Deplorable

In fairness to Arkansas fans this was after a loss to Toledo. If my team lost to a MAC squad I'd be fighting someone in the parking lot outside.

I think that's pretty clearly a joke.

Arkansas just passed a law expanding where guns can be carried. The law as written would include college football and basketball games. Now the legislature is attempting to backtrack and pass a new law rebanning guns at the stadiums. Democratic Rep. Greg Leding expressed his belief that firearms at sporting events could be a potentially dangerous mix: "People like to have a good time before the game, during the game, people get emotional and angry during the game. I think the idea of introducing loaded weapons into those situations is just ridiculous." What a typical nancy boy Democrat!

Whatever you think of Manning, giving information to the Congressman charged with overseeing the intelligence agencies is different than going to WikiLeaks.

This would appear to be a case of whistleblowing, not leaking.

As I previously posted weeks ago, Obama changed the rules after Trump's election making it easier for the NSA to share data about American citizens with other intelligence agencies.

I was partially incorrect when I said that communications of American citizens had to be destroyed if picked up inadvertently by the NSA. What is supposed to happen is that the name and identity of the American is supposed to be masked before the information is spread. The identity of the American can only be unmasked by a court order. The identities of Trump associates were unmasked and spread widely throughout the government according to Mr.Nunes' anonymous source. Treason? Mr. Nunes says that the information he received had nothing to do with Russia. What would it be for intelligence agents to illegally spread with the intent to facilitate leaks against the President?

Amazing. Trump was spied on.

Ha ha. The House of Representatives Intelligence Chairman has gone rouge.

You have to have a warrant to listen in on an American citizen. The intelligence agencies can listen in on foreigners, but according to what I've read they are supposed to immediately delete anything said by American citizens not under a court order for surveillance.

I went an looked up the Flynn Turkey stuff. His consulting firm had a contract with a Dutch company that has ties to Erdogan through it's Turkish founders. The work had been previously disclosed to Congress and was discussed with the Trump transition team, but the specifics didn't make it all the way up to Trump and Pence. A lawyer working for the Trump transition told Flynn that whether to officially register as an agent of a foreign government because of his firm's contract was a personal decision and not a matter for the transition. Of course all this shit is part of the problem, but it's hard to condemn people for turning down easy lobbying money when they are out of government. That's why it's important to put more restrictions on what types of lobbying ex-government officials can do.

Just so we are clear, if Flynn's comments were heard based on surveillance of Russian diplomats rather than on surveillance of Trump or Flynn personally, then the law says any record of what an American citizen says must be immediately destroyed and the person listening in is barred from discussing the contents. Somehow what Flynn said was leaked.

I honestly don't see the problem with any Trump ties to Russia. It's not like he hid his position during the campaign. He ran on reorienting American foreign policy towards Russia. And I don't think that's an odd position for him to take. The nationalist right, from Pat Buchanan to Ron Paul, has been anti-anti Russia since the end of the Cold War. If you're referring to Flynn, the law he allegedly broke is from the 1700s and has never been used to convict anyone. Legal experts seem to agree that it would most likely be ruled unconstitutional by the courts, but since no one has been convicted there's nobody with standing to challenge the law in the courts. Also, the transcripts were never released of what he said. Sources have said he only mentioned sanctions in passing and there were no in depth discussions. Flynn may have been a sketchy character, but the only crimes we know about regarding his contact with Russia are that an American citizen was illegally spied on and the results of that spying were leaked to the press.

Daniel Horowitz has a few thoughts on how the Republicans can fight back against the courts trampling on the Constitution. It's great that the Founding Father put checks and balances into our system so that no branch can get out of control. The last major fight between the Courts and another branch of government was during Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency. They kept striking down his laws, so he threatened to appoint a bunch of new judges to the Supreme Court. The number of justices are not set by the Constitution. Suddenly they stopped ruling his new laws unconstitutional. https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/03/courts-have-fired-the-opening-shots-will-congress-finally-declare-war#readmore

People actually think PBR is better than any other generic, cheap, watery American beer? What is real Bud?