The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, the group also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including “No Time“, “American Woman“, “These Eyes” and “Share the Land“. Several former members of The Guess Who, notably Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman (of Bachman–Turner Overdrive), have found considerable success outside the band.
The band was inducted into The Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1987.[1] In 2002, Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Donnie McDougall and Bill Wallace received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts, for The Guess Who’s contribution to popular music in Canada.[2]
https://twitter.com/allanbrauer/status/609871801133346816
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/609855196143988736
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/609858547011223553
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getting paid, folks.
GETTING PAID.
https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/609216088459481088/photo/1
twitter continues the truth
https://twitter.com/samwhiteout/status/609464793997684736/photo/1
huh?
HUH?
HUH?
https://twitter.com/mediaite/status/609927033217503232
https://twitter.com/JAPITTER/status/609885319551447040/photo/1
https://twitter.com/MyBlackMatters/status/609822265778110464/photo/1
from POU:
Florida Walmart calls police on black customers for shopping too slow
June 13, 2015 at 11:10 AM
A Walmart in Pensacola Florida in under fire after video surfaced of the police being called on some shoppers who were doing nothing wrong.
When the police showed up, they became aggressive with the shoppers, who were African-American, and asked them to leave. When the group tried to finish up their shopping before they got out, the police thought they were taking too long to leave and arrested one of them.
What’s more, this incident comes on the heels of another recent Walmart video, this one involving two white women.
In the video, two women came to blows, brawling in the aisle of a Walmart as one woman’s 6-year-old son gets involved and begins throwing shampoo. In stark contrast to the Florida shoppers, these women were not arrested and were in fact gone by the time police arrived. Their descriptions were not taken down by security, either.
https://youtu.be/jIcOJp0PzRE
http://thegrio.com/2015/06/13/florida-walmart-calls-police-on-black-customers-for-shopping-too-slow/
https://twitter.com/adreanainlb/status/609894383819714560
Video shows Arkansas cops slamming cooperative blind, black man to the ground
12 JUN 2015 AT 10:12 ET
A legally blind Little Rock, Arkansas man who can be seen on video complying with police officers is asking why the officers roughly threw him to the ground in a June 1 incident, resulting in a back injury, local station Fox 16 reports.
In a police report obtained by Fox 16, one of the officers claims that Eric Wilson “pulled away violently causing me to lose grip,” and he was “afraid that Wilson would strike myself or my partner with the handcuff.”
But video of the incident shows nothing of the sort.
Wilson, who told reporters he can only see shadows, can be seen walking toward the two police officers when they summon him. When they tell him to take his hands out of his pockets, he does so. The video shows Wilson standing quietly with his hands behind his back as the officer goes to handcuff him. The officer then suddenly pushes Wilson to the ground.
“When they tell him to ‘come over here,’ he walked towards them,” Wilson’s attorney Reggie Koch told Fox 16. “When they tell him ‘take your hands out of your pockets,’ he takes his hands out of his pockets. What more do they want?”
The incident occurred at about 4 p.m. after Wilson had gotten off work at Lighthouse for the Blind. He missed his bus and began to walk home. Police were called by someone who reported a man “fitting Wilson’s description” who was either running away or chasing someone, and who looked afraid, the station reports.
Police reported seeing a black handle sticking out of Wilson’s pocket. That turned out to be a clock designed to read the time for blind people.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/video-shows-arkansas-cops-slamming-cooperative-blind-black-man-to-the-ground/
This makes me weep. My brother went blind when he was 6 yrs old. He was the best brother a sister could have. I’d lose my mind if I’d have seen someone do this to him.
you gotta be a special kind of evil to do this to ANYONE.
from POU:
woody45
It may take a while but their days are numbered
Kurdish-Syrian force advances on key border town held by Islamic State
BEIRUT — A Kurdish-Syrian force is advancing toward one of the Islamic State’s most strategically vital possessions, capturing territory in the group’s landmark province of Raqqa and threatening to inflict what could be the most significant defeat yet for the militants.
The Kurdish-led force, backed by U.S. airstrikes, closed in from the south, east and west on Saturday on the Syrian-Turkish border town of Tal Abiyad, a key Islamic State stronghold on which the militants rely for trade with the outside world and also the flow of foreign fighters who sustain their strength on the battlefield.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kurdish-syrian-force-advances-on-key-border-town-held-by-islamic-state/2015/06/13/07355388-11db-11e5-a0fe-dccfea4653ee_story.html
The money quote:
“No longer can the Islamic State claim control of an entire province in either Syria or Iraq.”
Yeah the news is bad from time to time but ISIL is starting to get squeezed.
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@JoyAnnReid White math: you have to be 100% white to be white but only 5% black to be black.
https://twitter.com/Pants_So_Short/status/606685588549443584
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/609844427499118593
This story is a shame!
https://www.facebook.com/levar.daniel/posts/1148904758459238?pnref=story
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/609805224254025728/photo/1
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Trading Places
Posted by Zandar
For now, fast track trade pact authority for President Obama is off the table as House Democrats folded and Republicans didn’t have the votes
http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2015/06/trading-places.html
Crystal4Obama @crtconsu
@SusieMadrak, if we took you seriously, ACA wouldn’t exist and DADT would be in effect. I like hope & change. @PragmaticObot @Kennymack1971
I remember that Susie Madrak. Awful PUMA. She’s one of those that made me quickly realize that we might be Democrats, but some amongst us never embraced us or saw us as part of the Dem family or as equals deserving of respect.
https://twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/status/609763267368648704
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
Maybe if y’all had been as scared of the GOP in 2010 & 2014 like you supposedly are now we wouldn’t have a GOP Congress..
This is my exact sentiment…
From POU:
sportjames23 @sportjames23
@PragObots @HillaryClinton Wonder if @tavissmiley will “hold her accountable”? Wait, who am I kidding?
Monie @MonieTalks_1
We know of Khalief Browder’s tragic life at hands of unjust system. But as Senator of NY, how often did HRC devote time to stories like his?
Monie @MonieTalks_1
@Kennymack1971 and that is based off what?…her largely non-progressive voting record. Or just because they assume her ice is colder?
Monie @MonieTalks_1
Let’s be real.Hillary’s progressive record is really flat considering she became Senator in NY. Any progressive road she travels, PBO paved
Monie @MonieTalks_1
When your husband signs Newt Gingrich’s Contract w/ America into law, then turn around and say you were dead broke after WH, can’t trust it.
Geir Scott Henriksen @ScottyBurberry
@Kennymack1971 @SusieMadrak it’s very telling how privileged white folk go after POTUS on this issue and give Hillary a pass
Monie @MonieTalks_1
The abuse & deaths of Amadou Diallo, Abner Louisa and Sean Bell occurred while HRC was senator of NY. Point to me where she invoked change.
Geir Scott Henriksen @ScottyBurberry
@Kennymack1971 @SusieMadrak it’s very telling how privileged white folk go after POTUS on this issue and give Hillary a pass
Nancy LeTourneau @Smartypants60
@lehimesa @SusieMadrak @msnbc It’s not a good idea to dismiss racism as less real/serious than sexism.
Nancy LeTourneau @Smartypants60
@SusieMadrak Surprised at the level of gendered venom coming at HRC? You obviously missed the racist venom coming at PBO all this time.
Or better yet, the even worse dehumanizing venom – gendered and deeply racist – coming nonstop at our first black First Lady – and with nary a peep from the same self-appointed vocal defenders of women and black people. How is it that somehow, these folks always seem to miss – or pretend not to notice, the most obvious target of said gendered *and* racist venom.
Kasai™ @Kahsai
What PBO got Done? – #’S Don’t Lie.. Journos Do!
– Unempl. from 10%.To 5.4%
– Stock Mrkt From 7,940 To 18,000
– 16 Mil Insured
– 13Mil Jobs
Kasai™ @Kahsai
What PBO got Done! – Numbers Don’t Lie..Journos Do!
-Fed. Deficit from 9.8% of GDP to 2.8%
-Pell Grant Funding From $18Bl to 33B
-OBL 1 to O
Kasai™ @Kahsai
What PBO got Done..For LGBT??
>Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
>Passed Historic Hate Crimes Legislation
>Expanding Access to Health Coverage
Kasai™ @Kahsai
What PBO got Done..For LGBT??
>Ensuring Hospital Visitation Rights
>Ensuring Equality in Housing & Crime Prevention
>Preventing Bullying
Monie @MonieTalks_1
Who remembers when HRC said MLKJr dream was realized when LBJ did it, it took a president to get it done. That downplay still sticks with me
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
@SusieMadrak You’re a policy wonk? And this means what to me? You’re griping about double standards w/HRC when you practice them w/PBO..
https://twitter.com/tombullington/status/609792916165402624
https://twitter.com/rippdemup/status/609800432941072384
Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
So if you come and tell me how HRC is “more liberal” than PBO, I have less respect for your political analysis skills.
Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
Because of PBO, the baseline any new Dem candidate must meet is more liberal than 8 years ago. HRC gets that. She’s shifted w/the times.
Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
PBO’s election validated his generally liberal positions, and his administration moved the needle on many fronts to the left.
Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
When PBO announced in 2007, he took several strong liberal stances other Dems still shied away from.
Monie @MonieTalks_1
Miss me with compassion, cis-racial, trans-racial.Rachel Dolezal faked hate crimes against her imagined self.Too many died from real crimes.
oh. @amakaxo
More on Rachel:
Lied about living in Africa
Lied about having cancer
Claims she was victim of “reverse racism” @ HU
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/rachel-dolezals-brother-says-she-warned-dont-blow-my-cover#.uc4x4laRp …
https://twitter.com/History_Pics/status/609837690863792128/photo/1
https://twitter.com/RashadDrakeford/status/609688490524028929/photo/1
https://twitter.com/MorehouseJS/status/609047146575187969/photo/1
Black Girls Golf ™ @BlackGirlsGolf
If you’re in the #cleveland area, be sure to sign up for your free membership. You don’t want to miss anything. http://www.blackgirlsgolf.net/membership
https://twitter.com/chriskingstl/status/609829503393644544
https://twitter.com/chriskingstl/status/609819149200547840
https://twitter.com/chriskingstl/status/609814371510829056/photo/1
There’s something inexplicable about how human beings can be so detached and refuse to see the humanity of another human being, especially a child, and have no problem shooting dead another human being. And feel no remorse afterwards. This idea that these ‘loving’ men and women in the police force who are themselves parents, spouses and even self-proclaimed Christians, are completely devoid of empathy for a fellow human being – and have no qualms shooting dead a kid and walking away…We really need to examine this mindset that completely devalues the lives of black people in America.
Paramedic: “He like reached for my hand,”
This tears my heart into a thousand pieces. It is like Trayvon begging his murderer for his life, Jordan’s friend holding him after he was shot, Oscar telling his murderer that he has a daughter, Sean celebrating with friends before his wedding, Eric telling his murderer that he couldn’t breathe, and it just goes on and on.
So in his last moments of consciousness, 12 year old Tamir Rice is bleeding out on the ground, and his murderer(s) wouldn’t allow his sister to comfort him. He reaches out to a stranger.
Dear God, please show us the way. This must end.
Jon Swaine ✔ @jonswaine
Cuyahoga County prosecutor releases report on investigation into fatal police shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/en-us/Investigation-Into-Death-of-Tamir-Rice.aspx …
https://twitter.com/root_e/status/609835411473608704
https://twitter.com/PragObots/status/609833577409163264/photo/1
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
@SusieMadrak I bet if HRC embraces the exact same methods and policies as PBO you won’t be saying a damn thing except “Go HRC!”
https://twitter.com/denverpost/status/609809937187733504
I will continue to pound on this. They CANNOT explain, to any logical satisfaction, how, this completely unqualified man became an officer on the Cleveland Police Department. So, they continue to try and defame a 12 year old boy.
I will point out again that Ohio is an OPEN CARRY STATE.
So, unless you’re going to tell me that Officer Unqualified asked for Tamir’s Open Carry Permit in the 2 seconds before he MURDERED HIM…
WE’re back to how this unqualified man got on the Cleveland Police Department.
“…I will point out again that Ohio is an OPEN CARRY STATE.
So, unless you’re going to tell me that Officer Unqualified asked for Tamir’s Open Carry Permit in the 2 seconds before he MURDERED HIM…”
Exactly.
https://twitter.com/RachelDecoste/status/609797366326132737
Oh my gosh! Wild!
Meet Robert Johnson…
“Robert Johnson has been the District Attorney of Bronx County since January 1, 1989. He is the first African-American District Attorney in the history of New York State. And, in 2005, he became the longest-serving District Attorney in Bronx history.”
More…
http://bronxda.nyc.gov/office/biography.htm
Mr. Johnson has some explaining to do in the case of Kalief Browder.
Indeed.
Former Rikers Island inmate killed himself days before facing new charges in court
BY Ben Kochman , Shayna Jacobs , Bill Hutchinson
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, June 11, 2015, 2:30 AM
A Bronx man who spent three nightmarish years as a teen in Rikers Island awaiting trial killed himself just days before he was due back in court to face new charges his lawyer blasted as “baseless.”
Kalief Browder, who hanged himself with an air-conditioning cord on Saturday, suffered flashbacks from his Rikers experiences when busted in April for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to his brother. “It definitely brought back some bad memories,” Kamal Browder told the Daily News.
A judge rejected a request from his attorney, Paul Prestia, to dismiss the charges but Bronx prosecutors said they would toss the case once they received a death certificate. “The last time Mr. Browder had a case in Bronx County, it took them three years to dismiss the charges, and that’s why he’s no longer with us,” an angry Prestia said at the hearing.
Browder and his brother, Kamal, 23, were arrested after cops broke up an April 20 fight they were involved in on Prospect Ave. near their Bronx home.
Kamal explained he had been mugged earlier that evening and his brother agreed to help confront the robber. When they caught up to the mugger, a yelling match ensued causing the culprit’s mom to come out of her house and shoo them away.
But as the Browder brothers backed off they were followed by friends of the man they accused, including one who incensed Kalief by slapping Kamal.
“He was defending me,” Kamal said of his brother.
He said he was trying to get Kalief to walk away about 9:30 p.m. when cops rolled up.
“I was trying to hug my brother, tell him, ‘Come on, ‘Come on’ when cops pushed me and my brother away and arrested us,” Kamal told The News.
A criminal complaint says the brothers ignored orders to move along. “They wrapped their arms around each other tightly, and they further refused to let go of each other,” the complaint reads.
The brothers, according to the complaint, “flailed their arms and twisted their bodies, refusing to be handcuffed.”
Officers took the pair to Central Booking, where they were held for the night and released the next morning on their own recognizance.
“We talked about it, talked about how we got locked up for no reason,” said Kamal, who appeared at Wednesday’s court hearing.
Prestia noted the April arrest was “eerily similar” to one in 2010 that led to a then 16-year-old Kalief being locked up for three years at Rikers awaiting trial on robbery charges.
“They were baseless charges,” the lawyer said of the recent arrest. “They will never prove this case, they’ll never try this case, they’ll never win this case.”
Prestia said Kalief’s torturous ordeal at Rikers is what drove him to suicide. But his recent arrest “underscores their incompetence,” he said of Bronx prosecutors.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-kalief-browder-died-days-court-appearance-article-1.2254078
Well, I asked for names.
FOX channel is not covering Dallas SHOOTING. SURPRIZE!
White man.
HA!
it’s a White DOMESTIC TERRORIST
of course, it’s like it never happened.
(Rachel Doze//// )…..I mean MHP is doing a segment on Kalief Browder & the HELL that is Rikers Island.
I never watch her anymore. All of that nervous chatter and interrupting aggravates my anxiety disorder. Let us know if anyone says anything insightful.
Sorry Nerdy Wonka, the media has already laid the ground work for this POS, reporting that he’s mentally ill.
You know what: When I go look in Websters for the definition and characteristics of ‘MENTALLY ILL’ :
I should see the word= W.H.I.T.E P.E.O.P.L.E
I have seen this media pattern….
And yet…….he lived to be arrested……imagine that…..
Uh huh
Uh huh
Protection of complexion
……………………………….
Published on Jun 13, 2015
Shootout With Dallas Police & Armored Van June 13,2015 James Boulware
https://youtu.be/fK73gm2dOZU
Explosives found, suspect cornered after gunfire targets Dallas police headquarters
By Ben Brumfield and Joe Sutton, CNN
Updated 7:38 AM ET, Sat June 13, 2015
(CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 7:38 a.m. ET]
Dallas police found a total of two explosive devices near their headquarters; all suspicious packages found there have now been cleared, police tweeted early Saturday. Police published photos of dozens of bullet holes shot through their headquarters’ windows.
[Breaking news update, posted at 7:04 a.m. ET]
— “Dallas SWAT disabled the suspect vehicle with a .50 cal rifle. Standoff is ongoing,” Dallas police said on its confirmed Twitter account Saturday morning.
— Explosives experts detonated an explosive device found under a police vehicle, police said in a tweet. No one was injured. Officers are also investigating a suspicious package at a police substation.
[Previous story, posted at 6:51 a.m. ET]
(CNN) — Attackers opened fire on Dallas police headquarters early Saturday, then an armored van parked in front of the building drove off and rammed a squad car, authorities said.
Police returned fire, and the van fled with the suspects.
After the attack, police found suspicious bags near the headquarters. At least one contained explosives, prompting evacuations from areas around the police headquarters.
As an explosives robot approached one of them, it blew up, Maj. Max Geron tweeted. No one was injured.
Authorities believe up to four people may have opened fire from various locations with automatic weapons, including from the van, said Police Chief David Brown.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/dallas-police-headquarters-shooting/index.html?sr=fb061315dallaspoliceheadquartersshooting507aStoryLink
DOMESTIC TERRORIST
Don’t blow my cover?
Told Y’all – she was doing the long con.
…………………………….
Rachel Dolezal’s Brother Says She Warned: “Don’t Blow My Cover”
Ezra Dolezal told BuzzFeed News that his adopted sister warned him to not tell anyone in Spokane that she wasn’t really black as she started a new life for herself.
posted on Jun. 12, 2015, at 8:22 p.m.
It was 2012, and Rachel Dolezal had a warning for her adopted brother as she prepared for a new life in Spokane, Washington.
“She just told me, ‘Over here, I’m going to be considered black, and I have a black father. Don’t blow my cover,’” Ezra Dolezal, 22, told BuzzFeed News in an interview.
Rachel also told him to tell people that he and her other adopted brother were her “blood brothers,” he said.
His sister did not offer “any logical explanation” for why she was changing her identity, and Ezra never confronted her about it. But it was the next stage after growing apart from her parents, Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, and leaving their home in Montana.
“She wanted to make a new life for herself but she took it to the ultimate extreme,” Ezra said. “Not only did she move out to Spokane, but she created a whole new identity for herself.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/rachel-dolezals-brother-says-she-warned-dont-blow-my-cover?utm_term=.ouyVz6kV7#.otq78YMZe9
Dallas police & swat team have shot the shupsect who set off a bomb and opened fire at the Dallas police dept.
Apparently they don’t know who the MAN is. HE’S WHITE.
but he has a history of mental health issues and 3 separate violent episodes.
WELL IF THEY HAVE ALL THIS INFO THEY SHOULD KNOW WHO THE FUCK HE IS.
https://twitter.com/share_black/status/609672979824406529/photo/1
I can only IMAGINE the ass-whoopings Justice Marshall is giving Clarence Thomas from the beyond.
Oooooooh, is he ever!
This week’s music has been fabulous!!
Good MOrning, Everyone :)
Off to swim and run errands.
The GUESS WHO- Oh YES
“The eyes, cry evey night for you. These arms long to hold, hold you again.
These eyes, are crying, these eyes have seen alot of love, but they’re never gonna see another one like I had with you.”
Good morning, everyone!
Howdy SG2!