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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	1/30/2014 1:16:37 PM
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Noted constitutional scholar Sheila Jackson Lee: "Executive orders are legal" because he's just trying to help and protect us, "acting ‘on behalf of the American people"

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	1/30/2014 1:17:38 PM
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: 'The President is going to have to use his executive authority' -...and I agree that he should use his executive authority because if the Republicans continue to try to be obstructionists, then we’ve got to make progress!"

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	1/30/2014 1:18:39 PM
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To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	1/31/2014 1:04:21 PM
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Adam Lanza PC Contained Info on “Rights of Pedophiles, Movie About Man/Boy Love, Instant Messages Concerning Homosexual Fantasies” Jan 31, 2014 jammiewf.com Well, this will probably be the last you ever hear about Adam Lanza from the mainstream media. The state’s attorney report on the horrific murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School by shooter Adam Lanza found no “conclusive motive” for his actions but did document unsettling facts about the 20-year-old killer, including computer files he kept on the rights of pedophiles, a movie about man/boy love, instant messages concerning “homosexual fantasies,” numerous mass murder documents, and a computer game entitled “School Shooting.”In “School Shooting,” an amateur computer game, “the player controls a character who enters a school and shoots at students,” reads an Investigation Report (DPS-302-E) that is among the 1,000-plus pages comprising the state’s attorney report on the shootings. Lanza, after shooting his mother Nancy Lanza at home on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, drove to the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and shot and killed 20 children and six adults, and then shot himself. (Full report, text and images here. Summary report here.) Guess we need to ban movies about man/boy love, huh? Some of the items listed include: ” Commercial movies depicting mass shootings.” ” The computer game titled ‘School Shooting’ where the player controls a character who enters a school and shoots students.” ” Five-second video (dramatization) depicting children being shot.” ” Materials regarding the topic of pedophilia and advocating for rights of pedophiles (not child pornography).” Some will argue that this has nothing to do with anything. So then why should the rights of law-abiding gun owners have anything to do with the Newtown aftermath?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	2/2/2014 2:11:34 AM
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To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	2/3/2014 8:18:35 PM
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Insane Lefty View How President Obama Turned The Tables and Humiliated Roger Ailes and Fox News (Huh?) .............................................................................................. PoliticusUSA ^ \| February 3, 2014 \| Jason Easley It’s clear that Roger Ailes and Fox News had big plans for their Super Bowl interview with President Obama. They were going to use the biggest stage of the year to prove that the president is a failure. Instead, it was Obama who humiliated Fox News. Video of the interview: (VIDEO-AT-LINK) It was obvious from the first question that Fox News had a clear agenda for this interview with Obama. The interview got off to a horrible start when O’Reilly tried to zing Obama with the long since fixed ACA website. This exchange set the tone: OBAMA: — as I said, I don’t think anybody anticipated the degree of problems that you had on HealthCare.gov. The good news is that right away, we decided how are we going to fix it, it got fixed within a month and a half, it was up and running and now it’s working the way it’s supposed to and we’ve signed up three million people. O’REILLY: I don’t know about that, because last week, there was an Associated Press call of people who actually went to the Web site and only 8 percent of them feel that it’s working well, working well. It was typical. President Obama responded with a fact. The Republican ignored the fact, and talked about the way people feel. Right away President Obama put O’Reilly on his heels, and it was clear that the right wing hos was full of hot air and had no ammo. Things would only get worse for Fox News from this point forward. The question about why the president didn’t fire HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was supposed to make it appear to viewers that Obama doesn’t hold people accountable, but the president’s answer made the right’s position look weak, and allowed Obama to continue to drive the message home that the ACA is working. It’s also at this point that O’Reilly lost control of the interview. President Obama was now driving the bus. Obama destroyed O’Reilly’s whole line of Benghazi questions by pointing out that Fox News is keeping the conspiracy alive, OBAMA: Bill, think about… O’REILLY: That’s what they believe. OBAMA: — and they believe it because folks like you are telling them that. O’REILLY: No, I’m not telling them that. (LAUGHTER) It is always bad for Fox News when a host leaves the door open for a guest to talk about the misinformation that the network spreads. It is a disaster when it happens on national broadcast television during the Super Bowl pregame show. The ultimate humiliation for Ailes and Fox News came when O’Reilly ventured into another favorite right wing conspiracy theory, the IRS scandal. O’REILLY: OK, so you don’t — you don’t recall seeing Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used… OBAMA: Yes. O’REILLY: — at a — at a local level in Cincinnati, and maybe other places to go after… OBAMA: Absolutely wrong. O’REILLY: — to go after. OBAMA: Absolutely wrong. O’REILLY: But how do you know that, because we — we still don’t know what happened there? OBAMA: Bill, we do — that’s not what happened. They — folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this. I mean these kinds of things keep on surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them. O’Reilly closed with a viewer letter about transforming America, that the president easily knocked down. He also admitted that he hadn’t been fair to the president by saying, “I think — I — you know, I know you think maybe we haven’t been fair, but I think your heart is in the right place.” If you have read the book The Loudest Voice In The Room, this interview had Ailes’ fingerprints all over it, but the Republican propaganda master appears to be losing his touch. He has left behind the aura of frustrated conservative everyman populism that Fox News was built on, and replaced it with far right conspiracy theories that mainstream America doesn’t believe in, or care about. President Obama controlled this interview. The president put O’Reilly on the defensive, and used his conspiracy theory based questions to demonstrate that he and the Democratic Party represent the center of current American politics. An interview that was supposed to be ultimate Obama trap, ended up revealing why Fox News is a network that is only watched by about 2 million Americans. Barack Obama blew up Roger Ailes’ plan, and humiliated Fox News. O’Reilly and Fox News will be puffing out their chests and claiming victory today, but this interview was a resounding humiliation for the interviewer, the network, and the old man in his bullet proof office who calling the shots. Roger Ailes may run Rupert Murdoch’s conservative news channel, but it is President Obama who owns Fox News.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	2/7/2014 8:08:02 PM
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Minn. teen gets 10 years for fatal "knock-out game" punch .................................................................... CBSnews ^ \| February 7, 2014 The dead guy is still going to be dead forever though, right? Colton Gleason was killed when a car pulled up, and Jesse Smithers got out and punched him from behind ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- After 17 months of waiting, a family finally learned how much time the man who killed their son will be in prison, reports CBS Minnesota. A Stearns County judge sentenced 18-year-old Jesse Smithers to 10 years on Thursday. Smithers admitted to delivering a deadly punch in a St. Cloud alley almost a year and a half ago, when on Sept. 21, 2012, Colton Gleason was walking with friends when a car pulled up, and Smithers got out and punched him. His father, John Gleason, says the pain, bitterness and hurt his family feels did not go away with the sentencing of the man responsible for his son’s death. “We’ve been given a life sentence by this cowardice attack and murder of our son,” John said. “He’ll serve very few short years and he’ll be back out again, and our son is gone forever.” 7 Photos Suspected "Knockout game" attacks accumulating victims John says his son was the victim of a deadly “knockout game.” “This group was out there and their intentions were very clear. This is unprovoked. They stopped and they saw someone they thought they could victimize,” he said. “Colton didn’t have a chance to even turn and defend himself when somebody blind-sided punched him.” Jesse Smithers was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for delivering the fatal punch. He originally entered a plea of not guilty, but changed it to 2nd-degree murder in Nov. 2013. He apologized in court Thursday for what he called a “complete accident.” But Colton’s mother, Julie, disputes this claim. “Somebody didn’t just run over and hit a car and provoke an attack,” Julie said. “This was an attack that was meant to happen.” This tragedy has changed Gleason's family forever. All they have now are the memories of a 20-year-old that was loved by so many. “He was just fun to be with all time, and he was always hugging and telling everyone he loved them,” she said. If he doesn’t commit any offenses in prison, Smithers could be released in about five years.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	2/8/2014 12:53:39 PM
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The Obama effect: NRA’s ‘American Rifleman’ surges to top 25 magazines in America ..................................................................................................................................... Saturday, February 08, 2014 12:39:06 PM · by neverdem · 2 replies Washington Times ^ \| February 6, 2014 \| Emily Miller

To: Shoot1st who wrote (7588)	2/8/2014 3:41:44 PM
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It was announced this week that the 9/11 Memorial and Museum was going to charge an admittance fee of $24. This announcement was met with a great deal of derision from families that had loved ones perish on 9/11 and from conservative outlets. The mainstream media was their normal, silent self and ignored the story. The thought of a museum and memorial dedicated to 9/11 charging such an exorbitant fee is nauseating. I guess they need the money to pay for their incredibly high-paid salaries. As Breitbart.com has reported, the president and CEO of the institution has a salary of $371,307. Eleven members of the staff have salaries of over $170,000 each. Overall, a billion dollars was raised for the institution. Of course, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is no stranger to controversy. They do not even address Islam or jihad at all, despite the fact that it was Islamic terrorists that carried out the attacks. In fact, the attackers are displayed more prominently than the victims. This is just sickening, but yet it has happened at the heart of the attack. Last July, the museum was criticized because they wanted to exclude the iconic image of three firefighters raising the American flag at the rubble of the World Trade Center. The creative director of the museum, Michael Shulan, deemed the photo too "rah-rah America" and too kitschy. The museum compromised by showing three images of the same scene so as to undercut the myth of the "one iconic moment," according to chief curator Jan Ramirez. This is how progressive liberals work. They need to define the narrative to fit their agenda, and the best way is to control how people remember the attacks. Pro-American images are bad. Detailing the barbaric nature of Islamic jihad is bad. Putting the entire 9/11 attack into the category of a sad accident or tragedy is good. Making money off such an endeavor is even better. The park of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum only has a single American flag. I'm surprised that they even have that one as isn't an American flag too "rah-rah American"? I was stunned to learn that unidentified remains of those who perished on 9/11 are at the museum, so if you want to pay your respects to a loved one, you'll have to cough up $24 to do it. There's a special level of Hell for those running the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.