upgraded UH-60.

McCain said he's proud that some Afghan fighter pilots are now training in F-16s in Tucson, Arizona, and he said "it might be nice" if other Afghan pilots could come here to train.

Nicholson also told the committee that it's very difficult to succeed on the battlefield when the enemy finds safe haven in neighboring Pakistan.

And on the topic of "external actors," Nicholson said Russia's involvement in Afghanistan "has become more difficult" this year.

"First, they have begun to publicly legitimize the Taliban. This narrative that they promote is that the Taliban are fighting Islamic State and the Afghan government is not fighting Islamic State...This is a false narrative. The Afghan government, along with U.S. counterterrorism forces, are successfully fighting against Islamic State in Afghanistan."

http://www.cnsnews.com

Well then we need to leave, that Rat Hole!!! We have lost to many troops, and with little support from these Afghanistan Troops. They are using us and they do not give a Big Hoot!!!. What do y'all think of this battle we are going through? Stay or Leave?

What Charles Manson Teaches Us About Terror
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By Elliot Friedland Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Charles Manson
Charles Manson (Photo: Video screenshot)

Charles Manson is dead at 83. The seven murders he inspired and orchestrated in 1969 and the race war he tried to incite gripped the American psyche both at the time and in the intervening years.

You can read about the details of his shocking crimes quite easily elsewhere. What we’re focusing on here is what we can learn from his story when it comes to understanding radical Islam.


1.Myth Matters More Than Reality

In terms of body count, Manson does not rank. It was the aesthetic of his crimes that captured the national imagination and caused people to fixate on him. His story was capitivating because his followers murdered beautiful celebrities, listened to hip music and were on the cutting edge of pop culture at the time.

Manson’s ability to craft a cool image that drew in followers is what gave him the power to inspire them to commit horrible crimes.

So too with Islamism, the ideology draws its power from a compelling narrative which posits that Muslims are currently in a degraded state as a result of Western oppression, but can restore their glorious past through sacrifice and great deeds.

You may think these narratives are being sold in spite of their bloodthirsty nature. In fact the opposite is more likely true…


2.Violent Revolution is an Extremely Compelling Narrative

The young people who were drawn into Manson’s web were sold a narrative of a coming race war between black people and white people in which black people would o*******w their oppressors. This war, Manson reasoned, would devastate America and enable him to take over and rule over the shattered remnants of civilization.

Apocalyptic cults almost always find followers. The narrative of ultraviolence as a solution to life’s woes appeals to a deeply embedded dark side of human nature. Scientists believe humans are naturally significantly more violent to those of their own species than the average mammal, significantly surpassing that of even ferocious predators such as tigers.

An appeal to a wave of bloodshed has been successful many times in history. The French Revolution and Russian Revolution unified millions on a platform of slaughtering the rich.

Islamism has the same basic appeal; when faced with frustration, ultraviolence appeals as a solution.


3.Mass Murderers Gain Power Because We Make Them Celebrities

Charles Manson continued to capture the popular imagination of America long after his arrest. He became extremely famous. He has had books, a play, TV shows and movies made about him. Presumably there will be more.

Similarly, the Rolling Stone’s cover photo of Boston Marathon bombing bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev elicited excited attention by portraying him a rock star.

One of the murderers in the Manson family bragged they did it, “because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world.”

ISIS and other terrorist groups also seek fame through the shock value of extreme and heinous violence and terror it elicits. Glamorizing crime and violence increases the incentive groups have to perpetrate heinous crimes like that of Charlie Manson.

http://www.clarionproject.com

He was a Terrorist himself, will all those people he k**led!!!!What do y'all think?