Links about Hurricane Irma are in their own separate post.
- How to win a nuclear standoff.
- Ha! With all the DACA news, here’s a reminder of how it went with desperate alien children and compassionate Dems last time.
- Black lives matter. But some don’t think that black minds matter.
- A pen that can swiftly diagnose cancers?
- Mexico gets hit by an 8.2 earthquake. It struck the poor, remote southern states. The death toll is low so far.
- Even famous football players aren’t exempt from brutal and arbitrary police behavior.
- On the other hand, here a cop who spotted a woman with broken taillights and behaved like a decent human being.
- Abandoned sites from old postcards.
- Two from DuffleBlog. Afghan who welcomed U.S. troops as a small child is now excited to shoot at them. And (in news that almost fails to be satirical), the Southern Poverty Law Center declares the VFW and American Legion to be hate groups.
Re: Nuclear Standoff – Excellent analysis, and something to pass on to the people in my life who are hand-wringing over Trump’s rhetoric. Not that it’s not worrying, just that there needs to be some context to counter the “OMG TRUMP” that’s saturating the public discourse that I see in meatspace.
Re: DACA – Oh, look. A packet of seeds that says “cognitive dissonance.” I can think of a few people who were all about returning the kid who are against the roll-back of DACA.
Re: SPLC/DuffleBlog – Another example of satire too closely resembling real life, given that Antifa’s “direct action” specifically includes action against the American Legion. (See: https://forwardobserver.com/2017/09/antifa-isnt-a-hobby-or-a-fad-a-qa-with-mark-bray/)
Re the black girl’s problem: It’s ongoing since at least the mid-1980s, per an essay in the San Antonio “Express”.
Just part of the stupidity of that sub-culture that harms the black population so much.
I know one personally and have read several comments on the Internet, high school teachers who have been told by black students, “That’s a white thing. We can’t learn that.”
Sooooo….cop with gun pointing it at guys head didnt have camera on.What a shocker.Of course he wont be reprimanded or FIRED for wilful violation of company policy,unlike you or me or the rest of the mundanes at our jobs.Did I mention I have ZERO respect for our ‘heroes’?