Va. governor eliminates criminal history questions on state job

Va. governor eliminates criminal history questions on state job - WJHL.com:
"Applications for state jobs in Virginia will no longer will include questions regarding a person's criminal history.
Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order removing criminal history questions from state employment applications Friday.
Under the order, employment decisions won't be based on an applicant's criminal history unless it's specifically related to the job they are being considered for.
While it only applies to state employment applications, the order also encourages similar hiring practices for private employers throughout the Commonwealth...

Outrageous Ruling: Colorado Bakeries MUST Make ‘Gay’ Cakes, But Can Refuse to Make Christian Cakes

Outrageous Ruling: Colorado Bakeries MUST Make ‘Gay’ Cakes, But Can Refuse to Make Christian Cakes | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
"So, according to the Colorado state government Gays are a protected class and can get anything they want at any time, but Christians aren’t and they can be denied services at will? 
How does that work in an America that is supposed to have religious freedom?

In a bizarre new twist on the religious liberty front, Colorado officials have determined that bakeries must cater to proponents of gay marriage but are not legally obliged to decorate cakes with Bible verses.

Christian activist Bill Jack has denounced a decision by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, which found Azucar Bakery in Denver not guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a cake adorned with Bible quotes condemning sodomy.

Last March, Jack went to Azucar Bakery and requested two cakes to be decorated with biblical messages.

“I requested two cakes, each in the shape of an open Bible. On the first cake I requested on one page, ‘God hates sin — Psalm 45:7,’ and on the facing page, ‘Homosexuality is a detestable sin — Leviticus 18:22,’” Jack said.

Jack also said:

On the second cake I requested on one page, “God loves sinners,” and on the facing page, “While we were yet sinners Christ died for us – Romans 5:8.” I also requested a decoration of two groomsmen holding hands with a cross in the background with a ghostbusters symbol over it to illustrate that such a union is unacceptable biblically.

On Good Friday, the Department of Regulatory Agencies handed down its decision that refusing such a request did not constitute discrimination.

‘We Have Come to Take Our Country Back’: Rand Paul Joins the 2016 Race | TheBlaze.com

‘We Have Come to Take Our Country Back’: Rand Paul Joins the 2016 Race | TheBlaze.com:

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday became the second nationally recognized Republican to announce he’s running for the White House in 2016.

“I have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We have come to take our country back,” he said to cheers from supporters and family members in his announcement speech in Kentucky. ”The Washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped.”

Venezuela reaches the final stage of socialism: no toilet paper

Venezuela reaches the final stage of socialism: no toilet paper | AgainstCronyCapitalism.org:
Whether a state has a more corporatist flavor or a more “socialist” flavor (crony systems typically have both) it is the denial of prices, the denial of reality, which leads ultimately to disaster.
If the pricing mechanism isn’t allowed to work, distortions in the economy arise. 

Distortions make the system wobbly, and sooner or later the system is off the rails.

And out of toilet paper.

(From The Business Insider)

Venezuela’s product shortages have become so severe that some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap, a local tourism industry spokesman said on Wednesday….

“It’s an extreme situation,” says Xinia Camacho, owner of a 20-room boutique hotel in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada national park. “For over a year we haven’t had toilet paper, soap, any kind of milk, coffee or sugar. So we have to tell our guests to come prepared.”…

Audio Recording Exonerates Uber Driver Falsely Accused Of Rape

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Audio Recording Exonerates Uber Driver Falsely Accused Of Rape. …:
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Audio Recording Exonerates Uber Driver Falsely Accused Of Rape.

A Chicago Uber driver’s instinct to record his conversation with a woman he picked up for a ride in November has saved him from spending years behind bars.

Maxime Fohounhedo, a 30-year-old native of Benin, was released from a Cook County jail on Monday after spending the past four months there.

Fohounhedo was arrested in December after a 22-year-old woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at his apartment on Nov. 16. The woman claimed that she was passed out during her ride in Fouhounhedo’s car, but his secret recording provides evidence that she was awake and carrying on a conversation. After prosecutors verified the audio they consulted with the accuser, and she decided to drop charges.

“He had a gut feeling he needed to protect himself,” Shady Yassin, Fohounhedo’s attorney, told CBS Chicago of his client’s decision to record his fare.

"She was a predator. He should sue her for costing him four months in jail, and her name should be public now. She’s not a victim of sexual violence, she’s a perpetrator."

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6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds

6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds - Watchdog.org
Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org.
“Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess,” says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote.
“Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage,” she said.
The latest interstate voter cross check tallied 6,951,484 overlapping voter registrations, and they’re just the tip of the iceberg.
The cross-check program involves only 28 states and does not include the three largest: California, Texas and Florida.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal NAILS it! Christians Now Need Legal Protection for their Beliefs [VIDEO] | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal NAILS it! Christians Now Need Legal Protection for their Beliefs [VIDEO] | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"We are seeing it nearly every day, lately–Christians in our own country being attacked by radicals. And Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is exactly right when he says that Christians now need legal protection for their religious expression."

What’s in a name? ‘Hillary’ by any other name would still be controversial

WASHINGTON: What’s in a name? ‘Hillary’ by any other name would still be controversial | Elections | McClatchy DC:
"WASHINGTON — There’s Beyoncé and Madonna, Cher and Prince.
And now Hillary.
It may not be exactly the same as the long list of celebrities known by their first names.
But Hillary Clinton has become known simply as Hillary in bumper stickers and headlines, on Twitter and Facebook, around water coolers and in coffee shops.
Yet some Americans, mostly women, don’t think the former secretary of state, U.S. senator from New York and first lady should be called by just her first name.
“I think it’s pretty unjust,” said Monica Warek, 23, on a recent visit to Washington from New York City.
“I think it shows the level of inequality that still exists in the workforce and just in general in society.”"

History for April 8 - On-This-Day.com

History for April 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Guatama Buddha 563 BC - 'The Enlightened One' in the Buddhist faith, Edgar Yipsel "Yip" Harburg 1896 - Song lyricist ("Over the Rainbow," all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz), Sonja Henie 1912 - Ice skater 


Elizabeth "Betty" Ford (Bloomer) 1918 - Wife of 38th U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, founder of the Betty Ford Clinic, Peggy Lennon 1941 - Singer (Lennon Sisters), Darlene Gillespie 1941 - TV personality ("The Mickey Mouse Club") 


1873 - Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine. 


1911 - The first squash tournament was played at the Harvard Club in New York City. 


1913 - The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators. 


1952 - U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike. 


1962 - Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba. 


1974 - Hank Aaron hits 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's record. 


1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA. 


2001 - Microsoft Corp. released Internet Explorer 6.0. 

Top US General: Obama Has Caused Military Readiness to Fall to Historic Levels | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Top US General: Obama Has Caused Military Readiness to Fall to Historic Levels | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno is warning that our nation is vulnerable in this age of Obama.

The Army is “only generating enough readiness for immediate consumption” while grappling with cuts that have left only a third of the service’s brigades ready, the chief of staff said Wednesday.

“It’s incumbent on all of us to understand that further reductions simply will put us into a place we simply cannot go,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said at the AUSA Institute of Land Warfare Global Force Symposium and Exposition here."

Our "educators" have destroyed our own honorable legacy------College students clueless about Holocaust, FDR, D-Day

VIDEO: College students clueless about Holocaust, FDR, D-Day | The American Mirror:
"Years ago, I got the idea for a novel about the last living survivor of the Holocaust. He would be a child survivor, born in 1939 as a hidden child in a Jewish ghetto, and would live there until his family went to Auschwitz.
...One publisher said he had to “suspend disbelief” with my premise that a generation down the road, people would know so little about the Holocaust, which prompted me to do a video on the subject.
Last fall, just before Nov. 11, I interviewed university students in Toronto, asking them about the Holocaust and World War II.
What they didn’t know would, literally, fill a book.
...Most students I spoke to that afternoon in Toronto had no idea what happened at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
They didn’t know who FDR and Churchill were.
Hardly any could identify the Allies; one thought the Allies were Germany and Russia.
The only student who knew how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust was Jewish himself. Another said, “I’ve heard of the Holocaust but I can’t explain it....”