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SummerSnow's JournalGeorge Will: Conservatives "Looking For A Candidate Who Will Affirm And Validate Their Anger"
GEORGE WILL: Well, the Republicans have been fighting with one another since Teddy Roosevelt split with William Howard Taft in 1912. On Thursday night, it's going to be like three dimensional chess. Because you have ten candidates on stage, each with their own needs, and you're going to have at least two important audiences. One audience is the Republican base, whose mood at the moment I think can best be described as volcanic.
This debate takes place in the shadow of the Planned Parenthood imbroglio here in Washington, and the Republican base simply cannot understand the reasons, and there are good reasons. But they cannot understand the reasons why they send Republican majorities to both Houses of Congress and still can't defund Planned Parenthood. So I think they're looking for a candidate who will affirm and validate their anger at the moment.
Another group of Republicans watching this debate will be looking for someone who can get to 270 electoral votes. That is they're simply trying to find someone who's the most plausible candidate to defeat the most likely Democratic nominee, Mrs. Clinton. So you have ten candidates different needs and two audiences with somewhat different emphases.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/08/06/george_will_conservatives_looking_for_a_candidate_who_will_affirm_and_validate_their_anger.html
Hungary using unemployed to build anti-immigration fence
Almost 500 people on job seeker’s allowance told to report for duty or face having their dole money stopped as Hungary races to complete fence by end of the month
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/hungary/11780468/Hungary-using-unemployed-to-build-anti-immigration-fence.html
Hungary has drafted hundreds of unemployed workers to help speed up work on the country’s controversial anti-immigration fence that will run along the border with Serbia.Almost 500 people on job seeker’s allowance have been told to report for duty as labourers or face having their dole money stopped as Hungary races to complete the fence by the end of the month.
The Hungarian plan for the 108-mile barrier has provoked sharp international criticism with some labelling it a new Iron Curtain in Europe. But the Hungarian government has defended its decision, saying the wall is needed to curb the growing number of migrants targeting the Schengen-zone country as a gateway into the EU.
Last month Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, described illegal immigrants coming from the “depths of Africa” as a threat to Europe’s existence.Drawn from the ranks of unemployed in southern Hungary, the draftees, if they pass a medical declaring them fit, will work eight-hour shifts on the fence.One unemployed man called up for service on the border fence told Delmagyarorszeg, a local paper, that he had been told he would get HUR 51,000 a month (about £116) and two meals a day for his labour, but added that if he refused the job he risked losing his monthly jobseekers’ allowance of £52.
Hungary’s Fidesz government has introduced some of the toughest unemployment benefit rules in Europe since winning the first of two consecutive election victories in 2010. Benefits have been slashed and there has been an expansion in public work programmes using the unemployed as labour.
The government has announced plans to phase out unemployment assistance completely by 2018.
WATCH: NYPD Officer Dances the Whip/Nae Nae at Bed-Stuy Block Party
"The officer and his partner took some time to enjoy a block party and get to know those they serve," says the NYPD.
NYPD Officer James Ferrazzo of the 79th Precinct has gone viral for busting a Georgia-born move called the Whip/Nae Nae at one of Bed-Stuy’s famous summer block parties.
Bed-Stuy resident Daiyana Gordon posted a video of the dance party to YouTube on Sunday, July 26.
By the following Sunday evening, the video had been viewed nearly 150,000 times.
The NYPD says in a statement that Ferrazzo and his partner were taking “some time to enjoy a block party and get to know those they serve. The officers connected with kids as they threw a football and enjoyed some good food and conversation.”Gordon tells the Daily News:
“It was a great way of him showing the kids and the community that he is a regular person especially with all the negative publicity police officers have been getting. Police Officer James Ferrazzo and his partner were awesome the entire day. They threw footballs with the kids and shared in the festivities. We need them in our communities. We need young people to admire and look up to them, not fear them.”
The Whip/Nae Nae is a combination of the Whip, a dance in which one mimics the motion of driving a car, and the Nae Nae, a dance in which one mimics Shanae’nae, a ditzy character played by Martin Lawrence (in drag) on his sitcom, “Martin.”
And Silentó, a teen rapper from Conyers, Georgia, can be credited with combining the two moves on his hit track ”Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).”
http://patch.com/new-york/bed-stuy/watch-nypd-officer-dances-whipnae-nae-bed-stuy-block-party-0
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Thurgood Marshall.. "What is the quality of your intent?"
What is the quality of your intent?
Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even
when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering.
What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we
intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each
of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We
cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the
energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We
should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and
around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.
My intent will be evident in the results.”
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