Thanks for the responses. I had no doubt that he was an otherwise outstanding candidate and likely would have gotten into any school to which he applied (see Yale and Princeton). I guess I was just immediately struck by the seeming lack of effort in answering the questions asked.

My apologies for going off the rails for a minute or two but this is just a very sensitive issue for me currently as my daughter just went through close to three months of medical hell (which she will endure, on differing levels, for the rest of her life) but worked her ass off to pull six As and one B in the last marking period (including four honors classes) and now she is sweating the one B and her class standing. I just hope that when the time comes, Penn State - even now, her #1 choice - can see the forest for the trees the way Stanford did with this guy.

Okay, now back to bashing this Administration.

pacino wrote:This Russia stuff is likely more about the money than anything. I doubt Trump is an 'agent' of Russia; he was just trying to make money and got in with a bad lot. Lots of smoke around real estate and money laundering.

This is pretty much what I've been saying. Sometimes I think he knew, sometimes not, depending on the latest shoe dropping.

He's also involved with some shady casinos

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... -questions

nothing wrong with having issue with it

the college process is crazy, as i am finding out

Bannon removed from the NSC

deals are being made and we're in the dark.

CFP wrote:Bannon removed from the NSC

Well that's pretty damn yuge.

pacino wrote:

"Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," Haley told a small group of reporters. "Our priority is to really look at how do we get things done, who do we need to work with to really make a difference for the people in Syria."
"We can't necessarily focus on Assad the way that the previous administration did," she said.

there was a chance several years ago but Obama did not want to go in....because then what? It's a tough situation, an impossible one where the inability to figure it out will be Obama's biggest failure, but the mixed signals being sent here by the new administration are basically a green light to Assad to continue his rampage.

The Obama administration was certainly guilty of mixed signals. This was not a mixed signal at all. This was a green light. I certainly hope more people draw a direct line between this and the hacking out destroyed lungs in Syria.

Someone interpret the Bannon news for me

the administration put an explicitly political person on the NSC. they have just undone that and put McMaster in charge of setting the agenda.

it's probably a very good thing.

Oh yeah I get that, I just wonder what the *actual* reason is, not the spin they're giving. Like this nonsense:

Jonathan Karl‏Verified account @jonkarl 21m21 minutes ago

Senior WH official says Bannon's mission on the NSC was to keep an eye on Flynn as he "de-operationalized" the NSC from Rice. "Mission Done"

Yeah sure

shit got real

seriously, i would imagine they had an 'oh shit' moment and needed to actually admit they didnt know what they were doing

"We knew Flynn was crooked all along! That's why we put him in an incredibly important cabinet role!"

keep your enemies closer!

Woody wrote:


"We knew Flynn was crooked all along! That's why we put him in an incredibly important cabinet role!"

Fucking insane.

So which is it, Mr. President... are you stupid or just reckless?

Woody wrote:Someone interpret the Bannon news for me

Susan Rice has more power than any of us realized!

Susan Rice is the new Debbie Wasserman Schultz for getting right wingers lathered in a tizzy

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Woody wrote:


"We knew Flynn was crooked all along! That's why we put him in an incredibly important cabinet role!"

#$!&@ insane.

So which is it, Mr. President... are you stupid or just reckless?

This makes no sense. I'd rather believe that someone is going to jail soon

Warszawa wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Woody wrote:


"We knew Flynn was crooked all along! That's why we put him in an incredibly important cabinet role!"

#$!&@ insane.

So which is it, Mr. President... are you stupid or just reckless?

This makes no sense. I'd rather believe that someone is going to jail soon

my gut is telling me that something new will surface and they have to distance themselves from it

well, drumpf has gone on record as believing Rice "committed a crime" with respect to Russian surveillance unmasking, which, if his peculiar variant of psychopathic lying behavior holds true, pretty much makes it certain she knows someone(s) in his mob committed crimes with respect to Russian collusion