That was a Ferguson cop joking about the President of the United States in an email to a municipal court employee explaining why Obama wouldn’t be president very long, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday, the Guardian reported. At this point the email’s author isn[...]
Archive for March, 2015
March 4th, 2015 - 8:55 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 66: as the 70th anniversary approaches
We are now less than a month from the 70th anniversary of my father entering Buchenwald to give medical care. That should be joyous event, a good thing in the face of horror .. a chance to honor him for his courage and kindness to the ill. One of my goals has been to celebrate […][...]
Serially married GOP legislator outraged by gay wedding
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[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 6:31 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
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[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 3:26 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
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[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 3:24 pm § in Misc.
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[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 1:45 pm § in Uncategorized
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[...]
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[...]