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and he called for a halt to immigration of Muslims from certain nations until we can better determine their reason for wanting to come to this country.

(Ignoring for now if even that there would be problems even with that..)

Nope.

From https://www.donaldjtrump.com/p...
(and whois shows that The Trump Organization registered it).

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com... says the same thing

Donald Trump called Monday for a "total and complete shutdown" of the entry of Muslims to the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

No "certain nations". Total and complete shutdown.. BASED ON RELIGION. That's by definition prejudiced.

BTW, I am probably far far far more right wing than you on many issues.. This and many other of his ideas/statements, are just evil.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

What? Several black churches were burned to the ground and N** sprayed painted everywhere. The KKK's brand of racism is alive and well.

You know, it's quite a coincidence that these attacks only occur during Presidential elections and only when Democrats are having a hard time 'motivating' black voters tiger to the polls and vote...

Except that burning down African-American churches is not something that only occurs during presidential elections. In fact, it happens all the time. We just notice it more during elections.

Here, for example are some stories from early 2015: http://www.theatlantic.com/nat...
and https://www.washingtonpost.com...
and https://www.washingtonpost.com...
and https://www.splcenter.org/hate...

What? Several black churches were burned to the ground and N** sprayed painted everywhere. The KKK's brand of racism is alive and well.

You know, it's quite a coincidence that these attacks only occur during Presidential elections and only when Democrats are having a hard time 'motivating' black voters tiger to the polls and vote...

Except that burning down African-American churches is not something that only occurs during presidential elections. In fact, it happens all the time. We just notice it more during elections.

Here, for example are some stories from early 2015: http://www.theatlantic.com/nat...
and https://www.washingtonpost.com...
and https://www.washingtonpost.com...
and https://www.splcenter.org/hate...

If that is the kind of "news" site that is making the claim that Hillary was funding riots, I'll take it as evidence she did not.

So if there is a parody of something, that means the something doesn't exist? Try googling bird dogging, Scott Foval, and Rob Creamer. They literally paid people to incite violence at Trump campaigns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The site I linked above had no obvious disclaimer saying it was a parody site. It claimed to be a news site, and was using a domain similar to that of an actual news company. As for your suggestions to google Rob Creamer and Scott Foval, I did, as I had never heard of either of them. What I read about Scott Foval was that someone released a heavily edited video of him to make it appear he said certain things. Googling Rob Creamer turned up a single result on the first page that was an article by a news company.... owned by Donals Trump's son in law. I stopped there.

If that is the kind of "news" site that is making the claim that Hillary was funding riots, I'll take it as evidence she did not.

So if there is a parody of something, that means the something doesn't exist? Try googling bird dogging, Scott Foval, and Rob Creamer. They literally paid people to incite violence at Trump campaigns. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Not working full time is the underemployed stat. I am very sure about these issues with BLS stats. My research professor for my grad degree did work in econometrics and always commented that the BLS unemployment series was manipulated to hell and back.

But what the hell do I know, not like the labor force participation rate is at historic lows... wait a minute, they are. At least, we aren't seeing a downward sloping Labor force participation rate that walks in step with a downward U3 and U6, indicating discouraged unemployment over 12 months. Oh wait... we are. Not like we are seeing increases in food stamp and public housing... oh we are.

I am not the first to notice this problem with unemployment rate.

If you supported Trump kindly go fuck yourself, and I'll take the moderation results of this post. If not then I apologize to you, but not the man who decided to run a campaign based on sowing as much hatred as absolutely possible.

This is what happens when you run that kind of campaign.

We didn't protest when Barack Obama was elected. Twice.

Here's some observations about the protests:

• Pre-printed signs,
• Cash to pay protestors
• Crowd Warm-up pro
• Professional inciters
• Alert media to get it all on TV

You're being manipulated.

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There were quite a few protests in 2008 and 2012, and they had the above list in effect.

It is more of a disaster that people don't know that we live in a Republic, and not a democracy.

Really? America is not a democracy? Read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

What other parts of the Constitution is it time to 'get rid of'???

The first amendment, apparently. Maybe a little of the second amendment. The pesky fourth still needs some trimming, and the fifth gets in the way of mandatory death sentences. Since we're making edits, why not tweak the sixth amendment too?

Other than your failure about Democracy versus Republic, why should there be ANY issues at all about electorcal district lines? Make each electoral district have as small a perimeter as possible. Do not allow districts like this to exist - they are an abomination to the whole concept of districts in the first place.

> Because I've got a feeling he just scammed a bunch of rednecks,

He courted Kaisich for the VP spot by telling him the VP would be the defacto president (in charge of "foreign policy" and "domestic policy"). There is every reason to think he made the same deal with Pence. And Pence was at least as big of a supporter of the TPP as Cinton was.

You're aware that Obama started off with Democrat majorities in both branches of Congress? Heck, he even had a fillibuster-proof supermajority for about half a year (which was when they pushed through Obamacare). The Republican majorities that thwarted Obama were a result of his actions, not in spite of. (I expect the same will happen to Trump in 2018 if he goes off the deep end, with Democrats re-taking the Senate and House.)

As for obstructionism, the Washington Post has a database of House and Senate members' votes which you can sort by how often they vote with their own party. I've had this debate numerous times and have sifted through the database as far back as the beginning (1991). The only real pattern which pops up is that the party in control (D or R) tends to vote along party lines more strongly, while the minority party members tend to compromise and vote against their own party more. This pattern holds regardless of which party controls Congress, and some of the so-called obstructionist Congresses actually had higher rates of compromise than others. Likely the claims of obstructionism are just cherry-picked data - someone upset that a bill didn't pass wanted to blame people opposed to it, rather than the content of the bill.

Protip: The world does not world like 'Red Mars'

No, but it should.

Space expeditions are not staffed from Grateful Dead parking lots

Nor were they in the book. Everyone was at the top of their field.

going 'ohhhm' over plants does not work,

Plants react to sound, and it is an area of intense scientific research.

socialism does not work

In fact, socialism does work, and better than any other system. Of course, it has to be actual socialism. We have many examples of working socialist systems even within our own government, like successful municipal utilities, or Social Security which would be just fine until at least 2040 if they didn't keep looting the coffers.

He didn't, he was supported by David Duke who is currently running for senator and isn't connected to KKK anymore. Hilary Clinton was on the other hand endorsed by Black Lives Matter, a known terrorist organization which has proven to be dangerous.

He was serenaded by the KKK newspaper: https://www.washingtonpost.com... Arguing about whether that article is an endorsement or not is nitpicking. That along with plans to make Muslims carry special IDs tells me everything I need to know about that man's leanings.

You've been eating up everything the media (biased, even though they claim they're not) has been saying about Trump. I tried to warn people like you. Trump is not a right-wing extremist like the media has been trying to portray him to help get Clinton elected. He was actually one of the most politically moderate candidates running in the primaries. That's a large part of the reason the Republican party leaders were horrified he won the nomination. They wanted someone more solidly right-wing (which is why he selected Pence as VP - to mollify the party bosses).

His political beliefs aligned pretty closely with the American mainstream, not the skewed viewpoint the party faithful think is "normal" (either party). I warned you to take him seriously, but instead the press went off-topic onto witch hunts looking for any dirt they could come up with on him, while Clinton supporters got busy planning a transition into a Clinton Presidency. The only poll which seems to have got it right was the USC / Los Angeles Times poll, which tried to correct for how people who refused to answer polls would vote. Apparently with all the public lambasting of Trump going on in the media, a lot of Trump supporters weren't comfortable telling strangers (pollsters) that they were voting for him.

A better question - what is this "Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories" that BO is criticizing?

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Of course, since the Washington post is just a piece of liberal MSM trash, their internet story might be a fake.

They just use different language. Instead of "rigged", use the words "voter suppression".

Except voter suppression IS are real thing - or there would be nothing for courts to overturn. Again and again and again...

http://www.democracynow.org/20...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.thenation.com/arti...

I mean... either those laws WERE voter repression... or it's a secret conspiracy buy judges in various US states against the Republican party's attempts to... hmm...
Wait... hold on... there must be a way to paint this as a conspiracy against old white conservatives instead of the people they are actively trying to keep from voting.

But why even bother with that... when "UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT" puts it so much more succinctly:

After years of preclearance and expansion of voting access, by 2013 African American registration and turnout rates had finally reached near-parity with white registration and turnout rates. African Americans were poised to act as a major electoral force.
But, on the day after the Supreme Court issued Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612 (2013), eliminating preclearance obligations, a leader of the party that newly dominated the legislature (and the party that rarely enjoyed African American support) announced an intention to enact what he characterized as an âoeomnibusâ election law.
Before enacting that law, the legislature requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices.
Upon receipt of the race data, the General Assembly enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans.
In response to claims that intentional racial discrimination animated its action, the State offered only meager justifications.
Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist.

Oh... and by the way... while you're cherry picking through wikipedia... You do know that other people can read that and point out that your worm is showing?

I mean... I'm not even talking about you quoting THIS as a proof.

Earl Mazo, a reporter for the pro-Nixon New York Herald Tribune, investigated the voting in Chicago and "claimed to have discovered sufficient evidence of vote fraud to prove that the state was stolen for Kennedy."[43]

Which IS proof, but only for the paranoid conspiracy theory bias among Republicans.

I'm talking about you failing to read the full section. Like this part.

In Illinois, Schlesinger and others have pointed out that, even if Nixon had carried Illinois, the state alone would not have given him the victory, as Kennedy would still have won 276 electoral votes to Nixon's 246 (with 269 needed to win).
More to the point, Illinois was the site of the most extensive challenge process, which fell short despite repeated efforts spearheaded by Cook County state's attorney, Benjamin Adamowski, a Republican, who also lost his re-election bid.
Despite demonstrating net errors favoring both Nixon and Adamowski (some precinctsâ"40% in Nixon's caseâ"showed errors favoring them, a factor suggesting error, rather than fraud), the totals found fell short of reversing the results for either

See the gender gap for an explanation. A Florida doctor (a scientist, so read it with a hushed reverence) has a theory about the outliers.

If you don't provide a link to actual evidence of wrongdoing, any bald claims of wrongdoing are no better than lies. Meanwhile, nothing can change Trump's idiocy, such as his repeated denials of global warming, which reveals both his ignorance and his parochialism (that is, if the USA isn't experiencing excess warming, then it ain't happening anywhere else, right?). And then there are claims by Trump about resources and scarcity, which completely destroy his professed goal of "making America great again" --that is, Trump doesn't seem to realize that abundant resources was exactly what allowed America to become great in the first place. Nowadays anything that hasn't been used up is locked down by wealthy owners --is Trump, who wants wealthy Republicans to support him, going to take those resources away from them, so that the majority of Americans can benefit? Hah!

Even though Google is attempting to censor searching for Clinton's scandals they are still visible. Mostly based on this, but I added some missed.

Monica Lewinsky: Led to only the second president in American history to be impeached. Hillary is not "pro-woman" as her and pundits will attempt to claim.
Benghazi: Four Americans killed, an entire system of weak diplomatic security uncloaked, and the credibility of a president and his secretary of state damaged.
Asia fundraising scandal: More than four dozen convicted in a scandal that made the Lincoln bedroom, White House donor coffees and Buddhist monks infamous.
Hillary’s private emails: Hundreds of national secrets already leaked through private email and the specter of a criminal probe looming large.
Whitewater: A large S&L failed and several people went to prison.
Travelgate: The firing of the career travel office was the very first crony capitalism scandal of the Clinton era.
Humagate: An aide’s sweetheart job arrangement.
Pardongate: The first time donations were ever connected as possible motives for presidential pardons.
Foundation favors: Revealing evidence that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-to-play back door to the State Department, and an open checkbook for foreigners to curry favor.
Mysterious files: The disappearance and re-discovery of Hillary’s Rose Law Firm records.
Filegate: The Clinton use of FBI files to dig for dirt on their enemies.
Hubble trouble: The resignation and imprisonment of Hillary law partner Web Hubbell.
The Waco tragedy: One of the most lethal exercises of police power in American history.
The Clinton’s Swedish slush fund: $26 million collected overseas with little accountability and lots of questions about whether contributors got a pass on Iran sanctions.
Troopergate: From the good old days, did Arkansas state troopers facilitate Bill Clinton’s philandering?
Gennifer Flowers: The tale that catapulted a supermarket tabloid into the big time.
Bill’s Golden Tongue: His and her speech fees shocked the American public.
Boeing Bucks: Boeing contributed big-time to Bill; Hillary helped the company obtain a profitable Russian contract.
Larry Lawrence: How did a fat cat donor get buried in Arlington National Cemetery without war experience?
The cattle futures: Hillary as commodity trader extraordinaire.
Chinagate: Nuclear secrets go to China on her husband’s watch.
Watergate: Committee chairman stated that if he had the power to fire her he would have. “She was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Juanita Broaddrick: Another woman attacked and threatened by Hillary who brought rape allegations against Bill Clinton.
Paula Jones: Yet another woman attacked and threatened by Hillary who brought rape allegations against Bill Clinton.

Nope, it's not the "woman" thing people have problems with. We have problems with an extremely long list of scandals and concern for self interests and self preservation. Politicians are supposed to be there for the people, and the Clinton's have left a legacy of doing the exact opposite. Their vast fortune gathered while she held public office and encyclopedic list of legal troubles should tell you all you need to know.

You mean like Trump's foundation illegally paid Trump's legal bills, his personal bills and was used as he and his daughter's personal piggy bank?

Perhaps Trump should explain why the New York State Attorney General ordered his foundation to cease operations in New York because of its illegal activities.

Not to mention the "donation" the foundation gave to the Florida State Attorney General's campaign, also illegal, which oddly made the state's investigation of Trump's fraudulent University mysteriously go away.

You mean like Trump's foundation illegally paid Trump's legal bills, his personal bills and was used as he and his daughter's personal piggy bank?

Perhaps Trump should explain why the New York State Attorney General ordered his foundation to cease operations in New York because of its illegal activities.

Not to mention the "donation" the foundation gave to the Florida State Attorney General's campaign, also illegal, which oddly made the state's investigation of Trump's fraudulent University mysteriously go away.

Try here for the ruling Judge's commentary on clear intent with "surgical precision" for suppression of minority votes.

Well, these things are all true today. Next year, who knows?

Trump threatens to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters

Donald Trump vows to "open up" libel laws to make suing the media easier.

"With me, they're not protected, because I'm not like other people. We're gonna open up those libel laws, folks, and we're gonna have people sue you like you never got sued before."

Try telling a Green that Nuclear Power is a vastly superior and cleaner alternative.

Actually, the "Greens" have been telling us that very thing:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/en...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...

Where in that article did it say the alleged fraudster was a Trump supporter?

Here's a better article, with photographs of the vote fraudster actually caucusing for Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The Trump "Organization" doesn't own Trump.org. They could have, but missed it. Here's yet another tiny reason why you should ask yourself: Is he fit to be president?

Not really clear that there's anything here. A news organization always checks with the subject of an article before running the article-- this is standard procedure, and it's also standard procedure to correct errors of fact that are pointed out-- it is desirable to do this BEFORE an article runs.
I think they're stretching on this.

Oh yeah?

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

This is just a blatant Hatch Act violation.

Senator Reid — a Slashdot veteran? Why are you calling yourself "sh00z"?

While on the subject of Hatch Act, perhaps, you should look into John Podesta's BFF — who tipped her campaign before, and whose son joined the campaign openly — "investigating" Hillary Clinton?

That's why it is:

The department also has a policy of not taking unnecessary action close in time to Election Day that might influence an election’s outcome. These rules have been followed during Republican and Democratic administrations. They aren’t designed to help any particular individual or to serve any political interest.

(Source)

Interestingly the only case of voter fraud we can be fairly sure of was a Trump supporter: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

She admitted that she voted twice.

Twitter and Youtube are rather lousy in this regard too...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

What Training Helps Older Programmers Most?

Overall decline in health is, what threatens aging professionals the most — not ignorance of the exciting new technology of the week. Learning a particular tool has never been especially valuable — education is supposed to teach you one thing, primarily: how to learn new things on your own. If you are a developer already, you must've mastered that long ago.

So, strength training and regular walks and/or yoga (while still legal).

If you're still a Hillary supporter, it has to be through willful ignorance.

Hands over ears
Eyes closed
Saying, lalalalalalalala

Or perhaps you need to listen to a little less Trump and read the Comey letter here .

Look here for Comey's internal email to FBI employees yeah, "Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations" but since I am being forced to turn in my GOP hat, I am going to sink a presidential candidates bid for the whitehouse on something I have ZERO clue about at this point by my own admission. Yeah, Comey could have taken another week with increased scrutiny until he actually had found or not found something, instead of choose an inappropriate and reckless way to inform the general public and the congress about an on-going FBI investigation and a potential new source of data was found.

Of course the "liberal" (no such thing) media jumped all over it instantly and misled the public and Trump walks out on stage and gives a speech that is filled with so much lies and misrepresentation that the fact he was able to do it is another example of why he is not fit to be president.
 

Washington Post: Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation https://www.washingtonpost.com... That story was picked up all over the media.

Not that Comey isn't trying to fix that. Interesting tweetstorm from former DOJ spokesman Matthew Miller:

This is such an inappropriate public disclosure by Comey. And sadly the latest in a long string of them.

Comey refused to even tell Congress if FBI was investigating Trump camp for Russia hack, but regular updates on Clinton are apparently A-ok.

I wrote a piece in July on why Comey's public comments about Clinton were such an inappropriate abuse of power. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

He flagrantly violated DOJ rules with his press conference. Then went on to break new ground discussing details of the case to Congress...2/

Followed by quickly releasing FBI 302's, something they rarely do, and which I doubt they will do for future high-profile cases. 3/

Each time, he either violated or seriously stretched DOJ rule & precedent. Press conference was the original sin, & it begat the rest. 4/

But today's disclosure might be worst abuse yet. DOJ goes out of its way to avoid publicly discussing investigations close to election. 5/

Not just public discussion either. Often won't send subpoenas or take other steps that might leak until after an election is over...6/

Why? Because voters have no way to interpret FBI/DOJ activity in a neutral way. Who is the target of an investigation? What conduct? 7/

This might be totally benign & not even involve Clinton. But no way for press or voters to know that. Easy for opponent to make hay over. 8/

Which takes us back to the original rule: you don't comment on ongoing investigations. Then multiply that times ten close to an election. 9/

For whatever reason (& there are many theories), Comey continues to ignore that. But only for Clinton. 10/

FBI is undoubtedly investigating links between the Russian hack, Manafort, & the Trump campaign. But aren't commenting on it. Good! 11/

They shouldn't be commenting on investigations! But that should apply to all. Instead Clinton consistently treated differently/worse. 12/12

I've thought for a while that it would be to the benefit of the country and both parties to form a pact that, regardless of who wins the election, congress will immediately impeach them.

The republicans have already said that is their plan. So... yay?

I wouldn't say that was 'independently wealthy', but it is far better than the majority of Americans. 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings. As of this year, 46% of Americans couldn't cover a surprise $400 expense. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I do agree that people without a reserve have a lower chance of improving their long term prospects, but it isn't always about learning how to manage the money. Sometimes, people are stuck in a bad situation and have no way of catching up. The 'living paycheck to paycheck' crowd should probably stick with the cheap option when it comes to internet ('no internet' is probably unrealistic), but that is often Google. Google probably needs to grasp the realities of taking payments from consumers who actually have to time the payment of the bills in order to avoid being overdrawn (and further punished for being poor).

I had a motorola atrix once. Easily my least favorite/least durable phone ever. I had an otter box case even, it slipped out of my hand from two feet above the ground, landed on the top corner of the phone, and entire screen turned into a spiderweb of cracks. Maybe other motorola's faired better?

Seems like the future for manufacturing in the US is the Elon Musk approach - factories employing as much automation as possible; those will provide jobs for the contractors that build them, but thereafter not so much.

Compared to his "gigafactory" which will make batteries and employ 6,500 people, the future of Tesla manufacturing will be that there are no people on the production line, at all.

Gigafactory
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

Tesla Factory
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Everyone loves to complain how we lost our manufacturing to China, but the truth is we began losing it a LONG time ago with the "invention" of automation. Companies bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. will earn big rounds of applause, but in all likelihood, will only be doing so because they're determining that it's cheaper to do without the humans at all.

Just remember, a vote for Hillary is a vote for four more years of lies, evasions, secret warrants and other unconstitutional actions.

And you think Trump is more trustworthy?

No, but Gary Johnson is. He has a proven track record of honesty. See

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/years-before-aleppo-moment-gary-johnson-showed-little-interest-in-details-of-governing/2016/10/03/f62a00fa-873d-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html

You may disagree with Johnson's politics or his governing style. But as one politican in the article says, "at least he told us what he was going to do. This man is honest." The article ends with the following quote from Johnson:

“But I don’t think you would find anyone who would say I wasn’t thoughtful about every decision I made,” he added. “I gave a reason, I had logic and a process. Would I be any different as president? No.”

Reasoned honesty is the one thing that I want most, so I'm voting for Johnson.

Nobody likes Putin.

Except of course for all the people who like Putin.

Just because you know people who are responsible gun owners does not mean everyone is and the statistics prove it out, particularly when it comes to children either killing themselves or others with guns they found lying around.

Then there are those who think Russian roulette is a game.

This doesn't include those gun owners who don't bother to report their guns have been stolen. Which is odd because if they're responsible they wouldn't leave their guns in their cars.

My company uses "G Suite", née Google Apps for Work, and I just verified that that these options are disabled for my G Suite account and can't be enabled. I don't think they'll every be explicitly enabled because of the stink the universities raised about this (UC-Berkeley students actually sued them) but I'm sure Google is looking for any justifiable way around it.

The problem is that Trump is far less predictable than Clinton. He may promise to "dry up the swamps" and that may be a nice goal by itself, but he has proven that he's changing his positions more than any of the "all talk no action" politicans. For example, look at the primaries, where he switched his positions about abortion: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

So yes, maybe Trump will change America, but you can't be sure at all into which direction he will change it. And even when he becomes president, the only people who will help him are probably the republicans, and they will only let through laws that follow the republican party line, which is far less progressive than the democratic one.

Clinton may be corrupt, yes, but her proposed policies are much better than anything trump has proposed outside of feelgood promises like "we will replace it with something much better that I can tell you".

I beg to differ with your "ignorant" statement. Trump is much smarter than people believed

If he were smart, he would have been much more careful with what he said while wearing a mic.

Yeah, because smart people never do that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...

Yes, the Saudis gave about $10 million for the Clinton Presidential Library. But they gave the same amount for George H. W. Bush's library.

That was okay though.

Yes, the Saudis gave about $10 million for the Clinton Presidential Library. But they gave the same amount for George H. W. Bush's library.

How much will they give to the Hilary Clinton Email Archive?

You do realize that the Saudis have given tons of money to the Clintons too, right?

And many millions of those donations weren't even for helping children in Africa, they were for letting the Clintons build a monument to themselves, the Clinton Presidential Library, which makes it even worse.

Yes, the Saudis gave about $10 million for the Clinton Presidential Library. But they gave the same amount for George H. W. Bush's library.