Politics

I suppose the “Bible says…”  argument could be used for just about anything. Don’t believe me.. Ask Alabama state Senator Shadrack McGill.

Teacher pay shouldn’t be increased, an Alabama lawmaker explained at a prayer breakfast this week, because the Bible says so. “If you double what you’re paying education, you know what’s going to happen?” asked state Sen. Shadrack McGill. “I’ve heard the comment many times, ‘Well, the quality of education’s going to go up.’ That’s never proven to happen, guys. It’s a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher’s pay scale, you’ll attract people who aren’t called to teach. And these teachers that are called to teach, regardless of the pay scale, they would teach. It’s the ability that God give ‘em.” Continue Reading…

SOPA author Lamar Smith is being roundly mocked thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis Taete of VICE, who found that as of July, Smith’s own website violated copyright, using a background image without attribution.

The photo was under a Creative Commons license, so if Smith had just credited the photographer, he could have used it for free. But that little mistake would be enough to get the site shut down if Smith’s legislation passed, Geek-O-System points out, calling it SOPA’s “primary failing, that common, insignificant mistakes can be blown out into DNS blocking for various flimsy reasons ranging from laziness to malicious intent.” Continue Reading…

Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad is about to make an important announcement today and guess what– HSK has the drop first.

Here’s an email sent to me from Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad:

Dear Jacky,

Thank you. We will have a press conference tomorrow morning at 10am, National Press Club, Washington, DC to formally announce the launch of Occupy the Dream into the Occupy Wall Street movement to challenge income inequality in America. We have assembled some of the key clergy from about 30 cities across the US who will be at the press conference to stand shoulder to shoulder in unity with OWS.

We will have national days of action via Occupy the Dream beginning at Federal Reserve Banks on January 16, 2012 in many different cities through April 7, 2012 with large mass gathering in DC.

During my teenage years, I worked with SCLC and Dr. King as a youth organizer for Dr King in my home state of NC in the 1960s.

Now, today, OWS is fulfilling Dr. Kings dream for economic justice for all. I have known serious movement to transform America and to help all people empower themselves. We all should strive to “occupy” a universal consciousness for the equality of all people.

Jacky, I hope this brief summary helps to explain some of what we are planning and why.

God bless,
Ben

Wait there’s more!!!

It has been over 10 years since the attack on the World Trade Center and American citizens rights are continuing to be eroded in the name of “National Security”. Reality is that if various US security agencies were competent in their jobs, the US never would have been attacked.

The Senate last night overwhelmingly passed a massive $662 billion defense bill that calls for crippling sanctions against Iran, requires the military to hold suspected terrorists—even those busted on US soil—and would allow detention of American citizens suspected of terrorism indefinitely without trial. Continue Reading…

As reported by Americablog.com:

Seriously? Not a single prosecution against Wall Street for the collapse of 2008 but he wants people to give a damn about IP violations for Hollywood and the recording industry? Instead of boot-licking for the 1%, maybe he could find some time to prosecute the real trouble makers. Wake me up when there’s a Democrat who is significantly different from a Republican so I can vote for real change. What we’re getting now is not change and not worthy of support.

Via Wired: Continue Reading…