NYPD officer in Eric Garner chokehold death not indicted by Staten Island grand jury

NYPD officer in Eric Garner chokehold death not indicted by Staten Island grand jury
‘Oh my God, are you serious?’ Garner’s widow, Esaw Garner, told The Daily News about the grand jury’s decision not to charge Officer Daniel Pantaleo. ‘You can see in the video that he (the cop) was dead wrong!’ There had been warnings earlier that a decision not to indict the white policeman with a crime for killing a black man would fan tensions.

Adios to All Men Are Created Equal.

To Add Insult To Injury......

Ferguson Protester's Photo Gets Edited Into Racist Meme, Goes Viral

When Jermell Hasson agreed to let Riverfront Times take his photo for a story about Ferguson protesters, he had no idea someone would later turn it into a viral and inflammatory meme.

That's all folks for today's edition. More power problems. And to make matters worse, the power is going to be off from 6am-3pm tomorrow. 

At least I was able to post this. Sigh, and I have so much to say.

Peace, if it's possible.

Our police protectors...

Meet the woman spearheading the federal probe of Ferguson
Vanita Gupta was only weeks out of law school in 2001 when she began looking into a strange series of drug busts in a tiny West Texas ranch town named Tulia.




Bill O’Reilly: “Why are people protesting racial injustice in Ferguson instead of celebrating Christmas? It’s a #WarOnChristmas!!!” - Top Conservative Cat

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Iraqi army retakes chemical weapons site from Islamic State
• French parliament to call for recognition of Palestinian state
• Court Rejects GOPer's Claim That Navy Violated His Religious Freedom

Florida's Fooling With Their Own Loosey Goosey Gun Laws
An appeal before the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday could shift the burden of proof for the state’s "stand your ground" law, relieving gun owners of a legal duty to prove self-defense when they brandish weapons in violent confrontations.

Maybe John McCain can ask Sarah Palin for advice!

Fifty-nine years ago Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Or as people today might describe it, she inconvenienced the other passengers.- Adam Sewer




Republican Shenanigans

• Jon Stewart imagines Fox News of the 1960s: “Relax: Selma isn’t slavery!”
• John Boehner Plots A Way Around A Government Shutdown
• NYT Reporter Explains Hourlong 'Morning Joe' Silence: 'I Didn't Flee'
• Utah man insists he did interracial family a favor by sending them a death threat
• Gun nut yells at cops conducting DUI checkpoint, later hit by drunk driver on way home

Give Republicans a fish and they'll make up BS numbers to justify giving two fishes to the rich. - LOLGOP




What Would Jesus Do? Yep, Texas Wants To Execute Another Mentally Ill Person
 United Nations human rights investigators called on the state of Texas and U.S. federal authorities to halt the execution of a man with a history of mental illness, scheduled for Wednesday.

Rock The Voter News

• Obama administration could support short-term tax extender deal
• Obama administration announces major decline in medical errors
• Ashton Carter is Obama's likely Pentagon pick
• Ferguson Boutique Raises Nearly $20,000 To Rebuild After Fire

Republicans won less than 30% of the Latino vote on self-deportation. Now they're going to see how they do without the "self" part.- LOLGOP

Democrats Are Sick Of Racism
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) on Monday described the decision not to indict a white police officer for shooting an unarmed black teenager as a “slap in the face.”



I once got pepper sprayed while Black Friday shopping in Walmart and I can honestly say it enhanced the experience.- John Fugelsang

If you actually wanted to prevent abortions, you'd be furious at corporations that fire people for being pregnant. - LOLGOP



Business/Tech News

• Turkey, Russia look to shake up gas market
• Iraqi government reaches major oil deal with Kurds
• Phillips 66 shuts FCC at Borger, Texas refinery for work
• NYT Editor Slams Vicious Criticism Over Publishing Darren Wilson's Street Name

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, "Uh, make the sidewalk lower?"- Jimmy Fallon



Bye, Bye Miss American Pie Dream
A California economics professor says he’s crunched the numbers, and he has concluded that the American Dream is dead.

Gregory Clark, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, found that social mobility had diminished significantly in the past 100 years

There will be no Kardashian family Christmas card this year because they couldn't decide on an appropriate photo. I thought, when did the word "appropriate" ever have anything to do with that family?- David Letterman

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Thank you Ramesh!

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NOTICE: Sometimes Teabaggers are just plain idiots. There is a teabagger that lives behind me here in Costa Rica. This guy KNOWS EVERYTHING, he'll gladly tell you that, and anyone who will listen to him. Welllllll, he has been chopping down beautiful giant trees all over his property the past week and TODAY one fell on the power lines and shut down the power for 2 hours until the crews could get out here and fix it. At least 100 homes and the water pumping station were without electricity. Right after he chopped down the tree, he got into his SUV and left. I hope the power company charges him for all the damage he did.

That is the reason for my late post today! Idiot.


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Odd News

• Driver wedges car onto Golden Gate Bridge walkway
• Japanese Commercial Features Instant Fried Shrimp Machine
• Florida man charged with stealing beef tongue
• Workers free Pennsylvania inmate's arm from toilet
• Canada family lived with corpse for 6 months awaiting resurrection

Time To Deflate Photo

Pacific Southwest Airlines Stewardesses, 1972.

Peace.

St. Louis police officers’ group demands Rams players be disciplined for ‘hands up, don’t shoot’

St. Louis police officers’ group demands Rams players be disciplined for ‘hands up, don’t shoot’
Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sunday’s game displaying the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal apology, reports KSDK.



For Cyber Monday the GOP announced a sale on all elected officials.- Tea Party Cat

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• White Cleveland Cops: We're Treated Too Harshly When We Shoot Black People!
• Cop Arrested In Road Rage Incident: Shoots 20-Year-Old Woman In Head – VIDEO
• Hong Kong Protesters Warned Not to Return After Clashes Disrupt Government

Netanyahu Is Sounding Like A Tyrant. Oh, He Already Is.
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, enmeshed in a cabinet crisis, said on Monday he would call an early national election unless rebellious ministers stopped attacking government policies.

A conservative is someone who doesn't trust the government until it shoots a black teenager for shoplifting.- LOLGOP



Yep, This Is Why Black People Run From The Cops.
Nine Cleveland police officers involved in the fatal 2012 shootings of two unarmed African-Americans are suing the police department claiming racial discrimination.

Republican Shenanigans

• Ex-cop behind St. Louis police NFL threat has history of lying, protecting crooked cops
• Scarborough: Michael Brown Was A 'Thug,' Protests Are Based On 'Lies' 
• White Cleveland Cops: We're Treated Too Harshly When We Shoot Black People!
• ‘Racist’ co-discoverer of DNA forced to sell Nobel prize to make ends meet

If people wanted the government to be open, they wouldn't have voted for Republicans.- LOLGOP

Why Is This Man Not Being Called A Domestic Terrorist Instead Of A SHOOTER?
A single shot to the heart reportedly killed the shooter who targeted several government buildings in Austin, Texas on Friday morning.

Austin Police Sergeant Adam Johnson fatally shot the gunman, Steve McQuilliams, after hearing gunfire while loading horses nearby, KVUE reported on Sunday.

Darren Wilson resigns.  Other cops, who have not become rich after avoiding trials for killing unarmed Americans, show up to work.- John Fugelsang




GOP Staffer Calls Obama's Girls Bar Sluts
 A senior Republican staffer is resigning after her comments that the Obama daughters should "try showing a little class" caused a firestorm of criticism on social media this weekend.

Why can’t Malia & Sasha show respect for the presidency like the GOP does? Namely, by threatening to secede rather than abide by elections.- Top Conservative Cat




Rock The Voter News

• Obama requests $263 million for federal response to Ferguson, Mo
• Obama To Meet Civil Rights Leaders To Talk About Mistrust Of Police

BREAKING: The NFL has denied requests from the St. Louis Police Officers Association to discipline a group of St. Louis Rams players who made the "Hands up, don't shoot" gesture while taking the field on Sunday, according to CNN's Rachel Nichols.

Right now someone at FOX News is discussing the most tasteful way possible to offer Darren Wilson a job.- John Fugelsang

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back at work after a heart procedure last week and I'm still in a turkey coma.- LOLGOP

Everyone's asking Santa for more Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, k.- LOLGOP




Christians? Christians? Really?
A Christian-based Florida homeless program catering to recovering alcoholics and drug addicts has been accused of providing work crews to businesses and local events, then keeping their pay without them ever seeing it in exchange for room and board.

Ladies, any man who calls his own personal anatomy 'junk' is never going to take yours seriously.- John Fugelsang



Business/Tech News

• Russian Ruble Plummets, And 4 Other Oil-Slump Related Headlines
• Gun sales boom on Black Friday: Almost 3 background checks per second
• Supreme Court To Consider Free-Speech Rights Of Social Media Users
• NBC Medical Editor Who Violated Ebola Quarantine Still Absent
• Janay Rice: Baltimore Ravens Told Me To Apologize For Elevator Assault

Darren Wilson announces retirement from Ferguson PD to write children’s book about a boy who hears demons in closet and shoots family dog.- Top Conservative Cat

It's Not Only Black People Who Are Swept Under The Rug

The former chief prosecutor for the Air Force said in a Yahoo News interview that he was “put out to pasture” after he criticized top commanders for interfering with his efforts to convict officers who committed sexual assaults.

The beauty of "hands up" as a protest is any attempt to punish the protesters implicitly reinforces their point.- LOLGOP

SCIENCE FACT: Service professionals will not arrive until you are in the bathroom.- Jokeblogger.com

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Odd News

• The Simpsons predicted Russia's current economic downturn back in 1999
• Police: Man breaks into Austin meat business, naps
• Idaho police stop Oregonian driving in circles
• Police: Man fled crash to avoid yelling girlfriend
• Cops: Beau who ate holiday meal early gets stabbed

Time To Deflate Photo

Ban Gioc Waterfall, Vietnam.

Peace.