Author: Ezra Grant

I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!

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Donald Trump Politics

MTV Debunks Trump’s “Thousands and Thousands” Celebrating Comment – Video

Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have been busy lately, trying to prove Trump’s claim that there were “thousands and thousands” of people celebrating in the streets of New Jersey when the World Trade Centers fell on September 11th.

One of the places they got information from was a post written in May of 2013 by Debbie Schlussel, a conservative blogger. In her piece, the blogger referenced reporting from MTV News and MTV’s interview of a woman who said she saw people celebrating in the streets in New Jersey.

That post from Schlussel seems to be the origin of Trump’s “thousands and thousands” lie, and MTV, being thrust in the middle of Trump’s presidential campaign, dug in their archives and found the video in question. They also did a followup with the woman they interviewed back then and, once again, debunked Trump’s false claims that “thousands and thousands” of people were celebrating in New Jersey.

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BLM Donald Trump Politics

Black Pastor on Donald Trump – “He lacks the decorum” to be President – Video

Donald Trump was supposed to get 100 endorsements from black pastors today, but in the closed-door meeting between the Republican candidate and the pastors, he only walked away a few.

“Overall the mood was very positive” one pastor recalled about the closed-door meeting. Although the pastor admitted that Trump would probably not get his endorsement.

Interviewed on MSNBC, the two pastors, Bishop Orrin Pullings Sr. and Bishop Victor Couzens, spoke about some of the topics brought up in the meeting, topics including the recent incident at a Trump rally where a BlackLivesMatter protester was “ruffed up.” Asked about Trump’s response to their inquiry about that incident, the pastor replied that Trump said he didn’t know the protester was from BlackLivesMatter.

Asked if Donald Trump is the same loud mouth and outspoken man behind closed doors as he portrays on the campaign trail, the pastors responded that Trump was very different in the closed-door meeting.

“I saw somebody different behind the scenes,” one pastor said. “I was very disappointed with the fact that he did not represent and articulate himself.” The pastors said that although Trump was there in the meeting, other members of his campaign answered numerous questions and made statements on his behalf.

Asked if Trump got any endorsements in the meetings from the black pastors, the answer was yes, although he did not get the amount of endorsements he was looking for.

“I wasn’t one of the ones that endorsed him and I don’t know that I will even become ones that endorse him. I think there is a certain decorum that the president of the United States has to be able to exemplify. I appreciate his business acumen, but he short still on decorum in my book.”

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Politics

Alan Grayson Questions “Canadian Born” Ted Cruz’s Eligibility to Run for President

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 15: Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., participates in a news conference calling for no funding of the escalation of the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. (Photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images)

Karma is amazing, eh?

Barack Obama was born in America to an American mother. But that didn’t stop Republicans like Donald Trump, from claiming that Mr. Obama is not a citizen of the United States and thus, ineligible to hold the office of President.

Ted Cruz was NOT born in America. He was born in Canada and the last time I checked, Canada was a totally different country. But Republicans, including Donald Trump, have apparently accepted Cruz’s Canada birth as acceptable enough to run for president in America.

But one congressman is questioning Cruz’s eligibility, and he is filing a lawsuit to prove his point.

Alan Grayson, a Democrat, told Fox News Radio Cruz does not meet the constitutional requirement that the president be a natural born citizen.

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1970 to a Cuban-born father and American-born mother, and had American and Canadian dual citizenship as a result.

Cruz did not acknowledge his dual citizenship publicly until 2013 when the Dallas Morning News published his birth certificate, but renounced it in 2014, saying at the time “as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American.”

“The Constitution says natural born Americans, so now we’re counting Canadians as natural born Americans?” Grayson said during an interview with Alan Colmes on the radio network. “How does that work? I’m waiting for the moment that he gets the nomination and then I will file that beautiful lawsuit saying that he’s unqualified for the job because he’s ineligible.”

Colmes told Grayson he thought it was interesting that many of the people who were concerned about President Barack Obama having a Kenyan-born father — his mother was American and he was born in Hawaii — don’t share the same concern about Cruz.

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Planned Parenthood Politics shootings

Planned Parenthood Shooter Described as “Weird” and “Conservative”

The man who enter the plan Parenthood last weekend and killed three people including a police officer, is being described as “weird” by a neighbor who knew him, and a “conservative” gun owner by his ex wife.

“He was the kind of person you had to watch out for,” a neighbor told The Washington Post. “He was a very weird individual. It’s hard to explain, but he had a weird look in his eye most of the time.”

In 1997, Dear’s then wife, Pamela Ross, once called the police to accuse him of domestic violence, The New York Times reported. Ross said that Dear could have flashes of anger, but usually he would later apologize.

Dear was politically conservative, religious, owned guns and believed that abortion was wrong — but he was not obsessed with any of these issues, Ross said.

“It never, ever, ever, ever crossed my mind” that he would be capable of a mass shooting, Ross told The Times. “My heart just fell to my stomach.”

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NBA Sports

Kobe Bryant Announces His Retirement

In a poem-like announcement titled, Dear Basketball, the Los Angeles 20 year veteran of the NBA announced that this season will be his last as a basketball player.

Dear Basketball,

From the moment
I started rolling my dad’s tube socks
And shooting imaginary
Game-winning shots
In the Great Western Forum
I knew one thing was real:

I fell in love with you.

A love so deep I gave you my all —
From my mind & body
To my spirit & soul.

As a six-year-old boy
Deeply in love with you
I never saw the end of the tunnel.
I only saw myself
Running out of one.

And so I ran.
I ran up and down every court
After every loose ball for you.
You asked for my hustle
I gave you my heart
Because it came with so much more.

I played through the sweat and hurt
Not because challenge called me
But because YOU called me.
I did everything for YOU
Because that’s what you do
When someone makes you feel as
Alive as you’ve made me feel.

You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream
And I’ll always love you for it.
But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer.
This season is all I have left to give.
My heart can take the pounding
My mind can handle the grind
But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye.

And that’s OK.
I’m ready to let you go.
I want you to know now
So we both can savor every moment we have left together.
The good and the bad.
We have given each other
All that we have.

And we both know, no matter what I do next
I’ll always be that kid
With the rolled up socks
Garbage can in the corner
:05 seconds on the clock
Ball in my hands.
5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1

Love you always,

Kobe

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Climate change Politics Stupid

Mike Bloomberg – Ted Cruz “says some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard”

In an interview on CNN, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, was asked about Climate Change and the Republican’s position on the issue – you know they say the science behind Climate Change is false, and although records are being broken on a yearly basis suggesting a warming trend, Republicans insist this warming is a figment of our imagination.

The former mayor mentioned two current Republican presidential candidates, Ben Carson who made a living in the Science field, and Ted Cruz, once called the smartest student in his class by a Harvard professor.

After dismissing “right-wing crazies” who reject mainstream climate science, Bloomberg was asked by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour what he made of the GOP field.

The billionaire media mogul, who has championed the issue of climate change, first criticized retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

“There’s one of them who was a surgeon, unfortunately at Johns Hopkins, who doesn’t believe in science,” Bloomberg said. “Somebody said that’s like a business executive that doesn’t believe in profits.”

Bloomberg then said that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had said some of the “stupidest” things about climate change despite his intellect. He noted that Cruz’s intelligence had been praised by Alan Dershowitz, a prominent attorney who was once Cruz’s Harvard professor.

“You’ve got a guy like Ted Cruz — who I think Dershowitz said was the smartest law student he ever had — and he says some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard,” Bloomberg said. “The only explanation — the only explanation — is he doesn’t believe it; he’s just saying it.”

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Donald Trump Politics

Republicans Attack – “Donald Trump is a Fascist”

Since announcing his run for the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump has led the field of possible candidates, and has led despite multiple lies and misinformation by his campaign.

But apparently some of the more recent lies and ignorant statements from Donald Trump is causing some in his own party to question his intellect and his ability to lead their party and more relevant, to be President of the United States.

Republican experts are warning that Trump could do lasting damage to the GOP, and that his nomination in the party primaries would essentially hand the presidency to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Several campaign teams in the primary race now appear to be coalescing around the need to oppose the celebrity billionaire’s candidacy.

Establishment conservatives even took the unfathomable step of using the F-word against a member of their own party.

“Trump is a fascist. And that’s not a term I use loosely or often. But he’s earned it,” Max Boot, a military historian and foreign policy advisor to Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, posted on Twitter.

“Forced federal registration of US citizens, based on religious identity, is fascism. Period,” added John Noonan, a national security advisor to former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

In its Tuesday editorial the New York Times said the past week of the campaign had been “dominated by Donald Trump’s racist lies.”

The Seattle Times used similarly strong language in a Wednesday editorial that denounced Trump’s “button-pushing lie after button-pushing lie.”

“Trump’s campaign message reflects a kind of creeping fascism,” the paper said. “It needs to be rejected.”

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Donald Trump Politics

Republican Leader Donald Trump Mocks Disabled NY Times Reporter – Video

 

Donald Trump, the leader in the Republican race for president, has once again hit rock bottom. But the blind Republicans supporting his presidential bid apparently see nothing wrong.

In his never-ending quest to prove there were “thousands and thousands” of people in New Jersey celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers, a lie that has been debunked over and over, Trump stood in-front of a group at a campaign rally on Wednesday and  began reading from an article he said was written days after the September 11th attacks. He then showed the crowd how the reporter – a man who is physically disabled – Trump, the Republican presidential leader, gave the crowd his interpretation of how the reporter acts and talks.

Needless to say, people are upset again at the Republican, but it is a safe bet to say that Republicans will love him more.

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Politics

President Obama’s Turkey Pardon Ceremony Filled with Jokes – Video

Soo much jokes, even his daughters cracked up, at one point telling their father, “that was good!” The joke that brought on the First Daughters’ approval?

“It is hard to believe that this is my seventh year of pardoning a turkey,” the President said. Then he chimed in, “Time flies even if turkeys don’t.”

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Politics

Lawsuit Filed Against Refugee Refusing Governor

I can only imagine that there will be a lot more law suits of this sort, since Republican governors nationwide are blatantly violating the Constitution for their own dumb brand of politics.

A lawsuit challenging the Indiana governor’s decision to stop state agencies from helping resettle Syrian refugees alleges that the action wrongly targets the refugees based on nationality, and violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the federal lawsuit Monday night on behalf of Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization Exodus Refugee Immigration. It accuses Gov. Mike Pence of violating the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, by accepting refugees to Indiana from other countries — but not from Syria.

The first-term Republican governor objected to plans for refugees to arrive in Indiana following the recent deadly attacks in Paris. Five days after the Nov. 13 attacks, a family that had fled war-torn Syria was diverted from Indianapolis to Connecticut when Pence ordered state agencies to halt resettlement activities.

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Featured Politics

Dashcam Video of Laquan McDonald’s Murder Released – Video

Officer Jason Van Dyke

It took a year! I’ll say that again, the Chicago police sat on this video for a year under the guise that they were conducting an internal investigation. But now, following the orders of a judge, the video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald is released.

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is credited with this killing and received a 1st degree murder charge for shooting 16 rounds into Laquan’s body as he laid dead on the ground. Van Dyke turned himself into police custody today, but when this incident happened a year ago in October 2014, the police union said that Laquan “lunge” at the officers and was shot one time.

Of course, eye witnesses on the ground denied that claim.

“To watch a 17-year-old young man die in such a violent manner is deeply disturbing,” Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said. She called the video “graphic,” “violent” and “chilling” and said it “no doubt will tear at the hearts of all Chicagoans.”

She goes on to say that Officer Van Dyke was on the scene for less than 30 seconds when he shot 16 bullets into Laquan. Alvarez also said that the officer began “shooting 6 seconds after getting out of his vehicle.” and that 13 of the shots were done when Laquan was on the ground.

WARNING, Video contains disturbing images!

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Politics

Patti LaBelle Invites the Sweet Patato Pie Reviewer to Thanksgiving Dinner – Video

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 25: Patti LaBelle attends the premiere of "For Colored Girls" at Ziegfeld Theatre on October 25, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Thanks to James Wright Chanel and his YouTube review, Patti LaBelle’s Sweet Potato Pie is flying off the shelves. James’ review is now viral, seen by millions of people since he uploaded it earlier this month. To show her gratitude, LaBelle has invited James to dine with her at her Philadelphia home for Thanksgiving.

“You give love to people who give you love,” Patti told FOX 29 Philadelphia’s Quincy Harris Tuesday morning. “And you know, I didn’t expect a viral video.”

And Patti confirmed that she will be cooking dinner.

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