kpete
kpete's JournalIncredible video of Rep Louie Gohmert yelling "radical Islam killed these people"
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, came up to Democrats on the floor and began shouting, repeatedly saying that "radical Islam killed these people, ISIS killed these people."
VIDEO HERE:
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/745813659889238016
https://www.rt.com/usa/347899-gohmert-radical-islam-sitin/
OBAMA: 'There’s no successful businessman...who thinks most successful businessman in USA is Trump'
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/745938200053563392
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-obama-anti-business-president/
House GOP says no vote on gun control tonight. Instead they'll deal w/ financial advisers.
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/745777124167004161
Rep John Lewis writes letter to Speaker Ryan asking: "What is this Congress waiting for?"
https://twitter.com/kira_lerner/status/745709010830131204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
CHARLES P. PIERCE: Let's Parse All the Bullsh*t in Trump's Speech About Hillary
JUN 22, 2016
.............
Americans are the people that tamed the West, that dug out the Panama Canal, that sent satellites across the solar system, that built the great dams, and so much more. Then we started thinking small. We stopped believing in what America could do, and became reliant on other countries, other people, and other institutions. We lost our sense of purpose, and daring.
I wonder how that possibly could have happened in this country. How did we abandon our dreams of greatness that we demanded of our self-governing Republic. We didn't dig the Panama Canal. Our government did, after it stole the land from Colombia. We, as individuals, didn't tame the West. Our government did, with railroads and homesteading and the U.S. Cavalry. We didn't ourselves build the Hoover Dam. Our government did. We didn't create our own private space exploration. Our government did.
How could the country have come to such a sorry pass? Perhaps a clue can be found in a speech given from the U.S. Capitol by a newly elected president on a cold, clear January morning in 1981.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43130
Sad.
much more:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a46079/donald-trump-speech-hillary-clinton/
Brent Scowcroft (former Ford, HW Bush National Security Advisor) endorsement of Hillary Clinton
The endorsement is the most high-profile indication yet of the depth of discomfort that Republican foreign policy figures feel about Donald Trump as their party's nominee.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/745692760947195904
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-brent-scowcroft-top-foreign-policy-1466624978-htmlstory.html
:large
We looked for the millions that Trump says he gave secretly to charity. Found-1 Gift.
We looked for the millions that @realdonaldtrump says he gave secretly to charity. Talked to 102 grps. Found 1 gift:
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/745617728296357888
(sorry one is upside down)
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/745623049823719425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And 2 charities listed on Trump's bio have never received a gift of Trump's own cash 
Inside Trump’s Most Valuable Tower: Felons, Dictators and Girl Scouts
A hedge-fund manager on the 28th floor who pretended to be dead when investors asked for their money reported to prison in January. A few weeks later, an investment adviser on the 17th floor was accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme. Thirteen floors up, a lawyer pleaded guilty this month to stealing millions of dollars from clients.
.............
“Iconic and wonderful,” Donald J. Trump said at a South Carolina town hall event last year, praising the 86-year-old Art Deco tower as one of his great possessions. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also told fans in Maine that critics who mock his failed companies should focus instead on the Manhattan skyscraper. “They don’t want to talk about 40 Wall Street,” he said.
But the 72-story building has housed frauds, thieves, boiler rooms and penny-stock schemers since Trump took it over in 1995 in what may be the best deal of his career. No single property in his portfolio is more valuable than 40 Wall St., according to a Bloomberg valuation of his assets last year. And no U.S. address has been home to more of the unregistered brokerages that investors complain about, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current public alert list.
Since Donald Trump took over 40 Wall St. in 1995, prosecutors have filed criminal charges against at least 29 people connected to 12 alleged scams tied to the building. Nine other firms have faced serious regulatory claims. Authorities prevailed in most but not all of the cases. Many were brought against principals, executives and other employees, not the firms themselves. Some are still pending. Here are the allegations, as well as descriptions of other firms in the tower that trade stocks and arrange loans.:
PLEASE CONTINUE (great graphics):
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-trump-40-wall-street/
Profile Information
Member since: Fri Sep 17, 2004, 03:59 PMNumber of posts: 72,022
