Obama used the tragedy at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charlston, SC the other night to point out that this horror happened at a very unfortunate time when both houses have a Republican majority(as though this could have been stopped had the democrats a majority) Here is some of what he said:“We do know that once again, innocent people were k**led in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. It is in our power to do something about it. The politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now.”, Obama said. “At some point it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively.”
Notice that hit-and-run remark? "It is in our power to do something about it. The Politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now"
In case anyone forgot the White House, Senate, and House was controlled by democrats until 2014, and there were plenty of mass shootings then too. But, it's not guns that k**l people, it's the failure to write laws restricting freedom that k**ls people. Right. The president did not comment on the fact that even if all of the gun control measures he has supported during his presidency and in the Senate were law today that they would have stopped the k*****gs committed by a lone insane gunman. Nor did he bother to mention that, just like Sandy Hook Elementary School and the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was located in a "GUN FREE" zone meaning there were signs saying "NO Guns allowed in this area". They might as well have put up signs saying this:
NO WEAPONS ALLOWED

ATTENTION CRIMINALS
This is a Defense Free Crime Zone

All Law Abiding Patrons of This Area
Have Been Disarmed for Your Convenience

ENJOY

The subversion of America started long before the world war, check out when and why the states went to The United States of America Incorporated. Hint we are not a country we are a corporation and politicians are the leaders of said corporation. We the People are only the workers subject to the authority of tyrannical leadership. WW11 was the beginning of the New World Order but not the start of all things wrong in the states. One reason I think Trump will be a great president is he knows how to run a large corporation successfully not like lawyers and life long politicos that ruin, I mean run our country now.

It's all about the v**e, Trump will say anything to get it, like most politicians and to believe anything more altruistic is naïve. Look at what people have done in the past and you'll see the persons true intention and who they are really for. All I see Trump being for... is Trump.


This is where Bernie does outshines the others. He has been the one really working for Vets benefits, that's a fact, he's chairman on Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee of Vermont. He was pushing legislation that would have provided $21 billion for medical, education, and job-training benefits for the nation's veterans.

DAILY COMMENT
THE DANGEROUS ACCEPTANCE OF DONALD TRUMP
By Adam Gopnik , May 20, 2016
Columnists and magazines that a month ago were saying #NeverTrump are now vibrating with the frisson of his audacity.
Columnists and magazines that a month ago were saying #NeverTrump are now vibrating with the frisson of his audacity.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER VAN AGTMAEL / MAGNUM
œVice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be h**ed, needs but to be seen,the poet Alexander Pope wrote, in lines that were once, as they said back in the day, imprinted on the mind of every schoolboy. Pope continued, Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, / we first endure, then pity, then embrace.The three-part process by which the gross becomes the taken for granted has been on matchlessly grim view this past week in the ascent of Donald Trump. First merely endured by those in the Republican Party, with pained grimaces and faint bleats of reluctance, bare toleration passed quickly over into blind, partisan allegiance he going to be the nominee, after all, and so is our boy. Then a weird kind of pity arose, directed not so much at him (he supplies his own self-pity) as at his supporters, on the premise that their existence somehow makes him a champion for the dispossessed, although the evidence indicates that his followers are mostly stirred by familiar racial and cultural resentments, of which Trump has been a single-minded spokesperson.

Now for the embrace. One by one, people who had not merely resisted him before but called him by his proper name who, until a month ago, were determined to oppose a man they rightly described as a con artist and a pathological liar are suddenly getting on board. Columnists and magazines that a month ago were saying #NeverTrump are now vibrating with the frisson of his audacity, fawning over him or at least thrilling to his rising poll numbers and telling one another, We can control him.


No, you can. One can argue about whether to call him a f*****t or an authoritarian populist or a grotesque joke made in a nightmare shared between Philip K. Dick and Tom Wolfe, but under any label Trump is a declared enemy of the liberal constitutional order of the United States the order that has made it, in fact, the great and plural country that it already is. He announces his enmity to America by word and action every day. It is articulated in his insistence on the rightness of torture and the acceptable murder of noncombatants. It is self-evident in the threats he makes daily to destroy his political enemies, made only worse by the frivolity and t***sience of the tone of those threats. He makes his enmity to American values clear when he suggests that the Presidency holds absolute power, through which he will be able to end opposition whether by questioning the ownership of newspapers or talking about changing libel laws or threatening to take away F.C.C. licenses. To say Well, he would not really have the power to accomplish that is to misunderstand the nature of thin-skinned authoritarians in power. They do not arrive in office and discover, as constitutionalists do, that their capabilities are more limited than they imagined. They arrive, and then make their power as large as they can.

And Trump announces his enmity in the choice of his companions. The Murdoch media conglomerate has been ordered to acquiesce; it is no surprise that it has. But Trumps other fellow-travellers include Roger Stone, the Republican political operative and dirty-tricks maven, while his venues have included the broadcasts of Alex Jones, a ranting conspiracy theorist who believes in a G*******t plot wherein an alien force not of this world is attacking humanity not to mention Jones marketing of the theory that Michelle Obama is a t**********e who murdered Joan Rivers. These are not harmless oddballs Trump is flirting with. This is not the lunatic fringe. These are the lunatics.

Ted Cruz called Trump a pathological liar, the kind who does not know the difference between lies and t***h. Wh**ever the clinical diagnosis, we do appear to be getting, in place of the once famous Big Lie of the nineteen-thirties, a sordid blizzard of lies. The Big Lie was fit for a time of processionals and nighttime rallies, and films that featured them. The blizzard of lies is made for Twitter and the quick hit of an impulse culture. TrumpÃlies arrive with such rapidity that before one can be refuted a new one comes to take its place. It wasn't his voice on that tape of pitiful self-promotion. O.K., it was but he never mocked the handicapped reporter, he was merely imitating an obsequious one. The media eventually moves on, shrugging helplessly, to the next lie. Then the next lie, and the next. If the lies are bizarre enough and frequent enough, they provoke little more than a nervous giggle and a cry of Well, guess hes changed the rules!

Hes not Hitler, as his wife recently said? Well, of course he isn't. But then Hitler wasn'tHitler until he was. At each step of the way, the shock was tempered by acceptance. It depended on conservatives pretending he wasn't so bad, compared with the C*******ts, while at the same time the militant left decided that their real enemies were the moderate l*****ts, who were really indistinguishable from the N**is. The radical progressives decided that there was no difference between the democratic left and the totalitarian right and that an explosion of institutions was exactly the most thrilling thing imaginable.


The American Republic stands threatened by the first overtly anti-democratic leader of a large party in its modern history an authoritarian with no grasp of history, no impulse control, and no apparent barriers on his will to power. The right thing to do, for everyone who believes in liberal democracy, is to gather around and work to defeat him on E******n Day. Instead, we seem to be either engaged in parochial feuding or caught by habits of tribal hatred so ingrained that they have become impossible to escape even at moments of maximum danger. Bernie Sanders wouldn't mind bringing down the Democratic Party to prevent it from surrendering to corporate forces and yet he may be increasing the possibility of rule-by-billionaire.

There is a difference between major and minor issues, and between primary and secondary values. Many of us think that it would be terrible if the radical-revisionist reading of the Second Amendment created by the Heller decision eight years ago was kept in place in a constitutional court; many on the other side think it would be terrible if that other radical decision, Roe v. Wade, continued to be found to be compatible with the constitutional order. What we all should agree on is that the one thing worse would be to have no constitutional order left to argue about.

If Trump came to power, there is a decent chance that the American experiment would be over. This is not a hyperbolic prediction; it is not a hysterical prediction; it is simply a candid reading of what history tells us happens in countries with leaders like Trump. Countries don't really recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists of any political bent, left or right not by Peron or Castros or Putins or Francos or Lenins or fill in the blanks. The nation may survive, but the wound to hope and order will never fully heal. Ask Argentinians or Chileans or Venezuelans or Russians or Italians or Germans. The national psyche never gets over learning that its institutions are that fragile and their ability to resist a dictator that weak. If he can rout the Republican Party in a week by having effectively secured the nomination, ask yourself what Trump could do with the American government if he had a mandate. Before those famous schoolroom lines, Pope made another observation, which was that even as you recognize that the world is a mixed-up place, you still can't fool yourself about the difference between the acceptable and the unacceptable: Fools! who from hence into the notion fall / That vice or virtue there is none at all,he wrote. Is there no black or white? / Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; / Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain.The pain of not seeing that black is black soon enough will be ours, and the time to recognize this is now.

That point about her intending to break classification rules is important, because in order to have broken the law, it isn’t enough for Clinton to have had classified information in a place where it was possible for it to be hacked. She would have had to intentionally given classified information to someone without authorization to have it, like David Petraeus did when he showed classified documents to his mistress (and then lied to the FBI about it, by the way). Despite the enormous manpower and time the Justice Department has dev**ed to this case, there has never been even a suggestion, let alone any evidence, that Clinton did any such thing.

But when it comes to the p**********l campaign, that isn’t going to matter. Republicans already know what they think: Hillary Clinton is a criminal whose every thought and action is vile and despicable, so of course she broke the law. If the investigation doesn’t show that, it could only be because the investigation was a sham. So they’ll just keep saying that this is a scandal, over and over and over.

As Bill and Hillary Clinton’s entire careers have proven, when you’re trying to take someone down, the next best thing to a real scandal is a phony one. Let’s not forget that when Bill was president, no alleged wrongdoing was too trivial to investigate, complete with dark insinuations about nefarious conspiracies and potential criminal behavior. You think the endless investigation of B******i is ridiculous? In the 1990s, congressional Republicans took 140 hours of sworn testimony on the urgent question of whether the Clintons had misused the White House Christmas card list. Seriously. That’s something that actually happened.

And the media, always operating on the rule that when it comes to the Clintons any smoke should be treated as fire — even if there’s a bunch of Republicans operating a smoke machine in full view — will offer endless breathless stories about the “scandal” and how it just shows that people don’t trust Clinton.

Published May 16, 2016
By Moses Frenck

The Arizona sheriff notorious for his disdain of immigrants was found in contempt by a federal court on Friday for repeatedly violating court orders to stop racially profiling Latinos.

A hero to the anti-immigration movement, six-term Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, together with three deputies, were found in civil contempt by United States District Court Judge G. Murray Snow for disobeying his orders requiring Arpaio and his deputies to stop detaining Latinos based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally.

“In short, the Court finds that the Defendants have engaged in multiple acts of misconduct, dishonesty, and bad faith with respect to the Plaintiff class and the protection of its rights,” Snow wrote in his ruling.

The case stems from the 2011 civil case brought by Latino drivers and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against Arpaio and his deputies. In May 2013, Snow determined Arpaio had encouraged his deputies to scrutinize Latino drivers more than white drivers during traffic stops. Snow said Arpaio’s office profiled and illegally detained Latinos, violating their constitutional rights, and ordered a significant overhaul of the sheriff’s office practices. However, Arpaio and his top deputies repeatedly — and publicly — ignored the court’s orders.

At a Houston rally in 2015, Arpaio told supporters that he had violated the order “out of spite” and had arrested 500 people. He also admitted to letting his officers conduct immigration patrols for 18 months following the court’s order to cease the practice.

Arpaio, 83, who calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” was also accused of launching a secret investigation into Snow and his wife in an effort to get him removed from the case.

In his ruling Friday, Snow also found Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, retired Chief Brian Sands and Lt. Joe Souza in civil contempt.

Snow scheduled a hearing for May 31 to determine options to compel Arpaio and his deputies to obey his orders, including one option of appointing an outside agency to take over the sheriff’s office. The case can also be referred for federal criminal prosecution that could expose Arpaio and his deputies to fines and jail time.

“Any public official who has been found guilty of racial profiling and ignores the orders of the court cannot be entrusted with the safety and well-being of the community and should step down in shame,” the immigrant rights group Puente Arizona said in a statement Friday.

“The court has found that Sheriff Arpaio intentionally and repeatedly violated federal court orders,” said Cecillia Wang, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, in a statement. “His recalcitrance ends here. Strong remedies are needed to protect the community’s rights, starting with internal investigations that root out and punish misconduct. Willing or not, the sheriff will be made to comply with the law.”

Here is a law that will make all you bed wetting liberals wet your panty’s..


MacCarran Walter Act of 1952
Trump was recently severely criticized for suggesting that the U.S.
should limit or temporarily suspend the immigration of certain ethnic
groups, nationalities, and even people of certain religions (Muslims).
The criticisms condemned such a suggestion as, among other things,
being “Un-American,” dumb, stupid, reckless, dangerous and r****t.
Congressmen and Senators swore that they would never allow such
legislation, and the president called such a prohibition on
immigration unconstitutional.
As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, Surprise !!!” It seems that the
selective immigration ban is already law and has been applied on
several occasions. Known as the McCarran-Walter Act, the Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1952 allows for the "Suspension of entry or
imposition of restrictions by president. Whenever the president finds
that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United
States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the
president may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem
necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as
immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any
restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
The act was utilized by Jimmy Carter, no less, in 1979 to keep
Iranians out of the United States, but he actually did more. He made
all Iranian students already here check in, and then he deported a
bunch. Seven thousand were found in violation of their visas, 15,000
Iranians were forced to leave the United States in 1979.
It is of note that the act requires that an applicant for immigration
must be of good moral character and "attached to the principles of the
Constitution.”

Since the Quran forbids Muslims to swear allegiance to the U.S.
Constitution, technically, all Muslims should be refused immigration.
Authenticated at:

http://library.uwb.edu/static/USimmigration/1952_immigration_and_nationality_act.html

You live in a society that is CHRIST-rejecting, ignorant of the Bible and heavily c*********d to the things of this world. A new morality is introduced daily by an Antichrist system that demands control of your mind and conformity of your faith in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. So many are being deceived into Satan's traps that are all converging into a One World system. It is causing many to assess where they themselves stand with the LORD, and yet, many more are still sleeping. WAKE UP.

As Children of the Living GOD, we are to stand firm in the t***h; and that is the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST. If you call yourself a Christian, then you are called to be a defender of the Gospel. We are not called to lean on our own understanding and interpretations of what we think is going on; but rather look to the Word of GOD, which is the Sword of the Spirit that you must use in an Antichrist world.

JESUS saith unto him, I am the way, the t***h, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.

John 14:6

Pennylynn wrote:
According to the person I was talking to, a neo-surgeon who is a pediatrician, he says that the "cure" is in the final trials and it is 100 percent. It puts a specific gene associated with homosexuality to sleep. And he says that the drug for babies is a inhibitor put directly into the umbilical cord of the forming baby. A one dose shot. They, according to my friend, have been working on this for over 20 years. Allowing primates time to mature and those apes have shown no drug related issues. For mature individuals, it is a series of shots, but in the end the person no longer prefers their own sex. Again, this has been tested on apes and now is starting human trials.
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If it is felt homesexuality is not gene induced so say some, then why a gene suppressor to treat it? Seems almost a conflict of position???

Relative to your question of would I give it to my child to suppress the "potential of such?" No, I would not...One, I would need a lot more data on how it all works and although I noted there are no side effects, I am not sure about that either....Any "foreign substance" that alters the gene pool would appear to have side effects, one way or the other..I guess I need to read up on this Penny, before really being able to reply...I also say no, because I believe in a more holistic approach to medicine..I think we are prescribed far to many medications that mass the symptom only and do not really "treat the issue"...

Interesting facts and I will be doing some more reading on it...Thank You.. :thumbup: