Wolf counselor wrote:
Obammy claims to be a " community organizer ".
Looking at the black community of Chicago, he certainly may be considered the WORST community organizer in the history of Chicago.
Well, looks like there is some 'organizing' going on...
"Roughly 90 percent of this gun violence, police say, flows from gangs."
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/12/23/chicago-gangs-violence-murder-rate-532034.htmlPerceived or not, excessive use of force hasn't helped:
"[A] series of deadly police shootings and alleged misconduct by police have torpedoed the relationship between cops and residents."
Meanwhile, the good news just keeps on coming:
"The national murder rate, while historically low, is projected to increase by 13 percent this year—with almost half that increase attributable solely to Chicago, according to the Brennan Center." Oops!
Rivers wrote:
Obama, who signed over 260 executive orders in his two terms in office, urged Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20, not to circumvent Congress when trying to enact his agenda. Obama used his executive powers to push through labor, climate and immigration reforms after Congress refused to go along with his proposed programs... Obama noted that Trump is “entirely within his lawful power” to sign new executive orders and “if he wants to reverse some of those rules, that’s part of the Democratic process.”
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Executive Orders have no force of law and can simply be cancelled by an incoming President on day one without opposition or question. A true 'legacy' is ensured by going through the legislative process and signing Congressional bills into law. That is far more difficult to reverse because it requires the co-operation of the Congress in repealing or amending those laws. President Trump will no doubt pick through the previous administration's actions and do reversals as he sees fit.
There is much chatter about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. That's fine. Congress has the ability and authority to Repeal it by all means and replace it with... Wait for it... Nothing.
How to make a pencil. A simple, straightforward wooden pencil. Wow. That's complicated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISEAnd the real kicker is that there's not a single controlling influence anywhere in the entire process.
According to CNN:
"City police investigated 27 shooting incidents this Christmas weekend, 12 of which were fatal" (Updated 5:24 AM ET, Tue December 27, 2016)
Breitbart reports:
"Over 40 people were shot, “11 fatally,” over the Christmas weekend in gun-controlled Chicago". (26 Dec 2016)
Adding this up; 40 people were shot, 12 fatally, in 27 shooting incidents in the City of Chicago over the Christmas weekend as of 12/27/16 @5:24AM. Wow. There are a couple of things that stand out in all this...
Only 30% of those shot were actually k**led, the other 70% apparently survived the assaults. Guys, this is some very poor shooting. You need to get to the range and put in some marksmanship practice. Flip these figures, then we'll talk.
Gun control laws don't work so good; at least not in Chicago. The rest of the country not looking so good either, but especially not in Chicago. For instance:
"In one Christmas night incident, a man walked out of an alley, opened fire on people partying on a porch in the East Chatham neighborhood and then ran away, CNN affiliate WLS reported. Two brothers 18 and 21 years old died and five people were wounded. No arrest has been reported."
That's only a 28% k**l ratio. That's bordering on a total waste of good ammunition. Clearly better gun control laws are needed to improve the marksmanship abilities of these budding assassins (Better gun control = cleaner shots = more hits per attack = higher k**l ratio).
As an aside, when did the police stop reporting arrests? This is definitely a new development.
The old saying 'no guts, no glory' takes on new meaning:
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/25/jackie-evancho-donald-trump-inauguration-sales/"We're told since the America's Got Talent runner-up has signed on to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" on January 20th, her weekly album sales quadrupled in digital downloads and in retailer as well. In fact her album, "Someday at Christmas," had to be restocked twice."
AttaGirl!
"They were smart enough to realize that even if Russia “hacked” the DNC and Podesta emails, there would be no release if there had been no wrongdoing to begin with."
Gee Whiz! Took 'em long enough!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/2016-u-s-p**********l-e******n/clinton-donors-want-to-investigate-where-hillary-spent-1-5-billion-for-her-campaign/"Now Clinton’s biggest backers want a “campaign autopsy,”
which could expose Clinton’s entire operation. The donors are demanding to know where Clinton spent the near $1.5 billion in campaign resources she collected in the closing months.
They want the receipts. They are demanding an honest investigation of how Clinton failed to read the mood in swing states and how her Brooklyn operation misread polling data."
First cast-iron guarantee: Receipts will not be forthcoming.
Second cast-iron guarantee: There will not be an 'honest' investigation.
Third cast-iron guarantee: Her Brooklyn operation did not 'misread' polling data. They got the results they wanted to see. As with all statistics, it's all in the manipulation of raw data or even in how it's collected. In other words "you’ve got to ask the right survey questions to get the answers you need":
https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/online-questionnaires/The really amazing thing is how she has been able to string these (presumably) intelligent millionaires and billionaires along for so long before anyone began smelling a rat. I'm impressed with her Chutzpah.
Here's the whole quote: “Marijuana is safe, we know it is safe,” Nelson recalled her “DEA education coordinator, Paul Villaescusa,” telling her, according to Illegally Healed. But “[i]t’s our cash cow and we will never give up.”
http://hightimes.com/news/former-dea-propagandist-says-agency-knows-marijuana-is-safe/But it gets worse: "Opiate addicts were finding success getting off junk by using marijuana—and rather than cop to the fact, the agency maintained its hard line."
Not only do they know it's not harmful, but it's actually helping. Even so, the "agency maintained its hard line."
Time to end this spectacularly failed 'war on drugs' and send these lying fools out into the world where they might actually do some good.
Rivers wrote:
Stein argues that any v****g machine connected to the internet is cause for concern. She is calling for the implementation of paper b****ts for subsequent e******ns.
I believe she has good points on both counts. Apart from v****g machines, I would go further and assert that anything (that is not a PC) connected to the internet is cause for concern: "Hackers can remotely seize control of a spectrum of critical public and private infrastructure. Many of these targets are run by Industrial Control Systems that were designed before cybersecurity became crucial":
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-infrastructure-can-be-hacked-google-simple-passwords-n548661"About 6.4 billion devices and control systems will be connected to the Internet in 2016, a 30 percent spike over 2015, according to a new report. By 2020, nearly 21 billion will be online."
How's that for a world of hurt?
As for implementing paper b****ts: "Optical scan machines, even though they can be hacked, allow audits and recounts of the paper b****ts marked by the v**ers. This is a very important safeguard. Paperless touchscreen machines have no such protection":
https://www.verifiedv****g.org/which-v****g-machines-can-be-hacked-through-the-internet/"Paperless touchscreen machines have no such protection"...
It appears that what we have now is an e******n-rigger's dream; v****g machines that have no solid audit functions connected to the internet where just about anyone could get in and make changes. But anyone with half a brain has known that for years (since 1975, anyway), right?
http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/v****g/pictures/#dre
I used to leave a note on my beer at the bar if I left it to go to the bathroom: "I spat in this".
I came back one time and there was another note reading "so did I".
Never did figure out who it was...
Dr.Dross wrote:
In fact, without proof they were not involved...
I believe the standard is the other way: Innocent until proven otherwise.
Loki wrote:
I used to have a captain like that, and I was in the Army.
I was in the army too. Our battalion commander was a Lt. Colonel of some more colorful reputation. Once, after a reconnaissance, I reported that we were completely surrounded by overwhelmingly superior forces. His reply? "Good! We can attack in any direction!" What a guy...
son of witless wrote:
From this day forward unto the end of time, when anyone b***hes about whoever is President, someone will say, " yea he's bad, but at least he ain't Obama. "
That used to be Jimmy Carter's claim to fame. Bet he's happy Obama got elected.
Mr Bombastic wrote:
War does not determine who's right, but who's left. I would do anything to be the one left standing.
The winner writes the history, meaning that he who wins gets to claim the honor of being right. By extension, the winner does not 'die for his country'. The winner makes the other guy die for his country. It's an interesting concept that the loser in war has all the dead heroes and the winner gets all the glory.
According to (tall, beautiful, and smart too) Ann Coulter:
"Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a f**e holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge, Ron Karenga"
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-12-21.html#read_moreShe continues:
"Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United S***es, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers."