August, 2014 archive
Gifts and Grifts in the Old Dominion 0
Jon Stewart takes on the case of the Regent and the Medicine Showman.
Moved below the fold because it autoplays on some systems.
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 0
This is the girl who was shot to death because she sought help after a car accident.
From Color of Change
A jury has just found Theodore Wafer guilty on all counts for the murder of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, who was tragically killed when seeking help after a car accident in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, MI.
Wafer’s conviction is an incredibly important and rare moment of accountability for violence against Black women. Share the powerful above image to honor Renisha and help grow the movement to end violence against Black women.
She was murdered for the crime of seeking help while black.
Image and statement via Color of Change.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
How to be polite in Killingly (I did you not), Connecticut:
Authorities say 22-year-old Kyle Carney of Killingly had been pointing a rifle in the boy’s direction when it accidentally discharged.
“Accidently.” Yeah.
Cold War Redux? 0
Thom and Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, review how the US went back on its word and what how that may have affected what’s happening Ukraine.
Droning On 0
Stupid droners drone on.
(snip)
The National Park Service in June announced a ban on so-called unmanned aerial vehicles, but officials say premier national parks in the U.S. West are reporting a sharp rise in the number of drones buzzing bison and boaters.
All the News that Fits 0
The New York Times stumbles over unknown object, upon investigating discovers something called “truth” and “accuracy.”
Suffer the Children 0
Writing in the Bangor Daily News, Robert W. Glover, assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, tries to understand the hostility to the child refugees fleeing to this country. A nugget (emphasis added):
For instance, in recent immigration attitudes research we conducted at the University of Maine, we found individuals consistently employed notions of threat consistent with racial stereotypes, even when these failed to correspond to the facts of a narrative they had just read. This shows how powerful notions of threat hinder our abilities to grasp nuance — or even make us misinterpret reality itself.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness to children.
Elmorsy’s downstairs neighbor, Tom Hollowell, said his 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter was sleeping in her room when the bullet flew by her bed and lodged itself in a closet door about three feet away.
Hollowell and his girlfriend noticed the bullet hole the next day and called police in a panic.
In other news of the polite, just read the comments.
(Link fixed.)
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Better–back under 300K.
(snip)
The four-week average, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 293,500, the lowest since February 2006, from 297,500 the week before.
In one reassuring development, Bloomberg’s “experts” are back into their rhythm. The predicted an increase.
“Get Off My Lawn” 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a longer post about Teabaggery’s record of failure in this year’s Republican Primaries, Dick Polman buries this nugget:
Facing the Music 0
There has been a fascinating exchange in the Roanoke Times, one that illustrates well the mean-spiritedness that underlies wingnuttery. I’ll let it speak for itself.
Part one (which I mentioned here in these electrons).