There were 70,000 raging lunatics in the streets last night. It is rumoured that one Bruins fan was tossed over a bridge and killed. Luongo, from what I have read, is still unharmed, so figure that shit out.
In the above video a man tried to deter people from smashing windows of businesses, shouting "This is MY city!!" and he, in turn, was beaten.
Credit: Getty Images. Journalists are now looking to identify the loving couple.
Credit: Dan Foreman facebook page; originally posted by Dave Whitney.
Man who recorded a police shooting hides the memory card in his mouth as the police hold a gun to his head and smash his smart phone and intimidate him and his girlfriend into silence about the incident.
< Images of last week's fatal police shooting in Miami Beach have been released. Here you see footage recorded on a cell phone by Narces Benoit. The police are surrounding a car driven by Raymond Herisse. Then they started firing at the 22-year-old. Herisse was killed, three officers and four bystanders were injured. Benoit and his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, are accusing authorities of destroying evidence and intimidation. They say the only reason this video is still around because they were able to hide a memory card before authorities smashed the phone that captured this incident. They have hired a lawyer, saying they "want the right thing to be done." >
A man gets a newspaper article stuffed anonymously into his mailbox. It tells of an old friend who murdered 2 people and turned the gun on himself. He writes to a mutual friend about how unsettled he is. The man becomes so unsettled he begins his own investigation into how his old friend became the kind of man who could kill. He finds out more than he wanted to know.
I am not certain if this is authentic, but if so, 3 people are still missing.
Barnes & Noble and Borders stores south of the border are censoring the latest cover of Dossier Journal featuring androgynous male model Andrej Pejic.
This is a screenshot because someone at FHM clued in to how offensive this was/is and removed the original post.
"'Thing’ is quite accurate.” "Pass the sick bucket.” "More troubling..." "One trend we won't be following."
THIS IS IN PRINT?
Besides this just being downright juvenile, it’s incredibly inaccurate to compare the male-identified Pejic with the female-identified Lea T. While he plays around with androgyny, Pejic has never expressed any desire to actually become a woman, whereas Lea T felt she was born the wrong sex and took steps to remedy the situation. I’d say this is pure homophobia and transphobia, but Pejic has not publicly identified himself as either gay nor transgender. From what I can gather, they simply can’t handle the fact that he’s different and does not appear to be that which "they" believe a MAN should represent (cue football throwing, beer guzzling and steroid use.) A sadly familiar scenario that triggers many a schoolyard bully to ruin some poor kid’s life and now children are dying because of it.
Shouldn’t we know better than to propagate this shit?
I am just going to sit here and stare unbelievably at this for a moment.
UPDATE:
I received an email from Newsy who supplied me with a great video that also illustrates how others are reacting to this. So far, I have not seen any articles interviewing Andrej himself.
"I read your post “FHM Says Horribly Ignorant Things About Andrej Pejic – I Am Disgusted” where you provide your reaction to the slanderous comments made on FHM’s website. You summed it up perfectly when you said that they simply can’t handle the fact that Andrej is different. I appreciate that you compared these comments to schoolyard bullying, because that is essentially what they are. Recently Newsy.com produced a video about the FHM’s comments and Andrej’s Dossier cover:
It provides a lot of contextual information about Andrej and the controversy surrounding him and his androgynous style. I think the video compliments your post well, and I hope you will consider embedding it into your 'In the War Between' blog post. Traditional news outlets often overlook LGBTQ issues. It is important to present these stories to the public and shed light on ignorance. Blogs like yours do an excellent job providing the public with the news they need."
Were you watching the disgust unfold? Were you sharing your aghast with others? Were you with your family and friends and drinks and smartphones? We were.
I cried. I did. As the insanity unfolded.
I even cried for the Bloc who just fucking COLLAPSED. Unbelievable.
Now Greg is making me another Caesar and has run me a bath.
Defeat can at least feel a little bit less horrible.
Congratulations on the exceptional gain, NDP.
Condolences to the Bloc and Liberal parties on your loss.
While you got very little press, we were with you, Green Party.
I may be ConspiracyBee here, but does this photo look very badly Photoshopped to anyone else?
Osama bin Laden image released by the Pakistani government?
The pixelation is all wrong and the skin tones are off. Yet, major media is portraying this as the evidence released by the Pakistan Government of Osama Bin Laden's death.
I call bullshit.
UPDATE:
Indeed. As you have all heard by now, this is nothing more than a photoshop layered over his most prominent photo:
There is also another floating around:
Which is yet another photoshop job of a movie still:
I am not quite sure if this is necessarily a cause for celebration.
It hardly feels like winning when you have lost almost 3,000 people on 9/11 and another 5,000+ soldiers in the wars that followed - and are still being fought - in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Running around with a flag draped around you shouting “USA! USA!” doesn't really strike me as a dignified reaction.
"No, of course Hannity didn't knowingly edit the quote to mislead the audience. Fox News is fair and balanced and the pinnacle of journalistic integrity. Sure, I know it seems like every single day, every single Fox News Show says many misleading statements and shows many misleadingly edited clips or quotes. But that doesn't mean it is a pattern. No. Just a series of totally unrelated coincidences each and every day.
After all, if Fox was doing this on purpose it would totally go against Roger Ailes own memo's that state anyone caught doing something misleading or unfactual will be reprimanded. And NOBODY has ever been reprimanded. So clearly there is nothing to see here.
In the 2008 presidential election, one of the men who made it through the primaries to vie for the highest office in the land was not born in the United States. That man's name is John Sidney McCain. The Republican senator was born in the Canal Zone in Panama. It's not even in dispute; he wrote about it in his autobiography, Faith of My Fathers. Unlike McCain, who never released his birth certificate to the media at large or to fact-checking organizations, the Obama campaign posted his on the Internet. They even had people outside the campaign look over it and take pictures.
None of that seems to matter to Donald Trump, the real estate mogul who's become yet another Republican hopeful to question the president's citizenship. Or to the base that he's pandering to.
Whether it's Glenn Beck equating Obama with Adolph Hitler or the tea party movement protesting the federal government's "tyranny," the language used on the conservatives' side is not the language of disagreement. It's the language of rebellion, of fighting against what they believe to be "unconstitutional" (and therefore illegal) government. In a nutshell, the most vocal part of the American conservative base believes that if you disagree with them, then you don't deserve to participate in our government. And if you dare to vote anyway? Then it's time for "Second Amendment remedies," from conservatives who are "armed and dangerous."
The largest percentages of Americans who don't believe that Obama's a citizen, by far, are found in the South. Perhaps the children of secession and segregation know something that the rest of America does not; perhaps they alone have considered the evidence dispassionately, and are lonely voices of reason in these troubled times. Or maybe there's another, more obvious reason. And maybe their solution, if they don't get their way, will be the same as it was last time.
This issue was laid to rest by numerous accredited fact checking organizations in 2008. That's right. 2008.
<< In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake."
We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said. >>
Toronto Police say Qian Liu, a 23-year-old Chinese national studying English at York University, was killed Friday morning when she let an unidentified man into her room while chatting online with her boyfriend in Beijing. The boyfriend told police there was a knock at Liu’s door around 1 a.m. ET Friday and a man asked to borrow her cell phone. The boyfriend witnessed “a struggle between the deceased and the man,” according to police, before the suspect shut off her computer and stole the laptop. Also stolen were the webcam she was using to chat with her boyfriend and her cell phone. The boyfriend, who police have not publicly identified, immediately took to the internet to raise people he knew in Canada who could alert the police. He contacted Liu’s family in Beijing who called the Chinese consulate in Toronto. But it was almost 10 hours after the intruder knocked on the door that police finally entered Liu’s apartment and found the woman dead.
Orange County Republican Party central committee member and Tea Party activist Marilyn Davenport sent out a “joke e-mail” to other local GOPers with the above image attached under the words “Now you know why no birth certificate.”
Not surprisingly, some recipients found it to be in poor taste. “It is dripping with racism and it does not promote the type of message Orange County Republicans want to deliver to the public,” OC Republican Party chairman Scott Baugh told OC Weekly. “I think she should consider stepping down as an elected official.” (Why do I not completely trust them?)
Meanwhile, Davenport doesn’t get why this is a big deal. “Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black,” she said in a phone interview. (And we all know that having one black friend in your back pocket gives you unlimited license to be as crass and defaming about a certain race as you'd please.)
In a follow-up e-mail ostensibly apologizing to fellow OC Republicans for the previous correspondence Davenport reiterated her naivete. “I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth,” she wrote, adding that she has no intention of resigning her position over something “the average person knows and agrees is much to do about nothing.”
Longtime conservative Orange Country Republican activist Tim Whitacre came to Davenport’s defense, saying “Marilyn believes that nobody knows where he was born and so this picture says a thousand words.”
Richard Metzger @ Dangerous Minds recently received a rather puzzling e-mail from Facebook, informing him that a photo his site posted on Facebook had been removed for violating “Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” which prohibits “shares that contain nudity, or any kind of graphic or sexually suggestive content.”
It gets worse: the photo was associated with a post on his site concerning a London-based “kiss-in” organized to protest the mistreatment of two gay patrons of The John Snow pub — a protest which originated on Facebook. The John Snow protest page has since been removed as well.
Facebook, by the way, does not respond to violation reports with an automatic removal, or so they say. According to the Facebook Help Center, an administrator “looks into each report thoroughly in order to decide the appropriate course of action,” only removing the offending content if a violation has occurred.
(So, from what I understand, he decided that a female Facebook viewer who had commented that a female anchor looked "especially gorgeous lately" must be a "dyke".)
This is how YOU all found my blog post. I didn't push this issue on you. Please remember this.
*COMMENTS HAVE NOW BEEN DISABLED FOR THIS POST. SOME OF THE COMMENTS WERE ENCOURAGING VIOLENCE AND WERE BECOMING INSULTING TO THOSE INVOLVED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND WE CAN ALL MOVE ON FROM THIS NOW. *
After all, if Fox was doing this on purpose it would totally go against Roger Ailes own memo's that state anyone caught doing something misleading or unfactual will be reprimanded. And NOBODY has ever been reprimande
Fair and Balanced."