Mmmm...showing your stereotypes there you know....I'm a fully qualified secondary school teacher who has spent most of my time helping people.....Being in IT and computing....I am a nerd.

I just don't fit your stereotypes that's all.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Not really.

I have no problem with you stereotyping, I do it and we all do it. I'm just pointing that out here. It's alright to criticise me....hey, maybe at some point you'll be accurate.

You keep reaching for a gotcha Ray and it's a bit sad.

But keep going, because at the same time it's kind of endearing.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I do apply my prejudices that's right as we all do.

However, I've been on this earth for quite a while and while I've already recognized that I could be wrong reading your posts over a far bit of time does leave an impression. Self absorbed selfish people tend to collate around similar life choices....especially if they have a little means.

But hey there is always a subjectivity to these matters....am I being an arrogant arse saying this.....probably.....well very probably....if it means anything...you have my recognition of that.

Edited by Stirlingsays (22 Aug 2017 7.53pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So Glenn Simpson - the founder of Fusion GPS, the organisation that ordered up the Steele dossier on Trump (the peepee party file published by Buzzfeed) - spent more than 10 hours testifying in closed session to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Fusion GPS also turned over around 40,000 documents to the committee.

Now, the uproar over the golden shower aspects of the Steele dossier kind of drowned out the 99% of the findings that didn't involve hooker whizz, but did involve the explanation of how the Russians had been cultivating Trump for years, while at the same time collecting kompromat to use against him when the time came. Ironically, the Russians found that they didn't need blackmail to get Trump to do what they wanted, he would do it willingly.

While the squawking about the dossier has died down since its controversial publication by Buzzfeed, over time the less salacious aspects of the findings have been independently confirmed. I understand that, while not everything has been verified, things have only been confirmed and nothing has yet been found to be false (this may be because they started with the low hanging fruit). People in the know describe Christopher Steele as a serious operator, as you might expect from a former MI6 agent, so it would be unlikely that he'd come up with a fake account especially one with such outlandish details.

So this brings us back to Simpson and his Senate testimony. Chuck Grassley (Republican) - the committee chairman - has been asked about publishing the testimony by one of his own constituents. He dodged, claiming that the transcript needs to be checked and approved by Simpson but otherwise he has no current objections to releasing the transcript. Well, there is no obligation on the committee to allow the interviewee to confirm the transcript, and Simpson has said that he's happy for them to publish the whole thing right now along with all the 40,000 or so documents.

Simpson's testimony, the Steele dossier and all that supporting documentation now provided has been described as a road map to the Trump-Russia scandal. Watch this space...

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Yes I know I'm quoting myself! Now that we've had our first pardon, it will act to ease people into ones much closer to home further down the line. This is a nice message to those in hot water right now that 'trump has your back'.

Just returned from the US...

Have never seen it so divided in the past 40 years, due to the DT's antics and the undermining of the integrity of the office of the presidency

Republican Party showing signs of falling apart.

As the previous poster said,Sheriff Joe consciously and repeatedly broke the law..no shades of legal doubt.

DT refers to him as a "patriot"...

The same "patriot" who over his"24-year tenure as sheriff of Maricopa county, .. gained notoriety for detaining hundreds of undocumented immigrants in a Tent City jail and forcing them to wear pink underwear. The sheriff courted controversy and media attention – calling his own jail a “concentration camp”, ... and selling replica pink underwear to the public – as he became a national figurehead for the virulent xenophobia that Trump embraced in his presidential campaign.

...Hilarie Bass, the president of the American Bar Association, said in a statement: “Pardoning a law enforcement officer who has disobeyed the courts and violated the rights of people he has sworn to protect undercuts judicial authority and the public’s faith in our legal system.”