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hueymahl's JournalGeorgia GOP Chairman owes Law Firm $340k for defense of Discrimination Charge
John Padgett has gotten sued again, this time by the law firm that was defending him on a charge of race discrimination:
The Atlanta law firm Fisher & Phillips said in the complaint filed in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court that John Padgett refused to pay the fees he incurred after he was sued by former Georgia GOP employee Qiana Keith. In a lawsuit, Keith claimed the organizations employees humiliated her and referred to her with a racial slur.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/06/24/georgia-gop-chief-faces-more-legal-trouble/
Poor, poor Padgett.
Why do we still support Saudi Arabia?
It is almost a rhetorical question, but it is a real one. I know the pat answer is Oil and security, but could there be a more crooked, immoral regime? There are literally hundreds of examples of this, but this one stood out to me today:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/17/raif-badawi-saudi-blogger-lashes-prison-ensaf-haidar
A heartbreaking story about a journalist/blogger in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes. The story is from the perspective of his wife who fled the country.
The inhumanity of it is simply shocking. Words fail.
And we fail as a nation by continuing to prop-up this evil, evil regime.
Nest cam livestreams bald eagle parents feeding a cat to their eaglets
The cat should not have been outdoors. Who knows how many smaller birds and other animals it killed before it found its place in the food chain.
If you are a cat lover, please keep them indoors - for their sake and for the sake of all the other animals out there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/29/nest-cam-livestreams-bald-eagle-parents-feeding-a-cat-to-their-eaglets/
Life imitates DU
Came across this article about the "Sanders Surge." Great points overall, but I swear every one of them has been made, and made more elegantly in many cases, right here on DU. Still a great read, and pretty damn on point.
Berserk Clinton Bigwigs Launch Nixonian Attack Against Surging Sanders
In an astonishing political development, as a CNN/WMUR poll shows Bernie Sanders defeating Hillary Clinton by an astounding 27 points in the New Hampshire primary and an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds him defeating Donald Trump in the general election by a whopping 15 points, a long list of prominent Clinton supporters has launched an all-out negative attack against Mr. Sanders reminiscent of the red-baiting attacks Richard Nixon once deployed against liberals.
Third, a word of advice to Team Clinton: calm down and back off the panicked attacks against Mr. Sanders that are highlighted in a New York Times story in which one Democratic Senator who supports Ms. Clinton, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, reached a new low by suggesting that Republicans will run an ad against Mr. Sanders alongside the hammer and sickle which, in other words, would paint him as a communist.
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a real campaign where the voice of the people will now be heard. Let the real debate begin and let the voters decide.
The progressive populist message is now front and center on the great stage of national politics, and this is good news for Democrats and great news for America.
http://observer.com/2016/01/berserk-clinton-bigwigs-launch-nixonian-attack-against-surging-sanders/
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