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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% tells his volunteers about the need to energize and mobilize Christians.“If we awaken and energize the body of Christ– if Christians and people of faith come out and vote our values– we will win and we will turn the country around,” Cruz told volunteers on a conference call Tuesday.Cruz also said that he is organizing a coalition of pastors in early states including Iowa and South Carolina.“We’re working to have a lead pastor in each of the 99 counties in Iowa, 99 pastors are organizing other pastors,” Cruz said. “We’re doing the same thing in South Carolina, organizing pastors in 46 counties to motivate and organize other pastors.”Cruz warned that, as the election nears, the attacks on his campaign will become more vicious.“I want to tell everyone to get ready, strap on the full armor of God, get ready for the attacks that are coming,” he warned. “Come the month of January we ain’t seen nothing yet.”Cruz predicts that the nomination will come by the end of the March and said that his campaign is now in a “90-day sprint to win this nomination.”
Glory • a day agoIt's true. Without Evangelical support Ted Cruz cannot win.I would also argue that unless the United States is willing to submit to God's natural laws, it will also fail.rgeno Glory • a day agoEvangelicals with all due respect don't be stupid. Cruz can't win. But if we loose to Clinton/libs/commies you'll loose your religion. You'd 've walked on by libs. All your belives and devotion will be persecuted by govermant as it happened with two cake backers in Oregon.TRUMP is our ONLY hope.GO TRUMP!!!!!!itmatters247 rgeno • 21 hours agoNo GOD is our only hope and dont you ever forget that!bamboo_viper itmatters247 • 19 hours agoTrue - God is our only hope. But God's Son is not going to involve himself in elections or help tawdry lawyer/politicians who use their own children to gain in politics. .Christ threw greedy folks like Cruz out of God's temple as is described in the Bible. God also tells us that Satan is the father of all lies - and that He despises all liars. Cruz is certainly guilty in that area as well. Truth is not Cruz's strong suit. This will blow up in Cruz's face in a spectacular fashion.Robert Paulson bamboo_viper • 18 hours agoCruz is owned by the moneychangers.
Free People Sharon Morgan • 3 hours agoExactly! + 100 ^^^^^^^ excellent post there Sharon!HAPPY TRUMP YEAR to you and yours!
Mr. Christie’s town-hall-style meetings here are stripped-down, unfussy affairs, so determinedly casual that his staff picks coffeehouses, bowling alleys and even bars as sites. (Bars are inexpensive, staff members say, and the setting all but guarantees a crowd.) He uses no stage or barriers, just a microphone and a bottle of water with the label ripped off. He plops himself down in the middle of the room and wanders into the crowd and plays for laughs at almost every turn: The audience at a cafe here broke into laughter 21 times.Mr. Rubio’s events are much more meticulously planned, so formal that cloth-covered fencing is set up around the perimeter of the room. (Aides said it made the young lawmaker seem more presidential.) He speaks the entire time atop a raised platform, flanked by enormous red-white-and-blue campaign posters lit by spotlights. Polished applause lines tumble from his mouth: In Clinton, Iowa, the crowd interrupted him at least 15 times with bursts of clapping.
Mr. Rubio favors lofty, patriotic, high-minded narration to make his points; Mr. Christie relies on emotional, sometimes borscht-belt-style storytelling that can drag his events to two hours, twice as long as Mr. Rubio’s.Asked about the funding shortfall for Social Security, Mr. Christie zeroed in on a few older women in a cafe, walking up to them and delivering his proposal to raise the retirement age with a side of marital humor. Male life expectancy, he said, has risen to 79, closing in on 83 for women. “That four-year vacation you were hoping for at the end of your life from us, you may not get it,” Mr. Christie told them as laughs erupted across the room. “We may be hanging with you the entire trip.”Mr. Rubio’s style can be stirring — or oddly disconnected. When a young woman at his event in Clinton wondered what he would do to lure millennial voters to the Republican Party, pointing out that she was one of just a handful from that generation who came out to see him, Mr. Rubio delivered a rehearsed-sounding answer heavy on campaign talking points instead of an actual strategy. “Here is how we are going to fix it,” he said. “By allowing free enterprise and limited government to be applied to the challenges of the 21st century.”The young woman looked unpersuaded.
Voters seem highly attuned to the stagecraft (or lack of it) in the candidates’ dueling town halls. In Clinton, in the northeast corner of the state, about a dozen people were left standing at a Rubio event despite ample space in the room: Using an old campaign trick, his staff had subdivided a large banquet hall to create the illusion of a packed room, but that also meant there was insufficient seating.
QuoteSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% tells his volunteers about the need to energize and mobilize Christians.“If we awaken and energize the body of Christ– if Christians and people of faith come out and vote our values– we will win and we will turn the country around,” Cruz told volunteers on a conference call Tuesday.Cruz also said that he is organizing a coalition of pastors in early states including Iowa and South Carolina.“We’re working to have a lead pastor in each of the 99 counties in Iowa, 99 pastors are organizing other pastors,” Cruz said. “We’re doing the same thing in South Carolina, organizing pastors in 46 counties to motivate and organize other pastors.”Cruz warned that, as the election nears, the attacks on his campaign will become more vicious.“I want to tell everyone to get ready, strap on the full armor of God, get ready for the attacks that are coming,” he warned. “Come the month of January we ain’t seen nothing yet.”Cruz predicts that the nomination will come by the end of the March and said that his campaign is now in a “90-day sprint to win this nomination.”
That's like the dumbist shit ever. This thread makes me pretty happy I'm a Canadian.
Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on January 02, 2016, 05:41:19 PMThat's like the dumbist shit ever. This thread makes me pretty happy I'm a Canadian.
Quote from: Barry Egan on January 03, 2016, 02:39:56 PMQuote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on January 02, 2016, 05:41:19 PMThat's like the dumbist shit ever. This thread makes me pretty happy I'm a Canadian. The biggest tragedy of the Rob Ford saga is that we never did get the footage of that incident from that camera's POV. :'(
Kara looking forward to a planned future move to Israel ( )
Do you plan on heeding Bibi's call as well, Mandark?(Image removed from quote.)
Right now I'm torn between becoming a kibbutznik or a moshavnik.
The kibbutz system is pretty fucked at this point. I've got friends who are on one (spent time there in the mid 80s and late 90s) and they say they're nothing like they once were.
Close to half of homeowners with mortgages — most of them middle- and lower-income families — receive no benefit from the mortgage interest deduction.[6] Some of these households do not owe federal income taxes, even though they typically pay substantial federal payroll taxes and/or state and local taxes. Others claim the standard deduction rather than itemize deductions.
Megan McArdle basically came out advocating for subsidies instead of the complex tax code. She's usually dumb as rocks, so I was impressed.Granted the route she took to get there was her usual shit.http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-04/why-we-fear-the-irs
At this point it seems worth pausing to note that:I have an MBA.I write about tax policy for a living.These things are surprisingly little help. Filling out your taxes is not a matter of being good at math, or accounting, or even knowing how various provisions of the tax code interact in revenue projections. It is entirely a matter of knowing what can be deducted, and how. And because our tax code is so complex, that doesn’t mean “read the statute”; it means “read the statute, and the case law, and develop a sense over long experience of how agents are likely to interpret this or that during an audit.” The only people who can do that are tax professionals; the rest of us are too busy earning a living in our own professions.
Why the fuck am I still seeing Donald Trump on my TV?America
Listen, Mandark. You can't just give people MONEY. What if they spend it on steaks, hdtvs, and spinner rims?
(Image removed from quote.)Ah yes. Paris, the capital of Germany, needs to get SMART like us amazing Americans with a very low crime rate.
Trump 2016: Big Crime, Get Smart
