We live in an age where hashtags and social media substitute pamphlets and manifestos. But even though the names and tools have changed (some would say “watered down”), the movements have fundamentally remained the same. First it was the Black Panthers, then it was the Crips and the Bloods, now it’s Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panthers.
These movements have all been rooted in the reactionary idea of Black supremacy and, rather than unite communities, they’ve shuttered and razed entire city blocks one business and one house and one family at a time. Black Lives Matter is only the most recent and, let’s be honest, most pathetic incarnation of this principal.
See what Obama has to say about it on page 2.
Goals, are for sports, and for average intelligence humans, Objectives are for those of us with above average intelligence.
In a shameful display of partisan obstruction, the Mitch McConnell led Senate Republicans a blocked a bill that would have improved veterans benefits.
Senate Republicans blocked the veterans bill by using a procedural maneuver to invoke the 60 vote rule. The final vote to waive the budget point of order failed, 56-41. Only two Republicans (Sen. Dean Heller and Sen. Jerry Moran) joined with Democrats on the vote.
Republicans claimed that they blocked the bill because Majority Leader Harry Reid would not allow an up or down vote on an amendment that would have attached sanctions on Iran to the bill.
Sen. Reid said, “I hope all the veterans groups have witnessed all the contortions the Republicans have done to defeat this bill. Shame on Republicans for bringing base politics into a bill to help veterans.”
The chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders, said,
The only message that can be taken away from today’s vote is that Senate Republicans think it is more important to deny President Obama a “win” than it is to help our nation’s veterans. The bill contained provisions that would restore the COLA for vets, and protect them from losing their benefits in the event of another government shutdown. It also would have authorized the construction of 27 new clinics and medical facilities, and it would have provided tuition assistance to post-9/11 vets.
It is the kind of legislation that used to be a no brainer, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the same group of Republicans who think that they shouldn’t have to pay the nation’s bills also want to renege on their obligations to our veterans.
Senate Republicans committed a disgraceful betrayal of the promise that has been made to those who put their lives on the line for this country. I hope this is a wake up call for vets who think that the Republican Party has their interests at heart.
The Republican Party doesn’t care about veterans. This vote stabbed veterans in the back, and should make every vet question why they would ever vote Republican.
Why do blacks put their value in the hands of whites? Why do they expect us to fix i?
The only person that can make you feel like you do or don’t matter is YOU!
Fool
Really? Then you are dumber than I thought.
18 Us Code 2331
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
fun fact.did you know the name Hussein is an Arabic word that means sucks$#%&!@*.THIS changes the way I look at the president. Barack Hussein Obama..nope..no it doesnt.
LIAR!
Seriousely? Are you that F_cking Stupid?
Does he not listen to their rhetoric???????