What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Prosecutors said that criminal charges will not be filed against an officer whose own department said he violated its “use of force” policy.
No charges for N.C. officer who violated use of force policy – NY Daily News
These officers involved belong behind bars. Period.
The Republican nominee reported nearly $1 billion in losses in 1995, opening the door to tax avoidance in subsequent years.
hmmmm
An elected lawmaker who was busted for soliciting sex from an underage girl sold weed to several of his colleagues in the New Hampshire House of Representatives before he resigned from office
Disgraced New Hampshire state lawmaker sold marijuana to colleagues: Report – Washington Times
What the…???
Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush’s sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost.
The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications.
…Just to repeat: In 2007, the story was about millions of missing White House emails that were sought in connection to a Congressional investigation. Yet somehow the archiving of Clinton’s emails today requires exponentially more coverage, and exceedingly more critical coverage.
Of course, back in 2007 Fox News seemed utterly uninterested in the Bush email story days after the news broke. A search of Fox archives locates only one panel discussion about the story and it featured two guests accusing Democrats of engineering a “fishing expedition.”
From then-Fox co-host, Fred Barnes: “I mean, deleted e-mails, who cares?”
Indeed.
Sigh…
“They feel that they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves,” Clinton says
Hillary Clinton comments on Bernie Sanders supporters in leaked recording – CBS News
hmmm
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and his mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush, spoke with “CBS This Morning” anchor Norah O’Donnell about the current GOP race.
Barbara Bush: “I don’t know how women can vote” for Trump
hmmm
“I don’t see anything about this girl. She’s a doll. She’s a decoration,” Alicia Machado said of Melania Trump.
Former Miss Universe slams Melania Trump: ‘I speak more English than her’ | TheHill
Ouch.
The photos have been edited or deleted.
Barbara Bush snaps pics with Huma Abedin, tagged ‘we’re with her’ | TheHill
hmmm
Joseph Mann was killed by police in July.
Dash cam shows Calif. police trying to run over man before shooting him | TheHill
And why the hell aren’t these two psychotic pieces of shit being held without bail until the 1st degree murder trials they so richly deserve???!
When discussing their support of Bernie Sanders during “Real Time with Bill Maher,” which aired Friday, Maher read the latest poll numbers that showed Johnson with 29 percent support among millennials.
…”And we thought he was a cool guy, you know he smokes pot, he was for pot — he is not making pot look good, by the way,” Maher added.
Maher then played a video clip of Johnson’s infamous gaffes, including his failure to answer a question about Aleppo, Syria and name a foreign leader that he admires.
…Silverman concluded by agreeing with Maher and stating that people are voting for Johnson because “they are totally misinformed.”
hmmm
The Star Trek crew has had enough of Trump, so they’re taking him on.
: 70 members of Star Trek’s cast and crew just wrote an epic anti-Trump letter.
hmmm
After waiting more than two years to act on the request, Pence informed Keith Cooper this week that he would not grant his pardon “out of respect for the judicial process.”
Mike Pence Tells Wrongfully Convicted Man He Won’t Act On Pardon Request – BuzzFeed News
What an evil irredeemable monster Pence is.
Controversial bill would further tighten restrictions on abortion in the country.
Poland’s women on strike against abortion bill
Go, girls!
Greece reacts angrily after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to question a 1923 treaty that set borders between the two countries.
Greek anger at Turkey border treaty remarks – BBC News
hmmmm
The man who rushed into chaotic train crash scene Thursday in Hoboken and gave comfort to the woman as she lay dying on the platform, is sharing his account of the event.
…”Yes. I’m healthy, I’m a strong, kid you know, just go help as many people as you can, and that’s what I did,” Perkins said.
…”The first person I saw was a gentleman and he had a beam on his leg. So me and like five other guys picked up the beam and we moved it,” Perkins said.
Then not far away, he would spot 34-year-old Fabiola Bittar de Kroon.
…”I could tell she could hear me, but I was just telling her like focus on your family, at that point I didn’t know she had a daughter, I didn’t know she had a husband, I was just like, focus on your family, focus on them I’m with you, you’re going to be all right just fight,” Perkins said.
…”I just tried to like comfort her, like, ‘I am going to be here with you, I am not going to leave you by yourself,’ and the police officers were like listen, ‘you did all you could,'” Perkins said.
Those words, Perkins says, will stay with him, along with a wish that he could have kept Bittar de Kroon from becoming the lone fatality in a crash she didn’t see coming.
He says he has since spoken with the victim’s husband. They discussed those final moments that he will never forget.
Man who tried save woman who ended up dying after Hoboken train crash shares his story | abc7ny.com
Sigh…
What a crazy thing to happen and what a tragedy for all of the people involved.
There is a bit of solace in the fact that the lone fatality was not alone in her final moments though.
Mitchell, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, died Aug. 19, 2015, of extreme weight loss and heart problems. He had lost 46 pounds during 101 days at the jail.
He was ordered by a judge to be transferred to a state mental hospital for treatment, but he never made it because his paperwork was stuffed in a desk drawer by an admissions worker at the hospital.
Jeezus… For the love of humanity, this stuff needs to stop.
The Pope says Mass in a largely empty stadium on a visit to Georgia after the majority Orthodox Christian Church asks followers to stay away.
…The Orthodox patriarchate said on its website: “As long as there are dogmatic differences between our churches, Orthodox believers will not participate in their prayers”.
One Georgian priest told AP it was a protest against Catholic attempts to convert Orthodox Christians.
“Can you imagine how it would be if a Sunni [Muslim] preacher came to Shia [Muslim] Iran and conducted prayers in a stadium or somewhere else?” Father David Klividze asked. “Such a thing could not be.”
Georgia Pope: Tbilisi stadium largely empty for papal Mass – BBC News
Hmmmm
Pope Francis on Saturday conducted a mass on Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in the center of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. In his sermon, the head of the Roman Catholic Church spoke about the importance of women in Georgia, quoting Mother Teresa, who said that more women show more love of God than men do.
hmm
In Tblisi’s Georgian Orthodox Cathedral, believed to contain the burial spot of Christ’s seamless garment, Pope Francis on Saturday said he historical divisions among Christians today are “the real lacerations” that wound the body of Jesus.
Pope says Christian divisions ‘wound’ the Body of Christ
hmmm
One of the El Cajon, California officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed black man was accused of harassing a female colleague, including allegedly texting her an explicit photo of himself
El Cajon officer involved in deadly shooting was demoted after sex complaint – CBS News
Law enforcement is akin to the Catholic Church in this, if you do not remove the abusive ones completely, they don’t stop being a danger to the innocent public. They move on to perpetrating more damaging malfeasance while continuing to abuse and degrade their authority.
Forgiveness does not stop them. Covering up for them does not make it go away. Bad cops, like bad priests, should be thrown out onto the street without further access to their prior uniform, prosecuted, convicted, and punished by the full extent of the law.
Anything else is endorsing and abetting their crimes against the people they are sworn to protect.
Readers disagree with an Op-Ed article suggesting that Francis’ papacy has failed.
: Has Pope Francis Helped Reform the Church? – The New York Times
hmmmm
Pope Francis called for more respect for the “sovereign rights” of nations under international law, on the first stop of a two-day visit to the Caucasus country.
In Georgia, Francis makes veiled criticism of Russian aggression | National Catholic Reporter
hmmm
Tacos with a side of civic engagement.
Houston Taco Trucks Are Helping Register People To Vote
Awesome
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