The campaign representative on the Sunday Talk Circuit today was Rudy Giuliani who appeared on CNN (Tapper), Fox News (Wallace), and NBC (Todd):
CNN

(more…)

Sometimes there are events that just create a weird spidey sense.  Here’s a few oddly disconnected things that might possibly have an intersection in the 2016 election:

FIRST:
Remember that odd character that showed up to a 2015 Donald Trump town hall event in New Hampshire that asked a seemingly weird and awkward question?
The guy pictured at left asked Donald Trump about deporting Muslims, about terrorist training camps in the U.S., and about President Obama being Muslim.
The entire thing just seemed like a set up at the time because of the way it was framed, and the media instantaneously jumping at the opportunity to hit Trump for not defending Obama strongly enough.
The media ran with the odd guy story for a few days, and what really made it suspicious was how the guy immediately left the building and the media’s seemed indifference to locate him etc.   It all just seemed rather odd at the time.
Well, check this out.
(more…)

First things first – Is everyone OK? If any Treeper is in need of aid or assistance please use the comment section below and we will do our earnest best to find a way to assist.  Also, please make sure you reach out and touch base with any friends or family you may have in the region, just to be sure. 
Thankfully, this looming storm was not as bad as it could have been.  However, that perspective provides little solace if you are one of those who are trying to pick up the pieces of your life in the aftermath.  If you are in that position, you are not alone.  Do not be shy in reaching out for help….

As of 2 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Sunday, the storm was about 50 miles (80 km) east of Morehead City, North Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. The center of the storm was set to move near or south of the North Carolina coast early on Sunday and east of the state later in the day as it weakens.
Matthew, which topped out as a ferocious Category 5 storm days before and killed at least 877 people in Haiti, has now been downgraded to Category 1.
(more…)

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

A few days ago we were relating an analogy of Boston circa 1774 to the current political insurgency movement supported by candidate Donald Trump.  At the time of that writing we certainly did not expect to see evidence so quickly of support for such a framework.
Yet, here we are.

A stunning moment occurs outside a building in New York City belonging to, and representative of, a single political force that strikes fear into the well constructed political corruption surrounding our modern body politic.
Yes, here they are, assembled – and no one had to call them together.  The authentic Modern Sons and Daughters of Liberty, in all their deplorable, vulgarian and oh-so-American glory just knew what to do.
Quite remarkable.  Completely authentic.
It is almost as if the voices of our liberty founding were calling us back to assemble outside a Boston tavern…
(more…)

Rebekah and Robert Mercer reply:
…“If Mr. Trump had told Billy Bush, whoever that is, earlier this year that he was for open borders, open trade, and executive actions in pursuit of gun control, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him.
If he had admitted to Mr. Bush that he had profited privately by allowing the sale to Russia of 20% of US uranium deposits or that he had amassed his personal fortune not by hard work in the private sector but by selling favors to foreigners on the American taxpayers’ dime, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him.
If he had argued that he needed both a public and a private position on issues facing the American public, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him. And finally if Trump had serially terrorized and silenced the victims of violent sexual assault whom he feared could damage his political career, we would most definitely be rethinking our support for him.
(more…)

Forgive me, but personally I’m getting a big kick out of many people who are seeing for the first time just how corrupt the GOPe is.

The GOPe/Bush wing of the UniParty is just as nasty and vitriolic as the DEMe/Clinton UniParty wing.  However, for more than a decade each time we pointed this out, people argued such an equivalence was incorrect.
It is not a flawed perspective,  It is entirely accurate; and today we are all seeing it play out in public.
(more…)

Last evening in response to the carefully designed controversy constructed by the Clinton/Bush campaign, Donald Trump released the following statement:

I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me, know these words don’t reflect who I am.
I said it, it was wrong, and I apologize.

(more…)

Made a promise to watch out for a family near central Florida without Dad home.  Tree came down and blocked their house exit so me and the boys took a pre-loaded truck, tools and headed out late last night to assist.
Worked chainsaws with shop lights and generators all night to clear 3 houses, then four, then five… well, you get the picture; and make sure all is ok. All is good.
Trees cleared, stacked, everyone safe.  Roofs check, all ok. Promise fulfilled.
While we worked through night, several moms, kids and a bunch of neighbors -super nice peeps- made boxes of sandwiches for relief workers etc… seemed like a party.  God, how we all love this country.
Daybreak, packed up and headed to into FP&L staging area where they were waiting to hook up with line crews from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia prepping to head north along FL, GA and SC coast.  We gave the scruffs the styro-coolers of food, sandwiches, snacks and drinks to pass out along the way.  More awesome people.
(more…)