I do not dislike you, but I do dislike some of the things you say and how you come across. Now that you have come clean... stay and be yourself. Learn that you can disagree with people without becoming angry and calling them names. And you know, it never hurts to let others know that their opinion is as valuable as yours. In fact, I do encourage you to stay. Go to those who were and many still are, your friends. Tell them they are important and should you apologize to them, make it a real one. In that, do not bring up the old arguments again... forgiving is letting go. Not saying to forget, but do not keep the wounds open....allow them to heal. I feel positive that the people you speak of will forgive you and welcome you back into their lives. OPP is a family of sorts, people argue, get cross, ask for forgiveness and accepts forgiveness.. you do not have to leave because you have stepped on toes. We are not eggs, so stop worrying over the past and make a good future.

And just to let you know. I was GinnyT had a problem and had ADMIN change my name to Pennylynn. I am not anyone else on OPP, have never been anyone else on OPP. And your second problem with me, I got my elder's permission to return to OPP. They recognized my need to explore issues and opinions and express my own thoughts. And although they do not like many of the comments (or should I say the language used) they respect my judgment. Hope this clears the air for you and all those other people you are.. JeremiahBfrog, JDunneNow,Numenian,thedrakesster, and any of your other personalities.

Your thoughts and opinions count. We may not agree, we may beat a dead horse until he is tender enough to cut with a fork and still disagree....but that is the nature of people. Some of us are oil and water. And that is the case with you and I. But, because I do not agree with you does not mean that I h**e you....

America Only has a valid point...."You are SO far from being anything remotely close to a "strong" people....if you were strong, you would not be running the streets car jacking and pimping and dope dealing and committing about 90 percent of all the crime in the USA." Strong people are productive people who has p***e. I fail to see any p***e in shooting your own kind. I fail to see p***e in fathers abandoning their children. I fail to see p***e in a parent with crack pipes. I fail to see p***e in welfare. No p***e in graffiti on all your buildings. And.....

It's now becoming clear that Netan-yahoo totally plays politics of the worst kind when dealing with the US. He converts willing repuglica$$es to t*****rs on a whim undermining US policy with stupids help like boner.

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Report: Israel spied on Iran-U.S. talks and shared information with lawmakers
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By Fred Barbash and Brian Murphy March 24 at 5:27 AM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted supporters at the party’s e******n headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 18. (Oded Balilty/AP)
UPDATE: President Obama addressed the report on Tuesday. Head here for more.

Israel obtained sensitive information about the nuclear talks between Iran and the United States and turned it over to members of Congress, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The insider details came from “confidential” briefings from U.S. officials as well as from “informants, diplomatic contacts in Europe and eavesdropping,” the paper said.

Citing “current and former officials,” the paper said the “spying operation was part of a broader campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to penetrate the negotiations and then help build a case against the emerging terms of the deal.”

Boehner 'not aware' of information passed from Israelis to Congress(0:49)
While addressing members of the media Tuesday, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said he was "baffled" by a report alleging Israel shared intelligence on the U.S. and Iran with members of Congress. (AP)
The Journal, in its Tuesday edition, reported the “espionage” did not concern the White House “as much as Israel’s sharing of inside information with U.S. lawmakers and others to drain support” for a possible deal with Iran to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for easing of international sanctions.

The White House learned of the operation, the paper reported, when U.S. intelligence agencies “intercepted communications among Israeli officials that carried details the U.S. believed could have come only from access to the confidential talks, officials briefed on the matter said.”

Israel denied the charges, according to the Journal, which quoted a “senior official” in Netanyahu’s office calling the allegations “utterly false.”

But the Journal said its story was based on interviews with “more than a dozen” officials, including Israeli diplomats, intelligence officials and lawmakers.

Relations between the administration of President Obama and the government of Israel have become openly hostile since Netanyahu accepted an invitation from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to address the U.S. Congress earlier this month.

The chill deepened during Netanyahu’s come-from-behind e******n victory last week. Just before the v**e — with polls showing Netanyahu’s Likud party trailing — Netanyahu reached out to his right-wing base by appearing to reject the possibility of a Palestinian state. On e******n day, he then appealed to his backers to cast b****ts to counter “droves” of Arab Israeli v**ers who likely supported his challenger.


Netanyahu later tried to massage his stance on the the so-called two-state solution — the cornerstone of peace efforts led by Washington — by saying he could support the idea if the region’s security situation improved in the future. He also sought to calm anger among Israel’s Arab population. But a prominent Arab-Israeli politicians, Ahmed Tibi, said Tuesday that many rejected Netanyahu’s outreach as “not an honest apology.”

If the Journal’s story is accurate, there were plenty of other reasons for the tension as well.

It quoted a “senior U.S. official briefed on the matter,” saying that it is “one thing for the U.S. and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal U.S. secrets and play them back to U.S. legislators to undermine U.S. diplomacy.”

On Monday, the White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, reinforced the predictions that the Obama administration could be making recalculations in its dealings with Netanyahu.

“We cannot simply pretend that these comments were never made,” McDonough said.

In a speech to J Street, a Washington-based Israel advocacy group that is critical of Netanyahu, McDonough said Israel faced “total isolation” from the international community if it refuses to consider ending an “occupation that has lasted more than 50 years” in Palestinian lands.

Talks over Iran’s nuclear program are scheduled to resume later this week in Switzerland in a final push to reach a general framework before a self-imposed March 31 deadline.

Details of the possible deal have not been made public, but among the chief aims is seeking to limit and closely monitor Iran’s uranium enrichment capacities as part of efforts to keep Tehran from moving toward a nuclear weapon.

The West and its allies worry that Iran could one day upgrade its production of nuclear fuel to make material for an atomic weapon. Iran insists it only seeks reactors for energy production and isotopes for medical applications.

WHATS NEXT. Israel gives Iran a Nuc to prove they have one?

A lot of these stats are not in dispute. Black men as a demographic predominate the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder in America but is that because of their race as OReilly slyly suggests or as is obvious in other cultures the result of lack of opportunity, birthright and class "scripting" and other complex socioeconomic and psychological factors. For once I would like to see Mr OReilly address America's white race problem with its bigotry, ignorance of history and blanket denials of culpability and self exonerating opiation.

NEWS FROM THE HILL

GOP Puts Bergdahl Swap on Trial

By Kristina Wong - March 28, 2015

Republicans intend to highlight the controversial trade for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to mount an attack on President Obama’s foreign policy.

The Army’s moves to charge the soldier with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy have given Republicans a new opportunity to challenge Obama’s decision last year to secure his freedom by releasing five senior Taliban commanders from Guantánamo Bay.

Republicans say the president paid too high a price for Bergdahl's return, especially since the five former detainees will be released from house arrest in Qatar in a few months. At least one of the former detainees is reportedly already suspected of returning to the fight.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee turned up the heat on Friday by sending a letter to White House chief of staff Denis McDonough that requests documents and information related to the swap.

The letter also requests documents and information related to comments by National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who days after the trade was announced said Bergdahl had served with "honor and distinction."

The letter was sent by Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Ron DeSantis (D-Fla.).

The pending release of the former detainees in June, as well as the Army’s process for charging Bergdahl, could keep the controversial prisoner swap front and center for months to come.

According to Bergdahl's lawyer Eugene Fidell, the Army has scheduled a preliminary hearing for Bergdahl on April 22. The hearing will determine whether the charges will be dismissed, lead to a court-martial, or some other outcome.

In the days after the Army’s announcement, Republicans released a barrage of statements questioning the administration’s ability to make sound foreign policy decisions.

“The Army’s decision to charge Bowe Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior in the face of the enemy underscores how misguided and dangerous it was for President Obama to trade five hardened Taliban commanders for Bergdahl in the first place,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said.

Republicans also argued that the administration ignored a law to notify Congress 30 days in advance of any detainee release, and ignored U.S. policy not to negotiate with terrorists. The administration says it brokered the swap through Qatar.

“Frankly, this is another example of President Obama ignoring our long-established foreign policy priorities, the bipartisan concerns of Congress, and the American people,” said Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement.

Some Republicans are seizing on the controversy to push back on Obama’s attempts to close the Guantanamo prison.

“Today’s announcement is the exclamation point on the bad deal the Obama administration cut to free five terrorist k**lers in its rush to empty the prison at Guantánamo Bay," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) in a statement.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said she remains deeply concerned by the administration’s “dangerous decision to release the Taliban 5 without proper congressional notification and without sufficient assurances that they will not return to the fight against America and our allies.”

The White House this week defended the swap and reiterated the president’s oath not to leave any American soldier behind.

“The commander in chief will not allow a member of the United States armed forces to be left behind,” press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday on CNN.

But some Republicans are countering that argument by noting that other soldiers died while looking for Bergdahl when he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Reserves Lt. Col. Michael Waltz, who commanded a Special Forces unit that participated in efforts to find Bergdahl, said that soldiers were definitely k**led while looking for him, and that said the charges are explosive due to the White House's attempt to politicize Bergdahl's release.

He said the White House or the Pentagon could have simply issued a press release about Bergdahl being freed, but instead chose to announce it with fanfare during a White House Rose Garden ceremony.

Waltz said the announcement “looked like a victory lap on the part of the administration” and “intended to steal the headlines” away from negative news of the VA scandal that broke weeks before.

Waltz, a former Defense Department official under the Bush administration, also said the decision to trumpet the release despite the Army’s uncertainty over whether Bergdahl had deserted his post shows a disconnect between the White House and the Pentagon.

“It reflects the ongoing bubble that the National Security Council and the White House seems to be in,” he said.

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I think wh**ever his sentence is, Obama will pardon him before he leave office as is his right!!! Don D.