ProgressVirginia reported Tuesday afternoon that the Virginia Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee killed Sen. Charles “Bill” Carrico Sr.’s electoral college-rigging bill, despite an offer by Carrico to amend the bill to award electors in proportion to the state’s popular vote. The vote was 11-4 against the bill, although it will not be official until the close of the committee meeting.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
Please check it out! This a bold new step that will strive for more democracy/transparency, etc. in 9/11 truth blogging (or at least WTCD blogging!)
[Bumping this in honor of the LIHOP offensive afoot at 911blogger that includes attacks on David Ray Griffin's character timed to take advantage of his current health issues. -gReT 2/15/11]
Central to the official 9/11 narrative is the allegation that four flights were hijacked by Arab Muslims working for al Qaeda. Little to no real evidence exists to support this claim.
On Thursday, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted overwhelming to turn down a tentative contract and to go on strike:
We strike at midnight @IAM751! #OurFuture #IAM751Machinists #Solidarity pic.twitter.com/Xs78ECAhli
— IAM Union District 751 (@IAM751) September 13, 2024
This is really going to put a crunch on Boeing, who already has their share of problems:
More than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers are poised to strike as soon as their previous contract expires at midnight PT, hobbling airplane assembly at Boeing’s factories in the Seattle area.
During today's program, Charlie Kirk claimed he had proof to back up Trump's insane rantings from the debate about immigrants are eating pet dogs and now geese.
Kirk played recently obtained audio of a 911 call from a man claiming he saw four Haitian immigrants leaving a park with geese in their hands. The police report was filed. The man said he was close enough to hear their creole accent to identify them as Haitians, but couldn't get any photos or license plate numbers. Sure thing.
Don Trump Junior joined the MAGA circus to discuss. Kirk played a snippet of audio and claimed Haitians are decapitating geese.
In the entire 911 call, there is no mention of murders or decapitations. Only a possible theft.
"The media says that it's not proven," Kirk said, "Well, here is the 911 call you talked about, the 911 call about Haitians decapitating geese."
MAN: I got a question. This is a non-emergency line, correct?
911: Yes, it is.
MAN: I see a group of Haitian people. There was about four of them. They all had geese in their hand. There was about four of them. There was two men, two women.
911: How many geese did they have?
MAN: They each had one.
"I mean, Don, this is happening frequently," Kirk said.
The man never said geese were being murdered, eaten or decapitated.
Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally Charlotte, North Carolina today and laughed at Trump's claims he'd get rid of Obamacare, but only had concepts to replace it with.
I wrote this in my Presidential Debate wrap-up,"Trump was asked what his healthcare plan would be. He had no answers except to say he was working on “concepts.” Trump had four years in office as he tried to destroy Obamacare and another three years plus to come up with a new healthcare plan, and he had nothing."
Kamala Harris seized on that to great effect.
HARRIS: And North Carolina, on top of all of this, Donald Trump intends to end the Affordable Care Act. (Loud booing) And as Stacy mentioned, you heard what he said in the debate, he has no plan to replace it.
He said, he said, concepts of a plan, you all watched the debate, concepts, concepts, no actual plan, concepts. (Harris and the rallygoers were laughing)
Concepts, concepts, no actual plan, concepts.
And understand what's at stake on that, 45 million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act. And he's going to end it based on a concept.
And take us back to when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.
Well, we are not going back, we're not going back, no, we will move forward.
Source: Huffington Post
Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.
The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.
“The crime rate in Venezuela is down, I believe, a little bit over 60% over the last several years,” Miller tells the reporters. Trump has made a similar claim.
Del Pino asked if he trusted numbers from a dictator. That's when Miller blew a gasket. It was glorious.
And watch the crocodile tears over victims of immigrant criminals. This is, you may remember, the same man who came up with the plan to separate immigrant families.