Monday, November 16, 2015
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News 11/15/15
Madonna Wrong to Think Terrorists Will Stop by Giving Them ‘Dignity and Respect’ and ‘Love Unconditionally’
Hillary Refuses to Say US Is at War With 'Radical Islam'
MSNBC's Hayes: Media biased, But Not Partisan
Obama: ISIS Is Not Getting ‘Stronger,’ We Have ‘Contained’ Them
IPCC Climate Change Report Refuted
In Lauding Bush 41, Time Laments Jeb 'Tormented' by 'Divisive' Gingrich-Tea Party 'Extremes'
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Texas Abortion Law
Here We Go Again: Talk of Drafting Romney Resurfaces
Michigan Governor Puts Refugee Acceptance Efforts On Hold
Black Activists Double Down on Hate with #F***Paris Hashtag
Hillary Clinton Responds to Bernie Sanders Attack on Wall Street Contributions by Invoking 9/11
Mediaite.com:
Bernie Sanders piked a fight with Hillary Clinton on Wall Street tonight at the Democratic debate, bringing up how she has gotten a lot in Wall Street donations over the years.There's nothing this corrupt woman won't say or do to become President.
When Clinton put forth her proposal to regulate Wall Street, Sanders responded with three words: “Not good enough.”
He found it a little odd that Clinton professes to be so publicly anti-Wall Street when she gets a lot of campaign cash from them. Clinton pushed back and said he’s trying to “impugn my integrity.”
She brought up how she was a New York senator on 9/11, and invoked how downtown Manhattan, where Wall Street is located, was targeted on that tragic day. Clinton touted her work to help them rebuild and insisted that she’s plenty tough on Wall Street.
RELATED: Debate exposes Clinton's Wall Street underbelly
Friday, November 13, 2015
Heather Fong: Vocal Supporter of Sanctuary Cities on Short List To Be Next Head of Border Patrol
FOXNews.com:
A former San Francisco police chief and vocal supporter of a sanctuary cities policy is on a short list of candidates to become the new chief of the Border Patrol, according to sources.RELATED: Man Who Ran Over Cop in Texas Sanctuary City is 3-Time Deported Illegal Alien
As police chief, Heather Fong shielded illegal immigrants, including aliens who committed crimes, from deportation. In contrast, it is the job of the U.S. Border Patrol to catch and deport all illegal immigrants, including those with a criminal history.
"If they bring (a police chief) in for political purposes based on the sanctuary cities model, that politicizes the job and I think it completely undermines credibility and morale in the organization," House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, told Fox News.
"If you have someone who is advocating for sanctuary cities, that's the opposite side. They welcome these illegal immigrants to stay in the country. And so I think it's at cross-purpose with the mission itself."
Fong, according to Border Patrol, DHS and Capitol Hill sources, is one of several candidates to replace current chief Mike Fischer, who announced his resignation last month.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Teacher Fired for Refusing to Call 6-Year-Old Girl by Male Transgender Name
Newsmax.com:
A Texas teacher who reportedly would not agree to call a 6-year-old girl by her transgender boy's name has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the daycare center that fired her for the refusal.
Madeline Kirksey filed the a wrongful termination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after she was fired from the Children's Lighthouse Learning Center in Katy, Texas, on Nov. 3, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Kirkey, a manager at the daycare, and another employee were reportedly fired after they voiced concern when the child's parents brought her to school with shorter hair and instructed them to start calling her a male name.
Kirksey reportedly said she thought that all parents with children enrolled at the Lighthouse Learning Center should be notified of the change regarding the 6-year-old student. After that, she was terminated, according to a the document provided to the Chronicle by the educator's attorneys.
The firing happened the same day Houston voters repealed the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance which would have — among other things —allowed trandgender people to use whichever restrooms they prefer.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton Laughs When Supporter Says He Wants to ‘Strangle’ Carly Fiorina
Mediaite.com:
A military veteran at an event in New Hampshire told Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that seeing Republican rival Carly Fiorina on television made him want to “strangle her.” In response, Clinton laughed at the man, saying: “I wouldn’t mess with you.”
Clinton was attending an event in the town of Derry, where she was going to unveil her campaign’s plan to support military veterans and their families. It was during a Q&A session with those in attendance that the man spoke up.
Not only was the unidentified man a veteran, but he also claimed to be a former employee at Hewlett-Packard, where Fiorina was CEO from 1999 to 2005.
Yet it was another reporter’s tweet about the incident, which was live-streamed by MSNBC, that made matters worse. That’s because Clinton apparently “thought [the comment] was hilarious” enough to laugh out loud at.Last week, Fiorina failed to correct a supporter for calling President Barack Obama a “black Muslim.” When criticized for her inaction, she explained that Obama wasn’t on the ballot.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Ben Carson Trolls Liberal Media Ahead of FBN Debate: Yes, He Even ‘Colored Outside the Lines’
Mediaite.com:
Ahead of the Republican national debate, GOP candidate Ben Carson posted a video mocking the media’s scrutiny of his youth.
In the video, Carson’s aides reveal the “Top 10 Things the Liberal Media Thinks are Important for Voters to Know About Ben Carson,” from the time in college when he “threw away a glass bottle in a ‘paper products only’ receptacle,” to his reckless phase in the fall of ’62 when he “checked out a library book and returned it two days late.”
The tongue-and-cheek video also wants supporters to know that as a kid, Carson “occasionally” colored outside the lines, and in what appears to be a pattern of negligence, “didn’t replace the divots” the first time he went golfing.
Over the past week, Carson has spared with the media over accusations that he fabricated stories from his past. Carson’s supporters rallied around the Republican candidate, blaming the “liberal media” for biased attacks on Carson; many media outlets maintain the scrutiny is part of the presidential vetting process.
Monday, November 9, 2015
Bernie Sanders: Media Scrutiny of Ben Carson Is Why People Hate Politics
Mediaite.com:
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders does not believe the media scrutiny Republican Ben Carson is receiving is fair game for a presidential campaign.
Appearing Sunday morning on Meet the Press, the Vermont senator said the real problems with Carson’s candidacy are his positions on the issues, not anecdotes he recounted decades ago. Sanders slammed Carson for his views on climate change, Medicare, and taxes.
“I think it might be a better idea — I know it’s a crazy idea — but maybe we focus on the issues impacting the American people and what candidates are saying, rather than just spending so much time exploring their lives of 30 or 40 years ago,” Sanders told host Chuck Todd.
Carson has been under the media spotlight for potentially exaggerating stories involving his past, including anecdotes of a violent and tumultuous childhood, as well as whether he received a scholarship from West Point. Carson has said he stands by all of his past statements about those events, and slammed the media for its “smear campaign” against him.Sanders went on to contend that Americans are generally turned off to politics because the discussions in the media do not center around substantive issues.
Of course, Sanders' is going to continue get hated on by hypocritical Hillary surrogates as long as he stays in the race, but unlike Billary, at least he's consistent.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Queens, New York Teacher Fired For Being "Straight"
NYPost.com:
A Queens teacher claims he was fired because he’s straight.Only in Barack Obama's Godless America can stuff like this happen and it'll only continue if Hillary Clinton is elected POTUS in 2016.
Lane McDonough says he was hired to teach fifth grade at Bayside’s PS 159 because Principal Paul Didio mistakenly believed he “was gay at the time of the interview,” according to a lawsuit.
Didio was wary of hiring men because of “a bad experience,” he allegedly told the rookie educator during the June 2014 interview. “I gave a male teacher a bad review, and he retaliated by accusing me of soliciting [oral sex].”
The principal — who the lawsuit claims is gay — hired McDonough anyway. But two months later, after interrogating the teacher about his personal life, Didio, 39, discovered McDonough was heterosexual, court papers say.
Didio forced McDonough to switch grades a month into the school year, ridiculed him for being unprepared, subjected him to numerous informal observations, and even reprimanded him for boxes left by another educator in McDonough’s classroom, according to the lawsuit, which McDonough filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court against the city Department of Education.
The probationary teacher wants his dismissal reversed. The city will review the allegations when it’s served with the lawsuit, a Law Department spokesman said.
RELATED: The 29 States Where You Can Be Fired for Being Straight
The Thugification of Ben Carson
TheDailyBeast.com:
Ben Carson might well be the “Rick Ross” of presidential politics.
In no small irony, the retired neurosurgeon—much like the chart-topping rapper— is under fire for allegedly misleading the public about parts of his life story. Ross, also known as “Teflon Da Don,” was never the thugged-out, gun-toting, cocaine-slanging street menace that so often shows up in his lyrics. Instead, he was a college-educated corrections officer before he turned to the music industry to make his millions.
Carson’s exaggerations don’t go that far—his tales are far more pedestrian. But in story after story the iconic physician appears to embellish his life growing up in inner city Detroit. He certainly did not need to spin wild tales about his years as a young, gifted black boy raised by a single mother in urban America. That’s a story millions know and can relate to.
However, in various books, speeches and interviews, Carson appears to want something of a “hood pass”—an acknowledgement of his toughness authenticity—that functions both as insulation from “liberal media attacks” and as political currency among white Republican voters. The lure of a Carson candidacy (as I said in an earlier column) could not be more appealing to the evangelical base, which has been looking for a way to attract more non-white voters. For them, Carson is the perfect ambassador: an American success story who also happens to be black, and the quintessential Horatio Alger from the rough side of the railroad tracks.
For his part, Carson is playing along and seemingly has been for decades. He has leaned on (and sometimes added flourishes to) his backstory in order to expand his public platform. The truth is he has been building a personal narrative—whether true or weaved from whole cloth—about himself from the moment he leapt onto the world stage. He wasn’t just poor, in Carson’s telling, he was hard—the kind of hard that can get an otherwise promising young man into trouble. And while it might be customary in hip-hop, engaging in this kind of self “thugification” is new for politics.
Without a doubt, Carson grew up surrounded by pervasive poverty, and avoiding a myriad of societal maladies in the Motor City was no small feat. For every Ben Carson, there are thousands of black boys who didn’t make it to the sunrise—the ones whose mothers watched tearfully as they left the block cuffed in the back of a squad car or wept over their bodies in a funeral home. Carson more than beat the odds. The bookish kid with thick glasses and a pocket protector earned his way into Yale and went on to become one of the world’s most celebrated surgeons.
Today, based almost solely on that story, Carson is currently leading national polls for the Republican presidential nomination. However, in recent days, key elements—as told by Carson himself— have come under increased scrutiny.There is such a thing as revealing too much and in that regard Ben Carson can be his own worse enemy.
To hear the good doctor tell it, he once tried to stab a “close relative” in a dispute over a radio and at another point he wanted to hit his mother in the head with a brick. He allegedly hurled a rock at a school friend, busting his glasses and leaving him with a bloody nose. If fact, if Carson can be believed, he was so violent that he needed a divine intervention.
It’s a compelling story—one that has sold millions of books, led to a biopic about his life, and earned him countless awards over the years. The problem is almost none of its flourishes ring true and, despite the earnest efforts of reporters, almost none of them can be verified. As it turns out, CNN could find no one—not even the next-door neighbor kids—who could remember a young, hot-tempered Carson, let alone one who tried to murder somebody.
RELATED: Carson Blows Up at Reporters During Presser: Why Don’t You Care About Obama’s Past?
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