California bus driver foils kidnapping of 3-year-old boy in progress on his bus

NEW YORK (ABC News) - A Northern California bus driver who's been praised for his heroism by his employer and police says he simply followed his parental instincts when he stopped a kidnapping in progress on his bus.

A 3-year-old boy was reported missing Friday morning from the Milpitas Public Library, about 45 miles from San Francisco, according a press release from the Milpitas Police Department.

About an hour later, Tim Watson, a Valley Transportation Authority bus driver, noticed a man and boy on his bus who matched the description of the suspect and child wanted by authorities.

The boy was crying, Watson said.

"I saw his teary eye," he said.

So Watson concocted a clever plan to deliver the suspect to authorities.

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Stratcom Deploys Bombers Near Baltics

Three nuclear-capable bombers deployed to Europe this past week for large-scale military exercises near Russia, the Strategic Command announced Friday night.

The B-52s from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, are currently operating from a base in Britain and joined maritime naval exercises in the Baltic Sea called Baltops 15, the largest naval exercise by NATO forces in the region this year.

The exercises are being held on and above international waters in the Baltic Sea and in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia—the Baltic states—and Poland.

All four nations fear Russia’s military aggression in Crimea and continuing destabilization in eastern Ukraine will be followed by Moscow’s use of military force against them.

The Baltic states last month asked NATO to permanently deploy up to 5,000 troops to the region to deter Russian aggression. Poland also wants a permanent NATO military presence.

Russian generals told U.S. officials in March during a meeting in Germany that Russia would take destabilizing actions against the Baltic states if NATO troops are stationed there.

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Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Press Release 6-8-15

On June 5, 2015 at approximately 1831 hours, a Worcester County Sheriff's Office Motor Unit Deputy observed a blue Ford F-150 traveling southbound on US 113 in the area of Downs Road. The truck was towing a small utility trailer with a broken left taillight and no registration plate on the trailer. The Deputy stopped the vehicle and identified the driver as 20 year old Tony Holden of Pocomoke City, MD. A check of the Vehicle Identification Number on the utility trailer indicated it had been reported stolen in Delaware. Mr. Holden was placed under arrest for theft. Mr. Holden was taken before a District Court Commissioner where he was released pending trial.

MSP DUI Log 6-1-15 thru 6-7-15 (Berlin Barrack)

Soros Bankrolls Democrats’ Fight in 'Voting Rights' Cases

A Democratic legal fight against 'restrictive' voting laws enacted in recent years by Republican-controlled state governments is being largely paid for by a single liberal benefactor: billionaire George Soros.

Mr. Soros, the Hungarian-born investor whose first major involvement in American politics was a voter-mobilization drive in the 2004 presidential race, has yet to commit the many millions of dollars that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s allies hope he and other like-minded billionaires will pour into the “super PAC” directly aiding her campaign.

But it turns out that Mr. Soros has already agreed to put as much as $5 million into the litigation effort, which Democrats hope will erode restrictions on voter access that they say could otherwise prove decisive in a close election.

The lawsuits — which are being led by a lawyer whose clients include Mrs. Clinton’s campaign — are attacking a variety of measures, including voter-identification requirements that Democrats consider onerous, time restrictions imposed on early voting that they say could make it difficult to cast ballots the weekend before Election Day, and rules that could nullify ballots cast in the wrong precinct.

The goal is to try to influence voting rules in states where Republican governors and Republican-led legislatures have enacted election laws since 2010, and to be ready to intervene if additional measures are passed over the next 17 months.

A Government Accountability Office study last October found that states with more stringent voter identification laws had a larger decline in voter turnout than states that did not have such new restrictions.

Republicans have argued that the new laws are much-needed protection against election fraud, and dismiss the litigation — which could soon expand to cases in Georgia, Nevada and Virginia, Democrats say — as little more than a gambit to energize minority voters in support of Democratic candidates.

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Egg rationing in America has officially begun

In recent days, an ominous sign has appeared throughout Texas. "Eggs [are] not for commercial sale," read warnings, printed on traditional 8 1/2-by-11-inch pieces of white paper and posted at H-E-B grocery stores across Texas. "The purchase of eggs is limited to 3 cartons of eggs per customer."

H-E-B, which operates some 350 supermarkets, is one of the largest chains not only in the state, but in the whole country. And it has begun, as the casual but foreboding notices warn, to ration its eggs.

"The United States is facing a temporary disruption in the supply of eggs due to the Avian Flu," a statement released on Thursday said. "H-E-B is committed to ensuring Texas families and households have access to eggs. The signs placed on our shelves last week are to deter commercial users from buying eggs in bulk."

The news, as the grocer suggests, comes on the heels of what has been adevastating several months for egg farmers in the United States. Avian flu, which has proven lethal in other parts of the world, has spread throughout the United States like wildfire. Since April, when cases began spreading by the thousands each week, the virus has escalated to a point of national crisis.

As of this month, some 46 million chickens and turkeys have been affected,according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nearly 80 percent of those are egg-laying hens, a reality that has been crippling for the egg industry.

But it's becoming increasingly clear that it isn't merely those who produce eggs that will suffer. Those who eat them will pay a price, too.

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Homofascists, Christians And The State As 'God'

Among the more shrill allegations voiced by constituent subgroups of the political left is that the opposition (Republicans, conservatives and Christians) would gladly kill them in a great purge if only they had the practical capacity to do so. During the 2004 campaign season, iconic pop singer and self-described “fag hag” Cher (urbandictionary.com: A woman who enjoys hanging out with gay men) publicly proclaimed that George W. Bush would ship homosexuals off in cattle cars to death camps were he re-elected.

I suppose Cher reasoned (if indeed she does reason) that doing this had somehow slipped Bush’s mind during his first term.

I’ve heard the same charge leveled with regard to ethnic minorities, that right-wingers would just love to re-institute slavery or segregation; in their perfect world, they could simply wipe out those nasty darker-skinned people altogether. Naturally, this presupposes that all right-wingers are white.

Those on the left routinely typify their opponents as intolerant, hateful and potentially violent. This has increased in volume and frequency under the Obama administration, which codified these mischaracterizations into Department of Homeland Security policy; DHS has designated pro-lifers, patriots, constitutionalists, Christians, amnesty opponents, gun enthusiasts, military veterans and other groups as potential terrorist threats.

In keeping with their hypocrisy and incongruity, leftists conveniently omit the fact that they have carried out more terrorism, pogroms, mass murders and genocide than any political group in history. As regular readers will be aware, projection of their antisocial character defects onto opponents is a hallmark of the left’s methodology.

Their objective is to convince as much of the citizenry as possible that their warnings are at least somewhat plausible. This way, when DHS Storm Troopers arrive in the wee hours to collect their neighbors, they will accept the cover story without protest: The detainees were involved in a terrorist plot to carry out large scale “hate crimes” against illegal immigrants, homosexuals, or some species of endangered grouse.

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Feds Hammered For Secrecy On Muslim Refugees

Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy’s efforts to shed light on the government’s secretive refugee resettlement program continues to play out in letters between himself and the federal agency responsible for resettling thousands of foreign refugees in U.S. cities and towns every year.

Since his letters haven’t produced many answers, he’s now calling for a meeting with State Department officials.

Gowdy, R-S.C., started asking questions in April about how refugees are distributed to various cities, the impact on local job markets and public services, and who makes the key decisions, among other points of interest. His questions came after it was revealed that Spartanburg, a city in his home district, was selected to receive 60 to 65 refugees over the next year, mostly from Syria. Unable to answer all of the questions posed by some nervous constituents, Gowdy fired off letters to Secretary of State John Kerry.

After getting a response from Kerry that he said was “wholly inadequate” and “vague,” he demanded more specifics on May 4. On Wednesday, he received a second response, which he called a “non-response.”

The State Department secretly selected Spartanburg sometime last year to be one of its designated “receiving communities” for Syrian refugees, 92 percent of whom to date have been Muslim people that the FBI has said will be virtually impossible to safely screen for terrorist connections.

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Casinos bet on growth in table games, removing slot machines to make room

Slot machines, long the reliable soldier of gambling, are losing ground in Maryland’s casinos as younger gamblers seek out table games and older players can’t keep the slot stools filled.

Over the past 15 months, Maryland’s three largest casinos — Maryland Live, Horseshoe Casino Baltimore and Hollywood Casino Perryville — have kicked 1,350 slot machines to the curb. That’s a 16 percent cut to their slots to make room for more table games, restaurant space, entertainment and other amenities, all of which are increasing in value to casinos as interest in slots slides, particularly among millennials.

Traditionally a cash cow for the industry, slots are losing some of their appeal in lots of places around the country. It’s a trend that has casino executives concerned and busy dreaming up new ways to bolster slot games and make them more attractive. The dominance of slots has waned even in the gambling stronghold of Nevada, where the number of machines has dropped from a high of 217,000 in 2001 to 175,000 last year. And slot earnings have fallen there as well: Nevada casinos experienced a 20 percent reduction in slot revenue between 2007 and 2014, according to the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

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Secret Directive Outlines Obama Support for Muslim Brotherhood

President Obama and his administration continue to support the global Islamist militant group known the Muslim Brotherhood.

A White House strategy document regards the group as a moderate alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

The policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined in a secret directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11. The directive was produced in 2011 and outlines administration support for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, according to officials familiar with the classified study.

Efforts to force the administration to release the directive or portions of it under the Freedom of Information Act have been unsuccessful.

White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan declined to comment on PSD-11. “We have nothing for you on this,” she said.

The directive outlines why the administration has chosen the Muslim Brotherhood, which last year was labeled a terrorist organization by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates as a key vehicle of U.S. backing for so-called political reform in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia in recent months appears to be moderating its opposition to the Brotherhood in a bid to gain more regional support against pro-Iran rebels in Yemen.

The UAE government also has labeled two U.S. affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, as terrorist support groups. Both groups denied the UAE claims. Egypt is considering imposing a death sentence on Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed former president who was ousted in military coup in July 2013.

Critics of the administration’s strategy say the Brotherhood masks its goals and objectives despite advocating an extremist ideology similar to those espoused by al Qaeda and the Islamic State, but with less violence. The group’s motto includes the phrase “jihad is our way.” Jihad means holy war and is the Islamist battle cry.

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GOP Senators Mum On Reading Of Obamatrade

At least two leading Republicans – Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions – won’t say whether they’ve read the text of the trade deal they support that’s being pushed by President Obama, leading some to wonder if the massive Trans Pacific Partnership is about to go the way of Obamacare, when the mantra was to pass it to see what was in it.

In March 2010, then-Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi made national headlines for pressing for approval of Obamacare despite the fact congressional members hadn’t had time to read the massive text, telling her colleagues and the nation “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” various media reported.

Breitbart asked Scalise and Sessions, both of whom reportedly support Obama’s fast-track request, if they’ve read the bill that’s been dubbed Obamatrade. And their response? Breitbart reported they refused to say.

The news outlet reported numerous other Republicans have refused to admit whether they’ve read the text of the bill, including Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Lindsey Graham and House Speaker John Boehner.

“It is unforgivable for the Republican majority to shirk its congressional duty and refuse to read the text of a bill that will give Obama unprecedented authority over our economy,” said Daniel Horowitz, the senior editor of Conservative Review, as reported by Breitbart.

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With Power Tools and a Ruse, 2 Killers Escape New York Prison

DANNEMORA, N.Y. — Two convicted murderers serving life sentences in adjoining cells staged an elaborate escape from New York’s largest state-run prison between Friday night and Saturday morning, fooling guards with makeshift dummies made out of sweatshirts and using power tools to drill out of their cells and past the prison’s 30-foot-tall walls, officials said.

The men remained at large late Saturday as law enforcement personnel conducted an extensive manhunt radiating outward from the Clinton Correctional Facility here, where residents hoped for a quick end to an unprecedented occurrence.

Police officers in bulletproof vests and armed with rifles manned roadblocks on routes leading to and from the town, peering into cars and checking trunks as red flares lit up the pavement on a chilly night.

Floodlights filled the street around the maximum-security facility, whose thick walls loomed high over the north side of the town’s main street, which was closed to most traffic. Dozens of law enforcement officials stood guard in a nearby neighborhood where the two escapees had emerged from a manhole.

The New York State Police said the inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, had escaped from the facility in Dannemora, an all-male maximum security prison about 170 miles north of Albany near the Canadian border. Within hours, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had canceled a scheduled visit to theBelmont Stakes horse race in Elmont, N.Y., to meet with the police and prison officials.

After he was briefed by the officials, who took him on a tour of the escape route, the governor took part in a news conference. Officials described a plan that involved the use of power tools to drill through steel walls and pipes.

“When you look at how the operation was done, it was extraordinary,” Mr. Cuomo said. This was the first time in the prison’s history that anyone escaped from the maximum security section of the facility, he said.

The State Police said that Mr. Matt, 48, and Mr. Sweat, 34, were discovered missing during a 5:30 a.m. bed check. Both men were “a danger to the public,” and officials advised anyone who saw them not to approach and to contact the police.

Officials said the men, who lived in adjoining cells, drilled a hole through the steel wall at the back of their cells and walked onto a catwalk. They then climbed down and used the tools to drill through a maze of pipes and tunnels before exiting through a manhole on a nearby street, officials said.

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Clinton Foundation Gave $100G To NYT Group Same Year Paper Endorsed Hillary

A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, according to tax documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Clinton Family Foundation, a separate entity from the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, has been the family's vehicle for personal charitable giving since 2001.

It is funded directly by the Clintons and distributes more than $1 million a year to civic and educational causes.

The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund is a charity affiliated with the newspaper that assists underprivileged New Yorkers. It is run by members of the New York Times Company's board of directors and senior executives.

The Times' editorial board endorsed Clinton against Democratic challengers John Edwards and Barack Obama on January 25, 2008, writing that she was "more qualified, right now, to be president."

At the time, there were reports that the Times board had leaned toward endorsing Obama, but was overruled by then-chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., whose family controlled the paper. Sulzberger's cousins and Times Company directors, Lynn Dolnick and Michael Golden, chaired the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund in 2008.

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BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court strikes down Jerusalem birthplace law

The Supreme Court strikes down a law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their US passports -- part of the federal government's refusal to recognize any nation's sovereignty over Jerusalem.

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Business Owner Under Siege By 'Gays' Stonewalled By City

When the Supreme Court, responding to “gay” activists’ complaints, took on the lofty responsibility of addressing the definition of marriage for all Americans, a few stood out for their vocal opposition.

One person was Brian Klawiter, who runs the Dieseltec shop in Grandville, Michigan. He said he would choose not to provide service to openly homosexual customers. He then explained that he wanted to be a messenger for the silent majority of Americans who are unhappy with the goals of the homosexual agenda, and he started speaking on invitation at churches and other places.

“I want to educate people about what it means to be a man of God,” he said. “We need strong men in the church.”

Now, with a Supreme Court ruling imminent, he’s taking the issue a step further, arranging a town hall-type meeting in his community with several guest speakers who will discuss equality, homosexuality and marriage.

And he’s found out that the headwinds are strong.

In an interview with WND on Tuesday, he said he has invited Coach Dave Daubenmire of Pass the Salt Ministries and Bradlee Dean of Sons of Liberty, both longtime advocates for traditional marriage, to speak in his community.

He said he applied for permission to use a local school district’s auditorium, which is used by other community groups, and was given permission.

But the permission lasted only a couple of hours.

The district called him and canceled, explaining the superintendent “didn’t feel my type of event was appropriate for their facility.”

A discussion over First Amendment rights and the district’s responsibility to treat all speakers fairly convinced officials to back down. But then all of a sudden the district found another event “already scheduled” for June 6, the date Klawiter had planned to hold his event.

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The Deadly Consequences of Draconian Gun Laws

Carol Bowne is dead — murdered in cold blood on her own property by a violent criminal who would not be restrained by good intentions. But there is no smoking gun, because she lived and died in New Jersey. Bowne was a 39-year-old hairdresser from Berlin Township who had become increasingly nervous about her ex-boyfriend. Convinced that he intended to do her physical harm, she took out a restraining order, had security cameras installed at her home, and purchased an alarm system. She also hoped to buy a firearm for her defense. On April 21 of this year, she began the glacial process of obtaining a New Jersey permit to purchase a gun.

She never heard back. She never will. Per the Courier-Post, Bowne “was stabbed to death in the driveway of her Patton Avenue home on Wednesday night.” Defending his tardiness, the local police chief explained that the application process usually takes more than two months, and that when Bowne died, his team was still waiting for her fingerprints to be processed. Perhaps so. But this should serve as no acceptable excuse. By state law, New Jersey is required to get back to permit petitioners within 30 days. It didn’t. It almost never does. Instead, would-be gun owners report waiting for three, four, six, and even nine months for permission to exercise what the Second Amendment makes clear is an unalienable individual right. The rules do not apply to the government.

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Florida child sex sting nets former workers from Disney, SeaWorld and Universal Studios

They arrived for a week. Morning, noon and night. A total of 22 men, all seeking the same thing: sex with an underage girl.

One after another, they walked into a sparsely furnished house in Clermont, Fla., expecting to find a 10- or 12- or 14-year-old girl. Instead, they found justice.

Again and again, sheriff’s deputies burst into the living room and arrested the men for soliciting sex with a minor. Operation L & P was named after the two counties, Lake and Polk, collaborating on the undercover sting operation and timed to occur just before kids went on summer vacation. From May 18 to 25, detectives from both departments posed as underage girls or their parents in Internet chat rooms.

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Hillary’s Divisive, Reckless Rhetoric on Voting RightsT

The late Saul Alinsky, the father of the community-organizing model that inspired both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, would be delighted. The man who championed moral relativism in tearing down the establishment (“In war, the end justifies almost any means”) is calling the tune of the Democratic party on voting issues. Last March, President Obama rhapsodized about what would happen under mandatory voting: “If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.” Obama once served as the lawyer for the disgraced and defunct voter-registration group ACORN, and he is still toeing its line.

Then last week, Hillary Clinton demanded that the federal government override state laws and automatically register everyone to vote and then offer at least 20 days of early voting, turning Election Day into an Election Month. Both would dramatically complicate the job of already-overburdened voter registrars and make it harder to catch potential fraud. In the case of New York v. United States (1992) and other cases, the Supreme Court has clearly ruled that it is beyond Congress’s power to do what Hillary wants.

But her policy proposals were merely a way station on the path to Clinton’s goal: lambasting Republicans as inheritors of the Southern Democratic tradition of Jim Crow and firing up a liberal base that isn’t yet enamored of her. She accused Republicans of “fear-mongering about a phantom epidemic of voter fraud” and accused Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker by name of taking part in “a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people, and young people.” Ohio governor John Kasich wasn’t amused. While Marc Elias, the Clinton campaign’s general counsel, is participating in legal challenges to Ohio’s voter laws, his candidate doesn’t seem to follow the news in Ohio much. In discussing Clinton’s call for an early-voting period of 20 days, Kasich told Fox News:

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World Silent as Israel Again Under Attack by Gaza Rockets

Israel's prime minister on Sunday slammed the international community's silence over recent rocket attacks from Gaza and warned that a strong reprisal could be forthcoming.

Benjamin Netanyahu said he hasn't heard a word of condemnation from the world about three rocket attacks from Gaza over the past two weeks. The rockets did not cause any injury or harm but disrupted the quiet in southern Israel that has mostly prevailed since last summer's war between Hamas and Israel.

"It will be interesting to see if this silence continues when we use all our strength in exercising our right to defend ourselves," Netanyahu said at his weekly Cabinet meeting. "It should be clear: the hypocrisy that is sweeping the world will not chain our hands from defending the citizens of Israel."

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Sheriff Joe: Democrats Using Illegals For Votes

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Sunday Democrats are mostly interested in immigration reform because the newly legalized residents will eventually obtain voting rights and will vote for Democrats.

“That’s common sense,” said Arpaio. “I don’t think that’s something that nobody knows. You make them here legally so they can vote.”

“There’s a push afoot nationally to sign up more Hispanics to be able to vote,” said Arpaio. “But you have to be careful now. But if you legalize these guys, these people, they are going to vote.”

As WND previously reported, Eliseo Medina, a former immigration adviser to President Obama, boasted in 2009 that granting citizenship to millions of illegal aliens would expand the “progressive” electorate and help ensure a “progressive” governing coalition for the long term.

Medina is the current secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Medina and Gutierrez served on Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council.

During the interview, Arpaio urged Republican president candidates to discuss the issue of drug trafficking when talking about border security.

“Ninety-nine percent” of those arrested for bringing drugs into Maricopa County, Arizona are illegal aliens,” according Arpaio. “Everybody talks about the border related to illegal immigration. Can’t they throw in another little issue just for kicks? And say, oh by the way, tons of drugs are coming across the border too.”

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IRS Official: ‘Lois Lerner Was The Tip Of The Iceberg’

The IRS’s director of privacy, governmental liaison and disclosure division testified Wednesday that the tax agency set up a special team with hundreds of lawyers to handle the probe into whether Tea Party groups were targeted, but repeatedly said she had no idea how it operated.

Mary Howard, who also works as the head Freedom of Information Act officer in the IRS, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that once the “special project team” was created and operational, she never saw requests for information.

“My understanding was that it started soon after the request came from Congress and other investigators asking for documents around this whole issue,” which she surmised meant around spring of 2013.

Asked who was on the team, she said: “My first hand knowledge of that is none.” But she did say the Chief Council of the IRS — one of only two political appointees in the IRS; the other is the commissioner — was on the “special project team,” as were “hundreds of attorneys.”

She said her office did not interact with the White House, but asked whether the “special project team” did, said: “I have no personal knowledge of how that team acted except that I know they amassed hundreds of attorneys to go through the documents and redact them.”

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Has the Holy Grail of clean energy been found?

For many, nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy, offering the possibility of limitless clean energy through harnessing the very same nuclear reaction that keeps our Sun burning.

While the potential of fusion is huge, it is a process that requires vast resources and effort, with the International Energy Agency stating that, "extreme temperatures and pressure are needed to initiate and sustain the fusion reaction, making it challenging."

Fusion is different from the fission power that is used in our nuclear power stations in that energy is generated when atoms are brought together rather than blown apart, which causes radiation.

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Would You Believe Me If I Told You There's Actually A Gym Inside?

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Washington D.C. Is One Strange Place

Fuel Stop at Salisbury Airport

This blimp stopped in for 50 gallons of fuel Sunday around 12:45 on its way to Long Island. It started out that morning 5 hours earlier from Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.

While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.

Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

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Dog Found 6-8-15

She was found on Ward Road which is between Mt. Hermon Church road and Airport Road. I think she was left there. She is very sweet. Contact 443-783-3318

South Park Goes Hollywood

Salisbury City Council Agenda For 6-8-15

“THERE’S A MUSLIM LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE”

Welcome To Downtown Salisbury, Maryland

WASH ME!

Caption This Photo 6-8-15

Class Dismissed

Fiction Or Non Fiction?

Walk with TEAM KELLER at the Salisbury Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis

Hundreds of local residents will walk for a cure for Cystic Fibrosis on Sunday, June 14th, and a 3 year-old Salisbury boy is one of those people searching for that cure. Keller Hoch, the son of Jenna and Corey Hoch, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis eighteen months ago, a week after his 2nd birthday. Please join TEAM KELLER and other local teams for the Salisbury Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis. The walk is on Sunday, June 14th, at the Green Hill Country Club. Registration is at 11:00 am and the walk around the golf course will begin at 12:00. Following the walk will be lots of food, kids activities, corn hole, Party Starz super heroes, DJ Last Call, fire truck, face painting, and swimming in the Green Hill pool.

Last year, TEAM KELLER, raised over $40,000 with more than 300 walkers supporting Keller and other local Cystic Fibrosis families.

“We cannot express how important this day is to us and what it represents,” the Hochs said in a statement. “As parents of a child who has a life shortening genetic disease, we pray everyday that our son will be able to live a full and long life. The only way this can happen is by keeping him as healthy as possible, doing his daily therapy, going to Johns Hopkins six times a year, keeping up with blood draws, x-rays, breathing tests and raising money, so science can cure cystic fibrosis.”

Cystic fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States (70,000 worldwide). A defective gene and its protein product cause the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening lung infections and obstructs the pancreas blocking natural enzymes which help the body break down and absorb food. Today, advances in research and medical treatments have further enhanced and extended life for children and adults with CF. Many people with the disease can now expect to live into their 30’s, 40’s and beyond.

Finding new medications to fight cystic fibrosis and to ultimately cure the disease is the driving force behind the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The foundation’s goal is to have a medicinal cure for all but 5% of the CF population by 2020. Research is moving at an unprecedented pace, and with the increasing number of potential life saving drugs, the future for those battling CF has never been brighter.

The 1.5 mile walk begins at 12:00 at Green Hill Country Club on Sunday, June 14th. Strollers and dogs are also welcome. Donations will go directly to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Green Hill Country Club is located at 5471 Whitehaven Road, Quantico, MD 21856.

For more information, to sign up for the walk, or to donate please visit http://fightcf.cff.org/goto/goteamkeller

Also, Check out the 2015 TEAM KELLER video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ifFD8a-V8

Suspicious Vehicle Leads to Gun and Drug Charges

Laurel- Delaware State Police have arrested three men after they were found to be in possession of a gun and drugs early yesterday morning in Laurel.

The incident began on Saturday, June 6, 2015 at approximately 2:45 a.m., as a Delaware State Trooper on routine patrol on US Rt. 13 in the area of Camp Road, Laurel, observed a vehicle with its headlights on stopped on the southbound shoulder of the road. The trooper, in an effort to check on the welfare of the occupants of the car, approached the vehicle where he came into contact with three male subjects later identified as Breyon J. Baine, 26, of Seaford, DE, Tyshaun Williams, 25, of Bridgeville, DE, and Enoch Williams, 23, of Seaford, DE. It was learned that the subjects had pulled to the shoulder of the road due to the fact that the operator of the vehicle, Breyon Baine, had been vomiting. The trooper then contacted Baine and immediately detected the odor of alcohol. A DUI investigation ensued which resulted in Baine being detained. Troopers then conducted an inventory search of the vehicle prior to it being towed at which time a loaded PT 22 caliber handgun was located in the center console of the car. They also located approximately 56 grams of marijuana in the glove compartment, as well as a bullet proof vest, and a mask. A total of $750.00 in suspected drug sale proceeds was also located. All three subjects were then arrested and transported to Troop 5 where they were charged accordingly.

Breyon J. Baine (pictured white t-shirt): Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon, Conspiracy 2^nd Degree, Possession of Marijuana, Reckless Driving, and No Proof of Motor Vehicle Insurance. Baine was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institute for lack of $22,200.00 secured bail.

Tyshaun Williams (pictured red shirt): Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon, Conspiracy 2^nd Degree, and Possession of Marijuana. Williams was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institute for lack of $8,100.00 secured bail.

Enoch Williams (pictured black t-shirt): Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon, Conspiracy 2^nd Degree, and 2 counts of Possession of Marijuana. Williams was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 3 and committed to the Sussex Correctional Institute for lack of $8,200.00 secured bail.

 

Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, poses for Vanity Fair

NEW YORK (ABC News) - The first image of Bruce Jenner as a woman has been released by Vanity Fair magazine, with the new name Caitlyn Jenner.

"Caitlyn Jenner poses for Annie Leibovitz on the cover of Vanity Fair," the tweet reads with the title of the magazine article, "Call me Caitlyn."

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Farm Truck?

It's kind of interesting how many "Farm Trucks" I see running around on the highways. The one above is especially interesting as it has a volunteer fire department light bar on the top.

Now I ask all of you, aren't there restrictions as to what you can and can't do with a vehicle tagged with Farm Truck tags?

No Police, No Peace

“The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers…” – 1 Timothy 1:9

Murder and mayhem are exploding in our major cities, and Baltimore is at the top of the heap.

Cities like Chicago, New York City, St. Louis – and particularly Baltimore – are fast becoming war zones. Baltimore’s descent into hell has followed a predictable course since the death of black drug dealer, Freddie Gray, following an arrest.

Murder rates have soared to their highest levels in 15 years. Residents are barricading their doors. Some say there are virtually no police in the streets since the riots. Others have compared parts of the city to the Wild West. Indeed, arrests are down in Baltimore almost 50 percent from last year.

In the wake of Gray’s death, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ordered the police to stand down in the face of angry rioters, resulting in injuries to police officers and major property damage.

Baltimore State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby offered six officers up to the angry mob, which only inflamed the situation and signaled to the police that they’ve become the suspects.

Now, police are being hounded, surrounded and videotaped while attempting to perform routine stops and arrests.

The president of the Baltimore Police Union, Lt. Gene Ryan, said Thursday: “Criminals feel empowered now. There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter.”

Lt. Ryan also indicated that cops have been thrown under the bus: “They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty,” he said.

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SPD Press Release 6-3-15 (Barricade Investigation)

Family served arrest warrants for 'disturbing the peace' at graduation

Four people who cheered -- allegedly excessively -- for their loved ones at a high school graduation ceremony in Senatobia, Mississippi, say they've now been slapped with an excessive punishment.

Two weeks after watching her niece walk across the stage at Senatobia High School's graduation ceremony on May 21, Ursula Miller received a warrant for her arrest for disturbing the peace.

"I just called her name out. 'Lakaydra,' Just like that," Miller told CNN affiliate WREG.

Now, Miller said, she has to appear in court or could face at least a $500 fine.

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I'm done with coke products! This is to much.

Sarah Palin hits media ‘double standard’ on Duggars, calls Lena Dunham a ‘pedophile’

A day after TLC stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar confirmed that their oldest son, Josh, had “improperly touched some of our daughters" years ago as a teenager, Sarah Palin is weighing in. And she's got especially harsh words for HBO's Lena Dunham.

The former GOP vice presidential hopeful lashed out at the media -- including in ALL CAPS -- for its "hell-bent mission to go after the entire Duggar family for one member’s wrongdoing, while giving a total pass to perverted actions of someone like Lena Dunham."

Palin pointed to a post by her daughter, Bristol, who wrote that the media gave a "big fat yawn" to Dunham "when she wrote in her book that she sexually experimented with her sister" as a young girl.

Sarah Palin called Dunham a "pedophile."

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Bruce Jenner Needs Help

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.’” This isn’t a treatise on faith, but, for Christians, those words are where any discussions of gender and marriage begin. For those who don’t share our faith, we’d simply point to the Declaration of Independence, in which the Founders acknowledged that Liberty comes from our Creator. And family is the third pillar of Liberty.

But Bruce Jenner didn’t start with objective truth. He started with Bruce Jenner.

Before the aptly named Vanity Fair’s upcoming cover story on the former Olympic Decathlon champion’s transition from Bruce to Caitlyn, Jenner described his view of how God created him: “God’s looking down, making little Bruce. … He says, ‘Okay, what are we gonna do with this one? Make him a smart kid, very determined.’ … And then when he’s just finishing he says, ‘Let’s wait a second.’ God looks down and chuckles a little bit and says, ‘Hey, let’s give him the soul of a female.’”

Jenner insists he’s only coming to terms with who God really made him to be: “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life. You never dealt with yourself,’ and I don’t want that to happen.”

God’s Word actually has a lot to say about the subject, and the voices in Bruce’s head are completely at odds with all of it.

So how does 21st century American pop culture respond to his very public and self-congratulatory — yet still physically incomplete — sexual transition?

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The Salisbury Award To Be Presented To Norman Conway

The Trustees of The Salisbury Award are pleased to announce that the recipient of the Award for 2015 will be Norman H. Conway, in recognition of his outstanding dedication and service to our community. Mr. Conway has demonstrated a commitment throughout his lifetime to helping others in a variety of ways: as an educator, a fireman, a citycouncilman, a State delegate and more; advancing to key leadership positions along the way.

The Salisbury Award is the community’s oldest and most prestigious independent civic award. First given in 1926, the award was established and originally endowed by local businessman G. William Phillips to recognize “service that has been the greatest benefit to the happiness, prosperity, intellectual advancement or moral growth of the community”. Mr. Phillips’ role in creating the award was unknown by the general public until his death some 25 years later.

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State’s Attorney Wants To Block Release Of Freddie Gray Autopsy

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is seeking a protective order to block the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy, according to WJZmedia partner The Baltimore Sun.

Mosby is also hoping to block the release of other “sensitive” documents as she pursues charges against six Baltimore city police officers in Gray’s death.

On Monday, Mosby also asked the court for more time responding to the defense’s motions about her ability to prosecute the case as well as the trial being held out of the city.

She previously filed for a gag order in the case, preventing those involved to discuss the case in public.

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Teacher suspended for blocking students' cellphones

LAND O' LAKES, Fla. -- A Florida science teacher has been suspended for running a signal jammer to prevent his students from using their cellphones in class.

CBS Tampa affiliate WTSP-TV reports Dean Liptak was trying to get students to focus on lessons instead of their phones.

School board members in Pasco County approved Liptak's five-day, unpaid suspension on Tuesday. Liptak didn't contest the decision.

Officials say Liptak activated the jammer in his Fivay High School classroom from March 31 through April 2.

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Guess which lunch time sandwich has now been deemed racist?

Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?

That’s right.

Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune:

“Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year,” the Tribune said.

“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” Gutierrez asked. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”

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Liberals Worship Caitlyn Jenner as Transgender “Goddess”

Cult-like adulation is downright creepy

Many liberals reacted to the Vanity Fair cover featuring Bruce Jenner’s transition into Caitlyn Jenner by proclaiming Jenner to be a Goddess and ordering everyone to bow down and worship her.

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Commissioner Batts: Stolen Prescription Drugs Partly To Blame For Surge In Violence

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Riots, stolen pharmacy drugs and a surge in violence. The city’s top cop tells WJZthere may be a link between the three.

Derek Valcourt speaks with the head of the police union for the first time about the recent jump in crime.

On Monday, WJZ showed you video of local pharmacies being looted during the riots. Now police tell us those stolen drugs are part of the problem.

“I am more than outraged,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.

The commissioner is speaking out about the recent spike in violent crime and confirming what WJZreported Monday — that the looting of more than a dozen pharmacies during the April 27 riots might have played a significant role in making May Baltimore’s deadliest month since 1972.

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What was the worst environmental disaster in the United States?

Question: What was the worst environmental disaster in the United States?

Many accidents and events have done serious environmental damage in the United States, but have you ever wondered which was the worst?

Answer: If you guessed the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 2008 coalash spill in Tennessee or the Love Canal toxic dump disaster that came to light in the 1970s, you're decades too late in every case.

Scientists and historians generally agree that the Dust Bowl—created by the drought, erosion and dust storms, or "black blizzards," of the so-called Dirty Thirties—was the worst and most prolonged environmental disaster in American history.

The dust storms started at about the same time that the Great Depression really began to grip the country, and continued to sweep across the Southern Plains—western Kansas, eastern Colorado and New Mexico, and the panhandle regions of Texas and Oklahoma—until the late 1930s. In some areas, the storms didn't relent until 1940.


Decades later, the land is still not completely restored, once thriving farms are still abandoned, and new dangers are again putting the Great Plains environment in serious jeopardy.

Causes and Effects of the Dust Bowl
In the summer of 1931, the rain stopped coming and a drought that would last for most of the decade descended on the region. Crops withered and died. Farmers who had plowed under the native prairie grass that held the soil in place saw tons of topsoil, which had taken thousands of years to accumulate, rise into the air and blow away in minutes.

On the Southern Plains, the sky turned lethal. Livestock went blind and suffocated, their stomachs full of fine sand. Farmers, unable to see through the blowing sand, tied themselves to guide ropes to go from the house to the barn. Families wore respiratory masks handed out by Red Cross workers, cleaned their homes each morning with shovels as well as brooms, and draped wet sheets over doors and windows to help filter the dust. Still, children and adults inhaled sand, coughed up dirt, and died of a new epidemic called "dust pneumonia."

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POLICE MAKE ARREST IN WICOMICO COUNTY HOMICIDE CASE

(SALISBURY, MD) Maryland State Police homicide investigators, assisted by Salisbury Police Department investigators, arrested a Wicomico County man yesterday, in connection with the murder of a Salisbury man.

The accused is identified as Daequan M. White, 19, of the 1000-block of Cecil Street in Salisbury. White is charged with first and second degree murder, first degree burglary, home invasion, armed robbery, first degree assault, use of firearm in commission of a violent crime/felony, possession of a firearm by a minor, along with several other charges. White is currently being held without bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center.

Early yesterday morning, investigators from the Maryland State Apprehension Team located White at the home of a relative in Salisbury. White was arrested without incident and transported to the Salisbury Police Department for processing.

White was arrested in connection with the murder of James L. H. Skinner, 20, of the 1000-block of Bryn Mawr Avenue in Salisbury, where he had been living for the past two months with a friend of his family and her three teenaged children.

Around 3:30 a.m. on May 17, 2015, Skinner was found lying in the doorway of his residence when police responded to an emergency call at the home. An autopsy report indicated the cause of Skinner’s death was by gunshot.

The Maryland State Police Homicide Unit responded to conduct the investigation. Investigators from the Salisbury Police Department, Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office, and State Police Criminal Enforcement Division assisted with the investigation and continue to follow up on leads, examine forensic evidence, and conduct interviews. A motive for White’s actions has not yet been identified.

Police are still searching for additional suspects. Investigators urge anyone with information about this murder to contact Crime Solvers of the Lower Eastern Shore immediately at 410-548-1776. Crime Solvers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the indictment of the person(s) responsible for this crime. Callers may remain confidential.

The Breakfast Of Champions?

‘I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat’ in the Oval Office

President Obama once confided to a top adviser that he believes he is “the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office.”

In an interview with an Israeli TV station, former Obama adviser David Axelrod recalled the president venting in a moment of contemplation about criticisms that he doesn’t support Israel strongly enough.

“You know, I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office,” the president told Mr. Axelrod. “For people to say that I am anti-Israel, or, even worse, anti-Semitic, it hurts.”

The TV report came out in advance of an exclusive interview that Mr. Obama conducted with Channel 2’s Ilana Dayan, which will be broadcast later Tuesday.

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Two Arrested for Possession of Meth Paraphernalia

Millsboro, DE – Troopers have arrested two people after they were found parked at a boat ramp near Millsboro with methamphetamine products.

The incident happened around 10:05 p.m. Monday June 1, 2015, as a trooper patrolling the Gull Point boat ramp located a suspicious vehicle backed along the side bank of the fishing pier after dark when the area is closed. The trooper made contact with the driver of the red Jeep Cherokee, identified as Robert A. Donovan, 27 of Houston, who gave conflicting stories as why he was parked at the ramp. A computer check conducted on Donovan and a female passenger, Mollie L. Moxey, 24 of Ellendale, revealed they were both wanted on outstanding capiases from Sussex County Courts.

Upon taking the two into custody, a search was conducted on the vehicle which revealed equipment and component mixtures of the manufacturing stages of Meth along with key ingredients in making the drug.

Donovan and Moxey were transported back to Troop 4 in Georgetown where they were both charged with Operating a Clandestine Laboratory, Conspiracy 2nd, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. They were both arraigned at JP3 committed to Sussex Correctional Institution and Delores J. Baylor Women's Correctional Institution respectively on $11,500.00 cash bond.

ACLU: Squalid Conditions At Troubled Baltimore Jail

Moldy showers and cells are infested with mice and cockroaches, toilets are broken for days and medical care is poor or nonexistent at a notoriously troubled Baltimore city detention center, the ACLU and Public Justice Center said in court documents filed Tuesday.

The groups want a federal judge to reopen a lawsuit against the state of Maryland over what they say are conditions so substandard it brings "shame to this city." Inmates suffering from serious illnesses such as HIV and diabetes are being denied life-sustaining prescription medication and the state has failed to cure well-documented systemic problems within the jail after entering into a 2007 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the court documents said.

"The conditions at the jail are a menace to the Constitution and to the public's health," said David Fathi, director of the ACLU's National Prison Project.

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Letter to Michelle Obama... Finally a Marine tells it like it is!

Mrs. Obama

It sickens me that I have to take time to write you this letter. I am a Marine who doesn’t recognize color because every color has lived and died for you. You live in a free country to blame your poor pathetic life on the color of another man’s skin. All colors have given their lives for an educated woman to have the freedom to be so ignorant. I don’t blame black people for the ignorance that comes from your mouth. I love all colors because I love all that God creates. I don’t have to like you to love you and today is no different. I don’t like you or your husband because of your character hidden behind your skin. Isn’t it funny how the truth always reveals itself in time. You and your husband never showed this side of yourselves in 2008 before he was elected.

You both live better than 99% of the people in this world because of this country. You said that you are for the first time proud to be an American. Well, I will tell you that most of us are ashamed of you. You and your husband have become millionaires off the people of this country, but demonstrate very little appreciation for all that we give. White, black, brown or indifferent millions have fought and died for you to have the freedom to say the ignorant things you say. You are educated, but clearly have very little common sense. You blame past generations of Americans for the troubles of a few. Stop blaming white people for your misery and take a look at yourself in the mirror. We are all responsible for our own happiness and misery. The KKK is ignorance wrapped in a sheet while the Black panthers are raised on ignorance and hate. No different from the cult of Islam thinking their race is better than all other men. God is love and creates every color to include our skin. To truly love God is to love all that He loves. For that I love each of you and pray that we all start taking responsibility for our own damned sins.

Martin Luther King had a dream that we would all live in the promise land. He is not remembered for being black. He is remembered for the love, and character he had within his heart. If you don’t like this country get on that plane and never come back. I will stay here and love all Americans, regardless of skin. I will love the beauty of what God created and stand tall with my American friends. Not because of their color but for the character and love they carry within. This country doesn’t owe you anymore than it owes me. So many have thanked me for my service and I will always be grateful. I pray that one day you and your husband might cause me to be grateful for yours. You will never be remembered as the First Lady of Color but soon forgotten after you leave the White House. You nor your husband shall ever divide us. I wish you no harm, but pray you will get the hell off of this American land… If you wish to find me I am now a writer for the DC Gazette. Also on Twitter @mshep08_mike …God bless you and Semper Fi

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