Kerry: Refrigerator chemicals are just as bad as ISIS

Air conditioners and refrigerators pose as big a threat to "life on the planet" as the threat of terrorism, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.

Kerry was in Vienna negotiating a global climate deal to phase out chemicals used as refrigerants in basic household and commercial appliances such as air conditioning and refrigerators, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. The chemicals are a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions that many scientists blame for contributing to global warming.

Kerry made the remarks as part of a pep talk for negotiators working through the weekend to amend a 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol to deal with the chemicals.

"Yesterday, I met in Washington with 45 nations — defense ministers and foreign ministers — as we were working together on the challenge of [the Islamic State], and terrorism," he said. "It's hard for some people to grasp it, but what we — you — are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself."

Kerry: Refrigerator chemicals are just as bad as ISIS

Citizen Kaine

Sure she is. 

She announces her decision at 8 o’clock on a Friday night (bad enough)… while the media is covering an on going terrorist attack in Munich! 

Guess she was "thrilled" because no one was paying attention. 

Citizen Kaine

WikiLeaks releases 19,252 DNC emails

This couldn't have happened at a better time! 

Go here. 

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/

WikiLeaks releases 19,252 DNC emails

Donald Trump: I wouldn't accept Ted Cruz's endorsement

Another time he should have kept his mouth shut!

Trump had the upper hand and used it to punch himself in the face.

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Ted Cruz won't endorse Donald Trump, but the Republican nominee said Friday he wouldn't take the support even if the Texas senator offered.

"If he gives it, I will not accept it," Trump said at a news conference in Cleveland at the close of the Republican National Convention.

"I don't want his endorsement," he added. "Just, Ted, stay home, relax, enjoy yourself."

Trump, speaking the end of a week dedicated to unifying the party, once again revived the conspiracy theory published in the National Enquirer that linked Cruz's father to John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald -- an accusation that has no evidence behind it.

"I don't know his father. I met him once," Trump said. "I think he's a lovely guy, a lovely guy. All I did was point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer, there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast. Now Ted never denied that it was his father."

Trump first suggested that Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of Kennedy the morning of the Indiana primary, citing the tabloid story.

Cruz allies have since repeatedly pointed to that low blow from Trump as a reason for refusing to support the Republican nominee. And on Thursday, Cruz referenced the incident, as he drew an angry reaction from members of his state's own GOP delegation. 

"I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father," Cruz said.

Trump devoted a significant portion of Friday's event, billed as a thank you to convention staff and organizers, to attacking his former primary rival. 

Speaking at the RNC on Wednesday, Cruz had declined to endorse Trump, instead urging delegates to vote their "conscience." 

Cruz said that the Trump campaign had seen the speech beforehand, and that he told Trump personally that he would not make an endorsement. 

But Trump appeared to dispute that on Friday morning, saying Cruz went off-script at the convention.

"So Ted Cruz took his speech that was done, was on the Teleprompter, said hello, then made a statement that wasn't on the speech, then went back to his speech," Trump said. "See, to me, that's dishonorable." 

Trump likewise said it was "dishonorable" of Cruz to abandon his pledge to support the Republican nominee. 

But Trump said that Cruz's camp started it with an ad that ran in Utah showing racy photos of his wife, Melania Trump. The ad was put out by a PAC with no official ties to the Cruz campaign, but Trump said Friday that he doesn't buy that.

"Folks, a lot of us are political people," Trump said. "We're not babies. His people are in the PAC."

At one point in his remarks, Trump even suggested forming his own PAC to oppose Cruz if the senator runs again in four years.

"I don't see him winning anyway, frankly. But if he did, it's fine," Trump said. "Although maybe I'll set up a super PAC if he decides to run."

Turning to his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump asked, "Are you allowed to set up a super PAC, Mike, if you are the president to fight somebody?"

Donald Trump: I wouldn't accept Ted Cruz's endorsement

Houston cop washes blind homeless man's feet, clips his toenails and vows to find him a home

Evidently someone at the Daily Mail screwed up here.

They were supposed to lead with this:

Black teen reading the Bible shot by white cop

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A picture of a police officer tenderly washing the feet of a homeless man is drawing kudos and reminding people of a gentler and often unheralded side of law enforcement.

Sgt. Steve Wick of Houston works with the city's homeless outreach program, and he spotted Quintus living on the streets a few weeks back.

While Quintus, 75, has always tried to work by selling newspapers on the street, he has lately gone almost blind with glaucoma and was having trouble even getting to the local thrift store to pick up clothes. 

The day that 23-year force veteran Wick and fellow officer Colin Mansfield found him and gave him a wash, Quintus had soiled himself, according to KHOU.

A photo snapped of the inspiring moment appears to have been taken July 19. 

The HPD shared this photo of Sgt. Steve Wick gently cleaning the feet of a blind, homeless man - the photo has been liked over 1,000 times on Facebook

Sgt. Steve Wick (left) has been with the Houston police department for 23 years, he now works to get the homeless off the streets; right, he appears at the community policing awards ceremony in 2015

The picture was snapped as Wick bent down to wash the elderly man's feet and clip his toenails, which had grown 'really, really long', Wick said.

So Wick and Mansfield soaked his feet to get his nails soft enough to cut. 

'To get the toenails cut, it will make walking around so much better,' Wick said. The officers also gave the man new shoes.

Wick then brought Quintus to a local sober clinic where he was able to take a shower for the first time in a long time.

'He was happy to get cleaned up,' Wick told Good Morning America. 'His whole life he's been minimally employed, selling the Sunday paper. He's got glaucoma, so he's about 95 percent blind.'

But the big-hearted Wick wants to do more than wash Quintus' feet and get him spruced up.

Wick's goal is to get Quintus a doctor's appointment to treat his glaucoma and, ultimately, to find him housing.

'Police have gotten a black eye in recent years, or months,' he said. But of the homeless outreach program, he added: 'It makes people feel like police officers are out there to help, rather than to hurt, and we are.'

Houston cop washes blind homeless man's feet, clips his toenails and vows to find him a home