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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Republican and Democratic leaders rush to condemn naughty party members
Standing behind the same lectern, on the same stage, before the same reporters in a Capitol Hill briefing room only moments apart on Thursday morning, House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, both needed to make something clear: Members of their own party have been bad, and no, they do not approve.
Pelosi addressed the Capitol Hill press corps first, where she fielded a question about the most recent saga of personal scandal from Anthony Weiner, a former Democratic House lawmaker now running to become New York City?s next mayor.
It was only three years ago that Pelosi stripped Weiner of his committee assignments in the House and urged him to leave Congress after he posted explicit pictures of himself on the Internet. (Weiner denied it at the time, claiming someone had ?hacked? his social media accounts. He was, curiously, unable to ?say with certitude? if the phallic images being splashed across the Internet were his own. Weiner?s story failed to hold up under scrutiny, and he stepped down in disgrace.) This week, after new pictures emerged on the website TheDirty.com, Weiner, who is married, admitted to misbehaving again, even after his public fall from grace.
Asked about the new pictures of Weiner, Pelosi looked physically perturbed that she still had to deal with him so long after his exit from the House, but she was unequivocal in her condemnation.
?Let me be very clear: The conduct of some of these people we?re talking about here is reprehensible,? Pelosi said. ?It is so disrespectful of women and what?s really startling about it is they don?t even realize ? they don?t have a clue ? if they?re clueless, get a clue. If they need therapy, do it in private.?
After answering a few more questions, Pelosi left the stage.
It was Boehner?s turn to be clear.
Although Republicans don?t have anyone in the their party advertising their bodies on the Web this week, one member did cause an uproar after making disparaging remarks about immigrant children.
During an interview with Newsmax last week, Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King, one of the fiercest opponents to the ongoing effort to pass an immigration overhaul, suggested that many immigrants who had been brought to the United States by their parents illegally as children would grow up to become drug smugglers.
"For everyone who's a valedictorian,? King said of children living in the United States illegally, ?there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds ? and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.?
Not the best thing to say during a time when your party is making a deliberate and expensive campaign to bring more Hispanic Americans to vote Republican.
House leaders rushed to condemn King?s remarks, and Boehner reinforced his disapproval by bringing it up at his press conference.
?I want to be clear: There?s no place in this debate for hateful or ignorant comments from elected officials,? Boehner said. ?Earlier this week, Representative Steve King made comments that were, I think, deeply offensive and wrong. What he said does not reflect the values of the American people or the Republican Party. We all need to do our work in a constructive, open and respectful way. As I?ve said many times, we can disagree without being disagreeable.?
With that out of the way, perhaps leaders of both parties will get back to governing.
Perhaps.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-and-boehner-condemn-weiner--king-165319496.html
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Asiana Airlines crash: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was supposed to be on the flight
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has revealed via Facebook (natch) that she was supposed to be a passenger on the Asiana Airlines flight that crash landed today in San Francisco.Sandberg posted:
Taking a minute to be thankful and explain what happened. My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed. We switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets. Our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed about 20 minutes before the crash. Our friend Dave David Eun was on the Asiana flight and he is fine.
Thank you to everyone who is reaching out - and sorry if we worried anyone.
Serious moment to give thanks.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for iPad ? review
The iPad version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is satisfyingly slick.
A long time ago, in a galaxy, well, very, very close, Bioware released an RPG that shaped much of what was to follow in the genre. Ten years later and Aspyr has brought Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (?6.99, App Store) to the iPad ? and what's remarkable is how little has changed and what a great thing that is.
Set thousands of years before the original trilogy, KOTOR puts you in control of a republican soldier who is soon swept up in the battle between Sith and Jedi, traversing familiar locales and making ethical decisions that will shape the destiny of your character.
All 30-plus hours of the game are intact, the visuals, while slightly dated, still look good and it all runs perfectly on the iPad. The controls could do with a bit of polish, but it's still a superb game and really shows off the capabilites of Apple's tablet.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/07/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ipad-review
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African Americans Affirming the Jim Crow analogy in Palestine/Israel
US Campaign to End the Israeli Apartheid | 1 July 2013
African Americans Affirming the Jim Crow analogy in Palestine/Israel
On May 29th, novelist Alice Walker issued an?open letter calling upon Alicia Keys?to cancel her scheduled concert in Israel. The letter has created an immense stir, as those who wish to ignore the situation facing the Palestinians hasten to draw a false wall between the experiences of African Americans under Jim Crow and Palestinians today, attacking Alice Walker's person in the process, in major media outlets including the?Wall Street Journal, the?Daily News?and the?New York Post. In signing this letter, we affirm the accuracy of parallels drawn between the experience of African Americans in the U.S. under Jim Crow and Israel?s treatment of Palestinians. The reality of the Palestinian situation is nothing short of horrendous. Israel has refused to comply with United Nations resolutions calling for a?withdrawal?to the Green Line of 1967; no recognition has been given by Israel of the?right?of Palestinian?refugees?to return?to their homeland, in clear?violation of international law?and precedent; Palestinian land has been consistently seized by the Israeli government since 1948, often under the false pretense of security reasons; Palestinian citizens of Israel face de facto and de jure discrimination, including?several dozen laws?discriminating against them, andinferior education?resources; a so-called separation wall has--again?in violation of international law--been established through and around Palestinian lands.? The list of the discriminatory treatment Palestinians face, which fits the definition under international law of ?the crime of apartheid,? seems endless. UN Special Rapporteur and South African John Dugard made comparisons between Israel?s treatment of Palestinians and apartheid in a?2007 report, as?hasfamed South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who traveled the world advocating for a boycott of South Africa under apartheid. More recently the former South African ambassador to Israel?sent a lettercondemning Israel for its ?replication of apartheid.? A?2012 report?by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, while also drawing attention to conventions on apartheid, framed Israel?s treatment of both its Palestinian citizens, and those living under military rule in the occupied territories, in terms of segregation and racial discrimination. We stand against bigotry and racism in all their forms, and wish to express that the treatment Palestinians face shares much in common with what African Americans experienced under Jim Crow segregation in the USA. Apartheid is not a system limited to South Africa between 1948-1994. Apartheid was established as a?universal crime by the international community?in?1973?and again in?2002. but it is a system whose origins can be found in Jim Crow segregation and in settler colonies established by Europe around the world. We stand by?
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3626 Posted on 04-07-2013
PDF of letter?here. If you would like to endorse, please emailmembership@endtheoccupation.org?with your name and affiliation.??
Source: http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2218
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Justin Timberlake’s ‘Tunnel Vision’ Video Still On YouTube Despite Explicit Content: Google Calls The Video Artisitic
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Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Saturday, July 06, 2013
Google said even though it prohibits nudity, it makes exceptions for artistic content. ...
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