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In today’s American society the materialistic world is winning the battle for our souls.  We feed our souls on cheap toys from China, junk food from our favorite drive-in and endless amounts of worthless television daily – while ignoring our nations Judeo-Christian framework.

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by the slimmest of margins, that the Town of Greece, New York did not violate the First Amendment mandate that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” when it allowed clergy to invoke the name of “Jesus” and use other Christian language when giving opening prayers at meetings of the town’s board.

Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens had sued the town after they told a meeting of the board that its opening prayers were “offensive.” After Galloway and Stephens complained about the Christian nature of some of the prayers, the board made an effort to reach out to representatives of non-Christian denominations to say the prayer.

“They alleged that the town violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause by preferring Christians over other prayer givers and by sponsoring sectarian prayers, such as those given ‘in Jesus’ name,’” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court in its 5-4 decision.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas joined with Kennedy in voting to uphold allowing non-generic prayers at Town of Greece board meeting. Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

“No one can fairly read the prayers from Greece’s town meetings as anything other than explicitly Christian — constantly and exclusively so,” Justice Kagan wrote in her dissent opinion in the case.

While in Oklahoma City, officials overseeing the state’s capitol grounds are being asked to place a privately funded statue of Satan, near a monument of the Ten Commandments. The statue, which is to be cast in bronze and is near completion, depicts Satan as “Baphomet” with a goat’s head and horns with a boy on his left and a girl on his right.

“We decided to go with that because it is a fairly traditional character,” explained The Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves. “It also offers a lap that visitors can come to sit on, have their picture taken with.”

The Satanic Temple, out of New York, decided to ask for a permit for the statue after a monument of the Ten Commandments was installed on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol in November 2012.  That monument, also privately funded, was donated by Dr. Mike Ritze, a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

Because the Ten Commandments monument was donated, no public monies used, the State Legislature authorized the Capitol Preservation Commission to help the donors in selecting an appropriate site for its placement. Given that privately funded monuments would be considered, The Satanic Temple submitted its statue-design to the Preservation Commission in December.

But in August, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit to have the Ten Commandments removed, arguing that it violates the state’s constitution and conveys “state endorsement and support” of an “explicitly religious message” on public property. As a result of that ongoing lawsuit and until it is settled, no new monuments are being erected on Capitol grounds.

Greaves warns that if the Capitol Preservation Committee denies The Satanic Temple’s permit for a monument to Satan, his group will consider legal action.

“Yes. They clearly have the real estate to accommodate our monument and, in fact before we offered to donate our monument, Oklahoma replied to the suit brought against them by the ACLU with the claim that they intended the 10 Commandments to be only the first in what was envisioned to be an eventual monument park,” said Greaves.

Finally, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox says he supports keeping a 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus on U.S. Forest Service land next to a Whitefish ski hill. He filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it considers a legal challenge by an atheist and agnostic organization.

“I think the overwhelming majority of Montanans and Americans would strongly oppose removing the memorial and all it represents,” Fox said in a statement.

Fox is asking the court to uphold a federal judge’s August ruling allowing the Forest Service to renew a permit for the statue at Whitefish Mountain Resort. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen says the statue is used more for photo opportunities and as a meeting point than for religious reflection.

However, the Freedom from Religion Foundation wants the appellate court to overturn the decision, saying the statue on federal land violates ‘the constitutional separation of church and state.’ The group’s co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said the attorney general’s stance is disappointing but not surprising.

“It’s par for the course with public officials these days,” she said. “It’s increasingly common for politicians to unite with religion and fight our lawsuits. They should be defending our secular constitution.”

The Forest Service first indicated in 2011 it would reject a new permit for the statue, which occupies a 25-by-25 foot patch of land at the ski resort, but reversed itself in 2012. The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men’s organization, had the statue erected on the site in the 1950s.

 

Common Core standards spell out what math and reading skills students should have in each grade. They are supposedly designed to make students think and reason more than they do with traditional classroom work.

Sounds wonderful in theory, but the real world trumps the theoretical world every time.

The Rialto Unified School District in California gave eighth graders an 18-page assignment instructing them to decide whether the Holocaust was an “actual event” or a “propaganda tool used for monetary gain.” This included three sources students had to use, including one that states gassings in concentration camps were a “hoax” and that no evidence has shown Jews died in gas chambers.

“With all this money at stake for Israel, it is easy to comprehend why this Holocaust hoax is so secretly guarded,” states biblebelievers.org.au, one of the authorized sources for the assignment. “In whatever way you can, please help shatter this profitable myth. It is time we stop sacrificing America’s welfare for the sake of Israel and spend our hard-earned dollars on Americans.”

The assignment given to the eighth graders reads:

“When tragic events occur in history, there is often debate about their actual existence. For example, some people claim the Holocaust is not an actual historical event, but instead is a propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain. Based upon your research on this issue, write an argumentative essay, utilizing cited textual evidence, in which you explain whether or not you believe the Holocaust was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain. Remember to address counterclaims (rebuttals) to your stated claim. You are also required to use parenthetical (internal) citations and to provide a Works Cited page.”

The other sources were the websites ‘history.com’ and ‘about.com.’

The school district defended the assignment, saying Common Core standards are to ‘teach critical thinking.’ Interim superintendent Mohammad Z. Islam, later revised the districts position after the Anti-Defamation league voiced its concerns in an email to the district.

Associate Regional Director Matthew Friedman said, in part:  “It is ADL’s general position that an exercise asking students to question whether the Holocaust happened has no academic value; it only gives legitimacy to the hateful and anti-Semitic promoters of Holocaust Denial.”

However, Common Core components your child can read are books like “Nineteen Minutes,” by author Jodi Picoult. Set in a small town, the story tells of the events leading up to a shooting and what followed, but Picoult’s book also depicts a sex scene on page 313 from beginning to end.

“‘Relax,’ Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach. ”

… She couldn’t remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matt’s back to bring him closer. “‘Yeah,’ he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs.

… (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.

“Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her.”

When William Baer, whose ninth-grade daughter was assigned the book came to a school board meeting to protest the assignment and the fact that the district forgot to send a notice home to parents about it, the Gilford School District in New Hampshire had him arrested for speaking beyond the two-minute rule during the board meeting. Baer is facing disorderly conduct charges.

Also making headlines, a fifth grader at Park Lakes Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was recently told he is not allowed to read a Bible during “free reading” time. While not directly associated with Common Core problems, on April 8th, Swornia Thomas, Giovanni Rubeo’s teacher, took issue with the book and ordered him to put it away.

Rubeo asked Thomas to contact his father, Paul Rubeo.

She left a voicemail stating, “I noticed that he has a book—a religious book—in the classroom. He’s not permitted to read those books in my classroom.”

The elder Rubeo contacted the principal and the school’s legal department has yet to decide if his son has a right to read the Bible. The father retained the service of the Liberty Institute to mount a possible legal challenge to the Broward County School Districts’ actions.

“Banning religious books like the Bible violates Giovanni’s civil rights to religious free speech and free exercise,” said Hiram Sasser, Liberty Institute Director of Litigation. “The school’s actions exemplify the hostility to religion that the U.S. Supreme Court has condemned.”

Sasser also has the U.S. Department of Education on his side, whose guidelines read in part, “…students may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals, and pray or study religious materials with fellow students during recess, the lunch hour, or other non-instructional time to the same extent that they may engage in nonreligious activities.”

As these events continue to occur and more parents, teachers and administrators come out against Common Core, progressive politicians like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will continue to push state officials to follow through on the standards despite those who oppose them.

“This is a real-world, grown-up approach to a real crisis that we have,” said Bush. “And it’s been mired in politics. Trust me; I know there are not a whole lot of people who are standing up to this avalanche.”

A proposed constitutional amendment pushed by Sharron Angle to require photo identification to vote comes under scrutiny as a judge hears challenges to the initiative. Carson City District Judge James Russell will hold two hearings on separate lawsuits challenging to the proposed Voter ID Initiative.

The measure supported by Angle’s political action committee, Our Vote Nevada, would require voters to have photo identification to cast a ballot. It also would require election officials to issue free cards to anyone who does not have valid photo identification issued by a government entity.

One lawsuit challenging the initiative was filed on behalf of two voters by lawyers with ties to the Democratic Party. The other was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

About 20 Jews emerging from synagogue in mid-April, were handed leaflets ordering the city’s Jews to provide a list of property they own and pay a registration fee or else. The three hooded men handing out the pamphlets were carrying a Russian flag and the symbol of the separatist Republic of Donetsk.

The leaflet begins “Dear Ukraine citizens of Jewish nationality” and states that all people of Jewish descent over 16 years old must report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and “register.” The leaflets claim the reason is that leaders of the Ukrainian Jewish community supported Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement that fought for Ukrainian independence at the end of World War II.

The leaflets then described which documents Jews should provide: “ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion, religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles.”

Consequences for non-compliance will result in citizenship being revoked “and you will be forced outside the country with a confiscation of property,” it said. A registration fee of $50 was also required

The Donetsk Republic press office denied any involvement in the matter.

And yet anti-semantic activity in Ukraine continues to grow including in the port city of Odessa, where Jewish leaders have evacuation plans ready. With the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany on May 9^th, leaders are considering temporarily moving Jewish residents to the countryside to avoid trouble.

Rabbi Refael Kruskal, who heads the organization Tikva, runs orphanages, schools and services for the elderly says they are prepared.

“If it gets worse, then we’ll take them [the children] out of the city. We have plans to take them both out of the city and even to a different country if necessary, plans which we prefer not to talk about which we have in place.”

Other community leaders are also establishing evacuation plans should the need arise.

Kira Verkhovsky of the Migdal International Center of Jewish Community Programs said, “If the situation will be worse, we are planning to move.”

And the Chabad Lubavitcher emissary Rabbi Avraham Wolf said that while the current circumstances do not require an evacuation, “We have a number of plans,” including armed guards and a situation check every half hour.

The International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem said it has been “raising funds from Christians worldwide over recent weeks” in order to fly 100 Ukrainian Jews to Israel.

“The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has meant an even more uncertain future for the Jewish community there, and we have acted swiftly once again to bring needy and endangered Jews home from this troubled region,” the group’s director Jürgen Bühler said in a statement.

The Jewish Agency for Israel, which provides services to Jews wishing to move to Israel, reported last week that 777 new immigrants arrived in Israel from Ukraine since the beginning of this year, a 142% increase compared with the same time period last year. Those fleeing Odessa in particular increased three-fold, the agency noted, while another 200 immigrants have registered throughout Ukraine for flights to Israel this month.

Odessa has a Jewish community of about 30,000.

Since the unrest began burning of a synagogue, vandalizing of a Holocaust memorial and the defacing of Jewish graves has occurred. The Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, located southeast of Kiev, was firebombed in late February as two Molotov cocktails were thrown into the unoccupied synagogue.

The Holocaust Memorial in Sevastopol in the Crimean Peninsula was spray painted in red with a hammer and sickle and the letters USSR, and with what appeared to be other pro-Russian graffiti. The memorial was erected in 2003 at the site where 4,200 Jews were murdered by the Nazis on July 12, 1942 and has been vandalized by neo-Nazis in the past.

In Dnepropetrovsk, swastikas were sprayed on the tomb of Dov Ber Schneerson, brother of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson, who headed the Chabad movement.

Ukrainian forces battled pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine as militants in Odessa vowed to retake buildings they were forced out of amid clashes that left 46 seperatists dead and another 200 detained. Ukrainian troops also pressed forward with an offensive against militants in Slavyansk, which has left four Ukrainian soldiers and more than 20 militants dead.

A fourth Ukrainian military helicopter was shot down near the pro-Russian rebel-controlled Slavyansk, but the pilots survived, the Defense Ministry said. The helicopter, an Mi-24, came under fire from a heavy machine gun, crashed into a river.

The other helicopters were brought down by surface-to-air missiles, leaving two crew members dead. The downing of the helicopters is being taken as proof that the pro-Russian militias are being armed by Russia, something the former Soviet Union denies.

A new memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico. In Nevada, the Obama administration might make another monument in the middle of the Great Basin because it, supposedly, is a “center of climate change scientific research.”

The leaked document also lists another 17 sites in 11 states that could be designated as national monuments through the federal Antiquities Act. Over 380,000 acres in Colorado are designated in the memo under the heading “Prospective Conservation Designation.”

The memo also says, around 380,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management and private land in Colorado would be subject to a “conservation designation” under the National Monument designation of the 1906 Antiquities Act. This designation would close the areas off to multi-use activities including, mining, hunting, grazing, oil and gas development and other recreational activities.

The memo was given to Utah Congressman Bob Bishop by a Department of Interior official. President Obama could enact the plans in this memo with just the stroke of a pen, without any advice from the communities affected by it or Congress.

The memo shows the goal of the designations is to limit multiple use activities and the potential development from oil and gas companies. It says all kinds of animals would be better off under the designation, like the coyotes, badgers, prairie dogs, elk, deer and pronghorn.

Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn introduced legislation, H.R. 4716, along with Congressman Mike Coffman that would safeguard their state from presidential monument designations, ensuring all future national monument designations occur only through a process that includes comments from local officials, residents, and stakeholders.

“Colorado has a rich supply of natural energy that if used responsibly can provide high paying jobs and reduce energy costs. But this Administration just doesn’t get it,” said Lamborn.

In 1950, Congress passed a law that prohibited the future establishment of national monuments in Wyoming except as authorized by Congress. H.R.4716 is modeled after this legislation but inserts Colorado in the place of Wyoming.

“This legislation will help ensure that any decision to further restrict access to valuable natural resources is done so with the full input and knowledge of the people of Colorado,” explained Coffman.

Interior staffers also note in the memo that Colorado’s Alpine Triangle carries about 25,000 acres of patented mining claims that could be used to support backcountry cabins and second home development, which would “threaten the landscape.”

This dovetails into the recent Breckenridge, Colorado eminent domain case involving a 10-acre parcel of private land owned by Ceil and Andy Barrie, but surrounded by the White River National Forest. The property with a rustic cabin, an outhouse, and a non-functioning and shuttered 1800s era gold mine is on the land the local government seized for “open space.”

The government became involved once officials discovered the couple had used a utility vehicle which came with the property, to reach their land. In fact, the Barries used a road Summit County did not even realize existed to travel via the ATV.

After Summit County officials asked to purchase the land and had their request refused by the owners, proceedings to condemn the property and to seize it for eminent domain began. Summit County Attorney Jeff Huntley also claimed the county only seized the property because the Barrie’s refused to stop using the ATV.

“People in this community are very intent on preserving the back country,” Huntley said.

The Barrie’s stated throughout the legal battle they had the legal right of way to the property, and could use the off-road vehicles to reach the cabin, just as the previous owners had. Both Summit County and the US Forest Service officials deny that assertion.

Legal precedent however was not on the side of the couple. The state supreme court ruled that a similar open space seizure of private property near Telluride was constitutional in 2005.

In the end, the Barrie’s accepted an $115,000 offer from Summit County to purchase the property. The so-called voluntary settlement amount only covers the legal expenses involved in fighting the eminent domain seizure.

“The cabin was condemned on the grounds of plumbing and electricity,” complained Ceil Barrie, “when it doesn’t even have plumbing or electricity,”

In a statement released by Summit County officials, they claim the settlement will “halt various commercial activities” on the Barrie land. These ‘commercial activities’ involved raking up fallen pine cones for a Christmas wreath business.

Over the last forty years, the federal government has spent nearly $13 billion adding hundreds of thousands of acres to the federal estate. In fact, an area larger than the size of Florida has been added to federal lands since John F. Kennedy was president.

Former President Carter used his National Monument “proclamation authority” to offset the perceived damage from the construction of the Trans Alaska pipeline. Using an executive order, he ‘sequestered’ more land than any other president, taking more than 50 million acres in Alaska despite heavy opposition from the public.

The law allowed Former President Clinton to single-handedly create 19 new national monuments, expand three others and prohibit recreational use over 5.9 million acres without ever consulting anyone. He unilaterally closed the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah to oil and gas development, without ever consulting the public or state, local and federal officials. Prior to the designation, the 135,000 acre region was responsible for producing 65,000 barrels of oil a year.

Congressman Bishop says he released the document because he does not want to see another land grab like what happened under previous administration.

One of Las Vegas’ biggest casinos says movie star Ben Affleck was card counting. Affleck was asked to stop playing at the Hard Rock Casino on April 28th, “due to moving his money with the count,” according to an alert from a local security firm.

The alert goes on to read Affleck “uses perfect basic,” a common term for introductory card counting, “…but also takes insurance according to the count. Uses $100 chips to keep track…while playing.”

Another alert issued the following day claims that Affleck was “currently suspected of advantage play,” according to the document.

“He has been observed playing blackjack at multiple Las Vegas Strip properties, and is suspected of moving his wagers with the count,” the report notes. “He was reportedly backed off at one off-Strip casino,” referring to the Hard Rock incident.

An April 22nd internal email from Games Protection Manager Rob Olivetti at the Wynn and Encore casinos warned that “Ben Affleck…was informed that he was being way too obvious moving his money with the count. He was spreading $100 -10K on the double decks and $0-20K on the shoe games. As of now, he is still being allowed to play per casino management.”

According to the New York Daily News, “Card counting isn’t illegal, but is frowned upon by every casino. The betting tactic involves adding card values to decide when, and when not, to place big wagers.”

In the old day’s anyone caught counting cards in Vegas or Reno would have been escorted to the casino basement, leaving only after their fingers were broken and kneecaps fractured. Instead, the casino hailed Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Gardner a cab and sent them on their way back to their hotel.

Sources say the pair was in town for a quick getaway before the he begins shooting “Batman vs. Superman.” Affleck has been cast as Bruce Wayne in the upcoming film.

Contrary to some reports, the Hard Rock Casino says Affleck, “is not banned from our property and is welcome back any time.”

Senator Harry Reid is congratulating the NBA for banning Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling for life. Sterling was caught in an audio recording making racist comments about blacks.

Now he says it’s time for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name. He’s accusing Redskins owner Daniel Snyder of hiding behind tradition in retaining his team’s name.

The senator says it’s time for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to follow the NBA’s lead and rid his league of bigotry and racism. Meanwhile, Reid claims Nevada has 22 tribes and that the only tradition behind the Redskins’ name was one of racism.

Reid knows a thing or two about racism. In January 2010, Reid had to apologize after he privately described then-candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign as a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Recently, Reid called Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy a racist following the release of a video taken during an outdoor church service purporting to show Bundy making disparaging remarks about ‘the Negro.’

“Today, Bundy revealed himself to be a hateful racist,” Reid stated. “But by denigrating people who work hard and play by the rules while he mooches off public land he also revealed himself to be a hypocrite…”

Reid has proven himself to be both a hypocrite and a racist. On August 10, 2010, Reid commented to reporters, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay? Do I need to say more?”

Reid also slandered Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Bill Magwood in August 2012 saying Magwood is “one of the most unethical, prevaricating, incompetent people I’ve dealt with,” and calling Magwood a “treacherous, miserable liar,” “a first-class rat” and a “sh-t stirrer.”

Magwood is Black.

And speaking of Bundy, Nevada Senator Dean Heller now says the rancher should pay the Bureau of Land management more than $1 million in grazing fees the agency says he owes. The BLM claims the cattle are trespassing on fragile Gold Butte habitat set aside for the endangered desert tortoise, and that Bundy owes $1.1 million in fees and penalties since 1993.

“I am very quick in calling American citizens ‘patriots,’” Heller said in an interview, “Maybe in this case, too quick.”

Heller added: “I want to make it very clear that I never called Bundy a patriot.”

But earlier this month in a joint Las Vegas TV interview with Reid and Heller, the Republican senator defended Bundy’s supporters against Reid’s charges that they were acting like terrorists.

“What Senator Reid may call domestic terrorists, I call patriots, “he said during the April 18 televised interview. “We have a very different view on this.”

Following the flap over Bundy’s comments, and before the full video had been released, Heller sought to distance himself saying through a spokesman he “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.”

Heller’s comments come as the U.S. Capitol Police continue to look into threats made to Reid, which the senior Senator has ‘hinted’ and the press has ‘helped cultivate,” came from supporters of Bundy. Authorities refuse to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Since then, Congressman Steven Horsford has raised concerns that an “armed militia” of Bundy’s supporters have set up checkpoints to decide whether individuals live in the region before allowing them to pass. He has called on local police to investigate.

Finally, former Federal Judge and first time Governor, Brian Sandoval sat down for an interview with Sam Shad, the host of ‘Nevada Newsmakers.’ where part of the conversation turned to the Cliven Bundy standoff.

“I didn’t want any shots to be fired,” Sandoval told Shad. “I didn’t want anybody to get hurt, I didn’t want any innocent by standers to get hurt, so that’s why I was very aggressive in terms of getting folks to stand down.”

The first time Governor added, “As I said, any type of loss of life is not worth a cow.”

Sandoval said locals are worried after seeing several militia groups in the area.

“So that’s the part where I rely upon on Sheriff (Doug) Gillespie,” Sandoval continued. “I know that he’s monitoring the situation. We continue to have conversations, we talked yesterday the law enforcement memorial about what was going on out there and I trust in his judgment.”

When asked if Gillespie plans on trying to move militia groups out of the area, the Governor said, “No, and even if he had said that, I wouldn’t share that with you, because certainly that’s a conversation between the two of us. I just know that he is monitoring the situation and he’s very aware of what’s going on out there.”

Officials say a veteran pilot who appeared at the Reno Air Races many times has died in a crash while performing at the ‘Thunder Over Solano Airshow’ at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County. Officials say Eddie Andreini was flying his vintage 1945 Stearman biplane upside down when it slammed into the ground.

The 77-year-old Andreini started flying while in high school at the age of 16, from Frank Silvestri, a World War II P-47 fighter pilot. He was inducted into the International Council of Air Shows Hall of Fame in December of last year at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas.

No one on the ground was injured and the rest of the airshow is cancelled.

Senator Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada, has has numerous unethical activities during his stint as Senator and as the Senate Majority leader for the Democrats.

Very little has been mentioned about Reid’s misdeeds in the main stream media in the past.  For some reason most of his ethical violations have remained hidden from the public.

Here are some of the issues and bullying that Reid has committed:

1. Attempting to run a Nevada rancher off his land using the BLM for Chinese solar panels

2. Called the Nevada rancher a “domestic terrorist“

3. Numerous insults at the Tea Party: Anarchist and Terrorist

4. Huge Obamacare support even though a majority of Nevadans don’t support it

5. Many verbal attacks against the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers

6. Using taxpayer funded Twitter account (see Talking Points) for political attacks against the Kochs (which is illegal)

7. Used campaign fund money to pay for gifts to his granddaughter (illegal)

8. Sold Nevada land to the Chinese for 10% of its appraised value (a 90% discount) for a solar panel business

9. In 2006 in the same area where Bundy lives, Reid made changes to Federal EPA laws so a friend could develop land in an area called Coyote Springs. This land was protected and off limits to anyone. He also had the BLM remove endangered turtles from the area so his friend, Harvey Whittemore, could develop 10,000 acres in to homes and golf courses.

And still Nevada keeps electing this crook.

Star Wars Day is an unofficial holiday in May celebrating Star Wars. The line “May the Force be with you,” is spoken several times in the films by members of the rebel alliance, who are the good guys, before they embark on a mission against the evil Empire.

May 4th is considered a holiday by Star Wars fans to celebrate the franchise’s film series, books and culture. The date was chosen because ‘May the 4th’ sounds like the series’ popular phrase.

According to StarWars.com the reference was first used on May 4, 1979 when Margaret Thatcher’s political party placed an advertisement in The London Evening News following her taking office as Prime Minister that stated: “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”

In 2011, the first organized celebration of Star Wars Day took place in Toronto, Canada at the Toronto Underground Cinema. The festivities included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show; a costume contest with celebrity judges; and the web’s best tribute films, mash-ups, parodies, and remixes on the big screen.

With regards to the upcoming new installment of Star Wars: Episode 7, the official cast was recently announced. Actors from the original franchise including Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher will reprise their respective characters and is scheduled for release in December 2015.