Sunday, July 31, 2016

The Best Medicine

ENOUGH of this negative political bullshit. ENOUGH!!! November can't get here early enough. ENJOY

This clip is from a comedy short called Blotto (1930) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film survives only in a censored 1937 re-release print which has had Pre-Code sequences removed (about one reel of material was cut) and a new music track added.




It's all just GREAT

From Tim Bridges on Facebook


Trump is a man with a vision for America, not a specific vision, a great vision...the best vision...Trump has a plan to make this country great again....What plan??....a great plan...a plan that will work because it's the best plan.....Why???... because Trump knows good people...which people???....the best people....people that are not stupid like other people....people who know how to get deals done...what deals???...great deals...the biggest deals... because I know words... What words???...I have the best words... I get my information from watching TV... I consult with myself because I have a great brain... A great brain???...the best brain...Trump will also build a big wall to keep Mexicans out and he will make Mexico pay for it!...How....??? its all part of the great plan!...ISIS will be gone very, very quickly...How???... I won't tell you.. It's a secret !!!... (This guy is a “one-man circus jerk” and he is only about entertaining the uneducated who love him and his great plan. He's all air - no substance. And he is their “Champion”.)


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Friday, July 29, 2016

Moving Speech at DNC



The speech at the DNC by Khizr Khan, a Muslim-American whose son - Army Captain Humayun Khan - died serving in Iraq, Perhaps the most chilling of the Convention.

DNC

Thursday, July 21, 2016

TROUBLE


A Social Experiment

Gonna Miss This Lady

James Corden host of the late, late show, is noted for his carpool karaoke bits on his show. THIS has got to be my favorite.




After the episode aired, the Secret Service sent James Corden a shout out on Twitter, thanking him for getting her back safely. I’d have to check to be sure, but I doubt this has ever happened to another TV show host. Way to make history, James Corden!


U.S. Secret Service ✔ @SecretService
Thank you @JKCorden and the @latelateshow for bringing @FLOTUS home safe and sound after #CarpoolKaraoke. We were watching @SecretService
12:01 AM - 21 Jul 2016

Monday, July 18, 2016

Monday Morning Smile

None today.

Sunday was a bloody Sunday in Baton Rouge. My heart is at the breaking point.

WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA??? WHAT THE FUCK? KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE? KILLING COPS JUST DOING THEIR JOBS?

Thank you Thank you, Duane Leblanc .


Heaven welcomed 3 beautiful souls on July 17 2016 - from the Baton Rouge Police Department.



Earlier in the month, Montrell Jackson took to Facebook to express his thoughts after recent shooting deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers.

“I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me,” he wrote on July 8. “In uniform I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat. I’ve experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core. … Finally I personally want to send my prayers out to everyone directly affected by this tragedy. These are trying times. Please don’t let hate infect your heart. This city MUST and WILL get better. I’m working in these streets so any protestors, officers, friends, family, or whoever, if you see me and need a hug or want to say a prayer. I got you.”




Brad Garafola was 45-years-old and had been with the sheriff's office for 24 years.
Garafola Was Working Extra Duty at The Store Near The Shooting & His Wife Encountered the Scene on Her Way to Meet Him


Matthew Gerald, a former Marine who had joined the Baton Rouge police force a year ago. Matt was the kind of guy that you knew immediately when he entered the room," said Ryan D. Cabral, who served with Gerald in Iraq. "Whether it was the energy he carried with him or that Cajun accent he had . . . maybe it was the Marine in him.
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Friday, July 08, 2016

Despite the bad news....there is CARING


From CNN: An image of solidarity in the midst of the Dallas shootings is shared on social media
A peaceful protest ended in bloodshed yesterday as snipers opened fire on Dallas police officers who were working the protest. Five officers lost their lives. A truly horrific act of violence.

As images began to circulate of the terror, confusion, and fear — one image stood out from the rest. It’s a photograph of a group of people surrounding a baby in a stroller, presumably protecting the baby from any more gun violence.



“In the middle of the horror, in the wake of nightmare, amid the outrage and the call to arms is this moment of humanity: People, black and white, surrounded a baby stroller in Dallas as the gunfire broke out. This is the better nature of our angels. This is who we are and who we should strive to be,” Nate Homan, former reporter at Boston Metro wrote.

Tweets from Twats

Shortly after the killing of 5 police officers in Dallas, Texas
Twitter was filled with tweets, certain individuals showed their true colors; mostly in their anger/hatred to our President and Black Lives Matter. Below are a few I found pretty ignorant:



Full-time provocateur and part-time Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, a frequent Faux News guest:

David A. Clarke, Jr. ✔ @SheriffClarke
American needs Obama to get out of bed & address Dallas situation NOW.
He poured gas on this situation with his dog whistle message earlier.
11:39 PM - 7 Jul 2016


Wayne Allyn Root, a right-wing pundit and onetime Trump rally emcee:

Wayne Allyn Root @WayneRoot
What is President Obama responsibility in this? His irresponsible rhetoric & propaganda have divided this nation.
1:14 AM - 8 Jul 2016


Pam Geller, whacko extrodinaire

Obama’s racist campaign of division and discord exploded tonight in Dallas, Texas just hours after he made a hate speech inciting to violence.



Matthew Vadum at FrontPage Mag:

Is the race war Barack Obama wanted breaking out in Dallas and across America?



@andieiamwhoiam (don't know who she is, don't care)
I have a sinking feeling that Barack is smiling his smug little smile, knowing what happened in Dallas tonight.
11:02 PM - 7 Jul 2016



Dr. Frank Corleone, some guy who thinks he's Al Pacino:

Dallas Authorities release sketch of a man who helped facilitate the slaughter of Dallas Police Officers!
11:07 PM - 7 Jul 2016


Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh declared "war" on Obama and Black Lives Matter protesters in a now-deleted tweet during the Dallas chaos...



After many people reported it to the U.S. Secret Service, he deleted the tweet, but that didn't stop him from continuing his despicable rant.

More "intelligent tweets" from this goofball:

Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
BLM should be categorized as a hate group.
10:49 PM - 7 Jul 2016


Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
4 dead.

Obama stoked the flame.

BLM did this.

Cops are dying.
10:51 PM - 7 Jul 2016

Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
4 Dallas Cops assassinated tonight.

Blacks lives matter cheers.

LGBT blames Christians.

Obama defends Islam.
11:04 PM - 7 Jul 2016

This one is especially despicable, because again -- there is absolutely no evidence now, or at the time he tweeted this, that the suspects are black.


Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom

Obama says Cops are racist so 2 uneducated black thugs shoot 10 Dallas Cops tonight, killing 4.

Wake up silent majority. Stand w our Cops.


11:15 PM - 7 Jul 2016


He followed that one up with this one immediately after:


Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
It's time 4 patriotic Americans to stand up & stand against all the Cop haters - from Obama to the thugs on the street.

It's way past time.

11:52 PM - 7 Jul 2016

And then, after he was roundly criticized and had his tweets sent to the Secret Service, he tweeted this:


Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
I wasn't calling for violence, against Obama or anyone. Obama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops.
12:21 AM - 8 Jul 2016



Thursday, July 07, 2016

To My Black Friends

Mark Langham
14 hrs ·
Alton Sterling. Philando Castile.

I am so angry. I am so ashamed.

Black men represent 9% of the American population but are 40% of unarmed citizens killed by police.

Before you say it. Yes, there are good cops. But...just don't. Not right now.

I know you want to believe police are above wrong motives in the shooting of a citizen. I know you need to believe it because it gives you a sense of security. And rightly so, citizens should be able to trust policemen to protect them. And this is exactly what black Americans are saying. That they should be able to believe police have their best interests in mind.

But they cannot. They are afraid.

The arguments in these cases always run something like: if he hadn't committed a crime, if he didn't have a record, if he hadn't been carrying a weapon, if he hadn't resisted, if he hadn't....

Please tell me, those of you with such a keen sense of justice, to which crime that was committed did Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile deserve to die? Was it selling cigarettes or CDs without a license? Maybe a broken taillight? Or perhaps it was a criminal record? Because redemption and rehabilitation are beyond the scope of your imagination?

Please tell me, those of you that fight constantly for your right to bear arms. Should a man be executed for having a gun? A gun that is not drawn? Were his rights to bear arms violated? Where is your outrage? Is your argument that the gun was not registered? Did the cop know or even ask?

Please tell me, those that say if these murdered men would have just not resisted arrest they would still be alive, should resisting arrest be punishable by death? How is it that police constantly de-escalate mass shooters but a man on his face on the ground gets shot twice in the back. A man sitting in his car gets shot reaching for his license?

To say these are isolated instances, to suggest that the justice system is colorblind is to be grossly naive, to be negligent as a citizen, or to be wholly unconcerned about the racism that exists in the Dept. of Justice. Or perhaps it's simpler, perhaps it is to be racist yourself.

White America stop with the hypocrisy. Stop with the excuses. Just stop. Demand justice. Don't pontificate about the breakdown of black families or the toxic nature of black society and black culture. Don't be a mouthpiece for racism. Just stop. Being black should not be a death sentence.

White Christians. Stop with the moral equivocation. Stop with the sanctity of life speeches until black lives matter to you. And don't say all lives matter. No one is arguing that. But white lives have always been more sacred, had more worth in the US than black lives. It's time to stand shoulder to shoulder with our black neighbors and scream black lives matter. Because they haven't mattered much, haven't been as sacred. Haven't been protected and given justice.

White America do not be silent. Speak out when you see racism. Speak out when you hear racist remarks. Speak out when you see injustice against blacks. Speak loud, clear and relentlessly. Speak as if it were your child that was murdered.

White Christians look again at the justice system through the lens of scripture, see if the image of God is being protected. See if the truth is being served. See if the compassion and humility we preach is the rule of law. If not then quit being complicit in a worldly system that stands against the will of God. Quit being silent. Pray and march and work tirelessly for unity. For justice.

To my black friends, to any black person who might read this: I grieve with you. I want to lift you up as the weight of the world feels like it is crushing you. I don't have all the words. I've had so much white privilege. I need you to know I hear you. I need you to know I'm deeply ashamed. I need you to know that I hate this injustice. I need you to know that your black life matters to me. I need you to know that this cruelty and these crimes against black Americans are crushing my soul. And I cannot even imagine what they are doing to you, beautiful, strong, resilient black America. But know this: from heaven's heart and mine, you are loved, you are loved, you are loved. And there will be justice.

‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬

‪#‎altonsterling‬

‪#‎philandocastile‬

‪#‎justice‬

Regarding Police

It HAS to STOP


Saturday, July 02, 2016

RIP Elie Wiesel

In Elie's own words:

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live long as God himself. Never.”



Future generations will find it hard to believe that such horrors were ever visited on one group of people by another. Wiesel is one of the foremost voices that will keep the unfathomable unforgettable.

President Obama

Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world. Tonight, Michelle and I join people across the UnitedStates, Israel and around the globe in mourning the loss and celebrating the life of a truly remarkable human being. Like millions of admirers, I first came to know Elie through his account of the horror he endured during the Holocaust simply because he was Jewish. But I was also honored and deeply humbled to call him a dear friend. I'm especially grateful for all the moments we shared and our talks together, which ranged from the meaning of friendship to our shared commitment to the State of Israel.
Elie was not just the world's most prominent Holocaust survivor, he was a living memorial. After we walked together among the barbed wire and guard towers of Buchenwald where he was held as a teenager and where his father perished, Elie spoke words I’ve never forgotten – “Memory has become a sacred duty of all people of goodwill.” Upholding that sacred duty was the purpose of Elie's life. Along with his beloved wife Marion and the foundation that bears his name, he raised his voice, not just against anti-Semitism, but against hatred, bigotry and intolerance in all its forms. He implored each of us, as nations and as human beings, to do the same, to see ourselves in each other and to make real that pledge of “never again.”
At the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that he helped create, you can see his words —“for the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” But Elie did more than just bear witness, he acted. As a writer, a speaker, an activist, and a thinker, he was one of those people who changed the world more as a citizen of the world than those who hold office or traditional positions of power. His life, and the power of his example, urges us to be better. In the face of evil, we must summon our capacity for good. In the face of hate, we must love. In the face of cruelty, we must live with empathy and compassion. We must never be bystanders to injustice or indifferent to suffering. Just imagine the peace and justice that would be possible in our world if we all lived a little more like Elie Wiesel.
At the end of our visit to Buchenwald, Elie said that after all that he and the other survivors had endured, “we had the right to give up on humanity.” But he said, “we rejected that possibility…we said, no, we must continue believing in a future.” Tonight, we give thanks that Elie never gave up on humanity and on the progress that is possible when we treat one another with dignity and respect. Our thoughts are with Marion, their son Shlomo Elisha, his stepdaughter Jennifer and his grandchildren whom we thank for sharing Elie with the world. May God bless the memory of Elie Wiesel, and may his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life.

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