The union of Christine Swidorsky and Sean Stevenson was no ordinary wedding. The couple had planned it for ages, and had penciled July 2014 as their special day. But that was before they learned that their best man -- 2-year-old Logan -- had just weeks to live.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas prays for a miracle.
As Republican Party state officials across the country continue to give restrictive Jim Crow voter ID laws the modern spin, their cohorts on the national level are reportedly reaching out to a certain sect of the Black community. But how do you ?reach out? to a community you?re purposely trying to keep away from the voting polls? Exactly.
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Still, the GOP is taking it one step further ? organizing as a party versus just allowing its candidate do the leg work for them.
And yet, it feels even more laughable now than it did then:
Wyler writes:
But in Iowa last Friday, minority church leaders finally got a seat at the table, when a group of about 20 Black and Hispanic pastors joined 400 Iowa evangelicals in Des Moines for a two-day Christian Right confab. The pastors heard speeches from Senate Tea Party darlings Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and sat down with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to discuss how the GOP could better establish relationships with churchgoers in Black and Hispanic communities.
You read that right: The wing of the Republican Party responsible for ?Birtherism? is leading the charge on outreach to Black people of faith with the aid of the RNC chair who has enabled them and all of their racist rhetoric. Zoom, look at them go, y?all.
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Republican strategists said that Friday?s meeting was the first time in recent memory that the Party has made a concerted effort to include Black and Hispanic church leaders in developing the GOP?s minority outreach strategy. While individual candidates ? most notably former President George W. Bush ? have brought on Black Christian leaders to advise their campaign strategies, the party proper has lacked a cohesive plan to build relationships with Black and Hispanic Evangelicals in between election cycles.
Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts has long pushed his party to reach out to minority voters. In the article, Watts laments, ?The party has done very little to bring Black and Hispanic Evangelicals in to the fold. If you?re going to tell me that?s too harsh, then I?ll say, Fine. They?ve not done much. You can probably put in to a thimble what the RNC has done to create any kind of network.?
He went on to add,??It?s about having relationships, and that covers a multitude of sins. People will extend more grace, they?re more willing to listen, if you have a relationship with them ? If Evangelicals trust you, then they will give you a little more latitude.?
But, but, but, but: What Black person with a clue is going to trust a party that is blatantly trying to keep other Black people from voting? Is that not the beginning, middle, and end of this story?
If not, how about the rampant racism that continues to dominant much of the Republican culture? It was only a few weeks ago that Rand Paul let go of his Abraham Lincoln-hating staffer with a soft spot for seemingly racist views. Plus, Rand Paul will forever be the guy who is on record for being against the Civil Rights Act.
If this is the kind of person that can be a presumed presidential front-runner in your party, what kind of inroads with the Black community can you truly expect the GOP to make?
Are Blacks to magically forget all of that because Rand Paul can whisper sweet nothings about God?s glory??I?ve been taught about Jesus performing miracles, but I doubt the Father, the son, or the holy spirit can help the Black community to vote for them. If you believe otherwise?I?ll pray for you.
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Michael Arceneaux?is a Houston-bred, Howard-educated writer and blogger. You can read more of his work on his site,?The Cynical Ones. Follow him on Twitter:?@youngsinick
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In this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a photomicrograph of a fresh stool sample, which had been prepared using a 10% formalin solution, and stained with modified acid-fast stain, reveals the presence of four Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in the field of view. Iowa and Nebraska health officials said Tuesday, July 30, 2013, that a prepackaged salad mix is the source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened more than 178 people in both states. Cyclospora is a rare parasite that causes a lengthy gastrointestinal illness. (AP Photo/Centerd for Disease Control and Prevention)
In this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a photomicrograph of a fresh stool sample, which had been prepared using a 10% formalin solution, and stained with modified acid-fast stain, reveals the presence of four Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in the field of view. Iowa and Nebraska health officials said Tuesday, July 30, 2013, that a prepackaged salad mix is the source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened more than 178 people in both states. Cyclospora is a rare parasite that causes a lengthy gastrointestinal illness. (AP Photo/Centerd for Disease Control and Prevention)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Food and Drug Administration says an outbreak of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska is linked to salad mix served at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants in those states and supplied by a Mexican farm.
The outbreak of cyclospora infections has sickened more than 400 people in 16 states in all. The agency says it is working to determine whether the salad mix is the source of illnesses in the other 14 states.
"It is not yet clear whether the cases reported from other states are all part of the same outbreak," the agency said in a statement. "The investigation of increased cases of cyclosporiasis in other states continues."
Both Olive Garden and Red Lobster are owned by Orlando-based Darden Restaurants. In a statement, Darden spokesman Mike Bernstein said the FDA's announcement is "new information."
"Nothing we have seen prior to this announcement gave us any reason to be concerned about the products we've received from this supplier," Bernstein said.
The FDA said it traced illnesses from the restaurants in Nebraska and Iowa to Taylor Farms de Mexico, the Mexican branch of Salinas, Calif.-based Taylor Farms. The company, which provides produce to the food service industry, said its facility located about 180 miles north of Mexico City in San Miguel de Allende is the only one of its 12 sites to be connected to the cases.
In a statement on the company's website, Taylor Farms says the Mexican facility is "state of the art and has an exceptional food safety record." The statement said the company is working with FDA investigators who are looking at the facility and that the product is out of the food supply.
The FDA said it had audited the Mexican processing facility in 2001 and found "no notable issues." The agency said it would increase surveillance efforts for green leafy products imported from Mexico.
The most recent known illness in the two states linked to the infected salad was in Nebraska a month ago. The typical shelf life for a salad mix is up to 14 days.
There have been more recent illnesses in other states. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most recent illness was July 23 but centers did not specify a location.
The agency said its investigation has not implicated any packaged salad sold in grocery stores.
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A Florida Bar grievance committee Thursday found no basis to file ethics charges against prominent Miami lawyers Guy Lewis and Michael Tein in their defense of two Miccosukee Tribe members ordered to pay a $3.2 million judgment in a fatal car-crash case.
The committee found no probable cause that Lewis, a former U.S. attorney in Miami, and Tein, an ex-prosecutor in his office, violated any Florida Bar ethics rules, so the investigation is closed, said Bar spokeswoman Francine Walker. The committee?s findings will be released Friday.
The lawyer for Lewis and Tein, Paul Calli, could not be reached for comment.
The ethics probe was launched in April, after a Miami-Dade judge slapped the partners with a $50,000 fine. Circuit Judge Ronald Dresnick decided he had originally sanctioned Lewis and Tein too little for a post-judgment violation over their failure to promptly turn over certain financial records of their two Miccosukee clients.
The judge raised the fine from $3,500 after realizing he had made a mistake when he initially found the partners? legal fees were not that high and their bills were not paid by the Miccosukee Tribe.
Dresnick said the $3.1 million in fees charged by Lewis and Tein to represent the two Miccosukee Indians in the 2009 fatal car-crash trial made ?my eyes spin in their sockets.?
Lewis and Tein were accused of committing perjury by the attorney for the family of the car-crash victim after they testified at a sanctions hearing in August 2011 that their two clients ? not the Miccosukee Tribe ? paid their legal fees. Both defense lawyers had told the judge that any sanctions fine would come out of their pockets, not their clients? or the tribe?s.
But Lewis and Tein made those assertions before the family?s lawyer, Ramon M. Rodriguez, discovered $3.1 million in checks issued directly to their law firm by the tribe for the defense of the two Miccosukee clients, Tammy Gwen Billie and her father.
Lewis and Tein argued that their Miccosukee clients borrowed money from the tribe to pay the legal fees.
Ultimately, Dresnick found in a final order that Lewis and Tein ?did not commit perjury, did not engage in fraud on the court ? and did not fail in their obligation of candor? at the sanctions hearing.
Billie was behind the wheel of an uninsured car, owned by her dad, when she crashed, killing 30-year-old Liliana Bermudez on the Tamiami Trail in 1998.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/01/3537253/florida-bar-wont-file-ethics-charges.html
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Sony's first earnings report of the new financial year is in and it's eked out a profit, albeit a small one. The $35 million net profit is an improvement from last year's results for the same period, and the good news is most pronounced in its Mobile Products & Communications department. Revenue grew 36 percent from last year, partially due to changes in the value of the yen, but also thanks to higher sales for smartphones, and a higher average selling price. The games division recorded an operating loss for the quarter, as sales of the PS3, PSP and PS2 dropped slightly while spending on R&D for the upcoming PlayStation 4 rose. Sony's new TV strategy may have shown some results, with year-on-years sales up 18.2 percent and attributed to an "improved product mix in LCD TVs" and cost reductions.
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