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Highmark

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  1. BO is worth 50x's what Clinton was worth then. That happens today and 'Ol Slick pays out $25 million or more. Let's be clear too Clinton was accused of Rape.
  2. While I don't completely oppose Obama's handling on Syria (should never have gave weapons to the rebels) I'm glad he didn't put troops on the ground. However I find it laughable that you trust the Russian's and Assad on the chemical weapons.
  3. Highmark replied to f7ben's topic in Current Events
    You mean like did under Obama?
  4. NATO was basically formed to deal with the former Soviet Union and the spread of communism and since its collapse it is only there now for one reason. Russia. Anytime, anywhere Russia is involved in something NATO should be right there. While not directly Russia why did NATO get involved in Bosnia? Why did it intervene in Libya? If it was justifiable to be involved in Libya why not in Syria? Operation Unified Protector was a NATO operation enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 concerning the Libyan Civil War and adopted on 26 February and 17 March 2011, respectively. These resolutions imposed sanctions on key members of the Gaddafi government and authorized NATO to implement an arms embargo, a no-fly zone and to use all means necessary, short of foreign occupation, to protect Libyan civilians and civilian populated areas.[3] The operation started on 23 March and gradually expanded during the following weeks, by integrating more and more elements of the multinational military intervention, which had started on 19 March in response to the same UN resolutions. As of 31 March 2011 it encompassed all international operations in Libya. NATO support was vital to the rebel victory over the forces loyal to Gaddafi. The operation officially ended on 31 October 2011, after the rebel leaders, formalized in the National Transitional Council, had declared Libya liberated on 23 October. The operation began with a naval arms embargo, while command of the no-fly zone and the air strikes against Libyan Armed Forces remained under command of the international coalition, led by France, the United Kingdom and the United States, due to lack of consensus between NATO members.[4] On 24 March NATO decided to take control of the no-fly zone enforcement, by integrating the air assets of the international coalition under NATO command, although the command of air strikes on ground targets remained under national authority.[5][6] A few days later, on 27 March NATO decided to implement all military aspects of the UN resolution and formal transfer of command occurred at 06:00 GMT on 31 March 2011, formally ending the national operations such as the U.S.-coordinated Operation Odyssey Dawn.[7][8] The arms embargo was initially carried out using mainly ships from NATO's Standing Maritime Group 1 and Standing Mine Countermeasures Group 1 already patrolling the Mediterranean Sea at the time of the resolution, enforced with additional ships, submarines and maritime surveillance aircraft from NATO members. They were to "monitor, report and, if needed, interdict vessels suspected of carrying illegal arms or mercenaries". The no-fly zone was enforced by aircraft transferred to Unified Protector from the international coalition, with additional aircraft from NATO and other allied nations. The air strikes, although under central NATO command, were only conducted by aircraft of the nations agreeing to enforce this part of the UN resolution
  5. Highmark replied to f7ben's topic in Current Events
    I miss the days when my money in the bank earned 5%. Reality is the fed should have never let the rate get as low as it did. The economy would have survived. The amount of QE was a mistake too. Too often whether it the fed or federal govt there is not enough attention paid to long term consequences of actions or laws. Obamacare is the poster child of this which will all come to a front soon if something is not done. By 2016 the QE worldwide total was $12.3 trillion. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/12/123-trillion-of-qe-has-added-up-tothis.html I see more optimism in my suppliers and customers than I have since 2007. Not saying it will last if not firm reasons to back it up but optimism is high right now. I'm not willing to jump and say the economy is good but the outlook is better.
  6. Get out, stay out and don't give anyone weapons. Let the UN and NATO handle it. The mere fact that Russia has their nose in it should force NATO to be a part of it however they are just about as weak as the UN when it comes to standing up for peace.
  7. Didn't Bill Clinton pay off a bunch of women? I thought settlements were not an admission of guilt? My God BO is a newsman and you guys are all worked up over him. Clinton did the same thing as POTUS and you blamed the woman. You honestly can't make this shit up. President Clinton reached an out-of-court settlement with Paula Jones yesterday, agreeing to pay her $850,000 to drop the sexual harassment lawsuit that led to the worst political crisis of his career and only the third presidential impeachment inquiry in American history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/jones111498.htm
  8. If this was no big deal pencil neck Schiff would be howling it in front of every camera he could find. Also Bolton was clear that her position in NOT one of investigation. “If she doesn’t even have to give a reason than NSA is really quite negligent. Susan Rice is obviously not gonna say, ‘I want these names unmasked so I can surveil my political opponents.’ And if she said she wanted the names unmasked for national security reasons, that’s a fraud on the intelligence system.” Want more? The thing to bear in mind is that the White House does not do investigations. Not criminal investigations, not intelligence investigations. Remember that...There would have been no intelligence need for Susan Rice to ask for identities to be unmasked. If there had been a real need to reveal the identities — an intelligence need based on American interests — the unmasking would have been done by the investigating agencies. The national-security adviser is not an investigator. She is a White House staffer. The president’s staff is a consumer of intelligence, not a generator or collector of it. If Susan Rice was unmasking Americans, it was not to fulfill an intelligence need based on American interests; it was to fulfill a political desire based on Democratic-party interests... In the end it comes down to what was her reason for unmasking, who all received the unmasked information, who it was then shared with and who leaked it to the press. No different than who stole the DNC emails the leaks and improper handling of the information absolutely should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Does it concern you at all that the unmasking SHE requested was leaked? You don't find that all to be a bit of a smoking gun?
  9. From the Headline. Just whose "offhand remarks" are acceptable slinger? Best part is you and Obama chose to trust Russia of all countries on this. The offhand remark spurred a massive success in Syria. Why does the foreign policy establishment consider it a failure? Even the president’s sympathizers call the handling of the red line statement and its crossing a “debacle,” an “amateurish improvisation” or the administration’s “worst blunder.” They contend that Obama whiffed at a chance to show resolve, that for the sake of maintaining credibility, the U.S. would have been better off had the administration not pursued the diplomatic opening and used force instead.
  10. He is not the typical politician. I get that but the left gives passes to their side on blatant lies all the time. Remember Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...Ms. Lewinski." Or Obama's "If you like your doctor you can keep them." Its actually quite laughable that a tweet with obvious generalizations involved is taken so dead serious. NOW the left and MSM is so concerned with the factual accuracy of everything said. Its fucking laughable. How many excuses were given for Hillary lies? "landed under sniper fire" ring a bell? There are 4 pages of lies from Obama. Help yourself. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/barack-obama/statements/byruling/false/
  11. That gif will never get old. A politician has to have a good sense of humor about himself and or a complete idiot to go on that show.
  12. I think everyone in America needs to start explaining what they actually mean when they put words in quotations. Scare quotes, shudder quotes, or sneer quotes [excessive citations] are quotationmarks placed around a word or phrase to signal that a term is being used in a non-standard, ironic, or otherwise special sense. Scare quotes - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
  13. Let's see. Rice lied about knowledge of the unmasking so lets take her word on everything else. Lets not forget the blatant lying to the American people regarding the Benghazi attacks. Yeah, she's a beacon of truthfulness. Michael Doran, former NSC senior director, told TheDCNF Monday that “somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics.” This “was a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics and the Obama administration found a way to blow a hole in that wall.” Doran charged that potential serious crimes were undertaken because “this is a leaking of signal intelligence.” “That’s a felony,” he told TheDCNF. “And you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We’re not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.” Waurishuk said he was most dismayed that “this is now using national intelligence assets and capabilities to spy on the elected, yet-to-be-seated president.” “We’re looking at a potential constitutional crisis from the standpoint that we used an extremely strong capability that’s supposed to be used to safeguard and protect the country,” he said. “And we used it for political purposes by a sitting President. That takes on a new precedent.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-04/susan-rice-ordered-detailed-spreadsheets-intercepted-phone-calls-trump-team
  14. Live trap them then gas them in an controlled environment. There has got to be dozens of ways more intelligent dealing with coyotes than this.
  15. Simple. Put a bounty on pests you want killed. I imagine the cost of one lawsuit involving these would pay for quite a few $25 per head bounties on yotes.
  16. Nope. Less people eating means more supply of food. Illegal immigration fixes itself by enforcement of current laws and refusal of welfare for non-citizens. I have no problem giving them a hand to go back to their home countries.
  17. Imagine people going out and collecting these to use against other people. This is beyond belief really. Cyanide bombs to kill Coyotes. Unfuckingbelievable.
  18. Yeah, that's how it works. How about this truthful narrative. Obama draws line in the sand with Assad. Assad jumps completely over it. Obama does nothing. Leaves office with a complete mess for the next POTUS to deal with. OH I forgot that Obama entrusted Russia with removing Assad's chemical weapons.
  19. Right movie but the 3 boobed chick was not a midget.
  20. "Quade, open your mind." Extra credit for the movie reference without looking it up.
  21. Here is what the man is now saying. Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post David Ignatius said President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing former President Obama’s administration of wiretapping Trump Tower prior to the election “has morphed into an argument about privacy, about proper masking techniques.” Ignatius said, “So under existing surveillance orders, the United States is listening to all kinds of diplomats, intelligence officials around the world under various authorities. And when that collection picks up incidentally the names of Americans, Joe Russia happens to be calling Joe America, Joe America’s name is masked so that person’s privacy is protected.” “In certain circumstances when it’s necessary to understand who the conversation is between, the name is unmasked and then it’s a legal investigation beyond that,” he continued. “There are even more reasons. What’s happened this month is that what initially seemed a preposterous argument by Donald Trump that he had been wiretapped by President Obama illegally has morphed into an argument about privacy, about proper masking techniques, a very technical legal issue, and it’s now accepted I think as part of the mainstream set of issues that are going to be debated by the two intelligence committees. From Trump’s standpoint that’s a success.” http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/04/02/wapos-ignatius-trumps-wiretapping-claim-morphed-legitimate-discussion-surveillance/
  22. In the spectrum of crimes involving the leaking of classified information, publicly revealing the contents of SIGINT — signals intelligence — is one of the most serious felonies. Journalists (and all other nongovernmental citizens) can be prosecuted under federal law for disclosing classified information only under the narrowest circumstances; reflecting how serious SIGINT is considered to be, one of those circumstances includes leaking the contents of intercepted communications, as defined this way by 18 § 798 of the U.S. Code: https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14/the-leakers-who-exposed-gen-flynns-lie-committed-serious-and-wholly-justified-felonies/ That Flynn lied about what he said to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was first revealed by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who has built his career on repeating what his CIA sources tell him. In his January 12 column, Ignatius wrote: “According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking.”
  23. Don Lemon the same guy who actually asked is it plausible to consider black holes in the disappearance of planes. What a fucking idiot.
  24. Need to find the leaker. That will tell them all they need to know. Put the journalist for the Post in jail until they reveal their sources. It should not be ok to hide behind the badge of the press to hide felonies. Would we accept a journalist protecting a child molesters to publish a story? I think not. Its high time we start holding journalism to a higher standard.