When Ohio police put out an A.P.B. for a black male who had robbed five banks, they were puzzled as to why they could never catch the guy.
He always seemed to slip away, despite cops locking down the area around the target banks.
That’s probably because the real suspect was a white guy from Florida disguised as an African-American. Blame this one on the magic of Hollywood.
Conrad Zdzierak, a former Seminole resident, was a… Continue
With all the media hype that came with the debut of the iPad, I thought it would be fitting to poke a little fun at the "magical" and "revolutionary" device. Granted, I'm a committed Apple fan with my iMac and my iPhone so it hurts me a little bit when techies bash the innocent, little thing. No matter, I'm sure just like the i… Continue
Added by Ms Rodriguez on April 14, 2010 at 9:00am —
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How the War on Drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste By Michelle Alexander
Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation's "triumph over race." Obama's election has been touted as the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow, the bookend placed on the history of racial caste in America.
Obama's m… Continue
Added by TheMessageShow on March 9, 2010 at 5:46pm —
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Terry McDermott takes a look at Fox News and notes the obvious: they don't tend to have a lot of Democratic guests:
This appears to be politically motivated, but that could be just an artifact — the content seems political but the primary aim is much more likely commercial. Cable news is not literally a broadcast business, but a… Continue
Added by TheMessageShow on March 9, 2010 at 4:52pm —
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Paula and Peter Imafidon are just like any other 9-year-olds. They love laughing, playing on the computer and fighting with each other. What sets these twins apart from their peers, though, is that they are, hands down, prodigies who are about to enter high school and make British history as the youngest to do so.
The precocious London-based tykes, known as the "Wonder Twins," floored academics a year ago when they aced University of Cambridge's advanced mathe… Continue
Added by Lisa on March 4, 2010 at 2:30am —
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I've long felt conflicted about the spate of popular reality TV shows featuring prisons -- they're exploitative, they celebrate violence and they often thrive on chaos without offering solutions. But do some shows actually dig deeper and get us thinking about the waste and abuse of our sprawling prison state?
For starters, it's important to recognize that these shows offe… Continue
Added by Lisa on March 3, 2010 at 7:00pm —
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LAWS to tackle racism on the internet are set to be beefed up.
Authorities warn they are often powerless to act against online content, which is responsible for almost one in five racial vilification complaints.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland has ordered the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct a sweeping review of ''arrangements for dealing with racist mater… Continue
Added by Lisa on February 28, 2010 at 9:00pm —
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I’m a little burned out on Kos posts these days. Not that they’re dogmatic. They tend to be. It’s forgivable. What isn’t forgivable is predictability. Well,
They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains. East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, and to the south is the Syrian border, visible 20 miles away, pointing toward the ancient lands of Mesopotamia and the Fertil… Continue
THE AIR hangs thick with tension at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) after fraternity-linked students caused outrage by hosting a racist "Compton Cookout" party in an upscale condominium near campus.
In their invitation to the February 15 party, the hosts requested that "ghetto chi… Continue
Added by Yousef hur Al-bar on February 25, 2010 at 11:54am —
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A conservative talk show host says President Barack Obama is "partly" to blame for a rise in domestic violence because of the deteriorating job situation over the past year -- and because the president has criticized Las Vegas.
In discussion on Fox News about Sen. Harry Reid's comment Monday linking unemployment to growing domestic… Continue
Added by Yousef hur Al-bar on February 25, 2010 at 8:30am —
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Tony Perkins of Greenwood, Indiana is in jail on accusations that he knowingly and intentionally spread the AIDS virus to hundreds of women. Investigators say Perkins used the web site PlentyofFish.com to find the majority of his victims. One of Perkins’s ex-girlfriends came forward despite allegedly receiving death threats from Perkins. Perkins is in a Johnson County, Indiana jail charged with one count of intimidation. Continue
In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard.
You'll generate your own electricity with the box and it'll be wireless. The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line gr… Continue
Added by Rashida on February 24, 2010 at 4:02am —
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(Feb. 23) -- A Delaware pediatrician has been indicted on 471 counts of sexual crimes against 103
children at his practice, and authorities are urging former patients and parents with any information to come forward.
Authorities in eastern China have said they will release 20 million algae-eating fish into one of the nation's most scenic lakes that has been ravaged by pollution.
A leading Muslim advocacy group is pushing government officials to call
the suicide plane crash in Texas “an act of terror,” saying that if a Muslim had been flying the plane there would be no hesitancy to call it terrorism.
On Thursday, Andrew Joseph Stack III flew… Continue
Added by Rashida on February 24, 2010 at 1:55am —
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A teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters…