General Discussion, Monday, January 25, 2016

Lake Huron, Tawas Point, MI

Lake Huron, Tawas Point, MI

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Although I’ve been to Michigan, I’ve never seen Lake Huron. Nice picture, stella.

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Good morning from the night before!

    May God bless everyone, and keep you and yours safe this new day.

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  3. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    I’m just gonna leave this here and let y’all’s brains ponder this all night. Mornin’ glories, tomorra! 😀

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  4. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Good morning! Since I’ve washed my face, brushed my teeth, and had my first sip of coffee, I’m almost ready to face the day. It’s Monday ….

    Been thinking more about Mark Levin, and have almost reached a conclusion about his Sundance/Treehouse attack. It isn’t mostly about the conflict of interest and the future son-in-law. It’s about his support for “Israel first”, as Sundance puts it. That is what sends Levin crazy. Is it true? DOES he put Israel first, even over the USA?

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

      Excellent point Stella.

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    • facebkwallflower's avatar facebkwallflower says:

      Don’t know if this connects or not but in searching for answer to the allowance for dual citizenship in US senators andcongrssmen, I keep coming across when it is allowed it pertains to Israel. It seems an allowance was made for dual citizenship with only Israel. And of those, there are quite a few, including Bernie Sanders??? Here is intersesting unvetted write up (think do not have to be facebk user to read). Not sure what to think of this or if will actuslly have time to learn about and study up on to be informed. https://m.facebook.com/notes/we-are-all-vittorio-arrigoni/list-of-politicians-with-israeli-dual-citizenship-/175479365845092

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Mornin’ stella!

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      Good morning Stella.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

      Mornin’ Stella!

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Levin was a Cruz advocate long before this election cycle, I think Levin, like many of his contemporaries are embarrassed by and afraid of Trump, Beck believes that Trump talks at a fourth grade level, Trump’s education and successes as a business man is totally ignored.

      I think that Levin, Cruz, Beck and Barton are are intertwined in the Keep the Promise PACS. This means millions of dollars are at stake. This may have already been posted at the CTH I can’t keep up over there. Keep the Promise is run by Beck’s Mercury One, partner/co-chair David Barton. David Barton and Beck support Cruz. Levin supports Cruz and is entwined with Beck. Keep the Promise PACS I, II, III are IMO the common ground. I sent a photo of the 2013, 990 form to Stella because I don’t know how to take the personal information out.

      http://www.p2016.org/cruz/cruzsuperpacorg.html

      The Courageous Conservatives PAC (Cruz advocate) is also defending Mark Levin and attacking Trump.Posting a link to this article on their Face Book page.

      Is the Trump Campaign Trying to Intimidate Mark Levin?

      http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/21/trump-campaign-trying-intimidate-mark-levin/

      Interesting article about Glenn reconnecting with Levin and how some trickster told them lies about each other to try and break up their friendship 🙄

      http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/01/30/glenn-explains-how-he-reconnected-with-mark-levin-and-sean-hannity/

      Mark is not going to like Sundance because Sundance is advocating for Trump, Sundance has taken Levin on personally and in particular I think that Levin is very uncomfortable with any talk of his fiancé, and the timeline and circumstances of when they began dating. Many of Marks fans believed he was still married before the story broke about his fiancé and her son’s ties to to Ted Cruz, and perhaps on paper Mark is still married. This is my best guess as to the personal animus directed at Sundance.

      I’m not so sure how much Mark’s allegiance to Israel would be transferred into a viable Israel first doctrine, without America there would be no Israel, Mark has to know this, Mark has to know that Trump is a friend of Israel, he has to know that Trump and Netanyahu are personal friends and he has to know that the personality of Ted Cruz might not mesh so well with Netanyahu.

      Now I have to went for a while 😉

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        Mark is not going to like Sundance because Sundance is advocating for Trump, Sundance has taken Levin on personally and in particular I think that Levin is very uncomfortable with any talk of his fiancé, and the timeline and circumstances of when they began dating. Many of Marks fans believed he was still married before the story broke about his fiancé and her son’s ties to to Ted Cruz, and perhaps on paper Mark is still married. This is my best guess as to the personal animus directed at Sundance.

        I think that has a lot to do with it. I’ve been seeing a lot of people commenting that they thought he was still married. I’m not one who has ever listened to him daily, so I don’t know if he ever spoke of his marriage breaking up. He may be worried about some of his listeners not liking that he was divorced and start questioning when he met his fiance. I do know he has mentioned the CTH on air favorably more than once. If there is something there for them to find out and he’s worried SD might know it then he needs to either destroy SD and the CTH in the eyes of his listeners or intimidate SD to not go there.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          The only problem with that theory is that SD isn’t the one who broke the story. Mark Levin had already mentioned the fiance/son “threat” on his show, and Breitbart had reported it, before SD wrote his piece. I think Levin is more angry about SD’s twitter remarks about Levin’s support of Israel over American interests.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            So basically you think that Levin has taken Sundance’s questioning Levin’s patriotism personally and that is where the anger is from?

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            Maybe it’s a combination of both and the one under his skin he feels as is beneath him or possibly is an easy one to shut up?
            SD isn’t the first to question Levin over Israel. I’ve read others over the past few years. Maybe he did come after them as well and I missed it?

            I’m just trying to understand him as well. He has went off the deep end over Trump, his FB is just one anti-Trump post after another. I don’t understand why he’s went so nuts over that as well.
            All I know for a fact is that he’s not who I at least thought he was.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:

              Levin is an Israeli National according to Israel’s Nationality Law.

              I don’t know why Levin would choose SD for pointed and singular vitriol. I know that SD said he knows that Levin reads at the CTH, SD even did a little wavy guy :wave: and said “Hi Mark” in one of the comment sections so maybe if Levin was positive about SD and the TCTH before he was a foe, then Levin may take SD not supporting Cruz, and his even larger sin of supporting Trump as a personal affront.

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              • Stella's avatar stella says:

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_nationality_law

                A child of an Israeli citizen (including children born outside of Israel as first generation out of Israel) is considered an Israeli citizen. Persons born outside Israel are Israeli citizens if their father or mother holds Israeli citizenship, acquired either by birth in Israel, according to the Law of Return, by residence, or by naturalization.[2]

                Citizenship by descent, on the principle of jus sanguinis, is limited to only one generation born abroad. Despite this limitation, descendants of an Israeli national born abroad may be eligible to Israeli citizenship through other methods, such as the Law of Return.

                This is all I have been able to find, so far, about Mark Levin’s father, Jack E. Levin:

                Jack E. Levin has, at various times, been an author, artist, and small businessman. The son of immigrants, Levin is an American patriot who has never stopped loving his country.

                Jack E. Levin was born in 1925.

                It sounds like Jack Levin was born in the U.S., since it says that he is the son of immigrants.

                Mark’s mother’s name is Norma, apparently, but no other info so far. Is there any indication that she was born in Israel? I don’t know.

                What makes you think that Mark Levin is an Israeli national?

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                Sorry I thought I read that Mark’s parents immigrated here from Israel but that seems to be wrong. I’ll do some more research.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                It seems that it is very nuanced and I can’t figure it out.

                Israel: Nationality Law, 5712-1952

                http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b4ec20.html

                I heard back from my Jewish friend and he doesn’t know. He said to call an embassy so I did that and the 4 or 5 I called are already closed.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          This is a link (thanks nyet!) to another Levin post. See the two Last Refuge twitter quotes?

          https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-levin/another-vile-website/10153205662025946

          I think Sundance may be doing another post about the Levin/Israel connection in the near future. Maybe Levin senses this?

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  5. Patriot1783's avatar ctdar says:

    Beautiful photo Stella, nice to see first thing on a Monday. Much better than my startled wake 4 hours earlier to a rather loud dream from my dog downstairs :/

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Breakfast!

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      This statement was three years ago. Guess we shouldn’t have been surprised at what they have just done.:
      ‘In the past, Buckley’s nephew Brent Bozell has weighed in on National Review’s relevance. Back in 2012, he posted this to Facebook and Twitter: “National Review’s endorsement of Romney & Huntsman proves only that this is no longer the magazine of William F. Buckley Jr. My uncle would be appalled.”’

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Good one Wee.

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    • A wonderfully-written essay on AT’s blog-side today:

      http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/what_democrats_know_and_national_review_forgot_.html

      Attempting to destroy a candidate who, by far and for long, has been leading the race for the Republican presidential nomination is without precedent in the history of conservative journalism…

      Any candidate who brings massive new positive interest in your party, and at the same time has the potential to take a big slice out of the opposition’s pie, is your friend. Do not insult him (and by inference his supporters). Instead, figure out how to turn this potentially fleeting gift into a stable electoral advantage that benefits the party’s ultimate nominee, be it the man who brought it or someone else…

      Excellent article.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        The Republican glitterati are morons. They think they are smarter than everyone else, but have no real frame of reference due to the isolation they live under. They are incestuous. It results in stunted reasoning.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Some are nice, but the majority are so elitist that they are like a synod of intellectual snobbery – out of touch with the world and stuck in the dusty rooms they write in, while becoming intoxicated by breathing in the stale air of their own gas.

      Good stuff!

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

      “Some are nice, but the majority are so elitist that they are like a synod of intellectual snobbery – out of touch with the world and stuck in the dusty rooms they write in, while becoming intoxicated by breathing in the stale air of their own gas”.
      This statement reminds me of some of the people(civi/mil) I knew in the “E” wing!

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  7. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

    Shamelessly stolen from FDR over at the Tree:

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Did you mean to respond to me?

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  9. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Hmmm….

    Mark R. Levin: Dual Citizenship is Citizenship by Statute, Not 14th Amendment Citizenship

    https://constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/mark-r-levin-dual-citizenship-is-citizenship-by-statute-not-14th-amendment-citizenship/

    Mark: Let me explain something to you. In terms of dual citizenship, that is done statutorily, you understand? In other words, Congress determines, uh, the nature of dual citizenship, what qualifies for dual citizenship and so forth; which is why it is so absurd to argue that the 14th Amendment by itself confers citizenship on illegal aliens

    …..

    Mark: Alright my friend, thank you, you’re a good man, I think…I’m no fan of dual citizenship either, I’ll be perfectly honest with you

    ……..

    What is undeniable is that Ted Cruz had dual citizenship up until a little over a year ago, so to the best of my understanding to be consistent, if applying Levin’s reasoning to Ted Cruz, then Cruz is not a natural born citizen but naturalized as his citizenship is statutory (written law, bestowed by man’s pen).

    Am I lost?

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  10. Monroe's avatar Monroe says:

    Has Cruz released any of his IRS tax filings? I’ve been reading about dual-citizenship and one site says that dual citizenship is a means to avoid paying US taxes.

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  11. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:

    Too many rules and no common sense. This kid is already struggling, IDK if he will amount to something or not, but things like this sure won’t help his attitude. Even his mother assumed he had done something wrong.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-eighth-grader-suspended-for-rescuing-classmate-during-asthma-attack/ar-BBoDtlW?ocid=HPCDHP

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  12. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

    Stella, I’ve got an update over on the prayer thread.

    Thank you for getting in touch with Menagerie for me.

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  13. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:

    How bout this. Instead of Ma Capone they indict….you guessed it.
    Harris grand jury indicts pair behind Planned Parenthood videos. Amazing.
    http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Harris-grand-jury-indicts-pair-behind-Planned-6782865.php

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  14. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

    You know why most of our commenters don’t watch or comment on your Trump videos?

    Because we’re all gonna vote for him, and we’ve been convinced already.

    I’m glad that you’re archiving them, though.

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  15. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    While researching the indictment outrage, I saw THIS on twitter:

    Planned Parenthood is Likely Keeping Some Aborted Babies Alive “Until Their Hearts are Cut Out” [ Vivisection. I predicted this; I wish I’d been wrong… God have mercy.]

    http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/18/planned-parenthood-is-likely-keeping-some-aborted-babies-alive-until-their-hearts-are-cut-out/?utm_content=buffer72cff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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  16. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    This lady is nuts. I’m so old I remember when kids didn’t get an allowance, you had chores that were required of you, it was part of being a family and earning your keep. We didn’t just have chores at home either, if our parents took on added work to make extra money such as picking fruit and vegetables, hauling hay, etc. we had to help do that as well.
    Maybe these boys who carry out the trash and girls who help wash the dishes should be told it’s part of their responsibility and not a job.

    http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/we-have-a-toddler-gender-gap-says-sheryl-sandberg

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  17. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    I know why they made this, but we Rednecks have a sense of humor and I kind of like it. It’s kind of a catchy little tune. 🙂

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