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"To my knowledge we've never had a businessman with Trump's experience running the show" Thank you for confessing your ignorance*. Bankrate compiled a list of businessmen who were elected to the presidency, starting at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as their greatness ranking as president. ... As you'll see from the following slides, there appears to be no discernible link between business acumen and presidential effectiveness. Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/politics/businessmen-as-us-president-1.aspx#ixzz4NeNiZHYj Follow us: @Bankrate on Twitter | Bankrate on Facebook http://www.bankrate.com/finance/politics/businessmen-as-us-president-1.aspx Know it or not, believe it or not, like it or not, admit it or not; Trump has been in it for himself at least until he declared his presidential candidacy. That he would have a sudden change would seem implausible. Are you really willing to surrender 4 years of stewardship of the U.S.A. to this lame-brain to find out if your ignorant* hunch is correct? "as openly corrupt as Hillary." Hillary has made some monumental blunders. e-mailgate is but one example. But I don't recall any Hillary scandals she's done for conspicuous avarice; Trump's obvious deadly sin. "Nice that you learned how to use the quote feature." Indeed. In the previous millennium my cyber-friend. I've been cyber-quoting for decades. Perhaps you should be more candid about your quotation neuroses with your psychiatrist. "Now, could we please have a link to where this information was obtained? Thanks" Please quote the "information" you refer to. I quoted a PBS/NewsHour broadcast. Perhaps you can find a transcript there. I quoted the one that said it, with attribute. That suffices under the dictates of the First Amendment, and U.S. copyright law. If you want a link, get your own. "The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is." Mary Pettibone Poole Nope. No link for that one either. Have a pleasant afternoon.

“... Reince Priebus, the Republican National Chairman today said that 300K jobs ... aught to be expected every month ... and just a historical perspective: - during the 8 years of President Bush (younger) there were 2.1 million net jobs created in the United States. Of the 2.1 million, 1.8 million of them were in the public sector ... that means there were 300,000 jobs in the private sector in 8 months, in 8 years rather, net ... more jobs have been created in the United States in the last 4 years than in Europe, Japan, all the industrialized modern world combined. ... 70 years since WWII. 36 years of Republican presidents, 34 years of Democratic presidents. In those 70 years, there were 36.7 million jobs created under Republican presidents ... a little over half the time. In 34 years there were 63.7 million created by Democrats. That's 29 million more. You know, perhaps it's an accident once, or twice or what. But I mean at some point the Democrats ought to be comfort in the fact that they have been better the economy and job creation than have been the opposition. ... It's 15 years since we've had 10 consecutive months of over 200,000 [job growth]. Just 15 years ago there was a fella from Arkansas ... there were more jobs created in Bill Clinton's 8 years than there were in Ronald Reagan's 8 years, and the 12 years of both Bush's combined. I mean 6 million more jobs created in those 8 years, ... policy does kick in, & is reflected in the results.” Mark Shields I have as much or more confidence in the power of the private sector as you do Edmo. BUT !! We'd be kidding ourselves if we denied the power of public policy. And know it or not, believe it or not, like it or not, admit it or not; presidential policy matters. As painful as it is to admit, by QUANTIFIABLE standards, Democrats are good for the U.S. economy, AND good for the citizens of the United States.

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" What freedoms are we protecting by bombing other countries?" #10 a) "Semantic infiltration" noted. CORRECTION: We are not bombing / targeting "countries", the exact word YOU used. We are targeting PERSONS, terrorists. b) President GWB's GWOT that President Obama is prosecuting so successfully is defending Western civilization's standards of law, against the kind of ISIL "law" that allows putting a Jordanian pilot in a metal cage, dousing him with gasoline, and then setting him alight and delighting in the sadistic joy of watching him writhe in agony as he burns to death. Any other questions?

#6 Splendid. A counter-punch is not aggression. It becomes defense AFTER the hostilities have been initiated. Have you forgotten the shrub in the rubble?

US President GWB did not initiate the GWOT. He merely prosecuted it ineptly. We're not looking for trouble. We're simply trying to defend the United States Constitution enumerates. And if that means killing pseudo-religious zealots sworn to do harm to U.S. and our citizens ("death to America!"), then enjoy your 70 virgins & a mule, SUCKERS!

a) The system actually was rigged against Bernie, and for Hillary. b) I'm not sure what Trump has in mind. But weeks ago I read Trump has gotten $Billions of $dollars worth of free publicity. So is it rigged if he gets that free publicity, and thereby is exposed for what he is? Obama made a fairly sensible comment about it, perhaps Tuesday. If Trump is going to blame others, Trump doesn't have what it takes to be president.

a) Entertainment. b) It's YOUR finger on the pulse of YOUR nation. Know it or not, believe it or not, like it or not, admit it or not; one of these two clowns is likely to be the next U.S. president. You don't think that's worth your attention?

f7, voting in ignorance is fine, as long as you don't exceed your own comfort level.

Good point Mom. Modern statistical sampling is integrated into much of modern society. Smart phones for example, could not be produced without statistical process control an QC, etc. Anyone can make a prediction. But Gallup, Marist, Pew, and others have a reputation to uphold. If any of them make a prediction, and they're proved wrong, it damages their brand, and that costs them $dollars. Trump has proven to be his own worst enemy in this race. It seems he's done more harm to himself discussing kitty-cats etc, than Hillary could harm him. Recent poll trends show Hillary gaining. Is that predictive? Too soon to tell for certain. If she blows up tomorrow night, Trump could win in a walk. But that seems unlikely at this point. Possible. But unlikely.

OK The more reliable polling agencies say Hillary is on the glide-path to whup Trump this November. BUT !! A small but potentially influential block of voters say this 3rd & final debate could sway their vote one way or another. SO !! What's the deal with the debate tomorrow night? Will you watch? What will you look for? Who are you going to vote for?

I saw a cartoon of a flying saucer landed at a gasoline station. Two aliens standing next to a gasoline pump, one says: "Take me to your leader." The other one says: "Don't talk to that guy. He's got his dick in his ear."

#653 Excellent.

f7 #648 You're a big boy. You may do as you wish. I'm not wagging my finger at you. I'm merely giving you a friendly cyber heads-up. The pic in #648 shows a metal-bristled grill brush. A clean grill is a happy grill *. Whatever. BUT !! Bristle brushes shed bristles. And I've heard horror stories about people ingesting grill food, inadvertently ingesting a grill cleaning brush bristle, and suffering very serious medical consequence. Not only that. I visited a friend that explained this to me. And then he showed me his solution. He'd clean his grill with a bristle brush, and then carefully inspect the cleaned grill to find and remove every bristle. NO GOOD! So I bought him a metal grill cleaner that instead of short bristles has long strands of stainless steel ribbon. Lowe's sell 'em. They work fine. And they're probably much safer. Do as you like. This is just a heads up. But if you get a brass or steel bristle lodged in your intestine, and end up needing surgery to have it removed; and maybe go 4 months on a colostomy bag for a perforated colon, you might wish you'd heeded this warning. Metal bristle grill brushes are a SPECTACULARLY bad idea. Candidly, anything likely to happen to you from using an uncleaned grill would likely be less severe than medical complication from a grill brush bristle stuck somewhere in your digestive tract. * although I think I let my some of my grills go over a year without cleaning, and no harm resulted. That is NOT what this is about.

I find Trump very difficult to listen to. His rambling syntax doesn't seem to have a logic path. Seems more like stream-of-consciousness to me. And Anderson Cooper has already nailed Trump in an: - Were you lying then? Or are you lying now? moment, as Trump just denied doing what he said in the recording he has done. I've never seen the GOP in such shambles. And the compounding horror? Hillary Clinton is the REFUGE from this! - yikes -

Naïve? * The only word in my post #53 that's fully emphasized with all caps, was to emphasize that I've NEVER used a beer can for that purpose. And yes, mainly for toxin avoidance. BUT !! There are potential toxins both inside & out. "Aluminum" cans have a plastic coating inside. I don't want that out-gassing into my food. Not sure why you're misusing the word naïve (defined below for your convenience), unless it's just your own ignorance, and false assumptions about me. I studied chemistry in high school & college. I spent decades in the computer chip business, a chemical intensive undertaking. I didn't get this far in life not being able to avoid common dangers. Why do you assume the absurd? That I do the intelligent thing, out of ignorance, naïvety. Check Ockham's Razor. That's a silly explanation. * naïve (nä-êv´) also naif or naïf (nä-êf´) adjective 1. a. Lacking worldliness and sophistication; artless. b. Simple and credulous as a child; ingenuous. 2. Lacking critical ability or analytical insight; Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

#642 What's the yellow stuff?

? The year you think food was invented? I have NEVER used a beer can for that. What a waste! I use a Brinkman rack, though I have some others. This rack is designed to hold the can stable. But with this rack, the can is not necessary.

yeah If not doing it at all is doing it wrong, then you've nailed me dead to rights. If I'm going to cook a bird, I don't care for half-stepping. This is a little trick called "beer can chicken", a major entrée on the menu of red-neck cuisine.

Is it just me? Or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?

Is your name "Sean Vigne"? It's not necessary to post it to Moscow for it to have meaning. I took it as an editorial. And the circuitous point that our representative government has gone astray is surely not lost on me. Our governments are waging Drug War against us in violation of the United States Constitution's Art.3 Sect.3, and any party to it should be punishable by summary execution: a legal penalty for conspiring to treason in time of War. None the less: "We citizens have not had a say ..." is a lie.

piffle That doesn't even pass muster as "plausible deniability". - We vote for our executive branch of U.S. federal government. - We vote for our MOC, both house & senate. - We vote for our State governors, and assemblymen etc. - And in some jurisdictions we can vote for sheriff & law court judges. That's just a bogus attempt to shirk responsibility.

Hasn't Trump pledged more U.S. military spending? To increase the size of the U.S. military? We can smirk at Putin for his military adventurism. Is it any wonder Putin wants Trump elected, instead of Hillary?