Conservative Catch-All

I'll keep the gun topic out of here, sorry about that.

I know I brought it up before, but has anyone else decided to go ahead and watch Scandalous, about the Clintons?

There are so many parallels between the Whitewater/Clinton investigation and the Russia/Trump investigation. It's also been interesting to see so many people around in Washington today that were involved back then, such as Christopher Wray, Rod Rosenstein, Ann Coulter to name a few.

Being older, and more in tune to what's happening today in Washington, I've really enjoyed this.

Not reporting, she's a lawyer and was secretly working on legal briefs on Paula Jones' behalf (there was a group of 5 attorneys known as The Five Elves?). So not only did I not know she was a lawyer, I had no idea she worked on the case.

Another one of the "Five Elves" working on Paula Jones' behalf was George Conway, Kellyanne Conway's husband.

I probably sound like I just realized the world was round with all of this. Most of this is probably common knowledge to a lot of people, but these details are all new to me.

oh gosh! Can you imagine being the guy who had to go get a blood sample from Clinton? You know that had to be a tense encounter.

well that too! 

just We had a rash of burglaries and home invasions a couple of years ago in our neighborhood. It set all of us on edge!


Sadly a few weeks ago we had a random kidnapping and murder right here just a street over. The woman was taken from right in front of her home as she came home from work and forced to withdraw $ at ATMs before being murdered. A beautiful wife and mother killed in a murder for hire plot that didn't even involve her. Scary!

Stay safe. 

I’m sorry that my question I posted here on this thread caused a mess. I thought posting here would be safer for me than wading in on the other posts. It was not meant to cause a gun debate at all. I was questioning how/why things have changed in our society in such a relatively short amount of time. I’m sorry it went the way it did. I’ll go back to just reading posts and keeping my mouth shut. I can’t stand the fighting and definitely don’t want to be the cause of it. . Again, I’m sorry for my mistake.

You didn't do anything wrong, so please don't keep your mouth shut. Your participation and contribution here is just as valued as anyone else's. Please keep talking. 

Is it a series or a single show?  Sounds fascinating. 

Thank you. I’ll look and see if the Fox app on Apple TV is carrying the whole thing.

Don’t be sorry It wasn’t your post, it was the change in the tone of the thread in general, not any one post

Don’t stop posting!

I need some help or confirmation as to what I am reading......... What am I missing?  I think I am reading that there will be no SNAP funds for people to use/spend?  Only a box of what the government says people need?

Cuts in Nutrition Assistance Would Make It Harder for Families to Afford Food

The 2019 Trump budget cuts SNAP by more than $213 billion over the next ten years — or by nearly 30 percent. It imposes large benefit cuts on most households even though current benefits average just $1.40 per person per meal, and radically restructures how benefits are delivered. It also includes other benefit and eligibility cuts that would cause at least 4 million people to lose SNAP benefits altogether. The cuts would affect every category of SNAP participant, including the unemployed, the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and low-income working families with children.
The budget:

• Shifts more than $260 billion in food purchasing from individual households to the government. Under the proposal, the Agriculture Department (USDA) would hold back an estimated $24 to $29 billion per year in SNAP benefits (about 40 percent of the benefits issued to households) and use about half of these funds to give the households a box of non-perishable foods such as shelf-stable milk, ready-to-eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans, and canned foods. This box of food would be in lieu of food that households would otherwise purchase with SNAP benefits at the grocery store. The other half of the held-back funds would be cut; households wouldn’t receive these benefits in any form. (The Administration claims that the government can purchase, box, and distribute these food commodities at a substantially reduced cost.)


These changes would affect an estimated 34 million people in 16 million households in 2019, or almost 90 percent of SNAP participants. The new structure would impose new costs on states, which would be expected to implement the change without adequate financial support. And it would likely force households to incur greater transportation costs (and time) to get food for their families because they may have to pick up the commodities at centralized locations while still traveling to grocery stories for the remainder of their food purchases.


www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and?utm_source=CBPP+Email+Updates+for+Media&utm_campaign=939ffef257-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_af368626dc-939ffef257-43786269

. The plan calls for holding back 40% of the benefits. The families would still receive the other 60% on the SNAP card. Of the 40% held back, about half of that would be used to pay for the food boxes. The other half would be kept by the government as savings. If the plan works as they want it to, and if they manage to save as much as they hope, this would result in families getting the same amount of food benefits as before (with some loss of choice via the boxes) for 20% less expense to the government.