Guess what came to America from Haiti some years ago?

Study shows AIDS came to the U.S. via Haiti, and earlier than thought
By Jia-Rui Chong, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
A genetic analysis of 25-year-old blood samples has outlined a new map of the AIDS virus’ journey out of Africa, showing that today’s most widespread subtype first emerged in Haiti in the 1960s and arrived in [...]

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Minority-owned businesses receive majority of SBA loans in N.J. for the first time

(nj.com) For the first time, minority- owned businesses have received the majority of New Jersey’s Small Business Administration loans, with Asian-American-owned firms taking the lead.
The SBA said yesterday 52 percent of New Jersey’s 3,557 loans went to minority-owned firms in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 — the first time that’s happened since the [...]

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A whole city on life support

Long before hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was already a city in need of massive government intervention thanks to a population that has largely on welfare, a very corrupt police department, and a public housing department that was taken over by HUD back in 2002. Now it appears that the state may have to take [...]

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The civil war continues…

“You have black folks and you have…”

And ya’ put it on youtube.

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“I told you I’ll be back, sucka!”

From his upcoming album: Xcape
Gangster (No Friend of Mine)

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Whatareyadoing?

Man (sigh!), there was something going on with the previous template that was causing the backend to screw up big time. Buried in the coding was a script that was overloading my database and frankly I do not feel like spending the hours to look for it. It is going to take me about a [...]

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What socialized health care looks like in the U.K.

“But everybody gets access.”
Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS
dailymail.co.uk
Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.
And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa [...]

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15 Laterals Miracle Play

Two words: IN–SANE!
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Some Republicans love nanny goverment, too!

Connecticut School District Wants Report Cards for Parents
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
Foxnews.com
Parents in Connecticut might be the ones getting the report cards if a proposed plan makes the grade at a Manchester public school district.
Steve Edwards, a Republican member of the Manchester Board of Education who’s up for re-election Nov. 6, wants parents to be evaluated on [...]

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Yet another example of how the media likes to portray Blacks as “confused”

Black voters torn: Obama or Clinton? [Link]
Well suh, I jus don knows what I’m ‘pposed to do. Do I’s vote for a colored man, or do I’s votes for Mister’s wife?
I don’t know about you, but I have had my fill of articles talking about how Blacks are “torn” between two candidates. Last I checked, [...]

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