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Saturday Open Thread – August 22nd

tomb of the unknown - memorial dayOur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Reuters IPSOS Poll – Trump Widens His Lead…

Governor Rick Perry and Governor Jim Gilmore have begun their surge...
(Article Via NewsMax) Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party’s U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.

( REUTERS IPSOS POLL )
( REUTERS IPSOS POLL )

Republican voters show no signs they are growing weary of the brash real estate mogul, who has dominated political headlines and the 17-strong Republican presidential field with his tough talk about immigration and insults directed at his political rivals. The candidates are vying to be nominated to represent their party in the November 2016 general election. (more…)

Donald Trump Rally In Alabama – Open Discussion Thread W/LiveStream Link…

The pep rally with GOP Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. EDT which is 7 p.m. CDT local time. As CNN reports, the rally was originally set to take place at the 4,000 seat Civil Center, but was moved to the 43,000 seat Ladd-Peebles Stadium to encompass the expected high attendance. (link)

Live Stream Link HERE

Another possible link HERE
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CMP Releases Video #8 – Stem Express Purchasing and Selling "Fully Intact" Babies….

….While munching salad, and discussing the labeling on boxed shipments of “intact babies”, because they don’t want the opener to be “surprised”….
(Via Life News) […]  Today, a judge lifted the order and Center for Medical Progress immediately released a new video.


In the video, Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress, is shown in a lunch meeting with undercover operatives posing as representatives of a biotech firm. Dyer is laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. She laughs about how shippers of the aborted babies would give a warning to lab workers to expect such a baby.
“Oh yeah, if you have intact cases — which we’ve done a lot — we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety,” she says.
“Tell the lab its coming,” she laughs about the intact unborn babies. “They don’t want to open the box and go ‘Oh my God,’” Dyer adds (more)

Bumper Sticker Of The Day…


From cartoonist A.F. Branco at ComicallyIncorrect.com.

Judge Lifts Restraining Order – CMP May Now Release More Planned Parenthood Videos Exposing Stem Express…

Here’s the Update: […]  The ruling is now official. The court noted that even if Stem Express prevails on their Penal Code 632 cause of action, “there is nothing in [that code section that] prevents the publication of information unlawfully procured through unlawful privacy violations.”
lambo 1Judge O’Donnell reversed the previous court order that prohibited the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) from releasing any video from a conversation with Catherine Dyer and other Stem Express employees that took place on May 22, 2015.
Judge O’Donnell emphasized the importance of Daleiden and the CMP’s Constitutional rights in this case stating that “the proposed injunction would be a prior restraint on Defendant’s right to free speech under the First Amendment.”  This ruling paves the way for Daleiden and the CMP to publicize the conversation with Dyer and to continue to expose the ugly truth of fetal organ harvesting. (more…)

"Tripwire Alert" – Splitter Super-PACs Plan Spending Spree To Counter Trump's Continuing Surge…

We have outlined the GOPe road map here, which includes the splitter strategy.  Super-PACs are critical to the success of the GOPe plans – explained HERE. Now today:

chris-christieWASHINGTON DC –  It’s now or never for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. That appears to be the view of his wealthy super-PAC backers, who are spending fast and hard to keep Christie in contention for the Republican presidential nomination.
The pro-Christie super-PAC, America Leads, has already spent at least $2.1 million in a bid to gin up enthusiasm for the governor, who is lagging in the early polls of Republican primary voters.
Christie’s big-money donors are not alone. The trend of early and heavy super-PAC spending applies to other GOP candidates whose supporters are trying to get them on the debate stage and stop them from being weeded out of the race early. (more…)

UPDATES: Two "Off Duty" U.S. Marines Stop Terrorist Shooting on Train In France – One Hero Marine Shot, One Hero Stabbed – One In Critical Condition…

Details sketchy – happened around noon U.S. EST.  Gunman walked into train bathroom to load AK-47. Marine noted sketchy suspect and alerted his two buds.  The two or three U.S. servicemen were on high alert when terrorist came out of bathroom and began shooting.  They took him down….

update-1UPDATE 4:00pm EST another report and pictures begin to surface.  Check out the number of magazines on the ground.  Terrorist was loaded for mass casualty event. update-1  Update 4:45pm EST one marine shot, one stabbed as they took down the terrorist. One of our boys in critical condition.

French judicial police stand on the train platform near gun cartridges and a backpack in Arras,
French judicial police stand on the train platform near gun cartridges and a backpack in Arras,

update-1UPDATE 4:45pm EST:  A US Marine is in critical condition after tackling a Kalashnikov-wielding gunman on a train between Amsterdam and Paris, according to French media reports.

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The serviceman, who has not been named, was one of two Americans – possibly embassy guards – who tackled the 26-year-old Moroccan national to the ground after hearing him load up a gun in the toilet.

In the scuffle, one of the Marines was shot and another stabbed. France Info reports one is in a critical condition.  (more…)

Splodey Head Alert – Poll: 57% of Republicans Think Donald Trump Will Be Nominee…

The data for the Rasmussen Poll is HERE:

[…]   Rasmussen Reports intends to track Trump’s race for the White House in a weekly Friday feature we’re calling Trump Change.
Our latest national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely Republican Voters now think Trump is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee next year, with 25% who say it’s Very Likely. That compares to 27% who felt a Trump nomination was likely two months ago when he formally announced his presidential bid, a finding that included just nine percent (9%) who said it was Very Likely.  (poll data)

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(Via New York Post) Donald Trump is overcoming the perception that he won’t end up as the Republican presidential nominee, according to a poll issued Friday. (more…)

Controversy Erupts After Initial Autopsy Shows St. Louis Man Shot In Back By Police….

The shooting happened on Wednesday, and Saint Louis was yet again the scene of retaliatory violence by the community toward police.  On cue today CNN is stoking the issue, with their pontifications about an initial autopsy showing the bullet that killed Ball-Bey traveled from back to front, right to left.
Despite the CNN pitch, this does not seem to indicate much of anything.  If you were standing 20 feet away from someone and they shot toward you, your natural untrained instinct would be to you to turn your shoulder and slightly duck.  If you were simultaneously holding a firearm in your right hand, this type of movement would account for an entry wound to your upper right shoulder (back) traveling toward your left.
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Ironically Mansur Ball-Bey did a video (screen grab above) depicting thug life and featuring the exact type of weapon used shortly before his death.  His ‘thug life’ social media is HERE
ST. LOUIS • An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said.
Chief Sam Dotson said the wound’s location neither proves nor disproves the contention of officers at the scene that Ball-Bey refused to drop a gun and pointed it at them before being shot Wednesday. (more…)