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To: SeachRE who wrote (974929)	10/24/2016 4:04:20 PM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578250

Dude did you see the cost of the property? It was well over a 100 million. My house was at the time about $100,000 and my insurance check was more than that because the house was totalled and I had to replace my property. So he got a fraction of the cost, so for that amount the damage wouldn't have looked that bad.

To: SeachRE who wrote (974929)	10/24/2016 10:05:01 PM
From: zax	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway SeachRE Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578250

Want to save the Republican Party? Drain the right-wing media swamp. By Catherine Rampell Opinion writer October 24 at 7:20 PM washingtonpost.com Donald Trump looks likely to get a whupping (or, to use his preferred Yiddishism, schlonging) in a few weeks. Forecasts suggest many of his down-ballot co-partisans will as well. No doubt, should this expected defeat come to pass, Republican leadership will try to regroup and figure out what went wrong. As in the last “ autopsy,” the GOP establishment will probably conclude that it needs to broaden its appeal to demographics beyond older white men; that what prevented this more widespread appeal in 2016 was having a boorish, sexist, race-baiting, egomaniacal, undisciplined nominee; that if only it fielded a more genteel version of Trump, someone who espoused essentially the same fiscal and social policies but with more empathy, they’d have won the White House, and will win it once again. This conclusion would be wrong. The sickness in today’s Republican Party is not confined to its current standard-bearer. It is therefore not curable by merely disavowing, however belatedly, the soon-to-be-defeated nominee. The sickness has taken over the Republican base, and there’s only one antidote. If Republicans truly want to save the Republican Party, they need to go to war with right-wing media. That is, they need to dismantle the media machine persuading their base to believe completely bonkers, bigoted garbage. It is, after all, the right-wing radio, TV and Internet fever swamps that have gotten them into this mess, that have led to massive misinformation, disinformation and cynicism among Republican voters. And draining those fever swamps is the only way to get them out of it. For a sense of just how misinformed Republican voters have become, consider a few of the provably wrong things many believe. Seven in 10 Republicans either doubt or completely disbelieve that President Obama was born in the United States. Six?in 10 think he’s a secret Muslim. Half believe global warming is possibly or definitely a myth concocted by scientists. </snip> Read the rest here: washingtonpost.com