Blog Heap of Links for the day 14 October 2018

Leavenworth O'Brien is upset that Der Trumlenfuehrer referred to Robert E. Lee a great man:

The racism in the GOP runs deep. https://t.co/Iq2dLcQW5D

- Soledad O'Brien
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"I am very happy to take part in this unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee.

All over the United States we recognize him as a great leader of men, as a great general. But, also, all over the United States I believe that we recognize him as something much more important than that. We recognize Robert E. Lee as one of our greatest American Christians and one of our greatest American gentlemen."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
72 - Remarks at the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Statue, Dallas, Texas.
June 12, 1936

Nah... you dont want to do that

#SaturdayMorning

…“Hillary Clinton is the kiss of death and she represents the part of the Democratic Party that led to historic losses and that elected Donald Trump president,” one leading Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner.

“Democrats don’t want her to campaign for them because everywhere she goes she carries this stench of death and is the only political figure in America that is less popular than Donald Trump,”…

And it gets weirder on twitter: apparently they are also now suspending accounts that are posting info about the sketchy Kashoggi disappearance/suspected murder --- anyone who disputes Turkey's version of events.

I don't know enough about this to know who's propaganda and who's reporting the facts, but it sure looks sketchy that twitter is taking a very pro-Turkey approach to censorship. …

This is just....wow. Twitter apparently suspended Pastor Brunson's account --- yesterday. WTF? Didn't want him to thank DJT via twitter upon returning to US soil?

https://twitter.com/BrunsonPastor

Went to bed appalled over @donlemon despicable behavior laughing at @TaraSetmayer and @Bakari_Sellers awful remarks about Kanye West’s visit with @realDonaldTrump!! Woke up wondering why @CNN doesn’t take all three off the air? #SHAMEFUL #CNN https://t.co/MwGWIfh8so

— Herschel Walker (@HerschelWalker) October 11, 2018

…On this day last year a gun shop agreed to pay the city of Milwaukee and two police officers $6M in a civil suit because they sold a gun to someone who was buying it for an 18 year old yoot who could not legally buy it.…