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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85499713543918687862016-06-25T20:44:19.658-04:00Rational Nation USAClassical Liberal/Libertarian news and politics from a rational, objectivist perspective- a heavy dose of reason, Ayn Rand, common sense, and the Constitution.Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-16815715206287131882016-06-24T16:22:00.001-04:002016-06-24T16:22:19.492-04:00Cuckoo Birds of a Feather Flock Together... Rational Nation USA
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Donald J. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president of The United States, continues to display on the world stage his basic ignorance. Well, maybe it isn't really ignorance per se. Perhaps he is just so wrapped up in himself and his self perceived greatness that he hasn't time to learn the details of world shaping events. Unless of course it is to feed into his xenophobia and megalomania which he will use to poison the US political environment further.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump was asked about the upcoming vote in the U.K. about leaving the European Union. The reporter asked, "And Brexit? Your position?" Trump replied, "Huh?"

"Brexit," the reporter repeated. "Hmm," Trump responded, apparently unfamiliar with the term.

With this exchange in mind, consider what the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said on Twitter this morning:
"Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!"
What Trump may not realize, or really even be able to fully understand, is that Scotland is "going wild" because Scottish voters overwhelmingly voted against leaving the E.U. Locally, people aren't celebrating – because they see this as a disaster.

Trump proceeded to hold a press conference in Scotland, against the backdrop of one of the most important political moments in the modern history of the United Kingdom, where he spoke at great length, and in great detail, about his new golf resort. The Republican candidate boasted about refurbished holes on his course, plumbing, putting greens, and zoning considerations.

Even by the low standards of Donald J. Trump, it was among the most baffling press conferences anyone has ever seen. The entirety of Scotland is reeling; the future of the U.K. and the continent is uncertain; and an American presidential candidate arrived to deliver a testimonial about a country club and how fond he is of the design of a golf course.

Wait, it gets worse. More BELOW THE FOLD

Of course one of Trump's most ardent supporters, 1/2 term governor of Alaska, and failed 2008 GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin weighed in.

 If you thought Donald Trump's take on the Brexit was idiotic… well, you haven't seen anything until you've seen Sarah Palin's scorching take.

On her Facebook page Friday, Palin cheered on voters in the United Kingdom for voting to leave the European Union. While this in and of itself was predictable, Palin passed Go and collected a $200 one-way ticket to Crazyville Station by spouting conspiratorial rhetoric worthy of Alex Jones.

"Good on you for ignoring all the fear mongering from special interest globalists who tend to aim for that apocalyptic One World Government that dissolves a nation's self-determination and sovereignty… the EU being a One World Government mini-me," Palin wrote/sputtered on Facebook. "America can learn an encouraging lesson from this. It is time to dissolve political bands that connect us to agendas not in our best interest.

Yeah, like the incoherent Palin has even a clue what is in our best interests. Sort of like the narcissist demagogue she supports for president of the USA.

More BELOW THE FOLD.

Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-31659620604576803232016-06-22T19:23:00.000-04:002016-06-22T19:26:50.074-04:00A Gentlemanly Snubbing By Rubio...Rational Nation USA
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"I have my own identity. I have my own positions on issues," Marco Rubio said. | Getty

Can ya blame the guy? Another GOP'er with some principles.

POLITICO Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is not campaigning with Donald Trump in the battleground state of Florida, but he says he has his reasons.

"It's not that I'm looking to undermine him, but I think the differences between us on key issues are so significant that I just don't plan to campaign — I've got to run my own race," Rubio told CNN in a live interview Wednesday.

Rubio announced earlier in the day that he had changed his mind and will seek reelection for his Senate seat, which he had previously said he would not do at the outset of his Republican presidential campaign. In explaining his reasoning behind not campaigning with Trump, Rubio said it had not changed from before he decided to seek reelection.

"I have my own identity," he continued. "I have my own positions on issues, and I'm not going to be out there undermining him or anything of that nature because I don't want Hillary to win, but I really think I need to tell people what I'm going to do as a senator as opposed to, kind of, and that was going to be the case irrespective of whether I ran."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/swing-states-2016-election/2016/06/rubio-not-campaign-trump-224680#ixzz4CLxe64o1
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Via: Memeorandum
Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-74861149186944344192016-06-22T14:33:00.003-04:002016-06-22T14:33:52.375-04:00Not A Good Picture...Rational Nation USA
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It appears as though American lawmakers have forgotten how to exercise compromise and create a win-win environment for all Americans. Which begs the question, who's in charge?

Article BELOW THE FOLD .
Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-68468505365339592042016-06-21T15:54:00.002-04:002016-06-21T17:17:32.056-04:00Time To Let Go Of A Losing Ideology...Rational Nation USA
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"Is The End of My Country's Greatness Near" is a question I contemplated and subsequently wrote an essay on back in 2009. I ask the very same question today, almost nine years later. It troubles me more now than it did in2009. But it is not because the object and subject of my concern, Barack Hussein Obama and socialism has destroyed America, rather it is because the conservatism I had always believed in has been responsible for bringing to political life the narcissistic demagogue and megalomaniac Donald J. Trump.

Just to be very clear. I have not wavered from my core principles, a conservatism that is far removed from today's Evangelical, Neocon, authoritarian, oligarchical, and board room conservatism. This weblog supports a conservatism that is based on constitutional principles, the belief that all people have equal right to opportunity, that race, ethnicity, or religion should not be a barrier in anyway, that diversity and differing views are in fact good, healthy, and necessary for a strong society, and that it must be the goal of conservatism to support the economic dreams of the lower and middle rungs of the socio-economic ladder rather than the dreams of the most wealthy.

President Obama, a man I once thought would change America in ways that would significantly and negatively impact my liberties to live my life as I desire has done no such thing. I am as free to live my life as I chose today as I was before he assumed office. My fears were completely unjustified and I must say I am embarrassed that I, one who values objectivity and reason, let myself be swayed by political hyperbole and the pressures of Tea Party conservative groupthink. With the birth of the Tea Party the conservatives unjustified hyperbole reached fever pitch and it is why today, I must renounce any and all connection to the present modern day brand of conservatism. A conservatism that seeks not to expand opportunity and civil liberties for all but rather strives to impose their views on all.

Continue reading BELOW THE FOLD.Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-13465195218644130612016-06-20T15:53:00.000-04:002016-06-20T15:54:58.748-04:00Will Trump's Economic Policies Make America Great "Again"...Rational Nation USA
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Presidential hopeful and presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump wants to Make America Great "Again". His economic policies, analyzed by Moody, paints a not so rosy picture. At the very least Mr. Trump needs to explain in depth what his policies would be, demonstrate why they would be successful and how Moody's analysis is incorrect.

Moody's Analytics -  Presidential candidates often put forward proposals that are as much political statements as firm policy positions. No one expects that their proposals will get through the legislative process and into law fully intact. But while the policy proposals put forward by candidates are generally well overstated, they are a statement on their philosophy and priorities. Mr. Trump's economic policy proposals should be considered through this lens. He has suggested that he might be willing to bend his position on taxes and perhaps tariffs. He has even intimated that his policy statements are simply a negotiating stance— he is asking for a lot more up front than he ultimately expects to get.

Having said this, what he is asking for is fiscally unsound. His tax and spending proposals will result in very large deficits and a much higher debt load. A future Congress may be able to rein in this profligacy, but it will not be easy, as there is a gulf between what he says he wants on taxes and spending and what it will take to make the budget arithmetic work.

He is also very suspicious of globalization. His willingness to threaten higher tariffs on U.S. trading partners and his sharp criticism of major trade deals signal a reversal on the long-running expansion of U.S. trade and foreign investment. Requiring millions of undocumented immigrants to leave the country also signals less openness to the rest of the world. The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

Article from the Wall Street Journal.

Complete Moody's Analytics analysis.

Knowing what we know about Mr. Trump's track record relative to honesty a deep and healthy skepticism of everything he utters would be an advisable policy.

Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-80691984619172539852016-06-19T18:05:00.002-04:002016-06-19T18:06:55.717-04:00Per the Donald, It's Time To Start Profiling...Rational Nation USA
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More bigotry and lunacy from Donald J. Trump, GOP presumptive nominee.

Donald Trump said Sunday that in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, it's time for the United States to start looking at racial profiling as a preventative tactic.

"Well I think profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country," the presumptive GOP nominee said in a phone interview with CBS' "Face the Nation. "Other countries do it, you look at Israel and you look at others, they do it and they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads."

"It's not the worst thing to do," he added.

This just in .

Via: MemeorandumRational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-29875476279388498862016-06-19T14:43:00.003-04:002016-06-19T17:32:19.182-04:00As The Donald Continues To Be The Donald, Exciting The 30%'ers...Rational Nation USA
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This from a man who to anyone paying attention is about as honest as this.

Of course the 30% Trumpian Gladiators will support to the death one of, if not the biggest, liar in American political history.

Supporters of Donald Trump got an unexpected plea on Saturday: a request to send the billionaire money.

It was an "emergency" request, the Hill reported, representing an urgent need for an infusion of $100,000 to put ads on the air in battleground states. Why Trump couldn't simply write a check to cover the costs apparently wasn't explained, but the missive was useful regardless: It demonstrates clearly the difficult position of the Trump campaign with only 142 days to go.

We looked at Trump's sliding poll numbers on Friday, but it's worth adding a bit more context.

"[T]here's no way to look at Trump's national polling that avoids the grim reality that he is at a lower ebb than any general election candidate has hit in the last three elections," the National Review's Dan McLaughlin wrote last week.

Not only are Trump's poll numbers slipping, they are at a low that no one, Republican or Democrat, has seen in the past three election cycles. Looking at the window of time between 200 and 100 days before each of those elections, you can see that Trump has consistently polled worse than George W. Bush in 2004, John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. He caught up briefly after clinching the GOP nomination — and then sank again.

Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-60973541724924801452016-06-16T19:51:00.001-04:002016-06-17T08:18:52.541-04:00Trump News?...Rational Nation USA
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Reports are floating around that Donald J Trump, GOP presumptive presidential nominee, is considering getting into the media business. If there is any substance to this it certainty would not be surprising. He could name his company Yellow Journalism LTD and his news show Reality Television News.

Every election cycle has its own breakout media star. In 1992, it was CNN. A few years later, it would be an e-mail blast called the Drudge Report. By 2000, the country had more or less been neatly delineated between MSNBC and Fox News households. The 2008 election introduced Politico and the Huffington Post to the adults' table. BuzzFeed joined in 2012.

The breakout media star of 2016 is, inarguably, Donald Trump, who has masterfully—and horrifyingly—demonstrated an aptitude for manipulating the news cycle, gaining billions of dollars worth of free airtime, and dominating coverage on every screen. Now, several people around him are looking for a way to leverage his supporters into a new media platform and cable channel.

Trump is indeed considering creating his own media business, built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president of the United States. According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive Republican nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the "audience" currently supporting him. He has also discussed the possibility of launching a "mini-media conglomerate" outside of his existing TV-production business, Trump Productions LLC. He has, according to one of these people, enlisted the consultation of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who owns the The New York Observer. Trump's rationale, according to this person, is that, "win or lose, we are onto something here. We've triggered a base of the population that hasn't had a voice in a long time." For his part, Kushner was heard at a New York dinner party saying that "the people here don't understand what I'm seeing. You go to these arenas and people go crazy for him." (Both Kushner and Ivanka Trump did not respond to a request for comment.)

Trump, this person close to the matter suggests, has become irked by his ability to create revenue for other media organizations without being able to take a cut himself. Such a situation "brings him to the conclusion that he has the business acumen and the ratings for his own network." Trump has "gotten the bug," according to this person. "So now he wants to figure out if he can monetize it."

More HERE.

Via: Memeorandum
Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-28224194906106130632016-06-16T10:52:00.001-04:002016-06-16T10:52:39.035-04:00Stephen Colbert Skewering Trump...Hillarious!

Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-62292992491301418212016-06-15T17:35:00.001-04:002016-06-15T19:37:51.918-04:00Again the NRA and Trump Are Lyng...Rational Nation USA
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Here we go again. Complements of the NRA and Donald Trump.

Fairfax, Va.— The executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, Chris W. Cox, released the following statement regarding terror watchlists:

 We are happy to meet with Donald Trump. The NRA's position on this issue has not changed. The NRA believes that terrorists should not be allowed to purchase or possess firearms, period. Anyone on a terror watchlist who tries to buy a gun should be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and the sale delayed while the investigation is ongoing. If an investigation uncovers evidence of terrorist activity or involvement, the government should be allowed to immediately go to court, block the sale, and arrest the terrorist. At the same time, due process protections should be put in place that allow law-abiding Americans who are wrongly put on a watchlist to be removed. That has been the position of Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) and a majority of the U.S. Senate. Sadly, President Obama and his allies would prefer to play politics with this issue.

President Obama's stated position.

Regarding a Constitutional right to guns, Obama says:

Obama, "Sportsmen": Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms. He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns.

On the issue of urban policy, Obama says he favors "commonsense measures" to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children, and that he would bring back the expired "assault weapon" ban and make it permanent:

Obama, "Urban Policy": Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

For the unemotional and cool headed person, one that observes reality, it is clear that the NRA and Donald Trump are the ones who ...would prefer to play politics with this issue.

Reinstituting the 1994 "assault weapons" ban, universal background checks, and closing loopholes is not banning firearms or gutting the Second Amendment. The only folks hurt by banning assault style large capacity weapons would be the manufacturers and the NRA who, as we all know, are in the manufacturers hip pocket and love to play politics on their behalf.

It is time this nation actually engages in a non political and rational discussion on the issue of sensible and rational firearm regulation and control.

Sources HEREand HERE.Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-61129035440102048162016-06-14T20:02:00.000-04:002016-06-14T20:04:17.031-04:00You Be The Judge...Rational Nation USA
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Anderson Cooper in a rather pointed and intense interview with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. After listening to the video and reading the article it was clear to me that nothing was really clear. The individual citizen Bondi may very well differ with the official Republican Attorney General Bondi. But then again if this be the case why didn't she choose a party hat would be more in line with her personal values? We leave it to you all to be the judge.

CNN's Anderson Cooper went after Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) hard in a one-on-one interview Tuesday, calling into question her status as a champion for LGBT Floridians given her work on the legal fight against same-sex marriage in the state.

And for five minutes, he didn't relent.

Cooper began the interview by quoting Bondi as saying that anybody who attacks Florida's LGBT community will be gone after "to the fullest extent of the law." The quote -- and Tuesday afternoon's interview -- were both in regard to the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning.

Cooper then noted that many people in the LGBT community he spoke to did not have much regard for Bondi, given her work against same-sex marriage in the state. Bondi notably, in 2014, wrote in court papers that Florida allowing the recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states would "impose significant public harm." (Cooper used the words "induce public harm.")

That's when things got heated.

"Do you really think you're a champion of the gay community?" he asked.

Bondi emphasized that she was sworn to uphold the Constitution of Florida and that Florida voters had passed a ban on same-sex marriage (it passed with 62 percent support in 2008). "It had nothing to do -- I've never said I don't like gay people," Bondi protested. "That's ridiculous."

Cooper, who in 2012 came out as gay, didn't back down, though, focusing on the use of the word "harm" in the court papers.

"Doesn't that send a message to some people who might have bad ideas in mind?" he asked.

"Anderson, I don't believe gay people could do harm to the state of Florida," Bondi said.

Then Cooper asked again. And again. By the end, he'd asked some version of that question five times.

A visibly frustrated Bondi sighed and said she would also defend a law legalizing marijuana if it were the law of Florida.

Via: MemeorandumRational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-87718433306429177252016-06-13T18:35:00.000-04:002016-06-13T18:38:39.363-04:00Monday Evening Comic Relief...

Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-63124707061651292032016-06-13T16:40:00.000-04:002016-06-13T17:50:41.132-04:00Trump, An ISIS Stooge?...Rational Nation USA
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It is no surprise that Trump has chose to politicize and exploit the Orlando Florida terrorist attack in which 50 souls were killed and 53 were injured this past Sunday morning. His exploitation of this horrific attack for political purposes is reprehensible and sickens. It is also dangerous.

The following from Slate,

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Donald Trump says the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida—perpetrated early Sunday morning by an Afghan American who'd pledged allegiance to ISIS—vindicates Trump's hard line against ISIS and terrorism. In a tweet posted Sunday afternoon, Trump gloated that he had been proved "right on radical Islamic terrorism."

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 Trump is a fool. Analysts who see this atrocity as an act of radical Islamic terrorism—and who understand radicalism, Islam, and terrorism far better than Trump does—suspect it was inspired by a message from ISIS, issued three weeks ago. This elaborate statement, delivered by ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, urged ISIS sympathizers to attack civilians in Europe and the United States during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also clarified the group's propaganda and recruitment strategy. Trump's platform of banning Muslims, blocking migrants, and ruthlessly bombing ISIS-held territory fits this strategy perfectly. He's an ISIS stooge.

 The statement from ISIS, released on May 21, exhorts Muslims to "terrorize" non-Muslims everywhere and to make Ramadan "a month of suffering." But this plea comes from a position of weakness. The statement says "the whole world has allied and rushed against us," launching "20,000 airstrikes" and killing several top ISIS leaders. It pledges, defiantly and expectantly, that ISIS won't quit no matter how much territory it loses.

 The worst peril, according to the statement, is emerging from within Islam: "Evil scholars" are using "every form of media" to issue "fatwas against the mujahidin." These scholars, the statement explains, are promoting moderate interpretations of Islamic mercy. They're denouncing terrorism and condemning ISIS fighters as pseudo-Islamic "renegades." They're instructing Muslims to renounce jihad and expel ISIS from their lands. For pages and pages, the statement goes on, lambasting these scholars and the damage they're doing to public opinion. Clearly, ISIS sees this as a central threat.

 To quash the threat, ISIS reasserts that "there are only two armies, two camps, two trenches": Muslims and infidels. There can be no integration, the statement argues—no attempt to " 'make peace and mix' with those who hate the faith." Muslims must follow ISIS: "We are the People of the Quran." The statement claims that the armies arrayed against ISIS "wage war against us … because we command the worship of Allah. … This is our religion. For this alone, we fight the world and they fight us."

 To prove that the forces arrayed against ISIS are anti-Islamic, and to justify terrorism in Europe and the United States, the statement presents three arguments...

Continue reading BELOW THE FOLD.

Trump is without doubt a stooge. A very, very dangerous stooge.

Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-65836117571609892432016-06-13T15:42:00.001-04:002016-06-13T15:42:15.184-04:00As Trump Continues Sinking Lower Than Thought Possible...Rational Nation USA
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This weblog, never a Trump supporter and for what is glaringly obvious to most rational folks, is now comfortably stating Trump is a man to be despised, completely and totally. Trump the Demagogue has sunk to a level even I never dreamed possible for him. Trump is an embarrassment to this country and a serious danger to our American way of life. He has single handedly destroyed any credibility the republican party may have had, and now he wants to destroy the credibility our country has among the nations of the world. He is a jackal in disguise and unless he is stopped in his tracks come November the entire nation, and perhaps the world, will suffer on multiple levels.

The following excerpt from The New Yorker  expresses the thoughts millions of Americans are having.

In the rhetoric of Donald Trump, mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. It is hard to say which prevailed today as the Republican Party standard-bearer, a man who pretends to the most powerful political office in the land, tweeted this at his followers: "Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism."

This came in the wake of the most horrific mass shooting in the history of the United States—a slaughter of fifty men and women in an L.G.B.T. night club called Pulse, in Orlando, early Sunday morning. Trump allowed that he didn't want "congrats" so much as he wanted "toughness & vigilance." Just as profoundly, he announced, "We must be smart!"

Trump also told his followers—and hence the world—that President Obama should "immediately resign in disgrace" for failing to "mention the words radical Islam" in his remarks on the shooting. And, he suggested, Hillary Clinton might want to get out of the Presidential race for making the same sin of omission in her statement.

With every month, it has become clearer that Trump is a makeshift politician, whose rancid wit resides in his willingness to say whatever it takes to arouse the fears of a political base. He might have started his campaign with the idea of winning some votes and publicity, increasing his profile as a marketing whiz, and then dropping out. Good for business! But now that he has stunned the political world—and, likely, himself—he has shown little inclination (or, perhaps, capacity) to grow into his role, to modify his language, be it for the sake of the Republican establishment or of simple decency. He'll have none of that. Whatever inflates his sense of self and prods the anxieties of the country—that's what works for him.

It feels indecent on such a day to engage these comments of Trump's at all. But their velocity, vapidity, and sheer ugliness reflect his character, his emptiness, and, most of all, the shape of the election campaign to come. Since Trump has ascended, it's been clear that his demagogic instincts could be tested precisely by the sort of tragedy suffered in Orlando. And, when faced with the path of modesty and the path of dark opportunism, he has chosen the latter. That's what he is about. It's who he is.

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"If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore," Trump said in a statement posted on his campaign's Web site. "Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen—and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can't afford to be politically correct anymore."

Trump's ruse is that somehow the United States is not engaged militarily in the fight against ISIS, or that "political correctness" is the chief factor undermining American security. He feeds his constituents daily with the misbegotten notion that the country is being flooded with countless unchecked "aliens" from the Middle East, South Asia, and Mexico. The mouth moves and the lies pour forth. Any contrary evidence, any complexity, is foreign. Questioned on television to prove his points, faced with contrary evidence, he talks past it. Never mind all the firepower expended against ISIS targets, the territory gained, and the difficulty of taking back cities when ordinary civilians are used, en masse, as human shields. We are weak; we are politically correct.

In the interest of common decency I will not say what I really think of Trump the Demagogue.

More BELOW THE FOLD.

Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-81288970353179242842016-06-12T19:52:00.000-04:002016-06-12T19:52:56.474-04:00Horror and Terror in Orlando...Rational Nation USA
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As Donald Trump plays his all to familiar xenophobia trump card (pun intended), President Obama responds appropriately as the President of the United States should to the early morning terrorist attack in Orlando Florida.

Donald J. Trump Statement Regarding Tragic Terrorist Attack in Orlando, Florida

Last night, our nation was attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist. It was the worst terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11, and the second of its kind in 6 months. My deepest sympathy and support goes out to the victims, the wounded, and their families.

In his remarks today, President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words 'Radical Islam'. For that reason alone, he should step down. If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words 'Radical Islam' she should get out of this race for the Presidency.

If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore. Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen – and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can't afford to be politically correct anymore.

The terrorist, Omar Mir Saddique Mateen, is the son of an immigrant from Afghanistan who openly published his support for the Afghanistani Taliban and even tried to run for President of Afghanistan. According to Pew, 99% of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law.

We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year. Since 9/11, hundreds of migrants and their children have been implicated in terrorism in the United States.

Hillary Clinton wants to dramatically increase admissions from the Middle East, bringing in many hundreds of thousands during a first term – and we will have no way to screen them, pay for them, or prevent the second generation from radicalizing.

We need to protect all Americans, of all backgrounds and all beliefs, from Radical Islamic Terrorism - which has no place in an open and tolerant society. Radical Islam advocates hate for women, gays, Jews, Christians and all Americans. I am going to be a President for all Americans, and I am going to protect and defend all Americans. We are going to make America safe again and great again for everyone.

- Donald J. Trump

We note that Mr. Trump's unpopularity is having an impact, pushing republicans and conservatives in a typically red sate potentially into HRC's corner. We're sure statements such as the one recently issued by him (see above) has had a some impact in the move away from supporting The Donald.

Earlier President Obama made the following remarks.

(CNN) — President Barack Obama called the mass shooting at an LGBT Orlando nightclub Sunday an "act of terror" in remarks to the nation from the White House briefing room.

"We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate," he said. "The FBI is appropriately investigating this as an act of terror. We will go wherever the facts lead us ... What is clear is he was a person filled with hatred."

MORE here.Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-86834668651203064032016-06-10T20:46:00.000-04:002016-06-10T21:45:05.775-04:00Clinton Leading Trump In Reuters/Ipsos Poll ,,,Rational Nation USA
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Away all weekend visiting family out of state. No posting but comments will be monitored and posted sporadically.

Enjoy the weekend, and, Down With Trump!

Clinton leads Trump by 11 points in White House race: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the U.S. presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.

The online poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, shows 46 percent of likely voters support Clinton while 34.8 percent back Trump. Another 19.2 percent support neither candidate. Their parties hold conventions in July ahead of a Nov. 8 election.

Clinton's lead was nearly the same a week ago, before she had amassed enough convention delegates to win the nomination and before Trump drew criticism from leaders of both parties for questioning the impartiality of a Mexican-American judge.

Defeating Trump must be priority 1. Ideally in a landslide. He is simply that BAD for our civil liberties and America in general.Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-83763591392853927832016-06-09T19:28:00.001-04:002016-06-09T19:35:58.661-04:00Stop Trump...

Sign the Petition - Stop Trump!

Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-92003901642362650852016-06-09T13:02:00.001-04:002016-06-10T10:35:47.335-04:00Should Democrats Begin Taking a More Realistic Approach Towards The Donald?...Rational Nation USA
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Donald J. Trump is many things, as the year long primary season so amply and credibly pointed out. Stupidity however is certainly not one of them. Although given his divisive rhetoric and apparent tone deafness one sometimes was left to question that premise.

At any rate Trump's June 7th victory speech struck a tone different from what we've grown used to, and, frankly grown to expect from the Donald. As TPM aptly points out in the following excerpts if Trump continues to press his populist agenda in the same tone as his June 7th speech he will be a strong general election candidate. One much more difficult for HRC to vanquish.

*He framed the election in classic populist terms: "I'm going to be America's champion because you see this election isn't about Republican or Democrat; it's about who runs this country – the special interests or the people and I mean the American people."

*Instead of the usual Republican bromides against government spending, he bemoaned crumbling public infrastructure: "I visited the crumbling cities and the struggling schools. I've seen our dilapidated airports, highways, bridges and I've compared them to other countries where we see facilities so far superior to ours it's really not to be believed, hard to imagine what's happened to our country."

*He cited the loss of manufacturing jobs: "I've visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs, they literally, these jobs have virtually disappeared, an embarrassment to our country and it's horrible."

*He used the slogan of "America First" (most Americans are unaware of the slogan's origins) to highlight his opposition to foreign intervention that wasn't directly linked to America's security. Citing Clinton's intervention in Iraq, Libya and Syria, he described his own foreign policy: "It means on foreign policy we will never enter into any kind conflict unless it makes us safer as a nation. It has to make us safer as a nation."

*He also used the slogan of "America First" to link his opposition to illegal immigration, but on economic rather than cultural rounds: "America First means protecting the jobs, wages and security of American workers, whether first or tenth generation." Then he segued to a universal appeal: "No matter who you are, we're going to protect your job because let me tell you our jobs are being stripped from our country like we're babies…Every American worker of every background is entitled to the same benefits, protections and rights and privileges; it's got to be that way."

*He also used "America First" to explain his opposition to NAFTA and other trade deals. "On trade, America First means the American worker will have his or her job protected from unfair foreign competition."

*In his repeated promise to create new jobs, he specifically included African Americans with the highest rate of unemployment: "We're going to put America back to work. We're going to make our own products. We're going to put America back to work. We're going to rebuild our inner cities which are absolutely a shame and so sad. We're going to take care of our African American people that have been mistreated for so long."

*Finally, instead of attacking Clinton for her relationship with her husband – and some other sordid irrelevance – he honed in on where Clinton is most vulnerable: "The Clintons have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves. They've made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts, and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars. Secretary Clinton even did all of the work on a totally illegal private server. Something about how she's getting away with this folks nobody understands."

Whether Trump is able to control his natural narcissistic urges or not remains to be seen. If he is it will likely be a very tight race and the democratic party, as well as HRC, ought to be concerned. It will be as important for them to focus on HRC's positives as it will be to highlight Trump's negatives.

Believing Trump would govern differently than his rhetoric of the prior 12 months is a very hard thing to do however. Maybe it's just me?

Read full article BELOW THE FOLD.

Via: MemeorandumRational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-70647819058560790872016-06-08T17:02:00.005-04:002016-06-08T17:02:58.494-04:00The Republican Party Has A Problem, It's Called Trump...Rational Nation USA
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If you are a republican, and or a conservative, the clarion call for party unity has went out, and, the pressure will mount for all to fall in line behind the presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump.

Given Mr. Trump's inclination to xenophobia, misogyny, extreme nationalism, authoritarianism, and his recent racist comments with respect to Judge Curiel he has effectively put party leadership in a very tough spot.

It is necessary that a political party unite behind a standard bearer, one who represents and indeed personifies the party's values and principles. Uniting behind an effective and principled leader is considered a must if the party is to prevail in presidential elections.

Influential members of the GOP, including some in leadership positions have endorsed Trump. A few with principles have refused to endorse or openly support him. That is what leaders and others with courage do, they stand behind their values and principles, even if it may result in loss.

How the GOP can square their talk about inclusiveness, liberty, opportunity, and increasing the size of their tent while at the same time standing behind perhaps the most divisive political figure in the last 50 years is puzzling. It really does make one question republican party sincerity. Saying one thing and essentially acting the opposite damages credibility. Certainly in the minds of rational people.

What was once the party of Lincoln, T Roosevelt, and Reagan, is now the party of Trump. The party that could once plausibly argue it stood on principle, now has as its standard bearer a person that seemingly has few, if any at all. Speaker Paul Ryan, a man who hesitated endorsing Trump but ultimately did, is continuing to support Trump even in light of his racism. That my friends puts his own character and principles in question.

(CNN) — House Speaker Paul Ryan reiterated his support Wednesday for Donald Trump at a closed door meeting with House Republicans and asked his colleagues to unite behind the presumptive Republican nominee, according to several members who attended the session.

Ryan's backing of Trump comes a day after he blasted the businessman's remarks about a federal judge as a "textbook definition of a racist comment."

Trumps comments have sparked a fury on Capitol Hill where many Republicans worry that Trump's racially tinged criticism of Judge Gonzalo Curiel could ultimately hurt down-ballot GOP candidates competing in congressional races this year.

Though Ryan didn't back away from his endorsement, he said he would continue to speak out when he believed the billionaire businessman makes inappropriate statements.

Ryan spokesman said the speaker did not "urge" the party to fall in line behind Trump but stressed the importance of unity.

Ryan "just reaffirmed his disagreement with the comment, respecting that the people have elected Donald Trump as our Republican nominee and what we're going to do is we're going to use our position in a positive way to help America out," said Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y.

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Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative group in Congress, said Trump needs to "quit spending time bashing judges." He will vote for Trump, he said, but, "I don't endorse people that bash judges -- based on his ethnic heritage."

Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colorado, who is facing a competitive race, has not endorsed Trump, and has said the presumptive nominee's comments on Curiel were "inappropriate."

"I just disagree with his tone. I just don't think you know his tone as far as Hispanics, his tone to women, and quite frankly, his tone to veterans. As a Marine Corps combat veteran," Coffman said.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Illinois, agreed with characterizations of Trump's comments as racist.

Indeed. The GOP has a problem and with America's changing demographics its problems will only continue to grow. Being totally insensitive and tone is evident within the GOP. It will likely be the party's death knell.

Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-12969357399651970462016-06-06T18:31:00.001-04:002016-06-06T18:31:05.404-04:00The La Raza Connection...Rational Nation USA
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An exchange with one -FJ over at The Daddy Blog.

-FJ June 6, 2016 at 12:37 PM

LEFTISTS, they will NEVER admit their emperor is naked.

Like the Trump-judge story. Trumps raants make perfect sense when you know about the "La Raza" connection. But the Press never makes the connection. It's all a bad-faith by Trump "mystery"... much like all that Chicago gun violence.

Rational Nation USA June 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM

At least YOU gave a palatable response. Bias is everywhere and the vast majority, if not all, of the people are biased. Including conservatives and they, as well as liberals, lean towards their bias, reflexively for most.

Thanks for your response -FJ

If Trump becomes the right's Emperor, which is highly unlikely, I wonder if the right will ever admit he is naked.

Karl Rove & The La Raza Connection

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2007

In an eleven minute Video News Blog, the Full Disclosure Network® presents --the news behind the news-- the last day of the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles on July 11, 2006. This video reveals Karl Rove, White House connection to multi-national corporate sponsors behind the National Council of La Raza. Available free, on demand, 24/7 at this URL: http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog32.php  Common goals?

Rove's remarks on this video offer possible explanations as to why he was designated to represent the White House and provides insight in to the Hispanic strategy to support sympathy for an "open border" policy. Also, the multi-national Corporate leaders describe their common goals with the National Council of La Raza (non-profit social, activist groups) Full Disclosure® discovered the coordinated effort of these forces at the NCLR convention where speakers and delegates describe the exciting prospect of nurturing, cultivating and encouraging the populous Hispanic forces in America to push for the following:

Merging the United States, Mexico and Canada into an economic union, Open Borders.

Free flow of capital, goods, labor, and services.

North American Economic Union aka "a common market economy."

To compete with the European Common Market.

The news behind the news:You judge for yourself by watching Full Disclosure Network's® coverage of the National Council of La Raza Convention. This video contains excerpts of presentations the mainstream media failed to cover.
Included in the video are:

Excerpts from Karl Rove, White House strategist on the Administration's failed Immigration reform policy.

Corporate sponsors of the event pitching to the Hispanic audience.

Reaction from a sampling of attendees representing Latino and migrant rights organizations.

Video clips interviews with the Nativo Lopez, president of MAPA a prominent retired Hispanic law enforcement official. L. A. County Sheriff's Sergeant Richard Valdemar.

Known as --the news behind the news-- the Full Disclosure Network® is featured on 45 cable television systems and streamed on the Internet at http://www.fulldisclosure.net In 2002 the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented host Leslie Dutton with an Emmy for the 2001 public affairs series entitled L.A.'s War Against Against Terrorism. In 2000 the first Full Disclosure Forum was held in Washington D.C. entitled : The Prosecutor & The Presidency featuring former U. S. Attorneys General and Special and Independent Prosecutors on how America investigates the Presidency.

Interesting stuff. I guess what -FJ is pointing out is that he (and apparently Trump and many others) are isolationists and supportive of closed borders.

Fact is it is possible at some point there may actually exist a North American Economic Union. What is critical is that when and if it ever does exist it is structured as a win - win for all. My thoughts are we just aren't that smart yet. Neither is Trump or -FJ et all.

Any thoughts all you good people out there?

Daddy regulars are welcome to comment as well. As long as comment is on topic, respectful, and observes comment criteria.Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-42544122408873935802016-06-06T16:12:00.000-04:002016-06-06T16:12:22.911-04:00There Is Apparently No End To Donald J. Trump's Dung Heap Of Words... Rational Nation USA
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It must be incredibly embarrassing for the GOP to have as its presumptive nominee someone who manages to draw fire from not only the opposition but from conservatives and libertarians within the GOP as well.

Today's post is a quick round up of criticism aimed at Donald J. Trump, Narcissist Demagogue Extraordinaire.

Here's Trump.

Article BELOW THE FOLD.

THE HILL - Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said on Sunday that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump should not have attacked a California judge regarding his "Mexican heritage."

"This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made," Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday."

"I think it's inexcusable."

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"He is an American. Period. When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody," he said.

Read more and view video BELOW THE FOLD.

BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed has pulled out of an advertising agreement with the Republican National Committee over objections to Donald Trump's rhetoric.

The buy was for $1.3 million, a source close to BuzzFeed told POLITICO. The source said that the main consideration was the site's employees – that BuzzFeed could not countenance "having employees make ads, or working at the company and having our site promoting things, that limit our freedom and make it harder for them to live their lives."

Asked if the site would rule out any Trump advertising, the source said the specifics would matter: "In general, we have taken the position that we won't take ads for his presidential campaign."

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"We certainly don't like to turn away revenue that funds all the important work we do across the company," Peretti wrote. "However, in some cases we must make business exceptions: we don't run cigarette ads because they are hazardous to our health, and we won't accept Trump ads for the exact same reason."

Continue reading BELOW THE FOLD.

Washington (CNN)  - Top Republican officials and donors are increasingly worried about the threat Donald Trump's attack on a judge's Mexican heritage could pose to their party's chances in November -- and about the GOP's ability to win Latino votes for many elections to come.

Trump is under fire for repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit involving Trump University, of bias because of his Mexican heritage. Those concerns intensified Sunday after Trump said he would have the same concerns about the impartiality of a Muslim judge.

House and Senate GOP leaders have condemned Trump's remarks about Curiel, while donors have openly worried that losing Latino voters could doom them in key down-ballot races. Other important party figures, including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, are urging Trump to change his combative, confrontational style before it's too late.

Veteran Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned this weekend that GOP leaders who have endorsed Trump "own his politics."

"You own his politics," Wilson wrote in a column for Heatstreet, adding later, "You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth."

More BELOW THE FOLD.

Of course Donald J. Trump, clueless as he is, claims surprise at the criticism he is receiving. That of course is absolutely NO surprise at all for those who have spent time following Trump, his divisive rhetoric, and Trumpian demagoguery.

Trump shames himself and continues to embarrass the USA.

Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-25985336147576409222016-06-05T16:55:00.005-04:002016-06-05T16:59:30.818-04:00As Trump Struggles To Convince Rational Individuals...Rational Nation USA
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I'll freely admit this is just my opinion and many may disagree with it, but, based on Trump's response to Dickerson it seems clear Trump is not only heavily biased himself but he is absolutely tone deaf and clueless.

Donald Trump is standing by comments he made against U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge presiding over a Trump University lawsuit, telling CBS' "Face the Nation" that Curiel's Mexican heritage prevents him from acting fairly on the bench.

"He is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine," Trump told "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson in an interview that will air Sunday. "But I say he's got bias. I want to build a wall. I'm going to build a wall. I'm doing very well with the Latinos, with the Hispanics, with the Mexicans, I'm doing very well with them in my opinion."

Later, when asked if he believed a Muslim judge would treat him unfairly because of another controversial proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the U.S., Trump replied: "It's possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely."

"Isn't there sort of a tradition though in America that we don't judge people by who their parents were and where they came from?" Dickerson asked.

"I'm not talking about tradition," Trump replied. "I'm talking about common sense, okay? He's somebody, he's proud of his heritage. And I think that's great that he's proud of his heritage."

Trump is exactly what this nation does not need.

Complete article BELOW THE FOLD.

Via: MemeorandumRational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-59579039163291138952016-06-04T19:50:00.000-04:002016-06-04T19:50:01.633-04:00Muhammad Ali... Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like A BeeRational Nation USA
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Ten years younger than Ali I grew up watching and admiring The Greatest.  His honesty, courage, and strength of his convictions top the list.

You Were, and Will Always Remain the Greatest Champ

Rest In Peace

What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming. Muhammad Ali, who died Friday, in Phoenix, at the age of seventy-four, was the most fantastical American figure of his era, a self-invented character of such physical wit, political defiance, global fame, and sheer originality that no novelist you might name would dare conceive him. Born Cassius Clay in Jim Crow-era Louisville, Kentucky, he was a skinny, quick-witted kid, the son of a sign painter and a house cleaner, who learned to box at the age of twelve to avenge the indignity of a stolen bicycle, a sixty-dollar red Schwinn that he could not bear to lose. Eventually, Ali became arguably the most famous person on the planet, known as a supreme athlete, an uncanny blend of power, improvisation, and velocity; a master of rhyming prediction and derision; an exemplar and symbol of racial pride; a fighter, a draft resister, an acolyte, a preacher, a separatist, an integrationist, a comedian, an actor, a dancer, a butterfly, a bee, a figure of immense courage.

In his early career, when he declared his allegiance to Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam, rid himself of his "slave name," and lost his heavyweight title rather than fight in Vietnam, Ali was vilified as much as he was admired. Millions hated Ali; he threatened a sense of the racial order; he was, in his refusal to conform to any type, as destabilizing to many Americans as he was to the many heavyweights who could not understand why he would just not come to the center of the ring and fight like a real man. He was, for many years, a radical figure for many Americans. For years, many refused to call him by his new name. "I pity Clay and abhor what he represents," the columnist Jimmy Cannon wrote. Even Red Smith, the most respected of all sports columnists, compared Ali to the "unwashed punks" who dared to march against the war. But in recent decades, as Parkinson's disease began to overwhelm his gifts for movement and speech, and as the country's attitudes changed, Ali became a focus of almost universal affection. The people who encountered him at charity dinners, in airports, at sporting events approached him as they would a serene Pope Francis or the Dalai Lama, and, if he could summon a whispered joke or flirt for a moment or just widen his eyes in that old vaudeville way of his, people left with a sense of having met a source of wonder.

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"They stand around and say, 'Good fight, boy: you're a good boy; good goin'," Ali said, in 1970. "They don't look at fighters to have brains. They don't look at fighters to be businessmen, or human, or intelligent. Fighters are just brutes that come to entertain the rich white people. Beat up on each other and break each other's noses, and bleed, and show off like two little monkeys for the crowd, killing each other for the crowd. And half the crowd is white. We're just like two slaves in that ring. The masters get two of us big old black slaves and let us fight it out while they bet: 'My slave can whup your slave.' That's what I see when I see two black people fighting." It was almost as if Ali, at the height of his fame, was hinting that we were all complicit in something fallen and dubious, even as we were rooting him on.

What modern athlete, much less one at Ali's level, has ever talked with such political complexity, ambiguity, or engagement?
Full article BELOW THE FOLD.

Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-18667317239708552282016-06-03T16:01:00.002-04:002016-06-03T16:01:23.747-04:00Would A Trump Presidency Be A Threat To The Rule Of Law?...Rational Nation USA
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Having observed Donald J. Trump during the GOP debates, watched the endless stream of Trump media exposure, and read numerous long form journalism accounts, it is almost impossible to not arrive at the conclusion he is unfit to be president of our democratic republic. Escaping the realization Trump demonstrates many characteristics of narcissism, misogyny, xenophobia, extreme nationalism, bigotry, authoritarianism, and disregard for the rule of law is only possible if one willfully ignores that which is in plain sight, and glaringly so.

For the self proclaimed party of limited government and maximum liberty it would seem reasonable as well as rational that the GOP, especially the Tea Party folks, would refuse to support a candidate that may very well, as the following The New York Times article points out, threaten the rule of law on which this nation was founded. But it has become increasingly more obvious that the GOP and the Tea Party is by far more interested in something else, returning to the old order of things pre 1965. Trump rep[resents the strong arm strongman they believe can and will do exactly that.

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump's blustery attacks on the press, complaints about the judicial system and bold claims of presidential power collectively sketch out a constitutional worldview that shows contempt for the First Amendment, the separation of powers and the rule of law, legal experts across the political spectrum say.

Even as much of the Republican political establishment lines up behind its presumptive nominee, many conservative and libertarian legal scholars warn that electing Mr. Trump is a recipe for a constitutional crisis.

"Who knows what Donald Trump with a pen and phone would do?" asked Ilya Shapiro, a lawyer with the libertarian Cato Institute.

With five months to go before Election Day, Mr. Trump has already said he would "loosen" libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations. He has threatened to sic federal regulators on his critics. He has encouraged rough treatment of demonstrators.

His proposal to bar Muslims from entry into the country tests the Constitution's guarantees of religious freedom, due process and equal protection.

And, in what was a tipping point for some, he attacked Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of the Federal District Court in San Diego, who is overseeing two class actions against Trump University.

Mr. Trump accused the judge of bias, falsely said he was Mexican and seemed to issue a threat.

"They ought to look into Judge Curiel, because what Judge Curiel is doing is a total disgrace," Mr. Trump said. "O.K.? But we will come back in November. Wouldn't that be wild if I am president and come back and do a civil case?"

David Post, a retired law professor who now writes for the Volokh Conspiracy, a conservative-leaning law blog, said those comments had crossed a line.

"This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary," Mr. Post said. "You can criticize the judicial system, you can criticize individual cases, you can criticize individual judges. But the president has to be clear that the law is the law and that he enforces the law. That is his constitutional obligation."

To Trump advocates we can only say caveat emptor.

Continue reading BELOW THE FOLD

Via: Memeorandum
Rational Nation USAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-65065161589172480812016-06-02T18:39:00.000-04:002016-06-02T18:39:07.680-04:00Is This What America Needs? Or Wants?Rational Nation USA
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In our democratic republic legitimate authority is derived from the people. Is Trump a personality this nation really wants to take a chance on? Reason consuls us the answer is absolutly not.Rational Nation USAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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CUTTER BAR ASSEMBLY, U.S. Pat. No. 3,722,196 issued Mar. 27, 1973 to William E. Templeton.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING AND CUTTING GRASSES, Ser. No. 206,842 filed Dec. 10, 1971 by William E. Templeton, now abandoned, of which this application is a continuation-in-part.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to mowers of the type used to shear grasses growing on a ground surface, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for combing, positioning, and cutting grasses through the use of one or more rotary driven rake structures positioned generally forwardly of a cutter. Depending on the positioning, structure, and direction of rotation of the rotary rake structures, the rake structures may additionally serve the functions of pulling out matted weeds such as crabgrass, preventing the admission of foreign objects to the region of the cutter, and sweeping grass clippings into a grass catcher.
2. The Prior Art
Three basic types of mechanical grass cutting devices are well known. First, there is the rotary lawn mower having a relatively long thin blade disposed for high speed rotation in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis. Second, there is the reel type lawn mower wherein a cylindrical cutter assembly rotates about a horizontal axis to provide a shearing action in conjunction with one or more fixed blades. Third, there is the reciprocating cutter wherein a cutter bar assembly carrying a plurality of forwardly projecting tines having sharpened surfaces cooperates with a sickle or cutter which is reciprocated cyclically back and forth to achieve a shearing action. One such reciprocating cutter is described and claimed in the referenced patent.
Rotary and reel type systems are inherently simpler and less expensive than reciprocating cutters. Since the quality of the cutting job on residential lawns has not been substantially different whether a reel type, rotary type, or reciprocating cutter type mower is used, the rotary and reel type systems have been widely used in residential lawn mowers. Reciprocating cutters, on the other hand, are well adapted to handle the heavy load of harvesting tall grass crops and, accordingly, have been used almost exclusively in farm-implement applications.
One drawback of all three types of mowers is that they are equipped to do little, if anything, to prevent the admission of foreign objects to the region of the cutter. When foreign objects such as sticks, stones, pieces of metal, and the like are contacted by the cutter, the cutter is frequently damaged or jammed. The object is frequently propelled by the cutter in the manner of a missile and can do considerable harm to the operator or to other objects positioned in its flight path. While a wide variety of guards have been proposed in an effort to prevent the entry of objects to the region of cutter operation and to stop objects propelled outwardly from the cutter, the fact remains that many injuries and a good deal of damage to mowers and other property occurs each year due to foreign objects contacting the cutters of mowers.
Still another drawback of known prior art lawn mowers is that they are in no way equipped to pick up or pull out such matter low-growing weeds as crabgrass. Rather, known lawn mowers trim the grass at a height above such low growing weeds and do nothing to disturb their growth and spread.
Present day rotary and reel type residential lawn mowers are equipped to do little, if anything, to position grass blades in an erect, upright attitude for engagement by the rotating blade. Consequently grass blades which are bent downwardly are frequently not picked up by the mower for shearing at equal lengths with upstanding blades of grass, and an uneven grass cutting job results.
The present invention overcomes the foregoing drawbacks of the prior art and provides a novel and improved method and apparatus for combing grasses prior to cutting to remove foreign objects, for picking up and pulling out such matted weeds as crabgrass, and for positioning grass blades in an erect upstanding attitude for even shearing.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, known types of rotary, reel type and reciprocating cutter lawn mowers are provided with a generally cylindrical rotary driven rake structure positioned forwardly of the cutter. The rake structure is driven in a direction best described as opposite to the direction of rotation of the ground supporting wheels during forward mower movement. The teeth of the rake structure reach into the grasses ahead of the cutter and lift foreign objects out of the grasses. The angular velocity of the rake structure is adjusted such that foreign objects picked up by the rotating rake structure are gently tossed a short distance, typically 3 or 4 feet, ahead of the mower where they can be picked up in safety by the operator.
The rotary rake comprises relatively rigid spaced teeth which reach into and lift the grasses ahead of the mower. The rake aligns and straightens the grasses thereby facilitating an even shearing of the grasses by the cutter. The rake also serves to pick up and pull out low-growing matted weeds, such as crabgrass. Tests made with lawnmowers equipped with rake structures in accordance with the present invention have shown that the average lawn can be entirely ridded of noticeable crabgrass in only a few mowings.
Where the lawn is free of foreign objects and the object deflecting feature of the rake is not required, the rake can be rotated in the opposite drive direction, i.e., in the same direction as the wheels during forward mower movement. The rake then serves to lift, straighten and align grasses as well as to pull out matted weeds, but does not serve to toss foreign objects away from the cutter.
In accordance with preferred embodiment of the present invention, a mower of the reciprocating cutter type is provided with a forward and a rearward rake structures. The forward rake structure comprises a plurality of spaced, relatively rigid teeth which serve the aforedescribed purposes of (1) object deflection, (2) grass lifting, straightening and aligning, as well as (3) matted weed pulling. The rearward rake structure comprises a cylindrical brush-like arrangement of closely spaced relatively flexible bristles. This second or rearward rake rotates in the same direction as the supporting wheels of the mower. The rearward rake serves to move the upstanding grass blades into the reciprocating cutter while positioning them in an upright attitude. Accordingly, an exceptionally even cut is achieved, whether the mower be set to cut the grasses at the very short height of only a fraction of an inch, or at the relatively tall height of several inches.
Since the reciprocating cutter does not employ blades that rotate in the vicinity of the shearing station, there is no interference with cutter operation caused by the positioning of the rearward rake structure in closely spaced arrangement over the shearing station. Accordingly, the improved mower of the preferred embodiment features not only a precision grass positioning system for assuring an even cut, but also provides the exceptionally long operating life and reliability of a reciprocating-type cutter system.
The rear rake structure also serves to propel grass clippings upwardly and rearwardly of the cutter and into a grass catching bag. This action serves not only to keep the cutter clean and free of grass build up, but also provides an effective system for collecting cut grass and such crabgrass type weeds as are picked up and pulled out by the front rake.
Still another feature of the preferred embodiment of the present invention is the drive system which reciprocates the cutter, rotates the rake structures, and propels the mower. Whereas known power lawn mowers commonly regulate cutter speed by adjusting the operating speed of a gasoline engine, the present invention provides a hydraulic drive system, interposed between an engine and the driven elements. By varying the flow rate of hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic motor, cutter speed can be varied without changing engine speed. Accordingly, a simple and inexpensive drive system is provided for varying the relative speed of the cutter and the engine.
It is a general object of the present invention to provide a novel and improved method and apparatus for positioning an cutting grasses.
It is another object to provide a mowing apparatus having a rake structure positioned forward of the cutter to prevent the entry of foreign objects into the region of cutter operation.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a mowing apparatus including a pair of rotating rake structures for positioning grasses for shearing by a reciprocating cutter.
Other objects and a fuller understanding of the present invention may be had by referring to the following description and claims taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a lawn mower constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention, as seen from the plane indicated by the line 1--1 in FIG. 2;
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the mower of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view illustrating the grass positioning action of the mowing system of FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the drive system of the preferred embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a rear elevational view of a portion of the mower of FIG. 1 showing in greater detail the mechanical drive system for the reciprocating cutter;
FIG. 6 is a side elevational view of a rake structure incorporated in a rotary mower in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view of the mower of FIG. 5; and,
FIG. 8 is a schematic exploded view illustrating the connection of the power drive system to the rear mower wheels in the embodiment of FIGS. 6 and 7.
A power lawn mower is shown generally at 10 in FIGS. 1 and 2. The mower includes a frame structure 11 supported by a pair of relatively large diameter drive wheels 12 and a pair of smaller forward balance wheels 13. A handle 14 projects rearwardly and upwardly from the frame structure 11. A grass catcher 15 is positioned rearwardly of the frame structure 11 and beneath the handle 14.
The mower 10 principally comprises a mowing system including a forward and rearward rake structures 20, 30 and a reciprocating cutter 40, as will be described in greater detail. These elements are driven by means of an engine 50 which powers a hydraulic drive system indicated generally by the numeral 60. The hydraulic system 60 is coupled by a mechanical drive system 70 to the drive wheels 12, to the rake structures 20, 30 and to the cutter 40.
The mowing system is illustrated schematically in FIG. 3. The forward rake structure 20 includes a plurality of spaced teeth 21 carried ona shaft 22. The teeth 21 are preferably formed of a relatively rigid but resilient metal wire which will permit their deflection without breaking upon encountering an immovable obstacle. The ends of the shaft 22 are journaled for rotation by the frame structure 11.
The rearward rake structure 30 comprises a plurality of closely spaced bristles 31 which extend radially from a shaft 32. The bristles are preferably relatively flexible and together comprise a generally cylindrical brush. The ends of the shaft 32 are journaled for rotation by the frame structure 11.
In the embodiment shown in the drawings, the forward rake structure 20 rotates in the direction of arrow 23, which is opposite to the direction of the drive wheels 12 when the mower is moving forwardly. The rearward rake structure 30 rotates in the direction of arrow 33, which is the same as the direction of rotation of the drive wheels 12 when the mower is moving forwardly. The teeth 21 of the forward rake structure 20 reach into the grasses ahead of the mower to lift the grass blades and to pick up and pull out such matted weeds as crabgrass. The teeth 21 also lift foreign objects out of the grasses and serve to gently toss such foreign objects forwardly of the mower. In effect the forward rake structure serves to lift the grass blades. Where the forward rake is rotated in the opposite direction to that of the drive wheels 12, it also serves to lean the grass blades slightly forwardly, away from the oncoming mower. Where the forward rake structure 20 is driven in the same direction of rotation as the drive wheels 12, it will not serve the function of removing objects from the path of the cutter but will serve to lift, straighten and align grasses to facilitate even cutting.
The rearward rake structure 30 engages the upstanding grass blades and positions them in the cutter 40. At the time of shearing, the majority of the grass blades are standing substantially erect. Accordingly, an extremely even shearing action is effected.
The cutter 40 is positioned generally beneath the rearward rake structure 30. This enables the rearward rake structure 30 to perform the dual functions of moving the upstanding grass blades into the cutter, and sweeping the grass clippings upwardly and rearwardly into the grass catcher 15.
The cutter 40 is of the type described and claimed in the referenced patent. A plurality of forwardly projecting guards 41 each carrying sharpened ledger plates 42 are supported by a relatively rigid bar structure 43. The ledger plates 42 cooperate with a reciprocable cutter or sickle 44 to provide a shearing action.
The drive system for the mower is illustrated schematically in FIG. 4. The gasoline engine 50 has its output shaft 51 coupled to a hydraulic pump 61. Rotation of the pump 61 pumps hydraulic fluid from a reservoir 62 by means of a conduit 63 into a conduit 64. The conduit 64 directs the pressurized hydraulic fluid into a bypass valve 65. Depending on the setting of the bypass valve 65, a portion or all of the hydraulic fluid is directed either through a conduit 66 to a hydraulic motor 67, or through a conduit 68 to the reservoir 62. From the motor 67, the fluid flows through a conduit 69 to the reservoir.
The mechanical drive system 70 connects by means of a triple-drive chain sprocket 71 to the motor 67. Three drive chains 72, 73, 74 are reeved around the sprocket 71 to drive the various mower components.
The drive chain 72 serves to drive the forward rake structure 20 through a direction reversing gear train. The chain 72 extends downwardly from the sprocket 71 and around a second sprocket 75. The sprocket 75 is rotatably mounted on a shaft 76 carried by the frame structure 11. A first gear 77 rigidly connects with the sprocket 75 for rotation therewith. A second gear 78 meshes with the first gear 77 and is rotatably mounted on a shaft 79 carried by the frame structure 11. A third sprocket 80 rigidly connects with the second gear 78 for rotation therewith. The forward rake shaft 22 is provided with a sprocket 81. A roller chain 82 is reeved around the sprockets 80, 82 so as to drive the forward rake structure 20. By this arrangement, rotation of the sprocket 71 in the direction of arrow 83 will cause rotation of the forward rake structure in the direction of arrow 23.
The drive chain 73 serves to drive the reciprocating cutter. The chain 73 is reeved around the drive sprocket 71 and around a sprocket 88. As is best illustrated in FIG. 5, the sprocket 88 is rotatably mounted on a shaft 89 carried by the frame structure 11. A collar 90 provided with a continuous cam slot 91 is carried by the shaft 89 and is connected to the sprocket 88 for rotation therewith.
An arm 92 translates the rotary motion of the cam 91 into a reciprocating motion to drive the cutter 40. A bracket 93 carried by the frame structure 11 pivotally mounts the arm 92 at a position 94 intermediate the ends of the arm. The upper end of the arm 92 is provided with a bearinged projection, not shown, which extends into the cam slot 91. The lower end of the arm 92 is provided with a bearinged projection 95 which extends into a U-shaped head 96 carried by the sickle 44. By this arrangement, rotation of the cam 91 will cause the arm 92 to oscillate, and the sickle 44 to reciprocate.
The drive chain 74 serves to rotate both the rearward rake structure 30 and the drive wheels 12. The drive wheels 12 are both mounted on an axle 16 which is journaled for rotation on the frame structure 11. A sprocket 98 is keyed to the axle 16 to drive the axis. The rearward rake shaft 32 is provided with a drive sprocket 99. The chain 74 is reeved around the sprockets 71, 98, 99 to drive the wheels 12 and the rearward rake.
In order to control the forward speed of the mower 10 as well as the speed of rotation of the rake structures and the speed of reciprocation of the reciprocating cutter, a control lever 100 is provided on the handle 14. The control lever is pivotably mounted on the handle 14 and connects with a control cable 101.
Referring to FIG. 4, the control cable 101 connects with the actuator 102 of the bypass valve 65 to selectively proportion the flow of hydraulic fluid between the conduits 66, 68. When the valve actuator 102 is set to divert the entire fluid flow through the conduit 68 to the reservoir 62, the motor 67 does not rotate and the mower 10 stands still. As the valve actuator 102 is moved to direct an increasingly larger proportion of the fluid flow through the conduit 66 to the motor 67, the output shaft of the motor begins to rotate with increased speed. Accordingly, the desired drive speed may be set by moving the handle 100, and no adjustment of the speed of engine 50 is needed.
According to the method of the present invention, grasses are positioned for shearing in a reciprocating cutter by means of at least one rotating rake structure, as described above. The grass blades are preferably initially combed forwardly by a first rotatable rake structure to remove foreign objects and to lift, straighten and align the grass blades for shearing. In accordance with the preferred method, the grass blades are subsequently positioned for shearing in a reciprocating cutter by a second rake structure. The first rake structure is preferably provided with spaced, relatively rigid teeth for picking up and pulling out matted grass growths such as crabgrass. The second rake structure preferably comprises a generally cylindrical brush having a plurality of closely spaced generally flexble bristles, and serves to sweep grass clippings away from the cutter and into a grass catcher.
In accordance with another feature of my invention, a single rake structure is disposed forwardly of the cutter of a reciprocating or reel type mower and is rotated in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the mower wheels when the mower is moved along a forward path of travel.
Referring to FIGS. 6, 7, a single rake structure 200 is shown positioned forwardly of the cutting blade 201 of a rotary mower 202. The mower 202 includes a housing 203 supported on ground engaing wheels 204, 205.
An engine 206 is supported atop the housing 203. A first drive shaft 207 depends from the engine 206 into the housing 203 and mounts the blade 201. A second drive shaft 208 extends horizontally and supports a double V-belt pulley 209. A first V-belt 210 is reeved around the pulley 209 and around a rake pulley 211. A second V-belt 212 is reeved around the pulley 209 and around a wheel drive pulley 213.
The rake 200 comprises a plurality of relatively rigid, spaced spring teeth 220 mounted on a shaft 221. Opposite end regions of the shaft 221 are journaled for rotation by the housing 203. The rake drive pulley 211 is rigidly secured to the shaft 221 for rotation therewith.
Referring to FIG. 8, the rear drive wheels 205 each have gear teeth 230 formed internally thereof. Drive pinions 231 are rigidly mounted on a shaft 232 and positioned to drivingly engage the teeth 230. The shaft 232 is journaled for rotation by the housing 203. The wheel drive pulley 213 is rigidly secured to the shaft 232 for rotation therewith.
A lever-operated belt-tightening clutch of conventional configuration, indicated generally by the numeral 240 is positioned in engagement with the belt 212. By manipulation of a lever 241 mounted on the mower handle 242, the belt 212 can be tightened or loosened to drivingly interconnect or disconnect the engine 203 and the wheels 205.
The housing 203 shields the rake 200 from above to prevent foreign objects picked up by the rake from being discharged upwardly or toward the operator. The rake 200 serves to comb grasses ahead of the cutter blade 201 to lift, straighten and align the grasses. The rake 200 also serves to pick up foreign objects such as sticks, stones, tin cans, and the like out of the grasses and to toss them gently to a position slightly forwardly of the mower, e.g. 3 or 4 feet, where they can be retrieved by the operator.
Although the invention has been described in its preferred from with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present disclosure of the preferred form has been made only by way of example and that numerous changes in the details of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
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By Staff Writer | August 28, 2013 01:54 PM EDT
Kanye has been corrected on the croissant front in a hilarious open letter.
Sure, Kanye West's album Yeezus is full of controversial lyrics. However, the track "I Am God" has some ridic lyrics...because, well, Kanye's calling himself God, first of all. There is one about the ubiquitous French pastry:
"I am a God/ Hurry up with my damn massage / In a French-ass restaurant/ Hurry up with my damn croissants!"
Now, however, the Association of French Bakers has sounded back on Kanye's croissant lyrics in a hilarious open letter. Even God does have to wait for good things, apparently. They wrote:
"Assuming you, as a man of means, dine exclusively at high-end restaurants and boulangeries during your voyages to Paris, it could not be possible that the delay of your "damn" croissants originated from slow service."
The Bakers Association continued, schooling him resoundingly:
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Bohemian Hotel Savannah
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No, but it's by the same folks who did the Mansion on Forsyth Park and I've stayed there and loved it! Try it and let us know
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We saw that it was the same people. We'll try it and report back Thanks.
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I did not like this place much at all.
It is on the river and if you get a river view room, the view is nice. But the hotel feels like a "W Hotel" in its vibe -- not at all a charming Southern atmosphere. Music is trendy and the decor is completely weird in my opinion.
Interior might work in Jackson Hole but seems quite strange for Savannah: cowboy sort of decor, velvet headboards, heavy dark furniture, heavy velvet bed throws, no reading chair oddly modern curtains etc. And then there are other design features (like the bathroom door opening onto the door housing the toilet in a way that is really awkward)that are just badly done. Honestly the strangest hotel (for its location) I have stayed in.
I don't really know anything much at Savannah hotels, but if you are looking for a higher end hotel that feels regional I would go elsewhere.
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