snafuLet us see how Trumpy Gump and Fox News spin this one!
Former president George H.W. Bush will cross party lines and vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in November, according to former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
The daughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy posted a photo to Facebook on Monday of her posing with Bush.“The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!” she wrote in the caption.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-h-w-bush-hillary-clinton_us_57e13110e4b08cb14097d55c
The rumours are that most of both Bush administrations are voting not for Trump or his wig, such was the bitterness when the other shrublet and his political ambitions were defeated by the orange one.
That, and the other Trumpy news mean that he isn’t having a good time.
For example, once again he has been called unfit to be president, this time by Robert Gates, who served as Defence Secretary under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
And he has courted controversy again by inviting assassination attempts on his rival:
“I think what we should do is she goes around with armed bodyguards, like you have never seen before. I think that her bodyguards should disarm, right? Right? Think they should disarm. Immediately, what do you think? Yes? Yes. Yeah. Take their guns away. She doesn’t want guns. Let’s see what happens to her.”
At least, that is (again) how his comment has been taken with regard to the mentality of those who believe that Clinton would abolish the second amendment and take away their guns.
snafuJohn will be pleased that UKIP are having so much fun at the moment.
The new leaders only living political hero is… Putin. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/18/new-ukip-leader-diane-james-says-vladimir-putin-is-one-of-her-he/
And UKIP’s only MP unsuccessfully argues with a university scientist whilst trying to convince him that it is the sun’s gravity that causes the earths tides, not the moon.
Carswell, MP for Clacton-on-Sea, challenged Paul Nightingale, a science policy researcher, after the academic used the concept of gravity to argue that the UK sign trade deals with neighbors rather than China.
“Want 2 understand trade? Think gravity: size & distance matter. UK-Ireland greater than UK-China
“Jupiter is big but the moon moves tides,” he wrote on Monday.
Minutes later, Carswell crafted a tweet of his own in an attempt to refute the claim.
“[a]ctually it’s the gravitational pull of the sun. The moon’s gravity does Spring / neap tides,” he said.
Scientists agree that tides are primarily caused by the gravitational pull of the moon as it orbits the Earth. While the sun does have a limited effect on the Earth’s tides, the greater distance between the Earth and the sun means that this effect is much smaller, despite the sun’s much bigger size.
Nightingale called out the Euroskeptic MP for the glaring factual error, but the MP was undeterred and continued to insist that he knew better.
Can see where John gets his determination from, now.
snafuFull of something, yeah.;o)
snafuI not only absorb lessons; I write them.
And then rewrite them again and again to try and make them fit your ideology?
Are you pissed, John?
I think he is quite upset, yes…
snafuThe oldest son of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump posted an image of a bowl of the colorful candies with a line of text reading, “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.”
The 38-year-old businessman captioned the meme, “This image says it all. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first. #trump2016.”
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The post quickly went viral, and while it earned support from Trump fans, many thought it was an inappropriate, dehumanizing way to refer to the 13.5 million people who are in need of humanitarian aid.
Even Skittles’ parent company, Wrigley, condemned the comparison and attempted to distance the brand from the meme. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people,” a spokesperson said in a statement, according to NPR. “We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing.”
I think it might take more than three Skittles to kill anybody, unless they were somehow fired from some sort of ballistic device and were able to withstand impact with the human body. But if it is a few Skittle-equipped refugees that he is worried about maybe he ought to convince his dad to outlaw guns…
But the US has a spotty, somewhat shameful history with refugees in need.
Voyage of the Damned”[edit]
The St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba on May 13, 1939. The vessel under command of Captain Gustav Schröder was carrying 937 refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution.[2][3] Captain Schröder,[4] was a non-Jewish German who went to great lengths to ensure dignified treatment for his passengers……The ship dropped anchor at 04:00 on May 27 at the far end of the Havana harbor and was denied entry to the usual docking areas. The next six days on the harbor were tumultuous times. The Cuban government, headed by President Federico Laredo Brú, refused to accept the foreign refugees. Although passengers had previously purchased legal visas, they could not enter Cuba either as tourists (laws related to tourist visas had recently been changed) or as refugees seeking political asylum…
…Prohibited from landing in Cuba, Captain Schröder circled off the coast of Florida, hoping for permission to enter the United States. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, advised Roosevelt not to accept the Jews, however. Captain Schroder considered running aground along the coast to allow the refugees to escape, but, acting on Cordell Hull’s instructions, US Coast Guard vessels shadowed the ship and prevented such a move.
After the St. Louis was turned away from the United States,[11] a group of academics and clergy in Canada tried to persuade Canada’s Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to provide sanctuary to the ship’s passengers, as it was only two days from Halifax, Nova Scotia.[12] But Canadian immigration official Frederick Blair, hostile to Jewish immigration, persuaded the Prime Minister on June 9 not to intervene…
…The ship returned to Europe, docking at Antwerp, Belgium, on June 17, 1939 with 907 passengers.[14][15]
The United Kingdom agreed to take 288 of the passengers (31.76 percent), who disembarked and traveled to the UK via other steamers. After much negotiation by Schröder, the remaining 619 passengers were allowed to disembark at Antwerp; 224 were accepted by France (24.70 percent), 214 by Belgium (23.59 percent), and 181 by the Netherlands (19.96 percent). Without any passengers, the ship returned to Hamburg…
…research by Scott Miller and Sarah Ogilvie of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum found that fewer had actually survived and estimated 254 deaths:
“Of the 620 St. Louis passengers who returned to continental Europe, we determined that eighty-seven were able to emigrate before Germany invaded western Europe on May 10, 1940. Two hundred fifty-four passengers in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands after that date died during the Holocaust. Most of these people were murdered in the killing centers of Auschwitz and Sobibór; the rest died in internment camps, in hiding or attempting to evade the Nazis. Three hundred sixty-five of the 620 passengers who returned to continental Europe survived the war.”[20]…
Not that many countries have a great reputation with refugees, of course. Especially from that period.
snafuIt is, after all, to his advantage.
snafuThat isn’t the John Green I was expecting.
Where is he, what have you done with him?
snafuWent to a pirate doctor today. He said ‘open y’mouth an’ say arrrrr!’
The jokes tend to revolve around one aspect of being a pirate, you notice?
snafuIts about the same as what you toffs call ‘dating’ John.
That, and she wouldn’t already be a member of his family…;o)
snafuYes.
Next question.
snafuTee hee…
…Trump announced that if President Obama would meet Donald Trump’s demands and assure the conspiracy artist that Obama was indeed born here, Donald Trump would give a $5 million check to the charity of Obama’s choosing. That was his big something…
A very expensive admission for Forest Trump and his wig.
Wonder how Fox News are spinning this one?
snafuAnother ‘epic’ backtrack from Forest Trump…
Donald Trump, the main supporter of false claims about Barack Obama’s birthplace, has finally said he accepts that the president was born in the US, “period”.
But Mr Trump also falsely accused Hillary Clinton’s team of starting the so-called “birther” campaign in 2008.
The “birther” movement had questioned Hawaii-born Mr Obama’s citizenship and therefore his eligibility as president.
Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump had founded his campaign on “this outrageous lie”.
Mr Trump said at a campaign event in Washington: “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean?”
There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birthers.
The man peddles racism and conspiracy as part of his election campaign and when he finally has to admit he was wrong (but after a fashion, and in the old Trumpy style) it is without apology or even embarrassment that what he said all along was wrong.
What a guy, and what a chump.
Is this really what some in America want as their representative to the rest of the world? Is this the man America wants with his finger on the button?
snafuSo it was nearly 8pm your time when you posted this, and you’ve been thinking about it too, maybe for a couple of hours, maybe more?
So this is a real life Sims, eh?
snafuThey might have been stoned, or overcome with the prospect of being on an airliner, together, and just freaked out.
Whatever, airlines are still unconcerned about reducing drinking before or during flights.
snafuWe need brilliant and accomplished politicians like him.
i/ What has he accomplished? A few poll leads and front page coverage in the right wing press (the only ones that matter to you, of course). He was NOT in charge of a successful political party, unless you have a different system of measuring success than vote equalling seats in parliament. How many seats did he win in the last election? Did he even win his chosen seat? He was an MEP but that position isn’t going to be around for much longer. He was a self-proclaimed figurehead for a one trick pony of a party whose policy has been achieved, but how many of those who were in government before the referendum and are still in government now have acknowledged his part in their victory?
ii/ Brilliant? Your words, of course, but do you have anyone a little more independent who would also agree with your summing up of Farage Gump?
iii/ He looks like a mature Italian porn star. Do we really need more politicians like that, when Italy certainly doesn’t?
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