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Thomas Caffall opened fire on residents of College Station, Texas. He ended up killing a police officer before they killed him. Again, conservatives turn a blind eye when a right wing extremist comes into the spotlight.

                             
The tragedy near the campus of Texas A&M University has once again brought into question of the rise of radicalism in the conservative movement.

Fueled by the economic struggles, Congress inept handling of polices, changing demographics where Blacks and Hispanics are growing rapidly, and the very likelihood that President Barack Obama will secure a second term has the White conservative male, totally unhinged.

Five tragedies in this year alone involving a lone wolf domestic terrorist.

These issues are growing and the country should take notice! Another Timothy McVeigh could happen!

Another Jared Lee Loughner could happen! Another Wade Page could happen!

This is the rise of right wing extremism.

Vice President Joe Biden gave Republicans unease after he slammed the Mitt Romney campaign's pledge to repeal the Financial Reform Law that Congress passed in 2010. He made a comment, "They'll have y'all back in chains" to a crowd in Danville, Virginia.

Romney in Ohio slammed the president and declared that "[President Barack Obama], take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago’.

Romney, his running mate Paul Ryan and their allies in the conservative movement have dog whistled to the unhinged White conservative male with rhetoric that could inspire another mass shooting tragedy.

The president, Mitt Romney and Congress are scared of the National Rifle Association.

They know the risk of taking on the gun lobby. The gun lobby can inspire law-abiding gun owners to the polls with rhetoric of the government taking your guns!

Glenn Beck's rhetoric has inspired the conservative Tea Party movement. Yet his rhetoric also has inspired radicalism within the conservative movement.

Mitt Romney is wobbly on firearms and his pick of Paul Ryan, Republican congressman from Wisconsin has settled a little bit of the worries of the gun rights organization.

They turn a blind eye when a tragedy happens! When it involves a White conservative male with obsession with firearms, the Republicans would distance themselves from this. They claim the media paints conservatism in a bad light whenever a tragedy happens.

The shooting in College Station, Texas is an interesting one. This reminds me of the shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which Richard Poplawski, a 23 year old man with ties to White supremacists shot and killed three officers in a standoff in his mother's home.

The gentleman Thomas Caffall was an individual obsessed with firearms, Fox News and the hatred of President Barack Obama.

Buzzfeed obtained Caffall's Facebook page and forum chats. They're disturbing!

Of many there's his views of Thomas Paine, Ronald Reagan and gasp the conservative agitator Glenn Beck are among his "likes".

According to WPTV, the gunman who killed two others before police ended his life in a shootout near Texas A&M University had been battling mental health issues on and off for years, his mother said.

Police say Thomas Caffall, known to his family as "Tres," killed a constable and a bystander and injured four others Monday before police fatally shot him.

His mother, Linda Weaver, said the family became worried after Caffall quit his job in January and announced that he would never work again.

"We had been very concerned about him," Weaver told CNN.

Caffall had withdrawn from the family, and the fear was that he might attempt suicide, his mother said.

But she never imagined that her son would hurt anyone else, or that his end would come so violently.
"Losing a child is a parent's worst nightmare. This is worse," she said.

Police said Caffall, 35, shot and killed Brian Bachmann, a constable for Brazos County, and Chris Northcliffe, an area resident.

Bachmann had approached Caffall's apartment to deliver an eviction notice, and Northcliffe just happened to be nearby.

Brian Bachmann, a College Texas Police officer was shot and killed.

Also nearby was Rigo Cisneros, a former Army medic who assisted both Bachmann and Caffall after the shooting.

As he lay dying, the gunman offered an apology for what he had done, Cisneros told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.

"He did ask me to apologize to the officer he had shot," he said.

Three College Station police officers and a woman were injured in the shooting, police said.

The woman, Barbara Holdsworth, was in serious condition after undergoing surgery.

Investigators on Tuesday continued to process the crime scene.

The area covers "a couple of blocks," College Station Police Chief Jeff Capps said.

The suspect "fired multiple rounds and investigators have recovered long guns and a pistol from the scene," he said.

As the incident unfolded Monday, an alert warning of a gunman was sent out by Texas A&M, one of the state's flagship universities and a sprawling campus of nearly 47,000 students.

According to his Facebook campaign page, Bachmann was a 41-year-old from College Station who had been a Brazos County sheriff's deputy since 1993. The county's website indicated that his four-year term as constable -- an elected position that involves, among other duties, serving court documents such as eviction notices and subpoenas to citizens -- was set to expire on December 31, 2014.

Bachmann was an up-and-coming law enforcement leader who some expected to run for sheriff one day, said Marc Hamlin, the district clerk for Brazos County and friend of the slain constable for more than 20 years.

"He was a true public servant," Hamlin told CNN.

Whenever a group wanted a law enforcement officer or squad car for a community event, Bachmann was always the first to volunteer, Hamlin said.

He also volunteered to help his friends.

On Monday, Bachmann had lunch with his chief deputy, who had to deliver the eviction notice at the nearby residence afterward. Bachmann took the notice and volunteered to serve it himself, Hamlin said.

A search of court records showed no record of Caffall having run-ins with the law except for a traffic violation.

Caffall's mother described her son as an intelligent youth who wasted opportunities available to him.

"It's so hard to imagine that the really sweet kid you raised turned into a huge monster, and that is what he is now," Weaver said.

He enjoyed collecting weapons and refinishing them, Weaver said, so his owning guns wasn't worrisome, his mother said.

Weaver said Caffall had been very affected by the death of his father when he was 12. She said it is hard to comprehend how the same person would deprive Bachmann's children of their father.

Bachmann's three children -- ages 19, 10 and 8 -- would accompany their father on mission trips in Texas.

On a recent trip, they built wheelchair ramps and roofs, Hamlin said.

"He was strong in his faith and strong in his family," he said.

Less is known about Caffall. He was divorced, and was in the constant companionship of a large Sheltie-mix named Lucy, his mother said. Lucy's fate is unclear.

Conservatives thought this was an insult. They thought that President Barack Obama was stifling freedom of speech. They think he's coming for their guns. They were wrong!

Barack Obama is the first African American to elected as the President of The United States. Many Black people acknowledge that being the first Black president comes at a price. Blacks know that anything done by President Obama can create controversy. They know that a majority of White people are uncomfortable with him. White conservative men are the most pessimistic voters and most likely to be unhinged.

With rhetoric coming from cable news such as Fox News, talk radio, the blogs like The Drudge Report and Breitbart, could the next mass shooting occur in another town?

Steve King Can Barely Speak English And Yet He Want A Freaking Law To Make It Official!

Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is an outspoken member of the Tea Party. He has ties to far right organizations that are considered extremist by Civil Rights groups. 

Isn't the United States the land of opportunity?

Did you know that the United States has no official language?

Some in Congress would love to make the de-facto language English, the official language.

Well according to the majority of the United States (likely White males and limited educated Americans),  support of an English only rule is relatively high. When it comes to hiring employees these people don't care about the other languages (including sign language). 

Spanish and French are spoken in the United States. But not as often as you would find English as the majority language here.

Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is a controversial figure in politics. The firebrand conservative lawmaker has shown not only he's a Islamophobe, but also a homophobe, borderline racist and is considered by GovTrack.us as a far right wing politician. He is the guy you'll find on Fox News interviews with conservative agitators such as Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren and Neil Cavuto.

According to Talking Points Memo, Congress is planning on going through umpteenth recess. This issue of making English the official language of the United States comes in the from of an organization with ties to racism.

Dr. Rosalie Porter, chairwoman of the board of ProEnglish, is testifying in support of the “English Language Unity Act of 2011” before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution on Thursday morning.

ProEnglish is headed by executive director Robert Vandervoort, who came under fire for hosting a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year featuring Peter Brimelow of the website VDARE, an organization labeled as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The panel also featured a speech from then-National Review editor John Derbyshire, who would later be fired from the magazine for writing a racist article in the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Porter also spoke on the CPAC panel, where the immigrant and former bilingual teacher called bilingual education an “insane idea.”

Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), the sponsor of the bill (which has 120 cosponsors), spoke at the CPAC panel as well, where he complained that an unnamed Republican leader would not let him be floor manager of an English-only bill because he wasn’t an immigrant (it’s unclear if that has changed, King’s office did not respond to a request for comment). King will attend a press conference alongside ProEnglish after Thursday’s subcommittee hearing.

Vandervoort himself came under fire from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, which labeled him a “white nationalist” for his alleged ties to the Chicagoland Friends of the American Renaissance. At the time, Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign downplayed Vandervoort’s attendance at a luncheon for the candidate. Vandervoort has previously denied the charge, telling TPM earlier this year that he had “never been affiliated with any group that promotes hate or violence.” Vandervoort didn’t respond to TPM’s interview request on Wednesday evening.

Democrats are slamming Republicans for spending time on a piece of legislation which could prevent non-English speakers from casting a ballot or interacting with their government.

“Are you really going to tell someone who came here from the Soviet Union that they shouldn’t vote because they have poor English language skills?” Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said in a statement . “I really don’t think this country gains, and in fact I believe we are harmed, by excluding many good people from jointing the families who came from around the world to be part of this great nation.”

Congress Breaks Yet Again, Putting Federal Workers In Jeopardy Of Losing Their Jobs!

The United States Postal Service is heading for default. The federal agency is in the hole and many Americans could see their service disrupted if Congress doesn't act on this.

Republicans who want "smaller government" will never admit that the U.S. Post Office is the key to keeping Americans at work.

We're aware of the powers of digital technology. Email, iPhones and Cloud services are practically taking away the paper and making easier for people to pay bills and send messages without paying the stamp fees.

The Huffington Post reports that the U.S. Congress will break for their recess, leaving federal agencies in jeopardy of going into default.

At midnight Wednesday, the U.S. Postal Service is expected to default on a multi-billion dollar payment owed to the Treasury, highlighting financial struggles that could affect not only mail service but hundreds of thousands of jobs.

The agency's failure to make good on a $5.5 billion payment toward retiree health benefits comes as no surprise, and the default won't have any immediate effects on the postal service's day-to-day operations, the agency assured in a statement. But the missed payment -- reportedly the first of its kind in the post office's history -- will no doubt ramp up the debate over how best to address the agency's growing red ink.

On Tuesday, some proponents of reform blamed not the postal service but Congress itself for the default, citing a controversial 2006 law that increased the agency's financial obligations and lawmakers' failure so far to pass legislation this session that would address the agency's problems.

"The word 'default' sounds ominous, but in reality this is a default on the part of Congress," Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers union, said in an email to HuffPost.

Under the law passed in 2006, the postal service must pay at least $5.5 billion a year into a retiree health benefit fund, a steep "prefunding" requirement that doesn’t apply to normal corporations. Although the agency has suffered a significant drop in first-class mail over the last five years, the prefunding payments have accounted for most of the postal service's losses in recent quarters.

To help the agency right itself, the postal service's postmaster general, Patrick Donahoe, has asked that Congress lighten the prefunding burden, as well as allow the agency to undergo significant cuts to address the decline in mail due to web transactions. Those cuts include the phasing out of 150,000 jobs, the elimination of Saturday delivery and the closing of roughly half the agency's mail-processing facilities -- measures largely opposed by postal unions.

In a statement issued Monday, the postal service urged Congress to get moving on legislation. "[C]omprehensive postal legislation is needed to return the Postal Service to long-term financial stability," the agency said. "We remain hopeful that such legislation can be enacted during the current Congress."

Earlier this year, the Senate passed a bill that would address the pre-funding burden, free up money for the agency to eliminate roughly 100,000 jobs and limit overnight delivery in some areas. The move to Saturday delivery, meanwhile, would be delayed for at least two years.

The House, however, has not yet produced any legislation. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has championed a bill more austere than the Senate's, allowing for the phasing out of around 150,000 jobs and facilitating a faster move to five-day delivery. The bill would also bar no-layoff clauses in union contracts and establish a commission tasked with cost-cutting if the postal service didn't meet its own goals. But nothing has come to the House floor for a vote.

In a statement Tuesday, Issa blamed the default on long-term mismanagement at the agency.

"The default by the Postal Service on its obligation to its own employees and retirees follows decades of mismanagement, and a willful blindness to fundamental changes in America’s use of mail," Issa said. "The Postal Service continues to fail to do all it can under current law to cut costs."
               
On Tuesday, the office of Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a co-sponsor of the Senate bill, said the House was being "fiscally irresponsible" by dallying and holding up reform. Carper has urged Republican leaders to pass a bill so that the House and Senate can hash out any differences in conference.

"Every day Congress delays fixing this problem, the financial challenge grows more difficult and the potential solutions become more expensive," Carper said in a statement to HuffPost. "If the House has a plan to prevent the Postal Service from defaulting for the first time in its history, I think they should bring it to the floor and pass it. We shouldn’t be waiting around until the 11th hour to do the right thing and fix the serious, but solvable, financial challenges plaguing this American institution."

Congress breaks for August recess at the end of the week, meaning House leaders won't be able to take up the postal issue until September at the earliest.

GOP Congressman Slams Blacks For Supporting Obama! This Guy Is A Dead Beat Daddy!

Joe Walsh (R-Illinois) thinks the Black community is stuck on the Democratic plantation!

Congressman Joe Walsh (R-Illinois) is right up there with the Tea Party Movement.

Stuck in his ways. Blaming the very society that voted his dumb ass in.

You got to love the Republicans and its allies in the conservative movement. In the mind of these people, the Black community is "brainwashed" by our "brotha" Barack Obama.

We'll support the devil if he was a Black man according to some of these people who support the Tea Party.

Nevermind the fact that a core number of extremists have made the rounds recently. And sure enough, the Republican Party embraces this.

A Neo-Nazi being selected in a Pennsylvania Republican committee. A staff member of Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (R-New York) saying that that it's okay to throw acid on female Democratic lawmakers who support birth control.

Congressman Joe Walsh is by far one of the most agitating members of the Republican Party. They are certainly going to write him off as well as fellow Tea Party Congressman Allen West (R-Florida).

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Walsh doubles down on statements like that when he talks to a town hall forum. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Walsh told a townhall and then a local radio station:

“The Democratic Party promises groups of people everything,” the McHenry Tea Partyer said. “They want the Hispanic vote. They want Hispanics to be dependent on government, just like they got African Americans dependent on government.

Walsh goes on to say that civil rights activist Jesse Jackson “would be out of work if (blacks) weren’t dependent on government.”

Walsh’s remarks were caught on video and are being circulated by CREDO SuperPAC, the San Fransisco-based SuperPac that is actively working to defeat him in the November election.

In an interview Friday, Walsh said his statements “have nothing to do with race.”

“My shot, this had nothing to do with race. My shot was at the Democratic Party. Look, they’re the party of (big) government,” he said. “We’re at a really scary, dangerous time right now. We now in this country have more in the wagon than pulling the wagon.”

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) the members of congress that includes Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado), Ron Paul (R-Texas), Allen West (R-Florida), Trent Franks (R-Arizona), Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) and Paul Broun (R-Georgia) are by far the most extreme members of this political party.

Either they're entranced or they're just plain ignorant, these politicians make it harder for Blacks, Hispanics, and other groups that normally support the Democratic Party join their ranks!

It's not racist for Joe Walsh to say these things. It's not stupid, either.

It's just how these people in the Republican Party think of the Black community, Hispanic/Latino community, President Barack Obama and those who support him.

They've wrapped their asses around the American flag in preparedness of a culture war. The culture war is an ongoing thing. Republicans wasted half of the 112th Congress catering to the extremists.

They'll blame President Barack Obama for everything. The president offers up solutions to fix the economy only to be either delayed or failed by members of the Republican Party.

They whitewash history. They know that George W. Bush is responsible for the economic mess, but they're quick to blame President Barack Obama for the economic turmoil.

The Republican Party play upon the fears of White voters pessimistic to a Black president.

Walsh was once considered one of the worst dead beat parents ever. He owed his former wife and children over $117,000 in unpaid child support. I guess this year he made some amends to his struggling family.

Walsh goes onto The O'Reilly Factor to defend his comments about "race hustling" Democrats like Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr (D-Illinois) and his father Jesse Jackson. He made the comment that Barack Obama, his liberal allies in the Democratic Party have kept Blacks stuck on the "plantation".

Courtesy of Mediaite