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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Hello America. Hello world.
From the headquarters of reachmorenow.com in Fort Worth, Texas, this is Ray Mossholder, and this is the news…….
Robin Williams as Patch Adams
One of the greatest comic entertainers of our time has committed suicide. Robin Williams, who kept us laughing on the outside was tragically miserable on the inside and when police found him Friday morning at his home in Tiburon, California, he had hung himself with his own belt. He was sixty-three.
No matter what movie Robin Williams was in a from “Mrs. Doubtfire” to “Hook” to “Good Morning, Vietnam,” “Dead Poet’s Society” “Patch Adams” “Popeye” or “Good Will Hunting,” moviegoers called it their favorite. Although nominated for an Academy award four times, he won his only Oscar for Best Supporting actor in “Good Will Hunting.” But he also won four Grammys and an Emmy.
Television fans as old as I am will forever remember Robin Williams as Mork on the “Mork and Mindy” television series. No one could have done that role more hysterically.
The world assumes that comedians are as happy as they make other people feel. But tragedy has marred many comedians lives. Williams was a cocaine user and alcoholic. He had been to rehab, but in the long run he remained in deep depression.
May of this year was a very bad month for Robin Williams. He began that month with his last two movies – “The Angriest Man in Brooklyn” and “Boulevard” floundering, and the television series for which he had very high hopes – “The Crazy Ones” – was canceled for lack of viewers. That hurt him the most.
Comedians get their adrenaline from crowds who love them and their humor. Serious actors get theirs from box office success. Williams felt that he was failing in both places and began to feel he just couldn’t try again. Heart surgery in 2009 got him in touch with his age and he hated the fact that he didn’t look like Mork anymore.
Then too, Robin Williams had lost many of his closest friends, among them Christopher Reeve, John Belushi and Andy Kaufman. He not only grieved that their deaths at such young ages were totally unfair, but as each of them died, he felt more and more alone.
It’s often said that circus clowns wear their makeup to hide broken hearts. Robin was certainly a magnificent clown. He definitely had a broken heart.
Hollywood is flying its flag at half mast today. They know they have lost a movie and television icon who can never be replaced.
Robin Williams dead at sixty-three – a victim of suicide.
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Following that story, there has been another death in Hollywood that people my age will identify with immediately. Lauren Bacall died today at the age of 89.
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall was an actress world-famous in the 40s. She made four movies co-starring with her equally famous husband – Humphrey Bogart. Now if you’re asking, “Who in the heck are they?” I can only tell you that you have missed out on some great movies and some very tremendous acting.
Lauren married “Bogie” and they had one of the most legendary marriages Hollywood has ever known. She was twenty-five years younger than her husband. Humphrey Bogart died 52 years ago.
Outspoken, sultry, foulmouthed and sexy, were words that well described her for her whole life, though she wasn’t foulmouthed in her movies. That wouldn’t have been allowed in the 40s.
Lauren Bacall would have been ninety next month.
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There is a new Treyvon Martin kind of story happening now. Sunday night its racial tensions exploded and part of Ferguson, Missouri, felt its wrath It felt it again last night. Ferguson is a strong stone’s throw from St. Louis.
Rioting broke out after a policeman shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Stores were looted and items smashed. A convenience store was set afire and burned. The policeman who shot Michael is in hiding.
Attorney General Eric Holder is launching a full investigation of exactly what happened. Michael Brown was supposed to be entering college the morning after he was killed. He was never part of a gang, but tried to stay clear of that kind of life. His mother said she had to work hard with him to keep him in high school. But he did want no part of the gang life that was constant in his neighborhood. After awhile he became excited about the idea of going to college and dedicated himself to his studies and baseball.
Michael Brown
Leslie McSpadden, Michael’s mother, said “People may do things and it becomes repetitive in a certain race, but we didn’t. We don’t look like that. Not our family. We feel like we can do anything and go anywhere.
Just because my son is a 6’4 black male walking down a city street does not mean he fit the profile for anything other than just walking down the street.”
Michael Brown’s mom and dad
Ferguson has a population of twenty-one thousand. It erupted again last night. Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the police were forced to break up the melee after shots rang out. The police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the marauding crowd.
Ferguson has 63% black living there. But according to racial profiling data, 86% of profiling stops involve African-American drivers.
There are two sides to this story. One side from the many who believe Michael Brown was murdered in cold blood. The other side says Michael Brown wrestled with the policeman and tried to get his gun.
One eyewitness, Piaget Crenshaw, described the shooting this way: “He ran for his life, they shot him and he fell. He put his arms up to let them know he was compliant and he was unarmed, and they shot him twice more and he fell to the ground and died.”
Another witness who is still coming to terms with what happened was St. Louis Alderman Antonio French. He said, “That boy was slain because he was accused of stealing gum from the store or some sort of cigarettes.”
The police have a totally different story. St. Louis Police Chief Jon Belmar “The genesis of this was a physical confrontation.”
Michael with his little brother
After the Sunday night looting, NACCP President Cornell William Brooks urged the rioters to stay peaceful and protest nonviolently.
Federal Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday, “The shooting deserves a full review. At every step, we will work with the local investigators, who should be prepared to complete a thorough, fair investigation in their own right.”
Michael’s mother said, “Michael was so excited to be setting an example for his younger siblings. Now we can’t even celebrate. We’ve got to plan a funeral.”
Leslie McSpadden told the police, “You took my son away from me. Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate? You know how many black men graduate? Not many!”
Brown’s father said “All I want is justice and to get this resolved in the right manner. I will be a little calmer, but I don’t think I’ll ever have peace.”
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The Pentagon has sent military planners to Iraq to figure out a way to rescue and relocate the tens of thousands of religious minorities trapped high atop the Sinjar Mountains. Islamic militants are at the bottom of that mountain ready to slaughter any of them who come down off it.
Until this week, certain death by either starvation or at the hands of the militants, seemed inevitable. But both France and the United States have come to their rescue with bundles of food drops. However there are too many to for all to get to the food packages in time. Now the Pentagon has announced that they are designing a way to transport those tens of thousands to somewhere where it’s safe. With all the wars raging in countries around Iraq, that will be more difficult than it may sound.
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Military critics say that the airstrikes that President Obama is allowing to be conducted on Isis in Iraq, are like putting Band-Aids on bullet holes. And the airstrikes are like an amateur throwing darts at a dartboard. High-ranking officers spoke with anonymity for fear of being relieved of their positions.
They said our random airstrikes, often with drones locating a few of the Isis or the Sunnis, are without any strategy at all to do what America needs done – no strategy for obliterating Isis. Obama said in response that destroying Isis is not why he sent the planes.
The officers say that what we are doing now in Iraq will simply cause still more Muslims to become radicals and join in the vow to destroy America. And it is significant that I cannot find the United States in any biblical end- time prophecies.
There is some positive news out of Iraq that has nothing to do with America being there until now, it is that the Kurdish, who have been America’s allies throughout the Iraqi war, have taken back two cities from Isis. What is sad is that the Kurdish fighters were using out of date weaponry or they could undoubtedly have done a whole lot more.
The Kurdish have asked and asked President Obama to give them up-to-date, modern weaponry to stop Isis and the Sunni terrorists. The Kurdish are people America knows it can trust. The good news now is that President Obama, under tremendous pressure, has finally okayed the sending of weapons to aid the Kurdish. The Kurdish, the best Iraqi fighters of them all, and fully on our side, have had to go it alone until now with outdated weaponry.
Kurdish Brigadier General Shirko FAHTEE announced victories in the towns of MACHMOUR and al-Gwiere which are approximately 25 to 27 miles from Erbil.
Earlier victories in both towns by Isis and the militant Sunnis found them immediately enforcing strict Shariah law. As a result, most people in each town fled their homes, joining the tens of thousands of Christians and other Iraqis fleeing for their lives.
Talks of this war in Iraq being simply a Civil War couldn’t be more wrong. This war in Iraq, as well as several other countries, is a war for and against jihad, and it will not be stopped unless the millions of radical terrorists spread throughout the Middle East, Europe, Great Britain, and America, are stopped. With their demonic power radical Islam is growing quickly and it has just one goal – to make Shariah law the law of the entire world.
It isn’t only our military that is being shrunk to unrecognizable proportions by our president, but our international reputation too. It is almost as if that is what he intends.
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Senator Lindsey Graham of North Carolina sounded a warning siren on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace this past weekend. After saying, the terror groups in the Middle East are well-funded and growing in alarming number, he added “They pose a direct threat to America.” Then he spoke directly over television to President Obama, and said “Mr. President, be honest with the threat we face. They are coming. Your game plan cannot protect the United States. ”
Senator Graham’s comments followed a Vice News video that showed a militant terrorist saying, “We will raise the flag of Allah in the White House.”
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It’s important to realize that disapproval of President Obama’s leadership is not at all limited to Republicans. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democrat chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday, “It takes an army to defeat an army, and I believe that we either confront The Islamic State now or we will be forced to deal with an even stronger enemy in the future. Inaction is no longer an option.”
She and others, both Democrat and Republican, are warning as strongly as possible, with a president who has no foreign policy, that the terrorists are recruiting and training fighters from Europe and America who could come to our nation and launch another terror attack like 9/11, or with nuclear capabilities do far worse.
Senator John McCain said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Sandy Crowley, “The Islamic State, which some lawmakers referred to as Isis or Isil – or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – is getting stronger all the time. They have attracted one thousand men from around the world who are now fighting on their side. Isis is metastasizing throughout the Middle East. And their goal, as they have stated openly time after time, is the destruction of the United States of America.”
The reason Isis is so well funded is because every time they seize a town, the first thing they do is go to the banks and take every bit of the money inside them. They have become millionaires and make the outlaw Jesse James look like an amateur.
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Hillary Clinton, who is the Democrat front-runner for president in 2016, did an 8,000 word interview for The Atlantic Magazine and she is beginning to create a definite gulf between her and President Obama. She no doubt has been reading the polls.
In the magazine interview, she criticized the president’s handling of Syria. She said “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid things’ is not an organizing principle.”
Hillary refused to answer the question whether President Obama is responsible for the rise of Isis. However she did say about Syria that Obama’s failure to help build up a credible fighting force there “left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled.”
On hearing this remark from Hillary, one that he is heard before from both sides of the congressional aisle, is an expletive that I can’t, and wouldn’t, repeat because of it is so crude.
Mrs. Clinton said the United States supports Israel’s right to defend itself against rockets by Hamas. She also said that international criticism of Israel is unfair, saying that “civilian casualties happen in the fog of war,” and she defended Israel for the bombing of the United Nations shelter where children died, unlike the Obama administration’s condemnation of Israel for that bombing which Obama called “disgraceful.”
If you want to see many of Hillary’s opinions both foreign and domestic, I recommend you pick up a copy of the Atlantic Magazine with Hillary’s picture on the cover, and read what she is saying. It’s a serious interview.
But I’m wondering if Hillary Clinton has forgotten that she was the Secretary of State while all of this was happening.
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National guards at the Texas border seem to be having a strong affect on stopping more of those who should not be entering. Texas Governor Rick Perry reports a large number of illegal immigrants from Syria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have been apprehended at the Rio Grande border. The National Guard have already discovered a plot by Iranian terrorists who had plans to sneak across the border and do great harm to us.
Governor Perry lamented that since 2008, two hundred and three thousand illegal immigrants have been put in Texas jails, and those illegal immigrants have been responsible for three thousand homicides and almost eight thousand sexual assaults.”
Perry said “I wish the President would respect the desire of Texans and the citizens of this country to secure the border. That’s the real issue here – and one that all too often gets deflected by the conversation about unaccompanied minor children.”
Lightning played havoc in Western states where more than fifty large fires are still raging out-of-control in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
Fire burning homes in Cle Elum, Washington
Fire burning just outside Yosemite National Park tripled in size overnight
Both Portland and Seattle experienced their hottest days of the year this weekend – 96 in Seattle and 99 in Portland. The weatherman is predicting cooler weather for them both by tomorrow, but storms will replace the he
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President Obama may not have time on his vacation to write you a postcard, but I thought you might want to know what he is doing each day at Martha’s Vineyard. He is playing golf at Farm Neck Golf Course.
Residents describe his daily entourage as a large motorcade that includes a SWAT team, plus two snipers who peer out of an open trunk. And between holes he chats with his golf buddies. I do wonder how much they had to pay in order to play eighteen holes with him.
Meanwhile, golf enthusiasts that Martha’s Vineyard are out of luck way before our president arrives at the golf course and during all the time he plays. Security scours the field and surrounding areas before our president arrives. When he gets there he has Farm Neck all to himself and his friends. If you play golf, wouldn’t you just love that?
President Obama and his daughter, Malia
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The Joker Jinx roller coaster at Six Flags America
in Upper Marlboro, Maryland
You know the old saying “What goes up must come down?” Well, it sure wasn’t true at Six Flags in Upper Marlboro, Maryland on Sunday. They’ve got one dandy roller coaster there – The Joker Jinx they call it. It goes 60 miles an hour and turns upside down four times on each ride. And it fully lived up to its name Jinx on Sunday. It went up, but it didn’t come down.
24 riders – 17 adults and 7 children – were stranded high in the sky as the Joker Jinx screeched to a sudden halt. Fortunately, the riders weren’t upside down at the time. But during the five hours that it took to get them down, most of them probably didn’t know which way was up. With all the nausea, backaches and cramps the two dozen had, they undoubtedly wished this was the one time they had been writing the merry-go-round instead.
Happily, no one was seriously injured.
The Six Flag roller coaster operator offered all 24 an immediate free ride so they could try the Jinx again, but not one of them took him up on it.
Oh, a Six Flags America spokesman said the coaster’s computerized safety system “performed as it’s designed to.” But somehow that didn’t seem to comfort the still dizzy riders.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Some people love roller coasters, horror movies, mountain climbing, even tight rope walking. Then there are other people who are sane, like me.
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WORLDWIDE NEWS WITH RAY August 13, 2014
