#Dayton Ohio Corruption

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Ohio's House Bill 6 bribery case is the scandal that won't go away

Opinion by Charita M. Goshay, Canton Repository •

Some years ago, I took part in an FBI Citizens Academy, a six-week program which gives participants a close-up look at how the bureau conducts investigations.

One agent shared with the class that when it comes to public corruption, New Orleans is the heavyweight champ.

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During her unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2022, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley pointed out the FBI has identified the Ohio Legislature as one of the country's most corrupt.

No one paid her a bit of attention.

Because gerrymandered districts and bad electoral maps have created a supermajority which answers to no one, it's small wonder that two successive Ohio House speakers came under FBI investigation for corruption, with one of them landing in the hoosegow.

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Earlier this month, the feds arrested former Public Utilities Commissions of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo for allegedly accepting $4.2 million in bribes from FirstEnergy in exchange for bestowing favorable treatment, including helping the utility secure House Bill 6, a law which has you on the hook for a $1.3 billion bailout of its outdated nuclear power plants.

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In a "deferred prosecution" deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office, FirstEnergy threw Randazzo under the bus by admitting it paid him the bribe.

Several FirstEnergy executives were fired, but no one from the company has gone to jail. No one.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, former Ohio GOP Chair Matt Borges, Householder's political consultant, went to jail, but there were enough people involved to fill a cell block.

Ambivalence run amok: Larry Householder abused the public's trust...but do Ohioans really care?

Rather than handcuffs and a perp walk, Randazzo was allowed to surrender following his recent 11-count federal indictment on bribery and fraud charges.

You, on the other hand, would have been frog-hopped into a police van — live — on TikTok.

Husted, whose gubernatorial aspirations are the worst-keep secret in Ohio, claims he doesn't remember much about any discussions involving Randazzo's appointment.

How did we get here? Part of the problem is culture wars. Too many single-issue voters are willing to ignore the elephant trampling through the china shop if it means their particular cause has a chance of becoming policy.

We're also here as a result of gerrymandering, which transforms the democratic process into a shadow of itself. It enables unserious people and demagogues whose qualifications for office aren't as important as their willingness to be good soldiers, and it generates an arrogance that sees no need for restraint or compromise.

Gerrymandering makes mockery of the foundational belief that "Politics is the art of the possible."

DeWine, whose Macbethian ambitions have always been camouflaged by his homespun, mayor-of-Mayberry persona, somehow always manages to avoid direct blame, even though his decision to appoint Randazzo has resulted in the biggest political scandal in state history, and FirstEnergy customers in Ohio having to pay higher utility bills.

According to Cleveland.com, DeWine was warned to steer clear of Randazzo shortly after his 2018 election by J.B. Hadden, a longtime friend who served as his campaign treasurer.

Now, in an exercise of audacity that can't be measured, FirstEnergy just asked for a $1.4 billion rate hike through something called an Electric Security Plan. If approved, customers will start paying more next year, and every year through 2032, according to a report by the Ohio Consumers Council.

Meanwhile, a bill to repeal House Bill 6 has languished in Columbus like leftover potato salad.

It's often said that voters ultimately get the government they deserve, but the recent election and the passage of Issues 1 and 2 showed what can happen if enough Ohioans get fed up.

Yet, even as we speak, efforts are underway to undermine the will of the voters by elected officials who are choosing to ignore the very people for whom they work.

Charita M. Goshay is a Canton Repository staff writer and member of the editorial board. Reach her at 330-580-8313 or charita.goshay@cantonrep.com. On Twitter: @cgoshayREP

This article originally appeared on The Repository: Ohio's House Bill 6 bribery case is the scandal that won't go away

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Chris Christie, who has a history of corruption himself, has been going hard against former Donald Trump's alleged criminality. Wosny Lambre, Michael Shure and Max Burns discuss on The Young Turks. https://shoptyt.com/collections/justice-is-coming Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/we-will-vote-on-a-bill-to-make-it-easier-to-kill-people-mcgovern-blasts-republican-legislation-headed-to-the-floor/ "Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) tore into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and GOP-backed legislation on Monday during a Rules Committee meeting to advance legislation on gas stoves and firearm stabilizing braces to the House floor. McGovern took aim at the firearm stabilizing braces law, written by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), that would halt a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rule from January regulating the stabilizing braces, which are mounted on pistols so they can be shot more easily with one hand. Biden has vowed to veto the bill should it pass as the White House has noted the device has been used in mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and Boulder, Colorado." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 230613__TA04Gop by The Young Turks

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Ken Quatman of Ohio

Ken Quatman

November 27, 1994

Dayton Daily News

Carol Hernandez

A question of character

Police say system forces unwanted hires

“Kenneth M. Quatman said he hung out with drug dealers and, when younger, twice acted as lookout when his girlfriend stole money from purses at parties. [He] disclosed this information during background interviews required of Dayton police applicants. The police review board was alarmed and recommended none of the three be hired, police personnel records show. But the three [other officers, including Quatman] became Dayton police officers anyway.”

“Dayton police rejected Kenneth M. Quatman in September 1991. Ken Quatman told police interviewers he had used marijuana 50 times. He said he has also used cocaine, hallucinogenic mushrooms and opium.”

“Quatman, 25, said he still had friends who used marijuana and three close friends who sold it. Twice when younger, Quatman said, he acted as lookout while his girlfriend stole from purses. Quatman was hired in December 1991. He didn’t know he had initially been rejected until his supervisor told him a week before a reporter contacted him about this story.”

“Assigned to the Second District, Ken Quatman was cleared of allegations he used excessive force in two separate incidents – an August 1992 arrest of a mental patient having a violent insulin reaction and the July 1994 arrest of a man who admitted resisting arrest for a domestic disturbance. He’s also been suspended and received a reprimand for being involved in two preventable accidents.”

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Who is Worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell?

He’s maybe the most dangerous politician of my lifetime. He’s helped transform the Republican Party into a cult, worshiping at the altar of authoritarianism. He’s damaged our country in ways that may take a generation to undo. The politician I’m talking about, of course, is Mitch McConnell. Two goals for November 3, 2020: The first and most obvious is to get the worst president in history out of the White House. That’s necessary but not sufficient. We also have to flip the Senate and remove the worst Senate Majority Leader in history. Like Trump, Mitch McConnell is no garden-variety bad public official. McConnell puts party above America, and Trump above party. Even if Trump is gone, if the Senate remains in Republican hands and McConnell is reelected, America loses because McConnell will still have a chokehold on our democracy. This is the man who refused for almost a year to allow the Senate to consider President Obama’s moderate Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland. 

And then, when Trump became president, this is the man who got rid of the age-old Senate rule requiring 60 Senators to agree on a Supreme Court nomination so he could ram through not one but two Supreme Court justices, including one with a likely history of sexual assault. This is the man who rushed through the Senate, without a single hearing, a $2 trillion tax cut for big corporations and wealthy Americans – a tax cut that raised the government debt by almost the same amount, generated no new investment, failed to raise wages, but gave the stock market a temporary sugar high because most corporations used the tax savings to buy back their own shares of stock. McConnell refuses to support what’s needed for comprehensive election security – although both the U.S. intelligence community and Special Prosecutor Mueller say Moscow is continuing to hack into our voting machines and to weaponize disinformation through social media. 

McConnell has earned the nickname “Moscow Mitch” because he’s doing exactly what Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump want him to do – leave America vulnerable to another Putin-supported victory for Trump. McConnell is also blocking bipartisan background-check legislation for gun sales, even after the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, El Paso and Odessa, Texas.   So even if Trump is out of the White House, if McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader he will not allow a Democratic president to govern. 

He won’t allow debate or votes on Medicare for All, universal pre-K, a wealth tax, student loan forgiveness, or the Green New Deal. He won’t allow confirmation votes on judges nominated by a Democratic president. The good news is McConnell is the least popular senator in the country with his own constituents. He’s repeatedly sacrificed Kentucky to Trump’s agenda – for example, agreeing to Trump’s so-called emergency funding for a border wall, which would take $63 million away from projects like a new middle school on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee.

McConnell is even cut funding for black lung disease suffered by Kentucky coal miners. I know from my years as labor secretary that coal mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, and the number of cases of incurable black lung disease has been on the rise. But when a group of miners took a 10-hour bus ride to Washington this past summer to ask McConnell to restore the funding, McConnell met with them for one minute and then refused to help them. No wonder Democrats are lining up in Kentucky to run against Moscow Mitch in 2020. The not-so-good news is that McConnell is up for re-election the same day as Donald Trump, and Trump did well in Kentucky in 2016. Which means we have to help organize Kentucky, just as we have to organize other states that may not be swing states in the presidential election but could take back the Senate. 

Consider Georgia: Republican Senator Johnny Isakson is retiring, meaning both of Georgia's Senate seats are now up for grabs. And this one extra seat—in a state that is trending blue—could be the tipping point that allows Democrats to win enough seats to end GOP control of the Senate. Trump has to go, but so does McConnell. Here’s what you can do: Wherever you are in the country, you can donate to McConnell’s challengers. If you live in or near Kentucky, you can get out and knock doors or make calls. Or if you have friends or family in the state, encourage them to get involved. As to the question of who is worse, Trump or McConnell — the answer is that it’s too close to call. The two of them have degraded and corrupted American democracy. We need them both out.

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I found what appears to be an iPad version of one of the old official Tron: Legacy websites.

Most everything works, and there’s some pretty cool stuff on it.

One of the most interesting things is an official timeline for what happens between the original Tron and Tron: Legacy.

Just in case Disney takes the website offline, I’ve copied and pasted the timeline here, to make sure a copy of it stays online.

Chronology

Early 1970's -Dr. Walter Gibbs leaves academia to found a garage start-up company he calls ENCOM.

1980 -ENCOM creates its first mainframe. -The Grid forms within the mainframe as a place where programs can freely interact and games are played by programs. - Dr. Walter Gibbs creates the Master Control Program (MCP) to regulate the mainframe at ENCOM. -Kevin Flynn earns his doctorate from Cal Tech. He is immediately hired by ENCOM where he quickly climbs the corporate ladder to become a lead software developer. - Using ENCOM's facilities, and without the knowledge of his superiors, Flynn designs several games, developing Space Paranoids, Matrix Blaster, Vice Squad, Light Cycles, and numerous other titles. -Ed Dillinger fires Kevin Flynn, his rival at ENCOM, and takes credit for the games Flynn created under the radar. -Money comes rolling in to ENCOM as a result of the games Kevin Flynn designed. -Flynn and Dr. Lora Baines begin to date. It ends after a few months.

1981 -Ed Dillinger quickly climbs the corporate ladder at ENCOM based on the success of the games he "stole" from Kevin Flynn and he becomes Senior Executive Vice President of ENCOM. -Dillinger demotes Dr. Walter Gibbs, founder of ENCOM. Gibbs uses his free time to begin research on practical applications of quantum mechanics and lasers. -The Master Control Program evolves and gains control in the Grid. It begins consuming programs beyond its network in the real world and sends unneeded ones into the Game Grid to ultimately be destroyed. -Flynn buys an old arcade, calling it Flynn's Arcade, uses his own games as the focal point of his business.

1982 -Kevin Flynn hacks the ENCOM mainframe with his search program Clu to find evidence of Ed Dillinger's wrongdoing. -The Master Control Program, the overlord of the system at ENCOM, finds and derezzes Clu before he could access the data he was looking for. -Alan Bradley, a high-level programmer at ENCOM, has suspicions and creates a program named Tron to monitor the Master Control Program to ensure it stays in line. -Alan Bradley complains to his co-worker and girlfriend, Dr. Lora Baines, about Ed Dillinger and losing network access at work due to a hacker. Suspecting Kevin Flynn is the hacker, Lora convinces Alan to help warn him. Together, they break into ENCOM so Kevin Flynn can gain access to the mainframe. -Kevin Flynn is detected in the Grid by the Master Control Program while at a terminal in the Laser Bay. -After being digitized by a laser into the Grid by the Master Control Program, Kevin Flynn teams up with Alan Bradley's and Lora Baines' program avatars in the system — Tron and Yori. Together, they overcome the MCP and stop the corruption of the digital realm. -When Kevin Flynn is digitized back to the real world, Kevin Flynn has the evidence that he, not Ed Dillinger, wrote the games the company was famous for.

1983 -Kevin Flynn becomes the Chief Executive Officer of ENCOM and begins work on a new digital realm — the TRON system. He recreates many programs based on familiar ones in the ENCOM system but with his own flare and ingenuity. -Flynn hires Alan Bradley as Chief Operating Officer of ENCOM. -The first program Kevin Flynn creates is a simple resource distribution platform called Shaddox. -Flynn recreates CLU, now as a control program, to watch over the TRON System when he is not inside. -Sam Flynn is born to Kevin Flynn and Jordan Canas. -Jordan Canas dies in a car accident.

1985 -ENCOM has gone public and become the largest video game company in the world. -Flynn retires from game design to pursue digital research exclusively and focuses his energies on the TRON system ? easily traveling in and out of the system by laser technology.

1986 -ENCOM becomes an established powerhouse in computing and game culture.

1988 -Flynn writes and publishes a controversial book "Digital Frontier." -Flynn claims to have stumbled upon an incredible discovery that could change the world and promises to reveal details "soon."

1989 -In the real world, Flynn disappears completely, leaving his son and company adrift. -Guardianship of Sam goes to his paternal grandparents. -With Kevin Flynn gone, the ENCOM board votes Alan Bradley as interim Chief Executive Officer.

1990 -Many sightings of Kevin Flynn are reported, but none are confirmed. -The Flynn Lives! movement begins in earnest.

1994 -First Flynn Lives! meeting is held in Dayton, Ohio. The group organizes efforts to find the truth behind Kevin Flynn's mysterious disappearance.

1995 -Sam's grandfather dies.

1998 -A letter from Kevin Flynn to a founding member of the Flynn Lives! Movement gains media attention, but is subsequently proven a hoax. The recipient of the letter is institutionalized.

2000 -Sam's grandmother dies.

2001 -A $5,000 reward is offered by the Flynn Lives! group to anyone who can provide proof that Kevin Flynn is alive.

2002 -Conflict is brewing in the TRON system.

2006 -Alan Bradley is stripped of his power as Chief Executive Officer of ENCOM, but is allowed to remain in the company as a figurehead, the Chairman Emeritus.

2007 -The "Albino Cow" sighting of Kevin Flynn sparks renewed interest in the Flynn Lives! group.

2008 -Uninterested in the family business, Sam Flynn chooses a path of extreme sports and daring stunts. -Sam Flynn's preferred vehicle is his father's old Ducati motorcycle.

2010 -ENCOM is the largest multinational computer technology company in the world. -Flynn Lives! Organization reveals new information about Kevin Flynn and follows traces of evidence of his mysterious disappearance. -A mysterious message is sent to Alan Bradley's old pager — the phone number it came from is the now-abandoned Flynn's Arcade.

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Cincinnati’s Ill-Fated 1879 ‘Marriage Picnic’ & The Courthouse Riot

Part Two

In last week’s installment, we read about three couples joined in matrimony during the 1879 Marriage Picnic at Inwood Park. Each of the three brides engaged in some form of prostitution. Here is the rest of the story, including the connection between the Marriage Picnic and Cincinnati’s 1884 Courthouse Riot.

During the Marriage Picnic, Louisa Drier married Augustus Meier, a wienerwurst vendor. According to the Cincinnati Gazette [29 July 1881]:

“Louisa was not at all particular as to whether Augustus or some other fellow shared her bed.”

Among the customers Louisa entertained while Gus sold hot dogs was the butcher who made the sausages Gus peddled. One day, Louisa got really sick and Gus appealed to the National Association for the Promotion of Marriage – sponsors of the Marriage Picnic – and was told the Association had gone bankrupt. Louisa died at the City Hospital of a massive hemorrhage and was buried in Potter’s Field. Gus left town.

Elizabeth Puthoff and Frank Noell were also wed at the picnic, but did not set up housekeeping together. Mrs. Noell, under the name Lizzie Mayrose, entertained clients at two Longworth Street brothels, the first run by Mary Lippincott, the second by Jenny Hall. It was alleged that Frank robbed Lizzie’s customers after they fell asleep. By 1881, the ravages of chronic enteritis prevented Lizzie from servicing customers, but Madam Hall kept her on as a charity case. Lizzie died at St. Mary’s Hospital.

The third couple, the McHughs, wrote the final, tragic chapter of the Marriage Picnic.

Sophia McHugh had abandoned a rich sugar daddy to take up with the ne’er-do-well “Little Red” McHugh. When he couldn’t provide, Sophia found men who would reward her for sharing her charms.

William McHugh, insane with jealousy, murdered his wife, surrounded by eyewitnesses, at the Sixth Street Market on 23 July 1881. With a newly purchased butcher knife, he stabbed her in plain view of the large Saturday market crowd. The single thrust punctured her heart and Sophia died almost immediately.

McHugh’s prosecution dragged on for years. Despite a multitude of witnesses, despite abundant evidence of his rage at her continued forays into prostitution and threats of divorce, despite proof of premeditation in his purchase of a new knife just hours before the attack, it took three trials to convict William McHugh of murder in the first degree.

The long slog toward justice – McHugh’s first two convictions were overturned on appeal – enraged a city alarmed by rampant crime. According to Steven W. Plattner, writing in Queen City Heritage [Spring 1984]:

“Unfortunately, in 1884 Cincinnati also acquired an international reputation for the failure of its legal system to deal fairly and expeditiously with criminals, particularly those accused of murder.”

On 9 March 1884, the Cincinnati Enquirer devoted its front page to a rogue’s gallery of mugshots under the headline “College of Murder.” According to the Enquirer, the city had witnessed 92 murders in the past year and 284 arrests for shooting with intent to kill.

Smack in the middle of this roll of infamy was William McHugh, whose third appeal was even then working its way through the Ohio courts. McHugh was one of the poster children for a damaged, politically corrupt justice system where jurors, witnesses and judges all gobbled patronage payments while the populace thirsted for vengeance. The Enquirer story summarized the dangerously flammable tinder accumulating in Cincinnati.

The spark that exploded an inferno was the robbery and murder of a West End stable owner by two teenaged employees. When one of the murderers was found guilty of manslaughter instead of premeditated murder, Cincinnati erupted.

An angry but mostly peaceful meeting at Music Hall transformed into a mob marching toward the Courthouse, intent on hanging lynching the boy or, failing that, stringing up the two dozen murderers awaiting trial in the county jail – including William McHugh. For two days, Cincinnati burned and gunshots rang through the city. So fierce was the fighting that a regiment of soldiers, deputized from Dayton, arrived in town, took one look at the melee in the Courthouse Square and caught the next train home.

The final toll is inconceivable to modern Cincinnatians. At least 56 men and boys were killed, more than 300 seriously wounded and hundreds more suffering injuries of lesser degree. The interior of the regal 1851 Courthouse lay in ruins, while the stone façade remained an empty shell.

On 2 May 1884, his appeals exhausted, William McHugh was hanged, according to the Commercial Tribune:

“ . . . in full view of the Court-house ruins, from which, Phoenix-like, Justice re-asserted her sway.”

The hanging was a botched job. The drop failed to break McHugh’s neck and he hung, at the end of his rope, for 16 minutes while Dr. Samuel W. Craig, his ear against the condemned man’s chest, listened to the ultimately fading heartbeat.

The Cincinnati Gazette [29 July 1881] reported a jailhouse interview with McHugh in which the reporter asked what happened to Sophia McHugh’s wedding ring, among the benefits of the Marriage Picnic.

“’She sold it,’ said McHugh, looking down at the floor of his cell.

“’How much did she get for it?’ continued the reporter.

“’Fifty cents,’ said McHugh. ‘It was only worth about sixty-eight cents, though, when it was new. It was only a snide affair, not even good plate.’”

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A Month of Islam in America: June 2019

Another month, and another step forward for sharia in America as more censorship was exposed. A whistleblower leak confirmed that @Pinterest protects Muslims and censors any reference to “creeping sharia,” and many other non-liberal topics.

Click any link below for more details and link to original source.

Jihad in America in June

Brooklyn: Muslim Immigrant Sentenced to 20 Years for Attempting to Join Islamic State (ISIS) Mohamed Rafik Naji was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Frederic Block for attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization.  Naji pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2018.

Brooklyn: Muslim Woman Who Helped ISIS Gets 4 Years, But Will Be Out in 18 Months

With credit for time served, Sinmyah Amera Caesar will end up only serving about 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges accusing her of using social media to help recruit IS fighters under the nom de guerre “Umm Nutella.” She had also admitted violating a cooperation agreement with the government a — betrayal that infuriated prosecutors.

Illinois: Bosnian Muslim refugee and mother of 4  jailed for sending money, supplies to ISIS

Mediha Medy Salkicevic, a/k/a Medy Ummuluna, a/k/a Bosna Mexico, 39, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Salkicevic, aka Medy Ummuluna and Bosna Mexico, espoused the ISIS philosophy that infidels should be killed and once said that unbelievers should be buried alive.

At the time of her arrest, she was working for an air cargo company at Chicago O'Hare Airport...

Illinois: Two Muslim converts convicted of aiding Islamic State (ISIS)

Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti proudly waved a terrorist flag during a photo at a Lake Michigan park in Zion, had plotted to attack the Navy’s main U.S. training center near North Chicago and once had their eyes on planting an ISIS flag atop the White House.

Now Jones and Schimenti, both 37, have been found guilty of providing material support to ISIS.

Indiana: Yemeni Muslim who tried to join Islamic State terrorists gets 8 years in prison

U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker handed down the 100-month sentence Friday afternoon in the case against 21-year-old Akram Musleh, U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler announced.

He admitted in the plea agreement that from about April 2016 through June 21, 2016, he offered himself to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as IS, knowing it was a “designated foreign terrorist organization.”

Pittsburgh: Syrian Muslim Refugee Arrested for Planning Jihad Attack on Christian Church

Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was arrested today based on a federal complaint charging him with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction in relation to his plan to attack a church in Pittsburgh.

“Court documents show Mustafa Alowemer planned to attack a church in the name of ISIS, which could have killed or injured many people...”

Ohio: Jordanian Muslim Immigrant Sentenced to 15 Years for Trying to Join Islamic State (ISIS)

A Dayton, Ohio man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison and 25 years of supervised release for attempting, and conspiring, to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). 

Laith Waleed Alebbini, 28, was convicted following a bench trial in November and December 2018 before U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice.

Alebbini attempted, and conspired, to provide material support and resources to ISIS in the form of personnel, namely himself.

Alebbini, a citizen of Jordan and a U.S. legal permanent resident, was arrested by the FBI on April 26, 2017, at the Cincinnati/Kentucky International Airport, as he approached the TSA security checkpoint.

South Carolina: Muslim - twice convicted for attempts to join ISIS and kill Americans - gets 20-year prison sentence

A federal judge has sentenced a South Carolina man who tried to join ISIS to 20 years in prison.

Zakaryia Abdin, 20, pleaded guilty in September 2018. The Ladson man was arrested in March 2017.

New York: Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant arrested in Times Square terror plot

Ashiqul Alam was arrested Thursday after arranging through an undercover agent to buy a pair of semiautomatic pistols with obliterated serial numbers, prosecutors said. Police Commissioner James O’Neill said that development was “a clear indicator of (Alam’s) intent to move his plot forward.”

The defendant, a legal resident born in Bangladesh, moved to the U.S. as a child about 12 years ago...

He talked about wanting to “shoot down” gays, referring to them with a slur; using a “rocket launcher, like a huge one,” to cause havoc at the World Trade Center; and obtaining an enhanced driver’s license so he could walk onto a military base and “blow it up,” the documents said.

Illinois: Muslim Arrested for Threatening to Bomb Aurora Casino for Allah

A recently released affidavit and search warrant claimed that 30-year-old Musatdin M. Muadinov,  while detained by police on Feb. 12, vowed to “pray to Allah” to “destroy the casino.” He further demanded to meet with President Donald Trump, saying that if his demands were not met, “we would all meet Allah,” according to the affidavit obtained by the Daily Herald.

Muadinov — who was dressed in what police described as “Muslim attire” when arrested — waived his right to remain silent.

More Jihad in America in June

Florida: Suspect sent bomb threats to judges ‘for cause of Islamic State’

Nebraska: Heavily armed Marine arrested trying to enter Air Force Base

Arizona: Muslim shared terror propaganda before attacking police officer

Brooklyn: Muslim in Jail for ISIS Support Pleads Guilty to Slashing Correctional Officer

South Carolina: Man who pledged allegiance to ISIS hid explosive device in teddy bear

Arizona: Witness in probe of 2015 Islamic jihad attack on free speech event convicted of lying to FBI

Libyan National Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges in 2012 Attack on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi

Iraqi Muslim who orchestrated jihad attack that killed 5 U.S. troops gets 26 years prison, then release to Canada

Immigration Jihad in America

Minnesota’s first Somali Muslim cop gets 12 years for murdering Australian woman

Minnesota: St. Paul’s first Somali Muslim city council member says criticizing his homophobic comments is… Islamophobic

New York: Brooklyn Mosque Blasts Islamic Call to Prayer to 20 Block Radius (VIDEO)

Somalis have Changed Minneapolis

New York: Thousands of Muslims take over two city blocks in Brooklyn to pray in the streets

Four Muslim ISIS suspects arrested in Nicaragua, likely headed for US

Islamization of America

Pennsylvania: 167-year-old Catasauqua church will become Islamic mosque

Pennsylvania: Former Easton church is now a Sunni mosque

Pennsylvania: Former daycare in residential Salisbury to become Muslim “community center”

Virginia: Residential home in Annandale to become a Muslim funeral home

Education Jihad in America

New Jersey Public School District to Students: “May Allah Continue to Shower You Love and Wisdom”

Maryland school fails Christian student for refusing Islamic prayer

New York: Cornell Univ. Muslim Students Demand More “Prayer Rooms”

Stanford administrators say advertising for conservative event threatens Muslim students

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association: What Americans Need to Know

DOE Investigating Elite Colleges For Hiding Saudi, Qatari Cash from Regulators

Islamic Slavery & Sexual Jihad in America

Virginia: Three Muslim family members arrested for conspiracy, forced labor, and document servitude 

Detroit Imam: Wife-Beating Serves to Remind Her That She Misbehaved (VIDEO)

Dhimmitude in Elected Office

Trump Admin Sues Greyhound for Banning Muslim Driver from Wearing Full Length Islamic Robe 

Democrat majority passes defense authorization bill that funds transfer of remaining Gitmo jihadis to U.S.

Minnesota: City of Bloomington allows terror mosque to flout local laws (VIDEO)

Minnesota city council votes 5-0 to ditch Pledge of Allegiance (to avoid offending Muslims)

Diversity is our Strength Alert

Minnesota’s first Somali Muslim cop gets 12 years for murdering Australian woman

Minnesota: St. Paul’s first Somali Muslim city council member says criticizing his homophobic comments is… Islamophobic

Boston Police Dept’s First Muslim Captain Put On Administrative Leave Amid ‘Anti-Corruption’ Investigation

Minnesota: First Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar fined by state for unlawful use of campaign funds

Minnesota Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband

Fraud for Jihad

Connecticut: Muslim Grocery Store Worker Pleads Guilty in $3.2M Federal Food Stamp Fraud

Massachusetts: Muslim Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud Conspiracy

That’s just what we had time to compile for just the month of June.

Far too many steps forward for the sharia, and only a few pushbacks, but worth noting:

New Jersey: School District Scraps Posters Calling upon “Allah” to “Shower” Students with Blessings After Threat of Lawsuit 

Rather Than Go to Trial, Terror-linked CAIR Settles with the Victims They Defrauded 

Tunisian Muslim who swore allegiance to ISIS removed from U.S.

New York: Albany mosque imam convicted of terrorism is deported back to Iraq It’s almost midnight and Americans are losing their first amendment rights to sharia supremacists and the big technology, media and politicians who support them.

Please share this report before it’s too late.

[yobaba30]

CLEVELAND -- Of all the regions in all the states in all the country, Jim Jordan got dragged into ours. There was no good reason to punish Greater Cleveland by making the person who’s now the second most contemptible human being in the entire U.S. government part of the region’s delegation to Congress. Worse yet, the betrayal was bipartisan.

When Ohio’s political and legislative leaders were drawing new congressional boundaries prior to the 2012 election, Democrats wanted a district that would protect U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge. Republicans wanted districts that would elect the maximum number of GOP congressmen. And some people from both parties wanted a district that would likely lead to the defeat of longtime Cleveland Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

They all got what they wanted.

But to make it work required drawing a hideously gerrymandered district for the southwest Ohio congressman, one that meanders some 200 miles from near Dayton north into Lorain County near Cleveland.

And now it’s fitting that Republicans have given this seven-term sycophant a starring role in the televised House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump. The assignment comes as Jordan is being credibly accused by some of knowingly turning a blind eye to sexual abuse by a team doctor when Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University from 1987 to 1994.

At least five people – four of them former wrestlers and one of them a longtime friend – have said Jordan had to have known former OSU team doctor Richard Strauss was on a sexual rampage that would include -- according to OSU -- 1,429 sexual assaults and 47 rapes of student patients during Strauss’ time at the school (1978 to 1998) prior to his suicide in 2005.

That makes Jordan an ideal candidate to lead the defense of a malignant president who has bragged about physically abusing women and who has been accused by two dozen women of sexual assault or misconduct.

Jordan was appointed to the Intelligence Committee the same day, Nov. 8, that NBC reported on a lawsuit filed early this month in which a former wrestling referee alleges Strauss masturbated in front of him in the shower following an OSU wrestling match in 1994.

When the referee told Jordan what happened, he alleges that Jordan blew him off with, “Yeah, that’s Strauss.”

As the allegations pile up, Jordan’s denials remain unchanged. He dismissed the latest one as “ridiculous.”

People have every right to believe Jordan’s angry dismissals. Common sense suggests they’d probably be better off believing five men who have no reason to lie.

When Jordan slithers out from under his rock each morning, dons a shirt and tie - sans the jacket, lest he be mistaken for Joe McCarthy - his life’s work is to besmirch everything America stands for in service of Donald Trump.

If it takes undermining yet another principle of democracy by condoning attacks on men and women who have devoted their lives in honorable service to this country, Jordan is always ready and willing.

If it takes changing the Trump defense strategy on an almost daily basis because facts keep getting in the way, Jordan is the ideal bootlicker. Trump’s support is all that seems to matter to the man former House Speaker John Boehner regularly referred to as "a legislative terrorist” – along with a whole bunch of other descriptions unfit for print.

Why would Jordan so readily ruin what little was left of his reputation? One theory holds he hopes to inherit Trump’s base for a presidential run of his own in 2024. The swamp will be a crowded place in four years, overrun with loathsome folks angling to continue the dastardly business of shredding the Constitution.

Michael Gerson’s credentials to analyze Jordan are impeccable. He is an evangelical Christian, lifelong Republican and onetime chief speechwriter to former President George W. Bush.

In his Washington Post column of Nov. 14, Gerson showed his keen understanding of Jordan, describing him as “the Truly Trumpian Man – guided by bigotry, seized by conspiracy theories, dismissive of facts and truth, indifferent to ethics, contemptuous of institutional norms and ruthlessly dedicated to the success of a demagogue.”

Gerson applied the identical description to Stephen Miller, the White House resident white supremacist.

Everything about Jordan reeks of a man willing to cast aside common decency and fairness in service of a corrupt and cruel president.

He may be the most unfit man to ever represent part of Greater Cleveland in Congress.

Brent Larkin was The Plain Dealer’s editorial director from 1991 until his retirement in 2009.

[feelingbluepolitics]

Part Three of a glance through Midwestern politics, the epicenter of many Blue voters' contortions over "electibility" given our very large field of candidates, and our grim need to eject trump.

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,  Kansas,  Michigan, Minnesota,  Missouri,  Nebraska, North Dakota,  Ohio,  South Dakota, and Wisconsin

Picking up here with:

Ohio. Buh-bye, Ohio. The Buckeye state is a black eyed state, beaten into a stranglehold red miasma.

Forced motherhood has been much in the news during May, but Ohio was already there by November of 2018.

The 2018 Midterm Blue Wave crashed and died in Ohio. Only Sherrod Brown hung in there as the only state-wide elected Democrat in the state.

Ohio harbors Gym Jordan, who is too disgusting and hateful to talk about.

The following article groups Texas in with "swing states like Ohio."

https://theweek.com/speedreads/826395/texas-now-2020-swing-state

At this point, any article discussing swing states has more credibility leaving Ohio off the swing state list.

The surprise blue spotlight in Ohio is Sherrod Brown deciding not to join the presidential hopefuls because he has more than enough to do right there at home and in the Senate.

"Even though he won’t be on the ballot, Brown could still be a major figure in the 2020 race. Ohio’s politics are tricky, and there are few in the Democratic Party who have so successfully navigated its intricacies. Only once since 1974 has Brown lost a race in Ohio. The failure of the blue firewall in Ohio in 2016 was a warning sign more broadly."

When it was a perennial swing state, Ohio was the infallible "bellwether" state, but now that it's rammed full into Republiconism, it's predictive powers are castrated.

Can we go now?...No?...Because somewhere along the way in Part One or Part Two, I said that Democrats shouldn't cede any state? (Except for Fracking North Dakota.)

Nan Whaley does not believe Ohio is lost to Democrats, and she's Dayton's progressive mayor.

"Those who see 2018 as a blood bath for Ohio Democrats are forgetting that Senator Sherrod Brown won by 6.4 percentage points. This was a larger margin of victory than he had in 2012 — when he shared the top of the ticket with President Barack Obama, who also carried the state.

..."In statehouse races, Democrats nearly matched Republicans in total votes statewide, but they saw limited gains because of Republican gerrymandering. Our current legislative maps border on the absurd — despite winning just over 50 percent of the vote, Republicans will control more than three-fifths of the state legislative seats. Thankfully, voters in May enacted redistricting reforms that will make our next maps much fairer, allowing Democrats to compete on a more level playing field beginning in 2022.

..."While Republicans will control the governor’s mansion for another four years, Democrats continue to dominate in Ohio’s largest cities and counties. In places where Republicans can’t gerrymander the lines — including the 12 largest cities — local Democrats have been pursuing bold, progressive policies that strengthen communities."

So the final call for Ohio is actually, get in there and work very hard.

South Dakota. Reliably Republicon since 1968. (It's like they're twins, or something; see North.)

But. South Dakota voters are mad. They are mad because SD ranks as the "4th most corrupt state."

They are mad because "[i]n 2016 South Dakotans made history as the first state in America to pass a statewide Anti-Corruption Act. This landmark Act closed lobbying loopholes, enhanced political transparency, and created an independent ethics commission. A clear majority approved the measure." Their Republicon state legislature actually declared an "emergency" to give itself the power to kill it, because they decided the voters didn't understand what they were trying to do.

If it keeps going, voters will shoot to make it a constitutional amendment, and therefore Republicon "lawmaker" proof. An additional option is to elect Democrats to listen to them, with the bonus of teaching a lesson.

Democrats need to be running on anti-corruption at every level anyway.

Billie Sutton ran an unusually competitive race to get a Democrat (technically) into the governor's mansion. Although he ultimately lost to Kristi Noem, Sutton scared both SD and D.C. Republicons, which is remarkable in itself.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/politics/sutton-noem-south-dakota/index.html

Recently, Noem supported an outrageous anti-protest, pro- Keystone XL pipeline bill, and now isn't allowed to step onto tribal lands.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/441921-american-indian-tribe-bans-gop-governor-from-reservation-over-her

Even though trump won over Hillary here almost by double, voters are really mad at corrupt, power-grabbing Republicons in South Dakota, and that could open some state elections.

[theliberaltony]

via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup.

Poll of the week

After an attack on a Saudi oil facility last Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo swiftly pointed the finger at Iran, and on Sunday Trump tweeted that the U.S. was “locked and loaded.” Although administration officials denied that Trump’s tweet referred to an impending U.S. military strike against Iran, the rhetoric from the White House has nevertheless made the possibility of an armed conflict between the U.S. and Iran — which about half of Americans expect “within the next few years,” according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in May — seem more likely than before.

And a SurveyMonkey poll conducted earlier this week found that only 13 percent of Americans support a U.S. military response to the attack on Saudi oil facilities. The poll, which didn’t mention Iran specifically, also found that about half of Americans felt the U.S. should either remove itself entirely from the situation or limit its response to condemning the attack and possibly sanctioning the perpetrators.

But while the SurveyMonkey poll suggests there’s little public appetite for U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s response to the attack, a survey conducted in June found that the use of military force in Iran may be one military intervention that the U.S. public could get behind, especially if Americans perceive Iran’s nuclear capabilities as a threat. In that survey, which was released earlier this month by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 70 percent of respondents, including 82 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of Democrats, supported using U.S. troops to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. And as you can see in the chart below, there’s a lot more support for sending troops to Iran than to other parts of the world, including Iraq, Syria and China.

I spoke with Dina Smeltz, the lead author of the survey and a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, about why Amercians seem more willing to commit U.S. troops to stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons than to other causes. “If Americans perceive a threat to our own country or to an ally, they are willing to support the use of force,” Smeltz said. “But if they see it as an internal matter abroad [or] not a direct threat to the United States, they are more reluctant.”

And it’s entirely possible that Americans perceive the attack on Saudi oil facilities as an issue that doesn’t directly endanger the U.S., but believe that Iran’s nuclear capabilities are a threat. Iran has denied that it was behind the attack, but that’s not the only recent sign of aggression. Iran has been taking steps to upgrade its nuclear infrastructure, publicly violating the 2015 nuclear deal that the U.S. helped negotiate and then abandoned in 2018, and Americans may perceive Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capabilities as a threat. Additionally, Smeltz told me that if the Trump administration portrays the Saudi attack as a direct threat to the United States, it could help shore up support for a military approach.

But while the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs poll might seem to indicate that an overwhelming majority of Americans are ready to go to war over Iran’s nuclear capabilities, it did find that support dropped when specific types of military interventions were proposed: In response to a question that asked respondents what strategies they’d favor if Iran withdrew from the nuclear deal altogether, 51 percent said they’d support conducting cyberattacks against Iran’s computer systems, 48 percent said they’d support airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and 40 percent said they’d support sending troops to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities — all significantly lower than the 70 percent that said they supported sending U.S. troops to Iran to stop them from obtaining nuclear weapons.

And there’s another reason to think that this poll may have overstated overall support for military intervention in Iran: The Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs asked about Iran in the context of other military conflicts, whereas a July poll from Fox News asked about military intervention only in Iran. The Fox News poll found that far fewer Americans — 53 percent — favored military action to stop the development of nuclear weapons. When asked about the discrepancy, Smeltz said the true answer is “probably something in between the two.” She added, however, that regardless of whether the real number is closer to 40, 50 or 70 percent, messaging from the White House or the media characterizing Iran as a threat could drive up support for military intervention, especially if “a big chunk of the population is already willing to support the use of force.”

At this stage at least, Americans still prefer a non-military approach to Iran: According to the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs poll, 81 percent of Americans said they either “somewhat” or “strongly” support continuing diplomatic efforts to get Iran to stop enriching uranium if the country withdraws from the nuclear deal, and 78 percent said they somewhat or strongly support tighter economic sanctions. A Gallup poll conducted in July also found that a majority of Americans preferred that the U.S. rely on economic and diplomatic efforts rather than military action — although 42 percent told Gallup that the U.S. should take military action if diplomatic and economic measures fail.

For now, the administration seems to have decided against immediate military action, and on Wednesday, Trump announced tighter economic sanctions on Iran in response to the attack. But Trump has not entirely ruled out using military force, and if he were to exercise a military option against Iran, the polling we have so far seems to indicate that it may not be very popular — but that could change if the administration can convince the public that Iran’s actions are a threat to the United States.

Other polling bites:

57 percent of Americans view segregation in schools as a “very” or “moderately serious” problem, according to a Gallup poll released this week. Of the four policy proposals Gallup offered as methods of reducing school segregation, the most popular option was establishing more regional magnet schools (79 percent of respondents said they were in favor). The least popular option, with 43 percent in favor, was requiring districts to bus students to neighboring schools to increase schools’ racial diversity, a policy that became a flash point in the first Democratic debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden.

YouGov and FairVote teamed up to simulate the Democratic primary under a ranked-choice voting system. The system asked voters to rank the candidates by preference (with the ability to rank 10 of 20 candidates or just the five candidates with the highest polling averages). The candidate with the fewest votes was then eliminated and his or her votes redistributed to each voter’s next choice. This process is repeated until one winner remained. In the first-round tally of the five-candidate version of this poll, former Vice President Joe Biden led Sen. Elizabeth Warren 33 percent to 29 percent, but after eliminating and redistributing according to ranked choice, Warren led Biden 53 percent to 47 percent. Unfortunately for the Warren campaign, that’s not how the Democratic primary works.

Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August, the National Rifle Association’s popularity has taken a hit: Less than 50 percent of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the organization, according to a Gallup poll. This is only the second time in the last 30 years that the NRA has been this unpopular. However, much of its current unpopularity is due to Democrats and independents turning against the organization, not a shift among Republicans, who largely hold positive views of the organization (87 percent had a favorable opinion).

In the week following the third Democratic debate, Warren seems to be continuing her steady rise in the polls, though Biden maintains the lead. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday showed Warren increased support from 19 percent in July to 25 percent. That’s in line with other initial post-debate polls as well, including the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll and Morning Consult poll, which both found modest gains for Warren since the debate.

Afghanistan’s national elections will take place on Sept. 28, five months after their original April date. According to a July 2018 Gallup poll, only 19 percent of Afghans are confident in the honesty of their elections, the lowest among the countries that Gallup polled in South Asia. In that same poll, 91 percent of respondents said corruption is widespread in the Afghan government.

According to a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll, roughly 7 in 10 teenagers said the effects of climate change will cause “a moderate or great deal of harm” to people in their generation, which is slightly higher than the percentage of those 30 or older who said the same. What’s more, 24 percent of teenagers have engaged in climate change activism, either attending a climate change rally, contacting a public official or participating in a school walkout to raise climate change awareness, which The Washington Post described as “a remarkable level of activism for a group that has not yet reached voting age.”

The long-anticipated storming of Area 51 — a Facebook event in which 2.1 million users indicated they planned to raid a highly classified military base looking for aliens — is today. A Gallup poll from earlier this month reveals that a third of U.S. adults believe that prior UFO sightings have actually been alien spaceships. Another 16 percent say they have seen something they thought was a UFO. To boot, 68 percent of Americans believe the government is withholding information about UFOs — so I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the raid finds.

Trump approval

According to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker, 42.1 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 53.7 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -11.6 points). At this time last week, 41.6 percent approved and 53.7 percent disapproved (for a net approval rating of -12.1 points). One month ago, Trump had an approval rating of 42.2 percent and a disapproval rating of 53.7 percent, for a net approval rating of -11.5 points.

Generic ballot

In our average of polls of the generic congressional ballot, Democrats currently lead by 6.8 percentage points (46.8 percent to 40.0 percent). A week ago, Democrats led Republicans by 6.6 points (46.4 percent to 39.8 percent). At this time last month, voters preferred Democrats by 6.3 points (46.2 percent to 39.9 percent).

Check out all the polls we’ve been collecting ahead of the 2020 elections.

[political-fluffle]

Timothy Ginter, who said he had ‘no knowledge’ of Project Blitz, was listed as co-chair of state branch of group behind the campaign

An Ohio legislator who said he had “no knowledge” of a rightwing Christian bill mill called Project Blitz is, in fact, the co-chair of the state branch of an organization behind the campaign.

The Ohio state representative Timothy Ginter sponsored a bill called the Student Religious Liberties Act. Opponents argued the bill would provide students with a religious exemption to facts, and would frighten teachers and school administrators into including religion in school functions.

The Guardian revealed the bill was nearly identical to one promoted by Project Blitz, a state legislative project guided by three Christian right organizations, including the Congressional Prayer Caucus (CPC), WallBuilders and the ProFamily Legislators Conference. Project Blitz aims to promote and help pass conservative legislation across the US to fulfil its rightwing Chrisitan agenda. (...)

However, a screenshot shows Ginter was listed as the co-chair of the Ohio Prayer Caucus, the state chapter of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, as recently as January 2019. Ginter’s former chief of staff, Chris Albanese, is currently listed as the state director of the state chapter of CPC, Ohio Prayer Caucus. (...)

The Congressional Prayer Caucus also circulated an Ohio Prayer Proclamation. Among its signers are Ginter; the former representative Bill Hayes, who originally sponsored the bill; and the former House speaker Cliff Rosenberger. Rosenberger resigned in 2018 after a search warrant and subpoena revealed the FBI was investigating Rosenberger for corruption involving three payday lending representatives, according to the Dayton Daily News. (…)

An undercover Dominionist liar!

[937lane-blog]

Criminal

[stillwithhernothim]

America is not divided. America is not in a steady decline. America has not forgotten her promise. America is forgetting her true power and letting one narcissistic, fragile, wannabe king, and a handful of old white privileged corrupt senators take our power and silence us. Read that again. America is LETTING the lowest common denominator divide us, minimize us and take our power. America must reclaim her time! #resist #everyDEMdayinspiration #registertovote #vote #voteblue #votedemocrat (at Dayton, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx6XpJSgOa3/?igshid=1c9mu87ayy4pa

[onecrazysquirrel]

Good morning creation of the Most High God holy manifestation of divine imagination incarnated with the sole intent of pleasing him by serving his will ultimately fulfilling his plan and achieving his desire. The purpose for those of us who seek his face desiring to follow his path and submit to his will is to glorify him by praising him worshipping him honoring him and blessing him with our lives. He is beyond our grasp outside of our reach, he is separated from us by his holiness and glory, he is pure goodness and truth sanctified righteousness and divinity free from sin lacking failings without weakness the ultimate source of power and the highest authority to exist ever. We are vile and corrupt full of sin with evil hearts cast from the presence of the Holy God because of our wickedness and our rebellious spirits abandoned to walk in darkness blindly stumbling and falling farther from his holy presence denied his glory and righteousness destined to spend eternity rejected and despised alone. There is hope though a path to him and salvation from the life of rejection and eternal damnation and only one path and that path is by recognizing Jesus Christ as his only begotten son claim Jesus as your savior and growing in his spirit by surrendering to his authority and following his lead. There is much more to the story that would take me endless hours to share instead I would urge you to study the bible to become better acquainted with the truth in detail and you will gain wisdom as you increase your understanding by absorbing the knowledge you will find contained in its pages. May this Holy God bless you leading you ever closer to heaven saving you from eternal agony and torturous pain according to his merciful grace if it is in his will. It is another blessed and gloriously righteous day in Christ Jesus brothers and sisters I pray that you are well and flourishing through the Holy Spirit according to God's will by the power and authority of Christ Jesus in his name I ask. Amen

My friend's struggle continues as the pneumonia and Covid have refused to release her she improves and declines rocking between we are submitting all things to God surrendering to his will acting on the faith that he has already healed and restored her praising and thanking him accordingly.

I have been found eligible to receive assistance through the Stay Put program this is a wonderful blessing keeping me from having to move at least for a short while easing much tension for me. Thank God and Jesus.

I'm having one of those days so please forgive me if this update goes astray or begins to lack sense I'm doing my best to keep it together.

Today is Friday January. 14, 2022 the current time is 12:57PM in Dayton Ohio with a temperature of 36° feels like 37° high of 37° low of 21° cloudy until tonight. If you're on the street be careful tonight that's a dangerous temperature range seek shelter may God mercifully guide you to safe haven keeping you through the night.

I am drowning under these gas and light bills and strangled by the obligations to settle these loans. Still I am adamant in the decision to end this campaign at the set goal. I am asking God to deliver $400 to me in order to relieve some of this debt lightening burden that it's causing I trust and believe that he will provide. Please consider assisting in this endeavor and thank you for at least thinking about me.

Beloved be well and act kindly exercising compassion and empathy with your neighbors throughout the day and the days that follow. God's favor rest upon you as you receive his blessings in full...