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Hillary: ���Joining a Gang is Like Having a Family���

 In a video posted to YouTube by conservative political commentator and author Dinesh D���Souza, Hillary Clinton can be seen and heard at a forum on gun violence in Connecticut saying that ���joining a gang is like having a family.���

 

Clinton continued, ���It���s feeling like you are a part of something bigger than yourself. So we���re either going to have gangs that murder and rob and do the things that are so destructive to their members and to the community, or we���re going to have positive gangs, we���re going to have positive alternatives for young people.���
Positive gangs.

What Clinton is expressing is not a new idea, and gang apologists of all stripes have been saying that kind of thing for many years as a way to justify the existence of gangs at all. The fractured family profile that seems an all-too-regular component of the social dynamic in areas where gangs are most prevalent has invited this notion that gangs should be seen not just as a substitute, but an acceptable substitute, for one���s organic family. However, it is still surprising to hear such a thing said by a presidential candidate representing one of the nation���s two principal political parties.

Taking great offense to her words was high-profile Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who, appearing on Fox News��� Hannity program, said that Clinton demonstrates by how much she ���is totally disconnected from life in the black community,��� and even implied a racist overtone to Clinton���s statements, saying, ���She has such a misperception about our intelligence level. She thinks we're some lower form of intelligence to think, (that) because we don't have a family experience, we should join a gang. I mean, that is preposterous.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

Playboy Playmate Out of Work After Cruelly Shaming Naked LA Fitness Member on Instagram

 A Playboy Playmate is taking a beating on social media after doing something that reminds many of why they couldn���t stand the ���beautiful people��� during high school.

Dani Mathers, the 2015 Playmate of the Year, posted to her Instagram account a nude photo of a woman she took while in the locker room of an LA Fitness gym, with the caption, ���If I can���t unsee this then you can���t either.���

Nice.

Maybe even worse than what she did was the lame apology she offered up in the wake of the ensuing firestorm. Using her Snapchat account as the vehicle, Mathers posted a video apology for what she had done, saying, in part:

���Just wanted to acknowledge a photo that I accidentally posted here on Snapchat earlier today and let you guys know that that was absolutely wrong and not what I meant to do. 

���I have chosen to do what I do for a living because I love the female body and I know that body shaming is wrong and that is not what I am about. That's not the type of person I am.

���That photo was taken to be a personal conversation with a girlfriend and because I'm new to Snapchat, I really didn't realize that I had posted it and that was a huge mistake.���

Translation: The problem is not that I am a cruel person who has positively no issue making fun of the multitudes of less attractive people with whom I am forced to share this planet; the problem is that I made the mistake of allowing that fact to be revealed.

Mathers has been relieved of her duties at the Los Angeles radio station KLOS���s ���Heidi and Frank��� show, and has also been banned from LA Fitness gyms throughout the U.S. There is even some talk that she could be facing criminal charges related to the dissemination of private images.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

French Member of Parliament Says ���Radical Measures��� Required to Defeat Islamic Terror

Republican MP Jacques Myard, the d��put�� for Maisons-Laffitte in northern Paris, apparently did not receive the memo about not speaking ill of Muslims in his nation; the French politician is making news by way of his declaration that it will take nothing short of ���radical measures��� to prevent future terror attacks in his country. Myard also said that the nation���s ban on the wearing of the burka in public should be broadened so that it becomes illegal to wear it on private property, as well

Myard went further still, suggesting that his government should deport all those who follow Sharia law, saying that its adherents are ���barbarians.���

France continues to be devastated by terror attacks rooted in radical Islam. The latest came last week, on Bastille Day, when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck into crowds of people celebrating the national holiday. 84 people initially died in the attack, although it is likely that some of the injured may also perish from their injuries.

Speaking to RT France after the attack, Myard said, in part, ���If we do not take radical measures we are going to civil war. France must look reality in the face. We have a fifth column in the country and it is extremely difficult to put a policeman on every terrorist and to monitor this type of barbaric act.���

Myard also said that these kinds of terror attacks are ���a social issue, not an intelligence one,��� and that French politicians have an obligation to ���firmly enforce our laws on secularism, control our borders and expel from France all who behave like barbarians.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

Donald Trump Suggests We���re In for a Long, Hot Summer

While many of us are inclined to see the nationwide social tensions currently plaguing the country as something new in America, for those of us old enough to remember, much of what is unfolding before our eyes���both in person and on the television news���is very reminiscent of what took place across these same United States during the late 1960���s.

Whether by design or happenstance, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump invoked at least a bit of the memory of those days when he said on Monday that the unspeakable violence to which the country bore witness last week ���might be just the beginning for this summer.

Speaking in an interview with the Associated Press, Trump said, ���We are in a divided nation. I looked two nights ago and you were having trouble in 11 different cities, big, big trouble. And the press actually plays it down. I mean, you were having big, big trouble in many cities.���

Trump���s words strike a far different tone from those spoken recently by President Obama. Last week, while the president was in Poland attending his final NATO summit, he said that America is not ���as divided as some have suggested."

Said Obama, ���There is sorrow, there is anger, there is confusion about next steps. But there's unity in recognizing that this is not how we want our communities to operate. This is not who we want to be as Americans.���

Donald Trump was not having any of that conciliatory talk, however, remarking in response to the president���s words about the current state of affairs in America that ���it's far worse, and certainly far worse than (the President) believes it is.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

The Revolution is Over: Sanders Supporters Feel ���Berned��� As He Endorses Clinton

Even though a war against corruption and Wall Street influence resided at much of the core of Bernie Sanders adversarial posture during his campaign against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, her clever and privileged ways, in the end, did not stop him from formally endorsing her, something he did on Tuesday at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Said Sanders, ���This campaign is not really about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. This campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face. And there is no doubt in my mind that as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that.���

Multitudes of Sanders supporters are skewering him on social media for his decision to endorse Clinton. Last Friday, the website Inquisitr published an opinion piece by Reno Berkeley in which he pointedly describes why Sanders cannot endorse Hillary and still keep his credibility, which, by the way, is basically the title of the article. Berkeley writes, in part:

���Bernie Sanders cannot endorse Hillary Clinton if he wants to retain credibility in the movement he created. On Thursday, NPR reported that Sanders is expected to endorse Clinton on Tuesday, a move that could disillusion and anger his base so much so that he could lose the wide support he���d spent the last year cultivating. An endorsement from Sanders would be the ultimate betrayal to those who are angry and frustrated about the current state of affairs.

The FBI���s recommendation to not indict Clinton has only served to stoke the fires of discontent rather than putting them out. After spending more than one year on the campaign trail, and over 25 years in Congress railing against corruption and the political elite, Sanders would destroy his own ethics and credibility were he to stand up on Tuesday and urge his supporters to vote for the very woman many believe embodies the corruption he has criticized.���

Strident progressive leaders in the U.S. are typically cast out by their followers as soon as they show any signs of betraying the cause. Remember the 1960���s social activist Jerry Rubin? Later in life, Rubin went from Yippie to yuppie, giving up his life as a leftist radical and becoming a millionaire (he was an investor in Apple during its earliest days). When Rubin���s embrace of capitalism became apparent to so many of his minions, they sharply turned on him for being a ���sellout.��� Sanders is having to now run his own gauntlet of highly-vocal criticism predicated on the idea that he is a sellout, and there is surely no coming back from this for Bernie. As Berkeley points out���he���s finished.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

Online Disagreement Between Off-Duty Cop & BLM Sympathizer Ends in Death

 While police are still sorting out the details, it appears that an online disagreement between an off-duty St. Louis County, MO police officer and a young area man escalated in the worst way this past Saturday evening, with 20-year-old Tyler Gebhard shot and killed after he reportedly attempted to break into the officer���s home.

Gebhard was shot twice by the officer after throwing a 100-plus pound concrete planter through the backdoor windows of the home and making entrance.

The officer���s wife and two young children, along with his mother-in-law, were also at the residence, and hid in a back room during the violent altercation, according to police.

Speaking to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gebhard���s uncle, Patrick Brogan, related that his nephew had been dealing with issues related to mental illness, and that some sort of disagreement on Facebook served as the catalyst to Gebhard deciding to make his way to the officer���s home.

It appears that the officer and Gebhard were somehow connected through a church group on Facebook, and it is on the group���s FB Page where Gebhard was allegedly making inflammatory posts.

While police say that no overt references or allegiance to Black Lives Matter were posted by Gebhard, he did post threats of an ���anti-law enforcement and anti-white��� orientation.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

French Intelligence Chief: My Country is on the Verge of ���Civil War��� Due to Migrant Sex Crimes

Patrick Calvar, head of French intelligence, has declared that his country is staring down the barrel of ���civil war,��� and that the catalyst to full-blown conflict could well be the kind of mass sexual assault by migrants that plagued Cologne, Germany on New Year���s Eve.

Calvar, who serves as chief of the Directorate General of Internal Security, reportedly told the French parliamentary commission, ���We are on the brink of civil war.���

���This confrontation, I think it will take place. Even one or two attacks and it will happen. It therefore behooves us to anticipate and block all these groups.���

The intelligence chief���s comments come on the heels of a just-leaked report that confirms 1,200 women were the victims of sexual abuse in Germany during New Year���s celebrations across the country.

According to eyewitnesses, New Year���s Eve in Germany saw widespread instances of sexual abuse perpetrated by men of Arab and North African descent.

The dire warning from a prominent member of France���s intelligence community is just the latest such expression from high-profile European security and law enforcement leaders. Many have grown noticeably concerned about huge influxes of migrants across much of the European continent. In May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain���s renowned MI6 intelligence agency, similarly said that a ���populist uprising��� was in store for all of Europe if her nations could not gain control of the migrant crisis.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

How To Settle An IRS Debt (IRS Problem Solver Dan Pilla)

On this episode IRS problem solver Dan Pilla joins Jim Paris Live to discuss how to resolve IRS problems and how to avoid tax scams. How to settle and IRS debt, what to do if you have not filed a tax return for several years, how to respond to IRS penalties, and much more. Pilla is an author of numerous books on a wide variety of tax issues. He is a tax litigation expert and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Tax Court.

 

War On Cops Author Says Obama Lied To The Nation

After her recent appearance on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Heather Mac Donald joins Jim Paris Live to discuss her controversial book, The War On Cops. Mac Donald says that President Obama is lying to the American people and pushing a false narrative about white police offiers shooting black citizens. She shares a wide range of statistics supporting her central proposition that there is no widespread problem of white police officers shooting black Americans. She begins her book with a look back at the events of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the so called 'Ferguson Effect." Mac Donald points out that that narrative of 'hands up don't shoot' was completely untrue and has been completely refuted. Nonetheless, the left considers Michael Brown a civil rights victim, and continues to push the 'hands up don't shoot' narrative.

 

 

Amazon Prime Day Alert - It's Here!

Amazon has done quite a job building up its so called Prime Day. What is it? Well, it is being compared to Black Friday, and the deals are rumored to be just as good. One catch, however, is that you must be a member of Amazon Prime ($99 per year), but you can grab a free 30 day trial by clicking here. Just be sure to cancel it if you don't want to remain as a member. I have been a member of Amazon Prime now for several years and love the free shipping, free music, free movies, and free lending library. It is definitely a worthwhile program for the Paris household. 

What Are The Deals?

We don't know yet what the deals will be or how much you will be able to save. If the past sales are an indicator, expect the biggest savings to be on all things electronic (especially Amazon's own stuff, like the Kindle, Fire TV, and Echo devices).  Here is a link to follow the deals minute by minute, which start at 3 AM Eastern on Tuesday morning!