Get Involved For a Better America

UPDATED 1/7/17 2:40PM - Time For Our "Executive Producer" and Part-time President-Elect To "Grow Up" As VP Biden Says

2017-01-06T22:18:00.002-05:00

What The Intelligence Community Has On Russia Being Responsible For Hacking And Interfering With Our Election Process

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UPDATED: January 7, 2017 2:40PM EST

It seems that the only thing President-elect Trump is concerned with over Russia hacking and interfering with our election process, our political process, and our democracy, is his election being delegitimized. Hours before he received the classified briefing from the intelligence community he said "it's a political witch hunt" referring to the investigation of just what Russia did. Afterwards he said the briefing was "constructive" but was still refusing to agree with the conclusions of the NSA, FBI, CIA, DNI, and the entire 17 intelligence agencies. This being the case, again, because he is saying that democrats are trying to delegitimize his being elected. He doesn't see the big picture in that our country was attacked and our election and political process was influenced.

Trump's Response To The Briefing Is To Outright Lie About What The Report Actually Said! - Knowing Full Well That A "Declassified" Version Was Going To Be Released

"This publically available report made available yesterday, this "declassified" report, if accurate, it taught us all a great deal about what the Russians did to influence our election this past year, and why they did it which is very dramatic, why Putin had this grudge dating back to a specific thing that happened in 2011, why he wanted to destroy her, where that came from, fascinating" says Rachel Maddow (The Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC January 6, 2017). She entices you to read the report saying that if you don't want to read the annexes, the evidentiary, technical stuff, it's only 5 pages long, which is true, I read it, it really didn't hurt that much. She went to say that there was one other thing that the report taught us, that our President-elect was willing to flat out lie to us, to our faces, and even put it in writing, even when we can check for ourselves, that he is blatantly lying about a really big thing. He apparently will just brazenly lie to us, even about really important, national security stuff, and we learned that today even if we didn't know it before she said. She then pointed out that on the top of every single page of the report there is a box, that box says "This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment; it's conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified assessment but this version does not include the full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign." It is literally printed on the top of every single page but doesn't have the sources and methods that would screw with our spies or whatever. The highly classified assessment that President Barack Obama ordered was given to the president yesterday and then given to the President-elect. Right after that, right after the President-elect came out of that briefing he put out a statement about what he learned in the briefing, and he blatantly, overtly, bluntly, simply lied about what is in the report, right before this report got publically released, so we can check for ourselves, and see that he was lying. January 6, 2017: President-elect Donald J. Trump released the following statement at the conclusion of the meeting with Intelligence Community leaders: "While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat [sic] (should be Democratic) National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election..." so he's saying after getting briefed, reading the report, meeting with the Director of the CIA, FBI, DNI, and NSA, he can tell you, the American people, that there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election," that's what he tells us. Well, here's what is actually in the report: "We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election." So, our President-elect is lying to us, he says that the report concludes that the Russian hacking had "absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election" but that is NOT what the report says. The report did NOT conclude that, you can read it yourself Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections . He tells other lies as well, he also said in his statement "There were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but the RNC had strong hacking defenses and the hackers were unsuccessful." REALLY?! That's what the report says, says Rachel Maddow, I can look at the report myself now, and it doesn't say that! At all! What the report says is "Russia collected on some Republican-affiliated targets but did not conduct a comparable disclosure campaign." So Russia WAS successful in stealing data and documents from the Republicans, they just didn't blast it back into the United States as propaganda and stuff because they wanted Trump to win the presidency. The President-elect lied to us today about that as well. Either the President-elect thinks we're idiots or he didn't know they were going to release the report yesterday. Rachel Maddow warns us to "Don't believe a word the President-elect says on this topic, until at least they correct the overt lies that they told about the report yesterday. Most of this article has been taken from The Rachel Maddow Show aired on January 6, 2017.

So, it appears that our Executive Producer of a reality show (that he bashes the new host of - Arnold Schwarzenegger, while claiming to be "the ratings machine - DJT") and part-time President-elect thinks he's always talking to his gullible, ignorant, low-information, supporting base. I wonder how many will even look at the report, see that he overtly lies about something so important, and can be so easily verified, and that he has absolutely no problem lying anyway.

Many times when I post something that I think is very dangerous about our President-elect, about him truly being unfit to be our Commander-in-Chief, about his ignorance to run this country as far as foreign policy or anything else, people assume I'm for Hillary. Let me set the record straight one more time. I do think that if Hillary was elected that it would be a less dangerous place that we would be in, then we are now. Only because she has extensive experience in foreign relations, protocol, and politics and how things need to run. I believe that we could have somewhat kept a close eye on her and had some influence in the path she took for our country. I think we could have held her feet to the fire on progressing with all the things Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forced her to put in the Democratic Platform. The fact that, not only do we have an unfit, narcissistic, racist, sexist, ignorant, demagogue in the White House, who has picked billionaires (to complete the oligarchy and plutocracy that exist already) for his cabinet, like Scott Pruitt (R-OK) a climate denier, for Director of the EPA, Rex Tillerson (CEO of Exxon/Mobil) for Secretary of State, who happens to have a great, cozy, relationship with a President of a foreign nation who just hacked and interfered with our election and political processes, and our democracy (what is left it anyway,) Republicans now get to nominate the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice after simply refusing to do their jobs by not giving Merrick Garland even a hearing for over a year. Republicans also now have control of ALL three branches of Government, The Executive Branch (The White House,) The Judicial Branch (U.S. Supreme Court,) and The Legislative Branch (U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives {Congress}.) In addition to that they now control 32 State Legislatures by way of Governorships and/or State Legislators. Finally, on Hillary, I remember seeing a case just about one year ago, where a soldier who "accidentally" took home classified information on his laptop, and even though the military was able to confirm he had no malice or intent, and there was confirmation that the information had not been compromised or released or seen by anyone, he was indicted, convicted, given a court martial, and sent to the brig, for FAR LESS than what Hillary has done, in MANY situations. I believe she should be in prison, and that she never should have been available to run a campaign for President, or conspire to ruin Bernie Sanders chances of being our next President, whom incidentally, I believe wholeheartedly would of beat the crap out of Trump. So what do we do now in the face of such danger?

So What Can WE Do You Ask? There Is Something

Just last week we witnessed the power of the people. When Republicans decided that their very first action with the 115th Congress was going to be to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent committee to oversee congressional behavior, and put it under the control of the House of Representatives, themselves, as in the fox in charge of the hen house, people got angry and took action. They "flooded the phone lines" of their U.S. Senators and Congressmen and women. By the next morning the MSM was trying to give the credit for making them withdraw the bill to President-elect Trump because he made a tweet at 10:03AM but that didn't fly either. Too many representatives had already gone public with the fact that their phones were "swamped" with constituents calling them to object to the bill. People do have power, but must get involved in ways that make a difference. I've signed online petitions for years and don't see any results. The only time I can recall any petition make a difference is when the people of Wisconsin worked very hard and got a million signatures to call for a recall of their newly elected Governor,Scott Walker (R-WI) after he took away their collective bargaining rights to break unions soon after getting into office. But amazingly enough, he won the recall election because of an unprecedented amount of dark money, and outside money from the likes of the Koch brothers. Contacting your Representatives is a good way to make them respond, but it only works when a lot of people do it at the same time, and in a timely manner. Please SEE: Indivisible - A Practical Guide To Resist The Trump Agenda which I posted on Thursday, January 5, 2017. Please DOWNLOAD the guide HERE and SHARE the post and the guide as much as you can. When Ezra Levin appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show last Wednesday he said that in the 24 hours leading up to his appearance there had been 600,000 page views and over 135,000 downloads of the guide. The guide is written by three ex-Hill Congressional aides that took a close look at the Tea Parties strategies and which ones worked. Remember that the Tea Party started out with a lot of very small groups, groups of 4-5 people, but by 2010 they were able to take over the House of Representatives. It shows how we can use those same successful strategies to get back control of all the State Legislatures, Congress, and the U.S. Senate. LET'S GET INVOLVED, NOW! LET'S TAKE OUR COUNTRY, AND DEMOCRACY BACK! We currently live in an oligarchy and Plutocracy, let's take back democracy, and let's take it back starting RIGHT NOW!

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Original post on January 6, 2017

"Similar Tactics" "Techniques" Where's The Proof?

So a friend of mine, very knowledgeable in computers, hacking, programming, etc., finally got through my thick head that you're never going to "catch" a hacker by "footprints" or "malicious code" that they leave. If they're any good anyway. It took awhile and I appreciate the knowledge that he gave me although I'm sure that's just basics. I also believe that the e-mails that were hacked from the DNC and Podesta were mostly, if not 100% genuine, and not altered. I also believed that they must of had something to bring to the table when they presented their conclusion to the White House in October, as a group. Although at that point they weren't in agreement as to the motive (the CIA said it was to help elect Trump, the FBI wasn't so sure) they did present classified information to convince all Democratic leaders, and a vast majority of Republicans, (all but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)) that it was the Russians that hacked the DNC and Podesta. I understand from my friend that the DNC is also at fault since their security was totally incompetent. But as previews of the information starts coming out today about what they have about not only the Russians being responsible, but in fact, their motives, and more. It's early yet but it appears the Russians were congratulating themselves "on their success" of helping Trump get elected which the intelligence agencies intercepted. The intelligence agencies also intercepted, from what I'm hearing, actual proof of the hacked e-mails being delivered. I believe over the next few days we will be given much more of what they have. Again, this doesn't take away what was in the e-mails and all the corrupt, disgusting, things the DNC, Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, and the criminal Hillary did during the campaign, but it will, I believe, stop the notion that we were not attacked (as I'm sure we do to other foreign nations) by the Russians and need to retaliate. It should also stop our Executive Producer of a reality show and part-time President-elect from embarrassing our nation by supporting the monster that is Putin and discrediting our intelligence community.

Former CIA Director, Ambassador James Woolsey, Intelligence Officials, Senators from both parties are convinced Russians were culprit behind hacks and were in an "organizing role" rather than a "participant role." The proof and specifics are likely classified.

Trump is Briefed, Declassified Report is Released

President-elect Donald Trump receives briefing from intelligence community today and still isn't ready to point the finger at Russia for election related cyber hacking.Hours after calling the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered with the election a "political witch hunt" Trump was briefed by the heads of The National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Although he complimented those who gave him the briefing and called the meeting "constructive" he still isn't willing to agree with their findings. It seems clear, from his reaction and statements, that narcissistic, egomaniac, Trump, is more concerned with his delusional "landslide" electoral win (that was actually ranked 46th) being delegitimize than our country's vulnerability from cyber hacking. He's willing to embarrass America by having its President-elect discredit the people of these agencies. Earlier this week he said he trusted Julian Assange more than he trusted men and women who put their lives in danger gathering intelligence in the intelligence community. He said he knew things about hacking that "no one else" knew. Seems we heard that record before, when he said he had investigators in Hawaii digging up proof that President Obama's birth certificate didn't exist or was fake and said "they're digging up a whole lot, wait until you see all the stuff, there's a lot." Just more delusional thoughts like "I know more about ISIS than the General do." I swear, I don't understand how almost half of the American people can be so gullible, so blind, as to his lies, delusions, and megalomania.

Also The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) Statement on "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions In Recent U.S. Elections" hours ago. In an Official Statement on December 29, 2017, A Joint DHS, ODNI, FBI Statement on Russian Malicious Cyber Activity the DHS, ODNI, and FBI, said that "On October 7, 2016 Secretary Johnson and Director Clapper issued a joint statement that the intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from persons and institutions, including from U.S. Political organizations, and that the disclosure of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks are consistent with the Russian-directed efforts. The statement also noted that the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques accross Europe and Eurasia to influence public opinion there." It goes on to say "Today {December 29,2016} DHS and FBI released a Joint Analysis Report (JAR) which further expands on that statement by providing the tools and infrastructure used by the Russian civilian military Intelligence Service (RIS) to compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. Government, political, and private sector entities. The U.S. Government is referring to this malicious cyber activity by GRIZZLY STEPPE. The 13 page report then goes into the technical information that I am not qualified to assess but hope that a friend like mine will assess it and give me his conclusion on it's merits.

Report: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections

You can read the entire report here; Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections .

Erin Burnett, (Outfront with Erin Burnett/CNN,) interviewed a bitter opponent to Vladimir Putin, and someone who has done massive business with Donald Trump, the former President of Georgia, and is Opposition Leader in Ukraine, who has seen the intelligence report and has actually has experienced being hacked by Russia and Vladimir Putin, Mikheil Saakashvili. She stated to him that "The report concludes that quote "we assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered these efforts to influence the U.S. election." This is the Putin you know." His response was "Well he certainly heavily influenced our election in Georgia and tried to influence the Ukrainian election, you ask the leadership and they will tell you how he interfered. In 2008 we were one of the first of their cyber attacks where they basically attacked all of the government computers just before the military attack, so cyber war is part of general warfare." He continued on with how Putin tapped into phone calls then played them at opportune times.

I will update this post after taking in the response to the report throughout tonight and tomorrow morning.

INDIVISIBLE - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda

2017-01-05T14:57:00.002-05:00

There's No Longer Any Excuse For Not Getting Involved and Being Effective In Our Future

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, January 5, 2017 10:15 AM

www.indivisibleguide. com

Ex-Hill Congressional Staffers Offer Guide To Resist Trump

Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padillajan, authors of "Indivisible - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda" is catching on like wildfire. I first heard about it when Rachael Maddow, MSNBC - The Rachel Maddow Show interview co-author Ezra Levin on Wednesday nights show. I started my blog Get Involved For A Better America in November of 2013, my mission was to get people involved in politics by finding, contacting, and tracking their own politicians. These ex-Hill congressional staffers have authored the most useful, and more importantly, effective ways, to get involved and make a difference with very effective strategies to win local and federal elections and stopping the Republicans and Trump from destroying our democracy, which actually is an oligarchy/plutocracy. Ezra Levin in the interview with Rachel says they put up a Google doc 2 1/2 weeks ago and Google immediately crashed. They put up a website just so people could download Indivisible - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda As of that interview last night there have been over 600,000 page views and 130, 000 downloads. He also said that there have been over 350 groups all over the nation register in the last 24 hours. They have followers in literally every congressional district in America. Now is the time to get involved.

The Guide (Updated December 31, 2016)

Online petitions and form letters have very limited effectiveness. As my Facebook page Stop The Obstructionist Tea Party and my blog Get Involved For A Better America have always had the same mission, educate people on important issues from as reliable a source as possible and get them to contact their own Representatives, I am greatly appreciative of this guide being published and think it wiLl, or can, be extremely useful and most importantly, effective, BUT ONLY IF PEOPLE SHARE IT, use it, and talk about it with everyone you know. On my blog I offer links to find and track your U.S. Senators (Senate.gov), your U.S. Congressmen and women (House.gov), as well as websites to find, track, and contact state and local politicians. I, long ago, pretty much gave up signing online petitions because I didn't think they were doing anything to get our Representatives attention, much less action. Form letters are convenient but again, I don't believe our Representatives pay much attention to them. This guide (on page 3) says "Together, we have the power to resist - and we have the power to win." This was evident very recently when the newly installed 115th Congress tried to make it's first action, to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) after holding a closed-door secret session to create a bill putting the responsibility of overseeing congressional ethics under the House of Representatives control, yes, virtually putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Although the Main Street Media (MSM) for some time tried to give credit to Trump's tweet they had no choice but to admit it was the Representatives being inundated with phone calls and e-mails from constituents that got them to withdraw that ludicrous bill. The power of the people is there, it always has been, but we must stand together and get involved, take action, for it to be effective. Ronald Reagan knew this and used it. Every time Congress was against him he would go on TV and address Americans directly, causing them to call their Representatives and the Representatives really had no choice but to follow what the people were insisting on. That's what happened with that ethics bill on Wednesday, pressure from YOU, the constituents, flooding their phones lines and inboxes, got them to withdraw the bill. This guide is what Democrats should have written and published right after the success the Tea Party had in the 2010 elections. Perhaps all democrats in office, wanting to run for office, and certainly those in control of the DNC, should take notes from Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padillajan.

So You're Interested And Want To Know Where To Start?

First and foremost, if you don't know who is representing you locally and nationally, use these links, right now, to find who they are and write down their phone numbers and ways to e-mail them:

U.S. Senators (2): www.senate.gov

U.S. Congress: www.house.gov

State Senators, Assembly, Legislators: votesmart.org

(When you go to this site, just under the title banner, you'll see a search box called "I Spy," put in your address, (Zip+4 if you know it) it will show you everyone that is representing you from the President on down to your most local politicians.

Once you've entered your address and hit enter you will be given that full list of those representing you. It starts with the President, then his cabinet and appointees, and then your Governor, and State Senators, Legislators and so on, but remember, the only ones listed are representing YOU. Look specifically for "U.S. Senate" members; "U.S. House" members; and for your State Representatives look for "State Senate" "State Assembly" (some states have legislators, some Assembly, whichever your state has will be listed) and "Legislator" (your list may not contain some positions, some may show other positions, but it will show you who is representing YOU.)

Click on a members name, now just below the search box you will see file folders, click on "Bio and it will give you all the information, from their capitol phone numbers, district offices, e-mail addresses their children's names and more. you should write the phone numbers and addresses of their local district offices if you want on a piece of paper so you have it immediately available should an issue arise that you want to immediately weigh in on.

Here is my "Contact List" that I can utilize in a minutes notice should I hear something is going on in government whether I'm for it or against it:

So Now That You Have Your Contact Sheet

Read the guide that is so informative. Remember the Bold Faced, last sentence in the first paragraph of the introduction "Together, we have the power to resist - and we have the power to win." Also, in the highlighted box "Who Is This Document By And For" on page 3, the introduction, is instruction for YOU, It says YOU: should use this guide, share it, amend it, make it your own, and get to work." I, for one, have seen, as you assume have, that when the people speak up, contact their representatives in large numbers, we can get things done. That's what I've been trying to promote with my blog, and Facebook page, because I've seen it work. If you're willing to let the Executive Producer of a realty show, a narcissist, a hateful, racist, man, who says things "off the cuff" that are proven to be about 80% outright lies, then take your chances, sit back, and wait for the disaster that is sure to come with the megalomaniac, and the Repuglicans, and TeaPublicans, who now have control of all three branches of government and 32 State Houses and/or Governorships. Remember that by simply refusing to do their jobs, their sworn duty, by not even giving President Obama's nomination for the U.S. Supreme court a hearing, much less a vote, they won! They will now select the next Supreme Court Justice. That in itself should be enough for people to be outraged and want to act.

The One Page Summary - The Outline For Success

The summary explains how the authors studied what made the Tea Party's success against President Obama, their strategies, and how a small group was able to make such drastic reality, and how we can use those same successful strategies against them. Two years into President Obama's first term it was clear, with all the seats lost in congress, and as important, all the state and local seats lost, change was obvious, but not the change that we wanted. I'm not going to continue inserting excerpts from the guide because I want you to read it! Download it, print it like I did, Indivisible - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda right now. Read it, make YOUR "Political Contact List," and get involved, or buckle your seat belt of life and hope that our children don't live in a country that has been damaged beyond repair. Hope that an irresponsible, ignorant, inexperienced, racist, misogynistic man, that has chosen people for his cabinet that are also inexperienced in their chosen positions, most whom have positions that are 180 degrees from their agencies missions, don't have us going into more wars-for-profit, and situations that will hurt all Americans, except that one-tenth-of-one percent, who has 95% of all wealth in this oligarchy/plutocracy.

Pressure from YOUR Phone Calls and E-mails Caused Republicans to Withdraw Ridiculous Bill Yesterday - Now Let's Tell Them To Not Repeal The ACA Without A Valid Replacement!

2017-01-04T10:59:00.000-05:00

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A CALL TO ACTION

     Even though the Main Street Media (MSM) tried to give Trump credit for stopping the Republicans from passing a bill to allow themselves to decide when and who to investigate on ethics Republicans are admitting that it was actually their phone lines being swamped and their e-mail inboxes being filled that made them decide to withdraw the bill. YOUR ACTION DID IT!

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, January 4, 2017

 > > > T A K E   A C T I O N   N O W ! ! !   < < <

     I just called my Congressman, Lee Zeldin, a Republican, to urge him to not repeal "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (aka Obamacare) without replacing it with something that will actually be at least as beneficial. YOU can do the same! Yesterday the people's voice was heard when many called and e-mailed their representatives and got them to withdraw their secretly prepared bill to gut the U.S. Office on Independent Counsel which is tasked with overseeing government officials. Please, if you don't already have your current U.S. Senators and Congressperson's phone number and/or e-mail, or need to find who they are, use the links below to find and contact YOUR representatives and tell them not to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a valid replacement. I just called my Republican's office and actually spoke to a human being, told him what I was urging the Congressman to do. To find YOUR U.S. Senators (2) use www.Senate.gov and to find your Congressman or Congresswoman use www.house.gov/representatives/find/ . PLEASE GET INVOLVED, IT MATTERS, YOU MATTER!

Please check my blog Get Involved For A Better America at  and my Facebook page Stop The Obstructionist Tea Party at for all the important political information you need to know.

Here is a list of links that will help you not only FIND who YOUR politicians are but will assist you in TRACKING them (seeing how they voted on bills, when they sponsor or co-sponsor a bill, etc.) and CONTACTING them. You could also look at legislative bills and track their progress as well.

How to Find and Contact your Representatives

To FIND, and CONTACT, your State Senators, Assembly person, and other Local Legislators enter your ​Address and ​Zip Code at:

OpenStates.org

(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are in the State Legislature and across all states at this site.)

To FIND, and CONTACT, your U.S. Congressperson enter your Zip Code at: 

​House.gov

(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are, or were, in the House of Representatives (Congress,) see which Congressional district you are in, and much more about the United States House of Representatives (Congress,) the at House.gov)

To FIND, and CONTACT, your U.S. Senators enter your Zip Code at:

​Senate.gov

(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are in the U.S. Senate, and much more about the U. S, Senate at this site.)

To TRACK Congressperson, Senators, Legislative Bills, Voting Records of your Representatives, go to: 

GovTrack.us     

Other very useful sites are:

POPVOX   VoteSmart   and PolitiFact (to check Facts about things you hear and see from Politicians.)  

Representatives Phones Ring Over Ethics Bill - Reps. Pull It Back, Now MSM Says It Was Trumps Tweet!

2017-01-03T18:55:00.000-05:00

MSM - Shaping and Being - Instead of Reporting - THE NEWS!

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, January 3, 2017 5:05 PM

Doesn't Paul Ryan look so happy before his first move to take the ethics oversight into the House instead of leaving it with an independent council? Photo by Common Dreams

The 115th Congress Is Sworn In Today

The Republicans wanted it to be some thing special. So they held a secret, closed door, session and decided the very first thing to be done should be to take away the function of the U.S. Office of Independent Counsel, tasked with investigating government officials. They created a bill to put those responsibilities under the House of Representatives! You heard me, they wanted the responsibility of investigating their wrongdoing themselves, the fox in the hen house scenario, You got it! They want to get rid of the only independent council overseeing ethics and put themselves in charge of investigating themselves. Another very important part of the bill called for "No investigations on anything older than 2011"! Why could that possibly be? OH! WTF?! Could it be that many of them did something wrong leading up to the financial crisis of 2008-2009?! And they want to be sure if their culpability is found they can rely on this law to not be prosecuted because Congress wouldn't be allowed to investigate? For such STUPID MF's they sure get good ideas when it comes to "covering their asses (CYA). You know, the same people who spent over $7M of taxpayers money voting to repeal "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", (aka Obamacare,) 59 times! All the while knowing it would NEVER pass, much less get signed by President Barack Obama. So, the Republicans wanted the very first act of the 115th Congress to put the fox in charge of the hen house. Very interesting. But this post is about the media and how they are shaping the story to tell you what their corporate owners want them to spread. All morning it was being talked about in the media, all over the media. I personally read at least three articles where they "quoted" representatives saying that they were going to "reconsider" because their phone lines were being "swamped" by people objecting to their latest move to take away the oversight of ethics from the independent council. Welcome 115th Congress. You do know of course the large corporations that own the media want to make nice with the President-elect right?

The Republicans Are Beat Down - But MSM Decides - Trump Is The Reason - Mysteriously

So it starts to get reported that the Republicans had went back into secret session, closed door, meeting and when they come out, they have decided that instead of the entire House of Representatives voting on this secretly devised/closed door/ bill they would withdraw the bill all together. But now the MSM is saying they did because President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted. At 10:03 AM he did tweet (in 2 tweets, read the bottom one first) this:

Directly from @realdonaldtrump Twitter account

But by 2:00 PM when reporting that the Republicans withdrew the bill all media was giving Trump credit for them reversing themselves. What happened to the "public outcry" the members of Congresses phone lines being swamped? I've heard only one mention of it in hours when Chuck Todd (MSNBC - Meet The Press Daily) at about 5:00 PM when he said "It appears the Republicans learned their first lesson, the hard way, especially when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump, ethics, and a public outcry." Other than that you would not know that many representatives earlier were actually more concerned that their phone lines were ringing o"off the hook." Contrary to many people's believe contacting your own Representatives by phone, or e-mail, is VERY effective when a lot of people do it at the same time. This has been my mission on my blog Get Involved For A Better America and my Facebook page Stop The Obstructionist Tea Party since the their inception, to educate, help people FIND their own Representatives, and then to contact them by phone and/or e-mail. People CAN be heard, CAN make a difference!

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Use The Links Below To FIND and CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TODAY! FOREVER!

Please go to my blog, bookmark it, put it in your favorites, Sign-up for e-mails (I promise you will only get one e-mail each time I post something new!) There you will find links, explanations of links and posts that you may be interested in. Also, to get you started I've posted the links below. Look at the different links, some are better to find YOUR U.S. Senators (www.senate.gov), you have two, others for finding YOUR Congressmen or Congresswomen (House.gov) and even others to find YOUR State and Local Politicians like State Senators, Assemblymen, Assemblywomen, like (OpenStates.org) and I list sites that actually let you TRACK your Representatives and tell you when they vote, how vote, and you can track any legislative bill you want, everytime an important action is taken on a bill your tracking you will get an e-mail, that may trigger your calling or e-mailing your representatives. Please check out those sites as well. PEOPLE CAN BE HEARD - CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE TODAY. LOOK UP YOUR REPRESENTATIVES E-MAIL ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM TO NEVER TRY AGAIN TO GET RID OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON ETHICS!

Society of Professional Journalists

How to Find and Contact your Representatives

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Indictments For The Poisoning oF The People Of Flint, MI Are Now At The Doorstep Of Republican Governor Rick Snyder - Also, The "Midas" Touch - How Snyder Stole $150M From The Poorest Citizens

2016-12-21T11:42:00.001-05:00

Can Governor Rick Snyder Be Indicted Next?

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 20, 2016 9:54 AM

Four More Former Government Officials Indicted

The governor's office in MI is exempt from freedom of information laws (FOIL), which is a story in itself, and Governor Snyder (R-MI) has used that exemption for everything it's worth. Gov. Snyder has refused to release key documents on the poisoning of people in the city of Flint, MI, for the past 2 1/2 years. Anyone that thinks many incriminating documents of Snyder and his appointed Emergency Managers and staff haven't been destroyed by now are simply not in touch with reality. But Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is still making progress with indictments of former state-appointed Emergency Managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose and former city employees Howard Croft, a public works superintendent, and Daugherty Johnson, a utilities manager, who were the latest to be charged by AG Schuette. That brings the total indictments to 13 as 9 people had been charged prior to the third round of indictments that took place yesterday. The two Emergency Managers can be sentenced to 40 years in prison each, one of them 46 years because he made public statements that the water was safe to drink when he knew it wasn't. The indictments are now at the door of the Governor, will they make it into his office? With those indicted already saying the decisions were made at the highest levels, the Governor's office, he should be. The system of taking away democracy and replacing local politicians with "Emergency Managers" who are picked by, and who only report to, the Governor, is still in effect in Michigan!

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The "Midas" Touch - How Gov. Snyder Stole $150M

Michigan Integrated Data Automation System, "M.I.D.A.S." is the name of a computer Rachael Maddow (The Rachael Maddow Show/MSNBC) reported on her show yesterday that was brought online by Gov. Snyder in the fall of 2013. Michigan elected Republican Governor Rick Snyder in 2010, he was a computer executive before then. What MIDAS did was kick all human beings out of the process of evaluating unemployment applications. What MIDAS actually did is turn the problem of unemployed people into money. When MIDAS was brought online it started treating everyone who applied for unemployment benefits like criminals. The automated system erroneously accused claimants in 93% of cases of fraud. Michigan unemployment agency made 20,000 false fraud accusations. Instead of getting their unemployment checks applicants had their applications kicked back to them and accused them of fraud. And when it did that it didn't make it clear that applicants could appeal that finding. People did not know they were even eligible to appeal against the fraud charge. People who did appeal, in 9 out of 10 cases, WON! It's an intimidating system where it tells the applicants that they made a fraudulent application and they could go to jail and have to pay fines. The people accused lost access to unemployment payments, and reported facing fines as high as $100,000. Many people did not only not appeal, not get their unemployment benefits, but were scared and started paying the fines. People who didn't pay their fines had their federal and state taxes garnished. People who were expecting a tax return, instead got a letter saying that because of the MIDAS finding of fraud the state was keeping it. Carolyn Hayes was one of the 27,000 people accused of fraud by the MIDAS system. Carolyn won her two appeals, in fact the state auditor general's report showed that of those that appealed the fraud finding, in 9 out of 10 cases won. This system held onto the money that people paid in fines,and the money garnished, and held from federal and state tax returns. You wouldn't think you can get that much money from poorer people but it did. The account that held money paid in fines and such from unemployment, the Michigan Unemployment Agency Contingent Fund, prior to MIDAS being implemented had $3.1M, in 2011. Now, after MIDAS was implemented, it holds $155M. That's MIDAS, it turns everything into gold, or in this case, money. Congressman Sandy Levin (D-MI-9) has been all over this. Two major lawsuits have been filed against the state of Michigan and has resulted in a "limited review" of this MIDAS catastrophe and what it has done to people. So far, of the money took, unlawfully, 2,571 individuals have been repaid a total of $5.4M from the $155M that they stole from these people who lost their job, filed for unemployment, were told they committed fraud, paid fines, all the while not having any money for food and housing. Because it's Michigan though, Rachael Maddow says, "I believe that because they continue to be the least appreciated, and most radical Republicans in the whole country, they passed a bill this week to transfer $10M of that stolen money, calling it a "surplus" unemployment insurance funds to help balance the state budget. They're probably going to try to use all of it before they are ordered to repay the people they stole it from. You know, the people that lost their jobs, had no money for food, clothing, and housing, were not only denied unemployment benefits, but were told they committed fraud and had to pay fines to avoid jail, were not allowed to re-apply, and had their tax returns taken by the state. Even while the investigations are going on, they pass a bill to take $10M of the stolen money to balance their state budget. In 2013 when MIDAS was being put into use Governor Rick Snyder appointed an "Emergency Manager" to the city of Flint. The "Emergency Manager" law is a democracy stealing law that takes away democracy in that it allows the Governor to totally ignore elections of local officials who were duly elected by the people and appoint "Emergency Managers" picked solely by the Governor and who report ONLY to the Governor. It is still in effect.

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Donald Trump's Connection To The Flint Water Crisis

Ryan Schleeter of EcoWatch reports Flint, MI, still does not have clean drinking water. Now, President-elect Donald Trump—whose campaign stump speech included a crude joke about the city's water crisis—has tapped one of the people responsible for the crisis to join his cabinet.

Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, and her family have a long history of using their wealth to manipulate Michigan state elections and push through "reforms" that undercut local democracy. She's a staunch advocate of privatization measures that shift power from people to corporations—and one of those measures led directly to the poisoning of Flint's water and citizens. Read more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/us/flint-water-charges.html?_r=0

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-water-idUSKBN1491XK

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/12/20/schuette-flint-water-charges/95644964/

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Congressman+sander+levin%2C+MI

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/21/flin-d21.html

The MIDAS Touch References

LANSING, Mich. -- The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency recently finished a review of 22,427 fraud determinations, and 93 percent of those cases have been overturned, according to the UIA. Of those cases, 2,571 people have been repaid a total of $5.4 million.

Congressman Sander Levin (D-MI 9th District) called for the case reviews in May. Read more.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's MIDAS program had a 93% error rate and falsely accused 20,000 workers of unemployment fraud Read more.

Rachael Maddow Reports MIDAS

As if the Flint water crisis wasn't enough, Michigan's unemployment system installed under Governor Rick Snyder flagged a whopping 93 percent of applicants as fraudulent. See video. Read more.

WATCH RACHAEL MADDOW REPORT THIS ON YOUTUBE

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The Imbecile (Trump) Is Feeding His Ego With Campaign Style Rallies and Supporting Russia

2016-12-16T10:36:00.000-05:00

"We Won In A Landslide" No, You Didn't

You Lost The Popular Vote By 2.5 Million And Ranked 46th In The Electoral College, That's NOT A Landslide

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 16, 2016 9:45 AM

With 34 days left to his inauguration President-elect Donald J. Trump is ignoring the fact the Vladimir Putin is responsible for hacking our country, interfering with our election process, interfering with our political process, and attacking our democracy. He is not only ignoring facts but is discrediting our entire intelligence community.

Donald Trump has already created dangerous situations where he is being blackmailed by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Some of the most egregious that have emerged involve countries in Asia and it's subregions, particularly the Philippines." Read more: How Donald Trump's Business Ties Are Already Jeopardizing U.S. Interests - Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek

Trump has picked for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a man who denies climate change, denies climate change! He picked a guy that is against the minimum wage to head up the Depart of Labor. He picked Lt. General Michael Flynn, (Ret.) who "inappropriately shared" classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan and was separated from the military yet started a "Lock Her Up" campaign against Hillary Clinton after the FBI found there was no "reasonable" evidence that her e-mail server had compromised classified information. Read more
He picked someone to head Health and Human Services (HHS) that wants to privatize Medicare. Medicare operates on a 2% administrative cost whereas commercial insurance companies were keeping 40%-50% of the money collected for premiums for administrative costs and turning around and giving that money to executives as bonuses, prior to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and are still taking 18%-20% of premiums as "administrative costs." Trump picked the Exxon/Mobil CEO to be Secretary of State. A man who after the United States brokered a deal so that the people in one of the poorest countries in the world would be cared for, after they discovered oil, got the dictator of that country to throw out the U.S. and another oil company to get paid by Exxon and use $4.5B to buy weapons instead of feeding, educating, and building hospitals. Read more.

The President-elect is choosing to deny what the intelligence community has reported and is supporting Russia saying "hacking, who even knows if there was hacking, and they say it was Russia, they don't know if it was Russia, it could be Russia, or China, or a 400 lb. man in a bed," and that was said AFTER he was briefed and knew it WAS Russia that not only interfered with our election, but quite possible it was done to help him win, and that Vladimir Putin was directly involved.

Even Republicans are in agreement with President Obama, a very big difference of the case for Obama's entire eight years, that Putin, and Russia, must be retaliated against for what they did, and are still doing. It was reported today that Russian hacking continues unabated to this day.

President Obama will address the nation at 2:15 PM EST to address this crisis. President Obama yesterday suggested that Vladimir Putin was involved in the hacking and went further in saying that the U.S. WILL respond. "I think there's no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action, and we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized, some of it may not be, but Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings on this because I spoke to him directly about this.

Trump and the Press - How Transparent is the President-elect Going To Be?

2016-12-15T22:16:00.000-05:00

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 15, 2016 10:05 PM

How Transparent is Trump Going To Be?

First he said he would "turn over his tax returns when the Internal Revenue Service audit was completed." After the IRS said there was nothing illegal about him turning over his tax returns during an audit he changed his excuse to "I will turn over my tax returns when Hillary turns over her 33,000 missing e-mails." Well, the election is over making that a moot point, yet, no tax returns. It's no secret that Trump does not like ANY media because they report his exact words, which a very high percentage of the time turn out to be outright lies, or ignorance. Today he tweeted "The media tries so hard to make my move to the White House, as it pertains to my business, so complex - when actually it isn't!" Really?! "How about how his kids are going to run his businesses, and just not tell him anything? What about that long awaited "Press Conference" he's been touting for today that was going to explain how "easy it's going to be.?" Perhaps it was postponed until "sometime in January" because Kurt Eichenwald, (Newsweek) published a cover story on Wednesday showing very serious conflicts that have already been put in play. "Conflicts Zone - How Trump's Business Ties Have Put America In A Bind" was previewed by Rachael Maddow (The Rachael Maddow Show - MSNBC) on Tuesday night and explained how Donald Trump mentioned, in fact carried on about and praised, an executive of the Dogan company, that is the key player in building the "Trump Towers - Istanbul" during a congratulatory phone call from the President of Turkey, the day after he was elected. The President of Turkey wants an Imam, a United States citizen, living in Pennsylvania, extradited, because he believes the Imam is responsible for coordinating the coup attempt in Turkey this past summer. So, on Tuesday, The President of Turkey arrested that executive and blamed him and the founder of the company, for being complicit in the coup attempt. An official in the Turkey government said, "The President of Turkey wants someONE, and the President-elect of the United States wants someTHING (that would be the millions of dollars Trump and his family are getting for letting that company, Dogan, use the Trump name on those towers)." Read the whole story of how Trump is now in a position of getting blackmailed day one of his presidency

Read Kurt Eichenwald's full article - "How Donald Trump's Business Ties Are Already Jeopardizing U.S. Interests

White House Press Briefings

Reince Priebus, President-elect Donald Trump's soon to be Chief of Staff, told conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt today, "Even looking at things like the daily, the daily White House briefing from the Press Secretary, I mean, there's a lot of different ways things can be done and I assure you we're looking at that. The first front row of assigned seats issue, as I understand it, started in the Obama administration. In the Bush administration, you just took a seat and I guess there were a couple people that had reserved spots, but for the most part, the more formalized reserved seating piece came in over the last eight years. That issue is being talked about. The Point of all this conversation is that the traditions, while some of them are great, I think it's time to revisit a lot of these things that have been done in the White House."

The Flaunting of Ignorance, lack of Knowledge, and the Willingness To Talk Without Knowing Any Facts Is Showing

As Ronald Reagan would say, in response to Priebus's statement "Well, there you go again." First of all it's quite obvious Reince Priebus made this statement without having ANY prior knowledge of White House Press Briefing protocol or history.

The first front row of assigned seats issue, as I understand it, started in the Obama administration." NO, Mr. Priebus, According to a statement put out by Jeff Mason, President of the White House Correspondents' Association, (WHCA) "That was not an Obama-era innovation as Mr. Priebus suggested. The WHCA assumed responsibility for assigning seats in the briefing room over the last two decades at the request of both Republican and Democratic administrations, who were mindful of the potential appearance of playing favorites if they assigned seats themselves.

Trump has said recently of his tweeting "I tweet because press not covering my honestly." Does President-elect Trump understand what a "free press" is? I know for a fact he doesn't know what a "blind trust" is. Does he think that when the press reports his exact words, which are often lies, outrageous fabrications, and attacks on our (soon to be his) intelligence community that the press is being dishonorable?

Newsweek To Break Conflict Where Trump Is Pressured By Turkey Tomorrow - Rachael Maddow Has Exclusive Tonight!

2016-12-13T00:14:00.001-05:00

B R E A K I N G N E W S

Trump Team Knows Story Coming Out Tomorrow On Cover Of Newsweek Shows Serious Conflict With Turkey

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 12, 2016, 10:38 PM

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Once again Kurt Eichenwald, a Contributing editor, Vanity Fair, Senior Writer Newsweek, a New York Times bestselling author and a veteran investigative reporter who has done a lot of investigative reporting on businesses like Enron, has NYT best selling books including 500 Days, Conspiracy of Fools, Serpent On The Rock, and The Informant is breaking another blockbusting story on the cover of Newsweek tomorrow and once again Rachael Maddow, (The Rachael Maddow Show, MSNBC) has been given an exclusive "peek" at that story tonight. "Conflict Zone - How Trump's Business Ties Have Put America In A Bind" will be on the cover and the story will tell how Trump is being pressured by Turkey. Eichenwald has gone full throttle into Trump while he was a candidate and what the President-elect is dragging into the political field from his business life including his active business ties with foreign governments and his alleged breaking of the Cuban embargo through his business. Maddow reports that as of tomorrow Eichenwald is about to publish new allegations that in at least one case a foreign government may have already taken action to threaten the private business interests of the President-elect as a way of getting something that that foreign government wants from the United States government. This is a serious allegation.

Background on the Beginning Of The Conflict

It starts with out with a project called Trump Towers, a twin building complex in Turkey. Trump did not build the towers but is being paid a lot of money to let them use his name on the buildings. The buildings were built by a company called Dogan. The son-in-law of the founder of Dogan, who now has a key operational role since the founder, the patriarch, has moved into semi-retirement. The son-in-law had the biggest role in building these towers in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Hook - How Trump Snared Himself

Now the story. The day after our election one of the world leaders that called President-elect Trump was the President of Turkey. One of the strange things reported about that "congratulatory" call was that Trump brought up by name, that executive from the Dogan company. The key guy on the Trump Towers business deal. He not only brought up that executives name but indeed praised him repeatedly to the President of Turkey while he was taking this "congratulatory" call. Now Newsweek reports that Turkey has now figured out how to turn that into a advantage and put America over a barrel.

The Line - Action Is Taken By Turkey

On December 1st the top representative of the Dogan company got arrested in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, by the Turkish police. Our President-elect chose to use that congratulatory call from the Turkish President to tell him how important that company was to him and named the specific executives and look what happened. "On December 1, authorities detained Barbaros Murtgl, a 28-year veteran of Dogan who was the company's representative to Ankara, the Turkish capital." Newsweek reports that "a senior Dogan executive is detained on threadbare allegations." The Turkish President says that the executive, and the founder of the company, were tied to the coup attempt that happened this past summer.

The Sinker - What Turkey's Play Is To Get What They Want

The Turkey government desperately wants a Turkish Imam that lives here in the United States, in Pennsylvania. He is a legal U.S. resident and Turkey wants him extradited so they can lame him for the coup attempt. Until now the U.S. government has said no. They have been fighting for his extradition since the coup attempt occurred. But what if you can squeeze the personal financial interests of the United States President? The Trump family stand to make millions of dollars from their relationship with the Dogan company. Newsweek reports "If Erdogan's (the Turkish President) government puts more pressure on the company that's paying millions of dollars to Trump and his children, revenue flowing from the tower complex in Istanbul could be cut off. That means Erdogan has leverage with Trump, who will soon have the power to get Gulen (the Imam living in Pennsylvania) extradited." The financier with contacts in the Turkish government explained the dynamic to Newsweek: "Erdogan has something he believes Trump wants (money,) and Trump has someone Erdogan desperately wants." As Newsweek puts it Trump has business interests in Istanbul, those personal business interests appear to be getting squeezed by the Turkish government to try to get the United States of America to do what Turkey wants. That is the explosive claim, among others that the Newsweek plans to publish tomorrow.

Change Of Plans On That Announcement About How He Plans To Deal With Business Conflicts

Trump announced last week that he was going to "reveal" his plan on how he was going to "deal with" his business interests. That long planned announcement has been postponed late tonight, indefinitely. It's starting!

How Big Is Our Mental Health Problem? Do YOU Believe The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Was Nothing More Than A Big Hoax? Do YOU Believe The Stock Market Has Gone Down and that Unemployment Has Gone Up Since Obama Took Office? YOU May Need A Checkup!

2016-12-11T17:32:00.000-05:00

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 11, 2016

Blame Whatever, Fake News, the Internet, Stupidity, or Mental Illness, People Are Gullible and We Are All Going To Suffer The Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Created By Dumb Ass People!

Personally I think mental illness is far more out of control than just the issues involving mentally ill people being able to purchase firearms legally. I look at our last election and see that of the people who voted for Trump over 60% think the unemployment has gone UP since President Obama took office, it hasn't, it went from 7.8% to 4.9%. Those same voters think the stock market has gone DOWN! Really?! It was just above 7,000 when he took office and is now above 19,000! What universe are these people living in? It must be one that houses the mentally ill. Really. Here's an Update on President Obama's Numbers from FactCheck.org as of July 2016, know that as of today the stock market is above 19,000! Here are 14 facts about President Obama's achievements that most people don't know. Although the post is from a source I don't know all 14 facts are indeed verifiable. 14 Facts About Obama's Presidency Most People Don't Know .

Then we have those Trump supporters/voters who actually believe, and do NO research whatsoever, people like Alex Jones of "InfoWars" notability and Stephen Bannon, who was heading up Breitbart, a right-wing, conspiracy theory website that is funded by Trump's number one supporter and contributor, that totally fabricates stories, I should say "theories" that have no basis in reality whatsoever. President-Elect Donald Trump's very first appointment after winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote by more that 2.5 million as of today, was Stephen Bannon as his "Chief White House Strategist and Senior Counselor."

The Monsters Attacking Sandy Hook Families Are The Worst Of Us

By Bob Owens December 9, 2016 BearingArms.com

"In the latest episode over the proliferation of fake news and the people who believe it, a Tampa woman who thinks the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, CT was staged has been charged with threatening a parent of one of the slain children." Read more .

And for all of those who think that the massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT, where 20 elementary school children and 6 teachers and administrators were killed, was nothing more than a massive hoax, I don't believe we have the proper treatment for them.

Why Won't Donald Trump Denounce Sandy Hook Deniers?

By William Finnegan November 22, 2016 The New Yorker

"In the rank confusion of Donald Trump's preparations to assume power, there are some decisions that look as if they should be easy. Last week, Erica Lafferty wrote the President-elect an open letter asking him to cut ties with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Lafferty is the daughter of Dawn Hochsprung, who was the Principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, CT. On December 14, 2012 Hochsprung was shot to death trying to stop Adam Lanza who murdered 20 children and five other adults at the school, in addition to his mother, earlier that day, before killing himself. Jones who is based in Austin, TX, who runs a radio show and Web site called InfoWars has repeatedly argued that the mass shooting at Sandy Hook was a hoax, that it was staged by the government and performed by paid actors. Jones and many of his fans contend that the government has orchestrated a number of mass shootings and national tragedies including the September 11th terror attacks and the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, but their Sandy Hook denial has a particular cruelty. They actually seem to make special efforts to torment the bereaved."

"I invite him to my town," Lafferty said, speaking of Jones, when I called her last week. "Invite him to my family dinners. Come sit in my mother's empty seat. If they want to tell me that she's still alive, show me. Nothing would make me happier. Show me where she's sitting on some island sipping a drink."

How hard for the incoming President of the United States to disavow this ugliness? Reince Priebus who will soon be President Trump's Chief of Staff told CNN last week "It's really important all Americans understand that he is a president for everyone." Does Priebus understand where his new boss has positioned himself among the grieving, doubly victimized families of Newtown?" Read more .

Obama's Accomplishments To Spite The Unprecedented Obstruction To Be Undone

On January 20, 2009 President Obama took office, 700,000 jobs PER MONTH were being lost. Republicans met a couple miles away from the inauguration ceremonies in a hotel conference room and swore they would oppose and block everything and anything the new president wanted to do. To spite them he actually saved the auto industry and one-and-a-half million jobs in that one act. He did get 20 million Americans healthcare against tremendous obstruction and after he did Republicans spent over $7M of taxpayer money voting to repeal "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" dubbed "Obamacare." The Republicans spent that money voting to repeal the law no less than 54 times knowing for a fact that it would never be signed by the President. They didn't care they were wasting YOUR money, at all, acting like children, while being paid $175,000/yr and more, and given a platinum healthcare plan for themselves.

400 Obama Accomplishments So Far With Citations

In 2008, we elected the most progressive president in history. And regardless of the negativity, when you actually look at the record, there has been a lot of progress since January 20, 2009. If you’ll recall, when he took over the reins of power, the economy was in free-fall and we were practically a world laughingstock. That is no longer the case.

Here is a list of many of President Obama’s accomplishments as President. Every one of them has a citation, so no one can dismiss them out of hand, although many have tried since I started to compile this list Even with the obstacles we gave him, especially the Republican Congress, this President will leave behind a wonderful legacy. Read more .

In Summary

I don't know how many believers, supporters, voters, gullible people that voted for Trump, or voted for a third party candidate, or people who didn't vote at all, or the Democrats themselves like Hillary Clinton and the other conspirators like Debbie Wassermann-Schultz that conspired to beat Bernie Sanders, know how much damage they've done by electing someone who 1) never really wanted the job of President; 2) has no clue on what the job is or the requirements of it; 3) is going to operate in a way to make himself even richer by using the office (he is already doing this); 4) is a racist; 5) a misogynist; 6) an enormous egomaniac; 7) a narcissist that needs to be fed regularly (just look at his unprecedented "Thank You" rallies; 8) has so much hate in his heart that he appoints a white supremacist, neo-Nazi to be his Chief Strategist; 9) Picks someone that runs a large oil corporation and has some 40 active lawsuits against the EPA, and denies climate change to be the head of the EPA; 10) Picks a CEO of a corporation that is the parent company for hamburger chains; Carl's Jr., Hardees, in which the Dept. of Labor investigated and found that MORE THAN HALF of those restaurants were violating hour-wage labor laws; 11) picks a neurosurgeon that has never run a company much less a government or any other kind of agency to be the head of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after he has made numerous derogatory remarks about urban developments; and I can keep going on and on, and he's not even sworn in yet.

The person you all are responsible for getting elected has already shown he doesn't know what he's doing. He had the Prime Minister of Japan coming to meet with him and that Prime Minister had to put out in public, because foreign leaders didn't have any contact information, the day before they were supposed to meet, that they didn't know where or when they were actually supposed to meet him. The Prime Minister didn't find out until he was already "wheels up" in Japan. The person that arranged and took a call from the leader of Taiwan which we (America) haven't recognized as a government since 1979 aggravating a diplomatic precedent we have with China. Who at the time of the Japan Prime Minister's visit hadn't even contacted the Pentagon or the State department. A man whose entire team was surprised that they were going to have to fill 4,000 positions within the government. A man who has still not filled many of the positions needed to run the government and the country, so much so that people in those positions are asking what they should do if January 20th comes and no one has shown up to trained. What they should do with all their files and such.

You can't fix stupidity, I just hope that this country is not beyond repair when this reality show ends.

I Once Thought What We Needed In The White House Was A Businessman Too, But Not This One

2016-11-20T17:06:00.000-05:00

"I'll Surround Myself By The Best And Smartest People Ever" He Said - But He's Already Proved He's Not Capable Of Doing That Either


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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, Sunday, November 20, 2016

(UPDATED: 7:57PM November 20, 2016)

I Too Thought The Best Thing To Straighten Out Government Would Be To Put A Businessman In The White House, But Never This One

During the Reagan years I was in the top 5% of income in the country. I thought Ronald Reagan was the best thing since sliced bread, voted for him twice. Then I got smart, and informed. Over the years many, many things, came to light and I started to see, and understand, how much damage he did to the country. Not the least of which was his "Trickle- Down-Economics" aka "Reaganomics" which didn't work and has been proven not to work numerous times since his days in office. Republicans still call themselves "Job Creators" and say trickle-down-economics is what the country needs but that is just what Republicans do, ignore facts and keep lying over and over, no matter how many times it's been disproved. Unfortunately what Republicans think, is true all to often, that is, if you say something enough times in the media people will believe it no matter how false it is. Ask Republicans, especially Myron Ebell, who President-Elect Donald Trump appointed as head of the EPA Transition Team. "Ebell, who is not a scientist, has long questioned the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is fueling unprecedented global warming." See: Trump taps climate-change skeptic to oversee EPA transition below

The details of how "good" a businessman the President-Elect has been, as portrayed in the media over the last eighteen months, are far from businessman of the year and more like a scam artist cheating everyone he enters into a deal with. Although he has had 3,500 legal actions including 4 bankruptcies that he brags about where he "got hundreds of millions out of those casinos" but left all the contractors, lenders, investors, and employees to sustain the loses. Republicans call him "a genius" for not paying taxes for 18 years and hiring small contracting companies to do work on his properties and simply deciding not to pay them and use his giant staff of lawyers to delay court proceedings knowing the small companies will not be able to continue paying the legal fees and therefore have to drop the lawsuits they bring to get paid for the work they did.

When Trump Was Challenged By An Interviewer About Having Zero Experience In Government, Policy Making, Domestic and Foreign Policy, I Thought He Gave A Great Businessman Answer: "I'll Surround Myself By The Best And Smartest People" - But He's Already Proved He's Not Capable Of Doing That Either

Myron Ebell Appointed to Head Transition of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

In a Washington Post article on November 11, 2016 Trump taps climate-change skeptic to oversee EPA transition the Post reported "The man planning how a Trump administration can obliterate Obama’s environmental legacy is Myron Ebell, a Washington fixture who has long been a cheerful warrior against what he sees as an alarmist, overzealous environmental movement that has used global warming as a pretext for expanding government."

"President-elect Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the regulations it has put out under President Obama are “a disgrace.” He has vowed to roll back Obama’s signature effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, known as the Clean Power Plan, and to scrap a litany of other “unnecessary” rules, especially those imposed on the oil, gas and coal sectors."

In a November 17, 2016 post Media Matters for America: CNN’s Jake Tapper Exposes Trump Adviser Myron Ebell As Industry-Funded Climate Change Denier they show a video from the November 16 edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper. The video is of President-Elect Donald Trump saying he will end the EPA, as well as comments from Myron Ebell and others.

November 16, 2016 CNN's Gregory Krieg reports in an article: Climate change worries escalate as Trump elevates top deniers that Trump's ascendance is threatening not to simply undo a series of already tenuous international agreements, but give a boost to interests opposed to fossil fuel regulation, while amplifying voices who express doubt -- or outright deny -- that climate change is real, . The many worries about Myron Ebell as well as numerous concerns including how Donald Trump doesn't understand what a "blind trust" is and says he is going to have his children run his business.

Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who will serve as Trump's chief strategist and counsel

Here are some Stephen Bannon quotes:

ON RACISM / ANTI-SEMITISM:

-- In an interview with Mother Jones in August, Bannon acknowledged that white nationalists and anti-Semites are drawn to the so-called “alt-Right” movement.
“Look, are there some people that are white nationalists that are attracted to some of the philosophies of the alt-right? Maybe,” he said. “Are there some people that are anti-Semitic that are attracted? Maybe. Right? Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that’s just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain elements.” (Mother Jones, August 2016)

ON WOMEN:

-- In a 2011 radio interview, Bannon had a hypothesis about why progressive women vilify prominent conservative women like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement,” he said, according to BuzzFeed. “That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.” (Political Vindication Radio, 2011)

READ MORE from CBS NEWS: Quotes from Steve Bannon, Trump's new White House chief strategist

The American Prospect article A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables by Adele M. Stan

November 18, 2016 calls Trump's picks "A frightening array of Islamophobes, xenophobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists is assembling around President-elect Trump, normalizing the language and actions of hatred." They say of Stephen Bannon being picked "Most notable among them is Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who will serve as Trump’s chief strategist. As Breitbart’s head honcho, Bannon told journalist Sarah Posner that he fashioned the website as “the platform for the alt-right,” the once-fringy movement that encompasses white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and hate-mongering conspiracy theorists."

The American Prospect article also had these accounts of picks by President-Elect Donald Trump:

Senator Jeff Sessions (R- AL) for Attorney General

"Sessions [Senator Jeff Sessions (R- AL) picked for Attorney General ] was denied Senate confirmation for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of allegations that he addressed a black attorney as “boy,” and said he was OK with the Ku Klux Klan except for the fact that its members smoked marijuana."

Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn for National Security Advisor

"The night before the Sessions [Senator Jeff Sessions (R- AL)] appointment was announced, Trump appointed retired [Lt.] General Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser, a post that does not require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Flynn, according to The New York Times, has advanced the false narrative that Sharia law—a religious code adhered to by Muslims—is being written into U.S. law. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes Flynn as an adviser to ACT for America, an anti-Islam group that SPLC describes as convening and annual “racist gathering.”"

"In February, Flynn tweeted, “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.” The new national security adviser is said to be considering a plan that would require all Muslims in the United States to register with the government—an idea also pushed by Trump adviser Kris Kobach, who currently serves as the Kansas secretary of state. (On Thursday, Carl Higbie, who runs a pro-Trump super PAC, told Megyn Kelly of Fox News that the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II provided legal precedent for such a registry.) It was Kobach who fashioned the language used by Trump during the campaign for building a wall on the southern border, and making Mexico pay for it. Kobach was also the mastermind of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, the law that empowers police to demand proof of citizenship from anyone, anytime."

Read much more on Flynn, the KKK, and "The FBI just released its annual compendium of hate-crime incidents for the year 2015, finding a marked uptick—a 67 percent increase—in hate crimes against Muslims." in The American Prospect article A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables by Adele M. Stan from November 18, 2016.

Here are the people whose names have been floated for Trump’s Cabinet (from The Washington Post):

The Washington Post has put together a comprehensive graphic showing who is being considered for many of the important posts that the Trump transition team needs to fill in this post that was updated November 18, 2016 at 8:38PM EDT Here are the people whose names have been floated for Trump’s Cabinet. This very informative graphic was found in another post by the Washington Post Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director "President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, a pair of hard-line conservatives who offer early signs of the shape of Trump’s Cabinet."

"South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), appearing at a Federalist Society convention in Washington, did not mention Trump’s nominees in her remarks. But Haley, whose parents immigrated from India, urged the Republican Party to remind the public that it is the party who will offer opportunities “to all citizens, regardless of their race, gender or where they are born and raised.”"

"Pompeo, 52, was elected to the House in 2010 as part of the first wave of so-called tea party lawmakers. A U.S. Military Academy and Harvard Law School graduate, he has a varied background. He served as a U.S. Army cavalry officer before founding an aerospace company, serving as president of an oil-field equipment manufacturing firm and — in a brief, little-known chapter of his early career — was an attorney with the Washington, D.C. mega-law firm Williams and Connolly."

"Pompeo is a vocal critic of President Obama’s nuclear accord with Iran. “I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism,” he tweeted Thursday, before his offer to become CIA director was public."

For a Laugh Check Out Samantha Bee Digging through Trump's Picks

The Week posted "Samantha Bee Digs Through Donald Trumps "nightmare" Cabinet List, Looking For Less Bad News" where they take a look at what Samantha Bee did on her last "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" show. She looked at Donald Trump's real and prospective picks for top advisers and cabinet positions.You can see her performance in two parts on Youtube:

New Cabinet Installation: Part 1 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

and

New Cabinet Installation: Part 2 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

Well the transition goes on with more and more proof that the Donald Trump that campaigned IS going to build a cabinet and attempt to institute much of the shocking, racist, misogynistic, hate mongering, and divisiveness in his presidency. I was asked to "give him a chance" and I did. I planned to give him more time but with the picks he has made the message is clear and won't be changing anytime soon. So, brace for impact, volunteer with established organizations, donate to those organizations that have a proven track record of fighting for all our rights. Don't get silent! CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES on EACH issue that is important to you! Flooding their e-mails and phone lines have more of an effect than you might think. Use the links below to FIND, CONTACT and TRACK YOUR Representatives:

How to Find and Contact your Representatives

To FIND, and CONTACT, your State Senators, Assemblyperson, and other Local Legislators enter your Address and Zip Code at:

OpenStates.org
(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are in the State Legislature and across all states at this site.)

To FIND, and CONTACT, your U.S. Congressperson enter your Zip Code at:

House.gov

To FIND, and CONTACT, your U.S. Senators enter your Zip Code at:

Senate.gov

(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are in the U.S. Senate, and much more about the U. S, Senate at this site.)

To TRACK your Congressperson, Senators, Legislative Bills, Voting Records of your Representatives, go to:

GovTrack.us

Other very useful sites are:

POPVOX VoteSmart and PolitiFact (to check Facts about things you hear and see from Politicians.)

Let's Look At Some of the Ways Republicans are Cheating, Lying, Passing Laws, and Ignoring Court Rulings on Laws That Have Been Ruled Unconstitutional

2016-11-04T11:48:00.002-04:00

Let's Look At Some of the Ways Republicans are Cheating, Lying, Passing Laws, and Ignoring Court Rulings on Laws That Have Been Ruled Unconstitutional After They Sign Them Into Law

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder, November 4, 2016

Photo by: CartoonStoc

Gerrymandering, Voter (Suppression) ID Laws, Voter Intimidation, Posting Incorrect Information Ignoring Court Rulings, Cutting Early Voting Places in Low-Income or Minority Areas, SuperPACS Telling People To Stay Home and Vote By Texting "Hillary" to a Number (That Is Not Possible), and MUCH, MUCH, More!

Photo by: All That Is Interesting

Gerrymandering:

Republican Governors and Republican-Controlled State Legislatures redraw the lines of voting districts that all but assure that Republicans will win, even when there are many more votes for the Democratic candidate. How Gerrymandering works and the current legal battles since the U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission in Arizona State Legislature v Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission On June 29, 2015 the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court was made, siding with the Independent Commission. But that doesn't, by itself, end gerrymandering. Any state that doesn't have an "Independent Commission" to redraw the voting district lines fairly have to petition and get a proposition on their General Election ballot to form, and authorize, an Independent Commission. You can be certain that the 31 states currently controlled by Republican Legislatures and Governors will not only fight this decision but in fact, like other actual laws, ignore it. Here is the latest on legal battles involving gerrymandering. And finally from North Carolina: The ‘smoking gun’ proving North Carolina Republicans tried to disenfranchise black voters.

Photo by: Madison.com

Voter (suppression) ID Laws

The aforementioned 31 Republican-controlled State Legislatures and/or states with Republican Governors have been busy creating, passing, and signing into law so-called Voter ID laws are supposedly to combat "Voter Fraud." The problem here is that the Republicans themselves conducted an investigation that found only 31 instances out of 1 BILLION votes were found. So all these laws are to prevent/discourage a problem that DOESN'T exist. They are actually being written and passed to discourage, suppress, and intimidate voters. Voters from low-income areas, minority voters, and the like. Many have been found to be extremely racist and in fact unconstitutional. Here are articles on Texas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and more states that have had their laws knocked down. This is just one article showing why laws were deemed unconstitutional. This is a Google search showing numerous results on Voter ID laws being shown to be racist and/or unconstitutional. Even after laws are determined to not be valid Republican Governors refuse to stop using the tactics that they had written into those laws! Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act Court Rules, Here, GOP voting restrictions struck down in three states. And finally, In the past two weeks, judges have ruled against voter-ID laws and other limits on voting in five states. In Wisconsin the State was told to provide free-voting-ID's but choose to lie to potential voters instead. Recordings show Wisconsin DMV workers giving wrong info on voter ID cards.

Photo by: The Moderate Voice

Cutting Early Voting Times and Locations

Republican Governors are cutting early voting times and locations IN MINORITY and LOW-INCOME areas! In one instance this is how it works: North Carolina early-voting cuts could dampen black vote. " County boards of elections have approved reducing early-voting hours in 23 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Another eight counties plan to end early voting on the Sunday before Election Day, when a huge number of African-American voters tend to go to the polls." Republicans are closing early voting sites and limiting times specifically to disenfranchise minorities. Black Turnout Soft in Early Voting, Boding Ill for Hillary Clinton. North Carolina politicians are openly racist in their Voter (suppression) ID laws, voting restrictions and early voting changes. Dozens of North Carolina counties slash early voting weeks before Election Day. "Lenoir County near North Carolina’s eastern shore is more than 40 percent black, and there are more than double the number of registered Democrats than Republicans. But its Board of Elections is controlled by white Republicans, who recently voted to slash the number of early voting sites from four to one, and only open that location during weekday businesses hours and a couple of hours on Saturday morning."

Ignore the Trolls: You Definitely Cannot Vote Via Text

America’s electoral system is already kind of a mess. Now, Twitter trolls are doing their best to make it even more confusing by spreading disinformation about how to cast a ballot on election day. The latest example: Donald Trump supporters are spreading memes on Twitter in both English and Spanish, trying to trick Hillary Clinton supporters into thinking they can vote by text.

Don’t fall for them. There’s no such thing as voting by text.

NO! YOU CAN'T VOTE VIA A TEXT MESSAGE!

Fake ads are being spread throughout the internet and signs to be used where there are lines to vote are being spread. Photo by: LawNewz

VOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, AT YOUR POLLING PLACE!

ANY QUESTIONS ON WHO AND WHERE TO VOTE GO TO:

http://www.canivote.org/

https://www.vote.org/

https://www.usa.gov/election-day

Also find actual ELECTION LAWS AT:

https://www.usa.gov/election-day

Updates on Military Benefits From Military.com, The Military's Largest Benefit Update

2016-10-13T16:31:00.001-04:00

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor October 25, 2016

Updates on Military Benefits From Military.com

OCTOBER 24

	TRICARE to Expand Coverage
	AF Approves Turkey Incentive Pay
	3,000+ Aerospace & IT Jobs Hiring Vet Talent
	Arrests Made in TRICARE Rx Kickback Scheme
	SGLI/VGLI Enough? Get $100k Coverage from $7 a Month
	Free Online Course Expanded to Veteran Spouses
	100 Cities/100 Memorials

	Army Debuts New Combat Tourniquet
	Lock in Your Low Rate Before It's Too Late
	American Legion Offers Scholarship

	California Guardsmen Ordered to Pay Back Bonuses: Report
	Care Packages for Women Veterans in Michigan
	AF Issues Transgender Policy Guidance

	Ready to Join or Reenlist? Get Up to $50k Bonuses
	Top 3 VA Home Loan Tips
	Donate Suits for Service Members

	Free Legal Clinic in Texas
	Pay $0 Co-Pays & Rx Costs with a TRICARE Supplement
	Health Care Focused Virtual Career Fair
	MARSOC Chooses Glock 19s over .45s for Raiders
	No FluMist Available Through TRICARE for 2016
	Motor Homes for Homeless Vets
	Navy Adds Two Special Warfare Courses
	Moment of Silence on Veterans Day
	Navy to Offer Free Child Care to Overcharged Parents
	SecDef Ash Carter to Speak at VOWS Symposium
	Navy Shifts to SMART Tracker System
	Specially Adapted Housing Grants Increase
	Navy Chief to Sailors: You Have a Voice in Ratings Overhaul
	VA Office Helps Veterans in Small Business
	Navy Officers Can Apply for MIT Program
	Well-Child Visits Now Covered under TRICARE Policy
	Women Veterans and Disability
	VA Home Loans
	Headline Military News

TRICARE to Expand Coverage TRICARE is adding new services and screenings. Effective Jan.1, 2017, TRICARE will cover annual preventive office visits for all Prime beneficiaries 6 years of age and older. Read More

AF Approves Turkey Incentive Pay Active-duty Airmen assigned to Turkey between Aug. 29, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2018, may be eligible for incentive pay. Read More

3,000+ Aerospace & IT Jobs Hiring Vet Talent Looking for a career in IT or aerospace? Search over 3,000 jobs from top employers looking to hire veteran talent. Read More

Arrests Made in TRICARE Rx Kickback Scheme Federal agents have charged a dozen defendants with fraud and conspiracy in a kickback scheme involving compound drugs and TRICARE. Read More

SGLI/VGLI Enough? Get $100k Coverage from $7 a Month Is SGLI enough? VGLI too much? Don't take a chance on your family's future. Read More

Free Online Course Expanded to Veteran Spouses Military spouses and caregivers can access one free course within any given specialization with online learning portal Coursera. Read More

100 Cities/100 Memorials A new program will help people across the country restore and preserve local World War I memorials. Read More

Army Debuts New Combat Tourniquet Makers of the Combat Application Tourniquet have updated the design. The update has resulted in two different versions of the tourniquet currently in use in the field. Read More

Lock in Your Low Rate Before It's Too Late Rates are at a 4-month high. Qualified borrowers can pay as little as $0 down and have no PMI payments. Read More

American Legion Offers Scholarship The Samsung American Legion Scholarship is available for high school juniors who are direct descendants of wartime veterans. Read More

California Guardsmen Ordered to Pay Back Bonuses: Report The U.S. Defense Department is ordering almost 10,000 one-time National Guardsmen from California to pay back enlistment bonuses. Read More

Care Packages for Women Veterans in Michigan A chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution is packing beauty bags full of toiletries for women veterans in the state of Michigan. Read More

AF Issues Transgender Policy Guidance The Air Force recently released transgender implementation guidance addressing specific procedures for transitioning and requesting an official change in gender. Read More

Ready to Join or Reenlist? Get Up to $50k Bonuses Thinking of your next move? Enlist or continue your military career by reenlisting now, plus you may qualify for up to $50,000. Read More

Top 3 VA Home Loan Tips There are numerous advantages to having a VA mortgage. A VA mortgage loan can be guaranteed with no money down, in some cases up to $417,000. Read More

Donate Suits for Service Members The nationwide Suits for Soldiers program helps all active duty military personnel transition to civilian work and life. Read More

Free Legal Clinic in Texas The Jefferson County, Texas Bar Association will host a free clinic for veterans seeking legal advice or assistance. Read More

Pay $0 Co-Pays & Rx Costs with a TRICARE Supplement Doctor and hospital bills are expensive even when you're covered by TRICARE. Help eliminate out-of-pocket expenses. Read More

Health Care Focused Virtual Career Fair MOAA is hosting a free Virtual Career Fair tailored for military personnel and veterans seeking positions within the healthcare industry. Read More

MARSOC Chooses Glock 19s over .45s for Raiders Marine Corps Special Operations Command has decided to shelve its custom .45 pistols and outfit its elite Raiders with the Glock 19. Read More

No FluMist Available Through TRICARE for 2016 The intranasal flu vaccine known as FluMist will not be available at DoD facilities or covered by TRICARE during the 2016-17 influenza season. Read More

Motor Homes for Homeless Vets A California nonprofit group is seeking donations of RVs, motor homes,and more for homeless veterans to live in. Read More

Navy Adds Two Special Warfare Courses The Center for Sea, Air and Land and Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman (CENSEALSWCC) has added the Ground Force Commander Course (GFCC) and the Troop Leader Course (TLC). Read More

Moment of Silence on Veterans Day President Obama has signed a new law that calls on all Americans to pause voluntarily for two minutes to honor the sacrifice of veterans. Read More

Navy to Offer Free Child Care to Overcharged Parents The Navy is giving two weeks of free, full-time child care to some parents during November and December as well as up to a $10,000 MWR grant. Read More

SecDef Ash Carter to Speak at VOWS Symposium On November 1st, the Veterans on Wall Street (VOWS) coalition will be hosting their 6th annual veteran employment symposium. Read More

Navy Shifts to SMART Tracker System The LIMDU Sailor and Marine Readiness Tracker System (SMART) is replacing the Medical Evaluation Board System (MEDBOLTS) in managing the tracking of Temporary LIMDU (TLD). Read More

Specially Adapted Housing Grants Increase Maximum rates for specially adapted housing grants went up 10/1. For more details and for a guide to these grants, see Military.com's Special Adapted Housing FAQ. Read More

Navy Chief to Sailors: You Have a Voice in Ratings Overhaul Vice Adm. Robert Burke, the Chief of Naval Personnel, has written a commentary piece for Military.com about the Navy's rating modernization plan. Read More

VA Office Helps Veterans in Small Business VA's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) works with stakeholders to ensure that veteran-owned businesses have opportunities to be awarded contracts. Read More

Navy Officers Can Apply for MIT Program The MIT/WHOI Joint Program is open to qualified oceanography, submarine warfare and surface warfare officers looking to enhance their understanding of operational oceanography. Read More

Well-Child Visits Now Covered under TRICARE Policy Well-child visits for TRICARE users over age six, as well as physicals required for school admissions, will now be covered due to newly updated rules. Read More

Women Veterans and Disability Women veterans with disabilities or medical conditions incurred during military service may be eligible to receive tax-free monthly disability benefits. Read More

VA Home Loans Here are ten facts about the VA Home Loan Program: (1) there is no down payment and no mortgage insurance required; (2) you can use your VA Home Loan benefits as many times as you want. Read More

Big Pharma Lobbyist - Prescription Drug Bill Allow Drug Company To Charge Medicare/Medicaid $1,000.00/Pill For Drug That Cost $1.00 To Make

2016-10-13T16:31:00.000-04:00

Hepatitis C Drug Cost $1 to Make - Iliad Sciences Charges Medicare $1,000.00/Pill

Photo credit to KTTN/KGOZ Radio

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, October 13, 2016

Why Can't Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices

It started in 2003 when Medicare was expanded to include medications. George W. Bush and Republicans sold out to Big Pharma payoffs and forced the passing of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act. (aka the "Prescription Drug Bill.") The vote was unprecedented because as the vote was going on and the Republicans seen they might not have the votes to pass the bill, they held the vote open for hours. While holding the vote open for hours they "twisted the arms" of their own members by telling them that if they didn't vote to pass the bill the Republican Party would run someone against them in a primary in their next election. Once they got the required votes they quickly ended the voting.

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act
Citations

Long title	An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	Medicare Modernization Act or MMA
Public law	108 - 173
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003 by Representative Dennis J. Hastert on June 25, 2003 Passed the House on June 27, 2003 (216 - 215, 1 Present) Passed the Senate on July 7, 2003 (Unanimous Consent) Reported by the joint conference committee on November 21, 2003; agreed to by the House on November 22, 2003 (220 - 215) and by the Senate on November 25, 2003 (54 - 44) Signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 8, 2003 So Who Profited From The Bill? - And Who Lost? The Winners The biggest winner is obviously Big PharMa. After passage of the bill they could charge Medicare and Medicaid any price they wanted for a drug. A common heart medication that cost Medicare $234/yr immediately went to $1,600.00/yr. This went on right across the board. (From Wikipedia:) "W.J."Billy" Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee from 2001 until February 4, 2004 was one of the chief architects of the new Medicare law.^[6]^[7] In 2004 when Tauzin was appointed as chief lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade association and lobby group for the drug industry with a "rumored salary of $2 million a year,"^[6] drawing criticism from a Washington-based Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group." In fact, all 29 original sponsors of the bill, within 2 years of the bill passing, were either lobbying or directly working for a pharmaceutical company with a hefty salary. The Losers: Taxpayers Costs: The Republicans knew very well that passing this bill was going to give Big PharMa a gigantic windfall due to the fact that Medicare would not be able to negotiate drug prices even though they should have the biggest "buying power" on this earth and under-played what the cost would be. (From Wikipedia:) "Initially, the net cost of the program was projected at $400 billion for the ten-year period between 2004 and 2013. Administration official Thomas Scully instructed analyst Richard Foster not to tell Congress of Foster's finding that the cost would actually be over $500 billion. One month after passage, the administration estimated that the net cost of the program over the period between 2006 (the first year the program started paying benefits) and 2015 would be $534 billion.^[14] As of February 2009, the projected net cost of the program over the 2006 to 2015 period was $549.2 billion.^[15]^." In That Bill Was the Provision That Medicare and Medicaid Could NOT Negotiate Drug Prices The Veteran's Administration did well in refusing to give their right to negotiate drug prices away and was able to stay out of this. However Medicare and Medicaid had no choice and the Republicans gave that right away. "Through 2012, Medicare Part D added $318 billion to the national debt (see “General Revenue” on Page 111 in the 2013 Medicare trustees report). That same report projects that Medicare Part D will add $852 billion to the debt over the next 10 years." READ MORE: Medicare Part D: Republican Budget-Busting Former President George W. Bush LIED to Congress and the American public. " The Bush White House lied to Congress about the cost. Within two months of signing the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) into law, President Bush quietly informed Congress that the true cost of the program would be $550 billion, not $395 billion, over the next decade. When Medicare actuary Richard Foster sought to present the true price tag to Congress in late 2003, then agency chief Thomas Scully threatened to fire him. By the time the program was launched in 2006, the estimated 10 year price tag for the Medicare prescription plan had increased to $720 billion." To attack Obamacare, Republicans forget the lessons of Bush's Medicare reform

George W. Bush Lied to America About This Prescription Drug Bill Just As He Did About Iraq To Get Us Into War That Killed More Than 4,000 U.S. Troops - Only This Time It Was To Give Big Pharma and Republicans A Windfall!

From: Prescription Drug Bill: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Brookings

"The House voted first. At the end of the customary 15 minutes allocated for electronic voting, the bill seemed to be failing. The Republican leadership held open the voting for nearly three hours until they succeeded in arm-twisting a few G.O.P. opponents into switching their votes from nay to aye. A few Democrats were ready to shift their votes into the negative column, but their leadership failed to get them back to the floor in time, and the chair gaveled the vote closed. The bill passed the House by a single vote."

"The Democratic opposition was breathtakingly mismanaged. That hoary quip by Will Rogers—”I do not belong to any organized political party; I am a Democrat”—never seemed more apt."

"The bill indisputably and significantly deepens an already horrendous fiscal mess. Plausible projections indicate that over the decade 2005-2014 cumulative federal budget deficits will run to about $4.7 trillion. The Medicare bill will add just under $600 billion in that decade and $1.5 to $2 trillion in the succeeding decade, when deficits will explode. Closing these deficits would require either reneging on these benefits or enormous tax increases." READ MORE

The biggest thing that bothers me, there are many, is that 29 original Republican sponsors of this bill left public service and were given jobs by large pharmaceutical companies for payment, for getting this bill passed. It will cost taxpayers Trillions of dollars and individual Medicare recipients much more. The former President Bush outright lied, just like he did after sending Ambassador Joe Walsh overseas to find out if Iraq had purchased a large amount of material to biuld nuclear bombs. When Joe Walsh came back and told him there was no way that Iraq could have bought the materials former President Bush went on TV and to Congress and outright lied and said yes, they did make that purchase and we went to war. When Joe Walsh couldn't keep quiet about such a lie he went public and the Bush administration attacked him and his family. They first exposed his wife Valerie Plume as being a CIA operative which not only put her in danger but also many other CIA operatives, but they didn't care, they needed to stop him from telling the truth. You might remember Scooty Libby, a close friend to the one pulling all the strings Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney got very mad at Bush for not giving Libby a pardon in his conviction of what they did to Valeria Plume and Joe Walsh. Bush and Cheney were angry at each other ever since then, and never really put up with each other after that. Those 29 Republicans who sponsored the bill and took jobs with large pharmaceutical companies for payment for passing the "Prescription Drug Bill" all left public service within two years of passing the bill and are all making millions of dollars a year, while taxpayers and Medicare recipients are paying trillions of dollars for their injustice.

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Trump Serrogates Have An Impossible Job

2016-10-02T15:10:00.000-04:00

ATTENTION TRUMP SUPPORTERS WHO THINK TRUMP IS A "GREAT BUSINESSMAN" AND HAS PAID AT LEAST AS MUCH INCOME TAX AS YOU DID!

John A Smith, Founder/Editor, October 2, 016

Times Insider| The Time I Found Donald Trump’s Tax Records in My Mailbox

He reported on his income tax that he LOST nearly 1 BILLION DOLLARS operating casinos and Trump Airlines. WHAT "GREAT BUSINESSMAN" loses almost $1B operating (actually only $916M) CASINOS? He also lost money on Trump Magazine, Trump Steaks, and so many more. He is being investigated for the fraudulent Trump University where even the instructors at the university say it "was a total fraud." "We were taught to get every dollar every student had access to." These were hard-working, scraping by, people, who wanted to make themselves better and have a little better life. HOW COULD ANYONE SUPPORT THIS MAN TO BE PRESIDENT? His economic plan has been reviewed by ALL the top economist and one thing they all agree on is it will raise the deficit by $5T. It will give corporations and the richest 1/10th of 1% people in this country even bigger tax breaks than GWB did when he took from Social Security and raised the deficit while allowing the financial world to take most Americans retirement, homes, 401K's, etc. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is on all the Sunday news shows saying he (Trump) has a fiduciary responsibility to his investors to take those deductions on his $916 million dollar loss and NOT PAY A NICKEL IN INCOME TAX FOR 18 YEARS! The problem with what the terrible surrogate is saying is THESE ARE "PERSONAL" INCOME TAXES, NOT BUSINESS TAXES!!! There are NO investors! We're talking about "PERSONAL" INCOME TAXES! Trump didn't pay personal income taxes for 18 years because he is such a TERRIBLE BUSINESSMAN that he LOST $916 million dollars operating casinos. Who does that?

FOX NEWS: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/02/report-claims-trump-declared-916m-loss-on-1995-income-tax-returns.html

BLOOMBERG: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-02/trump-had-916-million-loss-in-95-cutting-tax-bills-nyt-says

CNN: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-02/trump-had-916-million-loss-in-95-cutting-tax-bills-nyt-says

THE HILL: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298853-report-trump-declared-a-916m-loss-in-1995-tax-returns

And the resources go on and on. So PLEASE, THOSE WHO SUPPORT TRUMP ON THE IDEA HE IS A "GREAT BUSINESSMAN," "WILL HELP THE MIDDLE CLASS", "WILL FIX THIS COUNTRY'S INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMY," PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT A MAN THAT SAYS HE WILL FIX ALL THIS COUNTRIES PROBLEMS AND MAKE BILLIONAIRES "PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE BECAUSE IT'S JUST WRONG THAT THEY DON'T," IF HE DIDN'T PAY A NICKEL IN PERSONAL INCOME TAXES FOR 18 YEARS BECAUSE OF CLAIMING A $916M BUSINESS LOSS OPERATING CASINOS?

Surrogates Impossible Job is Evident On Sunday News Shows


Chris Christie and Rudolph Giuliani, Photo credit: indypendent.org

It's evident that Donald J Trump, Republican Presidential Candidate, has given his surrogates no way to defend him. This week has been disastrous for the campaign and the candidate. When actual "scientific" polls (which most Republicans won't recognize because they don't recognize "Science" or "Climate Change" to be a real thing) came out after Wednesday the polls clearly show that by a margin of 2-1 most Americans feel Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton won the debate. In the meantime Trump was attacking a Former "Miss Universe" Alicia Machado for gaining weight after being chosen for the title. Days later after the debate he started a Twitter rant at about 3:00AM that lasted until about 5:00AM and included that there was a sex tape that the former Miss Universe was involved in that turned out to be yet another totally fabricated LIE! Now after stating at his campaign "rallies" that "Millionaires and Billionaires must pay their fair share," The New York Times received a copy of part of his 1995 tax return showing he claimed a $916M business loss which could mean he didn't pay ANY personal income taxes for 18 years. Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) a Advisor/Surrogate who has his own problems because in the case against the people closest to him in his Governors office (at the time) defend themselves for closing a lane on the George Washington Bridge as payback to the Fort Lee, NJ Mayor for not endorsing him in his re-election campaign for Governor. They caused horrendous traffic jams for days, they said it was a traffic study, a lie, there was testimony that he indeed WAS aware of the plans and execution of the payback plan. A conference call was played in court this week of which the Governor was on, talking about executing the plan. Surrogate Christie on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace said "there's no one who has showed more genius about how to manipulate around the terrible tax code." Christie says the article didn't say Trump didn't pay any taxes for 18 years, so this is "a good story for Trump." Chris Wallace points out that the campaigns response was a non-denial denial that they said Trump has a "Fiduciary responsibility... to pay no more tax than is legally required." The first problem with that is that the campaign is NOT denying he didn't pay any personal income tax for 18 years. The second problem is what they gave to the surrogates to use is in fact NOT TRUE! They are saying he has a "fiduciary responsibility" to not pay more taxes then he should, yes, IN BUSINESS TAXES, NOT PERSONAL INCOME TAXES. There is no "fiduciary responsibility" to any investors nor anyone, in your PERSONAL TAXES. As stated earlier, Donald Trump's surrogates have absolutely no way to defend him. One final note, in addition to Trump totally fabricating a "sex tape" claim (that doesn't exist) starring the Former Miss Universe, today, Trump has, without ANY evidence, as usual, has stated that "who knows if Hillary has been faithful to Bill?" WTF?! He has no boundaries for his outlandish, outrageous, lies.

Hillary is One of the Worst Presidential Candidates in USA History But Still Is Not As Dangerous As A Trump Presidency


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Let me be clear from the beginning, I am not "for" nor do I "like" Hillary Clinton and think she is one of the most absolute worst presidential candidates in history, but I'm not willing to put the most dangerous, sociopath, unknowing, racist, Islamophobic, unwilling to learn what is needed to be president, into the presidency. She is a pathological liar (like Trump) that lies in the media even after her lies had been totally disproved. She totally disrespected all Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporters when she immediately "promoted" Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, Former Chairperson of the DNC after an e-mail hack showed that the Democratic Nation Committee (DNC) had indeed conspired against the Sanders campaign. She has committed crimes that anyone else would be in prison for with her lies and "excessive carelessness" with her illegal use of a personal e-mail server and how she said she wanted to use "only one device" and in fact not only used 13 different devices, but destroyed the ones with the really bad stuff, with hammer! But, she will be elected and we can watch her like a hawk, hold her to what Bernie Sanders made her put into the Democratic Platform," and she will, with her experience in government, and how it works, WILL get at least some things done for Americans whom have been paying dearly since the 2008-2009 financial crises created by the greedy, corporations, financial CEO's and Executives, and Republican politicians, that are bought and paid for, like Hillary herself, because she will be being watched like a hawk. Donald Trump didn't know what the "Nuclear Triad" was, so his campaign got him one of the most respected experts on nuclear weaponry in the world for a one-hour "teaching" session. During that session he actually asked the expert, THREE TIMES, "If we have nuclear weapons, why haven't we used them?" REALLY?! This man is way to dangerous to be the President of the United States. He again this week showed that he can't help himself when someone says something he doesn't like, keeping up the attacks on the former Miss Universe and starting a Twitter attack between the hours of 3:00AM through 5:00AM instead of letting it die. He has NO real policies that will work, nor will he be able to implement them as he has no idea of how bills are actually created and passed.

I hope this clears up whether I'm "for" or "like" Hillary Clinton and why I think it is a must that we don't allow Donald Trump into the White House. As he said himself he'll "get to Washington, DC one way or another," referring to his new hotel built out of the old post office. Let him get to Washington, DC by staying at the hotel where he called a press conference where he "played" the news media promising an apology on keeping the birther issue alive for 5 years past when President Barack Obama produced his long form birth certificate and then spent all of 39 seconds saying "President Barack Obama was born in the United States" and attempted to talk about his hotel for the rest of the hour-and-a-half.

This election is too important for many reasons. We need to take back some of the 31 states that have a Republican-controlled Governorship or State-controlled Legislatures. These states are gerrymandering the voting district lines to assure a Republican wins before a single vote is cast, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of states having an "Independent Council" draw the voting district lines, signing into law unconstitutional Voter (obstruction) ID Laws, and many more laws that the very constituents of theirs are totally against. We have to get the Senate and the House to where we have Congress that will work together to actually get things done. We can no longer afford to be obstructed and not moving forward. The United States Supreme Court, to have Congress block President Obama's nominee for a replacement for the late Anthony Scalia to even get a single hearing, much less a vote, for more than a year is unbelievable disrespect for the American people who voted them in to do a job, which they have been absolutely refusing to do. Why are we paying them $175,000 and giving them a platinum healthcare plan for doing absolutely NOTHING?!

We need to fire ALL the politicians that are not acting in the best interests of their constituents, period!

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Like It Or Not - Someone Is Going To Be Voted as the Next President of the United States on November 8, 2016

2016-09-27T11:24:00.001-04:00

NBC photo at 1st 2016 Presidential Debate

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder, September 27, 2016

Trump Started Strong

Initially it appeared that whatever little preparation Donald Trump did with his campaign staff was working, like he was reading from a teleprompter. He addressed trade and her never-ending e-mail problems. He definitely scored when he said that Hillary called TPP "the gold standard" before she was against it. PolitiFact live-fact-checking found her saying those exact words in an address over seas. He later kind of wasted his attack on her e-mails when he was answering the question from Lester Holt on why he wouldn't release his tax returns. First he said he would release his taxes after the audit is over (even though the IRS has put a statement out saying there is no reason he can't release his taxes because of the audit) and then immediately said "I've been under audit for the last 15 years" and then a moment later changed to "I'll release my taxes when Hillary releases the 33,000 deleted e-mails."

Then Trump Became Trump

Then, drinking a lot of water, sneering, interrupting, and not being able to stand still like a kindergarten child having to go to the bathroom, it became evident that he was uncomfortable and starting to lose his composure. Once their he put the fact checkers into overdrive as his lies multiplied, and he repeated things that everyone who doesn't live completely off-the-grid now know to be absolutely false, lies. For five years after President Obama produced his long form birth certificate Donald Trump continued using the birther ridiculousness to rile up his based because let's face it, it was the birther show and the "build a wall" promise that has been his core stance since day one of his candidacy and he was still using his birther lie as late as last week. Continuing to lie about being "opposed to the Iraq war long before it started" and "strongly opposed" to it also went over like a led balloon because anyone with any kind of instrument/device that allows you to hear, or see, heard him on Howard Stern say he guesses so as to whether we should invade Iraq. Drinking more water, making faces, fidgeting, and starting to interrupt with constant "wrong," "no," "I didn't say that," and making faces, signaled that he had arrived, in his parallel universe and would no longer be able to look , or sound, presidential.

Hillary Was Prepared

It's the American people who lose when during a debate like this the candidates don't lay out explicit plans they have to solve our problems and it was Hillary Clinton who won as far as having, and expressing, actual plans. Trump again said "you have no plan" about childcare, and again, she has had a thorough plan posted for an eternity. When she said "go to hillaryclinton.com to read it" he interjected "I do too, go to my website," he doesn't have any well thought out plans that actually have a chance of working. Like his economic plan that give the richest in the country big tax breaks, that experts say will increase the deficit from $20T to $25T and lose another 3.5 million jobs. You know, like the unpaid tax breaks to the rich that George W. Bush took over $800M from Social Security for and in addition exploded the deficit. Trump supporters aren't going anywhere because as their candidate said, he could walk down 5th Avenue and shoot someone and he wouldn't lose a single supporter. I get it, I understand, why people are angry, I'm angry, angry that all of the wealth and income is going to the top 1/10th of 1%, I'm angry that we have a Congress that obstructs everything for their own political gain, and greed, that we have infrastructure that is past deficient and we could be putting a lot of people into good paying jobs to start to rebuild that infrastructure. But Trump saying that he will fix it all doesn't mean he has any idea whatsoever that he knows how he would fix even the smallest problems. When asked about how he would deal with violence, race, and police and community relations, his answer is to implement "Stop & Frisk." Really?! Stop and Frisk in NYC had 9 million minorities stopped and frisked and only .2% of those stopped were found to be arrest-able. It was unconstitutional. And rightfully so. That is his great plan for how to change the poor relations between police and the community?

We Need Change

We need change, we need to stop the oligarchy, we need to get money out of politics and overturn Citizen's United with a constitutional amendment. We need to start putting CEO's in real prisons, for appropriate sentences. Look at the latest where Wells Fargo CEO enticed and showed over 12,000 employees how to steal money from their own customers accounts to open accounts that they never wanted or even knew bout. The stock went up because the CEO got his directive and each customer ended up with numerous accounts, his stock options increased in value by $200M because of the fraud, and he is going to be allowed to just walk away with the bank's customers money. Oh, and don't forget, he fired 5,300 of their employees to say he took care of "the problem." We need to fire all the Tea Party Republicans, Republicans and Democrats that follow the lobbyists requests for their own benefit, and all of the obstructionists that are refusing to do their jobs that we are paying them for. Not allowing President Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court to get an up/down vote, or even as much as a hearing is preposterous, and willful neglect for the job they swore they would perform and for the American people who voted them in.Let's get out and vote on November 8, 2016 and fire the establishment, give the next President a House and Senate that will work with the President, and get American going in the right direction at breakneck speed.

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Ann Coulter Flaunts Her Ignorance Again - RE: The Comedy Central Roast

2016-09-10T18:49:00.002-04:00

Ann Coulter Appears As Guest On Roast of Rob Lowe - BIG Mistake!

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John A. Smith Editor/Founder, September 10, 2016

The Price of Shamelessly Promoting Your Book; Ann Coulter

Way too high if you look at Ann Coulter's guest appearance on The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe. This past Monday, September 5, 2016, the roast of Rob Lowe aired but you would think it was a roast of Ann Coulter. She is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. This appearance on the roast is one she is going to regret for some time. Shortly after coming up to the lectern she propped up her book and received a very cool reception. She was booed when the crowd wasn't silent. Before she had a turn to unsuccessfully try to win over the attendees there were of course other guests who took their shot at her.

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All the Ann Coulter Knocks At Comedy Central's Roast of Rob Lowe - The Shots Are Fired At Ann Coulter - She Asked For It

David Spade hosted the event even though Roast Master Jeff Ross was present and dressed as Prince in tribute to the late artist, and the set was adorned with purple as well. David Spade fired the first shot when he was about to bring up the first guest Pete Davidson (SNL/NBC) after saying that "Pete's dad never got to see him on Saturday Night Live because he died on 9/11, and his mother never got to see him on SNL because she blinks." (pa dom tom) and then it came "is Pete white or is he black? Ann Coulter needs to know so she can decide if she hates him"

Here are more embarrassing (well, to a normal person would be embarrassing) things said to, and at, Ann Coulter:

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Pete Davidson: "and Ann Coulter is here, hey, if Ann Coulter is here who's scaring the crows away from our crops?" "ya know Ann describes herself as a polemicist (Devil's Advocate) but most people call her a cunt!" "ya know last year we had Martha Stewart who sells sheets, this year we have Ann Coulter who cuts eye holes into them."

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Rob Reagle: "Holy Shit! Is that Ann Coulter? Ann Coulter is here, which could mean only one thing, someone must of said her name 3 times, Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!" and later said "Fun fact, Ann Coulter has a big angry bush, no joke, that's just a fun fact." "Rob's played many wonderful roles in film, recently he played JFK in "Killing Kennedy" Jesus Christ hasn't that family suffered enough? Grassy knoll! But not as grassy as Ann Coulter's BIG ANGRY BUSH! INSTANT CALL BACK!" "Rob played a guy on Parks and Rec [sic] where he misused the word literally, correct use of the word would be...I don't know, Rob Lowe has literally had sex with everyone in this room, except Ann Coulter because her bush is literally too ANGRY! YES! THREE-PEAT! They said I couldn't do it! But I did it! I nailed Ann Coulter's bush 3 times!

Rob Lowe Roast - Jewel Photo by uwbc.host

Jules: Wasted no time as she said "it's an honor to be here, I do want to say first off as a feminist I can't support everything being said up here tonight but as someone who hates Ann Coulter I'm delighted." "Jeff Ross is here, he's going to party like it's 1999, Ann Coulter is going to vote like it's 1899." "Ann you do look great though, your almost as thin as Donald Trump's chance of winning the election." "Actually it's a small world though because last week I was behind Ann at Chipotle and she ordered something to go, the entire kitchen staff was like here, leave....the country!" "What's weird is that gay men love Ann Coulter, it's because after 2 seconds of hearing her speak, they remember why they hate pussy."

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Jimmy Carr: "Ann Coulter, here we go, Ann Coulter is one of the most repugnant, hateful, hatchet-faced bitches alive, but, but, it's not to late to change Ann, you can kill yourself." "Ann Coulter looks so much like a truck stop transvestite whore that I saw Jeff Ross run to an ATM just before the show." "Ann Coulter's pussy, (he looks over at Ann, outreaches his arm showing her his palm and says seriously, this gets classy) Ann Coulter's pussy is so old and dry that it's just got a job drawing cartoons for The New Yorker." (he finishes with her by making a motion as to tipping his hat to her).

Peyton Manning on Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe - Photo by boston.cbslocal.com

Peyton Manning: "WOW! I just realized I was not the only athlete up here tonight, as you all know, earlier this year Ann Coulter won the Kentucky Derby. Congrats on that Ann."

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Nikki Glaser: "And without Fuhrer[sic] ado, Ann Coulter, oh Ann, what's it like to be a real-life Super Villain? Ya know, like I would ask you how you sleep at night but I assume you hang upside down in a robe of 101 dalmatians. Ann Coulter has written 11 books, 12 if you count Mein Kampf. Ann's been called things like a racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, a white supremacist, and that's just while getting plowed by Bill Maher. The only person you will ever make happy is the Mexican who digs your grave." After telling some other jokes, one about Jeff Ross saying he and Hitler had a lot in common, in that no one cared about them until they started roasting people.As the crowd moaned Nikki said "Guys, I can make that joke because I'm not Jewish, so I don't care, don't be mad, at least I acknowledge the Holocaust, Ann doesn't even think it happened."

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Ralph Macchio: "Ann Coulter, I glad to see you here, ya know, I respect you, your the one female commentator to stand to take a leak."


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And then it happened, Ann Coulter came to the lectern with this introduction from David Spade: "O.K. guys, and now a real treat for fans of hate watching, Ann Coulter's coming up, Ann hopes the Republicans can hold on to the House, so she can continue to haunt it. She seems stiff and conservative but Ann gets wild in the sheets, just ask the Klan. It looks like shes having a good time, she hasn't laughed this hard since Trevon Martin got shot. Please welcome Ann Coulter."

She approached under courteous applause and started with "Thank you everyone I want to welcome you to the Ann Coulter roast with Rob Lowe." Then she went right to shes glad to be here with Rob Lowe and all the wonderful talents and it has "nothing to do with being the next stop on my press junket for the book I just published four days ago In Trump We Trust"and that is where the crowd got ugly, booing loudly. "E Pluribus Awesome" she said and the crowd started getting angrier and louder. "Pause for Boos, oh wait I wasn't supposed to read that" was her attempt at comedy. Then she placed the book on the lectern and said "available in book stores...I know it's shameless but I'm on stage with a guy who made two Joe Dirt films so how shameless can I be" and that's enough of her. At that point she kept trying to be funny but drew NO LAUGHS and the camera kept going to the audience and showing faces in blank stares spewing hate for her.

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Roast Master Jeff Ross followed Coulter and ran a bunch of good one-liners and then "it's great to be here at the Comedy Central Roast of White Privilege. I know what your thinking, how come there's no black people up here, well, we actually booked two but there not here yet." At which point the camera went to African-Americans in the audience giving Jeff the finger. And that's he focused on Ann.

Jeff Ross: "Ann, what happened, you wrote 11 books but you couldn't write a single fucking joke?" "Ann, you have a face that would make doves cry." "This is hard, how do I roast somebody from hell?" "BITCH!" "Ugh, and that voice (he makes sounds like babbling) it's like fingernails on a chalkboard of an inner-city school you want to defund." "Don't stare at me with that roasting bitch face." "Ann's against gay marriage, what's your thinking on that? If I can't get a husband they shouldn't either?"

And then it was Rob Lowe's turn. He was returning the roasting back to those who gave it to him and then it came:

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Rob Lowe: "It's 56 days to Halloween but I see that Ann Coulter's [sic] already in her skeleton costume. People ask, why is Ann Coulter here tonight? Answer? Because the Right-to-Lifers wanted everybody to see what an abortion looks like up close. And you know Ann, after seeing your set tonight I think we've all witnessed the first bombing you can't blame on a Muslim.

And there you have it. All the jokes about and to Ann Coulter from the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe. Hope you enjoyed it.

What Does Trump Have To Do To Convince His Supporters and Especially His Donors He Will NOT Ever Fulfill the Duties of the POTUS, Nor Does He Want To

2016-08-31T17:16:00.001-04:00

Why Donald Trump Will NEVER Fulfill the Duties Of President of the United States

He Simply Doesn't Want To!

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder, August 31, 2016

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Trump Never Actually Wanted The Job, Just The Attention

Donald J. Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States, played with the idea of running for President in a few Presidential election cycles. He enjoyed the attention he got when the media kept after him as he was "deciding" whether or not he was going to run. Until this current cycle he milked that attention as long as he could and then begrudgingly announced he wasn't going to run, and with that, the attention he loved so much went away. Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in New York City. He took the plunge and found himself in a world he worshiped, the world of all eyes focusing on him. He is in fact a egocentric, an incurable narcissist to the nth degree. Possibly a sociopath, for real! Upon winning the Republican primary he was told that viciously attacking opponents using lies and outrageous statements, although they do get crowds riled up, would not work in the general election. He was now going to have to "pivot" and become more restrained and Presidential. He would have nothing to do with that at first. He then tried a number of times to "stay on message" and be more "Presidential" but couldn't, and still can't. Within hours of reading a prepared, measured, controlled speech from the teleprompter he would find himself tweeting his zany, outrageous, racist, hateful, ignorant, and shocking (although nothing shocks people anymore because of how he is and what he has already said) tweets, contradicting what he had just said hours before. It's then that signs began to show that he didn't really want to do the job that is President of the United States.

Leading up to the conventions it was time to pick a Vice Presidential candidate. The vetting of these candidates began. Trump sent Donald Trump Jr. to "vet" John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, and Trump Jr. said to Governor Kasich "how would you like to be the most powerful Vice President there ever was in history." John Kasich was somewhat taken aback said "Well, how would that be?" Donald Trump Jr. said "You would be completely in charge of all foreign and domestic policy." Again aghast at what Trump Jr. just said Kasich responded "but that's EVERYTHING! What would the "President" be doing?" And with that, wait for it, wait for it, with a straight face Donald Trump Jr. said "Making America great again." Now, before all the loyalist Trump supporters deny this and say "that's a lie!" you need to know that Governor Kasich himself has told of this conversation numerous times on Sunday News TV shows and to many media outlets, and not once did Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., nor anyone from the Trump campaign ever say that a single word of what Governor Kasich recounted was inaccurate. That was because by the time the convention came about, Trump had already decided that there was no way he was going to put all his money in a trust, live on the $400,000/yr salary that the President receives, and especially was not going to actually do the job and fulfill the obligations of the President. A reporter once showed Trump a picture of President Barack Obama, and another of President George W. Bush, both had been wearing traditional garb of the country they were visiting while they were with the leader of that country, the reporter asked Trump, "are you willing to carry on this tradition of protocol?" Trump responded "I'll have someone do that for me." I guess billionaires are used to having someone do anything that has to be done that they themselves don't want to do. Did you know that the President has to pay for every meal that he, his family, and any private guests eat? Yes, they do. Who Pays for the Obama Family's Food? by mentalfloss.com . Could you imagine Donald J. Trump getting a bill, equivalent in price to what an eight star hotel would charge if they existed, every month?! A Chief Usher for many years at the White House recalled he doesn't "remember a single first family that didn't complain about the high price of food at the White House. What WOULD Trump do if his trained pallet, and that of any private guests, accounted for his entire salary? OH NO! No presents for Melania this year. UH OH! Is there a divorce in the future for "President Trump?!"

Trump Admitted He Doesn't Know "A Lot" of Things A President Needs To Know - Yet He Refuses To Learn, Why?

He doesn't want to bother to learn all that stuff someone would need to be an effective (or at least not the stupidest) President ever. He knows he's not going to need that knowledge because he's never going to be President. Remember, this egomaniac is only in it for the attention he gets at the rallies! I'm being serious, not sarcastic. When asked about not knowing what he would need to know about foreign policy Trump admitted "there's a lot I don't know, but I'll surround myself with the smartest people, the best people, really good people." His ability to do that has not exactly proved to be true as his very first "hire" was Elliot Broidy, whom he brought on to advise him "on all financial matters." Broidy owned a small Wall Street investment firm and had previously plead guilty to bribing people in the NY Attorney General's office, and others, with $1M, to get control of $250M of the NYC Employee Pension Fund, to invest, and then promptly took $18M in fraudulent fees. In court Broidy admitted to the bribes and taking of fees and said "there's no way a small investment firm like mine would ever get to control $250M of that fund without bribes." READ MORE: Guilty Plea in Fraud Case Tied to New York Pension Trump's hiring of "the best people, the smartest people, the best" hasn't improved. Just look at his campaign.

If Trump Refuses To Learn The Important Issues About Foreign and Domestic Policy, How Will He Ever Actually Get Anything Done As President? He Won't, Because He Has No Plans On Actually Fulfilling the Duties of the President Of The United States

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Just as he had Donald Trump Jr. have that conversation with Governor Kasich, Donald Trump has given many loud signs that he will not be President and will not fulfill the obligations of the presidency. He also has said many things that should have put up a big red flag that he is constantly lying and has no idea of what is is actually saying, like when he says "I know more about ISIS than the Generals do." REALLY Mr Trump?! REALLY?!, The GENERALS! Who are actually ACTUALLY FIGHTING THE WAR?! REALLY?! You lying, despicable, draft-dodging, piece of S__T! And yea, I'm sure that, like you say in the photo above, you will make our heads spin, but it won't be because you will be "so good at the military." That being the same military you fraudulently dodged by having some doctor write a note saying you had a "bone spur" which made you incapable of performing any kind of duty in the Armed Forces. Well, let me congratulate you on your complete recovery, and for having the "best health of anyone that ever became President of the United States" as per your Gastroenterologist (I won't use his name here so as not to embarrass him or to have him lose business because he had the unfortunate circumstance of being your doctor) that was given only 5 minutes to write that letter you requested and became "flustered." By the way, he says on his television interview that he was told he needed the letter in 5 minutes because Hillary's campaign was about to release a letter from HER doctor. The problem with that is, that she already produced a letter (one that actually meets the standard) back in JULY! Why would you tell this doctor you needed this letter in 5 minutes because Hillary was about to release hers if she released hers months ago?

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So who does Donald Trump get his military and foreign policy knowledge from? As you can see in the above photo he talks to himself! It must be that military school he went to. You know, the one that "made him feel like he was in the military." Yea, this it! It was that military school that taught him all he knows about foreign policy, which is a resounding ZERO! ZILCH! NADA! NOTHING! But he was smart enough to ask 3 times, 3 times in a one-hour instructional and informational meeting (he needed to learn about nuclear weapons because he slipped awhile back and showed his ignorance when he blurted something out that told everyone in the world that he had no idea of what the Nuclear Triad is) about nuclear weapons from one of the most respected people in the world on the topic, "if we have nuclear weapons, why don't we use them?" Yes 3 times he asked this top expert
"if we have nuclear weapons, why don't we use them?!" That's scary!

By his own words and especially by the actions of him and his campaign he has basically told everyone that he in no way in hell will put all his money in a trust, live off the $400,000/yr salary, and definitely not live life day-to-day as a President of the United States. As he has said numerous times, after the election he can go back to a REALLY GOOD LIFE.

Trump Has Indicated He Doesn't Want To Win

Joe Scarborough (Morning Joe/MSNBC) said on his show a few weeks ago that he was with a "very close friend" of Trump's that past weekend and the friend said Trump told him that the best outcome would be that he lost the election (because he doesn't really want to BE president) but only by a few points so then he could claim the election was rigged, for the rest of his life, and not be looked upon as a "loser." Trump has said he wouldn't do a number of things that the POTUS is required to do, and he doesn't have any notion to do them.

The Strategy (To Lose)

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Reaching Out To Minorities Is Imperative To Win -- Oh Well

Trump's campaign announced about a week before the RNC Convention that the candidate, immediately following the convention, would be going on "An Outreach To The Hispanic Community Tour," because they know for a fact that you can't win a Presidential election with only "old white men" and racists. In fact they actually scheduled events starting in the important swing state of Florida for the day after the Democratic convention ended. But the day after the DNC convention ended the Trump cancelled that appearance and all the rest of the "Outreach To The Hispanic Community Tour." Trump initially cancelled his "Outreach" scheduled for July 8th in Miami with Cuban business and faith leaders because of the tragic shooting of police officers in Dallas.

"RNC Chair Reince Priebus bragged prior to the Republican Convention that Trump “is going to be doing a Hispanic engagement tour coming up soon” and claimed Trump “understands” the need to expand the party in the general election. That apparently went in one ear and out the other as Trump has failed to meet with Hispanic leaders in Texas and Florida, which is only angering the few Republican Hispanic voters left."

Then the rescheduled July 26 event was officially canceled because the roundtable participants were out of town. (Three Republican sources told BuzzFeed News a hold was put on the campaign calendar for that time slot but the event was never planned.)
Another unreported, but planned Hispanic event was also canceled: The July 5 event was supposed to bring Trump face-to-face with San Antonio business leaders and Texas Republicans, but after the campaign reached out for venue space and possible participants, the event was scrapped. READ MORE: Donald Trump’s Hispanic Outreach Effort Humiliatingly Goes Down In Flames

Again there is just NO WAY anyone can win a presidential election with just old white men and racists. Breitbart.com (former CEO Stephen Bannon is now Trump's campaign CEO) is a right wing, conspiracy theory, website that is known for completely making up false news and stories.
Based on seeing an article on Breitbart,com Trump said “I don’t know if you’ve seen what's happening, but over the last three weeks, the polls with African American folks and Spanish-speaking folks, the Hispanics, Latinos, have gone way up. Way up. They’ve gone way up,” Trump said, to applause. "It seemed like it was validation of the time he'd spent over the last week making somewhat awkward appeals to voters in those demographics. But it’s not, because those numbers are wrong.
The problem almost certainly began with a headline at Trump’s favorite website, Breitbart.com. On the heels of Trump’s speech near Milwaukee last Tuesday, the site ran a story with a headline that would seem to make Trump's case on black voters." READ MORE: Donald Trump is doing great with black and Hispanic voters now, according to polls that don’t exist . "On Aug. 5, those numbers were 8 percent and 24 percent, respectively. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump went from 5.6 percent with black voters on Aug. 1 to 2.5 percent on Monday. (There weren’t enough Hispanic respondents to separate out.)" So why would Donald Trump cancel his events with all Black and Hispanic voters and leaders? Because he doesn't WANT to win!

The Ground Game

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When Donors Donate To Trump's Campaign Do They Understand That He's Using Their Money To Feed His Narcissistic Behavior, And His Ego, And His Need To Hear Crowds Cheering, And NOT To Help His Chances Of Winning The White House?

     A good, well established, ground game, is another absolute must if you actually want to win the presidency. Renting a 10,000 seat arena in the State of Washington, where this candidate has NO CHANCE of winning is not. He also has made appearances at places like Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, once again veering from appearances in key swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania to try to bolster his support in a “true blue” state. There he spoke to African-Americans, the only problem with that is the room was filled with older white Americans. The speculation that Trump would visit Connecticut before the announcement was made drew a sharp attack from Connecticut Democrats."Donald Trump stands for everything we in Connecticut stand against. From inciting violence against his political opponent, to insulting a Gold Star family, to mocking a reporter with a physical disability, Trump has shown time and time again that he is temperamentally unfit and lacks the judgment to serve as commander-in-chief,” the Connecticut Democratic Party said in a statement. READ MORE:Trump to hold Saturday rally in Connecticut/The CT Mirror

     Trump has literally NO CHANCE of winning the state of Washington state, so why is he spending his donors money renting out the 10,000 seat Xfinity Arena? A protest against Donald Trump was planned for Clark Park at the same time as the candidates event. According to the Facebook group "No Hate in Our State," the protesters planned to march against "Trump's dangerous xenophobic, racist, misogynist, homophobic rhetoric and policies. "On this day we will come together peacefully, and reject Trump's hate, and violence," the page read. " “I think everyone who is following the polling can see what the numbers are and that is that. Hillary Clinton is winning this state by a wide margin,” said Bill Phillips, former chairman of the Snohomish County Democrats.

     Trump also predicted a general election victory in Washington state, which hasn’t voted Republican for President since Ronald Reagan in 1984. A new survey by independent pollster Stuart Elway shows Clinton leading 43% to Trump’s 24% in Washington. Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article98973802.html#storylink=cpy Why is he not spending that money on an all important ground game? Perhaps because HE DOESN'T WANT TO ACTUALLY WIN!

     "Donald Trump’s ground game in key swing states is a disaster, and it’s causing panic among Republicans, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday." READ MORE: The GOP Panics As Donald Trump’s Ground Game Is Virtually Nonexistent What Trump is NOT doing with donors money is setting up field offices in key battleground states to get the vote out. Trump, knowing how important a good ground game is to actually wining the election has done the following in key battleground states:

Battleground State Field Offices

"As the presidential election marathon breaks into a final sprint, the Trump campaign faces a jaw-dropping gap in the ground game: Hillary Clinton currently has more than three times the number of campaign offices in critical states than does Donald Trump. Those figures include both Trump offices and Republican National Committee victory offices, as confirmed by the Trump campaign. As of Aug. 30, Hillary Clinton has 291 offices in those 15 battlegrounds. Donald Trump has 88. (Those figures include joint presidential and party offices.) Both campaigns pledge that more offices are coming." READ MORE: The Trump campaign has a ground-game problem - pbs.org/newshour .

FLORIDA: Donald Trump’s campaign has opened a whopping ONE field office of the 24 field offices it promised to open in the important battleground state of Florida. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has 34 offices in the state."

NORTH CAROLINA: Clinton: 30 Field Offices, Trump: NONE

PENNSYLVANIA: Clinton: 36 Field Offices, Trump: 2

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Clinton: 17 Field Offices, Trump: 1

OHIO: Clinton: 36 Field Offices, Trump: 16 (No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio)

VIRGINIA: Clinton: 29 Field Offices, Trump: 18 (These are actually RNC offices that Trump claimed he opened.)

For maps showing all battleground states and how many field offices each candidate has opened SEE: The Trump campaign has a ground-game problem - pbs.org/newshour . Why isn't Trump building a good ground (get out the vote) game if he knows that there is absolutely NO WAY to win a presidential election without one? BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT TO WIN! How can his supporters, and especially donors, no see this?!

I challenge any Trump supporter and/or donor to convince me that they REALLY BELIEVE that Trump is READY and WILLING to take over the presidency.

Who is A.L.E.C. Why are they, and Republican Governors and Republican-Controlled State Legislators Limiting City and Local Legislators Ability To Govern For The People?

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How Republicans Use "Preemption Laws" To Take Legislative Power Away From The People

From "The American Prospect Longform" August 22, 2016

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder, New York, August 26, 2016

See how Republican Governors and Republican-controlled State Legislatures are using "Preemption Laws" to take away Cities and local legislators power to create laws that the people in those cities heavily favor. They recently affected Denton, Texas, when they passed a fracking ban in November 2014. "Sure enough, despite widespread local support, it only took months to make Denton’s fracking ban history. The GOP-dominated Texas state legislature, under pressure from the oil and gas industry, passed a law forbidding any locality from banning fracking. Denton’s own state representative voted for the measure." READ MORE: http://prospect.org/article/blue-cities-battle-red-states.

     These Republican Governors are affecting local laws passed by the people of those cities and towns in the interest of corporations and special interests by writing these preemption laws, of which many are actually written by ALEC (see ALEC Exposed here:http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed ) Preemption laws are being used by state legislatures on issues like gun safety, smoking, anti-discriminatory legislation, LGBTQ legislation, and much much more.

   "Minimum preemption” laws have been used for years. They force localities to do something where they might otherwise have done little or nothing, like environmental laws. The federal government has been setting minimum standards of environmental protection for years, preempting the states from allowing lower environmental standards.

      "Most current preemption laws, by contrast, are what one might call “maximum preemption.” These laws aren’t about setting minimums; instead, they prohibit local regulation. States have prevented localities from creating paid sick leave requirements for businesses, or raising the minimum wage. Many who oppose these measures blame their proliferation on the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, which has drafted “model” preemption bills for state lawmakers to use. “Pretty much anything you can think of that matters to the American family is under assault by local preemption,” says Mark Pertschuk, the director of Grassroots Change, which fights preemption laws around the country reports The American Prospect. "In the last five years, as Republicans have captured an unprecedented number of state legislatures and as cities have become hotbeds for progressive organizing, the number of maximum preemption laws has grown dramatically. In 2011, after Wisconsin passed a bill limiting the local ability to require paid sick days, ALEC and the National Restaurant Association took up the cause, and now 15 states have preempted local paid sick day requirements" READ MORE: http://prospect.org/article/blue-cities-battle-red-states.

LEGAL DEFINITION: "Preemption"

n. the rule of law that if the federal government through Congress has enacted legislation on a subject matter it shall be controlling over state laws and/or preclude the state from enacting laws on the same subject if Congress has specifically stated it has "occupied the field."

Preemption - Legal Dictionary | Law.com

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Most current preemption laws, by contrast, are what one might call “maximum preemption.” These laws aren’t about setting minimums; instead, they prohibit local regulation. States have prevented localities from creating paid sick leave requirements for businesses, or raising the minimum wage. Many who oppose these measures blame their proliferation on the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, which has drafted “model” preemption bills for state lawmakers to use. “Pretty much anything you can think of that matters to the American family is under assault by local preemption,” says Mark Pertschuk, the director of Grassroots Change, which fights preemption laws around the country. - The American Prospect

Earlier this year the Charlotte City Council passed a measure extending civil-rights protections for its LGBT community. The policy also allowed transgender individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity rather than with their biological sex. Including gay and transgender people in anti-discrimination ordinances has become a standard business-friendly move; nationwide, 225 cities and counties have passed similar measures, in part to attract businesses. While Republican Governor Pat McCrory and state legislature leaders threatened to intervene in Charlotte, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, an advocate of the measure, wasn’t overly concerned. “I thought they’d make a big noise about it but they’d recognize it was just Charlotte, it’s a progressive city, and they didn’t need to come in and change anything because it would jeopardize the economy,” she says.

But when the state Republicans responded, they sent shockwaves around the country by passing a maximum preemption measure that invalidated all local anti-discrimination ordinances, including those protecting women and racial minorities. Not only did they force transgender people to use public bathrooms based on their reproductive organs; for good measure, they also rolled a provision into the bill that forbade any North Carolina city from increasing the minimum wage. READ MORE: http://prospect.org/article/blue-cities-battle-red-states.

Even if you're disgusted with the candidates for the presidential race it is imperative that you vote this November 8th! The Senate, House, and local elections are crucial to the future of our cities, towns, counties, and country.

Donald Trump "Regrets" Saying the Wrong Things - A First

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Regretting Saying Horrible Things Is Good

But Doesn't Change How Prepared To Be President He Is

John A. Smith Editor/Founder, August 19, 2016

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Perhaps the tanking poll numbers finally made Donald Trump realize that he is taking any chance of being elected away. Maybe it was someone on his campaign staff, old or new. But yesterday in Charlotte North Carolina the presidential candidate, for the first time ever, said "Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues you don't choose the right words, or you say the wrong thing, I have done that... and believe it or not, I regret it."

Although it's nice to see him say he regrets some of the things he has said it obviously doesn't make up for the hateful, racist, divisive language he has directed at so many, for so long. Attacking a judge working a case against him who has a stellar record and calling him "unable" to do his job because his parents are Mexican is ludicrous. Mocking a reporter with a disability unconscionable. Attacking a gold star family totally disrespectful and "out of bounds."

Saying he regrets some things he has said also doesn't prepare him to be President. He simply doesn't have enough knowledge about foreign affairs, or for that matter, domestic affairs. In an interview with George Stephanopolos he was asked about why his campaign had argued to take out the stipulation that they would supply weapons to Ukraine to fight off Russian aggression. His response was "I don't know," which he repeated time and time again. But then said in no uncertain terms ""you can take this, understand this, write it down, Russia is NOT going into Ukraine." He didn't know that Russia had taken Crimea TWO YEARS AGO! He then said "well you know, I hear, from many people that the people of Crimea wanted to be part of Russia." Recently he said he knows "more about ISIS" than our military Generals do. Mr. Trump, you DO NOT know more about ISIS than our military leaders. A staunch Republican recently said that when he is being told what reality is, "he doesn't want to learn it."

Thanks for your regrets Mr. Trump, now go start learning something about our country, our people, and what it actually takes to be the President of the United States.

GOP Continues to Lie About Benghazi and Exploit Families

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GOP LIES and Exploits Benghazi Families

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder August 9, 2016

GOP HELD 10 COMMITTEES AND SPENT OVER $50M IN TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO FIND NOTHING

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This is one of those rare times that Democratic Nominee for President of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton is being "Mostly True" according to PolitiFact: "There have been seven investigations [there have actually been ten now] (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."— Hillary Clinton on Monday, October 5th, 2015 in on NBC's Today Show. "House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week [from Oct. 5, 2015 article] that Congress’ current investigation into the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, is a political move against former Hillary Clinton, and she was quick to jump on the Republican’s gaffe." Read More: Clinton: 7 Benghazi probes so far.

What the Republicans don't talk about is how they cut funding to protect the embassies just six months prior. Ten (10) congressional committees have investigated the Benghazi tragedy in the Republicans’ nearly four-year obsession. The latest by the "Select Committee" brought this summary: "The Benghazi Select Committee has now spent more than 7 million in taxpayer dollars in its politically-motivated effort to damage Hillary Clinton. Over the past four years, a total of ten congressional investigations have now looked into Benghazi—and found no evidence wrongdoing [sic] by Clinton or the Obama Administration." This is a breakdown of those committees by Correct The Record: THE GOP’S ADDICTION TO BENGHAZI “INVESTIGATIONS” JUST WON’T END - Republicans Are Determined to Keep the Benghazi Conspiracy Alive.

*The following is an opinion column by R Muse*
Republicans have admitted, on several occasions by the way, that the House Benghazi committee’s investigation was a long-term campaign to damage Hillary Clinton even before she announced a run for the White House. The committee’s chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has stated that he found nothing, but still, his committee is busy on a taxpayer-funded Republican “campaign” against Mrs. Clinton. The cost, according to estimates as of last year was approximately $6.7 million and it was enough of a waste of money to inspire a high-ranking Defense Department official to include the waste of money in a letter criticizing Gowdy’s tactics on the Benghazi Select committee. The Pentagon is weary of the three-plus years of several committees’ demands to waste their valuable time, money, and personnel. Read More: Pentagon Condemns House Benghazi Committee’s Wasteful “Speculative” Investigation By Rmuse on Sun, May 1st, 2016 at 9:29 pm.

From the Benghazi Research Center here is "Benghazi By The Numbers" showing money, hours, and much more about the wasteful, misguided, and at times fraudulent investigations where the "Select Committee" spent more than $7M and "House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week [from Oct. 5, 2015 article] that Congress’ current investigation into the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, is a political move against former Hillary Clinton." The article says there were approximately 252 witnesses, 10 Congressional hearings, 13 published reports, and much, much more. After all the money and time spent they found "0" investigations found evidence of a stand down order, "0" investigations to find evidence of an "intelligence failure" leading to the Benghazi tragedy, and "0" investigations that found any "administrative wrongdoing." Read More: Benghazi By The Numbers/Benghazi Research Center .

GOP Busted On Benghazi: Voted For MASSIVE Embassy Security Cuts Starting in 2011


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What the GOP never talks about is their cutting of funds to protect the embassies. The Hill reported as far back as 09/18/12 10:41 PM EDT By Alexander Bolton that GOP cuts to embassy security draw scrutiny, jabs from Democrats . The articles states "Republicans have sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars slated for security at U.S. embassies and consulates since gaining control of the House in 2011.Democrats are scrutinizing the GOP proposals in the wake of attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East, one of which saw Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans murdered." In October 2015 the Reverb Press reported:"

GOP Complaining About Benghazi Security Issues Despite Previously Demanding Embassy Security Cuts

"It looks like the GOP’s tendency towards history revisionism is continuing to bite the party in its collective ass." The article went on to say " It’s also worth noting that while the GOP was oh so indignant at the Democrats for questioning their embassy security budget cut proposals, we had then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempting to pin the failures to stop the attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi on President Barack Obama." Read More: GOP Busted On Benghazi: Voted For MASSIVE Embassy Security Cuts Starting in 2011/Reverb Press

GOP Exploits Families of Victims of Benghazi

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“I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son,” Smith said during a tearful speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday." Read more: Benghazi victim's mother blames Clinton for son's death . Today, Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the four Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. Actually Hillary Clinton is being sued by parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, two of the four men who died in Benghazi in 2012. This after all those committees, money, time spent found "no administrative wrongdoing." Does anyone believe that this lawsuit is anything but the GOP exploiting these families? Read More: Parents of Two Benghazi Victims File Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton . You can read the full lawsuit here.

Media Outlets Report "New" Information on Benghazi - Only NONE OF IT Was New

Screenshot of MediaMatters June 2016 article

Again, after all the money, time, and effort by the GOP they found nothing and continue to lie to the American people as if they found something, anything to prove wrongdoing. It's disgraceful and a waste of taxpayer's money, and time that the Congress and Senate could be spending actually representing their constituents needs.

"Several media outlets falsely reported that the final report released by Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi contained “new information,” when in fact all of the “key findings” in the report had been previously reported. Committee Republicans reportedly released “embargoed ‘exclusives’” strategically to manipulate reporters into presenting details in the releases as new information." Read More: Media Fell For Bogus “New Information” Spin In GOP Benghazi Report/MediaMatters For America


Where's all the investigations about these? Photo by www.Pinterest.com

I don't know about you but I for one NEVER want to hear the word "Benghazi" again!

Where Does Donald Trump Stand Within the Republican Party and With America?

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By John A. Smith, Editor/Founder August 8, 2016

Donald Trump Drops In Polls

Washington Post/ABC News poll August 1 through August 4, 2016

Trump Doesn't Listen To Anyone - Except Maybe The Polls

After two weeks of Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump repeatedly tweeting attacks on his favorite social media, Twitter, attacking the Gold Star Khan family, not initially endorsing Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and popular New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte. In announcing he wasn't endorsing Ryan last week Trump said “I’m just not quite there yet,” using the exact words Ryan used about him after the Indiana primary in May when asked if he would support Trump. The candidate also went to New Hampshire last week and claimed he is doing better than fellow Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte in statewide polls. He got a "Pants On Fire" from PolitiFact for that one. Read More: Read More: Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim about doing better than Kelly Ayotte in N.H. polls. Many people started to question whether the presidential nominee needed a "candidate intervention," or maybe they are the one's who need an intervention. Read More: Someone Needs an Intervention Here, and It’s Not Donald Trump/Slate.com. He wasn't listening to anyone and his running mate Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) and Campaign Manager Paul Manafort found themselves crazy with trying to "spin" all the nuttiness coming out of their candidates mouth and on his Twitter account.

But later, the National and State polls showed Trump in a free-fall and he reversed himself. On Friday, August 5th, at a campaign rally in Green Bay, WI, he unenthusiastic-ally endorsed them all. Read More: Trump Endorses Paul Ryan, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte/ABC News By then national polls showed a match up between Trump and Clinton, if the Presidential election were held today, to be 3-8 points in Clinton's favor. By Saturday a Washington Post/ABC News Poll finds Clinton has widened lead ahead of Trump to 8 points . But perhaps the worst results were coming in the battleground states.

Battleground State Polls:

Virginia

"The battleground state of Virginia looks a little less like a battleground today, as Hillary Clinton has opened up a lead there of 49 percent to 37 percent, echoing some of the movement seen in national polls this week." This is of course Hillary's running mate junior U.S. Senator Tim Kaine's home state.

Arizona

"On the other side of the country in Arizona, Trump leads 44 percent to 42 percent, only two points in a state Republicans typically win without too much trouble. Even if this is as close as Arizona ever gets (just 15 percent of those not voting for Clinton would still consider her) it nonetheless tells the story of a potentially shifting map, forcing Trump to defend usually-red territory, in part because of such strong Hispanic support behind Clinton. In Arizona, 80 percent of Hispanic voters feel they're more motivated to vote this year than previous years, and don't believe Donald Trump treats all people fairly."

Nevada

" In Nevada, Clinton leads, 43 percent to 41 percent, also bolstered by support from Hispanic voters and younger voters, but facing more difficulty with older, white voters. In Nevada, as elsewhere, the commander-in-chief measure nets Clinton a large advantage, even as she has lower numbers on measures such as bringing change. And the selection of Tim Kaine as vice president may have helped Clinton in Virginia, too, as voters are more likely to say it makes them more likely to vote for the ticket than to vote against it."

NOTE: Comments on Virginia, Arizona, and Nevada are excerpts from a post on CBS.com

By Anthony Salvanto CBS News August 7, 2016, 10:30 AM: Read More: Poll: Clinton opens big gap in battleground state of Virginia.

New Hampshire

According to a CNN Politics "A new poll of New Hampshire shows Clinton with a commanding 15-point lead over Donald Trump, finding Granite State Democrats coalescing around their nominee after their convention while state Republicans remain resistant to Trump.

Clinton leads Trump 47% to 32% among likely New Hampshire voters, according to the poll from WBUR, with third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein included. Matched up one-on-one, Clinton's lead grows to 17 points, 51% to 34%."

Although it should be noted that the poll used here doesn't take into account Hillary went on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on July 31, 2016 Read More: Clinton fact-checked on 'truthful' claim in email scandal and said FBI Director James Comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were “truthful” – with one prominent fact-checker giving the claim four “Pinocchios.”

"Hillary Clinton has admitted that she may have “short-circuited” her answers to media questions about the way she handled classified emails. The former secretary of state insisted on Friday that she did not misrepresent FBI director James Comey’s findings on the issue that continues to dog her presidential campaign." Read More: Clinton says she may have 'short-circuited' statements about email.

Pennsylvania

"In Pennsylvania -- a Democratic-leaning Rust Belt state that Trump has vowed to put in play for the GOP this election -- another poll released Thursday showed Clinton leading Trump by double digits. Clinton leads Trump 49% to 38% among likely Pennsylvania voters, according to the Franklin and Marshall College poll. Her lead swells to 13 points, 47% to 34%, with Johnson and Stein included." Read More: Battleground polls: Clinton tops Trump post-convention/CNN Politics

Michigan

"Another battleground poll released Thursday -- Michigan -- also found Clinton holding a significant lead over Trump.

Clinton is ahead of Trump by 9 points, 41% to 32%, among likely Michigan voters, according to a Detroit news/WDIV-TV poll. Clinton's lead is smaller, 6 points, without third-party candidates included.

Pollster Richard Czuba told the Detroit News the survey found a "shocking" Clinton lead in typically reliable Republican areas in west and southwest Michigan, where she carries leads of 5-6 points. And according to the poll, 30% of self-identifying Michigan Republicans are not backing Trump.

Trump's struggles in the state's conservative strongholds are attributable in part to Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. The poll found that in those west and southwest regions of Michigan, critical for flipping Michigan red, Johnson is drawing 10% and 16% support, respectively.

The poll also found a majority of Michigan voters -- 61% -- say Trump is "ill-prepared to be commander in chief."

The Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll was conducted from July 29 through August 1, surveying 600 likely Michigan voters. It has a margin of error of +/- 4 points." Read More: Battleground polls: Clinton tops Trump post-convention/CNN Politics

Coming Soon: Can, and will Hillary stop lying long enough to get her "Untrustworthy" numbers down?

Seriously - Not Being Sarcastic - Is Trump A Sociopath or Is He Purposely Trying To Find A Way Out? Why Does Hillary Keep Telling The Same Old Lies Even After They've Been Disproved? What can We Do To Change The Broken Election Process?

2016-08-03T10:00:00.000-04:00

By John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, August 3, 2016 ___________________________________________

so·ci·o·path

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noun

noun: sociopath; plural noun: sociopaths

a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.

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Does Donald Trump REALLY Want Be President?

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The short answer is no. Yesterday in my post Trump & Clinton Continue Their Blatant Lies - But they're Really Not Good At It I expressed my thoughts about what I thought Trump's plan for the future was. It included the fact that I did not believe in any way, shape, or form, that Donald Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States would ever actually fulfill his duties as President of the United States should enough ignorant people allowed him to win. I didn't think he has a snowballs chance in hell but when you look at the polls you quickly realize that there are a large number of low-information, "I only watch Fox News," and/or simply stupid (not just dumb) voters in America.

Yesterday on Morning Joe/MSNBC, Joe Scarborough said he had lunch with someone who is very close to Trump. He confirmed that Trump does not want to actually BE President. He told Joe that Donald's "best case scenario" would be to lose the election by one-half of one percentage point so that he could say "they stole the election from me" for the rest of his life. That is consistent with my thoughts. I wrote:

Again, consistent with Trump never in a million years putting all his money in a trust, living on the President's salary of only $400,000/year, and being tied to the grueling schedule of the POTUS, it will NEVER happen!

Hillary Clinton Must Think Americans Are Complete Idiots

Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nominee for the President of the United States continues to lie. She is again using old lies that have been totally rebuffed, contradicted, proven to be false. She knows that she is lying, she knows the American people knows she lying, and she doesn't care. In an article in The Atlantic on August 1, 2016 Ron Fournier asked a simple question; Why Can't Hillary Clinton Stop Lying? "On Sunday, the former secretary of state told FOX News’ Chris Wallace that FBI Director James Comey cleared her of misleading the public about her rogue email server at the state department: “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.” That’s wrong and she knows it, which makes it a lie."

She is arrogant and counts on the American people being "low-information," gullible, uninformed, unable to seek out the truth, people who will vote for her no matter what she does, or says, because her opponent is uninformed, narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, who is hateful and losing his mind attacking a Gold Star family. While she is right about some people (Trump supporters) most Americans can see through her lies and will not vote for her.

What can the American Voter Do To Send Both Parties a Message That They Are Not Going To Stand For A Corrupt, Establishment, Two-Party System, and A Broken Election Process?

American voters can vote for a 3rd party to show that they will vote for a 3rd party in future elections. I know, I' get these responses whenever I bring up voting for a 3rd party candidate, and here are my responses[Reprinted from August 2, post Trump & Clinton Continue Blatant Lies - But They're Really Not Good At It :

1) "I would but I'm afraid to because I don't want Trump to win." Response: Trump will NOT win this election, not even the Republicans want that. Their party has been hijacked by him. Even though this presidential election is the most important in decades due to the fact that anywhere from two to five U.S. Supreme Court Justices will be appointed I do not fear Trump winning. Today on Morning Joe/MSNBC Joe Scarborough said he had talked to someone very close to Trump and that friend said that Trump believes his best outcome to be beat by a half a percentage point so he Could say "the election was stolen" for the rest of his life. This falls right in with what I've believed for some time. Trump would NOT take on the duties of POTUS, he's having fun because he's a mega-narcissist and getting tremendous attention on the campaign. See"Donald Trump Does NOT Want To Be President - He Will Never Take On The Duties of the POTUS" below.

2) "A third-party candidate doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning." Response: No, they don't. But if we send a message that we won't stand for a rigged two party system, AND fight injustices like the media block out of 3rd party candidates, AND that we're done putting up with the current, corrupt, disrespectful, politicians that don't represent us, but represent 1%er's and large corporations, by a noticeable percentage of voters voting for a 3rd party candidate, we CAN CHANGE FUTURE ELECTIONS! The "movement" will be moving forward and growing as the message of "we WILL vote for 3rd party candidates" is acknowledged.

3) "Although I like a lot of what is in Dr. Jill Stein's platform, there are things I disagree with." Response: You're not going to find a candidate running that is for all the positions that you are for, in ANY party. You certainly aren't going to find everything you want in what Trump and Clinton are saying and what they will actually do. Again how can you vote for someone like Trump who yesterday said "she has no right to criticize my campaign, she couldn't even beat Bernie." George Stephanopoulos had to remind him that "she DID beat Bernie," and Trump said "barely." Really?!

4) "What can we really do to get the "movement" or "revolution" to gain traction? Response: We can get behind groups, organizations, activists, that support 3rd party candidates and help their chances for future elections i.e. Anonymous Launches Campaign to Oppose Media Blackout of Green Candidate .

5) "We only have 98 days left before the election, what can we really get done?" Response: We can do a lot. We can get a percentage of the vote to make the two current parties see that we ARE ready to vote for 3rd parties. We can support, and work towards, getting obstacles for 3rd party candidates removed, so that in a future election a 3rd party candidate will actually have a chance to win!

Voting For A 3rd Party Candidate Won't "Give Trump A Win" But It Will Change The Way Our Election Process And The 1%er Owned Media Do Business In The Future

It is obvious that Dr. Jill Stein doesn't have "a snowballs chance in hell" of winning the presidential election but that doesn't mean that she can't do a lot for the American people, the broke election process we are enduring, and 3rd party candidates in the future. The media blackout on 3rd party candidates is not even disputed. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic primary, but he did do many good things, he got many issues put into the Democratic platform, he brought many young people into the election process, he got over 8 million people to make an average donation of $27 showing that you don't need 1%er's, corporations, and special interests, to make a run for office. Should a third party candidate get a respectable number of votes it will increase efforts by many to fight the issues surrounding 3rd party candidates for future elections. Issues like the media block, donations to 3rd parties, and many other obstacles that exist today.

Which 3rd Party Candidate Has The Best Chance of Sending The Message?

Dr. Jill Stein, Presumptive Green Party candidate for President of the United States. @jillstein2016 - Jill2016 Jill Stein for President on Twitter, on Facebook Jill Stein for President 2016, is a candidate that is currently on the ballot in 31 states, her campaign is currently petition in 15 states, filed and awaiting results in 2 states and can be written in in Indiana and North Carolina. Look at Jill Stein's bio on Wikipedia and the Green Parties Platform and see if your willing to send a very important message to the Republicans and Democrats.

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Trump & Clinton Continue Blatant Lies - But They're Really Not Good At It

2016-08-02T13:54:00.000-04:00

And The Lies Keep Coming From

Trump and Clinton

By John A. Smith Founder/Editor August 2, 2016,

Trump Should Have Stayed OFF Sunday Shows

Trump, Campaign, Try To Spin His Hateful, Racist Attacks On Khan Family

     On Thursday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, site of the Democratic National Convention Khizr Khan, with his wife, Ghazala, by his side, made a speech. The Khan's lost their son, Humayun Khan in Iraq when he walked toward a suicide bomber and told the soldiers with him to get back. He saved his fellow soldiers but died when the bomber detonated his bomb. Humayun was posthumously awarded The Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

   In Khan's speech he said "you have sacrificed nothing, and no one." George Stephanopoulos on ABC News/This Week with George Stephanopoulos, asked Donald Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States about that statement and Trump responded "well that sounds so, who wrote that, did Hillary's scriptwriter's write that." This Sunday on NBC News/Meet the Press with Chuck Todd Khizr Khan said "the stewardship of this country needs to be in the hands of a person with moral compass, who can relate, who has some empathy with the citizen's he wishes to lead, this candidate (Trump) is void of both. On Saturday The Trump For President Campaign responded "Captain Humayun Khan was a hero to our country... the real problem here are the radical Islamic terrorists who killed him."

   Republicans are also denouncing Trump with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.) condemning his Islamophobic attacks on the Muslim war hero’s family without mentioning his name, but falling short of withdrawing their support as reported in the Huffington Post. Read More: GOP Leaders Don’t Ditch Trump Even After Condemning His Attacks On Muslim War Hero’s Family .

Trump Flaunts His Ignorance On Foreign Policy Again - His "Negotiation Skills" Aren't What They Were Trumped Up To Be Either

For the author of "The Art of the Deal" and self-proclaimed "best negotiator ever" Trump and his "best people" pretty much let everything slide when forming the 2016 GOP Platform except for one thing, the part of the platform that encourages giving lethal weapons to the Ukraine to help ward off aggression from Russia. The Washington Post reports "Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States." Read More: Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine . Where Trump wanted to soften the platform on same-sex-marriage and support for business decisions to deny certain services to same-sex couples Politico reports " While the party platform now bends toward Trump in some areas, other traditional planks of party orthodoxy remain firmly in place. Religious conservatives — without specifically swiping at Trump — rejected efforts by social moderates to soften the party’s stance against same-sex marriage. The Platform Committee on Monday afternoon added language defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman. And the platform also features language that embraces social conservative positions such as opposition to adoption by same-sex couples and support for business decisions to deny certain services to same-sex couples." Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-republican-platform-225394#ixzz4G5UZ3vBM His "best negotiation skills of anyone in the world" aren't showing here. Neither is his ability to "hire the best people," "the most knowledgeable people," "the best," for representing him in negotiations or for running his campaign for that matter.

Trump Loves Putin - danzcolorplus6543

Does Trump Have A Relationship With Putin?

In 2013, 2014, and 2015, Donald Trump said he did have a relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin who is a Russian politician, and is the current President of the Russian Federation. Further into his interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC/This Week... Trump claimed "I have no relationship with Vladimir Putin" right after which Stephanopoulos played clips of Trump on MSNBC November 13, 2013 where the interviewer asked Trump "Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin, a conversational relationship, or anything where you feel you have sway over his government?" Trump responds "I do have a relationship and I can tell you he's very interested in what we're doing here, he's probably very interested in what you and I are saying and I'm sure he's going to see it in some form, but I do have a relationship with him." Following that clip Stephanopoulos asked "if you don't have a relationship with him they why did you say you did in 2013, 2014, and 2015?" Trump's response was "no I...what do you call a relationship? He says nice things about me, I have no relationship with Putin, I don't think I ever met him, I never met him, I don't think I ever met him (George interjects "you would remember if you met him wouldn't you?) Trump responded "yea, I think so." Another clip was played from May 27, 2014 where Trump gave a speech at the National Press Club and said "I was in Russia recently, I was in Moscow and I spoke indirectly, and directly, with President Putin and he could not have been nicer." Cut back to yesterday's interview on ABC/This Week where Stephanopoulos asked Trump directly "you never spoke to him on the phone" and Trump responds "I have never spoken to him on the phone." It went on and on with more clips and more direct contradictions and lies. Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe/MSNBC yesterday show that on November 23 2015 Donald Trump was quoted as saying "I have the world's greatest memory. It's one thing everyone agrees on." And on November 26, 2015 he (Trump) said "Despite having one of the all-time great memories..." Well it seems that if he did then it is failing miserably now. Finally, George Stephanopoulos asked "Why did you soften the GOP platform on Ukraine?" Trump: "ah, I wasn't involved, honestly, I wasn't involved, yea, I was not involved, I like to, ahhh I'd have to take a look at that, but I was not involved." George: "Do you know what they did? Trump: "They softened it, I heard, but I was not involved." George: "they took away the part of the platform calling for the provision of lethal weapons for Ukraine to defend themselves, why is that a good idea?" Trump: "look, I have my own ideas, he's not going into Ukraine, just so you understand, he's not going to go into Ukraine, you can mark it down, you can put it down, you can take it anyway you want." George Stephanopoulos: "He's already there isn't he?" Donald Trump: "Well he's there in a certain way but I'm not there, you have Obama there, frankly that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength your talking about and all of the power of NATO, in the meantime he's going where he takes Crimea, he's sort of..." George: "but you said you might recognize that" Trump: "I'm going to take a look at that, but you know what the people of Crimea, from what I heard, would rather be with Russia, and you have to look at that also." Putin took Crimea by force! What and Who is telling him anything!!!

How Could Anyone Who Reads This, Or Witnessed Donald Trump's Statements Yesterday Alone, Think That He Wouldn't Be a Possibly Fatal Error For This Country?

Let's Talk About The Candidate From The Other Party In Our "Two-Party" System of Democracy (or what's left of it)


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Hillary Clinton Reverts Back To Original Lies On Sunday Shows - Yes, AFTER They Were Totally Discredited By F.B.I.

Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nominee for President of the United States says F.B.I. Director called her "Truthful" on e-mails. On Fox News Sunday on March 10, 2015 Clinton said "I did NOT e-mail any, um, classified material on my e-mail, there is no classified material." On July 25, 2015 also on Fox News Sunday "I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time...," August 18, 2015 "I had ah, not sent ah, classified material nor received anything marked classified." Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said to Clinton, on her first interview since the convention "After a long investigation F.B.I. Director James Comey said none of those things that you told the American public were true." Clinton responded {first with the trademark fake smile} "Chris, that's not what I heard Director Comey say {then using 2nd signature trademark when she's answering questions she praises the question and/or the person asking the question} I thank you for giving me the opportunity to, ah, in my view, clarify, Director Comey said my answers were truthful and what I said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the e-mails." Chris Wallace followed up with "But in a Congressional hearing on July 7th Director Comey directly contradicted what you had told the public." At that point he showed a clip from that hearing where Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) asked F.B.I. Director Comey "Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails either sent or received, was that true?" Director Comey said "that's not true." Rep. Gowdy continued "Secretary Clinton said that I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail, there is no classified material, is that true?" Director Comey responded by saying "There was classified material on her e-mail." Chris Wallace then said "Not only did he contradict what you said, he also said in that hearing that you were extremely careless and negligent." Clinton: "Well Chris, I looked at the whole transcript of everything that was said and what I believe, number one, I made a mistake, not using two different e-mail addresses, I have said that, and I repeat it again today. It's not anything I would ever do again. I take classification seriously, I relied on, and had every reason to rely on the judgements of the professionals with whom I worked." Joe Scarborough played this same clip on Morning Joe/MSNBC and at this point they cut from Clinton saying what is above and show Joe laughing and he says "Oh my God, she just blamed people, professionals, that she forced to communicate with her through an unsecured e-mail!

Hillary Almost Immediately "Promoted" Debbie Wasserman-Schultz When Leaked E-mails Proved The DNC Conspired Against The Sanders Campaign

How does anyone see Hillary hiring, "Promoting," DWS as "Honorary Chairperson" of her campaign not being first, the biggest slap in the face to Bernie Sanders and his supporters; and secondly, rewarding a co-conspirator for doing the dirty work? Really?! Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) did conspire to hurt the Sanders campaign. She, and the DNC, may have more problems.

Salon, in an article, 10 reasons why #DemExit is serious: Getting rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not enough on July 29, 2016 reported "Shortly after Bernie Sanders publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton a new hashtag trended on Twitter: #DemExit. The hashtag offered Sanders supporters a chance to vent their frustrations with the Democratic Party and with the sense that their candidate had been pressured into an endorsement. Rather than reach out to these disaffected voters, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ignored them."

Hillary Clinton has not only been caught lying to the American people on way to many occasions, but as of this past Sunday she has proved that she plans to go on doing the same thing. The fact that she knows she's lying, she knows that people know she's lying, and is arrogant enough to not care says it all.

What Are People Supposed To Do?

There is a third party choice. Green Party Presumptive Nominee for President of the United States, Dr. Jill Stein. Before you close this screen I ask you to read on just a little further. Not many people believe a third party candidate has a snowballs chance in hell in winning the office of the POTUS ninety-nine days from now. I'M WITH YOU! I don't believe Donald Trump has a snowballs chance in hell of winning the 2016 election for President of the United States either. I do believe a strong message needs to be sent to both the Democratic and Republican parties that Americans will fight to stop the media from "blocking" 3rd party candidates from getting any coverage. DecisionData.org 2016 Presidential Media Blackouts: Not Just Conspiracy , The Blaze Sanders Campaign Decries ‘Bernie Blackout’ on Corporate Network News and {although reported by Breitbart - whom I don't usually use as a source but this is a straightforward story} Anonymous Launches Campaign to Oppose Media Blackout of Green Candidate recently published article bringing light to this fact. Call it firing a shot over the bow.

Poll 7/30/16 - 7/31/16 76.47% say they would consider voting for a 3rd party candidate

The next thing people say is "you will draw people away from Hillary and Donald Trump will win, and that's too scary." Well, here's my thoughts on that. If Hillary Clinton can be so arrogant as to totally disrespect Bernie supporters and Bernie himself, what makes you think that she is going to follow-up on ("90% of what Bernie wanted in the platform got into the platform") getting those issues that are important to Bernie Sanders and his supporters that were put into the platform implemented? She went along to get him to endorse her and hopefully draw his supporters over to her. When she saw it wasn't going that way she basically said SCREW YOU ALL when she promoted DWS whom conspired against Bernie. People who didn't like Hillary already and found her "untrustworthy" as 70% of all Americans do are supporting Trump because he says what they want to hear and/or are racist to the bone. I wonder how many Trump supporters actually think he would do the job as President? Although the results of a poll I conducted (results above) had only 17 participants, of those who voted 76.47% said they would consider voting for a third party candidate. The poll remains open. Take the one question poll now.

Send A Message That We Will NOT Be Disrespected and Be Cheated Out Of Our Democracy By The Current Two-Party Corrupt System - Trump Will Not Win the Election, Period

Here are some of the comments I get people whenever I ask if someone they would consider voting for a third-party candidate:

1) "I would but I'm afraid to because I don't want Trump to win." Response: Trump will NOT win this election, not even the Republicans want that. Their party has been hijacked by him. Even though this presidential election is the most important in decades due to the fact that anywhere from two to five U.S. Supreme Court Justices will be appointed I do not fear Trump winning. Today on Morning Joe/MSNBC Joe Scarborough said he had talked to someone very close to Trump and that friend said that Trump believes his best outcome to be beat by a half a percentage point so he Could say "the election was stolen" for the rest of his life. This falls right in with what I've believed for some time. Trump would NOT take on the duties of POTUS, he's having fun because he's a mega-narcissist and getting tremendous attention on the campaign. See"Donald Trump Does NOT Want To Be President - He Will Never Take On The Duties of the POTUS" below.

2) "A third-party candidate doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning." Response: No, they don't. But if we send a message that we won't stand for a rigged two party system, AND fight injustices like the media block out of 3rd party candidates, AND that we're done putting up with the current, corrupt, disrespectful, politicians that don't represent us, but represent 1%er's and large corporations, by a noticeable percentage of voters voting for a 3rd party candidate, we CAN CHANGE FUTURE ELECTIONS! The "movement" will be moving forward and growing as the message of "we WILL vote for 3rd party candidates" is acknowledged.

3) "Although I like a lot of what is in Dr. Jill Stein's platform, there are things I disagree with." Response: You're not going to find a candidate running that is for all the positions that you are for, in ANY party. You certainly aren't going to find everything you want in what Trump and Clinton are saying and what they will actually do. Again how can you vote for someone like Trump who yesterday said "she has no right to criticize my campaign, she couldn't even beat Bernie." George Stephanopoulos had to remind him that "she DID beat Bernie," and Trump said "barely." Really?!

4) "What can we really do to get the "movement" or "revolution" to gain traction? Response: We can get behind groups, organizations, activists, that support 3rd party candidates and help their chances for future elections i.e. Anonymous Launches Campaign to Oppose Media Blackout of Green Candidate .

5) "We only have 98 days left before the election, what can we really get done?" Response: We can do a lot. We can get a percentage of the vote to make the two current parties see that we ARE ready to vote for 3rd parties. We can support, and work towards, getting obstacles for 3rd party candidates removed, so that in a future election a 3rd party candidate will actually have a chance to win!

What 3rd Party Candidate Should We Look At If We Were For Bernie Sanders?

     Take a look at Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party Presumptive Nominee for President of the United States. Dr. Jill Stein is on the ballot in 47 states at this point.

     Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, and politician. She is currently the Green Party's presumptive nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.^[1]^[2]^[3] Stein was the nominee of the Green Party for President of the United States in 2012,^[4]^[5]^[6] and was twice a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts—in 2002 and 2010.^[7]^[8]^[9]
She received 469,501 votes in 2012 (0.36% of the total votes),^[10] more than any other female general election candidate.^[11] On June 22, 2015, during an appearance on Democracy Now!, Stein formally announced she would seek the Green Party's 2016 presidential nomination.^[12]^{Read More: From Wikipedia}

What Platform is Jill Stein Running on?

It's called "Our Power To The People Plan." You'll see that the Green Party and Jill Stein want the same things that Bernie Sanders and his supporters want. See the entire platform here .

You've Told Us That The 1%er's Who Own The Media "Block Out" 3rd Party Candidates, Has Jill Stein Gotten Any Media Coverage?

Yes. A Google search for "Media coverage for Jill Stein" brings up much coverage that is favorable to her and can be increased with pressure on media outlets from the people. An example would be "Jill Stein campaign deserves media coverage" by Green Bay Press Gazette. Here's an except: " Jill Stein is on the ballot for Wisconsin and her campaign is working to get on the ballot in all 50 states to give dissatisfied voters another choice in November. In a democratic society, the media should take seriously their responsibility to inform voters about their choices on the ballot. I look forward to the Green Bay Press-Gazette running balanced coverage of Jill Stein as the election approaches." There is much more to read available on the search results page.

Donald Trump Does NOT Want To Be President - He Will Never Take On The Duties of the POTUS

A couple months after Donald Trump declared he was running for President, someone interviewing him showed him pictures of former President George W. Bush and of President Barack Obama, they were portrayed wearing garb of the country they were visiting (separate events) and Trump was asked if he would go to other countries and wear their traditional garb. Trump's response was a very quick "NO! no, I would have someone else do that." Donald Trump Jr. was sent to vet Governor John Kasich (R-OH) as a potential running mate for Trump. He asked Governor Kasich what he thought about being the most "powerful Vice President in the history of America." Kasich responded "how would that be?" Donald replied "you would be in charge of ALL domestic and foreign policy." Kasich said "but that's everything, what would President Trump be doing?" Donald Jr. replied "making America great again." This morning on Morning Joe/MSNBC Joe Scarborough said "I'm having a conversation with someone, again, very close to Trump, he told me "Trump doesn't want to lose, but also doesn't want to really win and have to govern, his best case scenario would be to lose by a half of percentage point and be able to say the election was stolen from him for the rest of his life." "This person knows him extraordinarily well" said Joe Scarborough. Given the fact that this reporter is still flabbergasted that so many people say they support and want Trump to be President, I don't believe they will all actually vote for him, and even less think he will actually fulfill the duties and rigorous schedule of a POTUS. Yesterday on the campaign trail Trump told the crowd "I'm afraid the election is going to be stolen ... It takes guts to do this... I could be having a very nice life right now, I don't have to be with "you people" ranting and raving, right, I could be having a very nice life."

Yesterday Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, and one of the richest men in the world, if not the richest, said "We've both done very well (Trump and himself) during this period and our families haven't sacrificed anything and Donald Trump and I haven't sacrificed anything. But how in the world can you stand up to a couple who have lost a son and talk about sacrificing because you have built a couple of buildings? I asked Donal Trump, have you no sense of decency sir?... "So he names the company after himself...for the next 10 years the company loses money every year, every single year, he takes out $44M in compensation during that period. In 1995 when he offered (Public Stock offering) this company, if a monkey had thrown a dart at the stock page the monkey on average would have made 150%." OH! SLAP! Did you hear it?

Hillary Clinton Will Not Work To Implement Those Issues Put Into The Democratic Platform By Bernie Sanders Influence

HRC basically let Bernie know the deal they made for him to full throatily endorse her in exchange for some of his issues being put into the Democratic Platform wasn't going to be honored, on her part, by working for those issues, when she "promoted" Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to "Honorary Chairman" of her campaign. Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace she reverted back to her old lies about her personal server and e-mails even though Chris Wallace showed her where F.B.I. Director Comey proved she was out right lying. She has the audacity to lie to the American people's face because she thinks we're that ignorant, or simply is so arrogant that she doesn't care, or both.
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