Texas state representative Tony Tinderholt, a Republican, was so outraged by a judge’s ordering a county clerk to issue a marriage license to a gay couple that he filed a complaint with the state judicial conduct commission against, er, the wrong judge. Rep. Tinderholt, by the way, has been ma[...]
Archive for March 3rd, 2015
THE Ave Challenge: How many Congressmen boycotted Netanyahu?
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CHINA: Proposal to Build an Asian Version of the Panama Canal
China to bypass Malacca Strait by Kra Isthmus Canal in Thailand The US Navy controls China’s access to Europe by positioning the US Navy in the Malacca Strait. This has motivated Chinese efforts to displace the US by claiming sovereignty over the South China Sea. Now, China is exploring[...]
German Jews Turn FAR Right
Based on material from The Forward. The leading Jewish newspaper in the US reports that Rotem Ahituv, a German Jew and an immigrant from Israel, wrapped in the black, red and gold German flag, spoke to a group of right wing protestors: “I am Jewish. My family has lived here in Germany for 70[...]
California lawyer files initiative to have “Sodomites” put to death
A California lawyer has filed an initiative, called the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” requiring that ‘any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method”[...]
GOP swallows “stinging defeat” as Obama signs DHS funding bill
“They came, they saw, they blinked. The House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday funding the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September, effectively ending a congressional standoff …. The bill, identical to a measure that cleared the Senate last Friday, pass[...]
DOJ finds “sweeping” racism in Ferguson police and courts
“A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court …. [P]olice disproportionately use excessive force against blacks …, black drivers are stopped and searched far m[...]
Slur of the Day
Spearchucker A term used for an African American, or other person of African descent.[175][...]
BREAKING NEWS: Netanyahu slams Obama’s Iran policy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today did exactly House Speaker John Boehner recruited him to do: He attacked President Obama’s foreign policy. He told Congress to reject the nuclear deal Obama is trying to negotiate with Iran, saying “no deal is better than this deal.” T[...]
Black Billionaire
Some of my friends are excited that Michael Jordan is now a member of the Forbes Billionaire list. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12407104/michael-jordan-makes-debut-forbes-world-billionaires-list They feel like MJ’s arrival on the Billionaire list is a huge accomplishment for black peo[...]