“The Constitution is not a living organism. It is a legal document, that says what it says and doesn’t say what it doesn’t.”
- Justice Antonin Scalia

like my progressive friends, I do NOT want "conservative" justices--unlike my conservative friends, I want constitutional justices, who understand, like J Scalia, that the Constitution is a legal document--a "contract", if you will, with none of its provisions and/or clauses permitted to be revised or amended or abrogated without all parties' endorsements.

my sentiments exactly

right?

tantrum-prone poor loser

interesting subject, probably belongs in the "Sports" thread...no?

in any case....I have no doubt (nor should anyone) that if
Serena Williams happened to be a white woman this thread would not exist..

How long before it's Trump's fault? Serious people need to quit using the minority card everytime they don't get their way. It puts a dim light on real inequality.

You live in the wrong State if you don't like fierce strong women honey

Has Donald Trump 'been much tougher on Russia' than Barack Obama?


In part,

"When we looked at the past decade of U.S.-Russia policy, however, we found a more nuanced picture. Tougher government policies implemented under President Barack Obama have largely continued under Trump, even though they were often overshadowed — and perhaps undercut — by Trump’s friendly remarks and tweets toward Russia and President Vladimir Putin."

The consensus among experts is that Obama was more forceful than Trump has been to date on countering election meddling.

"The key difference from Obama was (Trump’s) unwillingness to take the meddling issue head on," said Stephen Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations".

From here,

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/feb/20/donald-trump/has-donald-trump-been-much-tougher-russia-barack-o/

If it wasn't for facts, we would all be ignorant.

Girls are Angel

I think that we make a lot bigger deal of it,here in the U.S. than they do in other parts of he world,since we had institutionalized slavery,and had to suffer through our civil war that was mainly about whether or not races were equal or not.

even hundreds of years later,we STILL have factions here that fight about that out of insecurity,and still fear contact with different races!

but,i feel that one of the MAIN things that is breaking down the walls between races here in the U.S. is the fact that NOW,ALL of our young people share the same taste in music!!
they are all listening to the same music,and it is bringing them together to share,and celebrate it!

despite the feelings of their elders,our young people no longer feel the same hatred of people of other races,because they have embraced the same culture and NOW, they do not feel like the people of other races are 'different',like their parents,and grandparents did,because they enjoy,and share the love of the same things.

they are socially intermingling,and intermarrying,and as the older generations die off,so will the irrational hatred that they felt about people of other races,and then we will be left with only the culture of our young people,which will be the culture of ALL races.

so,in just a few more generations,HOPEFULLY,the insecurity that fed the racism that the older generations felt will have totally vanished from our country.

Want to clean up older emails from inbox, do they and content disapear or is replied to, will ther original and all content come back , like archived?
Thanks

Often people use the phrase "What do I have to show for it?" When talking about a review of their life.

I remember a family friend who was killed by her husband. She happened to be a pediatrician but she lived a fairly modest life, not alot of flashy possessions, and two beautiful daughters. I was struck at her funeral at the number of people who came to remember her, standing room only and out into the parking lot and around the corner even. I realized how far she had gone to impact so many lives in her time here. I think that is the legacy to shoot for when we think what we will leave behind.

what legacy are you shooting for, the material things or wealth you acquired? the career or financial status you reached, or the people's lives you touched?

Who cares what Obama did,. Which was not much to help US.

Ahh, disagreement from a man who self-admits in another thread that he doesn't know economics. And another biased article? The cheers for Trump in it should have given it away. If it was the Clintons that caused the "second" Bush recession (the first one, as I have already stated, can't be blamed fully on Bush, but on the burst dot-com bubble), why was the action not taken by the Bush administration until 2005, as clearly stated in the article? That is after Bush's second term started. Possibly Bush was under pressure from his friends on Wall St to leave it just so?

Gas was indeed .87 a gallon under Bill Clinton, and shot up to over $4, when W invaded Iraq. One could speculate that a president in the oil business would KNOW that gas would go way up if they invaded a country (one which had nothing to do with 9/11), and what effect it might have on the economy. Hey, his advisors (which were mostly advisors from his dad's administration) didn't think they would make the same mistake twice....

Hmmm, now that you bring it up, I am trying to think, did the price of gas go UP or DOWN during the Obama administration? I seem to recall it was under $2 for a most of Obama's second term.



As stated,

hi, im new on here , have heard great things about this wonderful platform and i'm glad to be part of it...........................lets mingle cheers

Doesn't losing 1000+ seats to republicans during his eight years in office mean anything?

Oh I guess we were just imagining things.

a common mix up of terms, when obama came in, 2009, the fed deficit (the difference between what the government spent and what it received) was 1.4 trillion, and when he left it was 665 billion.


when obama came in, in 2009, the fed DEBT (the total financial obligations still held) was 10.6 trillion and when he left in 2017 it was 19.9 trillion

a nearly 100 percent increase after eight years, which puts him up there with Bush and Reagan, who oversaw a 100 and 200 percent increase in the debt, respectively.



He did well with the deficit, but not with the debt, but considering the investment and choices that needed to be made to prevent a depression, its not something that is difficult to understand.

and I dont know any black people who are criminals, or any women with breast cancer, doesnt mean that my existence is the only experience represented in the world or the only experience happening across the country.

the same charts and graphs and sources praising Trump were the same ones used under OBAMA. either they are credible or theyre not. if they are not, none of us know WHO should or should not receive credit ...

Moe: I asked you before, but you still have not named them. What are these lies you refer to Obama saying? I gave you one free: "you can keep your own doctor" What are the rest of his Top 10?

You can't name the lies you say he told, so they must not exist.