In his interview with FRANCE 24, Bathily described the kosher supermarket, where the vast majority of customers are Jewish, as a “second family”. “No one has ever made a remark about my faith,” he said.
Before Christmas TV Host Ellen dared viewers to "sneak up and dance behind total strangers". So a YouTube star, Alexander Bok, took the dare and on Christmas Eve danced in and around Grand Central Station in NYC. He danced behind one guy for 20 minutes, the guy hardly noticed. Another guy smiled and gave him a hug. How did members of the finest and most professional law enforcement organization in the world react? When he danced by NYC cops, they cursed and yelled epithets at him and physically threw him to the cold wet street.
Marc Rogers gives a page full of reasons why: All the evidence leads me to believe that the great Sony Pictures hack of 2014 is far more likely to be the work of one disgruntled employee facing a pink slip. I may be biased, but, as the director of security operations for DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference, and the principal security researcher for the world's leading mobile security company, Cloudflare, I think I am worth hearing out.
Two NYC cops, and their killer, joined an average of 82 Americans killed today, and every day, by guns. Brinsley apparently also shot his girlfriend before departing Baltimore for NYC. She survived. If you have seen some web comments you have probably seen the wingnuts of the right are out in force. In interviews on TV they are implying and/or blaming this tragic crime on, Obama, Al Sharpton, Democrat Mayor deBlasio, blacks in general, and of course 'liberals'.
In their mission to act like a gang of spoiled self centered overly weaponized hotheads the PBA police union in NYC has suggested NYC cops disinvite NYC Mayor de Blasio from their funerals. They don't like Mayor de Blasio's response to protestors. Funerals? Cops are not in the top 10 on dangerous jobs. Garbage collectors have twice the cop risk of dying on the job.
From the report by the NY Civilian Complaint Review Board, pdf link. You make conduct rules for the cops, and the cops just keep doing what they do, with no accountability if they break policy (and none if doing so kills). The choke hold on the late Mr. Garner was the rule for use by NYC cops, not the exception. From the Report:
In the spirit of Richard Day and his post Exiled Cubans, Rubio and Cruz. Case against Barack Obama, URPS officers Prosecutor Ted Cruz and his Assistant Prosecutor Marco Rubio (Union of Republican Prosperity Spreaders).
Resolved that propagation and dissemination of GOP ideology (tax cuts raise revenue, Obama faked birth certificate, earth 6000 years old, evolution liberal plot, climate change a hoax, war is peace etc) are both ubiquitous, and as uncompromising and obsessive as that of Stalin, a Tea Party indictment follows, drawing from Article 58 of the Stalinist legal codes (as listed in the book Escape from the Future, by Vladimir Petrov).
KEEP THE GRIDLOCK GOING! It's worked fantastic so far with Murican voters, why stop?
BBC reports on the conservative National Review's cynical, don't try to govern advice, if you do, voters may figure out you aren't what the election year tsunami of 5 billion dollars of dark money TV ads said you were....do nothing advice for the Republican controlled Congress:
President "Hamas Relief Flotilla" Islamist Erdogran of Turkey says only disarmed Kurds can defend Kobani from Erdogran's Sunni proxy army ISIS:
Turkey says Peshmerga forces shouldn’t carry guns while crossing border
Turkey has stated the Kurdish forces of Peshmerga that are due to go to Kobani in northern Syrian should not carry arms as they cross Turkish border into Syria.
Goldman Sachs (see The Great American Bubble Machine) and Blackstone to the rescue of "undermanaged from a yield perspective" housing built with public funds for the poor/disabled in cash starved Spain:
The teacher had no contacts with anyone with Ebola, had no contact with anyone who had contact with an Ebola patient, the teacher only went to Dallas, which apparently is as scary to idiot Americans in Maine as having been to an Ebola ward of Liberia. Yes, these people vote too. TV News: turn it off or watch something else, TV 'News' won't make you smarter or better informed.
The Obama DOJ has filed a Supreme Court Amicus Brief asking it to reverse a Ninth District Court of Appeals ruling. The Appeals Court said Amazon warehouse employees forced to wait 25 minutes or more before exiting their work site, in long lines to see if they stole anything, is time for which they should be compensated for by Amazon. The Obama DOJ disagrees.
Assad has his own proxy army Shiite Hezbollah, Turkey has its own anti-Assad proxy army Sunni ISIS! ISIS also has the benefit that it kills Kurds! Now if the US would only put boots on the ground to topple Assad, Erdogran would be laughing all the way to Damascus where he would install a crony to run Syria.
Obama appears to be losing another game of chicken. (The last was with the GOP in 2013 over budget control act of 2011 which mandated cuts to the Pentagon.) Obama and his top advisors still seem to be, in too many instances, sucker bait for scoundrels, be they in the GOP or foreign heads of state. The 'chicken' aspect of this situation is all too clear.
It is much more serious then budget cuts. The question is who, if anyone, is going to act to save the Kurds of Kobani from the murderers of ISIS. ISIS is attacking the major Kurdish city of Kobani right on the Turkish/Syrian border, and with a population of over 150,000 potential victims.
Speaking to conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham, Paul questioned whether the Obama administration should carry out its plan to send 3,000 troops to Ebola hot zones in Africa.
Texas Ebola victim's NEPHEW was the first to notify CDC, as patient got worse 3 days after his first visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Anthony Fauci, NIH, “It is regrettable that there wasn’t the connecting of the dots"......the woman who was hosting Mr. Duncan in Dallas told CNN on Thursday that she had brought him to the hospital the first time and twice told hospital workers he had been in Liberia.....Mr.
The Rabbi did not survive. No suspects in custody. Although there is 'no evidence' of a hate crime in this murder, there have been anti-semitic hate crimes in the Miami area in recent weeks.
