tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218262912024-03-12T22:13:29.884-04:00An eclectic's view of lifeMarkie Sez: THE economy is getting worse. (I predicted this two years ago--see sos-newdeal.blogspot!)
I will continue to update stuff here too!Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.comBlogger632125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-87350961962039917122017-10-10T14:37:00.001-04:002017-10-10T14:37:37.153-04:00Post shooting trauma<p dir="ltr">It's a full 10 days since the last evidence of<b><i> poor impulse control</i></b>* regarding America's fascination with guns and machines of killing has occurred.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Maybe this tragedy is actually mellowing me a bit.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I used to feel that the second amendment needed to be revised to say, you can own as many single shot muskets as you want.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now I am beginning to think, you really don't need to own over 12 muskets in total.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's pretend we are members of the "federalist society", that right wing society of lawyers who believe that the constitution needs to be viewed as a document that never changes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ok.  A firearm in the 18th century was a musket, or a cannon.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There were no handguns (pistols), or (semi) or automatic rifles then.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Based on what the constitution wrote,  automatic weapons should not be allowed because of this.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Wow. Antonio Scalia must be turning over in his grave (the NY liberal in me can only hope!)</p>
<p dir="ltr">When viewed in this light, the second amendment really begins to look questionable.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">* hats off to <b>Snow Crash</b> by Neal Stephenson, where one of the villians has that (PIC) tattooed on his farhead.<br>
...oh, did you know <b>Snow Crash</b> is being made into a Netflix show? Fantabulous!!</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-67312209389885260232017-10-06T07:27:00.001-04:002017-10-06T07:27:58.825-04:00NRA EQUALS NAMBLA<p dir="ltr">It's time to admit the truth.<br>
    The NRA has corrupted our society.</p>
<p dir="ltr">NAMBLA* was, but is no-more.<br>
NRA is, but must be no-more.</p>
<p dir="ltr">NRA is to NAMBLA<br>
As perversion is to guns.</p>
<p dir="ltr">ASTZOUR, FORBIDDEN...</p>
<p dir="ltr">May this too, come to pass.</p>
<p dir="ltr">*NAMBLA or the North American  Man-Boy Love Association existed starting in the early -mid 1980's.</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-57495074730631245732017-10-02T08:35:00.001-04:002017-10-02T08:35:54.943-04:00Shame-Out: NRA and rifle controls<p dir="ltr">Headline October 1, 2017.<br>
Over 50 dead. Shooter uses high speed rifle and kills over 50/wounds over 200 at music festival in Las Vegas.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It's time to finally stop letting the NRA screw up our country.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It's time to start calling EVERY gun related shooting a terrorist event.<br><br></p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-86053142095071796072017-09-28T06:49:00.001-04:002017-09-28T08:37:08.955-04:00Shame-out: 45 screws up "Jones act" Hurricane relief<p dir="ltr">***update 845 am**</p><p dir="ltr">His press secretary just tweeted he was suspending Jones act.</p><p dir="ltr">One good move.. He listened to his advisers for a change.</p><p dir="ltr">.. ORIGINAL POST...</p><p dir="ltr">Well, he's done it again. The idiot in chief has denied Puerto Rico's request to suspend the Jones act [That law requires all shipping between US ports to use US registered ships]. He denied the request, despite having done this for houston and Florida, in the previous hurricanes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What a dork. Not really a smart decision in an emergency situation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">First order of business: <br>
Have the cell carriers drop emergency cell<br>
systems (with generators) all over the island. The carriers all have these mini cells ready to go.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Second: have air force drop new emergency air traffic controllers and min command centers into airport. The main radar towers were destroyed.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Third: army staff the ports to unload ships<br>
Fourth: <br>
Immediate tankers with gas diesel to island.</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-30061999017722095862017-09-25T15:05:00.001-04:002017-09-25T15:05:12.807-04:00Shame out: 45 screws up national anthem<p dir="ltr">Ok.  3 days after our current moron in chief ( boy, 43 is beginning to look like a nobel laureate now!)<br>
Declared that he wants to fire anyone who doesn't attend fire the national anthem, he's just made it deRigur to NOT stand for it ever again.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Boy is he screwed up. Its time for Every American to note sit or kneel for it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Way to go, 45, open your mouth, destroy an Institution!!</p>
<p dir="ltr">IT IS NOW A REQUIREMENT TO KNEEL FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.<br>
One who does not kneel, is now proving they are an alt-right supporting RACIST.<br>
No takebacks or do overs</p>
<p dir="ltr">You asked for him. Now we all need TO respond to keep our democracy!<br>
</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-81527068275220937852017-09-18T16:59:00.001-04:002017-09-25T08:46:27.867-04:00Shout out to hand maiden's Emmy<p dir="ltr">Very nice.   Congrats on your Emmy.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just be aware.  It Can happen here</p>
<p dir="ltr">Go into Sinclair Lewis's <u>book</u> -<a href="http://https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here">it can happen here</a>. Amazingly Accurate about what was predicted in 1935.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We're living it at this moment</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-33367542838595097942017-06-29T13:04:00.001-04:002017-06-29T13:04:45.298-04:00Its Health care, stupid Senators<p dir="ltr">Ok.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's see. since 1950, the Republicans in Congress have stopped health care at least 8 different times.<br>
Amazing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now we have them claiming to want to  "fix" Obamacare.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is ONLY  ONE solution.<br>
Single payer health care.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's just do the easy thing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Take the Congressional health plan, and make it our default NATIONAL health plan.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We could easily just as easily take Medicaid or Medicare, and make them the new default.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It won't be easy, or cheap.  But we can do it, especially if we phase it in over 20 years. (Shameless plug for my other blog, "sos-newdeal.blogspot.com")</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now too Mr. Mitch. McConnell that is.</p>
<p dir="ltr">See this story.  He had a "free" stress test that led to heart surgery, on the public dime.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/before-trumpcare-a-free-clinic-saved-mitch-mcconnells-life">http://www.thedailybeast.com/before-</a><a href="http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/before-trumpcare-a-free-clinic-saved-mitch-mcconnells-life">trumpcare</a><a href="http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/before-trumpcare-a-free-clinic-saved-mitch-mcconnells-life">-a-free-clinic-saved-mitch-</a><a href="http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/before-trumpcare-a-free-clinic-saved-mitch-mcconnells-life">mcconnells</a><a href="http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/before-trumpcare-a-free-clinic-saved-mitch-mcconnells-life">-life</a></p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-87936294122663977102017-06-16T00:44:00.002-04:002017-06-16T00:44:16.816-04:00It's the GUNS, STUPID!Dateline: a few days after the shooting at the republican baseball game practice in Virginia.<br />
Background: "deranged" Democrat shoots 'publican lawmakers.<br />
REAL issues:<br />
<ol>
<li>It's POLITICS Stupid!</li>
<li>It's the GUNS, Stupid!</li>
<li>It's a lack of respect and cooperation, Stupid.</li>
<li>It's the ALT-Right, Stupid.</li>
</ol>
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1) Politics. After the 1994 Republican's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America" target="_blank">"Contract with America"</a> a war was declared by the republicans against everything traditional Democrats believed in. One of the key results was (see attached retribution:<br />
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<a href="http://He described the election of 1994 as an "epic slaughter of the majority party in Congress" that "changed American politics for the foreseeable future," and that "(a)fter 60 years of Democratic dominance in American politics, the two parties were on a par." He concludes that "(t)he main reason was surely the Contract with America..."[13]" target="_blank">He described the election of 1994 as an "epic slaughter of the majority party in Congress" that "changed American politics for the foreseeable future," and that "(a)fter 60 years of Democratic dominance in American politics, the two parties were on a par." He concludes that "(t)he main reason was surely the Contract with America..."[13]</a></blockquote>
2) GUNS.<br />
2a) It's the fact that (again), the Republicans in Congress REFUSE to support reasonable GUN LAWs. The Second amendment to the constitution allows citizens to own as many MUSKETS as they want. It says NOTHING about ownership of MULTIPLE FIRE MACHINE GUNS.<br />
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2b) So WHEN THE HECK will the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_show_loophole" target="_blank">GUN Show loophole</a>" be closed? When MORE stupid congressmen get killed.<br />
<br />
3) Respect and cooperation is dead in congress. Congressmen no longer live in Washington, and no longer get to know the party on the other side of the Aisle. The three day congressional workweek (commute to Washington on Monday, home on Friday), is the political boondoggle of all time.<br />
At least before this, we paid them for a five day workweek.<br />
<br />
It's also time to get rid of the two month summer vacation.<br />
<br />
4) It's the ALT-RIGHT. <br />
Formerly known as the KKK, The Nazi Party, etc., or now the contract with the RACIST whites who refuse to quietly realize that the country has changed.<br />
This is the most dangerous reason for this week's shooting. These newly empowered racists are a threat to EVERYONE in this country.<br />
<br />
IT's the GUNS stupid. Instituting a mandatory background check for every gun sale, everywhere will help reduce our daily shooting violence in this country!<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-31956538746169909462017-06-06T07:21:00.001-04:002017-06-06T07:21:51.531-04:00Mideast Peace -- it's possible..<p dir="ltr">Believe it or not, it IS  possible.<br>
However, you cannot look back to the borders of 50 years ago to solve this problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">First of all, the 1967 borders are not perfect, not permanent.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In order to serve, and obtain peace, we need to look at what happened in 1947, when the British mandate ruling over Palestine was dissolved.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Brand new U.N. declared two a would be created from that land.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Bingo, it's a start. The Jews accepted, and called the land is historic name, Israel.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Arab/Palestinians living there said, "no way",I want my land AND that land, and thus 13 Arab nations attacked Israel all at once.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's stop with the ears and go back to the UN deal of 1947.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That deal isn't perfect, but it's borders are in someway better then the B.S. borders of 1967.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Oh yeah. Here's the reasons both sides won't be interested.</p>
<p dir="ltr">1) the Israelis won't like the fact that the UN plan calls for Jerusalem to be an open city.</p>
<p dir="ltr">1a) given the fact that Jordan controlled the old city of Jerusalem for 19 years until 1967 and not one new was ever allowed inside, Israel had a much better record over the past 50 years of granting access to all religions, and making the city open.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2) the Arabs, especially Jordan, won't like the fact that almost one half of the land allocated to the Palestinian state is in Jordan, on the OTHER side of the Jordan River.<br>
2a) if we also go back another 30 years we see there was never a state of Jordan before then.<br>
I<br>
2b) if you look at the reaction of all of the Arab countries to the Palestinian refugees at the campus on their soil, not ONE of them offered citizenship to any of the refugees, and they were never allowed to leave their camps.<br>
2b1) had they been given citizenship, a great deal of the problems of the camps world not have occurred.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Simple solution, complex problems.<br>
Won't ever happen. Sigh.</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-74327168217288529642017-05-25T07:37:00.001-04:002017-05-25T07:37:19.684-04:00Shout out -- NOLA Mayor's moving speech<p dir="ltr">Wow. New Orleans's ( NOLA) mayor just amazed me after reading his speech from last week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To recap, last Friday, NOLA removed the fourth of four Confederate era monuments, three of which were removed in the middle o MNf the night due to threats of violence.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The fourth was removed last Friday, when mayor Mitch Landry gave this speech.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The mayor grew up in NOLA, and that likely explains his attitude and decisions. But in case you may have missed it, he's also white.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http:http://www.theroot.com/new-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieus-speech-on-terrorist-1795536034/">Here's the link to the speech. It's </a><a href="http:http://www.theroot.com/new-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieus-speech-on-terrorist-1795536034/"><u>fantastic</u></a> </p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-61279529974971030332017-05-21T09:36:00.001-04:002017-06-08T10:14:58.272-04:00The summer of '74 -- instant 'replay--replay-replay--replay'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">$pecial update...</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">6-8-17. 10am</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">The first of the TRUMP-GATE hearings.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">James (FBI) Comey's TESTIMONY.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">It's starting!!!! Just think of 1974.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">And John Dean said recently that Trump is out watergate-ing watergate</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I <a href="http://http//r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEVu75eCFZ9WsA0yk3nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByZHI5MXByBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNgRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--/RV=2/RE=1495394682/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fen.m.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fI_Pity_the_Fool_%28TV_series%29/RK=1/RS=QHBlE15KG5.b8XLX._56EXCJmeo-">Pity the poor </a><u><a href="http://http//r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEVu75eCFZ9WsA0yk3nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByZHI5MXByBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNgRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--/RV=2/RE=1495394682/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fen.m.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fI_Pity_the_Fool_%28TV_series%29/RK=1/RS=QHBlE15KG5.b8XLX._56EXCJmeo-">fool</a></u> who doesn't learn from history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm very very sorry for that Mr. T reference.</span> .<br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I didn't even know that he did a TV show with that name that actually lasted SIX episodes ten years ago! (Wikipedia is just what someone with ADHD like me needs !)</span></span></blockquote>
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... Anyway..., It was was... THE SUMMER OF WATERGATE... and the summer long Watergate hearings of the house intelligence committee.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(here we go again...) 44 years ago this summer [in Rolling Stone magazine this week I read yesterday discussed the 50th anniversary remix/2 CD re-release of Sgt. Pepper this summer]</span></span></div>
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Boy oh Boy, do I remember the 'summer of '74. I remember spending most of the summer in front of the TV, switching between the 3 networks.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You do remember when we only had THREE (major) TV networks [CBS, NBC, and ABC]? It was a time less divided, when we switched on the news as 7:00 PM, and listened to Uncle Walter (CBS), Huntley-Brinkley (NBC), and ?? on ABC...</span></blockquote>
Well it was in 1972, that Nixon's plumbers (his 'fix-it' crew) botched a break-in at the newly opened watergate hotel and office complex in Washington DC, and broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee.<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some things never change, except that this past year, it wasn't the president's men, but a foreign government's agents that will have brought down the current president.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">It wasn't until</span> the next summer that everything started becoming clear. It wasn't until October 1973 when Nixon had his "Saturday Night Massacre", that everything started rolling downhill.<br>
<br>
Today, President Trump is rolling ten times faster then NIXON did.<br>
<br>
Trump is to NIXON as a Mustang is to a Yugo<br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(ohh boy... here comes that SAT word analogy...) </span></span></blockquote>
That is<span style="font-size: large;">... Nixon's obstruction of justice unfolded over two to three years... TRUMP's </span><span style="font-size: large;">obstruction of justice is going just as his twitter account goes, at 140 miles per hour.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO.. SIT DOWN, find a good TV channel (Say, CSPAN), and watch TRUMP destroy himself MUCH faster then NIXON did. </span> <div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-24335109828252870072017-05-19T07:13:00.001-04:002017-05-19T17:14:21.389-04:00The war of Northern Aggression?! (aka the Civil War)<div dir="ltr">
Ok guys. I admit it. I grew up in the North.<br />
However, having spent my fair amount of time down here (south), I still hear way too much about :</div>
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<br /></div>
<ul>
<li>The North. How we destroyed everything Good.</li>
<li>Slaves.</li>
<li>Bigotry.</li>
<li>Why the Confederate flag is NOT racist.</li>
<li>Why poverty and drugs are a Black thing.</li>
<li>Why Jefferson Davis deserves to be honored</li>
</ul>
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Ok. (Lecture mode on!)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">
Since the massacre of 7 blacks during a Bible study in South Carolina two years ago, it really can't be said that the Confederate flag is anything except a symbol of racial hated, or perhaps a desire for a comeback of white supremacy again.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-size: large;"><u>It's time for ALL Southerners to:</u></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<ul>
<li>Repudiate the Confederate flag as a symbol of history.</li>
<ul>
<li>Admit that the flag is NOW symbol of HATE</li>
</ul>
<li>Stop trying to deny the North won that war.</li>
<li>Stop trying to pretend that racism isn't a huge problem in this country.</li>
<li>Understand that white privilege isn't a birth-right.</li>
</ul>
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Updated for Grammar, auto-correct...</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-80922159116681100532017-02-20T03:34:00.000-05:002017-05-19T07:59:45.241-04:00Shame out: Trump attacks the press, autocrat in training!<div><br></div>Originally written 2-19-17. Just published..<div><br></div><div>Wow. I also just remembered that Adolph Hitler was ALSO elected to the highest office in Germany, after World War I (also at the time called, "THE GREAT WAR") and slowly but surely took away<br>
<ul>
<li>Freedom of the Press</li>
<li>The rights of minorities (including Catholics, Jews, Gypsies, and many other minorities)</li>
<li>The Right to own weapons</li>
</ul>
<br>
Well It REALLY is beginning to look quite similar. I am going to save the comparison for another post!<br>
<br>
Reminder: Herr Trump held a 77 minute press conference on Thursday morning, that was a half-hour speech, and about 45 minutes of questions. **see note at bottom ** <br>
<br>
He is starting to look like a third rate dictator who wants to destroy a country's press.(think Germany, Italy, or even RUSSIA!)<br>
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<br>
I am not even going to start on Friday's "Herr Trump" Tweet, saying, The PRESS is the enemy<br>
(<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/user/realDonaldTrump" target="_blank">here is his ORIGINAL TWEET</a>, which was deleted after one minute, and re-formatted (and removed the word "SICK").<br>
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Let's just go and say, "HEIL TRUMP" From now on. <br>
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The FAKE NEWS media (failing <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">@nytimes</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews">@NBCNews</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC">@ABC</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS">@CBS</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN">@CNN</a>) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!<br>
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NOW THIS is SICK. The Elected president of the (formerly) UNITED STATES of America says everyone is LYING?</div>
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Even FOX NEWS? How about this ...</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_E12d_EtU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fox news anchor shepard smith and TRUMP truth bombs</a></div>
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Shepard Smith (a REPORTER), not a news PRESENTER on FOX news, was watching the Press Conference on Thursday, and he just reached his breaking point, and kept pointing out that almost EVERYTHING coming from HERR TRUMP's mouth is "UNQUESTIONABLY and demonstrated FALSE" (directly quoted by Smith at 2 mins 35 seconds into the clip).</div>
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**Note: <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> If it looks like a <strike>Rose </strike>Fact, Smells like a <strike>Rose </strike>Fact, then it IS a <strike>Rose </strike>Fact.</span></span><br>
and because some of those TRUMP supporters will not look at the TRUTH as opposed to his LIES, they need to be REMINDED of the similarities between Mr. Trump, and the Little Dictator that almost destroyed the world. <br>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0United States30.564782988737036 -101.255.0427484887370362 -142.558594 56.08681748873704 -59.941406tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-53577755280065537102017-02-19T02:28:00.000-05:002017-02-19T14:05:05.979-05:00The Supreme's (minus One) critical Cases THIS TERM!<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-immigration-guidelines-idUSKBN15W0DU" target="_blank">Reuters just reported</a> (Again, I am quoting, and simply re-formatting words to make them EASIER to underSTAND! (... means, I deleted...)<br />
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<i><u><span style="font-size: small;">Supreme Court to set guidelines for Trump treatment of non-citizens</span></u></i></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="article-text"><span class="article-prime">The U.S. Supreme
Court will decide three cases in coming months that could help or hinder
President Donald Trump's efforts to ramp up border security and
accelerate deportations of those in the country illegally.</span></span></span></h1>
<span id="article-text">The three cases, which reached the court before (...)President Barack Obama left office, all deal (...) broadly with the
degree (...) which non-citizens can assert rights under the U.S.
Constitution. </span><br />
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<span id="article-text">They come at a time <i><span style="font-size: small;">when the court is one justice short
and divided along ideological lines, with four conservatives and four
liberals.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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Case 1:The most pertinent of the three cases(...)whether
immigrants in custody (...)have the right to a
hearing (...)when their cases are not promptly
adjudicated. </blockquote>
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The long-running
class action (...) brought by the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) on behalf of (...)immigrants detained for more than six
months, (...) includes legal permanent residents in
deportation proceedings because they were convicted of crimes. </blockquote>
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A decision in the case requiring additional court hearings
could have very direct implications for the administration's plans,(...) since immigration courts
currently have a backlog of more than 500,000 cases. The ACLU estimates that up to 8,000 immigrants nationwide at any given time have been held for at least six months. </blockquote>
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Case 2 & 3:<br />
<span id="article-text">The other cases to (...)
concern whether U.S. government officials can be sued over mistreatment
of non-citizens in two separate contexts.</span><br />
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<span id="article-text"># 2 </span><span id="article-text"><span id="article-text"> Whether the family of 15-year-old Mexican
teenager Sergio Hernandez, who was killed while on Mexican soil by a
U.S. agent firing from across the border in Texas, can sue under the
U.S. Constitution.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span id="article-text"> #3 A long running </span>civil lawsuit brought by immigrants, mainly
Muslims, who were detained in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
and claim they were mistreated. </blockquote>
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The
group of Muslim, Arab and South Asian non-U.S. citizens say they were
held as terrorism suspects based on race, religion, ethnicity and
immigration status and abused in detention before being deported.</blockquote>
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But the best line in the article is the last!<br />
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(...)An immigration law professor at
Drexel University's(...) Law School, said the furor over the
treatment of non-U.S. citizens affected by the travel ban could bleed
over into how the court approaches the cases.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="article-text"><span id="midArticle_6"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">"It might be the atmospherics of what’s going on now might lead to a closer look from the justices," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hmmm... Them's THINKING words!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I also predict that there will be a major Filibuster over Trump's supreme court nomination, and that the 9th chair will go unfilled for four years, or until Trump resigns, and Pence is impeached.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-64027888140794384542017-02-17T02:20:00.001-05:002017-02-17T02:20:44.706-05:00Shout OUT! Robert S. Harward REFUSES to be A Trumph-ette.Wow. What a nightmare. Oh, Wait. It's reality. Donald Drumph really IS the President of the (formerly) United States.<br />
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Whatever the Reason, (whether after finally retiring from the Military, he wants to MAKE $$$$, or just is avoiding the politics), I applaud Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward's decision to <span style="font-size: large;">JUST SAY NO"<span style="font-size: small;"> to our 45th President.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">NO means NO!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">No cooperating with our 45th <strike>President</strike> Autocrat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">NO working for people with ALTERNATE VIEWS of REALITY</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">NO to a Administration that is ALREADY self-destroying this country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-harward-national-security-adviser_us_58a659a6e4b045cd34c02d22" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trump's Pick For NSA Rejects Job Offer After Erratic Press Conference</a></span></span></div>
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“It’s purely a personal issue,” <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/harward-turns-trump-down-national-security-adviser-job-010725026--politics.html" target="_blank">Harward told The Associated Press</a>, adding that the Trump administration was “very accommodating to my needs, both professionally and personally.”</div>
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friend of Harward's says he was reluctant to take NSA job bc the WH
seems so chaotic; says Harward called the offer a "shit sandwich."</div>
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/832384718624665600">February 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/02/robert_harward_turned_down_trump_now_others_can_too.html" target="_blank">Trump’s Public Humiliation</a><br />
(editing, and emphasis of points is MINE, rather then from slate!)<br />
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This one is great. Fred Kaplan, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1476763259/?tag=slatmaga-20">Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War</a></i>. says "<span style="font-size: x-small;">By rejecting the national security adviser job, Robert
Harward gave cover to every professional who wants to turn the president
down.</span></blockquote>
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He goes on to say that there were three main reasons, Harward turned Trump down, essentially:</blockquote>
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<li> ...It is very unusual—almost unheard of—for a senior military officer,
retired or otherwise, to turn down a request from the
commander-in-chief. </li>
<li>...largely for that reason, by rejecting the offer Harward has provided
cover to other officers, and to civilian national-security analysts
with a similar sense of patriotic duty, to turn down this president,
too. Service, in this case, is not its own reward and by no stretch
worth the sacrifice.</li>
<li>Third, the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e89c64b8-f494-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608?emailId=58a62ae2db2c3900044ffa2e&segmentId=ce31c7f5-c2de-09db-abdc-f2fd624da608"><em>Financial Times</em></a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/16/trumps-pick-to-replace-michael-flynn-as-national-security-adviser-turns-down-offer-people-familiar-with-decision-say-2/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_pp-harward750p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ad51849483d6"><em>Washington Post</em></a>, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/harward-says-no-to-national-security-adviser-role/index.html">CNN</a>,
and other news outlets are reporting that </li>
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<li>Harward turned down the offer
in part because:</li>
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<li>Trump wouldn’t let him fire several officials that
Flynn had hired for his staff and install his own team instead. </li>
<li>This
suggests that Trump is adamant on keeping certain people loyal to
him—including Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland, a former
Fox News commentator who Trump admired. </li>
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<li>The news reports don’t mention
whether Harward made demands about Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief political
strategist, (who wrote the executive order that placed himself on the
NSC Principals Committee and has created a parallel NSC structure called
the Strategic Initiatives Group, comprised of a few extreme right-wing
associates. </li>
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Kaplan continues explaining the purpose of the NSC, that in the (Harward), would:</blockquote>
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<li> ...(A)dvise the president, <u><span style="color: lime;"><i>to
the extent the president wants to be advised. </i></span></u></li>
<li>In other words, to make
the job worthwhile, the adviser must have:</li>
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<li> Close access to the president</li>
<li> Clear lines of authority over the national-security bureaucracy.
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<i><b>Trump would not guarantee Harward this sort of authority, so Harward turned the job down. </b></i><br />
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<i><b> </b></i>The <em>Post</em>
reported that Harward was also reluctant to accept the offer for
financial reasons, worried that leaving his job as a senior executive at
Lockheed Martin would hurt his family. </blockquote>
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Yet few military
officers—especially retired generals and admirals—let such factors get
in the way of serving the president. </blockquote>
And here's the REAL takeaway of the ENTIRE article! <br />
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CNN quoted one of Harward’s friends
saying that, in mulling over the decision, he was persuaded most of all
by the sheer dysfunction of Trump’s presidency, describing the job he
was offered as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/harward-says-no-to-national-security-adviser-role/index.html">“a shit sandwich.”</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, Trump was given a choice:</span></blockquote>
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<li> <span style="font-size: large;">Cater to the loyalty and
ambitions of his political operatives, </span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">who have no competence whatsoever
in national security affairs—</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">OR </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">install a profes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">sional who can build
and maintain a functioning national-security apparatus. </span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: small;"> (Trump): </span><span style="font-size: small;">chose the
former. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">AGAIN, a SHOUT OUT to the MAN who stood up to Donald TRUMP, and said, "YOU're FIRED!</span> </span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-57893362792376396262017-02-15T04:05:00.000-05:002017-02-15T04:05:20.369-05:00Shame OUT! Retired General Michael Flynn. TRAITOR OR Treason-er?FOR SHAME, you RED leaning readers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE FBI, and all of America's Intelligence Agencies agree that they have evidence that RUSSIA elected "He who shall not be named" as our 45th President.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS NOT speculation, or a random accusation. IT IS a proven fact.</span></span></b></span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> What we now see (on February 14th), is that <span style="color: red;">MICHAEL FLYNN<span style="color: #444444;"> was the KEY to how this happened.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Fact: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> The disgraced Security Director spoke to the Russian Ambassador BEFORE he was confirmed by the senate, and BEFORE his boss, President "he who shall not be named" was Inagurated as President #45 of our country.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See: <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/keith-olbermann-mike-flynn-should-be-arrested-and-if-trumps-linked-to-russia-he-should-be-impeached/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Keith Olbermann: Michael Flynn Should Be Fired -- And Arrested For Treason</a></span></blockquote>
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See: <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/319560-dem-rep-did-flynn-commit-treason" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conspiring' with Russia the 'very definition of treason</a></blockquote>
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See: <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/news/319585-dan-rather-on-flynn-damn-the-lies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dan Rather Blasts 45's Integrity</a></blockquote>
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See: <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319594-report-trump-campaign-aides-were-in-contact-with-russian-intel" target="_blank">Trump campaign in-contact-with-russian-intel??</a></blockquote>
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See: Steven Colbert (not the old fake news one) says, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/14/colbert-sends-off-dummy-mike-flynn-it-s-funny-because-it-s-treason.html" target="_blank">"what a dummy-mike-flynn"</a> </blockquote>
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and Finally: <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/319425-blunt-calls-for-exhaustive-investigation-into-trump-russia-connections" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GOP Senator says, "Enough is Enough"</a> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Open Question: Did Flynn violate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act" target="_blank">Logan Act</a>? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another Question.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">CAN we Please now start a campaign to "IMPEACH PENCE"?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">* In my crystal ball mode, (to me, at least it's obvious)</span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> that <span style="color: purple;">THE DONALD</span> is now president </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">He's Proven that he lies.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">He's proven that a Sociopath can be elected president</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">He's proven my (unfortunately unpublished) prediction that he will last less then 4 months (120 days) as president </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That to accomplish this, he used what Scott Adams explained as "Mass Hypnotism".</span></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">IMPEACH PENCE. Undo 45 NOW! </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></li>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-4799598064993581152017-01-31T10:00:00.000-05:002017-02-15T03:14:32.278-05:00SHAME-OUT our 45th President who shall not go named. Takes away liberties and LIESwell. It took less then 10 days for "He who shall not be named" to SCREW up the United States.<br />
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Remember. The person writing this blog has watched Donald Drumph and how he has behaved (word used with great sarcasm here!) for over 45 years as a New York City born and raised boy. Us NYers have watched his lies for decades and were not fooled by his performance/<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">TRUMP LIES. <span style="font-size: small;">He does not (and has never) spoken anything truthful, except that he loves himself.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">This past weekend he issued two executive orders, one on immigration, stoping all access from 7 countries (why was Saudia Arabia, and other muslim countries excluded from the ban?)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">Could it be that MR TRUMP has BUSINESS interests in these countries? WELL we'll never know, as we never saw his TAX RETURNS.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Conflict of interest, or TREASON?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">Remember. Hitler was ELECTED to office in German</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">y, THEN he became the dictator!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">it's time to TAKE ACTION!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">email your leglislators.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">and remember to call Herr Trump by his rightful name, Das Donald. or Das Dictator</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">oh, you voted for him and you're still happy?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">These first 10 days are only a small taste of what Der Donald and his Alt-right sidekick Gerbels Bannon are up to...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-1241626253204178512017-01-22T01:22:00.001-05:002017-01-22T01:22:18.773-05:00Shoutout-- A Moving Tribute to our 44th President (Sniff Sniff)+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br />
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Well It's official. Donald Trump is now President of the United States. Heaven Help us all. I can only pray that our nation will still be in one piece and intact in 3 years and 363 days.<br />
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I actually started to cry when I saw the last skit of Saturday Night Live last night.<br />
It was a song. Sung to a large portrait of our first black President, the song from 1967, "To Sir, With Love", (sung by ...[and I did NOT google this!!!] Lulu (a one hit wonder.)<br />
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Too soon for a video of the song to be up, but I might update this. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ETEUsWhdo" target="_blank">Spoke to soon... This still sends CHILLS down my spine..</a><br />
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I did want to cry. For our nation. For the more then half of the population who DID not vote for the current President. For our Democracy. For the FBI director who will go directly to hell when he dies, rather then the good place.<br />
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Did you Trump voters ACTUALLY think he was going to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRbcrksJJk" target="_blank">DRAIN THE SWAMP? (SNL presents Vladimir Putin)</a> He's got more billionaires on his cabinet then in all previous administrations combined.<br />
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Not to mention the poster boy of the ALT-RIGHT (Can you say NEO-NAZI's?) who is now in the White House.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ALL I can say is, that We've ALL BEEN TRUMPED!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Check back in 4 years, and let me know! </span> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-67068510954581858712016-09-11T15:51:00.000-04:002016-09-11T15:51:28.376-04:00More Donald Trump ControversyOK. I am not into the Donald.<br />
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(Photo from Last week Tonight with John Oliver)<br />
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Mr. Trump is NOT a feel-good kind of person.<br />
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Here's a headline.<br />
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His (newest) current Campaign "CEO",, Steve Bannon, who formerly helmed a website that <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news" target="_blank">he himself once described as</a> “the platform for the Alt-Right.”<br />
(also the former/current head of the Breitbart pseudo-news platform), has again shot the Donald in the foot.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/09/alt-right-leaders-we-aren-t-racist-we-just-hate-jews.html" target="_blank">According to the Daily Beast,</a> it's essential for you to know that support of the Donald is the same as supporting these ANTI-Semites.<br />
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The main folks behind the Alt-Right movement, clearly say, "<br />
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Despite the fact that The Donald's daughter, son in law and grandchildren are (orthodox) Jews, You CANNOT possibly justify voting for the Donald if you know that his fringe supporters want to create a white fringe white only (NO Jews allowed) state.</h1>
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The racist, anti-semitic, white power group called the ‘alt-right’ has
been mainstreamed thanks to Breitbart and the Trump campaign. And they
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-62977444943018402722016-08-18T06:00:00.000-04:002016-09-08T12:59:11.560-04:00Dump TrumpMore on the Republican Candidate for President.<br />
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Sociopath Donald. (See previous Post)<br />
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<u><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Trump-- incitement to violence</b></span></i></u></div>
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Ok. It's time. The NY daily news (that Ultra left wing NYC tabloid--no, not really)<br />Says it's time for The Donald (aka Donald Drumph) to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/10/media/new-york-daily-news-donald-trump-campaign/&source=gmail&ust=1471385017061000&usg=AFQjCNHSjy8jexsSGSnyE3WuR8wfJ_1gtQ" href="http://http//money.cnn.com/2016/08/10/media/new-york-daily-news-donald-trump-campaign/" target="_blank">TRUMP needs to QUIT the campaign</a>.</div>
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For those in a closet, The Donald says that if Hillary is elected, the right wing should use their second amendment rights .</div>
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For those that are really not with it, that is essentially saying. "go assassinate the president or supreme Court justices "</div>
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It's time for the FBI or secret service to arrest mr. trump for attempted assassination of a former white House occupant.</div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt%3DA0LEV7ipGqtX6gEASvY3nIlQ;_ylu%3DX3oDMTByMG04Z2o2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--/RV%3D2/RE%3D1470860074/RO%3D10/RU%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.cnn.com%252f2016%252f08%252f09%252fpolitics%252fdonald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment%252findex.html/RK%3D0/RS%3D2A5rBWzkesDfoPNes74uvybDH_U-&source=gmail&ust=1471385017061000&usg=AFQjCNEmSz_wVbMvrabpLo0zwbG8_aBqeQ" href="http://http//r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEV7ipGqtX6gEASvY3nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMG04Z2o2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--/RV=2/RE=1470860074/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cnn.com%2f2016%2f08%2f09%2fpolitics%2fdonald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment%2findex.html/RK=0/RS=2A5rBWzkesDfoPNes74uvybDH_U-" target="_blank">He said </a>, essentially. Go, kill. </div>
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I say. Ms. Attorney General. Go. <br />Look here and arrest him. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/879&source=gmail&ust=1471385017061000&usg=AFQjCNGLsbh_1rS2nDhwmzI5a19g1NPdQw" href="http://https//www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/879" target="_blank">Threats against former Presidents and First Ladies</a></div>
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The link above works if you cut and paste it into a new window (here : <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/879"><cite class="_Rm"><b>https</b>://www.<b>law</b>.<b>cornell.edu/uscode</b>/<b>text</b>/<b>18/879</b></cite></a></div>
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and I quote: </div>
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<span class="chapeau">Whoever <i><u>knowingly </u></i>and <i><u>willfully </u><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">threatens </span></span></i>to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon—</span>
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<li> a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: purple;"><b>shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.</b></span></i></span><br />
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Here we come Ms. Attorney General. Go Get him!</div>
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ANYONE who thinks</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-20630698372582172912016-07-25T08:13:00.001-04:002016-07-25T08:13:13.403-04:00In memorian: Yahoo SOLD to Verizon???<p dir="ltr">Oh really?</p>
<p dir="ltr">In case you don't know the backstory, but only reason Yahoo is seeming itself is that they tried to spin off the $$$ part of the company ( they were a founding investor in the Chinese compant tencent [ now the same size or larger then yahoo!]), but the IRS refused to allow yahoo a tax free spin out to its shareholders.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, because they couldn't get rid of the huge financial part of the company, they had to sell the main part of the business.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So...now Verizon owns @ol and Yahoo.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hmmm.</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-59365406558526276372016-03-18T10:29:00.001-04:002016-03-18T10:29:53.715-04:00Heil Donald<p dir="ltr">Really?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Has anyone noticed that the Donald's rallies are starting to remind one of Adolph (may his memory be blotted out) Hitler's actions and rallies both before his 1926 election and after his election?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I just heard this discussion... Trump now says there will be riots if he's not nominated at the convention.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sounds more and more like the beginnings of a totalitarian regime.</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-42511394710505599122016-02-19T08:02:00.001-05:002016-02-19T08:02:23.918-05:00Shout-out: Apple iPhone & security a solution<p dir="ltr">Ok.   Here's an answer to the Apple/U.S. court problem regarding the encryption in iPhones.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Background paragraph:<br>
All current operating systems(apple, Microsoft, linux) ALL have their innards descended  from AT&T's Bell Labs UNIX.<br>
(UNIX  WAS a registered trademark...)</p>
<p dir="ltr">very brief problem explanation: newest version of iPhone's OS will delete all contents of the phone if wrong password is entered 10 times.<br>
U.S. court has ordered Apple to break into THIS SPECIFIC phone.</p>
<p dir="ltr">ANSWER To problem:<br>
1) apple takes phone takes it apart.<br>
2) on bench, a duplicate copy of phone's memory is copied is moved to New phone.<br>
3) FBI then attempts another 9 password cracks.<br>
Repeat step 2 until fbi gets password.</p>
<p dir="ltr">THIS ALLOWS APPLE TO NOT DECRYPT Phone, FBI can then get password and makes it one time (one phone) procedure less subject to abuse because (law enforcement, foreign governments, hackers) will need to have and disassemble phone before breaking it! <br>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-30364382168367538432015-12-03T08:10:00.000-05:002015-12-03T08:10:08.836-05:002nd Amendment - Update<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Second Amendment is OUTDATED</b></span><br />
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It's time to admit it. 200 years ago we said every citizen has the right to bear arms. This is still true.<br />
EVERY Citizen has the right to bear as MANY MUSKETS (single shot, hard to load) as they want.<br />
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You NRA nuts can still have 50 muskets lined up in your house.<br />
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You just should NOT be allowed to have AUTOMATIC weapons!<br />
OR bullet-proof armour either<br />
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We can start re-thinking this by:<br />
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<li> Removing the "Gun Show" loophole for background checks.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the Eclectic's blog (markbnj.blogspot.com)</div>Mark Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713628570394054338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21826291.post-35477985158908287712012-02-02T17:11:00.000-05:002012-02-02T17:11:14.595-05:00Shame-OUT;-- Susan G. Komen -- Bah HUMBUG<br />
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Give me a break.<br />
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THIS IS a PARTISAN political decision.<br />
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To STOP funding planned parenthood in this day and age and claim it ISN't a PARTISAN political decision, or fear of the FASCIST/REPUBLICAN fearmongers is cheesy.<br />
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Come clean.. Admit you;'re blatently pandering to the far right, because you're afraid.<br />
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This is yet another case of the far right/fascist ultra conservative right's attempt to turn back Roe V. Wade.<br />
One dribble at a time.<br />
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