You walk into Obama’s Produce Store and you are met with a paradigm shift.

In ObamaMart no-one is allowed to use their individual determinations of value to afford their selections.

Prior to today you would browse the selections of fruits and vegetables picking them up, feeling them, looking closely and using all of your senses to determine what you would select.
You need some tomatoes for tonight’s salad, and you also need a few for making the sandwiches over the next three days.    Consequently you select two ripe tomatoes for today and two less ripe to use in the upcoming week.  They will ripen on your kitchen counter and present a differing value tomorrow and the next day.
Despite their equality in presentation, perhaps not all tomatoes are created equal; or at the very least today they do not present themselves of equal value to you.   There are other determinants, hence you evaluate each independently based on your need.
You selected bananas, apples, pears, peaches, plums and stone fruit in much the same way.
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“Disparate Impact” is a legal term used by progressive lawyers hell bent on social engineering.   The origin of the term actually comes from the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), and despite it’s application the interpretation of law makes no sense.
The intent of “Disparate Impact” is to engineer outcomes, not opportunity as one would think.
The term applies to consequences not origination or intent.
It was first thought up within a progressive think-tank as a way to force civil rights outcomes.  The concept was then delivered to the EEOC as a tool to leverage their social justice goal, force employers to hire illegal aliens.     It has been an open secret for well over a decade.
Example:   Under the legal definition of “Disparate Impact” you cannot use employment eligibility (work authorization) as a qualification for employment – Why?  Because more Hispanics, compared to other applicants, will be impacted as ineligible by the employment screening.   Ergo the employment eligibility screen itself, checking lawful residency, creates a “disparate impact” against Hispanics and is therefore illegal.
However, it was not the absurd nature of the legal application which upset the Federal Judge in this EEOC case;  it was the fact the EEOC itself uses the EXACT SAME pre-employment screening (credit check) it was suing a company for using. (more…)

The U.S. Media is so slanted to a love affair with progressives, it’s beyond ridiculous….

(Newsbusters)  According to the liberal network journalists, being part of a Democratic family makes you “royalty.” Reporters on ABC, CBS and NBC gushed over the announcement that Chelsea Clinton is pregnant. Good Morning America’s Bianna Golodryga enthused:

“Move over, Prince George, though. This morning, Americans have their own royal, or, rather, presidential baby, to look forward to.”
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Media Matters has spent years promoting “Card Check” unionization rules and liberal positions on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).   However, when the SEIU move to unionize the Media Matters workers they quickly jump to the NIMBY Ship.

[NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard]

(Washington Free Beacon) Leftwing lapdog Media Matters for America is taking advantage of the Republican’s “anti-union” agenda to stonewall the SEIU’s attempt to unionize its staff.
MMFA is forcing its employees to conduct a secret ballot election that will determine whether or not they can join SEIU Local 500, a Maryland union, according to papers filed with the National Labor Relations Board.
The liberal organization, which is headed by Hillary Clinton cheerleader David Brock, has hired management-side labor attorneys at Perkins Coie, a firm that has represented dozens of Democratic candidates and liberal PACs, to oversee the process. (more…)

Earlier in the day today the State Department was questioned about sending U.S. support to Ukraine.    In response State Dept. Spokewoman said:  “we are not going to get into a proxy war with Russia” [ergo we are not going to send arms or weaponry to the Ukraine government]  Yet Russia is acting specifically and intentionally with a proxy war mentality toward us.
When CBS’s Major Garrett questions President Obama about the rising tensions yet again Obama reflects a limp-wristed and disconnected response:

Nothing the Obama administration has done in his entire presidency reflects an actual accomplishment, ever.
As an example -and to give you context for what Putin references- here’s just a brief un-updated rundown of prior Obama statements on Iran. You decide for yourself: (more…)

(Via Moonbattery) For the liberal agenda to succeed, individual conscience must be eliminated, so that only the State and its affiliates determine what is right and wrong. That won’t happen so long as Christianity exists in a meaningful form.
Unfortunately for our liberal rulers, they do not yet have the political leverage to repeal the First Amendment, which explicitly prohibits restrictions on the free exercise of religion.
No worries; they simply twist the establishment clause of this same amendment to mean there can be no Christianity where there is government. In a country where government has bloated to the point of crowding out almost everything that is not coercion-based, that is virtually the same as a ban.
For example, colleges are heavily subsidized by the government; therefore, Christianity can be purged from college football teams. (more…)

NEVADA – U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday called supporters of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy “domestic terrorists” because they defended him against a Bureau of Land Management cattle roundup with guns and put their children in harm’s way.

“They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists,” Reid said during an appearance at a Las Vegas Review-Journal “Hashtags & Headlines” event at the Paris. “I repeat: what happened there was domestic terrorism.”
The BLM shut down its weeklong roundup of Bundy’s cattle Saturday after an armed confrontation with militia members who had traveled to Southern Nevada.
[…]   Reid, the Senate majority leader who is in Las Vegas during Congress’ Easter recess, said he understands there’s a federal task force being set up in order to deal with Bundy, and Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie is involved as well. (more…)

How DARE They question my false presentations.
(Via Daily Caller) Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in her forthcoming book that she was “hurt” and “angry” by 2012 reporting on her fraudulent claim to Native American heritage.
“What really threw me, though, were the constant attacks from the other side,” Warren wrote in her book “A Fighting Chance.”
“I would almost persuade myself that I was starting to get the hang of full-throttle campaigning and then — bam! Out of left field, the state Republican Party, or the Brown campaign, or some blogger, would launch a rocket at me,” Warren wrote, adding, “I was stunned by the attacks.” (read more)

These people are dumber than a box of rocks.

Look up the definition of psychological “Projection” and you’ll identify why the progressive left consistently comes up with this insufferably idiocy:

(Via SLATE)  [F]inally, I can’t help but wonder how conservatives would react if these were black farmers—or black anyone—defending “their” land against federal officials. Would Fox News applaud black militiamen aiming their guns at white bureaucrats?

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… Rory Reid.
The “Money Quote” is at 2:35 of the video

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