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

Trump on Ending Mass Shootings -“That’s the way the world works” -Video

Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate running for president in 2016 is running on the message that only he can “make America great again.” But when it comes to stopping mass shootings in this country,  Donald Trump is admitting that there is nothing a Trump presidency would do to cut down on this form of domestic terrorism.

“You’re going to have these things happen and it’s a horrible thing to behold, horrible,” Trump said in an interview Friday morning on Morning Joe. “It’s not politically correct to say, but you’re going to have difficulty and that will be for the next million years, there’s going to be difficulty, and people are going to slip through the cracks.”

Trump was responding to a question about what he would do to stop the mass shootings.

“What are you going to do?” Trump asked. “That’s the way the world works, and that’s the way the world always has worked.”

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Politics

Possible Social Media Posting From The Oregon Shooter – PIC

The posting is still being investigated by authorities. As of now, no word on its connection to the shooting in Oregon where a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at a community college, killing 10 people and wounding 7 others. The gunman was killed when he exchanged fire with authorities. The name of the victims and the shooter have not been released.

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Barack Obama Politics

President Obama is Frustrated With Yet Another Mass Shooting – Video

And rightly so. President Obama has given so many of these speeches that, according to his statement, Americans are sadly taking these shootings as “routine.” But this speech on the most recent shooting in Oregon seems somewhat different. You can sense the anger, the frustration in the president as he called out Congress on its refusal to do anything yet again as more Americans are killed.

“This has become routine. The reporting is routine, my response here at this podium has become routine,” the President said.

The president spoke to the American people, urging them to vote for leaders who will lead and get sensible gun laws enacted in this country.

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Politics

Another Day in America, Another Mass Shooting

This has sadly become a way of life, or should I say a way of death here in America. Today’s shooting happened in Oregon.

The gunman who opened up shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg Oregon apparently asked students to stand up and state their religion, according to one witness. Kortney Moore, 18, said she was in Snyder Hall when the shooter asked people to name their religion and then began firing.

According to the state attorney, 13 people were killed and another 20 injured. The gunman, a 20 year old, was also killed when he encountered the police.

The night before the attack, the shooter appears to have had a conversation with others online about his intentions, that source said.

“We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms. Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralized,” Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler told CNN.

He said that two patients died while being transported to a hospital.

The shooting appears to have started in one building before the gunman moved to the school’s science building, the source told CNN. Those killed and wounded were found in at least two classrooms.

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Politics

Bernie Sanders Capitalizing on Small Donor Support – Hillary Needs Big Donors

In this photo taken May 20, 2015, Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., poses for a portrait before an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. For Democrats who had hoped to lure Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren into a presidential campaign, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders might be the next best thing. Sanders, who is opening his official presidential campaign Tuesday in Burlington, Vermont, aims to ignite a grassroots fire among left-leaning Democrats wary of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is laying out an agenda in step with the party's progressive wing and compatible with Warren's platform _ reining in Wall Street banks, tackling college debt and creating a government-financed infrastructure jobs program. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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This is definitely good news for the Bernie camp. They must be happy with this news.

According to a new report, Bernie Sanders has raised just about the same amount of money mostly from small donors, as Hillary Clinton has, and the bulk of her donor-base is coming from a few large donors and Superpacs.

The Vermont senator’s campaign says he has raised about $26 million for his presidential campaign in the past three months. Coming mostly from small donations given online, the sum underscores the draw of his insurgent campaign among the grassroots of the Democratic Party.

Clinton’s campaign, in its own announcement Wednesday, said she had taken in $28 million. Most of it came from fundraisers hosted by big donors across the country. Many took place in the traditionally Democratic treasure chests of Manhattan and Hollywood. She raised at least $19 million from about 60 events where admission typically cost $2,700, the biggest donation allowed by law.

The Sanders campaign has held just seven traditional fundraisers since launching at the end of April, said Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs, compared to a total of more than 110 for Clinton over the same period.

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Ben Carson Politics

Ben Carson – A Nazi-type Government Could Happen In The United States

In the latest polls, Donald Trump is still leading with 23% and tied for second at 13% is Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina.

What happened? Last time I checked, Ben Carson and Trump were virtually tied for first place! Well, I’m not sure what’s happening to Carson, but maybe decisions like saying Obama is not Hitler, is contributing to his falling poll numbers among the Obama-hating Republican party.

Take this latest Carson statement for example. In a recent interview, the Republican presidential candidate said that a government like Nazi Germany’s could reign over the United States.

Carson argued during a campaign stop in New Hampshire that a similar regime is possible in any nation that relinquishes its freedoms.

“I beg to differ,” he said after proposing that scenario is impossible in America, according to CNN.

“If you go back and look at the history of the world, tyranny and despotism and how it starts, it has a lot to do with control of thought and control of speech,” Carson said.

“If people don’t speak up for what they believe, then other people will change things without them having a voice,” the retired neurosurgeon added.

“Hitler changed things there and nobody protested. Nobody provided any opposition to him.”

Carson also refused comment on Wednesday afternoon about the American he thinks most resembles Nazi leader Adolf Hitler today.

“I’m not going to go into that,” he said without elaborating further. “I think the example is pretty clear.”
Carson then rejected the idea that his speech was referencing President Obama’s White House.

“No,” he said when a reported asked if he was comparing Obama and Hitler.

“I am saying in a situation where people do not express themselves, bad things can happen,” the former doctor added.

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Politics pope francis

Republican Congressman is Fundraising From His Boycott of Pope Francis

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 14: Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., talks with reporters outside a meeting of House Republican Steering Committee meeting in Cannon Building, November 14, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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Yes, these are the same people who pride themselves on Religion and Religious freedom and all things Religion. Heck, they even have a branch of their party proudly brandishing the Christian name. You’ve probably heard of them, they call themselves, “Christian Conservatives.”

But it should also come as no surprise to learn this bit of news; one of the members of this Religious minded party is bragging and even trying to raise money off the fact that he boycotted the Pope’s congress speech.

The Republican congressman is Paul Gosar from Arizona and he represents the 4th District in the northwestern portion of the state. His email said that when the “Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one.”

Gosar boycotted the event in protest of the pontiff’s expected focus on climate change in his speech.

Gosar is seeking a fourth term in office and sent the email to potential donors on Wednesday. He seeks contributions to help him raise an additional $25,000 by the end of the day.

Gosar was the only member of Congress who boycotted last week’s address by the pontiff for political reasons. He is a Roman Catholic.

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Benghazi Politics

Confirmed – Benghazi Committee Was All About Damaging Hillary Clinton

He opened his mouth and for once, the truth jumped out. And that’s not something I’ll say often when talking about a Republican. This is the exception to the rule.

In an interview with Sean Hannity Tuesday night, the man who will likely take over as House Speaker when John Boehner officially leaves at the end of October, confirmed what everybody already suspected – that the so-called ‘Benghazi Committee’ was formed by Republicans to damage the credibility of Hilary Clinton.

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Kevin McCarthy proudly asked on the Republican propaganda machine called Fox News. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping, why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member on the committee, said McCarthy’s comments were just further evidence that the Benghazi Committee was a waste of taxpayer money.

“This stunning concession from Rep. McCarthy reveals the truth that Republicans never dared admit in public: the core Republican goal in establishing the Benghazi Committee was always to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and never to conduct an even-handed search for the facts,” Cummings said in a statement. “It is shameful that Republicans have used this tragedy and the deaths of our fellow Americans for political gain. Republicans have blatantly abused their authority in Congress by spending more than $4.5 million in taxpayer funds to pay for a political campaign against Hillary Clinton.”

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Climate change Politics

Rush Limbaugh Blames ‘Liberals’ for Science – Video

Let’s take a moment to hear what the mouth of the Republican Party has to say about science. Ladies and gentlemen Rush Limbaugh.

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Mitch McConnell Politics

John Boehner is Gone, Mitch McConnell Now In Their Crosshairs

Now that John Boehner is stepping down from being the Republican Speaker of the House, many conservative “hardliners” – or should I say, the Teapartiers – have set their sights on the Republican Leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell.

Boehner’s move seemed only to embolden the hardliners. Several on Capitol Hill and off suggested that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., would be their next target, and the group Tea Party Patriots began circulating a petition calling for his removal.

McConnell had pledged that the GOP Congress would show voters that Republicans can govern in the runup to the 2016 elections. But conservatives complain that the GOP takeover of the Senate this year has not yielded results, and now a House run by less-proven leaders may test McConnell’s promise once more.

“Mitch McConnell is infinitely worse as a leader than Boehner. He surrenders at the sight of battle every time,” said Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., one of the rebels. “We made a lot of promises to the American people that if we took the Senate that we would do certain things and those things have not been accomplished.”

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Ben Carson Donald Trump Politics

Poll: Ben Carson and Donald Trump Almost Tied for First

In a new NBC/WSJ Poll, Ben Carson is just one more outrageous statement away from taking the lead from Donald Trump. But it’s still early, and there are still many more outrageous statements to come from both Donald Trump and Ben Carson. The most outrageous is sure to win over the Republican base.

In the new poll, Donald Trump is now at 21% with Ben Carson closely following with 20%. Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio are tied for third place with 11%. Coming in fourth is Jeb! Bush with 7%.

Rand Paul and Chris Christie both ties with a whopping 3% and bottoming out the Republican list are Mike Huckabee with 2%, Rick Santorum with 1% and Bobby Jindal at 1%. There are a few more people who are below 1% and not worth the time mentioning in this post.

The Poll was conducted between September 20th and September 24th.

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Celebrities Entertainment

Who’s The Boss Star – “I’m HIV-positive, and I have been for 12 years”

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey – a show called Where Are The Now – former child star of the television hit show Who’s the Boss, Danny Pintauro, revealed that he has HIV.

“I’m HIV-positive,” Pintauro said. “And I have been for 12 years.”

Pintauro played Judith Light’s precocious son, Jonathan, on the popular Tony Danza sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” that aired from 1984 until 1992 on ABC.

Pintauro, 39, told Winfrey he wanted to share his health status “a long time ago,” but wasn’t ready. He said he decided to share it now to serve as a role model for the gay community.

“It’s just a big deal. It’s not something that people are talking about right now really,” he said.

He shared that he was diagnosed in March 2003 while living in New York. At the time he was “completely clueless” that he had the virus, he said.

Pintauro, who now lives in Las Vegas, explained that the diagnosis actually came with a sense of relief. “It’s backwards. You’ve spent so much time terrified that you’re going to get it, and then you have it. You don’t have to be terrified anymore.”

Pintauro came out as gay in 1997 after the National Enquirer told him it was planning to out him.

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