A wealthy insurance executive who traded favors for a badge, gun, and false training records was sentenced to 4 years in prison for accidentally* killing an unarmed robbery suspect by grabbing his gun instead of his taser. At age 74 and in failing health, Robert Bates doesn’t have 4 years to [...]
Archive for May, 2016
May 31st, 2016 - 6:37 pm § in Uncategorized
Explaining the Trump phenomenon in a paragraph
“Trump is running not to be president of all Americans, but to be the clan leader of white Americans. Those white Americans who respond to his message hear his abusive comments, not as evidence of his unfitness for office, but as proof of his commitment to their tribe.” — David Fru[...]
May 31st, 2016 - 1:15 pm § in Misc.
Sino-Russian Aerospace Threatens Boeing
As Boeing plans 4,500 job cuts as competition with Airbus gets hotter, Moscow and Beijing have signed a deal to produce a new wide-body passenger aircraft by end of June, reports Life News citing Russian ministerial sources. Read more Europe gets its first modern Russian-made airliners The projec[...]
May 31st, 2016 - 12:48 pm § in Misc.
DO NOT TRAVEL HERE: The Sentinelese. Either you’ll kill them or they’ll kill you
This spear-wielding tribe has long kept away intruders, but now they’re facing a whole new threat: Sea cucumber poachers. BANGKOK — The Sentinelese, a tiny island tribe in the Indian Ocean, have a tried-and-true foreign policy. When outsiders approach their island, they swarm the shoreline a[...]
May 31st, 2016 - 10:32 am § in Misc.
I am called a “capo”
Our name was Negri, meaning the N word until in Austria we became Schwartz. Those Schwartzes who did not get to the US, became Nazi ashes. Over on FACEBOOK, Dmitry V Vaysenberg has called me a capo’ My answer: For any Jew not to celebrate the great freedoms wrought by the American founders[...]
May 31st, 2016 - 9:38 am § in Uncategorized
BREAKING — North Korea Endorses Trump!
North Korea has endorsed Trump for U.S. president. An editorial in the state-run newspaper calls him a “wise politician” and “far-sighted candidate,” citing his threat to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea if that country doesn’t pay for keeping them there. (Read sto[...]
May 30th, 2016 - 2:13 pm § in Misc.
Let all who should vote, be allowed to vote.
Hillary Clinton Calls For Automatic, Universal Voter Registration WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton in a speech on Thursday called for universal, automatic voter registration, saying every citizen in the country should be a… HUFFINGTONPOST.COM[...]