Still quiet round here. This morning I have a gift for the Tolkien nerds out there.
Not their most pretentious work, but maybe not in the bottom quartile either.
Chat about whatever!
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Still quiet round here. This morning I have a gift for the Tolkien nerds out there.
Not their most pretentious work, but maybe not in the bottom quartile either.
Chat about whatever!
Comments are closed.
MomSense
Bless you, Tim F!
Comrade Scrutinizer
More bombast from the Zep.
dedc79
Game of Thrones should get Page and Plant to perform some of the songs from the books.
cleek
Sandy Denny was a monster vocalist.
i always hear “I hear horses thunder, down in the valley below” as “I hear Horaces thunder, down in the valley below.” as if many large men named Horace are running through the valley.
skerry
My local police shot and killed a man yesterday who was trying to commit suicide with a knife. Guess they showed him.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@skerry: Assisted suicide is still a felony in most states, no?
The Thin Black Duke
The Lovemongers do a pretty bad-ass version of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knUWKji706M
srv
@Tim F
I accept your misguided view and will not hector you about it. It is Thursday after all.
rikyrah
Huey P. Newton Gun Club leads open-carry rally in South Dallas
By NAHEED RAJWANI
Staff Writer
[email protected]
Published: 20 August 2014 11:09 PM
Updated: 20 August 2014 11:09 PM
Two dozen protesters — most of them armed — from a gun club named after the founder of the original Black Panther Party peacefully marched through parts of South Dallas on Wednesday.
The open-carry rally was organized by the Huey P. Newton Gun Club to promote self-defense and community policing in response to recent police shootings, both nationally and locally.
Police monitored the black-clad demonstrators, some of whom had rifles slung over their shoulders. As they walked down MLK Boulevard and Malcolm X Boulevard in the blistering heat, many chanted “black power” and “justice for Michael Brown,” the black teenager fatally shot by police this month in suburban St. Louis. His death has touched off a string of often-violent protests in that area.
While the Dallas marchers frequently chanted Brown’s name, they said their main goal was to shed light on local shootings by police. Dallas County leaders recently announced that they are looking into ways to change how they investigate shootings involving police officers.
“We think that all black people have the right to self-defense and self-determination,” said Huey Freeman, a march organizer. “We believe that we can police ourselves and bring security to our own communities.”
Freeman said Wednesday’s marchers planned to patronize several South Dallas businesses to keep their money in the community and teach their neighbors about their “right to self-defense.”
At one point, the group stopped at Elaine’s Kitchen, and one of the organizers told those who were armed to display their weapons in a “safe, disciplined manner.”
Several car drivers passing by the area honked and waved at the protesters.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140820-huey-p.-newton-gun-club-leads-open-carry-rally-in-south-dallas.ece
Hal
So is the supreme court going to strike down gay marriage bans everywhere sending Scalia into a coma?
skerry
@Hal: One can hope.
lamh36
ICYMI: @Lawrence Rewrite: Bad police reporting by the NYTimes http://t.co/oZcPS6ke4Q via @thelastword
Karen in GA
@Hal: Hey, whatever works.
beth
@rikyrah: I’ve watched the video of those white guys doing their gun rally at Dealey Plaza and didn’t see any police following them around. I wonder what’s different about this group????
trollhattan
@Hal: How would we know?
Morbo
@rikyrah: Huey Freeman?!
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Hal: Nope. They’ll overturn overturned marriage bans, because freedom of religion, like Hobby Lobby, and because state’s rights. A rejection of Loving and a return of miscegenation laws will be next.
No difference between Bush and Gore, right Ralph?
Shakezula
@Morbo: OMG, I thought the name sounded familiar.
skerry
Scarborough: Obama Golfing Shows ISIS He’s ‘One Cold Bastard’
Sorta, kinda defending the President’s actions. But, “bastard”, really?
Amir Khalid
It’s over, Mitt. You lost. Two years ago.
trollhattan
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Puttering around the California legislature is a bill mandating that all forms of contraception be included in health plans. Am informed the vote fell along party lines. Suck it, Republicans, I got yer states’ rights right here.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@trollhattan: No fear, they’ll just decide that that law would violate the Commerce Clause, because.
Botsplainer
For pretentious, the all-time winner goes to The Moody Blues, which suck the sweat off of donkey balls.
Whomever keeps programming them on Sirius Classic Vinyl needs to be shot in the forehead by one of those wood baton mortars the St Louis County cops overuse.
I’d sooner listen to one of those LRAD sound thingeys.
rikyrah
Those aren’t gang signs
08/20/14 02:15 PM
By Steve Benen
One of the key leadership figures in the Ferguson crisis has been Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson. It’s a shame, then, that Soraya Nadia McDonald had to explain that Johnson has not been photographed flashing gang signs with members of the community.
To reiterate: Capt. Johnson is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, a black fraternity that was formed in 1911 at Indiana University in Bloomington, and the hand sign you see in the pictures below is a Kappa greeting. The Kappas are part of the Divine Nine or the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the nine historically black fraternities and sororities that include Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta, Sigma Gamma Rho and Iota Phi Theta, none of which are gangs.
The gesture – which looks a bit like an A-OK sign turned on its side – is obviously harmless. It’s evidence of membership in a fraternity, not membership in a gang.
But that didn’t stop a variety of conservatives from pushing the line that Johnson was somehow involved directly in gang activity.
How would such nonsense get started?
Apparently, CNN published a piece on its iReport site – which has since been removed – that “reported” the findings that turned out to be completely wrong.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/those-arent-gang-signs
japa21
@rikyrah: But it is a black fraternity, therefore, by definition, a group of black men associating together, therefore, by definiton a gang.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
Yeah. Anyone banking on the Supremes coming down on the side of angels on this one hasn’t been paying attention. It’s the same movie, every time, with this Court.
rikyrah
@Morbo:
The Huey Freeman dude cracks me up. Knows he was born Leroy Jones…..trying to be ‘cute’ and ‘ revolutionary’ at the same time.
kindness
I know Jimmy Page is reluctant to license Zeppelin songs for commercial use but I wonder whether they were ever approached for use of some of their songs for the Hobbit/Lord Of The Rings movies. Sure would have fit in nicely. Kind of like how they did it in A Knight’s Tale.
Shakezula
Speaking as a Tolkien & LZ nerd, this song may not be their most pretentious but certainly their most irritating and it answers the question – Is there any such thing as too much mandolin?
Yes. Yes there is.
@skerry: They say this cat Obama is a bad mother – shut yo mouth!
Scarborough is scabrous.
Villago Delenda Est
@skerry: You’d prefer that the intern killer call him “one cold ni*CLANG*”?
Villago Delenda Est
@Shakezula: Hey…we’re talkin’ ’bout Obama!
Pee Cee
@rikyrah:
Given how historically white fraternities tend to behave …
Villago Delenda Est
@japa21: Yup.
Hey, I was part of a gang, where the junior members of the gang were required to greet me with a gang sign, which I returned.
The gang sign was called a “salute”.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Shakezula: Speaking as another Tolkien nerd, why is this song supposed to be a big deal for me? Because LZ used “dark lord” and “Ringwraiths” as throwaway lines? Evermore has nothing even indirectly connected to the Tolkien legendarium except for that, and LZ was infamous for throwing LR phrases into their songs for fan service.
Immigrant Song, on the other hand…
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Dammit, there goes my blood pressure, again.
JPL
Both patients treated for ebola have been released from Emory Hospital. Good job docs and nurses.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@JPL: Depends. Were they cured?
pamelabrown53
@rikyrah:
I’ve since seen a photo of a marching band performing that sign. The conservative ish Wurlitzer, like rust, never sleeps.
JPL
Nancy Writebol left the hospital Tuesday but Dr. Brantly is going to give a statement today before he leaves. He looks terrific.
JPL
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Yes, good care allowed their bodies to fight off the virus. Writebol doesn’t want additional information released about her though. I can’t blame her because some folks still are upset that the Atlanta facility treated them.
Elmo
@JPL:
I saw that, and I wish to all the pestilent gods that stories like that made headlines. It’s just an amazing, heartening result.
the Conster
I can’t help but think that Oklahoma is going to end up in a giant sinkhole – possibly taking part of Texas with it, and the earthquakes are the warnings. I know I wouldn’t stick around. Run Soonergrunt, run!!
Morbo
@Shakezula: @Comrade Scrutinizer: Hard to beat Blind Guardian for Middle Earth themed music.
Mike in NC
@Amir Khalid: They cannot get over it. They are in total denial.
We’re up in Arlington, VA for a funeral tomorrow. On the way up we stayed near Lake Anna, which is located in part of the congressional district that recently dumped Eric Cantor. There were a number of Tea Party group billboards, lawn signs for Ed Gillespie for US Senate, etc. The area is extremely rural and sparsely populated, but includes a lot of wealth, especially rich horse breeders with vast estates and stables. One of them still had a huge Romney/Ryan banner hanging on the front gate, as well as a banner for defeated Senate candidate George “Macaca” Allen.
Amir Khalid
@Shakezula:
I’d say Jimmy Page did pretty well, considering that, when he and Robert Plant put the song together, he was basically just messing about with John Paul Jones’ mandolin; Page had never played the instrument before.
Raven
@JPL: And God saved him. Uh huh.
Shakezula
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I remember being excited by Ramble On when I was like … 16? But then you think about it for five seconds and you realize the verse is pure gibberish.
Raven
Jake Holmes – Dazed and Confused
trollhattan
@the Conster: Any chance that region is a subduction zone? Could be interesting if it were, but given the lack of volcanos I kinda doubt it. They’re going to have issues with their construction standards if they get a lot of quakes, though.
Citizen_X
@JPL: Ohmahgawd, they’re loose among the population! Alert Dr. Trump, stat!
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: I’m trying to recall an instance of a losing Democratic candidate criticizing a sitting Republican president like Romney and particularly McCain have made a career of and I’m coming up empty.
JPL
@Raven: God saves everyone, I guess. He did mention the doctor’s and staff though so that’s good.
drkrick
People who pay enough attention to hard rock lyrics to figure out what they’re saying crack me up. It’s the sound, man, the sound.
Raven
@JPL: No, God saves some people. Like people that were able to unass Liberia and get flown to Emory. I’m glad they made it but, damn.
Gin & Tonic
@JPL: I’m not seeing how this hasn’t already been a bunch of HIPAA violations.
Raven
@Gin & Tonic: HIPAA punching.
JPL
@Raven: Yesterday on NBC.com, I read an article on a member of the Dugger family who announced that she was pregnant. She, like her mother, wants to have as many children as God will giver her. hmmmm
Villago Delenda Est
@Gin & Tonic: They lost to “that one”. They can’t get over it. Ever.
Thunderbird
@Shakezula: THANK YOU. I love Zeppelin, but not this song.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: I understand the thing living on top of Donald Trump’s head still is worried about cooties.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: God is one horny bastard, it seems. Do you think he consults with Zeus on this?
Shakezula
@Amir Khalid: I’m not complaining about the quality of his playing, but as Gainsborough said of the lady’s nose, there’s no end to it.
And Plant’s voice with a mandolin? Brrr.
JPL
@Villago Delenda Est: haha
max
@rikyrah:
Ha. They walked past my grandma’s old house on Malcolm X (the former Oakland Avenue). Same spot where I sat on the grass with my granddad and watched a Juneteenth parade in the middle ’70’s. Cool.
Good on you guys! If we’re going to be stuck with open carry, we should have black and hispanic people doing it as well.
max
[‘Kickass.’]
the Conster
@trollhattan:
I imagine Oklahoma as a house sitting on a foundation that has basically been systematically jackhammered. Would you want to live in that house?
Shakezula
@Gin & Tonic: I assume Emory has the patients’ permission.
Belafon
@max: If I’d known about it yesterday, I would have watched the news. I would have loved to have seen if the local Fox carried this one.
I would say that someone needs to follow the different groups to see which ones have cops follow them, but those consisting of white people will threaten you, like they did in Fort Worth.
AliceBlue
@Botsplainer:
Yeah, the Moodys are pretentious, but it’s Kansas and Styx that make me want to pound nails into my ears.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Shakezula: And yet Ramble On is frequently cited as being a LR song because of a couple of scattered references; I’ve seen a number of people try to say that it’s somehow related to Namárië because of the “golden leaves falling all around”. Some of the most, um, energetic attempts at showing Tolkienesque themes in LZ can be found at http://www.metalstorm.net. Most of it is crap.
Roger Moore
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
I think Thomas will be a hard sell on that one, unless he secretly wants a divorce.
Gin & Tonic
@Shakezula: I am skeptical that someone as gravely ill as Writebol was, could have given informed consent, in writing, as required.
raven
I’m all for the Huey P Newton Gun Club but the second woman in the line better get some training before she kills someone.
raven
@rikyrah: So he’s not LeRoi Jones? I guess not since LeRoi is no longer with us.
raven
@AliceBlue: My friends sister plays flute with them now. She says they are nice.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Comrade Scrutinizer: In light of US v. Windsor, do you really think that the Court will uphold gay marriage bans?
rikyrah
so…not like I even gotta ask…but, I will….
but, what RACE do you think these ‘ kids’ were.
Why Don’t Cops Give Our Kids the Same Break They Gave the Ray Allen Intruders?
As the father of a young black man, I would find it reassuring if more police were willing to give our kids a second chance.
By: Andrew J. Skerritt
Posted: Aug. 20 2014 2:00 AM
Former Miami Heat star forward Ray Allen is again standing on center court. This time, however, Allen stands in the unusual plight of victim. He was inadvertently thrust into the spotlight by events that reinforce the problems of places like Ferguson, Mo., and the issues of fairness and equality and justice across this country.
Unlike a number of other recent high-profile cases, the facts aren’t really in dispute. At 2:30 a.m. last Thursday night, Allen’s wife, Shannon, was awakened by loud voices in their bedroom where she had been sleeping with the couple’s four young children, Ray Allen said in a statement. After she heard male voices loudly discussing their flat-screen televisions and other property, she sat up wide-awake to find at least five people flashing large lights in the bedroom.
This is usually the point in a story where the castle doctrine gets invoked, guns are drawn and thoughtless young people die. Thankfully, that didn’t happen. Fearful for her and her children’s safety, Shannon Allen screamed and the intruders fled. She called security and police and they responded and tracked down the culprits.
Because no shots were fired and no one died, this incident can be a teachable moment, a moment of calm and clarity amid the heated rhetoric and flaring tempers.
But here’s where the Allens’ story really deserves our attention: Detectives said the seven young people (we don’t yet know their ages) confessed to the break-in. They’d been at a party next door, and were curious to see how a future NBA Hall of Famer lives. They say they thought that since Allen was no longer playing for the Heat, he and his family had moved out of the house. They didn’t take anything from the Allens’ home and they weren’t arrested or charged because officials said they didn’t take anything and didn’t intend to.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/08/ray_allen_break_in_why_did_police_let_these_kids_slide.html
Roger Moore
Which is kind of like trying to find the most repetitive AC/DC song; there’s a ton of competition.
burnspbesq
@Morbo:
Well, If you ask a Noo Yawkah, they’ll tell you that Dallas is absolutely the boondocks.
AliceBlue
@raven:
I’m sure they’re all perfectly lovely people. I would probably enjoy having a drink or two with them but I’d have to leave the room if they started to sing.
burnspbesq
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
Except when it isn’t. How does this “theory” account for Windsor?
burnspbesq
@Villago Delenda Est:
We can dig it.
D58826
The country’s dumbest congressman Louie the Gomer is now saying that Obama will not do anything about the ISIS terrorist group because he under orders from his Muslim brothers to do nothing. I really really am ashamed that this country can elect racist bigots like this fool and that the networks give him air time to spout his garbage. I did not like 43’s politics but I never doubted his patriotism.
raven
@AliceBlue: Everyone has someone they don’t like in music. Fleetwood Mac was great when they were a blues band and had Peter Green. Then they got those girls in the band and fucked it all up. Oh Well.
“Don’t ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to”
Oh well, oh well
Well, well, well, well”
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
No arrests? No charges? What about the illegal entry into the Allen home?
Shakezula
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I’m trying and failing to think of an instance where allusion in song lyrics has caused so much passion. But I guess the intersection of LZ and LR is good place for it to happen.
Seanly
@lamh36:
Is that reporting on bad police or bad reporting on police? Either one could be the case with the NYT…
RE: the discussion of SCOTUS & gay marriage, I could see the overturning of the laws/state constitutional bans upheld 6-3 or coming out 5-4 against. They could also try to cut the baby in half – leave in place state bans but require them to recognize legal unions from other states. Unless the SCOTUS can do away with the Full Faith and Credit Clause though I think that ultimately same sex marriage will have to be recognized in every state. I’m not a lawyer, but I think the 5th Circuit Adar v Smith was wrongly decided.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I’m not sure that this SCOTUS considers stare decisis as a major factor in its decisions. Or rather it honors it more in the breach. But hell, IANAL, I’m just a tired old cynic that doesn’t expect much from the Court these days.
JPL
@Villago Delenda Est: So do you think that Duggars say Oh God during climax?
Comrade Scrutinizer
@JPL: “Thank you JESUS!” maybe…
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I am not talking about stare decisis here. I am talking about a Court that was capable of the Windsor decision. Kennedy is largely an oxygen thief, but he has been good on gay rights issues throughout his time on the bench.
gene108
@Amir Khalid:
Kids will be kids and do stupid stuff. Everyone knows this, but everyone also knows that kids of white middle-class and wealthy families will out grow their youthful indiscretions and do positive thing as adults, like start their own business, become doctors, lawyers, computer programmers, etc.
And everyone knows with “poor” children, especially minority children, the “stupid stuff” is the first step down a slippery slope towards more heinous and more violent crimes. One can only imagine the number of car jackings, robberies and murders that have been prevented with the deaths of Mr. Martin and Mr. Brown.
Southern Beale
Cat jobs.
You’re welcome.
lamh36
the Trayvon Marton case and this case in Ferguson, just makes me think that some white folk seems to believe the system may actually work for them, but Black folk know the system rarely ever works for us.
Amir Khalid
À propos of nothing, as befits an open thread, what Let It Go sounds like after you’ve run the lyrics through several passes of Google Translate.
ranchandsyrup
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Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@ranchandsyrup: Bad link.
Paul in KY
@dedc79: Great idea! After they finish the song, some brigands come in & kill them in a gruesome manner.
ranchandsyrup
Dammit 0 for 2. Try this. pic.twitter.com/TpGsBnK3xN
Amir Khalid
@ranchandsyrup:
Linky no work. You fix?
SiubhanDuinne
@skerry:
ranchandsyrup
@Amir Khalid: Yeah I’m having issues today. MOre so than usual. sorry everyone.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Ding ding ding. Most white people are pretty sure that if they end up in front of a judge, they’re going to be able to get a fair shake. That’s why it’s so hard for them to believe that black people don’t get the same treatment — they think, Well, my nephew got off with probation and community service when he got caught spray-painting, so if that black kid went to jail for the same thing, he must have done something worse than my nephew did.
Mnemosyne
@ranchandsyrup:
That one worked when I copied and pasted it into the browser bar.
Paul in KY
@Mike in NC: I would have stopped & had my GF take a picture of me standing beside it, with a big shit-eating grin on my face!
kindness
Shit, too much LZ derision here today.
My 2 cents. One of the things Zep did so well was meld acoustic folk music into a hard rock song. This is one of those classics. You might not like it. You might have those that agree with you. Congrats. I’d love to hear what you could do better. Throwing rotted fruit is easy.
I love this song. I loved it when I was a teen when it came out and I still turn it up when it hits the ipod rotation in my car. Now Zep’s last 3 studio albums I can live without. But this period….they were still Gods of Rock.
StringOnAStick
@Shakezula: Hey hey HEY, back the fuck off with the mandolin hate, or else I will be forced to put mine down and drag out my………UKULELE!
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
:-)
cleek
@raven:
i love all of the Fleetwood Mac incarnations.
but, speaking of Oh Well: http://www.avclub.com/video/rick-springfield-covers-fleetwood-mac-100132
SiubhanDuinne
@StringOnAStick:
And then it’ll be BAGPIPES and ACCORDIONS and god knows!
Roger Moore
@StringOnAStick:
What’s wrong with breaking out the ukulele?
tybee
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
we don’t know what they were wearing.
ranchandsyrup
@Mnemosyne: ♫ Woke up this morning. Got a Fail Moon in my eyes ♫
Paul in KY
@rikyrah: Hmmm…let me guess what race they were: Whitey-white.
Was I right?
max
@D58826: The country’s dumbest congressman Louie the Gomer is now saying that Obama will not do anything about the ISIS terrorist group because he under orders from his Muslim brothers to do nothing. I really really am ashamed that this country can elect racist bigots like this fool and that the networks give him air time to spout his garbage.
The best part is that Obama is bombing ISIS. Bombing someone usually qualifies as ‘doing something’.
max
[‘They want him to do everything and absolutely nothing at the same times.’]
SatanicPanic
@SiubhanDuinne: Accordion is a great instrument. Bagpipes… if it’s not Bon Scott then I don’t want to hear it.
StringOnAStick
@Roger Moore: I love Jake S; not only a fine, fine musician but one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.
Paul in KY
@kindness: I’m quite fine with the song. Great to get high to.
SiubhanDuinne
@SatanicPanic:
I was always told, “A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.”
StringOnAStick
@SatanicPanic: If you want to hear some of the most amazing jazz accordion, try The Hot Club of Detroit. Their older incarnation is as a gypsy jazz group, but we saw them last year where they were mixing that up with some incredibly intricate “out” jazz and it was completely, totally amazing*.
*For people who like experimental jazz, which I agree is an acquired taste. If not your thing, try the earlier straight-ahead gypsy jazz stuff. The accordionist will change any bad opinion you ever had of that instrument; he is a virtuoso.
SatanicPanic
@SiubhanDuinne: I can’t help it, Mexican music makes my feet move.
Anoniminous
@trollhattan:
Oklahoma earthquakes have been linked to fracking. A no brainer, actually. Before fracking earthquakes were rare in OK. With fracking they’ve had up to 20 a day.
SiubhanDuinne
@SatanicPanic:
I’m just funnin’ ya. I like all of those so-called “annoying” instruments.
rikyrah
Op-Ed: Killer Mike on the Problems Underlying the Chaos in Ferguson
News /
By Killer Mike | August 19, 2014 3:05 PM EDT
I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.
The police are paid by the public and carry a public trust, and they take an oath to protect us as citizens. The police have lost sight of that and must be reminded that we pay them to protect us, not to simply engage and cage us.
We trust police with the power of life and death and with that trust comes a greater responsibility to be better than the current standard of policing I see across America everyday. Being a cop must be hard. My dad was one, and never wanted any of his children to follow in his footsteps. Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today — except bad policing, excessive force and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.
This week I have seen tanks, rubber bullets and tear gas used by police against the citizens that pay them. This is not Egypt or Syria or Palestine, but today it feels that way. It feels as if death can come, without reason, from a uniformed government official and, if we do not press back against this Blue Wall of Silence and gang-like mentality of our local police, we all are in danger. Whether it is illegal rd stops & checkpoints, where your rights are being violated — through being forced to answer questions that the 5th Amendment protects you from, or illegal stop-and-frisk that the 4th Amendment is designed to protect you from — all of our rights are violated and in danger when any American’s rights are violated.
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6221888/op-ed-killer-mike-on-the-problems-underlying-the-chaos-in-ferguson
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Anoniminous:
Hasn’t OK actually outpaced Cali now in earthquakes annually the last few years? Without the excuse of a natural fault?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@rikyrah: I hope they march through Highland Park soon.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Wow, that is powerful. Thank you.
NotMax
@raven
Wasn’t yet open when you were here, but the reviews from friends are pretty good.
max
@Belafon: If I’d known about it yesterday, I would have watched the news. I would have loved to have seen if the local Fox carried this one.
The Fox TV station seem to have played it straight, even if they played it down. (There’s a video at the link that I did not watch.)
I would say that someone needs to follow the different groups to see which ones have cops follow them, but those consisting of white people will threaten you, like they did in Fort Worth.
As far as I can tell, the cops follow all of them, but maybe not the white folks so much.
max
[Texas has arranged its laws to allow people to carry guns in public, while the police act like its illegal for people to carry guns in public. This is moderately insane.’]
raven
@NotMax: They were just getting ready I think!
Anoniminous
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
I’ve read that claim too. I do not know it is accurate.
geg6
@JPL:
Do you really think that brainwashed, insipid, idiotic, lying woman actually would know what a climax was if it hit her in the face (or vag1na, for that matter)?
I don’t.
Paul in KY
@StringOnAStick: Weird Al can play the hell out of the accordion. Saw him play with Portugal. the Man at Bonnaroo.
Roger Moore
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
Maybe they have, but theirs seem to be limited to the low 4s. California hasn’t had a 7+ since the Landers quake in 1992, but when the next one comes it will almost certainly do orders of magnitude more damage than all the OK earthquakes put together. That’s the real rule of quakes; the damage goes up exponentially with the magnitude of the quake (not surprising, since the scale is logarithmic), so the vast majority of the death and destruction is caused by quakes that happen once or less in a lifetime on a given segment of fault.
Gus
@Botsplainer: The Moody Blues are a guilty pleasure of mine, because I encountered them at an age when their pretentiousness was a feature instead of a bug. I don’t defend them, though.
D58826
Just when you thought that the Mo. cops could not behave any worse this from KOS:
There was a time when church property was considered a sanctuary from police activity except in the most extreme public safety at risk situations. I guess the only public the cops are worried about are themselves.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mnemosyne:
Well, yes, he did do something worse.
He did it while blah.
burnspbesq
@SatanicPanic:
Baile!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da2QmQn76Ds
burnspbesq
Somewhere along the line, the “protect and serve” mission statement got discarded in favor of “contain and oppress,” but nobody told the people who paint cop cars.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
Gotta disagree with you a bit here — unless OK is currently building their structures to California code, a 4 can do a whole lot of damage there that it wouldn’t do here, because the structures aren’t made to withstand that force, plus there’s the problem of the accumulation of damage from repeated quakes.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: “protect and serve” was always a PR effort, since the true purpose of the police is to protect the parasites of the 1% from the righteous anger of those who actually produce the necessities of life.