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Trump ripping off people again. This time it's the tax payers.
From The Atlantic;
In response to:
Why Would a 'Billionaire' Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night ?
February 7, 2020
Last year, Eric Trump was asked about Secret Service protection at Trump Organization properties.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free,” he said. “So everywhere that he goes, if he stays at one of his places, the government actually spends, meaning it saves a fortune because if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like $50.”
You will be stunned to learn that this is not remotely true.
Instead, as the indefatigable David Fahrenthold and three colleagues at The Washington Post chronicle in his latest scoop on the president’s business, the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service (in other words, the taxpayer) $400 to $650 a night to stay at Mar-a-Lago while guarding the president. At another Trump property, his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, the Secret Service was billed $17,000 a month for a small cottage, even when the president wasn’t present. These are just snapshots. Despite heroic public-records work by the Post, there’s still no complete picture of just what the Trump Organization is charging the Secret Service.
It’s no longer news per se that the Trump Organization is profiteering from the presidency. Since Donald Trump refused to divest from his business at the start of his term, that’s been inevitable. There’s the massive emoluments scandal of the Trump International Hotel in D.C. There are Trump’s Irish properties, at which he “invited” the vice president to stay, then charged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. There was his shameless choice to hold the G7 summit at Trump Doral—a decision so universally reviled that the White House quickly reversed it. One of the arguments the administration offered for picking Doral was that it would allow savings on security. “He’s not making any money off of this, just like he’s not making any money from working here,” insisted Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The new Post story shows that was almost certainly false.
New or not, the question remains: Why does a billionaire charge the Secret Service $650 to stay at his property?
The issue is not whether taxpayers should pay for presidential protection. They should, unequivocally. The question is about the cost. As the Post notes, other presidents who allowed the Secret Service to use their properties, including both George Bushes and Bill Clinton, didn’t charge them. None of those presidents owned a for-profit business while serving as president either.
Why Would a 'Billionaire' Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night ?
February 7, 2020
Last year, Eric Trump was asked about Secret Service protection at Trump Organization properties.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free,” he said. “So everywhere that he goes, if he stays at one of his places, the government actually spends, meaning it saves a fortune because if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like $50.”
You will be stunned to learn that this is not remotely true.
Instead, as the indefatigable David Fahrenthold and three colleagues at The Washington Post chronicle in his latest scoop on the president’s business, the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service (in other words, the taxpayer) $400 to $650 a night to stay at Mar-a-Lago while guarding the president. At another Trump property, his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, the Secret Service was billed $17,000 a month for a small cottage, even when the president wasn’t present. These are just snapshots. Despite heroic public-records work by the Post, there’s still no complete picture of just what the Trump Organization is charging the Secret Service.
It’s no longer news per se that the Trump Organization is profiteering from the presidency. Since Donald Trump refused to divest from his business at the start of his term, that’s been inevitable. There’s the massive emoluments scandal of the Trump International Hotel in D.C. There are Trump’s Irish properties, at which he “invited” the vice president to stay, then charged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. There was his shameless choice to hold the G7 summit at Trump Doral—a decision so universally reviled that the White House quickly reversed it. One of the arguments the administration offered for picking Doral was that it would allow savings on security. “He’s not making any money off of this, just like he’s not making any money from working here,” insisted Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The new Post story shows that was almost certainly false.
New or not, the question remains: Why does a billionaire charge the Secret Service $650 to stay at his property?
The issue is not whether taxpayers should pay for presidential protection. They should, unequivocally. The question is about the cost. As the Post notes, other presidents who allowed the Secret Service to use their properties, including both George Bushes and Bill Clinton, didn’t charge them. None of those presidents owned a for-profit business while serving as president either.
Why can't/don't we return to this??
16 Old-Fashioned Solutions For Problems With The World Today
by REBECCA ENDICOTT
You know, when I was growing up, I never imagined I would ever really be an adult. Like Peter Pan, I had a hunch that maybe it was optional.
Of course, now that I’m here, looking back on that time, I can’t help but think (as all adults eventually do) that youth is wasted on the young.
Certainly, I didn’t take full advantage of it when I had the chance. And now it seems like every kid and young adult I see has his or her face buried in a smartphone—even this mom confessed to her addiction.
I think it’s about time we looked into our past for a few lessons on how to live a happier and more fulfilling life.
It’s not just nostalgia; if we returned to a time with fewer distractions, more time spent with the ones we love, and simpler pleasures, I think we would all reap the benefits.
Here’s how we did things, back in my day…
Never
To All My Bloggers Family 
Have A Nice and Happy Sunday Never Use Bad Words or Disrespect Any One In Your Life 
It Comes infornt Of Us At any time it reverse.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
August 28, 1963...
He delivered his 'I Have A Dream' speech 55 years ago this year.
He was murdered 50 years ago.
He delivered his 'I Have A Dream' speech 55 years ago this year.
He was murdered 50 years ago.
Police fabrications.......
What is the longest prison sentence served by an innocent man? Judicial systems aren’t perfect. United States is one of the most advanced countries in terms of its judicial system, yet we hear everyday another case of miscarried justice. There are worse places on this planet where people are locked up for political or other reasons. Can you imagine being in prison for 40 years of your life for a crime you never committed? Following are 10 stories about people who suffered the hard penalty of a broken justice system. Unfortunately, it is not a fiction, but a fact that law and order folks do not always get the bad guy and they manufacture one. Justice is a basic human right that should be ensured. But it is not always rightfully served when people go to jail for crimes that they never committed.......Steven Phillips
Length of Sentence Served: 25 years..
Steven Phillips spent 25 years in jail for a rape case that he actually did not commit, that was one of the longest prison sentence served by an innocent man. In 2008, he was released from a life sentence after DNA test proved he was innocent. He received $4.1 million as reimbursement for his time in prison....................... Daryl Burton
Length of Sentence Served: 24 years
Daryl Burton was also wrongfully imprisoned due to claimed Police fabrications for the killing of a man at a gas station in 1984. He was sentenced to life in prison for the crime, but was vindicated luckily in 2008 when evidence suggested that he was a clear man. Here is what a patch.com article says about this case:
“In June 1984, not far from West Side Missionary Baptist, Donald “Moe” Ball was gunned down as he gassed up his green Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight at an Amoco station at the corner of Delmar and Goodfellow. Ball had been shot in the arm in this same neighborhood in 1983 by Jesse Watson, a rival in an ongoing turf war.
A month later, on the word of a street informant and a prison snitch, police arrested Burton, 22, a parolee who had spent two years in Jefferson City’s Algoa Correctional Center for burglary. The two witnesses claimed to have seen Burton kill Ball, despite reports from other witnesses that the shooter was a light-skinned black man no taller than 5 feet 5 inches. Burton is 5 feet 10 and so dark-,,,..complexion that his playground nickname was “Lights Out.””
Masters of Reality: Into The Void
The space/tech age, the hunt for hospitable planets, and the heavy (doom) metal prophets that were talking about it 50 years ago.
That familiar itch was begging to be scratched again. The Amazon fires, SpaceX, plastic sealife, trade wars, racial tensions, you know every-day-kinda shit in the year 2019 brought it on.
Then it hit me. I bought the album when I was 13 years old. The words now ringing more clear than ever before (aside from references to Satan). I'd practically forgotten.
Sure, there were many protest songs. Eve of destruction, Big Yellow Taxi, etc. But this one really grasped the present day in a way not many others did, imo. This is prophecy! Or not, but it scratched the itch goddammit!
Black Sabbath: Into The Void
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the night sky they blast
Through the universe the engines whine
Could it be the end of man and time?
Back on earth the flame of life burns low
Everywhere is misery and woe
Pollution kills the air, the land, the sea
Man prepares to meet his destiny, yeah
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the black sky so vast
Burning metal through the atmosphere
Earth remains in worry, hate and fear
With the hateful battles raging on
Rockets flying to the glowing sun
Through the empires of eternal void
Freedom from the final suicide
Freedom fighters sent out to the sun
Escape from brainwashed winds and pollution
Leave the earth to all it's sin and hate
Find another world where freedom waits, yeah
Past the stars in fields of ancient void
Through the shields of darkness where they find
Love upon a land a world unknown
Where the sons of freedom make their home
Leave the earth to Satan and his slaves
Leave them to their future in their graves
Make a home where love is there to stay
Peace and happiness in every day
That familiar itch was begging to be scratched again. The Amazon fires, SpaceX, plastic sealife, trade wars, racial tensions, you know every-day-kinda shit in the year 2019 brought it on.
Then it hit me. I bought the album when I was 13 years old. The words now ringing more clear than ever before (aside from references to Satan). I'd practically forgotten.
Sure, there were many protest songs. Eve of destruction, Big Yellow Taxi, etc. But this one really grasped the present day in a way not many others did, imo. This is prophecy! Or not, but it scratched the itch goddammit!
Black Sabbath: Into The Void
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the night sky they blast
Through the universe the engines whine
Could it be the end of man and time?
Back on earth the flame of life burns low
Everywhere is misery and woe
Pollution kills the air, the land, the sea
Man prepares to meet his destiny, yeah
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the black sky so vast
Burning metal through the atmosphere
Earth remains in worry, hate and fear
With the hateful battles raging on
Rockets flying to the glowing sun
Through the empires of eternal void
Freedom from the final suicide
Freedom fighters sent out to the sun
Escape from brainwashed winds and pollution
Leave the earth to all it's sin and hate
Find another world where freedom waits, yeah
Past the stars in fields of ancient void
Through the shields of darkness where they find
Love upon a land a world unknown
Where the sons of freedom make their home
Leave the earth to Satan and his slaves
Leave them to their future in their graves
Make a home where love is there to stay
Peace and happiness in every day
Captain Apocalypse is back
I see the ocean going crackpot has lost his marbles altogether. Or is he just hoping that he can persuade us to lose ours. 
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There are words...
There are words to describe people who...
Park in the handicap access and walkway to a medical center.
Park so tight in the handicap zone that a handicapped person couldn't get in or out their vehicle.
Over stack the end of the dumpster instead of taking 3 more steps and throwing the trash in the middle.
Finish the roll and walk away.
The last one makes me wonder if they didn't have enough paper to finish the job, did they walk away anyway.
Park in the handicap access and walkway to a medical center.
Park so tight in the handicap zone that a handicapped person couldn't get in or out their vehicle.
Over stack the end of the dumpster instead of taking 3 more steps and throwing the trash in the middle.
Finish the roll and walk away.
The last one makes me wonder if they didn't have enough paper to finish the job, did they walk away anyway.
Remembering WWI's Hill 80
Archeologists are gingerly and respectfully exploring what is known as Dig Hill 80 in Flanders, Belgium today.
In 1914 invading Germans and Bulgarians surrounded a tiny, bucolic, village on a hill 80 meters high and and occupied it. The name of the village was Wytschaete. This village was defended by British & French forces as well as the civilian male occupants and their families. The civilians were very unfriendly to the invaders too. Letters home from the victorious Bulgarian and German soldiers described how they were often repulsed or took heavy losses from the defenders when they tried to clear the village house by house. So they barricaded the houses and other buildings, then set them all afire with the various occupants still inside. The fighting, screaming and dying lasted for 3 days. Afterwards the Germans and Bulgarians built a fortress wall around the smouldering village
The site offered an excellent observation of nearby Ypres and the German forces wasted no time bringing in their best optics and using the site as both an artillery observation point and also their fortress. Elaborate trenches and underground structures were built as part of the defense.
For the next 4 years every day artillery shells landed there or were launched from there. There were repeated major unsuccessful attempts to recapture the area. By 7 June 1917 British sappers had succeeded in tunneling secret tunnels under the German walls and they then placed 900,000 pounds (450 tons) of high explosives in their man made caverns 75 feet down under the fortress. At 3pm that day they detonated them and made the largest (until then) conventional explosive blast in history. The fortress vanished along with many of the occupants and the British moved in and occupied the torn earth and rubble.
Fighting continued and in April of 1918 the Germans succeeded in retaking the site and began re-fortifying it. Only in September 1918 when the Germans pulled back did the fighting there end when the British again reoccupied the site.
At least a full regiment of men who died fighting inside those walls to capture or defend it on behalf of one side or another now lay where they fell (along with whatever villagers who were been trapped there by the events) or were buried or burnt alive. Over 100 years later still nothing remains above ground except a few bricks. The bones, artifacts and unexploded artillery shells lay below.
the site today.
A cloud funded, multi national group of archaeologists, both amateur and professional is now very carefully and respectfully excavating the old fortress grounds to preserve for history whatever they can about the people who died there.
Here is a release at seminar of their first report.
In 1914 invading Germans and Bulgarians surrounded a tiny, bucolic, village on a hill 80 meters high and and occupied it. The name of the village was Wytschaete. This village was defended by British & French forces as well as the civilian male occupants and their families. The civilians were very unfriendly to the invaders too. Letters home from the victorious Bulgarian and German soldiers described how they were often repulsed or took heavy losses from the defenders when they tried to clear the village house by house. So they barricaded the houses and other buildings, then set them all afire with the various occupants still inside. The fighting, screaming and dying lasted for 3 days. Afterwards the Germans and Bulgarians built a fortress wall around the smouldering village
The site offered an excellent observation of nearby Ypres and the German forces wasted no time bringing in their best optics and using the site as both an artillery observation point and also their fortress. Elaborate trenches and underground structures were built as part of the defense.
For the next 4 years every day artillery shells landed there or were launched from there. There were repeated major unsuccessful attempts to recapture the area. By 7 June 1917 British sappers had succeeded in tunneling secret tunnels under the German walls and they then placed 900,000 pounds (450 tons) of high explosives in their man made caverns 75 feet down under the fortress. At 3pm that day they detonated them and made the largest (until then) conventional explosive blast in history. The fortress vanished along with many of the occupants and the British moved in and occupied the torn earth and rubble.
Fighting continued and in April of 1918 the Germans succeeded in retaking the site and began re-fortifying it. Only in September 1918 when the Germans pulled back did the fighting there end when the British again reoccupied the site.
At least a full regiment of men who died fighting inside those walls to capture or defend it on behalf of one side or another now lay where they fell (along with whatever villagers who were been trapped there by the events) or were buried or burnt alive. Over 100 years later still nothing remains above ground except a few bricks. The bones, artifacts and unexploded artillery shells lay below.
the site today.
A cloud funded, multi national group of archaeologists, both amateur and professional is now very carefully and respectfully excavating the old fortress grounds to preserve for history whatever they can about the people who died there.
Here is a release at seminar of their first report.
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