Live Stream: Police Officer Reportedly Shot in Ferguson, Situation Very Tense
Major police presence at intersections. Police with assault rifles. pic.twitter.com/SdxFtAkC6r
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) September 28, 2014
Major police presence at intersections. Police with assault rifles. pic.twitter.com/SdxFtAkC6r
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) September 28, 2014
1 | psddluva4evah Sep 27, 2014 8:39:01pm |
For the sake of argument, let’s say, that from a legal standpoint, I get that yes the grand jury can take a long time, but aren’t different arrangements allowed in high profile cases like this one?
Cause, all I’m saying, allowing this to simmer while Wilson has still not been arrested and is still on paid leave and appears to have dropped off the face of the earth, is NOT helping Ferguson PD, the people and citizens of St Louis are anyone else for that matter. The cameras are gone and the national media are only interested in the story as it relates to Obama.
So cameras gone, national media presence and coverage low and this simmering untrust, outright hatred is NOT sustainable
2 | Charles Johnson Sep 27, 2014 8:39:39pm |
Code 2000 on police scanner. Which means damn near every officer in county is heading to scene. #Ferguson— mervyn marcano (@britrican) September 28, 2014
3 | Targetpractice Sep 27, 2014 8:41:20pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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In other words, we’re looking at another round of mass arrests.
4 | Amory Blaine Sep 27, 2014 8:43:50pm |
What’s going on at the local level to reform oversight? I would think some recalls are slam dunk.
5 | psddluva4evah Sep 27, 2014 8:43:59pm |
To be clear #Ferguson protestors are in no way impeding the efforts of police. It's peaceful. They aren't leaving. pic.twitter.com/0r8ZwTUgAl— Amy Stephen (@AmyStephen) September 28, 2014
7 | Targetpractice Sep 27, 2014 8:45:01pm |
re: #5 psddluva4evah
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As if that’s stopped cops from gassing and arresting them before.
8 | Charles Johnson Sep 27, 2014 8:45:14pm |
Major police presence at intersections. Police with assault rifles. pic.twitter.com/SdxFtAkC6r— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) September 28, 2014
9 | teleskiguy Sep 27, 2014 8:48:33pm |
Looks like cops are locking down a big swath of north St. Louis County, nobody in or out and those in are extremely limited in their movement.
10 | psddluva4evah Sep 27, 2014 8:48:45pm |
I can understand why the protestors don’t want to leave. The mistrust of the police is well-earned and thanks to all the lies, Capt Ron Johnson has NO capital at all.
Again, I understand why the protestors don’t trust anything the PD are saying.
Suspect in shooting of Ferguson police officer is still at large, emergency agency spokesman says. http://t.co/TbdoSijXAi— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 28, 2014
11 | Charles Johnson Sep 27, 2014 8:50:50pm |
My Twitter stalkers are getting very worked up.
12 | teleskiguy Sep 27, 2014 8:57:38pm |
I fervently hope for peace and reconciliation in #Ferguson. Shit is extremely tense tonight.— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) September 28, 2014
14 | klys Sep 27, 2014 9:02:04pm |
Dear Bobby Jindal:
This is why we have volcano monitoring.
The eruption at the 3,067m (10,120ft) peak, situated between Nagano and Gifu prefectures, trapped hundreds of climbers who were forced to seek shelter in lodges near the summit.
Some 230 have managed to descend - some 40 have yet to be rescued.
There’s going to be a lot of questions why, if there was increased seismic activity at the volcano (and I have read elsewhere that there was), the alert level was not raised.
15 | Stanley Sea Sep 27, 2014 9:02:48pm |
When people approach the police to ask questions, they go with hands up. America. #Ferguson
— deray mckesson (@deray) September 28, 2014
16 | Charles Johnson Sep 27, 2014 9:04:54pm |
18 | psddluva4evah Sep 27, 2014 9:10:26pm |
#BREAKING Manhunt underway for the person who shot a Ferguson police officer. Officer is expected to be ok. Parts of W. Florissant shutdown— KSDK NewsChannel 5 (@ksdknews) September 28, 2014
19 | Jenner7 Sep 27, 2014 9:24:04pm |
Apparently a kid died in Dellwood that was not the shooter. 12 years old. Two incidents, not one. #Ferguson— deray mckesson (@deray) September 28, 2014
20 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 9:38:04pm |
re: #1 psddluva4evah
For the sake of argument, let’s say, that from a legal standpoint, I get that yes the grand jury can take a long time, but aren’t different arrangements allowed in high profile cases like this one?
You should also take into account that this Grand Jury already spent four months of giving up each Wednesday to hear cases. They were supposed to be released from duty last month. Instead they are trapped for who knows how much longer hearing this case.
Originally the prosecutor said middle of October as the outside, now he says possibly mid-November.
The grand jury investigating the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police will likely finish its work by late October or early November. That’s significantly sooner than some reports indicated.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCullough says some people read too much into what was essentially a housekeeping matter, when prosecutors extended the grand jury’s term into January.
“Nobody anticipates it’s going to go anywhere near January or even December,” McCullough said. “But just to make sure everything can be covered, because if we don’t do it now it can’t be done until time runs out.”
fox2now.com
21 | Targetpractice Sep 27, 2014 9:44:54pm |
re: #20 ausador
You should also take into account that this Grand Jury already spent four months of giving up each Wednesday to hear cases. They were supposed to be released from duty last month. Instead they are trapped for who knows how much longer hearing this case.
Originally the prosecutor said middle of October as the outside, now he says possibly mid-November.
In other words, this isn’t dying as quickly as he’d hoped, so he’s dragging it out longer.
22 | Stanley Sea Sep 27, 2014 9:50:00pm |
From earlier story in WaPo
The night bullets hit the White House and the Secret Service didn’t know http://t.co/DaR8lp3NTg pic.twitter.com/kcLKyw5AiD
— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) September 28, 2014
23 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 9:52:30pm |
re: #21 Targetpractice
In other words, this isn’t dying as quickly as he’d hoped, so he’s dragging it out longer.
Yeah he is, with a Grand jury that has already given up another (fifth) month of its time beyond the original term. I imagine that they aren’t very happy about the situation either.
The decision was made to use the existing Grand Jury to hear this exclusively so that the one for the new term could start hearing all the other cases. They really should have been dismissed and two new Grand Juries selected. But since they are appointed by a Judge there probably would have been questions raised about possible favoritism during that process. :(
No win situation…
24 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 9:57:06pm |
re: #22 Stanley Sea
From earlier story in WaPo
Hard to believe in 2011 isn’t it? No cameras watching the perimeter fence/street and no shot finder mics within a mile. The agent who KNEW that shots had struck the building not feeling able to speak up against superiors mistaken dismissal of the gunshot sounds.
Sounds like the management/culture is broken there. :(
25 | Gus Sep 27, 2014 10:01:27pm |
26 | sagehen Sep 27, 2014 10:15:30pm |
re: #24 ausador
Hard to believe in 2011 isn’t it? No cameras watching the perimeter fence/street and no shot finder mics within a mile. The agent who KNEW that shots had struck the building not feeling able to speak up against superiors mistaken dismissal of the gunshot sounds.
Sounds like the management/culture is broken there. :(
We already knew they had problems; getting drunk with hookers on a foreign trip was our first clue.
28 | S'latch Sep 27, 2014 10:25:18pm |
It is horrible news. I hope this officer is okay. NYT is reporting that the officer was shot in the arm and is expected to recover.
29 | Ace-o-aces Sep 27, 2014 10:25:50pm |
re: #11 Charles Johnson
My Twitter stalkers are getting very worked up.
Let me guess. They think Mike Brown is somehow responsible for a shooting that occurred after his death.
30 | The War TARDIS Sep 27, 2014 10:26:15pm |
Well, more proof Doctor Who has broken into the mainstream in the US.
The Tenth Doctor is on a new case in #gracepoint. Premieres Oct. 2 on @FOXTV. pic.twitter.com/X3L4NU9W4b
— GracepointFOX (@GracepointFOX) September 26, 2014
FOX is using David Tennant’s role as the Doctor to promote an American Adaption to Broadchurch, Gracepoint.
31 | sagehen Sep 27, 2014 10:31:18pm |
re: #30 The War TARDIS
Well, more proof Doctor Who has broken into the mainstream in the US.
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FOX is using David Tennant’s role as the Doctor to promote an American Adaption to Broadchurch, Gracepoint.
Are they changing the story at all? It hardly seems worth watching if they’re going to have the same case, the same suspects, the same solution… Liking both the leads isn’t reason enough to watch a remake of something I saw just last year.
32 | klys Sep 27, 2014 10:35:36pm |
Reports of fatalities coming in through the Japanese media on the Mt. Ontake eruption. All in Japanese so I have nothing to link (going on husband’s translations) but apparently they may have found more than 30 dead up near the summit.
33 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 10:42:16pm |
For those wondering about what really happened when the Ferguson Police Chief tried walking with the protestors…yeah, the cops absolutely did start it.
Just some decent dialogue back and forth between the chief and the crowd until about the 9:57 mark. Then he tried to march and his officers behind him started manhandling the crowd, went downhill very fast.
This video shows exactly what happened last night in #Ferguson. And it's not what TV is reporting. http://t.co/B1JZc3y3Ej— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) September 26, 2014
34 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 10:45:39pm |
re: #32 klys
Reports of fatalities coming in through the Japanese media on the Mt. Ontake eruption. All in Japanese so I have nothing to link (going on husband’s translations) but apparently they may have found more than 30 dead up near the summit.
Damn. An awful lot of volcanologists and other people (41 in total) were killed by pyroclastic flows on Mt Unzen in 1991.
Stratovolcano eruptions are nothing to fuck with. They are nothing at all like the relatively tame low volatile gas and low viscosity eruptions in Hawaii. A pyroclastic flow is nature’s version of a hydrogen bomb. You do NOT want to be near one.
35 | darthstar Sep 27, 2014 10:49:28pm |
36 | klys Sep 27, 2014 10:49:45pm |
re: #34 Aunty Entity Dragon
Damn. An awful lot of volcanologists and other people (41 in total) were killed by pyroclastic flows on Mt Unzen in 1991.
Stratovolcano eruptions are nothing to fuck with. They are nothing at all like the relatively tame low volatile gas and low viscosity eruptions in Hawaii. A pyroclastic flow is nature’s version of a hydrogen bomb. You do NOT want to be near one.
I’m not convinced that what happened here was a pyroclastic flow; if it were, there are an awful lot of really amazingly lucky hikers. The husband’s rough translations seem to indicate that they were found buried in ash, in one location - possibly in one of the mountain lodges, although that is very much speculation on my part.
The Mt. Unzen tragedy was notable because one of the volcanologists who died - Harry Glicken - had swapped shifts with David Johnston on monitoring Mt. St. Helens.
37 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 10:52:23pm |
re: #36 klys
I’m not convinced that what happened here was a pyroclastic flow; if it were, there are an awful lot of really amazingly lucky hikers. The husband’s rough translations seem to indicate that they were found buried in ash, in one location - possibly in one of the mountain lodges, although that is very much speculation on my part.
The Mt. Unzen tragedy was notable because one of the volcanologists who died - Harry Glicken - had swapped shifts with David Johnston on monitoring Mt. St. Helens.
Harry Glicken never got over that. Word in the geology community was that he was brilliant but also really, really messed up and a bit unstable.
The Krafts from France died in that one as well.
38 | klys Sep 27, 2014 10:53:45pm |
re: #32 klys
The joys of translation. Apparently some other sources are now making it sound like possibly critical condition and not death. His dictionary claims the word they are using to describe the hikers’ condition is “cardiac arrest.”
Fingers crossed for a more hopeful outcome.
39 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 10:59:53pm |
re: #35 darthstar
Mt. St. Helens is waking up too…and there’s Iceland, and Papua New Guinea…
Sometimes I hate that all the volcanoes share the same circulatory system…it’s almost like the planet is saying, “Fuck it, I can’t wait for an asteroid to wipe these assholes out…”
Well, not really. I know what you are getting at (IE they all derive energy and material from the earth) but how they actually operate can be radically different from one volcano to another. Hawaiian volcanoes operate off of a stationary “hot spot” and the basaltic magma has a chemical composition which reflects the low silica nature of the melt material (originally from deep mantle ultramafic peridotite)
In Iceland, you get something really weird…both hot spot deep melt composition magmas and also relatively shallow spreading center magmas from a different provenance. You get two different magma compositions that have nothing to really do with one another since the magmas originate in very different melt facies.
I really wanted to take geochemistry. Never was able to do so.
40 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 11:01:06pm |
Video of eruption from multiple vantages…
Video from some hikers who were caught by the ash cloud…
That’s the word from Japan’s NHK News, which says the eruption seriously injured more than 30 people. The agency also says more than 10 people who were rescued remain unconscious.
One hiker was killed, Reuters reports.
41 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:04:32pm |
re: #39 Aunty Entity Dragon
Well, not really. I know what you are getting at (IE they all derive energy and material from the earth) but how they actually operate can be radically different from one volcano to another. Hawaiian volcanoes operate off of a stationary “hot spot” and the basltic magma has a chemical composition which reflects the low silca nature of the melt material (originally from deep mantle ultramafic peridotite)
In Iceland, you get something really weird…both hot spot deep melt composition magmas and also relatively shallow spreading center magmas from a different provenance. You get two different magma compositions that have nothing to really do with one another since the magmas originate in very different melt facies.
I really wanted to take geochemistry. Never was able to do so.
My Ph.D. thesis was all about how composition and temperature affects structure in silicate melts.
I’m having bad flashbacks. Clearly more gin required.
42 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 11:10:50pm |
Was just reading the last AP update from an hour ago that said 32-34 people remained missing when this popped up…
BREAKING: Japanese police say more than 30 people believed dead have been found at volcano site.— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2014
43 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:11:34pm |
re: #42 ausador
Yeah, he checked another dictionary (in case the first one was off).
checked another dictionary. The definition in Japanese is very definitely “a condition where the heart and breathing stop”
44 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 11:11:38pm |
re: #41 klys
My Ph.D. thesis was all about how composition and temperature affects structure in silicate melts.
I’m having bad flashbacks. Clearly more gin required.
Ah, yes. 2 component and 3 component phase diagrams…
45 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:14:10pm |
re: #44 Aunty Entity Dragon
Ah, yes. 2 component and 3 component phase diagrams…
Well, if I was dealing with phases I wasn’t doing my job well. >.>
46 | lostlakehiker Sep 27, 2014 11:16:56pm |
re: #35 darthstar
re: #35 darthstar
Mt. St. Helens is waking up too…and there’s Iceland, and Papua New Guinea…
Sometimes I hate that all the volcanoes share the same circulatory system…it’s almost like the planet is saying, “Fuck it, I can’t wait for an asteroid to wipe these assholes out…”
There’s no link between Iceland and New Guinea volcanos. They all share that deep reserve of uranium-fueled heat, but the network of fault lines and fissures in the crust that produces the “ring of fire” etc. isn’t all tied together in such a way that any eruption anywhere makes other eruptions everywhere else more likely. And Mt. St. Helens isn’t in any sort of pipelike communication with Iceland or Papua New Guinea.
But human volcanoes is another story. To some extent, chaos anywhere manages to have an impact on everywhere else. Because unlike the volcanoes of nature, we really are in communication.
47 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 11:19:50pm |
re: #45 klys
Well, if I was dealing with phases I wasn’t doing my job well. >.>
You didn’t mess with these things?
I sure had my fill of them in optical mineralogy and igneous/metamorphic petrology…
That was a year of non stop fun over a microscope.
//
I did get a department award and scholarship for my work that year…but I will never forget the headaches i would get looking through polarized light instuments for hours on end.
48 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:21:25pm |
re: #47 Aunty Entity Dragon
Oh, I’ve seen them. Used them. Can even vaguely read them.
But when you’re dealing with melt, crystal structure is of less interest, and ideally you want no crystals at all. They get in the way of analyzing melt structure, which is already a special clusterfuck of its own.
49 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 11:23:29pm |
re: #48 klys
Oh, I’ve seen them. Used them. Can even vaguely read them.
But when you’re dealing with melt, crystal structure is of less interest, and ideally you want no crystals at all. They get in the way of analyzing melt structure, which is already a special clusterfuck of its own.
OK, I get ya.
On that note…I’m really tired. Sleep……..
50 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 11:26:35pm |
Ok? Dead, no unconscious, no dead, no unconscious but believed dead…
MORE: Japanese rescuers find more than 30 unconscious bodies believed to be dead near peak of erupting volcano http://t.co/JLpLQuk3iZ— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2014
51 | Aunty Entity Dragon Sep 27, 2014 11:27:07pm |
re: #48 klys
Oh, I’ve seen them. Used them. Can even vaguely read them.
But when you’re dealing with melt, crystal structure is of less interest, and ideally you want no crystals at all. They get in the way of analyzing melt structure, which is already a special clusterfuck of its own.
But also…you end up with migmatites and weird depleted dunnites after the melt leaves the system. You didn’t have fun with those??!
52 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:27:49pm |
re: #50 ausador
Ok? Dead, no unconscious, no dead, no unconscious but believed dead…
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Well, this paragraph from the article is consistent with the husband’s translation above:
The victims have been described as not breathing and their hearts have stopped, which is the customary way for Japanese authorities to describe a body until police doctors can examine it.
53 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:28:36pm |
re: #51 Aunty Entity Dragon
But also…you end up with migmatites and weird depleted dunnites after the melt leaves the system. You didn’t have fun with those??!
Hahahahaha, no. Purely synthetic samples, all made in lab, because composition is really important, as it turns out.
I am not a field geologist at all.
54 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 11:38:06pm |
Stupid people in the replies already trying to blame illegal immigrants, even though it was a nursing assistant at the hospital…
5 babies test positive for TB in West Texas outbreak after hospital worker exposes hundreds of infants http://t.co/0CcioIedOz— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2014
55 | Pawn of the Oppressor Sep 27, 2014 11:38:21pm |
re: #52 klys
Oh geez… When I saw the videos I thought it was really great luck that nobody was killed.
The 2nd video of the ash blanketing the hikers was frightening. If I had been there, out for a hike, and I saw that cloud coming, I would certainly have thought “pyroclastic flow”, and that I was about to die.
56 | klys Sep 27, 2014 11:47:43pm |
re: #55 Pawn of the Oppressor
Oh geez… When I saw the videos I thought it was really great luck that nobody was killed.
The 2nd video of the ash blanketing the hikers was frightening. If I had been there, out for a hike, and I saw that cloud coming, I would certainly have thought “pyroclastic flow”, and that I was about to die.
I think I’d prefer to go in a pyroclastic flow than suffocating under the ash.
I know I’ve seen this described elsewhere on the net as a pyroclastic flow but the sheer number of hikers on the volcano who survived - even after being engulfed - seriously argues against that to me. Certainly no indications of superheated gas, at least, which goes against the standard definition of a pyroclastic flow.
Granted, I am not a volcanologist, so. This is my vaguely informed opinion and nothing more.
57 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 11:51:11pm |
Updated story on Ferguson, 2 possible burglary suspects, ran from officer when approached, one fired at officer and hit him in the arm. Officer returned fire but it’s unknown if either suspect was hit, both are still at large.
This was not involved with the protests and not close to the protestors…
MORE: Tim Zoll of Ferguson Police Department tells KSDK-TV that officer was shot in arm http://t.co/wP26k3wQxa— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2014
58 | ausador Sep 27, 2014 11:59:57pm |
re: #56 klys
I think I’d prefer to go in a pyroclastic flow than suffocating under the ash.
I know I’ve seen this described elsewhere on the net as a pyroclastic flow but the sheer number of hikers on the volcano who survived - even after being engulfed - seriously argues against that to me. Certainly no indications of superheated gas, at least, which goes against the standard definition of a pyroclastic flow.
Granted, I am not a volcanologist, so. This is my vaguely informed opinion and nothing more.
It was probably the carbon dioxide that smothered them, volcanic gases always contains carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, and small amounts of some other gases. Some volcanoes put out very high amounts of sulfur dioxide and their gases are extremely toxic, but I don’t think Mount Ontake is one of those.
59 | Kragar Sep 28, 2014 12:10:53am |
Well, the good news is that the volcano was no where near my wife’s family in Japan.
60 | ausador Sep 28, 2014 12:24:29am |
Not sure how Matt thinks this will be a worry in the United States as he seems to be implying. I don’t believe we have many mansions, with or without pools, hiding out undeclared around here…
Argentina uses drones to root out wealthy tax evaders… It's about to get REAL fun! http://t.co/LdtChQyw4K— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) September 25, 2014
61 | ausador Sep 28, 2014 1:19:49am |
Obama care is working, hospitals to save about $5.7 billion this year in uncompensated care costs, a 16% drop in those costs. Which means that those of us with coverage wont have to pay as much to subsidize hospitals for those that don’t have any. Thanks Obama!
Thank you #ObamaCare! Hospitals Will Save Nearly $6 Billion This Year http://t.co/wQ4bQXgS6j pic.twitter.com/UMCNfdMgaA RT @UniteBluePA— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) September 27, 2014
Now if only we can vote Rick Scott out so that Florida can possibly expand medicaid too, we are one of the largest hold out states. :(
62 | Dr Lizardo Sep 28, 2014 3:05:01am |
Meanwhile, in Oregon politics, GOP Senatorial candidate Dr. Monica Wehby’s campaign seems to be in meltdown.
Officials from KGW TV spent weeks attempting to arrange a debate — jointly sponsored with The Oregonian — between Wehby and Merkley. The senator agreed in mid-August to participate but the station cancelled the debate after Wehby missed a noon Friday deadline for agreeing to participate. At this point, the two have agreed on one debate, an Oct. 14 appearance on KOBI TV in Medford.
Willamette Week has had a long practice of inviting candidates in a race to jointly appear before its editorial board for a videotaped question-and-answer session that it posts on its website.
Wehby’s campaign was rocked last week by allegations that she had used plagiarized material in health care and economic policy papers she had posted on her website, and she may have wanted to avoid being subjected to a fresh round of headlines on that subject.
Looks like that’s one Senate seat the GOP likely won’t be picking up this November.
63 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Sep 28, 2014 4:27:50am |
re: #60 ausador
Not sure how Matt thinks this will be a worry in the United States as he seems to be implying. I don’t believe we have many mansions, with or without pools, hiding out undeclared around here…
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64 | NJDhockeyfan Sep 28, 2014 6:06:57am |
Lovely picture. RT @BelleDeJour15: Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart 'To Have and Have Not', 1944. pic.twitter.com/9OA15SeG3a— BogartEstate (@HumphreyBogart) September 26, 2014
65 | Cheechako Sep 28, 2014 6:09:05am |
Alaska Dispatch News
September 27, 2014
If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like when U.S. troops use the cover of darkness to insert troops and equipment into a war zone, wonder no more.
The 517th Airlift Squadron’s C-17 Globemaster III planes lit up the night sky near Anchorage Friday, Sept. 26 as they conducted nighttime drop exercises at the Malemute Drop Zone, just west of Lower Fire Lake.
On Saturday, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson officials released footage of the exercises showing the lumbering cargo planes shooting counter-measure flares into the darkness as they drop troops and equipment, and the result is an eye-catching minute and a half of video, capturing flares bursting like fireworks in the night sky, illuminating the C-17s as they approach the drop zone.
66 | lawhawk Sep 28, 2014 6:11:46am |
As dangerous as the situation was in Ferguson prior to last night, it just got a whole lot moreso as a result of an officer being shot. There’s already no trust between the community and police, and the police, which have already shown that they don’t care about the community are going to be even more ready to use force than they’ve already shown.
There’s no trust of the FPD or the county police. None.
The community has no reason to trust either one - not after the shooting of Brown, let alone the handling of the protests, which included excessive force to disrupt peaceful protests, attacking journalists, and pointing loaded weapons and sniper rifles at peaceful protesters who were exercising their constitutional rights to protest injustices inflicted on the community by the police.
And in the days and weeks that followed the shooting of Brown, all we’ve seen is that the injustices faced by the black community in Ferguson are compounded by a stacked deck at all levels that perpetuate the injustice - and Ferguson is hardly alone in the greater St. Louis area (or the nation for that matter) where local police, prosecutors, and the courts do not provide relief for the black community because officer involved shootings are largely not prosecuted, blacks face a disproportionate number of stops per capita as compared to contraband find rates/arrest rates per capita. It’s harassment of the local community to fund the courts and municipal governments that have found that an easy way to gain revenues - but it institutionalizes the racism and further undermines the social compact.
So, all that is a backdrop to a police that now appears to the black community to be more interested in justice in finding someone who shot a cop than investigating and prosecuting a cop who shot an unarmed black man that by all eyewitness and video accounts was unjustified. That is not lost on the black community either.
67 | Charles Johnson Sep 28, 2014 6:25:40am |
Just got off phone w/ @TefPoe in #Delwood where officer was shot. THIS IS NOT IN #FERGUSON or connected 2 protests. Plz report accurately— Michael McBride (@pastormykmac) September 28, 2014
68 | Decatur Deb Sep 28, 2014 6:32:34am |
Momma Bear and Baby Bear lived in a hole in the woods. Momma Bear had driven Poppa Bear off, because he was a threat to the cub. A young blonde hiker found the empty den—no oatmeal, no chairs, no beds. She got the hell out of there.
Why ruin a good fairy tale?
69 | NJDhockeyfan Sep 28, 2014 6:51:29am |
Fire alarm goes off overnight at Eagles hotel http://t.co/Uvgi9FiLe5 #NFL #Eagles— The Redzone (@TheRedzoneorg) September 28, 2014
70 | b.d. Sep 28, 2014 6:52:26am |
Ahhhh memories:
On May 20, he [Snowden] boarded a flight to Hong Kong, where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because “they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent”,
71 | NJDhockeyfan Sep 28, 2014 6:52:39am |
Heh
Which cruel cruel Niners fan pulled the fire alarm at our hotel?!— Emmanuel Acho (@thEMANacho) September 28, 2014
72 | Eventual Carrion Sep 28, 2014 7:06:19am |
re: #71 NJDhockeyfan
Heh
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Wouldn’t surprise me. “Hey dude, hold my beer and watch this!”
73 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 7:32:33am |
My heart goes out to the family of this police officer.
74 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 7:41:26am |
re: #73 FemNaziBitch
My heart goes out to the family of this police officer.
Fortunately he was shot in the arm so it’s not life threatening
HOWEVER,,, the Penn cop killer is still on the loose, presumably armed and obviously dangerous. And unlike the Ferguson shooting, it appears the Penn killer planned this for awhile
75 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 7:45:54am |
76 | Dave In Austin Sep 28, 2014 7:53:21am |
That sums is up well. #VVS14 pic.twitter.com/ZjaMJvW7W9
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 28, 2014
77 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 8:02:17am |
78 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 8:02:48am |
Another year, another Ryder Cup loss
(Europe only needs one more point out of 5 matches still going on, and they’re leading in two of those)
79 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 8:03:57am |
re: #74 sattv4u2
Fortunately he was shot in the arm so it’s not life threatening
HOWEVER,,, the Penn cop killer is still on the loose, presumably armed and obviously dangerous. And unlike the Ferguson shooting, it appears the Penn killer planned this for awhile
Still, hearing that your family member has been shot has to be a daily fear of policemen’s families.
80 | Feline Fearless Leader Sep 28, 2014 8:04:09am |
re: #78 sattv4u2
Another year, another Ryder Cup loss
(Europe only needs one more point out of 5 matches still going on, and they’re leading in two of those)
The US government obviously needs to subsidize golf more in order to make up this deficiency.
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81 | Ryan King Sep 28, 2014 8:05:30am |
re: #78 sattv4u2
Another year, another Ryder Cup loss
(Europe only needs one more point out of 5 matches still going on, and they’re leading in two of those)
THANKS OBAMA.
82 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 8:06:34am |
re: #80 Feline Fearless Leader
The US government obviously needs to subsidize golf more in order to make up this deficiency.
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I actually blame Jack Nicklaus!!
The Ryder Cup USED to be the USA vs England/ Ireland
Nicklaus proposed, lobbied for and got the rest of Europe included on the Eng/Ire side
Since then, the USA hasn’t done well despite many times having more top ranked players than Europe
83 | Ryan King Sep 28, 2014 8:14:57am |
A terrorist only understands one thing: A Bullet. Let's put some right into #ISIS members heads. #waytopeace
— Everett Stern (@SternEverett) August 25, 2014
84 | GlutenFreeJesus Sep 28, 2014 8:15:06am |
When one of their own is shot, they go all out. When one of their own shoots murders an unarmed black kid, they can’t be bothered to fill out a report.
85 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 28, 2014 8:16:13am |
Seeing some tweets about this.
Hong Kong Police Use Tear Gas On Large Pro-Democracy Protest
Police in riot gear have been deployed to the streets of Hong Kong, where thousands of protesters are calling for free elections. Police used tear gas and pepper spray to try to clear the city’s central business and government district. Organized by student groups, the Occupy Central protests have now been going on for three days.
Sunday night brought the first use of tear gas; video footage from earlier in the day showed protesters using umbrellas to try to deflect pepper spray and water cannons as officers attempted to disperse the crowd. Some protesters also worried that police might also use a “sound cannon” to send painful acoustic waves at them.
86 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 28, 2014 8:18:52am |
Not Ferguson, but Hong Kong.
HK Police escalates violence by shooting rubber bullets on peaceful protesters who are standing with their arms up. pic.twitter.com/5uXGShUFeF
— The OSINT (@theosint) September 28, 2014
87 | GlutenFreeJesus Sep 28, 2014 8:22:48am |
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not Ferguson, but Hong Kong.
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“Not Hong Kong, but Ferguson”.
88 | darthstar Sep 28, 2014 8:23:38am |
An Open Letter To Fox News About 'Boobs On The Ground' @TPM http://t.co/wF0vPY6Up5— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 28, 2014
We are veterans of the United States armed forces, and we are writing to inform you that your remarks about United Arab Emirates Air Force Major Mariam Al Mansouri were unwarranted, offensive, and fundamentally opposed to what the military taught us to stand for.
First, foremost, and most obvious to everyone other than yourselves, your remarks were immensely inappropriate.
It’s a well written takedown of Fox News…I especially like this part:
We issue an apology on your behalf to Major Al Mansouri knowing that anything your producers force you to say will be contrived and insincere.
89 | GlutenFreeJesus Sep 28, 2014 8:24:55am |
I have a feeling I won’t have to pack my bags for this trip. Ever.
@SternEverett When's your flight to Syria? Let's get the ball rolling. I'll follow your lead.— efuseakay (@efuseakay) September 28, 2014
90 | darthstar Sep 28, 2014 8:25:29am |
Did he bind his hands and feet AFTER he decapitated himself or before?
Makes sense “@BuzzFeedAndrew: Huh http://t.co/qqBABvBEqQ via @jaketapper pic.twitter.com/Y28cgXvuEJ”— Tim Dickinson (@7im) September 28, 2014
91 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 8:25:54am |
re: #78 sattv4u2
Another year, another Ryder Cup loss
(Europe only needs one more point out of 5 matches still going on, and they’re leading in two of those)
hmmm,,, a comeback in the making!?!?
2 of the remaining matches are even
The US is up in 2 others
The bad news, the one match Europe is leading right now,, they are up by 4 with only 4 holes to play, so at BEST the US can only halve that one, meaning Europe only needs 1/2 point out of the other 4 matches
92 | darthstar Sep 28, 2014 8:28:38am |
re: #91 sattv4u2
I watched one hole on TV. The drunken “USA! USA!” cheering squad embarrassed me too much to watch another.
93 | Eventual Carrion Sep 28, 2014 8:29:59am |
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not Ferguson, but Hong Kong.
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The tactics look almost totalitarian, which they are in this non democratic society. What is our excuse?
94 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 8:31:47am |
re: #54 ausador
Stupid people in the replies already trying to blame illegal immigrants, even though it was a nursing assistant at the hospital…
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They want to get their hate fix.
95 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 8:33:08am |
re: #87 GlutenFreeJesus
“Not Hong Kong, but Ferguson”.
No. The St. Louis County Police didn’t fire rubber bullets at people who had their hands up like that.
96 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 8:35:05am |
re: #92 darthstar
I watched one hole on TV. The drunken “USA! USA!” cheering squad embarrassed me too much to watch another.
You think THOSE chants are drunken,,, wait till Europe wins! You’ll be able to hear the chants from every Scottish pub if you have your windows open!!!
97 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 8:35:29am |
99 | darthstar Sep 28, 2014 8:36:54am |
re: #95 Dark_Falcon
No. The St. Louis County Police didn’t fire rubber bullets at people who had their hands up like that.
You’re right…They fired wooden ones.
101 | darthstar Sep 28, 2014 8:42:25am |
re: #96 sattv4u2
You think THOSE chants are drunken,,, wait till Europe wins! You’ll be able to hear the chants from every Scottish pub if you have your windows open!!!
As long as I don’t have to hear them on the golf course. Maybe golfers should learn the victory dances of NFL players after a tackle…the slow stalky-stomp with a hip thrust…it would add to the game. Or better yet, the soccer knee slide across the green after a putt with the shirt pulled up.
102 | Feline Fearless Leader Sep 28, 2014 8:44:20am |
re: #101 darthstar
As long as I don’t have to hear them on the golf course. Maybe golfers should learn the victory dances of NFL players after a tackle…the slow stalky-stomp with a hip thrust…it would add to the game. Or better yet, the soccer knee slide across the green after a putt with the shirt pulled up.
Or just add tackling to professional golf.
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Imagine the pressure of that putt as a few large men in pads come bearing down on you.
103 | Eventual Carrion Sep 28, 2014 8:44:30am |
re: #99 darthstar
You’re right…They fired wooden ones.
I believe there was a report of a preacher trying to get both sides to calm down getting hit by a rubber bullet in the early stages of the unrest.
Here is one report. Can’t say I can vouch for the reporting site, but I remember the picture they have on their site. I see democracynow and other sites reported on it also around Aug. 15-17th timeframe.
104 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 8:44:34am |
re: #97 FemNaziBitch
Apple won’t hold to that position long, I predict. The first time they try “turning over gibberish” after a terrorist attack, they’ll get cited for contempt of court or the Department of Justice will threaten indictments of Apple executives for Obstruction of Justice. Either tactic will make Apple truckle under quickly.
105 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 8:44:58am |
re: #101 darthstar
As long as I don’t have to hear them on the golf course. Maybe golfers should learn the victory dances of NFL players after a tackle…the slow stalky-stomp with a hip thrust…it would add to the game. Or better yet, the soccer knee slide across the green after a putt with the shirt pulled up.
The Ryder Cup is actually the one tournament where the fans and players really get into it as opposed to the stodgy quiet “golf claps” prevalent at regular tour events, much like the Davis Cup in tennis
106 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 8:46:02am |
re: #99 darthstar
You’re right…They fired wooden ones.
They needed wooden bullets to combat the threat of vampires.
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107 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 8:50:39am |
108 | Pie-onist Overlord Sep 28, 2014 8:51:55am |
How “Right-To-Work” Kills Jobs:
Hi #German automakers, if you want #unions in your plants, then dont build in right-to-work states. Friggin Trojan horse assholes. #tcot— AmmosexualDEETZ (@tahDeetz) September 28, 2014
109 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 8:55:07am |
On a positive note, the future may look bright for the USA wrt to the Ryder cup. The junior team won again (making it 4 years in a row)
Congrats to the Juniors!!
110 | jaunte Sep 28, 2014 8:57:53am |
re: #108 Pie-onist Overlord
Friggin Trojan horse assholes
Because countries like Denmark, with a near 80% union participation rate, are such unlivable hellscapes compared to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas…
111 | wheat-dogghazi Sep 28, 2014 8:58:13am |
re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seeing some tweets about this.
Hong Kong Police Use Tear Gas On Large Pro-Democracy Protest
One of my former students (mainland Chinese) is a grad student in HK now. Interestingly enough, he’s spinning it in his social media queue as being provoked by the students! He says “don’t believe the Western media. They’re biased. The students are not as peaceful as the media portray them.” I’m hoping another year in HK will mellow out his mainland blindness to injustice.
112 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 9:01:40am |
re: #108 Pie-onist Overlord
How “Right-To-Work” Kills Jobs:
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Well, he also retweeted this:
Beheadings in Obama's “open border” America prevention kit: #tcot @jjauthor @peddoc63 @HeidiL_RN @LeMarquand pic.twitter.com/smH764slN1
— Carmine Zozzora (@CarmineZozzora) September 27, 2014
Problem with that: The COO of Vaughan Foods, Mark Vaughan, actually was armed and it was he who stopped Alton Nolen. But he couldn’t stop Nolen before he killed his first victim. He did shoot Nolen in time to save a second woman’s life. Full story is here.
114 | Pie-onist Overlord Sep 28, 2014 9:04:08am |
Glenn Knows Best!
NEW: The Khorasan Group: Anatomy of a Fake Terror Threat to Justify Bombing Syria: https://t.co/RO8US0b8EE— The Intercept (@the_intercept) September 28, 2014
115 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:04:28am |
re: #112 Dark_Falcon
Well, he also retweeted this:
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Problem with that: The COO of Vaughan Foods, Mark Vaughan, actually was armed and it was he who stopped Alton Nolen. But he couldn’t stop Nolen before he killed his first victim. He did shoot Nolen in time to save a second woman’s life. Full story is here.
I heard about that.
116 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 9:08:08am |
118 | The War TARDIS Sep 28, 2014 9:12:46am |
re: #112 Dark_Falcon
Meanwhile, I asked my Imam if he would sue Jim Hoft. He said no, that he would let it go.
119 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:16:26am |
120 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:17:11am |
re: #116 sattv4u2
Wonder if it smells like wallpaper paste!!!
Maybe old fashioned wallpaper paster —it was often home-made. People just mixed flour with water.
121 | Ryan King Sep 28, 2014 9:18:49am |
It takes just one truth-snark point to crush Obama's absurd #GlobalCitizenFestival video http://t.co/AbE5hqpsvP
— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) September 28, 2014
WTF is a ‘truth-snark point?’ LOL
It’s like Ideological Dungeons and Dragons.
122 | Stanley Sea Sep 28, 2014 9:21:21am |
Here’s the complete straw poll tally from the Value Voters.
123 | Ryan King Sep 28, 2014 9:22:28am |
Black dude goes berserker and cuts off a woman’s head, stabs another… recently ‘converted’ to Islam, it’s because Islam.
White dude kills 20 something people in a shooting spree, it’s because he’s insane.
That reasoning is in itself insane.
125 | Iwouldprefernotto Sep 28, 2014 9:23:49am |
Fox host tells Ben Carson: You as president is like a lawmaker doing brain surgery
I stand with Fox. This time.
126 | Eventual Carrion Sep 28, 2014 9:23:58am |
Wonder what YEC believers would say if it was suggested we all came from algae?
127 | Iwouldprefernotto Sep 28, 2014 9:26:09am |
128 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 9:26:27am |
re: #117 Ryan King
Vaughn is a reserve Sheriff’s deputy.
True, which probably helped due to training on how to deal with workplace attackers. Because that’s what Alton Nolen was, make no mistake: He wasn’t a jihadi, he was someone who decided to kill his ex-co-workers after being fired. That still makes him a shithead, though, and Nolen should be put to death for his crimes.
129 | Stanley Sea Sep 28, 2014 9:29:14am |
130 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:29:22am |
Only Yes means Yes!!! A Bumper Magnet Only Store http://t.co/3VSsFk6RUB— ggt (@geegeetee) September 28, 2014
131 | urbanmeemaw Sep 28, 2014 9:33:18am |
132 | Dark_Falcon Sep 28, 2014 9:36:07am |
re: #128 Dark_Falcon
True, which probably helped due to training on how to deal with workplace attackers. Because that’s what Alton Nolen was, make no mistake: He wasn’t a jihadi, he was someone who decided to kill his ex-co-workers after being fired. That still makes him a shithead, though, and Nolen should be put to death for his crimes.
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134 | b.d. Sep 28, 2014 9:41:32am |
re: #114 Pie-onist Overlord
Glenn Knows Best!
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Holy smokes what an odious screed that was and it is total bulls*it. The easiest thing the US Govt. could have done is not mention a Khorasan group at all and blame everything on ISIS. What is the upside of bringing up Khorasan for the US Govt. besides it just trying to tell the American people what they are doing? If anything it makes this whole thing more complicated which doesn’t translate well amongst the citizenry.
I read Glenn’s stupid rant and it really makes no sense, it seems that he just wanted to unload on the mainstream media reporters to me.
135 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:41:41am |
136 | Feline Fearless Leader Sep 28, 2014 9:42:07am |
137 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:43:27am |
138 | Feline Fearless Leader Sep 28, 2014 9:46:09am |
BTW, no statement is intended by the picture of the church also including a “Do Not Enter” sign that seems to align with the entrance of the church itself. Just a chance result of how the shot was lined up.
139 | b.d. Sep 28, 2014 9:49:48am |
re: #138 Feline Fearless Leader
BTW, no statement is intended by the picture of the church also including a “Do Not Enter” sign that seems to align with the entrance of the church itself. Just a chance result of how the shot was lined up.
I was noticing that there are an awful lot of signs telling you what you cannot do in that beautiful picture. What a beautiful building.
140 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:50:06am |
re: #138 Feline Fearless Leader
BTW, no statement is intended by the picture of the church also including a “Do Not Enter” sign that seems to align with the entrance of the church itself. Just a chance result of how the shot was lined up.
A church in my part of the world had on their marquee this summer: Perfect People Not Welcome.
I loved it!
141 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 9:50:33am |
re: #137 FemNaziBitch
Wait, do you like that aroma?
No, but slightly repressed memories of the school bullies/ paste/ me/ locker room ,,,,,,,
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142 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:51:17am |
re: #141 sattv4u2
No, but slightly repressed memories of the school bullies/ paste/ me/ locker room ,,,,,,,
//
TMI!!
143 | sattv4u2 Sep 28, 2014 9:51:50am |
re: #139 b.d.
I was noticing that there are an awful lot of signs telling you what you cannot do in that beautiful picture. What a beautiful building.
Those signs telling you what you cannot do
Government, not religious!!
:P
144 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:53:29am |
re: #130 FemNaziBitch
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I forgot to include: I am donating all proceeds from sales from this store to the DV/SA agency for which I volunteer from now until Election Day.
The purpose is really outreach and awareness, I don’t expect much in sales. Please share on social media if you like the message.
145 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:54:50am |
re: #143 sattv4u2
Those signs telling you what you cannot do
Government, not religious!!:P
Gubernet says Hobby Lobby et al. can tell you what to do based on religious beliefs!!!
*sigh*
Is there an emoticon for “sigh”?
146 | Pie-onist Overlord Sep 28, 2014 9:54:58am |
147 | FemNaziBitch Sep 28, 2014 9:55:26am |
150 | Feline Fearless Leader Sep 28, 2014 9:58:43am |
re: #139 b.d.
I was noticing that there are an awful lot of signs telling you what you cannot do in that beautiful picture. What a beautiful building.
That church is at the corner of a somewhat convoluted intersection near the Art Museum in Philadelphia. Standard city street grid meeting up with a road running diagonal to the grid. Not a main road, so it’s lots of stop signs. Plus Philadelphia streets in that area do lots of alternating one-way streets.
151 | b.d. Sep 28, 2014 10:03:11am |
NOBODY WOULD HAVE LET OBAMA GET AWAY WITH BOMBING SYRIA IF HE WAS ONLY GOING TO BOMB ISIS, THAT’S WHY HE INVENTED THE KHORASAN GROUP
That is what Glenn Greenwald is trying to peddle. Really.
152 | Feline Fearless Leader Sep 28, 2014 10:03:35am |
Bears - Packers in retro jerseys. Though it’s hard to tell with Green Bay.
154 | Stanley Sea Sep 28, 2014 10:08:55am |
Just heard the wildest cat story. My friend’s Mom just did a big house move. The most obvious effect on their inside cat is he is stressed to get outside to the wildlife. There’s a fox out there apparently.
Well last night he scratched her, she had to go to the emergency room & get 12 stitches.
omg.
155 | b.d. Sep 28, 2014 10:16:27am |
Snowden - now living in Russia where he was granted temporary asylum last August - had made a calculated decision to come to Hong Kong and it had paid off.“It showed that [Snowden] had chosen this place that could actually stand up to the United States government, but at the same time he wanted a place that wouldn’t be so security-laden and that it would have political values that he felt comfortable with.
“There’s this history of dissent and protest in Hong Kong and the first day we were [in Hong Kong] there was this massive street protest against the Tiananmen abuses by the central Chinese government,” he [Greenwald] said, referring to the June 4 candlelight vigil.
156 | urbanmeemaw Sep 28, 2014 10:23:38am |
re: #81 Ryan King
THANKS OBAMA.
Hey, at least the Ryder Cup kept Chuckles and His Amazing Technicolor Stenographic Service off the air this morning.
157 | urbanmeemaw Sep 28, 2014 10:25:47am |
re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seeing some tweets about this.
Hong Kong Police Use Tear Gas On Large Pro-Democracy Protest
Shhhhh. Don’t tell Snowald.