LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan 28 (Reuters) – A bid to end Arkansas’ practice of honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the same day failed in a state legislative committee on Wednesday.[...]
Archive for January, 2015
January 29th, 2015 - 2:22 am § in Misc.
SUPERBOWL COUNTDOWN: Seattle Wins!
Paul Bessire’s PredictionMachine.com ran 50,000 simulated games. The PredictionMachine.com used some of the most advanced analytics available , found the Seattle Seahawks winning 57.3 percent of the time. New England Patriots 42.7 percent of the time. The Predictalator calculates that Seahawks[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 11:44 pm § in Misc.
Ferguson town meeting erupts into brawl between cops and citizens
A Ferguson town meeting to discuss civilian oversight of the police turned rowdy Wednesday night after a woman confronted a police union official about his “I am Darren Wilson” wristband. The argument quickly escalated into a shoving match as citizens and cops waded in. The union officia[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 8:50 pm § in Misc.
Cops kill 2 teen girls in 4 days
In two separate incidents, four days apart, police in C0lorado and Texas fatally shot 16- and 17-year-old girls this last week. Neither of the girls was innocent. One drove a stolen car into an officer, fracturing his leg; the other brandished a knife at a police station. The issue I want to discus[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 6:43 pm § in Uncategorized
Fire this Seattle cop!
William Wingate, 70, likes to go for walks. He uses a golf club as a cane. On July 9, 2014, SPD Officer Cynthia Whitlach pulled over her squad car where Wingate was waiting at a crosswalk, got out, and ordered him to put down his golf club. He asked why, and she said, “Because it’s [&hel[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 11:47 am § in Uncategorized
South Carolina judge sets aside 1961 civil rights convictions
A South Carolina judge has righted a historic injustice by clearing the records of 9 black men convicted in 1961 of trespassing and breach of peace for sitting at a “whites only” lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The men — a CORE organizer and 8 college students at the ti[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 11:18 am § in America
What Comes After the Newspapers Are All Gone?
The Daily Beast reports that the Republican Governor of Indiana is launching his own, state funded news site! official memo: “Just IN will function as a news outlet in its own right for thousands of Hoosiers—transparent in functioning as a voice of the State of Indiana’s executi[...]