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AMAZING: A Military Mom Gave A Note To President Trump; Here’s What It Says
A military spouse and mother gave a note to President Donald Trump last week during a ceremony at the White House, and what she wrote is absolutely incredible.
Last week, the president and first lady Melania Trump held a Mother’s Day ceremony at the White House to honor military mothers and spouses.
In an exclusive to The Daily Caller, a family member revealed that his mother gave the president a note while he was walking around and speaking with the brave mothers.
Here’s what Lisa Stalford, an Air Force mother and wife, wrote:
“President and Mrs. Trump,
I wish to express to you my gratitude for the invitation to the Mother’s Day reception at the White House on May 9th. It is such an honor to be invited and recognized as a mother of a military member. I would like to take this opportunity and tell you a little bit about my Air Force Family”
Stalford wrote that her husband served in the Air Force for 23 years and that her four sons have all either served or are committed to serving in the U.S. Air Force.
“As you can imagine, the receipt of this invitation to recognize mothers and spouses of military members means a lot to me. I am, without a doubt, a proud military wife and mother!” she wrote.
Below is a copy of the full letter:
She also invited the Trumps to attend her their son’s Commissioning into the U.S. Air Force on May 19th in Texas.
She closed out the letter thanking the Trumps for the invitation to the White House, saying she was humbled by their hospitality.
At the event, Trump told the military mothers and spouses, “Your love, resilience and courage uplifts our heroes and indeed our nation.”
“We are forever in your debt. I also want to thank all of the spouses here today who are serving in uniform. You are an inspiration to us all, a great inspiration,” Trump said.
What an incredible letter, which the liberal media will never report on or show the American people.
Trump has made helping our heroes in uniform as well as their family members and spouses a top priority since he took office, and it’s heartwarming to read Stalford’s letter to Trump.
Former Starbucks Employee Explains How New Bathroom Policy Will Explode in CEO’s Face
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
A simple disagreement over whether or not two African-American patrons at a Philadelphia Starbucks could use the store’s bathroom has blossomed into a “teaching moment” in extremis, with the Seattle coffee giant even going as far to close all of its stores for a day to teach its employees to be less racist.
Aside from the obvious takeaway that Starbucks is either scapegoating its employees or had actually trained them to be racist — neither of which is good — one conclusion hasn’t been reached by too many people yet: Starbucks has its bathroom policies for a reason.
And it’s a very good reason, a former Starbucks employee said in an Op-Ed piece for The Daily Caller written after the coffee giant scuttled its rules regarding its bathrooms.
The piece, written by Audrey Conklin, was published Tuesday and notes that there are bigger issues at play than you might imagine.
“For the year I worked at Starbucks, my manager made it very clear to all the partners at our location that the store’s two bathrooms were for paying customers only,” Conklin wrote. “Like many other Starbucks stores, we set a four-digit code on the bathroom locks so they couldn’t be accessed by just anybody. Paying customers had to ask for the code. And it changed every couple of weeks, so even regular customers had to ask. But there were good reasons behind this mandatory system that has recently been changed to allow non-paying customers to use Starbucks bathrooms, too.”
That policy is about to change, however, thanks to the Philadelphia incident.
“After the incident, Starbucks announced that it would close over 8,000 of its stores on May 28, 2018, so its partners could participate in implicit bias training, which most agree isn’t a real solution to the issue at stake. Rather, it was a public display of Starbucks making active plans to address a problem instead of just issuing an apology,” Conklin wrote.
“Weeks after the bias training announcement, Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz announced on May 11 that Starbucks changed its bathroom policy so that store restroom facilities are now open to ‘all.’ But Schultz made it clear that Starbucks does not ‘want to become a public bathroom.’ Instead, the company is ‘going to make the right decision 100 percent of the time and give people the key, because we don’t want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we are not giving access to you to the bathroom because you are less than.'”
Conklin notes that Schultz used corporate-speak in explaining the new policy.
“In this case, Schultz is using ‘100 percent of the time’ as a euphemism for ‘public bathroom,’ because, of course, Starbucks does not want to become known as the public restroom place — not among its $7 lattés, prepackaged protein bistro boxes and ceramic thermoses,” she writes.
“It’s not about compassion for people who need to use a bathroom. Starbucks will always apologize profusely in response to events like this one to avoid lawsuits and an overall unpopular reputation among the millennial masses who invest so much in their business.
“Unfortunately, this heavy complacency can only make the occasional social issues that arise next to its name more difficult from here on. The next time Starbucks goes under fire, it will be because someone was denied access to a bathroom,” she adds.
Conklin points out that allowing unlimited access to bathrooms is problematic, especially in certain locales — like the one where she worked, which was the third-busiest Starbucks in Boston.
“In Boston, it’s illegal to offer shelter to people abusing substances,” Conklin writes. “The Department of Housing and Community Development and Emergency Assistance are legally allowed to perform drug tests on those they believe to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol at shelters. Therefore, those who do have alcoholism problems or drug addictions often make the conscious choice to pitch up outside in public areas.
“There were regular vagabonds who walked into our store wanting a cup of water, a warmer (or cooler) climate and to use the bathroom. Of course, bathrooms were off limits to everyone but paying customers. And when the homeless loitered in our store and refused to leave, our friends at the fire department or police station down the road would help us escort them out.”
That will likely all be gone now, thanks to one overzealous manager in Philadelphia.
Beyond that, Conklin points out what should be obvious: If a business owner is paying for the usage and upkeep of a bathroom, a business owner should have the right to decide who gets to use it.
“Bathrooms should be something of a luxury at places like Starbucks for paying customers and employees only. Water, plumbing, electricity and general maintenance do not come at a small price. And Starbucks isn’t paying that price. Its customers are,” she writes.
“Customers are not only paying for the coffee; they are paying for the heat and air conditioning, tables, accessible WiFi and bathrooms. Partners are paid to keep the place clean and comfortable for customers who spend literal hours studying, working, and holding meetings in the store. It seems like a fair trade to me.”
But we know where it goes from here. The bathrooms become filthy because there simply isn’t the money to clean them effectively when they’re used as public restrooms and often as shelters for drug abusers and alcoholics. There’s going to be fewer resources to keep the place clean and comfortable for customers if non-paying customers are able to use it. There are going to be legal problems. The decrease in store quality is going to alienate regular customers of all backgrounds.
And all of this because of the fact that one overzealous manager made a very wrong call regarding two African-American men. They wanted apologies and they got them, and one imagines Starbucks will likely give them a whole lot more.
There’s a lesson to be learned here, but that lesson isn’t that every employee is a racist and that every bathroom should be available to anyone who wants to use it.
Could the FBI and MI6 Have Planted a British Mole in Trump Campaign?
There is increasing evidence that the FBI planted a mole inside Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the election. And it is also increasingly possible that it did so with the assistance of British intelligence.
When the House Intelligence and Oversight committees subpoenaed information about this report, the Justice Department declined to comply, saying that to do so would compromise an “ongoing investigation” and might risk the lives of its sources.
As Kimberly Strassel of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal noted: “We also know that among the Justice Department’s stated reasons for not complying with the Nunes subpoena was its worry that to do so might damage international relationships. This suggests the ‘source’ may be overseas, have ties to foreign intelligence, or both. That’s notable, given the highly suspicious role foreigners have played in this escapade. It was an Australian diplomat who reported the Papadopoulos conversation. Dossier author Christopher Steele is British, used to work for MI6, and retains ties to that spy agency as well as to a network of former spooks. It was a former British diplomat who tipped off Sen. John McCain to the dossier. How this ‘top secret’ source fits into this puzzle could matter deeply.”
They alluded to domestic and “international” sources.
In our book “Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War Against Donald Trump,” we raise the specter that the U.K. and its equivalent of the CIA — MI6 — initiated the Russia collusion scandal. Now it appears very possible that U.K. intel set “traps” for Trump campaign operatives to get them to brag about collusion with Russia.
Foremost among these was the meeting in a British pub between former Australian foreign Minister Alexander Downer and George Papadopoulos, a part-time volunteer in the Trump campaign. The 29-year-old Papadopoulos, over drinks, boasted of his pivotal role in Trump-Kremlin co-ordination. Was this a chance meeting? What was a former foreign minister doing talking to the likes of Papadopoulos?
It was this conversation that the FBI cited as the basis for issuing a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign officials and possibly the candidate himself.
If this meeting was an “intelligence trap” by the U.K. spy agency, it casts new doubt on the entire basis for the scandal, the warrants, the surveillance and the Mueller probe.
The entire allegation of collusion with Russia may have been dreamed up by MI6. Consider (reprinted from “Rogue Spooks”):
1: It was Government Communications Headquarters — Britain’s NSA — that first warned the U.S. that the Russians had hacked the Democratic Party’s computers. Back in September 2015, long before the FBI and CIA knew anything about it or showed any interest in it, GCHQ was waving warning flags about Russian hacking. For a long time, the U.S. did nothing about it.
2: During the campaign and even after, both MI6 and GCHQ routinely passed along classified intelligence information to the U.S. intelligence community about Trump’s associates.
3: It was Christopher Steele, an ex-MI6 spy, who says he wrote the dossier that contained all the unsubstantiated and unreliable but nevertheless explosive material about Donald Trump. Was Steele only a former MI6 agent? Bear in mind what the Russian embassy said: “MI6 officers are never ex.”
4: It was Steele who went to the FBI, without telling his American client, in July 2016, to tell them about his dossier and urge them to investigate Trump and his associates.
5: It was former U.K. Ambassador to Russia Sir Andrew Wood — a secret business associate of Steele’s — who first approached Sen. John McCain to alert him about the dossier and warn him about the danger that Trump might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail if the dossier was actually true. Wood tried to throw the press off his trail by saying that he “had never worked professionally” with Steele, but that claim was contradicted by sworn statements filed in court.
6: It was to London that an associate of McCain’s traveled for a prearranged meeting under clandestine circumstances to obtain the dossier.
7: Numerous uncontradicted published reports indicated that Steele shared his intelligence with MI6, and he admitted he received “unsolicited raw intel” — perhaps coming directly from British intel sources.
8: It was former colleagues of Steele and Wood who, along with Wood, offered a virtual echo chamber of comments to the press about Steele’s credibility. None of them had seen or verified the document.
9: The director of MI6, Alex Younger, used notes from Steele’s dossier in his first public speech. Younger and Steele — and Wood — had all been colleagues in British intelligence.
10: As noted, two weeks after the dossier containing all the negative information about Trump was published — and three days after the inauguration — Robert Hannigan, the popular director of GCHQ, abruptly resigned, citing family illnesses, giving only six hours’ notice. The media reported that “his sudden resignation prompted speculation that it might be related to British concerns over shared intelligence with the U.S. in the wake of Donald Trump becoming president.”
11: MI6 issued a DA notice when the dossier was published and Steele’s identity was revealed. This government directive requested that all media refrain from reporting anything at all about Steele for nine hours — enough time for him to escape from London.
12: U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and several government ministers were briefed on the Trump dossier before the U.S. inauguration and decided to stay quiet about it.
All roads may lead to London.
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster and consultant.
U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools
By Shane Harris
The U.S. government has identified a suspect in the leak last year of a large portion of the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal, the cyber tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas, according to interviews and public documents.
But despite months of investigation, prosecutors have been unable to bring charges against the man, who is a former CIA employee currently being held in a Manhattan jail on unrelated charges.
Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, is believed to have provided the agency’s top-secret information to WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors acknowledged in a hearing in January. The anti-secrecy group published the code under the label “Vault 7” in March 2017. It was one of the most significant and potentially damaging leaks in the CIA’s history, exposing secret cyber weapons and spying techniques that also might be used against the United States, according to current and former intelligence officials.
Schulte’s connection to the leak investigation hasn’t been previously reported.
Federal authorities searched Schulte’s apartment in New York last year and obtained a personal computer equipment, notebooks, and hand-written notes according to a copy of the search warrant reviewed by The Washington Post. But that failed to provide the evidence that prosecutors needed to indict Schulte with illegally giving the information to WikiLeaks.
“Those search warrants haven’t yielded anything that is consistent with [Schulte’s] involvement in that disclosure,” Matthew Laroche, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, said at a hearing on Jan. 8, according to a court transcript.
Laroche said at the time that the investigation “is ongoing,” and that Schulte “remains a target of that investigation.”
Part of that investigation, Laroche said, was analyzing whether a technology known as TOR, which allows Internet users to hide their location, “was used in transmitting classified information.”
In other hearings in Schulte’s case, prosecutors have alleged that he used TOR at his New York apartment, but they have provided as yet no evidence that he did so in order to disclose classified information. Schulte’s attorneys have said that TOR is used for all kinds of communications and have maintained that he played no role in the Vault 7 leaks.
Schulte is currently in a Manhattan jail on charges of possessing, receiving, and transporting child pornography, according to an indictment filed last September. He has pleaded not guilty.
A former federal prosecutor, who is not connected to the case, said that it’s not unusual to hold a suspect in one crime on unrelated charges, and that the months Schulte has spent in jail doesn’t necessarily mean the government’s case has hit a wall. The former prosecutor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation, also said that if government lawyers acknowledged in a public hearing that Schulte was a target, they probably believe he acted alone.
In documents, prosecutors allege that they found a large cache of child pornography on a server that was maintained by Schulte. But he has argued that anywhere from 50 to 100 people had access to that server, which Schulte, now 29, designed several years ago in order to share movies and other digital files.
Schulte worked in the CIA’s Engineering Development Group, which produced the computer code, according to sources with knowledge of his employment history as well as the group’s role in developing cyber weapons.
At the time of the leak, people who had worked with that group said that suspicion had mainly focused on contractors, not full-time CIA employees like Schulte. It’s not clear whether the government is pursuing contractors as part of the leak investigation, but prosecutors haven’t mentioned anyone other than Schulte in court proceedings.
Schulte, who also worked for the National Security Agency before joining the CIA, left the intelligence community in 2016 and took a job in the private sector, according to a lengthy statement he wrote that was reviewed by the Post.
The CIA declined to comment.
Schulte said in the statement that he joined the intelligence community to fulfill what he saw as a patriotic duty to respond to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Schulte also claimed that he reported “incompetent management and bureaucracy” at the CIA to both that agency’s inspector general as well as a congressional oversight committee. That painted him as a disgruntled employee, he said, and when he left the CIA in 2016, suspicion fell upon him as “the only one to have recently departed [the CIA engineering group] on poor terms,” Schulte wrote.
Schulte said he had also been planning a vacation with his brother to Cancun, which may have given the appearance that he was trying to flee the country.
“Due to these unfortunate coincidences the FBI ultimately made the snap judgment that I was guilty of the leaks and targeted me,” Schulte said.
Schulte, who has launched a webpage to raise money for his defense, claims that he initially provided assistance to the FBI’s investigation. Following the search of his apartment in March 2017, prosecutors waited six months to bring the child pornography charges.
Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
“Traitors And Cowards!’; Trump RIPS Leakers, Offers Major Warning About What’s Next
President Donald Trump ripped White House leakers on Monday, calling them “traitors and cowards” for leaking a bevy of stories about what is being discussed during private meetings.
He also offered a major warning about what’s next: “We will find out who they are.”
The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2018
Trump’s stern warning comes after three bombshell reports in the last week that were made possible by leaks.
On Sunday, Axios’s Jonathan Swan published an article in which he detailed how leakers told him that the are dishing out private information because it’s fun, offers them a chance to settle personal vendettas, and they are trying to harm the president.
“Some people use leaking to settle personal scores, or even worse to attack the President,” a former senior official told Swan. “But for me it was always to make a point about something that I felt was being unjustly ignored by others.”
White House leakers leak about leaking – and once story posted other leakers asked why they weren’t asked to leak about their leaking https://t.co/dR0Bjws6Ak
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) May 14, 2018
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) May 14, 2018
Talking to a prolific leaker right now. I asked him why he leaks. His response: “It’s like playing with matches.”
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 15, 2018
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 15, 2018
Prior to Swan’s story, it was reported that a White House aide allegedly made disparaging remarks about Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
White House communications aide Kelly Sadler reportedly said “he’s dying anyway” when discussing McCain’s opposition to Gina Haspel’s nomination to become the next head of the CIA.
Of course, that information leaked and ignited a firestorm in the liberal media, which led to some saying Trump has created a culture where such remarks are tolerable. There’s no proof whatsoever Trump condoned the remarks, and it was reported the matter was handled internally.
When White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke to the communications team about leaking Sadler’s comment, someone in the room leaked Sanders comments.
“I am sure this conversation is going to leak, too. And that’s just disgusting,” Sanders said, and she was right.
On Monday, New York Magazine released a story citing former and current administration officials who detailed how Trump speaks with Fox New host Sean Hannity privately in the Oval Office most nights.
"The call to the White House comes after ten o'clock most weeknights, when Hannity is over." @NYMag just published @OliviaNuzzi's story all about Trump and Hannity… it's a must read https://t.co/Yuuv0Gr2qypic.twitter.com/4CFLMDNtul
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 14, 2018
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 14, 2018
As Trump has stated numerous times, leaking private information and details is an act of betrayal toward the White House and administration.
These actors are trying to derail Trump’s presidency, and he just fired a major warning shot that he will find out who they are.
TWIST: Bernie Sanders Son Is PRAISING Trump — ‘Incredible Job’ Boosting Voter Confidence
One of his biggest gripes is that Democrats don’t make voters feel good about themselves, he said, unlike the “incredible job” Donald Trump andthe Republican Party are doing.
Sanders said in his interview with Independent:
“The Democratic Party has done a very poor job of bolstering people’s confidence and self-esteem, and that has significant consequences when it comes to reaching out to low-income and working-class people,” Sanders stated, looking to Hillary Clinton’s affinity for ‘talking down’ to voters.
Levi Sanders posing with his Family
Sanders said in his interview with Independent:
“The Democratic Party has done a very poor job of bolstering people’s confidence and self-esteem, and that has significant consequences when it comes to reaching out to low-income and working-class people,” Sanders stated, looking to Hillary Clinton’s affinity for ‘talking down’ to voters.
Levi Sanders posing with his Family“When Hillary Clinton used the word ‘deplorable’ that had a significant effect on so many people. They basically said ‘We understand that Donald Trump is not a nice guy, but he is one of us.’ He said ‘Yes, I know I’m a billionaire, but I’m like your weird uncle. I’m not politically correct and I’m not judging you’ and that’s the key.”
Levi is running on a political platform that echoes his father Bernie’s “socialist solutions”, praising ideas like universal healthcare, government-funded “free” college, and a higher minimum wage.
“It’s not about the fact that I am Bernie Sanders’ son – sure, obviously, that is more interesting – but the real issue is every day I get to see the economic pain that people are under,” Sanders stated.
While Sanders said he believes Donald Trump’s presidency is a “disaster,” but admits the president has had some success.
“Trump has done an incredible job in saying, ‘Listen, you don’t really need to make more money. I’m not going to raise your minimum wage but I’m going to make you feel good about yourself – the Democratic Party has taken away your self-esteem and your self-worth. If you take someone’s self-esteem away you are done, but you can take away someone’s money.”
Mother of 16 Kids Reveals What Her Daily Life Is Really Like
By Amanda Thomason
Happy Easter to everyone...so thankful that the resurrection of Christ gives us the victory in this life and in eternity!These days it’s rare to see large families. A “large family” seems to be anything more than two kids now, and if you have more, you get looks and comments of “are you done yet?”
Society doesn’t seem to smile on families who decide to keep adding to their numbers, but you can fly under the radar if you only have a few.
When you hit a dozen, you’re definitely an outlier. But if you hit 16, like this family, you’re definitely in the “unusual” category.
Just having a few kids is demanding enough work, but 16 — how in the world does this mom find time to do everything she needs to do and keep everyone looking so polished?
This supermom, Lyette Reback, from Florida somehow manages to hold down the fort, homeschool her kids, and run a charity on the side. But there is a definite method to her madness, and she lives by the List.
The only way she stays on track is to start a list in the morning that she adheres to throughout the day. “If it doesn’t get on the list,” she said, “it’s not gonna happen!”
Getting the kids’ names right is not on the list. But what mother can keep their kids’ names straight all the time without also occasionally mixing in the dog’s name? Nothing atypical here.
And with 16 kids from 2 to 23, mixing up names is more than understandable. The kids live in rooms that look like dorms, with bunk beds and little privacy.
That has its perks, though, as one of the boys pointed out, because there’s always someone to play with.
“I always wanted a big family,” said Reback. “I’ve just been fortunate enough to have an amazing husband [who] wants to do life big and crazy with me. We’ve been blessed every time.”
Reback likens her daily “work” to running a small business. The kids all have to finish their schooling and then have various sports and other activities they’re involved in throughout the week.
Mealtimes are a major undertaking as well — this family can’t just waltz into a restaurant without making a reservation and paying that 18% gratuity.
At home, everyone pitches in. Each breakfast takes about 35 eggs to feed the family, and the kids are involved in making the meals.
The charity Reback runs is called “Believe With Me,” and they donate funds to deserving families. Their current project is to provide a home for the family of a petty officer who died in a helicopter crash.
She seems happy with her choices, though, and the kids appear well-adjusted. They’re certainly getting a lot of life skills training!
Ciao…….Helen and Moe Lauzier
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