It is all looking rather consistent with an outlook that has been dubbed “Warm Arctic, Cold Continents” — a notion that, …if accurate, is deeply consequential for how climate change could unfold in the Northern Hemisphere winter.
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SC legistlator charged with domestic violence | The Sun News
A S.C. House of Representatives member Chris Corley was arrested Tuesday on a charge of first-degree criminal domestic violence, a felony offense.
…Corley’s wife of 12 years said Corley threatened to kill her in front of two of their three children on Monday, according to a Aiken County Sheriff’s Office incident report. She said he only stopped because their children were screaming and Corley noticed blood on her head.
Corley’s wife – who is not being named by The State newspaper – said the state legislator grabbed a handgun from a vehicle outside of their home and pointed it at her, according to the report.
…Corley was elected in 2014. He is known most famously for suggesting the Confederate battle flag that flew over the State House grounds be replaced with a white flag of surrender when Gov. Nikki Haley pushed for the flag’s removal in the wake of the Emanuel Nine shootings in a Charleston church.
SC legistlator charged with domestic violence | The Sun News
Classless douchebag
State appealing ruling that Laconia police illegally seized drugs, cash
The state is appealing a judge’s ruling that Laconia police illegally seized drugs and cash from a man’s unregistered car that was towed to his home.
State appealing ruling that Laconia police illegally seized drugs, cash | New Hampshire
Cops enforce the rules. They don’t follow them.
Serena Williams
Serena Williams: ‘If I Were A Man, I Would Have Been Considered The Greatest’
The longtime tennis phenom opens up about race, sex, and life.
Is Serena Williams The Greatest Athlete Of All Time? | News One
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L.A.’s proposed ban on single adults near playgrounds is fear-based policy making at its worst
In an attempt to make Los Angeles parks seem super safe, City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell has proposed barring adults unaccompanied by children from entering playgrounds. It’s an effort, he said, to keep city parks “free of creepy activity.”
….It would bar any adult from sitting on a bench, exercising or otherwise enjoying public space near playground unless he or she brought a child along.
…His proposal is based on laws in place in a handful of major cities, including New York City, where police caused a minor uproar several years ago by ticketing people for sitting on playground-adjacent benches to eat donuts or play chess.
WTF?! It didn’t work and caused chaos in NYC and LA thinks to itself, hey that’s what we want to do?
Walmart to pull ‘Black Lives Matter’ shirt after police complaint
Black Lives Matter T-shirts only matter so much to Walmart.
Walmart to pull ‘Black Lives Matter’ shirt after police complaint – NY Daily News
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Angela Merkel endorses burka ban ‘wherever legally possible’
In German culture, she said, it was not appropriate for women to completely cover their faces and the full veil “should be banned wherever it is legally possible”.
Angela Merkel endorses burka ban ‘wherever legally possible’ – BBC News
Go girl.
Leila de Lima: The woman who dares to defy Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte
Leila de Lima is a Philippine senator bent on challenging controversial president Rodrigo Duterte.
Leila de Lima: The woman who dares to defy Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte – BBC News
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Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production
Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen tablets a day, but there’s a lot to be said for manufacturing common drugs on a small scale, close to where they’re used.
…We now have a powerful tool at our disposal that enables the sustainable, sunlight-based production of valuable chemical products like drugs or crop protection agents,” said Noël in a TUE news release. “Using a reactor like this means you can make drugs anywhere, in principle, whether malaria drugs in the jungle or paracetamol on Mars. All you need is sunlight and this mini-factory.”
Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production | TechCrunch
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Fort Worth police investigate arrest caught on video
“Obviously, when we have an incident where there is some type of assertion that a juvenile has been inappropriately touched, injured, whatever, that should take precedence,” Chief Joel Fitzgerald said at a press conference. “And for the 99.9% of our police officers in this police department, that would have handled that case differently, I thank them.”
So why is he not in jail then, Chief?
[The officer] “instigated that whole incident by being condescending to the woman about her son,” Alexander said. “You can see it in his his posture and in his tone. That’s what the people in the video are very sensitive to.”
Yup.
Fort Worth police investigate arrest caught on video – CNN.com
Video Of Woman’s Arrest In Texas Sparks Anger And Internal Police Inquiry
What began as a dispute over littering rapidly escalated into a white police officer forcefully arresting a black woman and her two daughters in Fort Worth.
Video Of Woman’s Arrest In Texas Sparks Anger And Internal Police Inquiry : The Two-Way : NPR
the officer and the young boy’s assailant belong in jail.
Black family brutalized by Texas cop for reporting assault
As Jacqueline calmly and reasonably explains to the officer what this man did to her 7-year-old son, she tells him that the man said he confronted her son because the boy threw a piece of paper on the ground. As she proceeds to tell the officer that the man then choked her son, the officer actually asks her, “why don’t you teach your son not to litter?” — then proceeds to basically tell the mother that the man had every right to choke her son.
…Jacqueline’s teenage daughter then steps in front of her to calm her down and separate her from the officer. Then, in that moment, everything took a terrible turn for the worse. The officer then starts grabbing and slamming everybody to the ground. He grabs the teenage daughters and handcuffs them. He grabs the mother, wrestles her to the ground, and arrests her as well.
KING: Black family brutalized by Texas cop for reporting assault – NY Daily News
The officer belongs in jail, not the victim’s family.
A black mother told police a white man assaulted her child. They arrested her instead.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for the woman, told the Star-Telegram that he wants the charges against his clients “dropped immediately,” calling them “completely manufactured.”
“We want to see the officer involved terminated from his position as a peace officer within Fort Worth and would also like to see him prosecuted criminally for his behavior — for his felony assault of my clients,” Merritt added. “We would like to see the individual who all this started from — the neighbor who assaulted a 7-year-old child — prosecuted as well.”
Go,go gadget attorney Lee Merritt
Fireworks tragedy: The ‘magical’ Mexican town where pyrotechnics are life — and too often death
It was the third time since 2005 that an explosion has plundered the market in Mexico’s self-proclaimed “capital of pyrotechnics.”
Jeezus…
Syria: We’ll never again believe your lofty rhetoric, United States
The United States representative to the United Nations , Samantha Power, gave an impassioned speech last week asking Russian and Syrian representatives whether they felt “any shame at all” for their actions in Aleppo, and whether there is “no execution of a child that gets under [their] skin?” For Syrians, these statements were infuriating. Americans should be asked the very same questions. You, too, have blood on your hands.
Message from Syria to the United States: We’ll never again believe your lofty rhetoric – LA Times
You may not be the only ones…
What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About Reactions To Trump
“The problem, the personal problem, was not what our enemies did, but what our friends did. Friends ‘coordinated’ or got in line.” And this coordination was not necessarily due to the “pressure of terror,” said Arendt, who escaped Germany in 1933. Intellectuals were particularly vulnerable to this wave of coordination. “The essence of being an intellectual is that one fabricates ideas about everything,” and many intellectuals of her time were “trapped by their own ideas.”
People rejected the uglier aspects of Nazism but gave ground in ways that ultimately made it successful. They conceded premises to faulty arguments. They rejected the “facts” of propaganda, but not the impressions of it. The new paradigm of authoritarianism was so disorienting that they simply could not see it for what it was, let alone confront it.
…Trump’s propaganda about Mexican rapists and Muslim terrorists operates in a similar way. The informed listener knows that most rapes are committed by perpetrators that are known to the victim. They know that most terrorist attacks in the United States are committed by non-Muslims, but the impression that those groups are not to be trusted ― that to trust them is taking an unnecessary risk ― remains.
The impressions born of the propaganda give birth to discussions that worsen the problem. Commentator Van Jones, for example, debated CNN panelists recently about discrimination against Muslims. To support his argument that Muslims are not the enemy, he cataloged many of the positive attributes of the Muslim community as if Americans that are hostile to Muslims are acting in good faith based on bad information rather than cherry-picking incidents to support their underlying prejudices. Jones reminded viewers and other panelists that Muslims have low crime rates, high educational achievement and high rates of entrepreneurship. The fact that it needs to be said demonstrates the relative power of the people asking the questions to those who must answer. It morphs questions about Muslims into a kind of Muslim Question that exists not to seek answers but to emphasize the otherness of the Muslim community and to limit its rights.
…Joachim Fest writes in his memoir Not I, “At first, the countless violations of the law by our new rulers still caused a degree of disquiet. But among the incomprehensible features of those months, my father later recalled, was the fact that soon life went on as if such state crimes were the most natural thing in the world.”
Aghhhhhh
6 Awesome Theories That Totally Change Famous Characters
On the Joker:
….Add some inevitable PTSD into the mix and suddenly you see Ledger’s Clown Prince of Crime for who he really is: an ex-soldier who became disfigured, snapped, and later spent the entire movie killing mayors, district attorneys, and police commissioners, aka people who in his troubled mind were representatives of the government that sent him to war.
On Kirk:
It’s a real mystery: After so many years of violating the law and Starfleet directives (often with his penis), how would anyone ever give Captain Kirk command of anything more complex than a broken down go-kart? How does a person even become such a reckless piece of shit with crippling authority issues? If you’ve paid attention to the title of this entry, you already know that the answer is “surviving a space-Holocaust.”
…The whoring, the insubordination, the apparent disregard for his own life … who wouldn’t turn out like that after his friends and family were killed by a space Nazi? And having to go through all of that when he was just 12? Kirk never had a chance, leaving him with only two ways to silence the traumatic voices in his head: living life to the fullest or manning up and boldly going to the nearest therapist’s office.
On Jack Sparrow:
From their short conversation we learn that, many years before the events of the first Pirates film, Jack was working for the EITC until he was trusted with transporting “cargo” that turned out to be a shipment of slaves. So, being Jack Sparrow, he set them free, simply telling Beckett in the deleted scene that “People aren’t cargo, mate.”
…Jack Sparrow goes from a morally ambiguous asshole to an all-around decent person. When he delivers the line, he doesn’t ruin it with any of his trademark silly gestures, instead saying it in a kind of sad, matter-of-fact way, almost as if he had to explain to another person that water is wet.
Even though what he did resulted in being branded a pirate, you don’t hear any hesitation in his voice, because for all the shitty things Jack Sparrow might have done, he’d never condemn an innocent person to a lifetime of slavery. It’s probably the most character development he’s gotten throughout all four Pirates movies, and it made him look so cool that of course they had to cut it…
6 Awesome Theories That Totally Change Famous Characters
Respected journalists they may not and may never be, but no one can argue with the fact that the crew at Cracked are damn fine speculative pop culture theorists.
All Louisiana troopers to wear body cameras
The state may be the first to have all of its state police outfitted with the video cameras.
All Louisiana troopers to wear body cameras
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Russia plane crash: Huge search for bodies in Black Sea
A huge search continues in Russia after a military plane with 92 people crashed into the Black Sea.
Russia plane crash: Huge search for bodies in Black Sea – BBC News
those poor people….
Japan PM Shinzo Abe in Hawaii for landmark Pearl Harbor visit
Mr Abe will be accompanied by US President Barack Obama, making the visit the first by the leaders of both countries since the attack.
Mr Abe will pray for the dead but will not issue an apology.
The attack on Pearl Harbour killed 2,300 US servicemen and propelled the US into World War Two.
Japan PM Shinzo Abe in Hawaii for landmark Pearl Harbor visit – BBC News
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Chapecoense plane crash: Colombia blames human error
A recording had already indicated the aircraft had run out of fuel.
The plane, operated by Bolivian company LaMia, plunged into a mountainside near Medellin. Only six people survived.
Preliminary results of the Colombian investigation said the pilot failed to refuel en route and was too late in reporting engine failures caused by the lack of fuel.
Chapecoense plane crash: Colombia blames human error – BBC News
Sigh….
The Deepwater Horizon aftermath
Researchers have analyzed 125 compounds from oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico to determine their longevity at different contamination.
The Deepwater Horizon aftermath | Coastal Care
Deepwater Horizon is turning out to have been a much more toxic event with lasting ramifications than any of our leaders had the spine or the brains to admit at the time? Shocking!
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Teen Vogue got mad, got woke, and began scaring powerful men
Femininity is not a form of stupidity.
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Mob Rule on the Internet
Once every couple of months, the quarreling masses of the internet put aside their differences for just a moment to completely and thoroughly ruin a person’s life.
How Our Reaction To The Stanford Rapist Was Insane
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