“The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.” Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944)
Daily Music Selection“The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.” Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944)
Written by Stephen C. Webster for Raw Story Posted by YOS for LTS readers, with the following comment: “You mean there’s actually something the a*&^%$les in Fascistic-Tex and Ye Olde agree on?” A bill that would criminalize TSA agents who conduct airport patdown searches was scuttled Tuesday night after the federal government threatened to ground all flights out of Texas. The proposed law would have levied misdemeanor charges against security agents who “intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly [touch] the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of the other person, including touching through clothing, or touching the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.”
Written by Russ Baker Recently, the New York Times published an editorial critical of the Supreme Court for failing to hear cases on kidnap and torture by the US government. And of the Obama Administration. It raised important questions–and prompted more in a reader’s mind:
It’s closing time for a bar that served beer, tequila and vodka to inmates at a prison in northern Mexico. Story unattributed. From globalpost.com Posted by YOS for LTS readers. Police have discovered a well-stocked bar at a prison in northern Mexico that served booze to inmates and even had billiard tables for prisoners to play pool or snooker. The bar reportedly served beer, tequila and vodka to prisoners, The Associated Press reports. But since the discovery of the bar, a prison director has been fired and may face charges, while several low-level guards are under investigation.
Written by Robert Scheer Posted by YOS for LTS readers The fix was in to let the Wall Street scoundrels off the hook for the enormous damage they caused in creating the Great Recession. All of the leading politicians and officials, federal and state, Republican and Democrat, were on board to complete the job of saving the banks while ignoring their victims … until last week when the attorney general of New York refused to go along. Eric Schneiderman will probably fail, as did his predecessors in that job; the honest sheriff doesn’t last long in a town that houses the Wall Street casino. But decent folks should be cheering him on. Despite a mountain of evidence of robo-signed mortgage contracts, deceitful mortgage-based securities and fraudulent foreclosures, the banks were going to be able to cut their potential losses to what was, for them, a minuscule amount.
HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian The powers that be have decided that traditional farms – you know the mixed use farm with a barn and some livestock and cropland with the majority of the work being done by a family unit – are “nostalgia farms”. To them “real farms”, factory farms, are “sustainable farms”. This euphemism is from their idea that these farms are “financially sustainable”. Really? Then why are they getting so much financial aid?
