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Eurocat
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Probably not approved for what you stated, per Congress, is my guess.
Just don't spend it on anything and it goes back into the budget "pile" thereby cutting the deficit.
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A lot of those can be thrown back in GOP faces as well. I don't have the time to do the whole thing but just from the first few.
* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."
George Bush stands with Muslims a few days after the attacks
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* It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith."
From Google -
"During a September 2008 appearance on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos and Barack Obama discussed political attacks regarding his background Barack Obama intended to say "my Christian faith," but accidentally stated "my Muslim faith" before catching himself."
And Is Barrack Obama evert the only guy in the world to ever misspeak or flub a line? Jeez.
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to rebuild foreign mosques.
The Cultural Preservation program was started by the Bush administration in 2003, vetted by a Republican Congress, and approved by John Ashcroft’s Justice Department. No, Obama didn't end it (maybe he should have) but he did not start it. LINK
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- "I will stand with the Muslims."
Misleading e-mail: From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Actual quote from "The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
Obama did not say he would side with "the Muslims" if there were some kind of war or something.
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."
• The Claim: During Obama's 2009 trip to Egypt, a viral internet conspiracy theory claimed that President Obama privately told Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, "I am a Muslim" (or variations involving being a Christian with a hidden background).
• The Source: The rumor originated from online commentators misquoting or fabricating reports based on secondhand media claims. Egyptian officials and independent records confirmed no such private statement ever occurred.
• Public Statements: President Obama did state publicly during his famous June 2009 "A New Beginning" speech at Cairo University that his own personal background was shaped by being a "Christian" who grew up with a "Muslim father" and time spent in Indonesia, explicitly addressing his interfaith experiences in an open address rather than a secret private confession
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
And it was Trump who bowed in submission before the Saudi King. In Obamas case it was the traditional Saudi greeting of the Royal. In Trumps case he get Saudi's highest civilian award. I don't give a poop about a one second bow, but our current President is a Saudi "award winner" and Obama never was.
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* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
Another lie
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* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Qur'an.
?As a Christian I reject the Quran, but there is no denying it's a holy book. Anyway I bet Trump agrees since he was the President who said on Easter Morning "Praise Allah" before promising to blast bridges and power plants to dust which he never did.
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House
Obama attended every National Prayer Breakfast.
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Obama did not create or hasten to host an Islamic prayer breakfast or ceremony at the White House. For 30 years there has been a IFTAR dinner when Ramadan is over look who is happily it nowadays.
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Enough for now I need to get some sleep. Good night!
* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."
George Bush stands with Muslims a few days after the attacks
LINK
* It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith."
From Google -
"During a September 2008 appearance on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos and Barack Obama discussed political attacks regarding his background Barack Obama intended to say "my Christian faith," but accidentally stated "my Muslim faith" before catching himself."
And Is Barrack Obama evert the only guy in the world to ever misspeak or flub a line? Jeez.
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to rebuild foreign mosques.
The Cultural Preservation program was started by the Bush administration in 2003, vetted by a Republican Congress, and approved by John Ashcroft’s Justice Department. No, Obama didn't end it (maybe he should have) but he did not start it. LINK
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- "I will stand with the Muslims."
Misleading e-mail: From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Actual quote from "The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
Obama did not say he would side with "the Muslims" if there were some kind of war or something.
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."
• The Claim: During Obama's 2009 trip to Egypt, a viral internet conspiracy theory claimed that President Obama privately told Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, "I am a Muslim" (or variations involving being a Christian with a hidden background).
• The Source: The rumor originated from online commentators misquoting or fabricating reports based on secondhand media claims. Egyptian officials and independent records confirmed no such private statement ever occurred.
• Public Statements: President Obama did state publicly during his famous June 2009 "A New Beginning" speech at Cairo University that his own personal background was shaped by being a "Christian" who grew up with a "Muslim father" and time spent in Indonesia, explicitly addressing his interfaith experiences in an open address rather than a secret private confession
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
And it was Trump who bowed in submission before the Saudi King. In Obamas case it was the traditional Saudi greeting of the Royal. In Trumps case he get Saudi's highest civilian award. I don't give a poop about a one second bow, but our current President is a Saudi "award winner" and Obama never was.
LINK
* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
Another lie
LINK
* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Qur'an.
?As a Christian I reject the Quran, but there is no denying it's a holy book. Anyway I bet Trump agrees since he was the President who said on Easter Morning "Praise Allah" before promising to blast bridges and power plants to dust which he never did.
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House
Obama attended every National Prayer Breakfast.
LINK
Obama did not create or hasten to host an Islamic prayer breakfast or ceremony at the White House. For 30 years there has been a IFTAR dinner when Ramadan is over look who is happily it nowadays.
LINK
Enough for now I need to get some sleep. Good night!
re: Tucker has lost all sense of reality
Posted by Eurocat on 10/5/26 at 7:45 pm to Fat Bastard
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Islam is the second-largest religion in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. The Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported in 2015, citing the Mufti Council, that there were approximately 20 million Muslims among Russia's population of 146 million.
Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government.
The position of Islam as a major Russian religion, alongside Orthodox Christianity, dates from the time of Catherine the Great, who sponsored Islamic clerics and scholarship through the Orenburg Assembly.
The history of Islam and Russia encompasses periods of conflict between the Muslim minority and the Orthodox majority, as well as periods of collaboration and mutual support. Robert Crews's study of Muslims living under the Tsar indicates that "the mass of Muslims" was loyal to that regime after Catherine, and sided with it over the Ottoman Empire.[
After the Russian Empire fell, the Soviet Union introduced a policy of state atheism, which impeded the practice of Islam and other religions and led to the execution and suppression of various Muslim leaders. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam regained a legally recognized space in Russian politics.
Despite having made Islamophobic comments during the Second Chechen War, President Vladimir Putin has since subsidized mosques and Islamic education, which he called an "integral part of Russia's cultural code", and encouraged immigration from Muslim-majority former Soviet states.
Islam is the second-largest religion in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. The Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported in 2015, citing the Mufti Council, that there were approximately 20 million Muslims among Russia's population of 146 million.
Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government.
The position of Islam as a major Russian religion, alongside Orthodox Christianity, dates from the time of Catherine the Great, who sponsored Islamic clerics and scholarship through the Orenburg Assembly.
The history of Islam and Russia encompasses periods of conflict between the Muslim minority and the Orthodox majority, as well as periods of collaboration and mutual support. Robert Crews's study of Muslims living under the Tsar indicates that "the mass of Muslims" was loyal to that regime after Catherine, and sided with it over the Ottoman Empire.[
After the Russian Empire fell, the Soviet Union introduced a policy of state atheism, which impeded the practice of Islam and other religions and led to the execution and suppression of various Muslim leaders. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam regained a legally recognized space in Russian politics.
Despite having made Islamophobic comments during the Second Chechen War, President Vladimir Putin has since subsidized mosques and Islamic education, which he called an "integral part of Russia's cultural code", and encouraged immigration from Muslim-majority former Soviet states.
So pay down the deficit by 2 billion, don't send out checks to people. Bill Gates will get a check too, why?
No more hurricanes?
See where Trump's $90 checks to 20 million seniors are going
Posted by Eurocat on 10/5/26 at 6:58 pm
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to send $90 check to more than 20 million seniors this month.
The one-time payments are headed to most of the nation's seniors enrolled in Medicare B, spanning all 50 states, according to a White House breakdown of the payments reviewed by USA TODAY, with the most populated states receiving the most checks.
More than 1.52 million seniors in California are set to receive checks, tops among all states, followed by Texas (1.43 million); Florida (1.40 million); New York (1.02 million); and Pennsylvania (905,000). Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota and South Dakota are each in line to receive fewer than 100,000 checks apiece for seniors.
Among some of the closely contested Senate battleground states, 539,000 seniors will receive checks in Michigan; 644,000 seniors in North Carolina; 568,000 in Georgia; 327,000 in Iowa; 748,000 in Ohio; 88,000 in Maine; and 293,000 in Kansas.
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The one-time payments are headed to most of the nation's seniors enrolled in Medicare B, spanning all 50 states, according to a White House breakdown of the payments reviewed by USA TODAY, with the most populated states receiving the most checks.
More than 1.52 million seniors in California are set to receive checks, tops among all states, followed by Texas (1.43 million); Florida (1.40 million); New York (1.02 million); and Pennsylvania (905,000). Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota and South Dakota are each in line to receive fewer than 100,000 checks apiece for seniors.
Among some of the closely contested Senate battleground states, 539,000 seniors will receive checks in Michigan; 644,000 seniors in North Carolina; 568,000 in Georgia; 327,000 in Iowa; 748,000 in Ohio; 88,000 in Maine; and 293,000 in Kansas.
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Mother of 3, Grandmother of 5, sure North Dakota cops for throwing her in jail based on AI
Posted by Eurocat on 10/4/26 at 8:31 pm
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A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her.
Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor’s four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of five was booked into a county jail and remained there for almost four months without bail while awaiting extradition to North Dakota, where she was held fo two more months.
Lipps, who has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee, had never been on a plane until authorities flew her to North Dakota at the end of October, where she was charged with four counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information and four counts of theft.
The charges were ultimately dropped, and she was “released into the freezing cold … on Christmas Eve with no way to get home” after her lawyer provided bank records proving that she was in Tennessee at the time the fraud occurred in Fargo, the complaint says.
Lipps’s lawsuit names the city of Fargo and Lucas Heck, a city police detective identified in the complaint as having requested the arrest warrant for her, as the defendants.
The plaintiff alleges that she “experienced traumatic conditions in the jails”. “She struggled with the fear of not knowing when she would be released or whether she would end up wrongly convicted and imprisoned for years,” the lawsuit continues. “She missed family birthdays. She spent her own birthday incarcerated, separated from her family. She missed holidays with her loved ones, including Thanksgiving and Christmas. While in custody, she was denied basic care, such as her medications and her dentures.” Lipps learned she had lost her residence, her car and her personal property once she was released from custody, her lawsuit states.
The “Fargo police department (FPD) and its agents have refused to accept responsibility or apologize to Lipps despite multiple requests for them to do so”, the complaint says. The lawsuit says that it seeks to “repair what has been broken” over her false arrest and “seeks accountability” from the FPD.
A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her.
Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor’s four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of five was booked into a county jail and remained there for almost four months without bail while awaiting extradition to North Dakota, where she was held fo two more months.
Lipps, who has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee, had never been on a plane until authorities flew her to North Dakota at the end of October, where she was charged with four counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information and four counts of theft.
The charges were ultimately dropped, and she was “released into the freezing cold … on Christmas Eve with no way to get home” after her lawyer provided bank records proving that she was in Tennessee at the time the fraud occurred in Fargo, the complaint says.
Lipps’s lawsuit names the city of Fargo and Lucas Heck, a city police detective identified in the complaint as having requested the arrest warrant for her, as the defendants.
The plaintiff alleges that she “experienced traumatic conditions in the jails”. “She struggled with the fear of not knowing when she would be released or whether she would end up wrongly convicted and imprisoned for years,” the lawsuit continues. “She missed family birthdays. She spent her own birthday incarcerated, separated from her family. She missed holidays with her loved ones, including Thanksgiving and Christmas. While in custody, she was denied basic care, such as her medications and her dentures.” Lipps learned she had lost her residence, her car and her personal property once she was released from custody, her lawsuit states.
The “Fargo police department (FPD) and its agents have refused to accept responsibility or apologize to Lipps despite multiple requests for them to do so”, the complaint says. The lawsuit says that it seeks to “repair what has been broken” over her false arrest and “seeks accountability” from the FPD.
re: Plague watch 2026: Russian media reports 2nd death
Posted by Eurocat on 10/4/26 at 8:27 pm to SloaneRanger
"Who here was aware that the Obama administration aerosolized Ebola? That came out in the news a few days ago and is a story that hasn’t received enough attention."
Link?
Link?
Much of Long Island though that is technically more Suburban, but still three million people.
re: Are hospitals DEI central?
Posted by Eurocat on 10/2/26 at 9:12 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
I went to a really good HS and then a really good University and I knew 100s of kids and only four and 3 were in pre-med and were Asian and one was a Jewish guy who I swear is 100x funnier that Seinfeld. Great guy.\
Whites don't seem to want to put in the work it seems. Of course my observations are individual and anecdotal.
Whites don't seem to want to put in the work it seems. Of course my observations are individual and anecdotal.
re: Do you support Trump employing a "boots on the ground" policy/strategy in Iran?
Posted by Eurocat on 10/2/26 at 4:25 pm to SlowFlowPro
If we do it with our allies and we flat out at the start admit this will take many years, cost trillions, we can do it.
Bush fault was sending his lackey's like Paul Wolfowitz out there to say Iraq will pay it all back with oil and others to say how quick and easy it will be.
Bush fault was sending his lackey's like Paul Wolfowitz out there to say Iraq will pay it all back with oil and others to say how quick and easy it will be.
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People sentenced to death should get one shot at appeal. You better throw everything including the kitchen sink. None of this "oh, wait...just thought of something else" bullshite that allows them countless delays. And max 3 years.
If 3 years was the max along with your other demands these two innocent men would be dead.
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A Utah man who has spent decades on death row after he was convicted of killing a police chief's aunt has been released after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence excluded him as the source of DNA recovered from key pieces of evidence in the case.
No physical evidence linked Carter to the crime scene, but the jury convicted him based on the confession and the testimony of two witnesses who claimed he bragged about killing Olesen, although those witnesses later recanted.
A DNA analysis received on Sept. 22 excluded Carter as a possible match to blood found on a doorknob and genetic material recovered from the handle of a knife used to stab Olesen.
"If the state of Utah had their way, he would have been executed 15, 20 years ago before we discovered the misconduct," Hamilton said.
Utah County prosecutor Erwin Petilos told the judge on Monday that reassessing Carter's bail was "necessary and fair" as the state continues to examine the remaining evidence in the case.
Carter said later that his confession was coerced, saying he falsely admitted to the crime after police repeatedly threatened him. He was convicted and sentenced to death after a trial in which the defense called no witnesses to testify.
In 2011, the two witnesses from Carter's original trial were tracked down in Mexico, admitting they had been told to lie in court and had received cash and gifts from police in exchange for their testimonies. They said police told them not to disclose the payments and that police and prosecutors threatened them and their son with deportation if they did not implicate Carter in the killing.
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On Maryland's Eastern Shore yesterday, Kirk Bloodsworth sat down with the prosecutor who helped send him to death row for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Nearly two decades later, Ann Brobst told him, DNA had identified the man who had really done it. "We got a hit on a guy," he remembers hearing, in the immeasurable fraction of a moment before he began weeping, realizing the words' import, realizing that the state at last considered him a completely innocent man. Beside him, his wife, Brenda, broke down and wept, too.
"You know how long I've waited to hear you say that?" Bloodsworth asked Brobst, who twice persuaded a jury to convict him of Dawn Hamilton's brutal death -- and who yesterday apologized for how that shattered his life.
But there was more. The suspect, Brobst went on, is already in prison in Maryland, halfway through a 45-year sentence for burglary, attempted rape and assault with intent to murder. His name: Kimberly Shay Ruffner. "My God," Bloodsworth said, "I know him."
In a plot twist few involved could have imagined, the Baltimore County state's attorney's office now believes the killer in the 1984 slaying has been hiding behind bars since a month after the crime. Prosecutors announced yesterday that Ruffner, 45, was tagged by a stain of semen analyzed for the first time this spring and then entered into state and federal DNA databases.
Won't this be evidence for the "this just goes to show sexuality is fluid" crowd?
re: Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says.
Posted by Eurocat on 9/27/26 at 10:01 pm to CubsFanBudMan
Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says.
Posted by Eurocat on 9/27/26 at 9:20 pm
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he'd be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump's ambassador to China said on Sunday.
David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that if consummated would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan and potentially expose U.S. technology to a potential foe. Perdue, speaking to Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" days after Trump hosted Xi for a state visit in Washington, didn't specify when the offer was made.
Bream had cited concerns from Republican and Democratic lawmakers over delayed aid packages and weapons orders to Taiwan, the self-ruled democracy, to defend itself from China's threat to invade the island. Bream asked if the U.S. is denying Taiwan to appease the Chinese president, who visited Trump last week.
Perdue pushed back on the suggestion, stating that Trump "is as strong on Taiwan as I've ever seen anybody" and has sold it plenty of weapons. Perdue also said Trump and Xi continue to talk about future U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
"But President Trump continues to say, 'Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,'" Perdue said. "He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some, at one point."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he'd be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump's ambassador to China said on Sunday.
David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that if consummated would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan and potentially expose U.S. technology to a potential foe. Perdue, speaking to Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" days after Trump hosted Xi for a state visit in Washington, didn't specify when the offer was made.
Bream had cited concerns from Republican and Democratic lawmakers over delayed aid packages and weapons orders to Taiwan, the self-ruled democracy, to defend itself from China's threat to invade the island. Bream asked if the U.S. is denying Taiwan to appease the Chinese president, who visited Trump last week.
Perdue pushed back on the suggestion, stating that Trump "is as strong on Taiwan as I've ever seen anybody" and has sold it plenty of weapons. Perdue also said Trump and Xi continue to talk about future U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
"But President Trump continues to say, 'Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,'" Perdue said. "He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some, at one point."
One year of med school in Polland or Hugary or a basic state or Slovakia costs about 11.000 euros so few docs start in debt.
re: US doctor residency programs are being taken over by foreign nationals
Posted by Eurocat on 9/27/26 at 8:06 pm to The Pirate King
In my country in Europe med schools are only 6 years with years 5 and 6 being already active riding as an employee on ambulances or working in the morgue or as a defacto physicians assistant. Premedi years learning organic chemistry are 4 wasted years imo. By year three a doctor in training will have set bones dine dozens of stitches. In America the are still doing the textbooks. Waste of time.
Song does sound a lot like her hit vogue imo.
re: VMA’s starting strong with butt lasers
Posted by Eurocat on 9/27/26 at 6:56 pm to OysterPoBoy
Madonna looks great I must admit.
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