John Smith

Interesting thread. Listening to and collecting music including playing a little guitar. Reading I enjoy shooting guns and bows, though I'm not a gun fanatic. Traveling to natural wonders and historical sites Riding bikes...road and mountain biking. We have some really nice trails where I live. Scuba diving Fine dining Hiking and camping...wilderness not camp grounds. I still play basketball some (I'm 56.5)

At this point it's not 100% positive but a guest on CNN has indicated that Flynn may be cooperating with the FBI. If true this could be huge. We shall see.

Trump and others are blaming dems for the debacle. Interesting, he wants to blames people who had zero Input into the bill, people who when the going got tough we're still not asked for any input, who were not courted with any concessions in the bill. In fact when the going got tough the reps made the bill less appealing to dems, and he blamed them. Sad.

If you ask me...no. If you ask Trump everything is going smoothly MAGA, big election win, huge crowds, wiretap, deep state yadda yadda yadda...

Well this is interesting...Gorsuch case unanimously overturned by the current Supreme Court. Actually it was a case that relied on a Gorsuch opinion. Regardless the timing couldn't be worse for him. He will still be confirmed but what little I have read about him Indicates to me that Thomas, Kennedy and Roberts probably will be the middle of the court once he gets on.

Now Trump is going to attend the NATO meetings...this should be interesting and could be frightening/embarrassing.

It's almost like this administration is not even trying to cover its tracks anymore. Reuters is reporting that Tillerson is skipping NATO meetings to go to Moscow instead.

That was pretty amazing and awesome. What will it take for the faithful to realize that the president and them, are relying on shit news sources and that the president is not a critical thinker, which the right has disdained for years, who is leading them down a path laid with bad information.

I don't think Comey's testimony is going well for Trump right now. Side note... if you have not seen them yet, the sassy trump videos are pretty funny.

Apparently the CBO is corrupt for scoring the R health care plan poorly. Leaked documents show that Trumps team scored it worse.

Just finished season three of Chefs Table. Always interesting.

The tax nerd in me had to answer.

If you are working with a registered charity you could write off the good as a donation. If it's a political organization or an unregistetef group, no.

Worlds Greatest Health Care Act of 2017. With a name like that it has to be good.

Rand Paul says it's time to move on from Sessions. I don't think so. I believe our current admin is severely compromised, possibly even the entire leadership Of the Republican Party. No one will have any real assurance until some light is shined on this.

Sessions recuses himself from the Trump/Russia investigation.

Today they are all about explaining what was really being said. It's just as maddening as listening to testimony on the word "is"

At this point it might be easier to make a list of people in his admin who have not been in contact with the Russians. mattis, any one else?

I never knew that historically black colleges were formed because of and are a great example of school choice. I always thought that they were founded because white people wouldn't let blacks into their colleges. Thank you for the history lesson Betsy DeVos.

Many of the people controlling the spotlight are illuminating other things, like Sweden or tweets from Bryce Canyon.

Good choice, the cubs roster is strong enough that they will contend for the WS for the next few years.

Hyperbole... he's worth in the $10m range and owns a piece of the Seinfeld franchise. Very wealthy guy, but still a relative pauper in this admin.

Maybe some day Chaifitz will get around to investigating Trump. Right now though he is just too damned busy investigating cartoons and a tweet from The Bryce Canyon NP welcoming Bears Ear to the NP system.those should take years.

Shooting himself in the foot? Is that a Second amendment solution?

Trump is on the warpath against the press. Today at CPAC he mentioned that the press hides behind the first amendment and that he's going to do something about that. Of course he was met with cheers. Moment of the day...trump supporters waving Russian flags with Trumps name on them. Staffers immediately tried to grab all the flags. Not sure if a troll did this or not, but these people are so unaware of what the Russian flag looks like.