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August 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/JihadiJew/status/761370679056793600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
What would the Prophet Muhammad think of the Islamic State group? Not much according to a non-profit US Muslim organisation that launched a poster campaign in the US this week.
Sound Vision used a giant billboard in a suburb of Chicago, saying "Hey ISIS, you suck", quoting the Quran's “Life is sacred” and signing it “From: #ActualMuslims”.
The Chicago stunt was a hit on the internet, became a most-read article on Reddit and was used by many on Twitter for their own messages that IS was not synonymous with Islam.
MORE:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/isis-suck-say-us-muslims-giant-billboard-Chicago-islamic-state-islamophobia-568002033
"Hey ISIS, You Suck!!!"
https://twitter.com/JihadiJew/status/761370679056793600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
What would the Prophet Muhammad think of the Islamic State group? Not much according to a non-profit US Muslim organisation that launched a poster campaign in the US this week.
Sound Vision used a giant billboard in a suburb of Chicago, saying "Hey ISIS, you suck", quoting the Quran's “Life is sacred” and signing it “From: #ActualMuslims”.
The Chicago stunt was a hit on the internet, became a most-read article on Reddit and was used by many on Twitter for their own messages that IS was not synonymous with Islam.
MORE:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/isis-suck-say-us-muslims-giant-billboard-Chicago-islamic-state-islamophobia-568002033
August 6, 2016
It's been a long, a long time coming...
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Modern conservatism has proven to be not a philosophy, but a huge dose of badly manufactured absinthe. It squats in an intellectual hovel now, waiting for its next fix, while a public madman filches its tattered banner and runs around wiping his ass with it. It always was coming to this.
FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS IT IS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED HAS TO DIE.
There have been three chances since 2000 for the Democratic Party to beat the crazy out of the Republicans. The first was after the thumping that the Avignon Presidency received in the 2006 midterms. The second was immediately after the election of Barack Obama. Both of those went a'glimmering because the Democrats listened to people who convinced them that, because they were the grown-up governing party, they had to make nice with the pack of vandals on the other side of the aisle. Even this president bought this line of argument, until it became obvious to him that the prion disease was too far gone.
Ever since he looked deeply into that big back of fcks and discovered that it had been empty for a while, the president obviously determined to keep proposing sensible measures even though he knows the Congressional majorities will decline to do even the minimal work required of them by the Constitution. My god, they won't even come back into session to address the Zika epidemic that is now breaking out in Florida. Merrick Garland is sipping a cool one on the veranda somewhere, waiting for someone to tell him where he'll be working come winter. The president is not budging. Why should he? He's not the crazy one. He doesn't belong to the party that, with its eyes wide open, nominated a vulgar talking yam for president.
It long has been the duty of the Democratic Party to the nation to beat the crazy out of the Republican Party until it no longer behaves like a lunatic asylum. The opportunity to do this, to act unilaterally in returning sanity to the Republic, never has been as wide and gleaming as it is right now. To argue that responsible government requires that you treat sensibly a party that has gone as mad as the Republicans have is to argue for government by delirium.
Trump doesn't need an intervention. His party does.
the rest:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47375/end-of-republican-party/
Charles Pierce: For The Good Of the Nation, The Republican Party has to die.
Are You Ready for the End of the Republican Party?It's been a long, a long time coming...
................
Modern conservatism has proven to be not a philosophy, but a huge dose of badly manufactured absinthe. It squats in an intellectual hovel now, waiting for its next fix, while a public madman filches its tattered banner and runs around wiping his ass with it. It always was coming to this.
FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS IT IS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED HAS TO DIE.
There have been three chances since 2000 for the Democratic Party to beat the crazy out of the Republicans. The first was after the thumping that the Avignon Presidency received in the 2006 midterms. The second was immediately after the election of Barack Obama. Both of those went a'glimmering because the Democrats listened to people who convinced them that, because they were the grown-up governing party, they had to make nice with the pack of vandals on the other side of the aisle. Even this president bought this line of argument, until it became obvious to him that the prion disease was too far gone.
Ever since he looked deeply into that big back of fcks and discovered that it had been empty for a while, the president obviously determined to keep proposing sensible measures even though he knows the Congressional majorities will decline to do even the minimal work required of them by the Constitution. My god, they won't even come back into session to address the Zika epidemic that is now breaking out in Florida. Merrick Garland is sipping a cool one on the veranda somewhere, waiting for someone to tell him where he'll be working come winter. The president is not budging. Why should he? He's not the crazy one. He doesn't belong to the party that, with its eyes wide open, nominated a vulgar talking yam for president.
It long has been the duty of the Democratic Party to the nation to beat the crazy out of the Republican Party until it no longer behaves like a lunatic asylum. The opportunity to do this, to act unilaterally in returning sanity to the Republic, never has been as wide and gleaming as it is right now. To argue that responsible government requires that you treat sensibly a party that has gone as mad as the Republicans have is to argue for government by delirium.
Trump doesn't need an intervention. His party does.
the rest:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47375/end-of-republican-party/
August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/761668298761089025
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRUMP: "I don't throw babies out."
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/761668298761089025
August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/761359878912937984
LOL: Rove shuts down Greta wondering if polls showing Trump losing are wrong
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/761359878912937984
August 5, 2016
Huh?
Do you think Donald Trump is even aware of the tweet from his account admitting he never saw the video? He'll be asked about it again.
https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/761533776816066560
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/08/04/3805278/trump-iran-made-up-story/
August 5, 2016
Much More:
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/don-the-realtor/
Trump can sense when an entity is no longer strong enough or lithe enough to evade predation.
Much More:
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/don-the-realtor/
August 5, 2016
Steady as a rock and jumpy, erratic man
https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/761334289728466945
August 5, 2016
About damn time.
Instant fact-check
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/761287435179417600
August 4, 2016
The GOP nominee responded by calling them “rude.”
“It’s sort of rude, when you think about it,” he said. “We want jobs, we want health care. We’re looking for the same thing. You want to have a good life. You want safety. And then we have people interrupting constantly.”
Several protesters were thrown out of a Donald Trump rally in Portland, Maine, on Thursday after they interrupted the GOP nominee’s stump speech by standing and holding up pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution in the air.
Last week, Khizr Khan, the father of a slain American war hero who was Muslim, held up his own well-worn pocket Constitution on stage at the Democratic convention and lambasted Trump for his proposal to ban Muslims from the U.S. “Let me ask you, have you even read the U.S. Constitution?” he asked.
Sales of the constitution soared on Amazon.com after Khan’s blistering speech. A version of the founding document currently ranks fifth on the website’s best-seller list.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-protesters-constitution-khan_us_57a39862e4b056bad214e62f
All Hail Khan: Protestors at Trump Rally Hold Up Pocket Constitutions!
Protesters Ejected From Donald Trump Rally After Holding Up Pocket ConstitutionsThe GOP nominee responded by calling them “rude.”
“It’s sort of rude, when you think about it,” he said. “We want jobs, we want health care. We’re looking for the same thing. You want to have a good life. You want safety. And then we have people interrupting constantly.”
Several protesters were thrown out of a Donald Trump rally in Portland, Maine, on Thursday after they interrupted the GOP nominee’s stump speech by standing and holding up pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution in the air.
Last week, Khizr Khan, the father of a slain American war hero who was Muslim, held up his own well-worn pocket Constitution on stage at the Democratic convention and lambasted Trump for his proposal to ban Muslims from the U.S. “Let me ask you, have you even read the U.S. Constitution?” he asked.
Sales of the constitution soared on Amazon.com after Khan’s blistering speech. A version of the founding document currently ranks fifth on the website’s best-seller list.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-protesters-constitution-khan_us_57a39862e4b056bad214e62f
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