My Personal “WTF Moment” – 4/30/11

You never know what you’ll see walking through a random antique store.  I’m speechless

President Obama Meets with Participants in the 1968 Sanitation Strike

“The President invited the living participants in the Memphis Sanitation Strike to honor their courage, and their fight on behalf of all workers for safe conditions, respect in the workplace and a better life for themselves and their families. As workers across the country continue to face challenges to their rights, the issues for which these men fought continue to be relevant  and the President remains committed to the causes for which they marched.” – from the White House

Oil Companies are Making Less Gas but Much Higher Profits

 

 

Gasoline prices are skyrocketing — and so are oil company profits.
Exxon Mobil Corp. earned nearly $11 billion in the first three months of the year, a rollicking 69% increase over its performance for the same period last year. That's on sales of $114 billion.
It's the same story for the other big oil companies. Royal Dutch Shell turned a profit of $6.3 billion in the first quarter, and BP — despite lingering costs from the Gulf Coast oil spill— made $7.1 billion.

 

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President Obama Picks a New Defense Secretary

 

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will name CIA Director Leon Panetta as his nominee to succeed Robert Gates as defense secretary, a senior defense official and another U.S. official said Wednesday.

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, will be named to replace Panetta as CIA director, a senior defense official said.

CNN Kills the Birther Movement Once and For All

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com 

Let’s hope that the Birther Movement is on its way out the door.  If it isn’t completely out the door, it’s on its death bed.  CNN has engaged in an all-out assault on the Birther Movement by doing a detailed investigation on whether or not President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

In the video below, the network goes to the extreme to settle the question once and for all.  Personally, I found the investigation to be quite compelling. There are others, however, including Donald Trump, who’ve spent all of their time engaging in their own investigations and coming to “very interesting” conclusions.

Your Black News – 4/25/11

 

• 3 bombs in northeast Nigeria city, deaths reported
• Bloomberg to Trump: Drop 'birther' issue
• Getting past the 'birther' myth
• Rap music inspires Libyan rebels to defeat Gadhafi
• Ohio governor looks to expand minority business share
• Bishop Long sends message to accusers during Easter sermon
• NY mom who killed 3 kids in Hudson is laid to rest
• When MC Hammer talks, Silicon Valley startups listen
• Report finds banks neglecting REOs in minority neighborhoods
• NYC officials defend choice to cuff first-grader
• President Obama suffered racist abuse, says biography
• Who owns the rights to African genomes?

 

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25% of All Americans Don’t Believe President Obama was Born in the United States

 

From CBSnews.com

A quarter of all Americans incorrectly think President Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new CBS News/ New York Times poll.

Among all Republicans, 45 percent believe he was born in another country, as do 45 percent of Tea Party supporters, the poll shows.

Since the start of Mr. Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, rumors have existed that he was born outside of the United States. The"birther" myth has steadily persisted through Mr. Obama's presidency, in spite of overwhelming evidence he was born in the United States -- including his 1961 birth announcement, printed in two Hawaii newspapers.

Businessman and television personality Donald Trump has pushed the issue into the spotlight in recent weeks, insisting that he is unconvinced of Mr. Obama's origins. While Trump has used the issue to bring more attention to his possible Republican presidential bid, other Republicans are trying to tamp down the "birther" talk.