Random Politics & Religion #00

Like 99% of the partisan articles posted here.

Well, I haven't seen an article without partisan bias in forever, so it's all the same.

Carly Fiorina has been excluded from Saturday's Republican debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, ABC News announced on Thursday.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO has lagged her GOP rivals in national and state-level polls, but she complained in an open letter to the Republican National Committee on Wednesday that the debate process is "broken" and urged the RNC to intervene on her behalf.

“Networks are making up these debate rules as they go along — not to be able to fit candidates on the stage — but arbitrarily to decide which candidates make for the best TV in their opinion," she wrote. "Now it is time for the RNC to act in the best interest of the Party that it represents.”
ABC News will not hold an undercard debate for the bottom tier of the winnowing field. Qualifications for the main debate stage included ranking among the top three in the Iowa caucuses, top six in New Hampshire polls or top six nationally.

With Fiorina excluded, the lineup for Saturday's debate includes: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump.

Looks like the A-10's stellar performance against ISIS has earned it another 3 years of service

#armedwhitelivesmater

Altima, Finicum got what was coming to'im, and you know it.

first bad move. Second bad move was trying to force his way through a police roadblock. Third bad move was making a series of sudden moves in an attempt to draw his gun. Fourth bad move was not listening to and OBEYING police officers' orders.

I know it's hard for you to understand, but if you present yourself as a threat to the police, you are asking to either be tasered or killed, especially if the officers in question are already sick of your ***.

Fiorina has been nearly last place in the polls. Her closest competitor was Rand Paul who dropped out.

Why does she deserve to be on stage again?? If you can barely break 5% in the polls you're already treading water.

Ideally, the best way to silence Carliar Fiorina would be to try her in Colorado as an accessory to murder as part of Robert Lewis Dear's trial.

Carson

PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of house searches since November's Islamist attacks in Paris have helped foil another terrorist plot, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday as his government sought to extend emergency rule.
"The terrorist threat is here, and here to last," Valls told the National Assembly, where the government is asking lawmakers to extend the state of emergency to the end of May and amend the Constitution so people convicted on terror charges can be stripped of their citizenship.

The A-10 is a Beast! They just need to make a new upgraded model and call it a day.

How much does Lindsey Graham dislike Ted Cruz? Count the ways.

On the question of foreign policy, the Texas senator is "just as wrong as Obama, if not worse," Graham told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday.

"In Ted Cruz's world, dictators do very well," he continued, comparing his colleague's foreign policy to that of Ron Paul, the former congressman, Republican presidential candidate and long-time leading libertarian.

Asked why his fellow senators are reputed to have such a distaste for Cruz, Graham accused the winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses of being an "opportunist" to his core -- one who "gets ahead at our expense" and will "run down other Republicans" to advance his own ambitions.

Not that Graham -- who has endorsed Jeb Bush -- is warming to Donald Trump, whose foreign policy prescriptions he described as "gibberish."

"I don't know if anybody's worse than Trump," Graham told Blitzer, rolling out a familiar burn: "If you're a Republican and your choice is Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in a general election," he said, "it's the difference between poisoned or shot -- you're still dead."

What about a potential independent run by Michael Bloomberg?

Graham rejected the billionaire former New York City mayor -- who is considering a third-party run for president -- out of hand.

"I'm gonna support the Republican nominee," Graham said, and if it's Trump or Cruz, "I'm gonna buy a ticket on the Titanic."

Asked who, of the three highest-finishing GOP candidates in Iowa, he preferred, Graham chose Marco Rubio.

"Marco," he said, "has a worldview consistent with reason and reality versus the other two."

"I don't know if anybody's worse than Trump," Graham told Blitzer, rolling out a familiar burn: "If you're a Republican and your choice is Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in a general election," he said, "it's the difference between poisoned or shot -- you're still dead."

Fighting ISIS is more important than fighting Assad. (Oct 2015)
US should not engage in nation building in Afghanistan. (Oct 2015)
Don't let world courts bind American sovereignty. (Sep 2015)
Cuba is oppressive but never misses chance to propagandize. (Oct 2014)
Vigorous sanctions against Putin; help eastern Ukraine. (Jul 2014)
America is indispensable; our allies need our leadership. (Jun 2014)
Sanctions on Putin for Ukraine: tyrants respond to weakness. (Mar 2014)
US has a responsibility to defend our values abroad. (Mar 2014)

Fiorina also had numerous chances to backpedal on her claims concerning a certain set of hoax videos, but didn't. Hence why she should be standing trial right next to Robert Lewis Dear, who cited her rhetoric for his mass murder.