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A certain poster has spammed every thread with that lame Obama flip off and "birth certificate" quote. Adding the same item to every thread, regardless of relevance to the thread, seems like abuse.

The ignore link is your friend.

As long as he's not being personal, I want to just let people say what they want.

NPR bizarrely seems to have deleted their own lie-filled interview with me and replaced it with something else, even as it still promotes the page as including its interview of me. Where is it, @MorningEdition? https://t.co/1sPEdRjGUo

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 11, 2019

Melania has been taking baritone lessons from Michelle Obama, and Trump has been taking whining and shrieking lessons from Barry?

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

stroking her immense PREHENSILE! erection singing exactly like Paul Robeson

You mean like Pat Robertson?

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Michelle Obama would walk around the White House stroking her immense PREHENSILE! erection singing exactly like Paul Robeson

Michelle can rattle the chandeliers and trigger seismometers miles away. However, she only uses that voice when she reminds Barry what an asshole he is.

Ceffer says

she reminds Barry what an asshole he is.

As CA resident, you are going to jail for misgendering Michael Obama. It is ZE! or XE!

Seems like an explanation is in order.

Maybe, just maybe, a fake russian collusion coup changed the situation

That's it, change the subject, becasue there is no decent reason why Trump needs to be the first President in modern times not to disclose his tax returns.

He did not say when. What's your problem?
Elgatouno says

"If I decide to run for office, I'll produce my tax returns, absolutely."

Here, I'll do it.
HeyYou loves Republicans and democrats.
HEYYOU says

I just want her talk dirty to me.

marcus says

the subject, becasue

Just because?

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Michelle is always a hit at state dinners when she uses her IMMENSE! PREHENSILE! PENIS! to light cigarettes for the guests.

That is a disgusting! Jeez, cigarettes at a state dinner!

Joel Osteen Saddened To Learn Some Preachers Can Only Afford $6,000 Shoes

While browsing Instagram Monday, prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen stumbled upon the preachersnsneakers account, which collects pictures of pastors wearing expensive footwear.

Osteen was saddened by the images of the downtrodden, impoverished pastors who only had sneakers that cost $4,000, $5,000 or $6,000, sources confirmed.

"It's really sad that these men are doing faithful ministry for the Lord and can only afford some $6K kicks," he told one of his butlers as he lounged about his mansion in a pair of custom-made Italian designer shoes. "My heart really goes out to these guys."

At publishing time, Osteen forced himself to stop browsing the account so the preachers' poverty wouldn't rub off on him.



https://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteen-saddened-to-learn-some-preachers-have-shoes-that-only-cost-6000

https://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteen-sails-luxury-yacht-flooded-houston-pass-copies-best-life-now

Joel Osteen Sails Luxury Yacht Through Flooded Houston To Pass Out Copies Of 'Your Best Life Now'

HOUSTON, TX—Although Joel Osteen took flak over the weekend for closing up his church to flood victims and all but disappearing during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the megachurch pastor reportedly returned to the city on his luxury yacht “S.S. Blessed” to make amends Tuesday by tossing copies of Your Best Life Now to stranded flood survivors.

Osteen had his on-call yacht captain steer the large vessel through the flooded streets of the city, pulling up to survivors stranded on their roofs and on the roof of their cars as the prosperity gospel preacher smiled, waved, and threw out signed editions of the bestselling positive thinking book.

“Believe and declare you are coming into a shift!” Osteen yelled through a bullhorn, according to reports. “God wants His best for you! Enlarge your vision, develop a healthy self image, and choose to be happy!”

“When you think positive, excellent thoughts, you will be propelled toward greatness!” he called out to one family floating on a raft on a freeway-turned-river, whose earthly possessions had been entirely destroyed the previous day.

Why would you pay so much for sneakers, just to look trashy/casual? Buy some decent adult shoes that are not made by children in sweatshops and have some modicum of lifespan and repairability.

(Styleless shit like this is why Americans travelling abroad stand out like clowns.)

Actually Melania has borderline masculine features

On a related note. uncle sam try to poison us by lacing fuel with even more toxins.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exxon-others-u-government-sold-090000306.html
Interesting reply from a reader:
"Most all crude oil wells developed before fracking contain high amounts of hydrogen sulfide. That's because they used to use untreated surface water to drill with and the water contained bacteria that produce the gas as a by product. Fracking chemicals kill all of the bacteria and new wells are practically H2S free. Dirty oil is hard to pump, so it is mixed with the lighter stuff to make it palatable to pumps, pipes and refiners. I went to some wells that would set off my monitor 100 yards away. Reject. Call in the hot oil trucks. Some of those wells would require 8 trucks of clean oil, just to pump 1 truck of the heavy crude into the system."

Fucking fracking shit kills even the weaker poison shit. Let's pump that into the ground to push the oil out of rocks.
What could go wrong?

jazz_music says

What In the World Has Happened To The America We Grew Up In?

John Birch, 1950s: If you don't listen to us about these PoMo Homos taking over education, in 50 years Transexual Perverts will be reading stories to kids in Schools and Libraries!

Liberals, 1950s: Pssshaw, hahahahaha, that's never going to happen. Hofstader talks about the Paranoid Style in American Politics...

Kakistocracy says

The Quds Force, a unit within the IRGC that specializes in operations outside Iran, has long been viewed as a terrorist organization by the United States. The IRGC as an entity, however, operates as an integral part of the Iranian government. As such, the U.S. has deliberately avoided classifying it as a terrorist organization out of concerns that doing so would hobble diplomatic efforts with Iran and even destabilize the greater Middle East.

You can't designate the IRGC as a terrorist group because Quds Force openly operates well outside of Iran meddling in the affairs of other countries and conducting terrorist and military operations!

HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, SIR?

Kaki, how's things there in Kremlin, Beijng or Tehran ?

" The Tibetan pie incident (at Google's cafeteria) is trivial compared with the implications of Dragonfly. But the basic issue is the same: Chinese citizens are subjects of a totalitarian government. This does not mean that every Chinese national at Google is a spy or a plant. It does mean that Chinese Googlers are more likely to face pressure from their government than Googlers who come from more open societies."

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/view/google-in-china-does-it-need-dragonfly
Copyright © BloombergQuint

Meh, ending wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria leaves the Military Industrial Complex with a powerful hunger for another target.
I doubt it can even be reasoned with.

jazz_music says

People have lost their connection to one another

Beginning with the Baby Boomers, many people in their 60's and early 70's today abandoned when they were in their late teens or early 20's the Protestant, Catholic or Jewish faiths in which they had been reared. Also, the nuclear family began falling apart. It was through children that these faiths were propagated from generation from generation, but with so many people remaining single or not having children at all, church attendance dried up. If I heard it one time from a Boomer, I heard it a million times as almost a rite of passage: I was raised in fill-in-the-blank church, but as soon as I reached my late teens or entered college I abandoned all that stuff. Such was the template of a lady in her early 60's several years ago who died of an overdose. Her fame was that when she was young she was the first to do whatever it was she did in the pornographic movie industry that had never been done before, I forget what it was. She was lovely, then, and it was mentioned that she had been raised in a religious atmosphere but abandoned it soon after arriving at young adulthood. It also went on to explain how through her life she had struggled with depression and addiction. I think the chickens are coming home to roost for all these older boomers who abandoned the communities of faith that kept older generations sane and secure during life's inevitable losses and heartbreaks. These same people abandoned spouses or significant others and children right and left upon the advent of No Fault Divorce and probably wonder today why they aren't surrounded by a loving extended family who dotes on them. The 70's were filled with false prophets of est, Rolfing, Scientology, primal scream, sweat lodges to attract these lost souls.

Quigley says

Meh, ending wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria leaves the Military Industrial Complex with a powerful hunger for another target.
I doubt it can even be reasoned with.

The target should be Saudi Arabia, the source of almost all terrorism on earth.

Cheers! I give a toast to much fun! (proper use of "to")

The target should be Israel, the source of almost all terrorist attacks on earth, including but not limited to:

King David Hotel bombing, 1948 (Israeli terrorist groups dressed as Arabs/Muslims and planted bombs around the hotel - sound like 9/11 much?)
USS Liberty 1960s - Israeli navy/air force bombed/napalmed/torpedoed this US navy recon ship near Egypt to cover up their treatment of Egyptian POWs
NYC, 2001 - planned attack on WTC1/2/7 and Pentagon since at least the 1980s
Fukushima, 2011 - Israeli "security firm" Magna BSP "secures" Fukushima nuclear plants (with stuxnet and 2,000 pound "camera" mini nukes - notice nuclear cloud over at least one of the plants on NHK TV)

It's not the "US" declaring war across the Middle East. It's Israel declaring it, and using the NATO armies to do its dirty work.

Various other incidents together with other Western government "intelligence" (dirty tricks, clowns, and assassination) agencies.

Quigley says

Meh, ending wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria leaves the Military Industrial Complex with a powerful hunger for another target.
I doubt it can even be reasoned with.

Kennedy tried to get us out of Vietnam. He wasn't reasoned with.

Ww2 just level them.

barrister says

It's not the "US" declaring war across the Middle East. It's Israel declaring it, and using the NATO armies to do its dirty work.

Which US Division or Tactical Fighter Squadron was deployed to Israel in 47, 56, 67, or 73? Thanks.

I do seem to remember massive US Forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

barrister says

NYC, 2001 - planned attack on WTC1/2/7 and Pentagon since at least the 1980s

When it comes to tax day, many big American corporations have a powerful message: We’ll pass.

Of the Fortune 500 companies that have already filed their 2018 taxes, 60 were profitable and yet avoided all federal income tax, according to an ITEP analysis released on Thursday.

The total U.S. income of the 60—which ITEP reports included such names as Amazon, Chevron, General Motors, Delta, Halliburton, and IBM—was more than $79 billion and the effective tax rate was -5%. On the average, they got tax refunds.

In a previous ITEF study of 258 Fortune 500 companies that were profitable in every year from 2008 to 2015, 18 of them paid no federal income in any of those years. According to ITEP, 2018 saw the second-largest corporate income tax reduction, with only 2009 showing a bigger fall.

The current public face of this issue has been Amazon, which has taken heat of late for not paying Federal income tax in 2017 or 2018. That’s despite an analysis of public financial data by Fortune which showed that since going public, the company has amassed a total net income over 22 years of $57.8 billion. A company statement sent to Fortune said in part, “Amazon pays all the taxes we are required to pay in the U.S. and every country where we operate.”

But Amazon and the other 59 on the no-taxes list are certainly not alone. Even with top corporate rate down from 35% to 21%, companies are still throwing massive sums at tax experts who help them find ways—often creative and convoluted—to pay as little as possible. That has meant a dramatically widening gap between what corporations pay and what individuals pay. Below, we looked at the three main ways corporations are skirting Uncle Sam.

More: http://fortune.com/2019/04/11/amazon-starbucks-corporate-tax-avoidance/