Bluey's Dad

This is my personal favourite. Insulting to both parties: My favourite bit is the tiny hands though.

Apologies to Wrecker, I can't be bothered finding a Hillary one to even it out according to the proposed meme-banking system.

Holy [censored]. http://www.theage.com.au/world/extrump-nsa-michael-flynn-offers-to-testify-before-congress-in-exchange-for-immunity-20170331-gvaqem.html Washington: Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by House and Senate investigators who are examining the Trump campaign's ties to Russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution, according to his lawyer and a congressional official.

lol I have no idea. Someone mentioned it to me in the context of battery potential and I remembered it when you asked a similar question just before. This is the fullest extent of my knowledge on it.

Molten Salt from memory has the potential. I remember a mate telling me about it a while back, haven't examined it in detail myself.

Paxman's disposal of the ball overall was better than Daisy's, it doesn't surprise me that she scored higher overall for the Best and Fairest. She also provided fantastic rebounds and run from half-back. She's a gun.

lol ok Wrecker, here ya go, a Hillary funny for you: Now that I have exactly 1 credit in the Wrecker bank, here's my Trump funny:

It's called Google Home now - assuming your on android. If you're on apple I have no idea. Run Google Home, select cast screen/audio. Then run the AFL app and play the stream. Works for me.

lol, now the Trump Administration tried to block Sally Yates (remember she was the one who caught out Flynn's lie about communicating with Russians) from testifying at the Russia/Trump Campaign link investigative committee. I wonder why they don't want her testifying... "Yates and Brennan had made clear to government officials by Thursday that their testimony to the committee would probably contradict some statements that White House officials had made, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity." Source

Amazing isn't it?

- GOP had 7 years to construct a viable alternative. They have about 2 years until they get the inevitable electoral blowback in the congressional elections where they are unlikely to retain the balance of power. This is what happened to Obama. Obama passed the ACA when he was 1 vote short of a super-majority in his first year. 2 years into his presidency the republicans took back congress and he would have been unable to pass it. This is what will happen with the repeal. If the GOP doesn't repeal and replace within the first 2 years, the voters will swing and the Democrats will take congress. There is sufficient indication that this will happen looking at Trump's abysmal approval ratings. - He sure did - it's still on his own website! The fact that you don't know this indicates to me that you're looking at him through very rose coloured glasses. - He proposes tariffs and taxes on goods sold in America, purchased by Americans. This means Americans pay the additional tariffs and taxes, not Mexico. Mexico also said that they simply won't pay for it if Trump tries to leverage their trade deficit - so if Trump builds it with American money as you say, there will be no reimbursement. - Meh, fine, agree to disagree. I see him and his appointees as just as corrupt (or more so) as those he has attempted to replace. I have posted at least twice on his Mar-a-lago rort but no Trump supporter has defended or even engaged the point. The man literally uses taxpayer dollars to pay himself to play golf. It's astonishing. - It was indeed a stupid campaign promise - but he said it, it is measurable (unlike the swamp above) and he has failed. He won votes based on this statement and has not delivered. This will contribute the the electoral blowback I wrote of above, effectively putting a clock on his ability to pass significant pieces of legislation like Trumpcare. How is an electorate suppose to distinguish between a 'stupid' promise and one he's supposed to fulfil? We've seen stories of people who voted for him who thought the wall was a stupid idea and would never happen, but here he is pushing on with it. We have to take all promises as things he intends on delivering. He has failed to defeat ISIS in 30 days. He said he was smarter than all the generals, this is clearly not the case.

sigh, the server again. You know the server isn't an issue right? Bannon, Spicer, Conway and Kushner all use one. The issue is if it's used for government purposes and emails relevant to those purposes aren't then forwarded to the government. No one gave a crap when the Bush administration was sued for deleting 22 million emails from their private server. Trump's just changed the optics of it, he's made out like having a private server is unorthodox - it isn't. Don't get sucked in mate. Clinton may have had some dodgy dealings, but the mere presence of a private email server and subsequent deletion of emails isn't a smoking gun.

Well that's... disturbing.

But it looks like it's almost entirely allocated to HIV and AIDS programs? Did the Clintons then take some of the Clinton Foundation money and spend it on the wedding?

Couldn't even repeal the ACA - because he couldn't get his own party to agree on it. Withdrew the bill just before it was set to be introduced to congress so he wouldn't have to suffer the defeat. For a guy who platformed based on his ability to negotiate and 'win', he hasn't been doing much of either. The Republicans will probably now just de-fund the ACA through budget and funding bills and then accuse the Act itself of being untenable. Probably the worst of all outcomes. All the while he charges the American taxpayer to stay at his own resort every weekend, directly profiting from his political position. He wanted to 'drain the swamp', yet this act on its own is as patently corrupt as anything done by those he campaigned to supplant. If I was an American I'd be very very angry. If I was a Trump voter, I'd be mega-[censored]: - Said he'd replace the ACA, failed (unable to negotiate with his own party). - Said he'd ban Muslim migration, failed (stayed by 2 different courts). - Said he'd make Mexico pay for the wall, untrue (his own proposed budget shows Americans paying for it). - Said he'd 'drain the swamp', but his cabinet picks are just as conflicted, plus Mar-a-lago issue above - Said he'd take down ISIS in 30 days (lol) And all the while he tweets like a thin-skinned baby when he feels like he's been insulted (inauguration numbers anyone?)

Might become relevant if Chelsea runs. Lets hope that doesn't happen, but it's not like the Democrats are overflowing with talent right now.

We can only hope. I suspect that a few years ago this model wouldn't have worked, but now there might be a critical mass of people with an appetite for this sort of reporting. I agree that Trump is trying to break down a corrupt political system - but his own actions (see charging the American tax payer to stay at his own resort) indicate to me that he's not going to be replacing it with anything better. His 'draining of the swamp' seems to me to be a draining of the political elite and replacement with the financial elite - his cabinet appointments have been an absolute joke.

Yep. And society as a whole is worse off. No one is blameless here. Trump distorts the truth. The media distorts the truth. We keep buying newspapers. I worry for the world our kids will inherit.

lol, the Donald who cried wolf eh? Sad!

Oldest team v newest team. Has a kind of symmetry to it. I like it.

1) Correct - and it's extremely disappointing that the DNC acted in such a corrupt manner. 2) We don't know of course, but like you I think that's likely 3) NFI. I've heard some theories so far (not mine, but have read these): a) The ability as a foreign power to influence an election to this magnitude weakens American Democracy as a whole, to the comparative benefit of Russia. b) They have something on him and feel they can control him, or, they feel they have a better chance of manipulating him given his extreme lack of political experience. c) He has business links that are not public (remember he and many of his cabinet appointees have not disclosed conflicts of interest) that benefit them both with him as POTUS. I lean towards this one, given that he flies to his resort every weekend and recently raised room prices there. This means every time he goes, the American taxpayer pays for his accommodation and that of the secret service. Who do they pay? Why, the owner of the resort of course! I wonder who that is! It's disgusting. Given he's ok with this, I wouldn't be surprised if he has Russian business ties.

Agreed. This is a massive issue. As you say, Comey is probably the best we have. All we can do is look at his actual quotes and interviews when this all comes out and ignore the surrounding [censored] of deflections.

It would be a massive scandal if he was tapped without probable cause. I personally think it's more likely he wasn't tapped at all, or that he only thinks he was because he saw it on Fox News. There's not much we can do except hope the truth actually comes out.

The whole "Obama wire-tapped me" thing by Trump doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If he was tapped, it means whoever requested the tap had probable cause and had to present that to a judge to authorise the monitoring. If this is the case, Trump wouldn't want that probable cause to be made public. If he was not tapped, it means he's just flat out made stuff up. This is probably not much of an issue to him though as his constituents don't seem to care when he makes things up. No one's held him to account on his accusations of 3 million fraudulent voters. I'm not sure the US electorate cares. Of greater concern to me is the ongoing investigation of Trump campaign members' links to Russia and their subsequent influence on the election. Comey said today (or yesterday I think) that the FBI are investigating those links, but there is no evidence yet of collusion. What we know already about Flynn, Sessions and Manafort however ads to the bad smell emanating from the campaign. All the information the public has right now is circumstantial, with many facts still classified as part of the investigation. We still don't know if Flynn will be prosecuted for a possible violation of the Logan act.

I agree that the heat is disproportionate. The club itself was not banned, as would be the case in other 'team' doping convictions. The club still hasn't actually been punished by the AFL for the doping charges, only the initial 'disrepute/admin' stuff. The players lied on their disclosure forms. They knew - but they cop very little heat.