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DEATH THREATS BEING MADE AGAINST TRUMP'S ELECTORAL COLLEGE PERSONS
BY HILLARY SUPPORTERS
Published on Nov 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton supporters are death threatening Donald Trump delegates in an attempt to intimidate them into swtiching their electoral vote to Clinton.
A Christian mother from Tennessee is asking a county’s board of education to remove a history textbook that supposedly promotes Islamic propaganda to schoolchildren.The International Business Timesclaims thatthe Tennessee Christian mother is a member of an “anti-Islam parents’ group,” when the woman is specifically against Islamic propaganda and/or indoctrination — quite the difference. Every time something related to Islam is challenged, the challenger is first referred to as “anti-Islam,” and then labeled an “Islamophobe.”
Some groups such as the National Coalition Against Censorship, however, disagreed with Edmisten’s complaint, saying it “sadly reflects larger efforts to purge lessons on Islam from schools in Tennessee.”
The group also questioned moves to revise the school curriculum in the county retaining lessons on religions including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, but removing information “on the history and spread of Islam, the life and teachings of Muhammad, and the study of Islamic art.”
There is a very obvious reason why the Christian mom has no problem with Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism being taught. It’s because none of these groups are threatening the peace of the world by invoking their religious texts to justify what is often state-sanctioned violence. None of these groups have as part of the normative practice of their religion the subjugation of women, the death penalty for apostates, and warfare against infidels. None of them are seeking to impose their law worldwide through dawah, hijrah and jihad. Their religious texts don’t call upon their adherents to “strike terror into the hearts of unbelievers” globally in the course of pursuing their brutal jihadi ambitions.
If Muslims choose to practice their faith privately in peace and respect the pluralism of Western societies, this is to be commended and they are to be supported. Unfortunately, however, normative Islam is political Islam, which is oppressive, anti-democratic, and anti-human rights. A couple of examples: 14 out of 15 of the top persecutors of Christians are Islamic states; and a million British girls were abused by Muslim rape gangs. Somehow I doubt that the children in Sullivan county, Tennessee will be learning about these facts and others about how Islamic supremacism threatens their safety and security. They would likely be told that Islam, like all other faiths, is no threat at all, as it is a religion of peace.
“Christian Mom From Tennessee Wants History Textbook Removed From Schools for Promoting Islamic Propaganda,” by Andre Mitchell, Christian Today, November 12, 2016:
Christian mom from Tennessee wants history textbook removed from schools for promoting Islamic propaganda, Christian Today, November 12, 2016:
A Christian mother from Tennessee is asking a county’s board of education to remove a history textbook that supposedly promotes Islamic propaganda to schoolchildren.
Michelle Edmisten, a founder of the Facebook group Sullivan County Parents Against Islam Indoctrination, wants the book “My World History” to be “yanked from the school immediately.”
Edmisten called the education board’s attention to the textbook after her daughter was asked to use the publication for an assignment where students were asked about the name of Islam’s holy book, and to identify the five pillars of Islam.
The mom told the board that her daughter felt that “some of the assignments went against her beliefs as a Christian.”
“I would like to see parents, Christians, veterans, anyone that’s anyone, stand up for this fight. How can I, as a Christian, say that I have these values?” Edmisten said, as quoted by The International Business Times.
This incident prompted the Christian mother to file a complaint with the education board asking the latter to pull out all copies of the textbook “My World History” from all schools in Sullivan county, saying the book gives “false claims and views on Islam” and tries to “normalize” the understanding of the Islamic faith to their children…..
Some groups such as the National Coalition Against Censorship, however, disagreed with Edmisten’s complaint, saying it “sadly reflects larger efforts to purge lessons on Islam from schools in Tennessee.”
The group also questioned moves to revise the school curriculum in the county retaining lessons on religions including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, but removing information “on the history and spread of Islam, the life and teachings of Muhammad, and the study of Islamic art.”
MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO OF NEW YORK CITY PRESSURES DEMOCRAT ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER CAUGHT ON CAMERA
TO RESIGN
Published on Nov 18, 2016
In October 2016, Project Veritas released a hidden camera video showing NYC Democratic Commissioner of the Board of Elections Alan Schulkin at a United Federation of Teachers holiday party admitting that there is widespread voter fraud in New York City. Since then, Mayor de Blasio and other leading Democrats have called for Schulkin’s resignation.
Today, the New York Post is reporting that Schulkin will not be reappointed to the commission when his current term expires at the end of the year:
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- President Obama, in Greece, said world leaders should learn from the U.S. presidential election and pay attention to the public’s fears and frustration about the economy.
Why? He never has.
How can a man living in such a fantasy world presume to tell other people how to perceive others and react to problems as if he’s been an innocent bystander witnessing these horrors for years?
Scratch that. He doesn’t think we’ve experienced horrors. He thinks the U.S. economy has been wonderful under his watch. Listening to him characterize his eight-year record is to witness willful blindness on a scale my willing suspension of disbelief is incapable of processing.
The American economy, said Obama, was contracting faster than it did during the Great Depression. “We had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression. … But we were able to intervene, apply lessons learned and stabilize and then begin growth again.” He tastelessly bragged, in front of his Greek audience, that his economy recovered better and faster than most of Europe’s. Then he began critiquing Greece’s economy, as if he is a wizard of economics.
No American politician — and certainly no president — in my lifetime has caused such destruction and suffered so little personal accountability for it.
It was ridiculous when he still blamed George W. Bush for his own lackluster economy and unconscionable deficits in the latter half of his first term. It was amazing that he kept making this argument with a straight face through the 2012 presidential election.
But why not? It worked. When you’ve got a liberal media covering your tracks and slanting everything in your favor, you can apparently fool millions.
What’s Obama Smokin’?
But Obama is still making the same arguments today after eight straight years of malaise. So how did he fight against the worst recession since the Great Depression? Well, he spent money we didn’t have like a drunken sailor, increased taxes and smothering regulations, bad-mouthed entrepreneurship and producers, and vilified the “wealthy” for not paying their fair share.
How did that work out? Contrary to his bizarre self-assessment, we have had the worst economic recovery in 60 years. So he’s bragging about that? We’ve had a stagnant economy his entire tenure in office, and he is touting it as sustained growth? Of course he is, and the media continue to cover for him.
He talks about the unemployment rate’s going down, but this obscures the reality that tens of millions have opted out of the workforce in despair. The media know that the unemployment figure is meaningless when factoring in the labor participation rate. Whether Obama is able to accept it, given what this knowledge would do to his unreflective ego, is debatable.
Obama covers his bases. He gets to have his cake and keep it, too, and, if you haven’t noticed, he remains skinny. He tells us the economy’s great; then he kind of says it isn’t. Otherwise, why would he still have to blame Dubya? Why would he have to blame the recent election results on an angry populace? Why would he say, “The problem was I couldn’t convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of (my agenda items)”?
Wait, what problem? I thought things were rosy?
You see, he thinks the main economic problem we face is income inequality. He thinks people are angry because others are making more money than they do and so they had a temper tantrum and elected Donald Trump. But hasn’t there always been income inequality? Isn’t that guaranteed in a free system? But if the people are inconsolable with envy, that might have something to do with Obama’s constant harping on it, railing against the rich.
Nope. The hoi polloi are just restless; there’s nothing to see here. “The country,” he says, “is indisputably better off, and those folks who voted for the president-elect are better off than they were when I came into office, for the most part.”
But here was the punchline:
“People,” he said, “seem to think I did a pretty good job. And so there is this mismatch, I think, between frustration and anger. Perhaps the view of the American people is that (we) just need to shake things up.”
Well, if there’s any mismatch or disconnect here, it’s Obama’s perception of his performance and reality. His narcissism makes him allergic to self-doubt, and his dogged ideology and oversize pride preclude him from admitting his failures.
This same ideology compels him to project onto others his own prejudices. He has been saying since before he was elected that “bitter” Bible toters who “cling to guns” in small-town America are just suspicious of people who don’t look like them. But that’s offensively false. He is the one who always has race on his mind, and he’s a virtuoso of bitterness.
Remember when his Homeland Security Department was on the lookout for returning military personnel and tea party types, rather than Islamists, as possible domestic terrorists?
Pro tip: These peace-loving, ordinary, patriotic Americans have had their fill of his attacks on their traditions, their worldview and their lifestyle. They sent that message resoundingly in the congressional elections in 2010 and 2014, yet he escaped accountability with his own re-election in 2012. Another frightful disconnect.
But there can be no mistaking this year’s election results. The people’s rejection of his agenda and Hillary Clinton is so severe that we are seeing a major restructuring of the electorate.
He, his media co-conspirators and the liberal punditry can blame Clinton’s flaws for this, and they are indeed part of it, but Obama’s leftist agenda got shellacked up and down the ticket and in state elections throughout the country.
This was not a glitch; this is a wave. And the longer he and his cohorts remain in denial about it the more it will grow. That, my friends, is a beautiful thing.
During a special town hall event in Austin, Texas, hosted by Sean Hannity, immigration and border security experts explained the nature of the illegal immigration problem what it would take to keep the country safe.
Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, said a shortage of ICE officers has hindered the effort to police immigrants legal and illegal.
"We've got five thousand officers in 50 states...trying to police 13 million illegal aliens, as well as the folks that are here legally," he said.
He added that 40 percent of illegal aliens don't even cross the border, but overstay their visas.
"We are set up for failure and Congress knows it, and they will not do anything to help us."
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said that agents need to be allowed to "do the job."
"What they're doing is they're handcuffing border patrol agents. They're letting the illegal aliens dictate to us what our job is. We have to end the catch-and-release program. You've got to get rid of the magic magnet that is bringing these people over here."
Judd said that Donald Trump's proposed wall was a "force multiplier" and would "absolutely help us secure the border."
ANTICIPATING TRUMP PRESIDENCY, BORDER PATROL MAY ENFORCE LAW MORE DILIGENTLY
Knowing that the incoming Trump administration will surely enforce U.S. immigration laws more stringently than the Obama administration has, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents will likely be more diligent in interrogating those caught crossing the border illegally.
While the political appointees overseeing the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP — whose commissioner, Gil Kerlikowske, reports to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson) may continue to advocate lenient enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws until the bitter end, even they know that their days are numbered. Donald Trump has won the election and there’s a new sheriff in town.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) — the union representing 16,500 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents — suggested in a recent statement that CBP managers are likely to start resisting the lenient enforcement policies put in place under the Obama administration and start enforcing immigration laws.
“They have a new boss. They know it. They need to endear themselves to him.”
“You can expect to see CBP pushing back and holding those people [apprehended for crossing the border illegally],” said Judd. “They’re going want to make it look like they’re in lockstep with [Trump].... We’re already seeing it now.”
Judd was quoted in a November 14 report posted by LifeZette, a news, opinion, and commentary website based in Washington, D.C.
LifeZette further quoted Judd as saying that the processing center at Nogales, Arizona is set to open soon, and that he expects other processing centers to open, which will increase his agency’s detention capacity for illegal borders.
He said that career-level supervisors will be more concerned about offending the incoming Trump administration than the outgoing Obama one.
We reported last April that the NBPC had issued a press release on March 30 announcing that the union was endorsing Donald Trump for president. In that article, we reported that the NBPC’s leaders, which included Judd, Kenneth Palinkas, its past president; Shawn Moran; the union’s vice president, and Chris Cabrera, a spokesperson for the NBPC’s Rio Grande Valley council, had all been vocal in criticizing the Obama administration’s lack of enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.
We also noted that in written testimony provided to the House Judiciary Committee in March, Judd charged that the Obama administration had “no intention of deporting” many of the illegal immigrants caught trying to cross our border illegally and has ordered that they be released so they don’t clog up the immigration courts. Judd asserted that that the orders were a new “catch and release” policy, which “amounts to amnesty” because it means many illegal immigrants are never asked to leave the country.
LifeZette further cited Judd’s acknowledgement that mid-level CBP supervisors do not have the authority to overturn orders coming down from their higher ups, such as one requiring them to release anyone who has been in the United States continuously since January 1, 2014. They are required to release these illegal immigrants without even issuing a notice for them to appear in immigration court.
However, Judd predicted that Border Patrol agents would be more aggressive in trying to determine if those caught at the border are telling the truth about their residency and requiring them to prove that have, in fact, been in the country since the beginning of 2014.
“We didn’t even question them [in the past],” he said. “It was taken at face value.”
In a statement posted on the DHS website on November 10, in which he noted that the number of illegal aliens apprehended trying to cross our southwest border rose to 46,195 in October, compared with 39,501 in September and 37,048 in August, DHS Secretary Johnson adopted a seemingly tough stance suggesting that his department might crack down on illegal immigration during the final months of the Obama administration:
Our borders cannot be open to illegal migration. We must, therefore, enforce the immigration laws consistent with our priorities. Those priorities are public safety and border security. Specifically, we prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants who are convicted of serious crimes and those apprehended at the border attempting to enter the country illegally. Recently, I have reiterated to our Enforcement and Removal personnel that they must continue to pursue these enforcement activities.
Those who attempt to enter our country without authorization should know that, consistent with our laws and our values, we must and we will send you back.
While the election of Trump just two days earlier may have influenced the rank-and-file CBP agents to lean toward the Trump position on tough immigration enforcement, it is unlikely that Johnson was similarly impacted. One can only surmise that Johnson’s latest statements promising that his department will enforce our immigration laws and get serious about deporting illegal aliens are but an 11th-hour effort to improve his tarnished reputation for being a champion of amnesty and establish a better historic legacy before he leaves office in January.
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, has blasted young people protesting Trump’s victory, warning that their actions and behavior is a result of a ‘coddling’ culture.
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show, Conway tore into ‘millenials’, branding them “precious snowflakes”.
“We’re just treating these adolescents and millenials like precious snowflakes,” Conway said.
“What’s the worst that can happen to these Millenials… that Donald Trump will make good on his promise to create 25 million news jobs?” she added.
Conway also expressed disdain for the fact that many colleges and professors are allowing students to skip classes and cancel exams to ‘protest’ a democratic election result and recover from being ‘traumatized’.
“I’m just amazed how many texts and e-mails I’m receiving. One person, of all these professors, saying, ‘You don’t have to take the test, you can get college credit if you protest.’” Conway said.
“It’s about time these little pampered, spoiled brats get over themselves,” Hannity reiterated, adding “Apparently, this is how the PC culture — where everybody’s a winner, everybody gets a participation trophy — and these liberals operate.”
“We’re supposed to roll out the red carpet for sore loser liberals because their sub-par, crooked, corrupt candidate lost an election?” Hannity exclaimed.
Conway, who is expected to be appointed into Trump’s administration, added that millenials should be grateful that they will no longer be “forced to buy” government healthcare when Trump trashes the Obamacare system on his first day in office.
“He’ll get rid of the Obamacare penalty on day one so that you’re not forced to buy government-run healthcare,” Conway declared.
She urged that Trump’s detractors are making the same complaints about him that they have been harping on about for over a year.
“I haven’t heard anything new. All of their grievances and complaints are so pre-election. We heard all of this,” Conway said.
Conway noted that ‘protesters’ should follow the lead of the Obama administration in accepting the election result and expressing ‘confidence’ in a smooth transition of power.
“Listen to Obama and Biden, they are trying to give Trump and Pence a chance,” Conway noted, referring to comments made by Joe Biden Wednesday when he told reporters “No administration is ready on day one. We weren’t ready on day one … but I’m confident on day one everything will be in good hands.”
Hillary Clinton re-emerged publicly for the first time since her concession speech looking like death warmed up, hardly a rebuke to the “conspiracy theorists” who questioned her health throughout the election cycle.
Hillary gave a speech at a gala for the Children’s Defense Fund, which is somewhat ironic given that she once laughed about defending a child rapist who she knew was guilty.
However, some of the people in attendance might have thought they’d accidentally stumbled onto the set of a re-make of Dawn of the Dead and that Hillary was one of the extras.
Hillary looked gaunt and exhausted, with huge bags under her bloodshot eyes. The Daily Mail was a little more polite, reporting that Hillary was “weary-looking”.
That’s odd given that she just had a week off and spent most of her presidential campaign sleeping or AWOL.
“Seeing her now, I wonder if she was wearing some sort of prosthetics on her face in combination with buckets of paint to make herself appear human,” remarked Chris Menahan.
“Hillary isn’t going to make it to see Trump inaugurated,” one Twitter user joked.
Her dreadful appearance once again validates concerns voiced by what the media called “conspiracy theorists” throughout her failed campaign that Hillary was in ill health following a number of falls, stumbles and other bizarre behavior.
“Coming here tonight wasn’t easy,” commented Clinton during her speech.
Yes, Hillary, it must have been difficult to drag yourself out of your sick bed.
THE REAL REASON HILLARY DISAPPEARED ON ELECTION NIGHT JUST LEAKED! THIS IS BAD
