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JEleazarian
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Fresno CA
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Jul 27, 2016 - 01:18pm PT
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Wow, Ghost. Whoever wrote and whoever left that note certainly earned our contempt.
John
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jul 27, 2016 - 01:22pm PT
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Yes, it is...and anyone who plans on voting for Trump is implicitly in alignment with those sentiments.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jul 27, 2016 - 01:43pm PT
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Since Reagan's comment about government being the problem comes up here often, let's look at the context. Agree or not with what he says, those words are referring to a specific situation, and so to interpret them as meaning government is the entire problem, or that all government is bad is off the mark. From his 1st inaugural address...
"The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:01pm PT
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Nothing John E posted today passes the straight Face Test
This administration's actions would lead an objective observer to conclude that the administration wants to destroy private business.
This is a Joke right?
Obama wants to DESTROY private Businesses!!
and yet, private businesses are doing better than ever!
John, did Bush have any involvement in these business busting regulations?
or was it Obama alone?
and you use the Keystone Pipeline for your example of environmental over reach?
what about the people that did NOT want to Sell their land?
Just take it by imminent domain?
You know it would create only about 50 jobs, and the Koch Brothers will make many more billions to pocket
This is just the tip of the Iceberg on the BS of your post.
None of it has Hurt our economy or caused jobs to be lost, now has it?
all it has done has made it a little more difficult for some businesses,
so your premise that it's destroying private businesses or hurting the economy is on the hysterical side of reality.
Why hasn't the Economy rebounded?
Because the Republican Congress doesn't want to help the economy rebound, they have obstructed Every Single bill that would help the economy
The Republican own this crappy economy, they created it, they maintain it, stop trying to blame Obama, we see through your BS.
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Norton
Social climber
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:28pm PT
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The failure of the economy to quickly recover from the 07 Recession is clearly due to lack of leadership from Obama.
If only he would have lead better, unemployment would be down to 4% by now.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:39pm PT
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If Obama would have appointed regulators with knowledge of the effect of their actions on employment, and directed them to use that knowledge, the labor participation rate would not have dropped so precipitously, and employment would have risen (cf. reference to unemployment falling) much faster.
The objections to the bad regulations were well-known, and communicated clearly to the regulators before enactment of the regulations. They didn't care. Congress has attempted to overrule them now that Harry Reid no longer controls the Senate, but Obama has vetoed those attempts. Responsibility for the economic anemia belongs to the Democrats.
So we're stuck with an election that promises a third term of economic incompetence, or a first term of an egomaniacal narcissist who purports to be our savior. The choice is clear. Johnson/Weld!
John
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Norton
Social climber
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:52pm PT
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The Obama Administration has been a total failure in so many ways.
Foreign policy in particular, it is a fact that Obama created ISIS.
He has long been suspected of being a Muslim sympathizer.
He knowingly and intentionally allowed ISIS to develop when he stupidly "honored" President Bush's agreement with Iraq to withdraw our troops.
By doing so he left the Iraqi government defenseless and allowed the Islamic State to flourish in Iraq and Syria, he should have refused to honor the troop agreement but didn't because he wanted ISIS to be created and grow strongly.
There is also compelling information that Obama signed into law the most restrictive and job killing regulations on US businesses of any President in history. He knew what he was doing and signed all kinds of Executive Orders hoping to kill the US economy.
He has been the single worst President in history, got that Libtards?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:54pm PT
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I don't normally post columns, but this one needs a wider circulation.
The Democrats’ well-deserved WikiLeaks blowback
By Marc A. Thiessen July 27 at 12:50 PM
Over at the CIA and the National Security Agency headquarters, they must be really enjoying watching Democrats in Philadelphia squirm over WikiLeaks’s exposure of tens of thousands of internal Democratic Party emails. There’s a word for what is happening in the intelligence community:
Blowback.
Throughout the entirety of the Obama administration, nothing was done as WikiLeaks damaged our national security with its serial leaks of highly classified intelligence documents.
When in 2010 WikiLeaks released more than 76,000 secret intelligence documents — exposing “the identities of at least 100 Afghans who were informing on the Taliban, including the names of their villages, family members, the Taliban commanders on whom they were informing, and even GPS coordinates where they could be found,” as I wrote in The Post — nothing was done.
When in 2011 WikiLeaks released a trove of classified documents it dubbed the “Gitmo Files” in 2011 — including secret details about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program – nothing was done.
When that same year WikiLeaks unleashed what founder Julian Assange called a “thermonuclear device” — its full, unredacted archive of more than a quarter-million secret U.S. diplomatic cables — nothing was done.
When in 2014 WikiLeaks released classified CIA documents exposing how CIA operatives maintain cover while traveling through airports — including guidance on how to survive secondary screening — nothing was done.
When in 2015 WikiLeaks released documents revealing that the U.S. government was spying on its allies, including listening in on the phone calls of three French presidents — nothing was done.
When in 2016 WikiLeaks published secret details of European Union military operations to intercept refugee boats traveling to Europe from the regions along the Libyan coast infested with terrorists from the Islamic State, nothing was done.
When in 2016 WikiLeaks exposed top-secret documents describing NSA intercepts of foreign government communications — including a private climate-change strategy meeting between United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin — nothing was done.
But WikiLeaks has finally crossed a “red line” (pun intended) that has earned it the Democrats’ outrage. Instead of targeting the CIA or the NSA, WikiLeaks has gone after an organization Democrats actually care about — the Democratic National Committee.
WikiLeaks has released tens of thousands of emails showing that, while presenting itself as an impartial arbiter during the primaries, the DNC was, in fact, working overtime on Hillary Clinton’s behalf to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). In one leaked email, DNC officials said they planned to expose Sanders as an atheist with Baptist voters in Kentucky and West Virginia. Others showed DNC staffers mocking Sanders supporters as “Bernie Bros” and plotting how to spin the narrative of his failure. Others reveal that the DNC and the Hillary Victory Fund apparently channeled money through state Democratic parties, perhaps in an effort to avoid contribution limits to her campaign. Other leaks include spreadsheets that appeared to match Democratic donors and fundraisers with appointments to federal boards and commissions once Clinton was elected. Still others show DNC staffers calling their donors “clowns” and promising to have one “sitting in the [s-----est] corner I can find” at a DNC event. The convention in Philadelphia has been roiled by the revelations, which caused Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) to step down as chair.
Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for this debacle. As I pointed out in The Post on August 2010, there were many steps the Obama administration could have taken to stop WikiLeaks. It could have indicted Assange and his fellow WikiLeaks staffers and made clear that the United States will not tolerate any country — particularly NATO allies — providing them with a haven. They could have sought their extradition and — if the countries where they were hiding refused to cooperate — used existing Justice Department authorities to arrest them anywhere in the world, with or without those countries’ consent. They could have used the assets of U.S. Cyber Command to carry out cyberattacks on WikiLeaks servers to disrupt its ability to disseminate classified information that puts lives at risk.
But it appears that the administration has done none of these things. In 2013, The Post reported that “The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and journalists . . . unless he is implicated in criminal activity other than releasing online top-secret military and diplomatic documents.” Seriously?
As for using our nation’s offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt WikiLeaks’s ability to disseminate classified information, that clearly has not happened. To this day, WikiLeaks’s entire archive of stolen classified documents remains available on its website for anyone to read.
Now Democrats are paying the price for Obama’s inaction. And WikiLeaks promises there is more to come. In an interview with CNN this week, Assange said he might soon release “a lot more material.” That should have Democrats terrified.
Apparently, exposing intelligence sources and methods has not mattered enough for the Obama administration to do something about WikiLeaks. Maybe saving Hillary Clinton from further embarrassment, or worse, will finally spur them to action.
John
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John M
climber
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Jul 27, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
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I'm guessing you weren't as worried about ugliness when 7 cops were killed in Dallas or there were 7 terrorist attacks in Europe in the last week??
Riley.. get some sleep. The last time you got this nuts you weren't getting enough sleep. You don't know jack sh#t about me or what ugliness that I have had to deal with. Your ignorance is showing.
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John E.. over the last 30 years the House of Representatives has been controlled by Democrats for only 6 years. Please explain how in that time it was only Democrats that fooked up this country and created laws that did not help businesses. Just when I think that you are getting some wisdom, you make some dumbass statements. Ugh..
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jul 27, 2016 - 03:20pm PT
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Did Klimmer move to Texas?
Comparing Riley to Klimmer is... I don't think there's even a word for that in the English language.
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John M
climber
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Jul 27, 2016 - 03:22pm PT
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Riley just gets nuts when he is overworked/over stressed/ not getting sleep and not climbing enough. going for a third degree is probably contributing to that. Normally he is a pretty decent guy. Plus he lives in Texas. That can drive anyone around that bend.
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 27, 2016 - 03:23pm PT
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LOL
Radical for POTUS !!!!!!
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jul 27, 2016 - 03:36pm PT
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Now Democrats are paying the price for Obama’s inaction. And WikiLeaks promises there is more to come. In an interview with CNN this week, Assange said he might soon release “a lot more material.” That should have Democrats terrified.
Apparently, exposing intelligence sources and methods has not mattered enough for the Obama administration to do something about WikiLeaks. Maybe saving Hillary Clinton from further embarrassment, or worse, will finally spur them to action.
Sadly, if the American people didn't react - AT ALL - to the revelations of Citizen 4. What makes you think any further release of supposedly "damning" information will matter going forward?
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Jul 27, 2016 - 04:02pm PT
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“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said, staring directly into the cameras during a news conference. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
You do that for me and I will award you with all of EU especially Ukraine, take down NATO and anything else you want. Thank me and my great campaign dictator manager Paul Manafort for a start.
Manafort fu%ked up the elections before so we will make sure it goes in your favor again. We [if I am elected with your blessing Vladimer] will leave Ukraine the day I take office plus get rid of our and the UK detachment of troops that are training there now that way you have easy access to all the states, we will even leave all the weapons, equipment and new high tech toys for your use.
Your good buddy Donald.
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c wilmot
climber
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Jul 27, 2016 - 04:19pm PT
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The us supported an illegal coup in Ukraine and called rhose who supported the democratically elected president "separatists". It has since been described by us diplomats as a "kleptocracy" according to wiki leaks.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jul 27, 2016 - 04:31pm PT
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Jul 27, 2016 - 05:02pm PT
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Isis started in Syria as a result of Arab spring policy, Norton.
And spread to the weakened government of Iraq and the absent government and failed state of Libia.
And the JV team is now attacking places all over the world everyday .
And still making millons of dollars a day.
I don't know if Obama is a Muslim in his heart but there is no question he has great sympathy for this horrible ideology
That is one confused statement. Nice troll, though!
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jul 27, 2016 - 05:28pm PT
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Not half bad Riley. Telling it like it is to these hopeless 'progressive' freaks. Now do you still believe in all the man made climate scam b.s.?
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Jul 27, 2016 - 05:34pm PT
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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."
So, Kris, why do right wing politicians, as well, always leave out the rest of the statement?
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