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Rose Siding's JournalDonald Trump Wants To Know If There Are Any Muslim Athletes
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"Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?"
Here are some famous athletes who are Muslim:
Muhammad Ali
Shaquille O’Neal
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Muhammad Wilkerson
Kenneth Faried
Hakeem Olajuwon
Rasheed Wallace
Nazr Mohammed
Bernard Hopkins
Dion Waiters
Amir Khan
Hedo Turkoglu
Mesut Özil
Marouane Fellaini
Khabib Nurmagomedov
http://deadspin.com/donald-trump-wants-to-know-if-there-are-any-muslim-athl-1746626905
Charles Pierce: Uber-Liberals Are Now Likening Hillary Clinton to Dick Cheney (HRC Group)
However, people change with time and Hillary Clinton has leaned to the right (all the way to neoconservative territory) on a number of issues, especially foreign policy. I wouldn't vote for Dick Cheney, therefore I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton.
Here with an opposing view is Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader of the United States Senate.
The Senate narrowly passed a bill Thursday that would repeal key pieces of the Affordable Care Act and strip federal funding of Planned Parenthood for one year.The bill, which only needed 51 votes to pass because it was being considered using a procedure allowing it to bypass typical Senate procedures which require 60 votes to advance a piece of legislation, passed 52 to 47. The bill is not expected to become law.
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Let us assume, for the moment, that the president has taken leave of his senses, or is sockless drunk, and actually would sign this dead parrot. What will then occur? Right off the top, millions of women will lose not only a significant portion of their health-care, but also the uncomplicated exercise of one of their constitutional rights. As to the rest of the country, the bill kills off the federal exchanges, which help millions of other Americans get their health insurance and it 86's the subsidies that do pretty much the same thing. Millions of Americans will get tossed back into the uninsured population, meaning that they will exchange a (largely illusory) tax penalty for medical bills running anywhere from 100 bucks to a shitload of money on the economic scale.
I may be naïve, but I don't see President Hillary Rodham Clinton signing this bill, either.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40203/salon-hillary-cheney/
Harry Reid On Gun Violence: Congress Is ‘Complicit Through Our Inaction’
Source: Huff Po
WASHINGTON -- Just as he did two months ago, after a mass shooting in Oregon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took angrily to the Senate floor Thursday to once again advocate for gun control legislation. He asked his colleagues to “take a long, hard look this morning, maybe in the mirror, and ask themselves, 'Where do I stand?'" after Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people.
“We as the legislative body of this country do nothing. So I have a question for every member of this body: How can we live with ourselves for failing to do the things we know that will reduce gun violence?” Reid said.
“Will it get rid of all of it? Of course not. But will it reduce it? Yes. We're complicit through our inaction, and if we continue to fail to act, we'll be complicit today and every day into the future," he added. We'll keep ending up right where we are, mourning innocent victims in San Bernardino, California, or Charleston or Newtown. When the victims turn to us for help, we'll have nothing to show but empty hands and a few empty gestures. It's despicable.”
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"Now, there was a time in my legislative career that I tried to work with the National Rifle Association. But the NRA today is a far cry from a sportsman's organization that I once supported. The NRA once called mandates for background checks reasonable," Reid said. "I'm not making this up. Now they are transformed in a quasi-militant wing of the Republican party."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-gun-violence-nra_56605e55e4b08e945fee3ad9
I'm going to miss Harry.
Trump to Jewish Gop Group: "I'm a negotiator like you folks."
via NPR's Sarah McCammon
https://twitter.com/sarahmccammon/status/672461689607036928
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Had to read that last one twice. The WORST thing to ever happen to Israel?
Dick Cheney’s Eternal Likeness to Be Unveiled in Senate’s Halls
Source: NYT
As vice president as well as president of the Senate, Dick Cheney once asserted that he was essentially his own branch of government. Nevertheless, he will be immortalized in the Senate beginning on Thursday with a traditional marble bust in recognition of his service there.
Mr. Cheney is to attend the ceremony along with the man who made him vice president, George W. Bush, after Mr. Cheney conducted a search for the best candidate to join Mr. Bush’s ticket.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/03/dick-cheneys-eternal-likeness-to-be-unveiled-in-senates-halls/
Dems are skipping it, along with Harry who bailed on him too (he was supposed to speak) -AND Leahy, who dick swore at, will be at the WH neener neener.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/12/03/the-daily-202-enshrined-in-marble-for-posterity-dick-cheney-remains-polarizing/
Donald Trump on terrorists: 'Take out their families'
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would kill the families of terrorists in order to win the fight against ISIS.
The billionaire businessman was asked by the hosts of Fox News' "Fox and Friends" how to fight ISIS but also minimize civilian causalities when terrorists often use human shields.
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families," Trump said.
Trump said he would "knock the hell out of" ISIS, and criticized the U.S. for "fighting a very politically correct war."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/index.html?sr=twCNN120215donald-trump-terrorists-families/0141PMVODtopLink&linkId=19235497
Even the babies? How about the "unborn" mr. suddenly anti-choice. This fits right in with his intent to torture whoever he chooses even if it doesn't work because "they deserve it". Easy to tell who's who with the spiffy new IDs.
Not a clown. A barbarian.
Trump demands CNN pay him $5M to participate in next debate
Source: CBS
MACON, Georgia -- Business mogul Donald Trump demanded on Monday that CNN, the host of the next GOP debate, pay him $5 million dollars to participate, with the proceeds to be donated to veterans.
"I won't do the debate unless they pay me 5 million dollars," Trump said.
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Trump made the demands at a rally in Macon, Georgia as a result of what he deemed unfair treatment by the network of his candidacy, including a meeting with African-American pastors earlier in the day at Trump Tower. At first he seemed unsure. Trump asked the crowd if he should make the payment a condition of his participation in the debate.
"You have to tell me because I know what they're going to say," Trump said. "Trump is a chicken."
"If I do this, it could be he's playing too cute, Trump said. "[And] maybe I don't do well, and maybe my real polls, which are the polls we're leading by so much, maybe they go down." Trump also said he could face repercussions in the polls as a result of the gambit of not participating in the debate.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-demands-cnn-pay-him-5m-to-participate-in-next-debate/
Sopan Deb ?@SopanDeb 2h2 hours ago
Not exactly a packed house here in Macon for Trump.
Reporters are "having fun" covering Trump
Despite all the negativity and fear, the energy in this room does not feel dark and aggressive and threatening. It doesn’t feel like a powder keg about to blow, a lynch mob about to rampage. It feels joyous.
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The people wave and make faces at the press as they go by. One gray-haired lady in a sweatshirt keeps pointing at her butt and sticking out her tongue at us as she ambles by. She has a savage look on her face.
This is the thing Trump knows: You can stand around fretting about truth and propriety and the danger of pandering to baser instincts.
Or you can give the people what they want.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-ecstasy-of-donald-trump/417870/
I already cringe a little when I hear my favorite comics talk about how swell it is for them to have Trump in the race. The jokes write themselves, they say. Someone better get serious about this dangerous man because the press is having a high old time.
Trump Rally Features Convicted Animal Abuser's Elephant
At a campaign stop in Sarasota, Florida, a female Asian elephant named Essex was seen walking around outside the grounds with "Trump -- Make American Great Again" drawn with chalk on its side.
The elephant is owned by a company called "The Elephant Walk," whose owner Frank Murray said he is a Trump supporter and decided to come out and bring Essex with him.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/28/politics/donald-trump-elephant-sarasota-florida/
About Mr Murray and his elephants...
The elephants are forced to stand for up to 10 hours a day, surrounded by throngs of people, and forced to give rides to patrons all day long for months at a time. Frank Murray uses whips, chains, and bullhooks in order to subdue them into performing and not acting out, when in reality, these are incredibly intelligent creatures who also have a history of violence when treated in an extreme manner.
http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0415/letter-to-the-editor-_-elephants-at-the-renaissance-festival.html
Trump Mocks Reporter With Disability
The New York Times was offended. "We find it's outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters," a spokesperson told CNNMoney.
Trump's performance was prompted by a story Kovaleski had written in 2001 that refuted claims that thousands of Muslims in Jersey City cheered the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Kovaleski worked for the Washington Post in 2001 and investigated those reports immediately after the terror attack. His story concluded that the alleged celebrations by Muslims didn't happen.
Trump used an exaggerated voice and arm action as he pretended to be Kovaleski.
"Now the poor guy, you've got to see this guy: 'Uhh, I don't know what I said. I don't remember.'..... Trump knows Kovaleski and is aware of his physical appearance from the years when Kovaleski worked at the New York Daily News and frequently covered Trump.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/25/media/donald-trump-serge-kovaleski/index.html?sr=twnewday112615donald-trump-serge-kovaleski1035AMVODtopPhoto&linkId=19072949
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