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The derangement is amazing when this stuff makes national news....

The main takeaway on Steve Miller?s third-grade past is that his teacher is a real jerk

The report, titled ? Stephen Miller's Third-Grade Teacher: He Was a ?Loner? and Ate Glue,? is as stupid and nasty as it sounds. It?s just gossip regarding what Miller was like as an 8-year-old boy.

he report, titled ? Stephen Miller's Third-Grade Teacher: He Was a ?Loner? and Ate Glue,? is as stupid and nasty as it sounds. It?s just gossip regarding what Miller was like as an 8-year-old boy.

I can still picture him sitting in my classroom.

Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk ? he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue ? we didn't have glue sticks in those days ? and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it.
I remember being concerned about him ? not academically. He was OK with that, though I could never read his handwriting. But he had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time.

At the end of the year, I wrote all my concerns ? and I had a lot of them ? in his school record. When the school principal had a conference with Stephen's parents, the parents were horrified. So the principal took some white-out and blanked out all my comments. I wish I could remember what I wrote, but this was 25 years ago. I've taught a lot of third-graders since then. Of course, Stephen wasn't political then ? it wasn't until later that he started to make waves.

That?s it. That?s the entire story. The Hollywood Reporter thought this was good enough to publish. Competing newsrooms, including Mashable, SPIN, the Cut, Splinter News, the Root, the Daily Mail, and Raw Story, thought the same.

What public interest did this serve? Where is the news value? The revelation that Miller may have been a lonely and sad child when he was in third grade? Great scoop, fellas.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-main-takeaway-on-steve-millers-third-grade-past-is-that-his-teacher-was-a-real-jerk
 
So the GOP got the Kavenaugh bump in the polls then the Trump-Kanye meet up happened. ?I feel like Superman.? 

Lol

eyephone said:
Who knows? People say it?s a toss up. What I do know Cruz didn?t show up to the debate against Beto. So Beto had all the free time to promote his campaign.

What do you think of Kanye West? I guess he is the new face of the GOP with the Trumps endorsement for 2024. Lol


morekaos said:
Look at all you guys and today's shiny object...back on story, this guy is gonna go down in flames and all the Dems want is to throw their money at their new shiny object.....this must be Smart Power!!

Beto O'Rourke raised $38.1 million in last three months, smashing all records in bid to oust Ted Cruz

But the two most recent polls show Cruz with a solid single digit lead. A Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday puts him ahead by 9 percentage points. A New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll that ended Thursday shows an 8 point lead.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/10/12/beto-orourke-raised-381-million-last-three-months-smashing-records-bid-oust-ted-cruz
 
#Winningmore!

Turkey Frees American Pastor Andrew Brunson, in Bid to Ease U.S. Tensions
Release to come as Ankara seeks U.S. support in clash with Saudis; decision could give Trump a boost before midterms

An evangelical American pastor held in Turkey on terrorism charges will be sent back to the U.S. after a Turkish court lifted his house arrest on Friday, removing a major irritant in the relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-anxious-to-ease-u-s-tensions-to-free-american-pastor-1539352193
 
I will continue with the GOP Kanye thanks to Morekas. (I?m still waiting for my coffee)

Trump: Can we get rid of airforce one? For what? Kanye: for the iPlane



eyephone said:
So the GOP got the Kavenaugh bump in the polls then the Trump-Kanye meet up happened. ?I feel like Superman.? 

Lol

eyephone said:
Who knows? People say it?s a toss up. What I do know Cruz didn?t show up to the debate against Beto. So Beto had all the free time to promote his campaign.

What do you think of Kanye West? I guess he is the new face of the GOP with the Trumps endorsement for 2024. Lol


morekaos said:
Look at all you guys and today's shiny object...back on story, this guy is gonna go down in flames and all the Dems want is to throw their money at their new shiny object.....this must be Smart Power!!

Beto O'Rourke raised $38.1 million in last three months, smashing all records in bid to oust Ted Cruz

But the two most recent polls show Cruz with a solid single digit lead. A Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday puts him ahead by 9 percentage points. A New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll that ended Thursday shows an 8 point lead.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/10/12/beto-orourke-raised-381-million-last-three-months-smashing-records-bid-oust-ted-cruz
 
This probably would've been more appropriately published in Fox, Breitbart, Drudge et al., but USA Today thought it was worthy of their op-ed page. They then were forced to correct "factual errors" in the piece:

USA Today Publishes Fact Check Of 'Misleading' Trump Op-Ed

A fact check of President Donald Trump?s USA Today op-ed determined that many of the assertions he made about ?Medicare for All? were misleading.

Trump?s piece, published Wednesday, attacked Democrats for proposing a national ?single-payer health-care system,? which, according to Trump, amounts to a socialist plot to destroy Medicare.

?My family escaped socialism, now my fellow Democrats think we should move the party in its direction,? Trump wrote.

Initially, USA Today inserted hyperlinks directing readers to articles whose facts contradicted Trump?s claims. Taking it a step further, the editorial section Thursday published a debunking of the facts by FactCheck.org, a partner of the news outlet.

There were five main problematic points, according to the evaluation. First, the claim that the plan would ?cost an astonishing $32.6 trillion during its first 10 years? doesn?t include how it would offset health-care costs for individuals, employers and state governments.

?Yes, there would be an increase in federal government spending, and an increase in taxes to pay for that,? John Holahan, the author of the Urban Institute analysis that Trump got those figures from, told USA Today. But, he said, private spending on health care would be ?nearly eliminated.?

Second, the plan would not ?take away benefits? from senior citizens; it specifically calls for adding more benefits, including dental, vision and hearing aids. Deductibles would also get eliminated.

Third, it?s reductionist to say that all Democrats are uniting around the act, when other bills are also in the running. Fourth, Trump hasn?t kept his promise ?protect coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions? given how hard he has worked to get the Affordable Care Act ? which offers those protections ? repealed. Lastly, not all health insurance premiums are coming down, contrary to his claims.

?When we looked at premiums for the individual market recently, health care experts told us lower growth was expected for 2019 for several reasons: less political uncertainty this year compared with 2017, slower growth in medical expenses, an overpricing of plans last year, and insurers? growing familiarity with the market,? according to the fact check.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/usa-today-publishes-fact-check-123219120.html
 
#talibanfirst

Senate Dem hopeful Kyrsten Sinema said 'I don't care' if people go to fight for Taliban against US

U.S. Democratic Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema said ?I don?t care? if people go and fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan in a newly resurfaced radio interview and co-hosted a radio show with a conspiracy theorist who claimed the September 11, 2001 terror attacks were perpetrated by the government, Fox News can reveal.

Sinema appeared on a radio show in February 2003 hosted by Ernest Hancock, a libertarian activist who presented ?The Valley of the Sun? program on a local Arizona radio station.

During the interview, Sinema told the host that she didn't object to individuals going abroad and fighting for groups hostile to the U.S.

?As an individual, if I want to go fight in the Taliban army, I go over there, and I?m fighting for the Taliban, I?m saying that?s a personal decision,? Hancock told Sinema, who was then a Green Party activist.

?Fine. I don?t care if you go and do that, go ahead,? she replied, according to the audio recording obtained by Fox News.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-dem-hopeful-kyrsten-sinema-said-i-dont-care-if-people-go-to-fight-for-taliban-against-us
 
Public service announcement for the MAGA team

I know you guys are desperate to own the libs , just be wary of all your data that trump owns


NYT: The TRUMP campaign is marketing its database of 20M supporters' personal data for rent to campaigns, PACs & even private businesses. It appears to be the 1st time a sitting president facing reelection has partnered with a list broker to do this.
 
LOL.  "strong evidence" guys.  0.1% - 3% native american.  trump should take a dna test - i bet he's more native american than pocahontas!

Elizabeth Warren Releases DNA Test Results

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made public the results of a DNA test on Monday, which an expert said shows ?strong evidence?? that she has a Native American ancestor.

Warren provided the test results to The Boston Globe on Sunday, the newspaper said, ?in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years.? According to the paper, the disclosure is another strong sign that she is seriously considering running for president.

?The vast majority? of Warren?s ancestry is European but ?the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor? six to 10 generations ago, according to Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor who analyzed the results.

This means she could be 1/32nd Native American, or just 1/512th Native American if the ancestor is 10 generations back.

She possesses 12 times more Native American blood than a white person from Great Britain, the report found, and 10 times more than a white person from Utah.

She plans to provide more information on the results Monday.

Warren has said that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was partially Native American. President Donald Trump has long mocked her for claiming Native American ancestry, frequently calling her ?Pocahontas.? He even offered to administer a DNA test to prove her otherwise, promising to donate $1 million to a charity of her choice if she agreed.

?I?m going to get one of those little kits, and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she?s of Indian heritage because her mother says she has high cheekbones, we will take that little kit,? Trump said at a rally in July. ?But we have to do it gently because we?re in the Me Too generation, so we have to be very gentle.?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warren-releases-dna-test-104435317.html
 
It is a simple yes or no answer - but to claim #winning we are moving the goalposts yet again

FWIW , I am not a fan of warren but need to give credit where it?s due ? Remember trumps comments here ? ?I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you?re an Indian."
 
fortune11 said:
It is a simple yes or no answer - but to claim #winning we are moving the goalposts yet again

FWIW , I am not a fan of warren but need to give credit where it?s due ? Remember trumps comments here ? ?I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you?re an Indian."

except it's not a yes or no answer and it's not black or white (no pun intended).  she and harvard used her "native american heritage" to push forward a diversity agenda.  the whole point of claiming special status or providing benefits to minorities is to help "level the playing field" as they say.  according to the test (which is hardly accurate for such lower percentages), she's 3% native american at best and 0.1% at worst.  fact is, she's just another pasty white person who stole a high paying position at a university from someone who actually lived on a reservation.  the left should be outraged!
 
fortune11 said:
Public service announcement for the MAGA team

I know you guys are desperate to own the libs , just be wary of all your data that trump owns


NYT: The TRUMP campaign is marketing its database of 20M supporters' personal data for rent to campaigns, PACs & even private businesses. It appears to be the 1st time a sitting president facing reelection has partnered with a list broker to do this.

Kanye has his own version of the hat MAG. (Make America Great)

See Trump wearing the MAg hat in the link below. lol

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.tmz....ave-trump-yeezys-maga-make-america-great-hat/

#Trapdoor
 
Kings said:
fortune11 said:
It is a simple yes or no answer - but to claim #winning we are moving the goalposts yet again

FWIW , I am not a fan of warren but need to give credit where it?s due ? Remember trumps comments here ? ?I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you?re an Indian."

except it's not a yes or no answer and it's not black or white (no pun intended).  she and harvard used her "native american heritage" to push forward a diversity agenda.  the whole point of claiming special status or providing benefits to minorities is to help "level the playing field" as they say.  according to the test (which is hardly accurate for such lower percentages), she's 3% native american at best and 0.1% at worst.  fact is, she's just another pasty white person who stole a high paying position at a university from someone who actually lived on a reservation.  the left should be outraged!

Here is the real Pocahontas

LA TIMES ? House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy?s family benefited from U.S. program for minorities based on disputed ancestry

By PAUL PRINGLE  and ADAM ELMAHREK
OCT 14, 2018 | 3:00 AM
 
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy?s family benefited from U.S. program for minorities based on disputed ancestry
William Wages, principal owner of Vortex Construction in Bakersfield, says he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian, which allowed him to win contracts set aside for minorities. Wages is the brother-in-law of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
A company owned by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy?s in-laws won more than $7 million in no-bid and other federal contracts at U.S. military installations and other government properties in California based on a dubious claim of Native American identity by McCarthy?s brother-in-law, a Times investigation has found.
 
She took the test. Trump owes her the money.

But now I have a question ? If she had told her schools that she is 1/1024 Native American, would they have allowed the category change?  Because if so, gonna be a lot of new minorities filling out HR forms tomorrow ...

On balance , I still think this shows how self absorbed and self centered she is ? not likely to be the dem nominee in 2020, try as she might .
 
morekaos said:
If proven true, prosecute the hell out of him. Nothing to do with Mcarthy himself, so I don't see the point.

The only point the right sees is dumping any and all of bill Clinton?s personal transgressions on Hillary Clinton . Why not apply the Same standard here (if there are any ) ?
 
From its inception decades ago, the law requiring 10% of military contracts to go to minority or women owned firms has been rife with fraud. From fraudulently transferring equity to black figureheads and Asian wives, to outright lying about native American ancestry, this law is a total joke and needs to be repealed. Price and quality should be the only considerations in awarding Pentagon contracts.
 
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