Newsweek | September 14, 2016
How the Trump Organization's Extensive Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security - "If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across the world? Or will Trump instead choose to be the most conflicted president in American history, one whose business interests will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States?

"Throughout this campaign, the Trump Organization, which pumps potentially hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family's bank accounts each year, has been largely ignored. As a private enterprise, its businesses, partners and investors are hidden from public view, even though they are the very people who could be enriched by--or will further enrich--Trump and his family if he wins the presidency.

"A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its international partners, reveals an enterprise with deep ties to global financiers, foreign politicians and even criminals, although there is no evidence the Trump Organization has engaged in any illegal activities. It also reveals a web of contractual entanglements that could not be just canceled. If Trump moves into the White House and his family continues to receive any benefit from the company, during or even after his presidency, almost every foreign policy decision he makes will raise serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires."

Will this bombshell report be enough to finally sink Trump? Or will he continue sailing along like a ghost ship, aided and abetted by significant sectors of an east coast media more enamored with the entertainment value of a political horse race, than they are apparently concerned by this stiletto aimed directly at the heart of American democracy?

The Trump campaign is already making an effort to falsely discredit the Newsweek article's author, Kurt Eichenwald, as a 9-11 truther. They key indicator here will be whether or not our fearless denizens of the Beltway cocktail circuit will once again allow them to get away with such preposterous claims.

"There's no policy on Hillary Clinton's website pertaining to any of these issues, childcare, eldercare, or maternity leave or paternity leave for that matter. There's no policy that's been articulated on how to solve the problem."

"Debate untethered from facts can lead anywhere. People who believe vaccinations cause autism can cause a resurgence of diseases that we thought we had conquered long ago. People who deny evidence linking global warming to carbon emissions won't even consider a moderate plan to wean ourselves away. [...] In government without human authority, irresponsible actions have few consequences, and irresponsible words have no consequences. Yell, hiss, lie -- whatever."

"I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically," Bevin said Saturday. "But that may, in fact, be the case."

He added, citing Thomas Jefferson's "blood of patriots and tyrants" quote: "The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood. Of who? The tyrants, to be sure. But who else? The patriots. Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren."

The he tried to walk it back saying he was talking about military service and the fight against terrorists.

Uh, huh ... not even close.

Our country has already been destroyed....but look Dr Oz. I am becoming sick in the heart.

I have tried and tried to brush the media's performance off as a mixture of incompetence and craven desire for ratings but it's more than that but it's even beyond that, there is an almost an evil malevolence afoot.

Yesterday they spent much time ghoulishly parsing the detailed letter from Hillary's MD(while asserting it was still not enough) and then literally laughing at Trumps antics, just rascally Trump show boating his letter from his equally rascally doctor on a frigging reality TV show....stay tuned for more laughs tomorrow....meanwhile Hillary of course has questions to answer and bad optics to suffer through.

America, it was nice to know you.

linea: "you fabricated a legal clause that does not exist in this law or any other law. there is no 'original birth certificate' caveat"

You're punching way above your weight class here. I was not referencing any non-existent legal clause, but was clearly discussing the respective floor debates on HB 2 in the North Carolina legislature, and the stated legislative intent for passing the measure:

"For the purpose of this discussion, I would offer to you that per the reasons offered by state lawmakers for the public record in their respective floor speeches -- which are found in the respective journals of the State House and State Senate, as well as the media -- the GOP majority's well-expressed intent in this instance was to:
(a) Discriminate against North Carolina's LGBT residents by precluding local municipalities from enacting protective ordinances on their behalf; and
(b) Discriminate against transgendered persons by requiring them to use public accommodations, i.e., rest rooms and locker rooms, according to their biological sex as determined by their original birth certificate."

linea, if you have to resort to a willful misinterpretation of what I actually wrote in order to continue insisting that you're right, then you've lost the argument through reasons of your own intellectual dishonesty.

The publicly stated purpose of GOP majority state legislators and Gov. McCrory in enacting HB 2 / Act 3 was twofold:

• To deny North Carolina's LGBT residents any legal protections which might otherwise be afforded them as a designated protected class, by stripping them of that prior status per Charlotte's city ordinance; and
  
• To bar transgendered students and persons from using the restroom and locker room facilities of their choice.

Jenner could then invoke as her defense at trial the very case you're making, but there's no guarantee that a North Carolina district court judge would recognize as valid her amended New York birth certificate with regards to her stated gender, as opposed to her biological gender at birth.

Per state health department directive (which is a rule and not law), the State of New York only requires that a person first undergo "appropriate clinical treatment" before petitioning the court to legally amend his or her birth certificate per gender preference. But North Carolina actually requires someone to first undergo sex reassignment surgery before it will bestow such recognition, per Sec. 130A-118(b)(4), NCGS.

And because Jenner has not yet undergone sex reassignment surgery, per North Carolina law she's still legally a man.

Defense attorney Michael LaFay wanted to probe Zimmerman about his encounter with Martin to show the jury why his client may fear the man, but the judge found that reasoning to be irrelevant. Stone accused LaFay of attempting to retry that case.

Both sides agree that the tension between Zimmerman and Apperson stems from their first encounter on Sept. 9, 2014, when they argued over Martin while driving side by side in Lake Mary. That run-in was coincidental, but the pair continued to bump into each other in later months because Zimmerman's doctor is near where Apperson works, attorneys said.

Ultimately, that means that so long as HB 2 remains on the books as state law, ACC basketball tournaments and NCAA basketball tournament regional  and Final Four games will not be held in North Carolina.

We have their children editing out Bubba's admission that Hillary had frequently collapsed.

Instead they got 30 minutes of military leaders praising Trump and then.

Hillary and her campaign of 2008 started the issue.

I ended the issue. You know what I mean. (He made Obama produce a birth certificate.)

President Obama was born in the US.

Now let's get back to making America great.

Here's a article with lots of links that you will probably not read. ;-)

But the one thing I am really laughing at is how the Left claims that claiming Obama was not born in the US is racist or bigoted.

It was a claim that he was not legally qualified to run.