Tuesday, March 31, 2015

"Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence - BuzzFeed News

"Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence - BuzzFeed News: "“Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.”"

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9 Ind. CEOs call for changes to 'religious freedom' law

9 Ind. CEOs call for changes to 'religious freedom' law: "The nine CEO signatories head some of the state's largest employers, including Eli Lilly, Anthem and Indiana University Health. They are part of a coalition of businesses that has lobbied against the controversial RFRA legislation, marking one of the most active and heated political lobbying campaigns that Indiana businesses have ever undertaken on a social issue."

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Monday, March 30, 2015

Supreme Court asks Virginia panel to reexamine redistricting decision - The Washington Post

Supreme Court asks Virginia panel to reexamine redistricting decision - The Washington Post: "The Supreme Court on Monday told a federal judicial panel in Virginia to take another look at its decision that lawmakers improperly packed minority voters into one congressional district.

The court sent the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia without comment, following its decision last week in a similar case from Alabama."

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Obamacare 'death panel' challenge | Reuters

WIN - Win!


U.S. Supreme Court rejects Obamacare 'death panel' challenge | Reuters: "In the case that the justices rejected on Monday, Arizona-based business owner Nick Coons and Dr. Eric Novack, an orthopedic surgeon, sued in 2011 in litigation backed by a conservative legal group.

Among other things, they challenged the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, a 15-member government panel dubbed by some Republicans as a "death panel" because of its intended role in trimming costs within Medicare, the government healthcare program for the elderly and disabled.

Lower courts threw out the lawsuit. In its August 2014 ruling, the appeals court said that the plaintiffs had not shown they had suffered any harm that they could sue over."

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Restaurateurs Weigh In on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage

Ahead of what will undoubtedly be a shift for the local food scene, Eater asked Seattle-area restaurant owners to weigh in on the impending wage increase. Here's what Angela Stowell,Brendan McGill, and others have to say about how it might change the dining habits of residents and impact the future of restaurants.

Screen%20Shot%202014-06-09%20at%2010.36.22%20PM.pngManu Alfau
Chef/Owner, La Bodega
I wish they would've done a little more research on how it would affect small businesses. I am all for people making more money, but I think it's meant for larger corporations like McDonald's, Target, Walmart to have this wage hike.

I don't think it's a bad thing but for smaller businesses, only the super strong will survive. It will mean that only owners who are willing and able to work every day at their own businesses to reduce labor costs will survive. I also have a five year lease, so I'll be able to make a decision about whether to sign or and go forward or not, but other businesses might not have that.

Screen%20Shot%202014-06-09%20at%2010.32.24%20PM.pngJeremy Hardy
Owner, Coastal Kitchen and Mioposto
This is a game changer. The myriad of unintended consequences it too complex to really understand; even for restaurant veterans. There was incredible anger generated by a series of callous, recession causing, big-bonused bad actors on Wall Street while the rest of us were falling into the recession abyss. Those guys in Wall Street must be chuckling—like the invasion of Iraq the 15Now folks missed the target by about 3,000 miles. But we sit in the crossfire.
As a lifelong liberal I have always been angry when businesses and politicians decry the loss of jobs over a CPI $.40 minimum wage increase because that is ridiculous. This is different. We cannot survive if we continue doing business as usual. I hope the public will continue to support their favorite spots while everybody figures this thing out. We are going to adjust using all of the tools at our disposal; pricing, reducing menu offerings, look at operating hours, reducing labor where we can and certainly not opening another business in our beloved Seattle. Our business model will need to change. In a business whose goal is "to build community one relationship at a time" this reduction in labor is going to make that even more difficult.
We have raised 100's of thousands for schools, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Mercy Corps, tsunami survivors, Darfur, the victims of Oso, and countless other non-profits over the years while providing health insurance, education reimbursements, and ongoing training for our employees. It falls somewhere between feeling sad and feeling betrayed that this grenade has been dropped on us.

Screen%20Shot%202014-06-09%20at%2010.35.55%20PM.pngBrendan McGill
Chef/Owner, Hitchcock, Hitchcock Deli
I think what people need to realize is that the money will have to come from somewhere. With a group like mine, where ethics in sourcing come before profits, we run a very slim margin. To pay my staff more, I need to either buy worse food or raise my prices, and I'm not willing to start buying commodity meats or fish from larger, questionably managed fisheries.

I'm supportive of livable wages and am honestly somewhat excited for this social experiment. If one hour of minimum wage can be used as a metric, things will go fine. If a roast beef sandwich made with high quality bread, hormone and antibiotic-free beef and aioli with organic and free range eggs now costs about one hour of minimum wage, my estimate is that after the wage hikes it will still cost about one hour of minimum wage. There seems to be a fallacy that instead of lining our richie-rich pockets, business owners will simply break off a little more for their employees. I barely get paid $15 an hour.

And the thing is, most of my employees already make $15 an hour, if not much more in the servers' case—it may be a base of $10-$14, plus tips from the pool, staff meals, or vacation pay. Without those factors being considered and fighting to stay in the black (as if every restaurant isn't perpetually fighting to stay in the black), we won't be able to show our staff the respect of allowing them an espresso drink whenever they're dragging, or to use the same high-quality foods for staff meals that we offer our guests. I've enjoyed not running a corporate ship the way the large hotels I've worked in operate: highly punitive where cost-control is concerned. For them it's about maximizing profits, but for me it's going to be about staying in business.

Screen%20Shot%202014-06-09%20at%2010.33.24%20PM.pngAngela Stowell
CFO/Owner, Ethan Stowell Restaurants
We fully support an increase of the minimum wage to $15, however, we feel that all W2 income should be considered when calculating that wage. Restaurants work on very small margins and Washington already has the highest minimum wage in the country at $9.32 an hour. Under this plan, servers and bartenders, who already make an average of $35-$40 and hour in W2 income, will see an immediate increase in their pay while the cooks, who make around $15 an hour, will have stagnant wages for upwards of seven years.

Seattle raises minimum wage, businesses close down – liberals COMPLETELY BAFFLED » The Right Scoop -

Seattle raises minimum wage, businesses close down – liberals COMPLETELY BAFFLED » The Right Scoop -: "Conservatives know from common sense and some of us from running businesses that it’s obvious if you raise wages artificially you’re gonna lose some businesses that have a very thin profit. But liberals are idiots. That’s why they’re shocked that raising Seattle’s minimum wage has caused many businesses to go under, even in anticipation of the law going into effect."

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Truth Needle: Is $15 wage dooming Seattle restaurants? Owners say no | The Seattle Times

Poncharee Kounpungchart and Wiley Frank closed Little Uncle in Pioneer Square, but say the decision was based on the space, not on Seattle’s upcoming $15 minimum wage. (Courtney Blethen Riffkin / The Seattle Times)

Truth Needle: Is $15 wage dooming Seattle restaurants? Owners say no | The Seattle Times: "As various outlets got on the bandwagon, headlines grew more strident. The American Enterprise Institute reported “Seattle’s new minimum wage law takes effect April 1 but is already leading to restaurant closings and job losses.” Then Rush Limbaugh chimed in. Meanwhile, The New York Post ran an editorial called “Jobless in Seattle” and Forbes claimed “We Are Seeing The Effects Of Seattle’s $15 An Hour Minimum Wage.”"

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The Rumpus Over Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage And Restaurant Closures

The Rumpus Over Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage And Restaurant Closures: "A couple of days back I gleefully leapt on the story about restaurant closures in Seattle and the effects of that city’s higher minimum wage. There has been a certain pushback from various people to that idea and we might now be able to raise this from a discussion to a rumpus. Who knows, we might get lucky, a few more people join in and we can upgrade it to a brouhaha."

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Conservatives Say $15 Minimum Wage Is Killing Seattle Restaurant Scene, Restaurateurs Disagree | ThinkProgress

Conservatives Say $15 Minimum Wage Is Killing Seattle Restaurant Scene, Restaurateurs Disagree | ThinkProgress: "“That’s weird,” Boat Street Cafe owner Renee Erickson told the Seattle Times when fact-checkers emailed to confirm the Seattle Magazine story. “No, that’s not why I’m closing Boat Street.” Erickson’s three other restaurants remain open, and two brand new ones are in the works in Seattle. “Opening more businesses would not be smart if I felt it was going to hinder my success,” said Erickson, who described herself as “totally on board with the $15 min.”"

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How Other Missouri Cities Are Like Ferguson - NYTimes.com

How Other Missouri Cities Are Like Ferguson - NYTimes.com: "A Justice Department investigation into the operations of the Ferguson Police Department found routine racial bias and a focus on generating revenue through municipal fines. But the patterns identified in the report are not limited to Ferguson; some other Missouri cities of 10,000 people or more look similar by several measures. MARCH 7"



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Charter School in Miami Fails, but Proves Useful on Jeb Bush’s Résumé - NYTimes.com

Jeb Bush in 1998, visiting the school that he co-founded. The school closed nearly a decade later after a rocky financial road. CreditJoe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel

Charter School in Miami Fails, but Proves Useful on Jeb Bush’s Résumé - NYTimes.com: "MIAMI — “That’s where the classrooms were,” said Katrina Wilson-Davis, pointing at the deserted building that housed the school where she was once principal. She climbed the chipped stairs that children used to race down at recess in their cherry-red school uniforms and walked past a street sign that still warns drivers of a 15-mile-an-hour speed limit on school days."

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Evangelicals & ISIS Feel Fine About the End of the World - The Daily Beast

Evangelicals & ISIS Feel Fine About the End of the World - The Daily Beast: "End Times prophecies for Evangelical and the Islamic State are eerily similar. God help us if they ever become self-fulfilling.
What if two mortal enemies both wanted a cataclysmic, world-ending battle, at roughly the same time, in roughly the same place?

Can you say “self-fulfilling prophecy”?"

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Jobless in Seattle | New York Post

Jobless in Seattle | New York Post: "Seattle magazine calls the minimum-wage hike a “major factor,” given that labor costs acccount for 36 percent of restaurant earnings.
Here’s how the center puts it: “The shut-downs have idled dozens of low-wage workers, the very people advocates say the wage law is supposed to help. Instead of delivering the promised ‘living wage’ of $15 an hour, economic realities created by the new law have dropped the hourly wage for these workers to zero.”"

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Census international migration county map - Business Insider

Census international migration county

map - Business Insider: "The US Census Bureau recently released its estimates of how the populations of America's counties and cities changed between July 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014."

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Let's go shopping on Healthcare.gov with Ted Cruz - Vox

How will Cruz use this??

Let's go shopping on Healthcare.gov with Ted Cruz - Vox: "The news broke yesterday: noted Obamacare opponent Sen. Ted Cruz may sign up for Obamacare.

Cruz previously had a health plan through his wife Heidi's job at Goldman Sachs. But the family will lose that coverage when Heidi takes a leave of absence to campaign full-time. And this will put the Cruz family into a situation familiar to millions of Americans: figuring out what to do when you can no longer get coverage through work."

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Ted Cruz going on Obamacare - CNN.com

Ted Cruz going on Obamacare - CNN.com: "Ted Cruz is going on Obamacare.

The newly announced Republican presidential candidate told CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday that he will sign up for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act -- a law he has been on a crusade to kill." 'via Blog this'

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Truth Needle: Is $15 wage dooming Seattle restaurants? Owners say no | The Seattle Times

Truth Needle: Is $15 wage dooming Seattle restaurants? Owners say no | The Seattle Times: "The claim: Recent Seattle restaurant closures may have been linked to the city’s new $15 minimum wage.

What we found: False.

An article suggesting the $15-an-hour minimum wage was a factor in some recent Seattle restaurant closures caught fire with national and conservative media this week. The only problem: When we asked the restaurateurs in question, they said it’s flat wrong."

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Ted Cruz to Announce on Monday He Plans to Run for President - NYTimes.com

Ted Cruz to Announce on Monday He Plans to Run for President - NYTimes.com: "Senator Ted Cruz intends to declare on Monday that he will run for president in 2016, making him the first major hopeful to formally enter the race, an aide to Mr. Cruz said.

Mr. Cruz, Republican of Texas, will make his announcement at Liberty University in Virginia, where he is expected to be a speaker at a convocation ceremony. His intention to declare his candidacy was first reported by The Houston Chronicle and an aide to Mr. Cruz, who requested anonymity, confirmed the report on Sunday."

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Germany Sets Gender Quota in Boardrooms - NYTimes.com

Germany Sets Gender Quota in Boardrooms - NYTimes.com: "Germany on Friday became the latest and most significant country so far to commit to improving the representation of women on corporate boards, passing a law that requires some of Europe’s biggest companies to give 30 percent of supervisory seats to women beginning next year.

Fewer than 20 percent of the seats on corporate boards in Germany are held by women, while some of the biggest multinational companies in the world are based here, including Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler — the maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles — as well as Siemens, Deutsche Bank, BASF, Bayer and Merck."

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

‘Mentally Ill’ Officer: Give Me Back My Gun - The Daily Beast

‘Mentally Ill’ Officer: Give Me Back My Gun - The Daily Beast: "State trooper Michael Keyes was once involuntarily committed, which bars him from owning a gun. But with a clean bill of health, he’s now suing for his 2nd Amendment rights.
Michael Keyes wants to buy a gun.

And the Pennsylvania state trooper knows how to use one: he carries several on duty, rotating between his Sig Sauer 227 handgun, a fully-automatic AR-15 and a Remington 870 shotgun. But while a very armed Keyes is trusted to serve and protect Pennsylvania, as soon as he clocks out, he is banned by state law from owning a gun for personal use."

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Holder Calls Shooting of Officers in Ferguson ‘Cowardly’ - NYTimes.com

Holder Calls Shooting of Officers in Ferguson ‘Cowardly’ - NYTimes.com: " Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday denounced the shootings of two police officers during a late night protest here as “heinous and cowardly attacks” that came just as this embattled city was taking “good faith steps” toward rebuilding trust in law enforcement.

“This was not someone trying to bring healing to Ferguson,” Mr. Holder said at a news conference in Washington. “This was a damn punk, a punk, who was trying to sow discord.”"

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2 police officers have been shot during protests in Ferguson, Missouri - Business Insider

2 police officers have been shot during protests in Ferguson, Missouri - Business Insider: "Two police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday as protesters gathered after the resignation of the city's embattled police chief, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

The shots were fired as what had earlier been a crowd of about 150 people had begun to dwindle, the newspaper reported. Some protesters fell to the ground and others ran. A huge police presence, including officers in riot gear, later surrounded the department."

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Behind the hype over Aetna’s minimum wage boost

$16 – is 16 the new $10.10??

While a firm’s decision to increase pay for lower-wage workers should certainly be applauded, it also begs the question: Why is the decision to pay workers $16 per hour breaking news?

My answer: because of the message it sends to investors and shareholders.

Business leaders are undoubtedly influenced by their investors and shareholders. Aetna made the business case for investing in their employees by committing to reduced turnover costs. Unfortunately, for some investors, a firm’s employees are viewed as liabilities instead of assets.

… Mark Bertolini took a bold stand by raising the wage floor to $16 an hour. Roughly 12 percent of the company’s U.S. workforce will directly benefit. In making this change, Bertolini made a larger point: these are the people that Aetna counts on to serve its customers. It is his belief that reducing turnover and improving the quality of customer engagement will yield significant returns on the estimated $14 million that these changes are expected to cost Aetna in 2015.

Monday, March 9, 2015

Iditarod sled race relocates due to lack of snow

Kinda funny!


Iditarod sled race relocates due to lack of snow: "Perhaps this year, Iditarod sled drivers should shout "slush" instead of "mush." That's because unseasonably warm weather left parts of the race course treacherously slick or bereft of snow, forcing organizers to move Monday's starting point 225 miles north from Willow to Fairbanks." 'via Blog this'

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Tony Robinson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

1. Police Were Responding to a Disturbance

2.Robinson Was a Recent High School Graduate About to Attend College

3. Protesters Have Gathered in Madison

4. The Officer’s Name Hasn’t Been Released Yet

5. There Were 2 Fatal Police Shootings in Madison Last Year

Young, Gifted and Black, a Madison-based group, responded to the shooting in a Facebook statement:

Tonight an unarmed 19-year old Black teenager, Anthony Robinson was shot 5 times in the chest and killed by the Madison Police Department. Reports between the police and the youth’s friends differ, but it is clear he was unarmed. Few details are currently known, but this police murder is in the same vein as what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, and Dontre Hamilton in Milwaukee. Given the racial disparities in Madison, we have known our city is no different.

Wisconsin police officer fatally shoots African-American teen (Tony Robinson, age 19), sparking protests - CNN.com

Tony Robinson, 19!
Wisconsin police officer fatally shoots African-American teen, sparking protests - CNN.com: "Protests erupted in Wisconsin's capital overnight after a police officer fatally shot an African-American teen who authorities say attacked him.

The 19-year-old suspect assaulted the officer responding to a scene at an apartment in Madison on Friday evening, said Mike Koval, the city's police chief.

Shortly after, protesters took to the streets chanting "black lives matter" and "who do we trust, no one!" The crowds later dispersed."

Friday, March 6, 2015

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence spotlights conservative embrace of Medicaid - CNN.com

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence spotlights conservative embrace of Medicaid - CNN.com: "Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is expanding Medicaid -- with a few conservative changes he's touting as big reforms to the program.

The potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate announced his decision to embrace the Medicaid expansion included in President Barack Obama's health care law in a speech Tuesday morning. It'll make health coverage available to 350,000 more Hoosiers starting Feb. 1, he said.

He joins Ohio Gov. John Kasich on the list of GOP 2016 possibilities who have expanded health coverage through Obamacare. Some of the party's governors touted as potential vice presidential possibilities, including New Mexico's Susana Martinez, have done so, as well."

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Obamacare is costing way less than expected - Vox

Obamacare is costing way less than expected - Vox: "In January 2010, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the federal health spending would total a bit more than $11 trillion between 2011 and 2020.

Today, the Congressional Budget Office thinks it made a mistake. Costs are coming in lower-than-expected, and the CBO's newest projections suggest the federal government will spend $600 billion less on health care than they predicted back in 2010."

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Economy gains 295,000 jobs in February - MarketWatch

Economy gains 295,000 jobs in February - MarketWatch: "he U.S. economy churned out a robust 295,000 jobs in February, reducing the nation’s unemployment rate to the lowest level in almost seven years and extending the best stretch of job creation since the mid-1990s."

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Arizona congressman details attempts to rescue Kayla Mueller

Arizona congressman details attempts to rescue Kayla Mueller:

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Obamacare Will Cost 20% Less Than Initial Projections, CBO Says - Bloomberg Politics

Obamacare Will Cost 20% Less Than Initial Projections, CBO Says - Bloomberg Politics: "Through 2019, the law's insurance provisions will cost an estimated $571 billion, down $139 billion from the CBO's initial estimates. 

The news is not all good, however. By the year 2025, the CBO estimated that 31 million people would still not have health insurance. Based on higher than expected enrollment numbers, Medicaid will also cost the federal government $59 billion more than previously forecast over the coming decade, the CBO said. "  'via Blog this'

Fox News pundit says health care law will cost $50,000 per enrollee | PunditFact

Fox News pundit says health care law will cost $50,000 per enrollee | PunditFact: "We reached out to Varney and did not hear back. But the original source, at least the earliest we could find, is an article in the British Daily Mail.  Here’s how that article begins:

It will cost the federal government – taxpayers, that is – $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under the Obamacare law, the Congressional Budget Office revealed on Monday.  But health policy analyst Joe Antos at the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market oriented think-tank in Washington, told PunditFact that the number is meaningless."  'via Blog this'

U.S. Economy Added 295,000 Jobs in February; Unemployment Rate at 5.5% - NYTimes.com

Really 5000 away from 300K!!
U.S. Economy Added 295,000 Jobs in February; Unemployment Rate at 5.5% - NYTimes.com: "The outlook for the economy became sunnier on Friday after the Labor Department reported that employers added 295,000 workers in February, far exceeding expectations, and also recorded a drop in the unemployment rate. The data, though, offered disappointing results for wage growth, which for months has barely budged.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent, its lowest since mid-2008, down from 5.7 percent in January. Last month, wages rose just 0.1 percent, according to the Labor Department, a disappointment coming off an increase of 0.5 percent in January." 'via Blog this'

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Here are 7 racist jokes Ferguson police and court officials made over email - Vox

So wrong!  Probably don't want to Police those citizens!
Here are 7 racist jokes Ferguson police and court officials made over email - Vox: "

  • A November 2008 email said President Barack Obama won't be president for long because "what black man holds a steady job for four years."
  • A March 2010 email mocked African Americans with horrible stereotypes about their families and how they speak. One line of the email read, "I be so glad that dis be my last child support payment! Month after month, year after year, all dose payments!"
  • An April 2011 email depicted President Obama as a chimpanzee.
  • A May 2011 email said, "An African-American woman in New Orleans was admitted into the hospital for a pregnancy termination. Two weeks later she received a check for $5,000. She phoned the hospital to ask who it was from. The hospital said, 'Crimestoppers.'"
  • A June 2011 email said a man wanted to obtain "welfare" for his dogs because they are "mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddies are."
  • An October 2011 email had a photo of a bare-chested group of dancing women, apparently in Africa, with the caption, "Michelle Obama's High School Reunion."
  • A December 2011 email made jokes based off offensive stereotypes about Muslims." 'via Blog this'

dumfireEbola nurse Nina Pham sues Texas Health Resources - Business Insider

Ebola nurse Nina Pham sues Texas Health Resources - Business Insider: "On October 16, Texas Health Resources released a grainy video of Nina Pham, a nurse at one of the company's Dallas hospitals who had contracted Ebola while caring for the first person to receive a diagnosis of the virus in the US."



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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Ga. gunman kills cop after door-to-door shootings: police - NY Daily News

Ga. gunman kills cop after door-to-door shootings: police - NY Daily News: "A gunman ambushed cops and killed a veteran officer early Wednesday during a door-to-door shooting spree in an Atlanta-area suburb, police said.

Detective Terence Avery Green, a 22-year veteran Fulton County officer, died in a shootout with the suspect, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. "

Federal probe uncovers a racist joke about Obama in official Ferguson email - The Washington Post

Federal probe uncovers a racist joke about Obama in official Ferguson email - The Washington Post: " "A November 2008 e-mail, for instance, stated that President Obama could not be president for very long because 'what black man holds a steady job for four years.' ""

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Texas Child Shootings Kill 3 Boys In 4 Days In Same County

Texas Child Shootings Kill 3 Boys In 4 Days In Same County: "A rash of tragic child shootings in Texas over the weekend has led local law enforcement to appeal for gun safety.

"I beg of you, help us to keep from having to respond to tragedy that can be prevented," Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said at a news conference Monday, after deputies responded to the third fatal accidental shooting involving children in four days.

"I don't want another family to even have to fathom going through this terrible experience," he added.

All three shootings occurred within Harris County, within the greater Houston metropolitan area. In response to the tragedies, the Sheriff's Office and Harris County Constable Ron Hickman reminded the public that their offices distribute free gun locks."

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

LAPD Caught On Video Shooting Homeless Man To Death

LAPD Caught On Video Shooting Homeless Man To Death: "Los Angeles police fatally shot a homeless man on Sunday in a disturbing encounter that was caught on video.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the man, named by witnesses as "Africa," was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The incident, which occurred downtown in the city's Skid Row area, was captured on video and uploaded to Facebook. WARNING: content is disturbing." 'via Blog this'