I’ve never lived in South Carolina, and frankly don’t want to, and have only an outsider’s impression of the state. A story in today’s news doesn’t improve my opinion of South Carolina or the people who live there. If the good citizens of South Carolina want to be taken[...]
Archive for April 18th, 2014
APPLESAUCE: Why do I need to give Apple my $*^%% finberprint?
Like millions of others, Fred Kahl never used a passcode on his iPhone. The 48-year-old creative director said it was “kind of a pain in the ass” to punch in those numbers every time he needed his phone. In the meantime, plans for the Goldfinger project by Apple have been held up by poli[...]
BUCHENWALD 38: Ukraine events and Jewish memories of the early stages of WWII
Denials and Debates About the Facts In Europe Marked the Path to The Camps in the 1930s. (Donetsk, Ukraine) Once again the opponents in Europe are using their Jews as pawns. Fliers were distributed by masked men this week ordering Jews over the age of 16 to register with the new authorities (for[...]
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: “No Knowledge” of Why Utah Plane is in Tehran
(WhiteHOuse, TA News April 18,2014) Tagg Romney, the spokesperson for the Romney administration, says that the White House is investigating a report in the New York Times about an American plane belonging to a bank in Utah appearing in Tehran. Mr. Romney said that the FAA had told him that the pla[...]
Can I Tip at The Fast Food Drive Through Window?
Seattle is about to pass some form of $15 per hour minimum wage. The debate is no longer about whether we will have such a wage but what to do about other forms of income such as tips or benefits. When we pass the $15 wage, an obvious result will be … wherever possible… cuts […][...]
BUCHENWALD 37: The Jews: Today is the anniversary of a heroic event
SEVENTY years ago today, a group of young men and women fired the shots that began the largest single act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. ¶[...]
Commentary by SMS: How to fake a Chihuly
Chihuly fakes Dale Chihuly famously makes no art of his own. Instead he runs a factory where others, anonymously, create Chihouly stuff. Last spring Federal authorities arrested a Renton man for offering fake Dale Chihuly glass pieces and paintings. Ironically, the fraud was discovered when [...]