Quaker Oats Replaces Historically Racist Aunt Jemima Mascot With Black Female Lawyer Who Enjoys Pancakes Sometimes The Onion In response to nationwide protests regarding police brutality and racial discrimination, food conglomerate Quaker Oats announced Friday that after 130 years, it would replace its historically racist Aunt Jemima mascot with a black female lawyer who enjoys …
June 2020 archive
Jun 17 2020
The Happiest Place in the World
I’ll spare you my Bobby Brown story for the moment, but I’ve been to Orlando. Florida governor says 260 Orlando airport workers tested positive for COVID-19. OIA says not quite by Jon Jankowski, WKMG June 17, 2020 Gov. Ron DeSantis said 260 workers at the Orlando International Airport have tested positive for the coronavirus after …
Jun 17 2020
Pondering the Pundits 6.17.2020
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Jun 17 2020
The Breakfast Club (America The Failed)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Jun 16 2020
Dailyish Last Nightly (Law & Order Criminal Intent)
Bone Spurs Act Up At West Point “Prove We’re Not in Hell” on Inside the Hill 2020 West Point Ramp Stakes Can’t Spin Juneteenth, Tulsa Pushed Back LGBTQ Rights, Police Reform, Hamburger Leg Trump Struggles at West Point 9-1-1 for White Emergencies Why Did Rayshard Brooks Have to Lose Life? Court Outlaws LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination …
Jun 16 2020
Police “Reform”
It never works. Then again, it isn’t designed to. ‘It’s not about bad apples’: how US police reforms have failed to stop brutality and violence by Sam Levin, The Guardian Tue 16 Jun 2020 A growing body of research suggests that some of the most widely adopted reform efforts have not succeeded at curbing police …
Jun 16 2020
Helter Skelter
Perhaps you consider it a rather unmelodic and puzzling Beatles tune. Well then, you’re probably not as crazy and homicidal as Charlie Manson. Charles Manson often spoke to the members of his “family” about “Helter Skelter” in the months leading up to the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in August 1969, …
Jun 16 2020
Pondering the Pundits
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
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