Mean time, the police are at the ready – whatever Thursday’s result Read opinions by Scots. [...]
Archive for September, 2014
September 15th, 2014 - 10:53 am § in Misc.
Scotland Decides in One Day: The opinion polls are no help, either — they’re too close to call.
September 15th, 2014 - 10:41 am § in America, The Ave Scene
A Tragedy At Discovery Park
Re: 2014 Seafair Indian Days Powwow Cancelled Dear Friends, On behalf of the UIATF Board and staff, we regret to inform our United Indians community that the 2014 Seafair Powwow will not be held this year. After careful consideration of many factors we have determined that United Indians does not ha[...]
September 15th, 2014 - 9:40 am § in Misc.
Should Booker Be Hillary’s Running Mate in 16?
Cory Booker was mentioned in a post. Holy. Cow. Cory Booker Gave A Ridiculous Amount Of His Income Away Last Year The benevolent senator who once saved a neighbor from a burning building and took a self-imposed food stamp challenge, has restored our faith in humanity… www.huffingtonpost.com[...]
September 15th, 2014 - 8:12 am § in Uncategorized
Calif. cops beat up deaf man for using sign language
When ordinary law-abiding citizens have more to fear from police than criminals, we’ve got a serious problem. On February 13, 2014, four cops in Hawthorne, California, encountered a deaf man. He didn’t respond to their verbal commands because — you guessed it — he can’t[...]
September 15th, 2014 - 8:04 am § in The Ave Scene
So .. that is what a Seahawk looks like!
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Afghanistan …. 1000 years ago there were Jews.
Jerusalem – A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is providing the first physical evidence of a Jewish community that thrived there a thousand years ago.[...]
September 14th, 2014 - 9:18 pm § in Misc.
Hamas can’t rent homes and offices in Gaza
Gaza Strip – Gaza Landlords Refusing To Rent To Hamas, Official Says Yesterday 10:33 PM Gaza – Landlords in the Gaza Strip are refusing to rent apartments to Hamas members and their families, a senior Hamas official revealed on…[...]
September 14th, 2014 - 4:35 pm § in Misc.
A WGU Student Defends Her School
I have written much that is critical of WGU, a supposedly non profit on line school that eschews faculty and nourished its admins with very high salaries and other perks. My main concern is not with the money taken in by these people but with the harm done to students getting a poor education. A [&h[...]
September 14th, 2014 - 2:47 pm § in Misc.
Even celebrities get profiled and harassed by L.A.’s racist cops
Actress Danielle Watts, who is black, kissed her boyfriend — celebrity chef Brian Lucas aka Cheffy Be*Live — in public. It got them arrested by Los Angeles cops who assumed any black woman who kisses a white man must be a prostitute. http://handbill.us/wp-admin/post-new.php This will b[...]
What a waste!
After his plans for a new Seattle Waterfront were widely derided as not being innovating and not reflecting anything of Seattle, the city’s contract with James Corner for 8 million has already spent $7.5 million dollars. Cornet is an international landscape architect, well known for [...]