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Cities brace for increasing unrest ... Spiraling out of control ...

Bill Barr: Violence appears planned by far-left groups

De Blasio, Cuomo target June 8 for first phase of New York City reopening

University of Michigan is taking steps to bring students back on campus this fall

Security officers gunned down in Oakland ...

Bernie Kerik: FBI must investigate funding of ANTIFA terrorism

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Fact check: China produces as much steel in a month as the U.S. does in a year

[CNN] Goes to strip club for Stormy Daniels performance ...

Oakland [CA] coffee shop will not serve cops for 'safety of customers'

Sessions criticizes federal judges for slowing Trump's national agenda

California has too much green energy

[Trump] Calls NBC's Chuck Todd 'son of a bitch' ...

NRA files suit against Gov. Rick Scott's gun control

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Trump: 'Disgraceful' for Sessions to use DOJ watchdog to investigate FBI

ICE: Oakland mayor who warned illegals of raid 'no better than a gang lookout'

GDP growth revised down to 2.5% ...

U.S. News crowns California with worst state for 'quality of life'

Trump: We're delaying California border wall until entire project is approved

South Africa tries to seize white-owned land without compensation

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Farrakhan: DNC's Ellison only denounced me because 'the Jew holds the door'

Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement

Amazon is buying Ring [for $1.8 billion], a company once rejected on 'Shark Tank'

Streisand clones her dogs. For $50,000 you can clone yours ...

Shooting survivor's father admits email changes in CNN spat

Ebonics

Now that Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, has given MSNBC's Piers Morgan a primer in Ebonics (see: Huffington Post Story), I am reminded of the School Board of Oakland, California's attempt to teach this same argot in its schools ... all those 17 years ago.  Back then, damning the PC torpedoes, I created a listing of other languages that I thought that Oakland could tutor to its diversified student population.  It was passed around the Internet ... for which I got little credit.  Perhaps this time it will be different:

NEW LANGUAGES TO BE TAUGHT IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 

Afro-American Speak: Ebonics (“Ebony” + “Phonics”)

Irish-American Speak: Leprechaunics                      

Native-American Speak: Kimosabics                           

Italo-American Speak: Spumonics (or Rigatonics)

Chinese-American Speak: Wontonics                           

Japanese-American Speak: Mama-sanics                       

Polish-American Speak: Kielbasanics                         

Jewish-American Speak: Zionics                         

Russian-American Speak: Rasputonics                          

Spanish-American Speak: Flanics                        

Scottish-American Speak: Tartanics                              

Eskimo-American Speak: Harpoonics                           

German-American Speak: Autobahnics (or Teutonics)

French-American Speak: Cornichonics (or Escargonics)

Oakland-School-Board Speak: Moronics