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Frederick Deligne, Nice-Matin, France  

Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade

In the U.S.A. on this Mothers Day no less than forty percent of births are to unmarried women and a third of all children grow up in a single-parent home.

This if for sale in the U.S.
A shooting target depicting the unarmed black boy Trayvon Martin (17). He was shot in Florida recently by vigilante George Zimmerman for acting suspiciously.
Trayvon was wearing a hoodie and carrying a bag of candy.
Because of the Stand your Ground rule for selfprotection, Zimmerman was not arrested until weeks later after killing Trayvon.

Meanwhile in Florida a black mother was sentenced to 20 years in jail for firing warning shots at her abusive husband who despite a protective order against him was trying to attack her.
Protecting yourself on the Stand your Ground rule in Florida apparently doesn't apply to black women standing up to domestic violence.

Foto: Nationaal Archief

Deze vraag werd gesteld door Twigg op GoeieVraag met deze toevoeging: "Genieten vogels bijvoorbeeld van de zonsondergang als ze mooi hoog in de boom zitten?"

a)  Jazeker, wel eens een vogel horen zingen?
b)  Nee, wel eens een muis horen piepen?
c)  We zullen het nooit weten.

Pavel Constantin, Romania

Mitt Romney responded in an open letter to reports that he severely bullied gays when he was young:

"The Washington Post reported an incident from my high school days that I bullied a gay classmate by pinning him down and cutting his hair off. It revealed a side of Mitt Romney that may have been surprising to many of you: the Mitt Romney with an hilarious sense of humor.

Some of you may say, “Hold on, Mitt – isn’t holding a kid down and cutting off his hair going a little far?” Well, the merry prankster in me tells me you can never go too far when it comes to giving the greatest gift of all: the gift of laughter.  And I certainly remember many of us laughing long and hard about what I did to that Nancy-boy."

Mitt Romney responded to the statement by President Obama that he approves of gay marriage by saying he is 'fine' with same-sex couples adopting children because they 'have a right to do' that. That was Thursday.

Friday the Republcan presidential candidate elaborated on that statement by saying that he only acknowledges that in most American states same-sex couples have the right to adoption but apparently that doesn't mean he personally supports it.

Wanna know what Mitt Romney said in 1994: "We must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern."

This news has lead to amazement in the U.S.A,  that 'shining city on the hill' where this week 84 shots where fired at a murder suspect in Harlem. None of them were warning shots. By the way, the National Rifle Association claims this news is a hoax:

According to Der Spiegel, the police in Germany has fired a total of 85 bullets in 2011; 49 of those were warning shots. Officers fired 36 times at people, killing 6 and injuring 15.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., 84 shots were fired at one murder suspect in Harlem, and another 90 at an unarmed man in Los Angeles.

Foto: Groen

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