pacino wrote:Turkish state-run media reporting that the horrible act in the Kurdish wedding was done by ISIL. 51 have died as of now. Child bomber accompanied by adults.

However, Turkey is also wary of moves that might bolster Syrian Kurdish forces, known as the YPG, which it views as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Turkish-Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy since the 1980s.
On Monday, Turkey shelled YPG positions near Manbij, a town they took from IS this month.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:i think trump was caught with the loans, jh, and he decided to cut bait to continue the long con. he is, and will, recoup that money by any means necessary.

I never expected him to forgive the loans, but he did and I don't really think there's a plausible way to expect him to pay himself back at this point in any meaningful amount. And if he was looking to try and recoup the money, he wouldn't have thrown a few million more in last month. Fully open to the long con idea that he's doing this with an eye on building a conservative media empire at the end, but I think the door should be mostly closed on the making money directly off the campaign speculation unless something comes out that's a lot more clear than this.

Making money off campaign =/= Recovering as much of his "personal" expenditures as he can from donations through his various companies

THE BIG IDEA: Eight years ago this month, Barack Obama’s high command became very worried after Russia invaded Georgia.

The first-term senator, then 47, had no meaningful national security experience, a liability Hillary Clinton had highlighted throughout the Democratic primaries. And he happened to be vacationing in Hawaii.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania, John McCain recounted a phone call he had just had with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. "Today, we are all Georgians,” the hawkish war hero said, drawing cheers from the crowd of several thousand.

The Obama team was worried about losing voters of Eastern European ethnic descent as a result of McCain's hardline rhetoric on Russia. There are lots of Polish Americans, Ukrainian Americans and Lithuanian Americans who live in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Many came here to escape the Iron Curtain.

As McCain’s regional campaign manager, responsible for Pennsylvania and Ohio, Jon Seaton vividly remembers pushing the pro-Georgia and anti-Vladimir Putin message. “We also were hopeful that the ethnic communities, particularly the Polish-Americans in the Cleveland suburbs would be a hidden block for us, and did a lot of coalition work there,” he recalls. “It wasn’t ultimately enough to overcome the massive Obama GOTV effort in Cuyahoga County, but it was definitely part of our strategy to drive up our numbers.”

Now the script is completely reversed. Those voters who McCain fought so hard for in 2008 are still out there. They normally would be very inclined to vote for someone like Trump – on paper, they look just like his core supporters – but Putin’s clear preference for him over Clinton (combined with Trump’s naiveté on all things Russia) gives them great pause.

John Weaver, who was John Kasich’s chief strategist this year and advised both of McCain’s presidential bids, thinks the blowback is starting to show up in polls, specifically Trump’s weakness among Catholics who regularly attend mass.

“In and around Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Detroit and all throughout Wisconsin, you’re talking about voters with family in Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine and the Czech Republic,” said Weaver. “These voters are key to any narrow path that Trump has left.”

jerseyhoya wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:i think trump was caught with the loans, jh, and he decided to cut bait to continue the long con. he is, and will, recoup that money by any means necessary.

I never expected him to forgive the loans, but he did and I don't really think there's a plausible way to expect him to pay himself back at this point in any meaningful amount. And if he was looking to try and recoup the money, he wouldn't have thrown a few million more in last month. Fully open to the long con idea that he's doing this with an eye on building a conservative media empire at the end, but I think the door should be mostly closed on the making money directly off the campaign speculation unless something comes out that's a lot more clear than this.

Making money off campaign =/= Recovering as much of his "personal" expenditures as he can from donations through his various companies

Sort of maybe, but as he continues to put significantly more in than he gets back, and most of what he "gets back" is for actual expenditures (i.e. buying gas for his plane) or foregoing revenue from renting space, I am puzzled at this being used as something to hit him on.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Interesting.

THE BIG IDEA: Eight years ago this month, Barack Obama’s high command became very worried after Russia invaded Georgia.

The first-term senator, then 47, had no meaningful national security experience, a liability Hillary Clinton had highlighted throughout the Democratic primaries. And he happened to be vacationing in Hawaii.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania, John McCain recounted a phone call he had just had with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. "Today, we are all Georgians,” the hawkish war hero said, drawing cheers from the crowd of several thousand.

The Obama team was worried about losing voters of Eastern European ethnic descent as a result of McCain's hardline rhetoric on Russia. There are lots of Polish Americans, Ukrainian Americans and Lithuanian Americans who live in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Many came here to escape the Iron Curtain.

As McCain’s regional campaign manager, responsible for Pennsylvania and Ohio, Jon Seaton vividly remembers pushing the pro-Georgia and anti-Vladimir Putin message. “We also were hopeful that the ethnic communities, particularly the Polish-Americans in the Cleveland suburbs would be a hidden block for us, and did a lot of coalition work there,” he recalls. “It wasn’t ultimately enough to overcome the massive Obama GOTV effort in Cuyahoga County, but it was definitely part of our strategy to drive up our numbers.”

Now the script is completely reversed. Those voters who McCain fought so hard for in 2008 are still out there. They normally would be very inclined to vote for someone like Trump – on paper, they look just like his core supporters – but Putin’s clear preference for him over Clinton (combined with Trump’s naiveté on all things Russia) gives them great pause.

John Weaver, who was John Kasich’s chief strategist this year and advised both of McCain’s presidential bids, thinks the blowback is starting to show up in polls, specifically Trump’s weakness among Catholics who regularly attend mass.

“In and around Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Detroit and all throughout Wisconsin, you’re talking about voters with family in Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine and the Czech Republic,” said Weaver. “These voters are key to any narrow path that Trump has left.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/08/23/daily-202-russian-meddling-in-u-s-election-backfiring-on-putin-hurting-trump/57bb9b5bcd249a2fe363ba31

Female hosts were expected to strip down without privacy

"Each year," according to Tantaros's complaint, "Fox News conducts a 'trunk show' at which female on-air personalities pick out their wardrobe. Fox News's 'trunk show' requires its female employees, including Tantaros, to dress and undress in front of Fox News's wardrobe personnel in the middle of a room without even the benefit of a curtain to act as a dressing room."

Ailes made wildly inappropriate comments about on-air talent

Among the things Tantaros says she heard Ailes say:

"Harris [Faulkner] has to be careful. She has the tendency to look like the angry black woman."
Referring to Maria Bartiromo: "She got so fat."
"Is Greg Gutfeld gay?"
"Is Dana [Perino] a lesbian?"
"Perhaps Gutfeld and Perino are sleeping together?"
Kimberly Guilfoyle is a "Puerto Rican whore."
Referring to Gretchen Carlson: "She's nuts."

@AP
BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.

Youseff wrote:

@AP
BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.

this is uh...optically it's.....well,

Doll Is Mine wrote:It's nonsense. Hillary was Secretary of State. All she did was meet with people.

Youseff wrote:

@AP
BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.

this is uh...optically it's.....well,

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Youseff wrote:

@AP
BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.

this is uh...optically it's.....well,

This just doesn't seem possible, if only from a pure numbers standpoint. We know that she did more traveling than any previous SoS in US history. Is this only talking about closed door meetings?

There's no story attached to the tweet yet. I really hate "journalism" in the twitter age. Don't tweet a headline unless you have the details ready to go.

At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

Youseff wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:It's nonsense. Hillary was Secretary of State. All she did was meet with people.

what about the other part.