People should be judged not by the color of their skin...

New Protests Planned in New York Chokehold Case

Demonstrators vowed to hold new protests in New York on Thursday after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island.

Weird, protesters in NYC were mostly white, thought the Ferguson police.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Car bomb attacks kill 37 people in Iraq
• Iraq speeds up planned ISIL counteroffensive
• US walks fine, awkward line when addressing Iranian airstrikes in Iraq
• Phoenix police officer shoots dead unarmed black man during scuffle
• Texas cop allowed to resign one week after video exposes him putting woman in chokehold
• ‘I hate n*ggers. That is all’: 5 Ohio deputies probed for years of racist text messages
• A Texas Grand Jury Recently Cleared 2 White Cops Who Beat a Black Woman in Jail
• After Eric Garner: What's point of police body cameras?

One time I sold weapons to Iranian terrorists, used the $ to illegally fund the contras, then said I forgot.   #CrimingWhileWhite - John Fugelsang



Putin Is Pissy Faced
President Vladimir Putin accused Russia's enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for becoming strong, but said his country would rise to any challenge.

Republican Shenanigans

• STL Co. Police Apologize For 'Insensitive' Post On Cleveland Police Shooting
• Ted Nugent Under False Impression That Obama Appointed Al Sharpton 'Race Czar'
• The Republican Party's top priority is to raise taxes on the poor. Literally.
• Trent Lott's advice to Mitch McConnell: 'Deal sternly' with GOP obstructionists
• Is Jeb 2016 A Go? He's Reportedly Recruiting Primary-State Operatives

GOP vetoes pot decriminalization in DC & overturns elections in MI just to remind you that your vote doesn't count if they count the votes.- LOLGOP

Jebbie Bush Is Gonna Run IMHO
Whenever the deep thinkers of the Republican establishment glance at their bulging clown car of presidential hopefuls – with wacky Dr. Ben Carson, exorcist Bobby Jindal, loudmouth Chris Christie, and bankruptcy expert Donald Trump jammed in against Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, to name a few – they inevitably start chattering about Jeb Bush.



The guy who video-taped #EricGarner being strangled was arrested. Because the one thing cops hate more than black people is mirrors.- Hayden Black Tweet

Rock The Voter News

• Obama immigration executive order: A violation of the Constitution?
• Report: Hillary Clinton Is Meeting With Potential Campaign Managers

Obamacare Premiums Increase 5%
HHS says premiums for the most popular type of plan will go up an average of 5 percent in 35 states where the federal government is running the health insurance exchanges.

BREAKING: House GOP declares immigration executive actions "null and void", demands "Obama be deported back to Kenya" as punishment.- Top Conservative Cat

Hey remember that guy you saw get murdered on video?  Well you didn't actually see that. - John Fugelsang

Business/Tech News

• Saudi slashes January oil prices for Asia, U.S
• India says will not be bulldozed at climate talks
• Pope's financial czar: Vatican has millions extra
• Dane gets 4 years prison for social media terror

Why don't they stop-and-frisk at Wall St?  That's where the real crime is.  And the coke, too. - John Fugelsang

Sears Doubling Planned Store Closures
Sears Holdings Corp reported a quarterly net loss of $548 million, slightly less than it had estimated last month, and the struggling retailer said it had nearly doubled its planned store closures to cut costs.



Meanwhile, thousands gather at Rockefeller Center to witness the public execution of an 85-foot Norway Spruce.- John Fugelsang

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NOTICE: They turned the power back on much earlier then expected!

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Odd News

• Horizontal Elevators Are the Elevators of the Future
• 5,000-pound bridge stolen in Michigan
• Utah man charged for sunbathing nude in his yard
• Lawsuit: College used strippers to lure students
• University of Texas: Missing brains were destroyed
• Student told to unclog toilet with bare hands

Time To Deflate Photo

An American eagle flying upside down.

Peace.

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.