I found these great pics of President Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/inside-donald-trumps-white-house/?page=11
I guess I am a hold out for optimisim, I always believe there is a way. I always look for a way to bridge gaps where ever and when ever I have the opportunity too. You would be surpised how the smallest gesture can be the largest break through. I believe that if you want to see the bad in life and that's all then that is all you will see. But If you prefer to see more color then you can find the beauty in any given situation.
No one sets out in life to hate, it is taught. the same way love is through a smile or a gesture of helping. I have softened many hardened hearts with just the small things.
Sen. Mark Warner calls DOJ intelligence briefing a 'farce'
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Thursday a meeting between a bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders and intelligence and law enforcement officials is a “farce” because the disclosure of classified information should be limited to the so-called “Gang of Eight” — a collection of Senate and House leaders who traditionally receive the briefings on sensitive intelligence matters.
Two intelligence briefings are scheduled for Thursday afternoon to discuss the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. It is said to include details about an FBI informant who contacted members of the Trump campaign.
The first briefing, at the Justice Department at noon, will include only two lawmakers, both Republicans. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, California Republican, and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, Republican South Carolina, will take part in the meeting along with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and others from the FBI and DOJ.
A second meeting, also at the Justice at Department at 2 p.m., will include the Gang of Eight, which is comprised of House and Senate leaders from both parties along with chair and ranking minority leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence committees. Mr. Gowdy will also attend along with Mr. Kelly, Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Wray and Mr. Coats.
But Mr. Warner blasted the first meeting, accusing the White House of providing a separate briefing for its Republican political allies. He said the briefing is an attempt to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
“If they insist upon carrying out this farce, the White House and its Republican allies in the House will do permanent, longstanding damage to the practice of bipartisan congressional oversight of intelligence. They will also be sending a terrible message to anyone who works in or with our nation’s intelligence community that the White House will always prioritize partisan politics over protecting the people who help keep this country safe,” he said.
https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/24/mark-warner-calls-doj-intelligence-briefing-farce/
Moon scrambles to halt meltdown in diplomacy
South Korean president blindsided by Trump canceling summit.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged President Trump and Kim Jong Un to quickly find a way to talk directly in hopes of avoiding a total meltdown in diplomacy or a military clash Thursday, hours after Mr. Trump canceled his planned summit with the North Korean leader amid hostile posturing from Pyongyang.
“Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the establishment of permanent peace are historic tasks that can neither be abandoned nor delayed,” Mr. Moon said at an emergency meeting with his top security officials in Seoul around midnight local time.
“I am very perplexed and it is very regrettable that the North Korea-U.S. summit will not be held on June 12 when it was scheduled to be held,” said Mr. Moon, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
The South Korean president, who has based his political fortunes on the pursuit of diplomacy with Pyongyang, was apparently blindsided by Mr. Trump’s decision to cancel the summit despite roughly two weeks of increasingly harsh rhetoric and threats from North Korean officials.
A top South Korean analyst and advisor to the South Korean Presidential Security Council told an audience in Washington Thursday that there could be “tremendous domestic costs” to Mr. Moon if the delicate diplomatic process of the past several months fully collapses.
Kim Heung-Kyu, who is also a visiting fellow at Georgetown University, said Mr. Moon will likely do everything in his power to prevent that from happening. “The South Korean government will continue to communicate with North Korea to persuade them to come back to the table,” Mr. Kim said at an event in Washington hosted by the Center for the National Interest.
The Moon government was already seen to be scrambling to keep the diplomacy going with Pyongyang after North Korea abruptly canceled a high-level meeting between North and South officials that had been slated for earlier this month.
The meeting was supposed to have been a follow-up to a break-through summit Mr. Moon and Mr. Kim held in late April, after which the two appeared together to announce the joint goals of pursuing denuclearization on the Korean peninsula and a permanent peace treaty to formally end the frozen war that has divided the peninsula since the early-1950s.
With the fate of those goals now hanging in the balance, analysts say the Moon government is unlikely to quickly give up hope and will try, quickly, convince North Korea’s leader of what he has to lose.
Mr. Kim, the South Korean analyst, said Thursday that the North Korea leader knows that he “needs an achievement to consolidate his power and achieve legitimacy.”
In the short term, he sees the possession of nuclear weapons as the key to his survival, but in the “long run he should achieve something like economic development and welfare, so [he] fully recognizes the problem he faces,” said Mr. Kim. “We can cultivate that kind of opportunity to persuade him.”
On a separate front, the South Korean analyst said Mr. Moon will likely stand with the Trump administration if moves to significantly ramp up economic sanctions against Pyongyang and will continue to prepare itself militarily against North Korea in coordination with Washington.
https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/24/south-koreas-moon-scrambles-halt-meltdown-diplomac/
NFL owners stand up to anthem kneelers in nod to Trump, fans
NFL owners stood up Wednesday to the kneelers, voting to ban on-field protests during the national anthem after two years of social justice activism, fan outrage and flagging viewership — but that doesn’t mean game over.
The NFL Players Association blasted the policy change, warning that it would challenge any aspect “inconsistent with the collective-bargaining agreement,” while the decision was decried by others as an infringement of the players’ free speech rights.
Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long accused the league of bowing to President Trump, who whipped up opposition last year to the take-a-knee protests, adding that the owners “don’t love America more than the players.”
“This is fear of a diminished bottom line,” Mr. Long said in a statement. “It’s also fear of a president turning his base against a corporation. This is not patriotism. Don’t get it confused.”
For NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and owners, however, the decision struck a balance between respecting the views of players who object to standing for “The Star-Spangled Banner” and those offended by athletes using the anthem ceremony to further a political agenda.
The revision to the Game Operations Manual allows players and other team personnel to remain in the locker room during “The Star-Spangled Banner” but requires those who take the field “to stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem.”
Clubs with players who violate the policy will be fined. The NFL commissioner will also “impose appropriate discipline” on anyone who runs afoul of the rule, approved at the league’s annual spring meeting in Atlanta.
“We think we’ve come up with a balanced process here and a procedure and policy that will allow those players who think they can’t stand for the anthem to stay in the locker room,” Mr. Goodell said. “There’s no penalty for that, but we are going to encourage all of them to be on the field. We’d like all of them to be on the field and to stand at attention.”
In addition, teams may develop their own sets of rules for personnel “who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem,” said the NFL statement.
Team owners said at a press conference that their goal was to place the focus back on the game.
“We’ve listened to a lot of different viewpoints, including our fans’, over the last year, and I think this policy attempts to come out in a place where we’ve respected everybody’s point of view as best we could,” said Arthur Rooney II, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Several owners said the debate over the protests, which began in 2016 in reaction to the deaths of black men at the hands of police, brought them closer to their players.
“[We] have grown much closer to our players as we work through this process, and I think the solution that we’ve come up with is a good one,” said Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.
Christopher Johnson, chairman of the New York Jets, said the team would not impose its own “club-specific rules” such as fines and suspensions on players who violate the policy.
The league’s decision came as a win for Mr. Trump, whose frequent tweets during the 2017 season blasting the take-a-knee protests — and his suggestion that owners fire anyone who refuses to stand — kept the issue in the cultural and political spotlight.
Vice President Mike Pence cheered the decision by tweeting an article about the policy change and the hashtag “#Winning,” along with an American flag.
A number of players asked Wednesday about the decision said it didn’t affect them. Fewer than 20 players were still protesting by the end of the 2017 regular season, and no players sat or knelt during the postseason.
Chicago Bears outside linebacker Sam Acho said the players who protested did what they set out to do.
“To be honest, I think a lot of players are happy about the conversations that are happening,” he told ESPN. “So the protest served their purpose.”
Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said he was proud of his team last year for standing for the anthem.
“[A] lot of people have died for that flag, and that flag represents our country and what we stand for. I think that’s important. I’ll stop there,” Mr. Zimmer told reporters.
Others said they were just happy to see the issue resolved.
“I’m glad they came to an agreement in some form or another,” said Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. “I’ll be out there standing.”
Mr. Goodell reported that the vote was unanimous, although one of the 32 owners, Jed York of the San Francisco 49ers, said he abstained from the vote and announced that he would stop serving concessions during the anthem at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/23/nfl-bans-anthem-protests-nod-donald-trump-fans/
Trump orders deregulation to boost commercial space companies
President Trump is deregulating space.
Mr. Trump on Thursday signed a space policy directive aimed at boosting America exploration of space by streamlining regulations on commercial space activity.
He’s made cutting federal regulations a cornerstone of his presidency and now is expanding it to the Commerce and Transportation departments’ rules for commercial space companies, which face regulatory hurdles that include launch licensing and payload approval.
The policy directive, which is the second space policy directive for the Trump administration, builds on the president’s plan to send crewed missions to Mars and beyond, according to the administration.
“This time, we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint. We will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars,” Mr. Trump said in a prepared statement.
When Mr. Trump last year announced his plan to revamp NASA and return to crewed space missions, including to Mars and into deep space, he called for more public-private partnerships to get the job done.
Mr. Trump has made space exploration a priority, shifting from the Obama administration’s focus on robotics to a focus on restoring crewed space flights.
NASA hasn’t had its own spacecraft since retiring the space shuttle program shortly after Endeavour flew its last mission June 1, 2011.
Mr. Trump also has repeatedly floated the idea of a military “Space Force.”
Loosening restrictions on commercial space ventures is a key part of the plan to return to manned space exploration, said Scott N. Pace, executive secretary of the National Space Council.
He said the deregulation push was born from the budget realities.
“This is not going to be a Cold War race where we drop almost unlimited amounts of money on a problem,” he said.
“So if we are going to do our space exploration activity, we need to grow the economy. And one of the best ways we know to grow the economy is to deregulate it [and] streamline it.
https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/24/donald-trump-orders-deregulation-boost-commercial-/
I think maybe they were afraid and they should be, when the average person finds out what has been happening to all of their hard earned money, shits gonna hit the fan, and I believe that is just for starters.
Sorry I still don't believe its as big as it's made out to be. I know what gets posted in comments toward a lot of people not just potus. I guess what I am saying here is this: Most people behind a keyboard use it to feel empowered, the average person wouldn't have the courage to say to anyone's face. Reaching people no matter where you are is easier face to face, nothing to hide behind. So if all of us decided that one person we don't know anywhere we go, is going to get a smile because they frown, help because they struggle, some change because they are short, it doesn't matter, just a gesture, it leads to conversation, then it is realized that no matter what our political beliefs are, we can always find common ground somewhere, and somewhere is a place to start.
Dr. Soros' snake oil bad medicine for struggling Ukraine
As President Trump takes on the globalist scourge that has savaged the American middle class, it is instructive to look at other areas of the world where the so-called “Soros prescription” is alive and well.
Mr. Trump tapped into a deep, rich vein of domestic angst over the open-border, internationalist vision championed by Hungarian-American liberal billionaire George Soros. Developing nations hungry for freedom, the rule of law, and the benefits of a market economy would do well to learn from the U.S. experience and not buy a bottle of Dr. Soros’ snake oil.
Having been kicked out of Hungary, Mr. Soros and his network of NGOs are still virulently active in Eastern and Central Europe. It is a poorly-held secret that Mr. Soros has been deeply entwined in Ukrainian politics since the 2014 Maidan Revolution. Allegedly hacked documents in 2015 showed Mr. Soros appointing himself “a self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine,” and detailed the billionaire’s intricate involvement with the Obama State and Treasury Departments in the push for weapons and billions of dollars in assistance for the Poroshenko government.
Although the visa-free regime now set up with the European Union thrills the Ukrainian people, they should beware that the offer comes with strings. At the end of the day, the globalist medicine looks to strip a country of its natural resources for the use of international corporate interests and to open the borders to millions of illegal migrants, destroying a nation’s sovereignty, culture and security forever.
The moral: Beware what you wish for. Just ask the citizens of Sweden, Italy, Germany or France how they are enjoying the massive increases in crime and the massive headaches involved with assimilating a large Muslim population.
The Soros International Foundation “Vozrozhdenie, which injects millions each year into Ukraine to fund the billionaire’s agenda, has its proteges seeded throughout the halls of power in Kiev. The Soros power structure is very interested in Ukraine’s gas transit business, not to mention its agriculture, energy, health care and IT industries. With its abundance of natural resources and an educated work force, Ukraine is the perfect candidate to be “colonized” to serve the globalists’ agenda.
It seems the Sorosistas’ first choice to lead Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has been unable or unwilling to deal with the systemic corruption that paralyzes the state. He is likely going to lose the upcoming presidential election and the wolves are circling. Longtime rivals are lining up to compete against him.
Mr. Soros’ partner in Ukraine is Viktor Pinchuk, son-in-law of a former president and long-time friend of the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation. There are reports that Mr. Soros and Mr. Pinchuk have a new project — electing popular singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk to the Ukrainian presidency. There is ample photographic evidence of the three hobnobbing in Davos in the recent past.
Mr. Vakarchuk holds a special place in Ukrainian culture, as his music and activism have been a voice for the popular pain and discontent given the failures of the Poroshenko government and the painful separatist conflict grinding away in the east. After an initial foray into politics, he resigned his seat in parliament in 2008 after one year due to corruption concerns.
Mr. Vakarchuk loves his country and no doubt wants to do what’s in its best interests. But with very little experience in business or politics, it won’t be easy for the singer to stand up to the Soros machine once installed by the Open Society crowd.
The Ukrainian people need to think long and hard about whom they want to lead the country. The Soros track record is not one any ambitious nation would want to emulate.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/24/george-soros-snake-oil-bad-medicine-for-struggling/
I have a feeling they are letting the Dem's rope themselves. Its been my experience that when an argument is to be had in any situation, the loudest voice is usually wrong, but they already know it, they are just trying to find ways to change the subject matter, I believe this hold true in this matter as well.
You are very welcome:)
I think though we are further than we have been for sometime, this, is a world wide undertaking, it didn't happen over night, it won't be finished overnight either. View it like dieting, you hit a plateau, then you have to adjust to make the finish line, perseverance gets you there.
These photo's are epic, These reflect the shot heard around the world. A president who shows his love for the people of this nation and means it.