‘World’s largest Warhol’ to bloom in Tacoma This photo rendition shows the Tacoma Dome roof with Andy Warhol’s giant flower design from 1981. Tacoma plans to try out the flower design for six months before committing to a permanent painting. The comparison of Tacoma with[...]
Archive for May 3rd, 2014
UKRAINE: Jewish Mayor of Town Near Russian Border Shot
The mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, is recovering in a hospital in Haifa, has regained consciousness after a series of surgeries to save his life. He was shot in the back April 28 in an assassination attempt . Ukraine police are investigating the circumstances around the assassination atte[...]
May 3rd, 2014 - 11:34 am § in Misc.
Rutgers’ Commencement Speaker, Condi Rice, Shamed by Protests, Backs Out
Condoleezza Rice backs out of Rutgers commencementNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War. Rice said in a stat[...]
May 3rd, 2014 - 10:53 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day
Aunt Jemima / Aunt Jane / Aunt Mary / Aunt Sally (U.S.) a black woman who “kisses up” to whites, a “sellout,” female counterpart of Uncle Tom.[10][...]
Slur of the Day: Where did the term “honkey” originate?
Honky also spelled “honkey” or “honkie” (1) (U.S.) an offensive term for a white person. Derived from an African-American pronunciation of “hunky“, the disparaging term for a Hungarian laborer. The first record of its use as an insulting term for a white person da[...]
UKRAINE: Is this how WW III, the nuclear WW, begins?
Ukraine Attacks Pro Russian Forces: ‘Many’ insurgents killed in Slovyansk The AP is reporting that Ukraine has sent its military into SLOVYANSK, wounding or killing the Russian surrogate forces that have seized government buildings across the east. The Kremlin said Kiev’s offen[...]
CUBA: American Hypocrisy
Statement from Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations • MINREX forcefully rejects the manipulation of an issue as sensitive as international terrorism, in order to advance a policy against Cuba, and demands that our country be definitively deleted from this spurious, unilateral, arbitrary list, which[...]