Day: April 22, 2018

After Using Parkland Shooting To Grandstand, Broward County Sheriff Gets Bad News
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After using the Parkland school shooting to grandstand, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is finally getting the bad news we’ve all been waiting for. You won’t want to miss this.

According to Daily Caller, the tables have turned on Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel who nearly sucked up every last drop of publicity following the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Many in Broward County’s law enforcement community who watched Sheriff Israel deny responsibility and continually peddle a personal agenda became infuriated with the sheriff, and now he is about to get a rude awakening.

The union that represents the officers who responded to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is holding a no-confidence vote on Sheriff Israel. The union’s leadership is taking Israel to task over his failure to accept responsibility in the days that followed the shooting in which 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz killed 17 innocent people.
According to CBSMiami, the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association is conducting a poll of its members about their confidence in Sheriff Israel which will end on Thursday, April 26, 2017. The union’s president, Jeff Bell said that Sheriff Israel’s handling of the tragic shooting is a major reason as to why his organization decided to launch the no-confidence campaign. Bell said that Sheriff Israel should not have put the full blame on Deputy Scot Peterson, the school’s resource officer.

Security footage from the school showed Peterson staying outside after Cruz entered the campus and opened fire inside the three-story freshman building on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. After the shooting, Sheriff Israel quickly attacked Peterson in front of reporters saying that he should have rushed into the building to confront and kill Cruz.

Sheriff Israel wasn’t wrong about Peterson’s cowardice, but his failure to accept some of the blame for the events leading up to the shooting is just downright despicable. While Peterson quickly retired to avoid an unpaid suspension, Israel continued to parade himself in front of the mainstream media to push his agenda.
Jeff Bell, who also criticized Peterson, said that Sheriff Israel was wrong to publicly single him out. Bell said that Israel should have placed the deputy on paid leave until his conduct was thoroughly investigated adding that only deputies accused of crimes are placed on unpaid leave. Peterson has never been charged with a crime, but many people feel that he should have been.

After the shooting, Sheriff Scott Israel received a tremendous amount of backlash for his agency’s possible mishandling of some of the 18 tipster calls it had received about Nikolas Cruz. The tips were part of a collection of what authorities now describe as the clearest missed signals that Cruz presented a serious threat his community.

Despite calls for Sheriff Israel to step up and take responsibility for the failures of his organization, he praised himself in a TV interview shortly after the shooting, expressing that he had shown “amazing leadership” in the tragedy’s wake.
As expected, Sheriff Israel fired back at the union on Friday, April 20, 2018, in an attempt to discredit the accusations against him. Israel said that it is “unfortunate and appalling” that Bell is using the school shooting “as a bargaining tactic to extort a 6.5 percent pay raise” for the union’s members.

Bell emphasized that contract negotiations played no role in calling for the no-confidence vote and added that there are other issues besides the shooting. Bell criticized Israel after it was discovered that the administration had authorized a local auto parts store that supplies the agency’s repair shop to fill its trucks at the office’s pumps, taking thousands of dollars of taxpayer-funded gas.

In addition, Bell blasted Israel for claiming that his office cannot afford new guns, equipment, and training for deputies while the agency underspent its budget by $100 million last year. Bell said that Broward County Sheriff’s office is on course to repeat the under-expenditure this year. “We just want the equipment and training needed to keep the community safe,” Bell said.
Despite calls from a multitude of lawmakers for Sheriff Scott Israel to step down, he has refused. Sheriff Israel, who is a Democrat, was also harshly criticized after he refused to testify before Congress about the Parkland, Florida school shooting. In my opinion, Sheriff Israel is finally getting what he deserves, and it’s about time that those around him hold him responsible since he lacks the character to do so.

Romney Takes Cheap Shot At Trump, Regrets It When He Suffers Immediate Payback

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Republican Utah senatorial candidate Mitt Romney made a major mistake in answering a question about President Donald Trump. The results of his answer, in an interview with CNN who has been a staunch enemy of the president, led to him being publicly humiliated moments later.

Since the announcement by Republican Utah Sen. Orin Hatch that he would retire at the end of his term, Romney was a shoe-in to replace him. But all of that changed on Saturday after Romney told CNN that he could not commit to supporting President Trump is his reelection bid for the presidency in 2020.

“I will make that decision down the road,” Romney said as he waited to speak at the Utah GOP convention in an effort to gain his party’s nomination. “As a person of political experience, if I endorse someone, I’ll want to know what’s in it for Utah and what help would he provide for us on key priorities in Utah.”
“I’m not a cheap date,” Romney said. He is also not a very bright date. The former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican nominee for president was an outspoken critic of the president during the 2016 presidential campaign. Although he has since mended fences with President Trump, he appears to be, as many in the establishment of the party have been, someone who cannot grasp that the party has changed, and it is President Trump’s party now.

That is a mistake that cost him dearly on Saturday as he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. In what was supposed to be a formality in which Romney would be crowned the heir apparent to Sen. Hatch, he lost the bid for the Republican Party’s nomination and will now have to face his fellow Republican candidates in a primary, CNN reported.
What was more embarrassing for Romney was that he did not even finish first in the voting, being edged out by state Rep. Mike Kennedy who secured 50.88 percent of the vote to Romney’s 49.12 percent. Romney tried to put on a happy face, but the defeat was stunning.

“This is terrific for the people of Utah, and I really want to thank the delegates who stayed so late to give me the kind of boost that I got here today,” Romney said after the vote. “We’re going to have a good primary.” Kennedy was as stunned as anyone that he had defeated Romney.

“I don’t know,” Kennedy said when asked why his message resonated more with the delegates. “I don’t know — it’s just my message. We’ve got 60 days to reach out to as many voters as we can.” And Romney has 60 days to make amends for his stance against the president, an arduous task.
Utah is not a state where President Donald Trump has as strong of support as he has in other Republican states, as many Utah GOP members are moderate, CNN reported. But that does not mean they forgive Romney for attempting to get Hillary Clinton elected.

“(Romney) did everything he could — probably more than any man in America — to get Hillary Clinton elected,” Ken Welch, who urged delegates to oppose Romney, said. “He had national news conferences, and spoke on Fox News, to announce that Donald Trump was a fraud, he was a lousy businessman. He’s a ‘Never Trumper.’ If he would have succeeded in bringing down Donald Trump, we most likely would have ended up with Hillary Clinton.”
Mitt Romney has two months to convince Utah voters that he supports President Donald Trump. But if his statement to CNN on Saturday is any indication, he has not learned his lesson. Now, he is going to need the president to support him in his election bid. Perhaps President Trump will decide “down the road.”

BREAKING Chicago White Sox Pitcher Collapses In Dugout IMMEDIATELY RUSHED TO HOSPITAL Here’s What We Know

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Chicago White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar collapsed from an apparent brain hemorrhage in the team’s dugout during Friday night’s game.

Doctors at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center said Farquhar’s hemorrhage was caused by a ruptured aneurysm, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Visiting Houston Astros players said they spotted Farquhar vomiting in the dugout during the sixth inning. Farquhar lost consciousness and was carried out by an ambulance.

Farquhar regained consciousness just before leaving Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field, White Sox manager Rick Renteria said.

Renteria said none of the White Sox players noticed any signs that Farquhar might have been sick, Chicago’s FOX 32 reported.
Farquhar was in stable but critical condition according to doctors.

Farquhar’s teammates hung his white No. 43 jersey during the Chicago’s game Saturday night against Houston.

Please continue to pray for our brother.
‘‘He’s alive, he’s got a chance, and that’s what I’m hanging on to,’’ pitching coach Don Cooper told the Sun-Times. ‘‘And prayers are more necessary than talk.’’

The Chicago White Sox released a statement on Twitter:

“Statement on Danny Farquhar. White Sox fans, please keep Danny and his family in your positive thoughts and prayers.”
We certainly have Farquhar in our prayers.

Hillary Clinton Fantasizes About Her ‘Instrumental’ Role in Irish Peace Process… Again

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There she goes again.

That Walter Mitty would-be-world-famous-diplomat who saved the island of Ireland and brought the peace that had eluded its leaders and negotiators for three centuries has come back.

Who are we talking about?

Well, that would be Hillary Clinton, Savior of the Celtic Isle.
It’s hard to believe, but Clinton is once again replaying her make-believe claim that she played an important role in the Irish peace process.

Don’t believe her. It wasn’t true when she made it up years ago and it’s still not true. She didn’t play any role. None at all.

By all accounts, (except her own) Hillary was a by-stander who accompanied her husband to Ireland — as any first lady would. But unlike her predecessors, Hillary had fanciful delusions about her own relevance and importance in the historical Irish peace process.

Her easily exposed fibs and exaggerations have been well documented.

The particular lines of lies about Ireland started during her 2008 presidential campaign when Clinton told National Public Radio that she played an “instrumental” role in ending the century’s old “Troubles” between the Irish Catholics and Protestants in order to shore up her involvement in something — anything — outside of domestic policy.

We exposed her growing embellishments in several columns in 2007 and 2008 and showed that it was only Bill and Hillary who believed that she had anything to do with the peace process — and they didn’t recall it when they wrote their multi-million dollar memoirs.

Even the Obama campaign vehemently denied that she had any role whatsoever. After that, she laid low for a while.

But now she’s on the loose again. In an interview at the all-women’s club, The Wing, on April 3, Hillary gratuitously threw in this line:

“I was involved in the Irish peace process and the Good Friday Accord.”

It was a throw-away line. They weren’t discussing Ireland in any way, shape, or form.

What the heck would make her go down that road again?

Just being Hillary! Remember how she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia? Except the imaginary snipers turned out to be innocent little girls handing her bouquets of flowers.

She’d been thoroughly and publicly humiliated by those dedicated public servants who actually did play a role in Ireland. David Trimble, the head of the Northern Ireland delegation who ceaselessly negotiated for peace and shared the Ulster Nobel Peace Prize for the success of the Good Friday Accord, called Hillary’s claim “a wee bit silly.” He said, “I don’t want to rain on the thing for her, but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”

Former U.S. George Mitchell, who spent years working for the peace, barely mentioned her in his book, “Making Peace,” saying only that she “encouraged women in Northern Ireland to get involved.” He also confirmed that she wasn’t “directly involved” in the process at all.

And Mitchell never referred to her in his speech at the U.N. when he received the U.N. Peace Prize.

Former IRA leader Gerry Adams, who was publicly legitimized and rehabilitated by Bill Clinton, politely recalled that “I met the senator on many occasions when she was first lady, and subsequently when she became a senator for New York State. I always found her to be extremely well informed on the issues.”

So meeting Gerry Adams and knowing the issues makes one influential in the peace process?

But throughout her campaign for the presidency in 2008, Hillary and Bill Clinton boldly rewrote history, claiming that her success in bringing peace to Ireland was all part of the vast experience that made her qualified for the White House.

Melania Brought 2 Special Guests To Barbara Bush Funeral — Neither Was Her Husband

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On Saturday, First Lady Melania Trump flew to Houston, Texas, to attend the funeral of former First Lady and presidential mother Barbara Bush at St. Martin’s Church. Melania had two special guests in tow for the service, each of them quite meaningful to the Bush family. Neither of the individuals, however, was her husband, President Donald Trump.

Tradition dictates that sitting First Ladies attend the funerals of former First Ladies, but current presidents have been known to sit out funerals of former presidential wives. When Nancy Reagan passed away in 2016, Barack Obama skipped out on her California funeral to attend a Democratic fundraiser, but his wife Michelle attended. Likewise, then-first lady Hillary Clinton attended the burial of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1994.

Still, many were wondering whether Melania Trump would attend Barbara Bush’s funeral on Saturday as the two families have had their fair share of differences in the past. The Bushes are close friends of the Clintons, and during the 2016 presidential election, Barbara Bush said that she couldn’t see how “women can vote for someone” like Trump after his remarks about former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

However, this is not the time for partisan politics. Demonstrating what a true class act she is, First Lady Melania flew to Houston on Saturday, where she paid her respects to one of her most iconic and influential predecessors, Barbara Bush. The picture of grace, Melania even sat right next to her husband’s biggest enemies — the Obamas and the Clintons — putting her own feelings aside in order to honor Mrs. Bush.

These were not the only ways Melania honored Barbara Bush this weekend, though. She also brought two special guests to the invite-only event, and they were perfectly representative of the woman Mrs. Bush was and the legacy she left behind.
While Barbara Bush’s funeral service on Saturday touted such high-profile attendees as Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton, Melania Trump did not try to garner any fanfare by bringing big names with her as guests. Instead, she invited two people you’ve likely never heard of: Former White House head maitre d’ George Hainey and White House usher Buddy Carter.

The invitation-only funeral service for Bush began at 11 a.m. CT at St. Martin’s, where Bush and her longtime husband, former president George H.W. Bush, regularly attended services.

Among the estimated 1,500 people attending were four former presidents — all living presidents except Jimmy Carter, who was traveling overseas — as well as first lady Melania Trump and former first ladies. Television cameras captured intimate moments among the first families, with former president Barack Obama sharing a word with Mrs. Trump.

The current first lady, knowing of Mrs. Bush’s devotion to the staff during her four years living at the White House, brought as guests two career staffers from the White House residence former head maitre d’ George Hainey, and usher Buddy Carter.

President Trump, following custom, is not attending the funeral but tweeted a photo of Mrs. Bush’s official portrait in the White House in remembrance. [Source: USA Today]

According to NBC News’ Monica Alba, FLOTUS spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said that Melania “knew they [Hainey and Carter] were very close to the Bush family and wanted them to be able to pay their respects.” Melania knew of Mrs. Bush’s devotion to the White House staff during her years as the first lady, and she wanted to make sure that some of her favorite staffers were there at the funeral.
According to IJR, Buddy Carter began his work at the White House during the Bush administration after working for 15 years at Blair House. George Hainey, who grew up under Jim Crow laws in Alabama, served in the White House for 46 years, starting with former President Lyndon B. Johnson. “The most memorable moment I had at the White House is seeing my mother walk up North Portico, all alone, to visit me and George and Barbara Bush in their personal quarters,” Hainey once told MSNBC.

Melania’s decision to bring George Hainey and Buddy Carter with her as special guests to Barbara Bush’s funeral shows that she truly had the former first lady’s wishes at heart. After all, Mrs. Bush requested a simple service without too much fanfare; it was important to her that the people nearest and dearest to her heart were present. No doubt Barbara Bush was smiling down from heaven to see Hainey and Carter at her service on Saturday.