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I JUST SENT THEM THE EMAIL .......
WILL REPORT ON THEIR ANSWER IF ANY ......
Sunday, President Obama morally abdicated his place as the leader of the free world.
His decision to stay home instead of standing side by side with French President Hollande as millions marched in Paris in solidarity with the slain journalists of Charlie Hebdo in opposition to radical Islam – an enemy fiercer than we have seen in decades – sent a clear message to the world: Obama just doesn’t care.
His words about the horrendous terrorist attack this week were not enough. They came off as inauthentic at best and offensive at worst.
We are at war with radical Islam. And President Obama needs to say it.
To speak about the most serious terrorist attack on Western soil since 9/11, London and Madrid, in between speeches about his free community college plan demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding for the gravity of the situation in Paris and, indeed, the world.
To this end, it is not surprising that President Obama is the only Western leader who has refused to call this attack Islamic terrorism, even though President Hollande has declared that France is it at war with radical Islam. And to not even send Vice President Joe Biden or Secretary of State John Kerry in his place shows a level of disrespect that makes me ashamed of our nation.
We are at war with radical Islam. And President Obama needs to say it.
Many have tried to understand why President Obama made this choice. It’s certainly not possible that Obama has different intelligence than the French. Or that he and his advisers can’t see what the rest of the world has seen and come out against – the radicalization of Islam, the greatest threat of our time.
Incredibly, in a speech on Friday Egyptian President el-Sisi called upon the Islamic leaders in his own country to stand up to the extremism that is destroying Islam. “We are in need of a religious revolution…You, imams, are responsible for Allah. The entire world…is waiting for your next move…because [the Islamic world] is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost – and it is being lost by our own lands.”
Sisi’s words strike at the heart of the problem in Islam today, where radicals and extremists have hijacked a religion for their own hateful means. He doesn’t condemn the whole religion by calling out the terrorists for what they are.
So why is our own president afraid to do the same?
A condemnation and declaration of war against Islamic extremism does not mean a condemnation and declaration of war against Islam. They are separate and distinct and the president shows a profound lack of understanding for today’s world and threats to America and, indeed, the world without being honest about what’s at stake here.
I made these same points Sunday night on Fox News Channel with my colleagues on "Political Insiders" when we talked with Harris Faulkner and will continue to do so.
I have been disappointed by President Obama many times during his six years in office, but perhaps never more so than this weekend. He is redefining what it means to be a lame duck as well as giving the world a master class in what it means to let the world down.
OBONGO STRIKES AGAIN..
40 world leaders go and President Obama snubs it? huh?
40 world leaders are taking part in a unity March in Paris today but our President is not going. Leaders from Britain (Prime Minister David Cameron), Germany (Chancellor Angela Merkel), Turkey, Jordan, Israel (PM Netanyahu), etc.
Sure A/G Eric Holder (who has resigned is a lame duck now) is going but he is not the President. He didn’t even bother to send the Vice President!
And, as I recall, it was French President Jacque Chirac who was the first foreign Head of State to show up at the White House after 9/11. Is this how we send a thank you?
According to reports, there is nothing on President Obama’s schedule that would have prevented him from going — and he does have Air Force One.
This is embarrassing for the American people. Don’t we have better manners when it comes to our allies at a time of need?
Obama’s Hawaii Vacation Is Over, Now It’s Time For Taxpayers To Pay Massive Tab
By Malia Zimmerman, Watchdog
HONOLULU – President Barack Obama and his family just spent their Christmas and New Year’s holidays in Kailua. Now it’s time for taxpayers to pick up the tab.
While the Obamas and friends who accompany them pay for their own private vacation home rentals on or near Kailua Beach, taxpayers foot a multimillion dollar tab for everything from a stand-by ambulance to the fuel for Air Force One.
Local taxpayers pick up the bill for Honolulu Police Department escorts who guard Obama, first lady Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha around the clock. Figures just released by HPD spokeswoman Michelle Yu show HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president’s 16-day vacation. That’s $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012.
POST OF THE DAY .
MORE TRUTH TO THAT THAN ANYTHING I HEARD ALL DAY .........
AFTER 22 PLUS YEARS OWNING PPHM I HAVE SEEN THIS ALL BEFORE ..
TEXAS GOODBYE
This is why America will remain strong. We take care of our own as well as others who may not deserve taking care of. I just wanted to share with you all that out of a horrible tragedy we were blessed by so many people.
Chris Kyle was Derek's teammate through 10 years of training and battle. They both suffer/suffered from PTSD to some extent and took great care of each other because of it.
2006 in Ramadi was horrible for young men that never had any more aggressive physical contact with another human than on a Texas football field.
They lost many friends. Chris became the armed services number #1 sniper of all time. Not something he was happy about, other than the fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American lives.
Three years ago, his wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams as he had a huge bounty on his head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The American Sniper." 100% of the proceeds from the book went to two of the SEAL families who had lost their sons in Iraq .
That was the kind of guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas to train military, police and I think firemen as far as protecting themselves in difficult situations. He also formed a foundation to work with military people suffering from PTSD. Chris was a giver not a taker.
He, along with a friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered trying to help a young man that had served six months in Iraq and claimed to have PTSD.
Now I need to tell you about all of the blessings.
Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL and their family from any airport they flew into
...free of charge.
The employees donated buddy passes and one lady worked for four days without much of a break to see that it happened.
Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.
The Marriott Hotel reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the hotel for only SEALs and family.
The Midlothian, TX Police Department paid the $45 a night for each room. I would guess there were about 200 people staying at the hotel, 100 of them were SEALs. Two large buses were chartered (an unknown donor paid the bill) to transport people to the different events and they also had a few rental cars (donated). The police and secret service were on duty 24 hours during the stay at our hotel.
At the Kyle house, the Texas DPS parked a large motor home in front to block the view from reporters. It remained there the entire five days for the SEALs to congregate in and all to use the restroom so as not to have to go in the house. Taya, their two small children and both sets of parents were staying in the home.
Only a hand full of SEALs went into the home as they had different duties and meetings were held sometimes on a hourly basis. It was a huge coordination of many different events and security. Derek was assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris' body when it was transferred from the Midlothian Funeral Home to the Arlington Funeral Home, and to be with Taya. A tough job.
Taya seldom came out of her bedroom. The house was full with people from the church and other family members that would come each day to help. I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris’ mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents (the other man murdered with Chris). A tough job.
George W Bush and his wife Laura met and talked to everyone on the Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite a while. They had prayer with us all. You can tell when people were sincere and caring
Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people all day long including the 200 SEALs and their families. The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the house and fed all once again. Food was plentiful and all were taken care of. The family's church kept those inside the house well fed.
Jerry Jones, the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and he were just making sure everyone was taken care of….Class... He donated the use of Cowboy Stadium for the services as it was determined that so many wanted to attend.
The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am. Every car, bus, motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police. I am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a security risk, I don't know. We willingly obliged. No purses went into the stadium!
We were taken to The Legends room high up and a large buffet was available. That was for about 300 people. We were growing.
A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and police and Sarah Palin and her husband. She looked nice, this was a very formal military service.
The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked. We heard that about 10,000 people had come to attend also. They were seated in the stadium seats behind us. It was a beautiful and emotional service.
The Bagpipe and drum corps were wonderful and the Texas A&M men's choir stood through the entire service and sang right at the end. We were all in tears.
The next day was the 200-mile procession from Midlothian, TX to Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were out. We had dozens of police motorcycles riders, freedom riders, five chartered buses and lots of cars. You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it was huge. Two helicopters circled the procession with snipers sitting out the side door for protection. It was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas. People were everywhere. The entire route was shut down ahead of us, the people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way. Firemen were down on one knee, police officers were holding their hats over their hearts, children waving flags, veterans saluting as we went by. Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from their tall ladders, people all along the entire 200 miles were standing in the cold weather. It was so heartwarming. Taya rode in the hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with us. I was so grateful to have that time with him.
The service was at Texas National Cemetery. Very few are buried there and you have to apply to get in. It is like people from the Civil War, Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical people of Texas. It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.
Each SEAL put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket, one at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow. Derek was the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was caressing it as he did it. Another tearful moment.
After the service Governor Rick Perry and his wife, Anita, invited us to the governor's mansion. She stood at the door, greeted each of us individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas. She was a sincere, compassionate, and gracious hostess.
We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden for beverages and BBQ. So many of the Seal team guys said that after they get out they are moving to Texas. They remarked that they had never felt so much love and hospitality. The charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights. Derek just now called and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting America.
We just wanted to share with you, the events of a quite emotional, but blessed week.
Punch-line:
To this day, no one in the White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle.
However, the President can call some sport person and congratulate him on announcing to the world that he is gay? What the hell is happening to our society, our honor and our pride??
Welcome surprises are coming and they will be early surprises, which seem incongruent to PPHM's past, but are coming nonetheless.
AND YOU KNOW THIS HOW ??????
He already knows the company is gonna reap billions.
AND YOU KNOW THIS HOW ???
NOTHING EVER SUPRISES ME ANYMORE WITH POS....
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SO FUNNY ...
She Is Almost As Smart As Joe Biden
Harvard educated First Lady Michelle Obama reminded attendees of a
naturalization ceremony Wednesday that the Founding Fathers weren't
born in America. The ceremony for 50 new U.S. citizens was held at the
National Archives in Washington, D.C
She said during her speech, referring to the Declaration of
Independence, "It's amazing that just a few feet from here where I'm
standing are the signatures of the 56 Founders who put their names on
a Declaration that changed the course of history, and like the 50 of
you, none of them were born American - they became American."
Excuse me? Did she actually mean that those who signed the
Declaration of Independence and participated in the drafting of the
Constitution were not born in America? Benjamin Franklin was born in
Boston and Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James
Madison were born in Virginia. John Adams was born in Massachusetts.
Only eight of the 56 were not born in America. Surely she knew this.
But, then again, maybe not. After all, she is a Harvard graduate. Isn't she?
"Life's tough. It's tougher when you're stupid"
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I ONLY WISH ALL SHAREHOLDERS THE BEST ..
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HAVE IT YOUR WAY .
I OWNED 250,000 SHARES BACK THEN ...... AND DON'T THINK THEY WON'T DO ANOTHER REVERSE SPLIT EITHER ..THE FIRST ONE WAS FOR 100,000 TO 1 BACK IN 1987 ..YEAH, YEAH , I KNOW IT'S A DIFFERENT COMPANY NOW .. I'M A SHAREHOLDER 22 1/2 YEARS AND I STILL DO NOT SEE MANAGEMENT BUYING OR DOING ANYTHING TO INCREASE SHAREHOLDER VALUE ..BUT I'M HERE TILL IT GOES BUST OR DOES THE "TO THE MOON " TRICK ...
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INTERESTING ARTICLE
I rise today in support of the NYPD
By Bryan Fischer, December 8, 2014 6:55 am
It turns out that almost everything bleated out by the race-mongers and the low-information media about the Eric Garner tragedy has turned out to be wrong.
Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, is dead. This is a tragedy, regardless of the circumstances. We rightly mourn with his wife and children. They will never see their husband and father again, and that should break everyone's heart.
When we witness a gut-rending tragedy like this, we want to know who is responsible. Who is to blame for depriving this family of its husband and father? As the facts emerge, it becomes increasingly clear that, as tragic as this situation is, in the end the culpability for Eric Garner's death rests with Eric Garner.
To put it as simply as possible, if Mr. Garner had not broken the law and then resisted arrest, he would be alive today.
While protesters are trying to make this about race, it must be noted that the police showed up in response to complaints from black business owners. The arrest was ordered by a black officer, and the arrest itself was supervised by a black officer, a female sergeant.
A crackdown on the sale of illegal, untaxed cigarettes - called "loosies" since they are sold in singles rather than in packs - had been ordered just days before Garner's arrest by the highest ranking black police officer in the NYPD, Philip Banks.
So a black officer ordered the crackdown, black business owners called for the arrest, a black officer ordered the arrest, and a black officer supervised the arrest itself. It's also worth noting that the 23-member grand jury which refused to indict the arresting officer included nine non-white members. Ask yourself how many of those facts you have heard from any member of the race-obsessed, low-information media.
Garner had been arrested 31 times, and eight of those had been for selling loosies. His rap sheet goes back decades and includes arrests for assault and grand larceny.
At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with multiple offenses, including illegal sale of cigarettes, marijuana possession, false impersonation and driving without a license.
So he certainly knew the law, knew he was in violation, and knew doing it again would likely lead to his arrest, a drill he'd been through dozens of times before.
There were 228,000 misdemeanor arrests in New York City in 2013, the last year for which figures are available. All of them put together led to precisely zero deaths.
Garner, all six-foot, three inches and 350 pounds of him, clearly resisted arrest, swatting away the arresting officer's hands while loudly exclaiming, "Don't touch me!" After he was taken to the ground, he growled, "This ends here!" That could be taken any number of ways, but in the heat of the moment it certainly could be read reasonably as a declaration that he was going to fight arrest until he was subdued by compelling force.
The patrolman who wrestled Garner to the ground, Daniel Pantaleo, did it by the book, using a takedown maneuver every policeman is taught at the academy. He did not, in fact, use a chokehold, which is defined by the NYPD as "any pressure to the throat or windpipe, which may prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake of air." Now Garner was clearly able to breathe, since that's the only way he could repeatedly say, "I can't breathe."
The autopsy explicitly declares that there was no injury to Garner's windpipe or to his neck bones. This was a wrestler's headlock, not a chokehold. (As a sidenote, chokeholds, while contrary to police policy, are not in fact illegal in the state of New York when an officer uses one to restrain a resisting subject. They are not even illegal in New York City, at the insistence of liberal mayor Bill DeBlasio.) Patrolman Pantaleo was not indicted for the simple reason that he did nothing wrong.
Garner's death likely should be attributed to the fact that he himself suffered from severe asthma, something the arresting officers had no reason to know. According to Garner's friends, his asthma was severe enough that he was forced to quit his job as horticulturist for the city. He wheezed when he talked and could not walk so much as a city block without having to stop to rest. Garner "couldn't breathe" because of his asthma, not because of a chokehold.
In addition, he suffered from heart disease, advanced diabetes, hypertension, obesity and sleep apnea. Contrary to public perception, he did not die on site, nor did he die of asphyxiation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance and was declared dead about an hour later at the hospital.
So it turns out that almost everything bleated out by the race-mongers and the low-information media has turned out to be wrong. As the wisest man who ever lived wrote 3,000 years ago, "The one who states his case first seems right until the other comes and examines him" (Proverbs 18:17).
Eric Garner and Michael Brown both fought the law, and the law won. In the end, they have no one to blame but themselves.
New York Post co lumnist Bob McMcanus concluded his column on Eric Garner this way:
"There are many New Yorkers - politicians, activists, trial lawyers, all the usual suspects - who will now seek to profit from a tragedy that wouldn't have happened had Eric Garner made a different decision.
"He was a victim of himself. It's just that simple."
Obama hands Cuba's Castros a major victory, but Congress can still stop it
Establishing ties with Cuba has been on President Obama’s bucket list for some time. Health care -- done. Amnesty for illegal immigrants -- done. Cuba -- next. This last one also has the added bonus point that it puts him right with the international left, which lionizes Castro.
And the president will go on picking off the next items on the bucket list for the next two years of his term unless Congress decides to stop him. Should they work up the gumption, lawmakers will find they can do many things to stand up for the prerogatives of the legislative branch.
Obviously, the release of the 65-year-old American hostage Alan Gross should be welcome. His “crime” was to bring computers to Jews on the island. For the last five years, he has been a victim of Cuba’s state terrorism, just as 11 million Cubans have been held hostage by their government for the past five decades.
Not only does President Obama’s action fail to advance freedom in Cuba, it throws a lifeline to Cuba’s dictators.
Exchanging three hardened Cuban spies for Gross, however, establishes an insulting moral and legal equivalency. The spies actions led to the death of an American in the 1990s, and they were duly convicted. Their release in exchange for Gross creates an incentive for rogue regimes and individual actors to kidnap Americans all over the world.
Not only does President Obama’s action fail to advance freedom in Cuba, it throws a lifeline to Cuba’s dictators, whose current supplier of funds, Venezuela, is on the ropes because of plunging oil prices. It surrenders to the demands for normalization that the Castros have been making for decades.
So what can Congress do?
Right off the bat, Congress must make it crystal clear to President Obama that he lacks the authority to lift the embargo on Cuba, allow trade to take place between the two nations, let tourists to go to Cuba to bail out the regime or give Cuba have access to capital markets. U.S. law—the Helms-Burton Act of 1996—gives the Congress power to override any action taken by the executive to lift the embargo.
In order to lift the embargo, the Cuban government would have to give the Cuban people a number of rights—of association, speech, political activity, etc.—that President Obama obviously failed to secure in his 45-minute conversation with Cuban dictator Raul Castro Tuesday.
Congress can also make clear to the president that there are statutory criteria that must be met before his administration can take Cuba off the State Department list of terrorism sponsors. The president must inform Congress that there has been a change of leadership and policies of the Cuban government and that Castro has given assurances that it will no longer support terrorist acts. Can President Obama do any of that?
Senators should also make clear that they will put a hold on any ambassador that Mr. Obama nominates to serve in Cuba unless he can guarantee that the Cuban government is no longer a threat to the United States and has decided to grant freedom to people in Cuba. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has already said he plans to do that.
Additionally, Congress can look into the possibility of using policy riders in the upcoming DHS appropriations debate in February and the Fiscal Year 2016 appropriations process to deny the president funds for setting up relations.
Congress must act because President Obama has been completely feckless in his entire approach to Cuba. He received nothing in exchange for many substantial concessions made to the Communist regime. After five years of “negotiations” President Obama ended exactly where Raul Castro’s demands began five years ago. As Senator Marco Rubio said, President “Obama is the worst negotiator since Carter.”
Mr. Obama's statement was filled with Havana’s communist talking points, such as affirming that Cubans are poor and unfree because of the embargo, or that Cuba was a U.S. colony. None of that is true, and yet Mr. Obama said it.
Congress must act to limit the damage inherent in this Havana Giveaway. Left unchecked, Obama will simply move on to the next misguided item on his bucket list.
WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH THIS GUY ???
Not everyone gets to drop in at the presidential residence for a chat with President Barack Obama, but the White House welcome mat most definitely has been out for one frequent visitor — the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Since 2009, Sharpton has visited the White House no fewer than 61 times, reports the National Review, citing the White House visitor log, which "illustrates the extraordinary access Sharpton has had to the president and his top advisers."
Many of the visits were for official events, such as the Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement and the jobs bill signing in 2010.
However, many events were of a more personal nature, such as the 2011 Super Bowl Party thrown by the Obamas, movie screenings and the president's birthday party in 2011, which would indicate "a close personal relationship between Sharpton and the first family," National Review said.
The invitations came despite Sharpton's spotty record on paying his taxes. His organization, the National Action Network (NAN), is listed as being $1.33 million in debt and owes the IRS around $819,000, according to its 2013 tax filing, while paying Sharpton a $241,545 salary, National Review reports.
When Sharpton has visited the White House and Obama on matters involving job creation, immigration, education and voting rights, the administration has publicized the meetings, but in 17 of those meetings, there is no record of what was discussed.
Sharpton, who hosts his own show on MSNBC, has bragged publicly that he was involved in the selection of New York federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, the nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, and has visited her office, the Daily Caller reports. Sharpton's connection with Obama comes through his contact with top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and her White House public relations office, the National Review reports, noting that he has met personally with Jarrett four times and often meets with members of her staff.
During the Ferguson, Missouri, riots, Sharpton was often texting and speaking with Jarrett while she was vacationing with the Obamas on Martha's Vineyard, Politico said.
Prior to the Obama administration, Sharpton was considered a "pariah" and race agitator by White House occupants, Politico reports.
But today, his sometimes-colleague the Rev. Jesse Jackson told Politico, "He’s arrived at the level he always wanted to arrive at, which is gratifying. He’s the man who’s the liaison to the White House. He’s the one who’s talking to the Justice Department.”
Politico described Sharpton as Obama's "go-to man on race."
Sharpton told Politico that Obama ”realized I wasn’t as irrational or as crazy as people thought," and the NAN website boasts that Obama has referred to Sharpton as "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden."
A White House official told Politico, “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down. He gets it, and he’s got credibility in the community that nobody else has got. There’s really no one else out there who does what he does.
Obama quotes nonexistent Bible verse in immigration speech
While there are plenty of Bible verses to mention while discussing immigration, President Obama on Tuesday quoted one which isn't so great, mainly because it's not real. "The good book says don't throw stones at glass houses, or make sure we're looking at the log in our eye before we are pointing out the mote in other folks eyes," Obama said during a speech in Nashville. One problem, though: The Bible never mentions glass houses.
In addition to his biblical misquote, Obama also tied his immigration policy to the Christmas story, saying, "If we're serious about the Christmas season, now is the time to reflect on those who are strangers in our midst and remember what it was like to be a stranger." This analogy drew conservative ire as opponents of the president's immigration reform noted that Mary and Joseph were actually visiting Joseph's ancestral home.
http://theweek.com/article/index/273404/speedreads-obama-quotes-nonexistent-bible-verse-in-immigration-speech
HAVEN'T PLAYED IN WEEKS GWEN ...
MAY TAKE A VACATION SOMEWHERE WARM FOR A WEEK OR SO THO AND THE CLUBS WILL BE WITH ME ...
THE KILLING OF POLICE OFFICERS
Does anyone remember Detective Melvin Santiago? He was a Jersey City police
officer who was shot to death just a month ago, on July 13th. Santiago was
white. His killer, Lawrence Campbell, was black. Does anyone recall Obama
appearing before national television and calling for justice for Officer
Santiagos family? Does anyone recall Eric Holder rushing to Jersey City to
see that justice was done
How about Officer Jeffrey Westerfield? He was a Gary, Indiana police officer
who was shot to death on July 6, 2014. Officer Westerfield was white, his
killer, Carl LeEllis Blount, Jr. was black. where was Obama? Where was
Holder?
Officer Perry Renn was an Indianapolis, Indiana police officer who was shot
to death July 5, 2014, the day before Officer Westerfield was killed.
Officer Renn was white. His killer, Major Davis, was black. I don't recall
any mention by Obama about the untimely death of Officer Renn. and, I doubt
that Eric Holder rushed to Indianapolis to make sure justice was served.
Vermillion Parish Deputy Sheriff Allen Bares was gunned down by two men June
23, 2014 in Louisiana. Deputy Bares was white. His two killers, Quintlan
Richard and Baylon Taylor were black. was Obama outraged? Did Eric Holder
rush to Louisiana to make sure that the family of Deputy Bares found
justice?
Detective Charles Dinwiddie of the Killen, Texas Police Department was
murdered on May 11, 2014 by Marvin Lewis Guy, a black male. Officer
Dinwiddie was white. Do you recall seeing anything abouth that on the news?
Certainly, the white citizens of Killeen didn't take to the streets to loot
and burn businesses. Do you recall any mention of Obama or Holder here?
Then, there is Officer Kevin Jordan of Griffin, Georgia Police Department.
He was gunned down on May 31, 2014. Officer Jordan was black, his killer,
Michael Bowman was white. This was a white man murdering a black police
officer. Where was Jesse Jackson? Where was "The Reverend" al Sharpton? Was
there looting and burning on the streets of Griffin, Georgia? No, in fact,
we don't recall hearing about this one in the news as well. Why? You can
draw your own conclusions.
Over the past 60 days, there have been five reported deaths of police
officers by gunshot in the U.S. Of those, four were white officers who were
murdered by black men. Blacks complain that white officers treat black men
more aggressively on the street. You can draw your own conclusions on that
one, as well.
A US President that tries to divide this republic, needs to be removed from
office !!
I WAS DELETED AGAIN BY DOUCH-BAGS ON POS BOARD TODAY FOR POSTING THE SAME THING AS EVERYONE ELSE DID PERTAINING TO SOMEONES SPELLING OF GARNICKS NAME ..BUT THATS THE WAY THEY OPERATE OVER THERE ...
THAT CLOWN NEVER GIVES UP AND IS NEVER RIGHT ..........
0.27 IN POS LAND
P-P-H-M sing dis song, DOO-DAH, DOO-DAH
WHAT FERGUSON MEANS FOR AMERICA'S COPS
>> Every cop in America knows one thing – it could have been him.
>> Or her.
>> It could have been him or her, instead of Darren Wilson, who pulled that trigger on Michael Brown.
>> Or some such similar young man.
>> Every cop in America knows that, in return for choosing a career in law enforcement, the rules of the road are now that, at any minute, it all could be over and you could become hated and condemned all across the country.
>> No one would have your back, even the president could denounce you.
>> Because you defended yourself.
>> In a twist on biting the hand that feeds you, we are instead tying the hand that defends us. We are sending them out, and waiting for the first chance to gut them.
>> It is an incomprehensible act of ingratitude.
>> All across American law enforcement, officers know that the new reality facing them when they pull their guns is: By defending myself, I could be condemning myself.
>> Take Darren Wilson.
>> A good cop on routine patrol. He’s coming back from a call and has brief contact with two individuals. Nothing comes of it until he moves a ways down the block and gets a radio description of a wanted individual matching one of the young men he’s just seen.
>> Rolling back up on the two individuals, the larger of them – Michael Brown – lunges into the driver’s window of the squad car and begins assaulting Darren Wilson. Michael Brown then tries to take away the officer’s gun.
>> The officer gets off a round, Michael Brown attempts to flee, and then charges at the officer, twice, before being shot to death.
>> In the mind of witnesses and Darren Wilson, Michael Brown was set to attack and was an immediate threat to the life of Officer Wilson.
>> So Officer Wilson did what his training taught him to do. He did what instinct, morality and the laws of men command him to do – he defended himself.
>> And his life is ruined.
>> His career is over, his family is threatened, his name is destroyed, he has been vilified across the country and by the nation’s most prominent voices.
>> People have rioted demanding imprisonment for him, and there have been countless threats on his life.
>> His life, as he knew it, is over.
>> Because he was a cop and he defended himself.
>> An entire society has forgotten that Darren Wilson is not the perpetrator of a crime, he is the victim of a crime.
>> Likewise, it has been forgotten that Darren Wilson was an officer of the law with a duty to act, and that he was on patrol that day in the name and service of the people.
>> And it is dispiriting to see how instantly the people have turned on him and his profession.
>> You get up in the morning and put on a uniform that carries with it the obligation to potentially die in the service of your community, to put yourself between the good people and whatever species of hell pops up, and then, when you are literally fighting for your life and the community’s protection, nobody has your back.
>> Everybody curses your name.
>> Millions hate you.
>> Much of the nation turns against you.
>> In the matter of some 20 seconds.
>> Damned if you do, dead if you don't.Every cop in America wakes up every day knowing that that could be his fate. By the happenstance of random probability, the unpredictability of criminality, some wild hare seizing upon who knows what thug, and that could be you.
>> And it wouldn’t matter who you were, or what good you had done, or how many years you had served, or what you had made of your life and to what good cause you had dedicated it.
>> Al Sharpton would be yelling your name, mobs would be burning your effigy, and the president would be undercutting your profession.
>> And who wants that?
>> What kind of person, having seen on the nation’s newscasts the destruction of Darren Wilson, wants to risk that?
>> How many law enforcement officers will think of the danger associated with their thankless job, see the risk facing themselves and their family, recognize that it is completely unfair and wrong, and quit?
>> How many will lay down their badge and their career and walk away?
>> Probably none.
>> Because that’s the kind of people most of them are. They press on. They do their duty. They don’t quit.
>> That’s who they are.
>> More at issue is: Who are we?
>> Are we the kind of society that looks on and does nothing, or are we the kind of society that values law enforcement and what it does, and has its back?
>> Are we the kind of society that can look at the matter in Ferguson and push back the anti-cop prejudices and honestly consider the situation of Darren Wilson? Can we recognize the injustice of his situation?
>> Not that he wasn’t prosecuted, but that he was ever suspected. That an officer of the law, the victim of a violent and felonious attack, can be forced into a fight for his life, and then be condemned for winning.
>> Would society have preferred he die?
>> We all know that if the cop had died, instead of the guy who attacked him, that none of us would have ever heard of this. The president wouldn’t have commented, the nation wouldn’t have noticed, nobody would have given a damn.
>> Dead cop, no problem.
>> Dead thug, raise holy hell.
>> And every cop knows that.
>> And carries that sad realization 24 hours a day.
>> The president said we need to train our police better. Maybe we need to train our society better.
>> Maybe we should train the Michael Browns of the world to respect the law, and maybe we should train the rest of us to respect the law enforcers.
>> And have their backs.
>> Or at least understand the horrible risk and reality Ferguson creates for them.
>> Because every cop knows today could be his day.
WHAT A GREAT COMMENTARY FROM LOU DOBBS........
http://finance.yahoo.com/video/president-obama-not-acknowledging-evidence-034020393.html
P-P-H-M sing dis song, DOO-DAH, DOO-DAH....
ANOTHER EXCITING DAY IN PPHM LAND ........
Obama: Fund My Amnesty Or I’ll Shut Down The Government
by Wochit 1:03 mins
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama will block a government budget bill if the GOP denies him the funds needed to provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Earnest said when asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl if Obama would veto a government-wide budget that defunded the amnesty program, “Yes". If Obama blocks the budget to help the illegals, large sections of the federal government would shut down on Dec. 12. But Earnest equivocated when he was asked if Obama would shut down the government if the GOP denies amnesty just for the immigration agency.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ???
Three and a half months have come and gone and the Pentagon has offered no clarity on what happened to alleged Army deserter and Taliban collaborator Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Fellow soldiers and other critics fear the military’s now-delayed investigation is shaping up to be a whitewash.
The case has become a political powder keg for President Obama.
Since he traded five imprisoned Taliban leaders for Bergdahl, the US Government Accountability Office has declared the swap illegal, and nearly two dozen House Democrats have joined Republicans in officially condemning the move for making “Americans less safe.”
In addition, the Taliban deal appears to have encouraged the Islamic State to put up American hostages as trade bait to free other terrorist detainees, namely “Lady al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui.
But a senior Army official said court-martialing Bergdahl would “make the president look bad.” In spite of damning evidence against him, the official expects Pentagon brass to separate him from the military with a less-than-honorable discharge, sparing Obama total embarrassment.
WHO IS LENNY ??
WHAT WAS HIS ADVICE ABOUT PPHM
BIG AL..........
The Rev. Sharpton, the civil-rights leader who has become a close confidant to President Barack Obama and New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, has more than $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens outstanding against him and his for-profit businesses.
An examination of public records by
The New York Times found that Sharpton, 60, who hosts an MSNBC talk show, "traveled first-class and collected a sizable salary" despite the outstanding liens.
His New York state tax bill has risen in recent years — and his nonprofit organization, the National Action Network, has not paid federal payroll taxes on its employees for years, according to the report.
The Treasury's Inspector General's Office told the Times that some of Sharpton's actions could be considered "abusive" or "potentially criminal" among nonprofit groups if "the failure to turn over or collect taxes is willful."
In addition, Sharpton and the National Action Network have also "repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords," the Times reports. "He has leaned on the generosity of friends and sometimes even the organization, intermingling its finances with his own to cover his daughters' private-school tuition."
Sharpton, who was at the White House earlier this month when Obama nominated Loretta Lynch to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder, told the Times in recent telephone interviews that all of the debts are being paid because of increased donations.
He noted that he had lent his own funds to the National Action Network, while not taking a salary on occasion.
"You can say I'm not a great administrator," Sharpton told the Times. "You can't say that I'm not committed."
HOPEFILLED2014..
IT WAS YOUR QUOTE NOT MINE ......I WAS CRITICIZING YOU FOR IT .. YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU READ ......
DAVE..........
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OTHERWISE I RIDE IT TO ZERO ....
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