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pnwmom's JournalActual playground taunt, uttered by young boy chasing smaller kids: "I'M DONALD TRUMP!"
Most of the kids were laughing, but at least one was crying.
This happened in a park in northern CA and a family member saw it.
So now Donald Trump is the boogey-man, at least in that California city.
WAPost poll: NO GENDER GAP in Democratic support for Hillary! (Statistical tie, 89% men; 86% women)
Yay, Democrats -- men and women!
Of course there IS a significant gender gap in Republican support for Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/22/hillary-clintons-new-ad-unsubtly-fires-at-donald-trumps-achilles-heel-temperament/
That's Trump's problem in a nutshell. People find his business experience attractive but worry about his willingness to fly off the handle. Wills, as a Republican woman, is a member of the group that's most responsible for Trump's current polling problems. Democratic men prefer Hillary Clinton over Trump by 89 points, according to the most recent Post/ABC poll. Democratic women prefer her by 86 points. Republican men prefer Trump by 82 points — but Republican women prefer him by only 64 points.
Asked which candidate has a better personality and temperament to serve effectively as president, the gap is similar. Over 9 in 10 Democratic men and women say Clinton has the better temperament. But only 68 percent of Republican men pick Trump — as do only 58 percent of Republican women.
A tourist had spotted the alligator that killed the 2 yr old -- and warned Disney about it
45 minutes earlier. Nothing was done.
And the boy and his family weren't swimming (thus ignoring the "no swimming" signs.) They were building a sand castle.
I don't understand why the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission concluded that little could have been done to prevent the attack. If the Disney people had warned guests to stay off that beach -- after getting the report of the alligator spotting -- then the attack could have been prevented.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/us/orlando-disney-gator-attack/index.html
The report's findings include:
• The alligator that killed Lane Thomas Graves took him in a predatory manner consistent with the reptile's hunting techniques. The boy was standing in ankle-deep water while he fetched buckets of water for a sand castle he was building. Neither the boy nor his family did anything provocative.
• The family was by the lagoon near the hotel around 8:30 p.m., during gator hunting time, to watch the movie "Zootopia" on the beach.
• The alligator took Lane when he bent down. Matt Graves, the father, tried to pry open the gator's mouth that was clamped on his son's head and neck, but the animal broke away.
• A South Carolina tourist spotted the alligator from his hotel porch about 45 minutes before the attack. He said he pointed out the animal to a Disney employee. Just before the attack, he saw children in the ankle-deep water and was going out the door to warn them when he heard the mother screaming.
John Dean, GOP Watergate truth-teller, says GOP leaders are trying to frame Hillary.
The attorney who was White House Counsel for Nixon, John Dean gives a detailed account of the false charges against Hillary and the distortions and lies they have been spreading to make them. And he did use the phrase "frame her." As in: "It is pretty ugly stuff, made even uglier because it is being promoted by two high ranking Republican chairmen who are, the facts show, trying to frame her.
http://www.newsweek.com/squalid-case-against-hillary-and-her-emails-492017
Unfortunately, to explain these seamy tactics takes a bit more space than the normal column, but the facts need to be placed on the record.
Without understanding the underlying testimony involved, it is not possible to appreciate the falsity and absurdity of the charges against Mrs. Clinton. It is easy to call someone a liar or a perjurer. Not so easy to unpack the charges.
A smear like this—and Hillary has had a career of them—takes space to address and debunk, which is why it probably has not been done. I really undertook this drill for myself because I wanted to see what was going on. I believe Hillary Clinton is far too savvy and smart to lie to Congress. And as the following information shows, I am correct, and she has not done so.
That two of the most powerful committee chairs in the House of Representatives have trumped up these bogus charges is stunning to me. This is not the way mature democracies like ours are supposed to operate. These men—along with their staff and the Republican leadership that are part of this ploy—are blatantly abusing congressional powers.
Author disputes Colin Powell's pseudo-denial of his dinner-table email discussion with Hillary
Colin Powell claims to have "no recollection" of a dinner table conversation with Hillary about his email, but he had previously confirmed the conversation to the author and it is in his book. Also, Hillary wasn't trying to "pin" anything on Powell. It wasn't Hillary who reported the conversation to the author -- it was multiple others. Hillary never discussed the conversation publicly.
But, the author says, Powell had a good reason to want to stay out of the spotlight on this issue, since he had deleted all of his emails on his AOL account -- and it is a fact that his AOL account WAS hacked. No evidence of hacking was found on Hillary's private server.
http://www.newsweek.com/did-colin-powell-advise-hillary-use-private-email-492376?rx=us
But last June, while reporting on Powell’s advice to Clinton for my book, I contacted his office for comment—and got a very different answer.
His principal assistant, Margaret “Peggy” Cifrino, informed me then via email that their calendar showed that the Albright dinner had occurred in June 2009. While he didn’t recall some details of the dinner because it had occurred seven years ago, according to Cifrino, he remembered what he did and didn’t say to Clinton on the topic in question that evening:
So it is perplexing for him to say he doesn’t remember that dinner conversation at all now, since, according to his own assistant, he remembered at least some of what he said as recently as two months ago.
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How does Trump think he can make America great again,
when he can't even make Atlantic City great again? Even with all the help he's had from Chris Christie?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html?_r=0
How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
On the presidential campaign trail, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, often boasts of his success in Atlantic City, of how he outwitted the Wall Street firms that financed his casinos and rode the value of his name to riches. A central argument of his candidacy is that he would bring the same business prowess to the Oval Office, doing for America what he did for his companies.
“Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me,” Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. “The money I took out of there was incredible.”
His audacious personality and opulent properties brought attention — and countless players — to Atlantic City as it sought to overtake Las Vegas as the country’s gambling capital. But a close examination of regulatory reviews, court records and security filings by The New York Times leaves little doubt that Mr. Trump’s casino business was a protracted failure. Though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed this seaside city’s gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.
But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2016-04-21/atlantic-city-crisis-shows-casino-gambling-is-a-bad-bet
Atlantic City made a bad bet on casinos and lawmakers should learn from its mistakes.
At first glance, Atlantic City's current crisis bears little resemblance to those of Detroit, Puerto Rico and the other recent cases of fiscal catastrophe. The city is on the brink of bankruptcy due almost exclusively to a bad bet on casinos: around 20,000 industry jobs and half of annual gaming revenues have been lost in the last decade.
But though governments can go broke for any number of reasons, the solutions to their distress tend to be broadly similar. Atlantic City can learn many lessons from how other cities have dealt with insolvency.
First, unionized employees will have to make major concessions. This has been a sticking point between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Vincent Prieto, the pro-union speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. Christie wants to take over Atlantic City and give state appointees the authority to break labor contracts. Prieto has blocked the governor's plan, saying, "We don't need to destroy collective bargaining rights to fix Atlantic City." Prieto is raising false hopes. Not only is most city spending bound up in salaries and benefits, state and local officials cannot hope for any concessions from corporate creditors without sacrifices by labor.
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Question from 4 year old: "Why does Trump get to say mean things in a mean voice to people?
"Why does he get to do bad cooperation?"
She watches very little TV, but she's seen enough not to like that mean man.
Another high school friend speaks out, portraying Hillary as a "force of nature."
There have been a number of interviews with students who knew Hillary in high school. This is another very positive interview to add to the list.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-hillary-clinton-hal-masoncup-st-0729-20160728-story.html
Thursday afternoon, Masoncup, now 70 and living in Geneva, recalled that summer decades ago and his memories of attending junior high and high school with Clinton, who was born in Chicago and grew up in Park Ridge. He described her as a "force of nature," someone who seemed to be more mature and more focused than an average high school student.
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Masoncup and Clinton first met in junior high, though they went to different schools. They then spent three years at Maine East High School before Maine South opened in 1964, in time for their senior year. Masoncup and Clinton weren't in the same inner circle, but their social groups overlapped.
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"She easily expressed herself as far as issues having to do with the school and the student body, and she was very friendly," Masoncup remembered. "She was a great kid to be around. She was funny, enjoyed herself. But also, she was serious."
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Now, he said, he is shocked that one of his classmates could be subjected to such a level of vitriol as Clinton, he said. He admires the way she sticks it out.
"I think it's amazing in that she takes such a verbal beating," he said. "And I watch it and go, 'that's not who I know.' The way they've portrayed her is nothing like what I know."
In earlier press releases, did Trump overstate his July receipts by about $12 million?
Both Hillary and Trump announced their July fundraising a couple weeks ago, but the official FEC report wasn’t due till August 20.
And the official report shows that Trump, the RNC and super pacs took in about $68.3 million in July – not the $80 million his campaign previously reported to the media.
NUMBERS FROM FEC REPORT
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-allies-outpace-team-trump-fundraising-n635346
In comparison, the Republican National Committee, Trump and two super PACs backing Trump, brought in just two-thirds of the Democrats' total: $68.3 million in July.
NUMBERS FROM PRIOR MEDIA REPORTS
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-campaign-raising-cash-we-ll-soon-learn-if-it-n634751
The Trump campaign said it and the Republican Party took in about $80 million, but it was unclear how much of that went to the Trump campaign itself. It said it had about $37 million on hand at the end of July.
Hillary Clinton and Allies Outpace Team Trump in Fundraising
Source: NBC News
The Republican presidential candidate raised $36.6 million in July, according to newly released filings to the Federal Election Committee. But that is $16 million less than his Democratic challenger for the month.
When fundraising by national parties and the super PACs backing the respective candidates are added to the total, team Clinton far outpaces team Trump.
The Democratic National Committee, Clinton and the super PAC backing Clinton, Priorities USA, raised a total of $94.5 million last month.
In comparison, the Republican National Committee, Trump and two super PACs backing Trump, brought in just two-thirds of the Democrats' total: $68.3 million in July.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-allies-outpace-team-trump-fundraising-n635346
Isn't this $68.3 Trump total quite a bit less than he was claiming earlier in the month?
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