Interesting article about the Scheme Team by William Reed in The Washington Informer.   Two aspects of note within the article:

[…]  The Parks & Crump camp helped to create a “Justice for Trayvon” industry consisting of protest paraphernalia that includes hoodies, sweatshirts and bumper stickers. The law firm proved to be instrumental in establishing the Trayvon Martin Foundation, with donations totaling an estimated $5 million dollars. (more…)

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…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

We know of only two certainties within the White House timeline during the night of 9/11/12:
1. That both Obama and Biden were on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu between 6:30 and 7:28pm DC time.
2. That President Obama and Hillary Clinton talked around 10:00pm DC time about the event.
That’s it. The time between the call with Netanyahu ending at 7:30pm (1:30am Benghazi) and Hillary at 10:00pm (4am Benghazi), is a void. What happens after 10:00pm DC time is also a void.
Sharyl Attkisson, the only journalist with any intellectual credibility on the issue, has been trying to use FOIA requests to find out the rest:
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/statuses/368480804633985024
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/statuses/368480910217203712
(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…)

Why haven’t we had a joke thread in so long? We used to have such a good time with it. Bring out the big guns, guys, it’s time to have some fun. Keep it PG rated, and if you have thin skin, pop on out of here now. We ain’t gonna allow y’all to spoil our laughs.
Here is Stella’s funny for the day, and then one of my favorites to start us off.
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.
Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. (more…)

Just in case you haven’t heard of it, The Woodward Dream Cruise has been an annual event for the past 19 years in suburban Detroit.  One Saturday in mid-August Woodward Avenue (Michigan Highway 1), is once again the home of Detroit muscle cars, and other unusual domestic and foreign vehicles.
“The Cruise”, as we in the neighborhood refer to it, is a free event that stretches along Woodward Ave. from the State Fair Grounds, which is located inside Detroit just south of the city line (8 Mile Rd), continuing on a northwest path, terminating in the center of Pontiac, MI.  On it’s route (roughly 15 miles), it passes through the communities of Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Royal Oak, Berkley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Pontiac.  In 2013, August 17th is the Big Day! (more…)