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- Some high-profile bloggers are calling for an online code of conduct. Not us! Did you see that graphic of Sponge Bob and KY?
- "Dashing Diva" nail salons are inflicting NYC-homegrown retail standardization on the rest of the country for a change.
- The jealous butcher who stabbed his wife to death in the street is sentenced to 23 years to life.
- Tim Montgomery, the one-time WR holder in the 100m, plead guilty in a $5 million NYC bank fraud case. His plea means he won't have to testify against his former coach and may avoid jail time.
- New York State moves to steal New Hampshire's electoral thunder by joining "Super Duper Thursday." Because NH already has too much power vis a vis New York and the U.S.'s electoral politics needed more Duper in its Super.
- Illegal loft squatters are political pawns in Albany. Someone's bound to be rooked.
- Sharpe James, the former Mayor of Newark and current NJ state senator, isn't running for re-election because he wants to win a seniors national tennis championship and forget all about that federal investigation.
- Shartpon calls Imus "diabolical" in the latter's media auto da fe, a spectacle wherein one redeems onesself via public torture or self-immolation.
- No one's verifiably sighted one yet, but a porcupine-eating ferocious hunter with sharp teeth and amazing speed is proliferating in NJ; and Kevin Smith's probably already optioned its story.
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AL SHARPTON's racism and incitement:
Al Sharpton became the de-facto representative for the Cato family. During the funeral he referred to "diamond merchants" considered a code word for Hasidic Jews, for shedding "the blood of innocent babies" leading marchers shouting "No Justice No Peace". Sharpton did not start the riots but his rhetoric was seen as inflammatory and unhelpful in easing the tension between the black and Jewish communities. A visiting rabbinical student from Australia by the name of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29 years old, was killed during the rioting by a mob shouting "Kill the Jew".
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It is also alleged that after calling a Jewish shopkeeper a "white interloper," he looked on while an associate of his suggested the man's shop should be burned down. When a black member of the crowd did so, killing several people and himself, Sharpton initially denied having been present. When confronted with a video tape showing his presence, he said: "What's wrong with denouncing white interlopers?"
shut your face, is that a code word?
you had your code for centuries. that's the truth and you still whine and bitch.
Kind of creepy/cool that you posted that picture "Olivia loves Sol LeWitt" a day after Sol LeWitt died. Coincidence?
Not a coincidence at all. It's great to see young people embracing the arts, and I was grateful to find a topical picture. Thanks for noticing!
Not a coincidence at all. I posted the pic on flickr after I noticed the LeWitt obit on Gothamist. It's old, from 2005.
Does this mean Imus is going into rehab?
I have to agree with Truth. While I TOTALLY don't agree with what Imus said (it really is inexcusable and he probably shoudl be taken off the air permanently), Al Sharpton is an opportunistic slime bucket who uses situations to his advantage. How many lives has he ruined (starting with everyone who he touched from the Tawana Brawley case on) and slithered away completely untouched? Yet politicians continue to pander to him and the press continues to defer to him. No one is ever going to take the cause of equality seriously as long as people like him are so-called 'civic leaders.' (this is where I spit to clean my mouth out from putting that man and civic leader in the same ball park.