GOODBYE LITTLE RED-HAIRED GIRL...

SWDC • 7 minutes ago

"... Little Red-Haired Girl

First mention Nov. 11, 1963.

First appearance Never. Once seen in silhouette on May 25, 1998.

Inspiration Mr. Schulz's ''real-life love for red-haired Donna
Johnson, whom I courted when I was a young man in Saint Paul. She chose
someone else as I was about to propose to her, and that broke my
heart.''

Accomplishments Winning Charlie Brown's heart.

Traits Never seen, often missed, cute..."

 No adult ever appeared in ''Peanuts  though in television specials 

there were occasional wah-wah sounds denoting the voices of teachers and

parents. As Mr. Schulz once put it, ''Well, there just isn't room for 

them.'' Curses never got worse than ''Aaugh!'' ''Good grief,'' ''Rats!''

''Curse you, Red Baron!'' or a knot of lines scrunched up in 

frustration..."

Donna Wold, who inspired Charles Schulz's 'Little Red-Haired Girl' in 'Peanuts,' dies

By Natalie Daher Star Tribune

 

AUGUST 20, 2016 — 5:54PM

Her hair was scarlet, and she was the one who got away.

In 1989, Donna Mae Wold was outed around the world as the longed-for “little red-haired girl” in the “Peanuts” comics strip. “Good Grief,” Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s biography of Minnesota cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, devoted an entire chapter to Wold, the Minnesota woman who got away — from him and from character Charlie Brown.

In the strip, loosely based on the cartoonist’s childhood, Charlie Brown pined for the girl but never chatted her up — and then she moved, just before the sixth-grade swim party. Poof, gone.

The “little red-haired girl” faded out of Charlie Brown’s universe, but Wold lived decades longer in the real world, inspiring others beyond Schulz.

“Donna had a whole, complete life,” said Cesar Gallegos, an archivist at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. “For her, that was a moment in her life.”

Wold, who lived in Richfield, died Aug. 9 of heart failure and complications from diabetes. She was 87.

She was born Donna Johnson in Richfield and attended high school in south Minneapolis. While working at the Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis, she met Schulz. Later, she raised a family of four with her husband and served as foster mother to at least 40 children.

Wold’s own trail hit a fork in her early 20s. Two bachelors proposed — first Schulz, or “Sparky,” then Allan Wold.

Allan and Donna, both redheads, attended the same middle school, where they hardly talked. After Allan returned from the Navy, he saw Donna singing in the choir at church. He decided he had to meet her.

Determined, Allan dialed hundreds of Johnsons living in the city. He found her, and landed a date.

“It went on from there,” he said. They married in 1950.

Instead of comics, their story is the stuff of fairy tales.

“I was with her when she passed,” Allan said. “Every day, almost.”

The Wolds camped often, and even spontaneously, as Allan’s schedule as a firefighter allowed them flexibility. “I can be ready by morning,” Donna would say.

They visited the Grand Tetons, her favorite spot, at least 40 times. They honeymooned on the North Shore, along the Canadian border. (“And we froze,” Allan said.)

Wold enjoyed playing cards, an interest she shared with her father. Her family would play a game that she learned from Sparky. The game, originally called Hell, was renamed Predictions.

“We changed the name because she didn’t want to swear,” said her daughter Peggy Baumtrog of Memphis. “She didn’t want any of us swearing.”

The Wolds had been married for 38 years when the world learned of Donna’s long-ago encounter with the famous cartoonist. Letters flowed to the Wolds’ Twin Cities home, where many of Sparky’s doodles still sat in Donna’s hope chest.

“It was a nice interlude,” Allan said. “It got her out in the spotlight just a little, not too much. … It was a good thing for her to lift her spirits.”

After their children were grown, Wold fostered others, often naming them after “Peanuts” characters, including Schroeder and Lucy.

“It was a fun story,” said daughter Sally Wold. “We’re all lucky we got to be part of it.”

In addition to her husband and her daughters Sally and Peggy, Wold is survived by another daughter, Susan Trulen; a sister, Margaret Olson; seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Daniel, and two grandsons. Services have been held.

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I believe that the basic premise is correct:  If you listen to Trump, he is hitting many of the hot buttons of the electorate.  But you have to listen to him and not be distracted by his showmanship and obnoxious behavior.

 

I like the list of 13 things that I, as a senior American citizen, want.

Trump is at least talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about.  My mantra about Trump is this:  Truthfully, We are usually in agreement with most of what he says but wish someone else was saying it.  We are offended by his brash manner.  We are getting older and maybe our tickers aren't what they used to be, but what matters is that he covers most of the 13 things we as seniors want – at least I do for sure.

1.  Hillary: held accountable for her previous wrongs!

2. Put "GOD" back in America !!!

3. Borders: Closed or tightly guarded!

4. Congress: On the same retirement & healthcare plans as everybody else.

5. Congress: Obey its own laws NOW!

6. Language: English only!

7. Culture: Constitution and the Bill of Rights!

8. Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before & during Welfare!

9. Freebies: NONE to Non-Citizens!

10. Budget: Balance the damn thing!

11. Foreign Countries: Stop giving them our money!  Charge them for our help!  We need it here.

12. Fix the TAX CODE!

And most of all.

13. "RESPECT OUR MILITARY AND OUR FLAG!!

AND DO NOT FORGET BLUE LIVES MATTER, SO INCLUDE THE POLICE.

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Obama has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of some of his impressive accomplishments:

1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was
a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never
lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United
States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil
drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third
party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs
when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to
his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through
executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation
of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his
political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to
resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is
no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being
present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and
refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on
the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is
allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect
(AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly
issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of
his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his
office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in
office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel
records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and
concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights
and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the
taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at
taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week
at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the
Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50
states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for
their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and
knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY
were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN AND WOMAN

MOTHER OF ACTIVE DUTY SOLDIER Destroys Hillary’s Anti-Trump Muslim Dad

Only a military mom could write such a fantastic testimony and rebuke to the Muslim pawn used by Hillary’s campaign at the Dem Convention to trash Donald Trump.  The Facebook letter below is so great and so powerful that it has gone viral.   We hope you will read and share because it’s time to support our military 100% in this war against terror!

To the Muslim Gold Star father who spoke at the DNC …

I have some thoughts on your comments.  I am a Blue Star mother.  My deepest condolences on the loss of your son.  No family should have to endure such a loss.  That being said … while your son is a hero, you Sir, are NOT.   My son has served three tours of combat in the countries you and your family came from.   Iraq and Afghanistan were his introduction to adulthood and service to something bigger than our individual selves.  He was blown up by an IED set by your countrymen.   His Purple Heart is a testament to his love of America and our freedoms.  I have suffered through his multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan … never knowing from moment to moment if he would return home in a flag draped coffin.  It is torture when a mother wakes up to this day after day and sees the atrocities happening over there on the news and being helpless to change a thing. 

My comments to you will probably offend you.  I do not apologize.  These things need to be said.  Unlike you, I could NEVER use my son’s death as a pawn piece in support of a woman that left “America’s treasure” (Hillary’s words) to die unaided in Benghazi.  The same woman who says vile things to her military details there to protect her.   You, Sir, are supposed to be a witness to your son’s bravery and sacrifice.   Instead you stood on a stage and promoted the woman who upholds the very people that killed your son.   You became a political PAWN that promotes pandering to our enemy. You desecrated your son’s memory by your words.  You did not utter one word of outrage at anyone but Donald Trump.   Are you forgetting that Trump did not kill your son?   He had nothing whatsoever to do with these wars.   His memory should mean more to you than five minutes of fame on the stage of the party that voted to send your son to war.   The same party that for eight years has denied and cheated our veterans out of their deserved medical care.   Who for the last three years has cut our veterans pay.

Of note … your wife stood SILENT.   She stood with her head covered, never uttering a word about her loss.   She submitted to you being her voice in front of the country.  She abdicated her free voice to you … as would any good Sharia wife and mother.   Let me say, this was not lost on the other American military moms … myself included.   Had it been my son being “used” as a political PROP, no one could have silenced me.   I would be voicing my grief, my pride, my love of him to the world.   A man cannot speak to a mother’s loss.  No man knows her heart at the loss of a child.  She did her heroic son a disservice by her silence.   She should have uncovered her head and her heart to be the American mother you claim.

And last if all … you dared to flash your picket Constitution and ask if Trump has read it.   I dare to ask you, Sir… HAVE YOU READ IT?  If you say yes, then I dare ask you HOW you could represent that party?   HOW can you support this woman?   How can you affiliate your family with a party and candidate that cannot even call the radicals that killed your son what they are?   How can you support a current administration that diminishes your son’s death by denying he had an enemy?   And if you have read our Constitution, how could you cover your soulmate in colorful submissive sheets and have the audacity to speak FOR her?   Your son died for that Constitution you so carelessly waved around on national TV in support of the very party that exists to destroy it.

As a soldier’s mother … NO ONE could ever speak for me.   I find your outrage artificial.  I find your party affiliation offensive.  I find your wife’s silence atrocious and offensive.   I find YOU a political FOOL.   I find your son to have been your greatest accomplishment, and you, Sir, have dishonored him.   I hope you memorize that pocket Constitution so you will understand what it means to be a REAL American and hero.   You are not one.   You were USED.   Your son WOULD NOT be proud of you. My only hope is that when MY son goes a fourth time to combat radical Islamic terrorists (and he WILL), he will know that his mother never stood submissively SILENT about an American hero.   Yes, your son was a hero who could not be manipulated, but you, Sir, are a weak minded FOOL.

I would love to hear your thoughts this morning about the 1500 American soldiers on the air base in Turkey being held as basic hostages as I type.   Not a word from this president or party you adore … or the media that so thoroughly manipulated and used you and your wife.   So … what say you, Sir???   What will you say to a Blue and Gold Star family if these heroes die?   In my opinion, you will say NOTHING.

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Schools Failing Taxpayers at More Than $18,000 Per Year

Terence Jeffrey · Aug. 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, where the Democratic Party held its national convention, the public schools spent a total of $18,241 per student in the 2011-2012 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

In Detroit, where Donald Trump gave a speech on his economic policies this week, the public schools spent a total of $18,361 per student that year.

In Washington, D.C., where the federal government makes its home, it was $23,980.

What did these schools produce while spending more than $18,000 per student? Not well-educated children.

In the Philadelphia public schools in 2015, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress scores published by the Department of Education, 80 percent of eighth graders were not grade-level proficient in math. Eighty-four percent were not grade-level proficient in reading.

In the Detroit public schools, 96 percent of eighth graders were not grade-level proficient in math. Ninety-three percent were not grade-level proficient in reading.

In the District of Columbia public schools, 83 percent of the eighth graders were not grade-level proficient in math. Eighty-one percent were not grade-level proficient in reading.

If you pay federal taxes — no matter where you live and no matter where you send your children to school — you help subsidize the public schools in Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D.C.

In fact, if you pay federal taxes you help subsidize the public schools all across America.

In 2012-2013 school year, according to the Department of Education’s Digest of Educational Statistics, public elementary and secondary schools took in approximately $603,686,987,000 in revenues. About $55,862,552,000 of that — or 9.3 percent — came from the federal government.

Another $273,101,724,000 — or 45.2 percent — came from state government, and $274,722,710,000 — or 45.5 percent — came from local sources.

Nationwide, public elementary and secondary schools spent $12,010 per student in the 2011-2012 school year. But, in 2015, 68 percent of public-school eighth graders nationwide were not grade-level proficient in math and 67 percent were not grade-level proficient in reading.

In the National Assessment of Educational Progress test in reading in 2015, Catholic school eighth-graders on average outscored public school eighth-graders by 20 points — 284 to 264.

In math, Catholic school eighth-graders on average outscored public school eighth-graders by 12 points — 293 to 281.

Yet in the 2011-2012 school year, according to the Digest of Educational Statistics, the average tuition at a Catholic elementary school was $5,330; the average tuition at a Catholic secondary school was $9,790, and the average tuition at a Catholic school that combined elementary and secondary schools was $10,230.

That is less than $12,010 that public elementary and secondary schools spent per student that year.

The cost and the poor performance of public schools in the United States should inspire Congress to do two things: Shut down the federal Department of Education and enact legislation creating complete school choice for families that reside in the District of Columbia.

Voters in states and local communities elsewhere in the country can then decide for themselves whether or not to replace the relatively small percentage of local school revenue that now comes from the federal government.

But the right decision would be for states and local communities to stop giving their education money exclusively to government-run schools.

Instead, they should give that money to parents — and let parents decide where to send their children to school.

Communities should grant every child in their jurisdiction a voucher worth the same amount of money currently spent per pupil in the local government schools. Then they should let families decide whether they want to send their children to one of those government schools or to a private school.

They should let parents decide not only who will teach their children reading and mathematics but also who will cooperate with them in teaching their children what is right and what is wrong.

The Obama administration is now trying to use that small percentage of public school funding that comes from the federal government to force local public schools to cooperate in advancing the administration’s vision of transgenderism.

But American schools do not need transgender bathrooms and locker rooms. They need the complete transformation that will come by getting the federal government entirely out of primary and secondary education and giving all parents unfettered school choice.
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Word for word from the Cornell Law Library

Former United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey tells MSNBC that not only is Hillary Clinton's private email server illegal, it "disqualifies" her from holding any federal office.

Very specifically points to one federal law, Title 18. Section 2071.

For those of us who do not have United States Code committed to memory, here's what it says:

“(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.”

Yes, it explicitly states "shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."

Shouldn't voters know that? The media won't tell them. So it's up to us. Can you help hold Hillary accountable?  Pass this on, please.

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President of Muslim majority Kyrgyzstan sparks outrage by saying: “Women in mini-skirts don’t become suicide bombers”

President Almazbek Atambayev (right) said women in his country had been wearing short skirts for decades ‘and none of them thought about wearing an explosive belt.’ Kyrgyzstan isn’t the only former Soviet bloc country that has put restrictions on the practice of Islam, despite having Muslim majorities.

The SUN  (h/t Liz) “Women who wear full Islamic garb are more likely to become terrorist suicide bombers,” Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayeva Central Asian leader has claimed. 

The premier was making the comments to journalists during a national debate on cultural identity in Kyrgyzstan, where 80% of the population is Muslim. President Atambayev attacked those who criticise females for wearing less traditional clothing.

The debate was held amid weeks of controversy over government-sponsored adverts in the capital Bishkek encouraging women not to wear orthodox Muslim items such as the hijab, niqab and burka.

The hoardings showed contrasting photos of women in traditional Kyrgyzstan clothing alongside those in Islamic veils. The caption reads: “Poor people! Where are we heading to?”

President Atambayev said: “When we erected banners some smart people appeared and started pointing at miniskirts. “Our women have been wearing miniskirts since 1950s, and they never thought about wearing an explosive belt.

“You can wear even tarpaulin boots on your head, but do not organize bombings. “This is not religion. Let them wear even miniskirts but there must not be any blasts.”

The president described the wearing of Islamic dress as potentially dangerous. He said. “Terrorists are insane people. “Clothes also can change one’s thoughts sometimes.

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LAR OF GALEN ISSUE

Lar of Galen...Last night on the way to Bible Class I heard Mark Levine talking about how we paid $400 billion in cash to Iran for 4 hostages.  He played a clip of Hillary saying this wasn't a ransom payment, it was repayment for contracts dating back to when the Shah was in power.  I immediately thought "And we just happened to make that payment now??!!!?? And why would we be paying the current regime for something that was arranged under the government they overthrew??"

     I mentioned it to Deborah later, and she said that a pastor, who was the last hostage, said he was not allowed to board the plane leaving Iran until the plane with the money landed.  On the rebroadcast of The O'Reilly Factor, they discussed the same story.  Hillary was dismissing it as old news, and he also played a clip of BO saying the same thing, that "We announced this in January, 7 months ago."  A commentator from the WSJ said "This is true, it was repayment for contracts cancelled when the Shah was overthrown.  But the timing was bad." 

     He said the State Department decided to go ahead and release the funds because they felt that the sanctions, which have been under arbitration in The Haig for 30 years were about to be overturned, and we would have to release the money anyway. REALLY??!!?? Suddenly, (You notice how I keep having to use that term with this regime?) some world agency is going to decide after 30 years that we owe the Ayatollah money for something that was agreed to under the Shah? 

     Another commentator came on and talked about the use of cash.  He said that the reason we gave them cash is because it can't be traced.  This is important because it is illegal for us to give the Iranian government cash, and because several people in the government have already said that we know that any money we give to Iran will end up in the hands of terrorists. Wouldn't want people to be able to prove that such money came from us.

     The same commentator stated that giving the current regime money for contracts made under the Shah would be the same as deciding to refund money confiscated from the Weimar Republic under the Treaty of Verseille back to Germany after Hitler had set up The Third Reich.(Thank you very much!)

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More Lar of Gale...Heard on the radio that a famous actress from Virginia (didn't catch her name) is horribly embarrassed by the fact that she graduated from a high school named after Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, so the school board is forming a panel to study the possibility to change the name.  Rush pointed out that Stuart, although he did not own slaves, was a Democrat.

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Even more Lar of Galen..."This shameful “honor” bestowed upon a child molester is a slap in the face of every man and woman who ever served, fought or died for this great nation in decline." 

 Obama...doing all he can with what little time he has left in office to further degrade our great Navy.  

Navy to Name Ship after ‘Gay’ Child Molester

Matt Barber Matt Barber |Posted: Jul 31, 2016 12:01 AM

Attention on the poop deck. It seems our “first gay president” intends to “milk,” with pride, his fetish for all things “LGBT” in the closing months (mercifully) of his catastrophic presidency. USNI News (U.S. Naval Institute)reportsthat the Obama Navy presumes to ram, without consent, the most reprehensible aspects of the extremist homosexual political agenda down the throats of a divided American public.

“The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a congressional notification obtained by USNI News.

“The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206).”

An “oiler.” You can’t make this stuff up.

It remains unclear whether the USNS Harvey Milk will come equipped with sonar/radar or Grindr, be modeled after a Disney “cruise” liner and adorned with the American flag, or the rainbow colors of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Why Disney?

What would you call a 33-year-old man who both had, and axiomatically acted upon, a deviant sexual appetite for underage, drug-addicted, runaway boys?

No, not Jerry Sandusky, but good guess.

What would you call a man of whom, as regards sexual preference, his own close friend and biographer confessed, “Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems”?

In a 2013interviewwith OneNewsNow.com, I called this man “demonstrably, categorically an evil man based on his [statutory] rape of teenage boys.”

But you can call him Harvey Milk.

Harvey Milk’s only claim to fame is that he was the first openly homosexual candidate to be elected to public office (San Francisco city commissioner). His chief cause was to do away with the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic. In 1978 Milk was murdered over a non-related political dispute by fellow Democrat Dan White.

And a “progressive” martyr was born.

Merriam Webster defines “pederast” as “one who practices anal intercourse especially with a boy.” It defines “statutory rape” as “the crime of having sex with someone who is younger than an age that is specified by law.”

Harvey Milk was both a pederast and, by extension, a statutory rapist. One of Milk’s victims was a 16-year-old runaway from Maryland named Jack Galen McKinley. Motivated by an apparent quid pro quo of prurience, Milk plucked McKinley from the streets.

Randy Shilts was a San Francisco Chronicle reporter and close friend to Harvey Milk. Though Shilts died of AIDS in 1994, he remains, even today, one of the most beloved journalists in the “LGBT” community.

Shilts was also Harvey Milk’s biographer. In his glowing book “The Mayor of Castro Street,” he wrote of Milk’s “relationship” with the McKinley boy: “… Sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure. … At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him.”

In a sane world, of course, the only direction his “new lover” should have pulled him was toward San Quentin. But, alas, today’s America is anything but sane.

Whereas McKinley, a disturbed runaway boy, desperately sought a “father figure” to provide empathy, compassion, wisdom and direction, he instead found Harvey Milk: a promiscuous sexual predator who found, in McKinley, an opportunity to satisfy a perverse lust for underage flesh.

Years later, McKinley committed suicide.

Another teen who crossed paths with Harvey Milk was Christian convert and former homosexual Gerard Dols. In a 2008 radio interview with Concerned Women for America, Dols shared of how – as a physically disabled teen – the “very nice” Harvey Milk had encouraged him in 1977 to run away from his Minnesota home and come to San Francisco.

According to Dols, Milk told him, “Don’t tell your parents,” and later sent him a letter with instructions. Thankfully, the letter was intercepted by Dols’ parents, who then filed a complaint with the Minnesota attorney general’s office.

The incident was swept under the rug.

Milk was also reputed to offer room and board in his San Francisco flat to young sailors in exchange for sodomy. His history of child sexual abuse was (and is) no secret to Obama or the homosexual community.

Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council penned adetailed expose on Milk in 2009. “He continued to engage in homosexual conduct while serving in the U. S. Navy,” wrote Sprigg. “Shilts reports that Milk, who had his own apartment off base, would pick up hitchhiking sailors by offering them a bed to sleep in. ‘The guests often would not know that Milk’s apartment had only one bed until they walked in the door.’

“Milk later exploited his time in the Navy during his political career – by lying about it, claiming falsely that he had received a dishonorable discharge for his homosexuality. Milk ‘knew the story would make good copy,’ according to Shilts. ‘Maybe people will read it, feel sorry for me and then vote for me,’ Milk told one campaign manager.

“The information Shilts provides about Milk’s sexual partners is revealing about the nature of male homosexual life in America,” concluded Sprigg. “Milk’s first long-term lover, Joe, had his ‘introduction to gay life’ when he performed sex acts upon men in a movie theatre for money – at age 9. Milk’s next lover, Craig, had been arrested after having sex with a 40-year-old man – when Craig was 14. He met Milk when he was 17. ‘[I]t would be to such boyish-looking men in their late teens and early 20s that Milk would be attracted for the rest of his life,’ Shilts reports. Another lover, Jack, moved in with Milk when he was 16 and Milk was 33. Jack attempted suicide several times, and once when he physically attacked Milk, ‘Harvey literally tied him up and threw him in a closet,'” reports Shilts.

So what does a man like Harvey Milk get for his crimes and predatory predilections? While most sexual predators get time in prison and a dishonorable mention on the registry of sex offenders, Harvey Milk got his own California state holiday (“Harvey Milk Day”), officialU.S. postage stamp, aposthumous Presidential Medal of Freedomand, now, is honored with a U.S. Naval ship in his own name.

God bless America?

This shameful “honor” bestowed upon a child molester is a slap in the face of every man and woman who ever served, fought or died for this great nation in decline. If you’re as disgusted by it as I am, please contact your congressional representative and demand they torpedo this predatory ship of fools.

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Leaping Spark • 6 hours ago

During Hillary's speech yesterday in Orlando, the Muslim, anti American, Taliban supporting POS father of the Orlando Muslim piece of filth who murdered 49 Americans was sitting right behind Hillary smiling like Cheshire cat sending a clear message that Hillary supports terrorism and Muslims in general over Americans.

Lisa McDonald • 5 hours ago

Well, now we know that the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS will be voting for Hillary - she's a fervent supporter! Whose brilliant idea was it to sit the father of a terrorist right behind Hillary? And if she knew about it beforehand she is even a bigger hypocrite than I thought possible. And yes, the media fell all over themselves so they could interview him. What kills me is that he supports Hillary because she supports gun control. The irony here is incredible.

NATIONAL SECURITY

Death and Hillary Clinton

She's the common denominator in a number of deaths.

Paul Albaugh · Aug. 9, 2016

For as long as the Clintons have been in the national spotlight, people linked to them have turned up dead. We’re sure that’s only the stuff of mythology among the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” but this week brings news of more of the same.

Despite FBI and Leftmedia attempts to keep Americans as uninformed as possible about Hillary Clinton’s history of corruption and lies, there is new information about the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist named Shahram Amiri. Normally, the death of a foreigner wouldn’t catch the attention of many Americans. But in this case, Amiri was in contact with Clinton via email, and the circumstances and timing of his death are more than suspicious.

Who was this man that was just publicly hanged shortly after returning to Iran? Amiri was one of Iran’s nuclear scientists, and in 2009 he disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, and he reappeared in several online videos in the United States. The timing of his disappearance was at the height of Western efforts to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. In 2010, he returned to Iran, and was greeted with a hero’s welcome. Soon after, he disappeared again.

This past weekend, he was publicly tried and executed. According to an Iranian judiciary spokesman, Amiri had access to Iran’s secret and classified information and was linked to Iran’s number one enemy (and financier), America. He was also accused of providing the U.S. with vital and secret information about Iran. So what happened between his 2010 return to Iran and this past weekend?

Well, the revelations of Hillary Clinton’s email scheme and the release of her emails, which contained several references to Amiri.

Did Clinton’s emails seal this man’s fate? As National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes, “[I]t’s unnerving to see she was discussing such material on an insecure system. We don’t know for certain that the Iranians had successfully hacked into Clinton’s server — as FBI Director Comey said, hackers are good at covering their tracks — but it seems foolish to assume Tehran could not. Friendly references to Amiri in private email by Hillary and her staff would destroy his claims to his captors that he wasn’t voluntarily helping American intelligence.”

More likely than Iran doing the hacking is that Russia is the culprit. The two nations are thick as thieves when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, and it’s extremely likely that Moscow has somevaluable dirt on Clinton, some of which was perhaps shared with the mullahs.

So what of Clinton’s emails? In 2010, Jake Sullivan sent two emails about a week apart to Hillary’s private server. Neither of the emails mentioned Amiri by name, but the first email notes that the videos were a “psychological” issue and that “our friend has to be given a way out.” The second email, sent two days before CNN reported a $5 million payout, warned of “problematic news stories” to come as a cover for Amiri’s return to Iran.

So while the emails didn’t mention Amiri by name, Iranian intelligence could have no doubt figured out that the person she was referring to in these emails was indeed Amiri.

This is what FBI Director James Comey meant when he called Hillary “extremely careless in the handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

There are other untimely, mysterious deaths in the last six weeks as well — all with ties to the Clintons. Last week, there were two deaths within two days. The first was a prominent Clinton critic, researcher and reporter for the American Free Press named Victor Thorn. He was found in his home, dead of a gunshot wound to the head, in what has been reported as a suicide. It was his 54th birthday.

The second was a Bernie Sanders supporter named Shawn Lucas, who was serving the Democrat National Committee and former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz with a class action lawsuit for alleged fraud and rigging the primary election in favor of Hillary Clinton. He was found dead on Aug. 2, on the floor of his bathroom.

There are several others who have died strange and untimely deaths with unsatisfactory explanation. But the common denominator is that they were somehow tied to or knew something about the Clintons and had either reported or were about to blow the whistle on their wrongdoings.

It feels like the 1990s all over again, when Vince Foster and numerous others met an untimely and suspicious demise. This is the Hillary Clinton that the Leftmedia doesn’t want you to know about. The same woman who recently said that she may have “short circuited” her recent email explanation.

Speaking of deaths and lies, the parents of two Benghazi victims — Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods — filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Clinton Monday. The two allege that Clinton’s “reckless handling” of classified information contributed to their sons' deaths. And while the circumstances surrounding the Iranian scientist or the two Americans are mysterious, we know that Clinton is responsible for the deaths of Smith, Woods and two others in Benghazi. And then she lied about it for political gain.

Indeed, she lied to the public and then has the audacity to lie and say that she didn’t lie. This woman is filled with corruption and lies yet she is the “most qualified person ever” to run for president? Too few seem to know about her wrongdoings and malicious behavior. Or they don’t care
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Phillip Jennings is an investment banker and entrepreneur, former Marine Corps Captain who flew missions in Vietnam and, after leaving the Marine Corps, flew for Air America in Laos. He won the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society short fiction award in 1998. He has a degree in business administration and is the CEO of Mayfair Capital Partners. He is the author of two novels and one non-fiction book. 

He authored the following article which appeared in the May 26, 2016 edition of USA Today. It is short and should be required reading for everyone. 
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Secretary without honor.

When I hear people say Clinton emails don't matter, I remember a young Marine captain who owned up to his career-ruining mistake.

Apologists for Hillary Clinton’s alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents say that it doesn’t matter, that she really did nothing wrong, or nothing significant. But the real question is not so much what she did as how she has responded to being found out.

Once during the mid-1960s when I was on active duty in the Marine Corps, I was the air liaison officer for a battalion of Marines aboard 11 ships in the Mediterranean. As the air officer and a senior captain, I had a rotating responsibility for the nuclear code book, kept in the safe in the operations room of the lead amphibious squadron command ship. I shared that duty with another captain, a squared away young man, liked by all he commanded and the son of a very high-ranking Marine.

On the day our ships were leaving the Mediterranean, we met the new amphibious squadron near Gibraltar and made preparations to transfer security codes and other sensitive material to the incoming Marine battalion. The young captain was on duty and went to the operations office to pick up the code book. He was alone in the office. He removed the code book and placed it on the desk while closing the safe. In a rushed moment, he stepped across the passageway to retrieve something he needed from his quarters. Seconds later, he stepped back into the operations office and found the operations sergeant having just entered, looking down at the code book.

Against all regulations, the code book had been out of the safe and unattended. It mattered not that it was unattended for only seconds, that the ship was 5 miles at sea, or that it was certain no one unauthorized had seen the code. The captain could have explained this to the operations sergeant. He could have told the sergeant that he “would take care of it.” He could have hinted that his high-ranking dad could smooth it over.

But the Marine Corps’ values are honor, courage and commitment. Honor is the bedrock of our character. The young captain could not ask the sergeant to betray his duty to report the infraction, no matter how small. Instead, the captain simply said, “Let’s go see the colonel.”

That captain had wanted to be a Marine officer all of his life. It was the only career he ever wanted. When he reported the incident to the colonel, he knew he was jeopardizing his life’s dream. But he did it.

The results went by the book. The amphibious squadron stood down. Military couriers flew in from NATO. The codes were changed all over Europe. The battalion was a day late in leaving the Mediterranean. The captain, Leonard F. Chapman III, received a letter of reprimand, damaging his career. He stayed in the corps and died in a tragic accident aboard another ship. [For those interested, Captain Chapman's father was Gen. Leonard F. Chapman Jr., the former Commandant of the Marine Corps.] 

I saw some heroic acts in combat in Vietnam, things that made me proud to be an American and a Marine. But that young captain stood for what makes our corps and our country great.

Clinton is the antithesis of that young captain, someone with no honor, little courage and commitment only to her endless ambition. This has nothing to do with gender, party affiliation, ideology or policy. It is a question of character — not just hers, but ours. Electing Clinton would mean abandoning holding people accountable for grievous errors of integrity and responsibility. What we already know about her security infractions should disqualify her for any government position that deals in information critical to mission success, domestic or foreign. But beyond that, her responses to being found out — dismissing its importance, claiming ignorance, blaming others — indict her beyond anything the investigation can reveal. Those elements reveal her character. And the saddest thing is that so many in America seem not to care.