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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1073570)	6/17/2018 4:37:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571812

Bush and Powell both relied on intel from George Tenet, CIA head for both Clinton and Bush. The Clintons, Kerry, and Pelosi all voted for the war and believed the same things Bush did. Did they lie too?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1073570)	6/17/2018 4:49:05 PM
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Wisconsin Dem: Our Party Is “Pickled In Identity Politics And Victimology” ED MORRISSEYPosted at 2:31 pm on June 16, 2018 And Matt Flynn should know. One of ten Democrats running for the chance to face off against Scott Walker in the gubernatorial election in November, Flynn served at one time as the state party chair. That was then, Flynn told WHBY’s Josh Dukelow this week, but now Flynn says he can barely recognize his party — and wonders if it even still exists, as Jerry Bader reports: "Our party right now, and I’m probably the only one who says this, is pickled in identity politics and victimology. And when I was at the convention recently, in Oshkosh there were multiple caucuses of, there were all these subgroups, and there is no assimilation of the party anymore. When I was the chairman there were no caucuses. And I’m of the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy. That’s the legacy… A lot of these other people. They are very, very nice people, but they scurry around with these various identities, and so on, and I think that sets me apart as well. So my own belief is that we should get rid of the caucuses in the Democratic Party and come together again. There were no caucuses under Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and John F. Kennedy, and they won’t be under Matt Flynn if he’s the Governor." Hey, at least someone in the party paid attention to what happened in 2016, when Hillary Clinton went all-in on identity politics. The question will be whether anyone else in the Wisconsin Democratic Party does. Jerry notes that the state party currently has six officially recognized caucuses solely based on immutable demographic characteristics rather than policy, while three more based at least in some part on policy areas (Progressive, Rural, and Veterans Caucuses). That’s at least six groups that will not have very nice things to say about Flynn, despite his issues platform fitting well within the increasingly progressive mainstream of his party. It might sound to some as though Flynn launched this broadside too early. Wouldn’t this make for a better general-election theme, where Democrats need to reach more independents and disaffected Republicans, assuming that there are any to be reached? Probably, but remember that Flynn has nine other competitors in the first-past-the-post primary. He doesn’t need a majority to win the nomination; all he needs is to get one more vote than the first runner-up, as Wisconsin doesn’t do run-offs. Flynn may well be sincere about the fracturing of his party into identity enclaves, but it may also be smart politics to make his case public. He’ll stand out from the pack and let the other nine split the identity-politics vote, and rally everyone else who feels left out to his side. It’s a Trumpian move, in its way. And given Trump’s surprise win in Wisconsin two years ago, it just might work. Don’t kid yourself into thinking Flynn might be a centrist, though. He’s a prairie progressive, as his agenda demonstrates. The first two items on Flynn’s to-do list if he wins are to end right-to-work and Act 10 reforms, and then to create a state-run health insurance plan to undercut private health insurance. But at least Flynn’s among the few in his party speaking out against the balkanization of politics within the Democratic Party. hotair.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1073570)	6/17/2018 4:51:59 PM
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Twitter CEO Apologizes For Eating Chik-Fil-A [ ZZ is to chicken to answer a question about Chick-Fil-A so I'll ask you .. would you apologize if you made the horrible mistake of eating their food? Would it matter to you if it was Pride Month or not? ] Andrew Sherrod Sadly, this is hardly an exclusively left wing thing any longer. How many did I hear say "I am burning my NFL season tickets" and the like? It seems now our tribalism has gone beyond mere politics and what brands we support, actors we watch or forms of entertainment we embrace must be determined by our political affiliations. Which is why I am now identifying as "I don't give a cr@p." June 19, 2018 will mark the one year anniversary of Mr. Warmbier’s death. Otto Warmbier was a 21 year old University of Virginia college student, on his way to study in Hong Kong, when while on a guided tour through North Korea, he did something that can be attributed to youthful whim, and the ignorance of the world outside of his comfortable Ohio upbringing: He attempted to pilfer a propaganda poster from the wall of the hotel he was staying at in Pyongyang. He was a little drunk. He was far too mischievous. He thought it would be a goofy souvenir to take home from his trip abroad. He was arrested without incident at the Pyongyang International Airport, as he was about to leave. An official stepped aboard the plane before takeoff and informed the group that he was “very sick” and had been taken to the hospital. Instead, he was put on trial, and in a tearful press conference, admitted his guilt and begged for mercy and forgiveness. He begged for mercy and forgiveness in an atheist, Communist society. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor on March 16, 2016, after a 1 hour trial, in what Human Rights Watch called a “kangaroo court.” When he was released on June 12, 2017, in a vegetative state, his parents reported that he was deaf, blind, howling and jerking uncontrollably, like an animal. They don’t know what had been done to young Mr. Warmbier while confined in a North Korean labor camp, but a coroner’s exam showed that he died of a lack of oxygen and blood to his brain. Otherwise, his body bore 10 scars, with one of them appearing consistent with a tracheotomy. There was no autopsy, as it was considered that not much more would have been discovered about his mysterious condition than scanning and imaginghad already revealed. Now I tell you that story as a reminder of the regime President Trump has so lavishly praised this week. *Apparently, the human rights abuses of the North Korean people and the Christian community in particular doesn’t have the right emotional punch. Maybe a young, American college student, with a promising future cut short by a heartless foreign regime is what will give emphasis to Trump’s short-sighted appeasement of Kim Jong Un. If you want to find the real “enemy” of the U.S., start with incompetence, and compromised targets of hostile foreign players, then work your way down. I just wanted everybody to be aware of this. If you've gotten this far, than thank you for taking the time to understand what we're really up against. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/susanwright/2018/06/of-otto-warmbier-and-the-enemies-of-the-american-people/