Discussing politics and religion

[havasu]

Thank you Liberals for killing California!

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html

 

[havasu]

Still better that Killary IMHO.

 

[Ernesto]

Still better that Killary IMHO.

Killery is not acting POTUS, a fact that many conservatives forget. Makes a huuuge difference in legal terms. Or just having an honorable bone in your body.
Trump doesn't deserve to lick John McCains boots.

 

[havasu]

Then what other choice did we have? Bernie? LOL

 

[highup]

Yeah, that was very embarrassing for those of us who support his ideas.

I looked up the info and found it was correct to raise the flag.......... correct by Eisenhower's "proclamation" anyway.
https://abc7news.com/politics/flags-at-half-staff-what-are-the-guidelines/4067918/
Here are all of the guidelines about how long to leave flags at half-staff, set out in Eisenhower's proclamation.

• President or former president's death: 30 days
  
• Vice president, the chief justice or a retired chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, or the speaker of the House of Representatives: 10 days
  
• Associate justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet, a former vice president, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the Senate, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, or the minority leader of the House of Representatives: Death until interment
  
• United States senator, representative, territorial delegate, or the resident commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: On the day of death and the day after
  
• The governor of a state, territory or possession: Day of death until interment

This link also said:
"The decision early Sunday morning to raise the flag broke from the precedent of lowering the flags for significant national officials from their death until burial as a show of respect, ABC News reports."

So I'm guessing there are traditions on this sort of thing and the Eisenhower's proclamation isn't usually followed?
I've never paid attention to this sort of thing. Are all Senators and Representatives held to the till burial tradition, or is it a once in a while thing?

 

[Nick]

He was forced to lower it by the out cry of the people , even his staff told him to do it ..

Then what other choice did we have? Bernie? LOL

Anyone but trump..

 

[highup]

.........you mean forced to lower it?

 

[Nick]

.........you mean forced to lower it?

Thanks , You still owe me a lot of corrections .. I even proof read it like i do with all my posts ..

 

[Ernesto]

.........you mean forced to lower it?

Forced or coerced, big difference between the two.

 

[highup]

Thanks , You still owe me a lot of corrections .. I even proof read it like i do with all my posts ..

I proof read too......... I think the letters and words gets scrambled after leaving the transporter room.
You're at the top of my list ...of people I can never repay.
How 'bout if I just build a shrine?

 

[Floorist]

I proof read too......... I think the letters and words gets scrambled after leaving the transporter room.
You're at the top of my list ...of people I can never repay.
How 'bout if I just build a shrine?

Put the flag to half staff.

 

[highup]

The one on the shrine I'm gonna build?

 

[Nick]

I proof read too......... I think the letters and words gets scrambled after leaving the transporter room.
You're at the top of my list ...of people I can never repay.
How 'bout if I just build a shrine?

You may be on to something Hi..

 

[DarisMulkin]

How 'bout if I just build a shrine?

I resent that . I want it tore down.

 

[Nick]

I resent that . I want it tore down.

Sounds like you want to be removed from my inner circle ..

 

[Nick]

California is a beautiful state ..

 

[Ernesto]

People are fleeing Cal in droves, except the homeless. And they're moving to AZ

 

[Nick]

 

[Nick]

 

[zannej]

I admit that I was moved when I saw that there were off-duty military and Lakota tribesmen volunteers standing outside the funeral home to guard McCain's body.
Trump refused to say anything nice about McCain & apparently Sara Huckabee-Sanders was very upset about it. She drafted an official WH statement to honor McCain, but Trump wouldn't let her post it.
Russian State News was celebrating McCain's death and said "The enemy is dead".

People are saying the indictments that were planned for this week were put off until next week to avoid taking away from McCain's funeral (could just be a load of bunk though). IIRC, one of Manafort's aids just took a plea deal though.

Biden's speech about McCain was very touching. I haven't seen the other speeches yet. I also saw that Aretha Franklin's funeral was today. They even honored her in England by having their uniformed guards standing in formation while a band played one of her songs.

I think there are a lot of nuts in California, but I've heard that Florida has the highest concentration of crazy people. Speaking of Florida, DeSantis made a poor choice by saying that Gillum would "monkey it up" if he won. Of course he tried to deny any racism but then was found to be an admin on a racist Facebook page. LOL.

The GOP official Twitter tried to insult Beto O'Rourke by mentioning that he was in a rock band back in college-- so of course the retaliation was for people to bring up that Ted Cruz was a mime. I personally don't get the hatred for mimes, but I found it funny.

I saw that Trump was screaming about how Ohr should be fired & was mad about him looking in to the Steele dossier. Honestly, I don't see why they wouldn't look in to something from UK intelligence (even if the agent was retired). It makes sense to look in to potential threats. Ohr said that he was told that Russian Intelligence claimed to have Trump over a barrel. Which is probably what made Trump angry.

Meanwhile, someone drafted a letter for Trump to explain that we are in such a financial crisis that it justifies freezing the planned General Schedule pay increases for next year. The verbiage was a bit odd so I'm not sure if they are saying they are just not increasing it, or if they are actually doing away with the LP pay & GS increases-- which would make it a pay cut for federal employees. It's supposed to affect "civilian" employees so I'm not sure if that just means non-military or if it excludes law enforcement. Anyone know? My mother gets my father's death benefits so the cuts may affect her.