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'America is more like pre-World War II Gernmany'; You did say that.

So, does that make Amatuer Hussein more like Adolf Hitler in your mind?

It is apparent that The Amateur does not like Benjamin Netanyahu, and I promise this, Hitler would have cared for him less than even Obama.

Believe it or not, I get what you are saying - Fascists do not like Jews.

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 2:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gene, if I left posts on the upper end of the latest Articles segment based on views, then I would have to leave two of Ted's minimalist posts: one on sunsets, the other on the Mississippi Battle Flag, and yet not a peep from Ted.

Plus, our system is not set up to leave a few favored posts at the top continuously.

I could easily change my system, but I won't.

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 1:55 pm By: Stan Deatherage

That was 3 more wasted word segments, gentlemen . . .

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 1:43 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Stan, I spent too many years as a tinkerer and it is a habit I can't drop. But one of the last things I want to do is detract from the importance of this very serious subject about making a treaty with a country that openly expresses it's wish to destroy us and Israel.

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 1:18 pm By: Bobby Tony

Gene,
I like your technique of blasting the readers and then asking them to please read your post. That is a most unique sales technique.
If you will step back from your need for attention for just a moment and review the format of BCN you will see the following.
There are 3 or 4 Features articles rotating at the top.
There are 18 Latest Articles in the body of the page.
There are approximately 3 post under each heading
Government 3 post normally
Op-Ed Politics 3 post normally
Community 8 post normally
Business 3 post normally
The Region 3 post normally
The Arts 3 post normally
Living, 3 post normally
Announcements 6 post normally
These generally rotate on a regular basis.
Your obsession with positioning may be getting in the way of the impotence of you post. Notice I said impotence and not importance. I doubt that there is a sinister plot to keep your opinions hidden. Without any basis of fact, I suspect you are getting numerous views way beyond what the fluff post get.
However, in the interest of "FAIRNESS" I think it can be said that Liberals always seem to find a way to complain about arrangement of the deck chairs of theirs is not front and center.

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By: Bobby Tony

14 comments thus far ~~~ ONLY 1 (which is most worthy by BT) concerning the legal status of Treaties. It is not 6-6-6, But it gives the Constitutional basis I did not have time to properly research with 2-2-2. THANX!

The article in Wikipedia is helpful ~~~ but shows the last SCOTUS ruling relative to it with shades of gray in the decision and no willingness to make a decision. We may get another case from this action and then see what the Court says . . .

"The President may enter the United States into treaties, but they are not effective until ratified by a two-thirds vote in the Senate.[9] In Article II however, the Constitution is not very explicit about the termination of treaties. The first abrogation of a treaty occurred in 1798, when Congress passed a law terminating a 1778 Treaty of Alliance with France.[10] In the nineteenth century, several Presidents terminated treaties after Congress passed resolutions requesting the same.[11] In 1854, however, President Franklin Pierce terminated a treaty with Denmark with the consent of the Senate alone. A Senate committee ruled that it was correct procedure for the President to terminate treaties after being authorized by the Senate alone, and not the entire Congress. President Pierce's successors, however, returned to the former procedure of obtaining authorization from both Houses. Some Presidents have claimed to themselves the exclusive power of terminating treaties. Abraham Lincoln, for instance, terminated a treaty without prior Congressional authorization, but Congress retroactively approved his decision at a later point. The first unambiguous case of a President terminating a treaty without authorization, granted prior to or after the termination, occurred when Jimmy Carter terminated a treaty with the Republic of China.[12] For the first time, judicial determination was sought, but the effort proved futile: the Supreme Court could not find a majority agreeing on any particular principle, and therefore instructed the trial court to dismiss the case."

It would appear historically Congress felt the President was worthy of leading in negotiations and there is no case where a Treaty became as important as Nuclear Arms which affect our country and the world.

Bigger bombs / harder decisions / let's just not repeat 1945 ever again over humans on this planet. This is most serious and will likely happen if we keep messing with nations which have nothing to lose. The Russian Treaty over Cuba and Arms race was resolved. Carter got progress with Beagan/Sadat Peace accord that did not get ratification in their countries --- rather both me killed by hate of their citizens who would rather fight than make peace . . .

QUESTIONS:

(1) Can we afford to keep on letting the nuclear knowledge out without most serious consequences?
(2) By the grace of God we beat the Germans to the Atomic problem's solution --- what if they had beaten us????

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 5:20 am By: Gene Scarborough

The percent of total Federal Spending is listed below
Social Security 33.6%
Medicare and health 27.42%
Military 15.88
Interest on the debt 5.9%
82.8% of spending is in the above four categories
The balance is spread out in all other categories
www.nationalpriorities.org

You need to proof your church joke. Did Adam really say that to Eve?

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm By: Bobby Tony

Remember Gene, this is the Republican primary not the Democrat Primary.

Soon, you'll have the Democrat primary and you will be able to crow to your heart's content over your big Democrat issues: Income re-distribution, weakening America at home and abroad for inclusion in a one World Government, satisfying the Race Industry, and killing babies.

Be patient Gene, your time will come.

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 5:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Robert Menendez will be soon to fall in line with patriotism and logic. Hussein Obama sicced his corrupt justice department on the NJ senator, so I think he is off the group-think plantation now.

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Then, what the heck does Dear Emory, and the baptists have to do with anything?

Wait, you started it Gene, when you started in on Watergate, Tammy Faye, and Bobby Tony, rightly, began the discussion on who the real crooks are.

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 3:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

What the heck does any of this have to do with the Treaty and its importance, gentlemen??? I am amazed how Congress can't get anything done, yet you guys carry on about those not having anything to do with their crazy . . .

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 3:03 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Bobby Tony, You know I was in local government, but the core of governing ethics are universal under our constitution. I know the ethical argument very well.

Understandably, Hillary B. is in a bunch of trouble right now.

The one thing she has had going for her is that Hussein Obama is the most corrupt, dishonest president in modern history, and his justice department was run by the most corrupt attorney general in modern history, Eric Holder, which served to insulate The Amateur. What happens if Obama's corrupt justice department of justice experiences a slender flash of propriety and investigate Ms. Benghazi.

At that point Hillary is toast, because congress will already be there on it, and she will be double flanked, at which point, she will not be worried as much about the election as she will be concerned about jail time.

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 12:44 pm By: Stan Deatherage

An interesting series on "The 70's" is running on CNN. The lookback from 50 years is giving me insights I could not have at the time it was happening. For me the 70's involved new work full time in large churches in SC---Easley, Hartsville, Bishopville. The new SEBTS grad with his Master of Divinity had much work to do with youth and Sunday School teachers while being the Associate Pastor getting to preach some. At Bishopville it was the first Senior Minister duty added to Youth and Education. Sermons seemed to come every other day for the new Preacher. . .

Jim and Tammy Faye Baker were new to the TBN Network which broadcast full time religious stuff. Dr. Charles Stanley was there, Pat Robertson, many evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart had their day. In 50 years, some have gone down in embarrassing immoral activities --- and some still are on our local channels each Sunday.

The most striking thing for me last night was the review of the Oil Embargo, Iran hostages taken after the Shah (whose corrupt regime we backed) was deposed when the Muslim fundamentalists wanted to kill him, we gave him shelter. Nixon ran the show, then Ford, finally Jimmy Carter. It was the time we started distrusting truth and were badly hurt over Watergate's sordid revelations. Our own NC Senator, Sam Ervin was a voice for truth during those hearings. He carried only a copy of the Constitution in his coat pocket to chair the Investigation Hearings of Congress vs. Nixon.

Since then, "get even" politics has been firmly in place. The mindset has been, "You got our Republican boy and now we get you back any way we can." The word, "Impeach" has come out with each administration since---except Reagan---whose Iran-Contra stuff got a pass from the Press and Congress.

I think that fell in the category of "Too much manure in the pasture of America shows too much of how smelly our politics has become." It is a shame that the smell won't seem to go away from the sad days of Watergate . . .

Commented: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 7:50 am By: Gene Scarborough