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Plenty of warning?
NYPD appears to have had some warning before Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot two policemen in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday. In the background is the long criminal (and mental) history of Brinsley who had been arrested more than a dozen times in the past. But they were also warned directly by police a...
Great comment, Marcus.
...Though Clinton may not be the shoo-in many expect.
Is Jeb planning to cash in again?
Paul Krugman comes up with the hard facts on why Jeb Bush wasn't a great governor of Florida. The most noticeable aspect of his governorship was the extent to which he made out like a bandit once he was out of office. "Cashed in," is how Krugman puts it. So he wasn’t an exceptional governor, ...
I can vouch I've never seen it in OK or KS. ...
So it did a giant leap into north Texas, I guess. Hope you'll report back if you find it elsewhere!
Beloved, disgusting food
Poutine! Calvin Trillin's 2009 article in the New Yorker about the Quebecois comfort food, poutine, may have set off a poutine fad that reached as far as Texas. As a punch line, poutine has a lot going for it. Many Canadians believe that it is also good to eat. Their fondness for it is, in ...
I bet! On the other hand, I grew up in Maine, which is about half Canadian, and I don't remember cheese curds...
Beloved, disgusting food
Poutine! Calvin Trillin's 2009 article in the New Yorker about the Quebecois comfort food, poutine, may have set off a poutine fad that reached as far as Texas. As a punch line, poutine has a lot going for it. Many Canadians believe that it is also good to eat. Their fondness for it is, in ...
Huh?
Democrats are facing years of losses
It's pretty simple when you check out a roundup of lousy indicators. Greg Sargent writes that "anyone who cares about the future of the Democratic Party needs to ask whether the party’s elders and wise men are thinking hard enough about how to regain ground on the state level." According to Da...
No big problem, Harry, as long as we don't mind living in a "failed nation."
Militia moves into Ferguson
With National Guard in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, along with random protesters and demonstrators, you'd think the streets would be crowded enough. Now they're joined by the "Oath Keepers," who are, um, "patriots." At least one organizer is a former Defense Department contractor. The Oa...
That seems naive and a little forced!
It's not the looters we should be looking at but the prosecutor
"The county prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, who is widely viewed in the minority community as being in the pockets of the police," the New York Times editorial board writes this morning, "made matters infinitely worse by handling this sensitive investigation in the worst possible way." From the ge...
"If they do not find probable cause to indict, I suppose the public will have limited access to the facts surrounding this case."
Great point, Betty. If that's true -- and I think you're exactly right -- the anger won't be confined to the St. Louis area. Not by a long shot. (Oops.Bad choice of words.)
Poor Nixon. He's one of the victims, really.
How not to handle a potential riot
Apparently Darren Wilson's exoneration by grand jury is a done deal. It is widely believed by those that have followed developments in the case that Wilson will not be indicted on any serious charges in the Brown killing. ...AlJazeera So, of course, America wants to know who's going to be in ...
I'm with you. Same is happening in my family, Betty. Nice to be part of the real world!
A Ferguson decision
The verdict of the grand jury in the matter of Officer Darren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown may come this weekend, but in the meantime Wilson has let it be known that he won't be returning to the police department where he worked. At least one school in Ferguson will remain closed early ne...
Well said, Linusbern!
Officer Wilson, in newly released videos, doesn't appear even slightly hurt
The videos are grainy and only partly revealing. But here is a man -- officer Darren Wilson wearing civvies -- with what appears to be an undamaged face, no limping. He's walking along, sometimes in the company of other officers, sometimes holding a drink and food. The St. Louis paper’s anal...
We're talking about the Ferguson police saying he'd been hit in the face. Now photos take at the time show no facial wounds.
But here's the continuing issue: excessive force is now commonly used by law enforcement across the country. That's the larger problem here. As we uncover more cowardice and brutality in Ferguson,the closer we are to changing a culture which doesn't belong in a free country, least of all in law enforcement.
Officer Wilson, in newly released videos, doesn't appear even slightly hurt
The videos are grainy and only partly revealing. But here is a man -- officer Darren Wilson wearing civvies -- with what appears to be an undamaged face, no limping. He's walking along, sometimes in the company of other officers, sometimes holding a drink and food. The St. Louis paper’s anal...
He could use some. Probably could have used it his whole abbreviated life. He survived for at least 17 years living in the most dangerous situation we set up for children in this country.
Looks like Darren Wilson walks
Justice Department investigators have all but concluded they do not have a strong enough case to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., law enforcement officials said. ...WaPo The what department...
In response to both comments, more or less:
Somehow America has decided there are two sides to every issue... and only two sides. Certainly, many whites I have known -- generally though not always older rather than young people -- see white/black as us/them.
Somewhere along the line I moved into the we're-all-just-us category. At that point, the us-versus-them people have seemed "dangerous" and "criminal" as teenage Michael Brown is described in the first comment. Given eye witness reports, the second commenter seems to have a more likely view of what happened.
For those who are interested, even older people on the left are not, by nature, bed-wetters (and there are always Depends if you have a problem). Nor is social justice radical, unless you think our "forefathers" -- the ones who worked on the Constitution -- were just a bunch of useless radical piss-pants.
Looks like Darren Wilson walks
Justice Department investigators have all but concluded they do not have a strong enough case to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., law enforcement officials said. ...WaPo The what department...
We agree.
If you aren't familiar with it yet, you may enjoy "The Moderate Voice."
http://www.themoderatevoice.com/
Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" did exist after all, and...
... they are found to have been manufactured by the US. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western comp...
I lived out of the country for too many decades to understand what happened to "boys." Seriously.
The gun problem again (and again and again)
We need to think about gun ownership and use in a very different way. When you look at the death toll, are gun deaths and Ebola deaths so very far apart? In the wake of the Vonderrit Myers shooting in St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch writes in its editorial that we have some work to do. There hav...
Soc,I don't think the left -- I include most of my friends and myself -- have taken the time to understand the deep, personal resentment felt by many on the right towards Democrats. Until we focus on it, we will be much less successful at planning and implementing our own short- to long-term win. The Republicans, threatened by deep divisions, infuriated by our lack of respect for Reagan (among other heroes), united around an almost Soviet 5-10-15 year plan to get and keep power, state by state and nationally. They know what they will be doing when they win in November, just as they knew, on the evening following the 2009 inauguration, that their main job would be to destroy Obama. And they said so! Now they know what their next moves are if they don't take the Senate.
BTW, if they do win, they may get bitten hard in the butt by the markets. Looking at the numbers right now, the markets seem to fluctuate according to the latest win/lose murmurs. It's possible (run-offs) that the results of the Nov vote won't be known until mid Dec. Interesting to watch how the markets cope with this. Any ideas?
They'll probably win in November. They've already won in the states.
While politics in Washington remain gridlocked, the conservative revolution has been thriving outside the Capitol beltway. Republicans in states across the Midwest and the South are determined to eviscerate liberal policies and to entrench the political power of the right. Twenty-three state gov...
I hope you're right, Pete, because I'm a Kohut fan and want him to be right! But it looks to me like he's going along with the "common wisdom" that the country is increasingly pro-Republican.
(What amazes me is the number of R candidates out there -- take Roberts/Kansas and Abbott/Texas for starters -- who are truly cruddy people. Got any up there in the land of beautiful hickories?)
Another nail in Republican coffin?
When was it we were all so sure there'd be a Republican wave in November. ...? There may not be. That greenish-brownish sludge in the corporate retaining pool over there on the right is barely moving, much less turning into a wave. Things could change. But they're looking less and less favorab...
First place I saw it early this morning was at WaPo -- 30,000. Now the headline has changed slightly and you're right, it's 3,000. Seems more likely!! Thanks, Tom.
New war -- and one worth waging
Fighting back against a mass killer like Ebola seems almost too sane for these times. We are committing up to 30,000 military [that's 3,000 -- see comments below] and three quarters of a billion dollars to the new "war", starting in Liberia where the disease is rampant. The command will help ov...
You're one of unlucky, mom. "16 key cities" are singled out by the Kaiser report as lower-premium areas. Maybe yours will go down, too.
Uh-oh! Already, Obamacare premiums are...
...falling, not rising. The news comes within two months of the midterms (which may be coincidental) and there it is: health insurance premiums in key markets are going down nearly 10%. That is not normal; health-insurance premiums nearly always go up and up and up. They rarely, if ever, decr...
Whew! Thanks, Dug. When I went back to doublecheck, I see the Post has added a mini-bio. Hope to read more from her.
White rage
Carol Anderson, writing in the Washington Post, gets it right. What's dominating America now, whether you are willing to believe it or not, is not "black rage." It's white rage. No mitigating factors, no "excuse me, that's going too far." The style is different but the rage is considerably m...
Phoenix -- don't we know that in America you're guilty until proven innocent? Anyone who's sat on a jury has probably had to put up with at least one fellow juror who says, wearily, "Aw, c'mon. He wouldn't be here if he weren't guilty. He looks guilty!"
More shots were fired; Darren Wilson has Supreme Court protection
Or so it would appear. When Ferguson's police chief was questioned about the number of bullets Officer Darren Wilson shot at Michael Brown seemed vague and dismissive. A recording of the event by a bystander hints at several more shots than the original six. Evidence shows that the officer’s ...
rotflmao
What makes you a member of the 'net elite these days?
Startling discovery: The latest measure of true blue web-sters is that they shun Facebook, Twitter. I'm picking this up from assorted commenters around the sphere. Twitter is useful, though. Facebook? A high school toilet wall, mostly. Right?
"Agreed, the cop overreacted. But what were his options?"
How about "not overreact" for a start?
Convenience store clerk: back off and rely on store videocam for later identification by police.
Backing off is better and safer than open carry.
Bullies? Avoid them. Back off ...run.
Always make violence the last, least desirable option.
I was once (a long while back) a witness, was asked to come to precinct station to give a statement, was harassed and I mean seriously harassed by police. Boston.
The cigar-stealing, the orbital fracture of the officer's eye socket, the cover-up
Al Jazeera has a great round-up of the sequence of events in Ferguson and an indication as to why the police narratives are so important... to the police and to many whites. In the end, what's being defended is not just "law and order" but the myth many whites in America cling to, that black Am...
B&E is one of THE real gems of blogoland, Diddie. Really.
From the start, the police were behaving like they might be nuts. Then they went nuts.
There appears to be no justification for the police behaviors in Ferguson last night. First it was bad; then it got worse. Then it got positively insane, thanks to the cops. There's something nutty about "police action" when, "at 8:22 P.M. the police began demanding that the crowd stay twenty-f...
Good question. I've tried vodka. I've tried the 6 mangoes a day treatment. I've tried sleeping late. Nothing works.
Uh-oh. We're about to wake up and find nothing's real. Including ourselves.
Well, we exist. But not in the way we think we do. We are not as informed and independent in our thinking as we'd like to believe. Instead, we are sitting in a circle that's intertwined with an infinite number of other circles, large and small, each of us repeating what we've heard from the c...
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