Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:22 AM PDT
By Ernie McCray
I've read comments somewhere out there in social media land that try to put Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the same bag as the perception that there isn't much difference between democrats and republicans. Well, I could take both sides of part of that argument but there's a galaxy of separation between Bernie and The Donald. I mean one's a progressive minded human being and the other is a narcissistic buffoon. As to the clown, according to The Atlantic millions of people feel he is the best choice to lead America. Millions more "are motivated by giddyness at the chaotic spectacle of his success" which should involve, it seems to me, adding giddyness to the list of mental illnesses. [Read more...]
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 10:27 AM PDT
By Doug Porter This week the State Senate voted 23-14 to approve Assembly Bill 775, the Reproductive FACT Act, sending it on to Gov. Jerry Brown. Backed by a coalition that includes NARAL Pro-Choice and Planned Parenthood California, AB 775 takes aim at the 200 plus so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) statewide. The groups supporting the bill say the CPCs spread medical misinformation aimed at manipulating women to keep them from accessing abortion care. Unlicensed facilities providing pregnancy-related services would be required to prominently display and include in their advertising a statement that clarifies that they are not medical facilities licensed by the state of California. An undercover investigation by NARAL earlier this year found that 91% of CPCs visited falsely linked abortion with health problems like breast cancer, infertility, depression and even death. [Read more...]
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:54 AM PDT
What Happened In The South Bay This Week? Barbara Zaragoza provides a comprehensive list of this week's notable politics and events in the South Bay. [Read more...]
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:22 AM PDT
By Ernie McCray I've read comments somewhere out there in social media land that try to put Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the same bag as the perception that there isn't much difference between democrats and republicans. Well, I could take both sides of part of that argument but there's a galaxy of separation between Bernie and The Donald. I mean one's a progressive minded human being and the other is a narcissistic buffoon. As to the clown, according to The Atlantic millions of people feel he is the best choice to lead America. Millions more "are motivated by giddyness at the chaotic spectacle of his success" which should involve, it seems to me, adding giddyness to the list of mental illnesses. [Read more...]
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:21 AM PDT
The headless human is a jackass sinking kleptocratic teeth into veins A comicstrip stripping the naked from truth [Read more...]
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:21 AM PDT
Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi drowned along with his mother, Rehan, and older brother, Galip, while the family attempted to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece on Wednesday. By John Queally / Common Dreams As new details emerge about the young Syrian boy, now identified as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi—who drowned along with his mother, Rehan, and older brother, Galip, while the family attempted to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece on Wednesday—the global impact of the pictures has perhaps fulfilled the "sorrowful" hopes of the photographer who took the images in order to "make heard his outcry." It has now been reported that the father, Abdullah Kurdi, was the only member of the family of four to survive when the boat they and other refugees were traveling in capsized off the Turkish coast. In all, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, 12 people drowned when two boats attempting to reach the island of Kos capsized. Eight of the 12 were children. The news agency subsequently reported that several individuals had been arrested on smuggling charges related to the incident. [Read more...]
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Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:19 AM PDT
This Labor Day, remember the millions of Americans who don’t know the next time they’ll get called in to their jobs. By Sarita Gupta / OtherWords For millions of working parents like me, the juggling act between our homes and offices gets even more frantic as our kids head back to school. My daughter just started kindergarten. Some days, I’m proud of how my husband and I manage the demands of our jobs while also taking care of her and my parents. Other days, life happens — the train’s late, a deadline surfaces, a meeting gets rescheduled — and it all falls apart. This Labor Day, I’m grateful that I’ll be able to spend time with my family and take a break from the demands of this time of year. But I’ll also be thinking about the working people across the country who don’t know the next time they’ll actually be working. [Read more...]
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