![]() Rita is a member of Long Island Quilters and has won many awards and prizes. Our Lady of Fatima’s Quilting Group meets every Tuesday evening under the guidance of Rita D’Alonzo, an expert quilter from the Port Washington community. The show will take place in the Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue, and all are invited to come and see the quilt exhibit, demonstrations and a fashion show. The Jubilee Quilt has also been entered in the 2014 Quilt Show sponsored by the Long Island Quilters’ Society, and will be on display along with others on Saturday, March 22, from 10 a.m. “As long as the basic message and the policies he’s focusing on stay true, that’s what his supporters are there for.Every Tuesday evening throughout the winter of 2013, members of Our Lady of Fatima’s quilting circle worked together to stitch a quilt that will be hung on the walls of the church in commemoration of its 65th Anniversary Jubilee Year. Trump’s outrageous claims about Foster’s death and Obama’s birth certificate “are just a lot of static,” said Mike Stopa, a physicist and Trump delegate from Massachusetts. While conspiracy theories might tarnish Trump’s appeal in a general election, some of his supporters see them as less important than the candidate’s willingness to take a hard line against illegal immigrants and Muslims entering the country. ![]() “It can’t be your fault that something is going bad, somebody had to be conspiring, somebody had to do something dark and dangerous to take something away from you… and if you can just get back at them, your problems are solved.” “What they have in common is that they are emotional ice bags to recover from loss,” Parent said. Parent, a political scientist at the University of Miami and coauthor, with Uscinski, of “American Conspiracy Theories.” ![]() People are more likely to believe such theories when they feel threatened by war, terrorism, and economic upheaval, said Joseph M. US President Barack Obama made a statement on his birth certificate at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 27, 2011. It’s a very strategic position that he takes.” “He always puts it in terms of, ‘I don’t know some people think so.’ And the great advantage of that is, there’s no follow-up. “He’s never saying, ‘I believe this,’ ” Fenster said. That approach makes it easier for Trump to evade responsibility for promoting falsehoods and misinformation, said Mark Fenster, a University of Florida law professor and author of “Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture.” ![]() “I retweet things and we start dialogue and it’s very interesting.” And I retweeted it,” Trump said when questioned about the claim during an ABC interview. When Trump entertains such theories, he often argues that he is merely relaying them, not endorsing them, as he did when he suggested in February that Cruz and Marco Rubio were not eligible to be president. “I don’t see it as deliberately misleading but, if it is, it’s clearly something that should be condemned.” “I often hear them pop up, and you go, ‘Is he responding to something? Or is he floating it?’ ” said Hunt, who plans to vote for Trump in November. Jeff Hunt, director of the Centennial Institute, a think tank at Colorado Christian University, which will host Trump, Sarah Palin, and other conservatives at a summit this week, said he is “not a fan” of Trump’s conspiracy theories, but doesn’t pay much attention to them. ![]()
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