Unfiltered: ‘I’m on welfare, but I’m also an American’
sigh….
Month: August 2018
Russia Hacked U.S.Power Grid And Other Critical Infrastructure
Russia Hacked U.S.Power Grid And Other Critical Infrastructure. So Now What? : NPR
not sure how I missed this story….
NH State education department official posted a lot of racist crap on his own personal facebook page. …And then whined and complained when he was called out for it
Schinella posted on his Facebook page, “Northern New England is the way it is because we’re the only people who want to be here. We’re very welcoming (see the Free State Project), but don’t come here if you’re going to change everything. We like it the way it is, which is why we are here and not where you live now.”
…“We don’t want or need New Hampshire to become any kind of cesspool. We have enough problems and many of us don’t want or need to pay more taxes because the new people moving in expect the same things they had in their other states. We are small; we don’t have the ability to tax our way out of problems.”
…“Diversity for diversity’s sake doesn’t bring us anything. An extreme example? 1,300 illegal alien Dominican drug dealers moving from Lawrence to, say, Concord will make the state 1 percent more diverse; but it would also bring more crime, higher taxes for public safety, and higher taxes for schools to teach their children.”
…”The people involved in this movement think they can bring in the ‘right’ kinds of people, but there is no guarantee of that. Central planners can’t control where people go and what they do; people move because they want to or they find opportunities; they don’t move because they don’t want to. It’s really that simple.”
NH Primary Source: State education department official says Facebook post not racially motivated
sigh….
Chicago poke company: We’re not trying to own ‘aloha,’ but we’re not backing off from trying to intimidate and bankrupt Native Hawaiian owned businesses either. So, you know, fuck Aloha.
Chicago poke company: We’re not trying to own ‘aloha,’ but we’re – Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL
Brad? Becky? this is why we can’t have nice things.
Obama at the Store
The Blue Wave (@acklover) | Twitter
bahahahahaha – whoever put that together… nice one!
Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance in a Year
Walmart’s low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing.
…A single Walmart Supercenter cost taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year, or between $3,015 and $5,815 on average for each of 300 workers.
…Other large retail chains have been the focus of similar reports in recent months. In October, two studies released to coincide showed that American fast food industry outsourced a combined $7 billion in annual labor costs to taxpayers. …[McDonald’s] alone accounted for $1.2 billion of that outlay.
Yum Brands came in at a distant number two, with its Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC subsidiaries costing $648 million in benefits programs for workers each year.
Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
No shit, Sherlock?
4 Environmental Activists Are Killed Every Week
Latin America is by far the world’s most dangerous place to be an environmental defender. Almost 60 percent of the environmental killings recorded in 2017 took place in the region.
Mexico’s tropical forests, for example, have been ravaged by everything from illegal cattle ranching to avocado farming. In January 2017, Isidro Baldenegro López, a prominent indigenous activist who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his work protecting the forests of the Sierra Tarahumara mountain range in northern Mexico from logging, was shot dead.
…The Global Witness report records several massacres in countries such as Brazil and the Philippines ― in the latter country, the military reportedly killed at least eight indigenous people in December as they tried to protect their land from a coffee plantation.
Brazil remains the most deadly country for environmental activists, with 57 murders last year ― the highest ever recorded by any country. Twenty-two members of one tribe ― the Gamela ― were assaulted in one land-grabbing incident. Some had their hands cut off.
4 Environmental Activists Are Killed Every Week So We Can Have Snacks, Meat And Coffee | HuffPost
Sigh….
North Miami Beach officer fired after allegedly kicking pregnant woman in the stomach
When unwarranted aggression and violence on the part of officers of the law becomes less common place this society will be a much, much safer place.
As long as behavior like this is tolerated and not roundly condemned by all members of law enforcement, everyone wearing a badge neither protects nor serves, they actually pose a danger to everyone around them.
Actor Ving Rhames said neighbor called 911 to report him as ‘a large black man’ living somewhere she was too racist to believe he lived
[Rhames] was watching television in his Santa Monica home when he heard noise coming from the backyard. …It was police.
…”I get up, I open the door, there’s a red dot pointed at my face from a 9 millimeter,” Rhames said …on Friday. “And they say, ‘Put up your hands.”
…”My problem is, as I said to them, what if it was my son, and he had a video game remote or something? And you thought it was a gun, just like you know, I don’t know, Trayvon had a bag of Skittles,” he said in the interview.
Actor Ving Rhames said neighbor called 911 to report him as ‘a large black man’ breaking in
Actions that negative effect others should have consequences.
On that note, two things….
One, there should be punitive legal consequences for civilians who call 911 because of their own racial profiling. Call the police on your neighbor? The police should come for you instead.
Two, the officers clearly did not look into who residing in the home before they arrived. Bad police-work like that gets people killed. They should face punitive consequences for not doing a better job of assessing the actual situation before they went into action. When the police don’t think before they act, people get killed and that can not be tolerated.
It doesn’t matter if they, the officers, were not being overtly racist by responding to this call. They did a shoddy job of performing their work responsibilities and -like in any other industry- that should merit negative consequences.
“SNL” star Leslie Jones defends other comedians
“Our job is to make the ugliest things funny, we come out and we make a terrible situation laughable … stop walking around so offended, you’re not going to be able to survive life if you walk around offended,” she added.
“SNL” star Leslie Jones defends other comedians
hmmm
Stanford study links depression to blood biomarker
The collaborative study conducted by Stanford University and The Rockefeller University found people with depression had low levels of acetyl-L-carnitine, which helps the body produce energy.
…Rasgon said further research is required to determine whether supplementing patients with acetyl-L-carnitine could improve symptoms.
Stanford study links depression to blood biomarker
hmmmm
Police fatally shoot Bronze Star recipient after he saved his family from a home intruder
“Mr. Black goes and gets his sidearm and shoots the intruder and saves his grandson,” Rathod said. “Mr. …Black’s wife had called the police and ran outside. She specifically told the police what her husband was wearing and there was a naked man attacking her grandson. Mr. Black walks out and is shot by police.”
Police fatally shoot Bronze Star recipient after he shot home intruder – ABC News
Simply unacceptable. If an officer can stay calm in a situation like this he should not be there (or wearing a badge) in the first place. If the officer was not informed of the outfit the resident of the home had on then those who did not pass that information on should be tried for murder right along with the sad excuse for an officer.
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