Newt Gingrich
Bob Livingston (withdrew from consideration)
Dennis Hastert
John Boehner
’nuff said.
Gotta love the radical right! Christian Honey Boo-Boo of Rowan County who won’t issue marriage licenses for fear of getting sodomy all over her, is a hero for dragging her religion into the workplace and denying gheys their civil rights based upon her beliefs as a fringe Apostolic Evangelical. The New Pope keeps using the word “dialogue,” and saying he wants to “build bridges,” almost like he thinks we should talk to each other instead of just bombing each other. Doesn’t New Pope know that’s not what Reagan would do? Republicans insist that The New Pope sit down and shut up and not mix religion and politics by discussing poverty or refugees or the damage from climate change.
Let that sink in for a minute while you weigh the scope of the hypocrisy necessary to hold those two ideas simultaneously…One is a bigoted backwoods bumpkin who thinks her religious beliefs trump the Constitution and she is praised and adored for her defiant, prideful preening for the cameras while Eye of the Tiger plays in the background. The other is the Holy See, leader of 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide who endeavors to live of the teachings of Jesus through humility, compassion and grace; caring for the least of us- the poor, the sick, the displaced, those in need. Yet the haters flock to the bigot, while they shun and chastise the man who champions helping those in need- because he’s “politicizing” issues by daring to address social injustices.
Surreal, isn’t it, listening to a group assclowns that have made a living off using religion as a political Billy club, complaining that the Pope is out of line talking about political issues? Did any of these cockroaches tune in to that last debate? Every one of those assholes clamoring for the GOP nomination had a raging biblical hard-on. They even have a Baptist minister running, who claims “Gods Law” supersedes the constitution! And out of all the religious leaders to attack, they chose the freaking POPE. Next they are going skin and purée entire litters of kittens and force feed them to a bunch of orphans.
OT: Supreme Court justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were in attendance for the Pope’s speech. Catholic justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas were not present. Were Scalia, Alito and Thomas afraid the Pope will do an exorcism?
I both hate a love reading these things. This one involves evil horse people.
from true crime.i09.com
It was a Sunday in October 1955 when three Chicago boys (from left in the photo: Robert Peterson, 14; John Schuessler, 13; and his brother, Anton, 11) decided to venture downtown for a matinee. Peterson’s mother helped them pick out a film (Disney doc The African Lion) and sent them on their way. They never returned.
Hours later, the boys’ concerned parents notified the police that their sons hadn’t returned from what was supposed to be a relatively brief, and presumably safe, afternoon outing. Their fathers went to the theater the boys intended as their destination, as well as other theaters nearby. They stopped into a bowling alley, since Robert, who was known as Bobby, was fond of bowling. Though it was later discovered that the boys had popped into at least one bowling alley that day, the worried dads came up empty-handed on their search. It was if the kids had vanished into thin air.
take a look at this horrifying interactive database brilliantly draw up by Guardian UK:
The Counted
Let’s just take a moment to bookmark what is going on today for future reference:
Donald Trump is leading the Republican pack by a LOT.
We are, for some reason, all talking about President McKinley.
A lady is in jail because she thinks that Jesus told us to hate the fag.
Take some LSD and compare weirdness. Bet it is less.
So,we charge teachers and Doctors CRIMINALLY for not reporting abuse, and it’s way past time to hold cops to the same standard. Shouldn’t ALL police killings go to an independent prosecutor and be charged AUTOMATICALLY? Shouldn’t we let a jury figure it out EVERY time, and not just if the chief and prosecutor feel like it? Failure of an officer to report a crime committed under the public trust by another, should be a FELONY all by itself. Right now, how can you expect a cop to violate the blue wall, when if he does he is risking his career and often literally his life, and there are NO downsides if he doesn’t? You want to fix “cop culture”? Make the payment of wrongful use of force jury verdicts payable through the police budget. No pay raises if the dollar value of the verdicts and settlements rises above a set percentage of the budget, or even pay cuts to cover the cost if the payouts exceed that percentage. Economic self interest takes away any incentives to cover for bad cops. A market-based (i.e. it involves munnies) solution! Taking away their donuts is an idea so crazy it just might work.
The “justice system” with its emphasis on prosecution win/loss records as opposed to actually seeking justice is half the problem. prosecutors who don’t want to be perceived in the media or the community as being a bunch of criminal-coddling pabulum. It’s easier and safer for them to just gin up a story about how the dead person was a criminal or was endangering the cop or someone else, or would have certainly gone on to commit a crime had s/he not been stopped. UoF insurance. Say, a $100k bond to be carried by every officer, paid by the department and not the union. Legal fees come out of that, all overages also paid by the department. If a cop retires without ever having to cash it in, he gets to keep it.
Amerikkka is stuck in an 80’s cop movie where crime is rampant (even though it’s been declining for a while) and only a bad cop with a gun can stave off the hordes of lawless gangs, rapists, and vandals (re: minorities) trying to destroy decent (re: white) society. It’s one of those myths stuck in our national conscience: like anyone can become the president and you can get wealthy if you work hard enough. We treat terrorism like an 80’s movie too: If we just kill enough people and blow enough shit up, that will end terrorism.
Sure, proper “training” is essential, yet the majority of police shooting are ruled “justified”. The real solution to this is mandatory “special independent prosecutors” for all potential criminal acts committed by a police officer. The system is broken because as we have seen over and over again local state attorneys are reluctant to go after cops because they work closely together and they don’t want to burn bridges. When cops realize that they are going to be prosecuted aggressively by a prosecutor who doesn’t owe them any favors, I guarantee police involved shootings and misconduct will go down.
Even with the country awash in guns, cops don’t need to be so gun-crazy. Want to have your mind blown? In Scotland, it’s been three and a half years since police have used deadly force against a suspect, despite receiving 1.8 million emergency calls annually. Three and a half years. In America, that might be seen as proof that cops are fat and lack ambition. Or maybe it’s a sign that American paranoia about the need for everyone to have a gun, to ward off a police state, has actually handed us a very deadly state of policing.
If not any of that, I’d settle for police forces who don’t see the environments they police as the occupation of Fallujah. Take away the armored vehicles, grenade launchers, tear gas, and mounted machine guns and other automatic weapons. Go semi-automatic; make each shot civilian a choice! And bayonets. Besides s’mores, what could they possibly need bayonets for?
Described as “suitable for affairs or murders” before it was removed from eBay, this grotty little trailer home is loathed by its present owner.
“Apparently I owned this utterly crap caravan for three weeks before actually setting eyes on it.
“My husband drunkenly bought it on Ebay, and neglected to mention that one day he’d taken the day off work and driven halfway across the country to pick it up, deposit it around the back of our office, and failed to declare it as technically a marital ‘asset’ until recently.
“Luckily, I’m the trusting type, and despite appearances I don’t think he bought it solely for the purpose of having a sordid extra-marital affair or taking up dogging, however as you might be able to see from the pictures, it would be PERFECT for both.” …
In a later edit she adds:
“It has been brought to my attention that the “caravan” would also be suitable for use as a rolling meth lab. Apologies for the omission.”