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I’ve been there, and it is awesome! (I’m surprised you left, without making “a scene”!!!)
Been there several times — LOVED IT! LOL at “w/o making a scene;” on her last day there, I imagine them having to escort her from the premises…
That’s what I was thinking. Maybe she tried to take a little ride? Ha!
It was sooooo hard not to. Tears
streamed down my cheeks as we rode away! 😂
Took every ounce of strength I could muster! 😄
I have been there too and I loved it. Hope to go back again some day.
Feel. That. BURN.
Let It Be……So!
God bless that sweet little baby!
At a BLM Demonstration, somehow, a Cop shoots a young Black man and now he is dead.
Both Minneapolis Mayor……the Female Mayor many months ago photographed with ‘Gang Sign’…….all lies as told by the Police and the Gov are both calling for Fed Investigation.
This kids are a joy to watch, to listen too.
Thanks to POTUS and FLOTUS for honoring these young kids.
The National arts and humanities youth program awards were a joy to watch. FLOTUS was lovely as usual.
Cam Newton Doesn’t Owe You Modesty
Nov 16, 2025
excerpt:
In both of these games though, criticisms against Newton arose – same as they always seem to do – and detractors seem to have a lot of trouble saying what they really mean. Sometimes it’s really vague and noncommittal: Newton is annoying, or he just “bothers” them. And other times, they’ll just come right out and say “Cam Newton is a thug.”
All of this becomes so much more interesting when you consider the relative silence when it comes to outbursts by quarterbacks of lighter shades. Take into account Carson Palmer after the Arizona Cardinals’ 39-32 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night, or in Week 4 of 2012 when Matt Ryan famously told the Panthers to ‘get the [expletive] off his field.’
Hm.
The word “thug” tends to get tossed around a lot when it comes to non-majority race people doing things that majority race people find distasteful, and I find its use a little problematic. Actually, I’m not a fan of the word “problematic” because it’s way too easy to hide behind. I like my bigots out in the open and easy to identify.
If your problem is that Cam Newton is too rough around the edges for your genteel sensibilities, then that’s a personal problem. If your problem is that you don’t enjoy watching Cam Newton dance, then keep him out of the end zone. If your problem is that you want Cam Newton to stay in his place, too bad.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/11/carolina-panthers-quarterback-cam-newton-doesnt-owe-you-modesty-dabbing-titans-panthers-thug-coded-language
Cam Newton isn’t the shade of Brady, Manning, Rodgers. So he won’t get the respect of Manning, Brady, Rodgers.
Bella, to be honest, white racists can’t stand brilliant people of color who are self confident.
nathkatun7, I know, I’ve seen that the last seven years with our President and First Lady.
BECAUSE nothing says REAL MAN that beating up on a defenseless woman.
Once again…none of these muthaphuckas will take themselves to the local mosque at prayer time.
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HATE CRIME ALERT: “Muslim Mother Attacked Outside School in Toronto”
Toronto police say they are treating a brazen assault on a Muslim woman near an elementary school in the Flemingdon Park area as a hate crime.
The woman was picking up her children from Grenoble Public School on Monday when she was attacked by two men, police told 680 NEWS and CityNews.
Police said the incident occurred around 3 p.m. near Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East.
The two men approached the woman and started hurling anti-Islamic and racist profanities at her.
Attackers yelled obscenities at Muslim women as they beat her. “You terrorist, you don’t belong here. You piece of Sh*!@, go back home”
Victims brother says she was attacked from behind, grabbed by her hijab, thrown to the ground, & punched several times in the stomach & face.
http://www.themuslimguy.com/hate-crime-alert-muslim-mother-attacked-outside-school-in-toronto/
Foreign Policy, pfff, it ain’t brain surgery.
GA Don.
GOP are such whiners, bullies.
They excel at outlandish outrage (dutifully published by our unquestioning MSM) yet cannot take MSM questions or truth about themselves.
GA Nena.
So the complicated Foreign Policy lessons got or made Carson to lie and fabricated and then imagined his own Intel apparatus?
What an arse!
THIS GUY NEEDS TO REMAIN A SURGEON…HE IS A STRANGE DUCK!
UNDER.THE.JAIL.
WHAT.DA.PHUQ?!?!?!?!?
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Mentally handicapped black worker rescued after 4 years of torture and enslavement by SC restaurant owners
David Ferguson DAVID FERGUSON
17 NOV 2015 AT 11:30 E
Two brothers in Horry County, South Carolina are facing charges that they treated a mentally handicapped black employee like a slave for years, beating and overworking the man, who lived in squalor on property owned by their restaurant.
According to the Charleston Post and Courier, two Charleston attorneys filed a civil suit on behalf of Christopher Smith, who worked at the J&J Cafeteria in Conway for 23 years, but was hideously abused and exploited from 2010 to 2014.
The suit lists 14 counts against J&J owner Ernest J. Edwards and manager Bobby Paul Edwards, including false imprisonment, discrimination and exploitive labor practices. Bobby Edwards, 50, was arrested a year ago in connection with the case. Those charges are still pending.
Last October, Smith was rescued when social workers received a tip from an anonymous source who expressed concern for the man’s safety. Attorneys Mullins McLeod and David Aylor said that while the civil suit cannot change the past or rectify the harm done to Smith, hopefully it will “bring about positive change in the future.”
The Post and Courier explained that Smith worked at the Edwards brothers’ business for more than two decades, but it was when Bobby took over as manager in 2010 that Smith’s situation turned ugly.
Smith was routinely called the N-word, according to the suit. He was savagely beaten with a frying pan, hot tongs, butcher knives, belt buckles and fists. He worked 18-hour shifts Monday through Saturday and 11-hour shifts on Sundays with no breaks, receiving little pay. His total wages for each year added up to less than $3,000.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/mentally-handicapped-black-worker-rescued-after-4-years-of-torture-and-enslavement-by-sc-restaurant-owners/
Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a “30 Front War”
Ginni Thomas, Allen West, and a crew of conservative activists and journalists have formed a hush-hush coalition to battle progressives—and Karl Rove.
—By David Corn | Thu Jul. 25, 2013 11:53 AM EDT
Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington—including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner—has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for “a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation,” according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.
Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell—including aides to congressional Republicans—cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and “clueless” GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks. (For more on Groundswell’s “two front war” against Rove—a major clash on the right—click here.)
One of the influential conservatives guiding the group is Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a columnist for the Daily Caller and a tea party consultant and lobbyist. Other Groundswell members include John Bolton, the former UN ambassador; Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy; Ken Blackwell and Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council; Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch; Gayle Trotter, a fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum; Catherine Engelbrecht and Anita MonCrief of True the Vote; Allen West, the former GOP House member; Sue Myrick, also a former House GOPer; Diana Banister of the influential Shirley and Banister PR firm; and Max Pappas, a top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas
GOPers are always plotting, strategizing feverishly to gain more political power.
Jan 20th, 2009 political Coup d’etat against Pres Obama was not enough. Sinking the US Credit Rating, Not enough. Historic Obstructionism, not enough. Controlling the MSM, not enough. Stopping and Denying many their right to vote, not enough. No wonder their Obsession with Pres Obama getting the best of them is driving them Insane.
I hope the rest Mankind would work collectively to rid ourselves of this ISIL/Daesh Curse.
uh huh, Unca Ben.
uh huh
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Ben Carson Won’t Explain His Mysterious Palm Beach Real Estate Deal
Does he own this $10 million horse estate? His campaign won’t say.
—By Russ Choma | Tue Nov. 17, 2015 6:00 AM EST
Last week, Mother Jones and the Associated Press reported that GOP front-runner Ben Carson had a business relationship with a felonious ex-dentist in Pittsburgh named Alfonso Costa, who had once been convicted of healthcare fraud. Carson made between $200,000 to $2 million last year on a real estate investment linked to Costa, whom Carson has often described as his best friend. When these stories appeared, Carson said he stood by Costa, but he declined to say much else. A further examination of Carson’s financial disclosure form and public records indicates that the retired neurosurgeon has another lucrative real estate investment that may be associated with Costa. But the disclosure statement doesn’t provide all the required information about this asset, and the Carson campaign refused to answer questions about this property.
On the disclosure form, Carson lists a plot of land in West Palm Beach worth $1 to $5 million. He describes the property as “CPC Grand Prix South Lot.” Yet there are no Palm Beach County real estate records that show Carson’s ownership of this lot.
Local real estate records note that Carson does own property in the area, but only his personal residence, which is on a golf course in West Palm Beach and was purchased for $775,000 in 2013. If Carson owns any other real estate in Palm Beach County—such as this CPC Grand Prix South Lot—he must hold it via an investment vehicle. Yet neither of the shell corporations that Carson and his wife list on his disclosure—corporations through which they invested in a Pittsburgh real estate deal connected to Costa—own property in Palm Beach County. So how does Carson own the Palm Beach property he lists on the disclosure form?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/ben-carson-alfonso-costa-palm-beach-real-estate
Ahem! :)
Hmm…..so what was this about now….
Hopefruit2, this was all about media hype and sensationalism to make people so afraid. Remember how they hyped and sensationalized Ebola?
hopefruit2, racists white Republicans.
These right wing racists tea party whites are disappointed in everything this President does.
You nailed it!!!!
Why did Harwood feel the need to post this? This is nothing new.
They all like to seem “in the know.” Other than that, no idea! :)
Great tweet, hopefruit2! It’s comments like Harwood’s that shows how insideus racism is in this country.
Oh Yes, what a Tweet, HF!
BOOM! Thank you JO’B.
Ha. My pleasure!
Well done, JO’B! It so sickening to see elected Democrats distancing themselves from one of the most accomplished Democratic presidents in history. By the way, PBO, unlike Bill Clinton, won the majority of the popular votes (53% in 2008 and more than 51% in 2012). Compare that to Clinton’s 43%, 1992 and 49% in 1996.
I like those numbers!!! And I really like PBO! We made a good choice, for sure. :)
Yes we did, JO’B! No matter how much they try to re-write history, we will be there to set the record straight.
I’ll be there with you, with every one of the breaths I have left! :)
>-I >-I >-I
Brava, JO’B!
Thanks!
Not exactly a confidence-building article for Ben Carson supporters, but what do they care? In addition to several obnoxious remarks covered in this, the last sentence alone tells the tale of the character of some of Dr. C’s advisers. Ugh.
Sounds a lot like Sarah P.
It does, unfortunately, but he has a brain - he just didn’t bother, looks like, to make himself knowledgeable on FP long before this.
GA JO’B.
Ben Carson his foreign policy training from Herman “Ubekibekibekistan” Cain, LOL.
See upthread response to Nena and Don for other Carson-related tweet gems.
Oh thanks!
That’s true Jacqueline. PBO started years before he ran for any office. He has a good background in FP.
I believe Dr. Carson has expressed “that’s what advisers are for.” Whole different outlook, as you mentioned!
Indeed!
Carson’s poll numbers are already dropping. He won’t last that long…
He won’t leave until his ego walks out first. But I’m hopeful, too.
I don’t think he’s getting out any time soon, Carson doesn’t do short cons. You never quit on a long con, you die with the long con, but you never quit on a long con.
Herman 999 Cain.
Who didn’t see this coming? LOL…
I was just coming here to ask if anybody had any salt. If so, pass it.
Our last best hope…..wait…….there is another!
Poor Jindal! All that self-hatred got him nothing.
wanted to share this in a tweet - great message
thanks a lot!
:)
will the republic “survive” Jindal’s exit ?
bobby fucking jindal is effing out. you don’t deserve him, murka.
amk, was he ever in?
Was Bobby Jindal ever in? Sorry Jindal?
Bobby fucking jindal we hardly knew thee. Now, GTFOH.
On the same day that President Obama is on the cover of GQ magazine Bobby Jindal drops out of the race for the Presidency, it is a cruel world in which we live in. I think tonight when my wife and I have our after dinner drink I’m going to pour some out for my brothers on lockdown and for Bobby Jindal.
America’s “deep loss” - what is the country going to do now?
I am betting that he has another hustle already lined up
just wait till he pulls out all those miss me yet? billboards.
I have seen that in the LA race for governor, the Democrats are almost using him as an insult to hit back at Vitter’s as an example of what another gop would mean for the state
At home, as he confronted debilitating budget problems, he saw his poll numbers drop. A University of New Orleans survey released this month found Jindal’s approval rating in Louisiana at just 20 percent. Republicans have grown increasingly concerned that Jindal’s low standing will imperil their hold on the governor’s office; with the runoff approaching, polls show Republican David Vitter trailing Democrat John Bel Edwards.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bobby-jindal-2016-suspends-presidential-campaign-216002#ixzz3rnZwEQs0
GCL, I bet his new “hastle ” is to go to the Louisiana borders and ports of entry to publicly turn away any Syrian refugees from entering Louisiana.
Very interesting…
In other words, these ISIS recruits have more in common with the angry, US-born & bred dudebros than they do with religious Muslims or refugees.
Dylann Root….
What a horrible and heartless man! Obviously, he learned no lessons from his cowardly act during the Ebola fearmongering Thank God it looks like he has no chance of being elected president.
Sorry if it has been posted already.
Jindal suspends campaign for GOP presidential nomination
“This is not my time,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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for a
dogpig catcher?:D
How come God only talks to right wing Republican politicians? Where in the Bible does it say that God is a right wing, teabagger, Republican?
Lol, this is so bad it can’t be real. And he does look like Mr. Bean!
he is trying to get a selfie :D :D
Record their conversation.
What an arse. There were surrounded with SS and KGB guys. He is so fortunate that he was Not severely roughed up.
Good grief! Must be the Twilight Zone.
Big love for the VP:
Dmitry Medvedev aged!
What can go WRONG with This!
Oh, man. Spare me.
meta…this really worries me….i think that she is about to do something stupid
Well, if her pals Schumer and DiFi are any indication, you may be correct. I wish these politicians would take a deep breath and wait to see what the evidence brings to light and how the international community is coalescing to fight Daesh. Is that too much to ask?
there are DEMs who want to do a rest post Obama…
reset=rest
I think that’s just a basic part of any presidential campaign. I went to hear Senator Obama’s foreign policy speech in April 2007 at the Chicago Hilton. http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/04/obama_foreign_policy_speech_te.html
I understand…but this is different…you have a sitting Democrat in the White House…the drums of war are beating louder and louder….The DEMS who are WAR Hawks are joining that chorus…the other DEMS are silent..Now we will have Hillary 2nd guessing the President…claiming the credit for the successes of the President’s Foreign Policy and saying i told you so for things that he is being criticized…
As long as she doesn’t undermine our President in the process.
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/11/17/chat-away-719/
Michael Morell: First, ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the Snowden disclosures they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent … And so part of their rise was understanding what our capabilities were, adjusting to them so we couldn’t see them. No doubt in my mind. And the people who say otherwise are just trying to defend Edward Snowden.
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