All right – any of you Boiseans traveling down Cole Road past Fairmont Junior High & St. Mark’s School – yu’ll better slow your asses down!
In the past 40 minutes, I have seen one of the two motorcycle cops who patrol DAILY here, bring in 4 drivers into the side street in front of my window. And that’s just one way with one of those guys. And ya can’t use the excuse “I dinna see da lights” because you can’t see those suckers flashing yellow across the street from Fairview and Ustick. Ya can, ‘cuz they’re pretty damned BRIGHT.
2. Call police ‘cuz you’ve captured a terrorist …… and they can find ya here -
3. Then! When you find out ‘da truf’ – change yer story . . .
- Tampa Bay dot com has a great write up and the comments are pretty darned good.
Klee wrote:
I’m an American living/working in Greece, who just returned from weekend meetings in Berlin, where I can’t count the times I asked, ‘Do you speak English?’ to ask directions, etc. Neither in my years in Greece, nor in Germany, have I been treated as a threat because I didn’t speak the language, or been refused help. In Berlin, the Holocaust Memorial stands just beside Brandenberg Gate where The Fall of the Wall was celebrated … two monuments to the healing of unimaginable pain born of hatred. If Bruce were given some steroids-abuse help and a community service sentence (among the retired Orthodox Marakis had been attending to?) he might be ‘rehabilitated’. If we revamped our educational system, our ‘rednecks’ might appreciate the wider world … and our ‘educated elitists’ could learn that ‘rednecks’ ain’t all that bad either. As Germany’s experience shows, the road to mutual understanding isn’t so long, once we start walking it……Nov 11th, 2009 1:43 am
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Having lived in Germany, traveled to Greece, Egypt and many points in between I must say it was rare to even be treated rudely.
This has just got to the most disgusting characterization I’ve seen during the back and forth on the health care discussion over the past several months. I started this last week after seeing the signage below at the tea party‘press conference’ tea party attended by Michelle Bachmann, John Culberson, Boehner among others.
My assignment to the 30th Field Hospital, Flak Kaserne, was in Augsburg, Germany and was approximately 25 or so miles from Dachau. We did visit – once. Once was enough. The picture shown above, making the rounds of blogs, is similar to one I have in slide form taken while visiting the museum at Dachau. Enormous boards had pictures plastered on them and were scattered throughout the ‘old’ museum at Dachau, along with pictures of Hitler in various setting where in most, Hitler’s face was scratched over – like a car that’s been keyed. Nothing at Dachau provoked any humor. Read more »
Love the Obama kids, ‘cuz they’re kids. Caught the sweet glance back to the president from his youngest daughter as they leave for Camp David yesterday.
It’s being reported (said) that Major Nidal Malik Hasan yelled ‘Allah Akubar’ when he began shooting.
Gimme a fucking break. I find no excuse at all for what he did. However creating bullshit stories to add to the hero worship of those who responded appropriately to Major Hasan’s murder spree isn’t necessary.
TEXAS – Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas earlier this week, was linked with a radical imam who was a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 2001.
Radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki and Hasan attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Of course, there are no links – nothing to ‘back up’ what’s being thrown out. Just say anything apparently . . . but you just knew it’d get back to 9/11.
Army spouse Kris Starr waits outside the Clear Creek gate (in background) at Fort Hood on Thursday Nov. 5, 2009, after a mass shooting. She was waiting with older soldiers to be let back on post to go home. Starr’s husband, Spc. Josh Starr, is currently deployed in Iraq. Of the mass shooting, she said, “I expected it someday. I’m not shocked. We’re not invincible, and our soldiers need help without stigma.”
There’s more at the Austin Statesman site with this telling statement:
Editor’s Note: We have disabled commenting on this story because of repeated abuse of our commenting policy related to the Ft. Hood shooting.
The assistant Secretary of State is in Myanmar (Burma) talking to the generals in the junta. Advising them that “Washington is ready to improve relations with Myanmar if its military leaders take concrete steps towards restoring democracy.”
Geez, I wonder how forthcoming that will be? Al-Jazeera had this picture up of the generals. Is that ribbon on their left chest wall the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval? Jus’ wondering.
And here’s another wait & see moment.
Thein Sein, Myanmar’s prime minister, told Asian leaders at a summit in Thailand last month that the government sees a role for Aung San Suu Kyi in fostering reconciliation ahead of the promised elections next year, but it was not clear what form this would take.
The headline banner at CNN reads: The GOP scores BIG on election night.
Go inside and the headline is a bit toned down: GOP wins key governor races, but lose NY congressional seat.
The governor races were those in Virginia and New Jersey. Those almost warrant a yawn. The NY congressional seat was last controlled by the Democrats “since at least the 1890s.” That says more to me than Virginia – which is fairly conservative politically (and ‘culturally’) – voting in a Taliban-like candidate or New Jerseyians tiring of Jon Corzine’s inaction. Apparently money doesn’t always talk, but then how would you explain Michael Bloomberg’s victory?
But like this ‘analysis‘ from Newsweek’s Katie Connolly – don’t read too much into what happened last night. If the Democrats had been able to get the kind of health care the American people really wanted lined up with dates of pull out for Iraq solid and a slow rise in economy markers, and THEN lost these or other races, it might be a reason for the Goppers to crow. Otherwise, it’s not. And in the event you need more convincing, here’s the Rude Pundit with ‘Shit What We Learned Last Night.’
Somehow their sentences don’t seem long enough after reading this paragraph. The length of their sentences ranged from 1-1/2 years to 4 years.
Prosecutors said the three plotted an attack against Raylen Smith, then 24, after encountering him in the aisles of Wal-Mart on the Fourth of July, 2008. The trio beat him in the parking lot until he blacked out.
And to demonstrate how fucking stupid these assholes were and most likely – still are – there’s this from earlier this year.
Smith said he first noticed the four in the milk aisle, and saw them again as they went through a nearby checkout line. It was in the parking lot, Smith said, that Bullard approached him, asking him what country he thought he was in.
What country he was in? This poor kid was born and raised in southwestern Idaho. I say 10 years for just being so goddamned stupid.
Of course, then there’s the logic at work from the attorney ….
“I turned around toward the front of Wal-Mart. I heard somebody say, ‘Get him,’ and someone say, ‘nigger,’” Smith said. “I just kept running. I was just trying to get away.”
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The case is one of perceptions, said Bullard’s attorney, Elisa Massoth. Though Smith believed it was a racial attack, Bullard saw the incident as an exchange of dirty looks that ended in a fight and had nothing to do with race, she said.
Ah … so the use of n*gger to refer to a black person isn’t about race. It’s about perception! Off to alert all the black folks. I’m sure most will be fairly relieved doncha think?
side street in front of my window. And that’s just one way with one of those guys. And ya can’t use the excuse “I dinna see da lights” because you can’t see those suckers flashing yellow across the street from Fairview and Ustick. Ya can, ‘cuz they’re pretty damned BRIGHT.
The headline banner at CNN reads: 
