US District Court Judge Joseph McKinley dismissed a motion by Chinese company Qindao Haier, Co., owner of GE Appliances, in the case of Mykel Mickens, who claims he was the victim of discrimination at GE Appliances in Louisville.
New video of the militarized, fortified blockade of a public highway near Cannonball was published on December 11. The vid below is 39 minutes long, but you should watch at least the first 15 minutes. In addition to the concrete barriers that were dropped onto the bridge several weeks ago, new coils of razor wire have been added, and the razor wire now extends hundreds of yards in both directions perpendicular to the bridge and also up the hill on both sides.
In a fit of pique and rage, the prominent owner of a prominent theoretically liberal Democratic blog has announced that we should all be happy that coal miners are losing their benefits because Fuck them, they didn't vote for Hillary and now are reaping what they sowed, untreated disease and lingering death.
Tristan Broussard was hired as a management trainee for Tower Loan in Lake Charles, Louisiana in February of 2013. He was required at the time to submit his driver's license, which listed the transgender man as female.
Let's just accept that we haven't seen one iota of proof who hacked the DNC, and we most likely won't.
Let's also just ignore that Wikileaks, who would be the ones to know, have denied the Russia connection.
Now I'm not naive enough to believe the U.S. is a bastion of democratic principle; heck, we typically get shit choices for 'elections' and undoubtedly that is by design. But, for now, it is what it is, and recent events and babble prompted some thoughts to roll through my mind. One in particular is my questioning the wisdom, or rather a complete lack of this wisdom, to 'overthrow' the recent election result.
The hours are short until Mr. Obama is put out to pasture, legging it away from a legacy that is, shall we say, not the greatest. Some will miss him, some will idolize him, others will blame him for the next four years of potential horror and CHANGE, leaving behind his drone killing battalions at the disposal of DT.
Chris Hedges is one of my favourite writers, but his writing has gotten pretty dark recently.
Luke Charlebois is a voice of the future. He recently told his story in Phoenix.
