First a frightening scene, then a stadium erupting in cheers, when a cat that dangled, then fell, from the upper deck of a Miami stadium on Saturday, September 11, 2001, was caught by fans in the lower seats who improvised a net from an American flag. Read story here, and watch video below. The sto[...]
Archive for September 12th, 2021
September 12th, 2021 - 5:58 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
America’s pandemic crime wave
The abrupt rise in crime that washed over locked-down America last year is emerging as a hot political issue for the 2022 midterm elections. It’s also fiction. Overall crime declined from 2019 to 2020. Homicides were up, but all other categories of crime were lower. A study of 22 states and th[...]
September 12th, 2021 - 12:45 pm § in Misc.
Honolulu city council condemns “Stairway to Heaven”
Honolulu’s city council has voted unanimously “to remove the Haiku Stairs or ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and set aside $1 million to get the job done. The next step is for Mayor Rick Blangardi to approve the city budget and finalize the move to destroy the site,” the Daily Mai[...]
Yes, blame Republicans
It’s been 20 years, at least, since Americans felt safe. The incoming Bush administration ignored warnings by departing Obama administration national security officials. (See article here.) Perhaps the 9/11 terror attacks couldn’t have been prevented anyway, but Bush and the people aroun[...]