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[OBW]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Budget CR needs 60 votes.

The Chucky Shumer Shutdown!

One man can shut down the country!

Only if 40 others go along with him. That means that 41 people can shut down the country.

And yes, Chucky can be hiding within those 41. But he cannot do it single-handedly.

[OBW]

Had to comment on the Fake News Awards.

When it was announced that DT was going to do them, one of the late night hosts determined that it should be the funniest event ever since DT can't stand that anyone but him gets credit for anything. Therefore it would all go to him.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by OBW

Only if 40 others go along with him. That means that 41 people can shut down the country.

And yes, Chucky can be hiding within those 41. But he cannot do it single-handedly.

But one man can shutdown the gov'ment. All he has to do is reject any bill, or offer of one.

That man is a dodger and a weaver ... and blames Obama for the 2013 shutdown, but the buck doesn't stop at his desk ... it's always someone else's fault.

[zeek]

On Saturday morning, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), one of five Senate Democrats who voted for a stopgap spending bill (five Republicans voted against it), proposed paying the troops during the shut-down, as Congress did in 2013; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked the measure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQ0UySKYKM

[zeek]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/don...ump-shut-hell/

‘Don’t ever preach to me again!’: Ex-GOP chair tells evangelicals who still support Trump to ‘shut the hell up!’

[Ohio]

It's got to be those darn evangelicals fault!

Let me define today's progessives: those who believe every evil report about Trump, and believe Trump is the source of every problem in the world. They hated Bush who was a moral man, but used to smoke and drink. They hate Trump who is not moral, but never drank, smoked, or used drugs.

Zeek, we're not looking for the next St. Theresa for Prez.

[zeek]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Zeek, we're not looking for the next St. Theresa for Prez.

Originally Posted by Ohio

But looking back, what Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky should never have been publicized or prosecuted. It was consensual, though tawdry, and how could anyone blame Clinton for lying to protect his marriage/reputation.

How convenient that you reverse your opinion about moral purity now that your boy the pussy-grabbing philanderer is in the White House. I imagine you stood fast with the majority of Republicans who supported Kenneth Starr's four year $70 million investigation of Bill Clinton when it was going on.

But as you recently demonstrated with your opinion on polls, you have no problem contradicting yourself or your moral judgment in the service of der Fuhrer. That's what makes your political posts so amusing.

Celebrity Spokesmodel Melania apparently doesn't share your magnanimity as she cancelled plans to go to Davos for a glamour photo op on the Orange Bomber's arm.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by zeek

How convenient that you reverse your opinion about moral purity now that your boy the pussy-grabbing philanderer is in the White House. I imagine you stood fast with the majority of Republicans who supported Kenneth Starr's four year $70 million investigation of Bill Clinton when it was going on.

How about you keep your posts clean?

How about you stop imagining things about me?

I supported the WhiteWater investigation, not what came of it -- lying to Congress to protect his marriage. And now Muller is payback for it.

And I think you forget that Americans voted for Trump and Pence. Pence's character was above reproach. Today many view Trump's conservative stance (e.g. appointing Neil Gorsuch, speaking at Pro-Life rally, etc.) as a kind of "penance" for some of his past actions. In the same manner, evangelicals forgave W's past partying ways. Now if Bush or Trump were caught in the Oval Office with pretty interns, that would change.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

But one man can shutdown the gov'ment. All he has to do is reject any bill, or offer of one.

That man is a dodger and a weaver ... and blames Obama for the 2013 shutdown, but the buck doesn't stop at his desk ... it's always someone else's fault.

NY Senator Chuck Schumer was so happy when the ANTIFA stormed Trump Tower in Manhatten.

Well, what goes around comes around, and now they are storming his own house.

Oh the irony Chucky!

[awareness]

Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels
The Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers for them on policy.

Trump gets a little stormy with Stormy ... Christians are fine with it.

But don't preach to me about anything ever again. No wonder millennials are rejecting Christianity and the churches ... they see the phoniness. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

[Ohio]

For those of you still in denial about the fabricated "Russian collusion" and other stories promoted by liberal news outlets, you really need some updating. Your "news" is over a year old. The following blurb was extracted from an informed piece. It, of course, will be initially dismissed by you and MSM as a "vast right wing conspiracy," but I think this story will govern all news this year. As usual, Fox News is way ahead of the other outlet.

What we are seeing today at the highest levels of our government should frighten all Americans.

As I laid out in detail in a recent interview for Judicial Watch, discussing the role of Fusion GPS, its interactions with the FBI, and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson's testimony before a Senate committee, the evidence is rapidly emerging that senior officials in our government, most likely up to and including then-president of the United States Barack Obama, worked in concert to illicitly, and possibly criminally, derail the candidacy of the opposition party's presidential candidate using fabricated information (or, as former FBI director James Comey described it, "salacious and unverified") obtained by a private investigations firm from an enemy of the United States: Russia.

Even worse, once that effort to derail that candidacy failed and that candidate, Donald Trump, was elected, those same individuals used the same manufactured evidence as the basis to launch an investigation, employing the vast authority and technical resources of the United States government, whose ultimate goal, I believe, is to impeach and remove that duly elected president.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a coup d'état. Merriam-Webster defines a coup d'état as a "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics."

While the Hillary-FBI-DOJ-Fusion GPS cabal was not a violent coup, to be sure, it was certainly a decisive exercise of force in politics when it used, as has been reported, a fraud on the court to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on members of the opposing party's presidential campaign. In fact, it is far more insidious than the sort of coups we typically see in Africa and Latin America. It required the subversion and corruption of numerous governmental agencies, not just the FBI – to effect: the Department of Justice and the National Security Agency to be sure, and possibly the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and other agencies as well.

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by awareness

Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels
The Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers for them on policy.

Trump gets a little stormy with Stormy ... Christians are fine with it.

But don't preach to me about anything ever again. No wonder millennials are rejecting Christianity and the churches ... they see the phoniness. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

Who said I was fine with it?

How does the hypocrisy of some idiot besmirch the reputation of hundreds of millions of Christians over the last two millennia?

No wonder people are not listening to this vapid air head analysis.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels. The Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers for them on policy.

Trump gets a little stormy with Stormy ... Christians are fine with it.

But don't preach to me about anything ever again. No wonder millennials are rejecting Christianity and the churches ... they see the phoniness. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

And Millennials are now embracing the Clinton dynasty! Defenders of all women!

Or perhaps Bernie and his wife, who made a few bucks and destroyed that college in Vermont. But hey Bernie fell in line and they got their new beach house on Lake Champagne.

And who has been preaching to you?

And when did Trump become America's church pastor?

And you assume that all Christians are "fine" with Trump's personal life?

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

And who has been preaching to you?

Right. The local church taught me to have enough sense not to listen to preachers ever again.

Not that I haven't made close friends with many preachers since then. That wouldn't be true at all. I'm drawn to preachers, except the racist ones, and there have been many of them too. But, racist or not, they can take their preaching and shove it.

Witness Lee taught me that preachers are human. And that's the worst you can say about anyone. That's all Christian's problem, and the problem for all religions on the earth as well ; the human problem.

That's especially true of Tony Perkins of the The Family Research Council. How can he tout family values and support Trump? That's just glaring hypocrisy. Shame. Shame. Sad.

(And bro zeek, the flesh is not weak. It clearly dominates. )

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels The Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers for them on policy.
But don't preach to me about anything ever again.

Originally Posted by awareness

Right. The local church taught me to have enough sense not to listen to preachers ever again.

Not that I haven't made close friends with many preachers since then. That wouldn't be true at all. I'm drawn to preachers, except the racist ones, and there have been many of them too. But, racist or not, they can take their preaching and shove it.

That's especially true of Tony Perkins of the The Family Research Council. How can he tout family values and support Trump? That's just glaring hypocrisy. Shame. Shame. Sad.

So, this Perkins guy came and gave you an earful about Trump?

Did he hit you for money too?

I would be upset too! Sad.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

storming his own house.
Oh the irony Chucky!

Storming? ... didn't that happen with Trump?

Speaking of irony. Stormy said Trump made her spank him with a Forbes magazine ... the one with him, Don Jr. and Ivanka on the cover ; oooh ... sooo ... Stormy ... and kinky.

But Christian's love it. They obviously believe Jesus was wrong about mammon ... but they like the 'he without sin cast the first stone' pericope. They are sinners like Trump ... leaving the impression that even Jesus was a sinner, like them and Trump.

Perchance admitting that, they have all along just been kidding about family values ... cheating right after your wife gives birth is the new Christian way ...

Cuz, must be, in a lost gospel, recently found, Jesus says, "If your wife is unable to satisfy you, seek a porn star." Adding,
"Seek and ye shall find."

[ZNPaaneah]

Electricity from renewable sources will soon be cheaper than power from most fossil fuels, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). In its new report, Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2017, the agency revealed that technology improvements, government take-up and proactive project development has pushed the costs associated with renewable energy to a new low, and that by 2020 renewable power will largely undercut fossil fuel.

Importing fossil fuel is the fundamental cause of our trade deficit and our national debt. Freeing us and many other countries from this cartel has tremendous economic, political, and environmental advantages.

One wonders how disruptive this will be to the existing power structure, i.e. petrodollars?