– It’s strangely reassuring to read about Oregon’s unnecessary giveaways to Nike. Oh, that sort of garbage happens everywhere!
– The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a pretty lousy economic measure, but yeah.
– The Oil Train Industry is Putting Seattle at Risk
– Twitter doesn’t think these rape and death threats are harassment
– This piece by Digby on the asymmetry of politicians unhinged from reality is pretty much all you need the next time someone is like “but both sides” or whatever.
Florida:
Shots fired at Pasco Sheriff’s
deputies early Sunday
Tampa Tribune, by Geoff Fox
California:
Gunmen fire on LAPD patrol car in
South L.A., prompting tactical alert
Los Angelas Times, by Richard Winton & Matt Stevens
That’s just on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Goldy’s Twitter feed is busy insinuating the NYPD is unhappy with their mayor because they’re racists.
I’m sure he’s right. After all, if he’s wrong, and objections to liberal policy can’t be correctly explained by racist motivation …
This happened on Friday but wasn’t widely disseminated until yesterday:
DURHAM (WTVD) —
Durham police say a man fired shots at one of their officers Thursday night.
It happened in the area of Lakeland Street and Truman Street around 10 p.m.
A department spokesperson said Officer J.T. West was sitting in his marked patrol car working on a report when he saw two suspicious men coming up from behind his car near an abandoned apartment building.
West got out of his car to speak to the men, but before he could say a word, one of them pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired six shots at the officer. One of the bullets struck the police vehicle.
West returned fire, getting off two shots as he ran for cover across the street.
Probably a couple of those lacrosse players did it.
Next year, Sen. Rand Paul will reintroduce a bill that goes after the federal programs that send military-grade equipment to local police departments, staff for the Kentucky Republican told BuzzFeed News.
Paul’s decision to keep bill, which was crafted by the retiring Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, alive will be a significant test for the political viability of the issue. Paul will be trying to force a Republican-controlled Senate to examine federal programs that funnel millions in grant money and surplus to arm local police forces with weapons and vehicles designed for the battlefield.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmc......uj8b9Dmrv
Yabbut in 2010 one of Paul’s supporters was unkind to one of his more aggressive detractors.
It will be interesting watching liberals slowly realize that they have more in common with Rand Paul than they are comfortable admitting.
Cheapshot “I support Torture” bob, will you attributing each and every instance of guns being fired at police as now a political protest against cops killing black males? Is this above and beyond the statistical average amount of shots fired at police?
@ 4
Good question. I don’t know that answer, Better.
If it were that common there might not be pieces like this:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/29/.....e-shot-at/
Note that the LAPD says
LAPD Detective Megan Aguilar told CNN that investigators have “nothing to indicate that there’s a nexus” between the shooting and recent nationwide protests against police brutality that have fueled animosity toward police.
Note also that there’s nothing to indicate that there isn’t a relationship.
What do you think is the most likely answer to your questions, Better?
@5…
It’s always easy to infer this smug institutional racist’s answer by the way he asks a question.
Anything that happens to anyone, anything at all…is because of racism, and if you argue otherwise…you’re a racist.
Here’s a perennial stocking stuffer for a klownservatist:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....dofrac.htm
To klownservatists, racism ended with the Republican takeover of the South.
Good discussion on NYC cops on Up with Chris Hayes. Boy Bob really should know who he’s throwing his support to, I think even he would be surprised about who he is supporting.
I think Boob still needs to explain his support for Ted Bundy and his anti police crowd.
Boob any statistics on whether this violence (shots at police) was non existent prior to the protests ever happening. Maybe you just never cared to know about it. If this is all just routine on what happens in the day and life of bring a cop, then what’s your stupid point?
I disagree with Ron Paul all the time, he’s a fraud like you Boob.
Maybe you are saying that Rand Pail is a liberal?
Bob do you really care? Do you care if there is any correlation of gay assaults because of the WBC that you haven’t spoken against for their hate message?
Crawl back into your cave.
Those New York cops who show disrespect for civilian authority? If Mayor DeBlasio was Ronald Reagan, and those cops were air traffic controllers, they would be fired and conservatives would cheer.
@ 14
If those cops were air traffic controllers, two of them would still be alive.
@15 Really? You actually think anyone could have prevented an ex-felon with a grudge against cops and easy access to guns from walking up to two randomly selected cops sitting in a squad car and shooting them without warning? His mother, maybe, by having a timely abortion; but you Repubs are against that, too, just as you’re against gun control.
@7…
Wow…must suck to be a persecuted majority.
@ 16
No, dumbfuck.
You falsely suggest that a single, brief, silent act of group disapproval of their superior is equivalent to the refusal of a union to return to work under the direct order of POTUS.
NYPD rank and file expressed their displeasure, did so for a few minutes while they were not required to be elsewhere, and they are now back on the job doing what they have always done.
PATCO members refused to return to work despite being under order to do so. They acted illegally by striking in the first place.
Dumbfuck.
@18
Right, because one case is insubordination and the other case is, well, insubordination.
You might want to do a bit of further reading on the subject.
@ 19
As long as you’re sure why that’s occurring, go ahead and make the allegation.
An alternative explanation would be a cooling-off period during which the small stuff is allowed to proceed without police intervention, because it’s small stuff.
I doubt there have been many arrests for sale of untaxed cigs lately.
@20
“As long as you’re sure why that’s occurring, go ahead and make the allegation.”
That’s what the article says:
Did you not bother to read it before commenting on it? Wouldn’t surprise me. Speaking from ignorance seems to be your stock-in-trade.
@ 21
No, I read it, and I also saw the mention by Carl last week.
That part about safety concerns…. Did it come from Bratton? From the desk sergeants? Captains? Or possibly from the mayor’s office? De Blasio wanted to defer protests until after the memorial services. Why might he not also suggest that police let the small stuff go until things settle down?
“Police sources” isn’t specific. Where did those sources get their orders?
I fully understand that it could be a work slow-down such as unions are famous for conducting when they think it is to their advantage, Don Joe. I’m just not convinced that’s the only reason.
@18 So it’s okay to disrespect your boss as long as you continue killing randomly selected civilians?
@19 Actually, in NYPD’s case, a work slowdown or stoppage may be a good thing; see above.
@20 “why that’s occurring”
Umm (scratching head) … because they don’t want to take orders from their new boss?
“In a tweet Monday night that appears to have since been deleted, CBS New York reports the NYC Sergeants Benevolent Association said the mayor “needs to humble himself and change his philosophical views on policing and the way protests have occurred within the city.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ma.....deep-rift/
Reagan, as we know, fired people for that.
@22 You now support union work actions? That’s progress, I guess.
If you buy a white car, you’re a racist.
“If you buy a white car, you’re a racist.”
Only if one is already a racist. Like you.
@27….racist.
@22
‘No, I read it…’
Now, that’s a lie…
‘“Police sources” isn’t specific. Where did those sources get their orders?’
From the article:
‘I’m just not convinced that’s the only reason.’
So, the reason that the union leaders have ordered the slowdown somehow makes a difference as to whether or not the slowdown constitutes insubordination?
Keep in mind, now, that we’re talking about the police refusing to obey democratically-elected civil authority. Police, not air-traffic controllers. How much further does this have to go before the thin blue line becomes a thick Gestapo line?