So according to the gun (nut) store owner in Ferguson, per CNN.

It's ok to have a militirized police if they're turned against black people

Robin Williams in What Dreams May Come - I'm Sorry... (VIDEO)

Hillary blames Obama for the rise of ISIS.

During a long and in-depth interview with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, former secretary of state and likely future presidential candidate Hillary Clinton distanced herself from President Obama’s foreign policy, implying the Islamist extremist group ISIS would not be so powerful had the president listened to her advice and thrown American power more forcefully behind “moderate” Syrian rebel forces.

“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad — there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle — the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.

Clinton was known at the time to support a larger American investment in the Syrian civil war, and reiterated her belief that not doing so was a mistake in her recently released book about her time as secretary of state, “Hard Choices.”

In addition to highlighting her differences with Obama on Syria, Clinton also subtly broke from the administration when discussing the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel, speaking in support of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu without chastising the IDF for not doing more to protect civilian lives, as Obama’s State Department has sometimes done.

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/10/illary_clinton_blames_rise_of_isis_on_obama_“failure”_to_intervene_in_syria_civil_war/

America's Allies Are Funding ISIS

But in the years they were getting started, a key component of ISIS’s support came from wealthy individuals in the Arab Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the support came with the tacit nod of approval from those regimes; often, it took advantage of poor money laundering protections in those states, according to officials, experts, and leaders of the Syrian opposition, which is fighting ISIS as well as the regime.

“Everybody knows the money is going through Kuwait and that it’s coming from the Arab Gulf,” said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Kuwait’s banking system and its money changers have long been a huge problem because they are a major conduit for money to extremist groups in Syria and now Iraq.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been publicly accusing Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding ISIS for months. Several reports have detailed how private Gulf funding to various Syrian rebel groups has splintered the Syrian opposition and paved the way for the rise of groups like ISIS and others.

Gulf donors support ISIS, the Syrian branch of al Qaeda called the al Nusrah Front, and other Islamic groups fighting on the ground in Syria because they feel an obligation to protect Sunnis suffering under the atrocities of the Assad regime. Many of these backers don’t trust or like the American backed moderate opposition, which the West has refused to provide significant arms to.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html

A fruit of neocon adventures: ISIS militants using Yazidi women as sex and domestic slaves.

Women and children have been buried alive in mass graves by the fanatics terrorising Iraq, it was claimed last night. Up to 500 members of the ancient Yazidi sect have suffered the appalling fate, according to an Iraqi minister. Fighters from the Islamic State group are also accused of kidnapping 300 women to use for sex or as domestic slaves. Some 150,000 Yazidis fled their homes after the militants overran their main town of Sinjar in northern Iraq last week. The fresh claims of horrific atrocities will add to pressure on the West to take further action to halt Islamic State’s relentless expansion through Iraq.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2721043/U-S-drones-fighters-carry-four-new-air-strikes-protect-stranded-Yazidis-attacks-Islamic-State-jihadists.html

Robin Williams as VILLAIN in "Insomnia". (VIDEO)

My favorite Robin Williams movie was perhaps the least known...

Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (VIDEO)

More immigrants want English classes than there are spots available.

They came, one after another, through the glass doors of the Bronx Library Center, the largest public library in the borough. Some rode multiple trains or buses from home; others took precious time away from work. A few struggled with young children in tow.

It was not books they wanted, but something more basic: to learn English.

The Bronx library on East Kingsbridge Road has become a hub of English instruction at a time when many of New York City’s public libraries are seeking to expand their language and literacy programs to better serve patrons who increasingly come from all over the world. The programs are free to local residents, regardless of their income or immigration status, and have become so popular in some neighborhoods that people stand in line for hours to sign up and many have to be turned away because there are not enough spots.

“I need to learn English,” said Rafael Villeta, one of 153 people waiting to register for classes at the Bronx library on a hot Tuesday afternoon in July. “Every job, the first question is, ‘You know English?’ ”


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/nyregion/new-york-city-libraries-struggle-to-meet-demand-for-english-language-classes.html?src=me&_r=0

Siegelman trial judge (and Bush appointee) accused of assaulting his wife.

U.S. District Court Judge Mark Fuller was charged with misdemeanor battery and taken to the Fulton County jail around 2:30 Sunday morning.

Fuller, 55, is a judge in the Middle District of Alabama and presided over the 2006 bribery trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy. According to a jail official, the judge has a 9 a.m. Monday court appearance and was expected to remain in jail overnight.

Police responded to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 181 Peachtree Street at 10:47 p.m. According to Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones, officers spoke to Fuller’s wife, “who stated she was assaulted by her husband.” Fuller’s wife, who was not named by police, was treated by paramedics but refused treatment at a hospital.

Fuller was nominated to the bench in 2002 by President George W. Bush and has been a controversial figure in Alabama politics, largely for his role in the Siegelman trial. Siegelman’s family members and supporters claim the former governor’s prosecution was politically motivated and that Fuller should have recused himself for conflicts of interest.


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/federal-judge-arrested-for-battery/ngyss/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_homepage&__federated=1