What is going on in politics, been kinda quiet around here.

The House now represents the interest of the "Party". Not the interests of the citizens. So it is we get this insane intensity with which the White House is sought. If you have the House and the White House you have all of our wallets in your pocket. Ready for use in Wars and other unfunded endeavors. Pretty cool huh?

There's some heavy sh#t coming!

Coventry's large industrial base made it attractive to the wave of Asian and Caribbean immigrants who arrived from Commonwealth colonies after 1948. In 1960, one of Britain's first mosques—and the very first in Coventry—was opened on Eagle Street to serve the city's growing Islamic community.[16] The 1970s, however, saw a decline in the British motor industry and Coventry suffered particularly badly, especially towards the end of that decade. By the early 1980s, Coventry had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and crime rates rose well above the national average.[citation needed] Some 30 years later, Coventry is now considered as one of the UK's safer major cities and has gradually recovered economically with newer industries locating there, although the motor industry continues to decline. By 2008, only one motor manufacturing plant was operational, that of LTI Ltd, producing the popular TX4 taxi cabs. On 17 March 2010 LTI announced they would no longer be producing bodies and chassis in Coventry, instead producing them in China and shipping them in for final assembly in Coventry.[17]

Funny how Mr Stannard never bitched when the Dems had the House, Senate and Oval Office. Guess we know where he stands....

I'm not so sure about this concept of a candidate who is totally "independent", instead of the product of a party.

crankster, Trad climber
No. Tahoe ( lucky politards'tard )

Jul 31, 2016 - 06:01pm PT
Bob,
Things remain about the same. Very little support for Trump, more for Hillary (surprising for a forum with 99% male membership). A lot of support for "none of the above" and a few who can't tolerate political discussions on a climbing forum. They seem to have a high tolerance for threads about songs, the Mind, religion, dogs, flames and just about anything that doesn't involve the fate of the planet.

the republican party is running out of angry white people to vote for them along with African Americans and Hispanics.

Hillary Clinton is in the lead and heading for the Whitehouse...

Ted Cruz is the most principled person in politics. He went way up in the respect department after sticking it to the fraud.

One thing that this process tends to do, is weed out the truly crazy and sociopathic players. It guarantees that a person has experience working in the political world, with the skillset needed to succeed. There is a lot of time to test a person's patriotism, beliefs of religion in gov't, concepts of intrusiveness of gov't.

Trump is an excellent example of what occurs outside of that. No serious person would think that you could take someone with no business experience, and make them CEO of General Motors. But a lot of people trust him to "do something" and they don't care what it is.

ohnson/Weld 2016, possibly endorsed by Weld_It

most definitely endorsed by ms55401

Crooked Hillary Clinton received a dreaded 'four-Pinocchio' rating from the Washington Post – the worst score possible for truthfulness – after claiming on Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.

Crooked Hillary Clinton received a dreaded 'four-Pinocchio' rating from the Washington Post – the worst score possible for truthfulness – after claiming on Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.

Barack Obama remains solidly on track to be the only president in all of U.S. history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent.

Russia had hoped to send 387 competitors to Rio and more than 100 have so far been banned from going.
Russian teams affected by Rio bans
Among those excluded are 67 out of 68 from the athletics team; long-jumper Darya Klishina will compete as a neutral.

Some international federations have banned Russians from competing altogether, some have issued a partial ban, while others have cleared all Russians to take part. Others still are yet to decide.

Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, said there was a "deliberate campaign targeting" Russian athletes.

He said medals won in Rio would be devalued by the absence of Russian competitors, telling the Russian team "the other sportsmen understand that the quality of their medals will be different".

Not that it will make ANY difference...

http://www.voanews.com/content/mht-five-percent-of-americans-would-vote-for-harambe-president/3444290.html


Americans are not exactly thrilled at the choice between Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, with voters having unfavorable views of both in recent opinion polls.

In fact, five percent say they’d rather vote for a dead gorilla, according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling.

The endangered gorilla, named Harambe, was made famous after being shot dead in a Cincinnati zoo in May after he appeared to drag a four-year-old child who had fallen into his habitat.

This undated photo obtained May 30, 2016 courtesy of the Cincinnati Zoo shows gorilla Harambe.


In an election among Trump, Clinton and Harambe, 43 percent of those surveyed said they’d vote for the New York billionaire, while 48 percent said they’d vote for the former secretary of state. Five percent said they’d cast a vote for Harambe. Four percent were undecided.

Harambe also had a much lower unfavorable rating among voters in the poll, with 27 percent of those polled having an unfavorable opinion of the dead gorilla. Five percent said they had a favorable opinion while 69 percent were unsure.

Trump led the pack with unfavorable ratings, racking up a 58 percent negative rating compared to 51 percent for Clinton.

Barely a week into the general election we have new evidence Trump will attack anyone based only upon what is going on in his head. And that he is unable to accept criticism. Since these are serious limitations for a president, we can assume there will be many more such incidents. A question.

What happens when Trump withdraws his candidacy? Pence becomes the candidate by default?

When the election has subtracted even more from the estimated value of his "trademark", his net worth will take losses. Things will start to get really serious.

Trump is fine. Why is nobody talking about Hillary openly lying,

Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2016 - 05:28am PT
Gloom and doom from the right, it is all they have left.

Science and history says they are wrong and they are.

The problem is what really is doing us in is the science deniers on the climate change.

Riley's last few posts are the most cogent thing I've ever seen on this subject... Isn't it amazing when someone living in the REAL world speaks the truth.... Good on ya, Riley....you get it.

He's a stand in for every bully in high school, every know-nothing right-wing blowhard idiot, every meat head that gets in your face. He's all those dudes rolled into one malevolent ball of sh#t.

 see a lot of fair description of the problems that ail us in Radical's posts but not much in the way of prescription. How come? Isn't that where the action is? 

Wow, Ding.....that was the most close-minded, ugly thing I've ever seen you post.

Shame on you

Jody, given your history of science denial, and belief in your imaginary friend and creationism, there's no chance of convincing you of anything related to evolution and climate change.

I don't know who to vote for

I just haven't seen any evidence that humans are causing the climate to change

But Obama's policies have been far,far worse in my opinion.
We now have a huge anti-civilization, mysticism believing, violent, raping, murdering caliphate that spreads from half of Iraq to Libia and terrorist attacks some where in the world every single day.
This is a serious problem that the dream world people won't even talk about.


This rests at the feet of Clinton and Obama.

New York Giants Owner Jonathan Tisch will host a Clinton fundraiser at his Hampton's home later this month. Tickets for the event cost $33,000. Apple CEO Tim Cook will also host a Clinton fundraiser; the invitation for that fundraiser lists three different contribution levels: $50,000, $10,000, and $2,700. (In June, Cook hosted a fundraiser for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.) Tim Kaine is also hitting the fundraising circuit, headlining his first campaign fundraiser in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. That event will come on the heels of President Obama's fundraiser, in Atlanta, for Clinton's joint fundraising committee with the Democratic National Committee and state parties. That event costs $5,000 to attend and $25,000 to host.

"John, I like that guy a lot. He's a smart guy.
I actually love Appalacia - when I was burning out a few months ago I imagined riding my bike over there and living in the mountains and drinking moonshine. Lol
.
But I've been an ER nurse for twenty five years.
Poor is nothing like it used to be. I've seen a lot, everyday for most of my adult life.
Do you know if unscrupulous parents can get their kids in ADHD meds they get paid 600 bucks from the government per kid. 5 kids - 3000 a month. How's that for Craig Frys' republican world? Where you think that ends up in three or four generations?


I'm spent my life helping people. And I'm a moderate and believe in a reasonable social net.
But the upside down Maxist view of the world that takes the responsibility for your life out of your hands and blames someone more successful and puts the responsibility on a government is both a crime against human nature and a crime against nature.

In grad school I basically use American inner cities as proxies for the study of third world health care interventions and prevention. Our inner cities are gone. The police are pulling back because they can't do anything anymore. Some thug tries to kill a cop and the cop gets blamed.
Lawless areas in cities supported by 50 years of welfare , excuses and attempted government interventions and good intentions.
And not a Craig Fry or Bob D in sight - I can promise you that .,,"

Clinton's secret CIA operation in Libya was attacked and instead of doing something she went home to bed because it was politically to difficult to send help.

HFCS, where is the evidence humans are causing it? None. Just assumptions, insinuations, and extrapolations.

The reality is it is happening

Listening to well educated, well read people always opens minds - regardless of whether or not you agree with their views.

eKat over and out.

Bob, there is not one shred of evidence that proves humans are causing climate change.

So Jody, can you point to scientific proof that God exists?

"...there is no proof that we can do things to affect it. ...

The Flint issue is not a good example because it was a man-made system.

why has there been no rise in global mean temperatures for almost two decades?

If increasing C02 levels are so nasty, and "causing" global warming, why has there been no rise in global mean temperatures for almost two decades?

Susan, there is no proof that we can do things to affect it.

If global warming is not occurring, why are glaciers receding?

"They've gone back for more rocks."

Nice shots, Jody.

If increasing C02 levels are so nasty, and "causing" global warming, why has there been no rise in global mean temperatures for almost two decades? Hmmm, maybe that is why "Global Warming" was replaced by "Climate Change"? Have to keep the scam alive.

The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for May 2016 was the highest for May in the 137-year period of record, at 0.87°C (1.57°F) above the 20th century average of 14.8°C (58.6°F), besting the previous record set in 2015 by 0.02°C (0.04°F). May 2016 marks the 13th consecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken—the longest such streak since global temperature records began in 1880.

I could post just as many links to evidence that there is no GW occurring. You all will just post links to sites saying there is...whatever. waste of time.

Read the above link.

More questionable is whether their CIA boss was quite the buffoon the film makes him out to be. For security reasons he remains unnamed to this day, but in an anonymous interview with The Washington Post, he denied ever ordering the contractors to "stand down". His account was backed by a two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee, as well as the CIA, a spokesman for whom said: "No one will mistake this movie for a documentary."

The movie 13 hours also alludes to this..
Not so much directly - but it's always between the lines.
Everyone should watch that movie .
I haven't read the book but I'm sure it's very good too.

Must go back to the King/feudal days when all the pheasants gathered around for a few words - the pheasants would flip out on a few words and promises.

Also on Tuesday, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) became the first sitting Republican member of Congress to say publicly that he plans to vote for Clinton for president, declaring in an interview with Syracuse.com that Trump is a “national embarrassment.”

The three-term congressman, who represents a swath of Upstate New York near Syracuse but is not running for reelection this year, has bucked his party in the past on issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change. He declared his support for Clinton in an opinion piece published Tuesday on the news website and elaborated in an interview that Trump’s continued feud with the parents of a Muslim American Army captain killed in Iraq were the final straw.

“I saw that and felt incensed,” Hanna said in the interview. “I was stunned by the callousness of his comments.”

He added: “I think Trump is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy you want to have the nuclear codes?”

A lot of people including me are good at understanding the dangers of the far right but are blind to the dangers of the far left .

Yesterday, on the campaign trail, Trump said: “I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged. I have to be honest.”

Meanwhile, longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone is explicitly encouraging Trump to make this case to his supporters. “I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly,” Stone told a friendly interviewer, adding that Trump should start saying this: “If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.”

Stone also said: “I think he’s gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath.”

F

climber
away from the ground

Jul 30, 2016 - 07:50pm PT
Sick.

Jody

climber
Occupied Territory

Jul 30, 2016 - 12:25pm PT
He'll die.

And global warming is a conspiracy created by democrats and black people to create jobs for libtards and atheists.

Any more sweet assertions to make before the day is out, sugar tits?

"Something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart," Trump said. "I said to him, is that the real one, or is that a copy? He said, 'That's my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you.' And I said, 'Man, that's big stuff.'"

"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," Trump continued. "This was much easier."

We are flirting with various forms of progressivism, and there are Republican forms of progressivism. Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican,” Ryan said. “We have to thoroughly debunk it, repudiate it.”

Indeed, Mark Levin has similarly explained, “What I see developing is not a conservative coalition, but a coalition on the Republican side of big government advocates.”

“The Republican Party now is a party of the progressive Republicans. Theodore Roosevelt… the protectionists, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, the No-Growthers,” Levin has said.

Ryan reportedly suggested that the GOP is engaged in the “fight for the soul of our party and for our country” over the issue of international trade.

No summit is worth that kind of selfishness.

That was the most close-minded ugly thing I've ever seen you post. Shame on you.

Obama is a little girl who soiled his panties.

Biggest shitshow on the Internet.

Obesity on parade and chairs with large ass prints.

The Republican Party is the Party of shoving Free Trade Treaties down our throats,

Dingus, maybe cut the personal attacks??

I blame the rich libtards for this partly.

10b, that is not hypocrisy. That is a general attack vs. personal attack.

And I just despise the empty manipulation of speeches now.

There really is a very serious disconnect between the talkers of the world and the doers of the world. I've seen it a lot in hospitals. Talk talk talk ..

everything runs on good intentions and happiness and people just need a hug.

Awesome...in 140 years less than an ESTIMATED 1.5 degree C...and THAT based on land data only. I am convinced.

Ashburn, Virginia (CNN) A military veteran supporting Donald Trump gifted the Republican nominee his Purple Heart Tuesday, prompting Trump to say he "always wanted to get the Purple Heart" and this was "much easier" than serving in combat.

Jody!

you can't be serious, surely you don't disagree with the Academy of Scientists who have repeatedly shown that man made carbon dioxide's effect on the ozone layer has weakened it allowing more of the sun's rays to heat up the earth?

surely you don't deny the Arctic's melting ice caps, all this is a matter of record?

you are a smart guy Jody!

Yes Bob, I believe in God, Jesus, and angels. There is far more evidence for their existence, and it takes far less faith to believe in them, than it does your fairy tale of evolution.

People who sign their names at the end of their posts when their name is already their usernames are not to be trusted.

bringing my wife and my marriage into this he is stepping way over a boundary that he even he should know not to cross.

That [Trump name] value may be affected by his actions or performance in the campaign

He has no respect for our best traditions. This is what dictators do, folks. I would call on Ryan and McConnell to challenge him on this but they are spineless enablers.

Careful, Trump may drop out and the repubs will replace with Kasich, who polled much better than Clinton

Even the Oil Companies have come clean and said they fabricated and funded the climate change denial hoax.

Yet the people that will have to be judged as all having an extremely low IQ still believe the denial hoax.

Exxon are in court for first investigating climate change and then fabricating lies that contradicted their earlier findings

We will wish these denialist's the best
For they have demonstrated that it's possible to be a complete brainwashed dupe and a failure as a human in being able to discern fact from fiction.
They are unknowingly the Tools of the Fossil Fuel Industry.
They prey on these idiots to spread the flat earth BS, and these low IQ folks suck it up like candy, they want to believe the lies, it's so important to prove those Gov. funded scientists wrong. they yell "They need GCC to be true to get funded!"

And Now
When science and the mainstream media revealed that the Fossil Fuel Industry fabricated the whole denial scam, it's over.
Being Anti-Science will never work out for you, it's a losing proposition, you lost, you failed, your precious lies about GCC failed you, you get an "F" in understanding how science works.


At the core, It's all about hating environmentalists and liberals.
They have to fight against those commie tree hugging liberal regulations that will let ISIS kill us all!!

If Hillary wins, it is the Republicans fault for allowing Trump to happen.