Trump is Right about Songbird McCain and here’s why

On a tip from Phil

By

Ed Wood 

I do realize that everyone from Charles Krauthammer to the recently escaped Mexican drug lord, El Chapo, is piling onto Donald Trump for his straight-forward remarks. Well, being the contrarian that I am, I am going to come down on the side of Mr. Trump!

Do I like him? No. Never have. I don't like his swagger, his cockiness, his arrogance. And I certainly don't care for that mop of comb-over fake hair. But they say the difference between egotism and self-assurance is the ability to produce. By any measure, he certainly wins that contest, both at home and abroad. True, he was born with a silver spoon, but he, and he alone, turned it into gold!

The first thing he did after declaring his presidential candidacy was to observe that Mexico was not sending their "best and brightest" across our southern border. Instead, in Mr. Trump's opinion, they are sending their gang members, their druggies, their serial felons and killers. Certainly, the tragic instance in San Francisco, and others elsewhere, have borne out the truth of his statement.

But the Honorable Senator John McCain (R-AZ) picked a fight by calling him, and others like him, "crazies" for criticizing Mexican immigration. I guess when you are worth $10 BILLION of your own making, you feel free to take issue when a politician calls you crazy!

So The Donald retaliated with the statement that getting yourself captured doesn't necessarily make you a hero. "He's a war hero because he was captured? I like people who weren't captured." With that, all hell broke loose in the mainstream media, as well as the Karl Rove dominated Republican establishment -- and the gaggle of GOP presidential wannabes.

But it might behoove us at this point in time to wonder just why would getting captured make you a hero? And why would remaining in captivity make you a military expert, and thus qualified to currently fill the roles of chairman of both the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. And one might ask, how has his leadership in both these strategic positions of responsibility been working out for ya'?

Since Mr. Trump expressed his opinion, there is now a whole group of Vietnam veterans who have come forward with statements that highly question the Senator's preferential treatment as the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and his loyalty to his country while in captivity. Some even place him in the Jane Fonda category. Among the allegations are:

John McCain was a below average student, getting into the Naval Academy due to his father's and grandfather's influence and naval careers. Both were admirals. McCain was a boozing, smoking, womanizing party animal, graduating fifth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis.

John McCain's arms were broken not from being tortured by the North Vietnamese, as he has claimed, but when he improperly ejected from his plane over North Vietnam. According to his fellow prisoners, he was never tortured by the North Vietnamese.

John McCain's nickname among his North Vietnamese captors was "Songbird," as he was eager to tell them anything they wanted to hear to avoid torture. It is claimed that he made 32 propaganda videos for the North Vietnamese in which he blamed the United States for targeting schools, temples, orphanages, and hospitals. McCain has admitted to making one propaganda video.

And from a US Navy Aviator who served with McCain: "His "shoot down" was self-induced, as he DISOBEYED ORDERS and flew well below the 'floor,' getting himself shot down. There were several other jets on that particular mission and he was the only one shot down, because the others obeyed their orders."

But if you think these opinions of Senator McCain are somewhat negative, try this one by Theodore Shoebat, Communications Director for Rescue Christians, an organization that is on the ground in Muslim lands, rescuing Christians from persecution, and the author of two books, For God or For Tyranny and In Satan's Footsteps: The Source and Interconnections of all Evil.

"John McCain is a giant bag of scum; his mouth is a continual sewer of bile, his heart is a decayed rot of dung, his mind a river of filth, and his soul is amongst the damned. He is nothing but a murderous scumbag. His evils are so great, that the words of Trump don't even bother me. McCain is a demon incarnate. His service in Vietnam does nothing to justify the evils he has supported and pushed for."

The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it well: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Mr. Trump expressed his opinion, twice, apparently based upon ample facts.

Was it the politically smart thing for him to do? Perhaps not, but isn't it refreshing, for once, to see a candidate for political office speaking his mind, instead of having his thoughts evaluated by a panel of political analysts before expressing them?

At least Trump is now branded as a no-holds-barred fighter, a type of leadership our country desperately needs at this time -- and could certainly have used in the recent Iranian nuclear negotiations. Can you imagine the outcome had he been there instead of "Swiftboat" Kerry?

The GOP needs for someone to break away from the pack of wilting violets currently running for the 2016 candidacy, and Trump may have just done it! As I write this, the liberally reluctant Washington Post poll shows Trump leading by 24%, followed by Walker at 13, Bush at 12, Huckabee at 8, Rubio at 7, etc., etc.

Fasten your seat belts folks, we ain't seen nothing yet!

Trump is Right about Songbird McCain and here’s why

Couldn't agree more

Krauthammer: 'It will snow in Hell before the DOJ is going to go after [Hillary]'

Charles Krauthammer told viewers Friday on 'Special Report with Bret Baier' that "it will snow in Hell" before the Department of Justice investigates Hillary Clinton over revelations that some of the former Secretary of State's emails she kept on a private server contained classified information.

"I think it will snow in Hell before the DOJ is going to go after her," the Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist said. "They go after David Petraeus for a lot less, but not her, for obvious reasons. It's an extremely politicized Department of Justice."

Krauthammer went on to say that the the issue he questions over the Hillary Clinton's email reports is that the Intelligence Community Inspector General said "'the emails [Hillary] sent were classified at the time she sent them, and they remain classified,' so what [Hillary] said in the press conference was obviously untrue."

Couldn't agree more

Pelosi: Planned Parenthood Caught In 'A Controversy That Doesn't Exist'

And this c--t is a Catholic?

Makes me wonder what you have to do before you're excommunicated from the church.

On a tip and a quote from Ed Kilbane:

"Like most "progressives" Pelosi is incapable of rationale thought. She is a trained dog, conditioned only to respond to certain stimuli, and only in a certain way."

We have all watched the videos. Your tax dollars at work.

"[Republicans] have been out to get Planned Parenthood for as long as I can remember," Pelosi said opening her comments.

So they staged the whole thing right?

If you can stomach it watch again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyhz8Zjm1i0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCs_gvImyw

Please… someone tell me where that climate change Pope is?

Oh and Juan Williams, "The Lamborghini line was clearly a joke."

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi downplayed recent videos capturing senior members of Planned Parenthood discussing payment for fetal tissue, calling it "a controversy that doesn't exist" in her Thursday press conference.

Pelosi, a longtime backer of the organization, stuck up for Planned Parenthood, echoing their claims that they "have done nothing illegal." She added further that there should be an investigation of the "those people who are trying to ensnare" the organization.

"[Republicans] have been out to get Planned Parenthood for as long as I can remember," Pelosi said opening her comments.

"Planned Parenthood has as its top priority women's health," Pelosi said. "That's what they have always been about. One little part of it is — and women's health does include reproductive health, but it's about breast cancer, cervical cancer. Testing and service to women. It's a very, very important part of the lives of many women in America. "

"For some reason, the Republicans have had this in their sights…for a very long time," Pelosi said referring to Republicans wanting to defund the organization.

"This is about women's health. Planned Parenthood has said they have done nothing illegal," Pelosi continued. "They did not ever charge, which would be illegal, for fetal tissue. That they've only used — only have defrayed the cost of mailing that to someone, which is not breaking the law."

"I support what my colleagues are doing, which is to say lets have — everybody's calling for an investigation of Planned Parenthood. Lets have an investigation of those people who are trying to ensnare Planned Parenthood in a controversy that doesn't exist," she argued.

"Women's health is what is at stake, and Planned Parenthood is a very important part of promoting women's health in our country," she concluded. 

By killing their babies.

Pelosi: Planned Parenthood Caught In 'A Controversy That Doesn't Exist'

Meanwhile in Canada

You gotta love those Canadians

How do CANADIANS see us?

On TV in Canada: the Canadian's Version of David Letterman's Top 10. Just makes you want to shake your head in disbelief, and, just maybe choke someone in charge. 

This is Canada 's Top Ten List of America 's Stupidity. 

Of course we look like idiots - because... we are! 

# 10 Only in America ... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event. 

# 09 Only in America... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce are black while only 14% of the population is black, 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3 times the rate that go to whites, 5 times the rate that go to Hispanic 

# 08 Only in America... could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes. 

# 07 Only in America... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash. 

# 06 Only in America... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens. 

(probably should be number one) 

# 05 Only in America ... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be called EXTREMISTS 

# 04 Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. 

# 03 Only in America ... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike). 

# 02 Only in America... could you collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money. 

# 01 Only in America.... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all. 

Bonus: " Only in America do you have to pass a drug test to get a pay check, yet any crack head can get their welfare check no questions asked.” 

Meanwhile in Canada

After all the hoopla...

Sandra Bland’s death a suicide by hanging, 
prosecutor says

The MSM couldn't wait to blow this all out of proportion. 

She was hung by the cops because she's black and failed to use her turn signal.   

Bet you didn't hear a damn thing about this story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3168941/Troy-Goode-dies-Mississippi-incident-involving-Southaven-police-following-Widespread-Panic-concert.html

You know, wrong skin color.



Update:

Just when you thought it couldn't get anymore ridiculous. She was already dead in her mugshot.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sandra-bland-twitter-erupts-over-theory-that-hanged-woman-was-already-dead-in-her-mugshot-10411761.html

So she was killed at the scene and a photo taken of her dead face for a mugshot. Then they put her dead body in the jail cell and later hung her. So how many cops would have to be involved in this to pull it off? Not to mention the guy who did the autopsy. 

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Sandra Bland had marijuana in her system at the time of her death in a Texas jail cell, Warren Diepraam, a Waller County prosecutor, told reporters Thursday, citing preliminary autopsy results. He said the cause of death was hanging; the manner of death was suicide.

Bland did not have injuries on her hands, Diepraam said.

“The only injury that was found close to the hands were some lacerations or abrasions on her wrists, which are consistent with being handcuffed and struggling,” he said. “There were no bite marks or other injuries on her face, on her lips, on her tongue, which would be consistent with a violent struggle.” If there had been a violent struggle, Diepraam said, examiners would most likely not expect to see a uniform and consistent mark around Bland’s neck — which is what they, in fact, observed.

Guards in the jail that held Sandra Bland — a black woman whose arrest and, days later, death while in custody stirred anger nationwide — violated policies by failing to do timely checks on inmates, a report obtained Thursday by CNN shows.

The formulaic, two-page “special inspection report” from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards does not mention Bland by name. But it was filed on July 16, three days after Bland’s body was found in her cell, a death that authorities characterized as a suicide, but that family, friends and their supporters think is suspicious.

A timeline from the Waller County Sheriff’s Office of what’s seen in video from the jail states that a male guard stopped and briefly talked with Bland shortly after 7 a.m., but no one came back to check on her until 8:55 a.m.

That’s when jail personnel found her not breathing and hanged with a trash bag from a metal barrier that separated the bathroom from the rest of her cell, a death the sheriff’s office said “appears to be self-inflicted asphyxiation.”

The state report notes that there should be a “visual, face-to-face observation of all inmates by jailers no less than once every 60 minutes.” Not nearly two hours, as was the case in Bland.

In fact, the inspection report found that “documentation … revealed that Waller County is not completing (such checks) as required by Minimum Jail Standards.”

That’s not the only apparent violation.

The same report states county officials didn’t provide proof that jail staff had two hours of annual training with “the local mental health authorities … in accordance with their approved Mental Disabilities/Suicide Prevention Plan.”

“The training is to include the recognition, supervision, documentation and handling of inmates who are mentally disabled and/or potentially suicidal,” it says.

Separately, an inmate who was held in a cell adjacent to Bland told CNN she did not hear any commotion or screaming that would suggest foul play before the 28-year-old woman was found dead.

The woman, who asked not to be identified, said Bland was emotional and often crying during her three days in the jail.

The inmate says she spoke with Bland twice, and that Bland told her she was worried about not being able to talk with her family members, and was stressed about missing her first day of work at her new job.

Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis has released some preliminary autopsy results that indicate she had marijuana in her system and cutting scars on her arm.

Says Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith: “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind (Bland committed suicide).”

A form that appeared to be filled out by hand after her arrest states that Bland tried to overdose with pills in 2015 after losing a baby. And there are check marks next to “yes” on these questions:

• Have you ever been depressed?

• Do you feel this way now?

• Have you had thoughts of killing yourself in the past year?

Yet a separate document, which appears to be from a computer, has “no” answers to all these questions. However that document does say that she attempted suicide “by taking pills” in 2015.

If Bland was suicidal, author and activist DeWayne Charleston said the blame lays on Smith, his office and his jailers for not doing more to keep her alive.

“Maybe they didn’t have information about her mental state — it doesn’t matter,” Charleston, a former Waller County justice of the peace, told CNN. “She was in (Smith’s) care, custody and control, and he bears responsibility.”

Yet Charleston and many others don’t buy the idea that Bland killed herself.

Yes, she did post a video to Facebook on March 31 saying she has “a little bit of depression as well as PTSD.” But that doesn’t mean she wanted to kill herself now — especially not after having received two job offers, including one she’d accepted at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, in Texas.

Theresa Dear — a long-time minister at DuPage AME Church outside Chicago, which Bland attended growing up — noted that, as Bland tried to get money to post $5000 bail, she had a bright future to look forward to and looked likely to be released soon.

“How could someone go from a place of being excited about the future to now wanting to take their own life?” Dear told CNN’s “New Day,” accusing officials of selectively putting out “crumbs and morsels,” but not the full story. “We, as a family and a community who love Sandra Bland, do not accept … this narrative that the Texas authorities are putting in the media that she had suicidal tendencies.”

Another thing that has angered Bland’s supporters, and raised their suspicions even more, is how and why she was arrested in the first place.

The charge she faced was assault on a public servant. Yet this only happened after she was pulled over for allegedly failing to use her turn signal on July 10.

This did seem chicken shit. But the cop gave her a warning not an actual ticket. The confrontation took place only after she called him a 'pussy'. She must have missed class the day they talked about Newton's 3rd law of motion.

What started as a seemingly normal conversation got testy after Texas state Trooper Brian Encinia asked Bland to put out her cigarette.

Encinia then wrote, in his arrest warrant affidavit, that Bland became “combative and uncooperative” and that she was placed in handcuffs “for officer safety.”

“Bland began swinging her elbows at me and then kicked my right leg in the shin,” Encinia said. “I had a pain in my right leg and suffered small cuts on my right hand. Force was used to subdue Bland to the ground to which Bland continued to fight back.”

A dashcam video doesn’t show the confrontation, but it does show that Encinia told Bland she was under arrest before it happened.

Regardless, Bland’s family doesn’t think the traffic stop over a turn signal should have escalated to an arrest.

“I simply feel like the officer was picking on her, and I believe that is petty,” her sister Sharon Cooper told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”

LaVaughn Mosley, who says Bland left him a voicemail after her arrest indicating she was “at a loss for words” but not hinting about suicide, said it is all a shame — especially her death.

“Here is a young black female who was on her way to being successful,” Mosley said. “I don’t know what happened in that jailhouse, but obviously something went terribly wrong.”

After all the hoopla...