I am sharing my experience of traveling in Canada.
I went to the town of Dresden, Ontario. It's about 76 miles from Detroit. I was traveling the Highway 401 towards London. I saw the sign that said Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site.
I couldn't help but go and visit this.
It's a part of Civil Rights History.
The Henson estate. Josiah Henson, a former slave, author, abolitionist, and minister, who, through his 1849 autobiography The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's title character in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.[
The 5-acre (20,000 m2) complex is part of the original 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land purchased in 1841 to establish the Dawn Settlement, a community for escaped slaves.
The original Henson cabin was located on a different location nearby and opened as a museum in the 1940s by an area farmer, William Chapple.
The house was moved to the existing location in 1964 by J.D. Thomson, and subsequently was owned and operated by Kent County, Ontario and then the St. Clair Parkway Commission. Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site has been owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust since 2005.
Henson Family Cemetery is located on the site. The original cabin was moved slightly for the museum and interactive centre.
I show some pictures and also posted my first YouTube video in five years.
Have you read the epic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by American writer Harriett Beecher Stowe?
Have you visited the National Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati?
President and First Lady Obama greet Girl Scouts outside the White House. The best two weeks for the president. Affordable Care Act is here to stay, marriage is equal, and the jobs market is improving. Also the White House now allows photos. Great day for Barack Obama.
The good news is that 225,000 jobs were reported for the month of June. The unemployment rate has dropped to 5.3%. Thus sealing a set of two good weeks for a president most in the media written off as a lame duck.
President Barack Obama's policies have improved the economy.
His executive order also gives salaried workers who make less than $50,000 a pay raise. It's a temporary fix until the lame Congress officially pass a worker's pay bill which includes an adjustment to the minimum wage.
The AP reports the Labor Department said Thursday that the unemployment rate dropped from 5.5 percent in May. The rate fell mostly because many people out of work gave up on their job searches and were no longer counted as unemployed.
Other details in the report were less encouraging: The percentage of Americans working or looking for work fell to a 38-year low. Average hourly pay was flat. And employers added 60,000 fewer jobs in April and May than the government had previously estimated.
For the first five months of 2015, monthly job growth averaged 217,000, a healthy streak that has been steadily absorbing the unemployed as well as part-time workers looking for more hours.
That job growth has raised economists' expectations that the Fed will soon boost the key short-term rate it controls in September or, if not, in December. The Fed has kept that rate at a record low near zero for 6½ years to support the economy. A Fed rate hike would lead to higher rates for mortgages, auto loans and other borrowing.
Strong hiring has endured this year despite a miserable winter, which helped cause the economy to contract 0.2 percent at an annual rate in the January-March quarter.
Politifact rated Stallmigo Ted Cruz (R-TX) statements on unemployment false. He took that talking points from an annoying conservative agitator and used it for his attacks.
The job gains show that employers are increasingly confident that their customer demand will keep growing. Their willingness to hire in anticipation of greater demand marks a shift from earlier in the economic recovery, when many businesses tended to hire only when essential.
A survey of purchasing executives at manufacturing firms released this week found that factories reported a scant rise in orders in June but ramped up hiring anyway.
Americans are finally spending more after boosting their savings earlier this year, in part because they're growing more confident about the economy. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index reached 101.4, matching March's figure for the second-highest level since the recession.
That's good news for auto dealers and real estate agents. Auto sales jumped to nearly a 10-year high in May. The National Automobile Dealers Association forecasts that sales will top 17 million this year for the first time since 2001.
And home sales are running at an eight-year high and boosting construction. Permits to build homes jumped 11.8 percent in May to the highest level since 2007.
Good news pisses this old fart off.
Most economists now expect economic growth to reach an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the April-June quarter and 3 percent in the second half of the year.
The workforce rate dropped to 62.5%. The lowest since 1977. That means a slight improvement from normal figures.
The jobs report for the month of June comes roaring like a lion and the conservative agitators are still devoted to making the ridiculous claim that 93 million people not being in the workforce. Of course, they don't explain to their stupid followers that it's based on statistics not policies.
The biggest nay sayer in the junk food media is an old fart. That old fart is Rush Limbaugh.
Jobs are being loss. Yeah, because the radio stations keep you and that annoying conservative agitator Sean Hannity on the radio. You squeeze out the local agitators. For you see, if you see an old fart like Rush Limbaugh dominate 573 radio stations across the country, he already destroyed 80 jobs.
It already cost a lot to put this piece of shit on radio. He's not profitable. When they kick him off the radio station, that puts people out of jobs. Matter of fact, the progressive radio stations have to sell their stations to accommodate to you. So that means you put agitators like Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press and Alan Colmes on the street. They don't have the 500 stations. They barely have 50 affiliates.
In reality, if you have a bunch of people not in the workforce, I am guessing that some are not looking for service jobs. Many careers for a post graduate are not hiring. Construction is up. I mean when it rains or when the working season is over, construction is halted.
Out of 320 million people, there's over 56 million people who are leaving the job force through retirement. At least 100,000 people die in the United States a day. The baby boomers are retiring at a faster rate. There are 38 million people who are between the age of 16 - 25 either in high school or attending college. There are active college student that don't work.
So lumping in everything would make sense if you count the dead bodies, force the retired back to work, tell the disabled to get to work and tell children under 16 to pick up a job application.
I am in Canada right now. I will be back in the United States by the end of the week.
While I haven't had an opportunity to post the latest events happening in the junk food media, I can give you a little bit of information about our friend Donald Trump running for the clown car.
He trademarked the phrase "You're Fired!!!" Now presidential douche Donald Trump found himself without a promotional network home after he talked smack about immigrants.
After his controversial statements on immigrants from Mexico, Trump found himself fired out the cannon.
NBC and Univision dumped the reality turd and business mogul as they put the brakes on the Miss USA and Miss Universe broadcasting. The Apprentice is canceled. The Trump name is no longer a brand on NBC.
Many activists have urged Trump to apologize for his comments about all Mexicans being rapists, drug dealers and the such.
Of course, Trump fired back saying that he quit the network. He said that NBC sold out.
He gets fired but Brian Williams, a former NBC News anchor gets to keep his job.
Williams lied about his reporting and was suspended without pay. He was later demoted to be news reader over at MSNBC. Lester Holt would replace him.
Trump declared he's running for the clown car last month. Since he's announced he surged to the top-tier standings overshadowing Stallmigo Rand Paul (R-KY) and Benjamin Carson.
Also, Macy's decided to end his clothing line. I am guessing that Trump will bitch about Sean "Puffy" Combs still having a deal with the company despite him smacking up his son's coach.
Trump is a carnival barker who questioned Barack Obama's birth certificate. He also banned him, Vice President Joe Biden, and the CEOs of Macy's, Univision and NBC from his properties.
Trump is one of the many clowns running for the nomination. Many speculate that he has no chance.
Republicans fear that he continues on, he may damage their brand.
The South rocked by possible arson at predominately Black churches.
First things first, we start of the month of July with the report of the Klan making a trip to Columbia, South Carolina to protest the proposal to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds.
Then there was a disturbance in which a man instigated a riot near the capitol grounds. The man was a supporter of the Confederate flag and he deliberately drove through to taunt the Black protesters.
That situation managed to attract the conservative Craigslist attention. After all, what could spook White folks more than a man being pummeled by a bunch of Black people.
Conservatives would find #BLACKLIVESMATTER hashtag merged with #RACIALMOBVIOLENCE
Then we have unexplained Black church burns in the South.
Macon, Memphis, Tallahassee, Warrenville, S.C. , Knoxville, and Charlotte were the scene where possible burns may have been the works of White extremists.
The FBI and state authorities are trying to connect the dots. Could this have been a hate crime?
Since that White terrorist killed nine innocent victims at Emmanuel AME Church, the calls for gun control and the removal of the Confederate flag have gotten louder.
I want to say thank you to all of the readers of World News Today. I want to say a special thanks to S. Baldwin for allowing me to post on the blog. I appreciate all your support.
Right now, I am in the Detroit area. I am about to head to Canada for a little bit of rest and relaxation.
I'll be posting a few stories on World News Today while I'm away from Ohio. I have the laptop with me. Any event that occurs in the U.S. or even Canada, I'll post it.
Associate Justice Anton Scalia - Ronald Reagan (Conservative)
Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy - Ronald Reagan (Conservative/Libertarian)
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas - George H.W.Bush (Conservative)
Associate Justice Steven Breyer - Bill Clinton (Liberal)
Associate Justice Ruth Bider Ginsburg - Bill Clinton (Liberal)
Associate Justice Samuel Alto - George W. Bush (Conservative) Chief Justice John Roberts - George W. Bush (Conservative)
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor - Barack Obama (Liberal)
Associate Justice Elena Kagan - Barack Obama (Liberal)
Try to keep up with the score. Conservatives are seriously upset with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy. They sided with the liberal wing of the court in regards to Obamacare.
Kennedy strung conservatives even harder by siding with the liberal wing of the court in allowing equal marriage in the United States. So it doesn't matter whether you're straight or gay, you have a right to marry. Marriage is legal in the United States. Conservatives are calling for impeachment and are urging state clerks to deny marriage licenses based on religious beliefs.
King v. Burwell ruling saves the Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). If it ruled in the conservatives favor, over 30 million signed up to the healthcare mandates subsides could be eliminated. That means each state is required to set up state exchanges regardless of political views.
Obergefell v. Hodges ruling is a landmark decision. Jim Obergefell lost his husband to ALS. He wanted to be placed as spouse on the death certificate. He and his husband John Arthur were married in Maryland. They resided in Cincinnati. When John died, Ohio refused to acknowledged the legal marriage. Jim took it to court and won. The court ruled that equal rights are extended to marriage.
On the bright side, conservatives win on rulings that involves the mandatory sentencing, the overreach of the EPA and the death penalty.
Michigan v. EPA - The court ruled that President Barack Obama's executive orders were unconstitutional.
Ohio v. Clark - The court ruled that sentencing for gun crimes under statures that carry heavy time in the iron college were constitutional.
Clayton Lockett
Glossip v. Gross - The cocktail given in the gas house isn't cruel and unusual punishment.
Conservatives win handily on these issues when it comes to gun rights, environmental regulations and the pills for death.
The Glossip v. Gross case involved the death penalty cocktail that was being injected into the condemned. An Oklahoma man was given the gas house. Clayton Lockett was given the lethal load and it didn't work. It was administered by the Oklahoma guards.
Lockett got the cocktail but it wasn't working. He told the warden that he's feeling pain. He was cussing that this "shit was burning"!
It took over 45 minutes before he would pass away. Many advocates believe that it was cruel for him to suffer.
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision believe that despite this horrible tragedy, the states that advocate the gas house are allowed to use the death cocktail.
On the other hand, the liberal wing won the ruling on Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Comm'n. This ruling could impact states that have gerrymandered districts that are based on political swing. That means if a district is relatively swing, the party in power must compromise on where the district lines go. Basically it may be up to voters to establish independent commissions to draw the congressional lines in the 2020 U.S. Census.
Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., ruling is significant. Even if there's a trace of discrimination in housing loans, leasing and properties, the individual can file a writ of consent.
Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans ruling advocates that governments aren't entitled to enshrine opinionated plates. That means that some states that issue Confederate flag plates are no longer allowed to promote private thought over government speech.
Ohio's biggest dingleberry John Kasich is in the clown car.
I live in the state of Ohio. And the news of our governor Republican John Kasich jumping into the clown car is no surprise.
Kasich talked to GOP Sundays host John Dickerson about his chances. Kasich said that it's time. He knows that his poll numbers are extremely low, but he figures they will rise once he jumps in.
He touts Ohio's unemployment rate, the state's budget surplus and wellness as a factor to his decision to run.
In July he will announce his bid at Ohio State University. He will make his intentions known.
After all, he won Ohio in a landslide. He beat the Democratic nominee by 40 points. He won over 30% of the Black vote. And despite his budget cuts, his union busting law SB-5 was repealed.
Republicans hate Kasich's embracing of Obamacare. He is willing to accept Medicaid and Medicare.
Kasich is relatively moderate. He is a former congressman and talk show host.
He once hosted a show on that network that may inspired that terrorist to kill nine innocent lives at a church.
He will make 15 or 16. I am not sure. Will Wisconsin's Scott Walker jump in before Kasich?
Conservatives think Kasich and Weeper John Boehner (R-OH) are too close President Barack Obama.
Kasich can be thanked for bringing LaBron James back to Cleveland.
The Republican Convention is in Cleveland.
Ohio's unemployment is at 4.7% currently.
Kasich kept his mouth closed during the John Crawford and Tamir Rice controversies. These two were gunned down by police. Crawford in Walmart when he picked up a BB gun. Rice when he was in a Cleveland park playing with a BB gun. He ordered mandatory testing for any new recruits in law enforcement. He asked the Black community for better relations.
He has a lapse on gun control. He will allow guns in bars, churches, parks and government buildings.
The 63-year-old governor will announce in a speech at the Ohio Union on the campus of his alma mater; and he will follow it up with an announcement tour through Michigan, South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Hamilton County Republican Party chairman Alex Triantafilou said he has been invited to the July 21 campaign kick-off; and said he believes Kasich will be a top-tier candidate in a crowded field of GOP presidential contenders.
“It’s a wide open field; no one candidate dominates,’’ Triantafilou said. “There is a good story that can be told by the governor of a successful state that can help separate him from the pack.”
Kasich’s experience in the 1990s as House Budget chairman and his four-and-half years as governor of a state that will be a key battleground state in the presidential election will help, Triantafilou said.
“Based on resume alone, this guy’s got what it takes to be president,’’ Triantafilou said.
Kasich was back on a Sunday morning talk show yesterday – this time CBS’ Face the Nation, where he was asked once again when he might officially join the crowded Republican presidential field.
“We’re getting awfully close to making a decision,’’ Kasich said.
On Face the Nation, Kasich said he had run for governor to fix what he viewed were Ohio’s problems.
“Now I can go out and tell my story and hopefully the polls will rise,’’ Kasich said. “We’ll see.”
Kasich is a total dingleberry,
And Kasich needs a boost to be among the top ten candidates who will make the first GOP presidential debate set for Aug. 6 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland – the site of the 2016 Republican nominating convention.
That network he once worked for is a co-sponsor of the debate with Facebook, has said it will take an average of five national polls on Aug. 4. The top 10 finishers will be invited to participate.
Right now, Kasich does not qualify in any of the national independent polls, polling at one to three percent support.
John C. Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, said the groundwork Kasich has laid and the July 21 campaign kick-off could give him a bump in the polling that would qualify him for the debate.
Green said Kasich will immediately be taken seriously as a presidential contender.
“He has real accomplishments to point to,” Green said. “You can compare his resume to others in the race, and his is very similar to a lot of them.”
Green said he would expect that Kasich will campaign on a theme of turning an $8 billion state budget deficit into a $2 billion surplus without raising taxes.
If there is a downside, Green said, it is the difficulty of running for president while holding a full time job as the governor of a major state.
“It’s a little more difficult for a governor than a senator, because a governor is involved in making policy decisions,’’ Green said.
New Jersey Republican Chris Christie is about to jump into the clown car. He will make a formal announcement on Tuesday.
This makes 14.
The Republican is often colorful in his rhetoric and is probably one of the very few candidates I actually believe could beat perennial candidate Hillary Clinton.
Will he be a serious candidate?
I don't know. If he's won reelection and managed to attract Black votes, it's up in the air. Some people look at him as a moderate.
A center-right candidate is way better than an extremist like Stallmigo Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Republicans aren't keen to Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Christie. They believe they're too cozy with Obama and Clinton.
The Republicans still feel betrayed by Christie after he embraced President Barack Obama's handling of Hurricane Sandy. The Republicans believe that Christie ruined perennial loser Mitt Romney's chances at winning the White House.
Christie's weight is often questioned by agitators as a liability.
They seem to forget that it was the fault of Romney and no one else. They just want to dog pile on Christie because he believes that an effective federal government response to disasters.
Anyway, the junk food media has speculated that Christie was about to get in. So in order to stop the momentum they tossed the scandals that plagued him during his term. The first thing that comes to mind is his weight. They criticized the governor for being a big man in the state house.
The junk food media has been relentless on the many scandals involving him and his family. They reported on Christie taking the private plane to seeing his son play sports and hanging out with the Dallas Cowboys at ATT Stadium. Chief Roger and Rupert Murdoch both asked him back in 2012 to run against perennial loser Mitt Romney. The George Washington Bridge being delayed during rush hour became a big story in the media. The agitators believe that Christie wanted revenge on Democratic mayor from Fort Lee. No federal charges were brought against him, but the scandal will haunt him.
He's been a bully when it comes to Democrats who refuse to support him during his budget battles.
He also against vaccinations. He questioned Obama's stances vaccination. He believes that it's a parent's choice and not the government. So say if we have an outbreak of disease it's up to the child's parent get vaccinated.
Christie has battled the teacher's unions, bust up he state unions, and wants New Jersey to become a right-to-work state.
Christie once embraced the Tea Party. But it seems now that he's abandon a plural of the insurgency's views on immigration, marriage legality and trade policy.
His stances has moderated due to his state's deeply Democratic tilt. He easily beat the Democratic nominee in 2013 after swaying Black voters. He won over 40% of the Black vote in his reelection bid.
The AP reports that Christie's political team has gone live with a presidential campaign website days before he jumps into the 2016 race.
Conservatives will go after Christie for embracing Obama.
The new website — www.chrischristie.com — shows the New Jersey governor's name along with the slogan, "Telling it like it is."
Christie also is promoting the site with a short animated video posted on his Twitter feed. The site says it's paid for Chris Christie for President, Inc.
Christie has a "special announcement event" set for Tuesday in the gym of Livingston High School, from which he graduated in 1980. Donors and friends have gotten invitations, and Christie's team has invited reporters to attend.
After his announcement, Christie plans to go to New Hampshire for a town hall meeting.
These three women lived in Chillicothe. The FBI is determined to find a serial killer in the area.
Chillicothe, Ohio is 35 miles south of Columbus, Ohio. The city is rocked by a series of unsolved murders involving women on the stroll.
World News Today send our condolences to those lost in this senseless tragedy. Charlotte Trago, Wanda Lemons, Tameka Lynch, Shasta Himelrick, Tiffany Sayre and Timberly Claytor are loved.
They may have had issues in their lives, but in no way should they be murdered for that.
The law aided by the FBI in probing the histories of six women who turned up missing. Three of them were found dead near rivers. They have fingered a pimp as a person of interest.
The area is roughly hilly and rural.
Centered around Bridge Street, the Chillicothe Inn is a notorious spot for women to meet up with tricks who want a little action. Some of these women were addicted to heroin. These women ranged from the early 20s to late 30s. They were mothers, grandmothers, daughters and sisters.
"Investigators recovered a great deal of evidence from the vehicle including blood, DNA, and a bullet," Ross County Sheriff George Lavender said.
These women turned up missing. Four of them ended up dead.
They also arrested 36-year-old Jason McCrary, a registered sex offender, for failing to update his address information. But they call him a prime person of interest in Timberly Claytor's killing.
Timberly's body was dumped in a vacant building lot around high weeds. She was shot three times and left for dead. She was 38-years old.
Is her death related to the disappearances of three other women?
"There's a common thread in terms of the places that the victims frequented and some of the people they were associated with,” Ross County Prosecutor Matthew Schmidt said.
Charlotte Trego was last seen in May of 2014. Wanda Lemons disappeared December 2014. Tiffany Sayre disappeared three weeks ago.
And last may Tameka Lynch was found dead in Paint Creek of an apparent overdose.
"I know that those of you in the media have talked to some who have suggested that different people that are missing may know each other,” Schmidt said. “And that's something that we're looking at very seriously."
Jason McCrary is a registered sex offender. The law singling out this pimp as the person of interest.
"Last week we asked for FBI assistance in the three missing women case,” Chillicothe Police Chief Keith Washburn said. “We're in the process now of forming a task force."
Authorities said they want the expertise of the FBI to help them compare notes with other local agencies investigating missing women cases, including Columbus and Scioto County.
Leading some to wonder, is this the work of a serial killer? Investigators aren't ruling it out.
"We've got too many young women missing. So you always want to look at that possibility," Lavender said.
Schmidt said there was a great deal of forensic evidence found in that vehicle.
They are waiting for test results on that, and looking at surveillance video of Claytor's final hours, before they look at any additional charges against Jason McCrary.
He's being held in the Ross County jail on $100,000 bond.
This sexual predator doesn't care about their lives. All he sees is an opportunity to help them get their fix. And for this fix, these women didn't expect his sexual desire would lead to their murder.
The FBI is hoping that they can find the connection between each woman.
This sleeper story finally picked up some national attention. The junk food media is spooking the residents. The city is determined to find the suspect. Whether its McCrary or not, the mystery continues and we hope that the law can figure out how this senseless tragedy occurred.
David Sweat was captured. The remaining escapee from the Clinton Correctional was caught by the law in Constable, New York. The town is less than 10 miles from the U.S.- Canadian border.
Sweat was wounded but according to the junk food media, he will survive his injuries. He is being detained at the local hospital.
For nearly a month, David Sweat and the big player in the iron college Richard Matt managed to elude authorities for weeks. They were hoping that accomplice Joyce Mitchell would have drove them to the border. Turns out that Mitchell had second thoughts.
Mitchell was apprehended after she confessed to aiding the escapees.
Matt ate a lead sandwich after disobeyed law orders. He was apparently armed.
Sweat and Matt both used their survival skills for the most part. They managed to elude the law through the woods and taking breaks near cabins. They broke into a cabin and made a brief stay.
They left their fingerprints, blood and undies all over the place.
That gave them the perfect lead to where they were located.
DMX is sweating. The veteran rapper back in county lockup for some form of stupidity.
Earl Simmons is still a dog on the loose and the pound about to neuter him.
According to Wikipedia, Simmons is a product of his environment.
I miss them days when he was the biggest thing that came off Def Jam Records.
DMX as he's professionally known was a member of the Ruff Ryders. He, Eve, Swizz Beatz, Jadakiss and his group The Lox were the biggest acts during the late 1990s until 2005.
X and his crew were selling hits. But their egos, the law and canceling tours have damaged their reputations. Now people aren't rocking Ruff Ryders.
The mixtape circuit is the only thing that keeps Jadakiss relevant. The others decided to make families and semi-retire from the music. Eve is focused on acting and is married to billionaire mogul Max Cooper. Swizz Beatz divorced his former wife and went on to marry pop singer Alicia Keys.
X on the other hand, is trying to find Black Jesus.
X is still having trouble with the law and is on the verge of being put in the pound for LIFE.
Last time I've talked about X, he was getting in trouble for armed robbery of a fan. Now I hear that he's back in county lockup for missing child support for the seven children (or twelve). I lost count.
Since he's no longer rocking with Def Jam, he's having trouble trying to push out albums.
So I guess with the money making in the dirt, X has blown money fast. He recently filed for bankruptcy after complaining about his child support.
The courts ain't buying that excuse. The law put the muzzle on X after he came to town. He was suppose to perform at Radio City. Alas, his habits of canceling shows continues.
He said those included $400,000 worth of unpaid child support, a warrant issued by the city of White Plains for bail jumping and a robbery complaint out of Newark, New Jersey. No charges have been filed in the Newark case.
A management company that has represented DMX did not immediately return an email seeking comment from The Associated Press.
