More than 170 U.S. cities protest Ferguson decision Tuesday

More than 170 U.S. cities protest Ferguson decision Tuesday
A day after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced there would be no criminal charges against Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, there were protests in more than 170 U.S. cities.




When black folks destroy property in protest they're rioting thugs; when white folks do it it's a Boston Tea Party & gets taught in school. - John Fugelsang

I like when the media asks disenfranchised people pushed to the point of rioting why they'd ever want to riot like this. - John Fugelsang




Meanwhile, Ebola Is Spreading
The death toll in the world's worst Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,689 out of 15,935 cases reported in eight countries by the end of Nov. 23, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

How to Tell Your Right-Wing Uncle the Wrong Address of Your Thanksgiving Dinner. - LOLGOP


Over The River And Through The Woods To Another Nor'easter Thanksgiving
A holiday storm system played havoc Wednesday with the Thanksgiving travel plans of tens of millions of people — wiping out hundreds of flights in the Northeast, dumping rain on busy roads and threatening more than a foot of snow in some places.

Justice Ginsberg Had Heart Surgery
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 81, underwent a heart procedure Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court announced.

Justice Ginsburg “experienced discomfort during routine exercise” Tuesday night and was taken to the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, the court said in a statement.




People on the right only use the word "thug" to describe black men who've done something heinous like shoplifting or being elected president. - LOLGOP




Russia And China Poke US In The Eye
New violent protests triggered by a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer who killed a black teenager in Ferguson have prompted Russia and China to criticize the US for human rights issues and racial discrimination in the country.

So How Are Those Background Checks For Guns Going?
More gun sales than ever are slipping through the federal background check system - 186,000 last year, a rate of 512 gun sales a day, as states fail to consistently provide thorough, real-time updates on criminal and mental histories to the FBI.



More net jobs have been created under Obama than both Bushes & other facts that'll turn your Thanksgiving into bedlam. - LOLGOP

Now The Police Fear Bananas. 
Bananas?
 A man is facing a felony menacing charge after two western Colorado sheriff's deputies say he pointed a banana at them and they thought it was a gun.





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Thank you for your patience and for stopping by. My Internet cable company has been working on the lines and my access was limited today. That is why I have a such a short post today, but I wanted to post something!

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The Costa Rican Variable Harlequin Toad (Atelopus varius), also known as the clown frog.

Peace.

Michael Brown's Mother: 'They Still Don't Care--They Ain't Never Gon' Care'

Michael Brown's Mother: 'They Still Don't Care--They Ain't Never Gon' Care'

Part of Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden's reaction to the news that a St. Louis County grand jury would not indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson for shooting her son Michael Brown was caught on tape.

Missouri should change it's name to Misery, a more accurate description of a state that released this information late at night. Can the US Justice Dept. charge the state of Missouri with inciting a riot?

"In too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color.” - President Barack Obama

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• U.N. chief urges peaceful Ferguson protests, rights protection
• North Korea: Ferguson was a ‘disgrace’ and the United States are now ‘laughingstock of the world’
• REPORT: Body Of Black Man Found With Gunshot Wounds In Ferguson
• Ferguson Commission Member: 'Riots Are the Language of the Unheard'
• 21 Things You Can't Do While Black
• Missouri governor orders more National Guard troops to Ferguson after riots

I'm not shocked by those defending Wilson. Its easier to defend the cop than it is to admit that racial bias & systemic racism exists.- Elon James White tweet

Don Lemon Gets Schooled By Jesse Jackson
CNN host Don Lemon was perplexed by the violence that erupted in Ferguson after the St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, and turned to Rev. Jesse Jackson for an explanation.



Republican Shenanigans

• Darren Wilson’s testimony: Michael Brown looked ‘like a demon,’ was as big as Hulk Hogan
• Ferguson prosecutor slams “non-stop” social media while calling for increased attention to race
• Giuliani slams 'racial arsonists,' calls Ferguson grand jury's decision 'correct'
• Did the White House inflame emotions in Ferguson?
• Boehner: I'm ready to 'reappoint' members to special Benghazi panel in new Congress

Conservatives seem to think the media can cause unrest. I guess their proof is that Fox News created the Tea Party.- LOLGOP



POLL: No Government Shutdown
Americans are evenly divided as to whether President Barack Obama should act unilaterally to reshape the immigration system but they broadly oppose a government shutdown as a way to stop him, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

By a 68 to 25 percent margin, voters don't want Congress to shut down "major activities of the federal government" in order to thwart Obama's executive actions on immigration.

A black policeman protects a KKK member, as protesters were closing in on them in at a rally in Austin, Texas, 1983.

When have the authorities in Ferguson ever give us any reason not to be 100% confident in their judgement?- LOLGOP




Wilson Sounds Like A Weenie
Wilson, who testified that he is 6'4 and around 210 lbs, told the grand jury that when he tried to grab Brown, "the only way to describe it is that I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan." At one point, he expressed concern that Brown could have possibly killed him with a punch to the face.

This Is Black People Feel The Way They Do After Hundreds of Years Of Mistreatment

Hotel owner James Brock pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, 1964

Rock The Voter News

• National Bar Association calls for Federal Charges against Darren Wilson
• Virginia couple protests immigration reform with Nazi flag: ‘Obama usurped his oath of office’
• Brown family lawyers condemn violent protests

Can Cops Legally Shoot People?
 A Missouri grand jury's decision to spare police officer Darren Wilson from criminal charges is the latest in a long line of police shooting investigations that show the latitude afforded law enforcement in using deadly force.

The guys who warn about 2nd amendment solutions when you try to get them health care seem oddly ok with the state shooting certain men dead.- LOLGOP



Britain and Police Shootings
In 2012, according to data compiled by the FBI, 410 Americans were “justifiably” killed by police—409 with guns. That figure may well be an underestimate. Not only is it limited to the number of people who were shot while committing a crime, but also, amazingly, reporting the data is voluntary.

Last year, in total, British police officers actually fired their weapons three times. The number of people fatally shot was zero. In 2012 the figure was just one. Even after adjusting for the smaller size of Britain’s population, British citizens are around 100 times less likely to be shot by a police officer than Americans. Between 2010 and 2014 the police force of one small American city, Albuquerque in New Mexico, shot and killed 23 civilians; seven times more than the number of Brits killed by all of England and Wales’s 43 forces during the same period.

It seems as if all you have to do to make some conservatives trust the government is shoot an unarmed black teenager.- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

• U.S. stocks under pressure after November consumer confidence dips
• Japan's young fret as unexpected recession hits
• Obama Wants Middle Class Aid Before Corporate Tax Breaks
• Andrew Card to lead Franklin Pierce University

Good thing we have the GOP to focus on the big stuff. Taking insurance, war with Iran, the 9th Benghazi report & how you celebrate Christmas. - LOLGOP

OPEC Says No To High Oil Prices
 Impromptu talks between Saudi Arabia, fellow OPEC member Venezuela and oil powers Russia and Mexico yielded no agreement on Tuesday on how to address a growing oil glut, ending without any plan to cut output despite a collapse in prices.

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Odd News

• Christian Louboutin's Holiday Nail Polish Costs $675
• Houston pastor refuses to bury 93-year-old woman who didn’t tithe enough while in a coma
• 17-year-old Florida girl arrested for running high school prostitution ring on Facebook
• Florida man pulls back gun hammer to threaten wife, dog — then accidentally shoots self in face
• In Seattle, tofu turkeys get Thanksgiving pardons

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Sea Cliffs - Normandy, France.

Peace.

Has Congress' 11% approval rating increased since the election?

Costa Rica not alone as it waits for a new US ambassador

Costa Rica has been without a U.S. ambassador for a year and a half, but it doesn’t look like Stafford Fitzgerald Haney – whom President Barack Obama nominated for the job back in July – will be relocating to San José anytime soon.

I'm tired of battle lines being drawn. Why can't we just come together for once and let gun deaths continue unabated?- Top Conservative Cat

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Two U.S. soldiers killed in bomb attack in Afghan capital: sources
• Afghan official: Suicide attack toll at least 50
• UN experts recommend new sanctions on terrorists
• Kerry arrives in Britain as Iran nuclear talks loom
• China defies U.S. call to stop island project in South China Sea
• 12-year-old boy dies after being shot by police on Cleveland playground

Lithuania To Help Ukraine
 Lithuania is to provide Ukraine with some military aid to help in its fight against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday.



Pretty good week for my fantasy political football team. I started Rudy Giuliani at racist commenter and benched Benghazi.- LOLGOP

Begone Benghazi !
The CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a Republican-controlled House committee has found. Its report concluded that there was no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials.




The Benghazi coverup is so huge it has even ensnared those who made up the Benghazi scandal.- LOLGOP

Hagel Gets The Boot From Obama
In the first major cabinet shakeup since Democrats suffered a drubbing in this year's midterms, Chuck Hagel will reportedly step down as Defense Secretary.

The New York Times reported that President Obama asked Hagel to step down from his post last Friday




Republican Shenanigans

• Graham: House GOP Benghazi report 'full of crap'
• Paul Krugman destroys arguments against Obama’s immigration plan
• Fox News hosts: ‘Your kids are getting shafted’ because immigrants get school lunches
• Fox host mocks Ted Cruz’s new govt. shutdown: ‘It didn’t work very well with Obamacare, sir’
• Breitbart site no longer even pretending: Obama creating a country hostile to ‘whites’
• Stop ‘pitting’ poor whites against immigrants
• Nevada House speaker who called African-Americans ‘simple minded darkies’ steps down

UTAH: Kill Em With Bullets!
Utah would restore the practice of killing condemned inmates by firing squad under a bill advancing in the state legislature, amid growing nationwide concerns about botched executions using the more common method of lethal injection.



Ted Cruz to shut down the government if Obama won't execute the turkey :(  -  LOLGOP

This Is What Happens When A Dummy Waves A Gun
St. Louis police were investigating an incident in which a woman waving a gun inside a vehicle and saying she was "ready for Ferguson" apparently shot herself in the head by accident, CNN reported Sunday.






Still stunned that the guys who are wrong about marriage, climate change, trickle down economics and evolution were wrong about #Benghazi#. - LOLGOP

Deja Vu Impeachment
The Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) admitted on Face The Nation that the lawsuits filed by Republicans are about setting up the impeachment of President Obama.

Rock The Voter News

• Hank Aaron On Obama Critics: ‘Back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts’
• President Obama: American People Want 'New Car Smell' in 2016 Campaign
• Uncertainty fuels speculation on Ferguson decision

#TexasUSHistory If you try really hard you can scrape Roosevelt off of a dime.- John Fugelsang



Obama Is Giving Away Free Medals!!!!
President Barack Obama is presenting the nation's highest civilian honor to 19 artists, activists, public servants and others.

Well I was wrong. As of today it is in fact possible to watch FOX News for an hour and not hear the word 'Benghazi.'- John Fugelsang




Business/Tech News

• Oil price seen falling to $60 if OPEC does not cut output
• Falling oil price costs Russia $100bn
• Hawaii airline tells pilots to return $4,000 bonus
• Marijuana Industry Sets Its Sights On The Mainstream

"President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States." –Conan O'Brien

Marleyboros?
The family of reggae superstar Bob Marley, whose public embrace of marijuana made him synonymous with cannabis culture, has joined a private equity firm to launch the first global consumer marijuana brand.








"Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'" –Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• Preview of the World's Tallest Roller Coaster Will Make Your Stomach Drop
• Polish town opposes Pooh Bear for unclear gender
• Giraffes on a plane? Most Wanted list released
• City's 'ugly' Christmas tree prompts public outcry
• Turkey Pardoned From Death By Obama Last Year Is Still Gobbling Up The Good Life

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The Blue-footed Booby, The Galápagos Islands

Peace.