What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
“Instead of doing all he could, Liang didn’t call for help, he stood there whining and moaning.”
“The NYPD is not on trial,” defense counsel Rae Koshetz told the jury in her opening statement.
Oh my dear, you are wrong. It is the NYPD on trial. Their training, their personnel, and their tactics. It’s their thin blue line. Stand together, fall together.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday he has placed a hold on President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, claiming he is too close to the pharmaceutical industry to be an impartial regulator.
Sanders blocks Obama nominee to lead FDA, citing industry ties | Reuters
hmmm
The Justice Department should limit the types of cases it brings and more nonviolent criminals should be steered toward probation and away from prison, according to task force recommendations designed to cut the federal inmate count and save more than $5 billion.
Task force recommends how to cut US prisoner count by 60,000 – The Washington Post
Well, now!
Houston grand jury clears Planned Parenthood and charges David Daleiden.
Planned Parenthood anti-abortion foe David Daleiden charged with soliciting fetal organs
Nice.
The blunt headline doesn’t suck either.
The president cited the potential for “devastating, lasting psychological consequences” from the use of the isolation as punishment
Obama will ban solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons – CBS News
🙂
Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement – The Washington Post
Right on!
I mean it took you long enough but right on, Mr. President.
Go’bama!
Yet despite solitary confinement’s dramatic impact on prisoners, we do not actually know how commonly it is used. To be more precise: Nobody knows exactly how many people are in solitary right now, as you are reading these words.
Sigh…
Inside a federal courthouse here, attorneys for the Justice Department and the NAACP argued that the law passed by the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly intentionally discriminates against African-Americans and Latinos who disproportionately lack one of the required forms of photo identification. “The state should be making it easier for people to engage in the fundamental right to vote, not harder.”
North Carolina voter-ID trial begins | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
hmmm
Democratic primary voters have a choice between a symbolic candidacy and a real one. They should choose the real one.
I Get Sanders’ Appeal. But He’s Not a Credible President.
hmmm
In her Dec. 17 ruling against Texas’ foster care system, U.S. District Judge Janis Jack was scathing. For more than two decades, she wrote, the state has created a situation where “children have been shuttled throughout a system where rape, abuse, psychotropic medication, and instability are the norm.
Judge Rules Texas Foster Care System Unconstitutional — Impact Fund
Jesus
A Harris County grand jury investigating allegations that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston illegally sold the tissue of aborted fetuses has cleared the organization of wrongdoing and instead indicted two anti-abortion activists behind the undercover videos that sparked the probe.
Harris grand jury indicts pair behind Planned Parenthood videos – Houston Chronicle
nice
A grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of allegations of misconduct, instead indicting its opponents on charges including tampering with a governmental record.
2 Abortion Foes Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Are Indicted – The New York Times
Alright, Texas!
When a body goes unclaimed in Boston, it may receive a burial at a city cemetery. Students at a nearby boys’ school are among those who volunteer to be pallbearers for people they’ve never met.
‘Today We Are His Family’: Teen Volunteers Mourn Those Who Died Alone : NPR
n/t
Evidence has been gathered suggesting that 3 crops a year could be grown in our State. Evidence indicated that this would yield between 27-38 tons dry weight of stalks per year depending on densities planted. Similarly, between 31 and 35 tons dry weight of stems and leaves could be obtained per year which could be used as animal forage. A subtropical seed hemp cultivar also grew well. Evidence suggested that 2 crops a year could be harvested and yields of about 2.5 tons of seed could be obtained per acre per year.
Source: A little good news for those who want hemp to replace sugar on Maui | MauiTime
hmmmm.
When the U.S. introduced the measles vaccine, childhood deaths from all infections plummeted. Scientists think they might know why: Benefits of the measles vaccine go way beyond the measles.
Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine : Goats and Soda : NPR
hmmm
The Federal Railroad Administration has developed three plans to bolster ridership and improve service.
Federal rail officials pondering future of transportation in the Northeast – The Washington Post
hmmm
I mean, I really, really, really love these guys.
God, I love these guys
This penis graffiti on a frozen moat in central Gothenburg was too big a challenge for the local council to remove – the ice was too thin.
lolololol
“Palin is using PTSD as an excuse to shift blame away from her son’s domestic violence,” said Brandon Friedman, the former digital media director for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He continued, “She never mentioned the actual victim. She portrayed her son as the victim, but never talked about his girlfriend, apparently crying and hiding under a bed because he beat her.
“The fact is, veterans who have PTSD are far, far more likely to harm themselves than they are to harm others,” he said.
Veterans Aren’t Having Sarah Palin’s PTSD Scapegoating
Yay, veterans and troops!
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