More....A protest over the fatal police shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles at officers, set trash cans on fire and refused to disperse.
Television news footage showed people tossing the bottles and plastic crates at officers in riot gear late Monday near MacArthur Park, a neighborhood with a large Central American population west of downtown.
Police declared the protest an unlawful assembly around 10 p.m. and ordered the dozens of protesters to disperse. The majority of the crowd cleared out, but a small number lingered and caused trouble, police spokesman Gregory Baek said.
Police made a couple of arrests, Baek said. He said police won't have a final tally until they complete the booking process for the suspects.
The protest began in the afternoon with demonstrators marching back and forth between a bustling shopping area where the shooting occurred and the Rampart police station three blocks away.
Police said three bicycle officers were patrolling the area Sunday when someone flagged them down and said a man was threatening passers-by with a knife.
When officers confronted the man, they ordered him to drop the knife but he refused, Lt. Andrew Neiman said.
"Instead, he came after the officers with a knife raised in the air, leading one of the officers to fire at the suspect," Neiman said.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Life in "Progress" City - LA edition
Monday, September 06, 2010
Working out the hangover
A few notes.
1) I drank about 10 Moosehead beers. I think I understand how it got it's name. I keep thinking the pain in my cranium are antlers trying to sprout.
2) There's one big difference between a party in your forties versus one in your twenties. When you have a party in your forties, you somehow end up with more beer than you started with.
3) My hamstrings feel like a couple of 2x4's. Who would have thought canoeing would be so strenuous?
At least, the Reds and Bearcats are keeping the hangover alive.
But this time it's going to work....
But I guess they were off by 50 billion........
Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways that would cost at least $50 billion.
The infrastructure investments are one part of a package of targeted proposals the White House is expected to announce in hopes of jump-starting the economy ahead of the November election. Obama will outline the infrastructure proposal Monday at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee.
While the proposal calls for investments over six years, the White House said spending would be front-loaded with an initial $50 billion to help create jobs in the near future.
The goals of the infrastructure plan include: rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; and rehabilitating or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways, while also installing a new air navigation system designed to reduce travel times and delays.
Just one question for Obama and Co. Where the hell was the funding for all this shit 2 years ago?
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Happy Labor Day.......
A couple of articles to read to celebrate your day off.
First, how government chases jobs out of this country
Second, how Obama has created 3 million jobs...... for Chinese laborers.
Life in "Progress" City - Philadelphia edition
In fact, can you name me one instance in "Redville" where you'll find this kind of racial hatred.........
Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.Last Dec. 3, after years of attacks on Asian immigrant students, something finally snapped.
Fueled by rumors, a group of students roamed the halls searching for Asian victims until one was attacked in a classroom. Later, about 70 students stormed the cafeteria, where several Asians were beaten. About 35 students pushed past a police officer onto the so-called "Asian floor," but were turned back. After school, Asians being escorted home were attacked anyway by a mob of youths.
Almost all the attackers were black - but few observers believe the violence was due to racial hatred. Instead, they cite isolation of different groups within the school, certain students' warped "gangster" values, and for some, simmering resentments over perceived benefits for Asian students.
About 30 Asians were injured that day; seven went to hospitals. Past attacks had been reported to administrators and police, but students say nothing seemed to change.
First, can you believe the line "Almost all the attackers were black - but few observers believe the violence was due to racial hatred."
Huh?
You have one group identified by racial context targeting another but it's not due to racial hatred? Just how stupid does the writer believe we are.
Second, can anyone name me one episode where something this dramatic has happened in a "Redville" school. You know, the alleged home of racial intolerance.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Stuff Liberals Run - Universities
Did you ever wonder what happens to things when the government gets involved?
Education never got so unaffordable until the government started subsidizing it.
Coincidence?
Life in "Progress" City - NY edition
Who would have thunk it?
As health care costs continue their relentless climb, companies are increasingly passing on higher premium costs to workers.More....
The shift is occurring, policy analysts and others say, as employers feel more pressure from the weak economy and the threat of even more expensive coverage under the new health care law.In contrast to past practices of absorbing higher prices, some companies chose this year to keep their costs the same by passing the entire increase in premiums for family coverage onto their workers, according to a new survey released on Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group.
Workers’ share of the cost of a family policy jumped an average of 14 percent, an increase of about $500 a year. The cost of a policy rose just 3 percent, to an average of $13,770.
Questions for the eco lib
As part of our dominion, we are responsible for it's use and misuse and when judgment day comes, we all be judged with how we used/misused our gifts.
Seems fair enough to me.
But what I don't get is the mindset of your average global warming kook. For instance.....
1) Many of these people tend to be humanists, meaning they don't have a belief in an after life. In fact, many believe our souls are no different than your average horse, cheetah, snake or flea.
If that's the case, then why do you care so much about saving the planet? I mean, who the hell are we actually saving it for? An unborn and/or yet to be conceived kangaroo? Seems kind of odd given that most environmentalist don't seem to have a problem whacking an unborn human from a womb. Shouldn't that person get a chance to experience this wonderful world? Or at least as much as a future extinct animal or plant?
2) Since so many of these folks believe that humans are no different than a dog, elk or hippo, what's the big deal about their procreation? Let's face it every animal in the animal kingdom live to do four things..... eat, crap, procreate and become food for another. What exactly makes that wrong for humans?
3) If you truly believe, like Discovery boy does, that humans continued procreation is a problem for the rest of nature. Then explain to me why exactly you are still here on earth chewing up vitally important carbon?
Seriously. How is it that your continued abuse of carbon is somehow better than the carbon use of some unborn human (animal) yet to be born?
And who the hell are you to look down on Jon and Kate's eight when you won't say word one to the neighborhood rat who's had seventy five babies? And let's face, it most of us were probably a product of some family with 6 plus kids somewhere along the family tree.
Finally, where exactly is the environmentalist outcry over the crazy carbon abuses from those like Al Gore, Sheryl Crow et al. Al Gore maintains over 300,000 square feet of housing for his family and is on a jet heading to some conference nearly every day. With today's technology, he could very easily do all these presentations via teleconference. Ever heard of Skype?
Sheryl Crow has no problem loading up a tour bus full of roadies, semi's full of equipment, flying to all these venues, for what? To listen to music we could have on a DVD. To say it's about the live experience; that's bull. When The Gekko's saw Eric Clapton this summer, we were so far away from the stage, we ended up watching on a TV anyway.
I'll start buying in to the eco lib religious indoctrination as soon as they start walking the talk. Going into a Discovery condemning someone else for doing what you're not willing to do on your own doesn't qualify.
How about doing your job?
This is the biggest pile of caca I've ever read by someone who reports to be educated in some manner.In the punditry business, it's considered bad form to question the essential wisdom of the American people. But at this point, it's impossible to ignore the obvious: The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.
This is not, I repeat not, a partisan argument. My own political leanings are well-known, but the refusal of Americans to look seriously at the nation's situation -- and its prospects -- is an equal-opportunity scourge. Republicans got the back of the electorate's hand in 2006 and 2008; Democrats will feel the sting this November. By 2012, it will probably be the GOP's turn to get slapped around again.
The nation demands the impossible: quick, painless solutions to long-term, structural problems. While they're running for office, politicians of both parties encourage this kind of magical thinking. When they get into office, they're forced to try to explain that things aren't quite so simple -- that restructuring our economy, renewing the nation's increasingly rickety infrastructure, reforming an unsustainable system of entitlements, redefining America's position in the world and all the other massive challenges that face the country are going to require years of effort. But the American people don't want to hear any of this. They want somebody to make it all better. Now.
First, how about this. How about a government that just quits making things worse? In the world of Eugene Robinson, we should be grateful for that 10% unemployment that we probably wouldn't have if the government hadn't gotten involved. See Germany.
Second, no one is asking for painless. Chris Christie is delivering the necessary and the electorate seems to be responding positively because they know the tough choices have to be made and he's laying it out for the public.
Third, there's a football coach in this town who repeats the mantra "do your job!". Unfortunately, in this country, we have a federal government, who's principal responsibility is to secure our borders for our national defense, who is not only refusing to do it's job, it's suing any state who decides to do it for them.
All the while bailing out every damn special interest group with hands.
Fourth, only in political punditry are spending cuts considered "draconian". But let me ask you a question. Do you think the people in New Jersey are experiencing a different government as a result of Christie "slashing" the budget?
The problem with our government is not the lack of funds. It's a total lack of responsibility & accountability of our elected officials to spend money as if it were coming out of their own wallets.
In other words.
DO YOUR FREAKIN' JOB OR WE'LL FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Global Warming challenge update
Frankly, I just totally forgot about scoring since you don't have to be a global warming scientist to know it's been hotter than Hades here in Cincinnati this summer.
None the less, here are the past three months of activity
June Average high temp - 84.4, Historical average high -82.4, Average Low temp - 65.6, historical low 61.6.
July (87.2, 86.4,68.5, 66.1)
August (89.6, 84.8, 66.6, 64.2)
The gives the warming folks a commanding 12-4 lead for the year.
C'mon Mr./Ms. Liberal, I begging to give you a shot at some free money. It's an opportunity every liberal dreams of; free money from a conservative.
Take me on the challenge. If you believe in warming, it's a total slam dunk. Unless, you are a gutless coward who won't back his belief with hard currency.
Life in "Progress" state - California edition
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea
If you ever wanted to understand how it is that unemployment in this country is nearly 10% and 13% in the golden state, you need look no further than how liberals treat tax paying and job creating businesses.........
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday rebuked Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which operate refineries in Wilmington, for bankrolling a measure that would effectively scuttle the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions."Go home, Texas oil companies," Villaraigosa urged at a news conference aimed at encouraging voters to oppose Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's 2006 climate change law until the state's unemployment rate drops. "We won't compromise our environmental and health standards so you can make more money," he said.
The sharp tone was an early indication of the battle expected over the measure, which proponents say would save jobs and lower energy costs but that opponents say will choke California's pioneering effort to reduce planet-warming pollutants and attract alternative-energy jobs.
Now that's "Progressive"!
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Who did they vote for? #10
A pistol-packing grandmother in Decatur hopes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.
Police say 69-year-old Ethel Jones shot 18-year-old Michael O'Neal Bynum in the abdomen when she said she found him inside her bedroom. Bynum lived less than 200 yards from Jones, but she said she didn't know him.
"I hope this will make people have second thoughts before they break into a home in our neighborhood and stop some of the crime we've had around here," she told The Decatur Daily.
Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her. She said she was going to the bathroom shortly before 3 a.m. Monday when she thought she heard someone at her back door and then her front door. She grabbed her gun as a precaution and came out of the bathroom to find someone in her bedroom with a pen light.
"I shot three times, and he ran away bleeding," she said.
Now in 2008 did Ethel pull the lever for Four More years of Bush or Hope and Change?
Conversely, did burglar Michael Bynum pull the lever for The Maverick or The Messiah?
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Hazing
None the less, here's a list of the most brutal college hazing rituals.
It reminded me of my high school track coach who went to Bowling Green during the 1960's.
As he related the story to us. The actives lined up all the pledges and measured their junk.
The guy who had the biggest, had to wear this humongous, sombrero sized, fire hat around campus for the next week.
The guy with the smallest had to wear one of really dinky one (the size of the baseball helmet sundae's).
In his words, "it was the first time in my life I prayed to be average"!
Obama Says "I Do Think At A Certain Point You've Made Enough Money"
Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter
Are car seats safer?
But after reading this I have to wonder if that wasn't a lot safer than what we're doing with kids today.........
Leawood, KS - August 27, 2010 - Children are dying in hot cars at alarming rates. At least thirty-nine (39) children have died so far this year with more summer weather still to come. Eleven (11) of those children perished since the beginning of August. Approximately 50% of the 2010 incidents involved children getting into an unlocked vehicle on their own and the other half were unknowingly ‘forgotten’ by an adult caregiver who became distracted when they left the vehicle. It takes only minutes for a child to be at risk of death and serious, permanent injury in a hot car.
“This heartbreaking news can only be met with the need to increase awareness about these predictable but very preventable tragedies,” said Janette Fennell, founder and president of KidsAndCars.org. “We are reaching out to the media to request their assistance to add warning messages during their broadcasts, include safety tips in print media and on their web sites.” A map that provides information about the number of vehicular heat stroke fatalities for each state can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/KidsAndCarsorg/128148590541866?ref=ts
The overall goal of the outreach campaign is to ensure no more children die in 2010 because they were locked inside a hot vehicle. “It is vital to engage the power of the media to get this life-saving information into the hands of families quickly and with the same high profile frequency used during product recalls or anytime eminent danger befalls America’s children” Fennell added. “We want parents and caregivers to take immediate precautions so that a similar tragedy does not happen to them or anyone in their family.”
Here's an idea. Let's have the kids in the front seat where people can actually see them while they're driving.
Oh we can't do that because of the damn air bags in the cars that make them "safer".
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Recovery Summer - Mission accomplished
More.....U.S. auto sales in August probably were the slowest for the month in 28 years as model-year closeout deals failed to entice consumers concerned the economy is worsening and they may lose their jobs.
Industrywide deliveries, to be released tomorrow, may have reached an annualized rate of 11.6 million vehicles this month, the average of eight analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. That would be the slowest August since 1982, according to researcher Ward’s AutoInfoBank. The rate would be 18 percent below last year’s 14.2 million pace, when the U.S. government’s “cash for clunkers” incentive program boosted sales.
“Home sales are way down, the stock market is way down, the unemployment report is very disappointing and consumer confidence is sputtering,” Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry trends at TrueCar.com, said in an interview. “People just don’t want to make big-ticket purchases because they’re uncertain about their jobs and the value of their homes.”
While automakers increased discounts by 1 percent from July to an average of $2,864 per vehicle, sales to individuals probably fell 7 percent from last month, according to Santa Monica, California-based TrueCar.