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And in today's fake news, having failed to find fault with Obama's response to Katrina, it's BLM interfering with Harvey relief:

Big Conservative Facebook Pages Spread A False Claim That Black Lives Matter Blocked Harvey Relief Efforts

 

I'd wager folding money that if a simple piece of legislation came before Congress to make DACA actual law, there'd be more than enough legislators to pass it such that the threat of a veto would be moot. I'd also wager folding money that such a piece of legislation would never be proposed because both lefties and righties would not be satisfied with just that ...

 

Interesting that Ryan said DACA was Congress's domain this morning. It's possible you might lose the second bet. Possible, mind you, not likely.

 

I'm told the prophylactic to running afoul of board norms is to add a to any possibly troubling post.

 

Like its cousin "die in a fire," "seek help" posts are acceptable here, since the de facto board president also has been known to drop that particular mic, that is when he's not busy calling posters "stupid."

 

Paul Ryan contemplating returning to Trump's Washington:

"I was in the Virgin Islands. We ate lobster, drank Piña Coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?"

 

Seek help.

 

So they finally got to the "when they came for..." part that affects him.

 

A retweet on Curt Schillings page states the CNN rescue of the guy in his pickup truck was fake.

 

No, the president of Syria has allowed Russia to put military bases in Syria.

Why do we always forget that part? You know, about who really has the right to "allow" or "not allow" things into their own country?

Russia did not make a single move toward Ukraine UNTIL the Western-supported coup. In fact, it had offered Ukraine a trade agreement that was worth billions more than what the EU offered (which was why Yanukovich would not say yes to the EU; he was just too damn weak to give them a definitive "NO"). Ukraine was NEVER under threat to be "subsumed by Russia." But the fact is, the nations ARE forever linked (in culture, religion, language, families), and the attempt by the West to drive a wedge between them is the most reckless act we could have done. You are literally pitting family member against family member (with my house as example 1A).

As to the rest of your post, Russia has made no move on the Baltic States, no move on Poland, no move on Hungary, no move toward any of the previous Warsaw Pact nations. Putin has been in power for 17 years! If he really had all this nonsense in mind that you claim he does . . . what's taking him so damn long?

And along those lines, it's funny how "wanting the Warsaw Pact together" is evil, but NATO expansion is fine and dandy. Are you really ready to go to war over Montenegro? Then why bring them into NATO?

 

When WhatAbout-ism influences policy ... Antifa might commit "domestic terrorist violence." But the white supremacists don't get the same label.

FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks