. . . as Iran says it is ready to jump start nuke activities if the deal comes apart UK Daily Mail " President Donald Trump said Wednesday he has reached a decision on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack Obama - but not what it is.
"A day after he called that deal, reached along with Iran and five other countries an 'embarrassment,' Trump faced questions about his intentions following a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah outside the United Nations General Assembly.
" 'I have decided,' Trump said when asked about his plans for the deal. He repeated the statement three times.
"Pressed on what his decision was, Trump smiled and said: 'I'll let you know what the decision is.' . . .
"She's never going to get over losing the election to Donald Trump. And with her foundation's pay-to-play donationsdrying up, and she herself sinking into irrelevancy – an unwelcome guest at the Democratic Party dinner table – why should she? She's lost two elections, and now she's too old and in too frail a state of health to try a third time.
"So now, after blaming sexism, Bernie Sanders, James Comey, and anybody but herself many times over in her new memoir, she's returned to the Russians, this time questioning the legitimacy of the election itself, something that has been on the underboil ever since President Trump was sworn in. Now she's saying it directly.
Note that after her great manspreading charge, Hillary implied that Putin's invitation to Bill Clinton for the rather mundane task of tagging polar bears in Siberia was sexism, too, since he didn't ask her. Being a great diplomat and all, she just had to relay the story on a talk show.
"The entire Cahokia Quarterback Club football team, which is made up of kids who are eight or even younger, took a knee during the playing of the National Anthem before their game last Sunday at Little Devil’s Field in Belleville, Ill. And they were encouraged to do so by their coach.
“One of the kids asked me if I saw (people) protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?’” said Coach Orlando Gooden.
Coach Gooden said his player responded, “Because black people are getting killed and nobody’s going to jail.”
Gooden, who played football at Mizzou, said the kids knew about the Jason Stockley decision.
“I felt like it was a good teaching moment for me to circle the team and have a meeting,” he said.
“You can bet that the men and women we honor today, and those who died that fateful morning 75 years ago, never took a knee and never failed to stand whenever they heard our national anthem being played.”
"The crowd erupted in cheers and applause. Many of the veterans present stood despite visible difficulty."
Health-care federalism would give states the chance to reduce the cost of health care with market-based reforms. Not all states would take it, but some would.
"Contrary to much of the media coverage this week, the push by congressional Republicans to do something about Obamacare isn’t a desperate last-ditch effort or a “health care zombie.” On the contrary, it might be the best health-care reform idea GOP leaders have come up with yet. "The bill, authored by senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, would address a woeful imbalance in our health-care system by returning much of the authority for regulating health insurance back to the states, where it belongs. In its current form, the legislation keeps most of Obamacare’s funding in place (except for the individual mandate tax penalties and medical-device taxes) but states would be able to apply for grants that allow them to more or less pursue whatever health-care policies they want with those funds and waive some key parts of Obamacare like the individual mandate and coverage for preexisting conditions. "In short, Graham-Cassidy represents a kind of health-care federalism, in which states like New York and California would end up with very different systems than states like Texas and Florida. Of course, that’s already true to some extent, and it was true even before Obamacare. But where Obamacare sought to make states more uniform according to rules written by bureaucrats in Washington, Graham-Cassidy would allow states to go their own way." . . . 'I'm sorry he doesn't understand': Republican senator called a liar by Jimmy Kimmel over Obamacare replacement plan hits back
Rick Moran: Six degrees of separation from slavery"The war against the symbols of racism took a surreal and bizarre turn in the last week as social justice warriors took to social media to complain in two separate incidents of a hugely disturbing phenomenon.
"Who would have guessed that cotton was a trigger?
"First, Hobby Lobby made the mistake of offering for sale cotton stalks in a vase as an item to be used in home decor. Innocuous, right? Not for SJW's desperately seeking something - anything - to attack as "racist.' " . . .
Trigger warning:
She writes: This decor is WRONG on SO many levels.
There is nothing decorative about raw cotton...
A commodity which was gained at the expense
of African-American slaves. A little sensitivity
goes a long way. PLEASE REMOVE THIS "decor".
. . . "You can see where this is headed.
1. Sugar will be removed from restaurant tables because it is a reminder of the sugar cane harvest by slaves.2. SJW's will accost people smoking or chewing tobacco, berating them for using a product grown by slaves.3. There will be a movement to outlaw rum because of it's involvement in the "Triangle Trade" during the 1800s.
"Could never happen, right? Come back and visit in a few years. What surreal attacks we can imagine will pale in comparison to the reality of how the tragically diseased minds of these snowflakes work. "
Even Hobby Lobby Cotton Is Racist These Days "Leftists are probably wondering why no one takes claims of racism seriously anymore. After all, isn't being racist the worst thing someone can be? Yet, they scream "racism!" and no one blinks an eye. Why is that?"
"Probably because everything is racist these days. " . . .
. . . "Please tell me how that's different than telling someone to get to the back of the bus because of the color of their skin.
"Allow me to save you the effort. It's not. Not at its core. In both cases, it's pure, unadulterated racism.
"If I were to write that all blacks were criminals in waiting, how long do you think I'd still have a job? Anywhere. I'd last fifteen minutes after it was published. Maybe."
Katie Pavlich "President Trump is receiving applause for his strong words at the United Nations Tuesday morning from foreign allies and Republicans alike. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with the president at the UN on Monday afternoon, is praising Trump's speech as the most courageous he's seen in 30 years.
In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech. — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu)
September 19, 2017 President Trump spoke the truth about the great dangers facing our world — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu)
September 19, 2017 and issued a powerful call to confront them in order to ensure the future of humanity. — "Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) September 19, 2017
"In addition to meeting with Trump, Netanyahu also met with Egyptian President Abdel el-Sisi and a number of other world leaders. The meeting with el-Sisi was especially notable given the complicated politics of the Middle East. " . . . Trump Hits Home Run for America in UN Speech . . . "But the bottom line is that for the first time in years, an American president went before the UN and in plain words spelled out some vital truths about America, the UN, and the world. Whatever the UN General Assembly might make of it, once it recovers from the shock, that's a good thing for the world, and a very good thing for America." National Review:"‘Holy Sh**’: Trump at the U.N." . . . "All things considered and given the alternatives, it was a fine speech. It wasn’t really an “America First” speech — it defended the world order and even had warm words for the Marshall Plan — but in its signature lines about North Korea, it was thematically a very Jacksonian speech. What exactly this means in terms of policy remains to be seen. But everyone is paying attention, if they weren’t before."
"The 26-year-old spoke out as crazed Jong-Un heads on a dangerous nuclear collision course with Donald Trump over his provocative missile testing that could end in all-out war.
"Hee Yeon lived a life of privilege in the capital Pyongyang as she was the daughter of an army colonel– but her closeness to the regime did not protect her from being exposed to the horrors the despot dished out." . . .
Sensing this would be a sensitive topic, Bongino addresses his apprehension of discussing the subject in the book. He writes he hesitated to include this information in his book “because whenever someone mentions the term ‘diversity’ and discusses the real-world implications of applying such a loosely defined term to a specific job description, he or she runs the severe risk of character assassination by extreme partisan actors who don’t care a bit about the real-world ramifications of their ideological crusades.”
The Daily Caller "The lowering of standards has been ongoing since at least “the early 2000s,” according to the book.
“ 'Sadly, and for many years, the Secret Service has been sacrificing mission-readiness at the altar of political correctness,” Bongino writes in “Protecting The President: An Inside Account of the Troubled Secret Service in an Era of Evolving Threats,” out Tuesday.
"Bongino worked for the Secret Service from 1999 to 2011. He has since run for the U.S. Senate, and twice for the U.S. House. He was an instructor at a training academy from 2002 until 2006, when he became part of the U.S. Presidential Protection Division.
“ 'The Secret Service’s attachment to quota-based hiring was so intense that they hired applicants for the special agent and Uniformed Division officer positions that could barely meet basic physical fitness standards upon their commission as agents or officers,” the book contends.
"Bongino’s insider account cites recent security breaches at the White House as the fault of the agency’s hiring practices." . . .
Liberal obsession with diversity often shuns true multiculturalism — a variety of opinions, thoughts and political stances — and instead focuses on the “feel good” categorization of irrelevant traits like skin color.
Benjamin Arie "Flyover country. Bible belt. Middle America. Coastal elites in liberal cities have all sorts of terms for “red states,” but they all seem to convey one message: Conservative areas of the country are somehow backward and should be avoided. "That’s the impression one California writer had about America’s heartland. Leah Singer never imagined that she would end up in Trump Country… but when she moved to Indiana not long ago, her entire perception changed. 9/20/2017 Calif. Lady Moves to Red State, Suddenly Sends Unexpected Message to Lib Friends Back Home "In an editorial piece published last weekend in the Indianapolis Star, the author sent a clear message to liberal friends back in California and throughout the country: You might be wrong about “red states.” “ 'I used to say I’d never move to a red state. And then I did. And it’s changed my life for the better,” Singer admitted. "As a “California girl,” the writer explained that the le-leaning west coast sees itself as a bastion of “diversity,” but Singer hinted that it was less of a paradise for anybody who didn’t parrot the liberal talking points. “I was raised in California, where we like to believe diversity is applauded and opportunities abound,” she explained. “ 'In many ways, California’s blue state bubble can be a very safe place to live if you subscribe to the popular liberal politics.” " In other words, it was diverse only if you thought and talked the same as everyone else, which kind of defeats the point. Regardless, Singer was a bit apprehensive about starting her new life in a conservative region. " . . . Hat tip to Jeff Hayden; Plano, TX
