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Also, you apparently have to be there 20 years to qualify for the full one-time $1,000 bonus.

 

So only Sam’s kin qualifies.

 

Don't pooh-pooh it; Stan Kroenke is now able to add another urinal to his stadium!

 

Costco will have to do a major expansion to threaten Sam's Club.

Small businesses and restaurants are heavy users at Sam's around here. I imagine that's the case elsewhere.

 

In my area, Costco is king.

 

BJ's FTW!

 

Yeah, when Costco comes to down people stop going to Sam's. Same prices for better stuff.

 

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Reporters to Trump ambassador: ‘This is the Netherlands — you have to answer questions’



After at least one person had already asked the question, Geeraedts followed up to ask Hoekstra about a John Adams quote — Adams was America's first ambassador to Holland — that was mounted right behind the new ambassador.

Hoekstra said he had read the quote, which expresses Adams's hope that only “honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.”

“If you’re truly an honest and wise man, could you please take back the remark about burned politicians or name the politician that was burned in the Netherlands?” Geeraedts asked.

An uncomfortable silence followed the question.

“Thank you,” Hoekstra said, before trying to call on someone else over the clamor of the reporters in the room.

“Excuse me, I asked you a question,” Geeraedts said.

Another journalist jumped in.

“Mr. Ambassador, can you mention any example of a Dutch politician who was burned in recent years?”

Again, silence, as Hoekstra stared around the room.

“This is the Netherlands — you have to answer questions,” another reporter said.

Sherry Keneson-Hall, an embassy counselor who was helping to run the news conference, pushed back, asserting that Hoekstra was answering the questions.

At least one more journalist repeated the question. Reporters asked it at least five times.

“We were all astonished that he didn’t want to take back the comment. It was simply untrue, so why not take it back?” Geeraedts said. “It was awkward, to be honest.”

 

Sixty-seven percent of Millennials disapprove of him in the latest Quinnipiac poll.
Like them or not, that's the biggest emergent voting bloc in American history.

 

Would certainly be nice if the U.S. press corps would occasionally call people out in real time for being liars.