Saint in Paradise

This exposé of Donald Trump should BREAK the internet By Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief12:47pm October 15, 2016 Just imagine how in the dark we would be regarding this election specifically, and frankly the world generally, if it weren’t for social media. It’s on Facebook, Twitter and other outlets where stories generally first break, where we see in real time the good, bad and ugly events of the day. Of course, what we see is influenced by the observer –as we’ve seen over and over with edited videos and audio, limited camera angles and blatantly false stories. At its best social media provides the freest platform for our free speech. At its worst, it becomes an echo chamber and a bad game of “telephone” where every tweet and retweet twists, embellishes and ultimately corrupts the truth. TIPPING POINT: These stats are SCARIER than any poll.... UNCOVERED: It's not just 33,000 emails missing... However, every once in awhile you come across something so perfectly on point that it must be shared, and you wonder why our own pundits and our own party leaders are incapable of summing this up. (Well, we know the answer, but we won’t get into that now). In any event, this exposé of Donald Trump was posted on Facebook and in my humble opinion, it’s spot on. Give it a read and see if you agree. Last night a friend claimed that Donald Trump wouldn’t make a good president; he is brash, he is racist, he is a loudmouth; you know the normal things people learn to recite after being programmed by television news. The one I loved was that, “Trump is arrogant.” My friend questioned if one man could make “that much difference in the world today.” To my friend’s credit, she was respectful enough to let me respond when she asked, “Really, what has Trump done?” I said, “In June of last year, Trump entered the race for president. In just a little over a year, Trump has single handedly defeated the Republican party. He did so thoroughly. In fact, he did so in such a resounding way that the Republican Party now suffers from an identity crisis. He literally dismantled the party. Trump even dismantled and dismissed the brand and value of the Bush family. Trump has Obama petrified that Trump will dismiss programs that weren’t properly installed using proper law. Trump has single handedly debunked and disemboweled any value of news media as we knew it—news now suffering from an all-time level of distrust and disrespect. Trump has leaders from all over the world talking about him, whether good or bad. Trust me, powerful men who have been president before weren’t liked by the global community. I doubt Mikhail Gorbachev liked Reagan when Reagan said, “Tear down that wall.” Trump has expressly disclosed the fraud perpetrated on the American public by Hillary Clinton. He has, quite literally, brought Hillary to her knees—if you believe that nervous tension and disorders offer physical side effects and damage. Trump has unified the silent majority in a way that should be patently frightening to “liberals.” As the press accuses Trump of being a house of cards, Trump has proven the press is the real house of cards. He has whipped up the entire establishment into pure panic. Trump has exposed them for who they are and worse, what they are. George Clooney was right when he said Trump draws live news coverage of his podium that he’s not yet approached. Thanks, George, you were perfectly correct. What we see as headline news today are actually the last bubbles from the ship that is now sunk—meaning the standard news media, as a propaganda machine, has been exposed. They have no more value. In the same way Trump asked the African-American community this question, I asked my friend, ”At this point, what do you have to lose?” We have mass cop shootings, riots in our streets, ambushed cops, double digit inflation, bombs blowing up in our cities, targeted police, #BLM, a skyrocketing jobless rate, no economic growth, privately owned land being seized by the federal government, the worst racial tension in my lifetime, no God in schools, more abortions than ever, illegal aliens pouring into our country, sick veterans receiving no care, and a debt that doubled in seven years to $19 trillion. Are you really happy with the condition of the current system? One man has done all of this in one year—one guy, and on his own dime. And with everything I’ve written above, you believe Trump hasn’t done anything? You claim that you are afraid of Donald Trump? No wonder we’re in trouble. You can say that Trump is a lousy presidential candidate. That’s your right. Just don’t ever say he’s not effective. That Megan Kelly, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, Rachel Maddow, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, Raleigh’s News and Observer, the AP, Don Lemon, Jake Tapper, and many more, failed to implement their collectively orchestrated lie on the American people against Trump, is actually a massive testament to Trump. The press colluded pure propaganda to accomplish his demise … and they have collectively failed and miserably.

Sorry but yet again you are incorrect because my friend is not a corrupt lying huggy fluffy pc card carrying commie.

I think that the above post from me can be summed up in the one sentance:- God help us all if we allow the PC political elite to continue the destruction of this country by electing Hillary Clinton. I could think of several other politicans in other countries that could be adapted to as well.

This is an e-mail I recieved today from a friend in the U.S.A. and to me it shows the enormous differences between the candidates. Shown below is a letter from Paula Bedner, Vice President of the Republican Federated Women of The Villages as to why the FFRW supports Donald Trump for President: Last night an 11-year-old "hot mike" tape "surfaced" of Donald Trump talking to Billy Bush (cousin and nephew of two former Presidents and one failed Presidential candidate). Now we see some people who once were full throated supporters of Donald Trump backing off that support. However, it is those "supporters" and not the hot mike tape that I find most confounding and disturbing. I find it confounding that someone who supported Donald Trump did not know who he was all along. He has not hidden who he is from us. He is a man who has swung for the fences his entire life. We knew he was a rich playboy during his life, he has been married three times and dated lots of women, beautiful women, models, jet set women, he never tried to say or imply otherwise. So who didn't know about Donald Trump? If you didn't know, it begs the question, where have you been for the last 30 years? The thing you must remember about people who swing for the fences during their life is that the pendulum swings the other way as well. In the life of Donald Trump the other fence that his pendulum swung to was a multitude of fabulously successful business ventures. Business ventures that made him and his family billionaires, and employed thousands and thousands of people providing wealth and opportunities for each of those individuals and their families. In contrast, the 17 Republican "career politicians" that he defeated in the primary, for the most part lived with the pendulum of their lives swinging in the mushy middle of society, trying to appear to be bold, but really never taking on the hard decisions or owning anything that might come back to bite them in some later race in their life. When we look at Mr. Trump's current opponent, Hillary Clinton, we see a very different type of person. She is a person who doesn't swing for the fences, at least in the light of day or for the greater good. Everything about Mrs. Clinton is smoke and mirrors, and it always has been, all the while riding her husbands coat tails to get what she wanted. She is a person who thinks she is better than us, thinks she is smarter than us, and disgustingly resents us for making her go through the trouble of pretending differently. She is power hungry and money hungry and she uses each one to get the other. She sells us out, and literally sells America to enrich herself. She lies to our faces and then sticks the knife in our backs. She says she is on the side of women, but she continuously and viciously attacks women who have the audacity to report the rapes and sexual abuses of her predator husband. She says women who report rapes should be believed, unless of course they are reporting her husband and it might get in the way of her power and money grab. She says she has been "fighting for children" her whole life, but she laughed about getting the rapist of a 12-year-old child off with only 2 months served. When she was First Lady of Arkansas, a group of handicapped children were at the Governor’s Mansion for an Easter egg hunt. "I've been working for children my whole life Hillary," annoyed to have to be there, yelled at the people running the event "when are you going to get these f-ing retards out of here?" Doesn't sound too pro-children to me. But then again if you tell the lie enough, people believe it. Is this what she meant in those speeches to the big banks about having a public and private stand on issues? I don't want a President who lies to me. I'm sick and tired of the political elite who lie to my face, and then turn around and implement policies that undermine and destroy our country. I'm sick of politicians who don't care what I think past Election Day. I'm sick of politicians who spend my tax dollars to enrich themselves, their donors and friends and then implement policies that work against the best interest of all the rest of us. I'm tired of the PC culture that the political elite has created to not just turn off, but smash the light we try and shine on their actions. I'm tired of politicians who use intimidation, and the IRS to shut us all up. I'm sick of the PC culture that puts us all in danger by keeping people from reporting terrorist activities because they don't want to be called a bigot or some sort of "phobe" or "ist." I'm tired of being controlled and ruled by the political elite who won't do the right thing for America. The right things like rescuing Americans in harms way, stopping the rent-a-mob rioting and looting that keeps overtaking and destroying our cities, allowing parents to choose the schools best for their children, stopping the illegal immigration, and ensuring that refugees we admit are not terrorists in disguise, just to name a few. I'm tired of Americans coming last and the actions of the political elite putting their own best interests first. I've always known who Donald J. Trump was and is. He is a man who has been fabulously successful and someone who pushed the envelope in many aspects of his life, including sometimes saying crude and rude things. What I also know is that he is not a congenital liar. I know he can be brash and not PC. I also know he loves this country with all his heart. I know the rapid decline of this country worries him to his core. I know that he, like us, loves his children and grandchildren with every fiber of his being and is frantic with worry that their lives will be destroyed if the downward trajectory perpetrated by the Obama/Clinton cabal is not stopped. I know who Donald J. Trump is and that is exactly why I have supported him and why I continue to support him. God help us all if we allow the PC political elite to continue the destruction of this country by electing Hillary Clinton.

I thought he was a new signing?

Send the VIN to the makers UK head office and ask them what their records show for that car. Have to say that I think you have taken a massive gambol buying that car and it's not one I would have risked buying - Good Luck.

Perhaps they think that by doing that they will seem to be a "New and Improved Club" and so get more fans. I mean it seems to work for washing powder companies ETC as their sales go up when they offer "New and Improved" versions of their stuff. See you can fool some people for some of the time by good advertising. .

Next year I might make a trip back to the UK from NZ and a season ticket holder I know has said his partner will lend me their season ticket as they won't mind missing one home match for me. No money for the ticket will change hands as it will be a treat for what we did for them when they visited us in NZ and we took them places here. What happens then if Saints do a spot check ? Will I be refused entry and will he then have problems in the future ?

Well done !! But be polite when you tell the 1st job offer company that you won't be taking up their offer after all. You could well have caused them extra work having to look for your replacement. You never know if you will need them in the future IF you start looking for a another change of job.

I had a quick look and it looks great. The only snag for me is that I can't join the video bit as I haven't got a supporter number. :(

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed my first and so far alas last game there. I was 62 at the time in 2010 and appeared more excited than the youngsters who were milling around outside.

Good Luck people hope you get the job you want. Please keep us updated.

Why do Mods let threads like this stay? It is a very old idea that was already way past its best by date a couple of years ago.

Ah but looking at how small those people are and then the depth of liquid in the cup means that they could easily drown if they went overboard.

Reading this thread:- http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?57094-Katarina-meeting-with-Asian-personnel doesn't exactly help.

For everyone expressing disapointment at the amount of money spent I would ask them if they are as quick to overspend their own money ? It is very easy to spend money, just look at how much is owed on credit cards etc, but the time comes when it has to be paid back. That is when overspending comes back and bites very very hard and that results in a nasty situation and causes lots of tears and pain. Saints were purchased by a Gentleman to whom such spending was abhorrent, something which he no doubt fully ingrained into his family who are now still only spending what they know they can afford. As an O.A.P. with a fixed income I can fully understand Saints position because neither of us want to end up in the crap moneywise.

Even more serious IF true but it is now being alleged that Clinton has Parkinsons desease. I am not medically qualified so I am unable to say if this article is correct, I am just posting it so you can have a look. http://www.dangerandplay.com/2016/08/12/hillary-clinton-has-parkinsons-disease-physician-confirms/ Pretty dangerous to put that in writing in the U.S. unless you really know and can prove it I think.

My friends wife is always saying that he is a miser so to prove her wrong he took her out for tea & biscuits. He said it was quite exciting - it seems she's never given blood before.

"Life is like a penis—simple, relaxed and hanging free. It's women who make it hard."

I remember a certain Dave Watson and in my very humble opinion he was the best ever.

The sooner this season starts the better then all this speculation will end as we will be able to see what is actually happening. I am not getting at anyone and I confess that even after all my years following Saints I am always a bit aprehensive before the season gets going ( Not as much as Dalek though )

Barcelona Soccer Excellence are visiting the Bay of Plenty in September and October to run three-day training camps for the region's top youth football talent. They will visit Rotorua and Tauranga as part of the newly formed Premier Football Partnerships with Nelson-based coach Matt Campbell. Barcelona Soccer Excellence, led by former Barcelona youth player Diego Gomez and his team of UEFA-licensed coaches, has a presence in Spain, US and China and will visit New Zealand for the first time. "We are excited to provide unique opportunities to young footballers in New Zealand," said Campbell, who is the general manager of a football development programme in Nelson and the West Coast. "To get an organisation of this calibre, with their group of UEFA A licensed coaches involved, is a real coup for the programme and the region." The programme is open to all football players between the ages of 9 to 17, both male and female. There are just 64 places available in each camp so space is limited to ensure each student gets quality time with the coaches. The clinics will run from September 29 to October 1 at Rotorua Boys' High School and October 3 to 5 at Tauranga Boys' College. A clinic will also be held in Hamilton from September 26 to 28.

As long as beowulf isn't Les Reed I am 99% sure Saints will be excellent again.

More good positive news then lets hope it continues.

How do the doubters on here know that it was started by the Man Utd PR dept? Maybe Luke heard about that family and asked them to write his thoughts in a letter as he knew they could phrase it better than he could?