Von Clownstick the chicken . . .

To continue on this non-rugby related thread:

The following email is going around at the moment - sorry it is very long, but interesting nonetheless:

An Interesting take on Trump! - by Bill Bennett

What is said below is exactly what is now happening.

They will kill him before they let him be president.   It could be a Republican or Democrat that instigates the shutting up of Trump.   Don't be surprised if Trump has an accident.   Some people are getting very nervous: Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine, to name just a few.   It's about the unholy dynamics between big government, big business, and big media.   They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it’s in all of their interests to protect one another.   It’s one for all and all for one.

It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich — everyone except the American people.   We get ripped off.   We’re the patsies.   But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared.   The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media, and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened like never before.

Donald Trump can self-fund.   No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business, and political elite understand that Trump is no joke.   He could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart.   It’s no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy The Donald.   It’s because most of the other politicians are part of the “old boys club.”   They talk big, but they won’t change a thing.   They are all beholden to big-money donors.   They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, and multinational corporations . . . Like Big Pharma or Big Oil.   Or they are owned lock, stock and barrel by foreigners, like George Soros owns Obama or foreign governments that own Hillary with their Clinton Foundation donations.

These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money.   But there’s one man who isn’t beholden to anyone.   There’s one man who doesn’t need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Auto Workers, or the teachers’ union, or the Service Employees International Union, or the Bar Association to fund his campaign.   Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn’t need anyone’s help.   That means he doesn’t care what the media says.  He doesn’t care what the corporate elites think.   That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests.   That makes Trump a huge threat to those people.   Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slave masters.

Don’t you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama?   Don’t you wonder why John Boehner and Mitch McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama?   Don’t you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet has never tried to defund Obamacare or Obama’s clearly illegal executive action on amnesty for illegal aliens?   Bizarre, right?   It defies logic, right?   First, I’d guess many key Republicans are being bribed.   Secondly, I believe many key Republicans are being blackmailed.   Whether they are having affairs, or secretly gay, or stealing taxpayer money, the National Security Agency knows everything.

Ask former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about that.   The government even knew he was withdrawing large sums of his own money from his own bank account.   The NSA, the SEC, the IRS, and all the other three-letter government agencies are watching every Republican political leader.   They surveil everything. Thirdly, many Republicans are petrified of being called “racists” . . . So they are scared to ever criticize Obama or call out his crimes, let alone demand his impeachment.   Fourth , why rock the boat?  After defeat or retirement, if you’re a “good boy,” you’ve got a $5 million-per-year lobbying job waiting.   The big-money interests have the system gamed.   Win or lose, they win.

But Trump doesn’t play by any of these rules.   Trump breaks up this nice, cozy relationship between big government, big media, and big business.   All the rules are out the window if Trump wins the Presidency.   The other politicians will protect Obama and his aides — but not Trump.   Remember: Trump is the guy who publicly questioned Obama’s birth certificate.   He questioned Obama’s college records and how a mediocre student got into an Ivy League university.   Now, he’s doing something no Republican has the chutzpah to do.   He’s questioning our relationship with Mexico; he’s questioning why the border is wide open; he’s questioning why no wall has been built across the border; he’s questioning if allowing millions of illegal aliens into America is in our best interests; he’s questioning why so many illegal aliens commit violent crimes, yet are not deported; and he’s questioning why our trade deals with Mexico, Russia and China are so bad.

Trump has the audacity to ask out loud why American workers always get the short end of the stick.   Good question!   I’m certain Trump will question what happened to the almost billion dollars given in a rigged no-bid contract to college friends of Michelle Obama at foreign companies to build the defective Obamacare website.   By the way, that tab is now up to $5 billion.   Trump will ask if Obamacare’s architects can be charged with fraud for selling it by lying.   Trump will investigate Obama’s widespread IRS conspiracy, not to mention Obama’s college records.   Trump will prosecute  Clinton and Obama for fraud committed to cover up Benghazi before the election.   How about the fraud committed by employees of the Labor Department when they made up dramatic job numbers in the last jobs report before the 2012 election?

Obama, the multinational corporations, and the media need to stop Trump.   They recognize this could get out of control.   If left unchecked, telling the raw truth and asking questions everyone else is afraid to ask, Trump could wake a sleeping giant.   Trump’s election would be a nightmare.   Obama has committed many crimes.   No one else but Trump would dare to prosecute.   He will not hesitate.   Once Trump gets in and gets a look at “the cooked books” and Obama’s records, the game is over.   The gig is up.  The goose is cooked.   Holder could wind up in prison. Jarrett could wind up in prison.   Obama bundler Corzine could wind up in prison for losing $1.5 billion of customer money.   Clinton could wind up in jail for deleting 32,000 emails, or for accepting bribes from foreign governments while Secretary of State, or for “misplacing” $6 billion as the head of the State Department, or for lying about Benghazi.   The entire upper level management of the IRS could wind up in prison.

Obamacare will be defunded and dismantled.   And Obama himself could wind up ruined, his legacy in tatters.   Trump will investigate. Trump will prosecute.   Trump will go after everyone involved.   That’s why the dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump.   Yes, it’s become open season on Donald Trump.   The left and the right are determined to attack his policies, harm his businesses, and, if possible, even keep him out of the coming debates.   But they can’t silence him.   And they sure can’t intimidate him.   The more they try, the more the public will realize that he’s the one telling the truth.

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Despite all the negativity over Trump in the media, I have noticed that the most recent poll shows that Trump has increased his lead over Cruz to 21% (38.6% vs 17.6%). I also noticed that Trump has taken the lead in Iowa.

I am working on all the removes - BBL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0

And while the network appears to be publicly siding with Kelly, who is still set to moderate Thursday’s debate, the network is also reportedly trying to privately plead with Trump the best way they know how – through the women in his life.

Joe Scarborough revealed on Morning Joe Wednesday morning that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes had been trying to contact both Ivanka and Melania Trump hoping they could convince Trump to change his mind, but that Trump would only speak to Rupert Murdoch.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A 17-year-old girl in Denmark is facing police charges and a substantial fine after fending off a sex attacker — who did not speak the Danish language — with pepper spray. 

The man is alleged to have attacked the girl at 10pm on a Wednesday evening, unbuttoning her trousers and attempting to pull them down.

She was out for the evening in the town of Sønderborg, Southern Denmark, which has been in the headlines recently after multiple reports surfaced of migrants from a nearby refugee centre harassing women. One local nightclub even banned men who did not speak Danish because the problem had become so bad.

The young woman was only able to break free after using pepper spray to deter the molesting man, who only spoke English to the girl. His ethnicity has not been disclosed.

However, it is only the girl who has faced the force of the law so far. “It is illegal to possess and use pepper spray, so she will likely be charged for that,” local police spokesman Knud Kirsten told TV Syd.

The fine is likely to be around 500 kroner, which is the equivalent of £51, or $73. Many Danish readers of TV Syd were so disgusted that they have offer to pay the fine for the girl in the comment section.

The atmosphere of the town at night is said to have dramatically changed over the past year and a half, after a local army barracks was turned into a refugees centre, housing 700 recently arrived migrants.

Nightclub owner Rafi Ibrahim, himself a migrant from Syria who has lived in the Danish town of Haderslev for years, described the migrants as not knowing the “rules” when it came to Danish nightlife.

His club was one of three to try and bar refugees and migrants from entering because of the escalating harassment issues by using language restrictions.

A SurveyUSA poll released in September showed that 25% of black respondents said they would vote for Trump over Clinton.

According to The American Mirror Trump would more than double the best result for a Republican in modern American history.

Looking at the last 10 presidential election cycles, the highest black vote share for a Republican was 12% for Bob Dole in 1996.

Now there’s even better news for Trump.
40% of black voters and 45% of Hispanic voters support Donald Trump.
If these numbers hold up Donald Trump would win the 2016 election in a landslide.
World Net Daily reported:

Pundits might point to billionaire Donald Trump’s huge lead in the GOP presidential primary race as being the result of his generally anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-establishment, anti-politically correct attitude.

If so, it’s not just whites who are ticked at the bureaucracy, but minorities too.

Because a new poll, which still has Trump leading the race, shows 40 percent of blacks are lining up behind Trump, as are 45 percent of Hispanics, and even nearly 19 percent of Asians.

Blacks and Hispanics, in fact, even support Trump at a higher level than whites.

The results are from a new WND/Clout poll by Clout Research, a national opinion research firm in Columbus, Ohio. The telephone survey of registered voters was taken Dec. 18-27, except for the holiday, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.35 percentage points.

Things of course have got better fro trump since this. If you take the trouble too look into matters you will see black.Read this:

Pundits might point to billionaire Donald Trump’s huge lead in the GOP presidential primary race as being the result of his generally anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-establishment, anti-politically correct attitude.

If so, it’s not just whites who are ticked at the bureaucracy, but minorities too.

Because a new poll, which still has Trump leading the race, shows 40 percent of blacks are lining up behind Trump, as are 45 percent of Hispanics, and even nearly 19 percent of Asians.

Blacks and Hispanics, in fact, even support Trump at a higher level than whites.

Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network.

The results are from a new WND/Clout poll by Clout Research, a national opinion research firm in Columbus, Ohio. The telephone survey of registered voters was taken Dec. 18-27, except for the holiday, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.35 percentage points.

Only Dr. Ben Carson pulled more support from the black community than Trump, at 50 percent, and no one had more support from Hispanics than Trump. Among Asians, 37.5 percent supported Sen. Marco Rubio, with Sen. Ted Cruz matching Trump’s 18.8 percent.

Among whites, Trump was far and away the leader, with 37.7 percent of the respondents. Cruz was second at 25.1 percent.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/minorities-line-up-behind-donald-trump/#bpuDzk4OcWz6YHsO.99

Cloudy you seem very ill informed.  Living down at the bottom end of the world should no longer pose  information challenges. Try doing some research? All the info is on the net if you choose to investigate.
Beeno providing the facts and some others the blah blah.

Thankfully the Americans are waking up as are the people of Europe and are not as wacky as some here! Bwahahhahahahahaha
I can see I will have to deal severely with my old hatter friend (and failed mole hunter) JW the dark duck who has no appreciation of matters whatsoever.Thankfully I have more time as those two loonies warped DUD and Ab ass (who at least attempted to reason on amatters) are not around! 

Beeno's education classes regarding geopolitics continues. The ignorance is of course appalling for the most part although not sur prisingly Dr Moz has a good grasp of the situation.

Co-founder and chairman of the National Black Republican Association, Frances Rice, wrote on their group’s blog that Donald Trump shares the group’s values. That is why they are giving their votes to the business magnate.

“As citizens who happen to be black, we support Mr. Trump because he shares our values,” Rice wrote. “We are deeply concerned about illegal immigration, a major cause of high black unemployment, especially among black youth.”

Donald Trump has always been vocal about his opinions on certain issues that resonate within the black community. Just recently, he spoke out about the lack of diversity in the Academy’s list of nominees.

However, throughout his campaign, the businessman has become infamous for his unfiltered remarks toward the black community. He was previously criticized for stating that the Black Lives Matter protester, who was assaulted during a Trump campaign rally, should have been roughed up.

He also made pretty harsh comments against women, Hispanics, and press people like Megyn Kelly.

Because of the controversies he’s been involved in, his campaign’s plan to gain support from black religious leaders also failed. Black pastors criticized him for his previous remarks on the black community.

Despite all this, it looks like Donald Trump could outperform Hillary Clinton, as black voters are more likely to choose him over the former secretary of state. Minimizing the Democrats’ edge among African-American voters and other members of the minority is what Trump needs to win the coveted seat in the White House.

Hillary Clinton may be on the verge of a major meltdown in the lead-up to the vital Democratic debate, which could make or break the presidential hopeful’s campaign.

image: http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Hillary-Clintons-Black-Lives-Matter-Meeting-Talked-Police-Militarization-LGBT-Rights-And-Racism-670x388.jpg

The New York Post reports that Clinton’s behavior has been increasingly volatile, aggressive, and violent in recent days. Hillary reportedly berated a low-level campaign worker for making a minor scheduling error, then (in a move that could be classified as employer assault) grabbed the female employee’s arm when she attempted to avoid an escalation by walking away. The New York Post speculates that Clinton’s anger may be stoked by her drop in the polls, which comes on the eve of an important debate that could either secure Hillary’s chance at the candidacy (her second bid for the job after being beaten by Barack Obama in the 2008 run) or relegate her again to the status of observer and former First Lady.

On the subject of Bill Clinton: the Post reports that both the former president (whose impeachment scandal, in the face of his affair with a White House intern, rocked a pre-internet 90s world) and Hillary’s campaign team are living in fear that she will crack at the wrong moment — that is, while a camera is fixed on her. If Hillary were to have a serious meltdown in front of TV cameras — say, due to a comment from an interviewer that hits a nerve, or due to perceived disrespect from her opponent during a critical debate moment — it would make her look unprofessional and certainly unpresidential. Fears are mounting that Hillary Clinton might just crack — her big moment has been a long time coming, and many failures and more than a few humiliations sit heavy in the former First Lady’s psyche. It would only take one big spat, strong word, or teary outburst on screen — or so the Clinton camp believes — and all their work would be for nil. Voters may decide that the long-suffering Hillary (who stood by her husband during his scandal-plagued term and came out of her failed 2008 Democratic bid against Obama with her self-esteem shaken but her head held high) doesn’t have the temperament to be commander in chief.

The Daily Mail reports that both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (who may not run) have risen unexpectedly in the polls in recent days. For her part, Hillary has continued her campaign with a stiff upper lip and a warm presidential smile — it has to be said that she is definitely keeping her nerves and temper under control. No sins of a meltdown, nerves, or rage were discernible during Hillary’s polished recent speech to a Hispanic caucus group, in which she slammed Republican hopeful Donald Trump for suggesting that Latino immigrants are “rapists.”

Frankly so any democrats stand a chance against Trump? They are all PC and totally useless.

I do hope Cloudy is getting a glimmer!

Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro says there are “at least seven” crimes that Hillary Clinton could be charged with as authorities probe her use of a personal email server while serving as secretary of state.

Pirro appeared “Hannity” Thursday night to lay out her case against Clinton, calling for an indictment against the Democratic presidential candidate and for a grand jury to investigate.

Judge Andrew Napolitano said today his "gut" feeling is that the Justice Department will end up bringing charges against Hillary Clinton over private emails that contained classified information.

There are now reportedly more than 300 emails that have been flagged as potentially classified. The number could grow as federal agents continue to go through the trove of documents.

But retired Judge Andrew Napolitano, who is a chief judicial analyst for Fox News, was not so careful with his words, declaring the Clinton probe as a "criminal investigation" and that "the maximum penalty is 20 years" behind bars.

"That depends on how bad of problems this caused?" he said. "How bad were the secrets? Were assets hurt? The presumption is 20 years." 

And the fact that the FBI is involved makes it a criminal investigation, said the retired judge.

"The FBI investigates for potential violations of criminal law and breaches of American national security," Napolitano said. "But given that the top secret, the highest level of classified information we have, was found on a non-government server, you could make the case easily she failed to protect national security secrets in a manner the law required her to protect [them], and that is the same crime the general [David Petraeus] was indicted and prosecuted and convicted [on]."

There is a significant difference between Petraeus and Clinton, though, Napolitano added. In Petraeus' case, it was confidential information that was being shared, but in Hillary's, "it is the highest classification."

Go Trump!!!!!!