I never thought there was a proper comparison for The Westboro Baptist Church, but now that this Muslim has dared ventured out on a limb and compared ISIS to the hate-mongers in Westboro, I can absolutely see the connections. They’re both the same. Beheading their ‘enemies’ as in ISIS, or rejoicing when others are killed as in the Baptiste Church, hate is hate and these two groups are masters of it.
Was it the cannabis? Was she high? We don’t know for sure, but whatever made this reporter quit her job on live television with an expletive, is definitely one for the ages.
Charlo Greene, a reporter for Anchorage-based television station KTVA, revealed that she was at the center of the story she had just covered, telling viewers that she is the owner of an area cannabis club.
“Now everything you heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska.”
And then came the profane, sure-to-be-viral on-air resignation.
“And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but: Fuck it, I quit,” she said, giving a final shrug and walking off the set.
The woman who served as anchor of that night’s telecast was left reeling.
“Alright, we apologize for that. We’ll be — we’ll be right back. Pardon for us,” the clearly flustered anchor said.
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It’s refreshing to know that there are some in Congress who are demanding something be done to make sure the this doesn’t happen again. Peter King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, spoke on Fox News Sunday and called the total lapse by the Secret Service “absolutely inexcusable,” and he suggested a congressional hearing into the breach of security be done.
“This is absolutely inexcusable! This demands a full investigation, an investigation as to what happened, why it happened and what’s being done to make sure it never happens again.”
“He could have had a body bomb; he could have [had] a vest on! There can be a lot of conspiracies against a president, a lot of complex assassination plots. This is the most basic, the most simple type of procedure, and how anyone, especially in these days of ISIS, and we’re concerned about terrorist attacks, someone could actually get into the White House without being stopped is inexcusable.”
Needless to say, I disagree with just about everything Peter King has to say. He’s a Republican, so there. But in this case, I am in agreeance with the man. I am pretty shocked!. That someone can jump the fence and be allowed to go on a Sunday jog casually across the North Lawn, up to the doors of the White House and then enter the building is freaking mind-boggling!
According to the response from the Secret Service, the man wasn’t taken down because he didn’t appear to have a weapon. Huh? So that allows him free passage into the most secure place in the nation?
The man, later identified as 42 year old Omar J. Gonzales from Texas had a knife in his pocket when he entered the doors of the White House. Can you imagine if he was a suicide bomber?
Absolutely inexcusable indeed!
Dozens of Turkish hostages abducted by Islamist militants in northern Iraq were freed Saturday after three months in captivity, CNN reports.
Militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria raided the Turkish consulate in June and seized 49 people, including Consul General Ozturk Yilmaz.
Others abducted included his family, children and other citizens who were at the consulate in Mosul at the time, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
Of the total, three were local employees and 46 were Turkish citizens. All were freed and the latter are now in their home country, Turkish authorities said.
It’s unclear how they were freed, but Erdogan thanked Turkish intelligence officials in a statement on his website.
“I thank … every single member of the national intelligence agency from the director to the field operatives,” he said. “I congratulate them for their big success from the bottom of my heart.”
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I came across this article by Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard because I happened to be trolling around right wing sites and thought he had a provocative, interesting idea. I also found a site that castigated Progressives for Palin Derangement Syndrome. You know, that knee-jerk negative reaction the left has whenever Palins’s name comes up. The author seemed to suggest that those on the left were offended by Palin’s obvious feminism and suggested that the left loved women’s rights and opinions, but not Palin’s. Especially when she was shown shooting a gun. What the author missed is that Sarah Palin just sounds uninformed whenever she speaks. I have plenty of respect for her as a woman, as a mother, as someone who wanted to serve the people of Alaska. I just happen to disagree with every single word she utters. Nothing more, nothing less.
But I digress.
Fred Barnes wants the GOP to Go Big or Go Home, hence the title of my response. He says that if only the Republicans would advocate abolishing the IRS and a stronger, more muscular foreign policy, then they would win the hearts and minds of the American people. He does say that these positions might not win the GOP the Senate this fall, but would provide a template for action that the party could run on in 2016.
The problem is that most Americans do not want to get rid of the IRS, even though they hate its very guts. Deep down, they understand that if the United States is going to make good on its mission to protect the homeland and the common good, then it will need funds and a means by which to collect them. That’s what the IRS does. What Mr. Barnes should really be advocating is that all the companies that evade U.S. corporate taxes should actually pay up. That might lessen the burden on the overburdened middle class and it might provide more funds for, you know, schools, roads, bridges, job programs and Medicare.
Barnes is not at all specific when he talks about why the country needs a more muscular foreign policy, or even what that looks like. I have a suspicion that it looks like a foreign policy that throws bombs and bullets on people who are either innocent or who already hate us to the point that more bombs and bullets will help their recruiting efforts. But he doesn’t say, so this is all conjecture.
The article is instructive because these positions are precisely why the GOP has only won one big election since 2008, when they took over the House in 2010. Every other election has gone to the Democrats despite the baying from the right that Obama is abusing his power and is wrong on every issue. Clearly, America does not agree with that.
And that’s why the Republicans will not win a majority in the Senate this fall, nor will they win the presidency in 2016.
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I posted the first part of this post which was originally published on The Daily Beast. This is definitely a must read for all.
“I can pretend to belong here better than Trayvon and Mike Brown were ever given the chance to. But however hard I try, however well they treat me, I know this is not my country.”
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When my father first came to this country as a graduate student, there was an incident where he and a friend were walking home and were suddenly confronted in a parking lot by a group of apparently intoxicated students in a car, driving around them in circles, shouting threats and racist catcalls.
My father’s friend counseled him to ignore it, to wait for them to get their jollies and leave, that this is just the kind of thing that happens once in a while.
My father waited, and they didn’t leave, and then my father picked up a rock and said, “I’m counting to thirty and if they’re not gone by then this rock is going through their windshield.”
Luckily, they tired of the sport and peeled off around when my dad hit fifteen. It’s good for me that they did—had the rock gone through the windshield, had glass flown in a thousand bright shards across the asphalt, had the driver slumped over, bleeding, and the car doors swung open and his friends stormed out filled with anger, had police been called and charges been filed—well, I probably wouldn’t be here.
If by chance one of those students had been a Zimmerman, carrying a firearm for “self-defense” against “violent criminals” armed with rocks, I very definitely would not be here.
There was a moral to this story when my father told it to me, a moral that I hated more than any of the other morals that came attached to his other anecdotes.
It was a moral that explained many things. It explained, for instance, why he never went to parent-teacher association events, never integrated himself into “the community.” Why he consistently obeyed Rule #1, a rule that my friends’ white suburban parents had never considered—a rule I would not hear from others until I actually met people who’d grown up urban and poor when I got older—Never Talk to the Cops. (In the Bill of Rights it’s actually Rule #5.)
Why he urged me to choose a career specialization based on objective assessment of skills and achievements, one where success was quantifiable, one whose practitioners were organizationally indispensable. To take an “Asian” job like engineer, scientist, programmer. One where there was little room for subjectivity, where the personal impression of the interviewer counted less. To stay away most of all from fields where I would be judged purely based on how well people could relate to me, like direct sales, like middle management, like the performing arts.
To never, ever, ever put my livelihood in a position where I depended on white people liking me.
Because it was a lesson he learned the night that some random drunkards decided that terrorizing two pedestrians in a car, swerving toward them again and again, would be fun—would have no legal consequences because the cops wouldn’t care, would have no moral consequences because the victims didn’t matter.
A lesson he learned every time he was pulled over for a speeding ticket, or pulled aside by the store detective and asked to turn out his pockets, or quietly scoffed at and eyerolled at by a customer service rep for his accent.
That lesson was:
This Is Not Your Country.
You can live here. You can make friends. You can try to live by the law and be a decent citizen and even maybe make a lot of money.
But you will never, ever belong. You will never, ever be one of them. And you must never, ever trust them.
Robert Ransdell is running for Senate in Kentucky. He wants to unseat the Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and is competing against Alison Lundergan Grimes. Robert Ransdell is a Neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and a White Supremist, and I already know he will be welcomed in the Republican party if he wins. Of course, he has no chance of winning, but… just in case he does, Republicans will welcome him with open arms!
“I believe that there is no such thing as racial equality,” he said. “You see that in our cities every day.”
He’s counting on his online supporters to spread his message.
“Online we have had a lot of positive feedback,” Ransdell said. “We’re going to find out what kind of feedback we get once we go out and take it to the people here in the state of Kentucky.”
According to WLWT, the signs were actually illegal because they didn’t include the name and address of the people who paid for them. The signs at US 25 and Mt. Zion Road were taken down last week, as the property owner did not give Ransdell permission to put the signs up.
Ransdell isn’t only anti-Semitic, he’s a white supremacist. Ransdell laid out his campaign promises on the website Stormfront.org.
“The purpose of this campaign is for it to serve as a medium for pro-White/White Nationalist ideas and principles. The campaign will attempt to expose as many White people as possible to the facts regarding the Jewish role in America’s decline as well as highlight the destructive effects that multiculturalism, diversity, and political correctness have had on this country,” he wrote. “This campaign will not simply rest on informing people of the truth but will aim to inspire the people who are reached to work toward solutions to the problems Whites in America face today, solutions that the campaign will provide with much resolve and candor.”
Thought you knew everything there was to know about The Walking Dead? Think again…
Really? In the greatest nation on earth we have to put up with nut jobs jumping the White House fence and running all the way into the symbol of American exceptionalism? How the… what the… why was this man able to not only jump the fence, but allowed, yes allowed to run across the North Lawn and bust into what’s easily considered the most secure place in the country, probably on the face of the earth?
Who was asleep at the wheel? That is the question the Secret Service is asking themselves today after the stranger was arrested inside, yes… dude made it all the way inside the White House.
Now I’ve been inside the White House. It is a place where you must submit to a month-long background check, just to get in the side door. Who would have thought that the way to bypass all that security and still make it into the building was just to jump the fence for a short jog to the front door?
The incident happened on Friday. The video shows the man sprinting across the White House lawn as if on a mission, as if trying to prove that it could be done, that it was possible. He bust through the front door to the building and at that point, was apprehended by Secret Service. As fate would have it, the President and his family had left the building for their trip to Camp David just minutes earlier.
The man, identified as 42-year old Omar Gonzalez of Cooperas Cove, Texas, was taken to the hospital for a mental evaluation and analysis. But I’m sure there will be more analysis among the Secret Service tofigure out exactly what happened.
With all the threats being made to the president and the whole ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State… whatever thing going on, we should all expect a more proactive response from the people hired to protect the president. It is called the most secured place in the nation for a reason, and sitting back and waiting for a potential crazed maniac to break through the front doors of the White House is definitely not proactive. Heads should roll because of this incident.
This incident makes no sense at all.
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I must say, I totally agree.
In his weekly address, President Obama spoke about the strategy to “degrade and destroy” ISIL. And he emphasized that although there are no immediate threats against America, actions must be taken now to combat the terrorist group. With that said, the President explained that ISIL is not only a threat to neighboring countries, but its threat is potentially global. And he said that over 40 countries have already come forward to join the effort to eradicate the ISIL plague.
Over 40 countries have offered to help the broad campaign against ISIL so far – from training and equipment, to humanitarian relief, to flying combat missions. And this week, at the United Nations, I’ll continue to rally the world against this threat.
An eyewitness to the incident said that Bristal Palin was like a mad woman. Said Roberta Thompson, “what I saw was two girls run past and run towards Korey, and then I just saw Bristol Palin start punching him in the face. It was quite, quite violent!”
The incident Roberta Thompson was referring to was a brawl that happened at a home where the Palins were in attendance. Police responded to the location and verified that the Palins were in fact, present and involved.
After hearing what eye witnesses had to say about the fight, you would think Sarah Palin would denounce the violent actions taken by her daughter and other members of her family, but you’d be wrong to think that.
Today, Sarah Palin came out and defended her daughter Bristol and the assault she carried out on others at the home. In a Facebook post, Sarah professed her love for her daughter, and said that she was “proud” that Bristol violently attacked the man at the home to protect her family.
I love my Bristol! My straight-shooter is one of the strongest young women you’ll ever meet. I have to say this as a proud mama: right up there with their work ethic and heart for those less fortunate, my kids’ defense of family makes my heart soar! As you can imagine, they and my extended family have experienced so many things (liberal media-driven) that may have crushed others without a strong foundation of faith, and I’m thankful for our friends’ prayer shield that surrounds them, allowing faith to remain their anchor. Thank you, prayer warriors! I love you!
Now I totally understand and appreciate your unconditional love for your children Mrs Palin, but does that ‘love’ requires you to be an enabler? Should you ignore your kid’s crime in the name of ‘love’? Assaulting someone is a crime Mrs Palin, punishable in most states with time in jail. Shouldn’t that “love” require, no demand you to point out Bristol’s wrong and help her deal with her violent ways?
Oh, now I see what being a mama grizzly really mean. This is how grizzlies show their love I guess…
