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One of our favorite places … Lincoln, NH
Grand daughters are as good as they come and great granddaughters are simply that...great. Meet the first of the new generation, Maeve.
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Ever see an iceberg from top- to-bottom?
This is awesome...
This came from a Rig Manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. Johns, Newfoundland .....
They actually have to divert the path of these things away from the oil rig by towing them with ships!
Anyway, in this particular case the water was calm and the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and click this picture.
They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons.
Pretty Cool, eh. Pass it on. THE TITANIC DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE!!!! Gives a whole new meaning to the Phrase, "Just the tip of the Iceberg".*********
Here’s a wonderful trip thru history in under 15 minutes… Time well spent. Our thanks to our friend George.
Release the FISA Documents
The public deserves to see the full record on the FBI wiretap request.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
The public deserves to see the full record on the FBI wiretap request.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
President Trump Friday refused to declassify the Democratic memo on the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), sending it back for negotiation with the Justice Department over intelligence sources and methods. This intelligence memo feud has become a frustrating political back and forth that needs to be trumped with more transparency.
Mr. Trump claimed in a tweet on Saturday that Democrats laid a trap with their 10-page memo, deliberately adding classified material that they knew “would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency.” That may be true, but it worked. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer quickly sent out a statement, “what is he hiding?”
Our sources say the Democratic memo—six pages longer than the GOP version released a week ago—has three main themes. The first argues for the credibility of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier that the FBI used as the bulk of its justification for a wiretap on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The second is that the FBI had good reason to surveil Mr. Page, and third is that the GOP memo is partisan.
None of this sounds like earth-shattering news since Democrats and their media echo chamber have been saying it for days. But keeping the memo classified plays into the Democratic narrative because the public can’t see the evidence behind their public claims. Let’s see what they’ve got.
The better remedy for these competing claims is to declassify all of the documents that House Intelligence Committee Members and staff used to compile the memos. This includes the full FBI application for a wiretap order from the FISA court—the original application and the three extensions. This would let the public see the full record and judge who is closer to the truth.
The FBI and Justice will claim this compromises intelligence sources and methods, but that’s what they said about the original GOP memo. It did not. They said the same about a letter from Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham concerning Mr. Steele’s credibility. That also didn’t spill any essential secrets, though it did provide crucial information to help the public understand what happened.
Anything that did betray U.S. intelligence-gathering sources could be redacted, though the FBI has to be checked for trying to redact information that is merely embarrassing to the FBI, not damaging to national security.
The questions surrounding the legitimacy of a U.S. presidential election and potential abuse by the FBI are too important to public trust to keep mired in partisan claims based on a hidden public record. If that record vindicates Mr. Trump, as he claims, then he has further incentive to get everything out. Americans can handle the truth, and they deserve to see it.
Actor Stephen Baldwin: Donald Trump Is ‘God’s Chosen Instrument’
By Erin Coates
Stephen Baldwin said that President Donald Trump is “God’s chosen instrument” during an interview with Faithwire on Feb. 2.“What some Christians will say is, ‘we shouldn’t align with Trump, he’s got this horrible background, the rhetoric he uses is terrible, he’s not a good representative’ — so how do you — they’ll say, ‘how could Christians align with him?’ You know, they wouldn’t align with Bill Clinton, how would they align with Trump?” Baldwin said.
The younger brother of Alec Baldwin, who mocks Trump in his impersonations of the president on “Saturday Night Live,” explained that maybe Trump shouldn’t be judged on his past, CNSNews reported.
“I think President Trump is doing wonderful,” he says to host Billy Hallowell. “I think President Trump is getting better. I think he’s not a politician and he’s learning it quickly.”
The actor and Christian evangelist then compares Trump to the Biblical story of Paul, who was once Saul, a man who persecuted Christians.
“But, more important, who was Paul?” Baldwin asked. To which Halloway quietly responded, “He was once Saul.”
Saul was specifically chosen by God to be changed and fulfill God’s will.
“He was a Christian terrorist,” Baldwin said. “It would be like if Bin Laden walked in the room and said, ‘Hey man, I know what you read about me, I’m not that guy anymore.’ That was Saul.”
He continued, “In the story, when he goes blind and then runs into another guy who was called — heard the voice of God — to go meet him. The guy who was supposed to meet him said, ‘Well, there’s only one Saul of Tarsus, Lord, and I’m sure you’re wrong on this one — you don’t want me to go talk to this guy.'”
God then said that Saul, now Paul, was his chosen instrument.
“So, right now, Trump is God’s chosen instrument, whether we like it or not,” Baldwin concluded.
According to CNSNews, Baldwin became a born-again Christian after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The interview conversation then turned to the topic of abortion and people who are pro-choice but say they are Christian.
“The Bible’s very clear,” Baldwin said. “The word never changes. God’s word is very simple and clear, and if you don’t understand it, there’s ways to understand it, through podcasts and teachers and all kinds of things.”
He added, “You can’t be pro-choice and call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. It doesn’t go together. It’s a fact. It’s a simple common-sense fact.”
Dissident life in Cuba has gotten worse, not better, after Obama and Pope’s visit
BY: MAMELA FIALLO
BY: MAMELA FIALLO
After a week of uncertainty, we finally heard from one of the founders of Cuba’s Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarian Movement—recently founded in the eastern province of Camagüey—who was detained by state forces without any notice of his whereabouts.
It so happens that only the Communist Party is legal in Cuba, and therefore all political activity outside the party is banned.
Which is why state security officers forcefully removed Nelson Rodríguez Chartand from his place of residence, only days after being released from a previous arbitrary detention and having his cell phone burned with acid to prevent any communications or data exchange. Without a phone, it was impossible for him to inform anyone about his situation. This time around, his crime was handing out posters with libertarian quotes.
Fellow members of the Libertarian Anarcho-Capitalist movement in Camagüey went to the local detention center to inquire about Rodriguez’s welfare. They were told that he was no longer under arrest but had been banished from the province of Camagüey as long as he intended to continue to carry out any political activities.
The authorities indicated that they would not allow any type of activism. Rodríguez had to stay quiet or leave.
Due to PanAm Post reports of what happened with Rodriguez, the publication was called “subversive” by the security forces during Nelson’s interrogation, and on the days he was arrested.
It is not the first time that accusations of this nature arise. A little more than a month ago, a note appeared on a socialist website that accused PanAm Post of being at war against the Castro regime. Which is not surprising under a regime that abolished press freedom.
In Cuba, publications have to be authorized by the state. The same applies to civil society groups (that is, voluntary associations). For this reason, Rodríguez was accused of creating a counterrevolutionary association.
On the first day of his detention, he was sent to a “technical facility”. On Sunday, he was transferred to a second unit, and on Monday afternoon he was sent by bus– or as they say in Cuba, “guagua”–to the Vivac detention center, which is for prisoners awaiting trial, still in the province of Camagüey. However, local authorities told the activists who requested information about his welfare, that he had already been sent back to Havana.
He went from one place to another without any means of communicating, no way to notify anyone about his well-being, and only reappeared after a week. This is the reality of anyone who opposes the regime in Cuba, to disappear in the middle of the night and remain under surveillance indefinitely.
Rodríguez was eventually deported to Havana, and it was not until recently that he was able to communicate. In addition to not having a telephone–and without the computer that was confiscated by state forces months ago–his Internet access was denied.
Since the government is the only Internet provider, Cubans access the world wide web through the only existing network: “Nauta.” Rodríguez’s user was blocked until further notice, as was the credit he had on it.
Cases like his demonstrate how economic and civil liberties go hand in hand. By not being able to access or offer a service, not having options to choose from, and depending economically on the regime and its ability to offer and enable permits, access to communication and information is enormously limited for individuals.
In a regime like Cuba’s, the monopoly of services allows control, censorship and the denial of the most fundamental civil liberties.
It so happens that only the Communist Party is legal in Cuba, and therefore all political activity outside the party is banned.
Which is why state security officers forcefully removed Nelson Rodríguez Chartand from his place of residence, only days after being released from a previous arbitrary detention and having his cell phone burned with acid to prevent any communications or data exchange. Without a phone, it was impossible for him to inform anyone about his situation. This time around, his crime was handing out posters with libertarian quotes.
Fellow members of the Libertarian Anarcho-Capitalist movement in Camagüey went to the local detention center to inquire about Rodriguez’s welfare. They were told that he was no longer under arrest but had been banished from the province of Camagüey as long as he intended to continue to carry out any political activities.
The authorities indicated that they would not allow any type of activism. Rodríguez had to stay quiet or leave.
Due to PanAm Post reports of what happened with Rodriguez, the publication was called “subversive” by the security forces during Nelson’s interrogation, and on the days he was arrested.
It is not the first time that accusations of this nature arise. A little more than a month ago, a note appeared on a socialist website that accused PanAm Post of being at war against the Castro regime. Which is not surprising under a regime that abolished press freedom.
In Cuba, publications have to be authorized by the state. The same applies to civil society groups (that is, voluntary associations). For this reason, Rodríguez was accused of creating a counterrevolutionary association.
On the first day of his detention, he was sent to a “technical facility”. On Sunday, he was transferred to a second unit, and on Monday afternoon he was sent by bus– or as they say in Cuba, “guagua”–to the Vivac detention center, which is for prisoners awaiting trial, still in the province of Camagüey. However, local authorities told the activists who requested information about his welfare, that he had already been sent back to Havana.
He went from one place to another without any means of communicating, no way to notify anyone about his well-being, and only reappeared after a week. This is the reality of anyone who opposes the regime in Cuba, to disappear in the middle of the night and remain under surveillance indefinitely.
Rodríguez was eventually deported to Havana, and it was not until recently that he was able to communicate. In addition to not having a telephone–and without the computer that was confiscated by state forces months ago–his Internet access was denied.
Since the government is the only Internet provider, Cubans access the world wide web through the only existing network: “Nauta.” Rodríguez’s user was blocked until further notice, as was the credit he had on it.
Cases like his demonstrate how economic and civil liberties go hand in hand. By not being able to access or offer a service, not having options to choose from, and depending economically on the regime and its ability to offer and enable permits, access to communication and information is enormously limited for individuals.
In a regime like Cuba’s, the monopoly of services allows control, censorship and the denial of the most fundamental civil liberties.
Barack Obama Never Expected This Interview Would Be His Downfall
Barack Obama’s role in the biggest scandal of our lifetime is finally coming to light.
Americans are now learning the truth about his involvement in the Trump-Russia investigation.
And this one interview just proved to be his downfall.
When Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI for mishandling classified information, Obama granted an interview to ABC.
It was little noticed at the time, but Obama told two lies during the interview that are now mushrooming into a major scandal.
In the interview, Obama claimed that there was no political influence in any investigation ever conducted by the FBI or Department of Justice and that he never spoke to his FBI Directors.
Charlie Spiering ✔@charliespiering"Full stop. Period." Thanks to Chris Wallace and @FoxNewsSunday we have former president Barack Obama on the record
9:25 AM - Feb 7, 2018
These were both falsehoods.
Everyday, evidence is piling up that proves there was an anti-Trump conspiracy at the highest levels of the FBI.
Text messages show high ranking FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page viewed the Russia investigation as “an insurance policy” against Trump winning.
The FBI under James Comey also knowingly used fake news funded by the Clinton campaign – the Steele dossier – to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
And new text messages from Strzok and Page show Obama was lying when he said he never spoke to his FBI Directors.
Texts between Strzok and Page discuss briefing James Comey on the Russia meddling investigation because Obama wanted to know “everything.”
Did Comey brief Obama on the fake news dossier?
Did he tell the President that it was a work of fake news produced by a foreign spy colluding with Russia with money from Hillary Clinton’s campaign?
This story only continues to get worse.
A special counsel must be appointed to dig into these questions and provide a full and truthful accounting to the American people.
The swamp is drying up.
Dick Morris: Who’s Paying Cody for Trump Dirt Now?
By Dick Morris
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Hillary Clinton’s opposition dirt digger Cody Shearer “has been crisscrossing Eastern Europe for more than six months to secure the purported kompromat from a different Russian, said people familiar with the efforts, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid damaging their relationship with him.
“Reached by phone late last year, Mr. Shearer would say only that his work was ‘a big deal — you know what it is, and you shouldn’t be asking about it.’
He then hung up.
So like unreconstructed Southern rebels who went on fighting the Civil War for decades, the 2016 campaign hasn’t stopped for Cody Shearer.
Nor have his efforts to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.
He’s entitled to dwell in the past as long as he likes, but who is paying him to do so?
Clearly somebody is.
The difference between the 2016 campaign and now is that Donald Trump is now President Trump and, if the CIA or any government agency is paying Cody or anyone else to dig up dirt on the president, it’s called treason.
Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee Chairman (and the only one down there who seems to be awake) should summon Shearer before his committee and pose the question:
Who is paying you to “crisscross Europe” in pursuit of the unholy grail?
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster and consultant. His most recent book, “Rogue Spooks,” was written with his wife, Eileen McGann.
Nunes Goes After The Court
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” there he stated “we’re going to try to ask the court whether or not they will provide the transcripts [of the four court proceedings regarding the surveillance of Carter Page.]”
Nunes stated, “One of the things that we’re going to do this week is we’re going to send a letter to the court. We don’t know if we’ll be successful or not. But we’re going to try to ask the court whether or not they will provide the transcripts of the four proceedings. It would be very interesting if we could get those transcripts to know exactly what was presented verbally to the court and to see if that was transcribed.”
Top White House aides assert Trump's confidence in Kelly
Ben Brody, Bloomberg News - Published in News & Features
WASHINGTON –– White House officials fanned out Sunday with the message that President Donald Trump has confidence in John Kelly, the chief of staff under fire for his handling of allegations that a top aide abused his wives.
"He has full confidence in his current chief of staff," Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said on ABC's "This Week." Conway noted that she spoke with Trump Saturday. "He's not actively searching for replacements," she said.
Kelly, a retired Marine general, knew for some time that two former wives of White House staff secretary Rob Porter had accused him of abuse -- and that the trouble held up a permanent security clearance for one of the most sensitive jobs in the administration.
Kelly also defended Porter, who left the White House on Thursday after the ex-wives' accusations were first reported Tuesday.
Conway said Trump, who in a Saturday post on Twitter decried lives "being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation," had learned of the accusations against Porter only last week. He may not have read underlying reports by the FBI, which investigated Porter's security clearance, or contemporaneous police reports, she said.
Conway also said Kelly had denied to her that he had long known about the accusations, and she said it "would be news" to her if she was under consideration to replace him.
Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Trump "has absolute confidence in John Kelly."
Kelly "will step aside any time the president doesn't want him to be there. But John Kelly has not offered his resignation," Short said. "John Kelly is doing an outstanding job."
He said the president's frequent references to claims of innocence by men accused of sexual misconduct "is shaped by a lot of false accusations against" Trump himself.
More than a dozen women have accused of Trump of groping and other misdeeds. During the 2016 election campaign, a recording emerged of him bragging about grabbing women by the genitals. Trump said it was "locker room talk," rather than something he actually did.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said on "Fox News Sunday" that it was normal for Trump and Kelly to have given Porter the benefit of doubt when he denied the allegations. As soon as Porter was proven to be wrong, Mulvaney said, "he was gone almost immediately."
Mulvaney also dismissed the suggestion that Trump has spoken to him about taking over as chief of staff, and said speculation about Kelly's status is being fed by people unhappy that they lost access to Trump when Kelly took over from Reince Priebus.
"Talk about the chief's departure is much ado about nothing," Mulvaney said. "I don't think it's an issue."
Jeh Johnson, the former secretary of homeland security, said Kelly should keep his job. "As long as Donald Trump is our president, our government is best served if John Kelly is in the job of chief of staff," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Jeh Johnson, the former secretary of homeland security, said Kelly should keep his job. "As long as Donald Trump is our president, our government is best served if John Kelly is in the job of chief of staff," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
The best advice for Kelly is to speak less to the media, Johnson said. "Leon Panetta once said that the chief of staff is someone who should not be the issue. And so I encourage John to hunker down and do his job, fewer public statements."
Obama Official: I Passed Clinton Lies to Steele That Were Used Against Trump
BY MARTIN WALSH
A top State Department official who served under former President Barack Obama’s administration has publicly confirmed that he passed information
from Clinton operatives to ex-British spy Christopher Steele that was ultimately used against Donald Trump.
In an op-ed published Thursday in The Washington Post, Jonathan Winer, former deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, wrote that he had a friendly relationship with Steele, the former British spy who was paid by trhe Washington-based political research firm Fusion GPS to compile the information that became known as the “Trump dossier.”
Steele’s dossier contained numerous salacious accusations about Trump, including one claim that he consorted with Russian prostitutes in Moscow in 2013.
The dossier was full of so many sensational claims and outright lies that the FBI has admitted it cannot verify the information it contains.
But more importantly, Fox News reports former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee retained Fusion GPS through the D.C. law firm of Perkins Coie.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid the law firm a reported $9.6 million. However, it’s unclear how much of the money specifically went toward the dossier.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC reportedly funded the effort until October 2016.
In his post op-ed, Winer wrote that he served in the State Department in the 1990s before leaving for private practice. He met Steele and became friends with him in 2009, developing a working relationship.
In his post op-ed, Winer wrote that he served in the State Department in the 1990s before leaving for private practice. He met Steele and became friends with him in 2009, developing a working relationship.
In 2013, when Winer returned to State Department work, he wrote, he began passing on “more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department” over a two-year span.
Winer wrote that he met with Steele in the summer of 2016 to “review” the information contained in the “Trump dossier” so he could “alert the State Department.”
Winer prepared a two-page summary after reviewing the dossier and shared it with Victoria Nuland, a State Department diplomat specializing in European and Eurasian affairs, through whom he had had funneled Steele’s other reports. She directed him to share it with then-Secretary of State John Kerry.
Here’s where it gets even more disturbing.
Around that same time, Winer said he reconnected with his “old friend” Sidney Blumenthal, a long-time Clinton operative.
He wrote that he and Blumenthal discussed Steele’s reports, and that the Clinton operative gave him notes from a “journalist” he “did not know.”
Winer was referring to Cody Shearer, a longtime Clinton ally who was not a journalist at all, but rather someone deeply connected to doing Clinton’s “dirty work” behind the scenes for years — a man The Weekly Standard described as one of Hillary Clinton’s “sketchiest supporters.”
As noted by Breitbart, Shearer’s “second dossier” contained many of the exact same claims as Steele’s dossier. Winer said it surprised him.
“What struck me was how some of the material echoed Steele’s but appeared to involve different sources,” Winer wrote.
According to ProPublica, Winer served under former President Bill Clinton, Shearer’s brother served as an ambassador under President Clinton, and Shearer’s sister was married to Clinton official Strobe Talbott.
Notice how all of these people involved with the dossier are connected to Clinton? That’s crucial to remember.
Winer wrote that he mentioned Shearer’s dossier to Steele, but he didn’t think it would ever be brought up again. Months later, Winer wrote, he learned that Steele had actually given Shearer’s dossier to the FBI.
It’s important to note that in his op-ed, Winer failed to detail how the Steele’s dossier, which was paired with Shearers, was used by the FBI to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
So information from a dodgy, Clinton-connected source — Shearer — was combined with a dodgy, Clinton-paid-for source — Steele — to make up the information the FBI presented to obtain a spy warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The spy warrant helped kick off the entire Russia investigation.
Clinton’s team likely funded Steele’s dossier, used her operatives to feed information to Steele — via Winer, in this case — and paid Steele for separate information, via Fusion GPS. And it all helped make sure Clinton allies at the State Department and FBI elevated the dossier to launch the entire Russia investigation
If anyone colluded, it was Clinton and her cronies to launch the entire Russia witch hunt against Trump.
Winer probably meant his op-ed as a preemptive defense from questioning by Republicans in Congress, particularly Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. But what he really might have written is an argument for a second special independent counsel to be appointed to investigation would could arguably be the biggest scandal in modern political history.
Democrats Just Realized They Now Have No Leverage Against Trump Over DACA
By Erin Coates
Now that Congress has passed a budget deal to boost defense, increase spending gaps and lift the debt ceiling, Democrats are realizing they no longer can use a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as leverage against President Donald Trump.
The bipartisan spending bill was passed early Friday morning after a brief government shutdown overnight.
The new budget agreement includes $131 billion extra available for non-military spending, according to Reuters, which incorporates $90 billion for disaster aid for U.S. states and territories hit by hurricanes or wildfires last year.
The Democrats who voted against the bill disputed it because it didn’t provide a comprehensive plan for 800,000 illegal immigrants protected under DACA who were brought to the U.S. as children.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., pointed out that the Democrats “now have zero leverage on immigration,” according to the Washington Examiner.
The political party had used three leverage points for immigration in the past — budget caps, the debt ceiling and disaster aid — but those are no longer available after the new spending bill covered all three.
Gutierrez also said that the vote on implementing the new budget agreement next month does not provide much hope in using any form of leverage unless those who voted “yes” turned around and voted against the money being spent in that way.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged Democrats to oppose the new spending bill because it didn’t provide a resolution for thousands of “dreamers”, Politico reported.
Trump has given Congress a deadline of March 5 to pass new legislation for the DACA program.
Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., joined Pelosi’s opposition of the vote, according to the Washington Examiner.
“We have to be realistic, if this passes and there’s no guarantee of a Dream Act vote, then we’re going to have to deal with the reality that we have to find whatever means possible to put pressure on Speaker Ryan and the Republican Party to bring a fair vote on the Dream Act to the floor,” Gallego said before the vote.
Despite the lack of a DACA resolution, 73 Democrats still voted to pass the spending bill.
House Speaker Paul Ryan promised on Thursday that the House “will solve this DACA problem.”
“We still have the most important leverage points, and that’s the humanity of this issue,” Rep. Raul Grijalva said. “Instead of worrying about what legislative angle we have let’s now concentrate on making this a campaign that is both political and zeroed in on Ryan.”
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi added that the March 5 deadline “is coming up really fast.”
“I’m not hearing enough in the way of the president saying we’re going to delay this deadline. He’s leaving that very open, which means he wants to leave them exposed and in jeopardy.”
According to Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, the fate of the DACA recipients lies with the public’s opinion.
“Well, I think we have the moral ‘suasion of the American people,” he said. “I think it’s moral ‘suasion at this point. Speaker said that we’ll move on something, I don’t know what that is.”
RNC Chair Slams Manchin for Ambiguous Stance on Planned Parenthood
BY: Haris Alic
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Wednesday castigated Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) for trying to have the best of both worlds regarding support for Planned Parenthood.
McDaniel tweeted two photos of Manchin that show the senator holding up signs about Planned Parenthood with diametrically opposing messages. The photos were taken only days apart.
"If Joe Manchin can't be honest about where he stands, he doesn't deserve to stand for West Virginians," McDaniel wrote.
Both photos were taken last year. One photo, from April, shows a smiling Manchin meeting with the West Virginia chapter of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and holding a sign that reads, "I Stand With Planned Parenthood."
PP South Atlantic WV✔@PPSATWV
Thank you for standing with Planned Parenthood, @Sen_JoeManchin! #StandWithPP
PP South Atlantic WV✔@PPSATWV
Thank you for standing with Planned Parenthood, @Sen_JoeManchin! #StandWithPP
10:10 AM - Apr 19, 2017Days later, he posed with Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins for the second photo, which also shows a smiling Manchin holding a sign—but this one reads, "We Don't Need Planned Parenthood."
Manchin received a wave of criticism for the two photos at the time. His communications director, Jonathan Kott, released a statement saying that the senator will pose for photos with any constituent and that any signs he holds bear no relation to his policy positions.
McDaniel flagged the photos as Manchin gears up for his reelection campaign this year. The West Virginia Democrat faces a tough fight in a state that President Donald Trump won by 42 percentage points in 2016. Manchin, a former governor, is one of only two Democrats left in statewide office in West Virginia. His position became more lonely after West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who Manchin helped elect, defected from the Democratic Party to become a Republican in August.
Since joining the Senate in 2010, Manchin has walked a tightrope on the issue of abortion, representing a conservative state while being a member of a party that is shifting further to the left, especially on social issues.
Manchin, who identifies himself as pro-life, has voted against Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood for providing abortions. He originally voted to defund the organization in August 2015, after the Center for Medical Progress released secretly-recorded online videos of Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of baby organs. But in March 2017, the senator sided with his party, voting against a measure that would have allowed states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion-providers. The measure ultimately passed, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote.
According to a congressional scorecard put together by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Manchin has a 57 percent rating from the organization for 2018, indicating a mixed record on abortion.
Kott told Axios in May that Manchin's support for Planned Parenthood is "contingent on the Hyde Amendment being law, to ensure public funds don't go to abortions."
McDaniel's criticism came after Pence visited West Virginia last week, when he rebuked Manchin for voting against the recently passed tax reform legislation. Pence also blasted Manchin for other votes on health care, immigration, and Planned Parenthood.
Joe Manchin voted NO to letting hard working families keep more of their hard-earned money. Joe voted NO on TAX CUTS for job creators. #JoeVotedNo
When the time came to repeal & replace the disaster of Obamacare, Joe voted NO. When we empowered West Virginia to defund Planned Parenthood, Joe voted NO. And when it comes to securing our Southern border, Joe said, “I’m not voting for the wall, either.” #JoeVotedNo
This guy's mother really knew what she was doing......she did not raise a pussy !!!
After spotting a group of 15 Muslims setting up for an ambush, Marine Corporal Clifford Wooldridge, (now a Sergeant) with guns blazing, charges across an open field and kills or wounds 8 of them. He then boldly rushes around a corner wall after hearing voices, and comes face to face with 4 more Taliban Muslims within close range and immediately guns down 3 of them.
Now with his 249 SAW machine gun empty, he jumps back behind the wall to reload, then notices the gun barrel of the 4th guy coming around the wall that he is using for cover while reloading. Wooldridge drops his empty SAW, grabs the guy's gun barrel, and proceeds to beat the Allahu Akbar out of the Muslim dirtbag with his own gun, effectively killing him, and earning Corporal Wooldridge the Navy Cross, an award second only to Nation’s highest award, the Medal of Honor .
The United States Marine Corps is the 72 virgins mating service, and will even beat you to death with your own gun to help you meet your imaginary girlfriends. And they’ll gladly do it FOR FREE. It's their pleasure....really!
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