Category: Shame

  • Steven Mnuchin Tries to Block Release of Heckling Video

    Instead of simply dealing with several students heckling him, he tries to block the release of the video.

    Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was taunted with hisses, heckles and profanity during a lecture and moderated discussion at U.C.L.A. this week. Protesters were carried out by armed police officers. A sixth grader in the audience questioned him about the fairness of passing permanent tax cuts for companies and expiring cuts for individuals. But the official video footage of the university’s Arnold C. Harberger Lecture, hosted by the Burkle Center for International Relations, is nowhere to be found. That is because Mr. Mnuchin took the unusual step of revoking his consent for it to be released given the contentiousness of the event. 1

  • Catholic Church Denies Joe Biden Communion

    One of the holiest sacraments of the Christian Church is meant for everyone when Christ declared “do this in remembrance of me.” It is a shame for anyone to judge any human being.

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    Communion for all Christians in Remembrance of Christ

    Holy Communion is not a tool for punishing political opponents. We have seen this despicable behavior before, used by right-wing clergy to attack John Kerry and Tim Kaine. This election, with the stakes so high, we need to nip the hijacking of faith in the bud. 2

    • FaithfulAmerica.org, October 29, 2019 – Joe Biden, a famously devout Catholic, was denied Communion in South Carolina on Sunday.
    • CNN, Eric Bradner, October 29, 2019 – Joe Biden was denied communion at Catholic church in South Carolina
    • MSN, October 30, 2019 – Report: Joe Biden Denied Communion At Catholic Church Due To Stance On Abortion

  • Christians Being Killed as Trump Continues US Pull Out

    Christians Slaughtered

    As of October 11, 2019, already Christians are being killed in the Turkey’s assault on on Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria. 3

    Trump warned Turkey that he would, “destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey” if they did anything he considered off limits. Apparently kill Christians does not quality and the blood appears to be on Trump’s hands. 4

    Many Evangelical Christians are appalled by the latest administration’s actions. Many are now changing their support of what appears to be a very corrupt administration.

    Front line military folks along with many veterans are ashamed that we have deserted the Kurds and handing Syria over to the Russians. The US, once the friend of the Kurds, have now turned its back on this once valuable “friend”.

    Europe will not probably enherit over 3.6 million refugees fleeing this war zone. 5

    SHAME on Trump and the GOP who blindly follows this corrupt administration.

  • Shame Upon America – Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R)

    Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it’s OK not to sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors

    The Orange Country Register, May 24, 2018, Jeff Collins –

    Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R)
    Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R) – Wikipedia

    U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their property to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.

    “Every homeowner should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone (if) they don’t agree with their lifestyle,” Rohrabacher told an Orange County Association of Realtors delegation at a May 16 meeting in Washington, D.C., according to Wayne Woodyard, a former Orange County Realtor president who was at the event.

    On Thursday, Rohrabacher confirmed the accuracy of the sentiment, and added that homeowners should have the right to “choose who they do business with.” [1]

    Read the complete article at The Orange Country Register.

    References:

    1. The Orange Country Register, May 24, 2018, Jeff Collins – Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it’s OK not to sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors (PDF)
    2. CNN, May 26, 2018, Clare Foran and Kate Sullivan – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher loses endorsement for saying it’s OK to not sell homes to gay people (PDF)

     

  • “45” Administration Staffers used Private Email Account

    Dysfunction in the White House

    Private EmailThere is another hypocrite in the White House.  Opponents of the “45” Administration are openly calling, “Lock Them Up”.

    To make matters worse, certain White House officials are claiming that a Private Email Account on Shared Hosting is more secure than a Private Email Server as Hilary Clinton used.

    Using the same logic as the White House used against Hilary Clinton, these emails need to be made public.

    The excuses now keep coming:

    “Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, said in a statement Sunday. “Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account. These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.” [1]

    Domains that might have been:

    • ?????@ijkfamily.com – Registered with GoDaddy.com [4]
    • ?????@kushnercompanies.com – Registered with GoDaddy.com and routed through a DNS company called DNS Made Easy which is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC which resolves querry traffic between several name servers.
    • ?????@ivankatrump.com

    The used of Private Email did not stop with Kushner, but also included the Chief of Staff and other high level officials.

    Folks that have used private email to conduct government business now includes:

    • Jared Kusher
    • Ivanka Trump [5] – Actual emails to SBA (PDF) [6]
    • Stephen K. Bannon
    • Reince Priebus
    • Gary D. Cohn
    • Stephen Miller

    References:

    1. Politico, September 24, 2017, Josh Dawsey – Kushner used private email to conduct White House business – The senior adviser set up the account after the election. Other West Wing officials have also used private email accounts for official business.
    2. The Hill, September 24, 2017, Julia Manchester – Kushner used private email for White House work: report
    3. The Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2017 – Trump’s Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Used Private Account for Some Official Emails – Democrats quickly drew comparisons to criticism of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server while secretary of state
    4. The New York Times, September 25, 2017, Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman – At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts
    5. Newsweek, September 25, 2017, Max Kutner and Nina Burleigh – Ivanka Trump Used A Personal Email Account for Government Work: Exclusive
    6. Mother Jones, September 25, 2017, Inae Oh – Here’s the Email Ivanka Trump Sent From Her Private Account Doing Government Work – Lock her up?