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liberal N proud's JournalChoppers On Chopping Block At United Technologies (Black Hawk helicopter)
Dow component United Technologies plans to sell or spin-off its iconic Sikorsky unit, maker of the Black Hawk helicopter. There should be plenty of interested buyers.
This wouldn't be necessary if Lindsey Graham had his way in starting more wars!
Why there is hope for the end of racism...
The only good news about the McKinney pool party is the white kids’ response to racism
In the story of the Texas pool party, where a police officer was caught on tape manhandling and pointing a gun at young black teenagers, there's a lot to be concerned and outraged about. But there's also one tiny thing to celebrate: the actions of two white kids.
Just 14 and 15 years old, they wasted no time speaking on the record about the racist comments made by adults that they said set off the incident, and recording the discriminatory treatment they said they witnessed.
Sadly, when it comes to public opinion about the event, it's likely that these accounts have more weight coming from the white kids than from the black kids who have offered similar stories, but whom many media consumers might see as potential criminals and untrustworthy reporters of what happened.
Their stories shaped the early media narrative of the event, and their sense of responsibility to memorialize what happened should be seen as an example. Many American adults could learn something from their brave decisions to acknowledge rather than avoid or explain away the injustice they saw, but also to make sure the rest of us understood.
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8747567/mckinney-pool-party-white-teens
I have noticed this with my kids, our girls either don't see color or don't care because people are people and they are friends are friends. That is why I have hope for the future and if we all keep pushing for it in constructive ways, teaching each other, then maybe one day soon, racism will be dead.
Didn’t the McKinney, Texas, police officer know he was being recorded?
This is the question the media is asking? Did he know he was on camera? 
A police officer slams an unarmed 15-year-old girl in a bikini to the ground, pulls his gun and kneels on her as teens on either side of him shout and, of course, record the encounter. Within hours, millions watch the video: Some see a defenseless black teen being manhandled by an out-of-control white cop; others see a lone, scared officer in the crowded, chaotic aftermath of a fight he doesn’t yet understand.
Cellphone video has become as much a part of policing as tickets and handcuffs. Video images of police shootings have sparked national turmoil. But Friday’s ugly, cacophonous scene in McKinney, Tex., at first seemed like something more routine — a call about misbehaving teens at a pool party on a hot Texas afternoon.
Then it went awry, at least in the seven-minute version of reality that a local teen posted on YouTube. The clip is the classic kind of video that can crush public trust in police. Yet paradoxically, police chiefs are pushing for more video, in the form of body cameras, to repair relations with those they serve.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/didnt-the-mckinney-tex-police-officer-know-he-was-being-recorded/2015/06/08/504033e6-0df7-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
And this moron wants to be President?
Huckabee: Hack China back for attack on fed wokers' data
The U.S. should launch a cyberattack campaign against China, 2016 GOP hopeful Mike Huckabee said Monday, days after it was revealed suspected Chinese hackers had pilfered 4 million federal workers’ records.
"What will it take for President Obama to open his eyes?” Huckabee said, calling it “mind-boggling” that the administration wouldn’t hack China in response to the breach revealed last Thursday at the Office of Personnel Management.
“The way you deal with a bully on the playground is to punch them in the face and put them on the ground because the only thing they respect is power,” he said.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/244351-huckabee-hack-china-back-for-attack-on-fed-wokers-data
2 girls missing from Avon, Ohio housing complex.
AVON, Ohio - The FBI is asking for the public’s assistance in a case where two children went missing Saturday in Avon.
The FBI and the Avon Police Department say 12-year-old Autumn R. Shreve and 2-year-old Sophia Rogers disappeared Saturday afternoon from the Timberlake Apartment Complex. Authorities say the girls were last seen on Mulberry Lane, at around 4 p.m. and were reported missing in the evening.
Police and family say Shreve was a babysitter for the 2-year-old.
Newsnet5.com obtained the 911 call from the incident in which the 2-year-old’s mother, Kaylyn Rogers, said her fiance’s 12-year-old sister, Shreve, was babysitting the infant when the mom got home at about 7 p.m Saturday. Shreve told Rogers she planning to take Sophia to the park, the mother said in the call.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-lorain/autumn-r-shreve-12-and-sophia-rogers-2-missing-from-avon-since-saturday
Switching to the Metric System Is Officially a Presidential Campaign Issue
Lincoln Chafee kicked off his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday in Virginia by promising to fight climate change, curb extra-judicial assassinations, and switch the United States to the metric system.
The Rhode Islander, who served in the Senate as a Republican before joining the Democratic party after being elected governor, unveiled his left-leaning, if idiosyncratic, agenda in a wide-ranging address at George Mason University. His continued opposition to the Iraq War, which he voted against authorizing as a senator, could put him in conflict with the party's front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As a senator, Clinton was an early supporter of the invasion, though she has since called it a mistake.
National defense was just one area in which Chafee advised heeding the wisdom of the international community. (He likewise proposed ending capital punishment entirely, and praised Nebraska for its recent ban.)
But then Chafee went a few feet—er, meters—further:
Earlier I said, let's be bold. Here's a bold embrace of internationalism: Let's join the rest of the world and go metric. I happened to live in Canada as they completed the process. Believe me, it is easy. It doesn't take long before 34 degrees is hot. Only Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States aren't metric, and it it'll help our economy!
.http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/lincoln-chafee-metric-system-campaign
Now those are issues I could get behind.
Should have added this when I posted...
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