Gerald “Jerry” O’Mara was suspended after
replying to a Newsday article with derogatory comments about the Long
Island Muslim Society, which at the time was trying to build a second
floor for its mosque.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Vermont school teacher fired for teaching fascist salute to 3rd-graders
A Fairfax, Vermont substitute teacher has been
fired after years of service after explaining how to salute like a Nazi
to third-graders on their way to the cafeteria.
Oklahoma school locks special needs boy in closet as punishment
Nick Wynne is a first-grader at Mustang Creek Elementary School, where he’s in a special needs class to help with his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and possible autism-related issues, reported KFOR-TV.
Florida woman and stepmom beat woman unconscious in ‘pure rage’ attack
“They kept screaming at me, telling me they
wanted to fucking kill me. I just wanted the light to change. I never
thought they would get out of their car and run toward me and pull me
out of my vehicle.”
California Car Insurers Caught Discriminating Against Black Drivers
California requires Nationwide and USAA to adjust their auto insurance rates because they charged more in black neighborhoods.
Hunter shoots therapy dog in front of owner
Saturday, September 23, 2017
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| 1553 | The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco. | |
| 1561 | Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida. | |
| 1577 | William of Orange makes his triumphant entry into Brussels, Belgium. | |
| 1667 | Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity. | |
| 1739 | The Austrians sign the Treaty of Belgrade after having lost the city to the Turks. | |
| 1779 | The American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding from Bonhomme Richard, defeats and captures the British man-of-war Serapis. | |
| 1788 | Louis XVI of France declares the Parliament restored. | |
| 1795 | A national plebiscite approves the new French constitution, but so many voters abstain that the results are suspect. | |
| 1803 | British Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats the Marathas at Assaye, India. | |
| 1805 | Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling. | |
| 1806 | The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure. | |
| 1864 | Confederate and Union forces clash at Mount Jackson, Front Royal and Woodstock in Virginia during the Valley campaign. | |
| 1911 | The Second International Aviation Meet opens in New York. | |
| 1912 | Mack Sennett’s first “Keystone Cops” film debuts, Cohen Collects a Debt. | |
| 1945 | The first American dies in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces. | |
| 1952 | Nixon responds to charges of a secret slush fund during his ‘Checkers Speech.’ | |
| 1954 | East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S. spies. | |
| 1967 | The Soviets sign a pact to send more aid to Hanoi. | |
| 1973 | Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955. | |
| 1983 | Gerrie Coetzee (Gerhardus Coetzee), a boxer from South Africa becomes the first boxer from the African continent to win a world heavyweight tittle (World Boxing Association). | |
| 1983 | Gulf Air Flight 771 from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, bombed; all 117 aboard die. | |
| 1992 | The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates 3,700-lb bomb in Belfast, completely destroying the Northern Ireland forensic laboratory, injuring 20 people and damaging 700 houses. | |
| 2002 | The first public version of the Mozilla Firefox browser is released; originally called Phoenix 0.1 its name was changed due to trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. | |
| 2004 | Hurricane Jeanne causes severe flooding in Haiti; over 1,000 are reported dead. |
Why Is America Losing Ground in the Contest to Grow the World’s Biggest Pumpkin?
Yet for two out of the last three years, the world’s largest pumpkins have sprung up in Europe. “They’re doing very well, and I tip my hat to them,” says Ron Wallace, a country club manager in Greene, Rhode Island, who was paraded on the shoulders of jubilant pumpkin growers one glorious day in 2006 after his squash became the world’s first to break 1,500 pounds. Today, pumpkin growers are gaining on 3,000 pounds, but the Belgians, Swiss and British are in the lead.Well, see, there was this American soldier stationed in Germany, and… an article at Smithsonian magazine looks at how the fascination with record-setting pumpkins spread to Europe.
The Bizarre Case of New Zealand’s Exploding Pants
One of the earliest cases of exploding pants, and the one most closely associated with the phenomenon, involved a farmer named Richard Buckley, who made the local news after some of his pants exploded in his house. After wearing them to spray the sodium chlorate, he hung them in front of the fire to dry out. Out of nowhere, his trousers exploded with a bang. According to a news report from the day, he was able to snag his now flaming pants and throw them out onto the grass where small explosions continued to erupt in the garment. Buckley was alarmed, but unharmed.Eventually the phenomena was connected with the herbicide, and steps were taken to prevent it from happening. During Pants Week at Atlas Obscura, we get to read the story of New Zealand's exploding pants.
Around the same time, similar reports of spontaneously combusting pants began to appear, and not all of them were as harmless as Buckley’s. One report claimed that a farmer was riding his horse when the friction caused his pants to begin to smolder right there in the saddle. Another pair of pants were hanging out to dry when they suddenly burst into flames. Then there were the unfortunate souls who happened to be wearing their pants when the chemical reaction got started. Some survived with serious burns, while at least a handful of farmers died from the ignitions. One person, referenced in Watson’s paper, died after lighting a match in his electricity-free home, just trying to check on his baby.
Florida ‘Teacher of the Year’ candidate allowed boy to lick girl’s breast during class
A Jacksonville, FL teacher was suspended
without pay this week after he allowed students in his middle school
classroom to play “Dirty Dare.”
Texas parents risk deportation to get life-saving surgery for infant son
Oscar and Irma Sanchez were faced with a paralyzing choice after their 2-month-old son, Isaac, was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, which causes vomiting, dehydration and weight loss in infants, reported NPR.
The life-threatening condition is curable, but no hospital in the Rio Grande Valley had a pediatric surgery team who could perform the operation, so the family had to travel to Corpus Christi — and through a Border Patrol checkpoint.
“The nurse told us we had to go there,” said Oscar Sanchez, who, like his wife, is an undocumented immigrant. “We said we couldn’t go.”
A Border Patrol agent, who they believe was tipped off by a nurse, showed up as the couple weighed the risks of staying against the risks of traveling north.
The agent told the parents he would arrange for them to travel to Corpus Christi with an escort, but he said they would be arrested and put into deportation proceedings once they arrived.
The Sanchezes agreed.
Border Patrol agents followed an ambulance carrying baby Isaac, with an IV in his arm and a tube in his stomach, across Texas on May 24, and uniformed officers followed Oscar into the bathroom and stood guard as Irma breast-fed her infant son.
“Everywhere we went in the hospital, they followed us,” Oscar told NPR.
Agents took Oscar and Irma Sanchez into custody separately the following morning and booked them, so one of them always remained with Isaac, and they were both allowed to attend his surgery — which was covered under Medicaid because the baby is a U.S. citizen.
Immigrant right advocates are baffled by the treatment of the Sanchezes, who overstayed visitors visa issued 12 years ago but have no criminal record.
“That’s how you treat criminals that are harmful, and that’s understandable for our own protection,” said Ana Hinojosa, an advocate with the Mennonite Central Committee. “But they’re a family that’s just here trying to make a living, provide an education and a future for their children.”
Oscar Sanchez works landscaping and construction, and Irma stays home with their four children.
Advocates say the case shows how the Dumbass Trump junta is chipping away at places immigrants once considered to be safe, such as cults, hospitals and schools.
“They’re pushing the envelope to the point where they’re trying to find out how far they can go,” says Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY), who is pushing a bill to keep immigrants safe from arrest in certain places. “It violates human decency — you don’t interrupt medical procedures.”
Pittsburgh cop caught on video violently slamming suspect's head onto the ground
Beef Jerky Company Just Bit Off More Than It Can Chew
This ad so blatantly racist that it’s loudly proclaimed in the opening sentence.
Houston man on the run after hate assault on Lyft driver
Court records say that Matthew W. Dunn, 39, has been identified as the suspect who attacked a Middle Eastern Lyft driver during a ride on July 21. Dunn reportedly shouted obscenities and called the driver ethnic slurs because he believed the man was from Pakistan.
White supremacists rush to distance themselves from the ‘alt-right’ after Charlottesville
What’s the term used to designate followers of
a far-right ideology that supports nationalism, opposes feminism and
political correctness, and propagates conspiracy theories like
“Pizzagate"?
All hell breaks loose at Michigan racism protest
A white man was arrested after a fight broke
out during a protest at the University of Michigan, where black students
have been targeted by racist vandalism and social media posts.
Fun with Mudskippers
They sometimes get into shouting matches with each other, too, as you can see here. -via reddit
Friday, September 22, 2017
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| 1656 | The General Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impanels the first all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith Catchpole, who is accused of murdering her child. The jury acquits her after hearing her defense of never having been pregnant. | |
| 1711 | The Tuscarora Indian War begins with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children. | |
| 1776 | American Captain Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British in New York City; his last words are reputed to have been, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” | |
| 1789 | Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov drive the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha from the Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia. | |
| 1862 | Lincoln issues a proclamation calling for all slaves within the rebel states to be freed on January 1, a political move that helps keep the British from intervening on the side of the South. | |
| 1864 | Union General Philip Sheridan defeats Confederate General Jubal Early‘s troops at the Battle of Fisher’s Hill in Virginia. | |
| 1869 | The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrive in San Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West. | |
| 1893 | Bicycle makers Charles and Frank Duryea show off the first American automobile produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts. | |
| 1906 | Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia leave 21 people dead. | |
| 1914 | The German cruiser Emden shells Madras, India, destroying 346,000 gallons of fuel and killing only five civilians. | |
| 1915 | Xavier University, the first African-American Catholic college, opens in New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| 1918 | General Allenby leads the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa and Nazareth, Palestine. | |
| 1919 | President Woodrow Wilson abandons his national tour to support the League of Nations when he suffers a case of nervous exhaustion. | |
| 1929 | Communist and Nazi factions clash in Berlin. | |
| 1945 | President Harry Truman accepts U.S. Secretary of War Stimson’s recommendation to designate the war World War II. | |
| 1947 | A Douglas C-54 Skymaster makes the first automatic pilot flight over the Atlantic. | |
| 1961 | President John Kennedy signs a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps. | |
| 1969 | Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs. | |
| 1970 | Nixon signs a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress. | |
| 1975 | Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate Ford, the second attempt on his life in less than three weeks. | |
| 1980 | The Iran-Iraq War begins as Iraq invades Iran; lasting until August 1988, it was the longest conventional war of the 20th century. | |
| 1991 | Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time. |
Equifax has been sending customers straight into a hacker’s trap for weeks
The credit management company Equifax has been
sending customers to a fake “phishing” website for weeks, potentially
causing them to hand over their personal data and full financial
information to hackers.
Father, daughter charged in brutal attack
SC teacher calls for teaching ‘virtues of slavery’ in shockingly racist letter to editor
A South Carolina newspaper published a letter
to the editor from a former teacher who argued black people may have
been better off as slaves.
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