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Wilkerson Arrested on Stuffing Cash

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Posted: October 28th, 2008
at 7:13pm by Koookiecrumbles


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Ciroc Obama: Don’t Believe the Hype

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Diddy is releasing a video blog every day until the election? I can only imagine how ignorant this is going to get…

That said, Ciroc Obama is right, my ninjas! DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE! That’s what they want you to think - that it doesn’t matter if you vote. Expect them to make you stand in long ass lines, outside. Expect them to ‘run out of ballots’. Expect them to try to turn you away.

But for real tho, fuck them - go vote.

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Posted: October 27th, 2008
at 7:50pm by orangemenace


Categories: myninjaplease,youtube,life,celebrity,politricks,fo' real?,real life news

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Voter Suppression

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…more than 50,000 registered Georgia votershave been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people are having their citizenship questioned and the burden is on them to prove eligibility to vote.

Experts say lists of people with mismatches are often systematically cut, or "purged," from voter rolls.

It’s a scenario that’s being repeated all across the country, with cases like Berry’s raising fears of potential vote suppression in crucial swing states.

"What most people don’t know is that every year, elections officials strike millions of names from the voter rolls using processes that are secret, prone to error and vulnerable to manipulation," said Wendy Weiser, an elections expert with New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.

"That means that lots and lots of eligible voters could get knocked off the voter rolls without any notice and, in many cases, without any opportunity to correct it before Election Day."

Weiser acknowledged that "purging done well and with proper accountability" is necessary to remove people who have died or moved out of state.

"But the problem is it’s not necessary to do inaccurate purges that catch up thousands of eligible voters without any notice or any opportunity to fix it before Election Day and really without any public scrutiny at all," she said.

Such allegations have flared up across the United States during this election cycle, most notably in Ohio, where a recent lawsuit has already gone to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yeah, I’m sure this isn’t an attempt to disenfranchise college students, minorities, and immigrants who have become citizens. No…that would just be crazy.

.:voters ‘purged’ from voter rolls->via CNN

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Posted: October 27th, 2008
at 12:37pm by orangemenace


Categories: myninjaplease,life,politricks,fo' real?,real life news

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For the Birds

Like my friend Nnenna would say… "this chick is for the birds."

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Palin did not specify what fruit fly research earmark she was referring to (presumably a grant for olive fruit fly research), but she is apparently unaware that scientific research with fruit flies has led to valuable discoveries that have boosted autism research, as a study at the University of North Carolina demonstrated last year:

[S]cientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for..nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.

The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.

The study of fruit flies has also been used for other autism research and a€oerevolutionize[d]a€A the study of birth defects.

.::Via -> Think Progress

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Posted: October 27th, 2008
at 12:36pm by Black Ock


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White Riot?

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[National Guardsmen wielding rifles with bayonets advanced along Springfield Avenue in Newark on July 14, 1967. Twenty-three people were killed and 700 injured in rioting. Image via The New York Times]

"Would black people riot if Sen. Barack Obama didn’t win the election?" That was the question a white man in Memphis recently asked a racial reconciliation group with which I am involved.

After five years of being a columnist for the daily paper in Memphis, I wasn’t surprised by the absurdity of his query. Many whites still labor under the illusion that black folk act en masse and that if you ask the right one, you can get the official position of some 40 million people. If a few of us get angry, that logic allows, it must surely result in a riot.

Riot because we didn’t get our way? Please. Black people have more than their share of experience with disappointment and dashed dreams. (See: King, Martin Luther; Evers, Medgar; Chaney, James.) Matter of fact, I’d go so far as to say we’re experts in making the best out of a losing hand.

The reply to the curious white gentleman: "No! There is no reason to believe black people will riot if Obama does not win."

But soon after getting this man’s e-mail, I started to wonder if he was on to something, if he had noticed what I had: a seething, barely constrained, ugly anger and frustration that makes good riot fuel. The kind of anger that prompts people to shout "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!" at rallies. The kind of hatefulness that would prompt a man to bring a stuffed monkey with an "Obama" sticker on the toy’s head to a campaign event.

That kind of group-fueled nastiness must surely beg the question: Will white people riot if Obama wins?

.:Will White People Riot? -> by Wendi C. Thomas, via The Root

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Posted: October 23rd, 2008
at 8:00am by orangemenace


Categories: hood status,myninjaplease,crime,politricks,fo' real?,events

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John Stewart @ North Eastern

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Posted: October 23rd, 2008
at 7:05am by orangemenace


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Chomsky on Charlie Rose

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Noam Chomsky talks Hegemony or Survival, and more, with Charlie Rose.

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Posted: October 20th, 2008
at 9:29am by orangemenace


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Powell on Meet the Press

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Posted: October 19th, 2008
at 1:02pm by Black Ock


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Obama Gets his "Lawlz" too…

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GOT EMMMM….

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Posted: October 19th, 2008
at 8:21am by Black Ock


Categories: too good to be true,politricks

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