1st THEY CAME FOR THE MUSLIMS. . ..

Today's Audio Predicated On Famous Germany Protestant Pastor, MARTIN NIEMÖLLER--His Iconic Poem Starts Out With - "FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SOCIALISTS.."

Niemöller (1892-1984) prominent Protestant pastor emerged as outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler--spent last 7 yrs Nazi rule in concentration camps, beg. in 1937

Niemöller best remembered for the following quotation:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the Trade Unionists - I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist

Then they came for the Jews - I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me

Donald Trump Coming After You-Make No Mistake About That! He'll Be Coming After Anyone Who Opposes Him Or Who Espouses Differing Beliefs-He No Ordinary School Yard Bully-He "Night Stick" Of New Order, Cudgle That Will Usher In An Age Of Intimidation, Aggression & Reckoning!

Leather Jackets & Jack Boots Are Not That Far Behind-Beneath That Upper West Side, Benevolently Beaming, Comfortably Rich Gaze Is The Pile-Driver Behind The Next Wave Of Conservative Movement That Will Lay Waste To Virtually All Advances Of Recognizable Politically Progressive Progress.

The Muslim Enemy Is Just Opening Salvo. Many More Enemies To Follow & All Handled With Same Draconian Approach. Trump Is An Upper East-Side Hitler Masquerading As Legitimate Political Actor.

For Political Party To Spawn Candidate like this-Enormously Distressing. That Party Has NO Real Legitimacy! GOP-Take AwayThe 3rd Letter-The Letter "P"-Your Left With "GO" - As In, Just Go!

Donald "Rump" Wants CNN To Fork Over $5M To Him To Appear On CNN, Which Is Hosting The Next 2016 GOP Presidential Debate!

Ok, CNN, Go Ahead & Pay "Rump" $5M, But With 1 Proviso, The "Rump" Boy Has To Go Over To Cruise Control/Ted Cruise & Plant A Big, New York-Style, Sloppy, Wet Kiss On Cruise-Boy's Cuban Lips!

Come On, Now, Folks, You Gotta Work For This Amount Of "Jack"!  Welcome To The Apprentice, RumpTrump!  Maybe, Also Throw In A Little "Twerking" For The Hip-Hop Crowd, Yeah, Rumpster!

Seriously, The New Bitch-Queen In The GOP 2016 Stable Is That Latin Lover, Star Of Stage, Screen & Capitol Hill, Theodore "Teddy" Cruise, The Hottest Thing In Texas Since Gene Autry!

If The "Rump"-Man Gets $5M, Then Cruise-Control Man Will Want $10M - And Then, Ladies & Gents Were All Off To The Races, The Networks Will Really Be In Duck Soup, Going Forward!

Who Needs To Go On A Book Tour Or Speaking Engagements When You Can Weasel Your Way Into A Few Million Quid Just For Standing Up In Front Of A Camera For An Hour Or Two!

The "Dumpster" Can Certainly Huff & Puff To Earn That $5M, But Hot-Lips Cruise Is The Queen-Bitch Of Snark!  He Might Even Go Full-Throttle On The Dumpster And Slice Him Down To A Size 4!  

Trump Is A High-Priced Racketeer, He's Gangster From The Neck Up!  He's Got His Testes In High Gear & He Thinks That Just Going "Full-Bore, High-Octane" Will Smash Any & All Obstacles In His Way!  Cruise Is Probably Counting That 'Cause Teddy-Boy Will Want To Put The Stiletto Into The Rumpster While He Ain't Lookin' - Slyly, Sneakily As Only The Cruister Can Do.  He Was The Debating Champion @ Yale, After All.

As Donald Trump continues to insist that he saw “thousands” of Muslims cheering the destruction of World Trade Ctr. - let’s pause 2 remember that several Israelis were arrested, eventually deported 4 acting suspiciously on 9/11.

Trump has said he personally witnessed large numbers of Muslims holding “tailgate parties” in New Jersey on 9/11/01, and his campaign manager suggested that “special interests” who control the media have conspired to bury video footage to back the Republican candidate’s claims.

The GOP frontrunner has dug himself in so deep defending those claims, which are not supported by law enforcement or media accounts that he mocked a disabled reporter who questioned his recollection.

Police detained, questioned and eventually released a # of Muslims in New York City area who were accused of behaving suspiciously following the terrorist attacks but investigators found most of those claims to be unfounded.

A New Jersey woman, however, reported some suspicious men she saw recording video from a moving van that actually did result in arrests.

Police detained, questioned and eventually released a number of Muslims in the New York City area who were accused of behaving suspiciously following the terrorist attacks but investigators found most of those claims to be unfounded.

A New Jersey woman, however, reported some suspicious men she saw recording video from a moving van that actually did result in arrests.

The woman, identified by police and news reports only as Maria, said she spotted three men kneeling on the roof of a white van outside her New Jersey apartment building as she watched the towers burn through binoculars.

She called police, who arrested 5 men identified as Sivan Kurzberg-Paul Kurzberg-Oded Ellner-Omer Marmari-Yaron Shmuel - not muslim names.

From 10/21/15 Edition Of "The Nation" Magazine -- By Lydia Wilson --

What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters - They’re drawn to the movement for reasons that have little to do with belief in extremist Islam.

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No sooner am I settled in an interviewing room in the police station of Kirkuk, Iraq, than the first prisoner I am there to see is brought in, flanked by two policemen and in handcuffs. I awkwardly rise, unsure of the etiquette involved in interviewing an ISIS fighter who is facing the death penalty. He is small, much smaller than I, on first appearances just a boy in trouble with the police, his eyes fixed on the floor, his face a mask. We all sit on armchairs lined up against facing walls, in a room cloudy with cigarette smoke and lit by fluorescent strip lighting, a room so small that my knees almost touch the prisoner’s—but he still doesn’t look up. I have interviewed plenty of soldiers on the other side of this fight, mostly from the Kurdish forces (known as pesh merga) but also fighters in the Iraqi army (known as the Iraqi Security Forces or ISF), both Arab and Kurdish. ISIS fighters, of course, are far more elusive, unless you are traveling to the Islamic State itself, but I prefer to keep my head on my shoulders.

At the end of the interview w/the first prisoner we ask, “Do you have any questions for us?” For the first time since he came into the room he smiles-in surprise-& finally tells us what really motivated him, w/o any prompting. He knows there's an American in the room, and can perhaps guess, from his demeanor and his questions, that this American is ex-military, and directs his “question,” in the form of an enraged statement, straight at him. “The Americans came,” he said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security.

THE ESSENCE OF LAST NITE'S GOP DEBATE & They Whiffed ON It---

"..in 7 years under President Obama, the U.S. has added an average of 107,000 jobs/month.Under President Clinton, the economy added about 240,000 jobs/month.Under George W. Bush, it was only 13,000/month.If you win the nomination, you'll probably be facing a Democrat named Clinton.How r u going to respond to claim that Democratic presidents are better at creating jobs than Republicans?

CARLY FIORINA'S Pitiful ANSWER was:"Well, first of all, I must say as I think about that question, I think about a woman I met the other day.I'd guess she's 40 yrs. old.She had several children.She said to me, u know, Carly, I go to bed every night afraid for my children’s future.That really struck me.This is America.Mother's going to bed afraid 4 her kids' future.

Fiorina's answer is a nonsequitor -- a non-answer.

The GOP Does NOT Have ANY ANSWER To Address The Challenge Of Creating Jobs, GOOD JOBS!  They Merely Harken Back To Freedom, Free Enterprise, Start Your Own Business, Get Right With Jesus, Don't Be A Co-Dependent On Government, Don't Get Stuck On Welfare, Social Security. They're Basically Saying, You're On Your Own, Government Has No Role To Play & We Don't Want Any Government Involved In Job Stimulus.  Just Pray To Jesus, He'll Make Things Better.

Are These Guys Fucked Or What? None Of Them Want To See The Minimum Wage Go Up!  They're Answer ---> Just Work Harder!  God, They Are Evil. They Are Beyond Fucked Up! They Are Fucked Up ITSELF! Why Would Any Rationale, Sane Human Being Listen To Any Of Their Scheisse!

Hillary In A "Walk" In 2016!  Hands Down! The GOP Can't Even See Straight, Much Shoot Straight!

Ben Carson has a little problem, just two days before the 4th GOP 2016 Presidential debate.  He has been caught in his lies about his growing up as poor black kid in Detroit.

He says he attacked another kid with a knife when he was young.  That "kid" turned out to be a close relative.

In 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated he claims he hid a couple of white kids - in the primarily black Detroit high school he attended - inside a biology lab.  Only problem, students interviewed years later claimed they could not remember that as the case.  Carson himself cannot remember the names of the students he claims to have hid.

But the kicker comes when Carson recounts his experience - while still in high school - of attending a banquet with General Westmoreland after Carson was named ROTC candidate of the year in Detroit.  Carson claims he was offered a "full scholarship" to attend the Army Academy at West Point.  The only problem is is that West Point has no records of that ever transpiring or that Carson even initiated an "application" process.

Carson has also recounted of his so-called violent past with very little evidentiary proof to back up those claims.

Fast Forward to his stint at Yale where Carson recounts how his Yale psych professor for his Perceptions 301 class said that the final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” and that all 150 students would have to retake it. The new exam was much tougher, Carson wrote that everyone walked out but him.  Carson then went on to say that later on he was approached by a photographer from the Yale Daily News and his psych professor who Carson claimed told him the "re-test" was a hoax and was only meant to see who was the most honest student.  Supposedly the professor gave Carson $10.

When Lester Maddox was governor of Georgia in the late 1960s, he insisted that the problem with the state’s prisons was “the poor quality of its inmates.”

Maddox was a Democrat and an ardent defender of the Apartheid South, not exactly an American statesman. Yet his defense of Georgia’s prison system turns out to be a perfect metaphor for today’s Republican Party, created when political consultant Kevin Phillips realized that Nixon’s 43.9 percent, added to George Wallace’s 13.5 percent of the popular vote in the 1968 election, was the beginning of a coalition that would ensure a permanent Republican majority in the South. (Phillips has spent the second half of his life atoning for and writing about his Southern Strategy.)

To understand the posturing of the Republican candidates this year, you have to take into account the quality of the inmates––the Southern, conservative, anti-immigrant base that dominates the party Lincoln helped create to confront the nativism and anti-immigration politics of the Democrats and Know Nothings in the 1850s.

The candidates––not their backers and constituency-group leaders––got most of the media attention at last month’s Values Voters Summit in Washington because they are the candidates––and because their pronouncements, which range from deeply disturbing to utterly risible, are newsworthy.

When Ted Cruz implies that if elected, he will kill Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, that’s news. When Mike Huckabee promises to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ban abortion with the stroke of a pen, because the unborn are fully fledged citizens of the United States (“None of your daughters and daughters-in-law called you up and said ‘Guess What? I’m going to have a blob of tissue.’”), that’s also news.

IMAGINE

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Imagine there's no FOX-NEWS mendacity

It's easy if you try

No low-life, right-wing to screw us

No Fox rag magazine to put a finger in our eye

Imagine all the Red-Ass Radio Shows

Saturating the Air Waves EVERY Day

Imagine they have NO LISTENERS

For they all went on a long, long holiday!

Nothing to shill or cry for

And no Christianity too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace without you

You may say I'm a liberal

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will become as one

Imagine no repossessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood all across this land

Imagine all the people

Caring For ALL the world...

You may say I'm a schemer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world become as one

To The Question:  Were You Alone In The House

Hillary cackled infectiously with a monster grin!

Wow, that sent the questioner --- the gentle GOP lady congresswoman from Alabama (Brooks) into outrage overdrive

Lady Hillary seamlessly recovered and pointedly countered --- "Yes, I have a secure phone line in my home"

The lead-up to the Hillary Cackle were Rep. Brooks' prior line of questioning to Lady HilRod --- which was --- "when you left the State Dept. on the evening of Sept. 11th, 2012 did you go home?

To which Madam HilRod replied:   "yes"

To which Rep. Brooks further inquired in subsequent questioning --- was Hillary "alone" while at home.

To which HilRod, after absorbing the question - immediately broke out into a loud, spontaneous cackling laugh - her face lit up like a Christmas Tree.  

As far as I am concerned that instant pretty much summarizes the entire Benghazi Congressional Committee hearing.

A loud cackling laugh --- almost hysterical.  God, I'd run that as one of her campaign ads --- sure as shit dispels any lingering myth that she is contrived or disengenuous!

HilRod did cut Rep. Brooks off quickly - immediately upon her "cackle" --- & just before she confirmed having secure communication facilities inside her home --- by blurting out --- Rep. Brooks, just a moment of levity   . . .

Frankly, it is arguable that a few more well-placed cackles would've brought the curtain down a lot sooner on these hearings (11-hours in length) than anything else.

Well done, Madam HilRod --- A cackle worth its weight in gold.  We need to have more of them cackles between now and Nov. 8, 2016.  Cackle away, madam, cackle away.

That seems to be your silver bullet when doing battle with these meanie GOP weenies.

ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Joe Biden is a nice guy, virtually everyone will vouch for that!

He's prone to "gaffes"!

He's also 72-years of age and has already been Vice President for close to 8 years.

He's already missed the 1st Democratic Presidential Contenders Debate, held last night in Las Vegas!

More importantly, however, in this year of "outsiders" outdoing "insiders", Joe Biden, even more than Hillary Clinton, is an out-and-out insider!

He's also tied to Barack Obama & all of his policy choices since 2008 by virtue of being Obama's vice presidential pick.

There's far more to lose by running for Biden than any small hope of actually claiming the Democratic nomination.

The clock has been ticking for quite some time now. Barack Obama started his run for the Presidency in February, 2007. Here it is heading into November, 2015 and Biden has still not made any formal pronouncements on this matter.

Joe, history is on the side of Hillary.It IS time for a woman president and while Hillary is not blemish-free and has her "baggage" she is an extremely accomplished and gifted woman in her own right. History wins, Joe. Sorry. Life often is not fair but that's life. Sorry, Joe, but you'd be best served by making a classy announcement this coming weekend making it perfectly clear that while you gave it serious thought you have come to the conclusion that the country already has two fine, upstanding candidates from which to select from, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

Do the right thing, Joe. History will be more than kind to you. You can go out a real winner and your legacy will be sterling forever!

After all, Joe, you're not really running because you want to - it's more like you're running because you have to & that's no good, Joe. That's not reason enough & you know it!