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To: i-node who wrote (899618)	11/8/2015 10:32:46 AM
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Donald Trump: Ben Carson ‘has pathological disease… you can’t really cure it’ David Edwards DAVID EDWARDS rawstory.com 08 NOV 2015 AT 09:48 ET Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responded to discrepancies in Ben Carson’s personal biography by saying that the former neurosurgeon has a “pathological disease” that cannot be cured. “It’s a lot of statements that are under fire,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “And I hope Ben’s going to be okay with it… But certainly a lot of people are asking a lot of questions all of the sudden.” “It’s a lot of things,” he continued. “You know, when you say hitting your mother over the head with a hammer, when you talk about hitting a friend in the face with a lock, a padlock. And you talk about stabbing someone and it got stopped by a belt buckle.” Trump observed that “belt buckles don’t really stop stabbings. They turn and twist and things slide off them. It’s pretty luck if that happened.” “Ben wrote a book, and it’s a tough book because, you know, he talked about he has pathological disease,” the GOP hopeful added. “It’s a serious statement when you say you have pathological disease. Because as I understand it, you can’t really cure it.” Watch the video below from CNN’s State of the Union, broadcast Nov. 8, 2015.

To: i-node who wrote (899618)	11/8/2015 10:36:41 AM
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Another Ben Carson tale implodes: No evidence supports claim he shielded white classmates from 1968 race riot Bethania Palma Markus BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS rawstory.com 07 NOV 2015 AT 17:52 ET It’s getting hard to tell what’s up and what’s down these days with GOP candidate Ben Carson. In recent days, he’s come under scrutiny for claims he has made about his past that don’t seem to align with reality. Now the Wall Street Journal has gone back to fact check a claim Carson made last month, in which he says he shielded white students from rioting after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. The Journal could find no evidence the event occurred. “It may have happened, but I didn’t see it myself or hear about it,” Gregory Vartanian, a white high school classmate of Carson’s who was on ROTC with him and is now a retired U.S. Marshal, told the Journal. In Carson’s account to the Journal last month, black students unleashed fury and grief over the slaying of King on white classmates at Detroit’s Southwestern High. As a junior, Carson had a key to the biology lab because he worked there part-time. Carson claimed he hid a few frightened white students inside to shield them from the unrest. He could not recall any of their names. None of the half-dozen former classmates of Carson or his high school physics teacher could recall white students hiding from rioting the in the biology lab when interviewed by the Journal — though they all remembered the riot itself. Barry Bennett, Carson’s campaign manager, told the Journal there was no evidence Carson’s claims aren’t true. “There’s no facts saying they are not true. We are guilty until proven innocent,” he told the paper. “You have no reason to believe that they are not true. There’s no evidence to point to the fact that they are even questionable.” Carson’s past has been increasingly raising eyebrows. Recently he came under fire for standing by a bizarre personal theory supported by no scientists that the Egyptian pyramids were built by the biblical figure Joseph in order to store grain. His claims to have been offered full scholarship to the elite military academy West Point were also called into question since West Point does not give out scholarships and all who attend do so free of charge. Other unraveling claims include one Carson made about being a knife-wielding, troubled youth and his relationship with Christian-run firm Mannatech, which hawks bogus herbal cures to the faithful.

To: i-node who wrote (899618)	11/8/2015 5:00:01 PM
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You live in Arkansas....remember Central High school in 1957.....still to this day has integration problems More than half of all Arkansas children live in a household that struggles financially. Children of color are more likely to live in poverty, but the number of white children in poverty is much higher than African-American and Hispanic children. Poverty impacts the entire state but does see areas of concentration, especially in the DeltaI live in Arkansas. " Arkansas was once a democrat-voting blue state and even produced a president history doesn’t hate. But over the last 50 years, the state has sunk deeply into the GOP hand basket and anyone not riding in it is going straight to hell. Let me lay out some basic demographics that might give you an idea of what we, the blue dots, are up against. First off, my entire state has about 3 million people, which is only about one third the size of New York City. My state also has nearly 6000 churches. That’s one church for every 500 people. Of the 3 million people who call this place home, 77% are white; the rest of the minorities get lumped together under “other” and make up the final 23%. This state considers itself overwhelmingly Christian, with 86% of the population claiming church affiliation. Probably you won’t be surprised to find out that of them, the largest group is Southern Baptist -- the group that only got around to saying, “Yup, slavery was bad,” in 1995, and which continues to preach that God set men in charge of everything and, less explicitly, that those men are white. Actually 80% of the Southern Baptist Convention is white. The rest of the Christian-affiliated people break down into groups even more conservative than the SBC. This is not exactly a foundation on which to build a progressive world view. From this perspective, socialism is evil and they don’t want taxes or welfare, but you can carry a concealed gun to church if you want. (Really.) And you can buy that gun at Walmart. (Oh, yeah. Arkansas is home of Walmart. Our bad.) It’s assumed when you meet someone that that person is a conservative Christian who will vote based almost unilaterally Republican because “Jesus” and “abortion.” The people who represent this state in congress are all male, all white and nearly all Republican. Our two Democrat congressmen are Representative Vic Snyder and Senator Mark Pryor. Both vote like moderate republicans, so it’s hard to take them seriously as Democrats Since Clinton, our governors have been basically indistinguishable. Both have been called Mike and both are Baptist. Whether it’s a Huckabee or a Beebe is pretty irrelevant as they’re both carbon copies when it comes to political stances on women, poverty and pretty much anything else not dealing with rich white men. Rich white men get tax cuts, schools get closed, funding gets cut, anything Obama said is categorically rejected and meanwhile, the state sinks further into a miasma of educational and economic bankruptcy. Arkansas is ardently “pro-life,” if by “pro-life” you mean “anti-abortion and family planning services.” This state has exactly 2 abortion providers and both are Planned Parenthood clinics. They also exist in the more affluent and progressive area in the midsection of the state. There are more than 50 “Crisis Pregnancy Centers,” though, that offer adoption counseling, pregnancy coercion, guilt and “post abortion therapy.” But our state government keeps the minimum wage at $6.25 an hour, has cut unemployment insurance again as well as food stamp assistance for needy families, so if you can’t support the children you have to have, too bad."