Build that wall!!!! Huh????

A wall or a parade???

Let's build a wall???
Nevermind! Perhaps a parade is better!!!

The "Honorable" Roy Moore from Alabama!

• homosexual conduct should be illegal
• 9/11 was God's punishment for "perverseness"
• personal belief..."Obama was not born here"!
• reference to the "Reds" and the "Yellows"
• Muslims should not sit in congress
• Islam is contrary to the U.S. constitution
• Islam is a "false" religion
• there's no such thing as "evolution"
• "God is the only source of our law"

And this embaraament to America (obviously not to Alabama) is likely to head to the Senate in December to represent the "American" people of Alabama!   You just can't make this sh*t up!

More details here from BBC News

Guns in America!

Zimmerman's Gun goes for $250,000!!!

R.I.P. Trayvon Martin!
More details at the Huffington Post!

I'm just sayin'!

Gun Control & White Terror!

From the NY Times Opinion pages by Charles Blow commenting on President Obama's Executive Order regarding Gun Contols:

"I firmly believe that part of the current intransigence is because those gun homicides disproportionately affect poor minorities.   (Gun suicides disproportionately affect white people.)   Indeed, the only time that national figures seem to get fully engaged is in the wake of mass shootings that involve white people, either as shooters or victims."

See the full article here.

Mr. Blow goes on to quote narrative from Adam Winkler's 'Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America'

And here's a piece regarding Mr. Winker's book that was published in today's Chicago Tribune!

"In the early Republic, the Second Amendment was no barrier to strict laws governing firearms.   The founding generation kept guns out of the hands of slaves, free blacks, and loyalists who opposed the American Revolution. Officials in some communities counted and registered guns and public safety prompted safe storage laws that mandated unloaded weapons by requiring the storage of gunpowder on a building's top floor.   After the Civil War, former Confederates forcibly disarmed freedmen in the South, while in the so-called Wild West, frontier towns prohibited concealed weapons.   The need to combat heavily armed gangsters led to prohibitively high taxes on particularly deadly weapons during the Great Depression.   When the radical Black Panthers took to exercising their legal right to brandish weapons openly, California legislatures, with Governor Ronald Reagan's support, passed tough measures to disarm them.   In many instances, the National Rifle Association went along with modest controls in the name of public safety."

I'm just sayin'

The crazies in the GOP are really crazy!!!

• President Barack Obama is a Muslim.   Numerous polls show that more than 50 percent of all Republicans believe this untrue claim to be true.
• President Barack Obama is not a legal citizen of the Unites States.   A September poll shows 29 percent of Republican voters believe Obama was born outside of the United State, not in Hawaii, where he was born.
• Forty-nine percent of Republicans do not believe in evolution.
• Allied forces did not find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after we invaded, but more than 41 percent of Republicans believe they did in a 2015 poll.
• Numerous Republican politicians claim Planned Parenthood officials sell fetal tissue so they can buy Lamborghinis.
• Roughly 40 percent of Republican voters do not believe the earth is warming because of human activity.
• Iran does not have the capacity to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons, but 45 percent of Republicans think it does and that military action is needed right now.
• Some GOP presidential candidates and members of Congress believe ISIS intends to attack the U.S. on our soil; they don’t buy the idea that what ISIS really wants is a Islamic caliphate in and around Syria.
• Republicans in the House claim simply “repealing” Obamacare is a practical and politically possible option.
• Over a third of Republican voters believe Donald Trump represents their best shot at winning the presidency.

Source: DecodeDC!

Rick Perry: "Gun Free Zones are a Bad Idea!

Jon Stewart: Charleston, S.C. No Jokes!

Faux News & Mike Huckabee!

Thankfully, there's no way this wacko can be the President of the United States!   Okay...but wait a second, I keep forgetting about all the Bible toting, right wing nut cases out there!   Then again, there's always Faux News!   It''s all Obama's fault...because as Donald Trump insists, this Negro in the White House was not born in America!   But wait...isn't this the greatest country on earth?   NOT!!!

Sunni or Shia (aka...Shiite)? Ask Dubya or Cheney! They probably didn't know the difference!

Sunni or Shia?
Both are branches of Islam and the adherents of both are Muslims, all bound by the same Quran, the same five pillars of Islam – belief in one God, daily prayer, fasting, charity, and hajj, or pilgrimage. Where they mainly differ is on the question of who should have succeeded the Prophet Muhammad, who founded Islam in 620.

Sunnis and Shiites differ on who should have succeeded Muhammad after his death in 632. (We're talking almost 1500 years ago people!)   Sunnis supported the succession of Abu Bakr, the prophet’s friend; Shiite Muslims felt the rightful successor was the prophet’s son-in-law and cousin, Ali bin Abu Talib.

Sunnis believe Muslim leaders can be elected, or picked, from those qualified for the job.   Shiites believe leaders should be direct descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.   So they don’t recognize the same authority in Islam – kind of like the way Catholics and Protestants are all Christians and have the same Bible, but only Catholics recognize the authority of the pope.   And like Catholics and Protestants, both Sunnis and Shiites have their own religious holidays, customs and shrines.

The Kurds
In the continuing conflict in Iraq, Kurds frequently are mentioned alongside Iraq’s Sunni and Shia Muslim populations as one of the key groups involved in power struggles for which sharp religious divides have played a major part.   But while the Kurds are a crucial part of Iraq’s political makeup, they are an ethnic group, not a distinct religious sect within Islam.   Kurds are more appropriately compared to Arabs, the largest ethnic group in Iraq, or other regional ethnic groups such as Assyrians or Turkmen.

The Yazidis
One of the groups caught in the path of Sunni militants fighting under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are the Yazidis, Violence against Yazidis predates the current offensive, although ISIS represents a more systematic threat to the group.

The Yazidis are an ethnically Kurdish religious group whose beliefs include elements similar to Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam. They are mainly concentrated in northern Iraq, but some also live in Syria, Turkey and a few other countries.

If you're still confused, perhaps this 4 minute video may help clear everything up!   It definitely helped me!!!

In God/Allah...whoever...We Trust! Who's who at the Zoo!

Ok...all you wackos line up!

I have a hard time keeping up with who's who at this wacko zoo.   Who's killing who and why?   I still don't know why!

ISIS/ISL:
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a jihadist rebel group that controls territory in Iraq and Syria and also operates in eastern Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and other areas of the Middle East,[24] North Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Many Islamic and non-Islamic communities judge the group to be unrepresentative of Islam.
The United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a "historic scale". The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, India, and Russia. Over 60 countries are directly or indirectly waging war against ISIL.

Al-Queda:
Al-Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. In the mid-1980s, Osama bin Laden became the prime financier for an organization that recruited Muslims from mosques around the world. These "Afghan Arab" mujahideen, which numbered in the thousands, were crucial in defeating Soviet forces.

Taliban:
The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. It spread throughout Afghanistan and formed a government, ruling as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until December 2001. While in power, it enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, an interpretation of which leading Muslims have been highly critical. The Taliban were condemned internationally for their brutal treatment of women.

From 1995 to 2001, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and military are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban. Pakistan is accused by many international officials of continuing to support the Taliban. Pakistan states that it dropped all support for the group after 9/11. Al-Qaeda also supported the Taliban with regiments of imported fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia.

Hamas:
Hamas' 1988 charter states that Hamas "strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine" (Article Six) and that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." Article Thirty-One of the Charter states: "Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions—Islam, Christianity and Judaism—to coexist in peace and quiet with each other.

Hezbollah:
Hezbollah emerged in South Lebanon during a consolidation of Shia militias as a rival to the older Amal Movement. Hezbollah played a significant role in the Lebanese civil war, opposing American forces in 1982–83 and opposing Amal and Syria during the 1985–88 War of the Camps. However, Hezbollah's early primary focus was ending Israel's 18-year-long occupation of southern Lebanon[2] following Israel's 1982 invasion and siege of Beirut.[41] When the Shia population of southern Lebanon realized that Israel had no intention of leaving, they rebelled. Amal, the main Lebanese Shia political group, initiated guerrilla warfare.

Boko Haram:
Boko Haram was founded as a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist sect advocating a strict form of sharia law and developed into a Salafist-jihadi group in 2009. Boko Haram killed more than 5,000 civilians between July 2009 and June 2014, including at least 2,000 in the first half of 2014, in attacks occurring mainly in northeast, north-central and central Nigeria.[16][17][18] Corruption in the security services and human rights abuses committed by them have hampered efforts to counter the unrest.[19][20] Since 2009 Boko Haram have abducted more than 500 men,[21][22] women and children, including the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014.[23] 650,000 people had fled the conflict zone by August 2014, an increase of 200,000 since May; by the end of the year 1.5 million had fled.

Who am I missing?   Here's a whole list of the other wackos!

But then again (from a Christian perspective)...there's always
Mike Huckabee!

Another Clown Car Just Pulled Up to the Rethuglican's Circus Tent!

What scares me the most is that Mr. Huckabee, and the other clowns at the Rethuglican circus, have an actual following!   You just can't make this sh*t up!   Only in America!

PS.   BTW...Mr. Huckabee is the author of "Gods, Grits, Guns and Gravy"!   To me, there is some thinking that he is as qualified to be President of the United States as much as Mrs. Palin was qualified to be a heart-beat away from the Presidency of the United States!   But then again, currently, there are other options...Carson and Fiorina!   WTF!

Rafael Ramos: R.I.P.

In spite of my thinking regarding Eric Garner and Michael Brown, I shed tears watching the funeral service for Rafael Ramos.   I watched the whole thing and it was heartbreaking...especially the videos/photos of his wife and sons.   Truly heartbreaking!   This is insanity!   When will America learn its' lesson about gun violence in this country!

Ferguson...Shoot to Kill!

"Officer Wilson fired 12 rounds, including two from the car and 10 more down the street, where Mr. Brown sustained at least six more wounds, including at his forehead and the top of his head, which suggested that his body was bent forward at the waist.

Mr. Brown’s body was about 153 feet east of Officer Wilson’s car. Mr. Brown’s blood was about 25 feet east of his body. This evidence supports statements that Mr. Brown continued to move closer to the officer after being hit by an initial string of bullets."

Source: New York Times

C'mon...you had to fire twelve shots and shoot this kid 6 times over some f*ckin' Cigarillos...AND he was 153 feet away from you!!!

This is Sad!

We had our grandson with us the other night.   We had on the local TV news network!   The coverage?   Murder!   Killings!   Hong Kong riots!   ISIS/ISL!   Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey!

He looked at us and said..."I don't like this".   We asked why?   He said...because this is sad!   He is 5 years old!!!

Is Everyone A Little Bit Racist?

via an Op-Ed article in the N.Y. Times by Nicholas Kristof.

"Let’s start with what we don’t know: the precise circumstances under which a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot dead an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown.

But here’s what evidence does strongly suggest: Young black men in America suffer from widespread racism and stereotyping, by all society — including African-Americans themselves."

This Op-Ed article is a very interesting perspective and a "must read! Take the tests!   I did.   It was an eye opener!   Trust me!

Does Your 9 Year Old Know How to Use an UZI?

So much for the 2nd Amendment!   This dude (instructor) is dead!

Mitch McConnell Brings A Gun to CPAC!

Unbelievable!   Just unbelievable!   There are definitely two Americas!

Compliments of the 2nd Amendment!

2nd Amendement:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

And from the NRA...
"While widely recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world.   But our successes would not be possible without the tireless efforts and countless hours of service our nearly four million members have given to champion Second Amendment rights and support NRA programs."

But I've bitched about this before!