(based on a report from Huff Post) By 8 to 5, workers at a Subway location in Bloomsbury, N.J., on Friday voted in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. One (pro union) worker said: “I am very relieved the election is over and very proud of my co-workers for hangin[...]
Archive for July, 2014
July 21st, 2014 - 8:14 am § in Misc.
The Ordeal of Climbing Mt. Runyon, LA
RUNYON: Just Above Sunset – DAY 4 – watch more funny videos[...]
July 21st, 2014 - 3:47 am § in The Ave Scene
The Microsoft Layoffs
In 1995 Bill Gates wrote, “The Internet is a tidal wave. It changes the rules.” That memo was all too correct. The consequences of Steve Balmer’s failure to rise to the challenge are now in the hopefully agile hands of CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella was expected to lay off five or six t[...]
July 20th, 2014 - 8:13 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: dhimmi
Christians who want to remain in the “caliphate,” the Islamic State declared this month in parts of Iraq and Syria, must agree to abide by terms of a “dhimma” contract – a practice going back to Mohamed’s rule that Ilamic land must be free of all other religions e[...]
July 20th, 2014 - 4:10 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: 632 BCE to 2014 CE
“First the statue of a beloved local poet and the tomb of a great Arab historian fell to the caliphate’s wrecking crews. The world paid little attention.” Next “the caliphate’s troops “have removed statues of people that the city is really proud of,” said Ismail and archivi[...]
July 19th, 2014 - 9:37 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
“Most of the time you don’t hear sirens… and there’s nowhere to hide,” Sheikh Jumaa Akshahar told Haaretz. “The entire Bedouin sector is asking but they give us nothing. The state isn’t intercepting the rockets [over the community] and isn’t protecting the citizens in the shacks. We are transparent.”
32-year-old Israeli Bedouin, Auda al-Wadj is second civilian killed since start of Gaza operation; four of his family members wounded; lack of protection for Negev Bedouin reached High Court last Thursday. By Chaim Levinson, Ido Efrati, Jack Khoury and Revital Hovel | Jul. 19, 2014 | 5:21 PM The fam[...]
July 19th, 2014 - 8:00 am § in Misc.
Black South Carolina University Can Not Pay its Bills
A South Carolina “traditionally black state school” is unable to pat y its bills. S.C. State has accumulated a a $13.6 million deficit over eight years as the school borrowed money from a community grant program to pay bills. State budget leaders loaned the school $6 million to pay bi[...]
July 19th, 2014 - 4:47 am § in Russia
Putin Calls For Objectivity, As Missile Launcher Goes (back) to Russia
Malaysian Airliner Disaster in Ukraine Must Be Investigated Objectively – Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed his condolences to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte over the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine and said the tragedy needs to be investigated obje[...]
CHINA: Propaganda in the new China
Remember the sexless days of Mao? Propaganda[...]
The Napoleon Syndrome
There is a drug for paranoid schizophrenia! One of the most amazing experiences of medical school was actually meeting schizophrenics. Reading about schizophrenia had not been enough to convince me that these people really had a special illness. After all, there seems to be enough variation [...]