reposted from Facebook Mike James I don’t know if Socialist Kshama Sawant will be re-elected next year, or which of the 7 new city council districts she may or may not represent, but I’d guess an important question in that campaign would be “what is the work/what are the expectatio[...]
Archive for November 20th, 2014
November 20th, 2014 - 4:15 pm § in Misc.
A $500 Fine For Murder
On Monday, an Atlanta judge fined a 70-year-old homeowner $500 and gave him 1 year of probation for killing a young foreign exchange student who drove into his driveway by mistake. Rodrigo Diaz, 22, from Colombia, was killed on Jan. 26, 2013, while picking up friends for a skating party. His intende[...]
November 20th, 2014 - 10:59 am § in Politics
GOP Senator Expects Conservatives To Riot Against Immigration Order
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) warned today that President Obama’s executive order on immigration could spark violent riots. “The country’s going to go nuts, because they’re going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it’s going to be a very serious situation,[...]
November 20th, 2014 - 9:37 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS? What News?
ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX have all indicated they won’t break their planned programming to cover Obama’s 8 p.m. ET speech. CNN’s Brian Stelter first reported that ABC, NBC and CBS were opting out, and an official with FOX confirmed the same with The Hill.[...]
November 20th, 2014 - 2:05 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Homosexuality as a choice
Other choices include being a nun, a priest, or a fundamentalist Christian . Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City star, caused a stir in 2012, when she told The New York Times: ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said [...]
November 20th, 2014 - 12:34 am § in Uncategorized
Boeing, Ford, and Chevron Pay Their CEOs More Than The Pay Taxes to Uncle Sam
“Boeing, Ford and Chevron are among 29 U.S. companies whose chief executives were compensated more last year than their corporations paid in federal income taxes,” the Seattle Times reported tonight. But Republicans tell us corporations are overtaxed, and want to cut corporate taxes even[...]