As a Republican I'm not terrified...

Just wondering if the First Lady weighs more then her husband.

Oh...and BTW I usually don't criticize Barry's family. But I'm really getting sick of hearing how health conscious and beautiful she is.

Now you know why her makeup artist makes $1500 bucks an hour.

---------------------------------------

Don't mess with Michelle! First Lady stars in new KICKBOXING video that is sure to terrify Republicans

Michelle Obama has made two-minute workout video and posted it online

Shows First Lady benching 35lbs weights and raining blows on punch bag

Suggesting five ways to keep healthy as part of her Let's Move campaign

Comes after Barack Obama uploaded his own video five days ago 

By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline

Published: 03:22 EST, 20 May 2015 | Updated: 04:50 EST, 20 May 2015

Michelle Obama has posted a workout video online that shows her pumping iron, crunching her abs with a medicine ball, and smacking a punch-bag with a roundhouse kick.

The two-minute clip shows Michelle in full workout gear in the gym with the family's personal trainer Cornell McClellan putting her through her paces. 

The First Lady tweeted the video to husband Barack Obama after the President posted his own film showing him going running in a suit and drinking water with Joe Biden in the Oval Office.

Michelle Obama responds to husband with #GimmeFive workout

Michelle Obama has posted a video of herself working out, including going a few rounds with a punching bag, as part of her keep fit campaign

The First Lady is shown being put through her paces by the family's personal trainer Cornell McClellan, as she delivers a solid-looking roundhouse kick

The video starts with Michelle jumping rope, which McClellan says is a 'low impact' exercise to help warm up, and assists with hand eye coordination.

The pair then move on to ab exercises with a medicine ball and 'explosive' bench squats, before Michelle grabs a set of weights for some chest presses - with an impressive 35lbs in each hand.

Then Michelle straps on a pair of blue boxing gloves for some 'fun' with a punching bag, with McClellan encouraging viewers to mix in a few kicks to keep things interesting.

Michelle is then shown delivering a neat two-punch combo before smacking the bag with a roundhouse kick.

Michelle tweeted the workout video to her husband five days after he uploaded his own video showing five ways he keeps healthy around the White House

Among the five ways Michelle says she like to keep fit is with boxing and incline chest presses (pictured) lifting a rather impressive 35lbs in each hand

The video is part of the First Lady's Let's Move campaign, which is aimed at inspiring children to get out and get active.

As part of the campaign, she has been asking celebrities and ordinary folk to 'Gimmie Five', meaning five way to keep fit and active.

Five days ago President Obama posted his own video on five ways he stays active, which includes jogging in his suit, and hosting 'walk and talk' meetings rather than sitting down.

Michelle's five exercises are slightly more demanding, including jumping rope, ab crunches with a medicine ball, bench squats, dumbell presses, and boxing.

As part of Michelle's Let's Move campaign, she has been encouraging people to share five ways they like to keep fit under the hastag Gimme Five

When Barack Obama shared his five ways to keep fit a week ago it attracted only a handful of retweets and likes, but Michelle's video easily surpassed that within just a few hours

As a Republican I'm not terrified...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's mother says US will burn 'in eternal flames' over Boston bomber's death sentence

When execution day arrives they ought to strap this freeloading witch along side her scumbag son.

--------------------------------------------------------

The mother of the man convicted of carrying out the Boston marathon bombing has sent a stream of ominous messages to friends in the wake of his death sentence.

(She actually has friends!)

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva has used WhatsApp messaging service to tell supporters of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that the United States will burn “in the flames of an eternal and terrifying fire”.

It was reported that Tsarnaev’s mother sent the message to a friend and supporter, Zarina Kasenova, at the weekend in the wake of her son receiving the death penalty.

(If they haven't done so already maybe someone should look into who her "friends" really are)

According to CNN News, it is the first time since 9/11 that a federal prosecutor has won the death penalty in a terrorism case.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his part in the bombings, with all the charges against him relating to the second of two pressure-cooker bombs placed close to the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon.

The messages were discovered on Russian social media, where supporters of Mr Tsarnaev have created a group to raise money for his defence.

Ms Tsarnaeva wrote: “Allah is the greatest. His decisions are the greatest. Inshaallah to him we belong and to him we will return.

“They think that they are killing us and they celebrate this, but we are the ones who will rejoice when Allah grants us the chance to behold them in the flames of an eternal and terrifying fire, an otherworldly flame, inshaallah.”

Responding to her son’s conviction in April, Ms Tsarnaeva told news website, Vocativ: “How can a mother feel whose son is in the claws of a predator preparing to tear him to pieces like meat?

“They will pay for my sons and the sons of Islam, permanently. The tears of their mothers will be fuel for them in Hell.”

No wonder her sons turned out the way they did.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's mother says US will burn 'in eternal flames' over Boston bomber's death sentence

'Gruesome crime': Police say 9 dead after Texas biker gang brawl

I'm not a biker and had little interest in this story until I read what was going on at Twitter published by the Daily Mail.

Some took to Twitter to suggest that the way the bikers found at the scene were treated is evidence that US authorities are racist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3085546/At-nine-dead-huge-gun-battle-rival-biker-gangs-Twin-Peaks-restaurant-Waco-Texas.html

For starters imagine these were Black motorcycle gangs and 9 of them were shot by white cops. Need I say more?

BTW...Notice how they substituted "skinhead" for biker to give it an added racial overtone since it was never used in this article or the one on the Daily Mail.

---------------------------------------------------------

Police said nine members of rival Texas motorcycle gangs were killed Sunday and 18 others were injured after a meeting to settle disputes over territory and recruitment degenerated into a brawl and shootout outside a Waco restaurant.

The violence erupted shortly after noon local time at a busy shopping center along Interstate 35 that was full of people, including families marking Baylor University's graduation this weekend. Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told the Associated Press eight people died at the scene of the shooting at a Twin Peaks restaurant and another person died at a hospital.

Authorities said that all those killed and injured belonged to one of at least five biker gangs who had gathered at the restaurant. The injuries suffered by victims included stabbing and gunshot wounds, with some being treated for both. 

"This is probably one of the most gruesome crime scenes I've ever seen in my 34 years of law enforcement," Swanton said. "Within 25 feet there were families eating dinner ... I was amazed that we didn't have innocent civilians killed or injured."

Later Sunday, Swanton said that at least 100 people had been detained for questioning by police. It was not immediately clear if anyone had been charged. 

Preliminary findings indicate a dispute broke out in a bathroom, escalated to include knives and firearms and eventually spilled into the restaurant parking lot, Swanton said. There were 150 to 200 gang members inside the restaurant at the time. Shots were fired inside and outside the restaurant, he said.

Swanton described the interior of the restaurant after a Sunday night walk-through, saying it was littered with bullet casings, knives, a club, bodies and pools of blood. Authorities would be working the rest of the night to process the reams of evidence, he said.

The Dallas Morning News reported that chains, brass knuckles, and clubs were also used in addition to knives and guns.

Police were aware of the meeting in advance, Swanton said, and at least 12 Waco police officers in addition to state troopers were outside the restaurant, part of a national chain that features scantily clad waitresses, when the fight began. 

Swanton said that officers shot armed bikers, which he said may have prevented further deaths. It was not known if any of the nine dead were killed by police officers.

"We've been made aware in the past few months of rival biker gangs ... being here and causing issues," Swanton said. He said that the restaurant's operators also were aware of the meeting in advance, and he described the management as uncooperative with authorities in addressing concerns.

"Apparently the management (of Twin Peaks) wanted them here and so we didn't have any say-so on whether they could be here or not," Swanton said.

A statement sent Sunday night on behalf of Jay Patel, operating partner for the Waco franchise, said, "Our management team has had ongoing and positive communications with the police," and added that the restaurant was cooperating with the investigation.

Swanton addressed Patel's statement late Sunday night, calling it a "fabrication."

Rick Van Warner, a spokesman for the Dallas-based corporate franchisor, said the company is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting and is "seriously considering revoking" the Waco location's franchise agreement.

Van Warner said he couldn't address what the franchise owners "did or didn't do leading up to this," but added that the company is "very upset that clearly our standards of safety and security were not upheld in this particular case," he said.

Doug Greeness, a biker from Belton, Texas, was near the scene Sunday evening. He said he's a member of a family riding club and was waiting for friends to be released from custody so he could return home.

Greeness, who was not inside the restaurant when the melee broke out, described the event as a meeting of a biker association called the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents. He said the group meets to "discuss issues within the biker community."

Officers with numerous law enforcement agencies were seen parked along the service road for I-35 near the city and were stationed in several points in downtown Waco around the local convention center. Swanton said authorities are increasing security in the area to prevent further violence among the gangs.

The Dallas Morning News reported that the hospital where most of the injured were taken was briefly sealed off by police in an effort to prevent the possibility of more violence. 

"You could not get into the entrance unless you were having a heart attack or having a baby or in an ambulance," one woman told the paper. Officers searched everyone entering the hospital for weapons and moved relatives of the injured bikers to a separate waiting area. 

Swanton told reporters that police had received information that more bikers were on their way to Waco late Sunday in response to the shootout. 

"I would encourage them not to [come here]," Swanton said. "Because we have plenty of space in our county jail."

'Gruesome crime': Police say 9 dead after Texas biker gang brawl

If they were employed where the bomb exploded it would have been workplace violence

Carmen Ortiz U.S. Attorney speaks to reporters after the Tsarnaev verdict displaying another fine example of bending over backwards to placate Muslims. 

Video 114

“Make no mistake, the defendant claimed to be acting on behalf of all Muslims." — this was not a religious crime,” Ortiz said.

Who is she kidding? A day doesn't go by you don't read about Muslim atrocities committed somewhere around the world.

If it isn't a religious crime why even bring up Muslims? 

And just how do you explain this:

Here’s the Note Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Wrote Inside the Boat Where He Was Captured

The pencil-written message, which prosecutors say is a written confession from Tsarnaev, is partly covered by streaks of blood and bullet holes. Boston Police officer Todd Brown testified on Tuesday that the holes were made by bullets shot from outside of the boat.

The full text of the message reads:


I’m jealous of my brother who

ha [hole] ceived the reward of jannutul Firdaus (inshallah)

before me. I do not mourn because his soul is

very much alive. God has a plan for each person.

Mine was to hide in his boat and shed some

light on our actions I ask Allah to make me a

shahied (iA) to allow me to return to him and

be among all the righteous people in the highest levels

of heaven.

He who Allah guides no one can misguide

A [hole] bar!

I bear witness that there is no God but Allah

and that Muhammad is his

messenger [hole] r actions came

with [hole] a [hole] ssage and that

is [hole] ha Illalah. The U.S.

Government is killing our innocent

civilians but most of you already

know that. As a M[hole] I can’t

stand to see such evil go unpunished,

we Muslims are one body, you hurt

one you hurt us all, well at least that’s

how Muhammad (pbuh) wanted it to be [hole] ever,

the ummah is beginning to rise/awa [hole]

has awoken the mujahideen, know you are

fighting men who look into the barrel of your

gun and see heaven, now how can you compete

with that. We are promised victory and we

will surely get it. Now I don’t like killing

innocent people it is forbidden in Islam

but due to said [hole] it is allowed.

All credit goes to [hole].

A [hole] pretty much covers it for both Tsarnaev and Ortiz.

If they were employed where the bomb exploded it would have been workplace violence

Speed Control Was Installed, Not On at Time of Amtrak Crash

I just got done watching the Democrats blame the recent Amtrak train crash on our failing infrastructure demanding we should spend millions right away to correct it. Fuck the fact the engineer who used to be a clerk at Target was going 106 around a 50MPH curve! Of course we also had to hear from Cher the final authority... head of the NTSB.

Follow 

Cher Verified account

‏@cher

hrs ago,Republicans chose 2 cut Some of The meager Funds,4 AMTRAK!

They did this EVEN AFTER the Train Crash& loss of Life,last nite!

If you follow Cher you'll wind up in a long line at the psychiatrist's office. 

If you want to get down to brass tack this accident had nothing to do with money. It had all to do with:

A. The engineer driving more than twice the speed limit.

B. The inefficiency and bureaucratic red tape at Amtrak.

---------------------------------------------

Speed Control Was Installed, Not On at Time of Amtrak Crash

All seven train cars derailed in the crash in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing eight people and injuring more than 200.

A computer system that allows speeding trains to be slowed remotely – potentially averting deadly derailments – was installed in the section of track in Philadelphia where Tuesday’s fatal Amtrak crash occurred but had not been turned on, congressional sources tell U.S. News. 

“The PTC was installed in the section of track where the Philadelphia accident occurred, but for whatever reason had not been turned on, the PTC in that section,” Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., tells U.S. News, referring to "positive train control." 

His account was corroborated by Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md. 

“The tracks had PTC, the train had PTC,” Harris says.

Both congressmen are members of the House Appropriations Committee, which contacted Amtrak for more information about the crash.

The train, Amtrak Northeast Regional 188 from the nation's capital to New York City, was hurtling at more than twice the recommended speed limit when it jumped the tracks just after 9 p.m. Yet the technology that could have slowed it had not been enabled – allegedly because of delays in installing the system, Harris, Dent and a third congressional source say, citing communications between the Appropriations Committee and Amtrak. 

"According to Amtrak, PTC was installed in the section of track where the Philly accident occurred," a committee source writes in an email to U.S. News. "There have been delays in 'turning it on' associated with FCC dealings and getting the bandwidth to upgrade the radios from 900 MHz to something higher (for more reliability)."

Amtrak's application for the bandwidth needed to use the positive train control system was approved in "early March," an FCC official says.

“The spectrum Amtrak wanted to use in 2011 was owned by someone else," the official says. "It took them three more years to negotiate with private parties to acquire the needed spectrum for the Washington, D.C.-to-New York corridor. Once Amtrak finalized their application, the commission approved it within two days.”

Amtrak President Joseph Boardman said Thursday the technology was installed where the crash occurred, according to The Associated Press, but it had not been turned on because the system needed to be tested further.

Positive train control uses radio and GPS signals as well as other technologies to detect and reduce trains' speed. Congress demanded the technology be implemented nationwide by 2015 after a California train collision left 25 people dead and more than 100 injured in 2008. 

Federal officials investigating the crash said that had the system been in place, the incident could have been averted. 

“We feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred,” National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt told reporters during a news conference Wednesday.

Eight people died and more than 200 were injured in the incident. The train was speeding at 106 mph – more than twice the speed limit of the curve where it derailed. 

Amtrak and the National Transportation Safety Board did not immediately return calls and emails seeking comment Thursday evening.

The crash has sparked intense debate on Capitol Hill over Amtrak funding, with Democratic lawmakers lambasting Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for approving a bill Wednesday – just hours after the crash – that would reduce Amtrak funding by about $260 million. 

“It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation of PTC, and to deny a connection between the accident and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who called claims to the contrary "patently false."

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaking earlier in the day, lashed out at Democrats' critiques. 

“They started this yesterday," Boehner said. "‘It’s all about funding. It’s all about funding.’ Well, obviously it is not about funding. The train was going twice the speed limit.”

Speed Control Was Installed, Not On at Time of Amtrak Crash