March 21, 2018

Faux News guy quits - calls it a propaganda machine

(Ralph Peters, Fox News contributor)
“Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer. I swore to 'support and defend the Constitution,' and that oath did not expire when I took off my uniform. Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers,” he said.

“In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration,” Peters continued."

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/379385-fox-news-contributor-quits-slams-network-as-propaganda-machine-for-trump

March 9, 2018

Betsy DeVos chooses to protect debt collectors over students with loans.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has stepped into a fight between student loan companies and state regulators — and she’s siding with the loan companies.

The National Consumer Law Center described it as a “plan to protect servicers and debt collectors that lie to borrowers.”

Wonderful! Let's just screw over the students Betsy, that's what you do best!

http://time.com/money/5193456/devos-student-loan-servicers-state-regulations/

March 9, 2018

Active shooter and hostage situation in Veteran's Home - California

YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- Police have surrounded a veterans' home in Napa County where officials have confirmed an active shooting and hostage situation Friday morning.

The Veterans Home of California in Yountville confirmed that three hostages are being held and that the situation is active.

http://abc7news.com/yountville-officials-respond-to-report-of-active-shooting-situation-at-veterans-home/3194836/

March 6, 2018

Another promise broken? I am just not surprised anymore....

The U.S. government will allow hunters to import elephant trophies on a case-by-case basis, breaking the president’s pledge.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-elephant-trophies_us_5a9e218ee4b0a0ba4ad7376b

February 28, 2018

Shots fired in Georgia school by teacher, kids are all okay.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-teacher-in-custody-after-shots-fired-at-dalton-georgia-high-school

News is still unfolding....
Dalton Police Department Tweet:
New update:
UPDATE: The teacher involved in this morning’s incident is Jesse Randall Davidson, 53, social studies teacher. Also serves as play by play voice of the Dalton football team.

UPDATE: The subject is IN CUSTODY
UPDATE: Students are being taken to the Nw GA Trade and Convention Center. Parents should rendezvous with their students there.
Dalton Police officers are on scene at Dalton High School responding a report of shots fired. At the time, there is a barricaded subject in a classroom. Investigators believe it is a teacher. NO CHILDREN. HAVE BEEN INJURED. NO CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. The area inside the school has been evacuated and there are no students believed to be in the school at this time. The school is locked down. DPD and Georgia State Patrol are responding.
PARENTS DO NOT COME TO DALTON HIGH. Students will be taken to the Northwest Georgia Trade Center. Parents should go there.

February 28, 2018

So many bad men in one room!

Turned on the news to see they are covering the funeral of Billy Graham - I noticed that Trumpy, Pence, McConnell, Sessions and Paul Ryan are all there together in one room. Amazing it didn't just burst into flames from all the evil. It was enough to make me shudder.

February 27, 2018

Trumpy names "secret weapon" Parscale (former digital director) as reelection campaign manager

I guess this move will buy his silence as to exactly what he & trump team did with the Russians during the last campaign. Although Pascale insists that "I am unaware of any Russian involvement in the digital and data operations of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign." (Read more)


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/27/trump-names-campaign-manager-for-2020-reelection-bid.html

February 26, 2018

Disgusting! Trump campaign uses image of Fla. shooting survivor in email asking for donations.

Trump campaign uses image of Fla. shooting survivor Maddy Wilford (17) in email asking for donations. President Trump’s reelection campaign on Saturday used an image of a survivor of the recent Florida school shooting in an email asking for donations from its supporters. (Read more)
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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/375535-trump-campaign-uses-image-of-florida-shooting-survivor-in-email-asking-for

February 25, 2018

They are turning on Trumpy! About time! Mona Charen just wrote about being escorted out of CPAC

She writes in today's New York Times:

"So you’d think that the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, would be a natural fit. It once was. But on Saturday, after speaking to this year’s gathering, I had to be escorted from the premises by several guards who seemed genuinely concerned for my safety.

What happened to me at CPAC is the perfect illustration of the collective experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — but now we’re made to feel like interlopers.

I’d been dreading it for days, but when it came, I almost welcomed it. There is nothing more freeing than telling the truth. And it must be done, again and again, by those of us who refuse to be absorbed into this brainless, sinister, clownish thing called Trumpism, by those of us who refuse to overlook the fools, frauds and fascists attempting to glide along in his slipstream into respectability."
(Read more)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/im-glad-i-got-booed-at-cpac.html

February 23, 2018

These companies are not cutting ties with the NRA: Amazon, Apple, FedEx, Google, YouTube etc

"The NRA partners with dozens of businesses to spread its pro-gun message and provide discounts to its members, who number 5 million, according to the group. But this week, some companies have begun to jump ship. The following companies, however, have not indicated that they plan to sever ties with the gun-rights group" (read more)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/companies-sticking-by-the-nra_us_5a903e4be4b01e9e56bb57af