This is one of those...

...'I couldn't have made this up' news items...

Pimp suing Nike for $100M over lack of warning label after beating man with Jordans

I wonder who is behind this, the client or the lawyer. As is usual in this disintegrating world, this is just crazy. But normal.

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Today

in 1968,

Robert F. Kennedy

died of gunshot wounds while campaigning in the U.S. primary elections...

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A sad day in history

This Day in Labor History: May 30, 1937

An employer and the police join forces in putting down a strike. It's on film. To quote the author of the web page "If you ever wanted to watch the police kill strikers, now is your opportunity."

The history of people's attempts to get justice, equality and human treatment from the 1% is littered with incidents like this...

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Such a tragedy

Man who shot black Florida teen fears for safety, supporters say

As much as there is the knee-jerk reaction of racism by those who respond this way usually and as they would would like to paint it, it is getting harder to find your defined group to pin the charge on. A Hispanic shooting a Black is racism? Possibly, but where's the stereotypical white guy racist? It's a much more confused thing to claim when both groups often claim racism. I suppose that anyone can be racist, but the Hispanics could get just as upset.

No, this was a terrible case of someone with a firearm, with the ability to carry it and use it, using it in a situation where bravado, courage and machismo failed. He never should have been there, never should have followed the young man and should have just let the police do their job. In this case it's the firearms laws, I think...

It's still a horrible tragedy for both parties, the family of the person killed, and the person who killed him, who I really believe is going through a terrible time right now. They both need our prayers, and we need to keep a sane thought in our heads about what happened...

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I don't doubt it

Attorneys for RFK convicted killer Sirhan push 'second gunman' argument

So much has come out in recent years about the CIA and FBI and others that I wouldn't doubt that the conservative element of the political world may very well have wanted Robert Kennedy 'removed' from the scene. The politics of the Right really is the politics of violence and deceit...

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Further on down the road

of history...

Prosecutors rebut jailed RFK assassin's claims in freedom quest

...and very few people are going to care because of 2 possible reasons:

1) he was still a shooter so he shouldn't go free, or
2) there was some sort of conspiracy, and he shouldn't go free to keep it quiet

What with all we know about the CIA and others during that time, I'm not slipping this one into the 'conspiracy theorist' category, because, despite the hypnotism claim, it seems pretty sure that there was more than one shooter.

What I want to know, though, is how so many other people get out of prison after killing someone, but they stay in forever if they kill a politician. What makes politicians so much more important that the average person? Given what keeps coming out about politicians, it seems that they often behave the same as, or worse than, the average person. That's fair? (Just like our current Prime Minister who seems to believe that the average person should wait an extra two years for their old age pension but politicians should still start getting their pension the moment they either retire or aren't re-elected, no matter their age. Why do they think they're so special? But that's off-topic. Sorry.)

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A hero

Truly, a hero...

A father who gave his life for his neighbor

Please pray for his family, his wife, his children who saw their father shot and die in front of them, and for the repose of the soul of this brave man, who we should all be willing to act like if called upon.

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I'm not surprised

Philippines: priest's murder involved in hydroelectric project

There are many instances in the third world where people, particularly priests and religious, who have been advocates for the rights of the poor and dispossessed, have been murdered by those who favour change that can make them wealthy. It has happened forever, and it still happens today. It seems that it is just much more obvious today...

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So terrible!

Ohio shooting of girl in Amish buggy a homicide

A 15-year-old girl from a religious group dedicated to peaceful religious values. Despite the fact that this type of violence is the act of a violent, immoral, insane (though perhaps not clinically insane) person in the first place, who would do this to a helpless individual like this? I guess I just answered my own question.

Lord, I pray that she is resting peacefully in your arms, and that you bless her community with the same peace and forgiveness that you have given them in the past...

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We have it so good here

Christian Civilians in Burma Face Deadly Attacks

Lord, have mercy on them and protect them! They need our prayers, and our intervention through our politicians...

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It is really sad...

...that certain groups of people don't want to live in peace with others.

Afghanistan bombs kill 58 in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif

All they really want to do is kill anyone who doesn't believe exactly as they do. And if they ever managed to do that they would start killing each other. I think all they really want to do is kill...

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As long as

they keep him locked up forever no matter what they decide.

Norway massacre: Breivik declared insane

I do have sympathy for the position of the opposition member who thinks that he must have been sane to prepare the attack so well and for so long. Given the death toll, there has to be an element of punishment along with rehabilitation...

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A beautifully written aricle

What Killed JFK: The hate that ended his presidency is eerily familiar.

This article really evokes the time and the emotions of that time that are so familiar to me. Nicely written...

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What frightens me the most about this,

even though it's not part of this particular article, is that, when looked at objectively and searching for the spirit of the age in this sort of action, it comes down to what it usually comes down to: the bottom line.

Hate to say we told you so, but... euthanasia is ‘killing care’

You know that bottom line; that emotionless, cynical, ever-rational (in it's own world) god of money...

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Ignoring you? Yes, likely so.

Pope Benedict XVI urged to reopen Swiss Guards murder investigation  

"It is one of the Vatican's darkest and most inscrutable mysteries – a young soldier in the Swiss Guard, the Pope's personal body guard, guns down the corps' commander and his wife before turning the pistol on himself. "

It's easy to be ignored by the Vatican, they've been ignoring things for centuries. What this article makes me miss the most is my tinfoil hat graphic. All the conspiracy theories! Incredible!

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This is the sort of thing

that is making headlines in our city now that a Pakistani Christian immigrant is trying to make public this sort of thing to the Canadian people...

Coptic Christian Student Murdered By Classmates for Wearing a Cross

Not surprisingly, it appears in this article that it was the adult teacher who instigated the issue and encouraged the youths. Like the radical Imams do...

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This sort of thing is happening more and more

in countries where Islamist fanatic murderers like Al Shabaab militants make laws for themselves...

 Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead 17-year-old Christian

Have mercy on him, Lord, and on all his family.

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Another black day in history

Tomorrow:

The Thibodaux Massacre of 1887

This is considered the anniversary of this event, one that saw the deaths of many black workers and union members, at the hands of the white population and the Louisiana militia...

We need to bear all these injuries in our memory - an injury to one is an injury to all (except in CUPE Local 59, but that's another story).

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I hope it's not just me

Islamist cleric Anwar Awlaki killed in Yemen

"US-born radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a key al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in Yemen, the country's defence ministry said."

Does anyone else have a problem with the American military bouncing around all over the world firing missles and sending military excursions into the sovereign territory of other countries? For the most part it's happening in the Middle East, but if they feel threatened, where will it end? And who appointed them the world's police anyway?

They're not the richest country in the world anymore, and arguments can be made that they're no longer the most powerful. I started worrying when I saw on the news one time that the F.B.I. came into Canada and took over an investigation simply because it affected the U.S.. What authority do they have to do this? It happened in Canada to Canadians, but no, they have to be in charge.

I think they're running on their past glory...

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I guess things aren't all sunshine and light

in Africa, at the orphanage of this scary fellow...

'Machine Gun Preacher' Under Heavy Fire

"Sam Childers, subject of a new movie, is accused of neglecting children at his orphanage in South Sudan."

He's a controversial figures. What is the truth?

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