Scarlett Johansson will no longer be an ambassador to Oxfam, Sky News reported Thursday. This sad news occurred because Oxfam objected to J0hansson doing commercials for SodaStream, an Israeli owned company that operates a factory on the West Bank. Most of Sodastream’s employees are Palestin[...]
Archive for January, 2014
January 30th, 2014 - 12:06 am § in Misc.
Anniversary of Gandhi’s death
School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi assemble to mark his death anniversary in the southern Indian city of Chennai.[...]
January 29th, 2014 - 10:00 am § in The Ave Scene
Amazon 2: No Unions Here
Amazon hates unions. Each of the above are really symptoms of one larger problem. Amazon executives categorically oppose the idea of warehouse workers organizing because they fear that unions would slow the speedy deliveries that have become the staple of the Amazon shopping experience. From The New[...]
January 29th, 2014 - 9:20 am § in Misc.
TA Predicts Broncos lose 43 to 8. CBS gives the edge to the Hawks 24 to 21.
A week ago, THE Ave’s Hippolyta predicted that Denver will lose the Superbowl 43 to 8. We used highly advanced mathematical tools that probably are not available to others. Now CBS’s Predictalator ran a simulation of Sunday’s Super Bowl 50,000 times, and found that the most like[...]
January 29th, 2014 - 4:53 am § in Misc.
DID YOU KNOW: NFL IS A TAX FREE CHARITY?
NO TAXES! The NFL is not for profit! With a commissioner Roger Goodell paid $29.5 million to run the organization, the NFL gave away went to the NFL Hall of Fame! That is “charitable donations” of $2.3 million out of $255 million in 2012. Richard Friedman reports that [...]
January 28th, 2014 - 5:45 pm § in Misc.
I8 days left to win an AR15!
JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING Lee Bright, Win an AK 15! AR-15! “one lucky Second Amendment Supporter will be the winner,” If you want to receive campaign emails from South Carolina state Senator Lee Bright, then the Tea Party U.S. Senate candidate in South Carolina has a contest for you. South C[...]
January 28th, 2014 - 5:38 am § in Misc.
Public Academics Paid to Defend Wall Street
University of Houston: Paid to Support Wall Street While this University’s financial ties to speculators have been the subject of scrutiny by the news media and others, it was not until last month, after repeated requests by The Times under the Freedom of Information Act, that the University of Ho[...]
May the Schwartz Be With You …
The Ancestors of the Schwartz Family Were Black People! Years ago, my grandmother, Bubbie Perlmutter, told me that our family name was not “Schwartz” but “Negri.” This Latin name made some sense since I had grown up being told that we were immigrants from a group of Jews w[...]