U.S. Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON, remarking on the killings in Libya. (via inothernews)
Funny that someone as horribly violent as Hillary Clinton thinks she has any ground to stand on when decrying any sort of violence and its possible justifications and context.
"Cop Stuff" »
Was gonna write a little post comparing the decrease in numbers of police getting shot and killed on the job versus the increase in police abusing/murdering citizens, but someone already did it.
A few other media outlets are now picking up on the massive drop in police fatality statistics this year. (Welcome to the story!) But so far, none of them have questioned what happened to all of those alleged trends (gun ownership, increasing contempt for cops, videotaping of police misconduct, anti-government sentiment, decreases in funding for police departments) they all reported were behind the non-existent “war on cops” they were all trumpeting last year. Or in the case of the New York Times, as recently as April.
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Incidents of police shooting citizens were up 70 percent up last year in Los Angeles (where 12 of the 54 victims in 2011 were unarmed). The numbers so far this year are lower than last year, but still higher than in years prior to 2011. In Chicago, police use of Tasers is up more than 300 percent in the last two years, while officer-involved shootings have also increased over the same period. That would seem to throw cold water on the idea that Tasers are used as a less-lethal substitute for bullets. Overall, crime in Chicago is up this year, but officer deaths are down. In Las Vegas, the crime rate and number of cops killed on the job have fallen dramatically since 1990, but shootings by cops have soared.
and fucking of course:
We can’t really compare violence against cops with cop violence against citizens on a national level, because police departments aren’t required to keep any data on officer-involved shootings. Nor do any federal agencies bother tracking those figures.
petersheik replied to your audio post: Grimes - Oblivion I can’t quite tell what the…
New hipster shit: ELECTRONIC MUSIC ABOUT GRAPPLING. Gonna go make a song in Ableton called “Dislocation” about getting caught in a kimura lock. STANDBY, PITCHFORK.
I fully endorse this. With more detailed songs it’ll become quickly apparent who has no clue what the fuck they’re talking about. Or they’ll just pull off some nice sounding creepy shit like Grimes. Either way, TIME TO WEED.
Additional note: It’s like the Toadies came back and made some more creepy songs about small-town back country urban legends…
Grimes - Oblivion
I can’t quite tell what the lyrics are but this sounds good to me:
Another walk about, after dark
It’s my point of view
That someone could break your neck
Coming up behind you
Always coming and you’d never have a clue
“Now! I’m gonna break you with my naked hands!” - Mickey Mouse, who will straight up *SPAT* you out of your spats.
also, isn’t it exceedingly twisted/awesome that he says “naked hands” instead of “bare hands”?
(Source: jhalaldrut.blogspot.com)
(credit to unfiltered and hungryghoast for tweets linked in that order)
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for this week’s True for Tuesday, let’s learn about drones! Above, a drone poem!
For other drone truths, consult an oracle! Just follow my handy How-To:
In the pitch-dark close your eyes tight and imagine a wealthy gentleman’s club with leather seats, invisible servants, want for nothing and the undeniable smell of copious amounts of grain alcohols. This is the Spirit Drone Home. Begin to invoke the names of drones in a chant like so (sometimes aided by ingesting Methedrone or Mephedrone), “Predator Batmav Gnat. Wasp Sentinal DarkStar. Hummingbird ShadowBell EagleEye. Hunter GrayEagle Pioneer Hunter Reaper.” Open your eyes and an avatar of the Great Spirit Of All Drones will appear before you, if you’re lucky it’ll take the shape of one of the not-yet-to-be-launched-but-dear-in-the-hopes-and-aspirations-of-many-a-military-general-cum-political-power-with-looming-heart-disease ones like the Cormorant:
(note: the Cormorant is a surveillance drone, but even then it is up to the discretion of the drone avatar itself whether to bring along flaming piles of rubble into your drone vision quest)
You may ask the drone any couple questions you want that don’t pertain to the drone’s own existence. Some tips and tricks:
- Do not allude the fact that “drones” by definition live off the work of others and that the robots we refer to as drones do plenty of “work” while the actual Drones, the powerful weapons company executives for example, continue to profit.
- Similarly, do not ask questions about bees, wasps, or ants. Unmanned Systems are sensitive about their lack of reproductive organs and their inability to procreate (thus far). However, they will discuss with great excitement the potential of the swarm.
- while in the presence of the drone try to steer clear of crowds. or thinking about crowds. the drone is easily confused into violence.
- To hear a drone laugh, use the word “threnody” correctly in a sentence. Example: “The musicians at the funeral intensified their soothing threnody from a murmur to a hum to much more until it all crescendoed with the crashing of the bombs.” The drone laugh is said to be one of the most horrifying sounds accidentally created by man.
- You’ll know it is the last question you are allowed to ask because the response will come in the form of a hum, a deep resonating note played over the Devil’s Fiddle and like all aural drones the sound drums from deep inside you as well as all around. And then a thing you don’t hear at all and only feel. And then a bright light. And then a new rush of sounds. And then….
