You lost that one...

For your information, the US is officially no longer a christian nation as defined by over 50% of the people, atheists and agnostics are over 50%. Not only that but the percentage of americans who support pro choice is approaching 70%. The whole anti gay, anti abortion, right to practice your religion thing is becoming a losing message as americans turn away from those "values".

Here's an interesting little fact, hispanics are christian, historically they had been a rock solid conservative vote until the GOP started running on borders, no path to citizenship, anti DACA, and general racist BS. It's starting to be safe to say that the GOP can no longer count on the christian hispanic base the way they once could.

"Obama, it was you."

* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner -"I am one of you."

* It was you who on ABC News referenced -"My Muslim faith."

* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques.

* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict-"I will stand with the Muslims."

* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that -"I am a Muslim."

* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.

* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning Christianity and professing Marxism.

* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us had to pay.

* It was you who purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator " - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.

* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'Holy' Qur'an.

* It was you who traveled the Islamic world denouncing and apologizing for the United States Of America.

* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.

* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House..

* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ before you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have never requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor.

* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.

* It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security positions.

* It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.

* It was you, who as an Illinois Senator spoke in favor of infanticide.

* It was you who was the first President not to provide a Christmas Greeting from the White House and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree.

* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.

* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.

* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific persecution and executions of women throughout the Muslim culture but yet submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.

* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.

* It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.

* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.

* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.

* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.

* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan.

* It is you who vacations in Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid criticism for not participating in seasonal White House religious events.

* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted by your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.

* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

* It was you who said our country is not a Christian nation.

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Kerry Would Sue Trump for 'the Lives That Will be Lost' Due to Climate Change
By Nicholas Ballasy September 12, 2018
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry, next to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, speaks during the Boston Climate Summit in Boston on June 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State John Kerry, author of Every Day is Extra, predicted that “lives will be lost” due to President Trump’s position on climate change, calling his time in office a matter of “life and death.”

“This is why it’s the anecdote to what Bob Woodward lays out [in his new book Fear: Trump in the White House]. This book describes how we accept and fight, many times unsuccessfully, more times successfully, to make our democracy work and never had we needed to do that more than right now. We’re in trouble,” Kerry said about his memoir during a discussion at the Carnegie Center for International Peace on Monday evening.

“I don’t try to be a troublemonger or to be somebody who tries to scare people, but I’m telling you folks – and I write about this in the last chapter of the book – I mean, I wish I could find legal standing to bring a case against Donald Trump for the lives that will be lost and the property that will be damaged and the billions of dollars because of his decision on climate change. This is life and death. Our democracy matters that much,” he added.

Kerry also criticized Trump’s handling of relations with North Korea and Europe.

“What is happening is the sloppiness of the diplomacy that is going on with Kim Jong-un, the sloppiness of his reckless statements in Europe at a time when Europe is already weakened somewhat, and it matters to us more than ever since the end of World War II. I mean, these things matter, enormously, and we’ve got to fight for them,” he said.

Kerry recalled the “huge division” in the country when he stood up against former President Nixon during the Vietnam War.

“I was arrested for civil disobedience and demonstrating against the war, so it was divisive and I certainly earned some enemies for a lifetime through that experience. And we saw some of them come to the forefront in ’04, that’s what that was about,” Kerry said, referring to the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” ads that aired during his presidential run in 2004. “That wasn’t about my record. It was about them being angry I opposed the war and told the truth.”

Kerry cited Nixon “unleashing the FBI on people” and said the Trump presidency is more dangerous in “some ways” than the Nixon era.

“All you have to do is listen to the Nixon tapes to hear the bigotry and the hate that came out – despicable – and then, of course, there was pipe bombs blowing up in buildings,” he said. “People forget this, and people wondered about American institutions. Guess what? We not only made it through it, we got stronger.”

Kerry said America would “get through this period, which is certainly the most dangerous moment for our country since all of that and more dangerous, in some ways, because Henry Kissinger and Nixon were not, you know, they were smart in foreign policy – let’s be honest.”

Addressing Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, Kerry said Iran would never come to the table while Trump is in office.

“Not on your life or mine will they come to the table with this president. It’s impossible politically, physically, now, which underscores the fact that I think the administration is not looking for a renegotiation,” he said. “What they are looking for is regime change and you know, once again, first of all, the United States of America does not do regime change well. I would have hoped people might have learned that by now. The last evidence of that is Libya and our efforts elsewhere in the Middle East.”

Answering a question about the state of politics in the U.S. heading into midterm elections, Kerry said, “We’ve got a lot of pissed-off citizens and you cannot pretend to be involved in public life in this country if you don’t understand why people are pissed off. And they’re pissed off because none of the promises have been delivered on either side of the fence.”

Kerry attacked the way Republican lawmakers have handled Trump so far in his first term.

“Right now, today, while every one of those guys there on the Hill, they absolutely know how sick this situation is, how unbalanced, how unhinged it is, how dangerous it is but they are happier to ignore their oath of office to uphold the Constitution and save the institutions of America,” he said. “They’re happier protecting their power, their party and their president, and that’s a disgrace. So that’s where we find ourselves, and it’s all happened for extremely understandable, explainable reasons.”

When asked why he chose the title Every Day is Extra for his memoir, Kerry quipped, “Well, ‘every day is extra’ is what Donald Trump thought when Mueller was appointed. I just figured that out, actually.”

Are there any sane people in the "Progressive" movement?

Fact Tank - Our lives in numbers 37kh.,b40-August 2, 20185--
The Vatican announced in August that Pope Francis has changed the Catholic Church’s teaching to fully oppose the death penalty. The announcement comes after a Pew Research Center survey showed an uptick in the share of Americans who favor capital punishment for those convicted of murder. Over the long term, however, public support for the death penalty has declined significantly, as has the number of executions in the United States.
As the debate over the death penalty continues in the U.S. and worldwide, here are five facts about the issue:
1The annual number of U.S. executions peaked at 98 in 1999 and has fallen sharply in the years since. In 2017, 23 inmates were executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s slightly higher than the year before, when 20 people were executed, but still well below the number of inmates annually put to death in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Just eight states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Texas and Virginia – accounted for all executions in 2017, compared with 20 states in 1999.

2In 2017, for the second year in a row, the U.S. was not among the world’s top five countries in executions, according to Amnesty International, a human rights organization that opposes the practice. The U.S. ranked eighth internationally, behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt and Somalia. Overall, there were at least 993 executions in 23 nations in 2017, down slightly from 1,032 in 2016. The international total includes only cases Amnesty was able to confirm – the report notes that some countries intentionally conceal death penalty proceedings. In the case of China, for example, the state may well carry out more executions than all other countries combined. Indeed, Cornell University Law School estimates that the Chinese government executed about 2,400 people in 2015, and has carried out thousands of additional executions in the years since.
3 Support for the death penalty in the U.S. has ticked up recently, but is far lower than it was two decades ago. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in April and May 2018 found that 54% of Americans favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 39% oppose it. That was up from 2016, when 49% of U.S. adults said they favored the death penalty, compared with 42% who opposed it. But it was far lower than in 1996, when 78% of Americans supported capital punishment for those convicted of murder.
4 There are racial, gender, religious and political divides in opinions on the death penalty in the U.S. A majority of whites (59%) favor the death penalty, compared with 36% of blacks and 47% of Hispanics, according to the Center’s 2018 survey. Also, men are more likely than women to favor capital punishment (61% vs. 46%). Solid majorities of white evangelical Protestants (73%) and white mainline Protestants (61%) favor the death penalty, while Catholics (53%) and those without a religious affiliation (48%) are more divided on the issue. Partisanship also plays a role, with Republicans more than twice as likely as Democrats to support the death penalty (77% vs. 35%).
5Americans harbor doubts about how the death penalty is applied and whether it deters serious crime. In a Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2015, about six-in-ten adults said the death penalty does not deter people from committing serious crimes. About half also said that minorities are more likely than whites to be sentenced to death for similar crimes, compared with 41% who said a death sentence is equally likely for both. About seven-in-ten adults (71%) said there is a risk that an innocent person will be put to death, including 84% of those who oppose the death penalty. Even a majority of death penalty supporters (63%) said there’s a risk of taking an innocent life. At the same time, a majority of Americans (63%) said the death penalty is morally justified when someone commits a crime like murder. Nine-in-ten death penalty supporters held this view.
Note: This is an update to a post originally published May 28, 2015.
source- By David Masci-fact tank-

Trial hears of teen girl raped by 100 Muslims

In the latest trial in England of the widespread problem of Muslim “grooming gangs,” a woman testified via video that she was “passed around” beginning at age 13 by about 100 men.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, testified at the trial in Sheffield, England, of eight Muslim men accused of the sexual abuse of five girls over a five-year period from 1998 to 2003, the Daily Mail of London reported.

The men were charged as part of Operation Stovewood, an investigation into sexual abuse initiated after the Rotherham grooming scandal.

As WND reported, in August 2014, a British government report concluded that mostly British-born Pakistani men sexually abused at least 1,400 children, most of them white girls aged 11-15, in the northern English town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. Many of the girls were picked up by taxi drivers from care homes and schools. The abuse included gang rape, dousing the children with gasoline and trafficking them to other towns.

The trial in 2012 of a ring in Rochdale, in the Manchester area, had prompted the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee to hold hearings.

Last year, the government’s senior legal adviser charged British judges were giving lighter sentences to members of Muslim “grooming” gangs convicted of raping young girls because of “political correctness.”

At the time, the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne was the center of a child sexual-abuse scandal, with 17 men and one woman convicted of raping more than 100 underage white girls, some as young as 13.

‘Only in Islam’

Robert Spencer wrote on his Jihad Watch blog Monday that while sexual assault occurs in all cultures, “only in Islam does it have divine sanction.”

He pointed out that one survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the U.K. said her rapists quoted passages from the Quran to her, insisting their actions were justified by Islam.

Quran 33:59, for example, says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” The implication, Spencer wrote, is that “if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.”

At the Sheffield trial, the victim said she became pregnant by one of the men at the age of 14 and gave birth when she was 15.

The woman, according to the Daily Mail, testified that her sister was also abused by the man who made her pregnant, Ali Akhtar. She said the abuse they suffered made them feel as though their childhoods were “snatched away.”

“We were children one minute and adults the next,” she said.

The court also heard testimony of a girl who was raped by multiple men and months later was forced by her parents to have an abortion.

‘Spoils of this war’

British media, including the Daily Mail, refer to the members of the gangs as “Asian” rather than Muslim, noted Jihad Watch contributor Christine Douglass-Williams last year.

She wrote that the “violation of the girls points to a larger problem that Western leaders have continued to willfully ignore: Crimes are being committed by Muslims that are rooted in Islamic doctrine, where the West is regarded as the House of War (Dar al harb) and its women are deemed to be the spoils of this war.”

“Jihad attacks and a continued stealth invasion of the West are also all components of this war. A society is doomed when it does not even recognize who its enemy is,” she said.

She cited Denis MacShane, British member of Parliament for Rotherham between 1994 to 2012, who told the BBC’s World At One that “there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat.”

Investigators of the Rotherham case were told that “influential Pakistani councillors acted as barriers to communication on grooming issues.” Front line workers said “the town hall told them to keep quiet about the ethnicity of the perpetrators in the interests of ‘community cohesion.'”

In the Newcastle case, Douglass-Williams pointed out, one Muslim grooming gang member was open about his motive in assaulting British non-Muslim girls.

“All white women are good for one thing, for men like me to f— and use as trash, that is all women like you are worth.'”


https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/trial-hears-of-teen-raped-by-100-muslims/

Watch: Maxine Waters On Trump: “I’m Gonna Get Him. I’m Gonna Get Him!”

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters doubles down on her pushing the harassment of President Trump’s administration and supporters in a 20 minute speech on Saturday.

While accepting an award from Stonewall Young Democrats in Los Angeles on Saturday, Rep. Waters began bragging about her calling for the harassment of Trump supporters as well as her call to impeach the president.

At one point during the long-winded speech, Water’s says, “We don’t ask permission to protest. We protest,” speaking on Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s apology to Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the dozens of protesters who interrupted the confirmation hearing last week
Waters goes on to say that she plans on having a conversation with Feinstein, and will reiterate her urging the public to run Trump supporters and members of Trump’s Cabinet out of public spaces, repeating her infamous quote: “If you see them anywhere, if you see them at a restaurant, if you see them in a department store, even at a gasoline station, just tell them ‘You’re not welcome here or anywhere.’”

“And so, it frightened a lot of people, and of course the lying president said that I had threatened all of his constituents,” Waters continued.

“I did not threaten his constituents, his supporters. I do that all the time, but I didn’t do it that time,” she said.

Speaking about the Stonewall group, Waters said, “When I compare what you’re doing with what we have in Washington, D.C., in the highest office in the land, I wake up in the middle of the night and all I can think about is I’m gonna get him.

“I’m gonna get him. I’m gonna get him,” she repeated.

“I’m in this fight and I’m not gonna move,” she told the crowd. “And, as you know, there’s a difference in how some of our leadership talk about how we should handle all of this.

“They say, ‘Maxine, please don’t say impeachment anymore.’

“And when they say that, I say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment,” she said to applause.

Waters told the crowd she won’t stop with Trump.

“I had a conversation here today with someone asked, ‘Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse,’” she said.

“Well, I said, ‘Look, one at a time.’”

“You knock one down, one at a time,” she said.

“You knock one down, and we’ll be ready for Pence. We’ll get him, too,” Waters vowed.

https://www.teaparty.org/watch-maxine-waters-trump-im-gonna-get-im-gonna-get-323414/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-word-people-convinced-mike-003505270.html


The New York Times’ scathing anti-Donald Trump op-ed, which the paper attributed to “a senior official in the Trump administration,” has inspired a parlor game among people trying to figure out the author’s name.
Some online commentators are leaning toward Vice President Mike Pence based on just one word in the piece.
The unidentified author singles out the late Arizona Sen. John McCain as “a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue.”
The word ― which Merriam-Webster defines as either “a star that leads or guides” or a person who “serves as an inspiration, model, or guide” ― isn’t that commonly used. But Pence apparently says it a lot, according to this mash-up posted on Twitter: