Members of the Antioch Road to Glory International Ministries are taking a stand for Christ and Trump, according to the church’s Facebook page.

The historically black church has collectively endorsed Donald Trump, and last Sunday they hosted ‘A Day of Endorsement’ to support the Republican Presidential candidate.

Thursday morning CNN brought Pastor Thomas Rogers to discuss the following Facebook comment:

Pastor Rogers defended the statement further saying Hillary is, “dangerous and reckless, and her past track record is a great indication that she is not fit to run this nation.”

The Clinton campaign is paying close attention to the church and their against the grain support for Trump.  They have issued statements in response to claims made by the church including a reminder that Clinton worked with the Mothers of The Movement to curtail intercity violence.

Pastor Thomas Rogers wants to give the new guy a chance and thinks America needs to ditch her abusive ex come November.

Donald Trump claims U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton are the “co-founders” of ISIS.

The assertion was made Wednesday night in Florida where Donald Trump held a rally. He defended his remarks that both Obama and Clinton were ISIS founders during an interview with CNBC Thursday morning:

“Is there something wrong with saying that?”

“Why – are people complaining that I said he was the founder of ISIS? All I do is tell the truth, I’m a truth teller.”

The DNC issued a statement saying Donald Trump should apologize:

Donald Trump should apologize for his outrageous, unhinged and patently false suggestions on the founding of ISIS,”

The statisticians at FiveThirtyEight have aggressively adjusted their prediction of who will win the presidency:

In a Bloomberg interview this morning Doug Kass reaffirmed his prediction that Donald Trump would withdraw his candidacy for President.

Kass has been saying Trump would drop out on his reverse-typeset blog since late-June.  I have taken a screenshot of the Doug Kass Blog ® and affixed it below, so you can see what an ugly website looks like:

Mr. Kass doubled down on the dropout rhetoric just last Tuesday:

Some six weeks after writing that, I now believe a Trump withdrawal is a more likely than ever. In fact, this might even represent a new baseline assumption for investors.

Now, there are certain things — a degree of respect, a solid political organization, a thorough thought process, etc. — that many believe all presidential candidates need. But arguably, Trump’s tone and tactics don’t conform to any of these.

Kass cites a lack of tone and tactics as the reason Trump will drop out which sounds like analyst-speak for ‘lack of political correctness’.

Doug Kass is the president of Seabreeze Partners Management Inc, a Financial Planning office down in Palm Beach, Florida.  He is also a writer for TheStreet.com, a publicly traded website whose shares you can purchase for $1.25 on the open market.

Juilan Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, gave an interview earlier this week on PBS.  He was asked who the sources were on the DNC Leaks.  His answer?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other DNC members.

This is getting zero airtime–Schultz leaks information leading to her resignation and new role as a senior advisor on the Clinton campaign?

The index trader and the index investor are getting a bad deal right now.

These trading conditions are prime for error if you only trade an index.

Ranges are tight. Every globex session is normal. Rotations rarely have follow-thru.

The action is slow and getting caught full size into the lunch lull is a recipe for disaster.

Your sugars tank then little things can irritate you. Objective thinking is abandoned and gut decisions override your plan. Maybe you trade more size than normal since range is so small. Then poof, two-months of gains given back in one trade.

Trading from the outside-in usually works best in these conditions–fading the big moves using market profile levels.

Or you can switch over to trading stocks. I have not put the work in yet to get back into trading stocks, but if I even thinking about buying a stock I would be taking advantage of the free After Hours trials going on this week.

It is iBankCoin’s daily broadcast where Option Addict lays out a contextual framework then sets up stocks to trade. Members have been killing it in this slow, trending tape.

I will stick to NASDAQ futures because my planning and statistics and charts and order flow feel give me an edge. When it’s slow I just back off. But soon, when I’m ready to commit more time to work and grind out stocks, you best believe I will be watching After Hours. You should too.

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump opines on the DNC Convention–the way several speakers canoodled the nice old man Mr. Bernie Sanders.

Then he calls his Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton the devil:

The comments were made during a rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a small town between Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Donald’s next stop is Denver where he will speak to the cannabis lovers about walls and bad deals.

It was all fun and games when Zika was a distant threat for vacationers and residents of tropical locales.  Now the genetically modified bloodsuckers are stateside, and these citizen bugs have already infected at least 10 people.

Florida confirmed Monday 10 more homegrown cases of Zika in people infected by local mosquitoes, leading federal health officials to advise women who are pregnant to avoid the area just north of downtown Miami where Zika is spreading.

Women have visited the Wynwood neighborhood in Miamia since June 15 should avoid getting pregnant for at least eight weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Zika appears to have begun spreading among mosquitoes in this area around June 15.

This is the first time in recent memory that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned people to avoid a community in the continental U.S. because of an outbreak, said Thomas Frieden, CDC director.

At Florida’s request, the CDC is sending an emergency response team to the state to help control the outbreak. Two CDC staff are already working in Florida, with six more planning to join them.

The new Zika cases in Miami bring the number of Zika infections spread by local mosquitoes — as opposed to foreign travel — to 14.

Controlling the cluster of Zika cases is proving difficult, Frieden said.

“We don’t have ideal ways to control the mosquitoes that control Zika,” Frieden said. “In Miami, aggressive mosquito control measures don’t seem to be working as well as we would have liked.”

This is a way bigger deal than is being reported amid an election year.  The attack is being conducted by millions of Ant-Man sized soldiers, fully prepared to give their life in their campaign to spread the brain damaging virus.

Why make your own sign when you can deface your opponents for free?  The silenced [potential] majority of Democrats are a clever bunch.  Their latest stunt?  Craft time with the DNC convention signs which, with a bit of blue marker can be reworded to say ‘stop her’ instead of ‘stronger together’.

A good portion of last week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was spent asking Bernie’s fans to vote for Hillary Clinton this November.  Whether or not they succeed in uniting the party may decide the outcome of this November’s election.

Data at FiveThirtyEight swung back in Hillary’s favor after Michelle Obama’s speech.  The poltitical statistics website put Trump in the lead briefly after hackers released over 15,000 raw emails from the DNC servers which showed members of the party colluding against Bernie during the primaries.

The sign also is embellished with Bernie stickers, much like most subcompact cars in every major metropolitan area.

Late-last week reports began to surface about the garbage, human body, and sewage waiting for Olympic athletes at Guanabara Bay, the body of water where several events are scheduled to begin later this week.

The Associated Press sent some independent scientists down to Rio to see just how funky the water is.

SPOILER ALERT: It is putrid.

A report commissioned by the Associated Press has revealed that water in Rio’s Olympic and Paralympic venues holds viral levels 1.7m times what would be considered alarming in the United States and Europe just five days before the Games get underway

Earlier this year several athletes opted out of the global competition due to risk of contracting the mosquito borne Zika virus.  It now appears the bigger risk athletes face is contact with the open water surrounding the games.

Today Tesla Motors will announce the details of their merger with SolarCity.  The conference call was held at 8am EDT on August 1st, here is the link if you wish to listen in:

WEBCAST

(if you have the conference call details, please pass them along)

Tesla deal values SolarCity at $25.37/share.  The deal is being done using $2.6 billion in Tesla stock.

In the meantime, here is the recorded conference call from June 22nd where Elon Musk describes how he intends to achieve a trillion dollar (Extra Dr. Evil) market cap for the merged organizations: