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Mediocre minds can easily learn to play the games necessary to earn a Ph.D, or a J.D.

Most of college now is just reciting back to the professor their particular world view, which make the student brilliant in the professor's eyes. There is no teaching student to think or question things, think outside the box. It is parrots teaching other parrots to parrot.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:

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Mediocre minds can easily learn to play the games necessary to earn a Ph.D, or a J.D.

Most of college now is just reciting back to the professor their particular world view, which make the student brilliant in the professor's eyes. There is no teaching student to think or question things, think outside the box. It is parrots teaching other parrots to parrot.

I think it depends on the major. Graduate from a good college with a degree in electrical engineering, medical degree, computer science etc, you have to know your stuff.

Back on topic, please. This is a 300 page thread.

Democrats plan to tie impeachment to Russia

https://www.washingtonexaminer...mpeachment-to-russia



House Democrats plan to wrap their two-and-a-half year quest to impeach President Trump in a big Russian bow.

For weeks, Democrats have held closed-door and public hearings about the president's efforts to get Ukrainian government officials to investigate corruption and election interference allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

But they have not forgotten Russia, which was the centerpiece of an impeachment effort that practically began when Trump entered the White House in 2017.

While a two-year investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller failed to produce evidence Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians, Democrats have resuscitated the allegations to impeach him.

"This isn't about Ukraine," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after announcing on Dec. 5 that Democrats will draft impeachment articles. "This is about Russia."

Pelosi's declaration comes after Democrats had all but abandoned a Trump-Russia impeachment effort following the release of the April 2019 findings of the Mueller report.

While Republicans said the report cleared the Trump campaign of directly coordinating with the Russians in 2016, Democrats seized on Mueller's determination that "the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."

Democrats toyed with the idea of going after Trump for the 10 possible instances of obstruction in the Mueller report, but the effort began losing steam last summer and was abandoned entirely once the news media reported on an anonymous whistleblower complaint about Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Democrats quickly dropped Russia and shifted their entire effort to Trump's decision to block Ukraine from getting $391 million in security aid, which they said was meant to coerce Zelensky into a public pledge to investigate Biden and the Democrats.

But Pelosi didn't mention Zelensky the day she announced the House would draft articles to impeach the president.

"All roads lead to Putin," she told reporters. "Understand that." Pelosi said the evidence Democrats produced after weeks of depositions and hearings about Ukraine reveals Trump's allegiance to Russia, who she said is again colluding with the president to undermine a U.S. election, just like in 2016.

Ukraine, Pelosi said, was denied critical security aid desperately needed to fend off Russian aggression.

"Who benefits by our withholding that military assistance?" Pelosi said last week. "Russia. It's about Russia. Russia is invading Eastern Ukraine."

The House Judiciary Committee hasn't made public which articles they'll draft. Democrats have suggested they'll vote to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, among other articles.

Pelosi declined to say whether impeachment articles will include the House investigation into Russian collusion but said Democrats "are comfortable with all the time that has gone into this, the two-and-a-half years since the appointment of Mueller and all that."

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, said Russian collusion is a flimsy allegation on which to base impeaching Trump. The president has irked Russia by providing three installments of security aid to Ukraine, including the $391 million that was eventually released to the Ukrainian government after a 55-day delay.

"This is a real reach on the part of Pelosi," Carpenter said. "If you look at the substance of his policies regarding Ukraine and Russia, they are surprisingly hard line. The notion of Trump doing Russia's bidding is just without substance. It's a fantasy."

Impeachment is the perfect opportunity for Trump and the GOP to lay out all the evidence against Ukraine and Joe Biden

https://www.washingtonexaminer...kraine-and-joe-biden



What a great opportunity Nancy Pelosi just handed to President Trump and Senate Republicans!

Now the country can finally find out what the national media have been so desperately trying to hide.

The House speaker announced Thursday morning that Democrats were moving forward with the impeachment effort by drafting up formal charges against the president. In other words, we’re now getting to the part where we can actually find out why Trump did what he did in that midsummer phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

It's taken for granted that Senate Republicans simply won't convict Trump out of party loyalty. But they can make their decision about so much more than that.

The New York Times on Wednesday reported disapprovingly on Rudy Giuliani’s continued efforts in Ukraine to find evidence that the country interfered in the 2016 election and that Joe Biden, along with his middle-aged son Hunter, were corrupt in their own dealings in Ukraine.

“Even as Democrats intensified their scrutiny this week of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s role in the pressure campaign against the Ukrainian government that is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry,” the report said, “Mr. Giuliani has been in Europe continuing his efforts to shift the focus to purported wrongdoing by President Trump’s political rivals.”

Wow, he was doing that even as Democrats intensified their scrutiny?! What a shock.

The media have been denying the clear evidence for months, dismissing Ukraine’s 2016 election meddling as a “conspiracy theory” and accusing anyone who so much as publicly questions their narrative of participating in a “Russian disinformation campaign.”

With regard to the Bidens, journalists and cable news hosts will only allow that maybe there was an “appearance” of impropriety when Joe Biden, as vice president, demanded Ukraine fire a state prosecutor who had been investigating a shady energy company that was paying Biden’s son Hunter for — well, we still don’t know what. But that’s where the story always ends, and the media loses its curiosity. Instead of asking further questions or gathering facts, we are told from there on that there's just no evidence of any wrongdoing by the Bidens, and that questions about it are “baseless.”

This is like a homeless man mumbling on the sidewalk about the $1 million he has in the bank. Just because he says it over and over again and believes it to be true doesn’t make it so.

Ukraine’s interference in the 2016 election for the purpose of harming Trump’s campaign is not a conspiracy theory. It happened. The New York Times broke the story in 2016 that an entire Ukrainian government agency was investigating Paul Manafort, who at the time was serving as Trump's campaign chairman.

Back then, the paper reported that Ukraine’s "newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau," which worked in conjunction with America's FBI, was in possession of a mysterious, handwritten diary that showed Manafort was receiving millions of dollars in payments from one of the country's pro-Russian politicians. "Investigators assert," the Times reported, "that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials."

I’m sure all of that was by coincidence that Ukraine’s most consequential government agency suddenly came into possession of evidence against the head of a major-party U.S. presidential campaign. It was purely a matter of fate that that government agency then went to America’s most important paper to share the details. Surely none of that was a form of retaliation against Trump, who had been saying positive things about Russia, which remains actively engaged in a years-long war with Ukraine.

Yeah, I don’t buy that it's a coincidence, and no one else should, either.

The Times has never said how it got that major scoop or how it learned about the diary, often referred to as “the black ledger.” But in the Times report from Wednesday, the paper did dispute a claim by a conservative reporter that it received the diary from a Democratic operative who was working with Ukrainians in 2016 to push out damaging information on the Trump campaign.

The official story — which is laughable — is that the ledger was found by an unknown source in the ashes of a burned-down building. Okay, stipulate for a moment that one of the few things to survive a raging fire is a bunch of paper bound together in a book. Right. So, then, how did the Times happen upon it?

A spokeswoman for the paper didn’t return an email from me on Thursday asking about it.

The questions about the Bidens aren’t baseless, and there is certainly evidence that there was something corrupt about their connection to Burisma, the seedy Ukrainian energy company.

To its immense credit, the Washington Post gave the situation a gander at least once, reporting in late September:
When he joined, Burisma officials said Biden would oversee its legal affairs. But he did not end up in that role. He said in a statement to The Post that he joined the board “to help reform Burisma’s practices of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility” but did not provide examples of his work.

Hunter’s decision entangled him in a country that Transparency International had ranked among the world’s most corrupt, a place where business executives have co-opted prosecutors and manipulated the courts to enhance their financial interests.

While this was going on, Joe Biden, as vice president, was the lead on U.S.-Ukraine relations and he has since bragged about pressuring the government to fire a prosecutor, lest the Obama administration withhold foreign aid the country. (I think there’s a word for that.) That prosecutor was supposedly suspected of corruption but he also happened to be investigating Burisma and he has told the Post that he believes he was fired because of his probe into the energy company.

This is all supposed to amount to “baseless” questions about Biden. They’re not baseless. They very much have a base.

Now that impeachment is about to move to the Senate, Republicans and the White House have the perfect chance to lay it all out for everyone to see for themselves what the media have been refusing to show them.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/s...ce-state-11575506091

Schiff’s Surveillance State

The Democrat demands, and then discloses, the call logs of his opponents.

Adam Schiff’s 300-page House Intelligence impeachment report doesn’t include much new about Mr. Trump’s Ukrainian interventions. But it does disclose details of telephone calls between ranking Intelligence Republican Devin Nunes, Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, reporter John Solomon, former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, the White House, and others.

The details are “metadata” about the numbers and length of the calls, not the content .

The Democrat’s motive appears to be an attempt to portray Mr. Nunes, a presidential defender and Mr. Schiff’s leading antagonist in Congress, as part of a conspiracy to commit impeachable offenses.

This is unprecedented and looks like an abuse of government surveillance authority for partisan gain. Democrats were caught using the Steele dossier to coax the FBI into snooping on the 2016 Trump campaign. Now we have elected members of Congress using secret subpoenas to obtain, and then release to the public, the call records of political opponents.

Our sources says Mr. Schiff issued a subpoena in September to AT&T, demanding call logs for five numbers—including Mr. Giuliani’s

Subsequent subpoenas to AT&T and Verizon demanded more details. Republicans were told of the subpoenas, yet under rules of committee secrecy couldn’t raise public objections.

the companies appear to have handed over metadata based on little more than Mr. Schiff’s say-so—and in AT&T’s case in response to a request that was made before the House began a formal impeachment inquiry.

AT&T released a statement Wednesday saying it is “required by law to provide information to government and law enforcement agencies.” But AT&T can question the validity of subpoenas in court—and had grounds to do so given the highly political nature of these requests. Then again, maybe it felt it had no choice. We’ll leave it to legal experts to decide whether a powerful Congressman’s demands of a highly regulated company are extortion.

Mr. Schiff’s metadata disclosures hardly bear on his impeachment case. Mr. Giuliani had broadcast to the world that he wanted Ukraine to investigate Hunter and Joe Biden, but he is also Mr. Trump’s personal attorney. Does Mr. Schiff have a legal opinion saying he could ignore attorney-client privilege? Mr. Schiff published a select log of Mr. Giuliani’s calls, but he presumably has a record of everyone Mr. Giuliani spoke to for months

Mr. Schiff’s accusations against Mr. Nunes are even more suspect. The Democrat doesn’t know the content of Mr. Nunes’s conversations, and the Republican says he believes his spring talks with Mr. Giuliani related to the Mueller report. Mr. Nunes can speak to whomever he likes, and Mr. Schiff has no authority to investigate fellow Members. Since Mr. Schiff is going to release the call logs of Republicans, can we see the logs of his calls with the impeachment press—and, by the way, with any whistleblowers?

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-impeachment-report/

Schiff’s 300-page impeachment report alleged that Giuliani was in contact with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which placed a temporary hold on U.S. aid to Ukraine, as part of an alleged scheme to pressure Ukraine to investigate 2016 election interference as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Several calls in the logs reprinted in the report are described as being between Giuliani and the OMB. However, the White House said Thursday, Schiff has the wrong number: no one ever called Giuliani from OMB, or vice versa.

Apparently Schiff and his staff believe the 395 prefix that showed up on the phone records subpoenaed by House Democrats from AT&T and Verizon belongs only to phones in the OMB offices, something that Republican sources say isn’t accurate.

“This is yet another attempt to use deceit and media manipulation to attempt to undo the results of the last election and interfere in the next one,” a senior White House aide told RCP. “The number House Democrats are claiming is an OMB number is nothing more than a masking number that appears when White House staff dial out from the complex,” the White House aide added.

Congressional Republicans familiar with the record collection in the report are also deeply skeptical about this being a valid number registered to OMB. one member of Congress in regular contact with the president told RCP. “It is like the (202)226-9898 number from all congressional offices.”

Effectively, Schiff appears to have used congressional subpoena power to spy on the phone calls of a member of Congress, a journalist, and the president’s lawyer in making claims that are unproven and, at least in part, untrue.

Pelosi Asks House Judiciary Chairman to Draft Articles of Impeachment.
Trump calls impeachment a ‘hoax,’ says he isn’t worried; White House slams Pelosi for ignoring the needs of the people for political gain

IVAN PENTCHOUKOV, THE EPOCH TIMES > https://reader.epoch.cloud/?to...a55&selDate=20191206

> https://www.theepochtimes.com/...achment_3165869.html
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"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Dec. 5 asked House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

Pelosi, who accused the president of abusing his power for personal political gain, announced her request in a brief statement to the press."

“Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment,” Pelosi said.

........... "In a closed-door meeting with House Democrats on the day prior to the announcement, Pelosi asked, “Are you ready?” According to those in the room, the answer was a resounding “yes.” Pelosi made the announcement two days after Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released and approved a report summarizing the findings from weeks of impeachment hearings. The 300page report document contains no firsthand evidence showing that Trump directed anyone to carry out the scheme that’s alleged by the Democrats.

An hour prior to Pelosi’s announcement, Trump urged the Democrats to move forward with impeachment quickly so he can have a fair trial in the Senate."
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"During the closed-door meeting with Pelosi, the Democrats delivered a standing ovation to Rep. Adam Schiff, who has led the impeachment proceedings as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee."
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Nancy, your faux "heavy heart" performance was entertaining but we all know what you and the deep state and the fake media are all about. The American people will return your favors in November, 2020.
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I suggest reading the entire article. Some good documentation of the day, with notable quotes from President Trump.

Inspector General Ramps Up Investigations of FBI Employees
BY PETR SVAB, THE EPOCH TIMES > https://www.theepochtimes.com/...ployees_3166676.html

December 5, 2019 Updated: December 5, 2019
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........"Horowitz is expected to release on Dec. 9 his review of FBI actions to obtain a spying warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page and the counterintelligence probe into several associates of Donald Trump. The warrant was in large part based on the Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated claims about collusion between Russia and the campaign of then-candidate Trump.".............

Both sides have reason to want speedy Trump impeachment trial
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 12/06/19 06:00 AM EST
THE HILL> https://thehill.com/homenews/s...mp-impeachment-trial
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"GOP senators say they want to give Trump ample time to present his defense and call witnesses, if necessary, but they would prefer to avoid burning up too much floor time and risking the awkward possibility of an impeachment trial overlapping with next year’s State of the Union address.

Some Senate Democrats worry about voters suffering from impeachment fatigue and the trial butting up against the Iowa caucuses. Senators are expected to attend the trial, and that would keep the chamber’s presidential candidates off the campaign trail.".....
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Turley: Democrats offering passion over proof in Trump impeachment
BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 12/05/19 11:00 AM EST
THE HILL > https://thehill.com/opinion/ju...in-trump-impeachment
https://thehill.com/opinion/ju...in-trump-impeachment
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"The most dangerous place for an academic is often between the House and the impeachment of an American president. I knew that going into the first hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on the impeachment of Donald Trump. After all, Alexander Hamilton that impeachment would often occur in an environment of “agitated passions.” Yet I remained a tad naive in hoping that an academic discussion on the history and standards of it might offer a brief hiatus from hateful rhetoric on both sides.

In my testimony Wednesday, I lamented that, as in the impeachment of President Clinton from 1998 to 1999, there is an intense “rancor and rage” and “stifling intolerance” that blinds people to opposing views. My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee. Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University for arguing that, while a case for impeachment can be made, it has not been made on this record.".....
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Jonathan Turley is the chair of public interest law at George Washington University and served as the last lead counsel in a Senate impeachment trial. He testified as a Republican witness in House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Trump impeachment inquiry. Follow him @JonathanTurley.

Drain the Swamp in the 2020 Election.

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Nancy, your faux "heavy heart" performance was entertaining but we all know what you and the deep state and the fake media are all about. The American people will return your favors in November, 2020.
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All votes City, State, National in 2020 Drain the Swamp
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Economy adds 266K jobs in November, blowing past expectations
BY SYLVAN LANE - 12/06/19 08:33 AM EST

THE HILL > https://thehill.com/policy/fin...r-jobs?userid=392361

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THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT

Democrats will have egg all over their face today. And.... the Stock Market will go to the moon!

My Note to The President Today:
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Economy adds 266K jobs in November, blowing past expectations
BY SYLVAN LANE - 12/06/19 08:33 AM EST

THE HILL > https://thehill.com/policy/fin...r-jobs?userid=392361

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THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT

Democrats will have egg all over their face today. And.... the Stock Market will go to the moon!

Keep up the excellent work, Sir.
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Today's Job Report was truly sensational - definitely deserving a note of thanks to DJT.
To send a message to President Trump
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

^^^^^
RAMIUS, You made my day!

What was her name? I have forgotten already - imagine that.

HighZonie, stop spamming this thread!!

Damn, man. Use your head.

Sorry boss.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:

Your Worst Nightmare

Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan – the Democrats’ “constitutional expert” in the Judiciary Committee hearings – launched into a scathing tirade against white people in a 2006 speech to the American Constitution Society.

“We have to seize back the high ground on patriotism and on love of our country, because we have more reason than they do to love America,” she told a fawning, liberal audience.

“The rich, pampered, prodigal, sanctimonious, incurious, white, straight sons of the powerful do pretty well everywhere in the world, and they always have.

“But what about us? Snarky, bisexual, Jewish women who want the freedom to say what we think, read what we want, and love who we do.”

video at

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...st-all-cred-n2557497

a little biased maybe ? or just plain mentally unbalanced?

Who knew there was such deep oppression against snarky, bisexual, Jewish women? Which country is she talking about?