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Archive for June, 2014

June 24th, 2014 - 9:08 am § in Misc.

Gun Raffles Spread: From South Carolina to New York and Now WASTATE

Former Redskins Player Running for Office Hopes to Sway Voters with Gun Giveaway Sunday, I wrote about the KKK in my sister’s home state of South Carolina, one huge reason I am glad not to live there.  Well, maybe I misjudged, fetid politics from the confederacy seems to be spilling over to m[...]

June 24th, 2014 - 8:14 am § in Jews, Misc.

Summer Read

The Search for Utopia Reaches the End of the Road in ‘American Commune’ By Jennifer Bleyer Sex and drugs and Passover Seders: In a new documentary, two sisters reflect on their years on The Farm in the 1970s[...]

June 24th, 2014 - 3:47 am § in Uncategorized

Who is White? Bigotry and Discrimination at a Traditionally Black College

“A white professor is accusing Alabama State University, an Historically Black College, of discriminating against him and his partner after they blew the whistle on racial preferences at the school.” from website “Black like Moi” An ASU diversity officer, “Why did we ha[...]

June 24th, 2014 - 12:21 am § in America

Sell Your Wedding Dress On The Web!

Women selling their wedding dresses Preownedweddingdresses. com surveyed 2,766 women aged between 18 and 55. According to the findings, 87 percent of the respondents said they would “definitely” or “maybe” sell their gowns.[...]

June 23rd, 2014 - 9:41 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene

Microsoft OneDrive jumps to 15GB free, and 1TB for Office 365

This is a BIG deal! I have long held the theory that in the earliest days of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, these two guys were frustrated by the difficulties they had as students of Lakeside. They had an intense drive to access computers and would do anything they could This led the two of […][...]

June 23rd, 2014 - 8:26 am § in Uncategorized

Why Israel? …. ask the French

Seven decades after the liberation of Jews from Hitler’s camps, the crime of being Jewish while European remains real.  With the exception of Germany, little or no effort has been made to entice Jews to remain.  This leaves the alternative of living where you are less than wanted or leaving.[...]

June 22nd, 2014 - 9:42 pm § in China, Misc.

China: Those who can, vote for democracy.

Hong Kong votes for democracy, defies Beijing By Nikki Sun and Alice Woodhouse HONG KONG – Nearly 600,000 votes have been cast in three days of an unofficial referendum on democratic reforms in Hong Kong, part of a civil campaign that has been branded illegal by the former British colony and[...]

June 22nd, 2014 - 12:22 pm § in Misc.

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: … Using God In the Immigrant Crisis

So now the Tea Party want to prevent the US Government from providing access to religion for internees at the border? Their argument is demonic:  First they insist on militarizing the border so no one can sneak in.  Then they block any form of reform so that sneaking in is the only route for many.[...]

June 22nd, 2014 - 11:23 am § in China, Misc.

CHINA: Threatens Freedoms of Hong Kong

China issues white paper on policy in Hong Kong 06-10 11:17 The Chinese central government Tuesday published a white paper detailing the “one country, two systems” practice in HKSAR, stressing the policy as a basic state policy despite new circumstances.| Full text No “residual pow[...]

June 22nd, 2014 - 9:34 am § in Misc.

June 22 Today in History

Hitler Invades Germany, Mark Schmelling looses to Joe Louis.[...]