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pnwmom's JournalSo Cornel West dislikes Hillary. The jealous, vindictive person who called Obama
our first "n**erized President" also can't stand Hillary.
Surprise, surprise.
It's a compliment, really, to be loathed by someone this nasty.
"My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. . . . He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/cornel_west.html#hGH6pGcbi8IbG4MS.99
Rockefeller Republican in blackface.
http://bossip.com/1021630/quote-of-the-day-cornel-west-slams-obama-were-looking-for-john-coltrane-and-got-a-black-kenny-g-43081/
http://www.thenation.com/article/cornel-west-v-barack-obama/
52 yr. old A.A. professor detained by police while taking lunch break near his Mass campus.
This just happened last week. The first link is to Prof. Steve Locke's blog -- and the rest of his powerful words.
So even a 52 year old black professional is at risk. Fixing the economy or focusing on wealth redistribution isn't enough. Not even close.
http://artandeverythingafter.com/i-fit-the-description/
You fit the description so we just have to check it out. The first cop returned and handed me my license.
We have the victim and we need her to take a look at you to see if you are the person.
It was at this moment that I knew that I was probably going to die. I am not being dramatic when I say this. I was not going to get into a police car. I was not going to present myself to some victim. I was not going let someone tell the cops that I was not guilty when I already told them that I had nothing to do with any robbery. I was not going to let them take me anywhere because if they did, the chance I was going to be accused of something I did not do rose exponentially. I knew this in my heart. I was not going anywhere with these cops and I was not going to let some white woman decide whether or not I was a criminal, especially after I told them that I was not a criminal. This meant that I was going to resist arrest. This meant that I was not going to let the police put their hands on me.
If you are wondering why people dont go with the police, I hope this explains it for you . . . .
I noticed a black woman further down the block. She was small and concerned. She was watching what was going on. I focused on her red coat. I slowed my breathing. I looked at her from time to time.
I thought: Dont leave, sister. Please dont leave. . . .
My colleague was in our shared office and she was able to calm me down. I had about 45 minutes until my class began and I had to teach. I forgot the lesson I had planned. I forget the schedule. I couldnt think about how to do my job. I thought about the fact my word counted for nothing, they didnt believe that I wasnt a criminal. They had to find out. My word was not enough for them. My ID was not enough for them. My handmade one-of-a-kind knit hat was an object of suspicion. My Ralph Lauren quilted blazer was only a puffy coat. That white woman could just walk up to a cop and talk about me like I was an object for regard. I wanted to go back and spit in their faces. The cops were probably deeply satisfied with how they handled the interaction, how they didnt escalate the situation, how they were respectful and polite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-locke-racially-profiled_56688025e4b009377b236c54
Locke, who wrote about his experience on his blog, recounted to HuffPost Live's Alyona Minkovski on Wednesday that on his way to get a burrito near campus, he noticed a police car following him.
"The policeman got out of the car, said, 'Hey, my man,'" Locke said. "He had his hand on his weapon, so I automatically knew that something had happened and he wasn't coming to talk to me as a citizen. He was coming to talk to me as a suspect."
Wearing his faculty ID around his neck, Locke immediately took his hands out of his pockets while the officer questioned him. The professor made it clear he was on his lunch break, but the officer -- along with others who had showed up to the scene -- detained Locke, telling him he matched the description of a suspected robber in the area.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/07/massart-professor-account-police-stop-resonates-online/7vATA9Cg70L8bAbBSEuvhP/story.html
Since Friday, his blog post, entitled, I fit the description, has been shared thousands of times on Facebook and circulated widely on Twitter. It received more than 700 comments both supportive and hostile before Locke disabled the feature.
What surprised Locke most was the number of people who seemed shocked by the accounts depiction of the officers initial reluctance to take Locke at his word.
He said he showed police his Massachusetts College of Art and Design faculty ID and explained that he had not been in the area at the time of the crime. Still, he had to wait for a detective to arrive before he was allowed to leave.
Apparently Trump has a Russian-immigrant MAFIA connection
that might be about to raise its dirty head.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memory-lapse-trump-seeks-distance-advisor-past-ties/story?id=34600826
Sater's alleged ties to organized crime were more widely publicized in December 2007 when The New York Times published an article featuring Saters ties to Trump and describing his tangled past. The article reported that Sater had been an unindicted co-conspirator and a key figure in a $40 million scheme involving 19 stockbrokers and organized crime figures from four Mafia families.
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Once that information became publicly known, Garten initially told ABC News, Trump cut all ties with Sater. But, Garten then acknowledged, the Trump organization continued to listen to deals pitched by Sater well after that.
Asked why Trump would listen to a deal brought by a twice-convicted felon with alleged mafia ties, Garten told ABC News, Youre going to look at the deal, youre not going to look at the broker.
I can't post in the Bernie group
so I can't tell people there what a beautiful moment that was with the young Muslim woman, when he told her about his father.
But it was.
CNN/ORC poll: Hillary maintains 18 point lead in Iowa
over her nearest competitor.
CNN/ORC has also just reported that in New Hampshire, Hillary is 10 points behind that same competitor.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-iowa-poll/
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton maintains an 18-point lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 54% to 36%. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has 4%.
The gender gap between Clinton and Sanders has narrowed in the last month, with both men and women breaking significantly in the former secretary of state's favor (51% Clinton to 40% Sanders among men, 57% Clinton to 34% Sanders among women; last month it was 48% Clinton to 44% Sanders among men and 62% Clinton to 31% Sanders among women).
Clinton's edge on handling economic issues is smaller in Iowa than it is nationally, 47% in Iowa say they think Clinton would do the best job handling the economy while 42% say they trust Sanders most, while our recent national poll found Clinton holding a 58% to 31% advantage on the same issue. Likewise, Iowa's likely caucusgoers are more likely to think that Sanders would do the most to help the middle class (50%) than to say Clinton would (43%), a question that split national Democrats almost evenly (47% Clinton to 44% Sanders).
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The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted by telephone November 28-December 6 among 2,003 adult residents of Iowa, including interviews with 552 likely Republican presidential caucusgoers and 442 likely Democratic presidential caucusgoers. Results for likely Democratic caucusgoers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 points, it is 4 points for likely Republican caucusgoers.
Dear Bernie supporters: why do you think browbeating supporters of other candidates
will change any minds?
You're not going to convince any supporter that she's a right-winger or an evil corporatist, no matter how hard you try.
I was just on a jury of another member here who has 4 hides. Please be careful!
The vote was 5 - 2 to leave it. But it should have been 7 - 0.
Question: How were Senate Rethugs able to vote to repeal the ACA?
How were they able to use the Budget Reconciliation process to do that and avoid a filibuster?
They've never been able to do that before, because repealing the ACA would trash the budget, not help it -- and the BR process is only supposed to be for measures that help the budget.
So does anyone know how they were able to use BR this time, when they weren't allowed to all the previous times?
If they could now, they certainly could if the Rethug is elected President.
Adolph Trump says he's no racist -- FDR did it, too, with the Japanese.
And that's the one thing he's right about. FDR "did it." But "it" was a terrible, fearful, and racist thing.
People here who want to deify FDR should remember -- he led us out of the depression, instituted financial reforms that lasted for decades ,and was a giant figure for much of the 99%.
BUT he was also a racist and the person who ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during WW2.
http://news.yahoo.com/trump-calls-muslims-temporarily-denied-entry-us-214140197.html
Trump showed little inclination to back down, however, and instead compared the proposed ban to actions taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt against Japanese and German "enemy aliens" during World War II, though he stopped short of advocating internment camps.
Asked in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program if his proposal went against treasured American values, he responded: "No, because FDR did it!"
If Hillary were to make an "if men could get pregnant" statement,
like Bernie recently did, and Obama did before him, she wouldn't be applauded for it, as if she were a hero.
She'd be accused of "playing the gender card."
Every progressive woman has probably made a similar statement. Several decades ago Gloria Steinem said, "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
But it's only men who think "if men could get pregnant" statements are insightful and new.
Women say, "duh."
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