This may have already been posted but in case it hasn't

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/a...132350086.html

Papa John to raise prices due to Obamacare
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...6pLid%3D189663

Hmmmm, I wonder if Schnatter shared with Romney his plan to announce this at the fund raiser he threw for Romney a few months ago? :sarcasmalert:

Less profit too. My heart bleeds.

Like many Americans, some of Aurora’s 58 wounded did not have health insurance, and now face huge medical bills. No one knows the exact number of how many of the shooting victims lack health insurance, but nearly one in three Coloradans have inadequate or no health insurance at all.

My thoughts exactly.
(Excellent observaton)

Source: USA TODAY Application
 

The FBI says Wade Michael Page, the gunman in Sunday's deadly shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, died of a self-inflicted gun wound after being hit by police.

FBI special agent Teresa Carlson tells reporters in Milwaukee today that the 41-year-old gunman shot himself in the head after the second police officer responding to the scene shot him in the stomach.

Page killed six people in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, a Milwaukee suburb, on Sunday.

Carlson says authorities still do not have a motive for the shootings.

Page had been active in white supremacist groups, police say.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/0...-lgbt-parents/

The American Family Association runs 200 radio stations, has a monthly paper publication that goes to several hundred thousand people, and the email list has 3.4 million subscribers who receive their "action alerts". This isn't a small group.

I don't understand why it's acceptable for these groups to openly advocate crimes and get away with it just because they're right wing and Christian. They rile up their followers with crosshairs stamped on pictures of politicians and action alerts about kidnapping children, and when it really happens they act all indignant and say "we didn't really mean that literally!"

In current day America it is acceptable *because* they are right-wing, Christian and white. If a black person, an atheist or a liberal suggested anything *remotely* like that, the GOP would pass a law that very day mandating the rounding up and incarceration of every single member of that group.

A Silence Hangs Over Gay CEOs
 

U.S. Woman Becomes First Openly Gay General
 

WASHINGTON - An Army officer being promoted to brigadier general openly acknowledged her homosexuality on Friday by having her wife pin her star to her uniform, thus becoming the first openly gay officer of flag rank in the United States military.
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The officer, Brig. Gen. Tammy S. Smith, 49, a 26-year veteran of the Army, was promoted in a ceremony at the women's memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The star was affixed by Tracey Hepner, who was a co-founder last year of the Military Partners and Families Coalition, which "provides support, resources, education and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military partners and their families," according to its Web site.
The couple married in March 2011 in the District of Columbia.
The military dropped its "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay service members on Sept. 20, 2011, after a change in federal law.
The Army said that General Smith was not available for an interview on Sunday. However, she said in a statement that the Defense Department had made sexual orientation a private matter, but that "participating with family in traditional ceremonies such as the promotion is both common and expected of a leader."
Sue Fulton, a spokeswoman for OutServe, a two-year-old organization of lesbians and gay men in the military, said Sunday that it was "highly unlikely" that General Smith was the only gay officer of her rank. She called General Smith's public acknowledgment significant.
"I would say that it's important to recognize 'the first,' because then the next person doesn't have to be first," said Ms. Fulton, a 1980 West Point graduate. "Once we get over each 'first,' each hurdle of 'Well, that's never been done before,' it makes it a nonissue going forward."
Ms. Fulton, who was honorably discharged as a captain in 1986, said she left the Army because of the strains of maintaining a secret lesbian relationship. She called the promotion ceremony in which General Smith acknowledged being gay part of the best in Army tradition. Ms. Fulton quoted a speech last September in which the Army chief of staff, Gen. Ray Odierno, said that "the strength of our Army is our soldiers; the strength of our soldiers is our families."
Ms. Fulton said she had no doubt that General Smith's superiors knew of her sexual orientation when they selected her for promotion.
As a colonel, General Smith was deployed in Afghanistan from December 2010 to October 2011 as the chief of Army Reserve Affairs. She currently serves in Washington as the deputy chief of the Army Reserve.

Arizona Gov. Defies Obama, Denies Benefits to Undocumented Immigrants
 

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday ordered state agencies to deny driver’s licenses and other taxpayer-funded public benefits to young undocumented immigrants applying for temporary work permits under the new Obama administration policy.

In an executive order, Brewer said President Obama’s deferred action policy does not concede “legal status on illegal immigrants and won’t entitle them to Arizona public benefits.” The order added that an estimated 80,000 deferred action recipients would have “significant and lasting impacts on the Arizona budget, its health care system and additional public benefits that Arizona taxpayers fund.”

On Wednesday, scores of young undocumented immigrants across country began applying federal work permits under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The executive order will allow immigrants under age 31 who arrived in the United States before age 16 to apply for a two-year work permit. Eligible applicants must have lived in the country for at least five consecutive years and must a clean criminal record. The permits do not provide lawful status, nor do they create a pathway toward citizenship.

But the federal policy change, according to Brewer, could result in “public benefits contrary to the intent of Arizona voters and lawmakers who enacted laws expressly restricting access to taxpayer funded benefits and state identification.” Brewer ordered state agencies to initiate an emergency rulemaking process, if needed, to carry out her order.

Immigration advocates pounced on Brewer’s order, calling it a shortsighted decision that further blurs immigration policy while denying the economic potential that undocumented immigrants provide. “Deferred action does not grant access to any sort of public benefit,” Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, tells TIME. “The policy creates a new set of taxpayers for the economy when we sorely need it, but it seems like Governor Brewer wants to keep people who have the potential of starting small businesses in Arizona from doing so.”

Arizona, under Brewer’s leadership, has spearheaded the state-level push to deny benefits to undocumented immigrants. In 2010, the state approved SB 1070, which challenged federal immigration policy by giving local police the power to engage in a range of immigration enforcement actions. The law spurred a flurry of copycat legislation across the country, with five states—Alabama, Utah, Indiana, South Carolina and Georgia—approving similar laws in 2011.

This June, however, the Supreme Court ruled against most of the provisions in the Arizona law. It upheld the “papers please” provision, which requires police to check the immigration status of people they stop. But an injunction from separate legal case is currently blocking the provision from being enacted.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/16/...#ixzz23mB03slQ

Pussy Riot Trial: Feminist Punk Band Guilty Of Hooliganism, Motivated By Religious Hatred


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...=Daily%20Brief

From MoveOn.Org
 

This makes me laugh. I have spent time with the band members of Rage Against the Machine, and I love the politics in their lyrics...So, Paul Ryan saying he is a fan...HA HA HA!

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Madonna sued in Russia for supporting gays
 

MOSCOW -- Some Russian activists have sued Madonna for millions of dollars, claiming they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg.

Anti-gay sentiment is strong in Russia. In St. Petersburg, a law passed in February makes it illegal to promote homosexuality to minors, and the author of that law has pointed to the presence of children as young as 12 at Madonna's concert on Aug. 9.

Russian news agencies quote Alexander Pochuyev, a lawyer representing the nine activists, as saying the suit was filed Friday against Madonna, the organizer of her concert, and the hall where it was held, asking for damages totaling 333 million rubles, or nearly $10.5 million.

Responding to criticism that the plaintiffs were stuck in the Middle Ages, the lawyer said they were using civilized, modern methods to defend their rights. "No one is burning anyone at the stake or carrying out an Inquisition," Pochuyev was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying. "Modern civilization requires tolerance and respect for different values."

The complaint includes a video taken at the concert showing Madonna stomping on an Orthodox cross and asking fans to raise their hands to show the pink armbands in support of gays and lesbians that were distributed among the audience, the new agency reported.

Madonna also has angered conservative Russians with her support for Pussy Riot. Three members of the punk band were sentenced Friday to two years in prison for a protest inside Moscow's main cathedral against Vladimir Putin and his cozy relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Madonna spoke out in support of the group during her concert in St. Petersburg and two days earlier in Moscow. After the verdict was issued, Madonna called on "all those who love freedom to condemn this unjust punishment."


http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pb...819741/-1/NEWS

Health panel likely to make HIV tests routine
 

WASHINGTON DC (Reuters) - A U.S. health panel may soon make HIV testing as standard a practice as checking cholesterol levels, a move that would fundamentally change how the virus is detected and treated.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task force, a government-backed group of clinicians and scientists, is expected to make a new recommendation on HIV screening available for public comment before the end of the year.

Health officials close to the panel see it making a positive recommendation for routine screening, updating their current position, issued in 2005, which leaves the decision up to doctors.

Nearly 60,000 new cases of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS are reported nationally every year.

The CDC and other prominent groups have already called for routine HIV screening as a way to reach a much broader population and reduce the stigma some associate with showing up at an HIV clinic. But a recommendation from the task force would carry greater weight, as the U.S. health reform law of 2010 will require insurers to cover preventive services it endorses.

Global health officials have also stepped up the call for earlier treatment of people infected with HIV. New studies show that the latest HIV medications not only can extend the lives of patients for decades but are also one of the most potent ways of preventing their sexual partners from contracting the disease. Early treatment of HIV has been reported to cut transmission risk to uninfected partners by 96 percent.

"All healthcare providers have a responsibility to find cases of HIV because we don't know where they are," said Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, who directs the United Medical Center, an HIV clinic in Washington DC. While doctors in the past focused on higher risk groups such as men who have sex with men, she said, "HIV is in the general population now."

Full story here:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/health-pane...140156382.html

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Hm. As a former HIV test site coordinator, this is making me twitch a bit.

GOP Senate candidate says he ‘misspoke’ with ‘legitimate rape’ comment
 

Sen. Claire McCaskill is probably having a pretty good Sunday. Her opponent in the Missouri Senate race, Republican Rep. Todd Akin, has spent most of the day backtracking after saying that victims of "legitimate rape" cannot biologically become pregnant and thus do not need access to legal abortions.

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy after rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in defense of his stand that rape victims should not be allowed to access abortions. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Akin said that even if a rape victim does somehow become pregnant, "I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."

Akin said in a statement that he "misspoke" in the interview. "In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it's clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year," he said. He later wrote on Twitter that "all of us understand that rape can result in pregnancy & I have great empathy for all victims. I regret misspeaking." (Indeed, a study in the American Journal of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found that rapes result in more than 32,000 pregnancies each year.)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/g...005818070.html

Here's the donation page for Claire McCaskill (D) the incumbent in Missouri who is fighting Akin to keep her Senate seat.



https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/8/...taffContrib_rd

Augusta National admits two women, including Condoleezza Rice
 

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/...ore/57160252/1

After three quarters of a century, women will be included on the membership rolls of Augusta National Golf Club, one of the most exclusive clubs in the world and the host of the Masters.


By Martin E. Klimek, for USA TODAY
"I am delighted and honored to be a member of Augusta National Golf Club," Condoleezza Rice said in a statement.
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By Martin E. Klimek, for USA TODAY
"I am delighted and honored to be a member of Augusta National Golf Club," Condoleezza Rice said in a statement.
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Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne announced Monday that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and business executive Darla Moore will be the first female members of the club.
The news was first reported by the Associated Press.
COLUMN: Brennan: Augusta National gets it right at last
"This is a joyous occasion as we enthusiastically welcome Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore as members of Augusta National Golf Club," Payne said in a statement. "We are fortunate to consider many qualified candidates for membership at Augusta National. Consideration with regard to any candidate is deliberate, held in strict confidence and always takes place over an extended period of time. The process for Condoleezza and Darla was no different.
"These accomplished women share our passion for the game of golf and both are well known and respected by our membership. It will be a proud moment when we present Condoleezza and Darla their Green Jackets when the Club opens this fall.
"This is a significant and positive time in our Club's history and, on behalf of our membership, I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome them and all of our new members into the Augusta National family."
Rice, 57, was the national security adviser under former President George W. Bush and became secretary of state in his second term. The first black woman to be a Stanford provost in 1993, she now is a professor of political economy at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
"I am delighted and honored to be a member of Augusta National Golf Club," she said. "I have visited Augusta National on several occasions and look forward to playing golf, renewing friendships and forming new ones through this very special opportunity.
"I have long admired the important role Augusta National has played in the traditions and history of golf. I also have immense respect for the Masters Tournament and its commitment to grow the game of golf, particularly with youth, here in the United States and throughout the world."
Moore, 58, is vice president of Rainwater, Inc., a private investment company, and founder and chair of the Palmetto Institute, a nonprofit think tank aimed at bolstering per capita income in South Carolina. She also is the founder and chair of The Charleston Parks Conservancy, a foundation focused on enhancing the parks and public spaces of Charleston, S.C.
The business school at the University of South Carolina is named in honor of Moore.
"Augusta National has always captured my imagination, and is one of the most magically beautiful places anywhere in the world, as everyone gets to see during the Masters each April," Moore said. "I am fortunate to have many friends who are members at Augusta National, so to be asked to join them as a member represents a very happy and important occasion in my life.
"Above all, Augusta National and the Masters Tournaments have always stood for excellence, and that is what is so important to me."
Augusta National, which opened in December 1932 and did not have a black member until 1990, is believed to have about 300 members. While the club until now had no female members, women were allowed to play the golf course as guests, including on the Sunday before the Masters week began in April.
Monday's announcement marked a significant departure for Augusta National, which had always declined comment about membership issues. Most recently in April, when Payne was questioned at length about the lack of female members in his annual news conference the day before the Masters.
The most recent debate was sparked because one of the Masters' sponsors, IBM, had recently promoted Virginia "Ginni" Rometty as its first female CEO, and Augusta National traditionally had offered memberships to the CEO of IBM.
Payne deflected the questions with the statement, "Once again, that deals with a membership issue, and I'm not going to answer it."
Monday's announcement also comes 10 years after activist Martha Burk sent a letter to Hootie Johnson, Payne's predecessor as chairman, about admission of female members.
Johnson responded that Augusta would not be forced to change its policies "at the point of a bayonet."
Johnson pulled television advertising for the broadcast to spare Masters sponsors unwanted attention.
In 2003, Burk staged protests outside the grounds that mostly fizzled.

Very powerful. Thank you for posting this.

Woman found murdered two days after calling 911 for help
 

Police in Dallas are conducting an internal investigation after discovering that a 32-year-old woman who was found murdered on Sunday had called 911 two days before.

The woman, Deanna (Cook) Patrick, was "found deceased in the bathtub of her residence," police said. Delvecchio Patrick, her 35-year-old ex-husband, was arrested and charged with murder.

The department "is currently conducting a comprehensive review of an August 17, 2012 911 call from the victim," the Dallas Police Department wrote on its Facebook page on Monday:

The Department's preliminary review has determined that the 911 call originated from a cell phone. As a result, the 911 call-taker did not know the exact address of the caller. The 911 call taker attempted to obtain the address from the caller, while simultaneously conducting a search of previous calls from the same cell phone number to determine an associated address. The call taker also notified the 911 on-duty supervisor of the ongoing issue. The call was forwarded to the dispatcher but could not be dispatched to field officers until an address was determined. Once the address was confirmed, the 911 call taker updated the call information so the call could be dispatched. The process of obtaining the address and updating the call information took approximately 9 minutes.

Once obtaining an address, the dispatcher gave the call to the first available police field element. The officers that received the call arrived at the location and knocked at the door. When no one answered, they requested a call-back of the caller which went to voicemail. They also checked the perimeter windows of the home and spoke with neighbors who reported that they had not heard any disturbance.

The Department is seeking to determine if the nature of the call was sufficiently communicated through each step of the process to the responding officers and the appropriateness of their response based on the information provided.

Dallas police did not release the contents of the 911 call, saying it could interfere with the ongoing investigation. But according to The Dallas Morning News' crime blog, Patrick called 911 to report her husband was attacking her:

According to police records, Deanna Cook called 911 about 10:54 a.m. Friday. She could be heard screaming for her ex-husband to stop attacking her. "Delvecchio, why are you doing this?" Cook yelled, according to police records.

"Red, please stop, I didn't do anything to you," she said, referring to him by his nickname. ...

Two days later, as Cook's family grew concerned about her well-being, they went to the home and found her dead.

Delvecchio Patrick, the blog noted, "has a history of alleged domestic violence against his wife, Dallas County court records show."

Patrick's bail was set at $500,000. He is currently being held in the Dallas County Jail.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...71.html?_esi=1

This is really powerful. I agree. Thank you for posting it. I am going to send
it to all of the women i know, who know women, who are republican.
Honestly, no ruling government should be able to tell a woman how or what they can do with their own bodies. It is a crime. I walked through the streets with the NOW people carrying coat hangers. I was in a video and i can't stand that attention. But, i did it because i have taken women(actually young high school and college aged women) and helped those women to have abortions because they did not have access to contraceptives. It is an awful, horrible, terrifying experience to live through. And i wasn't even the poor soul who had to make such a decision. But, i helped. I bear that burden. I bear it because i didn't want her to bear it alone. Cause the dudes weren't there. How messed up is that. Honestly, i don't know how a woman or even men that love the women in their lives can vote republican. I remember watching the committee on cspan and how no woman was invited. And then weren't going to allow her to speak. Sickening. Thank you for posting it. I put a link to it so that people can email it out.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejYoV_UzGFk"]The GOP War on Women's Health is Real - YouTube[/nomedia]

What is even more screwed up....those girls fathers had no idea the pain that they lived and never will. Ah, and they were republican.

i called 911 this morning about a domestic dispute in the neighborhood i'm staying in. fortunately things went the way they needed to but this post has me thinking about the safety net i thought cell phones provided me. i've always assumed that the E911 locator on my phone would keep me safe if i needed to dial but couldnt finish the call for some reason. this article makes it sound as though that's not so. what a sobering reality check.

Group to high court: Take CT gay marriage case
 

BOSTON — A Boston-based legal group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Connecticut lawsuit challenging a key portion of a federal law that denies tax, health and other benefits to married gay couples.

A federal judge in Connecticut ruled last month that Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The ruling came in the case of six married gay couples and a widower from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who sued after being denied federal benefits.

DOMA defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman. Section 3 of the law restricts federal marriage benefits to heterosexual married couples.

Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders filed a petition Wednesday asking the Supreme Court to review the ruling.

A Congressional group and the U.S. Justice Department have asked the Supreme Court to review a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts striking down the same provision of the law in two separate lawsuits.

GLAD argues that the Connecticut lawsuit is a particularly good case for the high court to review because it demonstrates DOMA's impact on a range of federal programs, including federal income tax, Society Security, and federal employee and retirement benefits.


http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pb...WS11/120829923

Ukrainian commission wants to ban ‘gay’ SpongeBob and Teletubbie ‘losers’
 

The Ukraine is considering a move to censor several children's shows after a new study from a conservative commission labeled the shows "a real threat" to the country's youth and detrimental to the country

The Ukrainian paper Ukraínskaya Pravda reported on Thursday that some of the shows under fire include "Family Guy," "Futurama," "Pokemon," "The Simpsons" and "Teletubbies," which the report says are, "projects aimed at the destruction of the family, and the promotion of drugs and other vices."

While the accusations sound a bit silly, a 2011 study by a University of Virginia professor claimed that watching just nine minutes of SpongeBob could adversely affect the attention span and learning abilities of 4-year-olds.

Some of the accusations leveled against the programming in the study:

SpongeBob Squarepants: "gay"
Teletubbies: "Deliberately aims to create subnormal (men), who spend all day in front of the television with their mouths open swallowing all types of information," and promotes the "psychology of losers."
Shrek: "containing sadism"
South Park: "reincarnation propaganda"
Japanese Anime: "A clear example of sexist propaganda"

The study concluded that the programming represents "a large-scale experiment on Ukrainian children" to "create criminals and perverts."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...52.html?_esi=1

New AIDS-like disease in Asians, not contagious
 

Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.

The patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn't known, but the disease does not seem to be contagious.

The disease develops around age 50 on average but does not run in families, which makes it unlikely that a single gene is responsible, Browne said. Some patients have died of overwhelming infections, including some Asians now living in the U.S., although Browne could not estimate how many.

This is another kind of acquired immune deficiency that is not inherited and occurs in adults, but doesn't spread the way AIDS does through a virus, said Dr. Sarah Browne, a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

She helped lead the study with researchers in Thailand and Taiwan where most of the cases have been found since 2004. Their report is in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

http://news.yahoo.com/aids-disease-a...211424263.html

Lesbian brides win settlement from Vermont inn
 

BOSTON (Reuters) - A resort in northern Vermont has settled a lawsuit brought after it refused to host a lesbian couple's wedding reception, citing the innkeepers' "personal feelings."

The Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville declined to host an event for Kate Linsley (nee Baker) and Ming Linsley, both of New York, saying innkeepers Mary and Jim O'Reilly did not host "gay receptions."

As part of the settlement, the resort will pay $10,000 to the Vermont Human Rights Commission and place $20,000 in a charitable trust to be disbursed by the Linsleys, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Vermont.

It also agreed to no longer host wedding receptions.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/lesbian-bri...201458939.html

Interesting .........will have to go look at the actual articles........

I do know big pharma did extensive HIV vaccine testing in Thailand....mmmmmm

ICE agents sue own agency over deferred deportations
 

A group of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents filed a lawsuit against their own agency Thursday, arguing that the Obama administration is not letting them fully identify and deport illegal immigrants.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says her department does not have the manpower or money to deport the 11 million illegal immigrants in the USA, so she issued a memorandum last year ordering immigration officials to focus their efforts on dangerous illegal immigrants. In June, Obama announced a program that will allow up to 1.7 million illegal immigrants brought to the USA as children to have deportations deferred for at least two years.

The 10 ICE agents suing Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton say those directives violate the Constitution and federal immigration law. "We are federal law enforcement officers who are being ordered to break the law," said Chris Crane, an ICE agent and president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, a union for ICE employees. "This directive puts ICE agents and officers in a horrible position."

The suit is funded by NumbersUSA, a group that proposes lower levels of legal and illegal immigration, and the attorney is Kris Kobach, the secretary of State of Kansas who has helped Arizona and Alabama craft strict anti-illegal-immigration laws. His work on this lawsuit is not part of his official state duties.

http://news.yahoo.com/ice-agents-sue...231136683.html

NY City
 

5 people shot in front of Empire State Building

I just saw this on Huffington. WTF??

Breaking News: 2 dead, 10 shot......near Empire State Bldg
 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...133611266.html


My heart & prayers go out to everyone in NY!

"Along 35th street, hundreds of people stood photographing the scene with iPhones and iPads. Television producers roamed the crowd looking for guests. "Was anybody here when this happened? Was anybody here when this happened?" one NBC producer yelled."



iPhones, iPads = the new iPaparazzi

This is just bullshit especially because under President Obama there have been MORE deportations than under Daddy and Jr Bush, Bill, Reagan and Carter. The deportations have been of (as Sec Napolitano says) undocumented folks with criminal records.

Why do these guys think deporting children makes any sense at all? (this question does not require an answer....the answer is they are ignorant)

August 26th Day of Action - Women's Equality Day
 

From WORD (Women Organized to Resist and Defend)

On Women’s Equality Day, August 26 – on the eve of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, which will be immediately followed by the Democratic National Convention - women and their allies will take to the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and other cities across the country in defense of women's rights.

Women’s rights are under severe attack. Access to healthcare – including contraception and abortion – childcare, housing, welfare and other benefits are being slashed across the country. We are tired of politicians playing political football with our lives. It’s time we take action. It’s time we organize and fight back.

August 26th - Women’s Equality Day - commemorates the 1920 passage of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. Winning the right to vote was an important victory, but the struggle for full equality continues. Celebrate Women’s Equality Day by taking to the streets and demanding full equality now. Honor the women who fought for the rights we’ve won and continue the struggle for full equality.


Events planned for:

Chicago, IL
Daley Plaza, 11 am

Denver, OC
16th Street Mall, (meet at 16th St and California), 11 am
Die-in to raise awareness women who have died as a result of inequalities.
Organized by We are Women Colorado

Lexington, KY
Robert F Stevens Courthouse, E. Main st, 3 pm
Organized by Kentuckians Against the War on Women

Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood & Vine, 1pm

Milwaukee, WI
Pere Marquette Park, 12pm
Organized by Code Pink and Vets for Peace

New Paltz, NY
Peace Park (next to Village Hall @ 25 Plattekill Ave.), 1pm
New York, NY
47th St & 6th Ave, 1pm

San Francisco, CA
24th & Mission, 12 noon

Texas High School students to be used in a RFID trail program.

http://www.nisd.net/studentlocator/

"Northside ISD is harnessing the power of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose “smart” ID card."

Are you ready for your chip???

I find it interesting that we are so complacent about this type of thing that it isn't even in the news. Really? This is okay with everyone?