More Color, More Pride.
Well, now I know why I was able to “purchase” a 5′ by 3′ rainbow flag for shipping only.
The iconic LGBTQ pride flag has been redesigned to highlight people of color.
And that’s cool.
This, from More Color More Pride:
Read more here: https://morecolormorepride.com/
Barack Obama eating a hamburger.
Here’s some perspective for you.
At this point in his presidency, Fox News was attacking Barack Obama for using — gasp! — Dijon mustard on a hamburger.
Think about that.
And then think about the Comey hearings, Lyin’ Donnie T., and all that noise coming from The Big Oval these days.
Did the Predator In Chief invite you to dinner recently. After you arrived, did you suddenly feel uneasy because you were the only two in the room?
Creepy. Creepy. Creepy.
From Newsweek via Yahoo! News:
In news from eight years ago that appears to be from some alternate reality, Obama left the White House and went out for a local bite to eat with vice president and BFF Joe Biden in May. The two politicians ordered hamburgers, MSNBC journalist Andrea Mitchell reported at the time, with the sitting president requesting mustard on his red meat.
The story was featured on Sean Hannity’s show, Hannity’s America, as a screen showed a photoshopped image of Obama surrounded by bottles of mustard with the words “PRESIDENT POUPON” plastered on a red and white banner.
Let that soak in for a minute. Trump tweeted his support for Fox News Friday, commending them for the network’s morning show Fox And Friends’ “great reporting” job on ex-FBI Director James Comey’s Thursday testimony. The network’s rejection of Obama’s taste palette compared to its incredible support of the embattled Trump White House was seen by Twitter users as shocking at best, and propagandistic at worst.
That was “news” eight years ago.
And, now, Trump.
Ah, Donald.
The Donald.
The Don.
Donnie.
Donnie T.
Crazy Donald.
Are you talking to portraits of past presidents yet?
You know, Richard Nixon did that.
You say you like Andrew Jackson, that the two of you are BFFs.
But you really should get to know Tricky Dicky, the original Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon.
Are you a liar, Donnie T?
As you laze about The Big Oval, or wander the Residence at night in your bathrobe, are you taking time to smell the paintings? Are you spending time talking to Andrew Jackson, or do you just admire him from afar?
James Comey testified today. For how long will your crew insulate you? For how long will the GOP spew out parseltongue, protecting you from yourself?
Were you really that ill prepared, as Speaker Paul Ryan suggests? Are you just too new at all of this? Are we to believe that James Comey is really to blame because he did not tell you that it was inappropriate for you to meet with him alone? Was it really up to Comey to correct you, sir, when you asked AG Jeff Sessions and Jared to leave The Big Oval so you could spend quality time with Mr. Comey?
Is there anything at all for which you will take responsibility?
How long until a new David Frost interviews you, after you’re, you know, out of office?
Is there a contemporary Dan Aykroyd in your future, sir Trump? Will Alec Baldwin be the ultimate closer for you on SNL?
The sooner the better.
Some day, some day soon, this….
WLS screenshot
A white man in Chicago was charged with three counts of misdemeanor battery after calling a black man a slave, according to Chicago Police — and caught on video.
The assailant, identified as 23-year-old William Boucher, can be heard on the video screaming at an unidentified black man: “Shut up, slave! Do not talk to me!”
Boucher then goes on to compare the man to livestock and suggests that he should be tagged with a bar code with his Social Security number.
“Your children are disposable vermin!” Boucher continues to yell at a second man who is also videotaping him. He then spits on that 30-year-old man as well as a 34-year-old woman, according to police.
The man Boucher spits at, however, is not having any of it and rushes up to Boucher, but is held back by another bystander.
“Get on all fours right now!” Boucher screams. “Get on all fours! Do not walk off on two legs! You don’t deserve to walk on two legs, vermin.”
Boucher is also seen punching down to the ground an older man who was walking toward his direction.
And then this, from ABC 7 Chicago:
As the man starts to leave, he’s approached by what appears to be a homeless man. He throws a single punch and sends him to the ground. Witnesses tackled the man and held him down until help arrives.
Video of the incident below:
What is happening in America?
Always there, just below the surface.
Now, unleashed.
Raw.
Violent.
Obscene.
Donald Trump mentioned Pittsburgh today, and that was a mistake.
The Bumbler In Chief called out Pittsburgh today when he announced that he would ditch the Paris Agreement.
The reaction from Pittsburgh has been a fast and furious rebut.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pittsburgh is hogging the national spotlight, and it’s being shone on the city courtesy of President Donald Trump, who in a climactic moment about the climate, made the alliterative assertment that, when it comes to which accords he’ll agree to, he “was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
Which was surprising to Pittsburghers, because It’s worth noting that in November’s presidential election, Allegheny County and Pittsburgh were won by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
So far, reaction has been swift.
And then there were the tweets, these from Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto:
As the Mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future. https://t.co/3znXGTcd8C
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017
What Pittsburghers Know About the Environment That Trump Still Needs to Learn https://t.co/8MvelpD6B3 via @lifehacker
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017
We may not agree on the Stanley Cup Final (or on catfish hurling) but we certainly agree on this. Looking forward to working with you. https://t.co/FGbZsbP9Du
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 2, 2017
'The world cannot wait — and neither will we,' 61 mayors pledge ?? @c_m_dangelo https://t.co/lvK2L0WNsb #
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 2, 2017
The MAJORITY of people in EVERY state in our country support participation in Paris Agreementhttps://t.co/XnS2Hxcm8T
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 2, 2017
And the voices go on from there.
Edward Hanania and one of the dogs he allegedly threw from a parking structure. The other dog died.
A man in Oak Lawn, Illinois, is accused of throwing two poodles from a parking structure near a hospital. The man, Edward Hanania, 22, a convicted felon, allegedly claimed the dogs were his own when he saw a Facebook ad place by a good soul who found them.
Prosecutors allege Edward Hanania, a convicted felon, drove the two dogs he claimed as his own to the roof of the parking garage at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn on Saturday and threw them off the fifth floor. One of the dogs died and the other was treated for leg and head trauma, prosecutors said.
The 22-year-old Hanania was charged with two counts of animal cruelty, a felony, stemming from the incident. A judge on Tuesday set bail for Hanania at $350,000 during a bond hearing at the Cook County courthouse in Bridgeview.
Prosecutors said someone found the lost poodles Thursday and posted an ad on Facebook seeking their owner. Hanania went to the person’s house the next day and paid $20 as a reward to the person who found the dogs before he took them.
Hanania, who appeared in court in flip-flops and a cutoff T-shirt, does not have any connection to the dogs, prosecutors said.
Mind-boggling, and sad.
Wirathu, the ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ of Myanmar.
Sharing this because I’ve heard it said that all of the world’s religions have some history of violence — except Buddhism.
Well, leave it to people.
Religion is a vehicle, like a car is a vehicle. The vehicle of religion is intended to help people arrive at a certain destination. But, like a car, the vehicle of religion can be misused.
Meet Wirathu, Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist Bin Laden,’ as he is called.
Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power, when corpses would wash up every morning on the shores of Lake Victoria and Kampala was rife with rumours that he was eating his opponents.
But in his decades of documenting evil, the veteran Swiss filmmaker says he has never been as scared by anyone as he was by a Myanmar Buddhist monk named Wirathu.
“I am afraid to call him Wirathu because even his name scares me,” the highly acclaimed director told AFP. “I just call him W.”
“The Venerable W”, his chilling portrait of the monk who has been accused of preaching hate and inciting attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been hailed by critics at the Cannes film festival as a “stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action”.
What dismays Schroeder is that Wirathu, whom Time magazine dubbed “The face of Buddhist terror” in a 2013 cover, is utterly unfazed by the chaos and suffering he has unleashed.
The secret intelligence Donald Trump boasted about in front of his Russian buddies?
It came from Israel.
Israel.
The lives that could be lost. The dangers we could face.
The classified intelligence that President Trump disclosed in a meeting last week with Russian officials at the White House was provided by Israel, according to a current and a former American official familiar with how the United States obtained the information. The revelation adds a potential diplomatic complication to the episode.
Israel is one of the United States’ most important allies and a major intelligence collector in the Middle East. The revelation that Mr. Trump boasted about some of Israel’s most sensitive information to the Russians could damage the relationship between the two countries. It also raises the possibility that the information could be passed to Iran, Russia’s close ally and Israel’s main threat in the Middle East.
The potential for catastrophic fallout from the child in the White House, the child dying to impress others, is incredible.
I’m scared now.
Donald Trump and Tim Nolan.
Tim Nolan, a local Republican political figure and the former chair of the Trump campaign for Campbell County, Kentucky, has been arrested and charged with “felony human trafficking of a minor, felony inducing a minor to engage in sex, and a third count of giving alcohol to a minor,” according to an indictment filed in Boone County, KY earlier this week.
According to the The River City News, who obtained the indictment on Friday, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear has charged Nolan with “human trafficking (a class B felony), first degree unlawful transaction with a minor (a class C felony), and third degree unlawful transaction with a minor (a class A misdemeanor).” All of the alleged felonies were committed in 2016, while he was chair of the Campbell County arm of the Trump campaign.
Nolan is also a former judge.
More ugly:
According to the indictment, obtained by The River City News, Nolan is accused of subjecting a minor under the age of 18 to “commercial sexual activity”. He is also accused of inducing a minor to engage in sexual activity. Nolan is also accused of providing alcohol to a minor.
Juan Manuel Montes
On February 17, Juan Manuel Montes was walking to a taxi stand in his hometown in California when he was approached by border officials and asked for his papers. Though Juan was legally authorized to live and work in America through the DACA program, he was deported to Mexico just hours later.
This is a direct consequence to Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda and the acts of an unaccountable agency. Juan Manuel must be reunited with his family in California as soon as possible. Join us in demanding Secretary Kelly take immediate action.