Ferguson protesters are using wood meant to board up shops as shields

Ferguson protesters are using wood meant to board up shops as shields - The Washington Post: "There’s plenty of plywood in Ferguson, Mo.
Wood sheets already cover the windows of many shops and stores in town, places hunkering down against the unrest that’s expected once a grand jury decides whether to indict a police officer for the fatal shooting last August of unarmed teen Mike Brown.
The plywood is a hedge against a repeat of the summer’s looting and riots.
Other store owners, such as at the small Dellwood Market, say they are waiting.
But they stand ready to hammer up at a moment’s notice, their shopfronts ringed with tell-tale wood borders for quick nailing.
In Ferguson, plywood has emerged as a symbol of the fear of what’s to come.
Now, it’s taken on a surprising new role: Shields for protesters."

Root of all evil: Vegetables in NYC gardens are ‘toxic’

Root of all evil: Vegetables in NYC gardens are ‘toxic’ | New York Post
Herbs and vegetables grown in New York City community gardens are loaded with lead and other toxic metals, a startling state study shows.

Tainted vegetables — some sold in city markets — were found in five of seven plots tested, according to data obtained from the study by The Post through the Freedom of Information Law.

Most of the root vegetables sampled far exceeded safe thresholds for lead, with the most toxic being a carrot at the Hart to Hart community garden in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

It contained 1.95 parts per million of the toxic metal — nearly 20 times the level considered safe, according to state Health Department data.

The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate

The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate - The Washington Post: "There's no easy way to say this:
You're eating too much chocolate, all of you.
And it's getting so out of hand that the world could be headed towards a potentially disastrous (if you love chocolate) scenario if it doesn't stop.
Those are, roughly speaking, the words of two huge chocolate makers, Mars, Inc. and Barry Callebaut.
And there's some data to back them up.
Chocolate deficits, whereby farmers produce less cocoa than the world eats, are becoming the norm. Already, we are in the midst of what could be the longest streak of consecutive chocolate deficits in more than 50 years.
It also looks like deficits aren't just carrying over from year-to-year—the industry expects them to grow.
Last year, the world ate roughly 70,000 metric tons more cocoa than it produced. 
By 2020, the two chocolate-makers warn that that number could swell to 1 million metric tons, a more than 14-fold increase;
by 2030, they think the deficit could reach 2 million metric tons."

The Global Financial System Is "A House Of Cards Resting On Corruption"

Paul Craig Roberts: The Global Financial System Is "A House Of Cards Resting On Corruption" | Zero Hedge:

As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy.

So why has Japan adopted the policy? Since the heavy duty money printing began in 2013, the Japanese yen has fallen 35% against the US dollar, a big cost for a country dependent on energy imports. Moreover, the Japanese economy has shown no growth in response to the QE stimulus to justify the rising price of imports.

Despite the economy’s lack of response to the stimulus, last month the Bank of Japan announced a 60% increase in quantitative easing–from 50 to 80 trillion yen annually. Albert Edwards, a strategist at Societe Generale, predicts that the Japanese printing press will drive the yen down from 115 yen to the dollar to 145.

This is a prediction, but why risk the reality? What does Japan have to gain from currency depreciation? What is the thinking behind the policy?

You should have had an abortion!!!

You should have had an abortion!!!:

"How many times have you thought, “I wish I would have said…”  This mother has the perfect response to a liberals murderous comments about her son who has Down Syndrome.  I do not understand how so many liberals can justify the hypocrisy of their beliefs."

Your AM happy wake-up! طائرة امريكية تسحق مواقع دولة الاسلامية داعش في سهل نينوئ ومقتل اكثر من ...

History for November 17

History for November 17 - On-This-Day.com
Rock Hudson 1925, Gordon Lightfoot 1938, Martin Scorsese 1942 


Danny DeVito 1944, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1958, Daisy Fuentes 1966 


1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor. 


1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason. 


1800 - The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building. 


1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas. 


1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight. 


1913 - The steamship Louise became the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal. 


1913 - In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm banned the armed forces from dancing the tango. 


1968 - NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32. 


1973 - U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." 


1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. 


1990 - A mass grave was discovered by the bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand. The bodies were believed to be those of World War II prisoners of war. 

Black Males Open Fire on 5 Year-Old White Girl. Where’s Sharpton and Jackson?

Black Males Open Fire on 5 Year-Old White Girl. Where’s Sharpton and Jackson?:

"A five year old girl who had done nothing wrong was wantonly murdered as she sat on the lap of her grandfather. You haven’t heard about it? That’s not surprising; while the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons of the world posture and bloviate about violence and a lack of respect for human life that permeates communities, they routinely keep quiet about attacks that happen every single day in America unless the victim was a person of color and there are television cameras pointed at them."

Obama’s Plan for a Backdoor Internet Tax

Obama’s Plan for a Backdoor Internet Tax:

"Will the Federal Communications Commission tax the Internet?   It’s very possible, said FCC commissioner Mike O’Reilly at a conference sponsored by the Free State Foundation in Washington on Friday.  The tax, which could total over $7 per month on the typical American’s broadband bill, would be imposed as a consequence of regulating the internet via “net neutrality” rules that President Obama has urged the FCC to adopt."

Bill de Blasio Signs Law Limiting Cooperation With Immigration Detainers

Bill de Blasio Signs Law Limiting Cooperation With Immigration Detainers | New York Observer: "Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation to sharply limit the city’s cooperation with detainers issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement—and to boot that federal agency from Rikers Island.
“What these bills do is they protect the rights of undocumented immigrants, of visa holders, and legal permanent residents alike, all of whom have suffered under the previous approach, and ultimately prevent families from being torn apart,” Mr. de Blasio said at a Queens press conference."

Democrat Congressman: Obama’s Unilateral Amnesty Order is Just Like Lincoln Freeing the Slaves

Democrat Congressman: Obama’s Unilateral Amnesty Order is Just Like Lincoln Freeing the Slaves:

"Georgia Democrat Representative Hank Johnson has a knack for saying less-than intelligent things. Johnson is, perhaps, best remembered for his concern during a congressional hearing that placing too many troops on the island of Guam would cause the island to “tip over.”

Though his staff worked to try and pretend that Johnson was joking, Johnson seemed dead-serious and he made his assertion in the middle of a committee hearing- a time not often used for jokes."

UNC scandal isn’t about athletics — it’s about empty degrees

UNC scandal isn’t about athletics — it’s about empty degrees | New York Post:
"A lawsuit filed earlier this week by former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo claims that UNC “systematically funneled its football student-athletes into a ‘shadow curriculum’ of bogus courses which never met and which were designed for the sole purpose of providing enrollees high grades.”
Indeed, a recently released 130-page independent investigation of the school reports that more than 3,100 students (both athletes and non-athletes) were taking “paper” courses in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies department for 18 years ending in 2011. 
The courses didn’t meet and didn’t have any requirements."

Why the US Sent a C-17 to a Chinese Air Show Despite Concerns Inside the Pentagon

Why the US Sent a C-17 to a Chinese Air Show Despite Concerns Inside the Pentagon - Defense One:
The decision to send a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Zhuhai Jinwan airport starting Tuesday is fraught for a number of reasons, defense and security officials told Defense One....
The reasons against sending the plane seemed to policy and security officials to have been enumerable.
The American military jet will be participating in the air show with just two other foreign militaries in addition to China: the United Arab Emirates and Russia - with which the U.S. military severed ties after Russia’s annexation of Crimea this spring .
In the meantime, to some, the U.S. military’s participation in the air show is a mark of hypocrisy: Last week, the U.S. denied ally South Korea the ability to demonstrate a Korean jet at the same air show because it possesses U.S. technology and U.S. security officials said demonstrating that plane would be in violation of international agreements.
And at a cost of at least  $350,000 to attend the air show, some officials inside the U.S. government raised questions about why the C-17 jet, along with about 15 U.S. Air Force personnel, should participate at all.

White Supremacist's Effort to Rebrand KKK as More Inclusive Group Prompts Skepticism

White Supremacist's Effort to Rebrand KKK as More Inclusive Group Prompts Skepticism - ABC News:

A Montana man wants to rebrand the Ku Klux Klan as a nicer, more diverse organization, but many people are saying the idea is baloney.

John Abarr told the Great Falls Tribune he's ready to shed his white supremacist ways and has started a new KKK group called the Rocky Mountain Knights, which doesn't drop its KKK label but at the same time won't discriminate against race, religion or sexual orientation.

"The KKK is for a strong America," Abarr told the newspaper. "White supremacy is the old Klan. This is the new Klan."

TV Anchor Finally Reveals What Happened When She Questioned Obamacare on the Air at CNBC: ‘Don’t Let Them Do It’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

TV Anchor Finally Reveals What Happened When She Questioned Obamacare on the Air at CNBC: ‘Don’t Let Them Do It’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis revealed on Friday that she was “silenced” by CNBC, her former employer, when she questioned the “math of Obamacare” on the air.
After slamming Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s comments about the “stupidity” of Americans, Francis told the story of what happened when she started asking questions about the health care law early-on.

She also alleged that “liberal media,” including NBC, ABC, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, have yet to even cover the Gruber videos and are complicit in keeping the truth from Americans."

Educational Fraud

Educational Fraud | CNS News:
It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading, writing and computing abilities of an eighth-grader to do well in college.
If such a student were admitted, his retention would require that the college create dumbed-downed or phantom courses.
The University of North Carolina made this accommodation; many athletes were enrolled in phantom courses in the department of African and African-American studies.
The discovery and resulting scandal are simply the tip of the iceberg and a symptom of a much larger problem.
A UNC learning specialist hired to help athletes found that during the years 2004 to 2012, 60 percent of 183 members of the football and basketball teams read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels.
Eight to 10 percent read below a third-grade level.
These were black high-school graduates, and their high-school diplomas were clearly fraudulent.

Fifth Video Emerges, Showing Gruber Mocking Man Worried About Obamacare

Fifth Video Emerges, Showing Gruber Mocking Man Worried About Obamacare:

"After hearing the Vermonter’s worries, Gruber responds, “Was this written by my adolescent children by any chance?”

The remark was met with uproarious laughter.

The video is the fifth in string of videos to surface this week in which Gruber publicly mocks citizens or boasts of his use of deception in crafting health care policies. "

State Superintendent Claims Detroit Public Schools has Dramatic Teacher Shortage

State Superintendent Claims Detroit Public Schools has Dramatic Teacher Shortage [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In late September, State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said in a press release that there was a “dramatic teacher shortage” causing large classroom sizes in Detroit Public Schools.
Flanagan called on businesses, career professionals and the state Legislature to help.
 A review of the number of teachers relative to the student enrollment in DPS, however, doesn’t paint a picture of a teacher shortage.
 Detroit Public Schools has one classroom teacher for every 16.65 students, a ratio that is a little higher than the state average but lower than higher performing school districts."

Obama may have doomed net neutrality

Obama may have doomed net neutrality | TG Daily

Happening in America: Police Department Seizing Firearms From Families After the Original Owner Passes Away

Happening in America: Police Department Seizing Firearms From Families After the Original Owner Passes Away:

"Remember that part in the Second Amendment that deals with what happens to firearms once someone passes away? “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed… until they die. Then the police can swoop in and snag grandpa’s service pistol.”

Wait… No, I just checked; that last part is not in there."

Heartwarming Video: Woman’s Sign Brings Garth Brooks Concert to a Halt

Heartwarming Video: Woman’s Sign Brings Garth Brooks Concert to a Halt | MRCTV: "A woman held up a sign at a Garth Brooks concert in Minneapolis Friday that made the singer stop everything mid-performance to honor his fan.
Teresa Shaw held up a sign during the song "The Dance," that read: "Chemo this morning, Garth tonight. Enjoy the dance," Kare11 reported.
She had needed a break from her breast cancer treatment, and decided to go to Brooks’ concert with her 19-year-old daughter.
"I was just hoping he would see it and maybe if I could get him to get it signed," said Shaw.
But Shaw got a lot more than she bargained for when, “The next thing I knew, another usher was coming up to me and were like, 'follow us,'" said Shaw. "And they took me to the very front, right in front of him.""

The word burners got their panties in a bunch!------Is ‘Feminist’ Now A Dirty Word? | msnbc

History for November 16

History for November 16 - On-This-Day.com
Burgess Meredith 1908, Martha Plimpton 1970, Oksana Baiul 1977 


1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War. 


1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year. 


1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time. 


1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown. 


1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. 


1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law. 


1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. 


1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton. 


2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam. 


2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.

BREAKING: GOT HIM!!!

BREAKING: GOT HIM!!!:

"In a story just breaking, The UK Daily Mail reported the wounding of Jihadi John from a US airstrike on a secret bunker meeting of ISIS high command’ 

The report said:

Jihadi John, the Briton who beheaded two British and two American hostages held by Islamic State terrorists, has been injured in a US-led air strike, according to reports received by the Foreign Office."