Unarmed man charged with assault after NY cops shoot at him but wound bystanders instead | The Raw Story

Unarmed man charged with assault after NY cops shoot at him but wound bystanders instead | The Raw Story.

This is obscene.
Any officers that shoots and hits an unintended target should be placed on desk duty as a matter of course, not have the legal system make civilians complicit in their willingness to dispense violence with so little care and caution for public safety.

Georgia school: We were ‘terrorized’ by Fox News’ false ‘Christmas card censorship’ report | The Raw Story

Georgia school: We were ‘terrorized’ by Fox News’ false ‘Christmas card censorship’ report | The Raw Story.

““[I am] disappointed [in Fox News.] We are trying hard in this community to have a good, healthy dialogue and it seems… The intentional spreading of this misinformation…. I see it as destructive,” Bulloch County School District Superintendent Charles Wilson told the station.

Um, you were aware it was Fox, right?

Unemployment benefits don’t discourage people from finding work: study | The Raw Story

Unemployment benefits don’t discourage people from finding work: study | The Raw Story.

Operative sentence here: “Most of the countries Eichhorn studied offer their citizens much more substantial benefits than Americans enjoy when they lose a job.”

It’s not apples to apples. The American system of benefits is so much less supportive that parallel conclusions are rendered useless. I’m curious as to what the same study  based on US employment would look like. Especially curious to see if not giving people enough to get by on un-incentivizes the American unemployed.