Ferguson, Missouri, is a majority-black city governed and policed mostly by whites. The mayor is white. The police chief is white. The police force is 94 percent white. Only one of its six city council members is black. Ferguson, with a 67 percent black population, seem to defy electoral logic.
If we had jobs that paid well and a minimum wage that was livable we would not have nearly as many problems. People would be busy doing their jobs and living their lives.
In case you're wondering, folks, mishigas is an alternate spelling of the Yiddish word "mishuga," meaning crazy, silly, a bit daft, round the bend....etc....
When asked if it would strange to him, to be on vacation, Satan explained, "I am accustomed to being in horrific surroundings...so I booked a Carnival Cruise."
The militarization of police forces has turned them from a philosophy of protecting and serving the community to responding to even minor situations en masse with armored vehicles, military gear and combat uniforms complete with helmets and gas masks and we see an America that only used to live in dark science fiction stories.
In one of his last interviews, Michael C Ruppert talks about Fukushima as a human extinction event--that the currents of the Pacific and the migratory habits of the fish make it inevitable that life-ending radiation would be spread throughout the world's oceans.
What if ISIS was invading Jordan or Israel or even somewhere in Europe and on a genocidal march through the country, would President Obama be just as much of a hypocrite if he acted against them then? Are hypocrisy and conscience conditional based on what the latitude and longitude is of a terrorist-driven slaughter?
GOP candidate for governor of California went to the city of Fresno to spend a week homeless and made this video about his experience. B.S. or commendable?
What do you suppose he is hiding? Why is all the information about him classified? Was he treated differently than other POW's? Why is he such a "hawk"?
John Boehner has had one goal during his Speakership: Keep the Speaker's Gavel. That's it. So he did what he had to do to get past last week's Immigration Crisis vote to avoid a vote of confidence on his Speakership.