Congress Member Joe Crowley (click here) (D-Queens, the Bronx) took to the House Floor on April 27 to call for the creation of a select committee to investigate the reasons why Speaker Ryan essentially fired the House of Representatives Chaplain, Father Pat Conroy. Crowley said, “According to reports, Speaker Ryan demanded Father Conroy resign because of a prayer he led on the House Floor during the debate on the Republican tax bill, where Conroy said that Congress should consider all Americans, including the poor, in the legislation. Conroy, who was selected by former Republican Speaker John Boehner and elected by the entire House, has served as Chaplain for 7 years. This is the first time in the history of the US House of Representatives that a chaplain has been fired....
The spiritual leader of the USA House is supposed to remind Congress of it's moral content and necessary obligation to the poor. It is in the spiritual job description at the ordination of Reverend Conroy. The spiritual leader of the US Congress is not a political cheerleader.
The attacks upon priests in their missionary work are well known to most Catholic communities. It starts exactly like this:
"Why Jesuits are troublemakers: Father Patrick Conroy is a part of a proud tradition." (click here)
Reverend Conroy is not a PART, he is a priest. Pope Francis is a Jesuit. The Jesuit ORDER is in celebration of the life of St. Ignatius Loyola.
St. Ignatius Loyola (click here) was born in 1491, one of 13 children of a family of minor nobility in northern Spain. As a young man Ignatius Loyola was inflamed by the ideals of courtly love and knighthood and dreamed of doing great deeds.
But in 1521 Ignatius was gravely wounded in a battle with the French. While recuperating, Ignatius Loyola experienced a conversion. Reading the lives of Jesus and the saints made Ignatius happy and aroused desires to do great things. Ignatius realized that these feelings were clues to God’s direction for him....
I do not want to hear one more foul word against Reverend Conroy, the order under which he was ordained or any other lies.
NO MORE HATRED OF CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Friday, May 04, 2018
I am not a fan of Mitch McConnell's, but, Don Blankenship does not care children.
The coal silo was used to fill railcars with coal sold after it was mined. There was coal dust in the air and on the school itself resulting in children breathing contaminated air.
August 9, 2018
By Ken Ward, Jr.
Morgantown, W.Va. (AP) — A Raleigh County judge (click here) will hold a hearing later this month on a medical monitoring lawsuit claiming hundreds of children were exposed to toxic coal dust from a Massey Energy Co. processing plant and silo next to Marsh Fork Elementary School.
Williamson attorney Kevin Thompson is suing Virginia-based Massey and three subsidiaries over alleged exposure from the silo that sits about 235 feet from the school near Sundial....
Now, Mr. Blankenship will state there was a jury that exonerated Massey Mining from financial liability. But, that does not erase the fact the children in that school were breathing foul air with a very dangerous coal slurry pond next to their school. As CEO of Massey Mining, Don Blankenship only cared about profits and not people. Massey Mining has a horrible safety record and has seen miners killed due to the lack of compliance with federal laws. Those children are going to have health issues the rest of their lives.
Make no mistake, the coal company Blankenship ran would pad his pockets when under attack by the public.
April 17, 2010
By Howard Burkes
Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship (click here) was paid $17.8 million last year even as some of the coal mines he supervised accumulated safety violations and injuries at rates that greatly exceed national rates.
That 2009 pay represents a $6.8 million raise over 2008 and almost double his compensation package in 2007.
Blankenship also has a deferred compensation package valued at $27.2 million at the end of last year.
What gets really scary is the attitude of which he is represented by counsel.
...The class-action lawsuit, (click here) which began five years ago, claimed that Virginia-based Massey and a subsidiary, Goals Coal Co., had created a public nuisance by building the silo 235 feet from the school. It also demanded a court-administered medical monitoring program.
Trains pull up to the silo to fill their cars, and the plaintiffs argued that creates dust that puts children at risk for asthma and other lung ailments. But Raleigh County Circuit Court jurors sided with Massey in rejecting those claims after a nine-day trial in Beckley.
General Counsel Shane Harvey blasted the lawyers involved in the case for attacking the coal industry, accusing them of trying to sway the public with hype and publicity....
That is always the defense by Blankenship; it is an attack on the coal industry. He was very well paid to make those arguments rather than protecting the health of children. The monies he was paid extra in 2008 could have built a new school in a safe place while closing the elementary school until which point there was no coal dust in the air.
Don Blankenship does not make good choices. He makes choices that endanger the public when he could have been their best friend. He is not a competent person to be elected to any office. He will never put people's health first and has seen incredible personal salaries to allow the danger he now wants others to believe he will prevent.
Trump and his minions, including Guilianai, need to stop talking. That is good advice and it is free.
Mr. Guiliani has ties to Russia, both as mayor and as a presidential candidate. He needs to be asked what his relationship was and continues to be and if there is any future in that relationship.
Guiliani and FOX News is attempting to make hush money legal. It is not. Hush money is a form of racketeering. Where does it stop? Hush money for murder?
Mr. Trump is stating his life is plagued with women making up stories and demanding money for one reason and one reason only, they are pretty women and he is a wealthy man. That is a lie. The public knows it is a lie. Donald Trump had two sexual identities; one public and one private. I think someone wrote a book recently about the private Trump and his favored hamburger. Just as the public doesn't know that Donald Trump, it doesn't know his sexual appetites either.
The proper way, the decent way anyone takes on people that lie about their reputation is through legal methods of restraining orders and exposure. If there was no relationship with these women, there would be no reason for hush money. Mr. Cohen could have been hired to deal with these issues and it would cost a lot less than handing out money like lollipops.
His wealth affords him the luxury of hiding his private side. As a private citizen, he was allowed all kinds of privacy, but, as the president (or in this case, as a presidential candidate) he is under a microscope. The only way adverse impacts to his public character are hidden is through corruption. There are excellent reasons for that, the president of the USA has enormous power including the power that kills people with sophisticated weapons. So, the idea Trump could continue the mystery of his private identity only proves he is not a worldly person. He is not naive, he is ridiculously lost in the world of wealth that provides a cloud of mystery.
The facts are clear. Ms. Clifford had a relationship with Mr. Trump. That relationship required her to disrobe and engage in intercourse. She has proof. She is not a stupid woman and no different than any other woman in the USA, she knows sunlight saves lives. She was verbally assaulted in the presence of her baby daughter by a man acting on behalf of Mr. Trump (before he was a candidate) and he threatened her life stating he basically would make her daughter an orphan.
Mr. Trump was in Russia for the purpose of business with the Miss USA pageant, stayed two nights and had prostitutes in his room compliments of the Russians, the prostitutes urinated on a bed in a suite where other USA dignitaries stayed. He had them urinate on the bed because he has insidious hatred for other people that have been a part of the political realm of the USA.
The indulgence of Trump's private identity worked to trap him in blackmail with the Russians holding control. That is not healthy for a powerful man to begin with and it is poison for a candidate for president of the USA. At least it should have been poison. But, instead of being poison, it was tamped down by the Russians, through cyber warfare against the DNC and exploitation of that information in the publication on "Wikileaks." Trump, with assistance from Russia, was able to be narrowly be elected to President and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. It can be said, the American people knew what they were looking at and the electoral college failed them.
An investigation into the Russian influence into 2016 election was launched because the majority of Americans who voted for Ms. Clinton knew that level of influence was not good for the country. The FBI lead by Mr. Comey was then assaulted by Trump by firing a very competent Mr. Comey and immediately used the power of the USA presidency corruptly to allow Russians into the Oval Office and handed them classified documents. Congress did nothing because they were also held hostage by threats to effect their future elections (with or without Russian assistance) if they acted against his status as president of the USA. The entire majority of the USA Congress became cowards and maintained that stature by cowing to Trump and crossing the line of separation of powers.
The majority of Americans are appalled by the weakness of it's Congress to protect the country and it has resulted in a special prosecutor to sort through THE FACTS and find the illegality of what has occurred. Basically, the American people want THE TRUTH. The truth has been a threat to Mr. Trump in his private life and it threatens him today. Life goes on, the investigation continues, charges are filed, the GOP pretends this is nothing but a political stunt and the country awaits the conclusion of the investigation in the care of a highly competent man in Mr. Robert Mueller; the very man who took on the protections of their lives after September 11, 2001.
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Mr. Guiliani has ties to Russia, both as mayor and as a presidential candidate. He needs to be asked what his relationship was and continues to be and if there is any future in that relationship.
Guiliani and FOX News is attempting to make hush money legal. It is not. Hush money is a form of racketeering. Where does it stop? Hush money for murder?
Mr. Trump is stating his life is plagued with women making up stories and demanding money for one reason and one reason only, they are pretty women and he is a wealthy man. That is a lie. The public knows it is a lie. Donald Trump had two sexual identities; one public and one private. I think someone wrote a book recently about the private Trump and his favored hamburger. Just as the public doesn't know that Donald Trump, it doesn't know his sexual appetites either.
The proper way, the decent way anyone takes on people that lie about their reputation is through legal methods of restraining orders and exposure. If there was no relationship with these women, there would be no reason for hush money. Mr. Cohen could have been hired to deal with these issues and it would cost a lot less than handing out money like lollipops.
His wealth affords him the luxury of hiding his private side. As a private citizen, he was allowed all kinds of privacy, but, as the president (or in this case, as a presidential candidate) he is under a microscope. The only way adverse impacts to his public character are hidden is through corruption. There are excellent reasons for that, the president of the USA has enormous power including the power that kills people with sophisticated weapons. So, the idea Trump could continue the mystery of his private identity only proves he is not a worldly person. He is not naive, he is ridiculously lost in the world of wealth that provides a cloud of mystery.
The facts are clear. Ms. Clifford had a relationship with Mr. Trump. That relationship required her to disrobe and engage in intercourse. She has proof. She is not a stupid woman and no different than any other woman in the USA, she knows sunlight saves lives. She was verbally assaulted in the presence of her baby daughter by a man acting on behalf of Mr. Trump (before he was a candidate) and he threatened her life stating he basically would make her daughter an orphan.
Mr. Trump was in Russia for the purpose of business with the Miss USA pageant, stayed two nights and had prostitutes in his room compliments of the Russians, the prostitutes urinated on a bed in a suite where other USA dignitaries stayed. He had them urinate on the bed because he has insidious hatred for other people that have been a part of the political realm of the USA.
The indulgence of Trump's private identity worked to trap him in blackmail with the Russians holding control. That is not healthy for a powerful man to begin with and it is poison for a candidate for president of the USA. At least it should have been poison. But, instead of being poison, it was tamped down by the Russians, through cyber warfare against the DNC and exploitation of that information in the publication on "Wikileaks." Trump, with assistance from Russia, was able to be narrowly be elected to President and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. It can be said, the American people knew what they were looking at and the electoral college failed them.
An investigation into the Russian influence into 2016 election was launched because the majority of Americans who voted for Ms. Clinton knew that level of influence was not good for the country. The FBI lead by Mr. Comey was then assaulted by Trump by firing a very competent Mr. Comey and immediately used the power of the USA presidency corruptly to allow Russians into the Oval Office and handed them classified documents. Congress did nothing because they were also held hostage by threats to effect their future elections (with or without Russian assistance) if they acted against his status as president of the USA. The entire majority of the USA Congress became cowards and maintained that stature by cowing to Trump and crossing the line of separation of powers.
The majority of Americans are appalled by the weakness of it's Congress to protect the country and it has resulted in a special prosecutor to sort through THE FACTS and find the illegality of what has occurred. Basically, the American people want THE TRUTH. The truth has been a threat to Mr. Trump in his private life and it threatens him today. Life goes on, the investigation continues, charges are filed, the GOP pretends this is nothing but a political stunt and the country awaits the conclusion of the investigation in the care of a highly competent man in Mr. Robert Mueller; the very man who took on the protections of their lives after September 11, 2001.
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Thursday, May 03, 2018
I listen to reports of all the yarns spun in the political right wing and I have to wonder how they can justify their stories.
I don't know why Mr. Guiliani is even involved. If he backed Trump during his campaign I suppose this could be an end run around any involvement. But, the hush money to Ms. Clifford didn't occur until a few days before the election.
Mr. Guiliani doesn't bother to acknowledge the fact Ms. Clifford has proof of what she alleges. And as far as the firing of James Comey, what the heck is Guiliani doing backing up Trump when in less than 12 hours the Russians were in the Oval Office picking up classified documents.
I am very surprised Mr. Guiliani is involved at all, quite frankly.
What's that you say?
By Sean Martin
More than 50 years ago, (click here) a shepherd found seven scrolls in the Qumran Caves in the Judean desert of the West Bank, near the Dead Sea.
The findings formed a larger manuscript which have been come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The papers contain Biblical and non-Biblical stories and have offered scientists a glimpse into the past and shed new light on Abrahamic religions.
Now, experts are using NASA’s technology to give a fresh insight into the historic texts....
On a sad not and unrelated to the scrolls; there were ten young Israeli people lost when the Dead Sea experienced a flash flood. They were camping there. Greatest sympathy to Israel, family and friends of these dearly loved people.
April 27, 2018
The death toll from flash floods (click here) that hit a group of teenage hikers in southern Israel Thursday rose from nine to 10 after a body found overnight was identified as the last missing teen Friday morning. Meanwhile, the two Palestinian children also died from flooding in the West Bank. A tractor driver declared missing was located Friday overnight....
Rev. Pat Conroy is still US House of Representative Chaplin. Thank you.
As you know, (click here) by letter of April 15, 2018, I tendered my resignation of the position of Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (hereinafter "House Chaplain") to you, effective May 24, 2018. At this time, and upon advice of counsel, I hereby retract and rescind said resignation for the reasons that follow.
I was elected as House Chaplain on May 25, 2011, and I have honorably served in that role since that time. I was re-elected House Chaplain in every succeeding Congress. I have never been disciplined, nor reprimanded, nor have I ever heard a complaint about my ministry during my time as House Chaplain. It is my desire to continue to serve as House Chaplain in this 115th United States Congress to the end of my current two-year term, and beyond,· unless my services are officially terminated (however that is properly done) or I am not re-elected to the position by the membership of the House....
Never in my life have I witnessed such mistreatment of a Catholic Priest in the United States of America. Rev. Conroy always has guest speakers from every religion. He is a magnificent spiritual leader and should be valued for the noral guidance he brings in prayer that comes with such responsibility.
This should never happen again. I thank Rev. Conroy for his dedication to this country and his steadfast beliefs that the poor have a place of dignity within these borders.
I hope it sells at auction for far more than $200,000.
It must be a wonderful feeling to be able to give such a gift to Pope Francis.
May 3, 2018
By Zelda Caldwell
This handout photo taken on November 15, 2017 at the Vatican and released by the Vatican press office, Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis signing a Lamborghini Huracan received as a gift as Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali (2ndR) looks on.
The famously frugal Pope Francis (click here) is probably the last person one would expect to drive a $200,000 sports car. In fact, the one sitting in the Vatican garage has never been driven since the Holy Father received it as a gift late last year.
Shortly after executives from Lamborghini presented the pope with a special edition Lamborghini Huracan, painted in white with yellow racing stripe to match the Vatican flag, the Vatican announced that the car would be sold at auction, with all proceeds going to charity.
The 570-horse power car comes with a papal blessing and the pope’s signature on the hood. Flashy, in an understated way, the Huracan boasts “diamond-finished 20-in. Giano wheels covering Nero calipers,” Bianco Leda Sportivo leather [trim], with Lamborghini crests adorning the headrests.”
According to Sotheby’s which is offering the car for sale on May 12, proceeds from the sale of the Lamborghini will go to “a quartet of deserving charities all near and dear to Pope Francis’ heart.”...
May 3, 2018By Zelda Caldwell
This handout photo taken on November 15, 2017 at the Vatican and released by the Vatican press office, Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis signing a Lamborghini Huracan received as a gift as Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali (2ndR) looks on.
The famously frugal Pope Francis (click here) is probably the last person one would expect to drive a $200,000 sports car. In fact, the one sitting in the Vatican garage has never been driven since the Holy Father received it as a gift late last year.
Shortly after executives from Lamborghini presented the pope with a special edition Lamborghini Huracan, painted in white with yellow racing stripe to match the Vatican flag, the Vatican announced that the car would be sold at auction, with all proceeds going to charity.
The 570-horse power car comes with a papal blessing and the pope’s signature on the hood. Flashy, in an understated way, the Huracan boasts “diamond-finished 20-in. Giano wheels covering Nero calipers,” Bianco Leda Sportivo leather [trim], with Lamborghini crests adorning the headrests.”
According to Sotheby’s which is offering the car for sale on May 12, proceeds from the sale of the Lamborghini will go to “a quartet of deserving charities all near and dear to Pope Francis’ heart.”...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
The concerns of all the prosecutors and courts is not a hunt for a wizard.
The past couple of days Trump and FOX News and now Guiliani are saying it was NOT CAMPAIGN FUNDS. They are trying to CREATE an alternate dialogue with the public.
Trump used his own funds for everything, evidently, including hush money because he invested his own monies into the campaign.
I don't believe a jury would allow such blatant manipulation of such facts that it is okay for a billionaire to pay off lovers to prevent them speaking out regarding their relationships before his election. I don't know of many candidates that have personal funds set aside for hiding adulterous relationships. I don't believe that is a legitimate expense of a self-funded campaign.
Best I can find and recall is that Citizens' United is about campaign ads and not hush money.
April 2, 2018
By Robert Barnes
...The court’s decisions on campaign finance (click here) provide one of the most dramatic examples of how the court shifted when the conservative Alito replaced the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. O’Connor was in the majority that upheld the McCain-Feingold law. Alito has swung the court to side with challengers to such laws.
He has been in the majority as the court has eased restrictions on organizations that air ads that discuss candidates in the closing days of a campaign; struck down a part of the McCain-Feingold law that increased contribution limits for candidates who faced wealthy, self-funding opponents; and struck down Arizona’s public finance system, which had a similar provision....
I don't care if Trump says this is an ongoing problem from his personal life before he was running for President; things change when a private citizen runs for office.
The people of the USA did not sign a non-disclosure agreement with Trump including his taxes. He is getting away with a lot because he mesmerizes people with his personal attacks on others. Trump uses a distraction to remove attention from areas of THE TRUTH that would hurt his plans.
Ms. Clifford was paid days before election day, not two years before the election.
McCain Feingold (click here)
Supreme Court Decision of McCain Feingold (click here)
Trump is perverting the Supreme Court decision to attempt to justify his perverted life. I am quite sure the Supreme Court didn't put a provision in their decision providing for a billionaire's hush money. That is corruption.
...The historic 5-to-4 decision in Citizens United v. FEC overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for their own campaign ads and rolled back centuries-old law about corporate spending. Under the ruling, corporations and unions will still be prohibited from giving direct contributions to candidates....
Anything I read says the same thing. A corporation can spend all the money it wants on ads to promote themselves in a campaign season; ie: petroleum industry. But, there is no unlimited spending on hush money.
The Supreme Court decision is about ADS, not SECRETS.
Trump used his own funds for everything, evidently, including hush money because he invested his own monies into the campaign.
I don't believe a jury would allow such blatant manipulation of such facts that it is okay for a billionaire to pay off lovers to prevent them speaking out regarding their relationships before his election. I don't know of many candidates that have personal funds set aside for hiding adulterous relationships. I don't believe that is a legitimate expense of a self-funded campaign.
Best I can find and recall is that Citizens' United is about campaign ads and not hush money.
April 2, 2018
By Robert Barnes
...The court’s decisions on campaign finance (click here) provide one of the most dramatic examples of how the court shifted when the conservative Alito replaced the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. O’Connor was in the majority that upheld the McCain-Feingold law. Alito has swung the court to side with challengers to such laws.
He has been in the majority as the court has eased restrictions on organizations that air ads that discuss candidates in the closing days of a campaign; struck down a part of the McCain-Feingold law that increased contribution limits for candidates who faced wealthy, self-funding opponents; and struck down Arizona’s public finance system, which had a similar provision....
I don't care if Trump says this is an ongoing problem from his personal life before he was running for President; things change when a private citizen runs for office.
The people of the USA did not sign a non-disclosure agreement with Trump including his taxes. He is getting away with a lot because he mesmerizes people with his personal attacks on others. Trump uses a distraction to remove attention from areas of THE TRUTH that would hurt his plans.
Ms. Clifford was paid days before election day, not two years before the election.
McCain Feingold (click here)
Supreme Court Decision of McCain Feingold (click here)
Trump is perverting the Supreme Court decision to attempt to justify his perverted life. I am quite sure the Supreme Court didn't put a provision in their decision providing for a billionaire's hush money. That is corruption.
...The historic 5-to-4 decision in Citizens United v. FEC overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for their own campaign ads and rolled back centuries-old law about corporate spending. Under the ruling, corporations and unions will still be prohibited from giving direct contributions to candidates....
Anything I read says the same thing. A corporation can spend all the money it wants on ads to promote themselves in a campaign season; ie: petroleum industry. But, there is no unlimited spending on hush money.
The Supreme Court decision is about ADS, not SECRETS.
Kilimnik is now in Russia? Yes? Can he travel? Is there some reason he is unable to leave Russia?
Sorry, but, if Russia has him in protective custody and he has no way of answering questions by the US government or allies; that is collusion. If these facts are this blatant, the "Freedom Caucus" would be obstructing justice by removing anyone from US Justice involved with these facts.
September 22, 2017
By Natasha Bertrand
Paul Manafort's longtime employee, (click here) Russian-Ukrainian political operative Konstantin Kilimnik, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that he and Manafort emailed each other "about Trump and everything" during the campaign.
Kilimnik's comments came a day after The Washington Post reported that Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman at the time, sent Kilimnik an email in July 2016 asking him to offer Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska "private briefings" about the campaign....
The Pew Research Group states in 2015 the US House Freedom Caucus members number 36. Thirty-six House Reps. are not going to wag the dog unless the GOP consents to this obstruction.
The Freedom Caucus are the Koch candidates. Graph (click here)
The Mueller investigation is about the country. The US House has no right to interfere with an investigation about a threat to the country's sovereignty. This is about Russian interference with an election. Money laundering by an American is against the law. If any laundered money went for elections in the USA, there are going to be consequences.
September 22, 2017
By Natasha Bertrand
Paul Manafort's longtime employee, (click here) Russian-Ukrainian political operative Konstantin Kilimnik, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that he and Manafort emailed each other "about Trump and everything" during the campaign.
The Pew Research Group states in 2015 the US House Freedom Caucus members number 36. Thirty-six House Reps. are not going to wag the dog unless the GOP consents to this obstruction.
The Freedom Caucus are the Koch candidates. Graph (click here)
The Mueller investigation is about the country. The US House has no right to interfere with an investigation about a threat to the country's sovereignty. This is about Russian interference with an election. Money laundering by an American is against the law. If any laundered money went for elections in the USA, there are going to be consequences.
Scapegoating Scot Peterson won't do anything. He had no way of stopping a man with an semi-automatic weapon.
Some people really buy into "A Good Buy with a Gun" from the NRA. If anyone wants to know what type of police tactic is used in these mass shootings, look at San Bernadino and learn that police are allowed to live when a mass killer is present.
...The first police officer (click here) arrived on scene approximately three and a half minutes after the initial dispatch went out. He was met by three other San Bernardino Police Department officers, all of whom heard the call and responded. None of the officers (one lieutenant, one patrol officer, one homicide detective, and one motorcycle officer) had worked or even trained together. The lieutenant quickly rallied the officers, organized the contact team into a diamond formation (a tactic they had learned during recent active shooter training), and entered the building.
Dozens of victims lay on the ground, many with devastating wounds—moaning and grabbing at the legs of the officers as they moved through the room and tried to focus on finding, apprehending, or neutralizing the assailants....
...The first police officer (click here) arrived on scene approximately three and a half minutes after the initial dispatch went out. He was met by three other San Bernardino Police Department officers, all of whom heard the call and responded. None of the officers (one lieutenant, one patrol officer, one homicide detective, and one motorcycle officer) had worked or even trained together. The lieutenant quickly rallied the officers, organized the contact team into a diamond formation (a tactic they had learned during recent active shooter training), and entered the building.
Dozens of victims lay on the ground, many with devastating wounds—moaning and grabbing at the legs of the officers as they moved through the room and tried to focus on finding, apprehending, or neutralizing the assailants....
Police officers are allowed to live and wait for peers in order to neutralize a threat. I doubt Mr. Peterson had enough training to confront a man with a semi-automatic weapon with enough bullets to kill everyone within a mile radius.
If the guns weren't available, people would still be alive.
If the guns weren't available, people would still be alive.
April 30, 2018
By Wells Dunsenbury
Andrew Pollack, (click here) the father of one of the 17 Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting victims, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against former Broward Sheriff Deputy Scot Peterson, gunman Nikolas Cruz and several others.
Peterson, who was the Parkland school’s resource officer at the time of the Feb.14 attack, has come under immense public criticism for failing to enter the building while the shooting was taking place.
Pollack’s suit, filed in Broward Circuit Court on Monday, also listed as defendants the estate of Lynda Cruz, James Snead, Kimberly Snead, Henderson Behavioral Health, Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health INC, and South County Mental Health Center, INC....
It's never been the same. Going Co-Ed.
May 2, 2018
The Boy Scouts of America (click here) is changing the name of one of its iconic programs, after 108 years.
The historic youth organization announced today that their program for children 11 to 17 years old will be known as "Scouts BSA," starting in February 2019. Part of the reason for the change is that now girls will be invited to join the older kids' group -- and have the opportunity to advance to the highest rank, Eagle Scout.
The parent organization name will remain the Boy Scouts of America and the Cub Scouts program will keep its title, as well....
Lahore: (click here) At least 3,000 women will be given motorcycles after completing their training as per the Women on Wheels programme in Punjab, reported Express News.
Punjab Strategic Reforms Unit Head Salman Sufi said that the provincial development forum along with the Planning and Development Department have funded Rs80 million for the distribution of motorcycles among women.
In the first phase, 700 women will be given red motorcycles manufactured by Honda and the distribution of motorcycles to 300 women will begin from May 13....
Being natural with a healthy body is important to many.
By Shazia Tasneem
Karachi - Irtiza Rubab, (click here) famously known by her stage name Meera, was encouraged by her parents to become an actor when she was just 11 years old. This was a dream come true for the self-professed “free-spirited” Meera Jee who has not only always yearned to be the centre of attention but rose to fame quite rapidly, for both the right and wrong reasons.
She kicked off her film career with Kanta in 1995 and from thereon, made a place for herself in Lollywood, hopping from one film set to another. From Kanta to Hotal to Mahesh Bhatt’s Bollywood project Nazar, Meera soon became unstoppable. To me, she is someone with a great sense of humour, bright, thoughtful, confident and very down to earth. So, if looking pretty and having a vibrant personality is part and parcel of being an actor, then she hits the right notes....
...Merra: I would prefer aging naturally. When wrinkles come I will accept them gracefully. To me wrinkles are a part of expression and not a sign of aging. I want to ask all women – young and old – to accept life the way it comes. They should look beautiful naturally and should not run after cosmetic lifts or botox. Beauty comes with action and spirit.
Life will take its toll on all of us. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time. But I can look beautiful if I take care naturally and should not run after cosmetic lifts or botox. Beauty comes with action and spirit.
Basketball in heels, no sacrifice is too great.
From one sister to another, when the USA brought women and sports into the mainstream, it got sexy, not glamorous. Sometimes, a woman has to get down in the dirt, so to speak, and kick up some dust to get attention.
"World Radio Day" (click here)
Brandi Chastain (click here) hit a penalty kick that has come to define U.S. women’s soccer. 14 years later, Chastain talks to For The Winabout her pivotal strike in today’s installment of Throwback Thursday.
May 1, 2018
By Fazela Saba
For this year’s World Radio Day, (click here) the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) picked a theme to encourage women in sports, and ran a worldwide campaign to promote sports culture in women. However, barring the issue of having a limited number of women in sports around the world, Asian women have an added dilemma to face, and that is the demand for women in sports to also look “glamorous”, so as to increase viewers’ interest in women’s sports.
There has been a demand for attractive female presenters in sports, giving looks preference over knowledge and interest in the game itself, and unfortunately, this phenomenon has spread out to the field as well. The case in point is a new advertisement featuring Mahira Khan which suggests that smooth and hairless skin is perhaps as important as being good at the game itself.
"World Radio Day" (click here)
Brandi Chastain (click here) hit a penalty kick that has come to define U.S. women’s soccer. 14 years later, Chastain talks to For The Winabout her pivotal strike in today’s installment of Throwback Thursday. 
May 1, 2018By Fazela Saba
For this year’s World Radio Day, (click here) the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) picked a theme to encourage women in sports, and ran a worldwide campaign to promote sports culture in women. However, barring the issue of having a limited number of women in sports around the world, Asian women have an added dilemma to face, and that is the demand for women in sports to also look “glamorous”, so as to increase viewers’ interest in women’s sports.
There has been a demand for attractive female presenters in sports, giving looks preference over knowledge and interest in the game itself, and unfortunately, this phenomenon has spread out to the field as well. The case in point is a new advertisement featuring Mahira Khan which suggests that smooth and hairless skin is perhaps as important as being good at the game itself.
Besides taking the Saudi Crowned Prince hostage, he is going to do the same for every other country in the Middle East besides Israel.
Trump unilaterally changed USA policy. Trump is a certifiable wacko.
2 May 2018
Donald Trump's administration had re-asserted (click here) its backing for Israel’s policy of secrecy about its own nuclear capabilities, as the Israeli government seeks to persuade the world Iran "lied" about not having a clandestine nuclear weapons programme.
The US government recently rebuffed Egypt’s renewed attempts to press Israel into showing its hand, suggesting that cannot happen until Israel is recognised by all of its neighbours.
Egypt wants Israel to sign up to a 1995 treaty on disarming the region and to submit to measures the International Atomic Energy Authority uses to ensure nuclear weapons are not spread.
"Such efforts are mistaken and unproductive," the US said in an submission to a preparatory committee last week, which claimed they still supported the treaty but adopted Israel’s position that regional conditions were not suitable....
I think everyone knows that Trump has been courting the Saudi Crown Prince.
I think we all know why now; besides; asking for a piece of the Kingdom's wealth; which Trump did, by the way; the Saudi Crown Prince is a gift to Israel.
This isn't a one time casual meeting. Trump has convinced the Crowned Prince he can help modernize Saudi Arabia. That was begun years ago by the current King.
Trump regularly harasses the Crown Prince to continue to be assured when he becomes King, his loyalty is assured. Saudi Arabia has some of the largest Air Force numbers in the Middle East. It would hamper Israel's plans if it attacked Iran.
When realizing the personal agenda Trump brings to the White House I think the massive staff exodus and revolving door is very understandable.
March 20, 2018
By Josh Lederman
Saudi Arabia's young crown prince (click here) has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernize his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran's hand across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his country's image in the eyes of Americans.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, son of King Salman and heir to the throne, is opening a marathon tour of the United States with a stop in Washington, where he'll meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday. He'll hold separate meetings with a long roster of influential U.S. officials, including the secretaries of defense, treasury and commerce, the CIA chief and congressional leaders from both parties....
This isn't a one time casual meeting. Trump has convinced the Crowned Prince he can help modernize Saudi Arabia. That was begun years ago by the current King.
Trump regularly harasses the Crown Prince to continue to be assured when he becomes King, his loyalty is assured. Saudi Arabia has some of the largest Air Force numbers in the Middle East. It would hamper Israel's plans if it attacked Iran.
When realizing the personal agenda Trump brings to the White House I think the massive staff exodus and revolving door is very understandable.
March 20, 2018
By Josh Lederman
Saudi Arabia's young crown prince (click here) has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernize his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran's hand across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his country's image in the eyes of Americans.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, son of King Salman and heir to the throne, is opening a marathon tour of the United States with a stop in Washington, where he'll meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday. He'll hold separate meetings with a long roster of influential U.S. officials, including the secretaries of defense, treasury and commerce, the CIA chief and congressional leaders from both parties....
The Crowded Prince is not the King. Israel should pay attention.
April 4, 2018
King Salman (click here) calls for Jerusalem to be capital of Palestine and a renewed peace process after Israeli security forces killed 16 Palestinians last week during a demonstration along the Israel-Gaza border
King Salman reiterated Saudi Arabia's support for a Palestinian state after his son and heir apparent said Israelis were entitled to live peacefully on their own land - a rare statement by an Arab leader.
The king also emphasised the need to advance the peace process in a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday night, made after Israeli security forces killed 16 Palestinians last week during a demonstration along the Israel-Gaza border.
Mohammed bin Salman (click here) says Saudi Arabia has bigger things to worry about.
Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crowned prince, said Palestinians should accept the peace conditions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump or “shut up and stop complaining,” during a meeting with heads of Jewish organizations in New York....
Personal family grievances are taking over the USA's policy.
First is was "W" and Saddam and how he threatened his father. Sorry, it comes with the territory. Now, it is Kushner's ambitions for Israel.
Pompeo has an attitude. He believes and openly states it is up to the Palestinians to join the peace process. In this visit to Israel, Pompeo never once reached out to Palestinian leaders.
Pompeo is turning the Middle East peace process into a unilateral process. He is providing a platform without negotiations. He believes the Palestinians are impossible to deal with, won't recognize them as a legitimate authority until they deal with Israel his way.
I believe Trump and his band of merry men are giving Israel carte blanc to do as it pleases. As excuses for such actions, which have cost lives of young Palestinians at the border, Pompeo will site the lack of engagement by Palestine in the peace process. You know, the legal doctrine of "you have 30 days to reply."
This Trump administration is trouble and I firmly believe Trump will look at "W"'s move into Iraq and see the same justification, legal or not.
April 29, 2018
By Gardiner Harris and Isabel Kershner
Tel Aviv, Israel — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (click here) came to Israel Sunday in the midst of the worst crisis in relations between Israelis and Palestinians in years, but he did not meet a single Palestinian representative and mentioned them publicly once.
For decades, American diplomats saw themselves as brokers between the two sides, and secretaries of state typically met Palestinian representatives on regional tours like this one. When relations between the two sides deteriorated, the United States sought to bridge the divide.
No more.
No one at the State Department called Palestinian leaders to ask for a get-together with Mr. Pompeo, according to Palestinian officials. And that may be because the Americans knew the answer they would have gotten: No....
SUPPOSEDLY these are Iranian anti-aircraft missiles in Syria.
There was premature action taken regarding chemical weapons, too.
Israel needs to take a step back from it's fears and ambitions regarding Iran!
The rant to escalating tensions needs to end.
Fire and explosions (click here) are seen in the countryside south of Hama city, Syria, April 29, 2018. U.S. officials say Israel struck Iranian missiles.
February 5, 2018
The strike on a Syrian military base near Hama on Sunday was carried out by Israeli F-15 fighter jets after Iran had transferred a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles there, three U.S. officials told NBC News. The officials said Israel seems to be preparing for open warfare with Iran and is seeking U.S. support.
The Syrian army said early on Monday that "enemy" rockets struck military bases belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. According to several outlets, the strikes targeted the 47th Brigade base in the southern Hama district, a military facility in northwestern Hama and a facility north of the Aleppo International Airport....
Israel needs to take a step back from it's fears and ambitions regarding Iran!
The rant to escalating tensions needs to end.
February 5, 2018
The strike on a Syrian military base near Hama on Sunday was carried out by Israeli F-15 fighter jets after Iran had transferred a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles there, three U.S. officials told NBC News. The officials said Israel seems to be preparing for open warfare with Iran and is seeking U.S. support.
The Syrian army said early on Monday that "enemy" rockets struck military bases belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. According to several outlets, the strikes targeted the 47th Brigade base in the southern Hama district, a military facility in northwestern Hama and a facility north of the Aleppo International Airport....
I have to agree with Pat Buchanan.
"Haaretz" is stating the presentation by Netanyahu are lies. Additionally, Netanyahu today, after the Knesset gave the Prime Minister absolute power to enter into war, is stating he is the sole solution to Iran's nuclear program.
Netanyahu has an ally in the President's advisor, Jarad Kushner. I am quite certain Netanyahu has the reassurances from Kushner that if he enters into attacks on Iran to end their nuclear capacity the USA will be by his side.
April 30, 2018
Pat Buchanan and Sean Hannity (click here) discuss Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's accusation that Iran has hidden aspects of its nuclear ambitions on Monday's Sean Hannity Show. Buchanan says the Israeli PM has been "crying wolf for decades" about Iran and that "Bibi Netanyahu, with due respect, wants the United States to fight a war with Iran on Israel's behalf."
The Israeli Prime Minister delivered a powerpoint presentation Monday evening demonstrating captured evidence, documents and computer disks, showing an Iranian nuclear weapons program much more advanced and ambitious than the Iranian government publicly admits existed.
"I don't want my country getting into another war," Buchanan said about Netanyahu's revelation. "The reason Iran doesn't have a bomb is because they don't want it. They could have built a bomb."...
Pat Buchanan's Iran comments begin at time break 5:22. Thank you. Pat Buchanan is talked over by Hannity, but, he says, "...Iran doesn't want one..." at time mark 8:26.
Macron and Merkel weren't here for fun and games. I thought those visits were very strange, quite frankly. I liked having them in the USA, but, that simply doesn't happen that often. There are many meetings where the USA President meets with our counterparts, such as the G7. I am sure trade was an issue, but, that wasn't all they talked about.
This is from "Radio Free Europe." What a show. Pompeo arrives for a visit with Netanyahu of which afterward the Prime Minister goes on international television to lie about Iran's nuclear program. This is a conspiracy involving the USA. This is the aspirations of a billionaire populous president and his wayward son-in-law.
May 1, 2018
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 29.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (click here) says it has "no credible" evidence Iran was working on developing a nuclear "explosive device" after 2009 and that the UN's nuclear watchdog considered the issue "closed" after it was presented in a report in December 2015.
The 2015 report "stated that the agency had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009. Based on the director-general's report, the board of governors declared that its consideration of this issue was closed," the IAEA said in a statement on May 1.
"In line with standard IAEA practice, the IAEA evaluates all safeguards-relevant information available to it. However, it is not the practice of the IAEA to publicly discuss issues related to any such information," it added....
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Netanyahu has an ally in the President's advisor, Jarad Kushner. I am quite certain Netanyahu has the reassurances from Kushner that if he enters into attacks on Iran to end their nuclear capacity the USA will be by his side.
April 30, 2018
Pat Buchanan and Sean Hannity (click here) discuss Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's accusation that Iran has hidden aspects of its nuclear ambitions on Monday's Sean Hannity Show. Buchanan says the Israeli PM has been "crying wolf for decades" about Iran and that "Bibi Netanyahu, with due respect, wants the United States to fight a war with Iran on Israel's behalf."
The Israeli Prime Minister delivered a powerpoint presentation Monday evening demonstrating captured evidence, documents and computer disks, showing an Iranian nuclear weapons program much more advanced and ambitious than the Iranian government publicly admits existed.
"I don't want my country getting into another war," Buchanan said about Netanyahu's revelation. "The reason Iran doesn't have a bomb is because they don't want it. They could have built a bomb."...
Pat Buchanan's Iran comments begin at time break 5:22. Thank you. Pat Buchanan is talked over by Hannity, but, he says, "...Iran doesn't want one..." at time mark 8:26.
Macron and Merkel weren't here for fun and games. I thought those visits were very strange, quite frankly. I liked having them in the USA, but, that simply doesn't happen that often. There are many meetings where the USA President meets with our counterparts, such as the G7. I am sure trade was an issue, but, that wasn't all they talked about.
This is from "Radio Free Europe." What a show. Pompeo arrives for a visit with Netanyahu of which afterward the Prime Minister goes on international television to lie about Iran's nuclear program. This is a conspiracy involving the USA. This is the aspirations of a billionaire populous president and his wayward son-in-law.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 29.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (click here) says it has "no credible" evidence Iran was working on developing a nuclear "explosive device" after 2009 and that the UN's nuclear watchdog considered the issue "closed" after it was presented in a report in December 2015.
The 2015 report "stated that the agency had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009. Based on the director-general's report, the board of governors declared that its consideration of this issue was closed," the IAEA said in a statement on May 1.
"In line with standard IAEA practice, the IAEA evaluates all safeguards-relevant information available to it. However, it is not the practice of the IAEA to publicly discuss issues related to any such information," it added....
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