Before getting to the actual outcome of the EEOC lawsuit and the Federal Judge’s ruling we must review the BACKSTORY:
In September of 2012 Newark New Jersey, passed Ordinance 12-1630, “which limits employers’ ability to conduct criminal background checks.” The ordinance went into effect November 18, 2012 and “prevents employers with five or more employees who do business, employ persons or take applications for employment in the City of Newark, from asking applicants about their criminal history.” We wrote about it HERE.
In February of 2013, at the request of the White House, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) each determined that employers who use background checks as one of the determinants of whether to hire a prospective employee may be engaging in prohibited discrimination.
These federal agencies claim the use of criminal background checks can lead to a disparate impact on minority job applicants. (more…)

Rare is the video when you can show EVERYTHING that is wrong with pinky ring wearing, crust less sandwich eating, mealy mouthed, wish-washy, go along to get along, Decepticon Republican party.     But MSNBC Joe Scarborough personifies all of those attributes into one ridiculous narrative….
….. This guy is just a flat out idiot.   He’s an idiot.  Period.

EGYPT – The Egyptian defense minister has ordered the repair and reconstruction of all churches that suffered damage in the country’s violent demonstrations since the Egyptian military removed President Mohamed Morsi from power last month.
Defense minister Col. Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi intends to fix the damage to Coptic churches at Rabaa Adaweya and Nahda squares, according to a report by the Mid-East Christian News.
Dozens of churches were attacked and burned in riots after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities to demand the end of what they call military rule, following the removal of Morsi on July 3. Many of Morsi’s supporters have voiced criticism at Egypt’s Christian minority for largely supporting the military’s decision to oust him from office. (more…)

I’ve been looking for a way to aptly describe all the recent events in Egypt.   Then I saw this recent picture courtesy of Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.   It appropriately describes what the U.S. media is desperate to avoid:

The average Egyptian is not an Islamist.   To the contrary they are moderates – having lived with ‘westernized freedom principles’ amid the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.   Sure, there were elements the average citizen did not like about Mubarak – and the absence of technological investment in their economy was a source of constant irritation.
However, they did not want to devolve into an Islamist State.   Initially the Muslim Brotherhood promised not to run for election – but they reversed their position and being the only organized political group in Egypt they quickly moved to manipulate the election and the electorate.   The outcome was President Morsi. (more…)

A black lady, Mona Nelson, kidnapped a 12 year old white boy, Jonathan Foster, from his home on Christmas eve 2010.   She tied him up with twine and then burned him to death with a blowtorch.   When she was finished she took his burned lifeless body out to the woods and threw him in a ditch.    Her trial began this week.  
The national media continues ignores the story….  We share it because no-one else will.
HOUSTON (KTRK) — On Wednesday, the  mother of a little boy who was allegedly kidnapped and later turned up dead had to relive that day in court.  On Thursday, Jonathan Foster’s grandmother had to do the same.
In tears, Mary Gifford testified about Foster, her grandson, coming home to Texas after living with relatives in Mississippi and Missouri in 2010. (more…)

Bill O’Reilly exposes that Al Sharpton for taking him out of context on his MSNBC show the other day to portray him as a brutalizer of the poor. After O’Reilly plays the clip of Sharpton blatantly lying about what he said, he then reveals kicker.

O’Reilly said that he donated $25,000 to Sharpton’s Harlem charity after Sharpton came to him and told him they were out of money and were not able to buy Christmas presents and dinners for hundreds of poor people.

O’Reilly says he never mentioned it because it wasn’t necessary. “But now it is,” he adds, “to prove exactly what kind of person Al Sharpton really is.”

Additionally the FISA court admits today it has to rely on the information presented to it when it determines legal authority. Also, the court has no mechanism to check the claims brought to it by the NSA or Justice Dept. One example is outlined in the Washington Post article.
(WASHINGTON POST)  The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.
The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, include a level of detail and analysis that is not routinely shared with Congress or the special court that oversees surveillance. In one of the documents, agency personnel are instructed to remove details and substitute more generic language in reports to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. (more…)

Gloria Allred is on the case….

• Peggy Shannon, 67, [pictured above] works part-time at the Senior Citizens Service Desk in the lobby of the City Administration Building…
• Shannon claimed in a press conference Thursday that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner once grabbed her and kissed her…
• She says he also once told her he could ‘go eight hours’ in an apparent reference to sex…
• Shannon is the 16th woman to make sexual harassment claims against Filner, 70, in the last month…
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First the FAIL –  TALLAHASSEE,  Fla. —Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is coming out solidly  against a special session to repeal the state’s “stand your ground” law.
The Department of State on  Wednesday released a list that showed more than half of the state’s 160-member  Legislature has already voted against the idea.
The vote was triggered  earlier after 33 legislators asked for a special session in writing. They were  urged to do so by the Dream Defenders group, which is upset with the July  verdict in the George Zimmerman case.
Under an obscure state  law, the written requests required an official poll. A yes vote by three-fifths  of the Legislature would have resulted in a special session.  (more)
Then the RESULT….. (more…)

The case is a bench trial. The defendant opted to have the judge decide guilt or innocence. The trial is expected to last two weeks. (link)

HOUSTON TEXAS – Angela Davis told a gripping story Wednesday about receiving cryptic phone calls from her 12-year-old son and a strange woman, racing home on her motor scooter that stalled and then breathlessly running the last 100 hundred yards on foot to her north Houston duplex.
But after fumbling with her key, she finally opened the door that Christmas eve in 2010 only to discover that her son Johnathon had vanished seconds earlier.
Ominous phone calls
A half glass of cold milk sat on a table. Cartoons blared from the television and a computer game was loaded and ready to play. But the tin box filled with Tootsie Rolls left behind was what brought tears to Davis’ eyes and made it hard for her to continue testifying in the capital murder trial of Mona Nelson, the woman accused in the killing of her red-headed fifth-grader, Jonathan Foster.
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