Today is Sunday
Lazy blogging day. Going to go out and enjoy the urban hellhole. Hopefully they have some funky cucumbers at the market!
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Jill Stein Wins Green Party Nomination, Courting Disaffected Sanders Supporters
Jill Stein nabbed the Green Party nomination for her second presidential bid on Saturday, after running in 2012. She hopes the wave Sanders supporters will help make her a viable third-party challenger.
8/06/2016
Do you know how much, do you ever go shopping? I go sometimes but I hate it. Do you ever go? ... you can get, for instance I have friends of mine who eat rice and beans all the time.
Oregon May Send Every Child to ‘Outdoor School’
An initiative on the November ballot in Oregon would send every fifth- or sixth-grade student in the state to a week-long, overnight outdoor school. Under the proposal, funded by up to four percent of the state's lottery funds, any district could apply for help setting up, running and paying for an "outdoor school" focused on scientific exploration and building life skills.
Baby Teeth of Iraqi Children Tell Troubling Tale of War’s Toxic Impacts
Iraqi children watch U.S. Army soldiers climb to the roof of their school to get a high vantage point in Baghdad on April 15, 2007. In an effort to learn more about the impacts of long-term exposure to heavy metals and other toxins associated with warzone bombardments and military installations, a new study released Friday examined a sample of donated teeth and discovered that the children of Iraq are suffering from alarming levels of such substances, specfically lead.
Four-Year Campaign Results In Historic-Win For Tax Whistleblowers
On August 3, 2016 the U.S. Tax Court ruled that tax whistleblowers were entitled to a reward based on monies collected in criminal fines and penalties . This landmark decision reversed the position of the Department of Treasury that severely limited the "collected proceeds" upon which a whistleblower reward could be based.The decision ruled that two anonymous whistleblowers, identified only as Whistleblower 21276-13W and Whistleblower 21277-13W were entitled to a reward of $17,791,607.00, based in part on $54 million obtained in criminal fines and civil forfeitures for which the IRS had illegally claimed were outside the whistleblower reward program.
So Do We Invite Republicans To ‘Come On Over’?
A note to readers and commenters: this post refers, links and quotes a number of Republican people. Unusual for this site but necessary to describe its point.
Missouri Gov Ordered to Serve as Public Defender
Missouri's public-defender system is in crisis. Like many other systems throughout the U.S., it is underfunded, understaffed and underappreciated.
Riverside Co. GOP Tweets Picture Of Executioner With Caption ‘I’m Ready For Hillary’
The Riverside County Republican Party tweeted out a picture of a shrouded hangman holding a noose, with a caption below saying, "I'm Ready for Hillary." According to the Riverside Press-Enterprise , the tweet was sent out by the county party's official Twitter account at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Trust In A Context Of Mistrust: Getting Young Voters To Vote
Young voters could well determine the 2016 election, as they did in many close 2012 states . But it's going to be a significant challenge to get them to show up in November.
German attacks: Cui Bono?
Cui Bono, meaning 'to whose profit,' is a key forensic question in legal and police investigations: finding out who has a motive for a crime by carefully examining who will benefit the most. Tazeen Hasan examines who is the actual beneficiary from the terror attacks in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Kids Are Collateral Damage When Police Decide To Shoot
A five-year-old boy's life was changed forever Monday, when he was shot in the leg and watched his mother , Korryn Gaines, die in an armed standoff with Baltimore County police over outstanding traffic violations. Gaines barricaded herself in her apartment in Randallstown, MD, holding five-year-old Kodi and a shotgun.
Here is the most recent previous Green Spotlight.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Asylum Seekers Face Barriers To Stay In The U.S. As Immigration Agents Fail To Follow The Law
In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. A Bangladeshi asylum seeker who arrived at the southern U.S. border was turned away after a border agent told him to seek asylum in Mexico.
If Hillary Clinton Is The Devil, I’m On The Side Of The Satanists
A few days ago, Donald Trump pledged that he would no longer play " Mr. Nice Guy ". This is one promise to which he is remaining true.
Congress Seeks to Hobble Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is tasked with the study of how surveillance and other intelligence activities by the U.S. government protect the civil liberties guaranteed under the United States Constitution. It is an independent body in the executive branch, beholden to no politician - not even the president.
Oil Price Drops Below $40 a Barrel
Crude oil prices plunged 4% on Monday, sliding to $39.86 a barrel. It's the first time the price has been below $40 a barrel in nearly four months.
Could a third-party candidate win the U.S. presidency? That’s very unlikely.
A supporter of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and of Green Party candidate Jill Stein holds a sign at a rally at City Hall in Philadelphia on July 25 as the Democratic National Convention formally selects Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee. Jill Stein's Green Party is aggressively courting Bernie Sanders supporters and others from the Democratic Party's far left.
Massachusetts Passes Country’s Strongest Equal Pay Law
The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective hires about their salary histories until after they make a job offer that includes compensation, unless the applicants voluntarily disclose the information. No other state has such a ban in place.
Businessmen Sort Of Against Donald
As most Americans who work for a living know, Donald Trump is the greatest businessman in this country. OK, the little Jew Michael Bloomberg went after him and made some nasty remarks last week at the Democratic convention.