WHO WON FOX NEWS DEBATE (IOWA 2016) FLASHZERO CORP: PUMP AND DUMP STOCK SCAM? TRUMP THE BUMPER STICKER WHAT MAKES TRUMP SO DANGEROUS TO AMERICA ...

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• WHO WON FOX NEWS DEBATE (IOWA 2016)
• FLASHZERO CORP: PUMP AND DUMP STOCK SCAM?
• TRUMP THE BUMPER STICKER
• WHAT MAKES TRUMP SO DANGEROUS TO AMERICA ...

WHO WON FOX NEWS DEBATE (IOWA 2016) Posted: 28 Jan 2016 07:59 PM PST Without Donald Trump to introduce the celebrity entertainment element, the Fox News Iowa debate was far less entertaining, but not necessarily more informative as the candidates retreated to their well-known positions and canned sound-bites. Moderators Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier seem to have much sharper edges; asking questions leading to candidate-fighting- candidate. Fortunately, most of the candidates simply took their allotted time to answer their own questions. Out of the intimidating shadow of Donald Trump, Jeb Bush was more animated – but looked like he was delivering a memorized script. Bush continues to claim he is a conservative. Rand Paul, who doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of being the GOP candidate, didn’t deserve a spot on the stage did what his father did before him; acted like a disruptive time-wasting gadfly. Followed by another time-waster John Kasich.  Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush engaged in mutually assured destruction of the issue of immigration.  Megyn Kelly then continued with an attack on Ted Cruz which he then skillfully parried. And, then Kelly turns to Rand Paul to attack Ted Cruz. No wonder Fox allowed this marginal non-player on the stage. Cruz parried again skillfully. Then Rubio attacked Cruz. Cruz then demolished Rubio. Christie took advantage and claimed we needed to stop the Washington BS.  Bottom line … Without Donald Trump in the mix, the winner was Ted Cruz, followed by Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie. Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, John Kasich were non-entities. And, unfortunately, Ben Carson was non-existent. But the biggest loser was Donald Trump, the petulant childish candidate who took his ball and went home. The fact that he used “veterans” as campaign props is despicable. Of course, most of the online pollsters continue to keep the no-show Trump in their polls so as to continue the guessing game of whether or not Trump’s online and rally people will translate to votes. Hopefully after the next few votes, most of these irritating candidates will be gone. -- steve

FLASHZERO CORP: PUMP AND DUMP STOCK SCAM? Posted: 28 Jan 2016 06:37 PM PST Another suspicious e-mail suggesting this penny stock has tremendous upside potential. Looks like a pump and dump scam to me. What say you?

TRUMP THE BUMPER STICKER Posted: 28 Jan 2016 02:21 PM PST Too “yuge” for the bumper …

WHAT MAKES TRUMP SO DANGEROUS TO AMERICA ... Posted: 27 Jan 2016 06:24 PM PST I am having a hard time even imagining a Trump Presidency. Wondering who or what he would sacrifice to enhance his ego and standing on the world stage. Who might be his advisors and would he select sub-par individuals and talk them up to the heights of disbelief? Trump appears to be a malignant narcissist whose ego knows no bounds. It is all about Trump. A self-absorbed man whose level of pettiness is on display daily. In this manner, he is a progressive republican to be contrasted to Obama’s progressive democrat.  Trump is insolated and insulated from any outside forces by his position and wealth. Therefore he can act independently of anyone constrained by either internal and external forces. Trump apparently has no shame and a thick skin; willing to say or do anything he wants with no inner sense of shame or guilt. Trump is following the advice of Fox News’ Chairman Roger Ailes, arguably on the most effective political operatives in history, who told Ronald Reagan, “You didn’t get elected on details. You got elected on themes.”  Trump appears to have no core values and fancies himself as a “dealmaker” able to influence anyone rather than a constitutional conservative. He is, for all intents and purposes, whatever suits him in the moment. Willing to lie and mislead if it suits his purpose.  Trump steeped in cronyism; and even worse talks up those cronies beyond their real character, abilities, and objectives.  Trump’s deal-making modus operandi appears to be flattery, bribery, and then attack. He records every encounter with any individual as an entry in his favor bank and is not adverse to using that transaction to denigrate or belittle you. Imagine what a Trump Administration might do to further politicize our government institutions: the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and those Agencies that hand out taxpayer funds or perform regulatory oversight.   Bottom line … Donald Trump is an unstable, untrustworthy petulant child being handed the keys to our nuclear arsenal.  -- steve