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Obama Painter Kehinde Wiley Known For Portraying Black Heroines Decapitating White Women
Post Date: 2018-02-13 09:17:28 by Deckard
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Source: Chris Menahan, Information Liberation Barack Obama unveiled his official portrait as painted by artist Kehinde Wiley at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC on Monday. "Wiley typically portrays people of color posing as famous figures in Western art," the Portrait Gallery said of his work. "Through this practice, he challenges the visual rhetoric of power that is dominated by elite white men.""Barack Obama said he admired how Wiley's photos 'challenge our conventional views of power and privilege,'" NPR reports. Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama. pic.twitter.com/8XruEgzgMK ...
FACT CHECK: Does The Federal Government Borrow $1 Million Every Minute?
Post Date: 2018-02-13 09:03:33 by Deckard
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Republican Sen. Rand Paul claimed Thursday that the federal government borrows $1 million every minute. Verdict: True The annual federal deficit has averaged more than $1 million per minute since fiscal year 2016 and is projected to reach around $2 million per minute in FY 2019. Fact Check: Congress passed a two-year budget deal early Friday morning. Although lawmakers still have to appropriate specific spending by late-March, the deal addressed spending priorities of both parties by hiking defense and domestic spending caps in addition to allocating $90 billion in disaster relief funding. The deal received bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, and President ...
FEMA Contractor Seeks $70 Million After Failing to Deliver 29,950,000 Hot Meals to Puerto Rico
Post Date: 2018-02-13 08:59:26 by Deckard
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A contractor facing acrid backlash over a scathing report detailing the delivery of just 50,000 of a promised 30 million self-heating meals to desperate Puerto Ricans recovering from Hurricane Maria has now come forward to defend her actions after FEMA had no choice but to terminate the contract “due to late delivery” — but Tiffany Brown’s response smacks of shirking responsibility for blatant failures, rather than humble mea culpa. “I’ve had challenges in that area,” Brown, the sole operator and employee of Tribute Contracting in Atlanta, told CBS News of the bungled deal, “particularly because I’m so young and being a woman in the food ...
Police: Man pointing gun at his own head killed by officers
Post Date: 2018-02-13 08:46:19 by Deckard
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WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — A distraught man who was pointing a pistol at his own head was shot by police as he walked toward two officers next to a busy interstate and refused repeated commands to drop the weapon, state police said Monday.The man died at a hospital shortly after the Sunday shooting in the breakdown lane of Interstate 89 in Bolton, said state police Col. Matthew Birmingham. Benjamin Gregware, 42, of Sheldon, did not point his weapon at police before he was shot three times, Birmingham said. State police Trooper Christopher Brown and an officer from the nearby Richmond Police Department fired 12 shots total at him.It was the third fatal shooting involving Brown in ...
Disturbing Video Shows Cops Take Turns Beating a Disabled Elderly Man—In HANDCUFFS
Post Date: 2018-02-13 08:40:00 by Deckard
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Louisville, KY — A recent settlement paid out by the Kentucky State Police, highlights the utter importance of filming cops. A 68-year-old disabled man was accused of attacking police officers but video evidence showed the exact opposite. The victim, Lewis Lyttle has since been paid $130,000 in taxpayer money because officers took turns kicking and punching him while he was in handcuffs. The suit was settled in October of last year, however, police have kept it secret and even lied about it. According to WDRB, Kentucky State Police denied an open records request for a copy of the settlement on Jan. 10, saying no settlement existed and “any documents related to a possible ...
KEENAN: Rand Paul Is Wrong About The Deficit
Post Date: 2018-02-13 07:40:30 by Gatlin
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Study the chart below, math whizzes: 2% growth: $1.2T deficit 3% growth: $900B deficit 4% growth: $600B deficit 5% growth: $300B deficit 6% growth: $0 deficit, balanced budget 1% economic growth = $300 Billion of federal revenue. Let me be the first to say it, the new spending measure by Trump & the GOP may BALANCE THE BUDGET. Rand Paul kept the Senate wide awake on Thursday night, grandstanding to lament what he called a $1.2 Trillion annual deficit predicted by this new bi-partisan spending measure. But who predicts the deficit? The CBO. The CBO has based its revenue projection off their usual static scoring, presuming a pessimistic 2% growth (apparently for the upcoming ...
Security Drags Woman from Hearing for Exposing Big Oil Bribes to Politicians
Post Date: 2018-02-13 07:11:27 by Deckard
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West Virginia — (RT) A candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates was dragged out of a hearing after listing the donations received by state lawmakers from fossil fuel companies. She was testifying on a bill on oil and gas drilling rules. Lissa Lucas was criticizing a proposed bill, HB 4268, which would allow oil and gas companies to drill on private land with the consent of just 75 percent of the landowners. Energy companies are currently required to have 100 percent approval from landowners before they can extract gas and minerals from land. As part of her testimony, she read out the list of names of lawmakers who received sizeable donations from fossil fuel companies. ...
While in Louisville, Chuck Schumer slams Rand Paul's government shutdown as 'hollow'
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:45:32 by Gatlin
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While speaking at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center on Monday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, says Rand Paul is only concerned about deficit when it’s convenient. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday slammed Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's single-handed effort to stop a budget deal and shut down the government last week. "His idea of railing against the deficit on this bipartisan deal after he supported a $1.5 trillion deficit for tax cuts, 80 percent of which are aimed at the top one percent, is very hollow," Schumer said. Schumer, a New York Democrat, was speaking at the University of Louisville as a guest of Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...
Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:31:45 by Gatlin
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An Oregon hospital contacted an illegal immigrant on Tuesday and told her she could not be on the liver transplant list. The hospital stated it “requires proof of lawful presence for transplant services.” Now the hospital has done an about-face after the ACLU and others applied public pressure. The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Mat dos Santos, responded to the woman’s receipt of the letter from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) by calling the policy “cruel and inhumane.” The ACLU in Oregon started a petition drive, Tweeting, “TAKE ACTION! Add your name to the petition asking all Oregon hospitals to stop denying ...
E-Verify Threatens Us All
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:27:12 by Deckard
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In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program where businesses check job applicants’ Social Security numbers and other Information — potentially including “biometric” identifiers like fingerprints — against information stored in a federal database to determine if the job applicants are legally in the United States. Imagine how much time would be diverted from serving consumers and growing the economy if every US business had to comply with E-Verify. Also, collecting the ...
MEET OFFICER MADER: FIRED FOR TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:10:12 by Gatlin
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Early in the morning of May 6, 2016, Weirton Police Officer Stephen Mader responded to a domestic dispute call. When he arrived on the scene, he encountered R.J. Williams, a young African American man. When Officer Mader asked Mr. Williams to show his hands, Mr. Williams revealed that he was holding a gun. As Mr. Williams began waiving his gun around, Officer Mader ordered him to drop his weapon. Mr. Williams ignored Officer Mader’s demand and repeatedly responded, “Just shoot me.” Officer Mader did not “just shoot” R.J. Williams. He analyzed the full situation. He did not just view Mr. Williams as an African American man. He didn’t even view him solely as ...
"Dirty Oddie" (Even Dirty Harry would be disgusted.)
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:06:06 by Deckard
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Go ahead – make my day.Back in 1971, Clint Eastwood’s character said it on screen – and people were shocked. But it was just a movie. And besides, Dirty Harry only shot bad guys – murderous psychopaths, as in the original 1971 film.In the sequel film – Magnum Force – Dirty Harry shot murderous, psychopathic cops. Today we have Dirty Oddie – and he’s not a character on the silver screen. He’s an armed government worker – a law enforcement officer – in Tennessee. And he “loves this shit.”Killing people, that is. Those are Dirty Oddie’s own words. “God, I tell you what, I thrive on ...
Can We Talk About Something Besides Trump?
Post Date: 2018-02-13 04:55:10 by Deckard
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At some point, maybe we should just take Trump’s antics as a givenCan we get the 2020 presidential election underway, please? Like, right now? Yes, yes—American presidential elections already are endless affairs, especially compared to the five-second-long events the Brits like to have at random intervals. Launching the next presidential contest more than two years before the vote would just make matters worse. Still. Wouldn't it be lovely to spend a few minutes talking about something other than Donald Trump? Consider the week just past, in which the principal news stories were: The Trump/Russia Intrigue, Chapter 147: Reactions to responses to points raised by release ...
Hard-Right Republicans Say ‘The Swamp Has Won’ as Trump Signs Off on Trillions in Spending
Post Date: 2018-02-13 01:08:38 by Hondo68
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Updated | Hard-right Republicans from the Tea Party–allied House Freedom Caucus condemned a budget deal with Democrats on Sunday that would raise the U.S. deficit. Their exasperation came as President Donald Trump prepared to announce another budget plan that would include trillions more in spending and also grow the deficit.“The swamp won. And the American taxpayer lost,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Representative Mark Meadows told CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday of $300 billion in spending in the budget bill passed last Friday.“The real problem with this particular one is that our leadership caved,” Meadows said, suggesting Republicans had given in to ...
Being a murderer and a pedophile is just like being gay?
Post Date: 2018-02-12 21:27:08 by A K A Stone
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If gay people are born that way. Wouldn't that mean murderers and pedophiles are born that way too?
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan: Paul Ryan has 'got problems' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 21:16:41 by Gatlin
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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan: Paul Ryan has 'got problems' Washington (CNN)One of the leading voices of the House Freedom Caucus warned Sunday that House Speaker Paul Ryan was facing problems from fellow Republicans dissatisfied with his leadership. Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said the recently passed government funding agreement, which raises budget caps by $300 billion over two years, was "not consistent" with the promises Republicans made to cut spending, and that Ryan's support for the deal undermined his leadership. "Do I think the speaker has problems? Yes, I do," Jordan said. He noted that Ryan entered the national stage as one of the ...
Freedom Caucus Sounds Off on Leadership Over Budget Deal
Post Date: 2018-02-12 19:19:41 by Gatlin
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Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., left, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., voted “no” on the two-year spending package signed into law last Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The House Freedom Caucus is not happy with GOP leadership after Democrats and Republicans struck a deal last week to fund the government for two years and avoid another shutdown until at least March 23. The package President Donald Trump signed Friday morning raises the debt limit, provides an additional $300 billion for defense and domestic programs over two years, and allocates relief dollars for natural disaster victims.Most Freedom Caucus members are furious over what they consider wasteful spending and a ...
Did liberals just try to assassinate Donald Trump jr.
Post Date: 2018-02-12 13:29:11 by A K A Stone
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It is being reported that an envelope containing white powder was sent to Donald Trump Junior's apartment and that his wife opened it and that she is in the hospital now.
Being a faggot is a choice [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 11:57:20 by no gnu taxes
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1. Just because an argument is politically strategic, does not make it true: A couple of years ago, the Human Rights Campaign, arguably the country’s most powerful lesbian and gay organization, responded to politician Herman Cain’s assertion that being gay is a choice. They asked their members to “Tell Herman Cain to get with the times! Being gay is not a choice!” They reasoned that Cain’s remarks were “dangerous.” Why? “Because implying that homosexuality is a choice gives unwarranted credence to roundly disproven practices such as ‘conversion’ or ‘reparative’ therapy. The risks associated with attempts to consciously change ...
The hallelujah cure: Trump campaign adviser says pray away the flu
Post Date: 2018-02-12 11:23:00 by Willie Green
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Brethren, our topic for this week’s column is the flu, because I have it. I followed the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and got a vaccination, which may or may not have lessened my symptoms. But then I discovered I had neglected the most important prophylaxis of all: prayer. This advice came from the evangelist Gloria Copeland, who with her husband, Kenneth, runs a religious empire based largely on faith healing. Copeland posted a video last week that argued, passionately if incoherently, either that the flu doesn’t actually exist (“We got a duck season, a deer season, but we don’t have a flu season”) or that faith can protect you from it ...
Teenage Dystopia: The Cycle of Oppression and Resistance
Post Date: 2018-02-12 09:43:01 by Deckard
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Teenagers already live in a dystopia. Their lives are controlled by the government and their parents. If legal adults were treated like American teenagers, that government would be considered one of the most oppressive on Earth. The government requires 6-16-year-olds to attend a government institution that subjects them to unconstitutional searches. Here, in public schools, they must ask permission to use the bathroom, eat when they are told, and not speak unless called upon. If you are under 18 you cannot work without government permission, and cannot even walk on public sidewalks at certain times of day, like during school hours or after a certain time of night. And the age that ...
Why Trust in Government is at All Time Lows, and Why That’s a Good Thing
Post Date: 2018-02-12 09:35:07 by Deckard
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Do you have confidence in the government? Concerned about public confidence in the agency, the FBI didn’t want the FISA memo released. They didn’t want people to know their investigations are politically motivated. Now it’s come out that the Department of Homeland Security pressured CNN into delaying the release of a report until after the Superbowl. DHS was concerned public confidence in Superbowl security would be lost if people found out about an exercise they ran last summer. The DHS program manager of Biowatch left sensitive documents on an airplane. They revealed confusion and vulnerabilities in the exercises meant to test government response to a ...
Bullet Trains Are Transforming the World's Biggest Migration
Post Date: 2018-02-12 09:10:08 by Willie Green
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Millions of Chinese cram onto trains to make the annual pilgrimage home for the Lunar New Year holiday. It’s a crowded and often uncomfortable experience that is rapidly being transformed by the country’s push into the world of high-speed rail. China already has the globe’s longest bullet-train network, but it’s plowing 3.5 trillion yuan ($556 billion) into expanding its railway system by 18% over the next two years, to 150,000 kilometers, or more than 93,000 miles. Much of that will be spent on extending the high-speed network westward, which includes parts of the country that ancient Chinese poet Li Bai once lamented were so mountainous that getting there was as ...
Fox News executive claims Olympic athletes were picked because they were black or gay
Post Date: 2018-02-12 07:09:50 by Deckard
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Piece was written by executive vice president John MoodyFox News has taken down a heavily criticised column, penned by a top executive, that said the US Olympics Committee’s motto should be “Darker, Gayer, Different” and suggested some athletes qualified because they belong to minority groups. In a piece entitled “In Olympics, let's focus on the winner of the race — not the race of the winner”, the conservative news outlet’s executive vice president John Moody criticised what he called the US Olympic Committee’s overbearing focus on the diversity of athletes. He slammed the American athletics organisation for touting an “embarrassing ...
The Tea Party [Freedom Caucus], Not Democrats or Republicans, Is the Problem [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-12 06:00:36 by Gatlin
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The Tea Party [Freedom Caucus], Not Democrats or Republicans, Is the Problem. It’s de rigueur to decry ‘partisanship’ as Washington’s ‘real problem.’ Let’s get real—the most destructive force in American politics today is the Tea Party, says Jon Favreau. So now that our government is open and able to pay its bills, what soon-to-be-forgotten lessons have we learned from this sorry fiasco?Perhaps most important is the reminder that political temper tantrums in Washington exact a toll that goes far beyond unfavorable headlines and worse-than-dog-poo poll numbers. This decision hurt people. Some families couldn’t pay their bills. Others had nowhere ...
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