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Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Does this signify America may face many a long hot summer? In more ways than just the obvious? Black Lives Matter movement does deserve credit for their action (decision) to remain outside and above political party manipulation. Activists with the Black Lives Matter movement rejected the Democratic Party's recent statement of support, making clear that they are not affiliated with any political party. "A resolution signaling the Democratic National Committee's endorsement that Black lives matter, in no way implies an endorsement of the DNC by the Black Lives Matter Network, nor was it done in consultation with us," the Black Lives Matter Network wrote in a statement Sunday. "We do not now, nor have we ever, endorsed or affiliated with the Democratic Party, or with any party. The Democratic Party, like the Republican and all political parties, have historically attempted to control or contain Black people's

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Political correct speech has held great popularity in some institutions of higher learning for quite some time. Enforced indoctrination is now on college campuses. Thought police are likely not far behind. "1984" (George Orwell's classic novel) may be soon to follow. Washington State students risk a failing grade in one course if they use any common descriptors professor considers “oppressive and hateful language. In another class, students will lose one point every time they use the words “illegal alien” or “illegals” rather than the preferred terms of “‘undocumented’ migrants/immigrants/persons.” Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Trump the Rump tapping into, and whipping up the seething discontent that many Americans feel. A large part of which is the Tea Party wing of the GOP and it's active obstruction of the Obama presidency, Which by the way was put in place by the American people not once, but twice. Scratching my heads trying to figure out what it is Trump the Rump fails to understand about democratic election results. BTW, can anyone tell me exactly what, if anything Trump the Rump said of any substance? Other than a whole lot of people are pissed off. No substance. All blustery brawn. Dude is nothin more than a wealthy loudmouth without a serious plan. In other words, the blind wanting to lead the blind. Article BELOW THE FOLD . Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth DNC to vote on acceptance of the following. WHEREAS, the Democratic Party believes in the American Dream and the promise of liberty and justice for all, and we know that this dream is a nightmare for too many young people stripped of their dignity under the vestiges of slavery, Jim Crow and White Supremacy; and  WHEREAS, we, the Democratic National Committee, have repeatedly called for race and justice – demilitarization of police, ending racial profiling, criminal justice reform, and investments in young people, families, and communities — after Trayvon Martin, after Michael Brown, after Tamir Rice, after Freddie Gray, after Sandra Bland, after Christian Taylor, after too many others lost in the unacceptable epidemic of extrajudicial killings of unarmed black men, women, and children at the hands of police; and  WHEREAS, we hear the “Black lives matter” cry from the inspiration of creators Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth KNOXVILLE (WATE) – The University of Tennessee is asking students to use “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.” No, those words are not another language. They’re actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns. The University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion is asking students and faculty to use the pronouns in order to create a more inclusive campus. They say it alleviates a heavy burden for people expressing different genders or identities. “We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems,” Donna Braquet, the Director of the University of Tennessee’s Pride Center said. “Transgender people and people who do not identify within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth.” For the first week of classes, Braquet is

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth the Donald, aka Trump the Rump The Donald, while leading the republican field of presidential candidates has negative numbers almost as high as his positive numbers. Trump, appealing to the anti immigration crowd and those with a general extreme dislike for the established order in general, has tapped into the negativity that drives the Tea Party and conservative/reactionary movement. Trump will ultimately fail, as will the movement that has propelled him to national political attention. reason .com    does an exemplary job explaining the Trump campaign strategy.  It is defines why  ultimately it is destined to failure. A very good thing for America. To the extent that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is about any actual issue, it is about opposition to immigration. Trump has, among other things, proposed deporting 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently in the United States, expressed support for reducing legal immigra

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth America, a "civilized" modern industrial nation highly values the right of it's civilian population to own and keep firearms. The founding fathers and citizens  of a  fledgling nation, some 228 years ago, insured that the right of the people to keep and bear arms   would not be infringed.  Our right to firearm ownership is guaranteed  by the 2'nd Amendment to our constitution.  United States of America has the highest rate of firearm violence among industrialized nations . It also has the highest rate of firearm ownership in the world/. The data is chilling and anyone with a modicum of common sense and thinking rationally knows we have a problem and that our present patchwork system of managing firearm purchase and ownership is failing us. Follow are just the highlights as outlined in VOX . America has six times as many firearm homicides as Canada, and 15 times as many as Germany.  America has 4.4 percent of the

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Irrespective of The Donald's own belief that Hispanics love him and will vote for him if nominated reality presents a different view.

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth   Getty Senator Cruz is on board with The Donald in challenging the 14th Amendment in court. With the heightened political concern over illegal aliens, aka undocumented immigrants, and The Donald making immigration and walls a centerpiece of his campaign we will undoubtedly be hearing a lot about this in coming months. After the election? Who knows, the can has been kicked down the road for so long it is hard to imagine something actually getting done in Washington on the issue. With Cruz praising The Donald at almost every opportunity is it possible there is an alliance forming? The thought has crossed mind that in the unlikely event The Donald receives the GOP nomination Cruz just might be the VP pick. Certainly plausible. There is a long way to go however and things can change quickly in this game.   Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that he "absolutely" supports ending birthright citizenship, suggesting that has bee

Rational Nation U S A Pureyor of Truth August 16: “I’m running as a Republican. I’m leading as a Republican. I will win. I think I’m going to get the nomination, and if I get the nomination, I think I will be president. And if I’m president we are going to have a great country,” Trump said in an interview on "Meet the Press." Pushed on his immigration policies, Trump told host Chuck Todd, "It will work out so well. "You'll be so happy. In four years you're going to be interviewing me and you're going to say, 'What a great job you've done, President Trump."   Donald Trump, 2016 Republican Presidential Candidate If the above should come to pass we should all hope this man is right  

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth The Confederate Veterans Memorial in front of the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La. Credit Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times In Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, where Shreveport is the parish seat, a study to be released Monday has found that prosecutors used peremptory challenges three times as often to strike black potential jurors as others during the last decade. That is consistent with patterns researchers found earlier in Alabama, Louisiana and North Carolina, where prosecutors struck black jurors at double or triple the rates of others. In Georgia, prosecutors excluded every black prospective juror in a death penalty case against a black defendant, which the Supreme Court has agreed to review this fall. Such patterns tell a story, and it isn't a pretty one. SOURCE Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth In this 37 minute plus interview with the Donald there remains unanswered questions. It does seem likely however The Donald would govern as a moderate republican in the unlikely event he should secure his party's nomination and go on to win the general. SOURCE Via: Memeorandum

Melania Trump If The Donald is elected to the Big Oval Chair in DC America will have perhaps a transformational First Lady. She is certainly beautiful. More so than her husband is qualified to be president that is definitely for sure! SOURCE

As a committee of city government called Thursday for taking down four controversial statues that celebrate Confederate officials and a white supremacist group’s violent fight against a biracial state government during Reconstruction, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said it is looking into whether he can use the power of his office to keep the monuments in place. The monuments, including the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee atop the column at a St. Charles Avenue traffic circle, should be taken down under an ordinance that allows the City Council to remove public statues that celebrate racist ideologies or are likely to be sites of violent protest, the Historic District Landmarks Commission decided after about an hour of sometimes heated testimony. The HDLC’s recommendation, approved by an 11-1 vote, now heads to the City Council. Later Thursday, the Human Relations Commission held a similar hearing on the fate of the monuments and was expected to issue its own recommendation. In addition

And so my focus of my efforts — through the Carson Scholars foundation and in countless speeches before young inner-city audiences over the years — is to open the doors to possibility. The desire to do something provides the seed for its ultimate fruition. As a society we should, by nurturing that desire through programs and policies that invest in people, encourage them to achieve their God-given potential. This calls for a new model in public policy that departs from the traditional progressive model. What I am advocating is that civil society — including the corporate sector, education community, the religious establishment and philanthropic institutions —invest in people, to empower them with tools in the form of education and character development, role models, and concrete pathways into productive and rewarding work. The dilemmas of race and entrenched, intergenerational poverty have proven intractable despite the mountains of money that have been poured into solving them ove

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth "Erick Erickson by Gage Skidmore" by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erick_Erickson_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg#/media/File:Erick_Erickson_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg Eric Erickson is generally considered a voice for the right-wing fringe in conservative and GOP politics by the site. That aside Eric deserves kudos and respect for his disinviting Donald Trump to his Red State Gathering . His reasons for doing so are sound and based on common decency. Hopefully many more conservatives and right libertarians will follow Eric's lead. Red State - I have tried to give a great deal of latitude to Donald Trump in his run for the Presidency. He is not a professional politician and is known for being a blunt talker. He connects with so much of the anger in the Republican base and is not afraid to be outspoken on a lot of issues. But there are even lines blunt talkers a

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Brent Budowsky puts the Trump campaign anomaly in a unique but quite plausible perspective. We shall see if it comes to pass. Tongues are wagging throughout the world of political insiders with news that former president and potential future first gentleman Bill Clinton had a great chat with Donald Trump shortly before the real estate magnate announced his candidacy for president. Could it be possible that Trump is a plant for Bill and Hillary Clinton in the presidential campaign, encouraged to run in the GOP primary in order to wreak havoc on the Republicans? Trump has a history. He has donated substantial money, to his credit, to the Clinton Foundation. He was an important supporter of Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, and was a notable donor to her campaign that year. In the past Trump has offered very high praise for the former secretary of State — especially when he was supporting and helping to fund her presidential campaign i

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth BloombergPolitics - A few hours before Thursday’s Fox News debate, a friend of Donald Trump’s confided to me that Trump was nervous. Not about the competition—he could handle them. No, Trump worried about Fox News, and in particular, debate moderator Megyn Kelly. She’d been hammering him all week on her show, and he was certain she was out to get him. He’d canceled a Fox News appearance on Monday night, the friend said, in order to avoid her. (Trump’s spokeswoman wouldn’t confirm or deny this.) It turns out Trump was right. His toughest opponents Thursday night weren’t the candidates up on stage, but the Fox News moderators, who went right after him—none with more gusto than Kelly. Kelly, the whip-smart queen of Fox News’ blonde stunners, went straight for the jugular. “You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” she admonished Trump. “Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we s

The Debonair Dudes World August 6, 2015 at 1:54 PM My Rant Of The Day! The Phenomenon of Donald Trump! A remarkable, and extraordinary thing has happened in American politics this year. The The American people are on the verge of revolt, they have had more than they can bear of the Obama Presidency. And they looking for someone who will and can do what they have been wanted done for many years now. Trump speaks for the “silent majority” of Americans who are frustrated with the direction that the country is going in and want it stopped right now. Remember the speech that Richard Nixon gave when he gave reference to “The Silent Majority”? Well The Silent Majority” is back, and “we’re going to take the country back,” Trump said “We’re going to make America great again”.. Sound cute and like a preacher? Well it may, but this guy really means what he says. This guy is not a typical lying politician, this guy has a proven record of doing what he says. And another thing, why aren’t

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Cons really haven't a clue these days. So many of them have drank so much GD Kool-Aid from the reactionary righties of the Tea Party strain in the GOP they simply have lost the ability to think critically or even carry on a semi intelligent conversation. While thinking about the GOP kick-off debate tonight on FOX News, as well looking forward to what we believe will be a fine 1 1/2 hours of comedy, perusing extreme rightwing Tea party sites seemed in order. It didn't take long to find a site and do the planed set-up. Getting the rut travelers on this particular weblog to go on a rant takes very little. A few well placed short sentences will do the job. As usual the screaming lunatic did not address the comment specifically, rather remarks veered to their standard talking points and without any credible source of data. Additionally the low information attack hound went after personality rather substance. Of course this has become

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Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth It is not at all surprising actually. Wealthy donors, and there are many of these in both the republican and democratic camps, really do not care whether a fellow wealthy candidate is a republican or a democrat as long as the candidate is all in for supporting the wealthy donors interests, business or otherwise. In fact some will donate heavily the republican and democratic party candidates they feel is most likely to favor their interests. It is no secret that big money rules and when it comes to politics big money influences election outcomes. In other words while people think they have a real choice the truth is the choices are pretty much picked for you and really there much that can be done about it. For some wealthy donors, it doesn’t matter who takes the White House in 2016—as long as the president’s name is Clinton or Bush. More than 60 ultra-rich Americans have contributed to both Jeb Bush’s and Hillary Clinton’s federal campaig

This imbecile wants America to vote for him to be the next president. Does anything else need be said?

In the first three months of the year, suburban women by a margin of 18 points had a positive view of Mrs. Clinton. In July, those numbers took a dramatic turn for the worse. By a five-point margin, suburban women had a negative view of Mrs. Clinton. Among white women with at least a college degree, 51% had a positive view of Mrs. Clinton and 38% a negative as of June. In July, those numbers had turned to 43% positive and 47% negative. From WSJ /NBC polling data.

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Interesting polling numbers from NBC NEWS . Both Planned Parenthood and the National Rifle Association have higher favorability ratings than either party or any candidate running for their parties nomination or the office of the president. Yet neither Planned Parenthood or the NRA have a favorable rating of 50% or higher. Negative politics and negative campaigning coupled with growing cynicism within the American public accounts for much of what we are seeing. Regardless of what some might say , both political parties, the media, and the many special interest groups vying for favored status are responsible for the cynicism griping the country. Nothing will change until the American people demand it. That we fear is a very long way off... The survey comes as Planned Parenthood has been under intense scrutiny after an anti-abortion group released a series of undercover videos that picture Planned Parenthood officials detailing how the

Call Donald Trump's Cell Phone and Ask Him About His Important Ideas  Last month, American reality show entertainer turned American political system entertainer Donald Trump publicized presidential rival Sen. Lindsey Graham’s cell number , urging his supporters to “try it.” In the spirit of open and fair political debate, we now bring you Trump’s number. Hat Tip and Attribution to Gawker . Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Three in four Latinos say they have a negative view of Donald Trump, and more than half believe that his comments about Mexican immigrants were racist and inappropriate, according to a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal/ Telemundo poll. The poll of 250 Latinos found that 75 percent view the real estate mogul and GOP presidential front-runner unfavorably, with 61 percent saying that their view of him is "very negative." Just 13 percent of respondents said they have a positive view of Trump. Trump video HERE . Yeah Donald the Delusional One, you go dude. Via: Memeorandum

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth It's looking more and more like a government shutdown may be imminent. As usual there are the defense-vs-domestic funding differences with republicans heavy on defense light on domestic and democrats heavy on both. Of course the administration is threatening veto if certain conditions are not met to their satisfaction. It is likely the stage will be set by the players of the game so finger pointing and innuendo can and will be a part of the process. All that aside the big issue that was needed to galvanize forces on both sides of the aisle so that the a government shut down became a greater likelihood than not surfaced recently and is summarized below. Republicans are vowing with ever-increasing vehemence to vote against legislation – including a CR — that includes funding for Planned Parenthood and that means that a continuing resolution that simply extends existing funding at current levels won’t be acceptable to the GOP majorities

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth The Donald has been talking about how if elected president he would protect (save) American jobs. Of course The Donald has not been clear on exactly how he would accomplish this; in fact he has given absolutely no specifics at all. From Reuters we learn just what The Donald has been up to with respect to filling jobs within his own companies. Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners. A Reuters analysis of U.S. government data reveals that this is business as usual in the New York property magnate's empire. Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000, according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters. Most of the applications were approved, the