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Miles Archer

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June 14, 2016

Freeper "RoseofTexas" encourages Trump to "be as cunning as a serpent but gentle as a dove"

In their "Happy Birthday" thread.



To: Tennessee Nana

Happy birthday Mr. Trump wishing you God’s blessings, protection and a tremendous victory come November. Remember this” be as cunning as a serpent but gentle as a dove!” Words to live by!

5 posted on 6/13/2016, 11:12:01 PM by RoseofTexas
June 14, 2016

SWAT team kills suspect who took hostages at Amarillo, Texas Walmart, investigators say

Source: Fox News

DEVELOPING: A SWAT team shot and killed a suspect who took hostages at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas Tuesday afternoon, investigators confirmed.

The Randall County Sheriff's Office announced the gunman was dead. City officials first reported an "active shooter incident" at 12:30 p.m. local time.

"We do consider this a work-place violence situation at this point," the sheriff's office said. One store employee told KFDA the gunman earlier released a worker and the store manager but was still inside the Walmart.

Witnesses told KVII an employee took another employee hostage.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/14/report-active-shooter-possible-hostages-at-amarillo-texas-walmart.html

June 14, 2016

Trump takes another victory lap over Mateen "cheering 9/11 attacks"

Donald J. Trump Verified account
‏@realDonaldTrump

I thought people weren’t celebrating? They were cheering all over, even this savage from Orlando. I was right.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/742464647878561794


The Tweet links to:

http://nypost.com/2016/06/13/orlando-killer-cheered-911-attacks-former-classmates-say/

Orlando gunman cheered 9/11 attacks, former classmates say

As a teenage high school student in Florida, gay nightclub mass murderer Omar Mateen cheered as terrorists flew jumbo jets into the Twin Towers on 9/11, his former classmates recalled.

Self-proclaimed Islamic State devotee Mateen was a sophomore when the al Qaeda terrorists attacked New York on Sept. 11, 2001 — and classmates vividly recalled his offensive reaction to America’s darkest day, according to the Washington Post.

One former classmate said he was in the same room with Mateen during the 9/11 attacks. While everyone in the classroom was shocked or angered, Mateen was celebrating.

“But Omar was saying some really rude stuff. Stuff like, ‘That’s what America deserves.’ That kind of thing. It wasn’t right,” the former classmate said.
June 14, 2016

Veteran fires back after angry note is left on car...for parking in a Veteran's space



http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/local-vet-fires-back-after-misogynistic-note/242939780

That woman, Rebecca Landis Hayes, took to Facebook to respond to the anonymous note writer:

To the person who left this note on my windshield today at the Coddle Creek Harris Teeter in Concord, NC:

I know I parked in one of the Veteran Parking spaces today, it was hot. I had been in and out of my car several times already this afternoon, and I was only going to be a minute. Besides, the parking lot was full, so I just did it. It was the first time, and I won’t do it again. I’m sorry…

I’m sorry that you can’t see my eight years of service in the United Sates Navy. I’m sorry that your narrow misogynistic world view can’t conceive of the fact that there are female Veterans. I’m sorry that I have to explain myself to people like you. Mostly, I’m sorry that we didn’t get a chance to have this conversation face to face, and that you didn’t have the integrity and intestinal fortitude to identify yourself, qualities the military emphasizes.

Which leads to one question, I served, did you?
June 14, 2016

R.I.P. Henry McCullough (guitarist for Wings, Spooky Tooth, Joe Cocker's Grease Band)



Henry McCullough, who played guitar on some of Wings‘ earliest records, has died. The Irish guitarist, who also played with some of rock’s biggest names, was 72.

In addition to his work with Paul McCartney‘s post-Beatles group, McCullough was also a member of Spooky Tooth, Joe Cocker‘s Grease Band and the traditional Irish folk group Sweeney’s Men.

But he was probably best known for being tapped by McCartney to play guitar on Wings’ second album, 1973’s Red Rose Speedway, as well as a handful of singles from the era, including “Hi, Hi, Hi” and “Live and Let Die.” He also performed the celebrated solo on the No. 1 hit “My Love.”

McCullough got his start in local Northern Ireland bands while in his teens. He later joined Éire Apparent, a group managed the Animals‘ Chas Chandler, who also spearheaded Jimi Hendrix‘s career at the same time. The association led to shows with Hendrix, the Move and Pink Floyd.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/henry-mccullough-dies/
June 14, 2016

Grateful Dead's Bob Weir: Believers in Homophobia and ISIS Share 'The Same Hatred'

Grateful Dead's Bob Weir: Believers in Homophobia and ISIS Share 'The Same Hatred'



http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7401308/grateful-deads-bob-weir-believers-in-homophobia-and-isis-share-the-same-hatred

Later in the night, Weir joined Dead & Company for a two-set Bonnaroo bow. According to an insider, the band, which consists of fellow original Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, made sure there were no songs that referenced guns in their set-list.

Read and listen to Weir's comments below:

"As we know, there was a massacre in Florida, not far from here. I’d like to point out that last week, a distinguished representative from the State of Georgia went on the floor of the House of Representatives of our country and started quoting bible verses in which he basically promoted, or at least rationalized, death to gay people as a reward for the way they were born.

This morning, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas said that, 'Well, they’re reaping what they’ve sown.' Now, I wanna ask a question: how different are these peoples’ world views from the world views of the people with ISIS? It’s the same hatred. They pull those hatreds out of different books, but it’s the same hatred and I’d just like to point that out."
June 14, 2016

Meet Sacramento Baptist Pastor Roger Jimenez, who says the Orlando 50 "deserve what they got."



Sacramento Baptist pastor praises Orlando massacre
Kellie McCown , KXTV 12:47 AM. EST June 14, 2016

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/sacramento-baptist-pastor-praises-orlando-massacre/243621726



In the video, Jimenez preached to his congregation that they should not be grieving the homosexual victims of the shootings, comparing those killed to pedophiles.

"Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?" asked Jimenez. "Um no. I think that’s great. I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida, is a little safer tonight. The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die. The tragedy is I’m kind of upset he didn’t finish the job – because these people are predators. They are abusers."

Jimenez went on to criticize the government, saying he wished homosexuals would be put in front of a firing squad.
"I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a firing wall, put the firing squad in front of them and blow their brains out," Jimenez said.
June 14, 2016

Trump was accused of destroying email evidence in lawsuit 10 years ago

Trump was accused of destroying email evidence in lawsuit 10 years ago

http://www.wcnc.com/news/nation-now/trump-was-accused-of-destroying-email-evidence-in-lawsuit-10-years-ago/242697813



In 2006, when a judge ordered Donald Trump's casino operation to hand over several years' worth of emails, the answer surprised him: The Trump Organization routinely erased emails and had no records from 1996 to 2001. The defendants in a case that Trump brought said this amounted to destruction of evidence, a charge never resolved.

At that time, a Trump IT director testified that until 2001, executives in Trump Tower relied on personal email accounts using dial-up Internet services, despite the fact that Trump had launched a high-speed Internet provider in 1998 and announced he would wire his whole building with it. Another said Trump had no routine process for preserving emails before 2005.

Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld was stunned. “He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” he said, according to transcripts obtained by USA TODAY. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that's not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.”

Now, a decade later, Trump regularly hammers Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for using her own email server while she was secretary of State and deleting emails from that server that she deemed to be private. In a war of tweets with Clinton a week ago, Trump wrote, “And where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted?” On the CBS News program Face the Nation earlier this month, Trump said, "What she did is a criminal situation. She wasn't supposed to do that with the server and the emails."
June 14, 2016

"She comes out of nowhere."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/donald-trump-orlando-speech



On Monday, Roger Stone, one of Trump's close friends and advisers, also suggested that Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Clinton, might be a terrorist operative. "She has a very troubling past," Stone said on the Breitbart News Daily radio show. "She comes out of nowhere. She seems to have an enormous amount of cash, even prior to the time that she goes to work for Hillary. So we have to ask: Do we have a Saudi spy in our midst? Do we have a terrorist agent?"

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