Thursday Thoughts

Here are some random thoughts from my daily perusal of the news:

He is just like any other black man

Are we really meant to believe what NPR is trying to tell us in this passage:

At the time Obama told reporters, "You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." More than a year later, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot Martin, Obama said, "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."

That very personal statement is an example of how, in his second term, Obama seems less reluctant to highlight race and to discuss his own experience as a black man in America. - NPR News Obama Returns to Selma

No, not that our president could have been Trayvon but that he really experienced what many black Americans experience in this country. Did he grow up in poverty? Did he have little or no education? Just wondering.

Freedom of Religion under attack again.

It seems that at least in one town in Florida that churches have come under more control of the government. A Christian church that was holding services in their own coffee house, was infiltrated by an undercover enforcement officer and told they had to cease and desist.

Churches in Lake Worth, population 36,000,  have been ordered to acquire a business license. As if the church has to get the government’s permission to preach and pray? - Fox News

I wonder if it had anything to do with this (from the same article):

Pastor Mike Olive told me there had not been any problems until early last month, when he had an encounter with Andy Amoroso, a city commissioner.

“After we opened up the coffee bar and started doing services, I heard that he told people we were anti-gay,” Olive said. “So I went to his shop to ask him about that.”

You don't think the LGBT lobby had anything to do with this, do you?

Were any of these Hilary's?

It seems the Justice department had made some arrests regarding a billion stolen email addresses.

US authorities Friday unveiled charges against two Vietnamese nationals and one Canadian in connection with a computer fraud scheme to steal over one billion email addresses. - The Guardian

I can't help but wonder, how many of these belonged to Hilary Clinton?

Republican or Democrat?

I guess there was an election way up there in Vermont and a dead guy won.

A Vermont man who died the day before a town meeting vote was elected to serve on the select board after officials withheld information about the death, citing state campaign laws. - Guardian US

I have heard of many dead people who vote, but never one running for office? What party to you think he belonged to?

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

It seems that contrary to what Hilary Clinton tells us over and over again, maybe the glass ceiling hasn't really been broken?

In late February, Hillary Clinton, a self-proclaimed champion of women's rights and gender equity, came under fire for a Washington Free Beacon analysis that showed women on Mrs. Clinton's staff during her tenure in the Senate were paid an average of 72 cents on the dollar compared to male staff. Now, an analysis of the latest IRS filing for the foundation that bears her name, the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, shows a similar compensation disparity between men and women employees. Although compensation figures are available for only a limited number of Foundation personnel, the 2013 Form 990 filed with the IRS shows that out of eleven highly compensated individuals listed, the top eight are all men. - Weekly Standard

Could it be a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?”

That's it for now, see you next time.