Netanyahu backs calls for convicted Israeli soldier to be pardoned The shooting was caught on video by a Palestinian rights activist, and the footage, distributed to news organizations, ensured that the rare case of an active serviceman being charged, drew international attention. After the assailan[...]
Archive for January, 2017
January 3rd, 2017 - 10:44 pm § in Politics
The fake billionaire: Is Trump poor?
Condensed from Daily Kos (read original article here): “Trump is not only ‘not a billionaire,’ he carries so much debt that, relative to his hard assets, he’s poor, especially with respect to cash flow through cash intensive investments such as resorts, etc, where one has to pay [...]
January 3rd, 2017 - 4:29 pm § in Misc.
The troika.
In a situation not seen since the succession to Stalin, a major world power is now under 3-man rule. Which one will backstab the others first? [...]
January 3rd, 2017 - 12:12 pm § in Hypocrisy
BREAKING NEWS: The Fairest Megan Kelley Leaves Fox Unbalanced
Megyn Kelly Is Leaving for NBC Megyn Kellyh as decided to leave the “fair and balanced ™” network to take on a broad new role at NBC News. The move leaved Fox bery unbalanced. Kelly had become the second-most watched host — after Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, She often helped defi[...]
January 3rd, 2017 - 11:29 am § in Politics
GOP Congress guts ethics oversight
Republicans didn’t even wait for Congress to convene. Behind closed doors Monday, they crippled independent ethics oversight of Congress by putting it under their supervision and giving themselves power to end investigations of their own corruption. Is this what Trump means by “drain[...]
January 2nd, 2017 - 11:05 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Don Lemon Lit
‘Yeah, I’m lit. Who cares?’ CNN yanks Don Lemon off the air after he says 2016 was ‘awful’[...]
January 2nd, 2017 - 9:38 am § in Misc.
Can you spot the plane in this photo?
“A search plane flies over Lake Erie, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, in Cleveland. A U.S. Coast Guard official said crews are in search-and-rescue mode, not recovery mode, as they look for a plane carrying six people that disappeared overnight shortly after takeoff from a Cleveland airport along Lake [...]
THE Place to stay in Haiti
Michael Hood Les Cayes, Haiti · And so, 2017 begins pinkly from where I sit under a Caribbean sky lighting up the bougainvillea and the eastern sides of the rattling palms. I didn’t last until the ball dropped, instead toddled off, fainted sometime around 10 in order to get up with the chick[...]