By Zebulan at the Christian Post...

I admit that I just don't get it. I read and watch a lot of information on Clinton. I see that she is a criminal, there is evidence, a lot of evidence. You have to be deluding yourself to not see it. Yet many people that I know are very intelligent still support her, still defend her. I don't get it.

I don't care who the other candidate is really. I admit that. I will not vote for a criminal, ever. Some may say the other candidate is a criminal in some ways. I won't argue with that, but I know that no matter what any other candidate has done it cannot compare with the blatant disregard of the law that is evident among the Clintons.

To vote such a person into the most powerful position in the world sends a very scary message. It is voting for a king, a dictator. We are confirming they are above the law and we do not care. We are saying that the laws you create, the laws of our nation, the laws other's are in jail for breaking, do not apply to our leaders. We all know that money buys a certain amount of justice in our nation. We all know that power does as well. But although these are negatives of our system, we do not blatantly condone it. If you are caught, no matter how powerful you are, we have always prosecuted. Sure, they may weasel out of it, but we still have put our leaders under the same laws as the rest of us. That was until the Clintons. She knows she is a criminal. We know she is a criminal. If we vote her into office, we then tell her that it's ok. Our laws do not apply to you. That is called a king, a dictator, a leader that is above the law. They can do what ever they want with no thoughts nor fears of the ramifications or consequences of their actions.

How can we, a nation of equals, send that message?

http://blogs.christianpost.com/from-the-desk-of-the-logically-minded/voting-for-the-new-king-28005/

The relief effort in Louisiana is ramping up after 10 days of monumental flooding. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama will visit Baton Rouge to survey the damage and find out how the federal government can help. The Red Cross has repeatedly described the flooding as "the worst natural disaster to strike the United States"since Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast in 2012.

But for those who aren't on the ground in Louisiana, it can be difficult to understand what that really means. Here are some numbers that compare the two disasters.

Deaths and damaged homes: Thirteen people have died and about 60,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding that began in Louisiana on August 12. As of Friday, the Obama administration listed 20 parishes in the state as disaster areas, making federal funding available to assist those communities. Hurricane Sandy had a bigger death toll, claiming 72 lives in the United States and damaging 200,000 homes. But that storm hit a much wider swath of land, including metropolitan centers like New York City, whose population is nearly double that of the entire state of Louisiana.

People in shelters: When you compare the storms in terms of the numbers of people in shelters, the situation is similar.

"The Red Cross has mobilized our largest sheltering and feeding effort since Superstorm Sandy with the flooding in Louisiana," said Molly Dalton, a spokeswoman for the humanitarian organization. "It's the largest volume of people in need of emergency shelter in the last four years…In addition, FEMA has reported really high numbers of people registering for emergency assistance, which is another indicator we're going by."

About five days after Hurricane Sandy, she said, the Red Cross had 11,000 people in 250 shelters across 16 states. One week into that relief effort, it had about 7,000 people in shelters, "and we're seeing about the same over the last week" in Louisiana, Dalton said on Friday. "Thursday night we had 3,900 people in 28 shelters, but at the peak of the response we had 10,000 people in 50 shelters [in Louisiana]. So it's going down, but there are still a lot of people in shelters." Sunday night, the Red Cross had nearly 3,000 people in 19 shelters across the state.

Looking at the big picture, the Red Cross and partners have provided more than 40,000 overnight stays since flooding began in Louisiana. That compares with 74,000 overnight stays during the entire relief effort for Hurricane Sandy, and 3.8 million overnight stays for Hurricane Katrina victims who where spread across 27 states.

read more: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/louisiana-flooding-numbers