Month: July 2015

President Orders Flags At Half Staff

President Obama declared today proclaimed that flags to be flown at half staff to honor the five servicemen killed five days ago on July 16, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.    The proclamation was announced after House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced the tribute Tuesday morning at the Capitol.

White House Proclamation:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Our thoughts and prayers as a Nation are with the service members killed last week in Chattanooga.  We honor their service.  We offer our gratitude to the police officers and first responders who stopped the rampage and saved lives.  We draw strength from yet another American community that has come together with an unmistakable message to those who would try and do us harm:  We do not give in to fear.  You cannot divide us. And you will not change our way of life.

We ask God to watch over the fallen, the families, and their communities.  As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on July 16, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, July 25, 2015.  I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.   BARACK OBAMA

Governor Malloy’s Birthday

I received a press release that today is Governor Malloy’s birthday and they are going to present him with a birthday card later today.  The press release said if you would like to add your wishes electronically to post them here- http://action.ctdems.org/page/s/sign-governor-malloy-s-birthday-card-

If you don’t want to fill out that form with your contact info you can post it in our comments.

Bridgeport News:Open Carry Man Detained by Police

8amish–#Bridgeport CT–Police spokesman William Kaempffer confirmed an armed man was taken into custody near the Duchess Restaurant on Boston Avenue.  Kaempffer could not confirm a report I received that the man was on his way to guard the recruiting station nearby.  The man had in his possession a shotgun, a handgun and a knife.

 

Citizens and militia have been protecting and guarding recruiting offices since the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee.   If anyone knows the man on Boston Avenue please have him call me at 203-769-6961, I would be interested in telling his side of the story.  The picture below is NOT the man taken into custody but man in Virginia volunteering his time to protect the recruiting station which are “gun free zones”.

 

A man stood guard outside of a recruitment center in Winchester, Virginia with his AR-15.

Fairfield News: Bicyclist and Car Collide

11:31am–#Fairfield CT–Police are investigating an accident between a bicycle and car on the Post Road.  A car was exiting the Minekie Car Care when she collided with a bicyclist on the sidewalk, bike riding on the sidewalk in Fairfield is not illegal.  I’m told the man drove by bike from Stratford and was on his way to volunteer at Operation Hope.  He did not suffer any injuries in the mishap. I heard him apologizing to the driver of the car when I left the scene.

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