Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Baltimore and Other Things

This post is meant to take a snapshot on some crucial issues facing the United States of America in May 2015.
Recently, there were riots in Baltimore and when charges in the case were announced, the wrong person - right name, just not the right person - was announced. This snafu is described here. From that article, these are the important sentences:

When charges were announced Friday against Alicia White for the death of Freddie Gray, her phone started buzzing from journalists and bail bondsmen.

The problem was, they were calling the wrong Alicia White. The elementary school cafeteria manager from East Baltimore was not the Baltimore Police sergeant charged with manslaughter in the high-profile police custody death – even though court records listed her.

President Obama was quoted as decrying the lack of federal funds going out to Baltimore but, per  this article, the numbers tell a different story regarding the amount of funds Baltimore has received from the federal government.

Moving on from Baltimore, a major issue facing our country today is religious freedom. To read about religious freedom, satanists, and abortion - my, isn't that a tease - this article attempts to sum up the issue. I quoted the part of the article that reads like a Wikipedia article because of all the links that can take you to another place in order to read related articles. It's blowing my mind.
Editor's Note: I changed the formatting after the word "read" in the next section to make it easier to read

... the left whined and complained about Indiana’s religious freedom law SO MUCH that it was all we could do to keep up with their stupidity. And if you don’t believe me, read
  1. here,
  2. here,
  3. here,
  4. here,
  5. here,
  6. here,
  7. here or
  8. here.

There's also the 2016 Presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton is running for president and this article explores why anyone would want to cast their vote for her. There's also the issue of gay marriage and that is explored in the video below:



Anything else will go into its own post.

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