September 4, 2016

Last suspect in clubbing death of Rev. James Reeb has died. No one ever convicted.

Last suspect in clubbing death of Rev. James Reeb has died. No one ever convicted.

https://twitter.com/JMitchellNews/status/771781251355127808


. . . Namon O'Neal Hoggle of Selma, Alabama, died Tuesday, according to an obituary released by the funeral handling arrangements for the family. He was 81. A service was scheduled for Thursday.

Hoggle was among three men acquitted in 1965 in the beating death of the Rev. James Reeb of Boston. Reeb's killing was investigated as recently as four years ago by federal authorities, but no one was charged after the initial trial.

Reeb was a Unitarian minister who went to Selma in response to a call for help by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. Reeb was white, and he was attacked by a group of white men after eating in a black-owned restaurant on March 9, 1965.

Reeb, 38, died in a hospital two days later, leaving behind a wife and four children. His death, coupled with other civil rights slayings and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, is often credited with helping build momentum for passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
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Honorary pallbearers at Hoggle's funeral included the current Dallas County sheriff and a judge.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/final_suspect_in_1965_civil_ri.html

September 3, 2016

Trump surrogate and pastor: I ‘overstated’ my biography

Source: The Hill


A black pastor and vocal supporter of Donald Trump admitted he exaggerated his background Friday night as CNN teases a heated interview to air Saturday morning.

“As a young man starting my church in Greenville, South Carolina, I overstated several details of my biography because I was worried I wouldn’t be taken seriously as a new pastor,” Pastor Mark Burns said in a statement late Friday. "This was wrong. I wasn’t truthful then and I have to take full responsibility for my actions.

“Since that time I should have taken steps to correct any misrepresentations of my background. We all make mistakes, and I hope that the measure of my character and the quality of my works speak for what kind of person I am.”
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CNN is set to air an interview with Burns Saturday morning on "New Day" detailing “multiple inaccuracies in the pastor’s bio, including his service in the U.S. Army Reserves, his education and more.”


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/294382-trump-surrogate-i-overstated-my-biography

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Religious scammers are frequently victims of the truth.

August 28, 2016

"... we may be one oppo drop away from Bannon not being a part of this campaign"

CHUCK TODD: Are you happy with the hires of Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway?

REINCE PRIEBUS: Look, you know, I go with the flow based on what the campaign wants to do. I think Kellyanne is doing a phenomenal job. I don't know Steve Bannon, to tell you the truth, very well.

CHUCK TODD: Okay.

REINCE PRIEBUS: I'm going to get to know him. I mean, I'm starting to get to know--

<snip>

CHUCK TODD: All right. The Steve Bannon--

ANDREA MITCHELL: "I don't know Steve Bannon," wow.

CHUCK TODD: "I don't know Steve Bannon," Hugh, what did you make of that?

HUGH HEWITT: I don't know Steve Bannon either.

CHUCK TODD: I think we as discussed, we may be one oppo drop away from Bannon not being a part of this campaign.

HUGH HEWITT: Very possibly.


http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-august-28-2016-n639011


A fiery wreck even more spectacular that Paul Manafort's must be coming soon.

August 19, 2016

Kellyanne 'Clueless' Conway - a perfect match for Trump

From With All Due Respect on Bloomberg TV 8/12

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-08-12/trump-trajectory-is-there-a-path-to-victory

No state requires a candidate to win a majority of the votes cast in the general election in order to win its electoral votes - all are strictly plurality-required. In 1992 George H. W. Bush carried Arizona with 37% of the vote and Bill Clinton won Nevada likewise with 37%.

Five days after that interview, Trump picked this genius to be his campaign manager. Which pleases me no end, that Trump's campaign manager is someone who will feel that Trump is safe because Hillary's polling does not "get to 51, 52 and stay there in these swing states". The only thing that will please me more will be when Trump returns to being his own campaign manager, because Donald is even stupider than Kellyanne.

August 17, 2016

Trump campaign undergoes major overhaul

Source: CNN

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 3:26 AM ET, Wed August 17, 2016

(CNN) Donald Trump's campaign is undergoing a major staff shakeup with less than three months to Election Day, adding two officials to top posts overseeing his struggling campaign.

Trump has named Steve Bannon, a former investment banker and the executive chairman of Breitbart News, to the post of chief executive and promoted Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser and pollster to his campaign, to the position of campaign manager, Conway confirmed to CNN early Wednesday morning.

. . . Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign's chairman and chief strategist, will stay on as campaign chairman, Conway said.

"I look at it as an expansion of the team. Paul remains as Chairman," Conway told CNN.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/17/politics/trump-campaign-overhaul/index.html

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How sad for them.

August 12, 2016

Trump gets date wrong twice while implying Clinton lacks mental stamina

Source: The Guardian


. . . Addressing a rambunctious crowd in Florida, a crucial swing state, he added: “I watched Hillary today, which was really boring. It’s hard to watch. I have an obligation to watch. Fortunately she never goes on very long because she wants to go home.”

But Trump himself, locked in a grueling campaign, twice made a slip of the tongue. “By the way, is there any place to be that’s better than a Friday night in Florida at a Trump rally? No place.”

A few supporters shouted, “It’s Thursday!”

Later he said: “We joke. It’s Friday night and we’re having fun.” More supporters yelled, “It’s Thursday!” but he appeared to assume it was more cheering.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/11/trump-clinton-mental-stamina-florida-rally

August 3, 2016

Diagnose Trump - Petition

The American Psychiatrist Association has declared it unethical for psychiatrists and psychologists to “comment on an individual’s mental state without examining him personally and having the patient’s consent to make such comments.” I call on mental health professionals to publicly urge the Republican party to conduct an evaluation of Mr. Trump and officially determine if he is mentally fit to lead the free world. #DiagnoseTrump

https://www.change.org/p/diagnosetrump

(from Representative Karen Ross D-CA)

July 20, 2016

Trump aide takes responsibility for Melania speech

Source: USAToday

A Trump aide has taken responsibility for the controversy over Melania Trump’s speech, saying she offered to resign but Trump rejected it.

In a statement released by the Trump campaign, in-house staff writer Meredith McIver said it “was my mistake.”

"In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people. A person she has always liked is Michele Obama. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant."

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/20/trump-aide-takes-responsibility-melania-speech/87340850/

July 20, 2016

How Melania Trump’s Speech Veered Off Course and Caused an Uproar

Source: NYT

The speechwriters, Matthew Scully and John McConnell, sent Ms. Trump a draft last month, eager for her approval.

Weeks went by. They heard nothing.

Inside Trump Tower, it turned out, Ms. Trump had decided she was uncomfortable with the text, and began tearing it apart, leaving a small fraction of the original.

Her quiet plan to wrest the speech away and make it her own set in motion the most embarrassing moment of the convention: word-for-word repetition of phrases and borrowed themes from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention eight years ago.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/us/politics/melania-trump-convention-speech.html?_r=0

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Guilty!

July 14, 2016

The Presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties . . .

The Presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties

(1) says repeatedly that the sitting President of the United States of America was born in Africa and is not a U.S. citizen

(2) attacks a federal court before which he has business, calling the federal judge "a Mexican" who cannot administer a fair trial

(3) reveals publicly that as President, he would default on the debts of the United States

(4) incites his supporters to commit violence against his opponents repeatedly, and offers to pay any legal expenses they incur thereby

(5) declares that on becoming President, he will institute torture and extra-judicial killing of prisoners as his executive policies

(6) promises to employ a program of U.S. government reprisal killing of women and children who are relatives of alleged offenders,



and (7) seven out of (8) eight Supreme Court justices remain silent.