A Scary Thought!

Think about this for a minute...For over 50 years .....50 years ,The United States refused to have diplomatic communications with IRAN...

President Obama comes into office and restores the diplomatic communications with them, and they in turn sign a nuclear disarmament treaty which has since been verified by the IAEA.

They've released detained Americans, promptly returned US military Personnel and have dismantled its nuclear reactors...

Republicans would've pushed for more war, more useless sanctions, and increased hostilities... and would have driven the deficit up..

What will we do when Barack Obama is gone???? It's a scary thought...

He got all of this done with diplomacy....Not a shot fired...Not a bomb dropped and not one life lost on either side...

So I ask again...What will we do when Barack Obama is gone???? It's a scary thought...

Keith's Favorite Quotes

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. KING!

January 15, 1929- April 4,1968

Weekend Humor

"I was in a very busy supermarket, and I said to this young lady, (Pictured above)"I can't find my wife, can I talk to you for a few minutes?" said Ralph... 

She said, "Sure you can, but how will that help?" 

I said, "I'll bet you anything she'll appear out of nowhere".

Everybody have a super groovalicious weekend!

I'm Going To Miss Them When They're Gone!

I don't trust my country with anyone else!

The Occupation Continues

The occupation of a federal wildlife reserve by a group of White militia men continues...It's not even a news story now....There have been reports of discord among the occupiers...

First off , the genius's didn't bring any food or water for a contingency...There have been fighting amongst them reported and some of them have even walked off of the reserve and have been seen in town eating and drinking at local establishments...

This thing may not end with a bang, but with a wimper!

Shaking my damn head!

What I've Learned

1.You Are Not Alone.

2. My Brother's Suffering Is My Own.

3.I look at each person I meet as a new experience.

4.The more mistakes you make...The more you learn.

5.A lot of people don't understand the beauty of Quiet!

6.Not One Drop of my self worth depends on some other person's exceptance of me.

7.Even when it feels like you're not going to succeed and everything is crumbling apart, keep going...Success and victory are right around the corner.

8.The only thing that lasts in this world is being good to other people.

9.Shut Down the Haters and Live Your Truth.

10.Living well really is the best revenge.


Peace!

Weekend Humor

3 men are playing golf at a Country Club: Obi Wan Kenobi, Darth Maul and a very old man.
Obi Wan tees off and hits his ball in the sand trap. He mind controls his caddy to mark it a hole-in-one.

Next Darth Maul hits his ball and it lands in the rough. He walks over to his ball and uses the Force to throw it on the green.

Finally, the old man hits his ball over the trees and, into the parking lot, onto a parked car.

The man lifts the car using the Force and brings the car to the green and drops the car on green, the ball then falls of the car and into the hole.

Obi Wan turns to Darth Maul and says, "Damn, I hate playing with Yoda!!!"


Everybody have a super groovalicious weekend!

Keith's Favorite Quotes

SAY HER NAME!

Wasn't even going to do a post today....Too tired...but there has been breaking news in the Sandra Bland Case..

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was charged with perjury in connection to a contentious traffic stop last summer where a black woman wound up arrested for assault and then died three days later in jail. Hours after the indictment, the Texas Department of Public Safety began termination proceedings.

A grand jury indicted Trooper Brian Encinia on the misdemeanor count, alleging he lied about how he removed 28-year-old Sandra Bland from her vehicle during the July traffic stop. The same Waller County grand jury decided last month not to indict any sheriff's officials or jailers in Bland's death, which was ruled a suicide.

Sandra Bland remained jailed following her arrest because she couldn't raise about $500 for bail. Encinia, who has been on paid desk duty since Sandra Bland was found dead in her cell, also faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Ms.Bland's family.

The misdemeanor charge carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

Encinia, who is white, pulled Sandra Bland over on July 10 for making an improper lane change near Prairie View A&M University, her alma mater, where she had just interviewed and accepted a job. Dashcam video from Encinia's patrol car shows that the traffic stop quickly became confrontational.


The video shows the trooper holding a stun gun and yelling, "I will light you up!" after Sandra Bland refuses to get out of her car. Sandra Bland eventually steps out of the vehicle, and Brian Encinia orders her to the side of the road. The confrontation continues off-camera but is still audible.

Brian Encinia's affidavit stated he "removed her from her vehicle to further conduct a safer traffic investigation," but grand jurors "found that statement to be false," said Shawn McDonald, one of five special prosecutors appointed to investigate.

McDonald declined to say whether the grand jury considered any other charges.

Neither Sandra Bland's attorneys nor the Texas Department of Public Safety immediately returned messages seeking comment about the indictment. Department Director Steve McCraw said after the incident that Brian Encinia violated internal agency policies of professionalism and courtesy.

About two dozen protesters attended Wednesday's press conference where the indictment was announced. Speaking afterward, one protester, Jinaki Muhammad, called the misdemeanor charge "a slap in the face to the Bland family."

Encinia wrote in his affidavit that he had Bland exit the vehicle and handcuffed her after she became combative, and that she swung her elbows at him and kicked him in his right shin. Encinia said he then used force "to subdue Bland to the ground," and she continued to fight back. He arrested her for assault on a public servant.

Sandra Bland's sister, Shante Needham, has said that Sandra called her from jail the day after her arrest, saying she'd been arrested but didn't know why, and that an officer had placed his knee in her back and injured her arm.

After the traffic stop, Sandra Bland was taken in handcuffs by another officer to the county jail in nearby Hempstead, about 50 miles northwest of Houston. She was found dead in her jail cell three days later, on July 13, hanging from a jail cell partition with a plastic garbage bag around her neck.

 Her family has said they were working to get money for her bail when they learned of her death.

Sandra Bland's arrest and death came amid heightened national scrutiny of police and their dealings with black suspects, especially individuals who were killed by officers or who died in police custody.

About two dozen protesters attended Wednesday's press conference where the indictment was announced. Speaking afterward, one protester, Jinaki Muhammad, called the misdemeanor charge "a slap in the face to the Bland family."

But Sandra Bland's Ghost is still speaking from beyond the grave....

Nobody Black believes that she died the way they say she died....


The truth will be heard!

SAY HER NAME!

So It Must Be Right ? Right?

This past Sunday...a rumored 150 armed White militia men took over a Government owned Wildlife preserve...

Think about the Meme above and imagine if hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists or Muslims or Mexicans took over a Federal Building and threatened war with the American Government..

Fox  News Talking heads would be labeling them domestic terrorists and screaming for their heads!

They wouldn't make it through the week alive...And you're extremely naive if you think otherwise...

Hell,A Black child can't brandish a tou gun without getting blown away...

Here is the really funny thing though...I would have never of heard of this seige had it not been for Facebook and Twitter....CBS,NBC,ABC and FOX have all been mum....CNN and MSNBC are silent...

They cover Mass Shootings and events like San Bernadino ad nauseum around the clock for days and yet...nary a peep about this...

Even the White Right Wing is baffled as to why they aren't getting any coverage...

This Oregon standoff has reignited an already intense debate on social media about policing, race and terrorism.

 

On Saturday, an armed group of antigovernment protesters took over buildings on a remote federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and warned that they would not leave without a fight. The authorities have held back rather than use force to end the occupation.

 

On social media, that led quickly to questions about a double standard, particularly from liberals and the left, who asked: What if the armed men were Muslim or black? (Many or all of them appear to be white.) Another theme was about the religion of the protesters. At least one activist has made reference to a prominent Mormon figure.

 

Some have speculated that the police would have used violent force to remove the activists if they were Muslim or black.There is nothing to speculate...They would have.

 

Some wondered why the news media and the authorities were not calling the takeover a form of terrorism.

 

People used the hashtags #YallQaeda, #YeeHawd, and #VanillaISIS to challenge a widely held perception that terrorism applies only to crimes carried about by minorities and non-Christians.

 

The leader of the armed group in Oregon is Ammon Bundy, the son of Cliven Bundy(Remember him?), a rancher in Nevada who last year engaged in an armed standoff with federal officials, gaining the support of leaders in the conservative movement, and then losing it after declaring that black Americans would be better off as slaves.

 

As expected...many conservatives on Twitter criticized the debate, and said it was a step too far to call the men terrorists, and pushed back against memes that perpetuated stereotypes about white people.

 

Others objected to the criticism of the lack of force used by the authorities by drawing comparisons to past deadly standoffs between the federal authorities and armed groups that harbor antigovernment sentiments.

 

“Worth recalling lessons of Waco and Ruby Ridge before suggesting FBI should simply go to war with Oregon militiamen,” an observer wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

 

In 1993, a gun battle erupted in Waco, Tex., ending a 51-day standoff between federal authorities and members of a religious sect called the Branch Davidians. The fighting resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and half a dozen members of the sect.

 

A year earlier, a confrontation in northern Idaho between the authorities and Randall Weaver, a white separatist, led to the fatal shooting of his wife and son. A federal marshal was also killed during the conflict, which came after an 11-day standoff. In 1995, the government awarded $3.1 million to Mr. Weaver.

 

Hmmph...The government should award some money to the mothers of Trayvon Martin,Tamir Rice and Sandra Bland among others...And police should learn some lessons from these killings like the Feds have supposedly learned from the Waco and Ruby Ridge affairs...

 

But those involved White People...So I guess that makes it different!

 

Go Figure!

The Man Who Killed Tamir Rice

I present to you Officer Timothy Loehmann....Timothy Loehmann had been out of work for five years. His luck changed in March 2012 when he landed a job as a police officer in Independence, Ohio. On his application, he cited having a “stable job” as one of his main motivators for joining the police force.


By December 5, 2012, Loehmann was no longer a police officer. The Independence Police Department has stated that Loehmann’s employment lasted a total of five months. Four out of those five months were spent in the police academy. Loehmann had spent only a month as an official police officer before his alarming misconduct became too much of a liability for the Independence police force.

According to Loehmann, he voluntarily resigned. According to the Independence Police force, he quit before they could fire him.

In five short months, Loehmann was deemed “emotionally unstable” and unfit for service as a police officer. In his personnel records, his direct supervisors described him as having a “lack of maturity” as well as an “inability to perform basic functions as instructed.” 

 These supervisors were referring to the disturbing behavior Loehmann exhibited during a weapons training session.

Officer Loehmann’s worrisome conduct and mental instability when handling weapons would become a reoccurring theme in his personnel files.

In another training session held at a gun range, Loehmann suffered what was described as an “emotional meltdown.” In a memo sent to Human Resources, Deputy Chief Jim Polak of the Independence Police Department referred to this incident as a “dangerous loss of composure.” Polak noted that Loehmann’s “handgun performance was dismal” and that he was “distracted and weepy” during the training session.

After Loehmann’s weapons were taken away by the training officer, he continued his “emotional meltdown” with detailed descriptions of his apparent issues with a girlfriend.

HIS GIRLFRIEND??? 

Yet this guy kept a job....Go figure.


Deputy Chief Polak’s memo included several additional incidents of worrisome misconduct. He concluded the memo with the following:

“Individually, these events would not be considered major situations but, when taken together, they show a pattern of a lack of maturity, indiscretion, and not following instructions.”

“I do not believe time nor training will be able to change or correct these deficiencies.”

In March 2014, after spending two years being denied by every police force he applied to, Timothy Loehmann received an offer from the Cleveland Police Department. They did not check his personnel files.

A few months later, on November 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Loehmann shot and killed a 12 year-old child named Tamir Rice.

AMAZINGLY He will not face charges.

I wonder if this means he will still keep his shield and gun too?

I could pull the race card here and say that if Tamir Rice had been blond haired and blue eyed and named Ethan Wilkshire that this would have all gone down different or if Timothy  Loehmann had been named Tyrone Jackson and been an African-American cop this would be different also...

They'd of done a background check of Tyrone Jackson and he would have never of been hired with a record like that.....

But, that's just me!

Simple But True

We are producing more Oil ourselves than importing for the first time since 1995.  Think about that and look at the prices for gas...Now and under President Bush when it was over five dollars a gallon..
I remember those days at the pump....I had just bought myself a new car....I wasn't happy at all about going damn near broke to fill it..

What is the difference?

It could be that former President Bush and his oil company cronies made out like bandits during his eight years in office. All Bush and Cheney had to do to make oil prices skyrocket was to destabilize the Middle East -- and they did it expertly.

"President George W. Bush’s family has been running oil companies since 1950. Vice President Dick Cheney spent the late ’90s as CEO of Halliburton, the world’s largest oil services company. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice sat on the board of Chevron, which graced a tanker with her name. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans was the CEO of Tom Brown Inc. — a natural gas company with fields in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming — for more than a decade."

It's all a matter of public record...So all of you Donald trump followers...Tell me again how "Obama has ruined our country!"