Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Chicago Police Use Local News Media to Downplay Secret Torture Site Justin King February 25, 2015 ( ANTIMEDIA )   CHICAGO, IL  – Amid controversy over the Chicago Police Department’s off the books interrogation site, the  Chicago Sun-Times  ran a  piece  fully exonerating the police department, by basing the article entirely off statements made by the police department. Don’t worry good citizens, the police have investigated themselves in less than 24 hours and found they’ve done nothing wrong. The opening paragraph of the masturbatory fantasy that might as well have been written by CPD’s public affairs division states that the building exists, and apparently this disproves all allegations. “Police officials responded that the facility isn’t used to violate suspects’ rights — and isn’t even secret.” (Continued at the above link Justin King February 25, 2015 ( ANTIMEDIA )   CHICAGO, IL  – Amid controversy over the Chicago Police Department...

Subpoenas issued, lawyer assigned in the Drew Peterson murder-for-hire case | Justice Café Subpoenas have been issued for a  Chris Straub  and  Brian Clark  in Drew Peterson’s solicitation of murder case.

John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 6 days, and 79 other facts about the '80s You may wish that you had "Jessie's Girl," but did you know Rick Springfield had a role on  General Hospital  in 1981? Some of the other lesser-known '80s tidbits include the fact that John Hughes wrote  Ferris Bueller's Day Off  in just six days, and Prince wrote The Bangles' "Manic Monday.  Click the above link for more fun facts!

Time Warner Cable calls customer “C**t” after she reports cable box problem | Ars Technica Time Warner Cable (TWC) isn't yet a part of Comcast, but it's taking after its potential parent company in one very unfortunate way. Comcast customers have complained about their billing account names being changed to insults like " asshole ," " whore ," "dummy," and " super bitch ." Now, the same thing has happened to a Time Warner Cable customer named Esperanza Martinez. (continued at link above)

We Jews must face the reality of discrimination on the West Bank | Shaiya Rothberg | The Blogs | The Times of Israel This blog is a “Human Rights Report Review”. The report I’m reviewing is called  One Rule, Two Legal Systems: Israel’s Regime of Laws in the West Bank  and it was published by  The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)  in October of 2014. In the review, I’ll briefly present the contents of the report. I’ll also say what parts of it I accept and what conclusions I draw from it. I know that a lot of reasonable people who care about Israel are cynical about “human rights”. They see how racists and fundamentalists sometimes use “human rights” rhetoric as a justification for criminal violence against Israeli Jews. And they see anti-Israel bigotry parading as “human rights activism” on college campuses and other places. And so they write off “human rights” altogether. But the difference between real and bogus human rights discourse is easy to iden...

The Best Time To Buy Flights, Because Not Using Vacation Days Should Be Illegal Finding cheap flights is complicated. But what if there were a magical day when you'd be guaranteed to find them at their absolute cheapest? Surprise! There is.  Forty-seven days before takeoff is when domestic plane tickets are at their absolute cheapest , according to a study of 2014 flight data from online travel agency  CheapAir . The number is seven days sooner than  last year's estimate  of 54 days before takeoff -- it's based on 1.5 billion fares from 2014, while last year's study analyzed data from 2013. (continued at above link)

Watch: Second Comcast customer gets profane bill - UPI.com ADDISON, Ill., Feb. 5 (UPI) --  An Illinois woman said she was shocked and outraged to discover her Comcast cable TV bill referred to her as "Super [expletive]," using a word for a female dog. Mary Bauer, 63, of Addison, said she had been having trouble with her Comcast TV service and she needed to have 39 visits from technicians between November 2013 and April 2014. Read more:  http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/02/05/Comcast-bill-names-customer-as-Super-B/4201423153556/#ixzz3Qtg9ymcT

The Gacy Files: One Detective's Quest to Identify A Serial Killer's Lost Victims - BuzzFeed News Thirty-five years after Chicago’s infamous “killer clown” was convicted for murdering 33 men, eight of John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained unidentified.  Jason Moran, Cook County’s one-man cold case unit, has made it his mission to find those names, exposing what has been called our criminal justice system’s “silent mass disaster.” (to continue reading click on highlighted link above)

Polaneczky: TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint APPARENTLY, working as a supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport comes with a perk: You get to throw people in jail for no good reason and still keep your job. If that's not the case, why is Charles Kieser still employed by the TSA? Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150204_TSA_jails_innocent_traveler_when_he_asks_to_file_a_complaint.html#1VS2RlKct8yV5KEW.99

AJC Remembers Victims, Survivors on International Holocaust Remembrance Day - AJC: Global Jewish Advocacy AJC REMEMBERS VICTIMS, SURVIVORS ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY January 25, 2014 – New York – In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, AJC issued the statement below. The United Nations designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, as the day for the world body and countries around the world to recall and commemorate the Nazi destruction of six million Jews. For this occasion, AJC re-released its short film on the Nazi death camp, Belzec. More than 500,000 Jews were slaughtered there in less than a year. Only two Jews survived. Ten years ago, a memorial and museum were dedicated at Belzec, a joint project of AJC and the Polish government.  Full text of AJC statement: We Remember In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). On January 27, we commemorate International Holo...

Nanotech in the Negev: Israeli scientists see big opportunity in tiny tech - TechRepublic

Caroline B. Glick: Norway's Jewish problem Jewish World Review August 9, 2011 / 9 Menachem-Av, 5771 Norway's Jewish problem By Caroline B. Glick Norway's government attacked the author for merely pointing out in various ways, that Norway should not use Breivik's attack as justification for further weakening Norwegian democracy http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In the wake of Anders Breivik's massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the Right. Just hours after Breivik's identity was reported, leftist media outlets and blogs were filled with attempts to blame Breivik's crime on conservative public intellectuals whose ideas he cited in a 1,500 page online manifesto. M...

Is Flag Day a Jewish holiday? | The Archive Blog | JTA - Jewish & Israel News : "Beyond perhaps identifying the date, June 14, few Americans today could identify any characteristics or traditions that surround Flag Day. Fewer still know that a Jewish philanthropist from St. Louis has been called 'the father of Flag Day.'"

Caroline B. Glick: Yale, Jews, and Double Standards Jewish World Review June 10, 2011 / 8 Sivan, 5771 Yale, Jews, and Double Standards By Caroline B. Glick http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For its part, the university claims that the move was the result of purely academic considerations. While not clear-cut, an analysis of the story lends to the conclusion that politics were in all likelihood the decisive factor in the decision. And the implications of Yale's move for the scholarly inquiry into anti-Semitism are deeply troubling. The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) was founded in 2006. Its purpose was to provide a scholarly approach to the study of contemporary and historical an...

Shh, Obama adopts the Bush Doctrine - chicagotribune.com Charles Krauthammer May 23, 2011 ...

It's time to revise the game plan to reflect the coming reality http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | On Tuesday US voters are set to repudiate US President Barak Obama's agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his behavior in the face of a similar repudiation last January, it is safe to assume that Obama will not abandon his course. Last year, in an attempt to block Obama's plan to nationalize healthcare, Massachusetts voters elected Republican Scott Brown to the Senate. Brown was elected because he pledged to block Obamacare in the US Senate. Rather than heed the voters' message and abandon his plans, Obama abandoned the voters. Instead of accepting his defeat, Obama changed the rules of the game and bypassed the Senate. So it is safe to assume that for the next two years, Obama will do everything he can to bypass the Congress and govern by executive orders and regulations. Although much can be done in this fashion, Congress...

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