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Francisco 2.0

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  1. 1 minute ago, retread said:

    Kevin McCarthy's comment in the closed-door meeting -  I know for sure that Rohrabacher and Trump are getting paid by Russia.

    Speaking of; I just have to believe once we get closer to the mid-terms, you will see some Team R members campaign along the lines of "I have no connections to Russia".  

  2. 5 minutes ago, ScottishHorn said:

    You never lived through the 70's

    In 1974, in a covert act of espionage the CIA lifted a Russian sub off the floor of the Pacific Ocean 2500 miles or so west of Hawaii, while being watched by Russians during the operation.  It was as brazen an act that one country could do to another.

    Today, our country would ask the Russians for permission to wipe our asses.  

  3. Somehow, today these words have little to no meaning.

     

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    I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

     

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    1. Putin trolls America by offering to have his own intelligence agencies “investigate” their interference in the 2016 presidential election — and Trump praises him for it. Putin’s offer to have his own intelligence officials probe themselves was generally seen as an attempt to subtly mock the United States, since no one believes the GRU would fairly investigate its own activities.

     

    Trump, however, called Putin’s proposal an “incredible offer.”

     

    2. Trump denies a report that he called Putin a “rival” — and insists that what he actually said was meant to be flattering. When asked by a Russian reporter why he had referred to his Russian counterpart as a rival, Trump pushed back and said he’d only referred to Putin a “competitor.” Trump went on to say that he meant it as a “compliment” because Putin was so good at competing.

     

    3. Trump would not say whether he believes his own intelligence agencies when they claim Russia directly interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Even though Trump hedged on whether he believed his own appointees to the nation’s intelligence agencies, he did say that Putin was “extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” He then said that he “didn’t see any reason” why Russia would interfere in America’s elections.

     

    4. Trump says that he personally fixed America’s relationship with Russia in a matter of hours. Although Trump once again repeated his claim that recent relations with Russia have “never been worse” that they’ve ever been, the president added that “that changed as of about four hours ago — I really believe that.”

     

    5. Trump says that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election is the biggest impediment for peace between the countries. Trump did not criticize Russia for interfering in American elections, or for allegedly poisoning former spies on British soil, or for helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad massacre civilians. Rather, he said the major factor driving division between America and Russia was the Mueller probe.

     

    6. Trump responds to question about Russian interference in 2016 with an incoherent rant about Hillary Clinton’s emails. The president tried dodging a question about Russian interference by pivoting to conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s email server and the Democratic National Committee’s server that had been compromised by Russian spies.

     

    “Where is the server?” the president asked in a rambling statement. “What is the server saying?”

     

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  5. 4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Didn't watch, don't care to hear anything the orange windbag says.  But did he really say he doesn't know whether to believe Russia or our own CIA?  Really?  Are "lib tears" really so tasty that people think this is okay?  I just don't get humans anymore.  I think we've jumped the shark calling ourselves "intelligent" life.

    Yep.  

    He even brought up "server" and other campaign greatest hits.

     

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/trump-russia-putin-summit-722418

  6. 1 minute ago, GSU&UT said:

    Stop, you'll trigger all the both sides snowflakes!

     

    On cue:

     

    1 minute ago, ScottishHorn said:

    Well at least a voice of honor, integrity and ethics has spoken out

     

  7. Heh.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/putin-trump-win-election-2016-722486

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he wanted President Donald Trump to win the 2016 election because he believes Trump's policies would be more friendly to the Kremlin.

    "Yes I did. Yes I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal,” Putin said, standing alongside Trump at a joint news conference.

    Putin was asked whether he directed any of his officials to help Trump’s presidential campaign, but Putin appeared to sidestep that part of the question.

     

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  8. 2 minutes ago, ScottishHorn said:

    I can't believe I'm getting dislikes for the Russians to stand trial. 

    You are getting dislikes for the moronic proposition that any actual Russians, currently residing within Russia...would willingly be sent to the US with the blessings of Russia for a trial.

     

     

  9. 11 hours ago, ScottishHorn said:

    Corn, Soybean, rice and wheat farmers receive billions in subsidies every year.  I imagine the farmers will be assisted in some way to compensate for any price fluctuations like they always have

     

    20 minutes ago, ScottishHorn said:

    The deficit is expanding because of spending, not the tax cuts.  Tax revenue keeps breaking records every quarter.  You could argue the tax cuts are the one positive of the trump administration.  Corporate earnings are up 20%. This factor hasn't even hit the markets yet and wont until later this year.  We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

    Amazingly, in two posts you throw out deficit spending as a potential means to help farmers, then complain about the deficit expanding due to a spending problem.

     

     

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  10. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5955471/Royal-family-snub-Trump-Queen-left-meet-president-alone.html

     

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    Prince Charles and Prince William reportedly ‘snubbed’ the US President during his visit to Britain - leaving the Queen to meet Donald Trump alone at Windsor Castle.

    The royal father and son apparently shared their desire to not take part in the arrangements during informal discussions regarding the president’s four-day tour.

    Trump’s trip was not a state visit and so only the Queen greeted the president and his wife Melania.

     

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    ‘This business of Prince Charles and Prince William not being there for the Trump visit was a snub,’ the source said, adding that they ‘simply refused’ to attend.

    ‘It's a very, very unusual thing for the Queen to be there on her own. Usually she is accompanied by somebody.’

     

  11. Yeah, this seems like a solid move by the Trump admin.  

     

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week?via=FB_Page&source=TDB

     

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    The Trump Administration is planning to eliminate a vast trove of medical guidelines that for nearly 20 years has been a critical resource for doctors, researchers and others in the medical community. 

    Maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the database is known as the National Guideline Clearinghouse [NGC], and it’s scheduled to “go dark,” in the words of an official there, on July 16.

    Medical guidelines like those compiled by AHRQ aren’t something laypeople spend much time thinking about, but experts like Valerie King, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of Research at the Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University, said the NGC is perhaps the most important repository of evidence-based research available. 

    “Guideline.gov was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world,” King said, referring to the URL at which the database is hosted, which the agency says receives about 200,000 visitors per month. “It is a singular resource,” King added.

    Medical guidelines are best thought of as cheatsheets for the medical field, compiling the latest research in an easy-to use format. When doctors want to know when they should start insulin treatments, or how best to manage an HIV patient in unstable housing — even something as mundane as when to start an older patient on a vitamin D supplement — they look for the relevant guidelines. The documents are published by a myriad of professional and other organizations, and NGC has long been considered among the most comprehensive and reliable repositories in the world.

    AHRQ said it’s looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn’t panned out yet.

    “AHRQ agrees that guidelines play an important role in clinical decision making, but hard decisions had to be made about how to use the resources at our disposal,” said AHRQ spokesperson Alison Hunt in an email. The operating budget for the NGC last year was $1.2 million, Hunt said, and reductions in funding forced the agency’s hand.

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    Underscoring how medical research like that maintained by the NGC can be politicized, AHRQ drew the ire of then-congressmember Tom Price in 2016 when it published a study critical of a drug manufactured by one of his campaign donors. According to ProPublica, one of Price’s aides emailed “at least half a dozen times” asking the agency to pull the critical research down. Price was the first director of HHS, AHRQ’s parent agency, under the Trump Administration, before resigning under pressure last year over his spending on chartered flights.

    The current director of AHRQ, Gopal Khanna — a Price appointee — is thefirst non-scientist to head the agency. His résumé includes mostly positions in information technology management, in state government in Minnesota and Illinois, and a brief stint in the George W. Bush White House. Shortly after he was hired in 2017, he announced that data dissemination as one of his central priorities at the agency.

     

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