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9-11-2001/9-11-2012
As we remember the tragedy in 2001.........
Let us also not forget on September 11, 2012 when US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, USFS officer Sean Smith, CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty, were killed in the attack on Benghazi.
Let us also not forget on September 11, 2012 when US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, USFS officer Sean Smith, CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty, were killed in the attack on Benghazi.
Profile Reviews
Whenever I buy online I always check the reviews on the products I am interested in purchasing. Likewise, when going on holiday I check the reviews of hotels, restaurants and such, then afterwards always post a review of my own.
It occurred to me... Although this could be somewhat complicated, I wonder whether a profile review system would work for dating sites.... What do you think?
It occurred to me... Although this could be somewhat complicated, I wonder whether a profile review system would work for dating sites.... What do you think?
Stop putting all hispanics in one basket!
Dont forget about those who came here legally and are standing by our president in building a wall to force ILLEGALS to be screened and come here the right way! My grandparents worked their Arses off to give us a better life in this country! Stop acting like all are illegal and that we dont care about protecting this country because we do
I would think with DR MARTIN LUTHER KINGS birthday coming up we could at judge each other by content of character not by race because we want the wall just as much as you do because its screwed up when people judge you as if you just walked in front of tear gas shielding ourselves with children like neglective selfish pigs to break the law!
Some of you racist need to get some knowledge because we arent all border hoppers and if we are blame yourselves liberals and Nancy who doesnt gaf about you
I would think with DR MARTIN LUTHER KINGS birthday coming up we could at judge each other by content of character not by race because we want the wall just as much as you do because its screwed up when people judge you as if you just walked in front of tear gas shielding ourselves with children like neglective selfish pigs to break the law!
Some of you racist need to get some knowledge because we arent all border hoppers and if we are blame yourselves liberals and Nancy who doesnt gaf about you
Shocking
Another terror attack in my country, bomb gone off at a concert in Manchester and several people killed, whoever responsible, murdering, sick, nut religious bastards!!!
School in Europe teaching the 'Muslim' way
Local European schools took their kids on field trip to a local mosque. At the mosque the kids were forced to bow down and pray to and for Islam. The worst part is there is overwhelming parental approval. How do we know this? Because you can see parents (who were volunteers on the field trip) standing and smiling in the background.
Cowboys Don’t Cry
I think we grew accustomed through the years to see blogs from time to time wherein people complain about abrasive blogs and/or comments.
Yes, sure; sometimes it has merit. Some people are rather nasty with the stuff they post, but I cannot help to have very little sympathy when the complaints come from people who made it their mission in the past to ridicule visitors to their blogs.
And then he cries wolf because he or somebody else is being ridiculed, complaining about true colors while his own true colors showed a long time ago. It appears that what goes around comes around and apparently some people don’t like the taste of their own medicine.
To sum it up, in a nutshell: practice what you preach. You cannot expect a lot of sympathy from bystanders when you are beaten with your own whip. If you get a kick out of insulting people, then fine, it is your choice. Carry on cowboy; by all means. I think most of us have learned to handle it. But don’t complain when you get your own back. Cowboys don’t cry or, to put it more bluntly: If you don’t like the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Have a great day out there. Yes, you too!
Yes, sure; sometimes it has merit. Some people are rather nasty with the stuff they post, but I cannot help to have very little sympathy when the complaints come from people who made it their mission in the past to ridicule visitors to their blogs.
And then he cries wolf because he or somebody else is being ridiculed, complaining about true colors while his own true colors showed a long time ago. It appears that what goes around comes around and apparently some people don’t like the taste of their own medicine.
To sum it up, in a nutshell: practice what you preach. You cannot expect a lot of sympathy from bystanders when you are beaten with your own whip. If you get a kick out of insulting people, then fine, it is your choice. Carry on cowboy; by all means. I think most of us have learned to handle it. But don’t complain when you get your own back. Cowboys don’t cry or, to put it more bluntly: If you don’t like the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Have a great day out there. Yes, you too!
Trump's presidency = a failure
in the Los Angeles Times;
(continued in my first comment below)
In response to:
Ukraine scandal is a microcosm of what we already know: Trump’s presidency is a failure
The House impeachment inquiry is a window into the way President Trump conducts business as the nation’s chief executive.
By The Times Editorial Board
Nov. 17, 2019
3 AM
It’s easy to get drawn into the drama of the Ukraine story, to be mesmerized by that country’s war against Russia and its brazen corruption, by characters like Hunter Biden and Paul Manafort and Lev and Igor and the ever-shifting cast of presidents, prosecutors, diplomats and criminals. We’re all learning more than we ever thought we’d know about Kyiv and its internal politics as the House of Representatives focuses its impeachment inquiry on a narrow set of allegations about President Trump’s misbehavior there.
But even as members of Congress zoom in tightly on Ukraine, it’s important that the rest of us not lose sight of the bigger picture. The Ukraine scandal is, at the end of the day, really just a microcosm, a single piece of a much broader story about this president. What he is accused of doing there is, to one degree or another, what he does everywhere, and it speaks to who he is — his character, his style, his values and his failure as president.
So let’s not ignore the wider context in which these allegations have emerged.
Trump, as this page has noted repeatedly, is a man for whom everything is transactional, and who is engaged in a constant struggle for short-term advantage. Blustering, bullying, threatening and arm-twisting are his tools. He doesn’t feel bound by the rules and niceties that have guided most of his predecessors, or by the constitutional and institutional limits that have constrained them. Norms, shared values, civil institutions and even the rule of law take a back seat, in his playbook, to the ceaseless struggle for the upper hand. He doesn’t seem to make much distinction between what’s good for America and what’s good for him personally. His disdain for the truth and his attraction to conspiracy theories are well known.
So, really, was anyone surprised at the allegation that Trump sought to extort from the Ukrainian president a “favor” that would help him in his reelection campaign? Was anyone shocked to be told that Trump would withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that Ukraine desperately needed to defend itself against Russia as leverage to ensure an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden? Of course you weren’t.
The fact is that Trump has shown us who he is over and over and over. Look at the findings of the Mueller report. How many times did Trump try to obstruct that investigation, either by firing FBI director James Comey or seeking to have special counsel Robert S. Mueller III ousted or trying to prevent the public disclosure of evidence or browbeating Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions into protecting him? These are not the actions of a man who plays by the established rules.
Remember his decision — rescinded in the wake of public outcry — to select his own Trump Doral golf resort as the site of the G-7 summit? That’s not the behavior of a man who puts the national interest above his own.
Read the Washington Post’s list of Trump’s falsehoods; last month it had grown to 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days in office. This is not a person who is putting the voters first.
Count the times he has come after California, subjecting our state to retaliation for our efforts to protect the environment and promote public safety in immigrant-heavy communities. This is a man who does not forgive his perceived enemies.
Ukraine scandal is a microcosm of what we already know: Trump’s presidency is a failure
The House impeachment inquiry is a window into the way President Trump conducts business as the nation’s chief executive.
By The Times Editorial Board
Nov. 17, 2019
3 AM
It’s easy to get drawn into the drama of the Ukraine story, to be mesmerized by that country’s war against Russia and its brazen corruption, by characters like Hunter Biden and Paul Manafort and Lev and Igor and the ever-shifting cast of presidents, prosecutors, diplomats and criminals. We’re all learning more than we ever thought we’d know about Kyiv and its internal politics as the House of Representatives focuses its impeachment inquiry on a narrow set of allegations about President Trump’s misbehavior there.
But even as members of Congress zoom in tightly on Ukraine, it’s important that the rest of us not lose sight of the bigger picture. The Ukraine scandal is, at the end of the day, really just a microcosm, a single piece of a much broader story about this president. What he is accused of doing there is, to one degree or another, what he does everywhere, and it speaks to who he is — his character, his style, his values and his failure as president.
So let’s not ignore the wider context in which these allegations have emerged.
Trump, as this page has noted repeatedly, is a man for whom everything is transactional, and who is engaged in a constant struggle for short-term advantage. Blustering, bullying, threatening and arm-twisting are his tools. He doesn’t feel bound by the rules and niceties that have guided most of his predecessors, or by the constitutional and institutional limits that have constrained them. Norms, shared values, civil institutions and even the rule of law take a back seat, in his playbook, to the ceaseless struggle for the upper hand. He doesn’t seem to make much distinction between what’s good for America and what’s good for him personally. His disdain for the truth and his attraction to conspiracy theories are well known.
So, really, was anyone surprised at the allegation that Trump sought to extort from the Ukrainian president a “favor” that would help him in his reelection campaign? Was anyone shocked to be told that Trump would withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that Ukraine desperately needed to defend itself against Russia as leverage to ensure an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden? Of course you weren’t.
The fact is that Trump has shown us who he is over and over and over. Look at the findings of the Mueller report. How many times did Trump try to obstruct that investigation, either by firing FBI director James Comey or seeking to have special counsel Robert S. Mueller III ousted or trying to prevent the public disclosure of evidence or browbeating Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions into protecting him? These are not the actions of a man who plays by the established rules.
Remember his decision — rescinded in the wake of public outcry — to select his own Trump Doral golf resort as the site of the G-7 summit? That’s not the behavior of a man who puts the national interest above his own.
Read the Washington Post’s list of Trump’s falsehoods; last month it had grown to 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days in office. This is not a person who is putting the voters first.
Count the times he has come after California, subjecting our state to retaliation for our efforts to protect the environment and promote public safety in immigrant-heavy communities. This is a man who does not forgive his perceived enemies.
(continued in my first comment below)
Life Is But A Gamble
Living our lives is very much like gambling and we have to play our chips very carefully if we hope to gain. Everything that we attempt has a risk of failing, sometimes due to factors completely beyond our control.
Before we embark on any big venture, we should consider the odds of success and weigh it up against the impact that failure may have on our lives. While your current employment may not be perfect, you know what you have to deal with but you don’t know what you’re getting into when you when you take up that ‘wonderful’ new job. The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence; as one of my friends discovered last year.
But you do have to take some risks in life if you want to gain. You cannot win if you do not play but you must decide what to pursue and what to ignore.
If you bet too low, you won’t lose much if you fail but your gain won’t be much either if you win. On the other hand, if you put too much on the stake, you may lose everything.
There is no sure winner in a horse race. We constantly have to weigh up the odds of success vs. the impact of failure. If failure can clean you out, cut your losses and drop out while you can still do so gracefully.
It all boils down to knowing when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run.
Chill out. It is Friday!
Before we embark on any big venture, we should consider the odds of success and weigh it up against the impact that failure may have on our lives. While your current employment may not be perfect, you know what you have to deal with but you don’t know what you’re getting into when you when you take up that ‘wonderful’ new job. The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence; as one of my friends discovered last year.
But you do have to take some risks in life if you want to gain. You cannot win if you do not play but you must decide what to pursue and what to ignore.
If you bet too low, you won’t lose much if you fail but your gain won’t be much either if you win. On the other hand, if you put too much on the stake, you may lose everything.
There is no sure winner in a horse race. We constantly have to weigh up the odds of success vs. the impact of failure. If failure can clean you out, cut your losses and drop out while you can still do so gracefully.
It all boils down to knowing when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run.
Chill out. It is Friday!
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