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Sardonic humor:
All in day's work! https://www.youtube.com/embed/
The doctor that had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally retired.
At her next checkup, the new Doctor told her To bring a list Of all the medicines that had been prescribed for her. As The young doctor was looking through these, his eyes grew wide as he realized Grandma had a prescription for birth control Pills..
"Mrs. Smith, do you realize these are BIRTH CONTROL Pills?
"Yes, they help me sleep at night."
"Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely NOTHING in these that that could possibly help you sleep!"
She reached out and Patted the young Doctor's knee...."Yes, dear, I know that. But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in the glass of orange juice that my 16 year old Granddaughter drinks ....
==And believe me, it definitely helps me sleep at night."
You gotta Love Grandmas
RETRACTION: It was not Sen. Toomey but Senator Bob Casey that my son and a group met with to encourage him not to sign Obama's Iran Deal but he did. How he now feels, having done so, I am not aware.
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My dear friend and fellow memo reader replies: "Listen to your wife. She’s right. (Our wives usually are.)
Bill Clinton is still the most popular political figure in this country.
The Clinton's will cut a deal with Obama to save Hillary in exchange for her following his “legacy.”
My response: "I have been right two times in 43 years, more than most husbands, so I am hanging out for number 3. "
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This from another old and dear friend and fellow memo reader. (See 1 below.)
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And again "What difference does it make?" Where are the feminist voices now? Can't hear you Hillarious? (See 2 below.)
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Now that Savannah's city manager is leaving we have a chance, if we also elect a solid sheriff of Chatham County and replace her with a person of vision, to make Savannah a better place. Crime will still be a problem but perhaps we can do a better job if we get everyone on the same page and they are truly capable and committed.
This is why I am supporting Johnny Wilcher for Sheriff .
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Can government be run like a business? (See 3 below.)
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You may not find this interesting if you are a liberal and believe in the right to be heard and tried in a court of law: https://www.facebook.com/===
Are we this stupid and the answer is YES! Some will also ask are we are this heartless. You decide. (See 4 and 4a below.)
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Head of Mossad believes it can handle Iran. (See 5 below.)
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Why People Can't Face the Truth about Obama
The psychological processes which prevent people from facing facts when the unthinkable has become obvious can be explained by the models of social psychology called cognitive dissonance theory.
Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress and discomfort caused when important beliefs, attitudes or values, called cognitions, are inconsistent, conflicting or contradictory to each other. In the 1950s the psychologist Leon Festinger theorized that the mind spontaneously, continuously reduces cognitive dissonance to enable goal-directed functioning in a paradoxical, inconsistent, deceptive world. Festinger's discovery founded a rich tradition of research which has demonstrated how the mind resolves contradictions. It provides a powerful way to understand why people can't face what President Obama is doing to America.
Research has demonstrated countless times that cognitions do not have to be true to create dissonance, they just have to be believed. Barack Obama was elected to reduce the dissonance between the beliefs 'America is the land of the free', and the falsehoods 'America is still racist' and 'President Obama will go a long way to solving the problem of racism.' Because 'America is racist” is false, its corollaries are equally false. 'We must elect a black Democrat -- not black Republican -- because Republicans don't emphasize America is racist. Obama is fabulous, no need to know much about him, or whether he can lead the nation. He will make us feel better about ourselves'.
The antecedents of Barack Obama's hatred of America are now well understood. Obama was groomed from the womb to abhor this white majority, predominantly Christian free enterprise Republic. From his expatriate, capitalism-hating mother, from his alcoholic Communist father and his perv Communist mentor, detesting America was in his mother's milk and the blood in his veins. But it was the murderous Bill Ayers who recognized in Obama a destructive potential greater than a million bombs cooked up in basements. Ayers concocted the poison cocktail called Barack Obama that everybody wanted to drink, but nobody wanted to taste first.
America is Barack Obama's prey. He is tearing America apart and feeding the pieces of her life to his foreign and domestic fellow travelers. He is not transforming the nation but terminating it. Even the most transformational administrations haven't enabled the murder of Americans by declared enemies, weakened the national defense, mocked the concerns, and dimmed the hopes of average Americans as this president has. Even the highly transformational Franklin Roosevelt did not return Nazi generals to the enemy during the war as Obama did in the Bergdahl swap. Roosevelt did not entertain and enrich Nazi bigwigs as Obama has the Muslim Brotherhood. Imagine Roosevelt facilitating German atom bomb research and enriching the Axis powers as Obama has in the Iran deal. No president has erased the nation's borders at land and sea as Obama in advertising inducements for an invasion from around the world. No president in American history has aided enemies, undermined the economy and derided the American people as the current commander-in-chief.
The immensity of Obama's disloyalty is key to why people cannot face the truth about him.
If the Obama election were going to reduce the dissonance he would have started his administration thusly: “As I have said, we are one nation, going forward together. Mine will be the first truly color-blind administration in American history. Every appointment I make will be based solely on qualifications and proven competence without reference to race.” Of course, this is the opposite of what Obama did. He fine-combed through America searching for scraps of racism. He strengthened the lie that America is a racist nation as cover for his destruction. Amongst innumerable examples: Attorney General Holder introduced the Obama administration by implying the white majority are all racists, built a DOJ whose foremost concern is racism, carried forward by Loretta Lynch, who just said a street strewn with American corpses murdered by Jihadi terrorists is a “wonderful” opportunity to fight racism.
America is racist, so illegals can enter unchecked. America is racist, destroy her free markets, send billions to nonwhite people as “warmist” reparations for her ill-gotten success. America is racist, empower and enrich her enemies like Iran. Barack Obama and his ilk experience zero cognitive dissonance regarding the contradictory beliefs 'America is about freedom' and 'America is racist'. They never believed that America or her Constitution are about freedom. They believe the incurably evil and racist America must be eliminated for the good of the world.
Before the mass denial of Obama's hatred is explained by dissonance theory, let's mention subdissonant Americans. Subdissonant Americans have no discomfort whether America is about freedom or racism because they are too intellectually limited, dumbed-down, or drugged out to care. If asked “Why does the sun shine?” a six-year-old will answer, “That is what the sun is 'post to do.” This is termed the moral explanation of concrete thinking. Based on IQ distribution, approximately 15% of the population do not think beyond the moral explanation, and do not recognize a president who isn't doing what he is supposed to do. Other subdissonant groups are those too ill educated or addicted to care about freedom or racism.
Festinger's induced-compliance paradigm of dissonance theory explains why black Americans may be the last group to face Obama's destructiveness -- because his policies have hurt them the most. In a famous experiment, people were instructed to lie to others and say a boring task was interesting. The induced-compliance paradigm found that people paid only $1 to lie convinced themselves they were telling the truth more than people paid $20 to tell the same lie! This counterintuitive effect has been replicated many times. People who received minimal external motivation for managing dissonance -- those paid the least -- produced stronger internal justifications to deny their actual experience. The underpaid believed their own lies better than those paid twenty times more. The overpaid say, “I'm in it for the money, period.” This is why many very wealthy people slug the colada in Obama's banana republic while the poorest blacks continue to justify the president, even as they get poorer.
Obama is destroying America overtly and covertly. By promoting policies which are normalizing harmful drugs, undermining the natural family, and generally promoting moral chaos he slyly increases the number of subdissonant Americans, people too ill or distracted to care. He has brainwashed or bought off virtually the entire government including the Republican establishment. A noble people who years ago would have resolved dissonance by believing in America's goodness and standing firm against tyranny no longer do.
The social psychologist Elliot Aronson advanced cognitive dissonance theory, further explaining why people can't face Obama's hatred and destruction. Aronson's self-concept model theorized the central purpose of dissonance reduction is to preserve positive self-image (I am a good person) and self-justification (I was right all along). Because so many Americans now have been convinced we are a racist nation, to maintain a positive self-image people cannot face the truth about Obama.
The loss of opportunities and the diminishing of hopes which Obama's policies have inflicted create a monumental need for self-justification among his supporters. “The president shows us America is still racist. We were right all along.” They have let go the truth that America is about freedom. No one knows how many still stand upon that truth, how many care, or if there are enough big lies left to elect Hillary.
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The European Sickness Spreads
What are we to make of the reaction to the horrifying mass attack on women by several hundred men described as being “North African or Arab” in Cologne on New Year’s Day? The spectacle of what even the New York Times called an “unprecedented” coordinated assault in a major European city hasn’t shaken the country’s leaders of their conviction that Germany must welcome as many refugees from the Middle East as it can absorb. That decision seems to be rooted in a belief that succumbing to prejudice is much worse than what happened in the square across from Cologne’s main train station as well as similar attacks on a smaller scale that reportedly took place the same night in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and even Berlin.
But the reaction of Cologne’s mayor to the mayhem in her city’s streets seems to betray something much more troubling than just a stubborn dedication to a principle. By seeming to place the onus for the attacks on the victims and offering them some gratuitous and pointless advice, Mayor Henriette Reker went further than members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government and illustrated something much worse than knee-jerk political correctness. By telling her city’s women that they might avoid problems by trying to keep attackers at an “arm’s length,” she demonstrated the depth of a new European sickness. Europe’s leaders haven’t just created a problem without thinking through what might happen if they open the gates to millions of Middle Eastern refugees and immigrants who have no interest in assimilating or adopting Western culture. They are advocating a form of surrender that vindicates the predictions of writers like Melanie Phillips and others who warned years ago of the disastrous consequences of acquiescing to Muslim sensibilities in this manner.
But the difference here is that while the Nazis claimed Jews were victimizing Aryan women, the astonishing coordinated attacks on women Cologne was not a canard concocted by prejudiced minds but a stark reality. It is one thing to oppose prejudice but quite another to deny the reality of an epidemic of sexual violence in Europe on the part of immigrants who have imported their views of women as property or sexual objects with them.
Reker, who was stabbed by a critic who opposed her stand on refugee absorption while running for office last year, appears deeply committed to the cause of an open society. But the attempt of city officials to avoid public discussion of the story (it took a full three days before the police acknowledged what happened) seems to indicate that there is more here at work than sympathy for innocent immigrants who may be blamed for the transgressions of a minority. If Germany is now so deeply committed to running out the welcome wagon for Middle Eastern refugees that it is prepared to sacrifice civil peace and the self-respect of its female population — who must now assume that they are fair game for gangs of molesters at public events in the future — then a tipping point in the modern history of European culture may have been reached.
What is needed here is not a war against Islam or all Muslims. As with the conflict against Islamist terrorism, where the enemy is composed of Islamists and their supporters not every Muslim or every immigrant from the Middle East, it is important not to paint with too broad a brush in outlining the problem. But when no-go zones, where immigrant communities exist, become routine in some European cities and law enforcement not only can’t stop such crimes but also advise their people that they must protect themselves, then the issue stops being a matter of future speculation and becomes instead an imminent crisis.
It is in that context that the effort to treat a desire to vet immigrants from Syria and other areas where radicals dominate stops becoming well-intentioned liberalism and becomes a suicide pact. The German government is adamant that these crimes should not be allowed to influence the debate about refugees. Yet common sense demands that it must be taken into account. It is one thing to stand up against unreasoning hate. But by seeking to treat these crimes as insignificant or by treating the victims as if they were at fault, German authorities are sending a message that they are not prepared to defend Western values, even at the cost of the safety of their people. If Europeans have so little respect for their own culture that they are not willing to insist that immigrants live by their rules rather than the medieval mores they practiced in their countries of origin, then the doomsayers about the decline of the West at least as far as the continent is concerned may be right.
As Americans look on with dismay at what is happening in Europe, it is little wonder that candidates like Donald Trump have gained traction as liberal governments refuse to defend Western values or call Islamist terrorism by its right name. The European sickness that was on display last week is not something that should be regarded with complacence. So long as crimes like the one in Cologne are tolerated and leaders like Mayor Reker seek to appease rather than stamp out violence, support for more caution about admitting refugees will grow in Europe and the United States.
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After Citibank pushed through the sale, say bank employees of that era, Mr. Trump spoke ill of Ms. Goldstein and told people she had asked him for a personal favor while working on his restructuring.
The sale of the hotel ended up being a great deal for him because it reduced his personal debt so much, he says. Citibank declined to comment.
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Yossi Cohen, new head of the Mossad, at a committee meeting on December 02, 2015.
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Trump and His Debts: A Narrow Escape
He cut deal with banks, took cash out of casinos to weather 1990s bind
One way to consider the type of president billionaire Donald Trump is to examine his business career and how he steered his properties out of severe crises. WSJ's Peter Grant joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero to discuss.
ByPeter Grant and Alexandra Berzon
On Labor Day weekend in 1990, as Donald Trump faced the worst crisis of his career, he and Wilbur Ross Jr. headed to Atlantic City, N.J., for talks at Mr. Trump’s opulent Taj Mahal casino, which had just opened but was already on the verge of missing a bond payment.
Mr. Ross, as an expert on distressed assets, represented bondholders. Mr. Trump brought him to the seaside town for talks, in a helicopter bearing the name “Trump” in giant red letters.
“The bondholders were obviously quite angry,” Mr. Ross says. “Their initial inclination was to throw the rascal out.”
The chopper landed on a helipad near the boardwalk. Instantly, people swarmed around a waiting car, thinking Mr. Trump was in it. “They were shoving video cameras at it…It was amazing the adulation he got from the crowd,” Mr. Ross recalls.
“It changed my whole opinion. That memory stuck with me and got me to the conclusion that the Taj Mahal stripped of Trump the individual would likely be a lot less successful than the Trump Taj Mahal with Donald.”
In 1990, Mr. Trump, though known publicly as financially savvy and very rich, was in deep financial trouble. He and his companies owed $3.4 billion and couldn’t make the payments. That posed the risk of lenders seizing his hotels, casinos and other assets.
Worse, $830 million of the debt carried his personal guarantee. Creditors, if they wanted, could force him into personal bankruptcy.
He survived. Today he is a billionaire, who cites his wealth and success as a reason that, as president, he could make America “great again.” Mr. Trump has no government record to weigh. One way to gauge the kind of president he might be is to examine his business career, and particularly how he dealt with its biggest crisis.
He began by bringing creditors around to the realization Mr. Ross had: The developer was worth more to them financially alive than dead. A global group holding $2.1 billion of debt, mostly on New York properties, agreed in 1990 to a complex plan that gave Mr. Trump years to work his way through.
He also squeezed money out of his casino empire and shifted it to struggling properties. He ran all three of his casinos through bankruptcy court.
He continued drawing cash even then. In 1992, when Trump Castle casino was in chapter 11, it paid Mr. Trump $1.5 million for guiding it through the process. In all, he took more than $160 million out of Atlantic City between 1990 and 1996 through fees and other payouts, according to a Wall Street Journal review of a wide array of documents from New Jersey gambling regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“For many years I took money out of Atlantic City,” Mr. Trump said in an interview. “The money I made in Atlantic City fueled a lot of projects.”
Those who entrusted him with their funds or labor, including employees, vendors and bond and stockholders, often fared less well. Taj Mahal contractors were told to take less than they were owed. Workers lost their jobs.
Between 1990 and 1996, Mr. Trump persuaded creditors to revamp his original restructuring agreement again and again. According to a person familiar with his dealings, he intentionally made them as complicated as possible to keep others from fully understanding what he was doing.
His struggle involved fights and litigation. He sued partners and verbally attacked people who crossed him, including securities analysts, costing one his job. Colleagues, friends and business partners interviewed described a man whose combativeness could verge on the vindictive. In a GOP debate, when candidates were asked about their weaknesses, Mr. Trump said, “I never forgive.”
Mr. Trump says his tough tactics have always been justified by disloyalty or provocation. “What am I supposed to do, roll over?” he asks. “The harder I’ve fought, the more money I’ve made.”
Launchpad
Mr. Trump got his start in the mid-1970s when New York City’s fiscal crisis made commercial real estate cheap. He began with a $1 million loan from his father, Fred Trump, a builder of middle-class housing in Queens and Brooklyn. His early deals included buying a 75-acre site on Manhattan’s West Side and helping convert an old hotel near Grand Central Terminal into the Grand Hyatt.
Donald Trump in 1987, working from his Trump Tower office overlooking Central Park. Photo: Joe McNallyHulton Archive/Getty Images
When New Jersey legalized gambling in Atlantic City, Mr. Trump bought land there with a bank loan and $7.5 million from his father, according to a report by the state attorney general. After gaining control of two casinos through deals that loaded them with debt, he turned in 1987 to the Taj Mahal, a megaproject being built by publicly traded Resorts International Inc.
Mr. Trump bought a class of shares that gave him just a slice of Resorts’ equity, but voting control. From that perch, he pushed through a service contract that would have the company pay him $108 million over five years. He told casino regulators the company could raise the cash needed to finish its casino only by assuring lenders Mr. Trump would remain involved, which this contract did.
Upon news that funding was uncertain, Resorts’ stock plunged. Mr. Trump then told investors the only way to finish the Taj Mahal was for him to buy Resorts at just above its reduced share price. Construction lenders, he said, were put off in part by the high cost of his service contract.
Mr. Trump then cut a deal with another bidder for Resorts, accepted $60 million to terminate his service contract, and in 1988 ended up with the half-finished Taj Mahal casino. It issued $675 million of bonds to complete construction.
By the late 1980s, Mr. Trump’s holdings included three casinos, the Plaza hotel in New York, the Trump Tower nearby and the Trump Shuttle airline. When a recession struck in 1990, he was buried in debt. “I watched my empire collapsing,” he later wrote.
His first salvage move was to reach a debt restructuring agreement with a large group of lenders. It nearly fell through when a creditor abroad balked. Summoned to Citibank offices late one rainy night to telephone the holdout, Mr. Trump arrived “so down he was almost crying,” says banker Robert McSween.
But on the phone, his charisma kicked in. “He went to the pinnacle of total confidence in 10 minutes. He’s telling them it’s going to be great, we’re going to make it happen,” Mr. McSween recalls. After persuading the holdout, Mr. Trump hung up and jokingly asked the bankers, “How’d I do?”
The agreement gave Mr. Trump five years to work out the debt. The banks granted him a $65 million line of credit to keep things going but limited him to $450,000 a month for personal and household expenses.
A signing was set up in a room full of lawyers. “It was a brutal time. You’re put on an allowance, and you don’t control your own life anymore,” says a person who attended. “He was not a happy camper.”
Mr. Trump signed papers agreeing to a plan to sell off prized properties such as the Plaza hotel but giving him a new financial lease on life. As he did so, says Alan Pomerantz, one of the lawyers, Mr. Trump handed out copies of his memoir, “The Art of the Deal.”
A cut for contractors
The restructuring didn’t cover the newly opened Taj Mahal. As it struggled with a fall 1990 bond payment, contractors were told to accept at least a 30% cut in what they were owed, or risk losing more, says a person familiar with the matter.
James McCullough, a distributor to contractors, says he lost thousands of dollars, as companies “were telling me they weren’t getting paid and they couldn’t pay my bill.”
Mr. Trump says those who lost out might never have had jobs or contracts in the first place if it weren’t for him. “They made plenty of money on me,” he says.
In July 1991, a little over a year old, the Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy.
When another Trump casino, the Castle, was financially strapped, Mr. Trump’s father bought $3.5 million of chips there and didn’t use them. State regulators deemed this illegal aid to a casino.
Mr. Trump denies it was illegal and says the chip method of aid was used because it put his late father ahead of other lenders. He says his father eventually was repaid.
The Taj Mahal emerged from bankruptcy later in 1991, but his other two casinos, the Castle and Trump Plaza, both filed in 1992.
That year, Mr. Trump unloaded more debt as lenders took over his Trump Shuttle and a stake he had in retailer Alexander’s. By now, his Trump Princess yacht and Boeing 727 were also gone.
In New York, he got into a spat over the Grand Hyatt hotel, of which he owned half. The co-owners, the Pritzker family of Chicago, pushed for a costly upgrade. Mr. Trump saw this move, requiring new cash from each co-owner, as an effort to take advantage of him at his time of weakness. He filed a civil racketeering suit against his partners, alleging they were trying to force him out, which they denied.
“I called Jay [Pritzker] and said, ‘You’re a bad guy, Jay. I’m going to kick your ass,’ ” Mr. Trump says today. Mr. Pritzker is deceased.
All three casinos were out of bankruptcy by 1993. In each case, Mr. Trump saved 50% of his equity. Creditors, valuing his knowledge of the business—and not having casino licenses themselves—wanted to keep him involved.
He resumed borrowing. The Trump Plaza issued $330 million of notes. Mr. Trump used $35 million to buy back the part of the casino he had lost in bankruptcy, and $52 million to pay down debt in New York.
He says the borrowing was the bankers’ idea, and he initially resisted. But he was losing faith in Atlantic City, because of city decisions such as planning a convention center away from the ocean instead of on the boardwalk. So he decided to load the casinos with debt and take money out to put elsewhere, he says. “I said: ‘OK. Now it’s junk-bond time. It’s been a great experience, but I’m out,’ ” Mr. Trump says.
In New York, he still was personally liable for millions of dollars in debt. Part was on his West Side Manhattan site. If it had to be sold, he wanted a buyer who would leave him some equity and a management role.
When buyers appeared who wouldn’t have done so, says Abraham Wallach, a Trump aide at the time, Mr. Wallach—on his boss’s instructions—misled them. “I exaggerated the number of people who had lawsuits” about the project and “told them income from the project was less than it could be,” Mr. Wallach says.
Mr. Trump says he doesn’t recall asking his aide to do this, but “it certainly makes sense” that he did.
The sale of the Plaza hotel showed Mr. Trump at his most combative.
Spat with Citibank
Citibank, which had financed most of his purchase of the storied New York hotel, let him continue managing it while both looked for someone to buy it.
Mr. Trump had a cordial relationship with one Citibank executive, Patricia Goldstein. In 1994, her husband was dying of cancer. Mr. Trump says she asked for help in getting him into a hospice run by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Mr. Trump says he contacted the late Cardinal John O’Connor, who got the man in the next day.
Citibank pushed for a sale of the Plaza to foreign investors, who would leave Mr. Trump with little role. “You’re going to go through hell” before that sale happens, he says he told the bank.
He and Mr. Wallach created obstacles by pushing a labor union to oppose the sale and raising concerns about the hotel’s structure with the city buildings department, says Mr. Wallach.
Mr. Trump says he did what he could to scuttle the sale. “I drove [Citibank] nuts,” he says. “I did a number on them that you wouldn’t believe.”
Among his tactics, he appealed to Citibank’s Ms. Goldstein to block the sale, reminding her of his hospice favor. She was “nasty” to him, he says, telling him one thing had nothing to do with the other.
“I said, ‘No one has ever spoken to me in that way. See what I do to you,’ ” Mr. Trump recalls.
After Citibank pushed through the sale, say bank employees of that era, Mr. Trump spoke ill of Ms. Goldstein and told people she had asked him for a personal favor while working on his restructuring.
Mr. Trump says, “I would see her at functions at various ballrooms throughout the city and I would say such things that some people were shocked.”
Ms. Goldstein died last year in a bicycle accident.
“I didn’t send flowers,” Mr. Trump says.
The sale of the hotel ended up being a great deal for him because it reduced his personal debt so much, he says. Citibank declined to comment.
In June 1995, Mr. Trump took the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City public. The public company he controlled later bought both other Trump casinos.
Mr. Trump used part of the IPO proceeds to pay off a bank loan on the Grand Hyatt in New York. He settled his suit against the Pritzkers, and their Hyatt Corp. bought his half for $140 million.
The Pritzkers regard this as one of their best deals because the hotel has soared in value, says a person familiar with their thinking. Mr. Trump says he got the best of it, because the sale valued the hotel at more than it was then worth.
“Hyatt will never forget the number I did on them,” he says.
More bankruptcy
The Trump casinos never recovered full health. The companies that owned them would go on to file for bankruptcy protection three more times.
But Mr. Trump was fast leaving his troubles behind. In 1995 he cut a deal with banks that wiped out the last of his personal debt.
He paid less than half of the roughly $110 million he owed, according to a person familiar with the matter. The discount shows his deal-making skills, Mr. Trump says.
The next year, using cash from the casino sales, he made a deal that wound down the 1990 debt-restructuring agreement. At a hearing on it, an attorney for the New Jersey attorney general’s office—which had spent years studying Mr. Trump’s financial maneuvering—said, “I’m not certain if there’s any one person on our staff that really understood it.”
Mr. Trump, back from the brink, was once again practicing real estate on his own terms, free of restrictions. He also was again leasing a personal Boeing 727—the same one he once had to sell.
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===============================================================================================================================================================================New MexicoMississippiAlabamaIllinoisKentuckyOhioNew YorkMaineSouth CarolinaThese 11 States now have More People on Welfare than they do Employed!!!Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2012, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. Household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. What's the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day.To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for 40 hour week, while the average job pays $20.00 an hour.Furthermore:
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Canada 18% of seniors (65+), with low income, who are in "excellent health":U.S. 12%
England 2%
Canada 6%And now…for the last statistic:
National Health Insurance?U.S. NO
England YES
Canada YESCheck the last set of statistics!!The percentage of each past president's cabinet... Who had worked in the private business sector...prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is; a real-life business...not a government job.
Here are the percentages.38% T. Roosevelt40% Taft
52% Wilson
49% Harding
48% Coolidge
42% Hoover
50% F. D. Roosevelt
50% Truman
57% Eisenhower
30% Kennedy
47% Johnson
53% Nixon
42% Ford
32% Carter
56% Reagan
51% GH Bush
39% Clinton
55% GW Bush
8% Obama
This helps explain the incompetence of this administration: ONLY 8% of them...have ever worked in private business! That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And, when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?They've spent most of their time in academia, government, and/or non-profit jobs. Or... As "community organizers.""Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" -Winston Churchill
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New Mossad Chief: I am Confident the Mossad can Handle Iran
Yossi Cohen, new head of the Mossad, at a committee meeting on December 02, 2015.(Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
At his swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, the new head of the Mossad intelligence agency said that the Iran nuclear deal has “significantly increased” the threat to Israel represented by the Islamic regime.
That threat is the key challenge faced by Mossad, said new chief Yossi Cohen, adding, “Despite the nuclear deal — I think because of it — the threat has significantly increased.”
The deal will lift sanctions on Iran and allow millions of dollars to pour into the country, and has been strongly opposed by Israel, which believes that the agreement is too lenient and will ultimately enable Iran to build a nuclear weapon quickly and easily.
Cohen said that the ongoing conflict in the Muslim world and the growth of individual terror organizations in the region threaten the entire world, and particularly Israel. He blamed “fanatic Islam” for the destabilization of the Middle East.
“Israel is at the epicenter of the storm gripping the Middle East in recent years,” Cohen said. “Fanatical Islamic extremism is rolling across countries, and causing their collapse.”
He said that Iran’s calls for Israel’s destruction are made the more serious as Iran is “intensifying its military capabilities and strengthening its grip on the region”, and that the country uses terror to achieve its goals.
Nevertheless, he said, the Mossad is ready and able to meet the challenges posed by Iran. “I am confident the Mossad will be able to build the strength necessary (to counter the challenges) and form an appropriate response,” Cohen declared.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who presided over the ceremony, said that Mossad bears an immense responsibility. “Our strength is contingent on the willingness of some of our best sons and daughters to bear the burden of ensuring life, liberty and prosperity of the nation,” he said, adding, “I trust you, Yossi, as does all of Israel.”
Netanyahu voiced sharp criticism of the deal as final negotiations by the P5+1 committee were concluded over the summer. He said that it was a “bad mistake of historic proportions” and would not only enable Iran to finance terror activities with the increased revenue brought in by the lifting of sanctions, but “pave the way” for Iran to possess an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
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