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Ex-Gubernatorial Candidate Arrested for Shooting Man, Horse
By Skip Intro - 8-8-2014
...Sheriff’s deputies arrested Tye “Glenn” Champ, 48, in Goshen (Tulare County) at 10:30 a.m., a day after he allegedly shot and wounded a 40-year-old neighbor in the stomach and tried to shoot the neighbor’s young son during a dispute in Prather, a small community in the foothills of Fresno County.
Champ fled after allegedly shooting a horse to death, deputies said.
Champ is a registered sex offender who ran as a Republican in California’s open primary June 3, winning 76,000 votes or 2 percent of the total - good for fifth place out of 14 candidates on the ballot. He said his goal was to clean up the state’s bureaucracy.
Champ was put on the state’s sex offender registry after he was convicted in 1993 of two counts of assault with intent to commit rape. Before a professed conversion to Christianity, Champ also killed a man while driving in 1998 and was convicted of soliciting a prostitute.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/310567_Ex-Gubernatorial_Candidate_Arr
More here:
Ex-gubernatorial hopeful arrested in shooting of man, horse
Kurtis Alexander - 8-9-2014
...Thursday's dispute was over maintenance work on a private road, authorities said. The victim was taken to a hospital in Fresno and is expected to survive.
Champ was arrested without incident on suspicion of attempted murder, felony child endangerment and felony animal cruelty.
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Ex-gubernatorial-candidate-arrested-for-shooting-5677326.php
Wondering how those proud 76,000 voters feel about him now. Or if they knew anything about this guy anyway? 
I was talking to a Christian friend about this guy last week. At first she said he should be given benefit of the doubt after trying to change his life...
Then I mentioned why he was sent to prison. She backed right up... and said he needed to prove he had really reformed and he wasn't ready for such a high office yet, or maybe to accept that he never would be.
I'm gonna tell her about this. But not to tease her. She's had a very low opinion of the GOP over their attacks on women, gays and safety nets...
CA dodged a big one there.
This is under the 'you broke it and now you own it.' But our actions will be limited.
We'll only go into nations and to people that invite us and only for specific things. For example, neither Nigeria or its neighbor Cameroon even though the Boko Harum is making life horrible.
And other nations and peoples have not invited us either, but we give them technical assist. The power plant that the Israelis blew up this past month will be rebuilt by American taxpayer dollars through a government insurance program. The Iron Dome money from us is not an offensive weapon, but it doesn't work well. If it did, the Israelis would lose their talking point for their latest actions. They'd have to face up to their failed polices.
As a member of NATO, we were called in to stop what was called genocide in Europe in the Nineties.
The Iraqi government asked us to do this, and so did Kurdish forces. We are not going to war, we are providing humanitarian relief and covering firepower to protect people from dying.
In a country our nation tore into pieces under Bush. It's the right thing to do in this particular case.
And yes, we will use our firepower when all else fails to do the job. It is the place that we were put into after WW2 by the Allies. They had reasons for all that evolved after that war:
Look who lost so many more people in that war. The Axis losses were only a fraction of what the Allies lost, yet we won that conflict. People think that means nothing, but it changed the USA from top to bottom. We were assigned the role by the Alles to keep the peace with military power.
Not a pretty job and it's been abused. We are moving away from this system every day.
The squalls against this very narrow and specific action that involves force and is being denigrated sound like something that Ron Paul would say.
In fact, I'm sure he's still selling the same line now.
None of this should be unexpected:
Caliphate
A caliphate (in Arabic: خلافة? khilāfa, meaning "succession"
is an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political leader known as a caliph – i.e. "successor" – to Muhammad. The succession of Muslim empires that have existed in the Muslim world are usually described as "caliphates". Conceptually, a caliphate represents a sovereign polity (state) of the entire Muslim faithful (the Ummah, i.e. a sovereign nation state) ruled by a single caliph under the Constitution of Medina and Islamic law (sharia).[citation needed]
In its earliest days, the first caliphate, the Rashidun Caliphate, exhibited elements of direct democracy (shura).[1] It was led, at first, by Muhammad's immediate disciples and family as a continuation of the religious systems he had introduced.
The Sunni branch of Islam stipulates that as a head of state, a caliph should be elected by Muslims or their representatives.[2] Followers of Shia Islam, however, believe a caliph should be an Imam chosen by God (Allah) from the Ahl al-Bayt (the "Family of the House", Muhammad's direct descendents). From the end of the Rashidun period until 1924, caliphates, sometimes two at a single time, real and illusory, were ruled by dynasties. The first of these was the Umayyad dynasty, followed by the several other sometimes competing claimants and finally the Ottoman dynasty. Though non-political, the Ahmadiyya Caliphate had been the only caliphate in existence for over a century. In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant proclaimed another.[3]
The caliphate was "the core leader concept of Sunni Islam, by the consensus of the Muslim majority in the early centuries".[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate
Look at all the countries we are talking about today. Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the little alphabet nations there.
Note the Ottoman Empire at its height. We're talking about all of the current nations as well as those that bordered it now:
Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/; Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه, Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu), also historically referred to as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was an empire founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman Bey in north-western Anatolia in 1299.[7] With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the Ottoman state was transformed into an empire.[8][9][10]
During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a powerful multinational, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.[11] At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states. Some of these were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.[dn 5]
With Constantinople as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries. The empire was dissolved in the aftermath of World War I, leading to the emergence of the new state of Turkey in the Ottoman Anatolian heartland, as well as the creation of modern Balkan and Middle Eastern states.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
As the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the Armenian Genocide occured and other nations were made. The Russians are tending to historical factions there.
That eventually included the state of Israel. Contrary to a mantra often repeated, Israel was not a gift from Europe and the USA for Nazi atrocities.
It had been contemplated in 1917:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
And also in 1926:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1926
True, it was an European creation, but so were most of the other countries that evolved out of the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It just so happened that the rulers were different, is all that happened to that huge chunk of the world's surface. Looking at it in those terms explains the resistance of the parties involved to listen to the United Nations. Their viewpoint extends many centuries beyond the founding of that organization, or even the definitions of the nation state.
One side pushed one way over centuries, and then the other pushed back. We have movements in all the western nations, Russia, China, the islands and in the Americas that call for a world caliphate. This is not a conspiracy theory. It's how people organize themselves for what they think is a good thing.
Those who believe in setting up or expanding a caliphate believe it is a great plan to bring about world peace. There are costs along the road to empire. ISIL is showing us what they'll be. They want to bring back that empire and their version of peace in which all the people will agree on everything they say is the right thing to do.
The caliphate(s) once extended further and was contracted only by armed resistance. It was during long, bloody centuries. IMO, America is much too young to grasp this.
Our idea of how those regions in the two images here should fit onto a map, is not theirs. It was only a temporary hold. They have historical precedent for what they are doing. The more lands they can put in their resurrected empire, the more influence they'll have around the globe to establish their peace.
I don't know if they are right or if they will prevail. I've talked to eager young people online who think it's beautiful and promote it with messianic zeal, very happy to convert others to what they think is a good and holy thing.
It makes sense to those who believe in this. Those who don't, either accept their doing it or oppose it or try to escape it. I've known people from Egypt, Lebanon and other nations who moved to the USA to get away.
Some Americans say nothing will change their own lives. They may be right about it all. But I think they're unrealistic, because in history people don't stop wanting because other ignore their movement. That's not how the world works in the long term.
There always seems to be something amiss in periods of peace. A lack of justice, most likely, so people continue to make war with each other.
Just a few things to consider without any judgment on my part and I doubt anything I could do would change the outcome of these things. And some may not even respect Wikipedia, either.
)No surprise they have no answers to Hedges, Chomsky or Jensen:
Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand:“Be a man.”
It ends with a defiant response:
“I chose to struggle to be a human being.”
Was that from what Chris Hedges wrote or the Hustling the Left book?
And people wonder why women vote Republican, and get conservative, when we deny this is going on?
Or are these NOT Democrats, who want to present these as Democratic Party values, so people will not vote for Democrats, blame the 'liberal culture,' or not vote all so the Republicans/Libertarians will win either way?
I know no Democrats in real life who dismiss the degradation of women. Bain's Bane said it well:
Dismissing the rights and concerns of people of color and women is reactionary. It is way more reactionary than Third Way. There is nothing progressive or liberal about it, and I don't consider people who do so to be leftists. Period.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025216329#post457
Pictures from today, August 7th, 2014
President Barack Obama meets with his national security advisors in the Situation Room of the White House, Aug. 7, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama meets with advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 4, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama meets with National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice and Tony Blinken, Deputy National Security Advisor, in the Oval Office, Aug. 1, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama Makes a Statement on Iraq
Published on Aug 7, 2014
President Obama delivers an update on the situation and U.S. position on Iraq on August 7, 2014.
Statement by the President
State Dining Room
9:30 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:
Good evening. Today I authorized two operations in Iraq -- targeted airstrikes to protect our American personnel, and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of Iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death. Let me explain the actions we’re taking and why.
First, I said in June -- as the terrorist group ISIL began an advance across Iraq -- that the United States would be prepared to take targeted military action in Iraq if and when we determined that the situation required it. In recent days, these terrorists have continued to move across Iraq, and have neared the city of Erbil, where American diplomats and civilians serve at our consulate and American military personnel advise Iraqi forces.
To stop the advance on Erbil, I’ve directed our military to take targeted strikes against ISIL terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. We intend to stay vigilant, and take action if these terrorist forces threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in Iraq, including our consulate in Erbil and our embassy in Baghdad. We’re also providing urgent assistance to Iraqi government and Kurdish forces so they can more effectively wage the fight against ISIL.
Second, at the request of the Iraqi government -- we’ve begun operations to help save Iraqi civilians stranded on the mountain. As ISIL has marched across Iraq, it has waged a ruthless campaign against innocent Iraqis. And these terrorists have been especially barbaric towards religious minorities, including Christian and Yezidis, a small and ancient religious sect. Countless Iraqis have been displaced. And chilling reports describe ISIL militants rounding up families, conducting mass executions, and enslaving Yezidi women.
In recent days, Yezidi women, men and children from the area of Sinjar have fled for their lives. And thousands -- perhaps tens of thousands -- are now hiding high up on the mountain, with little but the clothes on their backs. They’re without food, they’re without water. People are starving. And children are dying of thirst. Meanwhile, ISIL forces below have called for the systematic destruction of the entire Yezidi people, which would constitute genocide. So these innocent families are faced with a horrible choice: descend the mountain and be slaughtered, or stay and slowly die of thirst and hunger.
I’ve said before, the United States cannot and should not intervene every time there’s a crisis in the world. So let me be clear about why we must act, and act now. When we face a situation like we do on that mountain -- with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale, when we have a mandate to help -- in this case, a request from the Iraqi government -- and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye. We can act, carefully and responsibly, to prevent a potential act of genocide. That’s what we’re doing on that mountain.
I’ve, therefore, authorized targeted airstrikes, if necessary, to help forces in Iraq as they fight to break the siege of Mount Sinjar and protect the civilians trapped there. Already, American aircraft have begun conducting humanitarian airdrops of food and water to help these desperate men, women and children survive. Earlier this week, one Iraqi in the area cried to the world, “There is no one coming to help.” Well today, America is coming to help. We’re also consulting with other countries -- and the United Nations -- who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis.
I know that many of you are rightly concerned about any American military action in Iraq, even limited strikes like these. I understand that. I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home, and that’s what we’ve done. As Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there’s no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq. The only lasting solution is reconciliation among Iraqi communities and stronger Iraqi security forces.
However, we can and should support moderate forces who can bring stability to Iraq. So even as we carry out these two missions, we will continue to pursue a broader strategy that empowers Iraqis to confront this crisis. Iraqi leaders need to come together and forge a new government that represents the legitimate interests of all Iraqis, and that can fight back against the threats like ISIL. Iraqis have named a new President, a new Speaker of Parliament, and are seeking consensus on a new Prime Minister. This is the progress that needs to continue in order to reverse the momentum of the terrorists who prey on Iraq’s divisions.
Once Iraq has a new government, the United States will work with it and other countries in the region to provide increased support to deal with this humanitarian crisis and counterterrorism challenge. None of Iraq’s neighbors have an interest in this terrible suffering or instability.
And so we’ll continue to work with our friends and allies to help refugees get the shelter and food and water they so desperately need, and to help Iraqis push back against ISIL. The several hundred American advisors that I ordered to Iraq will continue to assess what more we can do to help train, advise and support Iraqi forces going forward. And just as I consulted Congress on the decisions I made today, we will continue to do so going forward.
My fellow Americans, the world is confronted by many challenges. And while America has never been able to right every wrong, America has made the world a more secure and prosperous place. And our leadership is necessary to underwrite the global security and prosperity that our children and our grandchildren will depend upon. We do so by adhering to a set of core principles. We do whatever is necessary to protect our people. We support our allies when they’re in danger. We lead coalitions of countries to uphold international norms. And we strive to stay true to the fundamental values -- the desire to live with basic freedom and dignity -- that is common to human beings wherever they are. That’s why people all over the world look to the United States of America to lead. And that’s why we do it.
So let me close by assuring you that there is no decision that I take more seriously than the use of military force. Over the last several years, we have brought the vast majority of our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. And I’ve been careful to resist calls to turn time and again to our military, because America has other tools in our arsenal than our military. We can also lead with the power of our diplomacy, our economy, and our ideals.
But when the lives of American citizens are at risk, we will take action. That’s my responsibility as Commander-in-Chief. And when many thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out, and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. That is our responsibility as Americans. That’s a hallmark of American leadership. That’s who we are.
So tonight, we give thanks to our men and women in uniform -— especially our brave pilots and crews over Iraq who are protecting our fellow Americans and saving the lives of so many men, women and children that they will never meet. They represent American leadership at its best. As a nation, we should be proud of them, and of our country’s enduring commitment to uphold our own security and the dignity of our fellow human beings.
God bless our Armed Forces, and God bless the United States of America.
END
9:38 P.M. EDT
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/07/statement-president
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