I picked this up from my buddy, Baldilocks on Facebook. Angel Adams, mother of 15, is mad that no one is giving her free shit. She blames Family Services for her problems – I guess it can’t be because she can’t say ‘no’. The father of ten of her kids is in jail. Family Services paid her rent and gave her furniture, but she says that’s not enough.
She says “Someone needs to pay”, but somehow I get the feeling that she doesn’t mean her.
Apparently, taking a cue from their local police force, the regular citizens in San Francisco near LA have taken up pepper spray as a tool they need for shopping at WalMart;
Shawn Lenske, a Los Angeles fire spokesman, said the injuries, all of them minor, were due to “rapid crowd movement.”
Police Lt. Abel Parga says a woman used pepper spray, hitting other customers. It’s unknown what caused the confrontation.
Parga said police were looking for the woman. No arrests have been made.
Word is that UC Davis’ Chancellor Linda Katehi will be issuing an apology later this morning.
Thanks to Tman for the link.
So just like a similar case that happened Saint Xavier University a few years ago. Professor Michael Avery sent the email in response to a campus wide email asking support for care packages. According to the people over at “Above the Law”, he said the following below.
I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings. I understand that there is a residual sympathy for service members, perhaps engendered by support for troops in World War II, or perhaps from when there was a draft and people with few resources to resist were involuntarily sent to battle. That sympathy is not particularly rational in today’s world, however.
The United States may well be the most war prone country in the history of civilization. We have been at war two years out of three since the Cold War ended. We have 700 overseas military bases. What other country has any? In the last ten years we have squandered hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary foreign invasions. Those are dollars that could have been used for people who are losing their homes due to the economic collapse, for education, to repair our infrastructure, or for any of a thousand better purposes than making war. And of course those hundreds of billions of dollars have gone for death and destruction.
Perhaps some of my colleagues will consider this to be an inappropriate political statement. But of course the solicitation email was a political statement, although cast as support for student activities. The politics of that solicitation are that war is legitimate, perhaps inevitable, and that patriotic Americans should get behind our troops.
We need to be more mindful of what message we are sending as a school. Since Sept. 11 we have had perhaps the largest flag in New England hanging in our atrium. This is not a politically neutral act. Excessive patriotic zeal is a hallmark of national security states. It permits, indeed encourages, excesses in the name of national security, as we saw during the Bush administration, and which continue during the Obama administration.
Why do we continue to have this oversized flag in our lobby? Why are we sending support to the military instead of Americans who are losing their homes, malnourished, unable to get necessary medical care, and suffering from other consequences of poverty? As a university community, we should debate these questions, not remain on automatic pilot in support of the war agenda.
The author over at “Above the Law” does a good job at destroying Avery’s email. So head on over there for his full reply. Also 96.9 Boston Talks is asking for feedback on this email. They can be reached at this link.
A 20-year-old Marine Reservist was killed by an Oregon hunter and his grandson when they mistook him for a bear;
Christopher A. Ochoa, 20, was hiking with a friend Friday night near Silver Falls State Park, roughly 60 miles south of Portland, when he was shot by 67-year-old Gene Collier.
Collier was bear hunting with his 12-year-old grandson at the time of the shooting. He told authorities he mistook Ochoa, who was wearing dark clothing, for a bear moving in the brush, The Oregonian said.
Collier is not being prosecuted, but, ya know, a bear doesn’t walk like or behave like a man. But, i guess some inexperienced hunters will shoot at anything that doesn’t wear blaze orange.
Bow (deer) season is underway here.
Aside from a few poacher/road hunter types deer season is a pretty orderly affair here in West Virginia.
The deer eat my apples, corn, flowers, etc. I eat them. Seems a fair trade?
Deer cost billions in property damage to automobiles alone each year, but there still limits to what hunters can legally kill (harvest for the squeamish).
PETA and their ilk decry even these rather modest efforts. Save for one curious case:
Slaughter on the Island: Highjacking the Flag of Conservation
Nestled in the Pacific Ocean approximately 30 miles from the mainland of Santa Barbara sits a beautiful island where majestic Roosevelt elk and Kaibab mule deer roam free. Ferried across a treacherous channel, these grand species were brought to Santa Rosa Island some 80 years ago, but their days are officially numbered. A complete slaughter of these magnificent animals is scheduled to occur before the midnight tide rises on Dec. 31, 2011. Sharpshooters will be en route to the island soon to comply with a 1996 court settlement and 2007 legislation that reinstated the extermination order.
The 83-square-mile island was privately owned for more than a century before being sold to the National Park Service in 1986 for $30 million. Used as a cattle and sheep ranch for much of its modern history, overgrazing disrupted the balance of the island`s ecosystem. The 1996 lawsuit settlement required the removal of all cattle, sheep and feral hogs from the island, followed by a phased reduction of elk and mule deer to culminate at the end of 2011 with complete extermination.
As this is a government-mandated animal slaughter, you may ask where the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have been in the process. They have been curiously absent, giving us a clear picture of their definition of “conservation.”
I don’t hunt much myself any more, got a friend who loves freezing his ass off and/or getting soaking wet who does, and I get as much meat as I want. Still I can recognize bull shit when I see it.
This article on Rivals High tells a story of a kid in Minnesota, Josh Ripley, who carried an injured opponent a half a mile back to the beginning of the Applejack Invite and then ran the complete 2 mile race.
“I didn’t think about my race, I knew I needed to stop and help him,” Ripley said in the school district release. “It was something I would expect my other teammates to do. I’m nothing special; I was just in the right place at the right time.”
The story just made me think about the kinds of men and women who choose to serve in the military when we’ve got troops on at least two fronts, and they’re virtually guaranteed action. People who make sacrifices like Josh did, just because it’s right. He’d make a nice hospital corpsman, don’t you think?
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Nice job, Josh. I am sure your parents are very proud of you.
There have been some developments in the Ursine wars.
Don Surber ties it together nicely:
Idahoans have a very real problem. The Spokesman-Review reported on Friday: “A grizzly bear killed a hunter before being fatally shot Friday near the Boundary County, Idaho, limits, the latest in a series of deadly grizzly bear attacks in the Northwest. Three men from Nevada were hunting bears in a remote area of Buckhorn Mountain near the Montana border when the grizzly attacked one of them and was shot and killed by a group member, authorities say. The fatal grizzly attack comes as Idaho’s congressional delegation has proposed to amend the Endangered Species Act to reiterate that it’s OK to shoot a grizzly bear in self-defense or in defense of another person after a North Idaho man who shot and killed a grizzly cub on his property paid was charged. It’s also one of at least three fatal encounters in three months between people and grizzly bears in the region.”
GPS determined the shooting was in Montana.
My question: Will the unnamed group member who shot and killed the grizzly bear be fined?
Just need to add for immediate clarity that those folks were licensed to hunt BLACK bear.
It seems like when ever there is a poser, another one tries to out do him. Before we had people steal photos from service members. Now it seems that this person has taken a real photo and pasted his face over it. See below.
The poser in question goes by the name Jhon Kerwin Williams who claims to be a Lt in the 101st (2006-present). Oh he is a pilot too along with another faker by the name Keith Underson.(2005-present) Who also is claiming the same unit, rank and job. Both do not show anything on AKO.
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