Four injured by Israeli commandos aboard a U.S.-flagged vessel in May 2010 seek damages in novel claim.
hmmmm
Rubio’s Plan To Lock Tea Party Policies In Place Permanently
In an op-ed that extends for just 340 words, Republican presidential candidate and Senator Marco Rubio calls for constitutional changes that would fundamentally rework American society to be implemented through a process that has literally never been invoked in the entirety of American history.
Marco Rubio’s Plan To Lock Tea Party Policies In Place Permanently | ThinkProgress
hmmm
Campaign finance law amounts to a ‘gag order’
Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday signed a bill that prohibits public bodies from distributing information on ballot proposals 60 days before an election, something local governments have said could prevent them from explaining important issues to citizens.
Gov. Rick Snyder signs campaign finance bill locals say amounts to a ‘gag order’ | MLive.com
Oi.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Mum on What He Knew About Flint Water
The governor says the public needs to wait for an independent report to find out.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Mum on What He Knew About Flint Water – NBC News
I’m sure his lawyers said the same thing. Sigh…
China Lands Plane on Artificial Island in Disputed South China Sea
China has landed a plane for the first time on one of its new island runways in the disputed part of South China Sea.
China Lands Plane on Artificial Island in Disputed South China Sea – NBC News
hmmm
GA Prosecutor seeks charges for cop who shot Anthony Hill –
An Atlanta-area prosecutor said Thursday he plans to seek an indictment of a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed naked man last year.
Ga. prosecutor seeks charges for cop who shot Anthony Hill – NY Daily News
hmmmm
Florida Professor Who Cast Doubt on Mass Shootings Is Fired
James F. Tracy suggested that the 2012 massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary and other mass shootings were a hoax designed by the Obama administration.
Florida Professor Who Cast Doubt on Mass Shootings Is Fired – The New York Times
Oh, Florida…
Dashcam Video Captures Arrest of Woman Ousted From Florida Hospital Before Dying
Barbara Dawson, 57, went to Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown, Florida, on Dec. 21, but refused to leave when discharged by physicians. …And then died in the parking lot because, it turns out she really did still need a doctor. Doh!
Dashcam Video Captures Arrest of Woman Ousted From Florida Hospital Before Dying – NBC News
sigh…
Palin family values: Abstinence mascot Bristol’s baby daddy drama heats up over money
Palin family values: Abstinence mascot Bristol’s baby daddy drama heats up over money – Salon.com
Here’s hoping Dakota Meyer cleans the court and the country-side with the entire family.
Just shut up, Bristol Palin: You are the last person who should talk about birth control – Salon.com
America’s least credible source on the topic of birth control
Just shut up, Bristol Palin: You are the last person who should talk about birth control – Salon.com
<facepalm>
Civilian Representative to Join NYPD Counterterror Oversight Panel
As part of a landmark settlement of two lawsuits connected to the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim groups following the September 11th attacks, an independent civilian representative is being appointed to help watch over the department’s counterterrorism activity.
Civilian Representative to Join NYPD Counterterror Oversight Panel
hmmmm
This Picture Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Baby Is Really Pissing Off The Internet
You be the judge. (Not really though, because there’s nothing to judge. Get your damn kids vaccinated.)
This Picture Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Baby Is Really Pissing Off The Internet
hmmm
FBI investigating another fatal shooting by Chicago police
The account the two Chicago police officers provided about the fatal shooting of Esau Castellanos came to a dramatic conclusion.
FBI investigating another fatal shooting by Chicago police – Chicago Tribune
sigh…
Is Marco Rubio squandering his most precious political asset? – The Washington Post
Rubio’s sunny optimism seems to be retreating behind a cloud of angry demagoguery.
Is Marco Rubio squandering his most precious political asset? – The Washington Post
hmmmm
Scalia dismisses religious neutrality: ‘nothing wrong’ with state invoking God
Supreme court justice says there is ‘no place’ in country’s constitutional traditions for idea that state must be neutral between religion and its absence
Scalia dismisses religious neutrality: ‘nothing wrong’ with state invoking God | Law | The Guardian
Un-American shitbag
50 Years After the Moynihan Report, Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration – The Atlantic
Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history. Reconsidering Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on “The Negro Family,” 50 years later.
Sigh…
OPINION: Despite Sugar’s Demise, Aloha The People – MAUIWatch
OPINION: Despite Sugar’s Demise, Aloha The People – MAUIWatch
Why -in your eyes- is the financial health of 600 families worth more than the health of the Aina and the entirety of the peoples of Maui? Maybe you should study more of the lessons you preach before stepping on the soapbox again.
Greek airline apologizes for pushing Arabs off flight after protest by Jews
The Aegean Airlines’ CEO wrote to a Palestinian leader who had said the “appalling behavior by the Israeli passengers is reminiscent of the worst years of the South African apartheid.”
An apology is a paltry start. This sort of bigotry is the kind that fueled the trains into concentration camps in WWII. The “Jews” who complained should be the ones prevented from flying, as well as the employees who acquiesced to their bigoted and evil demands.
The response to an Israeli official’s ban on a Jewish-Arab love story? A video of Jews and Arabs kissing
Tel Aviv liberals respond to an education ministry decision to ban a book about forbidden love between Jews and Muslims with a video of strangers from each side kissing each other.
Ironically, its almost impossible to tell who is Israeli and who is Palestinian in the video.
Ministry officials were worried that the “intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity,” reported Israeli daily Haaretz, which broke the story.
🙂
Alexander & Baldwin Inc. shutting down Hawaii’s last sugar operations on Maui, laying off more than 600 employees – Pacific Business News
Alexander & Baldwin Inc. said it is moving to a diversified agriculture model, which means “transitioning out of farming sugar” at its Maui plantation.
Sad news for the employees, good news for everyone who has to breathe during the usual harvest season.
