No, this didn’t happen in Mississippi or South Carolina, it happened in Manitou Springs, Colorado — a suburb of Colorado Springs, which Daily Beast describes as “a very white, heavily Republican Christian-conservative military city.” (Note: The Air Force Academy, which consta[...]
Archive for July, 2015
July 28th, 2015 - 12:15 pm § in Misc.
What would happen if citizens who shot cops were treated like cops who shoot citizens?
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July 28th, 2015 - 10:29 am § in Misc.
Police union weeps for Seattle cop who mistreated elderly black man
Seattle cop Cynthia Whitlatch has been on paid leave for nearly a year. She was taken off street duty after arresting a 69-year-old black man for using a golf club as a walking cane, and lying in her arrest report that he used the golf club as a weapon by swinging it at her. Her […][...]
July 28th, 2015 - 9:27 am § in Misc.
Road raging off-duty cop threatens to kill confused driver
To the 25-year-old lost and confused driver who “messed up” and drove the wrong way through a traffic circle, the man in shorts and tank top who jumped out of a red pickup truck and yelled expletives at him appeared to be a road rager. So he put his car in reverse and began backing [&hel[...]
July 28th, 2015 - 4:33 am § in Misc.
Call me flipper
Dolphins by Name Bottlenose dolphins can recognize and respond to their own “signature whistles,” strengthening the evidence that these whistles function like names.[...]
July 28th, 2015 - 3:47 am § in Misc.
The 1% .. South African Style
Minister Senzeni Zokwana’s herder gets R26 a day While the poor in the YS suffer watching our rich get richer, people elsewhere are already living the American nightmare. Last year, the South African press reported that South Africa’s new Minister for agriculture, forestry and fisheries, S[...]
July 28th, 2015 - 1:28 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Seattle Initiative I22: What is it?
In an era where the cost of a single city council seat in Seattle may be over $1,000,000 SEATTLE, I-122 is purported to offer a divers collection of campaign finance reforms. The most innovative aspect would be that each voter would receive four $25 vouchers. This would be intended to get can[...]
July 27th, 2015 - 8:09 pm § in Misc.
Huckabee plagiarizes LBJ’s famous nuclear countdown ad
The original LBJ ad: Huckabee’s knockoff ad: Comment: Apart from the dubious ethics of using someone else’s creative work, Huckabee’s appropriation of LBJ’s famous “Daisy Girl Ad” depicting the countdown to World War III is ludicrous on its own terms. Conservative[...]
We know Black Lives Matters, now what are we going to do about the fact that America does not care?
Black people continue to argue that Black Lives Matter. The fact that we have to argue, should let us know that they do not give a f@$k about us. We should devote our time and energy on debating within our own community. What is the solution? It is clear that the black community is awake […][...]