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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (806323)	9/11/2014 9:39:17 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584437

Despite the fact that forensics say Brown was NOT shot in the back, CJ says he was. Uh, no. Prof. Parcells said a wound on Brown’s right arm was “consistent with a witness statement” that Brown was first shot while facing away from Wilson, but he stressed that he and Dr. Baden could not determine conclusively the trajectories of the bullets that hit Brown—or which direction he was moving—when he was shot. The wounds “could be consistent with going forward or going backward,” Dr. Baden said. newsweek.com I agree about the reality distortion field, though.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (806323)	9/12/2014 12:49:42 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1584437

Armed Protestors Picket Gas Station After Anti-Arab Facebook Hoax Hudson Hongo Filed to: viral garbage If your husband is seemingly refused service for being a member of the armed forces, should you: (A) Call that business' corporate office; (B) Contact the local news; or (C) Start an ill-informed, racially-charged shitstorm? For Michigan's Samantha Loudenslager, the answer to that question was apparently pretty obvious, because on August 29th she shared the following message: Jason had to report to the army reserves yesterday, on his way home he stopped to get gas, a drink and some jerky. When he went into the gas station and got to the counter the Arabic man looked at Jason, then his uniform and told him "we dont serve gas here" Mobil gas station off I-75 exit 98 address: 8435 E Holly RD, Holly MI We will never be a customer of a place like that! Naturally, the whole thing was the most basic kind of misunderstanding. Nick Ghalib, the Yemen-born manager of the gas station, explained to Michigan Live "he wasn't telling the man he wouldn't sell him any gas, he was informing him that the premium gas he asked for had run out." The premium gas gets refilled on Fridays, Ghalib said. Being that it was a Thursday, the pumps had unfortunately already run out of premium, he added. Realizing her complete dumbassery, Loudenslager quickly recanted, apologizing before deleting both her post and her Facebook page, but by then the damage was done. Her story had already been shared thousands of times and its removal was presumed to be the work of shadowy "Arabic man"-sympathizers at Facebook. As the classic " serviceman refused" legend spread, anti-Arab Internet racists seized the story and turned it into a national social media campaign. By the following week, the Mobil station had received hundreds of angry and threatening calls in addition to online comments like "Burn the place down!!!" and " Bring rifle back, inform Achmed in the US we have anti-discrimination Laws." The situation finally came to a head last Monday, when demonstrators with guns and American flags protested outside the gas station. Police visited the scene and within 20 minutes the crowd left "without incident," Michigan Live reports. For his part, Ghalib was shocked by the rumor he discriminated against a customer. "I would never do that to anybody," he told the Grand Blanc View.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (806323)	9/12/2014 11:55:37 AM
From: PKRBKR	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB jlallen Respond to of 1584437

CJ says he was. What was that he said about Weiner?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (806323)	9/12/2014 12:53:47 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1584437

AZ GOP vice-chair calls for sterilizing poor women: If you want a baby, get a job By Travis Gettys rawstory.com ( I feel all Republican women should be sterilized, since they obviously have mental problems. ) Friday, September 12, 2014 12:26 EDT The recalled Arizona senate president who proposed the state’s controversial anti-immigration law said he could fix public assistance programs by forcibly sterilizing women who receive aid and by requiring drug tests for all recipients. “You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations,” said Russell Pearce on his weekly talk radio program. Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.” He suggested drastic cuts to food assistance for needy families, reported Phoenix New Times, and he urged strict limits items that could be purchased what little help was available. “No cash for Ding Dongs and Ho Hos, you’d only get money for 15-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and powdered milk – all the powdered milk you can haul away,” Pearce said. “If you want a steak or frozen pizza, then you’d have to get a job.” He also suggested Spartan accommodations and strict rules for anyone who received government housing assistance. “Ever live in a military barracks?” he said. “You’ll maintain your property in a clean, good state of repair, and your home will be subjected to an inspection at any time, possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or an X-Box 360, then get a job.” Despite his apparent endorsement of draconian policies, Pearce insisted he favored a small-government solution to poverty. “I know there’s people out there [who] need help, and my heart goes out to them, too,” he said. “But you know what? That should never be a government role. That’s a role for family, church, and community.” When he’s not hosting his KKNT-AM program, Pearce helps promote the Elderly Assistance Fund in his taxpayer-paid position in the Maricopa County treasurer’s office. Pearce is paid $85,000 a year in that role, the newspaper reported, and he also draws a public pension from previous government work. He also serves as first vice-chair of the Arizona Republican Party, an elected but unpaid position. The newspaper previously reported that Pearce, who lost a 2011 recall election over ethics concerns and his sponsorship of the controversial anti-immigration law, claimed on his job application to his recent post that he attended graduate school at the University of Arizona – which said he had not. Pearce accepted but didn’t report nearly $40,000 in paid junkets and college football tickets from Fiesta Bowl officials while helping them receive state subsidies. He also claims to have attended graduate school at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, although he apparently overstated his participation. A Harvard spokesman told the newspaper Pearce had attended a three-week seminar there in 1996, but he never enrolled in the Kennedy School’s graduate program. Pearce claimed the inaccuracies were the result of information that “was simply put in the wrong box.” Listen to Pearce’s remarks in this online video: