Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Rajoo]

Someone should ask that dickwad Dana as to why 4,500 US soldiers died in the Iraq war fighting for the Shia's?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"On Thursday, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) praised the recent Islamic State attack in Tehran as a “good thing” and suggested that maybe the United States should work with the militant organization.
Rohrabacher’s entire line of reasoning for why the United States should work with a militant group accused of human rights violations and war crimes like ethnic cleansing is astonishing. Here it is verbatim:

“We have recently seen an attack on Iran, and the Iranian government, the mullahs, believe that Sunni forces have attacked them. This may signal a ratcheting up of certain commitments by the United States of America. As far as I’m concerned, I just want to make this point and see what you think, isn’t it a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us? Isn’t that a good thing? And if so, maybe this is a Trump — maybe it’s a Trump strategy of actually supporting one group against another, considering that you have two terrorist organizations.”" ThinkProgress

https://thinkprogress.org/republican...s-a7e9382dbe1b

Too much weed? End stage 'Mad Cow Disease'? This fucking dimwitted libertarian is my rep in the house.

Typical Randite libertarian. Totally convoluted and twisted. Pretzel logic employed to claim rationality and morality for disordered hateful thinking.

As if there is anything good that could come from a Sunni-Shia war, even if we could arrange it. As if there is anything good that could come from some 'alliance' with the blood-soaked Islamic State. Disordered hateful thinking, probably stuck in a weird loop involving the US, Israel, and Hezbollah.

WHAT Hezbollah/Shiite threat to us? The man should be committed.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Typical Randite libertarian. Totally convoluted and twisted. Pretzel logic employed to claim rationality and morality for disordered hateful thinking.

As if there is anything good that could come from a Sunni-Shia war, even if we could arrange it. As if there is anything good that could come from some 'alliance' with the blood-soaked Islamic State. Disordered hateful thinking, probably stuck in a weird loop involving the US, Israel, and Hezbollah.

WHAT Hezbollah/Shiite threat to us? The man should be committed.

He is saying openly what is often done covertly.

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009


Of course McCain was always castigating Obama when the latter was President. Now if we can only get the people who voted for Trump to feel the same way.

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

What a bunch of jerks. I guess they couldn't handle someone making a $1.50 an hour more at McDonalds.

[donquixote99]

Let it get back under the rocks.

[Chicks]

Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors

Horrific story.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/health...ise/index.html

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors

Horrific story.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/health...ise/index.html

Conservative values on display.

[CarlV]

It was 2006—the height of the real-estate market boom—when Kushner Cos. agreed to buy 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.8 billion, then a record for a Manhattan building. All of it was borrowed except for $50 million. The company still holds half of a $1.2 billion mortgage, on which it hasn’t paid a cent. The full amount is due in February 2019.

The strain has become increasingly evident across their holdings. One person familiar with the company’s finances describes the tower, with its low ceilings and outdated floor plan, as the Jenga puzzle piece that could set the empire teetering.

The family’s idea of how to salvage its investment requires razing the building to the ground and constructing an 80-story tower with greatly expanded retail areas and high-end condominiums. No short- or medium-term return can be expected from such an aggressive approach. Even a return over the long run would be speculative, though Morali describes the plan as “ambitious and creative.” That narrows the pool of investors to those interested in something other than profit. Real estate experts say this almost certainly precludes U.S. companies. More likely: a foreign firm looking to get capital out of its country or seeking a trophy Manhattan property.

Before Trump began his rise to the presidency and the 36-year-old Kushner became his senior adviser, 666 Fifth Avenue struggled to attract serious offers. Meetings the Kushners requested were often rejected. After Trump’s nomination, billions of dollars in Asian and Middle Eastern money came under discussion. Two potential deals that made it to advanced stages, with China’sAnbang Insurance Group and a top Qatari sheikh, fell apart.
Jared Kushner sitting with other senior White House Staff
Photographer: Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg

The new status meant the Kushners’ calls were more readily answered—but they came with additional scrutiny, not only of the Kushners but also of the investors. Since January, the company has ceased entering into business relationships with sovereign entities, Morali said. Federal investigators want to know if the Fifth Avenue building’s finances came up in a post-election meeting Kushner had with the head of Russia’s state-controlled development bank.

The Kushners have reason to look far afield. Even after selling big sections of 666 Fifth in 2011, they have increased their own vulnerability by borrowing more money for other deals, people close to the company say. After a refinancing, the deed to 666 Fifth sits in an escrow account, ready to be seized by lenders in a default, an action indicating their trust has grown thin. The mortgage will become even more of a burden after a scheduled jump in interest rates in December. Under some dire circumstances, guarantees in the refinancing agreement could even give lenders the ability to go after the family’s other assets—many of which are also underpinned by debt.


Lots more

[CarlV]

SAN FRANCISCO — Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco and workers began hauling boxes out of the stately building in a historic area of the city Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure amid escalating tensions between the United States and Russia.

The workers were hurrying to shut Russia's oldest consulate in the U.S. ahead of a Saturday deadline.

The order to leave the consulate and an official diplomatic residence in San Francisco — home to a longstanding community of Russian emigres and technology workers — escalated an already tense diplomatic standoff between Washington and Moscow, even for those who have long monitored activities inside the closely monitored building.
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American counterintelligence officials have long kept a watchful eye on Russia's outpost in San Francisco, concerned that people posted to the consulate as diplomats were engaged in espionage.

In addition to Consul Sergey Petrov, the consulate's website showed 13 other Russian officials working at the San Francisco post. When approached Friday, Petrov declined to answer questions about the closure or about what was being burned inside.

Sasha Sobol was among the crowd who went to the consulate Friday morning to renew a Russian passport, but was told the document wasn't ready and turned away by early afternoon.

"It's really too bad because now we are going to have to go to Seattle or Houston," said Sobol, a Sunnyvale resident with joint U.S-Russian citizenship.

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