Gays Must Die Says Speaker At Orlando Mosque - WFTV 9 Orlando Report .

This WFTV report is recent, from April 6, 2016. The YouTube link is making the rounds on social media now. How do we combat this kind of thinking? And how do we do it without turning citizen against citizen?

I have no solutions.

Bernie should drop out RIGHT NOW!

My three-point advice to Bernie:

1. Drop out now. But first make a quick deal with the presumed nominee. Drop out in return for a cabinet post. That's technically illegal, but laws don't really matter anymore. Pick a prominent cabinet post, one where you can jet around the world interfering in everybody's business.

2. Start a Foundation. Collect money, lots of money, from the nations you are visiting on your trips. Then grant them favors, like arms deals and such. That's also technically illegal, but again, laws don't really matter anymore.

3. Start writing boiler-plate speeches to give to big corporations once you leave office. Those companies will pay you $250,000 a pop for vague generalities, just because they love you. That's morally suspect, but it's perfectly legal.

Oh, wait a minute. My advice requires moral compromises. Bernie doesn't roll that way. Never mind, Senator Sanders. Fight on until the convention!

A hand grenade or a time bomb?

Which would you rather pass on to your family, a hand grenade or a time bomb?

Hillary is the hand grenade. She's very reliable. Just pull the pin when needed. Wars are just fine with Hillary, as long as the wars are "necessary". And Hillary has not yet seen an unnecessary war.

Trump is the time bomb. Unpredictable, and liable to go off at any time, with devastating results. Many wars, no wars. Who can say? Who can predict?

So which do you prefer, the hand grenade or the time bomb?

I choose neither! I choose peace. That's why I will support Bernie until the convention, and beyond.

No more wars, please.

The presumptive, or the actual, nominee?

Being a "presumptive" nominee really does mean something. But it does not mean as much as some people want it to mean. Consider a horse race, a race where one horse is ahead by a good margin at the 3/4 point. Should that horse therefore be the race's winner? Should the race then be stopped, and a winner be declared?

No, of course not. The race should continue until all horses have crossed the finish line. Yet many people want the Democrat nominating process to be over before the finish line...before the convention, before any delegate has cast a single vote.

And yes, I must include the DU administration in this criticism. They have the right to set whatever rules they want. It is their site. But to shut down debate before the actual convention is, IMHO, wrong.

Hillary Clinton is rolling in the money from Wall Street

From the link:

In her quest to be the nation's 45th president, the Democratic front-runner has taken in a stunning haul from the finance industry — just shy of $27 million and counting, according to the latest filings as analyzed by OpenSecrets.org.

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One of the reasons Clinton has been able to stockpile so much Wall Street cash is that she has no competition in that regard. Her lone remaining challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has forsworn Wall Street cash and has taken no money from the finance industry.

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I don't know about you, but if I payed someone $27 (not alone $27 million dollars) I'd expect something significant in return. For example, if I payed Amazon $27 for a book, I'd expect them to deliver to my house exactly what I ordered.

I wonder what the big banks expect Hillary to deliver.
I already know what they expect from Bernie: Trouble.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/hillary-clinton-rolling-money-wall-175839840.html

What do Senators Boxer, Feingold, Kennedy, and Wellstone all have in common?

They all voted against the Iraq War Resolution. Bernie Sanders, who was in the House at the time, also voted against the resolution.

But Senator Hillary Clinton voted FOR the resolution. I wonder why. Take your pick:

1. Senator Clinton thought that another war was just fine, a dandy idea.
2. Senator Clinton opposed starting another war, but thought that a nay vote would hurt her politically.
3. Senator Clinton bought Bush's lies. She didn't bother to think it through, like all of the nay votes did.

Note that there is no "let's move on" choice. That's because people are still dying in Iraq today because of that vote. And veterans are still suffering in VA hospitals today because of that vote.

It is not ancient history.

Here's a convention hypothetical for you. Your opinion?

Suppose that after the CA primary, Hillary either has the majority of the pledged delegates, or is very close. Then, for whatever reason, Hillary drops out before the convention starts.

Who would you then find acceptable as the nominee? Multiple answers are acceptable, even preferred. For me, it would be Bernie, then Al Gore (so dreaming is allowed too).

I'm posting this now because of the latest Hillary email report. Maybe my hypothetical won't be so hypothetical soon. If that's the case, the DNC would need to be very careful about who gets the nod.

Schumer upends 9/11 Saudi suit bill at 11th hour

I saw this on Facebook, but the only actual article I could find about it was at the (heavily slanted) NY Post. What's going on here? From the Post:

Last week’s unanimous passage of a Senate bill making it easier for 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia and other foreign terror sponsors was widely heralded as a major victory.

It’s more of a cruel hoax.

It turns out that just before the vote, Sen. Charles Schumer and other proponents of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act stuffed an amendment into the final draft allowing the attorney general and secretary of state to stop any litigation against the Saudis in its tracks.

Bernie should NOT drop out.

I know that people who are now calling for Bernie to drop out don't mean it this way, but it's actually insulting to the voters who are yet to vote. And it's insulting to the Bernie voters who have already voted.

Hillary does not have a majority of pledged delegates, yet. She probably will have that majority, and soon, but not yet.

Suppose you are the coach of a scrappy underdog football team. Your team has worked hard, and has made it to the semi-finals. Win this game, and you're off to the state finals. It's now the 4th quarter in that semi-final game. Two minutes to go, and you are down by 14 points. Your scrappy team still has a chance, albeit a small one. And the team wants to go for it. No one is heading for the locker rooms.

The opposing coach trots over to you, and asks you to concede now, for the good of the league, or for some such reason. Would you concede?

I would hope not. And an election is far more important than any football game.

Why Hillary?

Why Hillary?

From what I can see, there are three main reasons why people support Hillary Clinton for president. And here they are.

1. "Madam President." Some people support Hillary because she is a woman, and they feel that it's long past time that we have a woman as president. I understand that. But that's not good enough. Because by that logic, Sarah Palin would also be a good candidate for president.

2. "Experience." Some people support Hillary because she was a senator, and then she was a Secretary of State. But that's not good enough. Because by that logic, Bush the Elder would also be a good candidate. Bush the Elder has much more government experience than does Hillary.

3. "Clinton." Bill Clinton was a arguably a very good president. Therefore, Hillary would also be a good president. Same last names. But that's not good enough. Such logic would be acceptable in a monarchy, but not in a republic.

Some people support Hillary because she is - uniquely - a combination of all three of the above. I understand that. But to my mind, none of those reasons are valid reasons to support Hillary. 0 + 0 + 0 = 0.

And that's why I don't support Hillary. I support Bernie. He has the ideas - and the vision - that appeals to me. Bernie Sanders 2016.