A Muckraker Other

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674874697045891672024-10-02T16:30:49.435-05:00A Muckraker OtherScholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.comBlogger553125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-41171057122248374532016-08-05T01:44:00.000-05:002016-08-05T01:44:51.745-05:00Georgie porgie Zimmermanny

The only reason George Zimmerman is still news fodder is because he wasn't a policeman when he killed Trayvon Martin. And isn't dead yet.

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-74667648574011596972016-07-28T03:23:00.001-05:002016-07-28T03:23:51.860-05:00Taking the First Lady test

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-19621455535927925492016-07-19T07:15:00.001-05:002016-07-25T03:08:47.590-05:00But, damn, could he write!

Who knew! Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government, but illegal for the citizenry --Thomas Jefferson one of these presidents drafted the Constitution;  the other taught it in university

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-86906170525001741112016-06-08T07:56:00.002-05:002016-06-08T07:56:33.682-05:00Donald Trump graffiti (Barcelona)

"American Gravity" He's no flash in the pan (cue violin strings for all those 'also ran's' choking on his dust). After doing the impossible & putting everyone in their place (Little Marco, Low-energy Jeb, Lying Ted, "idiot," "John McCain is no hero," comedian Seth Meyers, etc) the forthcoming 2016 Republican presidential nominee has been put on a revolving mural in Barcelona.

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-41291432670999281952016-03-22T18:49:00.004-05:002016-03-22T18:49:48.028-05:00Ota Benga was literal "human zoo"

-- I know what's it like being a human zoo. Having lived in Mexico, it is an unreal - and irritating - experience to be daily remarked at and literally pointed at in public. Look, a blacky! You'd think I was eight feet tall or an other worldly visitor to the deep primitive jungle. Maybe I was.  But a 'walking zoo' that had it world's worse than me was the African "missing link" Ota

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-23808322087085097442016-02-02T13:50:00.001-06:002016-02-02T13:50:28.576-06:00Because Paypal AIN'T your pal

PayPal to Pay Off Client Accounts Frozen, SuspendedIf you or your company had an active PayPal account frozen or terminated between April 19, 2006, and Nov. 5, 2015, you may eligible for a settlement payment of up to $440 per account.

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-64584561528159263732015-11-24T03:46:00.001-06:002015-11-24T03:46:42.283-06:00Former Mayor Robert Pastrick gives back to East Chicago.

Nepotism has a price tag and former Lake County boss Mayor Robert Pastrick (East Chicago, IN) learned that even an old dog can be taught a new lesson: pay up, boy, pay up! The 8-term mayor, successively re-elected through hook or crook, was foremost among a roster of political cronies - one councilman, Frank Kollinztas, absconded to Greece! - charged with defrauding taxpayers big time

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-40428048806909047862015-09-15T14:09:00.000-05:002015-09-15T14:09:00.165-05:00Life's hard lesson on fairness: It ain't

- Life ain't fair, baby. When you got it, you got it; and when you don't, you probably won't. Owwwwwch. That's one of the take-aways from developmental psychology research conducted by Larisa Hussak and Andrei Cimpian. The bigger question their data leaves them to highlight, though, is why do we assume life is fair? Why do we cling so to this belief? Perhaps it owes to our ability to

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-89296673216760909812015-09-10T07:54:00.001-05:002015-09-10T07:54:11.866-05:00Going back to Gary, Indiana? Nope.

- That's not a tumble reed blowing through town. That's what folks in dem dar parts call blight. View one of America's premiere ghost towns!

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-34243686473347900142015-08-24T13:37:00.002-05:002015-08-24T13:37:09.387-05:00From pulpit: I'm divorcing the missus for my young MISTER

This is just sick. American Episcopalian priest, Rev Juan Quevedo-Bosch (not sure if Bosch is the newly hyphenated name of his man) announced during church that he left his wife to marry a younger man. About the nuptials, he said happily, "God is good." Yep. There you have it: priests hide behind God for everything. Only now, secularists and liberals won't argue with this divine

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-33751510908842117882015-07-21T16:44:00.002-05:002015-07-21T16:44:26.128-05:00And Bob Marley only shot the sheriff

- Don't know what to make of this...but sounds delightful. Movie? Music? Art show? Maybe I'll check it out!

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-84397126837703369972015-07-10T11:33:00.000-05:002015-07-10T11:33:57.628-05:00Rebel flag done gone with the wind

- South Carolina officially and formally furled the Confederate flag from the State House grounds today, Friday, July 10, 2015. Even a descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Jenny Horne, was all for it. She called the flag "a symbol of hate". The catalyst for this unforeseen event was last month's cold-blooded white terrorist killing of black parishioners following a

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-78198869047452655522015-07-07T10:29:00.000-05:002015-07-07T10:29:51.747-05:00Mary Cheney wonders about drag queens

- Posited Mary Cheney, the lesbian offspring of former vice president and eternal evil asshole Dick Cheney, in reference to that disgusting TV spectacle RuPaul's Drag Race:  Why is it socially acceptable...for men to put on dresses, makeup and high heels and act out every offensive stereotype of women...but it is not socially acceptable...for a white person to put on blackface and act out

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-73742872509282107402015-04-19T08:33:00.000-05:002015-04-19T08:33:02.083-05:00Green candidate: "Israel is racist, apartheid state"

- Go 'head Tanya Williams from South West London! With political honesty and common sense like this I might resume voting -- for the Green Party. Read the rest of her remarks here.

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-10864066077737481402015-01-03T04:19:00.000-06:002015-01-03T04:19:00.052-06:00"Illegal alien tribute to America"

- ILLEGAL ALIEN TRIBUTE TO AMERICA: By Skrualla We break the law in every wayMake working American citizens payBuy junk food with free food stampsTake free stuff back to our campsDon't have to be responsibleYour taxes keep our bellies fullSome say that we should look for jobsWhy should we, we’re welfare slobsWe cross border, now you must pleaseOur people sick with bad diseaseDemand free cash

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-38861156676533088352014-12-31T03:00:00.003-06:002015-01-01T03:59:16.685-06:00Some education reform Mexico!

- A sign on a Mexican bus stop How applicable is this propaganda after the bizarre incident involving the 42 43 college students who were ambushed with a surprise 'field trip'? The billboard reads as follows: With the participation of your communities you get back EDUCATIONAL/LEARNING SPACES.  The Education Reform Program is on the move. www.sep.gob.mx Mexico is full of this

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-22025424662785221402014-12-22T12:20:00.000-06:002014-12-22T12:20:07.636-06:00Slater on skin whitener and call me in the morning

- While shopping at a southern California Walmart - or is it still Wal-Mart? - I came across this nifty item -- on the Ethnic shelf, no less. What makes this, both, funny - and slightly off-putting - is that it is from a bygone time. Or, at least, I thought it was a relic (outside of the Caribe where they still swear by this shit). Sure, I can see its practical uses in, say, Ferguson, Missouri

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-40442328084733386882014-08-13T01:43:00.000-05:002014-08-13T01:43:15.421-05:00That dependable German quality

- Advertised on the side of my electric shaver:

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-87136855851424911012014-08-02T12:48:00.004-05:002014-08-10T20:33:32.715-05:00I'd be pissed too. You?? (Israel Occupation)

(Jerusalem Post on how Jews feel)

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-3644990712373337462014-07-23T23:48:00.000-05:002014-07-23T23:48:38.152-05:00Noam Chomsky (Murderous Israel)

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-454798714190361082014-07-17T10:20:00.003-05:002014-07-17T10:20:40.475-05:00Chris Dickerson - Bodybuilding Hall of Fame Induction 2014

- Here's amateur footage of legendary bodybuilder Chris Dickerson being inducted to the Hall of Fame earlier this month at the annual Independence Day Mr & Ms Muscle Beach. I specifically entered this year because of it and felt privileged to have met the man. Click here to read about how I fared in my first Venice Beach show (link opens in a new window). @TWPTilden

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-13723581812848959582014-07-16T14:31:00.001-05:002014-07-16T14:36:38.078-05:00Are there black people in Argentina?

Josephine Baker wondered so and got this fabulous reply: You and I. 

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-23615496086324745562014-07-14T12:32:00.000-05:002014-07-14T12:32:00.191-05:00Stephen King

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-29834706375721508882014-07-12T10:00:00.000-05:002014-07-12T10:00:01.068-05:00At least somebody is protecting their border

- According to the Examiner report below, the presidents of Mexico and Guatemala (beautiful countries, by the way, I've been to them both) recently confirmed a pact on July 7th to, essentially, aid further illegal immigration to the United States of America. Say whuh?! (Examiner article) When the natives vowed to take back their lands who would've thought it would come via a "humanitarian crisis

Scholar Spartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460902703091521151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367487469704589167.post-87257279404490155682014-07-11T11:46:00.000-05:002014-07-11T11:46:00.065-05:00The employability of higher education

- Sadly, I can relate.

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