What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
BBC told to cool it on climate change deniers | Al Jazeera America.
“The BBC’s viewers and listeners could soon be hearing a lot less hot air from climate change skeptics, under new guidance warning of the risk of “false balance” in science reports.”
Yeah, no shit Sherlock.
Rules of the game: New laws tough for some voters – CNN.com.
<snicker>
Just because this country calls itself a democracy doesn’t mean it actuality facilitates or encourages peoples’ voting.
Sheriff breaks silence on viral DUI checkpoint video.
Obviously there are two sides to this story but I think the discussion of whether or not law enforcement has the authority to break the law while enforcing it is a necessary conversation to have.
Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration push hits brick wall – Jessica Meyers – POLITICO.com.
Aww gee, did somebody learn the hard way that when you’re not in sole charge of the platform it’s a little harder to ignore the positions of others and push through what you want?
How ‘hope’ became Obama’s fight against cynicism | Boston Herald.
Air filled promises, words not backed up by a plan of action, and clueless, ineffectual assholes coming off as though they are better than everyone else is what breeds cynicism, IMFHO.
To quote Henry Rollins, “Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
Stop blaming the world around you for your lack of ability to act.
Stop talking about trite hope and start showing productive action and maybe people would hate on your useless asses less.
Violent, racist, horrible, horrible government.
I know Israeli’s are spoon fed a bunch of inciteful bullshit but the entire country’s hands are going to be soiled with blood.
BBC News – Israel ‘ready for escalation’ of Gaza conflict.
Well, you’ve been aiming for and trying to stir up a fucking war for weeks, I sure as hell hope you think you can handle what is coming.
IMHO you’re not.
But then again I think l the treatment of Palestinians has all of the same earmarks of the rise of the Nazi’s. (Just short of the showers, but not by much!)
Border money request won’t include policy change – Houston Chronicle.
Got called out on a being a hard-ass insensitive dick pretty fast on that one, eh Barack?
Always trying to appease the wrong people….
Consumers Across the Nation are Boycotting Kellogg’s Foods: Here’s Why | NationofChange.
GMO foods like this are so ridiculous.
What a slap in the face of generations of forward progress.
When did we stop being an intelligent race?
More importantly, when is the FDA going to get off the jock of people who like good cheese and wine and actually protect the public’s health?
If it drastically affects the health and well being of the planet and future generations of Americans you can be sure Obama’s looking the other way and focusing on something ineffectual.
Joan Rivers Walks Off CNN Interview In Anger.
Fredricka Whitfield is such an insipid, ignorant, little fucking twit.
Glad I got to watch someone call her out on acting all snide, superior, and condescending while being a such a clueless obnoxious bitch.
Vapid empty waste of space.
Mississippi challenger wants runoff rerun | TheHill.
And I want a tiled 25 yard lap pool with a diving area, so what?
Ukraine Wants Russia to Give Back Its Annexed Military Dolphins – Yahoo News.
1st – No fricking lasers?
2nd – How Douglas Adams-esque
A Presidential Contest … For Obama’s Library : NPR.
Bah, he’ll probably flub this too.
It’s a simple question Barack, where are you from?
BBC News – Chile’s 33 miners still haunted by their past.
that’s ridiculous, how silly that they were not given pensions and proper care.
Family of teen beaten in Israel pleads for his return.
It is terrible that this happened but I am so, so happy that this happened to an American so the appropriate light can be shown on this darkness.
BBC News – Eighty mentally ill US prisoners have died since 2003.
Really? I’d buy that number if it was ’80 mentally ill prisoners have died at Rikers alone since 2013,’ but that seems a little low to me.
“Israel has two choices. Destroy the homes of the Jews arrested for his murder. Or renounce the demolition policy, forever.”
Yup.
BBC News – Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes.
seems like something that would have a great impact and be simple to do in at-risk neighborhoods and areas of the world
