Bibi Haniffa posted:

Come on now.  You and I both know these kids wanted to cut school.  What do they know or care about Trump.  This is all cheap political mileage for Mayor DeBlasted.  He is looking for votes for his re-election in November.  Add he is willing to sacrifice anything for it, including these kids schooling.

most school kids are under 18 and not eligible to vote

Obama"s polls on his way out is way higher than Trump's polls on his way in. Obama gave no reason for anyone to go after him, he came with no baggage and left with none. Today, Donald tweeted about his daughter's clothing line being dropped by a large chain store, that's not ethical , that is a family business. World leaders send condolences to the families of the SIX Muslims that was gunned down in a Mosque in Quebec, all except Donald Trump. WHY!!

Bibi Haniffa posted:

When did the Republicans and Trump use the media to go after Obama???

The party of NO refused to work with Obama on anything...thus the need for so many executive actions by Obama...

Trump used the media to push the birther movement...

Tea Party used the media to further their agenda against Obama..

Did you watch FOX, read Briebart and other right wing media to see their relentless attack against Obama...

Begazi was investigated multiple times by the Republicans...Fox carried it 24/7

West Virginia republican mayor called Michelle Obama an ape in heels

I can find some more.....

Bibi Haniffa posted:

When did the Republicans and Trump use the media to go after Obama???

Trump and the Republicans pandered in fake news and lies so it would have been very difficult for the media to partner with them.

Fake news and Alternative Facts works for the masses who voted for Trump. With Twitter, he can amass his followers against any senator or even a judge.

The Man has the Power-of the People. Some alyuh in big big trouble.

For over 200 years in America, elections have been won and lost.  There has always been peaceful transition of power.  Now the Dems have their children running through the streets to protest a constitutionally elected President.  This is the mentality of the people who wanted to run America.  This is how the Dems are showing the world that America is the greatest democracy.  Every single one of them is behind this, from Hillary to Obama, Schumer, and last but not least DeBlasted!!!  Who by the way is facing a hearing today with the mighty Preet Bharara. 

Please, stop the crying...this is not yourPPP

This is real people who fight, not run away

What works for the PPP in Guyana does not apply to America. Protesting is Capitalism  and Democratic  freedom at its best other than poisoning your opposition. 

There was a peaceful transition of power. Peaceful demonstrations or some where there are instances of vandalism is not an indication that this peaceful transfer did not occur.

It is their democratic right to demonstrate, to start the next electoral campaign now if they want to. The republicians and their allies did not let up on their attacks on Obama over the past eight years. What is the basis on which you state that Hillary and/or Obama are behind the demonstration?

It is Trump that is making the US a laughing stock in the world. I wonder how the great democracy can elect someone  like Trump as president. The Speaker of the British House of Commons indicated that he will not be allowed to address Parliament.

I didn't see the Republican parents sending their kids out in the street during school hours to scream and holler when G W Bush was handing over the Presidency to the half Kenyan President.

Bibi Haniffa posted:

I didn't see the Republican parents sending their kids out in the street during school hours to scream and holler when G W Bush was handing over the Presidency to the half Kenyan President.

Your statement is simply  racist. I was of the impression you were intelligent.  Somehow you assume those kids are as dumb as Trump. Donald is an old fart and the biggest fraud to control America.

Trump is a graduate of one of America's best Ivy League universities and I can tell you that he did not become a billionaire because he was stupid.  He won the Presidency of the United States constitutionally and democratically.  If you have a problem with that, then I don't know what to tell you.

A large inheritance and 4 bankruptcies will make anyone rich...

BTW Bibi, I am sure you can go to any IVY league college and do well or better than Trump...once you have the money

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Fred Trump did not have a fraction of the money as his son Donald.  And Bankruptcies does not mean you are poor.  Businesses file chapter 7 everyday in America to restructure their debt and rebuild.  Didn't American Airlines and other companies file bankruptcy?  Do you think they are poor?

Whenever his intellectual credibility is questioned or mocked, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is quick to remind everyone where he attended college.

“I went to the Wharton School of Finance,” he said multiple times in a July 11 speech in Phoenix, Ariz. “I’m, like, a really smart person.”

Trump transferred into Wharton’s undergraduate program — then known as the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce — after spending two years at Fordham University in New York. He graduated in 1968 and has embraced the school’s card-carrying prestige ever since.

In an Aug. 16 television interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he described the school as “probably the hardest there is to get into.” He added, “Some of the great business minds in the world have gone to Wharton.”

“Why do you have to tell us all the time that you went to Wharton?” moderator Chuck Todd asked. “People know you’re successful.”

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“They know it’s a great business school,” Trump replied.

Despite Trump’s repeated mention of Wharton, his own classmates hardly remember him, and he even describes the school’s high-flung reputation as overwrought in his 1986 book, “Trump: The Art of the Deal.”

“In my opinion, that [Wharton] degree doesn’t prove very much, but a lot of people I do business with take it very seriously, and it’s considered very prestigious,” Trump wrote.

He added, “It didn’t take long to realize that there was nothing particularly awesome or exceptional about my classmates, and that I could compete with them just fine.”

During Trump’s rise to the top of the real estate development world, various news publications exaggerated his academic achievements at Wharton, according to a 2011 Salon magazine article.

Reports of Trump’s grades at Wharton vary. The New York Times reported in 1973 and 1976 that he graduated first in his class. But in a 1985 biography of Trump, Jerome Tuccille wrote that he was not an honor student and “spent a lot of time on outside business activities.”

Another biographer, Gwenda Blair, wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer. The officer had known Trump’s older brother, Freddy.

Trump’s classmates doubt that the real estate mogul was an academic powerhouse.

“He was not in any kind of leadership. I certainly doubt he was the smartest guy in the class,” said Steve Perelman, a 1968 Wharton classmate and a former Daily Pennsylvanian news editor.

Some classmates speculated that Trump skipped class, others that he commuted to New York on weekends.

“Four years — including lots of required classes — is a long time never to hear of a classmate, especially with such a distinctive name,” wrote 1968 Wharton graduate Larry Krohn, another one of Trump’s classmates, in an email.

In a manner hardly consistent with his outsized personality, college-aged Donald Trump was barely seen around campus on weekends, remained uninvolved in most campus activities and his picture was even absent from the yearbook. While there’s no lack of Trump hotels, casinos and golf courses, no building on Penn’s campus bears his name.

Though he only attended Penn for two years and was not especially active on campus, Wharton’s alumni magazine named him one of their “125 Most Influential People” in 2007.

A Wharton spokesperson said that the leadership of the alumni office and magazine have turned over since the publication of the article, and declined to comment further on Trump. Penn has declined comment to multiple news sources on the topic of Trump’s presidency and attendance at the University.

Another classmate, who did not wish to be identified, speculated that Trump might not have interacted much with his class at Wharton because his late transfer required him to take the core courses that many of his classmates had taken as freshmen and sophomores.

Other students disputed this notion, pointing out that Trump still completed the curriculum in two years — meaning at least some of his credits from Fordham had to transfer over.

Of the 13 classmates who spoke with the Daily Pennsylvanian, only one remembers seeing Trump at all on campus. That student, 1968 Wharton graduate Ted Sachs, remembered a far different Trump than “The Donald” of today.

“I liked him. I thought he was a really nice low-key guy,” Sachs said. “He was very self effacing — he never talked about himself.”

Sachs, retired from a finance and consulting career and now residing in Lake Forest, Ill., sat next to Trump in a finance class. Sachs would get lunch occasionally with Trump, but after their class together ended, he heard less from him. It was only until nearly 10 years after he graduated that Sachs realized that Trump was the son of wealthy real-estate developer Fred Trump.

As Donald Trump assumed worldwide recognition in the 1980s after the publication of “The Art of the Deal,” Sachs began to recognize less of the friend with whom he would eat fried oyster sandwiches outside of class.

“I was lost — I didn’t get it,” Sachs said of Trump’s public persona. “I thought he kept two sides to his life, as some people are capable of doing.”

Seeing the quietly ambitious student grow into the gregarious face of a conservative movement did not leave Sachs completely surprised.

“He sort of had a magnetism about himself. He knew where he was going — that was clear,” Sachs said of Trump. “Looking back, I had that sense: he knew something at that age that I didn’t.”

Other alumni, many of them business leaders in their own right, still have not encountered their famous classmate, who as of Aug. 18, leads the 17-person Republican field with 24 percent of the vote, per a CNN poll.

For many of his classmates, Trump is just an image, a figurehead, a celebrity personality. They know he went to Wharton, that at some point he must have sat in the same desks as them and taken the same tests. But they only remember the Trump they see now, plastered throughout the media with snippets of his latest controversial statement or idea.

For Sachs — who actually remembered Trump from their college days — uncovering the true Donald Trump is no easy task.

“I suspect underneath there’s a decent guy. Fifty years is a long time. After any relationship, does anyone really know a person?

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Fred Trump did not have a fraction of the money as his son Donald.  And Bankruptcies does not mean you are poor.  Businesses file chapter 7 everyday in America to restructure their debt and rebuild.  Didn't American Airlines and other companies file bankruptcy?  Do you think they are poor?

WHo said Bankruptcies mean you are poor???

bankruptcies mean you are stiffing your lenders out of millions....even though you may have the funds....just means that your liabilities are a lot lot more than your assets

This IS the REAL America. The John Adams, George Washington America NOT a Orange Orangutan America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RiffRaff posted:

I remember a big high school protest in Guyana...I think it was for a teacher who was fired in Berbice...

yuji22 took part in that protest as a student leader. True story.

Gilbakka posted:

RiffRaff posted:

I remember a big high school protest in Guyana...I think it was for a teacher who was fired in Berbice...

yuji22 took part in that protest as a student leader. True story.

I spearheaded that protest.

It happened when the then PNC government fired known WPA teachers. My English teacher Seeraj who was my mentor was also fired and I called out for all Line Path Secondary student to protest. 

All schools from the Corriverton area joined in a massive protest. We ended a peaceful protest at the Rice Board near the stelling road. It is an event that I will never forget.

All of the teachers were later reinstated.

Thanks for mentioning it Gil. I am now an old keyboard warrior. I respect those NYC students right to protest against their President. They are the brave future leaders of tomorrow. I have lots of respect for them, lots of respect.

Yugi, Bill Maher gun be on CNN tonight, a memebr of the audience plea with him to give Trump a chance. Bill asked the man if Trump does pull facts out of his kakahole!!!!!!!!! A must watch tonight at 9 following CNBC Townhall on Chicago.

Nehru posted:

Yugi, Bill Maher gun be on CNN tonight, a memebr of the audience plea with him to give Trump a chance. Bill asked the man if Trump does pull facts out of his kakahole!!!!!!!!! A must watch tonight at 9 following CNBC Townhall on Chicago.

I am going to watch it. 

I supported Trump but now I feel like an AFC supporter. Duped. At least I catch sense early. My sister ( Hillary supporter) from Long Island called and gave me an earful, it is still ringing.

I respect that. Everyone has a right to select a Candidate. You expected him to respect the Office of the President, he choose to disgrace it. Not your fault.

Yuig, but unlike the KFC naive, shameless Snakeoil IDIOTS to accept the face that Trump is not what you expected BUT not the Filth Heads Parasites, they dug in like Donkeys and keep braying. Nuff RESPECT to you Bhai.

yuji22 posted:

Gilbakka posted:

RiffRaff posted:

I remember a big high school protest in Guyana...I think it was for a teacher who was fired in Berbice...

yuji22 took part in that protest as a student leader. True story.

I spearheaded that protest.

It happened when the then PNC government fired known WPA teachers. My English teacher Seeraj who was my mentor was also fired and I called out for all Line Path Secondary student to protest. 

All schools from the Corriverton area joined in a massive protest. We ended a peaceful protest at the Rice Board near the stelling road. It is an event that I will never forget.

All of the teachers were later reinstated.

Thanks for mentioning it Gil. I am now an old keyboard warrior. I respect those NYC students right to protest against their President. They are the brave future leaders of tomorrow. I have lots of respect for them, lots of respect.

Seeraj and I went to Skeldon Scots School in the 60's before he went to Lutheran. He and I also worked at Skeldon Scots school together. Every time I go to Guyana, I visit him. He went to Howard in the 70s before returning to Guyana.

skeldon_man posted:

yuji22 posted:

Gilbakka posted:

RiffRaff posted:

I remember a big high school protest in Guyana...I think it was for a teacher who was fired in Berbice...

yuji22 took part in that protest as a student leader. True story.

I spearheaded that protest.

It happened when the then PNC government fired known WPA teachers. My English teacher Seeraj who was my mentor was also fired and I called out for all Line Path Secondary student to protest. 

All schools from the Corriverton area joined in a massive protest. We ended a peaceful protest at the Rice Board near the stelling road. It is an event that I will never forget.

All of the teachers were later reinstated.

Thanks for mentioning it Gil. I am now an old keyboard warrior. I respect those NYC students right to protest against their President. They are the brave future leaders of tomorrow. I have lots of respect for them, lots of respect.

Seeraj and I went to Skeldon Scots School in the 60's before he went to Lutheran. He and I also worked at Skeldon Scots school together. Every time I go to Guyana, I visit him. He went to Howard in the 70s before returning to Guyana.

Skelly,

Seeraj was my mentor at Line Path Secondary High School. He mentored me and I later became the President of Line Path Secondary.

He taught me English and we used to have discussions on politics and international affairs. He gave me a broader perspective on world affairs and politics. He is an atheist and we used to have discussions on religion and atheism.

He introduced me to the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King and the struggle of African Americans and the injustices that they endured.

Imagine a Bramhan son and an atheist having discussions on religion. It was entertaining.

I really learnt a lot from him. He never told us that he was a Howard graduate. He was a humble man and very funny. 

yuji22 posted:

skeldon_man posted:

yuji22 posted:

Gilbakka posted:

RiffRaff posted:

I remember a big high school protest in Guyana...I think it was for a teacher who was fired in Berbice...

yuji22 took part in that protest as a student leader. True story.

I spearheaded that protest.

It happened when the then PNC government fired known WPA teachers. My English teacher Seeraj who was my mentor was also fired and I called out for all Line Path Secondary student to protest. 

All schools from the Corriverton area joined in a massive protest. We ended a peaceful protest at the Rice Board near the stelling road. It is an event that I will never forget.

All of the teachers were later reinstated.

Thanks for mentioning it Gil. I am now an old keyboard warrior. I respect those NYC students right to protest against their President. They are the brave future leaders of tomorrow. I have lots of respect for them, lots of respect.

Seeraj and I went to Skeldon Scots School in the 60's before he went to Lutheran. He and I also worked at Skeldon Scots school together. Every time I go to Guyana, I visit him. He went to Howard in the 70s before returning to Guyana.

Skelly,

Seeraj was my mentor at Line Path Secondary High School. He mentored me and I later became the President of Line Path Secondary.

He taught me English and we used to have discussion on politics and international affairs. He gave me a broader perspective on world affairs and politics. He is an atheist and we used to have discussions on religion and atheism.

Imagine a Bramhan son and an atheist having discussions on religion. It was entertaining.

I really learnt a lot from him. He never told us that he was a Howard graduate. He was a humble man and very funny. 

Seeraj and his parents belonged to the Aryan Samaj group. Not sure when he got to be an atheist. His two older brothers also went to Howard. The oldest brother is a doctor who retired a couple years ago. The older brother is Balraj Seepersaud who taught at Line Path also. I know the whole family and some cousins also.

The intelligent trait runs in their family. 

I always share my good experiences in Guyana with my children. I have never shared my political experiences with my children. They are open minded and do not see race.

Seeraj name always comes up and my children always tell me that I sound as if I was born in America or Canada with the way I speak and conduct myself professionally. I always say thanks to Seeraj for mentoring me.

I have to say that a good mentor is always important in our lives.

We walked out of scholl in GT IN SUPPORT of the firef teachers

I was 12 years old

2nd form

Any of u know Isaa from line path...I think his son name is Tony

I think he was a jewlerer. Tony died at a young age in an accident I think

RiffRaff posted:

Any of u know Isaa from line path...I think his son name is Tony

I think he was a jewlerer. Tony died at a young age in an accident I think

I know Essa and his family. I don't know his son Tony. I know his other son Nigel. His son lives in Toronto.