Heard it said that people from Norway would not be happy here because they would be used to their government taking good care of them. (Off topic.) Trump passed his physical. Hard to believe. They did a news segment on his diet. Lots of diet soda, fast food, steak, chocolate deserts. I think they're faking his good health in the name of National Security. More deceit.

#16. There is a big difference between Republicans and Democrats. Look at the recent super tax cut for the wealthy. Not one Democrat voted for it, Every Republican voted for it. If you cannot see the difference in that then you will continue to post stupid posts.

Hey Thom, the issue that supporters of the electoral college have is that they believe the power of the majority in our REPUBLIC, must be balanced by the MINORITY voice. In this case the MINORITY voice, are the voices not on the coasts of the U.S, but the mid west, etc. That's the point they are trying to make as to why the electoral college should exist. Otherwise, you get what I believe Lani Guinier labeled, rule by tyranny, though she was not speaking to the electoral college, the issue of contention is similar. Anyway, voter suppression may be the big crime that the supporters of the electoral college should be pushed to comment on, since, the electoral college may not be going anywhere. Anonymous, Los Angeles, CA.

The recent TH program that aired this topic was one of the best ever. I say that often but no, this time really was beyond remarkable. More recently, the moronic public continues to need entertainment figures to lead them.

Hephaestus #5
Good point. History shows again and again, that when an individual (or group) rises to a threatening level of influence, against the "evil" forces in power, and the status quo... well, they're usually eliminated, by whatever means necessary....

Hi Diane,

Thanks for the heads up. I'll do that when I'm really, really, bored. I think the only thing that makes the washed up lefties happy, is being unhappy....as perverse as that is:). I've heard a few minutes of Thom's show, and didn't like it. Plus it's not on the radio here, nor anywhere close to here. I also don't like talk radio. Talk radio guys will say and do just about anything to get an audience. There really isn't a record of what they say. At least on this site, thoughts have to be put in print, and are pretty eaisly verifiable.

I don't completly understand net neutrality. Except the lefties do whine about it, but they whine about everything....Our communtiy Westminster, MD (we are Republicans, not whiners) has decided to construct our own Fiber network, using Ting as an ISP. The project is 50% complete and offers speeds of 1000mb up and 1000mb down. The city owns the infrastructure, and we can switch ISP's if necessary. Once construction was underway, Comcast, not to be outdone, decided to install WiFi antennas at strategeic locations around our town. So now we have two very high speed providers to choose from. Ain't competation great. I agree, whatever the washed up lefties are whining about, it's a safe bet to go in the opposite direction. If you would like to know more about crazy fast internet for your town, visit Ting.com

I guess pony boy will be posting here soon....he always wants to have the final post.:))

Special Report:

By Ray McGovern

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/11/the-fbi-hand-behind-russia-gate/

Now AT&T employees can buy guns for Christmas.

"AT&T is giving $1,000 bonuses to 200,000 employees after tax bill." Plus increasing it's capital expenditures budget by $1,000,000,000.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/tax-reform-reaction-att-is-giving-bonuse...

Two hours later other evil corporations are following suit.

Fifth Third Bank to give bonuses, raise minimum wage after tax bill passage 1 Hour Ago | 00:38

Fifth Third Bancorp will pay more than 13,500 employees a bonus and raise the minimum wage of its workforce to $15 an hour after the passage of the Republican tax plan that will cut the bank's corporate tax rate. Cincinnati-based Fifth Third, the fifteenth largest U.S. bank by asset size, said the tax cut allowed it to re-evaluate its employee pay and pass along some of the windfall. Nearly 3,000 workers will see hourly wages rise to $15. The $1,000 one-time bonus is expected to be paid by the end of this year, the bank said, assuming President Donald Trump signs the bill into law by Christmas.

Senior managers and top executives are excluded from the special payments. "It is good for our communities, employees and Fifth Third Bank," said CEO Greg Carmichael in a statement.

Wells Fargo, meanwhile, also said it would be boosting its minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour, which was prompted by the tax plan. The San Francisco-based bank also said it would target $400 million in donations to community and nonprofit organizations next year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/fifth-third-bancorp-unveils-bonuses-minimum-wage-hike-after-tax-bill-passage.html

More terrible news for leftie/socialists,

Boeing announced that it would spend $300 million on “employee-related and charitable investments” because of the tax plan. “The reforms enable us to better compete on the world stage and give us a stronger foundation for the investment in innovation, facilities and skills that will support our long-term growth,” CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in a statement.

Comcast is giving $1,000 bonuses to 100,000 “frontline and non-executive employees,” the company announced, citing the rollback of the FCC’s Obama-era net neutrality rules and the passage of the tax reform bill. CEO Brian Roberts also said the company expects to spend “well in excess of” $50 billion on infrastructure investment over the next five years.

• Washington Federal announced the tax reform legislation will accelerate its “strategic investments in its employees, client service capabilities and community development funding” with employees in good standing earning less than $100,000 per year getting a 5% salary increase.

Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Friday it would pay a $1,000 bonus to almost 9,000 of its full-time and part-time employees after the recent passahttp://thehill.com/homenews/media/366161-sinclair-announces-bonuses-for-employees-after-passage-of-gop-tax-billge of the GOP tax bill.

Bank of America will pay employees making up to $150,000 a year a special one-time bonus of $1,000, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing an internal memo from CEO Brian Moynihan.

Texas Capital Bank on Friday announced it will give a majority of its employees a special $1,000 bonus following the passage of the GOP tax overhaul.

• Kansas City Southern, the Missouri-based transportation holding company with railroad investments in the U.S., Mexico and Panama, said it would immediately give a one-time $1,000 bonus to non-executive employees of its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Mexico.

• U.S. Bank of America employees making up to $150,000 per year in total compensation – about 145,000 teammates – will receive a one-time bonus of $1,000 by year-end.

• PNC Financial Services will give $1,000 bonus to about 47,500 workers.

• New Braunfels-based Rush Enterprises of Texas is giving each of its 6,600 employees a $1,000 bonus – a total of $6.6 million. Chief Financial Officer Steven Keller said: “You’ve got a choice – we could’ve kept it and stuffed it in the company bank account or coffers, or we can share it with the people.”

• Associated Bank in Wisconsin boosted its minimum hourly wage to $15 and paying workers a $500 bonus.

• Idaho health-care and home-products company Melaleuca Inc. is providing its 2,000 employees $100 bonuses for every year they worked for the company. The company has 147 employees who have worked for the company for 20 years or more.

• In Hawaii, Royal Hawaiian Heritage Jewelry plans to open up three more shops – in Honolulu, in Kauai and Maui in addition to its existing three shops.

• Aquesta Financial Holdings in Cornelius, N.C., will raise hourly pay to $15 and will be giving $1,000 bonuses to all of it workers.
• Washington Federal in Seattle will increase wages for most of its workers by 5 percent and is adding 25 people to its information-technology staff.
• Canary LLC announced it will hire new employees and purchase more equipment.
• First Hawaiian Bank said it will give out $1,500 cash bonuses to 2,264 employees, or all but 11 members of its senior management team. The state’s largest bank also will increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour from $12.75 an hour for 613 employees.

• Bank of Hawaii, the state’s second-largest bank, said it will give out $1,000 cash bonuses to 2,074 employees, or 95 percent of its workforce. The bonuses affect all employees below the senior vice president level. The bank also will increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour from $12 an hour.

• American Savings Bank, the third-largest bank in Hawaii, said it will award $1,000 bonuses to nearly all of its employees. In addition, the bank said it was increasing its starting wage to $15.25 an hour from $12.21 an hour.

Thom is misstating facts right now so check the bold type Thom and get back to us.

Walmart is raising its minimum wage and handing out tax cut bonuses

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/11/news/companies/walmart-minimum-wage-increase/index.html

Over 100 companies giving 'Trump Bonuses' after tax victory, 'tsunami building'http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/over-100-companies-giving-trump-bonuses-after-tax-victory-tsunami-building/article/2644944

• U.S. Bancorp, the parent company of U.S. Bank, announced a $1,000 bonus for nearly 60,000 employees. The bank also plans to increase its minimum wage for all hourly employees to $15 per hour, make “enhancements” to its employees’ health-care options, make an “additional investment in strategic projects centered on the customer experience” and make a one-time $150 million contribution to the U.S. Bank Foundation, the bank’s charitable arm.
• Kansas City Southern, the Missouri-based transportation holding company with railroad investments in the U.S., Mexico and Panama, said it would immediately give a one-time $1,000 bonus to non-executive employees of its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Mexico.
• U.S. Bank of America employees making up to $150,000 per year in total compensation – about 145,000 teammates – will receive a one-time bonus of $1,000.
• PNC Financial Services will give $1,000 bonus to about 47,500 workers.
• New Braunfels-based Rush Enterprises of Texas is giving each of its 6,600 employees a $1,000 bonus – a total of $6.6 million. Chief Financial Officer Steven Keller said: “You’ve got a choice – we could’ve kept it and stuffed it in the company bank account or coffers, or we can share it with the people.”
• Associated Bank in Wisconsin boosted its minimum hourly wage to $15 and paying workers a $500 bonus.
• Idaho health-care and home-products company Melaleuca Inc. is providing its 2,000 employees $100 bonuses for every year they worked for the company. The company has 147 employees who have worked for the company for 20 years or more.
• In Hawaii, Royal Hawaiian Heritage Jewelry plans to open up three more shops – in Honolulu, in Kauai and Maui in addition to its existing three shops.
• Washington Federal in Seattle will increase wages for most of its workers by 5 percent and is adding 25 people to its information-technology staff.
• Aquesta Financial Holdings in Cornelius, N.C., will raise hourly pay to $15 and will be giving $1,000 bonuses to all of it workers.
• Canary LLC announced it will hire new employees and purchase more equipment.
• First Hawaiian Bank said it will give out $1,500 cash bonuses to 2,264 employees, or all but 11 members of its senior management team. The state’s largest bank also will increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour from $12.75 an hour for 613 employees.
• Bank of Hawaii, the state’s second-largest bank, said it will give out $1,000 cash bonuses to 2,074 employees, or 95 percent of its workforce. The bonuses affect all employees below the senior vice president level. The bank also will increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour from $12 an hour.
• American Savings Bank, the third-largest bank in Hawaii, said it will award $1,000 bonuses to nearly all of its employees. In addition, the bank said it was increasing its starting wage to $15.25 an hour from $12.21 an hour.
• AT&T expanding its bonus program to an additional 200,000 staffers getting $1,000 apiece.
• Boeing gift of $300 million in investment in its employee-related charitable program “to support our heroes, our homes and our future.”
• Wells Fargo raises minimum wage to $15.
• Fifth Third raises minimum wage to $15 and offering bonuses of $1,000 to 13,000 employees.
• Comcast NBC Universal anted up $1,000 bonuses to more than 100,000 non-executive employees.
• AAON is giving $1,000 bonus checks to 2,000 employees. CEO Norman Asbiornson said it was a result of the new tax law and a “direct recognition” of his employees’ importance.
• AccuWeather distributed year-end bonuses to about 500 employees.
• Aflac is increasing its 401(k) match from 50 percent to 100 percent on the first 4 percent of compensation plus one-time $500 contribution to every employee’s 401(k). It also plans $250 million increase in U.S. investment.
• American Airlines confirmed $1,000 bonuses for every employee except officers. There are nearly 128,000 employees.
• Americacollect announced $300-$500 bonuses for 250 employees.
• Bank of the Ozarks announced bonuses of up to $1,200 for 2,300 workers.
• BB&T planned $1,200 bonuses for 27,000 employees and a boost in the base wage from $12 to $15 per hour. Charitable donations of $100 million also are being planned.
• Central Pacific Bank said each of its 850 employees will get $1,000 bonuses, and its wage will rise from $12 to $15.25.
• Citizens Financial Group is posting $1,000 bonuses for 12,500 employees and scheduling donations of $10 million to charities.
• Comerica Bank is raising wages to $15 per hour and giving bonuses of $1,000 to 4,500 non-officer employees.
• Commerce Bank is granting $1,000 bonuses for fulltime workers, $250 for part-timers, to a total of 3,450. Donations to charities also will reach $25 million.
• Community Trust Bancorp has $1,000 bonuses for full time employees and $500 for those who are part-time.
• Copperleaf Assisted Living has bonuses of $200-$600 for 175 employees.
• Dayton T. Brown Inc. is delivering $400 bonuses for each of the 210 employees
• Delaware Supermarkets Inc. announced $150 extra bonuses to 1,000 non-management personnel.
• Express Employment Professionals revealed bonuses of $2,000 to more than 200 non-executive employees
• Four thousand workers at First Horizon National Corp. are getting $1,000 bonuses.
• Gate City Bank gave $1,000 bonuses to 538 non-management personnel and announced $500,000 in additional charitable giving.
• INB Bank is giving $500 bonuses to 200 employees, and raising base wages to $15.
• National Bank Holdings Corporation has $1,000 bonuses for employees making up to $50,000.Nationwide Insurance is giving 29,000 workers $1,000 bonuses.
• Most of the 6,700 workers for Navient are getting a $1,000 bonus.
• Nelnet announced $1,000 bonuses for 4,100 employees.
• OceanFirst Financial Corp. – base wage increase to $15 per hour
• Ohnward Bancshares handed out $1,000 bonuses for all 260 employees.
• Pinnacle Bank had $1,000 bonuses for 1,007 employees.
• PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. gave 47,500 workers $1,000 bonuses, and there were extra contributions to pensions accounts.
• Sinclair Broadcast Group gave $1,000 bonuses to 9,000 employees.
• Southwest Airlines gave $1,000 bonuses to 55,000 employees, provided $5 million additional charitable donations.
• TCF Financial Corporation had $1,000 bonuses for full time employees.
• The Flood Insurance Agency had $1,000 bonuses for 17 full time employees.
• Territorial Savings Bank had $1,000 bonuses to 247 employees.
• Turning Point Brands, Inc. had $1,000 bonuses for 107 employees.
• Unity Bank – all 200 non-executive employees will receive a $750 bonus.

http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/the-big-list-of-tax-cut-payoffs/

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I would like to thank chuckle8 for his or her great comments on Kris kobach and interstate crosscheck. I don't know how to use social media but if you do please put it on there . I hope we can saturate the entire country with it and make it go viral. I also want to thank Willy Lohman for his fantastic comments about the US corporations and their embrace of Fascism. Thank both of you I couldn't have said it better myself.

If you want to understand the forces that undermined Roosevelt and the US war effort, just look at the corporate powerhouses who re-branded themselves after their collusion with the enemy during the war. The same corporations have been shaping the world economy, since WWII, using the euphemisms “Free Enterprise” instead of “fascism” to justify their peculation of world resources and inveigling “Public-Private Partnerships” to vitiate the social pillars of society and eradicate any vestigages of democracy for citizens.

Fascism, like racism, did not die. It merely softened it rhetoric with pleasing euphemisms and self-serving “marketing”(propaganda) to obstruct and obscure the US corporate treason before and during the war. Because FDR died before the end of WWII, the info he planned to use to prosecute corporations, powerful politicians and individuals for treason during war-time, was suppressed and expunged from the public records.

The nice thing about time is that eventually documentation and records are declassified. Glen Yeardon and John Hawkins have chronicled the “suppressed history of a century” in a piercing study of the pertinacious “roots of American Fascism” and racism in our plutocracy. By reading, “The Nazi Hydra in America”, your understanding of history will never be the same.

“This is a valuable history of the relationship[ between Big Business in the US and European Fascism, before, during, and after the second World War. The story is shocking and sobering and deserves to be widely read.” Howard Zinn

You're as thick as manure but only half as useful. And what a steaming pile ya got there, gobshite. Here's a shovel; keep digging.

While you're merrily perusing slangs and slurs on the Google machine, look up "lying f*cking hypocrite." It has a picture of the Great White Trump, the biggest bigoted buttwipe in the land, with a KKKlan of disgusting little creatures licking his, ah, boots. Look closely; one of 'em is sucking a corndog.

Try not to melt too fast, little snowflake, but you and your Bobbsey twin, Dizzy Di, not only have severely sloped foreheads and tiny craniums, you also have unibrows, yellow eyes, slit pupils, big noses, pointed ears, rotting buckteeth, bad breath, body oder, scraggly body hair, lice, a monkey gait, and drag your knuckles.

In other words, you're lyn' fockin' trolls -- a race of imbecilic demons too stupid to think for themselves. Even Satan doesn't want you.

I'm sorry for your dear old mother, but as a die-hard Republican, out of eight children one was bound to be a mutant Trumper. Damn, shoulda had that abortion! Abort or deport! Make America Troll-free Again!

For those that think block-chain/crypto currency is the answer. Look up "Fedcoin" that should make you all really uneasy. Watch cashless economy evolve and watch the end coming.

I am liquidating, keeping cash on hand. When cash is scarce, cash will be king. Even today, cash is king. One Fedcoin comes in, the banksters will be unnecessary. only one bank will be available and they will control the "ledger", only fedcoin will be accpetable for paying utilities, taxes, social security, medicare, etc. Check it out "Fedcoin". Come to your own conculsions. Good luck