A veteran-run coffee company has issued a surprising rejoinder to Starbucks’ promise to hire 10,000 refugees, promising to hire 10,000 veterans itself.

Black Rifle Coffee Company — which describes itself as a “premium small-batch, roast to order, veteran owned and operated coffee company” on its website — made the promise via CEO Evan Hafer’s social media account on Wednesday.

“This means all Islamic nations officially state their position is that practicing homosexuals must be killed, women are property and not equal to men, non-Muslims must convert to Islam or submit to Shariah and pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya) or be killed, that parents may kill their children and grandchildren with no indemnity, and other similar constructs,” he added.

Raising the price of milk by colluding to restrain supply (slaughering 1/2 million dairy cows) is a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act.   BTW, Sherman was a Republican from OHIO!  

How can we be sure these folks weren't just making a large deposit at the PNC bank in Shaker Square?   

Cleveland.com was careful not to mention "Shaker Square", instead refering to the robbery as being "in the 2700 block of South Moreland Blvd.   

Why?   Ad dollars from whom?    

All around the world today persons went out and demonstrated.    Millions and millions of people. 

Where were those Americans during the election last fall?

Our democracy focused/set in Washington DC is the problem.   It is obsolete.  It attacts sociopathic persons, mainly men, who go to DC and are then easy prey for the lobby corporations.    

The Cuyahoga County Land Bank - Neighborhood Stabilization outfit has put their name into a Harvard graduate school - claiming "innovation" in government.   Here is a link to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government web site which lists the Land Bank's name and mission:

Some of the thousands of emails contained classified information, the FBI determined, and her carelessness allowed numerous unfriendly nations to hack sensitive data, which contributed to her losing the 2016 election bid. (AP)

 Eric J Brewer: Forest Gump is smarter than Mayor Frank Jackson. I'm amazed at how after nearly 12 years in office Jackson doesn't understand that he's been “suckered” by Chief of Police Calvin Williams, Safety Director Michael McGrath and Executive Assistant Martin Flask. As mayor I'd fire all three my first day on the job. I'd hope they had sense enough to resign.

 Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=SI72rWYGPqg&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdnQmekmmrn4%26feature%3Dshare

What Roldo writes is absolutely true...I knew Ed Hauser well.   

Please read Roldo here at Have Coffee Will Write.

Every time you get upset about something small, just remember this.

https://youtu.be/gIbfYsQfNWs

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           January 2017        Author’s Note:     The Neo-Liberal City was an act of dissent that was clandestinely distributed in the early 1990s as what we called Urban Samizdat – after the clandestine critical writings of the old Soviet Union.  It was clandestine because the author and the co-conspirators in the project worked in city government or other venues that would not have received the message of The Neo-Liberal City very kindly.  It was during the administration of Mayor Michael R. White who was notorious for firing people on the whim.  So, discretion was called for. The details described may date it, but the basic bones of what it describes are still the ruling realities of Cleveland. 

Randy Cunningham aka Vincent aka Randino

           This essay is the second of two that were inspired by the recent article in Cleveland magazine, concerning the impact on Cleveland’s neighborhoods of Neighborhood Progress Inc., the non-profit funding institution that has revolutionized the world of non-profit development corporations.  The title of this essay is the Neo Liberal City.  It attempts to move from a focus on NPI, to a broader focus on how Cleveland has and is being reorganized since the end of the Kucinich administration and the resulting consolidation of private power during the Voinovich and White administrations. This essay is not intended to be an academic essay, a policy analysis, or a muckraking exercise.  It is an unabashed polemic.  It seeks to develop broad themes and ideas about where Cleveland is at today, and where it is going.  Since a polemic is a call to action, it attempts to begin the development of an alternative politics of activism to combat what the author feels is an insidious, anti-democratic and unjust new order in our city.

This is how we do the national anthem #SaluteToService

https://youtu.be/Lrl0w97ogHs

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DONALD TRUMP WATCHING OVER THOSE WHO WATCH OVER US - THE ARMY'S ARMY.COM - VIDEO - AMERICA BEAUTIFUL

 From Eric J Brewer - and Jerry Strothers http://44112news.com/?p=11472:

The Emerald Development Economic Network, which "helps" the poor by helping themselves to $25 million in federal funds per year, has also been cashing in for over 20 years by paying ZERO property taxes on their vast real estate holdings, which ALL house Section 8 tenants, by fraudulently classifying them as "private hospitals." Their lastest "hospital" venture is building obscenely expensive homeless shelters that house active drug users at the cost of $180,000 per 350 square foot unit. Each of these "hospitals" has between 60 and 80 units.