TEA PARTY NEEDS YOU! Sent from Lee’s iPhone Dear Stephen, Most folks will stay up all night for family emergencies. But I’ve been touched by how many patriots there are all over South Carolina who are willing to work around the clock and volunteer on my campaign, to ensure Lindsey Graham is [...]
Archive for February, 2014
February 22nd, 2014 - 8:49 am § in America
What is Monopsony?
We all know what a monopoly: is one seller with many buyers. Exxon’s ancestor, Standard Oil, controlled all the oil in the US. A monopsony (pronounced muh-NOP-suh-nee) is one buyer with many sellers. So if Amazon become the only way of selling books, it will be a monopsony, the only op[...]
Jewish Guy, Blonde Hair, wins Gold Dancing on Ice in Sochi
Team of Meryl Davis and Charlie White win the first Olympics ice dancing gold medal ever for the US. Meryl Davis and Charlie White, February 17, 2014 Photo: REUTERS[...]
Banning Gay Conversion
from HorsesAss Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Passed The WA House by Carl, 02/14/2014, 7:56 AM And with a solid 94-4 majority. As I understand it, it would mean that people who practice that harmful garbage wouldn’t be able to hold a license to practice in the state. It now goes on the the state Senat[...]
February 21st, 2014 - 10:49 am § in America
Censorship in India
The agreement by Penguin Books India to destroy all existing copies of Wendy Doniger’s book represents a danger to the concept of free speech in all democratic countries. Imagine if Ted Cruz and his cohorts got this sort of power here![...]
I call on Pakistan .. Try YOUR Citizen under Shariya!
Now do you believe in capital punishment? “Omar Sheikh, a British-Pakistani, serving life imprisonment in Hyderabad prison, tried to hang himself with the exhaust of the prison cell late Friday,” AFP. According to the Pearl project at Georgetown, however, Sheikh was not the murderer [...]
CHINA: Acting like thugs
China urges Obama-Dalai Lama meeting cancellation 02-21 21:30 China on Friday urged the United States to immediately cancel the planned meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama to avoid damaging China-U.S. ties. Obama-Dalai Lama meeting a lose-lose deal[...]
February 21st, 2014 - 8:45 am § in The Ave Scene
From the Scot: Publicle Popsicles
From The Scot Seattle’s well-known for having some of the finest public art. And one of its more recent pieces of public art has turned out to be one of its most popular and most photographed – and it can be found right outside my apartment block on 4th and Blanchard! It is, of course, […[...]