Benjamin Moore Paint Names are ‘Racially Insensitive’

Progressives Today

A former Benjamin Moore employee named Clinton Tucker is claiming the paint colors “clinton brown” and “tucker chocolate” are named after him and since he’s black, they’re racially insensitive.”

Obviously Named After Our First Black President
Bill Clinton

  NJ.com has the story:

"Tucker, who identifies himself as an African-American man in the lawsuit filed in Essex County court in Newark, said he was hired in June 2011 in the digital marketing department but quickly found himself being discriminated against, according to a write-up of the filing on CourthouseNews.com.

Tucker is seeking damages for discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment, according to the suit.

He claimed that when working on the online arm of Benjamin Moore’s campaign for their Williamsburg color collection, he learned of the new color “tucker chocolate,” which the suit called “extremely racially offensive.”

The Williamsburg collection also has colors named tucker orange and tucker gray.

Tucker then learned of the existing color “Clinton Brown,” which a co-worker pointed out to him as a joke.

“Despite [Tucker's] repeated complaints and protestations to BM management about these appallingly racial color names, no action was ever taken by Benjamin Moore to change the names of these colors,” according to the suit.

Tucker also claimed that he was demoted while white co-workers were given promotions, and that his request to take off work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was ignored."

“Tucker orange” isn’t a target of his lawsuit.

EXCLUSIVE : Undercover Photo of Justice Department and IRS' Lois Lerner Discussing Prosecution of Conservative Groups

by MFNS Investigative Reporter Earl of Taint

Obama Serves as Face of ‘Fake’ Viagra in Pakistan

According to the Agence France-Press, the banned pills — illegal in the country — are smuggled across the country's border with Afghanistan. Fake pills have been found being sold in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Four tablets of the knockoff Viagra are sold for $1.

The package apparently calls Barack Obama “a symbol of power and virility” and “America superman.”

Clearly they've never seen him throw a baseball. 

(h/t Red Alert) 

What Could Go Wrong?

The Los Angeles Unified School District to issue iPads to every one of its 660,000 students. The price: $1 billion.

The The LA Times  reports that the California school district is paying $678 per device — higher than tablets cost in stores — with pre-loaded educational software that has been only partially developed. The tablets come with tracking software, a sturdy case and a three-year warranty.

Two local elementary schools became the first to roll out tablet computers Tuesday in a $1-billion effort to put iPads in the hands of every student in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Over the next two weeks, iPads will be distributed at 45 other campuses. The district's 650,000 students, from kindergarten on up, are supposed to receive them over the next year or so.

The district is using school construction bonds, approved by Los Angeles voters, which didn't mention the purchase of iPads. This factor raised questions among members of the appointed Bond Oversight Committee. The devices also will consume a significant portion of money that could otherwise repair and maintain campuses. But it's liberal la la land.......What could go wrong?

 Just another mindless liberal taxpayer funded boondoggle....

Chelsea Clinton: "I personally am obsessed with diarrhea”

via NewsBusters

"Joe Conason is still trying to be the number one journalistic

ring-kisser to the Clinton family. His latest effort is fawning all over Chelsea Clinton, the humanitarian (and occasional NBC News correspondent.) He complained on her behalf that “the political press still seems far more inclined to ruminate over her supposed ambitions rather than report her real concerns.”

 Chelsea is Nobel Prize material, Conason wants you to know, with global concerns that include, “among other things, an unshakable obsession with diarrhea.” In a Third World, sense of course:

 [S]he is willing to confess that “I personally am obsessed with diarrhea”—meaning the symptoms of waterborne disease that leads to diarrhea, dehydration and death for millions of children annually across Africa. Aside from her growing experience in the field, she holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University. “I wish that someone wanted to talk about diarrhea and why I think we really have the chance to eradicate diarrhea, even before every country across the African continent or across the world has strong public health systems of sanitation and clean water.... Yes, I wish the mainstream media were interested in things like our growing work in diarrhea or the work that we’re doing in agriculture or the work we’re doing on HIV/AIDS and how important that is.”

Conason was one of the ogling correspondents who traveled to Africa with Chelsea and her father Slick Willie, and this is where the goo really began to flow freely, on how the press fails to give the Clintons enough credit for their work in Africa:

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That's Right Chief.......It was her Burning Nipple Tassels.

Metro UK 

Go Go Amy’s show turned out to be a no no after her breast contraptions caused the venue at Dundee’s Abertay University to be emptied. The fire alarms were set off after the temptress set her twirling nipple tassels ablaze.

Hundreds of customers were left disappointed and instead of getting hot under the collar, they were escorted outside.

Show planner Ky Thomasson-Kay told the Sun: "They weren’t meant to use fire in the act but I think they just completely forgot. When the alarm went off everybody had to go outside. It was incredible. ‘It was one of those priceless moments that people will be talking about for years."

Amy had been performing at the Dundee Tattoo Convention. She can normally be found entertaining guests as a member of the Pretty Things Peep Show.

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Now I'm no expert on Burlesque, but bare skinned  fire eating strippers with flaming nipple tassels just doesn't sound like a good combination to me.....just sayin.