Death by Taser? 44 year old veteran on life support within hours of arrest by Arpaio cops. Arpaio's Maricopa County Sherriff's Office was just cited by the federal DOJ for systemic and widespread abuse of Hispanic inmates on Friday.
...."The sheriff's office murdered my brother," said Atencio, acting as spokesman for his family. "That's what I want to get out to the public right now: Sheriff Joe is murdering inmates."
Now it's janitor unions and child labor laws that are holding us back! Kids 9-14 replace 'unionized janitors' who I assume then get real jobs like being Fannie Mae historians.
Gingrich at the JFK School of Government at Harvard on Friday:
Either Catholic Bishops are held to a lower legal and moral standard than are college football coaches, or Joe Paterno is just another (highly paid but expendable) peon in the 99% who live under one justice system, while Catholic Kansas City Bishop Finn is in the untouchables, the 1% who seem to get away with almost anything. While Penn State is the focus of national disgrace, unreported child abuse by Catholic Bishops is, for the media and the cops, just business as usual.
Hawaiian guitarist, writer and singer Makana has performed in the Obama White House. He is a well known and popular Hawaiian artist.
He was invited to perform instrumental music at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Honolulu Saturday. Instead he sang a song he had just written on the Occupy movement, "We Are The Many".
The veterans bill, passed by the Senate 94-1, would provide tax credits for firms that hire unemployed or disabled vets........“All Americans deserve the same opportunity to get hired. I cannot support this tax credit because I do not believe the government should privilege one American over another when it comes to work,” DeMint said.
NYT: ....high-profile attacks have been seen as a shift in Taliban strategy as they struggle against a surge in American troops that has loosened the militants’ grip on the Taliban heartland in the South and compromised the ability to stage more conventional attacks on NATO forces. American officials see the latest assaults as the Taliban’s attempt to shake confidence in the Afghan government...
...Responding to an international appeal by Ankara following Sunday's 7.2 magnitude quake that killed more than 400 people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the eastern Van province, Israel planned to fly out a small number of prefabricated homes and said it could ship hundreds more by sea......Israeli relief after a 1999 Turkish earthquake helped seal a strategic partnership that has since collapsed over Israel's Palestinian policies and the killing of nine Turks aboard an
From 2010 piece written by GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain. The liberal Romans killed the arch conservative Jesus, who, being conservative, was executed for for being a threat to the conservation of the established religious and secular authorities of the day. It seems, we liberals have the blood of Jesus on us, and Cain and his backers like Koch are the living embodiments of Jesus. Cain, Dec. 2010, on Redstate:
...The liberal court found Him guilty of false offences and sentenced Him to death, all because He changed the hearts and minds of men with an army of 12.
Decorated US Marine Sergeant confronts 20 cops at Occupy Wall Street near Times Square, confronts them and in their faces loudly demands to know why they have 'brutalized' protestors in the country he fought to protect. Sgt. Shamar Thomas, article at Rawstory.
Solidarity hero Lech Walesa is flying to New York to show his support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
"How could I not respond," Walesa told a Polish newspaper Wednesday. "The thousands of people gathered near Wall Street are worried about the fate of their future, the fate of their country. This is something I understand."
A former shipyard worker who led Poland's successful revolt against Soviet communism, Walesa said "capitalism is in crisis" and not just in America....
It's always easy to wrap up blame for major national crimes on the Lee Harvey Oswald type of crazed 'lone gunman' suspect, particularly if the suspect is already dead and won't go to trial. Now the guilt or sole culpability of Bruce Ivins is being questioned by a panel of esteemed scientists:
9 October, 2011 - Jerusalem (CNN) -- Less than a week after the arson of a mosque in northern Israel, dozens of Christian and Muslim graves were vandalized in an Arab section of the Israeli city of Jaffa. More than 100 graves were vandalized in the Muslim cemetery of al-Kazakhana and at a nearby Christian cemetery in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, according to residents and a CNN producer who visited the locations.
Koch Industries -- in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East -- has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism. The ‘Koch Method’ Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban.
Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Saturday said he would be open to sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat drug cartels.
Speaking in New Hampshire during a campaign stop, Perry said, “It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and keep them off our border.”...Perry on Saturday also said he wouldn’t send American troops into a combat situation if he didn’t have a clear plan for victory and withdrawal....
Gov. Rick Scotts (R-FL) 'money saving' multi-million dollar scheme to expose drug abuse among Florida welfare families hasn't worked out. Test results of a program passed by Florida Republicans to drug test welfare recipients has shown only a 2.5% rate of illegal drug use among them, which is below the nearly 9% rate among all Americans.
From Faux News Paul Ryan (R-WI), the GOP head of the powerful House Appropriations Committee rejects any increased tax on millionaires, as Obama has proposed in his 'Warren Buffett Tax', calling it 'class warfare'. Warren Buffett has said it isn't fair that billionaires like him pay a lower percentage of taxes than middle income workers.
A Yale/George Mason University survey of over 1000 persons revealed that among Democrats, Independents and Republicans, the Tea Party leads in not believing in global warming, and also in thinking they don't need to know more about it. Only 10% of the Tea Party think 'most scientists' believe global warming is happening, when in reality, over 95% of scientists believe climate change is occurring.
"We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother host twice a year. The 2012 elections, he warned, will be "the mother of all wars."
...A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner..(it) plays on the weaknesses both of the voting public and the news media.
