It is certainly a tragedy. The relationship between law enforcement and the citizens is broken.
I noticed the police on the news conference looked visibly upset and sad. They never look like that after they kick in the door of the wrong house while serving a no-knock warrant and kill innocent citizens.
JoeC
9 years ago
A lot of people are trying to score political points with that incident.
All of the protests in NYC had been peaceful. The shooter wasn’t some social justice idealist. He was a career criminal from out of state who just shot his girlfriend and decided it was time to go out in a blaze of glory while trying to make a name for himself.
Making him into a martyr of some higher cause only helps to legitimize that and encourages the next guy.
“Mostly peaceful” would be a better way to describe the protests.
There have been assaults on police officers which have been duly unsensationalized by the media… the opposite of how seemingly legitimate violence by police against uncooperative thugs and career criminals has been sensationalized.
Too many people, from the usual race profiteers all the way up to the loud mouth of Obama have supported these criminals and thugs over the police… which legitimize criminal and thuggish actions while attracting and encouraging the emotional and the crazy.
What do they expect?
If the criminal and the thuggish were openly condemned with the same enthusiasm used against those who suck dog diick, there would be fewer aspiring to the lifestyle.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
CH: “suck dog diick”
You suck all animal dick including reindeer dick but I’m sure your lips, tongue, and mouth are already in shape for X-Mas Eve.
If the criminal and the thuggish were openly condemned …
I think it is possible to condemn both the police and criminal thuggish behavior. It doesn’t have to be either/or. It exists on both sides for different reasons.
Hot Stuff
9 years ago
Chickenhead is right. In some circles the criminal / thug lifestyle is acceptable. Or even celebrated by some, such as hip-hop “artists”. In civilized society, the strong protect the weak. But in criminal / thug culture, victims of criminals / thugs “deserve” to be victimized becuase they are weak, or they belong to a segment of society that doen’t deserve what they have, and they “owe” the criminals whatever the criminals can get. They had it coming to them.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Leon, you are absolutely correct.
I mistakenly did not complete the thought.
The cops are condemned for upholding sensible laws, such as don’t walk in the street, don’t act in a threatening manner while holding weapons, and don’t resist lawful commands issued by police in a public place with daylight and many witnesses…
…but they are not condemned for serious violations ranging from unnecessary force to “parallel construction” to fibbing to judges to blurring the limits imposed by the 4th Amendment to manufacturing laws to suit their momentary desires (such as stopping legal videography) to any number of thing.
Of course these abuses assist government and the governing in accomplishing their goals… just as manufactured racial division and the continued marginalization of black Americans also assist in accomplishing goals.
So, yes, Leon, you are absolutely right. Both the enablers of thugs and criminals as well as the police can be condemned for different reasons.
It should bring a smile to the face of every normal American every time a cop kills a thug under reasonable circumstances… and it should bring an equal smile every time a minor criminal kills a semi-criminal cop needlessly invading their home to play Rambo instead of doing real police work.
If that keeps up, the problem resolves itself… and the good citizens and good cops can go about their lives in harmony.
While I’m all for transparency in the government the point is overshadowed by this “article’s” horrible “Wahhhh SOFA unfair!” theme. The same SOFA the Korean government agreed to and not only copies when drafting its own but goes the step further to say that they will have jurisdiction over their forces no matter if the incident occurred during official duties or not. You know, the same one they impose on their own local governments.
Oh and by the way if you’re thinking of writing the “journalist” to discuss the article don’t bother: hj257@heraldcorp.com
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I do not blame the cops for most of this. They have been forced into this situation over they years (even if some are now willing participants or at least relish their ever increasing powers). The politicians are directly to blame. As I said, the relationship between the citizens and police is fundamentally broken. We need a reset.
The damn shame is it is good that the rampant police excessive force and militarization is coming into the light with the general public but we have the wrong poster boys. There are plenty of perfectly innocent people who have been harmed or killed by overzealous police enforcing questionable laws using questionable methods.
I guess the first step would be to require police across the country to compile and report citizen injuries and deaths at there hands. They sure aren’t shy about reporting on police who are injured or killed in the line of duty. This should be easy to do… It’s also easy to guess why it isn’t already done…
“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
ChickenHead
9 years ago
While it saddens me to throw fresh meat to Tbone, even inconvenient truths must be exposed.
Fuuck FOX “News”… but we already knew that… as they are the other side of the problem.
CH, You beat me to it. Sadly, “America’s News Source,” Australian-Saudi owned FOXNEWS is the sole source of information for some people, and it informs their decisions. What else are they less than truthy about?
Hot Stuff
9 years ago
Not Fox News… ” A Fox affiliate in Baltimore”. Although they broadcast Fox television programming, I doubt they have any other connection to Fox News cable network.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
Just found out about this today. Thought it was sad but interesting.
The North Korean internet outage is apparently being corrected. It took them 9 hours to fix it, but nobody noticed anything was wrong for the first 6 hours of the internet being down.
…as “killer cop” and “kill a cop” are both “killa cop” in Ebonics.
Hopefully nobody gets beheaded for saying “ask me now”…
…which would come out as “axe me now”.
JoeC
9 years ago
Planning any cyber attack against North Korea must be as frustrating as planning strategic bombing against Afghanistan. The have so few critical or essential targets to attack that few people inside the country would notice or care.
Not Fox News… ” A Fox affiliate in Baltimore”. Although they broadcast Fox television programming, I doubt they have any other connection to Fox News cable network.
Good catch Hotstuff. Of course a FOX affiliate is in no way affiliated with FOX. What the hell was I thinking?
A bikini is…”a very brief two-piece swimsuit for women.” What that chic is wearing in NOT a bikini, she’s wearing a one-piece.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Hahaha! Tbone, you so busted GI Korea for using the wrong word. He must he a real dummy. What a complete stupid… uh… wait… uh… never mind.
Chic: attractive and fashionable; stylish
Chick: a young woman, particularly an attractive young woman.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GOP thug & felon Congressman(NY) who threatened to kill(throw off balcony) a NY1 reporter and break him in half after Obama’s State of the Union address plead guilty to tax evasion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoZR5vr6JYg
Rev. Sharpton never threatened to kill anyone or was found guilty of tax evasion but OMG he works for MSNBC. Where are the ROKDROP outcries on Thug/Felon NY Congressman MIchael Grimm?
Rev. Sharpton resume:
In 1969 served as youth director of the New York City branch of Operation Breadbasket, spoke out for/promotion of new and better jobs for African Americans, provides services to those in poverty, in 1971 Sharpton founded the National Youth Movement to raise resources for impoverished youth, in 1991 Sharpton founded the National Action Network, an organization designed to increase voter education, to provide services to those in poverty, and to support small community businesses
Rev. Sharpton has lead protests…” neighborhood resident Michael Riccardi tried to kill Sharpton by stabbing him in the chest.[34] Sharpton recovered from his wounds, and later asked the judge for leniency when Riccardi was sentenced.”
Sharpton ran for a United States Senate seat from New York in 1988, 1992, and 1994. In 1997, he ran for Mayor of New York City. During his 1992 bid, he and his wife lived in a home in Englewood, New Jersey, though he said his residence was an apartment in Brooklyn.
On December 15, 2005 Sharpton agreed to repay $100,000 in public funds he received from the federal government for his 2004 Presidential campaign. The repayment was required because Sharpton had exceeded federal limits on personal expenditures for his campaign.
In June 2005 Sharpton signed a contract with Matrix Media to produce and host a live two-hour daily talk program, but it never aired.[133] In November 2005, Sharpton signed with Radio One to host a daily national talk radio program, which began airing on January 30, 2006, entitled Keepin It Real with Al Sharpton.[133][134]
On August 29, 2011, Sharpton became the host of PoliticsNation, the MSNBC show which airs weeknights during the 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time hour.
Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty to helping prepare a false tax return, a charge stemming from a 20-count indictment against the congressman handed up in April. He faces up to three years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced June 8.
The indictment accused Mr. Grimm of understating gross receipts and employee wages at a health restaurant he had co-owned by more than $1 million.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Protesters Forging Ahead With Tonight’s Shut Down 5th Ave. Demonstration, Despite The Requests Of Mayor de Blasio,
The scheduled protest, which will be attended by at least 10 social justice groups including Occupy Wall Street and Millions March NYC, is set to assemble tonight at 5 p.m. ET. Demonstrators will be meeting up on 59th and 5th in front of the gold statue.
“Dec 23 is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, comparable to Black Friday,” organizers explained. “Fifth Avenue is ‘the world’s most expensive shopping street’ – a playground for the Global 1%.
This ‘1%’ is precisely who the police serve and protect. They flood Black, Latino and other oppressed communities like an occupying army so as to intimidate us into accepting things the way they are.
The people will not be intimidated.
We will not accept poverty wages, racist courts and a corrupt political system.
On Dec 23 we will occupy their communities.”
In light of the recent police shootings, Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked protesters to refrain from assembling this week; however, organizers have reassured the public that the “long-planned” protest is still a go.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
I don’t know why former NYC Gov. Pataki is now on TV news blabbering on about how great the NYC police is?
Off duty black officers in New York say they fear fellow cops http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/23/off-duty-black-officers-in-new-york-say-they-fear-fellow-cops/21120634/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D588182
(Reuters) – From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life.
What’s emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide – between black and white officers.
Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.
The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.
Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. “I had my ID on me so it didn’t escalate,” said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. “But what’s suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?”
The NYPD and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the police officers’ union, declined requests for comment.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Reading Glans’ links was like eating a picture of a sandwich.
Reading Tbone’s links is like eating shyt made from a picture of a sandwich.
Recent developments including the easing of sanctions against Cuba, an improving economy and even his tough stance on Ferguson may have led to the rise in sentiment.
Obama’s poll numbers are high, but not his highest.
Compared against other two-term presidents, Obama fares well against George W. Bush.
The second Bush to hold the Oval Office was drowning in an underwhelming approval rating of only 37 percent at this point in his second term, December 2006.
Obama compares favorably to Ronald Reagan, who sat tight with a 48 percent approval rating in December 1986.
Dwight Eisenhower’s 58 percent approval rating in December 1958 would be an all-time high if not for Bill Clinton.
Clinton, despite being in the middle of an impeachment proceeding for lying about an extra-marital affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, held an overwhelming 67 percent approval rating.”
I’m sure your favorite so-called language(Ebonics)…
I think you are insinuating the term “Ebonics” is derogatory. A little history…
various sources
At its most literal level, Ebonics simply means ‘black speech’ (a blend of the words ebony ‘black’ and phonics ‘sounds’). The term was created in 1973 by a group of black scholars who disliked the negative connotations of terms like ‘Nonstandard Negro English’ that had been coined in the 1960s when the first modern large-scale linguistic studies of African American speech-communities began.
At the end of 1996, the Oakland, Calif. school board inspired nationwide debate with its endorsement of Ebonics as a separate language.
Why do you dislike the black community?
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“At the end of 1996, the Oakland, Calif. school board inspired nationwide debate with its endorsement of Ebonics as a separate language.”
And who won the debate?
“I think you are insinuating the term “Ebonics” is derogatory.”
Only when chicken/snake/EGGHEAD tries using it!
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“Ooh, look at that chic, thinkin she da sh*t.”
Tbone, how would you pronounce “chic” in this case?
If it is pronounced “sheek”, I call bullshyt… as nobody ever called a chick a sheek in any setting, urban or otherwise.
If it is pronounced “chick” than it is just a misspelling by an unpaid submitter to urbandictionary dot com… which is not known in academic and linguistic circles for the reliability of their editing process.
But, as a “professional English teacher” you probably know the difference between “urbandictionary” and a real dictionary, right?
Right?
None-the-less, your lesson on spelling patterns in Nonstandard Negro English is interesting, so please continue.
Perhapse Tbone’s first introduction was during his infamous Colorado arrest. After an encounter with a fine urban gentleman in the shower room, the man retracted his member and asked…
“How’s my dictate?”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
BTW, I won the championship in my Fantasy Football league of course! Oh, and I was a choir member and sang solo. One of my favorites is at the bottom ~ by the A cappella group Pentatonix.
Christmas Song Madness: Crowning America’s Favorite Christmas Song http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/10/christmas-song-madness-crowning-americas-favorite-christmas-song/21114318/
UPDATE December 23: Winner crowned!
“Silent Night” cruised to victory in the final matchup, besting “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” by a 50 percent margin.
Congrats to users Allaman3, gardenmama, and jodyann07 whose prediction brackets came in first, second, and third respectively.
Thanks to everyone who voted. The next big question, of course, is which version of “Silent Night” do you love the most? Be sure to tell us about it in the comments.
UPDATE December 22: Final four ends and final matchup begins
The final four saw powerhouse songs get knocked out. “Silent Night” knocked out the classic ballad “White Christmas” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” bested Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas.”
UPDATE December 20: Round 4 Voting in Christmas Song Madness ends
Round 4 saw “Silent Night” knock out “O Holy Night” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” pushed “Let It Snow” out of contention, but it was “White Christmas” that saw the biggest win, besting “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” with more than two-thirds of the vote. But that win won’t be a shock for anyone who knows that Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” holds the title of best selling single record of all-time, according to Guinness World Records.
The tightest race came between anther Crosby hit, his “Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth” duet with David Bowie. That tune held a solid 14-point lead for most of round 4, but Elvis Presley’s fans came out in full force in the final hours, and “Blue Christmas” ultimately overcame to win by a tiny 2 percent margin.
Also check out the same A cappella group singing ‘Carol of the Bells’
ChickenHead
9 years ago
I take it back.
Actually, reading Tbone’s comments is more like eating shyt made from a picture of a centipede shyt sandwich.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Denny says…”Sony Changes Its Mind, Will Allow Select Theaters To Screen ‘The Interview’
American theaters should expect things like snakes and bottles of hydrochloric acid planted in its cinema aisles(or worse) during “The Interview”
Just 25 years ago in S. Korea there was a war against Hollywood… http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2013/09/reptilian-style-live-or-die-general-war.html
As reported by the Korea Herald on September 22, on September 19, directors also began holding protests, and were shocked to find out that UIP would release Fatal Attraction in Korean theaters willing to show it on September 24, a week after the Olympics started.
“Down with American films!” shout directors at the Guild of Film Directors’ office.
“Fatal Attraction’ is ‘fatal’ to Korean audiences,” say striking directors. The poster, framed in black ink, hangs on the Guild of Film Directors office wall.
As reported by the Korea Herald on September 25, the previous day – the day Fatal Attraction opened – about 300 people from the film industry protested in front of the Korea Theater in Myong-dong and as well as a smaller protest at the Shinyoung theatre in Shinchong-dong.
It notes that the “protesters promised in advance not to resort to violent clashes with any party including “innocent” theatregoers.” This attitude would change by the end of the week.
On October 1, the Korea Times reported that
On Wednesday [Sept. 28], dozens of movie directors stormed into Shinyong Theatre, one of two theatres in Seoul showing “Fatal Attraction,” to stop the screening of the movie. The protesters drove out 30 spectators and wrote “Drive out Yankee movies” with spray cans on the screen and walls.
Here’s a photo from the Korea Herald from September 30 of the protests in front of the Shinyong Theatre in Sinchon on the 28th (the same day). Directors and screenwriters are quoted as shouting “Drive out American movies.”
As the Hankyoreh reported on September 20, MPAA head Jack Valenti said “that threats have been received that “live snakes will be set loose” in theatres dealing directly with American film companies in order to surprise the audience and cause them to flee.”
As the LA Times reported on October 11, this wasn’t an empty threat, and things were far, far uglier than the Korean papers were letting on.
Click the link to read the rest of the story. Worth reiterating is that this was all taking place during the Olympics, and things would get worse the next year, when poisonous snakes were let loose in one theater, along with four bottles of hydrochloric acid planted in the aisles.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Thai Buddists vs Maylasia jihad terrorists… http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/deep-dive-into-thailands-bloody-insurgency-376591427982
“Deep dive into Thailand’s bloody insurgency
While most think of Thailand as a center for booze, partying and luxury resorts, the country has also made it into the State Department’s list of top ten countries with the most terror attacks. Patrick Winn, Senior Southeast Asia Correspondent for…”
Thank God, Baby Jesus, President Obama, our duly elected representatives, and the stars above!
I just don’t know what I would have done without this movie. I almost threw my tree into a wood chipper, ornaments and all. Thank Heavens that I had my Obamacare Supplied Anti-Impulsive meds.
The kids can’t stop crying tears of joy! ‘Tis Truly the Best Season of All!
Just watched “The Interview” in defiance of the DPRK. If I vanish, I may have been taken out by a North Korean hit team.
Y’all pray for my safety now, ya hear?
But the ripple effects are spreading much more broadly than that. The price plunge may also influence Iran’s deliberations over whether to agree to a deal on its nuclear program with the West; force the oil-rich nations of the Middle East to reassess their role in managing global supply; and give a boost to the economies of the biggest oil-consuming nations, notably the United States…
…It might even have been a late factor in Cuba’s decision to seal a rapprochement with Washington.
The price drop, said Edward N. Luttwak, a longtime Pentagon adviser and author of several books on geopolitical and economic strategy, “is knocking down America’s principal opponents without us even trying.” For Iran, which is estimated to be losing $1 billion a month because of the fall, it is as if Congress had passed the much tougher sanctions that the White House lobbied against, he said.
Iran has been hit so hard that its government, looking for ways to fill a widening hole in its budget, is offering young men the option of buying their way out of an obligatory two years of military service. “We are on the eve of a major crisis,” an Iranian economist, Hossein Raghfar, told the Etemaad newspaper on Sunday. “The government needs money badly.”
Venezuela, which has the world’s largest estimated oil reserves and has used them to position itself as a foil to American “imperialism,” received 95 percent of its export earnings from petroleum before prices fell. It is now having trouble paying for social projects at home and for a foreign policy rooted in oil-financed largess, including shipments of reduced-price petroleum to Cuba and elsewhere.
Amid worries on bond markets that Venezuela might default on its loans, President Nicolás Maduro, who was elected last year after the death of Mr. Chávez, has said the country will continue to pay its debts. But inflation in Venezuela is over 60 percent, there are shortages of many basic goods, and many experts believe the economy is in recession.
Continue reading the main story
But the biggest casualty so far has probably been Russia, where energy revenue accounts for more than half of the government’s budget.
Russia’s troubles have rippled around the world, slashing bookings at ski resorts in Austria and spending on London real estate; spreading panic in neighboring Belarus, a close Russian ally; and even threatening to upend Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League, which pays players in rubles.
“It is a big boost for the U.S. when three out of four of our active antagonists are seriously weakened, when their room for maneuver is seriously reduced,” Mr. Luttwak said, referring to Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
The only major United States antagonist not hurt by the drop in oil prices is North Korea, which imports all of its petroleum.
Hard-hit anti-American oil producers have blamed foreign machinations for their woes, suggesting that Washington, in cahoots with Saudi Arabia, has deliberately driven down prices.
By offsetting declines in conventional oil production, increases in shale oil output have allowed overall American crude oil production to rise to an average of about nine million barrels a day from five million a day in 2008, according to the United States Energy Information Administration.
That four-million-barrel increase is more than either Iraq or Iran, the second- and third-largest OPEC producers after Saudi Arabia, produces each day, and it has put strong downward pressure on world prices.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Cops turn backs on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio again, this time at a funeral and I know why. Because he has a son that is half black.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“Because he has a son that is half black.”
…and I thought it was because Tbone, the English “teacher”, writes in sentence fragments.
…or maybe Santa wouldn’t answer his letter so he went looking for…
You can basically replace every instance (and variation) of “China” with “Korea” and it wouldn’t be that far off the mark. Soon the day will come when I return to America and be around people who only look Asian not act Asian because, f Asia.
No it isn’t GEN Laporte so Leon settle down! Ole BB is the latest to receive yet another undeserving reward for some crap he had little to do with. Interesting little bit from the story:
“we forever memorialized Sergeant Yoon in a peaceful grove on Yongsan Garrison in Seoul”
Forever? Hmm we’ll have to see about that, there’s a lot of Korean bulldozers salivating over the land the garrison sits upon and based on how they blanket razed the other posts that were turned over it’s not certain what will remain.
Why is no government embarrassed that this is what you have to go through to the start a taxi service? Is there any other industry that’s this messed up due to government interference?
This large passenger jet walks into a bar between Indonesia and Malaysia. The bartender says, “We don’t serve passenger jets. Get lost.” The jet vanishes from radar and disappears without a trace.
Black man shoots black gf, Latino officer and Asian officer in retaliation of white officers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/two-police-officers-shot-in-their-patrol-car-in-brooklyn.html?_r=0
http://pix11.com/2014/12/20/video-nypd-officers-turn-away-from-mayor-de-blasio-as-he-enters-police-presser/
I can’t find anything on whether or not the 2 slain officers signed the petition to keep De Blasio away from their funerals.
http://observer.com/2014/12/cop-union-to-mayor-stay-away-from-police-funerals/
It is certainly a tragedy. The relationship between law enforcement and the citizens is broken.
I noticed the police on the news conference looked visibly upset and sad. They never look like that after they kick in the door of the wrong house while serving a no-knock warrant and kill innocent citizens.
A lot of people are trying to score political points with that incident.
All of the protests in NYC had been peaceful. The shooter wasn’t some social justice idealist. He was a career criminal from out of state who just shot his girlfriend and decided it was time to go out in a blaze of glory while trying to make a name for himself.
Making him into a martyr of some higher cause only helps to legitimize that and encourages the next guy.
Here is a heartwarming Christmas story for everyone. I am sure this is true love!
“All of the protests in NYC had been peaceful.
“Mostly peaceful” would be a better way to describe the protests.
There have been assaults on police officers which have been duly unsensationalized by the media… the opposite of how seemingly legitimate violence by police against uncooperative thugs and career criminals has been sensationalized.
Too many people, from the usual race profiteers all the way up to the loud mouth of Obama have supported these criminals and thugs over the police… which legitimize criminal and thuggish actions while attracting and encouraging the emotional and the crazy.
What do they expect?
If the criminal and the thuggish were openly condemned with the same enthusiasm used against those who suck dog diick, there would be fewer aspiring to the lifestyle.
CH: “suck dog diick”
You suck all animal dick including reindeer dick but I’m sure your lips, tongue, and mouth are already in shape for X-Mas Eve.
If the criminal and the thuggish were openly condemned …
I think it is possible to condemn both the police and criminal thuggish behavior. It doesn’t have to be either/or. It exists on both sides for different reasons.
Chickenhead is right. In some circles the criminal / thug lifestyle is acceptable. Or even celebrated by some, such as hip-hop “artists”. In civilized society, the strong protect the weak. But in criminal / thug culture, victims of criminals / thugs “deserve” to be victimized becuase they are weak, or they belong to a segment of society that doen’t deserve what they have, and they “owe” the criminals whatever the criminals can get. They had it coming to them.
Leon, you are absolutely correct.
I mistakenly did not complete the thought.
The cops are condemned for upholding sensible laws, such as don’t walk in the street, don’t act in a threatening manner while holding weapons, and don’t resist lawful commands issued by police in a public place with daylight and many witnesses…
…but they are not condemned for serious violations ranging from unnecessary force to “parallel construction” to fibbing to judges to blurring the limits imposed by the 4th Amendment to manufacturing laws to suit their momentary desires (such as stopping legal videography) to any number of thing.
Of course these abuses assist government and the governing in accomplishing their goals… just as manufactured racial division and the continued marginalization of black Americans also assist in accomplishing goals.
So, yes, Leon, you are absolutely right. Both the enablers of thugs and criminals as well as the police can be condemned for different reasons.
It should bring a smile to the face of every normal American every time a cop kills a thug under reasonable circumstances… and it should bring an equal smile every time a minor criminal kills a semi-criminal cop needlessly invading their home to play Rambo instead of doing real police work.
If that keeps up, the problem resolves itself… and the good citizens and good cops can go about their lives in harmony.
Court orders disclosure of papers on U.S. soldiers’ criminal cases
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141221000221
While I’m all for transparency in the government the point is overshadowed by this “article’s” horrible “Wahhhh SOFA unfair!” theme. The same SOFA the Korean government agreed to and not only copies when drafting its own but goes the step further to say that they will have jurisdiction over their forces no matter if the incident occurred during official duties or not. You know, the same one they impose on their own local governments.
Oh and by the way if you’re thinking of writing the “journalist” to discuss the article don’t bother:
hj257@heraldcorp.com
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CH: Concur.
I do not blame the cops for most of this. They have been forced into this situation over they years (even if some are now willing participants or at least relish their ever increasing powers). The politicians are directly to blame. As I said, the relationship between the citizens and police is fundamentally broken. We need a reset.
The damn shame is it is good that the rampant police excessive force and militarization is coming into the light with the general public but we have the wrong poster boys. There are plenty of perfectly innocent people who have been harmed or killed by overzealous police enforcing questionable laws using questionable methods.
I guess the first step would be to require police across the country to compile and report citizen injuries and deaths at there hands. They sure aren’t shy about reporting on police who are injured or killed in the line of duty. This should be easy to do… It’s also easy to guess why it isn’t already done…
Should have proof read that mess. Damn you missing edit button. DAMN YOU!!! lol
Wow Leon that post’s a mess, you should edit it.
An edit button is just a tool for revisionist history.
Better to read it once before pressing submit.
It is good practice…
…as life has no edit button.
Appropriate to this thread:
“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
While it saddens me to throw fresh meat to Tbone, even inconvenient truths must be exposed.
Fuuck FOX “News”… but we already knew that… as they are the other side of the problem.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-wbff-edit-protest-kill-a-cop
CH, You beat me to it. Sadly, “America’s News Source,” Australian-Saudi owned FOXNEWS is the sole source of information for some people, and it informs their decisions. What else are they less than truthy about?
Not Fox News… ” A Fox affiliate in Baltimore”. Although they broadcast Fox television programming, I doubt they have any other connection to Fox News cable network.
Just found out about this today. Thought it was sad but interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Harlem_mosque_incident
The North Korean internet outage is apparently being corrected. It took them 9 hours to fix it, but nobody noticed anything was wrong for the first 6 hours of the internet being down.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30584093
The misunderstanding makes sense.
…as “killer cop” and “kill a cop” are both “killa cop” in Ebonics.
Hopefully nobody gets beheaded for saying “ask me now”…
…which would come out as “axe me now”.
Planning any cyber attack against North Korea must be as frustrating as planning strategic bombing against Afghanistan. The have so few critical or essential targets to attack that few people inside the country would notice or care.
/Bouncing Rumble.
Need that edit button … “/Bouncing Rubble”
We showed them!
We e-bombed them back to the TRS-80 age.
RIP Joe Cocker the great who died Monday of lung cancer, I remember listening/watching a concert of his on a Korean Air flight to S. Korea…
Unchain My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxIX6B9sZeY
JOE COCKER & LEON RUSSELL: THE LETTER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9xg-qfwIE
They found the problem with North Korea’s internet.
A rat had chewed through the single Cat5 cable that runs over the Chinese border.
They managed to patch it back together and insulate it with a fresh layer of bubble gum. Everything’s gravy again.
Not Fox News… ” A Fox affiliate in Baltimore”. Although they broadcast Fox television programming, I doubt they have any other connection to Fox News cable network.
Good catch Hotstuff. Of course a FOX affiliate is in no way affiliated with FOX. What the hell was I thinking?
Joe Cocker’s other legacy: John Belushi’s SNL Impression(Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsOyO_lXD8
FoxNews is the WORST, unless you want to fill up your nearly continuous Hate/Attack Obama cup.
Merry Christmas everyone, watch at least through the 25th minute for hard laughter.
Beetlejuice Meets Santa,..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sniGmHy1XEo
This pledge from Lee Hyo-ri is enough to get me to hope the Ssangyong labor strife issue gets resolved.
Sony Changes Its Mind, Will Allow Select Theaters To Screen ‘The Interview’
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/12/23/3606657/sony-screenings-the-interview/
Dow above 18,000 for first time on upbeat GDP report
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/dow-tops-18-000-first-time-upbeat-gdp-report-n273651
Apple CEO Tim Cook donating to gay rights campaign in South
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-donating-to-gay-rights-5966893.php
Will Tim Cook have a stalk holder’s meeting?
ba-dum-bump
A bikini is…”a very brief two-piece swimsuit for women.” What that chic is wearing in NOT a bikini, she’s wearing a one-piece.
Hahaha! Tbone, you so busted GI Korea for using the wrong word. He must he a real dummy. What a complete stupid… uh… wait… uh… never mind.
Chic: attractive and fashionable; stylish
Chick: a young woman, particularly an attractive young woman.
GOP thug & felon Congressman(NY) who threatened to kill(throw off balcony) a NY1 reporter and break him in half after Obama’s State of the Union address plead guilty to tax evasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoZR5vr6JYg
Rev. Sharpton never threatened to kill anyone or was found guilty of tax evasion but OMG he works for MSNBC. Where are the ROKDROP outcries on Thug/Felon NY Congressman MIchael Grimm?
Rev. Sharpton resume:
In 1969 served as youth director of the New York City branch of Operation Breadbasket, spoke out for/promotion of new and better jobs for African Americans, provides services to those in poverty, in 1971 Sharpton founded the National Youth Movement to raise resources for impoverished youth, in 1991 Sharpton founded the National Action Network, an organization designed to increase voter education, to provide services to those in poverty, and to support small community businesses
Rev. Sharpton has lead protests…” neighborhood resident Michael Riccardi tried to kill Sharpton by stabbing him in the chest.[34] Sharpton recovered from his wounds, and later asked the judge for leniency when Riccardi was sentenced.”
Sharpton ran for a United States Senate seat from New York in 1988, 1992, and 1994. In 1997, he ran for Mayor of New York City. During his 1992 bid, he and his wife lived in a home in Englewood, New Jersey, though he said his residence was an apartment in Brooklyn.
On December 15, 2005 Sharpton agreed to repay $100,000 in public funds he received from the federal government for his 2004 Presidential campaign. The repayment was required because Sharpton had exceeded federal limits on personal expenditures for his campaign.
In June 2005 Sharpton signed a contract with Matrix Media to produce and host a live two-hour daily talk program, but it never aired.[133] In November 2005, Sharpton signed with Radio One to host a daily national talk radio program, which began airing on January 30, 2006, entitled Keepin It Real with Al Sharpton.[133][134]
On August 29, 2011, Sharpton became the host of PoliticsNation, the MSNBC show which airs weeknights during the 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time hour.
Republican Congressman Michael Grimm thug & felon refuses to step down…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/23/nancy-pelosi-john-boehner-insist-michael-grimm/#ixzz3Ml1nHovU
“Rep. Michael Grimm, New York Republican, said Tuesday he does not plan to resign his seat after pleading guilty to one felony tax charge tied to activities involving a restaurant he co-owned prior to winning election to Congress in 2010.
Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty to helping prepare a false tax return, a charge stemming from a 20-count indictment against the congressman handed up in April. He faces up to three years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced June 8.
The indictment accused Mr. Grimm of understating gross receipts and employee wages at a health restaurant he had co-owned by more than $1 million.”
Protesters Forging Ahead With Tonight’s Shut Down 5th Ave. Demonstration, Despite The Requests Of Mayor de Blasio,
Police whine, demand apologies from NFL players, turn back on NYC Mayor, nothing like this in generations…
– See more at: http://madamenoire.com/498810/shut-down-5th-ave/#sthash.bM0qEsmp.dpuf
http://madamenoire.com/498810/shut-down-5th-ave/
“Tonight will be the busiest night of the holiday season for Manhattan’s shopping district and protesters are all geared up to let their voices be heard.
The scheduled protest, which will be attended by at least 10 social justice groups including Occupy Wall Street and Millions March NYC, is set to assemble tonight at 5 p.m. ET. Demonstrators will be meeting up on 59th and 5th in front of the gold statue.
“Dec 23 is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, comparable to Black Friday,” organizers explained. “Fifth Avenue is ‘the world’s most expensive shopping street’ – a playground for the Global 1%.
This ‘1%’ is precisely who the police serve and protect. They flood Black, Latino and other oppressed communities like an occupying army so as to intimidate us into accepting things the way they are.
The people will not be intimidated.
We will not accept poverty wages, racist courts and a corrupt political system.
On Dec 23 we will occupy their communities.”
In light of the recent police shootings, Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked protesters to refrain from assembling this week; however, organizers have reassured the public that the “long-planned” protest is still a go.”
I don’t know why former NYC Gov. Pataki is now on TV news blabbering on about how great the NYC police is?
Off duty black officers in New York say they fear fellow cops
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/23/off-duty-black-officers-in-new-york-say-they-fear-fellow-cops/21120634/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D588182
(Reuters) – From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life.
What’s emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide – between black and white officers.
Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.
The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.
Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. “I had my ID on me so it didn’t escalate,” said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. “But what’s suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?”
The NYPD and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the police officers’ union, declined requests for comment.”
Reading Glans’ links was like eating a picture of a sandwich.
Reading Tbone’s links is like eating shyt made from a picture of a sandwich.
Obama ratings up 7+ %
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/23/president-obamas-approval-rating-hits-2014-high-water-mark/21120493/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D587850
“Just under 47 percent of Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing, according to a new Gallup poll. The bump comes amid a number of positive developments during his second term in office.
Recent developments including the easing of sanctions against Cuba, an improving economy and even his tough stance on Ferguson may have led to the rise in sentiment.
Obama’s poll numbers are high, but not his highest.
Compared against other two-term presidents, Obama fares well against George W. Bush.
The second Bush to hold the Oval Office was drowning in an underwhelming approval rating of only 37 percent at this point in his second term, December 2006.
Obama compares favorably to Ronald Reagan, who sat tight with a 48 percent approval rating in December 1986.
Dwight Eisenhower’s 58 percent approval rating in December 1958 would be an all-time high if not for Bill Clinton.
Clinton, despite being in the middle of an impeachment proceeding for lying about an extra-marital affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, held an overwhelming 67 percent approval rating.”
Chic…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chic&defid=642393
“Another word for girl
Ooh, look at that chic, thinkin she da sh*t.”
I’m sure your favorite so-called language(Ebonics) would find no problem with “chic” either.
I’m sure your favorite so-called language(Ebonics)…
I think you are insinuating the term “Ebonics” is derogatory. A little history…
Why do you dislike the black community?
“At the end of 1996, the Oakland, Calif. school board inspired nationwide debate with its endorsement of Ebonics as a separate language.”
And who won the debate?
“I think you are insinuating the term “Ebonics” is derogatory.”
Only when chicken/snake/EGGHEAD tries using it!
“Ooh, look at that chic, thinkin she da sh*t.”
Tbone, how would you pronounce “chic” in this case?
If it is pronounced “sheek”, I call bullshyt… as nobody ever called a chick a sheek in any setting, urban or otherwise.
If it is pronounced “chick” than it is just a misspelling by an unpaid submitter to urbandictionary dot com… which is not known in academic and linguistic circles for the reliability of their editing process.
But, as a “professional English teacher” you probably know the difference between “urbandictionary” and a real dictionary, right?
Right?
None-the-less, your lesson on spelling patterns in Nonstandard Negro English is interesting, so please continue.
Perhapse Tbone’s first introduction was during his infamous Colorado arrest. After an encounter with a fine urban gentleman in the shower room, the man retracted his member and asked…
“How’s my dictate?”
BTW, I won the championship in my Fantasy Football league of course! Oh, and I was a choir member and sang solo. One of my favorites is at the bottom ~ by the A cappella group Pentatonix.
Christmas Song Madness: Crowning America’s Favorite Christmas Song
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/10/christmas-song-madness-crowning-americas-favorite-christmas-song/21114318/
UPDATE December 23: Winner crowned!
“Silent Night” cruised to victory in the final matchup, besting “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” by a 50 percent margin.
Congrats to users Allaman3, gardenmama, and jodyann07 whose prediction brackets came in first, second, and third respectively.
Thanks to everyone who voted. The next big question, of course, is which version of “Silent Night” do you love the most? Be sure to tell us about it in the comments.
UPDATE December 22: Final four ends and final matchup begins
The final four saw powerhouse songs get knocked out. “Silent Night” knocked out the classic ballad “White Christmas” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” bested Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas.”
UPDATE December 20: Round 4 Voting in Christmas Song Madness ends
Round 4 saw “Silent Night” knock out “O Holy Night” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” pushed “Let It Snow” out of contention, but it was “White Christmas” that saw the biggest win, besting “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” with more than two-thirds of the vote. But that win won’t be a shock for anyone who knows that Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” holds the title of best selling single record of all-time, according to Guinness World Records.
The tightest race came between anther Crosby hit, his “Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth” duet with David Bowie. That tune held a solid 14-point lead for most of round 4, but Elvis Presley’s fans came out in full force in the final hours, and “Blue Christmas” ultimately overcame to win by a tiny 2 percent margin.
[Official Video] by Pentatonix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc
Also check out the same A cappella group singing ‘Carol of the Bells’
I take it back.
Actually, reading Tbone’s comments is more like eating shyt made from a picture of a centipede shyt sandwich.
Denny says…”Sony Changes Its Mind, Will Allow Select Theaters To Screen ‘The Interview’
American theaters should expect things like snakes and bottles of hydrochloric acid planted in its cinema aisles(or worse) during “The Interview”
Just 25 years ago in S. Korea there was a war against Hollywood…
http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2013/09/reptilian-style-live-or-die-general-war.html
As reported by the Korea Herald on September 22, on September 19, directors also began holding protests, and were shocked to find out that UIP would release Fatal Attraction in Korean theaters willing to show it on September 24, a week after the Olympics started.
“Down with American films!” shout directors at the Guild of Film Directors’ office.
“Fatal Attraction’ is ‘fatal’ to Korean audiences,” say striking directors. The poster, framed in black ink, hangs on the Guild of Film Directors office wall.
As reported by the Korea Herald on September 25, the previous day – the day Fatal Attraction opened – about 300 people from the film industry protested in front of the Korea Theater in Myong-dong and as well as a smaller protest at the Shinyoung theatre in Shinchong-dong.
It notes that the “protesters promised in advance not to resort to violent clashes with any party including “innocent” theatregoers.” This attitude would change by the end of the week.
On October 1, the Korea Times reported that
On Wednesday [Sept. 28], dozens of movie directors stormed into Shinyong Theatre, one of two theatres in Seoul showing “Fatal Attraction,” to stop the screening of the movie. The protesters drove out 30 spectators and wrote “Drive out Yankee movies” with spray cans on the screen and walls.
Here’s a photo from the Korea Herald from September 30 of the protests in front of the Shinyong Theatre in Sinchon on the 28th (the same day). Directors and screenwriters are quoted as shouting “Drive out American movies.”
As the Hankyoreh reported on September 20, MPAA head Jack Valenti said “that threats have been received that “live snakes will be set loose” in theatres dealing directly with American film companies in order to surprise the audience and cause them to flee.”
As the LA Times reported on October 11, this wasn’t an empty threat, and things were far, far uglier than the Korean papers were letting on.
Click the link to read the rest of the story. Worth reiterating is that this was all taking place during the Olympics, and things would get worse the next year, when poisonous snakes were let loose in one theater, along with four bottles of hydrochloric acid planted in the aisles.”
Thai Buddists vs Maylasia jihad terrorists…
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/deep-dive-into-thailands-bloody-insurgency-376591427982
“Deep dive into Thailand’s bloody insurgency
While most think of Thailand as a center for booze, partying and luxury resorts, the country has also made it into the State Department’s list of top ten countries with the most terror attacks. Patrick Winn, Senior Southeast Asia Correspondent for…”
Christmas is Saved!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sony-release-interview-youtube-155019910.html
Thank God, Baby Jesus, President Obama, our duly elected representatives, and the stars above!
I just don’t know what I would have done without this movie. I almost threw my tree into a wood chipper, ornaments and all. Thank Heavens that I had my Obamacare Supplied Anti-Impulsive meds.
The kids can’t stop crying tears of joy! ‘Tis Truly the Best Season of All!
Santa is Dead(HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3DmJueP2Ac
Just watched “The Interview” in defiance of the DPRK. If I vanish, I may have been taken out by a North Korean hit team.
Y’all pray for my safety now, ya hear?
Downloading the torrent right now. COME AND GET ME norK’s!
Can we have the famous “Christmas poem” about The day before Christmas in North Korea.
Merry Christmas to all.
JackBswift, I just posted again Chickenhead’s hilarious Christmas on the DMZ.
U.S. Fortunes Abroad from oil’s swift fall
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/world/europe/oils-swift-fall-raises-fortunes-of-us-abroad.html?_r=0
“The former(Russian) finance minister Aleksei L. Kudrin, a longtime friend of Mr. Putin’s, warned this week of a “full-blown economic crisis” and called for better relations with Europe and the United States.
But the ripple effects are spreading much more broadly than that. The price plunge may also influence Iran’s deliberations over whether to agree to a deal on its nuclear program with the West; force the oil-rich nations of the Middle East to reassess their role in managing global supply; and give a boost to the economies of the biggest oil-consuming nations, notably the United States…
…It might even have been a late factor in Cuba’s decision to seal a rapprochement with Washington.
The price drop, said Edward N. Luttwak, a longtime Pentagon adviser and author of several books on geopolitical and economic strategy, “is knocking down America’s principal opponents without us even trying.” For Iran, which is estimated to be losing $1 billion a month because of the fall, it is as if Congress had passed the much tougher sanctions that the White House lobbied against, he said.
Iran has been hit so hard that its government, looking for ways to fill a widening hole in its budget, is offering young men the option of buying their way out of an obligatory two years of military service. “We are on the eve of a major crisis,” an Iranian economist, Hossein Raghfar, told the Etemaad newspaper on Sunday. “The government needs money badly.”
Venezuela, which has the world’s largest estimated oil reserves and has used them to position itself as a foil to American “imperialism,” received 95 percent of its export earnings from petroleum before prices fell. It is now having trouble paying for social projects at home and for a foreign policy rooted in oil-financed largess, including shipments of reduced-price petroleum to Cuba and elsewhere.
Amid worries on bond markets that Venezuela might default on its loans, President Nicolás Maduro, who was elected last year after the death of Mr. Chávez, has said the country will continue to pay its debts. But inflation in Venezuela is over 60 percent, there are shortages of many basic goods, and many experts believe the economy is in recession.
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But the biggest casualty so far has probably been Russia, where energy revenue accounts for more than half of the government’s budget.
Russia’s troubles have rippled around the world, slashing bookings at ski resorts in Austria and spending on London real estate; spreading panic in neighboring Belarus, a close Russian ally; and even threatening to upend Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League, which pays players in rubles.
“It is a big boost for the U.S. when three out of four of our active antagonists are seriously weakened, when their room for maneuver is seriously reduced,” Mr. Luttwak said, referring to Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
The only major United States antagonist not hurt by the drop in oil prices is North Korea, which imports all of its petroleum.
Hard-hit anti-American oil producers have blamed foreign machinations for their woes, suggesting that Washington, in cahoots with Saudi Arabia, has deliberately driven down prices.
By offsetting declines in conventional oil production, increases in shale oil output have allowed overall American crude oil production to rise to an average of about nine million barrels a day from five million a day in 2008, according to the United States Energy Information Administration.
That four-million-barrel increase is more than either Iraq or Iran, the second- and third-largest OPEC producers after Saudi Arabia, produces each day, and it has put strong downward pressure on world prices.”
Cops turn backs on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio again, this time at a funeral and I know why. Because he has a son that is half black.
“Because he has a son that is half black.”
…and I thought it was because Tbone, the English “teacher”, writes in sentence fragments.
…or maybe Santa wouldn’t answer his letter so he went looking for…
(puts on sunglasses)
…a subordinate Claus.
(bows deeply)
I had to look up the definition.
*Golf clap*
Lying, cheating and stealing – A culture of dishonesty
http://rantsaboutchina.page.tl/A-culture-of-Dishonesty.htm
You can basically replace every instance (and variation) of “China” with “Korea” and it wouldn’t be that far off the mark. Soon the day will come when I return to America and be around people who only look Asian not act Asian because, f Asia.
Ex-USFK commander awarded for enhancing S. Korea-US alliance
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/people/2014/12/178_170459.html
No it isn’t GEN Laporte so Leon settle down! Ole BB is the latest to receive yet another undeserving reward for some crap he had little to do with. Interesting little bit from the story:
“we forever memorialized Sergeant Yoon in a peaceful grove on Yongsan Garrison in Seoul”
Forever? Hmm we’ll have to see about that, there’s a lot of Korean bulldozers salivating over the land the garrison sits upon and based on how they blanket razed the other posts that were turned over it’s not certain what will remain.
South Korea indicts Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
http://fortune.com/2014/12/24/uber-indicted-south-korea/
Why is no government embarrassed that this is what you have to go through to the start a taxi service? Is there any other industry that’s this messed up due to government interference?
Army data shows rarity of desertion prosecutions
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/12/24/3484069/army-data-shows-rarity-of-desertion.html
A generation of quitters. Bleh…
Stop me if you have heard this one before.
This large passenger jet walks into a bar between Indonesia and Malaysia. The bartender says, “We don’t serve passenger jets. Get lost.” The jet vanishes from radar and disappears without a trace.
…over 7 hours so far.
QZ 8501