July 29, 2019

when your neighbor has your back: contract Amazon driver steals dog, neighbor tells owner immediatel

watch the video the the end. Neighbor was watching.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article197855854.html


https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article233237711.html

A now-former Amazon delivery driver is charged with stealing a Parker County family’s dog out of their front yard.

Mycah Keyona Wade, 22, of Crowley, turned herself in July 16 and was charged with theft July 17.

Wade and her boyfriend were delivering Amazon packages in Weatherford on July 5, when they saw a dachshund in a yard, according to the Parker County Sheriff’s Department. Wade got out of the van and grabbed the dog, who belongs to Anthony and Amanda Phillips, Deputy Danie Huffman said.

Wade asked someone working on landscaping at a nearby house who the dog belonged to, and that person pointed to the Phillips family’s home. Instead of returning the dog, whose name is RJ, the two left with him, Huffman said.

neighbor saw footage of the two taking RJ on a doorbell camera and told the Phillipses, who called police. The owners said RJ got out of the house when they opened the door and he ran outside.

Amazon helped identify Wade, who was a contract driver, and investigators contacted her. Wade initially denied taking the dog, but she then agreed to meet up and bring RJ. She said she had seen the dog in the yard and wanted to take him to a shelter, Huffman said.

July 29, 2019

"Trump doesn't hit 10 times harder. He simply hits below the belt"

Not content to just argue with a critic, Trump returned to his longstanding practice of flinging mud at everyone and anyone who dares to question the limits of his authority. Or, as The Baltimore Sun put it in a scathing editorial last night, "This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation."

It's in line with his approach to always hit back "ten times harder" -- a theme that first lady Melania Trump spoke proudly of at the 2016 Republican National Convention.


But, in reality, Trump doesn't hit 10 times harder. He simply hits below the belt, undermining the integrity of the office he holds. Earlier this month, he brought his bigotry to bear against four female, non-white members of Congress, telling them to "go back" to whatever country they came from, even though all are US citizens and three are native born. Predictably, Trump loyalists took up the sentiment at his next rally, chanting "send her back" like a crowd of haters who were ready to chase their supposed opponents out of the United States.

Shocking as it may be to hear a president echoing language used by American nativists and the Nazis, it is more shocking still to recognize that this is nothing new. This is the same President who called protesting football players "sons of bitches" and has directed hatred at immigrants for years. Let's remember, too, that Trump found "very fine people" among the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville and who, for many years before he was elected, led the racist campaign to declare then-President Barack Obama illegitimate because he falsely claimed Obama was foreign born (a claim he only disavowed years later.)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/opinions/donald-trump-elijah-cummings-twitter-low-dantonio/index.html

July 29, 2019

Trump Makes Tone-Deaf Joke About Stage Collapsing Under First Responders During 9/11 Bill Signing

“Now I am going to sign this bill into law, and I don’t know if this stage will hold it, but if it doesn’t, we are not falling very far,” Trump declared, motioning down towards the structure.

He continued: “I would like to ask the families, and I would also like to ask the First Responders to stand up. And we’ll give this stage a shot. Let’s see how well built—Made in America, let’s see how well-built it is. Okay?”

The jokey remark rings especially tone-deaf considering how thousands of people died when the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers collapsed. And it didn’t take long for people to express outrage and disbelief over the inappropriate quip.

“You still got it, Donny,” comedian Patton Oswalt sarcastically noted on Twitter.


“What kind of person ‘jokes’ about a structure collapsing and people falling while signing a bill to compensate victims from a horrific traumatic event in which a structure collapsed and people fell to their death?” political scientist Brain Klaas wondered.

“Get it? Because they might be nervous about structures collapsing, ha ha!” Vox’s David Roberts tweeted.


Muslim-Americans, meanwhile, contrasted the president’s remarks with his recent condemnation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for supposedly downplaying the 9/11 terror attacks, asking how folks would react if Omar, or any Muslim woman, would have made this joke.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-makes-tone-deaf-joke-about-stage-collapsing-under-first-responders-during-911-bill-signing

July 29, 2019

You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11

(CNN)Donald Trump has always had a bit of Walter Mitty in him. But on Monday morning, in a speech to first responders and others impacted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he took his fantastical memory of himself to new and not-at-all-appropriate heights.

"I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder," Trump said. "But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you."


Uh, what?

Let's be clear about what Trump is doing here: He is associating himself -- very closely -- with the men and women who were the first to respond to planes being crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. People who continue to suffer health issues due to their jobs.


So, what was Trump actually doing on September 11, 2001?

One thing he was doing was getting on the phone with WWOR's Alan Marcus to talk about the attacks and their aftermath. It was in that interview that Trump said this about a property -- 40 Wall Street -- that he owned:

"40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest—and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it's the tallest."

Yeah. He really said that.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/politics/donald-trump-9-11-first-responders/index.html

July 28, 2019

so raging across Twitter this morning - MAGAts trashing liberal cities with Resisters fighting back

MAGAts posting pics of the homless in SF and Resisters posting pics of red state poverty. while Trump gleefully plans his next divisive tweet.

sad sad times

July 28, 2019

Chilean businessman,who owns the mansion leased to the Ivanka, gets mining rights to fed land

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1155355194420367360

Trump Reversal Boosts Chilean Billionaire Plan To Mine In Minnesota

Andrónico Luksic, a Chilean businessman who also happens to own the $5.5 million Washington mansion leased to the family of first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/annabellewoodward/2019/06/26/chilean-billionaire-cleared-to-mine-in-minnesota-wilderness-thanks-to-trump-reversal/

July 27, 2019

They're immigrants. Their kids are US citizens. And they're scared

"We have Muslims targeted, we have African Americans targeted, we have seen Jews targeted. Now I see that any type of immigrant is going to become more of a target. I don't think Trump necessarily is supporting that stuff, but it's the environment he's creating, and to an extent, the unintended consequences of the environment he has created," Chepote says. "I have talked with my wife. What should we do about that? Should we revisit public schools? Consider home schooling or something? That is something that we do worry about."

Chepote says his job brought him to the United States from Peru 13 years ago. He's proud to be a US citizen. But he says since the 2016 election, the country he loves has changed and he feels he must speak out to help his children before it's too late. Many immigrants like him, he says, hear ominous echoes in President Trump's words.

"In the country where I come from there's also been racism like this in the past. It's like a virus. It's like wildfire," he says. "Once it starts, it's very difficult to stop it. ... We still have a chance."

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A year ago, she confronted a parent whose son had told another daughter she was going to get deported.
"I told him, 'Your son is bullying my daughter ... My daughter isn't going anywhere, she's as American as your son.'"

Since Trump was elected, the mother says she doesn't feel safe for her kids anymore.

"We have a 14-year-old son that is brown-skinned, although my husband is Italian American. My husband and I do not feel safe letting our son ride a bike alone in our neighborhood, in case someone wants to call the cops on him. So we are hyper vigilant," she says. "When my kids are riding their bicycles where I can't see them, in case the cops stop them, I tell 'say your name and address, and say you want your parents because you're minors. Don't answer any question.' I make them repeat that every day, every time they go out."

Before Trump took office, she says she didn't see this much hostility.

Back then, she says, she could be at the supermarket and not fear about someone calling the cops on her family.
Now, when she goes to a store or a restaurant with her family, she brings three or four types of identification, she says. "ICE tried to deport a veteran that is Hispanic and who has an American passport," she says. "The same could happen to me."

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"As a precaution, I carry in my wallet the photocopy of my US passport in case I get stopped. I never used to do that, but you never know, you might be stopped for racial profiling," she says.

When she talks to her daughter, Bravo Groe warns her and her friends to carry a copy of their passports. They might encounter people "who are coming out of the closet now with their hate and racism," she says.

Her kids speak Spanish to each other. They're fluent. She speaks to them in Spanish, too. But now, after Trump's racist tweets, Bravo Groe believes things are spinning out of control:

"I'm really concerned about the news. I need to remind my kids that what happened to them back in 2015, the president is now saying the same things in public," she says. "If the president thinks that a congresswoman needs to go back, can you imagine all the people that voted for him? Do I need to go back because I'm the same as that congresswoman, a naturalized citizen?"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/immigrant-family-fears/index.html

July 27, 2019

tweet of the hour

https://twitter.com/thegoodgodabove/status/1155205276280270853


Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
· 13m
Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!


God
@thegoodgodabove
Cool now do white supremacists

July 27, 2019

Black rag dolls designed to be slammed against walls to make owners 'feel better' are pulled

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7290919/Rag-dolls-meant-abused-pulled-stores.html


Black rag dolls designed to be
slammed against walls to make owners 'feel better' are pulled from stores in New Jersey amid complaints they are racist
Black rag dolls with instructions to 'slam the toy against a wall' were pulled from three stores following complaints that they were racist and offensive'
The president of One Dollar Zone said roughly 1,000 dolls were pulled this week from its store in Bayonne and two others also in New Jersey
The dolls were made of black fabric with red, green, black and yellow hair
State Assemblywoman Angela McKnight called the dolls offensive

July 27, 2019

Trump blames White House air conditioning on Obama

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-blames-white-house-air-conditioning-obama-64597296

In President Donald Trump's view, even the inadequate air conditioning at the White House is Barack Obama's fault.

Trump offered the new gripe about his predecessor as he explained in the Oval Office Friday why he'll be spending some time at his New Jersey resort in August.

The president says "it's never a vacation" when he goes to Bedminster, New Jersey, and that he would rather be at the White House.

He says that some of his time away from the White House gives crews time to do maintenance work.

He says, for example, "The Obama administration worked out a brand new air conditioning system for the West Wing. It was so good before they did the system. Now that they did this system, it's freezing or hot.