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Archive for May, 2017
[...] May 31st, 2017 - 8:53 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 5/31
Trump: US joins Syria and Nicaragua in rejecting the historic pact to address global warming. BRITAIN: Polls show Theresa May’s Tories to LOSE House of Commons majority Macron: Any use of chemical weapons in Syria will result in an immediate strike by France ISLAM: Islam Set To Overtake [...]
May 31st, 2017 - 7:32 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who Owns This Jet?
A. Dennis Rodman B. LeBron James C. Michael Jordan D. Kobe Bryant E. Larry Bird[...]
May 30th, 2017 - 10:01 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 5/30
BRITAIN: Polls show Theresa May’s Tories to LOSE House of Commons majority DEMOCRATS: Black Voters Aren’t Turning Out For The Post-Obama Democratic Party LEBANON SEEKS TO BAN ‘WONDER WOMAN,’ CITING ISRAELI ACTRESS Trump blasts Germany again as relations deteriorate Oregon [...]
May 30th, 2017 - 7:23 pm § in Foreign Affairs
50 Years After Nigerian Civil War
THE IRONY OF MEMORIAL DAY: 50 Years Ago Today, Biafra Began What Was To Be a Failed Secession. America’s Memorial Day remembers the dead Union soldiers after our civil war. The irony for immigrants from Nigeria is that this day is also the anniversary Nigeria’s civil war. Our war [...]
May 30th, 2017 - 12:14 pm § in Environment, The Ave Scene
Meanwhile, back in Puget Sound, Tears For a Baby Orca
David Neiwert This is one of the most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever seen: Little J-54, struggling to survive and too weak to swim on his own, being held up by his big sister, J-46, on the right, and his cousin, J-47, on the left, after the death of J-28, his mother. Captain Mark Malleson of [[...]
May 30th, 2017 - 11:32 am § in Misc.
Cleveland PD fires Tamir Rice’s killer
The Cleveland Police Department has fired 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killer for errors in his job application, and suspended his partner for lousy driving. Read story here. Everyone in government knows how these things work. You can’t prosecute cops for shooting kids, and there’s no [...]
Black is Beautiful
Chinazor Onianwah This is a snippet of a documentary in production – Africa: Where black is still beautiful. It was inspired by a BBC news report of January 2013 – Africa: Where black is not really beautiful. I didn’t quarrel with the report dealing with high occurrence of bleachin[...]