Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley was midsentence when the chanting began. “What side are you on black people, what side are you on!” rang the chorus of around four dozen mostly black protesters streaming into a convention hall in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday.
A woman named Tia Oso grabbed the microphone as the protestors stormed the room.
“We are going to hold this space and acknowledge the names of black women who have died in police custody, and then Governor O’Malley we do have questions for you!” Oso said as the former two-term governor and his interviewer, Jose Antonio Vargas, watched helplessly. “As leader of this country will you advance an agenda that will dismantle structural racism in this country?” Oso asked.
Shooting up the military
I am not going to refer to any specific article. Something needs to be done to arm our military personnel. Right now, they are doing their job in uniform which apparently is the same thing as drawing an X on their backs and saying “shoot me!” Why must military personnel go around unarmed? How many times have innocent troops been the target of terrorists and crazies? What’s even more disturbing is the fact that the local police has to come to the rescue of the military. This happens time and time again–Chattanooga, Navy Yard, Fort Hood, the list goes on.
Somewhere along the way, the military needs to change its policy. Those wearing the uniform are going to have to be armed and well-prepared to use the weapon in the face of danger.
I don’t know much about military regulations but many of you all do. Please enlighten us as to why the military isn’t armed. They, like every other person, as a right to defend themselves.
Trump’s big mouth strikes again
Real-estate magnate Donald Trump attacked Sen. John McCain’s (R-Arizona) status as a “war hero” on Saturday, saying he was only viewed as a war hero because “he was captured.”
Speaking at an event in Iowa, Trump argued that McCain — who has spoken out against Trump for his controversial comments about Mexican immigrants — was not a real war hero.
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”
“Perhaps he’s a war hero, but right now, he’s said bad things about a lot of people,’ Trump added.
The real-estate mogul also said that he didn’t like McCain after his loss to President Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
“I never liked him after that, because I don’t like losers,” Trump said.
Trump has recently spoken out more forcefully against McCain, after the veteran senator denounced Trump for “firing up the crazies” during a speech last week in Phoenix.
At what point are people going to realize that Trump just has a big, stupid mouth? Having money doesn’t necessarily mean he has any class. For whatever disagreements I have politically with Senator John McCain, I still have respect for him as a war hero. As a senior officer in captivity during the Vietnam War, he was offered a chance for release, which he refused because the rest of the men weren’t being released. That well-known fact alone qualifies McCain as a hero in my book. I doubt if many would argue with me, other than Trump.
Following Trump’s latest bout of incredibly stupid mouth-flashing, Republican leaders have been extremely outspoken against him. Good for them. McCain, Jeb Bush, and a few others have been targeted by Trump. Maybe we should listen to Forest Gump when he reminds us that “stupid is as stupid does.”
Leesburg: another courthouse controversy?
Slaves were once sold on the steps of the old Loudoun County courthouse in downtown Leesburg, which bore stocks and whipping posts. Although 150 years have passed, the courthouse retains a symbol of its Civil War days: a statue of a Confederate soldier, rifle at the ready, facing west.
As the national debate over Confederate symbols on public property continues to gain steam since the June 17 slayings at a historic African American church in Charleston, S.C., dozens of people gathered at the courthouse Saturday morning calling for a change locally: They want a memorial that would also honor the lives of slaves and Union soldiers.
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