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Who can forget this display of brilliance from Ms. Waters...... "What are you guys doing to help us with this student loan debt?" Who would like to answer first?" "Mr. Moynihan - Big Bank?"

Mayor Pete may not make it far enough in this race to reach Pence......He is playing the role the dems want him in perfectly - which (IMHO) is not the role best suited for him.....

Hate Crime?

SF predicted back that when the Mayor started posturing like the VP was a problem for him when as Governor because he came out as gay, that would not be a wise move for the Mayor. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those of us in this area know how the former Governor treated the Mayor, before and after he came out, and how the Mayor was able to work with him and now Governor Holcomb was impressive, more impressive than most of the former Mayors of South Bend. The Mayor to his credit got a lot accomplished, but would have never been able to do that without help from the State level. Him making these moves now to find favor within the DNC and the younger voters (IMHO) will come back to bite him and that is where I think the VP relationship will go. SF thinks his mistake is assuming that any Christian is going to hate him for being gay. Christians like myself who I feel make up the larger christian voting block can easily forgive what we consider sin. I believe it's between him and God, and it's his choice. Him having the line of thinking that God made him that way and advertising that belief will hurt him more in the bible belt than just being gay. I think THAT is where the DNC wants him to be, and he is falling into that position easily.

Welcome to identity politics..... Mayor Pete is very intelligent, so it is sad (but it was pretty predictable) to see him sink into the mire of national politics like he is doing. The City of South Bend and him (professionally) have benefited immensely due to his previous relationship first with Governor(s) Pence and now Holcomb and the Republicans that pretty much controlled Indiana politics. It was amazing to see him work effectively and successfully in that environment. I had hoped he would avoid identity politics and point to his bipartisanship working with the other side, but he is falling into the role the DNC would like him to play - the alter-ego to Mike Pence - who will absolutely crush him if he continues this path.

Yep....

Found it!!

Great opener for the final season. Now that SF is paying for the HBO Now service - I may go back and binge watch the series.......

And so it begins...... https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/15/secret-tapes-mayor-pete-jumps-race-oppo-research/ The tapes we in the area have known about for the years he has been in office - after he demoted the first black police chief.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/10/democrats-equality-act-transgender-girls-sports/ Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams. Democrats’ Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls. Sarah Warbelow, director of the left-wing Human Rights Campaign, praised the bill’s impact on high school sports in written testimony submitted to a House subcommittee on Tuesday. “Opponents of equality in athletics for transgender athletes have argued that girls who are transgender have unfair physiological advantages over cisgender girls and as a result, will dominate women’s competitive sports,” Warbelow wrote, calling it not “rooted in fact” that biologically male athletes will outperform their female counterparts. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, made a similar argument during an April 2 hearing his committee held on the legislation. (RELATED: Biological Male Is Top-Ranked NCAA Track Star) “Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women’s sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out,” Nadler said in his opening statement. And now this debate starts.........................XXXX & YYYYYY's ?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/us-charges-wikileaks-co-founder-julian-assange-with-conspiracy-to-commit-computer-hacking.html The Justice Department announced a criminal charge Thursday against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, accusing him of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a classified U.S. government computer. “The charge relates to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States,” the Justice Department said in a press release. The announcement followed an extradition request by the U.S. for Assange, 47, who on Thursday morning was arrested and removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has lived for nearly seven years. A British judge said Thursday that the U.S. must share its case justifying Assange’s extradition by June 12, multiple outlets reported. If convicted, Assange could face five years in prison, though his actual sentence would likely fall below the legal maximum. CNN reported, however, that Justice Department officials expect to bring additional charges against Assange. “This is a dark day for journalism,” a representative for Assange said outside British court. “We don’t want this to go forward. This has to be averted.” “It’s called conspiracy. It’s conspiracy to commit journalism,” the representative continued, adding: “There is no assurance that there will not be additional charges when he is on U.S. soil.” The indictment, filed under seal in the Eastern District of Virginia in March 2018, states that he and Manning worked together in 2010 to crack passwords on government computers and download reams of information with the intent of publishing them on WikiLeaks. Manning was jailed last month for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Assange’s document-sharing organization. The alleged conspiracy has no direct connection to the 2016 presidential election, where Assange’s whistleblowing organization became a main engine of controversy by publishing troves of Democratic National Committee officials’ internal emails. U.S. intelligence officials alleged in a January 2017 assessment of Russia’s election meddling that Kremlin military intelligence gained access to DNC networks and fed the hacked information to WikiLeaks. President Donald Trump had praised WikiLeaks repeatedly in the late stages of the election, in which he defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Manning, who held a top-secret security clearance, sent hundreds of thousands of U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks agents so that they could be publicly disclosed — and the website did publish the “vast majority” of those classified records between 2010 and 2011, the indictment alleges. Those documents allegedly included approximately 800 Guantanamo Bay detainee assessment briefs, a quarter-million State Department cables and 400,000 Iraq War-related reports. In March 2010, Assange allegedly “agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on United States Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network, a United States government network used for classified documents and communications.” Manning used a Linux operating system to access the password, which would help disguise her activities but was stored on a computer she did not have specific privileges to access, according to the court filing. Assange was allegedly aware that Manning was providing him information in violation of Army regulations. On March 8, 2010, before forging the agreement to crack the government password, Manning allegedly told Assange that “after this upload, that’s all I really have got left.” The indictment says Assange replied: “Curious eyes never run dry in my experience.” A spokesperson for Manning told NBC News on Thursday that “our legal team is reviewing the language now as it may impact her appeal to the charge of civil contempt,” referring to Manning’s current legal situation. “We are confident in Chelsea’s legal strategy regarding the grand jury and the appeal and that we may have more we can share soon,” the spokesperson added, NBC reported. Assange had been holed up in the London-based embassy since 2012 in order to avoid an extradition to Sweden related to a sexual assault case. Two years earlier, Sweden had issued a warrant for Assange related to allegations of sexual assault and rape from two women. Those charges were dropped in 2017. But Assange had refused to leave the embassy for fear of being extradited to the U.S. — a situation that reportedly wore thin for Ecuadorian officials. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno tweeted Thursday that his country had withdrawn Assange’s asylum status “after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols.” He was arrested for allegedly breaching U.K. bail conditions, and had been arrested again in a U.S. extradition warrant, according to Metropolitan Police. Multiple outlets reported Thursday that a British court found Assange guilty of jumping bail. Assange’s lawyer, Jen Robinson, did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the DOJ’s announcement of the charge against her client. She had tweeted earlier Thursday that the U.S. warrant had been issued in December 2017. Robinson vowed Thursday that “we will be contesting and fighting extradition.” She added that Assange “will be brought before the court again within the next month.” So, is this a "dark day for journalism" or is justice finally being served? Also any theories as to why the Ecuadorians dropped his asylum status?

Oh come on - I had to.....You floated that one across the middle of the plate.....

No I haven't, and I certainly hope i won't be, I think I would be as passive as the Jewish guy, I hope. The truth is, I really don't wear hats very often, and they are normally Notre Dame or the Colts or Nike Golf. Maga usually sits in the car and has come out only in unplanned hat-wearing situations (like rain or too much sun) - that and SF isn't a fan of the hat style my kids got me (mesh back, foam front) but it was a gift. As a guy I am sure you understand - hats need to be comfortable and look good, and I need all the help I can get for that!! My ND hat, or my Nike Golf hats are my favs......And I am not a guy that would wear it like a chip on my shoulder.

SF gets it, but I certainly wouldn't condemn anyone for flying a rainbow flag nor would I ever confront someone for that. Also, SF doesn't wear his MAGA hat as a symbol of racism, I wear it because I like our President, and I seriously want America to be Great. If some snowflake is offended by it, that's his/her problem.......

Nope, didn't get triggered.....Must be the color.....

SF can admit there is a basic element of truth in a lot of what you are saying here W as much that I would characterize as your assumptions or opinions. I may not agree with it, but I can empathize your belief system as genuine. However, using that logic, for SF this becomes equivalent to the constant dropping of the N word in various rap artist's lyrics.

LOL.......

Why did it catch flak? Because people who voted for the current President wore the hat, or the t-shirt, or put the bumper sticker on the SUV which offended someone. The same people offended by that are mostly the same people that have one of these on their cars: But who can't seem to tolerate other's views or "coexist"........

Not Fake news: 🤣 They also tend to sustain damage when they touch their shadow without the landing gear down.....