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Oct. 29th, 2008

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The kids from the Ron Clark Academy performing live "You Can Vote However You Like," a parody to TI's "Whatever You Like". Atlanta Georgia Ron Clark Academy.
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Via: Shakesville

JC Penny doesn't "do" black hair

Brenda McElmore went to JC Penny's to get her hair dyed black and was denied service.
According to KTLA, McElmore was told, "We don't do African-American hair." She was then directed to elsewhere for hairstyling needs. For McELmore it triggered a time of growing up under Jim Crow laws, wherein blacks were routinely denied services based on the colour of our skin. She has since filed suit against JC Penny. The company responded by sending the following letter.

"Let me apologize again for the customer service experience you had in our store. As we discussed, our salon receptionist felt that we did not have the technical proficiency... to perform the service you required. She may not however have expressed this to you in a way that was not offensive. For this I again apologize. Because customer service is ... so important to our company, we would rather not attempt the service if we cannot perform it as required."

Isn't that beautiful lawyer speak for your hair is too nappy and untamable to deal with. The woman wasn't asking for a hair treatment, or a hair style that was specifically Afrocentric, she was asking for a damn dye job. If the salon does not have someone there that can colour hair, then they are not a hair salon.
You know on second thought, even if she was asking for a perm, corn rows, or a weave, why should she not have been able to walk into a hair salon and expect them to be able to cater to her needs. Hair care is one of the few industries that continues to be divided by race. One look at the magazines in the waiting area will let you know if you are in the right place or not.

This continues largely because black hair is deemed to difficult to deal with. Somehow the white hairdressers cannot be proficiently trained to deal with the high maintenance needs of a black woman....oh no their delicate hands can only deal with the silky locks of white people. In all of the years I have been going to salons, I have only ever been to one that catered to both white and black women alike. The segregation is so normalized that black hair care even has its own aisle at Walmart and Shoppers Drug mart.
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"Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value."—Revolting fuckneck and rightwing radio megadouche Dennis Prager.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [humans] are created equal."—Dirty European leftist scumbags John Adams, Samuel Adams, Josiah Bartlett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark, George Clymer, William Ellery, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, John Hancock, Benjamin Harrison, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Thomas Heyward, Jr., William Hooper, Stephen Hopkins, Francis Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lewis, Philip Livingston, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Thomas McKean, Arthur Middleton, Lewis Morris, Robert Morris, John Morton, Thomas Nelson, Jr., William Paca, Robert Treat Paine, John Penn, George Read, Caesar Rodney, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, Edward Rutledge, Roger Sherman, James Smith, Richard Stockton, Thomas Stone, George Taylor, Matthew Thornton, George Walton, William Whipple, William Williams, James Wilson, John Witherspoon, Oliver Wolcott, and George Wythe.

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McCain: Redistribution Not Okay When Rich Not Getting the Money

Ok, enough with the BS about Obama and "redistributing wealth." I certainly hope that Obama intends to redistribute wealth downwards rather than the upwards that as in the bailout, but I want everyone to look at the graph on the right. That's what Reaganite policies did, they redistributed wealth—to the top 1% of the population. George Bush's tax cuts and Ronald Reagan's tax cuts were about redistributing wealth from the middle and working classes to the rich. And the bailout was a huge tax on ordinary people to bail out the richest people in the United States. It's about time someone stopped redistributing wealth from the middle class to the wealthy and reversed the flow.

Here's how to tell when someone is lying about taxes: if they want to only talk about income tax, then they're right wing shills for the rich and liars. The income tax system is the only progressive tax of any significance in America. Almost every other tax in existence is regressive—they hit you harder the less money you earn. Every payroll tax, for example, is regressive. Every straight fee is regressive. And even in the income tax system there is more regressiveness than people realize, for example capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than earned income—that's right money somebody earned by buying a stock is taxed at a lower rate than what a janitor earned cleaning up a toilet, or a garbageman earned picking up trash, or a nurse earned for cleaning the vomit off your mother in the hospital.

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The Election That Has the Whole World Blogging

The Web is flat, especially when it comes to this marathon campaign. Every twist and turn, every new character, not only unfolds stateside in real time, endlessly commented on by the blogosphere, but also keeps the rest of the world on its collective mouse, with bloggers from countries as disparate as the Philippines, South Africa and Brazil glued to the historic race.

Differing time zones aren't considered barriers on the Web, where different languages can be easily translated on Google. Sure, many foreigners have paid attention to America's presidential elections through newspapers and television in the past. But the continued mainstreaming of the Internet, online experts say, has given non-Americans access to more information than ever before -- and, through blogging, an interactive platform to express their views. David Sifry, founder of the search engine Technorati, says: "As the tools have gotten simpler and easier to use, there's been an absolute explosion in the number of bloggers outside of the U.S., and one of the subjects they blog about is politics."

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Just visit Voices Without Votes, an aggregator of the international blogosphere. An offshoot of the nonprofit site Global Voices, which aims to summarize the goings-on in every blogging corner of the World Wide Web, the site focuses solely on the U.S. presidential race.
Voices Without Votes was born in early February -- yep, in time for Super Tuesday -- and it's edited by Amira Al Hussaini, a 35-year-old journalist from Bahrain who currently lives in Canada. The site's motto reads: "America votes. The world speaks." Recent elections in Zimbabwe and New Zealand have attracted some attention online, Al Hussaini says, but not nearly to the extent that the battle for the American presidency has.
"The Internet makes the world smaller, just a few clicks away, right?" says Al Hussaini, who was the former news editor at the Gulf Daily News, the largest English newspaper in Bahrain. With Voices, she says, "Americans can see, if they don't realize it already, that their votes affect the rest of us when it comes to foreign policy, the environment, the global market, you name it."
The site is not an online hit, garnering fewer than 100,000 pages views since its launch. But what Voices lacks in traffic, it makes up for in the scope of its content. There's nothing else quite like it.
Voices is funded by Reuters, whose server hosts the site, though Mark Jones, Reuters's global community editor, says the news service doesn't control what's on it. That falls to Al Hussaini, the site's only paid staffer. She manages an eclectic group of about 20 volunteers, all in their 20s and 30s, who speak English but are also fluent in other languages.

Scattered throughout the world, they scour the Internet, reading blogs and searching for mentions of the upcoming election. From February to August, 300 to 400 blog entries were featured on the site. It grew to 800 in September and about 1,100 this month.

There's no single directory of international blogs, Al Hussaini says, and she and her staff specialize in specific regions. They make sure that no one region is overrepresented on the site. It's a labor-intensive process. Though many sign their names in their blogs, just as many do not. Each volunteer has to read the blog, contact the blogger and locate where he or she is. "A lot of people write blogs without telling you where they're from," explains Al Hussaini, who speaks Arabic and monitors a list of about 1,000 blogs in the Middle East. Most bloggers write in English. Some, however, need translating.MORE

Riz Khan - Manipulating US elections - 27 Oct 08 - Part 1

The Riz Khan show looks at how electronic voting could be manipulated to flip the outcome of the 2008 US presidential election.

Riz Khan - Manipulating US elections - 27 Oct 08 - Part 2

Riz Khan - US election corruption - Oct 22 - Part 1

Is it possible that the race for the White House is already over and has in fact been stolen?

Given the issues with the 2000, 2004 and even 2006 US elections, many analysts and observers are saying the 2008 election is headed for disaster some are even saying that the fix is already in.

Allegations of voter fraud, voter intimidation and purged lists are rampant.

In this episode of Riz Khan we speak with investigative journalist and author of the New York Times Best Seller Armed Madhouse Greg Palast.

In his most recent endeavour Palast has teamed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to produce a non-partisan guide which advises Americans on how to protect their voting rights.

Also joining the programme is David Freddoso a political reporter with the conservative magazine National Review and author of The Case Against Barack Obama.

He argues that ACORN, a liberal community-based organisation, is trying to steal the election through voter fraud.

Riz Khan - US election corruption - Oct 22 - Part 2

Where's Charlie Heston when you need him?

Some Christian fanatics are concerned, quite reasonably, about the economy, and have chosen, quite absurdly, to try and correct the problem with prayer. So far, so typical, but then … well, they picked a peculiarly oblivious way to do it. They prayed before a statue of a golden bull on Wall Street.

We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion's Market,' or God's control over the economic systems. While we do not have the full revelation of all this will entail, we do know that without intercession, economies will crumble.
Just a clue: there's this book called "the bible" that these people claim to follow, but I suspect they've never actually read it, or they might have seen Exodus 32.MORE

FAIL. Biblical FAIL!!! Just...FAIL! Dammit where a FAIL icon when you need one? Just, BIBLES, ladies and gents. They are MEANT to be READ. And understood.

Science after Sunclipse kills me ded!