WHO WON? 2016 REPUBLICAN DEBATE -- DEBATE 3; Islamic invasion pulls trigger: Europe now scrambles for guns -- Many 'now wish they had a 2nd Amendment'

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WHO WON? 2016 REPUBLICAN DEBATE -- DEBATE 3 Posted: 28 Oct 2015 08:47 PM PDT Bottom line …  The debate standouts were Trump, Rubio, and Cruz; although there were no breakout performances. There were a few spirited exchanges, but many of them were directed at the moderators who were unusually biased. Nothing really has changed except the diminishment of Donald Trump’s stature, which I believe was somewhat diminished. Donald Trump’s behavior towards Dr. Carson might indicate that Trump may be looking to Ben Carson as a Vice President running mate. This was a spirited debate, made so by the obvious confrontational bias of the moderators. Before the GOP debate even starts, the GOP is at a significant disadvantage: one, there are so many people on the stage that individuals have an extremely short timeframe to answer important questions about substantive issues – thus reducing a debate to sound-bites; and two, the GOP cedes procedural matters and questioning to progressive socialist democrat members of the media so that questions can be slanted and candidates nullified. And, if you want proof that one-time presumptive front-runner Jeb Bush is a lightweight, consider he actually was on the debate stage talking about his success in a fantasy football league. Unreal. We are so screwed. -- steve   Wednesday, October 28, 2015 –  8 p.m. EDT CNBC Republican Debate Aired On:      CNBC Location:       University of Colorado in Boulder Sponsors:       CNBC Moderators:   Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick, and John Harwood (with a panel of CNBC “experts” like On-Air Editor Rick Santelli, Senior Personal Finance Correspondent Sharon Epperson and Jim Cramer, host of "Mad Money with Jim Cramer."   Rules:             Candidates with at least 3% polling average appear in primetime. Notes:             The debate, titled “Your Money, Your Vote: The Presidential Debate on the Economy,” will focus on key economic issues, such as jobs, taxes, the deficit and the health of the U.S. economy. The undercard (Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki , Lindsey Graham) will air at 6:00 p.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. PST. Donald Trump (Celebrity, non-politician, businessman) "I trust people too much, I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive."  "I love the Mexican people, I respect the Mexican leaders, but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our leaders...a politician cannot get them to pay [for a wall]. I can." Ben Carson   (Physician)   Marco Rubio   (Senator) “Some of the Democrats who have the ultimate super PAC -- they're called the mainstream media. Last week, Hillary Clinton went before a committee she admitted she sent e-mails to her family saying hey, this attack in Benghazi was caused by Al Qaeda-like elements. She spent over a week telling the families of those victims and the American people that it was because of a video. The mainstream media is saying it was the greatest week in Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was the week she got exposed as a liar. On Benghazi. But she has her super PAC helping her out - the American mainstream media."  QUINTANILLA: So when the Sun-Sentinel says Rubio should resign, not rip us off, when they say Floridians sent you to Washington to do a job, when they say you act like you hate your job, do you?  RUBIO: Let me say, I read that editorial today with a great amusement. It’s actually evidence of the bias that exists in the American media today.    Jeb Bush   (Governor)  "You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10, I'll give them a warm kiss." QUINTANILLA: Governor Bush, daily fantasy sports has become a phenomenon in this country, will award billions of dollars in prize money this year. But to play you have to assess your odds, put money at risk, wait for an outcome that’s out of your control. Isn’t that the definition of gambling, and should the Federal Government treat it as such?  BUSH: Well, first of all, I’m 7 and 0 in my fantasy league. QUINTANILLA: I had a feeling you were going to brag about that.  BUSH: Gronkowski is still going strong. I have Ryan Tannehill, Marco, as my quarterback, he was 18 for 19 last week. So I’m doing great. But we’re not gambling. And I think this has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively it is day trading without any regulation at all. And when you have insider information, which apparently has been the case, where people use that information and use big data to try to take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation.  If they can’t regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at just, you know, moving away from them a little bit. And there should be some regulation. I have no clue whether the federal government is the proper place, my instinct is to say, hell no, just about everything about the federal government.  (CROSSTALK)  CHRISTIE: Carl, are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football? Carly Fiorina   (business)    Ted Cruz   (Senator) QUINTANILLA: Senator Cruz, Congressional Republicans, Democrats, and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets that fear of another Washington-created crises on the way.  Does your opposition to it show that you’re not the kind of problem-solver American voters want?  CRUZ: You know, let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media. QUINTANILLA: Senator Cruz, Congressional Republicans, Democrats, and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets that fear of another Washington-created crises on the way.  Does your opposition to it show that you’re not the kind of problem-solver American voters want?  CRUZ: You know, let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.  [APPLAUSE]  This is not a cage match. And if you look at the questions: Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain? Ben Carson, can you do math? John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign? Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?  How about talking about the substantive issues –  [APPLAUSE]  … and, Carl, I’m not finished yet. The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every fawning question from the media was, Which of you is more handsome and why? And let me be clear –  QUINTANILLA: You have 30 seconds left to answer, should you choose to do so.  CRUZ: Let me be clear. The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.  And nobody watching at home believes that any of the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary. The questions that are being asked shouldn’t be trying to get people to tear into each other. It should be what are your substantive –  [CROSSTALK]  QUINTANILLA: I want the record to reflect, I asked you about the debt limit and got no answer.  [CROSSTALK]  HARWOOD: We’re moving on.  CRUZ: Let me tell you –  [CROSSTALK]  CRUZ: Let me tell you — you don’t actually want to hear the answer, John? You don’t want to hear the answer?  HARWOOD: You used your time on something else.  CRUZ: You’re not interested in an answer.  [CROSSTALK]  Mike Huckabee   (Governor) "If you saw that blimp that got cut loose from Maryland today, it's a perfect example of government. I mean, what we had was something the government made, basically a bag of gas, that cut loose, destroyed everything in it's path, left thousands of people powerless, but they couldn't get rid of it because we had too much money invested in it, so we had to keep it. That is our government today. We saw it in the blimp."  "I don't really have any weaknesses that I can think of, but my wife is down in the front and I’m sure if you would like to talk to her later she can give you more than you will ever be able to take care of." Chris Christie   Governor) "The government has lied to you and they have stolen from you. They told you that your social security is in a trust fund. All that's in that trust fund is a pile of IOUs for money they've spent on something else a long time ago." John Kasich (Governor) "My great concern is that we are on the verge, perhaps of picking someone who cannot do this job." Rand Paul   (Senator)   About the "People Who Will Not Be President” undercard … Who cares!! None of these candidates has a chance to even advance to the main stage. Lindsey Graham and George Pataki are statistical non-entities. Bobby Jindal and Rich Santorum are credible candidates, but cannot seem to get traction.

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: JUST NOT IN THE FORMAT WE ENVISIONED? Posted: 28 Oct 2015 12:39 AM PDT For those who are not well-read in socialist political theory, let me introduce you to the Cloward-Piven strategy … The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”  Cloward and Piven were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in the liberal magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” <Source> It was quickly recognized by the progressives that the same strategy could quickly overwhelm our social safety nets and institutions, thus bringing about scarcity, the need for rationing, and the imposition of authoritarian rule by enlightened elites to manage the situation. Thus, a revolution leading to socialism/communism and centrally-planned economic and social public policies without the necessity of a civil war. And, what better way to overload the system than to import poverty, illiteracy, crime, and the most compelling weapon of all – disease which could expand virally and exponentially to collapse even the most resilient of contingency plans. Hence, we see millions of illegal aliens crossing American borders and impacting the financial, legal, criminal, and medical systems meant for American citizens. A biological attack does not require trained soldiers and specialized weapons …    What is happening in Europe may soon be happening in the United States under the illegal and unconstitutional immigration policies of the Obama Administration …    Britain next? Doctor's outrage at 'refugees pushing German hospitals to breaking point'  -- A DOCTOR working in German hospitals has revealed the horrifying chaos which could face the NHS if thousands of migrants from the Middle East manage to reach Britain.  A female doctor has claimed German hospitals are struggling to deal with the number of refugees. The female anesthetist said the German health service has been completely overwhelmed by the influx of Muslim asylum-seekers who are REFUSING to be treated by female medics. In a furious outburst the experienced doctor said hospitals simply cannot cope because so many of the migrants require treatments for diseases long since eradicated in Europe. She also claimed huge numbers of the asylum-seekers have Victorian diseases including TB, which they risk passing on to locals. "Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we, in Europe, do not know how to treat them. She also shockingly claimed migrant parents are abandoning their children at pharmacies across the country after being told that they have to pay a prescription charge for lifesaving drugs.  Meanwhile, German authorities have been forced to post police at hospitals around the country after others got involved in angry clashes with medics over cultural differences. "Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units. The doctor, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote to the press back home in the Czech Republic to express her shock at the "unsustainable" situation which she says is now affecting the medical care received by taxpaying Germans. She said: "Clinics cannot handle emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the hospitals.  Source: Doctor claims refugees have pushed German hospitals to breaking point | World | News | Daily Express Who said it couldn’t happen here? Obama Won’t Say Where Illegal Immigrant Children Are Going he Obama Administration remains tight-lipped about the location of illegal immigrant children it has moved around the country. Last week, the Department of Defense released information about three locations being used to house the children coming across the border. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun using Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to house the “unaccompanied alien children,” according to the Department of Defense. But across agency lines, officials have ignored questions from the press. Federal officials have instructed caseworkers, who identify and verify the sponsors of the illegal immigrant children, not to speak to the media under any circumstance. A caseworker spoke to KSAT in San Antonio anonymously and said caseworkers are told speaking to the media is a federal offense. As a result, the Obama Administration has yet to explain where the illegal immigrant children are being held and where they have been reunited with their families. <Source> Many local officials have been given little or no notice about children suddenly being placed into local school systems where sickness surges among easily susceptible children and then into the adult population. Inviting combatants into your local area … The weapons of a revolutionary war do not always involve the military and sophisticated weapons of war. In fact, many in Europe are wishing for a Second Amendment and arming themselves to protect themselves against a culture that riots at the drop of a hat.  Islamic invasion pulls trigger: Europe now scrambles for guns -- Many 'now wish they had a 2nd Amendment' Austrians are arming themselves at record rates in an effort to defend their households against feared attacks from Muslim invaders. Tens of thousands of Muslim “refugees” have poured into Austria from Hungary and Slovenia in recent months on their way to Germany and Sweden, two wealthy European countries that have laid out the welcome mat for migrants. More than a million will end up in Germany alone by the end of this year, according to estimates from the German government. Obtaining a working firearm and ammunition in Germany, Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands is practically impossible for the average citizen. Germany, for instance, requires a psychological evaluation, the purchase of liability insurance and verifiable compliance with strict firearms storage and safety rules. And self-defense is not even a valid reason to purchase a gun in these countries. <Source> Bottom line … President Obama and his cadre of progressive socialist democrats are radically transforming our nation. The door to reversing this change is quickly closing. It is up to the decent citizens to stand up and say “enough.” Enough to anti-American politicians. Enough to crippling our infrastructure with socialist constructs – especially destroying or dumbing down our educational system.  Folks, we are so screwed. And, those with their hands out do not even recognize the danger posed by the government using our money, much of it borrowed, to temporarily buy votes. And, when that fails, there are always storm troopers, fire hoses, and vicious dogs. All to protect a lying, corrupt, and evil political system that we apparently welcomed with, if not open arms, the type of apathy that allows evildoers to flourish. -- steve