Bernard Kerik's "awakening"....

regarding the justice system he was directly involved in for 30 years, is absolutely infuriating.

Disgusting, parasitic vermin incapable of recognizing reality until the bars close behind them themselves.

There's nothing "journalists" hate more...

than someone who wants to simply tell the truth.

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THIS is what American political activism is all about.

In contrast to Texas legislation introduced by state representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) that would penalize a citizen for filming police activity within a proposed 15-foot area, lawmakers in Colorado have introduced a bill that would penalize police officers for obstructing, seizing or destroying citizen recording.

House Bill 15-1290 is one of several measures that have been introduced this month in Colorado in an effort to increase police oversight. HB 15-1290 “creates a private right of action against a peace officer’s employing law enforcement agency if a person records an incident involving a peace officer and a peace officer destroys the recording or seizes the recording without receiving consent or obtaining a warrant or if the peace officer intentionally interferes with the recording or retaliates against the person making the recording. The person who recorded the peace officer incident is entitled to actual damages, a civil penalty of $15,000, and attorney fees and costs.”

http://benswann.com/co-bill-penalty-police-recording/

YES. YES. YES.

Irony is defined as...

Aaron Hernandez' security cameras.

This hesitation to identify pilots is weird.

Simple turf war?

Concern for the families of the pilots?

So far it's been a rather insulting, blase "well it's only been 48 hours", which has been repeated in multiple media outlets, meaning a concerted messaging.

Update: concern for keeping the investigation "scene" clean seems reasonable. preventing media from descending on the family and making the investigation more difficult.

Update 2: why not just say that? why not just say they are keeping the information to themselves at the moment? instead of using this lame "we haven't had the 3 seconds required to say the names yet.. .i mean i's only been 48 hours..." excuse.

do they assume the press will be outraged if they are honest?

Why do we not have flight cockpit video recorders?

end of message.

Darren Sharper's a bizarre case, eh?

Handsome guy, wealthy, famous, former football player (only a few years retired), drugs and rapes like a dozen women.

If I were him, I'd be demanding a brain scan stat.

Think I'm done with the federal income tax.

Think I'm done with it.

Think it's time to tell the federal government to, kindly, mind you, go fuck emselfs.

He likes to make me "stay" at street corners

even if there are no cars in sight. It's so embarrassing. Sometimes he'll even make me sit before we can cross. When he does that i really have no choice but to bolt on him and make him try to catch me. It's hilarious but I do feel a bit guilty. The dude is so old and i always worry he's going to break a hip. But he knows that getting mad isn't going to accomplish anything so we don't have to deal with that nonsense... which is nice.

Alright I'll stay before he asks today. He's been a good boy.

A preference for specificity vs generality

is a fundamentally defining characteristic of the individual.

Sometimes it's dumb to want to make your Dad proud

cuz sometimes Dads believe some pretty stupid shit.

Why is skiing legal?

Seems very dangerous.

Shouldn't we mandate that each ski resort add physical boundaries to every run in order for to prevent the head and the tree?

In that vein, shouldn't we mandate that hammer manufacturers make them softer so that people who want to smash themselves in the skull will not suffer permanent bramage?

They say you shouldn't question motivations

but what if you believe the other individual is oblivious to/blind to/in denial of/ignorant of/unaware of the actual motivations? (so you're a mind reader? well, i guess)

As to the original point, whether it's acceptable to question motivations, I find the concept attractive, but in practice I've found it fairly useless. Perhaps you shouldn't "argue" the other person's motivations, as you're unlikely to get anywhere unless you are dealing with a legitimately well-intentioned person who is aware of his/her own educational (as opposed to intellectual) limitations, and is eager for such a mind-expanding experience (probably rare. perhaps extremely rare. perhaps not), so in that sense it may make sense to "not question motivations".

But it does seem like a necessary part of the calculation as to which conversations are worth having.

Does this imply that such decisions would necessarily be "accurate" for a given individual? Can of worms opened. Depends what is is.

Navel gazed?

It IS just one long day..

in which we take naps...

Part of me loves

the fact that low-level pot dealers are almost universally unexpectedly salesmany.

Electric Toilet!

How to draw the line(s)

between rational optimism and delusional denial?

I guess in the "truest" sense it "doesn't matter" in most situations.

So the question may (or may not, but of course that's always implied by "may") be irrelevant.

But it might also be, like, "one of the fundamentals".

We should make everybody twins!

It used to seem like there was an answer

and hence the dialogue was worthwhile

but now that we have infinite dialogue,

we see that there is no answer

and it doesn't seem as worthwhile

The Weather Up There

For whatever reason, David Brooks thinks that people should "forgive Brian Williams' transgressions and allow him to continue at his job."

because, you know, forgiveness is good.

but i do not know Brian Williams personally AT ALL. he is nothing to me other than a product. the product now has a stink on it. the product has turned. the product is no longer eligible for sale, and so the product is taken off the shelf. it's that simple. *

Brooks desperately wants to be loved, so he holds onto these sentiments (like the concept that Williams' audience should be loving and forgiving to him as a human being) partly, at the very least, for self-serving reasons. I don't know him, nor will I ever, so he also is nothing but a product. certainly there are millions of people prone to fall under the spell that they have some sort of personal connection with the heads and voices coming from their television or computer screens, but it's most certainly not real and shouldn't be viewed as the goal.

i don't care if Williams is allowed to return to his job. at a certain point, it's ridiculous to feel personal feelings about such things. he's a multi-millionaire whose family is set for generations. that his "career" ended in humiliation and disgrace is simply not a big deal.

caring about such a thing is evidence of delusion.



* disclaimer: i am speaking in the general sense. i don't think i ever saw more than 5 or 6 seconds of any Williams broadcast, and even that would have only been because the remote got stuck

Chimpanzees

with uniforms are far, far more dangerous than without.

Racist!

-> recorded

One could argue that...

those who are purely political theorists are the ultimate cowards.

You wants to reduce the violence?

You wants to reduce the police abuse?

You

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Holder's "Punk" comment is

a racist dog whistle.

or is it whistel?

how you verify the prior support?

hard i think.

never end a sentence with a

preposition you could have gotten rid of.