It’s sort of understandable. Their noisy motorcycles are a nuisance and clog the streets, impeding normal traffic. Some of the bikers get drunk and rowdy. They leave litter. Reports of reckless driving, public urination, disorderly conduct, drug use, and violence are well-documented. There eve[...]
Posts Tagged ‘South Carolina’
December 31st, 2014 - 5:43 pm § in Uncategorized
South Carolina’s governor yanks welcome mat from black bikers
December 27th, 2014 - 11:05 am § in America
Glad to live in WASTATE
I am very happy to live here rather than in the former confederacy. A state like South Carolina where some of my own family chose to live, disgusts me. Still, before getting too happy let me point out that our own state has a very racist history. When my wife and I moved here the Indian Fi[...]
December 26th, 2014 - 10:21 am § in Misc.
South Carolina Joins The Mob
3 White Officers In S.C. Indicted For Shooting Unarmed Black Men – Atlanta Blackstar While outrage over the police’s use of fatal force continues to gain momentum, grand juries in three separate cases in South Carolina have gone against the…[...]
December 17th, 2014 - 4:06 pm § in Uncategorized
George Stinney Jr. was lynched by South Carolina
A judge has vacated the 1944 conviction of George Stinney Jr., in a ruling his trial was marred by “fundamental Constitutional violations of due process.” In fact, the 14-year-old black boy’s “trial” was a total sham. Stinney was blamed for the murders of two young whit[...]
December 4th, 2014 - 11:42 am § in America
S. Carolina prosecutes white cops who kill unarmed black men
In South Carolina, of all places, white cops don’t get away with gunning down black people. There, for the third time this year, a grand jury has charged another white cop for shooting an unarmed black man. The somewhat complicated procedural history of this case goes like this: The cop had [...]
November 24th, 2014 - 9:34 am § in Misc.
Radical Republicans
I found the cartoonist choices of skin tines interesting. Is this a comment on Clarence Thomas and John Scott?[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 3:04 pm § in Politics
Senator Calls Benghazi Report ‘Crap’
“Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, doesn’t think much of a new report from the House Intelligence Committee that exonerates the administration of any alleged wrongdoing in its response to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. ‘I think the report is full of crap,’[...]
Political Control of Universities … Iran vs South Carolina
Iran’s Censors Academic Freedom in Universities Reza Faraji-Dana, the former Minister of Science, during his tenure as president of the University of Tehran in 2005. Reuters On Tuesday, Iran’s parliament rejected the fourth person that President Hassan Rouhani has nominated to lead the[...]