The man who lost his life to a chokehold given to him by New York Police, was laid to rest today.
RIP Eric Garner.
Day: July 23, 2014
What’s a “Wrong Off” you ask? Well, it’s where opposite sides come together and point out areas where the other side have said something that turned out to be wrong. In this case, Jon Stewart is challenging Republican Senator John McCain because in an interview on Sunday, McCain threw the first hit at Stewart, implying that no one cares or pays attention to Stewart because Stewart is often wrong on the issues.
Stewart took offense to McCain’s statement and the challenge was born.
Will the Republican Senator accept the challenge? Don’t bet on it! He already know he would lose against Stewart. After all, Stewart is not exactly Fox News!
Why? Because he’s black?
Footage of shop workers following a black teenager because they ‘presume he’s stealing’ have become a viral sensation after being shared more then 20,000 times.
The two videos posted on Vine by Rashid Polo show him walking around convenience stores with ‘racist’ employees behind keeping a close eye on his movements.
During the clips, they appear to check the shelf Rashid has just browsed, making sure everything is still there.
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Page 6 is reporting that the departure will happen right after the midterm elections in November, and Chuck Todd will be the new host of ‘Meet The Press.’
While NBC News President Deborah Turness has publicly supported the embattled Gregory, there are serious concerns about the losing battle to turn around the show’s sinking ratings.
Viewership is down a whopping 43 percent compared to when Gregory ascended to the moderator’s chair in December 2008, after the death of Tim Russert. The show finished in third place behind CBS’s “Face the Nation” and ABC’s “This Week” in the second quarter of 2014.
An NBC source said, “The discussion is whether to make a change before or after the midterm elections. Just after the midterms would give the new moderator time to settle in.”
According to insiders, NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd is the rightful heir to Gregory, but he has not been officially offered the job.
Lol… as if the present stock of Republican candidates aren’t looney enough, looney tunes herself is hinting that she may run again in 2016.
In an interview with RealClearPolitics, Michele Bachman said that all the media does is speculate that only Republican men are running for president.
“The only thing that the media has speculated on is that it’s going to be various men that are running. They haven’t speculated, for instance, that I’m going to run. What if I decide to run? And there’s a chance I could run.”
Well, end the speculations Bachmann, make the announcement. There is always room for one more in the Republican clown car.
Up next, Mitt Romney and Herman Cain!
“The Republican Party is essentially dead to our community. They have killed the dreams of thousands of people,” said Greisa Martinez, an organizer with United We Dream, the youth-led immigration advocacy network that organized the event. Explaining that her mother is undocumented, Martinez said, “They have killed the dreams of my mother for not moving forward on immigration reform. They have killed the dreams of millions of people across the nation. And we’re here to say, ‘Enough.'”
Dressed in black and carrying a mock coffin, a coalition of immigration activists paraded through the halls of the Dirksen and Hart Senate buildings on Monday morning as part of a protest of the Republican Party’s stance on immigration.
During the staged funeral procession, demonstrators said that they wouldn’t cry for the Republican Party or mourn its death because its politicians are out of touch on immigration and no longer represent their community.
The procession started at Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) office and meandered through the halls, stopping at the offices of Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas). At each office, the casket was laid outside the office doors while members of the procession, some of whom were undocumented, shared personal stories to suggest that the GOP is out of touch on immigration.
The newly released poll conducted by CNN comes a day after duelling court decisions, one striking down the subsidies in the law that helps with policy payments and the other decision upholding them.
The poll, which surveyed 1012 people and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points found, that 53% have a favorable opinion of the law while 44% felt the law has not been beneficial.
I don’t know if these kids were were attacking Israel, but they lost the fight when Israeli bombs detonated in their homes, schools and hospitals.
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MH17 Black Boxes Arrive in Britain
The Independent reports that the black boxes recovered from the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site have arrived in Britain and handed to investigators, it has been confirmed.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the flight recorders have been delivered to their headquarters in Farnborough, Hampshire on Wednesday, where experts will attempt to retrieve crucial data from them.
The AAIB has been tasked with downloading the data by authorities in the Netherlands, who are leading the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash in eastern Ukraine.
All 298 passengers on board the 17 July flight were killed, of whom 193 were Dutch and 10 were British. The bodies of the first 50 victims began their journey back to the Netherlands from Kharkiv Airport this morning to begin the process of identification.