Store Under Fire After 81-Year-Old Owner Puts Up Clinton ‘Lynching Display’

Have you read the Yelp reviews for Pleasant View Orchards? This store in Smithfield, Rhode Island has taken a whole lot of flak after the owner suspended a “Lyin Hillary” doll from some green yarn. There’s no pics of the actual “hanging” but some people thought it looked like a straight up lynching.

“If I could give a negative star I would,” Paula J. wrote on November 29. “Imagine taking kids there to find a doll hung by a noose on display. The doll? One of our recent Presidential candidates. Folks avoid this place. Certainly don’t bring kids there.”

Other bad reviews followed. Amanda L. said the display was “offensive and not appropriate for children – or really anyone.” Karen B. wrote that “Hanging a Hillary doll from a noose was a very bad business decision.” Shantael C. called it “a public lynching display,” later adding that it was “pure hatred and ignorance in its rarest form. It’s disrespectful to our history and to women in general. Who raised you?? [sic]”

But the store has its defenders too.

“Don’t listen to all the negative reviews they’re all just coming from narcissistic triggered feminist harpies who hate the world and pathetic liberal beta male losers upset because this business has free thought and didn’t support a mass murdering degenerate reprobate like Hillary Clinton,” Keith A. wrote on November 30.

The doll in question is a plush toy of former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. When you squeeze it, it says things like “Not a single one of my emails was classified.”

Store owner Tony Polseno Jr. doesn’t get the outrage. He said a customer gave it to him as a gift. And yup, he’s a Trump supporter, too, with a campaign sign clearly displayed in his store.

“Everyone who comes in here loves it,” the 81-year-old told The Providence Journal in a Wednesday report. He said that people who don’t like it should look the other way. But he later insisted that he didn’t want to cause any fuss.

“They’re making it look like I want to hang people,” he said. “I don’t do that. … We don’t want to be mean. We don’t want to offend anyone. If we offend anyone, I’ll take it down.”

He didn’t mention any immediate plans to take it down.

Wife Camella Polseno told the outlet she knew it was bad idea from the get-go, though she’s a Trump supporter herself. She said a man from Key West went out of his way to call them, and say he hoped the store went under.

“I told you to get rid of the doll,” she told her husband when a reporter was in earshot.

The Journal reports that all the blowback started with a Facebook post on Tuesday, though they couldn’t reach the woman who made it.

Report: ISIS struck deals with Assad on the battleground in Syria

Islamic State and the Assad regime in Syria have been colluding with each other in deals on the battleground, Sky News can reveal.

Our exclusive investigation into leaked secret IS files suggests one piece of co-operation was over the ancient city of Palmyra.

The files also show that the militant group has been training foreign fighters to attack Western targets for much longer than security services had suspected.

By Fox News

The revelations underscore fears in the United States that a network of sleeper cells is spread across Europe, avoiding detection, and is planning further Paris- and Brussels-style assaults.

IS defectors, meanwhile, have told Sky News that Palmyra was handed back to government forces by Islamic State as part of a series of cooperation agreements going back years.

New letters obtained by Sky News, in addition to the massive haul of 22,000 files handed over last month, appear to confirm this.

They show:

:: An agreement with the Syrian regime to withdraw IS weapons from Palmyra.
:: A deal between IS and Syria to trade oil for fertiliser and;
:: Arrangements to evacuate some areas by Islamic State forces BEFORE the Syrian army attacked.

All appear to be pre-agreed deals and suggest direct evidence of collusion between the Syrian regime and Islamic State chiefs.

German spy agency says ISIS sending fighters disguised as refugees

Via Reuters News Agency


Islamic State militants have slipped into Europe disguised as refugees, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said on Friday, a day after security forces thwarted a potential IS attack in Berlin.
Hans-Georg Maassen said the terrorist attacks in Paris last November had shown that Islamic State was deliberately planting terrorists among the refugees flowing into Europe.

"Then we have repeatedly seen that terrorists ... have slipped in camouflaged or disguised as refugees. This is a fact that the security agencies are facing," Maassen told ZDF television.

"We are trying to recognize and identify whether there are still more IS fighters or terrorists from IS that have slipped in," he added.

The Berliner Zeitung newspaper cited Maassen on Friday as saying that the BfV had received more than 100 tip-offs that there were Islamic State fighters among the refugees currently staying in Germany.

German fears about an attack have risen since the Paris killings. On Thursday, German forces arrested two men suspected of links to Islamic State militants preparing an attack in the German capital.

Authorities also canceled a friendly international soccer match in Hanover last year and closed stations in Munich at New Year due to security concerns.

Maassen, however, warned against alarm.

"We are in a serious situation and there is a high risk that there could be an attack. But the security agencies, the intelligence services and the police authorities are very alert and our goal is to minimize the risk as best we can," he said.