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Two questions here...

Firstly, when a person is deleted by the mods or deletes their profile, does everything disappear? (mails I have sent or received are no longer shown in my in/out boxes, nor does the person show in my WVM list)

Secondly, What is the point of deleting a post on a blog? (If you say something you later regret, is it really such a big deal?)

An Example...
On a recent blog by “sunflower2018” entitled Generous Jorge, I posted the simple question “Where you by chance dazzled by Generous Jorge?” When checking to see whether there was a reply I found my post had been deleted.
(I look forward to seeing whether this blog will now be deleted in its entirety hehe!)

GLOBAL INVESTING HOT SPOTS

Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs could rattle Canada’s economy and NAFTA

Canada's weak economy had GDP growth of 1.7 percent in the fourth quarter, and its stock market is down 5 percent year-to-date.

Canada exports nearly 90 percent of its steel to the U.S., the most of any country.

Canada accounts for 41 percent of America's aluminum imports.

Tariffs could impact the interconnected supply chain of many industries, including autos, and this could hurt NAFTA renegotiation talks.

On Monday Trump signaled he may drop tariffs if a 'fair' NAFTA agreement is signed.

Bryan Borzykowski, special to CNBC.com
Published 4:50 PM ET Fri, 2 March 2018 Updated 11:50 AM ET Mon, 5 March 2018

I am so sure there are so many who will be crying because now they have to share the responsibility of what is called fair trade system.

Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy? In only 5 more days of the already-“longest government shutdown in history” (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more.

Don’t believe me that federal bureaucrats can be laid off? Well, in bureaucratese, a layoff is called a RIF – a Reduction in Force, and of course, it comes with a slew of civil service protections. But, if the guidelines are followed, bureaucrats can be laid off -- as in no more job. It is all explained by Michael Roberts here (updated after the beginning of the partial shutdown):

Stays - Agencies - Factors - Account
In deciding who stays and who goes, federal agencies must take four factors into account:

Agencies cannot use RIF procedures to fire bad employees.

Lot - Procedures - Merit - Performance - Consideration
A lot of procedures must be followed, and merit (“performance”) is the last consideration, but based on the criteria above, employees already furloughed can be laid off (“RIFed”) once they have been furloughed for 30 days or 22 work days):

When agencies furlough employees for more than 30 calendar days or 22 discontinuous work days, they must use RIF procedures.

Employee - Position…
An employee can be terminated or moved into an available position….

This seems to be what was referenced in this remarkable essay written by an “unidentified senior Trump official” published in the Daily Caller, which vouches for the authenticity of the author, and explains that it is protecting him or her from adverse career consequences should the name become known. I strongly recommend reading the whole thing.

Official - Case - Devotion - Process - Time
The purported senior official makes the case that devotion to “process” eats up most of the time of federal bureaucrats and is also used by enemies of President Trump’s...

What a good way to start the year, an unbelievable all time low on gas price. When was the last time we felt good filling up because it was so affordable? I have a picture about 35 years ago when it was $.69 cents regular and 10 cents increments after that.

Anyways filled up at Costco and with a 22 gallon full tank on my SUV, boy I'm almost tempted to go drive the whole nation. Cheaper than flying.

I don't know about you but front page on the news today are all positive, except for the tragic fate of the AirAsia flight. May the victim's families be consoled, I pray.

Generally, I hope wars will end, friendship fostered and l love grows on all of us.

Have a productive, positive, peaceful and joyful 2015 all year round to all.

Thanks all for your reads and comments.

You don't want to vote for that nasty Trump chap & his typical alpha male lewd comments toward women, answer yes to the simple questions on this check list & tick the box for Hillary Take no notice of those tyrants in Russia who today have said a vote for Hillary will result in full scale nuclear war, they don't run the world, their opinion is worthless

Answer yes to these simple election questions and Hillary is the obvious choice -

You love American foreign policy from the current government & want to see more of those brutal democratically elected dictators overthrown, after all it worked out so well in Iraq, Libya & Syria, those dictators do nothing but keep those lovable rouge Islamic radicals under control.

Like Moscow the government has built fallout shelters for the entire population of Washington.

Washington has practised evacuating 40 million people in a 3 part practice for nuclear war just this week.

The American government has recalled back to the states all family members of it citizens working abroad in preparation for what comes next.

You're happy the US government has done a deal with Saudi Arabia to allow 8000 IS fighters to escape Mosul before it's retaken & move to fight in Syria.

You fully agree with America arming extremist rebel Muslim fighters as long as of course as they hate Assad & it's all done through 3rd countries so full deny ability is maintained.

So if you answered yes the choice is easy, vote Hillary for a more exciting world, & put a stop to Trump & his silly ideas about border controls & letting other countries sort out there own problems

Crooked Hillary Clinton said that she did not send or receive any information that was marked classified at the time.


This was a lie.

110 emails in 52 email chains contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. 36 of those chains contained secret information at the time they were sent or received. 8 of those chains contained confidential information at the time they were sent or received.

By sending this information over an unsecure server, Secretary Clinton made it available to hacking by foreign governments or terrorist groups. There is evidence to suggest that she exposed the names of undercover personnel, putting their lives in danger. The information she was negligent with may even have extended to U.S. intelligence gathering methods.
But a recent FBI report revealed that such classified information was marked with a (C) in all emails that were sent to her. She said that she did not realize that (C) stood for ‘Classified’. How could a sitting secretary of state have missed such a detail?

All evidence suggests that she didn’t miss it. All evidence suggest that this is a blatant lie.

It seems that Secretary Clinton intended to break federal law regarding the handling of classified information. She did everything within her power to hide this from the American people.
Crooked Hillary bought used blackberries on eBay, and later destroyed them with hammers when she was finished with them. These evasive actions are indicative of criminal intent.

from Google.


Personally? We're doomed. We'll be history. No more America. Which is exactly what our enemies want. Who are they? That's the question.

I guess most of you know them. I know who they are. For right now the clock is ticking.

This took place in London but the message is for America.

Thus confirms we're facing a big security challenge.

I don't like to admit but based on the arrest of terrorists in Texas (refugees), it's clear we're in trouble.

After listening to the intense but civil and passionate debate of the Republicans, I found out their unanimous decision about the incompetent and disgraced leadership of the Democrats and all of them are so anxious to change it. I felt their sincerity and personally gave me strong feelings that we can change and make our country great again.

My hopes are high and our future is bright. Evident of the explosive desire of not one but almost all of the Republican presidential aspirants in redirecting the leadership of this country to be great again is spelled out so brilliantly.

I hope we can all unite and agree on the major issues and how they will be repealed and changed. This is more so on the prevention of illegals to come to our country. Implementation of fair trade in the world specially China and Japan. Completely repeal the Obama health care which created so much burden to 65 percent of the population. Restructuring tax to unburden the working class which is the core of the strength of our economy and encourage all our outsourced industries to come back and provide jobs to most displaced workers. But most importantly and most acute at the moment is for the protection of the American people. At any cost, this is the the prime responsibility of our government. For you and I to have peace, to be safe so we can be productive and secure our future.

While I strongly support Trump and Cruz, it was established that any of them is better than the current leader right now and certainly not Clinton.

Let us help steer back our country to what it was founded for. Defend the constitution, keep our guns to respective and responsible citizens so we have ammunition to defend us. Don't let fascism destroy our ideology. The political correctness which is so cleverly employed by the Democrats is an example of trampling our rights. Let us change that.

I have hopes.

Note: Nikki Haley's speech was so brilliant. Please google it if you are interested.

Thank you all for your reads and or comments if any.