drsmooth wrote:drumpf referring to KAConway as "baby" - yeah he'll do swell

pacino wrote:ho hum:

WASHINGTON
The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agencies involved in the inquiry are the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the director of national intelligence, the sources said.

The BBC reported that the FBI had obtained a warrant on Oct. 15 from the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing investigators access to bank records and other documents about potential payments and money transfers related to Russia. One of McClatchy’s sources confirmed the report.

CalvinBall wrote:Last night with BO. RIP USA.

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pacino wrote:Ulysses S Grant, traitor to the nation, created the first couple and then the tyrannical reign of Teddy Roosevelt guaranteed we'd be forced to visit these national areas of interest for our own amusement. The freedom-loving Bundys know what's up.

Hey man, sometimes it's fun to turn off the sarcasm font!

states won't have the funds to maintain some of 'em properly and some of them go over multiple states. it's nice to have cool things, too. if they were created at the federal level, i think they should remain in federal control.

/serious

So there are richer states that are forced to maintain the land of poorer states, because that's the way it's always been? I dunno man. This is one of those privatization/nationalization topics where I've never been satisfied with an argument to nationalize a bunch of federal land and then tax people to pay to maintain it. We take it for granted now, of course, but if there were no federal lands, I don't think we would be advocating that the US take $XX billion dollars and buy a bunch of land to hold. We'd probably say that there are better things, like universal healthcare, to spend money on. We would be cutting these land purchases to pay for actual services that benefit people.

I mean, imagine if Putin decided he wanted to buy a bunch of land of land in Russia. Would we say, "Great, he's nationalizing the preservation of the earth," or "Hey, what an autocrat, buying a bunch of land as a monument to himself. I wonder which of his friends is a new billionaire after these purchases."

Universal healthcare will one day become a permanent reality in this country as will many other socialist programs

Senegal announced Thursday that it had sent troops into Gambia to force outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to give up the office.

During his election campaign, Mr Trump floated the idea of a 45% tariff on goods from China.
Mr Scaramucci, who will enter the White House on Friday as a senior adviser to the president, called the relationship with China "asymmetrical", and downplayed the nation's ability to exact revenge on the US.
"What are they going to do, [are] they going to move against our move for fairness?
"That's going to cost them way more than it is ever going to cost us, and I think they know that."

"We signed Nafta in 1993, and in the 24 years from then you have lost 70,000 factories, and you had every 24 months a reviewal process for Nafta that the US never did, we never went through the reviewal process, never made any changes to potentially create more of an equilibrium in the deal, then we would have an issue, and I think we do."
Mr Scaramucci also announced the sale of his hedge fund Skybridge Capital for $12bn (£9.6bn) while at the World Economic Forum.
He is selling a majority stake in the business, which he founded in 2005, to China's HNA Group and Ron Transatlantic as he moves "on to a new chapter of his career", he said in a statement.

pacino wrote:this is going to go well:

During his election campaign, Mr Trump floated the idea of a 45% tariff on goods from China.
Mr Scaramucci .... also announced the sale of his hedge fund Skybridge Capital for $12bn (£9.6bn) while at the World Economic Forum.
He is selling a majority stake in the business, which he founded in 2005, to China's HNA Group and Ron Transatlantic as he moves "on to a new chapter of his career", he said in a statement.