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Science Advances ‘One Funeral at a Time’
Post Date: 2015-06-07 08:44:21 by cranky
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How long does it take for an expert who has, year upon year after year, made predictions of unrealized doom, an expert hailed heeded and hearkened to by the whole world, to admit error? Answer: forever. He never will, and neither will most of his admirers. This is important to understand — let this sink into your bones — because this sad but true fact about the human condition tells us how long global warming will be with us. Answer: forever. It will last until the last of it proponents die. Which, given improvements in medical practice, will be at least several more decades. No one said this pithier than Max Planck: Science advances one funeral at a time. The increased and ...
Marilyn Mosby seeks to block release of Freddie Gray autopsy report
Post Date: 2015-06-03 20:54:20 by Dead Culture Watch
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Mosby says she'll seek order to block release of Freddie Gray autopsy report Marilyn Mosby Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announces the indictments of six Baltimore Police officers on various charges related to the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. (Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun) Marilyn Mosby Freddie Gray Alicia White Caesar R. Goodson Jr. William Porter Mosby doesn't want Freddie Gray's autopsy made public Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby plans to seek a protective order that would block the release of Freddie Gray's autopsy report and other "sensitive" documents as she prosecutes the six police officers involved in his arrest. ...
Harf: We’re All ‘Totally Perplexed’ by NYT Story on Iran’s Increased Nuclear Stockpile (Video)
Post Date: 2015-06-02 22:59:53 by out damned spot
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State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said she was “perplexed” by a New York Times story Tuesday on Iran’s 20 percent increase in nuclear fuel over the past 18 months. The United States has been in negotiations with Iran for a final deal about their nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report on Friday that documented an increase of Iran’s nuclear fuel stockpile. A reporter asked Harf if Iran’s increased stockpiles has complicated the current negotiations. “Not at all. Our team read that story this morning and was quite frankly perplexed because the main contentions of it are totally inaccurate,” Harf said. Harf ...
Obama: I’ve Restored the US as the ‘Most Respected Country in the World’
Post Date: 2015-06-02 18:25:19 by cranky
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Monday while President Barack Obama was answering questions at a town hall with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he said his administration has restored the Untied States as the “the most respected country on earth.” Obama said, “People don’t remember, but when I came into office, the Untied States in world opinion ranked below China and just barley above Russia, and today once again, the Untied States is the most respected country on earth. Part of that I think is because of the work we did to reengage the world and say we want to work with you as partners with mutual interests and ...
28 busts for sex offender accused of grinding on subway passenger, but mom says he's just looking for a wife
Post Date: 2015-05-30 14:53:12 by cranky
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Basam Syed was arrested Tuesday for allegedly pressing against a straphanger’s backside on a No. 4 train. He's a registered sex offender with 28 prior arrests. He's a son that only a mother could love. Registered sex offender Basam Syed, busted Tuesday for pressing against a straphanger’s backside on an East Side subway, was somehow free despite 28 prior arrests — including four while on probation for a 2014 sex crime. But his mom insisted Friday that her oft-arrested offspring is only looking for the right woman. “It’s not easy to find a wife and have kids,” she declared outside their Queens home. “She has to be a Pakistani. She has to be a ...
Pataki confirms run for 2016 GOP presidential nomination
Post Date: 2015-05-28 07:57:10 by Hondo68
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FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, former Gov., N.Y., George Pataki speaks in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) Former New York Gov. George Pataki confirmed in a video early Thursday that he would seek the 2016 Republican nomination for president. The three-and-a-half-minute video posted to his campaign website featured an anti-big government message, "Washington has grown too big, too powerful, too expensive, and too intrusive," and highlighted Pataki's role as governor of New York following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "We have always understood that we have a common background and a common destiny, and when we stand together, we can accomplish ...
Obama Judge Cites America’s ’Complicated History’ of Racism and Xenophobia In Fifth Circuit Dissent
Post Date: 2015-05-27 13:10:13 by cranky
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Justice Stephen Higginson, the lone dissenter of the Fifth Circuit Court decision to deny the Obama administration’s appeal to lift a stay of his executive amnesty, cited the country’s supposed history of racism and xenophobia in his dissenting opinion. “On the expedience of immigration measures, sensible things can be said on all sides, mindful that our country is an immigrant society itself,” he wrote in his conclusion, including a footnote to a book by Judith Shklar on citizenship. “Over twenty years ago, Judith Shklar observed in her book American Citizenship, aptly subtitled ‘The Quest for Inclusion,’ that the United States has an ‘extremely ...
Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?
Post Date: 2015-05-25 12:39:41 by CZ82
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Is having a loving family an unfair advantage? Friday 1 May 2015 1:19PM Joe Gelonesi Plato famously wanted to abolish the family and put children into care of the state. Some still think the traditional family has a lot to answer for, but some plausible arguments remain in favour of it. Joe Gelonesi meets a philosopher with a rescue plan very much in tune with the times. So many disputes in our liberal democratic society hinge on the tension between inequality and fairness: between groups, between sexes, between individuals, and increasingly between families. The power of the family to tilt equality hasn’t gone unnoticed, and academics and public commentators have been blowing the ...
Jeb Bush: Rand Paul "Wrong" To Call PATRIOT Act Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2015-05-22 11:09:21 by Hondo68
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“I think we need to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and put aside who’s speaking where. The simple fact is that it’s been an effective tool to keep us free and to keep us from being attacked by Islamic terrorists. That’s the main focus," Bush also said. "If it could be updated, modified, fine. But it needs to be reauthorized," Bush added.
Poster Comment:Read my lips, no new taxes. /s If Bush likes the antiPatriot Act, rest assured... It's unconstitutional and IT SUCKS!
Staff quit Clinton Foundation over Chelsea
Post Date: 2015-05-19 21:23:37 by Tooconservative
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Chelsea Clinton is so unpleasant to colleagues, she’s causing high turnover at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, sources say. Several top staffers have left the foundation since Chelsea came on board as vice chairman in 2011. “A lot of people left because she was there. A lot of people left because she didn’t want them there,” an insider told me. “She is very difficult.” Onetime CEO Bruce Lindsey was pushed upstairs to the position of chairman of the board two years ago, so that Chelsea could bring in her McKinsey colleague Eric Braverman. “He [Braverman] was her boy, but he tried to hire his own communications professional and actually ...
More Zero-Tolerance Insanity - 11-year-old Boy Suspended Over Nerf Bullet In New Jersey
Post Date: 2015-05-18 11:16:11 by Deckard
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CBS Philadelphia – by Diana Rocco ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (CBS) – A mother says her son was suspended over a Nerf bullet in New Jersey. This Styrofoam Nerf bullet with a toothpick stuck in it is what Atlantic City educators call a weapon. “From their lookings that the quote unquote weapon looked like it was an imitation of a shank,” said mother Michelle Moody. “It’s a toy with a toothpick on it,” she said. Aarin Moody’s mom says she got the call Friday after the Nerf bullet fell out of the fifth grader’s pocket and it nearly got the 11-year-old special education student kicked out of the Uptown Complex School. “I pulled out my late ...
Don't you just love feminists?
Post Date: 2015-05-16 13:06:55 by CZ82
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BREAKING: Ferguson Protest Leaders Paid $5,000 a Month to Disrupt & Instigate Violence
Post Date: 2015-05-16 12:18:22 by Vinny
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BREAKING: #Ferguson Protest Leaders Paid $5,000 a Month to Disrupt & Instigate ViolencePosted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 16, 2015, 9:58 AM The Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter protesters are spilling the beans on the so-called “grassroots” movement. Earlier this week black protesters staged a protest at at the office of MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment) on Thursday to press their claim that groups led by whites have collected tens of thousands of dollars in donations off of the Black Lives Matter movement without paying the Black participants their fair share. Much more on that sit-in protest at MORE here. The black protesters threatened to ...
Obama: Wealthy Ignore Poverty By Sending Kids To Private Schools
Post Date: 2015-05-12 23:20:24 by out damned spot
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During a conversation about poverty, President Obama said he was concerned that more wealthy people were separated from poverty because they chose to frequent private institutions instead of public ones. “Part of what’s happened is, is that elites in a very mobile, globalized world are able to live together, away from folks who are not as wealthy, and so they feel less of a commitment to making those investments,” he explained during a panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University today. Obama criticized the free-market system in America for allowing higher concentrations of wealth to exist among the rich while the bottom percentage was being left behind and ...
Saida Grundy, Boston University professor: White males a ‘problem population’
Post Date: 2015-05-12 19:42:56 by cranky
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Incoming Boston University assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies, Saida Grundy, says white males are a “problem population.”A newly hired Boston University professor has come under fire for several anti-white comments she made on Twitter, but the school says she is simply practicing free speech. Incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies, Saida Grundy tweeted a slew of tweets over several months blasting white males which have drawn criticism on social media, Fox News reported Saturday. “White masculinity isn’t a problem for America’s colleges, white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges,” ...
Fox Hypes Minimal Improper Spending To Demonize Welfare [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-11 11:19:38 by tpaine
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http://mediamatters.org Fox Hypes Minimal Improper Spending To Demonize Welfare Fox News continued its campaign to demonize welfare benefits, this time hyping improper payments made by a Massachusetts program even though those payments made up only a minimal amount of all benefits paid by the state. On Fox & Friends First, co-host Patti Ann Browne hyped a report that Massachusetts welfare agencies had improperly continued to provide a total of $2.39 million in assistance to 1,164 deceased recipients, calling the figures "ugly." On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade mocked the report, claiming, "More than 2 million dollars. That's the amount of welfare ...
County Poor Farms
Post Date: 2015-05-11 09:16:15 by tpaine
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www.wvencyclopedia.org County Poor Farms Before the welfare reforms of the New Deal, county farms, also known as county infirmaries or poor farms, played a major role in the care of people who because of poverty, infirmity, or old age were unable to care for themselves. Early West Virginia law followed Virginia precedent, making counties responsible for care of the poor. At first, county governments appointed overseers of the poor, who were to see that the indigent received adequate care. Most counties found that the overseer system worked haphazardly and turned to the establishment of a county farm, where any person in need might live in the county’s care. The farms were operated by ...
Which would you rather your son be seen with?
Post Date: 2015-05-10 20:09:30 by BobCeleste
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25 Years Of Predicting The Global Warming ‘Tipping Point’
Post Date: 2015-05-05 20:52:33 by cranky
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For decades now, those concerned about global warming have been predicting the so-called “tipping point” — the point beyond which it’ll be too late to stave off catastrophic global warming. It seems like every year the “tipping point” is close to being reached, and that the world must get rid of fossil fuels to save the planet. That is, until we’ve passed that deadline and the next such “tipping point” is predicted. Would you believe it was eight years ago today that the United Nations predicted we only had “as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2C or more.” This failed prediction, however, has not ...
ACLU: ‘Black Spring Has Begun’
Post Date: 2015-05-04 11:59:37 by cranky
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At a grassy plaza across from Baltimore’s City Hall filled with thousands of people on Saturday, speakers praised the city’s young top prosecutor for quickly moving forward with charges against the police officers they see as responsible for the death of a 25-year-old black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury in their custody. The peaceful scene was a striking contrast to demonstrations the past two weeks at the same plaza. Crowds of angry protesters demanded that the city’s leaders heed their cries for justice, and one night, the protests gave way to looting, rioting and arson. On Friday morning, four days after the most violent civil unrest since the assassination ...
All-female Smith College to accept transgender applicants
Post Date: 2015-05-03 22:19:49 by rlk
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All-female Smith College to accept transgender applicants May 3rd 2015 7:46PM NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) -- Smith College, the largest of the all-female Seven Sisters schools, is changing its policy to accept transgender women. The new policy, which takes effect for those applying this fall, followed a year of study. The women's college had previously asked undergraduates to have consistently identified as female since birth. Smith President Kathleen McCartney and board Chair Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard said in announcing the change on Saturday since Smith's founding, "concepts of female identity have evolved." Smith will not admit students who were born female but ...
Fox News Posts Fake Baltimore Riot Photo That’s Actually From Venezuela [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-03 11:40:05 by Hondo68
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If you are like thousands of others, you have no doubt seen an iconic photo of Baltimore burning. The image began circulating throughout social media after a local Fox affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee apparently first ran it. Some other mainstream media outlets even shared the image, using it with headlines that said “Baltimore is Burning” and referenced a “purge”. The only problem is it wasn’t from Baltimore. That’s right, the image was taken from Venezuela, not Baltimore. But for those who accepted Fox’s rendition of the story uncritically, the image became burned into their minds as being a scene of devastation in Baltimore. On April 27th, local FOX13 ...
Mr, Mrs, Miss... and Mx: Transgender people will be able to use new title on official documents
Post Date: 2015-05-03 08:22:38 by cranky
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Gender neutral title 'Mx' slowly introduced to official forms and databasesFirst titles change in decades, is considered by Oxford English DictionaryHeralded as showing the versatility of English to adapt to changing societyA new gender neutral title 'Mx' is to join the honorifics 'Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms' on driving licences and other official documents, the first change to officially recognised titles in decades.Royal Mail, high street banks, government departments and some universities all now accept Mx which is used by transgender people or other individuals who do not identify with a particular gender.The title has been added, without fanfare, to official forms and ...
Bobby Jindal's Muddled Message (Hindu-Catholic, existential confusion)
Post Date: 2015-05-01 20:22:05 by Hondo68
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What does he stand for again?Gage Skidmore / Foter / CC BY-SA Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was supposed to be the conservative answer to President Barack Obama: a first-generation Indian-American who rejected offers from Harvard med and Yale law to study political science on a Rhodes scholarship. He was the whiz-bang wonk who would use his policy smarts to lift the Republican Party from its doldrums with innovative solutions and vision, catapulting himself to the White House in the process. Such lofty prognostications, common seven years ago, are few and far between these days. The Real Clear Politics poll average shows Jindal sputtering in second-to-last place among a dozen Republican ...
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