Random Politics & Religion #00

He never plays "Freebird" anymore, so I wouldn't get too upset.

Given any actual worthwhile punishment would have been "cruel and unusual"...meh.

There was never a good option.

In a fleeting moment of frustration, “the devil” — and not deep-seated racial prejudice — prompted a Georgia high school principal to make racial remarks at a graduation ceremony.

That was according to TNT Academy Principal Nancy Gordeuk, who stepped forward last weekend to apologize after she was captured on video condemning people for exiting the private school’s commencement early by saying: “Look who’s leaving … all the black people.”

Her comments sparked an immediate uproar, with people in the crowd angrily approaching the podium and exiting the ceremony in protest. When video of her remark went viral, it provoked even more outrage as people all over the country called for her resignation.

And now, Gordeuk has been fired by the Stone Mountain school she founded, according to Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA:

Heidi Anderson, chair of the board of directors at TNT Academy, wrote in a letter sent to the Gwinnett County NAACP that the board voted to dismiss school director Nancy Gordeuk.

WXIA then quoted the letter:

In light of recent events, the board of directors of TNT Academy has moved to dismiss Nancy Gordeuk as principal. During the coming transition, we will continue to prioritize support for our most recent graduates. Moreover, we will continue our commitment to providing students with the best educational classes, transcription services, and academic credit recovery possible.

The Georgia NAACP sent the message to The Washington Post late Thursday morning, along with a statement saying that the organization “applauds the immediate actions of the TNT Academy Board of Directors to terminate employment” of Gordeuk.

“This is not just about Mrs. Gordeuk’s comments. The NAACP would defend Mrs. Gordeuk’s right as a private citizen to free speech,” Francys Johnson, state president of the Georgia NAACP said in the statement. “However, those entrusted with responsibility for our children must set a high standard marked by civility. That is obviously a test the former principal failed.”

Attempts to immediately reach officials from the school were unsuccessful Thursday morning.

Could have forced him to work for minimum wage at Walmart the rest of his life while slapping him with restitution payments for all his victims.

You owe 10 million dollars by working 40 hours a week at $7.25/hr forever!

A hotel restaurant in Anambra, Nigeria has been shuttered by authorities for serving human flesh. According to the BBC, suspicious residents told police of rumors that the restaurant was cooking human meat for customers. Police then raided the restaurant, where they discovered fresh human heads that were still bleeding. The blood was in the process of being drained into a plastic bag.

In addition to the illegal meat, authorities discovered automatic weapons, grenades, and cell phones. Ten people were arrested in conjunction with the crimes. One resident said, "Every time I went to the market, I observed strange activities going on in the hotel. People who were never cleanly dressed and who looked a bit strange made their way in and out of the hotel, making me very suspicious of their activities. I am not surprised at the shocking revelation."

A priest who ate at the restaurant was surprised when presented with a bill of 700 Naira, or roughly $3.50 (Tens of millions of people in Nigeria subsist on less than $1 a day). "The attendant noticed my reaction and told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill scale that high," he said. "I did not know I had been served with human meat, and that it was that expensive."

Last year, Australian chef Marcus Volke murdered and cooked his girlfriend before killing himself. In Brazil, also last year, a man and two women were arrested for murdering potential nannies and then cooking their flesh into empanadas.

The Amtrak train that derailed along the nation's busiest tracks may have been struck by an object in the moments before it crashed, investigators said Friday, raising new questions about the deadly accident.

National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said an assistant conductor aboard the train told investigators that she heard the Amtrak engineer talking over the radio with an engineer for a regional railroad just before the crash.

The regional engineer, who was in the same area as the Amtrak train, said his train had been hit by a rock or some other projectile. The conductor heard Brandon Bostian, who was at the Amtrak controls, say the same had happened to his train, according to Sumwalt.

The windshield of the Amtrak train was shattered in the accident but one area of glass had a breakage pattern that could be consistent with being hit by an object and the FBI is investigating, he said.

Sumwalt declined to speculate about the exact significance of a projectile, but the idea raised the possibility that the engineer might have been distracted, panicked or even wounded in the moments before the train left the rails.

The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S. transportation safety official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed members of the Amtrak crew.

But the Amtrak engineer said he had no memory of anything that happened in the moments leading up to the crash when questioned for the first time about Tuesday night's wreck that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others, said Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

An assistant conductor told NTSB investigators on Friday that she heard the engineer, 32-year-old Brandon Bostian, talking by radio with the driver of another train from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). The other driver reported that his windshield had been cracked by a projectile that he believed was either fired from a gun or thrown at the train.

According to the conductor's account, Bostian replied that he believed his New York-bound Amtrak train had been similarly struck after pulling out of its previous stop, Sumwalt said.

It was moments later that the Amtrak train barreled into a curve at more than 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour), twice the speed limit, in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood along the Delaware River.

Death!
Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death

These are not good times for the Republic (and if you laughed or scratched your head at me calling America a republic, I rest my case).

But they are amusing times, at least for those of us capable of extracting some measure of mirth from the president’s predicament.

With the sand running out on the Obama presidency, it’s finally dawning on the president’s friends and fans that he can be a real jerk.

Consider The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank. For the last six years, he’s spent much of his time rolling his eyes and sneering at Republicans.

His subspecialty is heaping ridicule on conservative complaints about, well, everything and anything. If it bothers conservatives, it must be irrational, partisan, churchy, fake, hypocritical — or all of the above.

Meanwhile, poor Barack Obama, while not always without fault in Milbank’s eyes, is the grown-up, the good guy trying to do good things amidst a mob of malcontents and ideologues.

That is, until this month. President Obama wants to get a trade deal passed. He needs Democrats to do it. But, Milbank laments, Obama’s blowing it.

“Let’s suppose you are trying to bring a friend around to your point of view,” Milbank writes. “Would you tell her she’s emotional, illogical, outdated and not very smart?

Would you complain that he’s being dishonest, fabricating falsehoods and denying reality?”

“Such a method of a persuasion is likelier to get you a black eye than a convert,” Milbank notes. “Yet this is how President Obama treats his fellow Democrats on trade.”

True enough. But lost on Milbank is that this is precisely how Obama treats everyone who disagrees with him. When Obama — who ran for office touting his ability to work with Republicans and vowing to cure the partisan dysfunction in Washington — treated Republicans in a far ruder and shabbier way, Milbank celebrated.

The president has spent his entire presidency insisting that his political opponents are, to borrow a phrase from Milbank, “emotional, illogical, outdated and not very smart.” Republicans, in Obama’s view, are always dishonest, fabricating falsehoods and denying reality with their knee-jerk responses.

To pick just one of countless examples, there was a White House summit on health care in 2010. The president invited members of Congress to discuss the issue in good faith.

He then proceeded to treat every concern, objection and argument from Republicans as dumb, dishonest or emotional.

They were, according to a column by Milbank, “stepping into Prof. Obama’s classroom.”
Milbank marveled at how the “teacher” treated them all “like his undisciplined pupils.”

When Sen. John McCain, his opponent in the previous election, noted that Obama had broken numerous promises and that the 2,400-page bill was a feeding trough for special interests, Obama eye-rolled. “Let me just make this point, John,” Obama said. “We’re not campaigning anymore. The election’s over.”

He responded to Sen. Lamar Alexander — he called him “Lamar” — “this is an example of where we’ve got to get our facts straight.”

When it was Rep. John Boehner’s turn to speak, Obama reprimanded “John” for trotting out “the standard talking points” and, in the words of a palpably impressed Milbank, forced Boehner to “wear the dunce cap.”

Again, this was all quintessential Obama then, and it’s quintessential Obama now. All that has changed is that he’s doing the exact same thing to Democrats, and it’s making them sad. Specifically, he’s accused Sen. Elizabeth Warren of not having her facts straight. He says she’s just a politician following her partisan self-interest.

But here’s the hilarious part: Liberals can’t take it. The president of NOW, Terry O’Neill, accused Obama of being sexist.

O’Neill sniped that Obama’s “clear subtext is that the little lady just doesn’t know what she’s talking about.” Both O’Neill and Sen. Sherrod Brown also sniff sexism in the fact that Obama referred to Warren as “Elizabeth.”

“I think referring to her as first name, when he might not have done that for a male senator, perhaps?” Brown mused with his typical syntactical ineptness.

Of course, in that White House health-care summit and in nearly every other public meeting with Republican senators and congressmen, he referred to them all by their first names.

The great irony is that when Republicans complain about Obama’s haughtiness and arrogance, liberals accuse them of being racist.

I hope I don’t miss that phase of this spat while I’m off making the popcorn.

Hey, at least he get's his 72 virgins

guess we'll just spend a few million for no reason other than people's twisted sense of justice, cool.

ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, sounds like a Republican candidate for president.

The convergence of Republican rhetoric with jihadist propaganda isn’t new. It’s been building ever since George W. Bush left the White House. Liberated from presidential responsibility, Republicans degenerated into a party that uses Islam for domestic politics instead of thinking about how their words resonate overseas. That’s how they became backup singers for Osama Bin Laden. Now they’re working for Baghdadi. Remind me again who’s naïve.

"I don't have time to read it just give me the gist of it, son !"

State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment



Oh dear...

WAL MART
MART LAW
MARTIAL LAW

Oh my....G...

State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment



Oh dear...

How Final Fantasy VIII made you anti-Muslim.

It's 4 parts, but I only needed to watch the first part to be convinced:

WTF @ 3:45....

Also: @4:10 I love it when he is saying that Harry Potter is the truth...

Another thing: @ 5:05 What the hell, he is complaining that FFVIII is too long and uses it as a reason in his argument....

@ 6:05 LOL, Seifer is a Crusader.....

@ 6:20 Seriously, I had a serious laugh, I strongly suggest people to watch this part at the very least. All the way to 6:40.....

Ok, I couldn't take it past 9:00. This guy is full of ***.

I'm glad you actually watched that, cause I watched the whole thing. Just part 1 though. My favorite part was how the starting city, forgot the name, was paradise and the first 3 women you meant are all virgins. I kinda lost it there laughing.

I randomly picked up that video looking for the 'best' jade helm nonsense.