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Archive for May, 2012
May 3rd, 2012 - 5:49 pm § in Misc.
Nazi’s Reborn, Socrates Weeps
Fascism rises from the depths of Greece’s despair A neo-Nazi party that wants work camps for immigrants is on course to win its first seats in parliament on Sunday[...]
May 3rd, 2012 - 2:00 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
AFL CIO gives up landmark campus
from The Examiner In the latest sign of the fast-shrinking Big Labor movement, the National Labor College established in 1969 by AFL-CIO icon George Meany to teach new labor organizing tactics and management to new generations of activists is selling its sprawling Silver Spring, Md. campus. The reas[...]
May 3rd, 2012 - 11:35 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: of Cholos and Chugs
Chug (Canada) refers to an individual of aboriginal descent.[44] Cholo (Latin American Spanish, USA) used in Latin America to refer to people of perceived Amerindian or African slaves descent; used in the USA to refer to people of perceived Mestizo descent, especially teenagers and young people in t[...]
May 3rd, 2012 - 8:15 am § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS
Question of the Day: Is this an act by Romney or does he really want to be one of the normal folk? Wonder how he will behave when he gives his speech to the Gay Republicans?[...]
May 1st, 2012 - 10:43 am § in The Ave Scene
Apple CEO spotted in North Korea and Washington State.
Based, in part on reports from CNET on CRAVE Tim Cook reportedly visited PyongYang the same week that the regime of Kim Jung Un failed to launch the rocket named “Pointer One.” This photograph taken down after the failure seems to show Mr. Cook standing behind the Dear Leader as th[...]
May 1st, 2012 - 12:37 am § in Hypocrisy
Notre Dame makes bid to go public
While states are effectively privatizing their universities, tradionally private schools may go the other way. The President of Notre Dame said “Moving to a competitive, government-funded environment would make the Catholic school more competitive for the best students.” “We are ex[...]