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tenderfoot's JournalUPDATE: Make America Great Again Billboard Features Bloody Sunday
PEARL, Miss. (WJTV) A controversial billboard Highway 80 in Pearl is getting a lot of attention.
The billboard appears to depict a moment from the civil rights era and has the words Make America Great Again on it.
Its placed on a Lamar Advertising billboard. The display says that the signage was paid for by For Freedoms. It also says the billboard was not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.
The original photo dates back to 1965, to a day known as Bloody Sunday, according to PRNewswire. Police and protesters faced off over voting rights in Selma, Alabama.
According to For Freedoms website, they use art to inspire deeper political engagement for citizens who want to have a greater impact on the American political landscape.
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Governor Phil Bryant has seen the billboard and calls it reprehensible according to Mississippi News Now.
Its disappointing that this group would use this image as an attempt to divide the country, said Bryant.
Pearl Mayor Brad Rogers also told MNN the the billboard doesnt violate any laws or city ordinances and that since its not vulgar it is protected by freedom of speech.
http://wkrg.com/2016/11/18/make-america-great-again-billboard-features-bloody-sunday-in-mississippi/
UPDATE: I have come to believe this billboard was put up in protest as opposed to being racist. Check out For Freedom's site. They're artists.
Dont let Donald Trumps antics distract you from whats really important
Hes paying fraud fines and collecting bribes and distracting you with Hamilton tweets
Here are a few news stories that broke between the time I left work a little early on Friday afternoon and the time my toddler went down for his midday nap on Saturday:
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Donald Trump paid $21 million to former students of his fake university who he allegedly defrauded.
Donald Trump got into a Twitter war with the cast of Hamilton.
The Hamilton blow-up because its easy to understand, bizarre, and connects with a pop culture phenomenon has naturally ended up getting the bulk of the news pickup. One potential reason is that Trumps tweets are public, whereas it took diligent reporting by the Washington Post to get the hotel story. The idea is that other prestigious outlets may be disinclined to pay attention to a story the Post owns and to give due credit to its significance.
Meanwhile, a second-order controversy even broke out among the people I follow on Twitter as to whether the Hamilton audience booing Mike Pence in some sense played into Trumps hands.
But the truth is that nothing about the Hamilton story not Pences decision to attend, not the crowd booing him, not the cast of the musical directing some respectful criticism in the direction of I his boss, not Trumps tweets about what happened, and not the subsequent second-order controversy is in any way important to how he runs the country.
By contrast, foreign governments directly putting money into Donald Trumps pocket is very important. The fact that these attempted bribes are being paid to a man who is also paying out millions of dollars to avoid standing trial for his corrupt business practices is very important. The fact that citizens are calling members of congress to ask them to do something about this is also very important.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/19/13685762/donald-trump-hamilton-distraction
Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch NYC Memorial Park Defaced With Swastikas, Pro-Donald Trump Graffiti
Since Donald Trump's election last week, there has been an uptick in the amount of "biased-based attacks" across the nation. One of the latest victims is the the New York City memorial park in honor of the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch.
The Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights was defaced with graffiti of swastikas and the words "Go Trump" on Friday (Nov. 18). Yauch, like the rest of his Beastie Boys bandmates, was Jewish.
https://twitter.com/kw492/status/799749794763771904
Go back to India b*tch: Seattle councilwoman threatened for encouraging Trump protest
SEATTLE A Seattle city councilwoman who called on protesters to shutdown Donald Trumps inauguration has since received hundreds of angry emails and phone calls, some telling her to kill herself, her office said.
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Join me, I appeal to you, today at 4 p.m. at Westlake (Park), Sawant told a crowd. Lets have a massive protest and tell America we do not accept a racist agenda and lets make sure that on Inauguration Day, on the 20th and 21st of January, lets do a nationwide shutdown and occupy inauguration.
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A (Sawant) staffer was told on phone: 'I will come and tattoo a swastika on your head and on that bitchs head,' Council spokesperson Dana Robinson Slote told Q13 News in an email.
The office was also inundated with emails.
Go back to India bitch, one email read. I am tired of being shamed because Im a white male. You automatically think Im a racist. How about you go the (expletive) back to India or wherever you came from?
Another email accused Sawant of enticing a riot.
We didnt riot with Obama was elected, the email reads. Ever stop to think we see (Obama) as a racist? But we carried on and lived to fight another day. Stop being such a cry baby bitch and go hang yourself.
more: http://q13fox.com/2016/11/15/go-back-to-india-btch-seattle-councilwoman-threatened-for-enouraging-trump-protest/
Man who wants rape legalising is delighted with Donald Trumps win
Remember this guy, who lives at home with mom?
Man who wants rape legalising is delighted with Donald Trumps win
Remember Roosh V, the absolute helmet who called for the legalisation of rape and sparked massive protests?
Well, hes back with some interesting comments about the brand new president-elect.
The guy has some pretty horrendous views about women, so you wont be surprised to hear that hes a fan of Donald Trump.
The future presidents campaign was, of course, marred by scandal when an old tape emerged of him claiming he could grab women by the pussy.
While millions of people were disgusted, Roosh was delighted because, as he wrote in a blog, if the president can say it then you can say it.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/16/man-who-wants-rape-legalising-is-delighted-with-donald-trumps-win-6262764/
Donald Trump's team 'discussing plans for Muslim registration system'
Break out those felt crescent moon lapel badges!!!
We have new scapegoat for all of the nation's problems!
Donald Trump's team 'discussing plans for Muslim registration system'
Immigration hardliner says plans underway for programme to force Muslims register on database
Donald Trumps policy advisers are discussing plans to establish a registry for Muslim immigrants in the US, a man believed to be a key member of the President-elect's transition team has revealed.
Kris Kobach, the secretary of state for Kansas, said the President-elects advisers were looking at how to implement a proposal suggested by the billionaire businessman that would force immigrants from Muslim countries to register on a database.
Mr Kobach, who helped devise tough immigration laws in a number of US states and claims to have participated in regular conference calls with Mr Trumps immigration advisers, also said the Trump administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a US-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval.
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The Muslim registration scheme, which would reportedly see Muslims given a form of identification that notes their religion, reflects policies Mr Trump put forward during his campaign to introduce extreme vetting of Muslims through tougher security measures.
Such a programme would echo a registration system created under Mr Bushs presidency, which Mr Kobach also helped design, and which required thousands of Arab and Muslim visitors and temporary US residents to register with the state, but was abandoned in 2011 after it was criticised for unfairly targeting immigrants from Muslim-majority nations.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-registry-immigrants-policy-kris-bobach-reinstate-wall-a7420296.html
Being told our fears are unfounded...
by people who think they need to carry a gun to be safe at Walmart.
Welcome back DUers.
Officials: SA cop fired for attempting to feed fecal sandwich to homeless person
Words fail me...
The City Council was briefed on the matter during a private session Thursday, sources said. The officer reportedly placed fecal matter between two pieces of bread and gave it to a homeless person.
This was a vile and disgusting act that violates our guiding principles of treating all with integrity, compassion, fairness and respect, Chief William McManus said in a prepared statement. The fact that his fellow officers were so disgusted with his actions that they reported him to Internal Affairs demonstrates that this type of behavior will never be tolerated. The action of this one former officer in no way reflects the actions of all the other good men and women who respectfully serve this community.
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For the past year, or so, Luckhurst has been on SAPDs downtown bike-patrol unit.
Ben Sifuentes, Luckhursts attorney, said that his client joked about giving an excrement sandwich to a homeless person but never actually did so. The joke spiraled out of control, he said, and has turned is client into the subject of unfair persecution, Sifuentes said.
It didnt happen, Sifuentes said. There are no eyewitnesses or video recordings and no statement from the homeless person, the lawyer said.
Im confident that in arbitration, we will prevail, said Sifuentes, who has previously represented SAPD officers facing discipline and termination.
more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Sources-SA-cop-fired-for-feeding-fecal-sandwich-10593479.php
Iz R Chilldrin Lernin? Lee principal dresses as Trump, secretary as Clinton in prison garb
I guess this kind of thing is to be expected at Robert E. Lee High School
STAUNTON - People are taking to social media to react to costumes worn by two employees of Robert E. Lee High School for Halloween.
Principal Mark Rowicki dressed as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, complete with a shock of trademark hair and a "Make American Great Again" hat. School secretary Stephanie Corbett dressed as Hillary Clinton, but rather than looking like a candidate on the campaign trail she was wearing an orange jumpsuit and a "Department of Justice" name tag that reads "Hillary R. Clinton." Together, they appeared on a photograph that was posted to the school website as part of a gallery that mostly includes students in costume. In an uncropped version of the photo that appears on social media, the Clinton character is wearing a chain around her waist. The photo disappeared from the site about 1 p.m. Wednesday. It was not clear who took the photo.
A Lee High graduate who is a mom of two girls, Emberly Lynn Martin, was upset about the choice of costumes. She posted the photo on her Facebook page.
"You are professionals, who work with children. Some more impressionable then others. The fact that any school official would think its okay to dress like this leaves me appalled and floored," Martin said in her post. "What message are you sending to any of them when their high school principal dresses up like a man who wants to deport them, says things like 'she's a nasty woman,' or 'grab em by the p----?'"
http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2016/11/02/lee-principal-dresses-trump-secretary-clinton-prison-garb/93165854/
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