Rep. Charlie Rangel has managed to secure the Democratic nomination in a primary challenge held this evening in NY.  However, Rangel’s multiple challengers point to an ever increasingly fractured Democratic party which can no longer count on a cohesive voting block.
“And from our Dan Beekman:
A second ex-Bronx borough president, Adolfo Carrion, just walked through the door in time for some bad news. The room fell quiet as Charlie Rangel took the stage to declare victory. Adriano Espaillat is still missing in action.
“The time for change was clearly now. Maybe this was low voter turnout,” Carrion said. “But if a challenger like Espaillat can pull 30-40% against Charlie Rangel, that speaks volumes.””
https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2012/06/live-coverage-new-yorks-federal-primaries
**Update 11:05 pm – With 50% of precincts reporting, Charlie Rangel surges ahead of his main opponent Andriano Espaillet.
Polls closed at 9 pm tonight.  Democratic Rep Charlie Rangel is facing four challengers in the 13th district Democratic primary.  Rep Rangel has represented the area since 1970.  If Rangel is successful in securing the Democratic nomination, it will be his 22nd run for re-election.
Redistricting this year has meant significant changes to Rangel’s previously safe district, adding in a large Latino/Hispanic voting population, diluting the African-American vote in the new district.
Current early precinct returns show Rangel securing only 30% of the votes.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/harlem-congressman-charlie-rangel-a-fight-political-life-tuesday-democratic-primary-article-1.1102201
https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/politics/rangel-primary/index.html
Developing.

A friendly reminder of Civics 101 for the Democrats who visit this site

The role of the Executive Branch is to “ENFORCE” existing laws.   ENFORCE THEM not determine which should be enforced and which should not based on political ideology.   Constitutionally, President Obama cannot just pick and choose which laws to carry out because he personally doesn’t like them. 
The fundamental aspects of Arizona’s SB1070 immigration bill were upheld in a Supreme Court Decision today, delivering another substantial blow to the White House and President Obama.
But what President Obama did in response to his defeat today is once again reflective of how petulent and childish this community organizer is.   How this man-child ever made it to hold the office of chief executive is beyond my comprehension.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday on her state’s tough immigration law, calling the court’s decision a “victory for the rule of law.” (more…)

There is more than a respectable chance that Debbie the hyphenated might also lose her next election.  We can only hope….
WASHINGTON – When Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida was tapped last year to lead the Democratic National Committee, it seemed like the latest ascension for a fast-rising star destined for even higher positions. Some stumbles and an apparent falling out of favor with the White House had changed that calculus. Now it looks like it could be changing again.

Talk is that Wasserman Schultz will not be asked to serve another term at the DNC, regardless of whether she helps President Obama win a second term. Yet the native New Yorker could use that to her advantage, as she reportedly now has her eye on a House leadership post — perhaps even the highest. (more…)

Can Botox penetrate the blood brain barrier?

Re-posted for recoverydotgod but perhaps many people will also benefit from revisiting.
RE-POST:  Perhaps this update is best contrasted against the concept of “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon“. The associations highlighted explain how Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s dad, was put into contact with Benjamin Crump, the proverbial head of the “scheme team”, and along the way the cast of characters is quite interesting.
As well as one seeking political office in Miami-Dade.

Mr. Trayvon Martin was not the only person creating a well, shall we say, “colorful“, on-line and in-real-life social style. Indeed, the new age social media platform(s), in all their unintended varieties, provide an odd connectivity to even the most embarrassingly public of profiles. Especially when running for political office 😉
Here is an odd story of association that stems from within this Reuters article: (more…)

Despite cobbling together a coalition consisting of just about every minority, this administration is clearly signaling its desperation with this latest trial balloon:  mandatory voting.  Dear Leader already knows you and I will crawl on hands and knees through broken glass to make it to the voting booths, but he’s obviously not so sure he can get his voters to show up.  Just how is he planning to enforce mandatory voting?  Will he make receiving welfare payments, or your food stamp allotment contingent on proof of voting?  I bet there’s another executive order coming down the pike.
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This is for real.  Obama wants you to tell all your wedding invitees to send their gift money to him rather than you!  You can even register your wedding on his campaign website, because after all…it really is all about him.  This is how socialism works.  All your gifts are belong to us.

(CBS News) — Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the “big fish.” But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called “gunwalking,” and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. (more…)

We have officially entered a parallel universe. This would be comical if two border agents were not dead because of the insufferable stupidity of the DOJ and now President Obama’s blind protectionism of his guy Eric Holder.
Charlie Rangel claims Obama is using executive privilege to “Protect the Constitution“.

Please accept this in the spirit of intent: Any person(s), regardless of party affiliation, who will attempt to convey a message that President Obama, is in some manner or form, protecting the constitution, by lying, is an idiot.

Not quite reflective of the *cough* Mid-West Kansas family values the Institutional Legacy Media were selling.    The photos were apparently taken at Frank Marshall Davis’s home in Honolulu. The photos reveal an intimate relationship between Obama’s mother and his childhood mentor.  Perhaps, just perhaps, her teenage years in Marxist Schools in Oregon will soon surface?   Ya, never know…..
(from the video) Racy photos of Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, have recently surfaced in vintage fetish and bondage magazines. The photos, taken at Frank Marshall Davis’ house in Honolulu, appeared in Bizarre Life, Exotique, Secret Pleasures, and Battling Babes. They help illustrate the intimate relationship between Dunham and Davis. “My father was from Kenya, he grew up herding goats,” Barack Obama told the cheering crowds. Did Obama build his political career upon a fairy tale? Was Obama misdirecting Americans away from a deeply disturbing family background and a Marxist political foundation?

Obama’s version of his early childhood is false — the family did not split up when the Kenyan Obama went to Harvard as he claimed. In fact, Ann Dunham, took “Barry” to Seattle a few weeks after his birth, in late August 1961, and began studies at the University of Washington, while the Kenyan remained in Hawaii. All evidence points to a “sham” marriage to cover up an illicit affair. Barack Obama began regular visits to Frank Marshall Davis’ house at the age of 10, and Obama refers to Frank Marshall Davis throughout his autobiography as his childhood “mentor.”