Actor Jamie Foxx and the families of Emmett Till and Oscar Grant are joining South Florida residents this weekend to commemorate the second anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman.
A peace walk is planned for Saturday in Miami Gardens, and a gala hosted by The Trayvon Martin Foundation is planned for Sunday in Davie on what would have been Martin’s 19th birthday.
A spokeswoman for Martin’s family says the focus of the weekend is to explore strategies to reduce violence.
Till, a black teen, was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, and Grant, also a black teen, was fatally shot by a police officer in Oakland in 2009.
Zimmerman was acquitted last summer of fatally shooting the unarmed Martin, who is black, in February 2012.
President Obama gave his weekly address with a focus on the middle class and ways to provide the necessary opportunity they need, so that anyone who works hard, can succeed. The president again stressed on the ‘year of action’ concept he outlined in the State of The Union address and said that he will work with Congress but will do it on his own if Congress fails to act and within the confines of the Constitution.
I want to work with Congress on this agenda where I can. But in this year of action, whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, I will. I’ve got a pen and a phone – a pen to take executive action, and a phone to rally citizens and business leaders who are eager to create new jobs and new opportunities.
Authorities are knocking down speculation that a doctor missing from Kalamazoo for two months may have been at a Walmart store near Battle Creek last week.
The Kalamazoo County sheriff’s office released a brief statement Friday, saying the woman wasn’t Teleka Patrick. The tip came from a Walmart employee.
The 30-year-old Patrick disappeared on Dec. 5. Her car was found in a ditch along Interstate 94 in northern Indiana. She was last seen trying to get a room at a Kalamazoo hotel but didn’t stay and got a ride back to her car at Borgess Medical Center.
Patrick had been in Michigan since last summer when she started a medical residency at Borgess.
America,our greatest fear may have now materialized. Too much dysfunction in Washington thanks to the Teaparty and the elected Republicans who use their office to keep the country from moving forward, all in a dumb and lame effort to make sure the president is looked upon as a failure.
The world is watching, and apparently, we are very amusing to everyone else.
Congress plays the blame game while too many people are stuck in the cross fire and the rest of the world is laughing at us. You go America.
Yep. The owner of the restaurant is a Republican. I know. You expected that. And I can assure you, now that this story is made public, the other racist nuts in Oklahoma will gladly patronize the restaurant.
Welcome to 2014. People like this makes Ron and Rand Paul proud.
Gary James, owner of Gary’s Chicaros, said, “I’ve been in business 44 years, I think I can spot a freak or a faggot.”
He added, “I don’t deal with these people walking down the street with no jobs on welfare.”
James said, “If I reached over there and slapped the sh** out of you, you should be offended. But to call someone a ‘chink’ or someone call me a bigot, that doesn’t bother me.”
Now, a wave of comments on Facebook claim James refuses to serve African-Americans, Hispanics and people with disabilities, like Matt Gard.
Gard said, “He doesn’t like certain people of race, color, ethnicity.”
Gard was a regular at Gary’s Chicaros restaurant for years.
He said he turned a blind eye to the owner’s choice of customers, until recently.
Gard said, “Now, he tried to find a weak excuse not to let me in with my wheelchair or the weak excuse of having loud people with me.”
After getting turned away for a steak dinner, Gard said it’s about his disability.
James claimed that’s just not the case.
James said “He created an issue. You only have one time here. You create an issue, you’re out forever.”
Gard and at least 140 others posted on a Facebook page that said James’ attitude has crossed the line to discrimination.
Even the business’ t-shirt is viewed as offensive.
The shirt features derogatory slogans against homosexuals, it has the N-word on the front and threatens violence against Muslims, minorities and democrats.
James said he is proud to wear that shirt.
He said, “I really don’t want gays around. Any man that would compromise his own body would compromise anything.”
Gard said, “The people who still go back and patronize his business are condoning his behavior in how he treats others.”
James said, “Well if you work, you own a business, pay your taxes, you’re more than welcome here. If you’re on welfare, stay at home and spend my money, there.”
Strong words in a small town where no one has challenged his business practices.
The Office of Civil Rights Enforcement is a division of the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office which investigates cases of discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodation based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability and age.
Yea, exactly. That was the impression when two of the judges on the Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper saw the final product – the unveiling of the new Rachel Frederickson. She entered the competition weighing 260 lbs, and at the end of it all, the winner of the popular television show was a tiny 105 lbs – a total weight loss of 155 lbs, leading many on twitter to say that her weightloss was borderline dangerous.
Since she’s only 5’4”, that puts her body mass index at 18 — below what the National Institute of Health considers a healthy minimum. In other words, the Twitter masses have claimed, Frederickson lost too much weight. It’s impossible to say whether that’s true based on numbers alone — more on that later — but it’s equally impossible to see why anyone’s surprised by Frederickson’s “scary” weight loss.
I am beginning to gain some respect for Juan Williams.
Appearing on America’s Newsroom today, host Gregg Jarrett continued the usual Benghazi talking point, claiming that President Obama failed to call the attack an act of terror. Of course, we all know that’s not true. In fact, the very first statement the president made concerning Benghazi called the attack an “act of terror.” But as usual, that fact does not stop the lies from Fox.
Juan Williams responded, correctly saying that Benghazi is now being used as a “political football “At this point… that I think people are keeping alike to hector Hillary Clinton.”
Later on, Jarrett asked whether it was “undignified” and “embarrassing” of the president, during his pre-Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly, to “blame the the Fox News Channel for the Benghazi problem” and “for all his woes.”
Williams’ response:
I didn’t think that he blamed us for all his woes, Greg. What he said is so often everything that happens we frame as an outright scandal and corruption, and stupidity and just make it as if he’s a bumbling clown. I think that’s fair of him to say.
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s… JON STEWART! The Comedian who does a better job reporting actual news than the so-called seasoned “journalists!”
Let the debunking begin!
Okay. Okay. This one was easy. The debunking in this case had to do with a recent CBO report that Conservatives and even some on CNN took and run with. The report claimed that because of Obamacare or the ACA, workers will now be free to leave some jobs to pursue other things, because they will no longer feel the need to work to keep healthcare.
Simple, right? Wrong.
Conservatives and Republicans took this report to claim that “Obamacare was killing the American dream.” They even went on to manufacture false statistics claiming that millions of people would lose their jobs because of Obamacare forcing them out of the jobs market.
Doomsday!
Jon Stewart, the comedian, set things straight… again!
It was nine years ago that Missy Elliot ruled the music industry with her “The Cookbook” album. Now, almost a decade later, the artist is promising a comeback.
In a chat with Yahoo’s “The Yo Show,” Elliott addressed her lengthy hiatus from the spotlight — and admitted that fans will probably keep waiting.
“When I create something, it’s gotta be special, and it can’t just be to throw something out there because I feel like I’m Missy,” said told show host Michael Yo via video chat.
“I gotta feel like what I’m giving the fans is 100% and that it’s game-changing. I don’t just throw out microwave records.”
After 2005’s “The Cookbook,” the hitmaker seemingly vanished from the pop landscape, choosing to slide into the background, producing and lending her voice to singles from Monica, Keyshia Cole, Jazmine Sullivan, Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia.
Elliott eventually began teasing her seventh album, “Block Party,” with a handful of singles throughout the late aughts — “Best, Best,” “Ching-a-Ling,” “Shake Your Pom Pom” — but no album ever materialized. Then, in late 2012, she dropped a pair of singles, “9th Inning” and “Triple Threat,” that reunited her with longtime collaborator Timbaland. But still, no release date for the album.
She assured fans that a comeback album is imminent. “I just ain’t telling nobody when,” she said.
A masterful goodbye by a master of latenight. Watch, as Jay Leno leaves this stage of his life to start his next phase. If you haven’t seen this farewell yet, get the kleenex. You’ll need it.
She was tapped to deliver one of four confusing Republican responses to the president’s State Of The Union address, and now it seems that Cathy McMurray Rodgers is the perfect candidate for violating House Ethics.
The Office Of Congressional Ethics is recommending that the House Ethics Committee perform a full investigation into the matter. The news was first reported by Politico on Thursday.
McMorris Rodgers, the House’s No. 4 Republican, denied that she is guilty of any wrongdoing.
“As has become an unfortunate rite of passage for many Members of Congress, the OCE regularly refers matters to the House Ethics Committee for further review. Such reviews are virtually automatic, and as the Committee always points out, does not indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” McMorris Rodgers’ attorney, Elliot Berke of the McGuireWoods law firm said according to Politico.
A former McMorris Rodgers aide said that she mixed campaign funds and official congressional funds together for specific activities on her campaign for conference chairwoman against Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), something that isn’t allowed under House rules
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