Operation #HoodsOff
Anonymous discloses St. Louis Klan members after they threaten to kill Ferguson protesters.
So the wingnuts have taken over in PA
And of course insanity will soon ensue! I wish I’d hit the lottery. I would never read the news again:
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Pennsylvania Legislature will be led by massive Republican majorities – including the biggest House GOP majority in more than 50 years – when Democratic Gov.-elect Tom Wolf takes office on Jan. 20.
But for two weeks before he takes office, those majorities will be sworn in and intact under outgoing Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, a fact that has not been lost on Republican Party backers.
That means it is still legal and possible – albeit technically challenging – to enact far-reaching legislation favored by many Republicans that Corbett might sign, but that Wolf had said during the campaign that he would oppose.
People who have looked into it could not find a precedent for such a move in modern Pennsylvania political history, but that does not mean it cannot be done.
But but but…
That was completely different!
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s anticipated order that would shield millions of immigrants now living illegally in the U.S. from deportation is not without precedent.
Two of the last three Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — did the same thing in extending amnesty to family members who were not covered by the last major overhaul of immigration law in 1986.
There was no political explosion then comparable to the one Republicans are threatening now.
A tea party-influenced GOP is poised to erupt if and when Obama follows through on his promise. He wants to extend protection from deportation to millions of immigrant parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and expand his 2-year-old program that shields immigrants brought illegally to this country as children.
“The audacity of this president to think he can completely destroy the rule of law with the stroke of a pen is unfathomable to me,” said GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, an outspoken opponent of relaxing U.S. immigration law. “It is unconstitutional, it is cynical, and it violates the will of the American people.”
Such strong feelings are common among congressional Republicans. GOP leaders warn that an executive order from Obama would “poison the well” and severely damage Republicans’ willingness to work with the president during his final two years in office.
Some Republicans have even raised the possibility of impeachment.
Nearly three decades ago, there was barely a peep when Reagan and Bush used their authority to extend amnesty to the spouses and minor children of immigrants covered by the 1986 law.
Continue reading “But but but…”
The next Houston
Brothers among 4 killed in chemical leak at Texas plant.
So now the PTB want to make Philadelphia into the next Houston! Oh, I can’t wait:
(CNN) — Four workers were killed Saturday after a chemical leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte, Texas, on the eastern outskirts of Houston, plant manager Randall Clements said.
A fifth employee exposed to the chemical was hospitalized, but is expected to make a full recovery, Clements said.
The community around the DuPont plant was never at risk, the company said.
The cause of the leak is under investigation, Clements said.
Uh huh. Because they never lie about these things!
Imagine that
A call for backup that a police officer claims to have made seconds before he killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, reportedly cannot be found in police recordings. The officer blames the problem on his radio.
Darren Wilson has told investigators he radioed “shots fired, send all cars” after a struggle at his SUV with Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, following the officer’s stop of Brown and a friend for jaywalking in Ferguson on 9 August, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Yet a set of recordings released to the newspaper by police did not include the call. Wilson is reported to have stated that “during the struggle his radio had been jarred and the channel changed”, meaning it was not broadcast to his fellow officers in the St Louis suburb.
“At least one channel on the Ferguson police radio is ‘receive-only,’ meaning that the call may not have been broadcast,” the newspaper said in its report on Friday evening. Wilson shot Brown repeatedly soon after allegedly making the request for assistance.
A series of witnesses told media in the days after the shooting that Brown had surrendered to the officer after fleeing and may have had his hands up. Wilson is said to have told investigators the 18-year-old had in fact turned and charged towards him.
The killing of Brown, who was African American, by a white officer led to nights of protests. Police clashed repeatedly with demonstrators, firing teargas and rubber bullets and making dozens of arrests. Ferguson is anxiously awaiting the decision of a grand jury on whether Wilson should face criminal charges for the shooting.
Just another example
Of why the private sector shouldn’t be anywhere near anything as important as nuclear power. Because if they’ll cut corners on the financing, they’ll do it on safety, too:
A federal grand jury has indicted two former executives of a company that hoped to build a nuclear power plant in southwestern Idaho.
Donald L. Gillispie, 71, and 40-year-old Jennifer R. Ransom were indicted Thursday on 14 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, filing false tax returns and making false statements to federal agents.
The two, both from Meridian, were executives of the Eagle-based Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. Prosecutors say the pair conspired to manipulate and inflate the price of their company’s stock in an effort to attract investors and gain cash financing for the company, and that they didn’t properly report income to the IRS.
[…] Alternate Energy Holdings had proposed building a $10 billion nuclear power-generating plant in Payette County in 2009. That plan came to a halt in 2010, when the federal Securities and Exchange Commission suspended free trading of the company’s stock. The SEC said the company was promoting itself with a deluge of press releases that presented false information, which forced the federal agency to take action.
This land is your land
Bruce Springsteen:
Killing in the name of
Rage Against The Machine:
Give peace a chance
John and Yoko:
http://youtu.be/tlKX-m17C7U