“officer perez this one goes to jail, too. [but make sure you take his camera before slinging him to the asphalt and beating him with your baton.]” - cbg
Police beat an unarmed and surrendered protester in Oakland, then target the cameraman that caught them.
kinda creepy— I’ll take a set.
(via spookyhome)
f- hillary, elizabeth warren for first female prez.
(Source: politicalprof, via ryking)
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Upon arrival in Los Angeles, a pair of British buddies were interrogated for hours, placed in separate holding cells for 12 hours, and ultimately sent back to the UK.
Their offense? Jokingly tweeting that they were coming to “destroy America” and “dig up Marilyn Monroe.”
Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, say they were locked up with drug dealers and “treated like terrorists” all over a tweet Van Bryan sent to his friends prior to Hollywood trip with Bunting, in which he informed them that he was on his way to “destroy America.”
Van Bryan and Bunting tried desperately to explain to airport officials that “destroy” was slang for “partying,” but to no avail.
“The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist,” Van Bryan, a bar manager from Coventry, told The Sun. ” I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me ‘You’ve really f***ed up with that tweet, boy’.”
He was also asked to explain a tweet about “diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up,” which he said was a reference to a Family Guy episode.
The two were eventually put on a flight back home. “We just wanted to have a good time on holiday,” Bunting said. “That was all Leigh meant in his tweets.”
A request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security was not returned.
[thesun / dailymail.]
I feel safe.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymly0t45T1qzpwi0o1_400.jpg)
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Upon arrival in Los Angeles, a pair of British buddies were interrogated for hours, placed in separate holding cells for 12 hours, and ultimately sent back to the UK.
Their offense? Jokingly tweeting that they were coming to “destroy America” and “dig up Marilyn Monroe.”
Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, say they were locked up with drug dealers and “treated like terrorists” all over a tweet Van Bryan sent to his friends prior to Hollywood trip with Bunting, in which he informed them that he was on his way to “destroy America.”
Van Bryan and Bunting tried desperately to explain to airport officials that “destroy” was slang for “partying,” but to no avail.
“The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist,” Van Bryan, a bar manager from Coventry, told The Sun. ” I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me ‘You’ve really f***ed up with that tweet, boy’.”
He was also asked to explain a tweet about “diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up,” which he said was a reference to a Family Guy episode.
The two were eventually put on a flight back home. “We just wanted to have a good time on holiday,” Bunting said. “That was all Leigh meant in his tweets.”
A request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security was not returned.
I feel safe.
Paul Krugman, “The Greater Depression.”
See Krugman’s “Austerity Memories” for another good (and very short) comment on the failure of austerity measures in Britain.
(via ryking)
we have a century’s worth of depressions, recessions, and national responses from which to glean possible solutions to our current situation. one response which doesn’t happen to be an observable viable solution anywhere in that history, however— “austerity.”
no one argues that our debt isn’t a problem, but if the homeless man doesn’t borrow another ten bucks to get a shave, haircut, shower and thrift store suit, he’s never getting the job to even begin paying back his creditors. borrow and spend the extra ten bucks, take a bath and get the economic engine going again. then we’ll talk about repayment. but without a viable economy there’s no possibility of repayment, period, and we are literally doomed to insolvency. —cbg
The Patriot Act is being used against American citizens.
“inalienable rights” my ass—see what fear-mongering will get you america. hope your wifi is secure, cause they don’t even need proof or physical evidence, nor do they ever have to admit wrongdoing themselves when they never have to try you for a crime— or release you.
John Boehner is heavily invested in Canadian oil companies which stand to profit handsomely if the Keystone XL pipeline were built.
oh noes… an unethical politician— unheard of. and a republican? never have I ever..
we need ALL THE REPUBLICANS to fuck ALL THE PLANETS!!! MORE REPUBLICANS, PLEASE!!!
—carlbgood
for “Devon!!” )
Study confirms the obvious: haters are dumb, conservative.
There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
“In another study, this one in the United States, Hodson and Busseri compared 254 people with the same amount of education but different levels of ability in abstract reasoning,” the report tells us. “They found that what applies to racism may also apply to homophobia. People who were poorer at abstract reasoning were more likely to exhibit prejudice against gays. As in the U.K. citizens, a lack of contact with gays and more acceptance of right-wing authoritarianism explained the link.”
If this report gets traction in the media, expect conservatives to play the victim card; “Ivory tower eggheads look down their noses at patriotic Americans!”
Unfortunately, they’ll be too dumb to fully appreciate the irony in that.
incroyable.
Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06 (by BenjiAuto (Ratet B. Photographie))
1/2 price ferrari slayer (HALF). they carry a little “mid-life-crisis” baggage, but the z06 is an underrated/under-respected performance weapon.
