Thousands rally at German protest against refugees, Islam

A protestor waves a German flag as he attends a demonstration of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) in front of the Semperoper, Dresden's famous opera house, in Dresden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (The Associated Press)

DRESDEN, Germany – Thousands of people have taken part in a protest organized by the anti-Islam group PEGIDA, almost one year after it held its first rally in the eastern German city of Dresden.

Police declined to provide a crowd count for Monday's protest, which passed peacefully. An AP reporter estimated the crowd at about 7,000-8,000.

Speakers including PEGIDA co-founder Lutz Bachmann denounced the German government's decision to allow more than half a million refugees into the country.

During the rally many protesters called for refugees to be expelled.

PEGIDA, the German acronym for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West," has seen a fresh rise in support but rallies remain smaller than its peak of 25,000 in January.

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And why are crowds smaller? Because at the current pace of invasion the influx of Muslims may someday outnumber the Germans. At the very least they'll put a severe dent in the German lifestyle.

This is sad but true. Remember this dead child? 

Had he lived 14 years later.

Thousands rally at German protest against refugees, Islam

Like he had a snowball's chance in hell

Vice President Joe Biden will not run for president

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on today he would not run for president in 2016, ending months of suspense and easing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's path to the party's nomination.

Biden, who had been pondering a run since August, appeared in the White House Rose Garden with his wife Jill and President Barack Obama to say the window for mounting a successful campaign had closed.

"While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent," Biden told reporters. "I intend to speak out clearly and forcefully to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation," Biden said. Ed Henry interjected, "Since you won't remain silent how many letters are there in the word jobs?" He looked at his wife for guidance. She came through holding up 4 fingers.

Guess we're going to miss the gaffes and those "awkward moments".

Like he had a snowball's chance in hell

Islam the epitome of depravity

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Caution:

This really is sickening.

Muslims Kidnap and Starve Woman Before Feeding Her Lavish Meal… Then She Learns What She Just Ate

http://conservativetribune.com/muslims-starve-woman-before/

The wicked depravity of radical Islamic terrorists knows no bounds. Take what they did to a Yazidi mother they had captured.

According to Iraqi parliament member Vian Dakhil, who last week spoke with Politico, after Islamic State group militants captured the mother and her two sons — aged 3 and 5 — they starved her for two days.

Then on the third day, they handed the poor woman a bowl of rice with meat. As she began to eat, the militants revealed to her that the meat was in fact from her dead 3-year-old son.

“She tells me, ‘Please, I can’t, I don’t know what can I do — I’m eating my son,'” Dakhil somberly explained. “This is what happened with those woman under ISIS control, and nobody cares. This is, I say that to Mr. Obama, ‘Do you agree with … a woman — she ate her son.'”

Sadly, according to what British fighter Yasir Abdulla told the U.K. Daily Mail last March, the exact same thing happened to another mother as well.

“They brought her cups of tea and fed her a meal of cooked meat, rice and soup,” Abdulla said of the mother, who had shown up at the militants’ headquarters to ask about her kidnapped son.

“She thought they were kind. But they had killed him and chopped him up, and after she finished the meal and asked to see her son, they laughed and said, ‘You’ve just eaten him.'”

It takes a very sick and twisted soul to commit such a heinous crime against a woman, let alone a mother. But to followers of the Prophet Mohammad, one of the most wicked men in human history, this sort of behavior is just a tiny stepping stone in their quest to turn the entire world into a veritable Islamic madhouse.

Islam the epitome of depravity

A fish out of water

Jim Webb drops out of presidential race

I'm surprised he lasted this long. During the Democratic debate not one question was asked about the $18.5 trillion dollar debt nor what action they would take to address ISIS...unbelievable! The reason this occurred is because everybody knows our biggest problem is climate change. When the panel of the delusional  (Lincoln Chafee is not qualified to be a Walmart greeter) responded to the question on whether black lives or all lives matter former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, for his part, said that "as the president of the United States, every life in this country matters."

It makes me sick. How could he say something so perfectly lucid and rational and expect to remain a Democrat? Next thing he'll be telling us the Ft Hood shooting was not workplace violence but a terrorist attack. 

Get with it Jim.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday he is dropping out of the Democratic race for president and is considering his options about how he might "remain as a voice" in the campaign.

Webb said at a news conference that he is "withdrawing from any consideration" of becoming the Democratic party's nominee and would spend the coming weeks exploring his options about a possible independent bid.

"The very nature of our democracy is under siege due to the power structure and the money that finances both political parties," Webb said, joined by his wife, Hong Le Webb. "Our political candidates are being pulled to the extremes. They're increasingly out of step with the people they're supposed to serve."

Webb said many of the issues that he cares about are not in line with the hierarchy of the Democratic party, saying he did not have a "clear, exact fit" in either party. Asked if he still considers himself a Democrat, Webb said, "We'll think about that."

A Vietnam veteran and former member of President Ronald Reagan's administration, Webb complained that he did not get the chance to make his views fully known at the first Democratic debate.

He has trailed badly in the field that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Webb has been polling in the back of the pack with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee.

Webb has raised only about $700,000 and ended the month of September with more than $300,000 in the bank. Rivals like former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders have raised millions for the campaign.

Webb surprised many fellow Democrats when he became the first major figure in the party to form a presidential exploratory committee in November.

In a sign of Webb's impending decision, the Iowa Democratic Party said he would not appear at Saturday's major Jefferson-Jackson fundraiser in Des Moines.

Webb, 69, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, has promoted criminal justice reform and an overhaul of the campaign finance system and has been critical of the Obama administration's foreign policy. He has urged Democrats to appeal to working-class Americans and white voters in the South who have left the Democratic party in recent elections.

Webb was a Navy secretary under Reagan and an author who became a Democrat in response to the Iraq war, which he opposed.

Webb's opposition to the war, in which his son Jimmy served, was critical to his surprise Senate election in 2006 against Republican Sen. George Allen.

Webb's campaign was helped by an anti-Iraq war fervor and missteps by Allen, whose campaign imploded after he called a Democratic tracker "macaca," an ethnic insult.

In the Senate, Webb focused on foreign affairs and veterans issues and was the driving force behind a GI Bill for post-9/11 veterans seeking to attend college after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. He announced he would not seek re-election in 2012 and returned to writing.

A fish out of water

"Truth" is bad news for CBS

CBS refuses to air advertisements for 'Truth,' slams film

For starters I'm surprised Redford, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal made this film.

I remember Rather and his crew tried so hard to “force” this story to be true.

Until this came out:

Charles Johnson’s animated GIF image comparing a memo purportedly typewritten in 1973 with a proportional-spaced document made in Microsoft Word in 2004. Of course, Bill Gates and Paul Allen did not create Microsoft until 1975.

Afterwards Rather stated, "If I knew then what I know now – I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question,"and CBS News President Andrew Hayward said, "Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."

Later Rather sued CBS for $70 million. He never collected a dime and  resigned as anchorman in 2005.

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In this image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Robert Redford portrays Dan Rather in a scene from, "Truth." (AP)

CBS will not run advertising for the new movie "Truth," and has denounced the film as a disservice to both the public and journalists.

The film, starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, revisits a painful episode in the network's past -- the discrediting of a 2004 CBS News story on former President George W. Bush's military service record.

Redford plays former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, and Blanchett plays his producer, Mary Mapes. The two were behind a "60 Minutes II" story that questioned Bush's military record. CBS ended up apologizing for the story after documents used were called into question and could not be verified. Mapes and three news executives were fired. Rather left the network soon after.

Sony Pictures Classics had sought a multi-million dollar ad buy to promote "Truth" on Stephen Colbert's "Late Show," the "CBS Evening News," ''CBS This Morning" and "60 Minutes," but was turned down, said Sherri Callan, president of Callan Advertising, the company that places ads for Sony.

CBS told Callan the film was full of inaccuracies and distortions and would offend longtime CBS News employees.

In a statement, a rep for CBS said: "It's astounding how little truth there is in 'Truth.' There are, in fact, too many distortions, evasions and baseless conspiracy theories to enumerate them all. The film tries to turn gross errors of journalism and judgment into acts of heroism and martyrdom. That's a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world who go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to get the story right."

The film, told from the points of view of Mapes and Rather, is based on Mapes' book about the events surrounding the discredited story. "Truth" has received mixed reviews and been criticized for hewing to Mapes' and Rather's account of the situation. Both left the network in 2006, and Rather unsuccessfully sued the network and has complained of being "erased" from CBS history.

In its review, the website Vox.com says "The central problem with 'Truth' is how thoroughly it stacks its deck. It's not really comfortable with the idea that its central characters got something wrong, so it continues to insist — long past the point of reasonableness — that they got everything right."

But one of the film's producers Brad Fischer said there was no agenda on their part, and that the filmmakers were simply attracted by the intersection of news, politics and business and the story's status as one of the first to be undone by an Internet outcry.

"I'm excited for people to see the film, and talk about the issues and ask the questions themselves," he said, "because I don't think the movie really draws a conclusion about these things. I don't think it's our job as filmmakers to draw a conclusion, but rather to pose the questions."

"Truth" is bad news for CBS