Donald Trump doubles down on attack of "wacky" Congresswoman who called him out over insensitive call to Gold Star family even though his Chief of Staff confirmed she was telling the truth.

The Fake News is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson(D), who was SECRETLY on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2017

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Both the family and Wilson released statements that refute Trump’s take on the call. Wilson is a close friend of the Johnson family and had the late Sgt. La David Johnson in a leadership class as a child. She’s known him for more than 15 years. The Master Sergeant with the family riding to the airport to retrieve the body was the one who received the call. He put it on speakerphone so that the all in the car could hear the call. 

The soldier’s mother confirmed the Congresswoman’s account of the situation. Rather than attack the family of a fallen soldier, however, Trump has chosen to attack a Democratic Congresswoman, calling her “wacky” in his Thursday tweet.

What's even stranger about this is that yesterday Trump's Chief of Staff, John Kelly, admitted that HE was the one who suggested the phrase "He knew what he signed up for" which essentially confirmed that Trump had said it.

And of course the family also backed up Wilson's version of events.

So WHO is the liar here?

Donald Trump responds to news of a US Navy destroyer crash with a flippant "That's too bad." However Breitbart says that's not his fault.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Ten U.S. Navy sailors were missing and five were injured after the USS John S. McCain guided missile destroyer and an oil tanker more than three times its size collided near Singapore early Monday. 

American and Singaporean ships and helicopters launched a search-and-rescue mission after the pre-dawn collision at the entrance to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

Five injured and ten missing, but when Trump was asked about the incident, this was his response:  President Donald Trump’s initial reaction to the crash of the USS John McCain with a merchant ship east of Singapore that left five sailors injured and ten missing was: “That’s too bad.”

Later of course after the blowback Trump's advisers apparently got hold of his Twitter account and tweeted this:

Thoughts & prayers are w/ our @USNavy sailors aboard the #USSJohnSMcCain where search & rescue efforts are underway. https://t.co/DQU0zTRXNU

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 21, 2017

I think that is like the Hallmark card version of a presidential condolence.

"Sorry to hear your ship got smashed. Hope you get well soon."

Kind of makes you wonder if the fact that the ship was named after the guy whose vote spiked Trumpcare has anything to do with Trump's dismissive attitude?

No, don't be silly. According to Breitbart there is really a simply answer that deflects the blame away from Trump: 

A source with direct knowledge of these matters tells Breitbart News that the senior staff at the White House, including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, did not brief President Donald Trump on the collision the Navy destroyer USS John McCain had with an oil tanker near Singapore before he originally seemingly dismissed the incident saying, “that’s too bad.”

Yes, it's not that Donald Trump is an insensitive POS, it's that the guy who Stephen Bannon just lost a power struggle with in the White House is incompetent at his job.

Seems perfectly clear.

Wasilla lawmaker suggests that if senior citizens don't like her budget cuts because then they can't afford to live in Alaska they should get the hell out.

Courtesy of KTVA:  

Rep. Lynn Gattis says seniors who can’t afford to live in Alaska, should consider moving out of state. AARP, a senior citizens advocacy group, warns reductions in the state budget proposed last week by the House Finance Committee, which includes Gattis, may force many to leave. 

“I had that in my mind that I wanted to grow old and die here in Alaska,” said Ken Helander, associate state director for AARP. “I don’t know if I’m going to be able to. It frightens me to think of that.” 

Alaska has the fastest growing senior population in the nation, and AARP said House members are targeting seniors with their scissors. According to calculations by the group, the Alaska House of Representatives is proposing more than $23 million in cuts to programs that will affect Alaska seniors. 

Gattis said she thinks seniors might be better off elsewhere anyway. 

“Alaska is a tough state for older folks to live in: slipping, falling, icy so on and so forth,” Gattis said. “So if you’re not working, on a fixed income, sometimes there are other places that are less expensive to live.”

You know what, all of us are getting older.

However many of the elderly living in Alaska are some of the toughest old coots you ever want to meet.

Some of these folks have been living here since before it was a state, when driving on a paved road was a rare occurrence, and EVERYBODY dug their own wells and cesspools, and raised much of their own food.

So if they want to live the rest of their lives in one of the most beautiful places on this planet, well by gosh they should have that right and nobody should suggest otherwise.

And perhaps somebody should tell this Lynn Gattis lady that another group who has trouble navigating on icy sidewalks are fat people, so perhaps she should hoist her lard ass onto a plane and fly the fuck out of our state before some elderly lady gives her a good old fashion Alaska beat down.

Or if that seems too extreme perhaps she could simply shift her attention to being a good parent for a change.

Facebook page supporting police posts fake memorial mocking the death of Michael Brown.

Courtesy of The Free Thought Project: 

 One of the largest police pages on Facebook posted an extremely divisive picture, which is sure to inflame already fragile police-community/race relations in Ferguson, Mo. and beyond. 

Surprisingly, the fake picture has received a large amount of blowback from law enforcement officers, despite the thousands of repugnant cops who liked and shared it. 

The irresponsibility of a page that claims to represent and support cops, in posting something so shallow and disrespectful, regarding someone killed by an officer, shows a supreme ignorance and continual lack of understanding, regarding community relations and dealing with the public. 

You can visit the Facebook page for yourself here, And if you look through it you will quickly learn that it features many insensitive and even racist posts.

By the way it appears that cops are now killing unarmed white teenagers now as well.

I guess that must be more of that American exceptionalism that I keep hearing so much about.

Ted Cruz mocks Joe Biden the day before he buries his son.

Courtesy of Think Progress: 

Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden will bury his son, Beau, who died after a battle with brain cancer. That didn’t stop Senator Ted Cruz, who is running for president, from using Biden as a punch line for a bad joke on Wednesday night. Cruz was speaking to a group of Republicans in Michigan.

"Vice President Joe Biden," @TedCruz says to faint laughter. "You know the nice thing? You don't need a punch line." #JoeBiden

— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) June 3, 2015

Later Cruz made a minimal effort at damage control: 

It was a mistake to use an old joke about Joe Biden during his time of grief, and I sincerely apologize. The loss of his son is heartbreaking and tragic, and our prayers are very much with the Vice President and his family.

Today is the funeral of Beau Biden, and many prominent politicians were in attendance, including the President and Michele Obama, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Somehow I doubt that Cruz made an appearance.

Former Ferguson City Court Clerk fired over racist e-mails claims she felt like she was "raped."

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

“It took me a while to get over the feeling of being raped and being thrown under the bus,” she told KMOV in her first interview since losing her job. “I feel like I was the sacrificial lamb.” 

She added that if everyone who sent racist emails were fired they’d “have to shut the doors.” 

“It went on all the time.” Twitty did say she understands how the emails look bad in retrospect, but insisted she meant nothing racist by it. 

“It’s ruined my name, it’s devastated me,” Twitty said. “I’m not that person that they’re saying I am…It’s not like I personally sent them out or forwarded them to the police officers to hurt anyone or be racist. Because I’m not racist…I’m human. I meant nothing bad by it.

So to be clear Ms. Twitty did not send out those racist e-mails because she is a bigot. She sent them out because making derogatory remarks and showing racially insensitive images of black people  is funny.

After all what's racist about that?

She is right about one thing however if indeed it "went on all the time" then she should certainly not be the only city employee to lose her job over it.

Indianapolis Star runs racially insensitive comic, responds to criticism by removing character's mustache, before finally pulling the entire comic and apologizing for it.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Responding to criticism that a cartoon depicting undocumented immigrants coming through a window to share Thanksgiving dinner with a white family was racist, an Indiana newspaper edited out the stereotyped housebreaker’s mustache, ostensibly to make the cartoon seem less racist. 

The Indianapolis Star ran the cartoon by editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel showing a family coming in through the window to share in the holiday meal, with the house owner announcing to his family and guests, “Thanks to the president’s immigration order we’ll be having extra guests this Thanksgiving.”

In the original version up above the male character has a ball cap over his eyes and a rather prominent mustache, which suggest to many a Hispanic stereotype. After being mocked on Twitter the newspaper decided the best course was to remove the offending mustache.

See? All better.

Yeah, except it WASN'T all better and the outrage continued until the executive editor responded with this: 

On Friday, we posted a Gary Varvel cartoon at indystar.com that offended a wide group of readers. 

Many of them labeled it as racist. Gary did not intend to be racially insensitive in his attempt to express his strong views about President Barack Obama's decision to temporarily prevent the deportation of millions of immigrants living and working illegally in the United States. 

But we erred in publishing it.

Gee, ya think?

My favorite part of this story is that they really believed that the mustache was the problem, and not the showing of dark haired, clearly Hispanic, people invading the home of white people uninvited.

Which of course is exactly the kind of thing that fans the flames of racial hatred in this country.

The one year anniversary of the Sandy hook school shootings is almost upon us so one 2nd Amendment group is planning a national event to celebrate gun rights.

Courtesy of Komo News:

A Seattle-area group is planning a national event to celebrate gun rights on Dec. 14th, the anniversary of the mass shooting at a Connecticut-area school. 

"Guns Save Lives Day" will take place in all 50 states, said a representative for the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, although what the day entails is still to be determined. 

Gun advocates are planning the event to coincide with the anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which killed 26 people, mostly children. 

"The gunman lived in my neighborhood. He lived 50 yards from my front door," said Po Murray, a Newtown mother with two kids who were once Sandy Hook students. "For them to use that day to promote their agenda, it's completely inappropriate in my opinion." 

Event organizers say they fear gun control advocates will use the day to push their beliefs so they want to counter that; to "show America that there is a good side to guns." 

"We are certainly aware that it's going to hit a raw nerve with a lot of people," said Dave Workman, with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a co-sponsor of the event. "I think that possibly is one of the reasons we chose the day -- to make sure that people understand that, while what happened last year was a horrible tragedy, there are many good things people do with firearms." 

 "My Facebook lit up on it. It's sadness, more than anything else," said Ralph Fascitelli with Washington Cease Fire, a gun control advocacy group. "Is there no line of common decency?" 

No there isn't.

At least not for those who believe that the 2nd Amendment is the MOST important right given to us by the Constitution.

Insensitive pricks!

Why does Fox News hate America's babies?

That Brian Kilmeade guy is SUCH an idiot.

He probably did it on purpose because he was jealous that even a toddler has more talent than he could ever hope to achieve. (Did you notice how he tried to cover the baby's mouth to keep him from crying and ratting him out?)

Indiana teacher who believes gays "have no purpose" suspended.

 As I imagine many of you remember from a previous post, the above teacher, a Diane Medley, was interviewed concerning plans by students and parents to hold their own prom in order to exclude gay students who were NOT excluded from the official one, and who made the following unfortunate statement:

"Do you think (gays) have a purpose in life?":

 "'No I honestly don't. Sorry, but I don't. I don't understand it. A gay person isn't going to come up and make some change unless it's to realize that it was a choice and they're choosing God."

In response many people around the country became very upset at her words, and have sent numerous e-mails to her school and to members of the School Board demanding her removal from the classroom.

It appears those e-mails have had an effect.Though not one that I believe is worth celebrating.

Courtesy of WTHITV in Indiana: 

Corporation officials say the teacher made a controversial comment. 

Since then officials say the teacher and the corporation has received "aggressive e-mail". 

 Doctor Mark Baker, the schools' superintendent issued this statement. 

“We have conveyed our disappointment and our disagreement with these statements and have emphasized her comments do not reflect our schools' views or opinions. ” 

Based on the threat, state police and Sullivan County deputies have placed an officer at the school. 

Below is the complete statement from Dr. Mark Baker, the school’s superintendent. 

To Students, Parents, Faculty and our Community: 

As many of you know and appreciate, our school corporation is continuing to manage as responsibly and respectfully as possible the fallout from comments made by an employee as she attended a meeting outside of school or a school activity. 

We have conveyed our disappointment and our disagreement with these statements and have emphasized her comments do not reflect our schools' views or opinions. 

The administration and one school employee in particular at North Central Jr/Sr High School have received aggressive email messages. We are turning over to law enforcement all such communications. Further, and as a precaution, the Indiana State Police and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department have deemed it necessary to station an officer at our high school. Additionally, these law enforcement agencies, while they are here, are familiarizing themselves with our buildings, as is part of their regular training. 

For that, we are grateful for their support of our school and our students. This matter has created some heartbreaking differences in opinion. Please know we are always going to put the safety of our students and faculty first and any disruption of our educational process will be managed quickly. 

In response to our concerns for the safety and security of everyone in our buildings, we have placed the employee at the center of this concern on administrative leave. 

Dr. Mark A. Baker- Superintendent NORTHEAST SCHOOL CORPORATION of Sullivan Corporation

I have to say that I am troubled by the fact that this teacher was removed for fear of harm coming her way. THAT should not be the case.

I feel that it is our right, even our responsibility, to express our opinions about injustice and cruelty. However we have NO right to make these people feel physically threatened in any way.

I would support the boycott of a business that was not fair to their employees, support letter writing or e-mails to officials who are wrong on policy decisions, and even back the shaming of the truly horrible people who emotionally, physically, or mentally abuse others.

But I would never, and I mean NEVER, be okay with making threats against a person, or institution, or support doing anything that makes them feel unsafe.

That is what the people we are fighting against do, not what we do!

So while I hope that this teacher comes to understand why people were so passionately upset with what she said, and perhaps even comes to view gay people differently, I also hope that she understands that the majority of us simply wanted to make sure that she was not inflicting her homophobic and insensitive attitudes on her students, and that we certainly meant her no harm.

Well sure the Newtown, Connecticut shootings were tragic. But not tragic enough to stop a gun show from taking place forty miles away.

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

Connecticut residents are outraged that a gun show will take place this weekend just 40 miles from Newtown, where 26 people were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School just weeks ago. The East Coast Firearms Show is being advertised as the “best of the best of vendors, offering 250 tables of antique and historical arms.” 

Local lawmakers say they wish the event had been cancelled, as had been similar shows across the state. “It seems insensitive to have the event continue,” Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia told local reporters. 

Since the shooting, several Connecticut newspapers have also apologized for publishing advertisements for a gun show next to articles about the tragedy.

Jesus, what is wrong with these people?

Are they so determined to add to their arsenal of penis extenders that they simply cannot postpone this damn thing for a year or two. Or how about altogether?

Apparently a number of others DID cancel their shows, but not these douchebags.

I sincerely hope that part of the legislation that Congress brings forth after Joe Biden does his thing, is legislation that places SERIOUS restrictions on what kind of weapons can be sold at these shows, and insists that EVERY potential customer undergoes a comprehensive background check before being able to purchase that special "Welcome to the Man Club" peashooter.

On Sunday President Obama gave one of the most powerful speeches of his life, in response to a terrible tragedy. For a few football fans his message fell on deaf ears.

Courtesy of Deadspin:

 NBC pre-empted the first quarter of tonight's 49ers-Patriots game to show President Obama's speech at the Newtown memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. As you might expect, many football fans didn't take kindly to this. (So, too, some Bob's Burgers fans.) Here are those idiots, led by someone who claims to be a Division II football player in the state of Alabama.

really? can't even watch sunday night football cuz our nigger prez has to talk, really?
— Brandon Ortiz (@Brandon_Ortiz13) December 17, 2012

So Obama is going to interrupt my football?I wanna see Tom Brady not Barack, Michelle and their fugly ass kids.
— Bernie (@slow_bern) December 17, 2012

Obama instead of Football are they nuts? Who cares what the twerp has to say. #@whitehouse #POTUS #NBC
— Gerry Grubbs (@gegrubbs) December 17, 2012

Yes the shooting is sad but Obama is ruining millions of kids lives daily & i want to watch some damn football, fuck you Obama
— Alex Williams (@alexw0121) December 17, 2012

There are quite literally dozens more over at Deadspin which you can see by clicking the link at the top. Interestingly enough a number of the Twitter accounts have now been closed out, or made private, or the tweets themselves are simply missing.

From what I read while researching this the individuals involved received a substantial amount of flack for their incredibly insensitive statements. As well they should.

Somebody on another thread mentioned how sad it was that the people in the Newtown auditorium where the President gave his speech last night had to remain sitting while he exited the building.

That is indeed sad, but we surely cannot blame the Secret Service for an abundance of caution while protecting a man that has become the MOST threatened President in US history.

Apparently conservative CNN contributor Erik Erickson has decided to NEVER GET LAID AGAIN!

Courtesy of Think Progress:

This afternoon, (Actually September 4th) in just over one hour, 23,000 people signed a petition asking CNN to fire contributor Erick Erickson. 

His offense? He referred to the Democrats’ packed list of female speakers at their convention in Charlotte, North Carolina as “the Vagina Monologues” 

Here is the offending tweet that this sorry excuse for a man tweeted after seeing all of the inspiring women speak at the DNC, and which has caused females all over the country to tell their vaginas that they can ALWAYS do better than THIS asshole.

First night of the Vagina Monologues in Charlotte going as expected.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 5, 2012

This resulted in an absolute deluge of angry calls to CNN, and the signing by over 105,000 women to this petition, calling for CNN to remove this sexist cancerous idiot from their broadcasts from this day forward. (That was the number when I wrote this post anyway.)

Erickson, decided that he could probably "calm the ladies down" by posting a follow up tweet.

My apologies to those offended by my tweet.Wasn't my intention.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 5, 2012

Really? If his intention was not to offend women, then just what WAS his intention?

Yeah well just as a demonstration that this idiot knows NOTHING about women (As if we needed one) his half assed "apology" did NOTHING to placate the women, who continue to call for his removal.

God I hate idiots that make men look THIS insensitive and Neanderthal like. However WHAT can one expect from the representative of a party that has done NOTHING but attack women's health, their ability to be paid the same wage as a man, and has attempted to turn them into nothing more than breeder stock?

It looks like Palin's choice of the phrase "Blood Libel" has pissed off some of our Jewish friends.

From the Atlantic:

J Street is saddened by Governor Palin's use of the term "blood libel."

The country's attention is rightfully focused on the memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shooting. Our prayers continue to be with those who are still fighting to recover and the families of the victims. The last thing the country needs now is for the rhetoric in the wake of this tragedy to return to where it was before.

We hope that Governor Palin will recognize, when it is brought to her attention, that the term "blood libel" brings back painful echoes of a very dark time in our communal history when Jews were falsely accused of committing heinous deeds. When Governor Palin learns that many Jews are pained by and take offense at the use of the term, we are sure that she will choose to retract her comment, apologize and make a less inflammatory choice of words.

The Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism, wishes Palin would have used a different term, one that isn't so "fraught with pain in Jewish history." From its national director, Abraham Foxman:

"It is unfortunate that the tragedy in Tucson continues to stimulate a political blame game. Rather than step back and reflect on the lessons to be learned from this tragedy, both parties have reverted to political partisanship and finger-pointing at a time when the American people are looking for leadership, not more vitriol. In response to this tragedy we need to rise above partisanship, incivility, heated rhetoric, and the business-as-usual approaches that are corroding our political system and tainting the atmosphere in Washington and across the country."

"It was inappropriate at the outset to blame Sarah Palin and others for causing this tragedy or for being an accessory to murder. Palin has every right to defend herself against these kinds of attacks, and we agree with her that the best tradition in America is one of finding common ground despite our differences.'

"Still, we wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase "blood-libel" in reference to the actions of journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on others. While the term "blood-libel" has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history."

For those who thought that Palin could NOT possibly make things worse for herself by issuing a carefully crafted statement I just have to say, "You REALLY don't know Sarah Palin.  Do you."