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January 14, 2012

Gangs are not the only evil


Friends and family gather at the home of El Camino High soccer player Francisco Rodriguez, 17, who was shot and killed Wednesday evening. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / January 12, 2012)

Edwin Johns Jr. was a hard-working college student gunned down a block from home. He didn't deserve to die, but really, what kid does?
By Sandy Banks
January 14, 2012

She's a mother and a high school teacher. She works in South Los Angeles but lives in a different neighborhood, one that affords her family the luxury of an arms-length relationship with crime.

So Jill Norton was stunned when she heard that a former student at Jefferson High — a "sweet and innocent kid" who played on the football team, worked at a grocery store and graduated early to enroll in college — had been shot to death on Jan. 2.

She was even more surprised when her daily search of the newspaper failed to turn up a mention of Edwin Johns Jr. or the shooting that took his life.

"I found nothing about him," Norton wrote to me. "Instead I found the article celebrating low crime rates, with a brief mention toward the end that 168 deaths were gang-related [last] year."

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0114-banks-20120114,0,3798502.column?page=1

Story on Francisco Rodriguez who is also discussed in this column: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-student-killed-20120113,0,710569.story

LATimes Homicide Report: http://projects.latimes.com/homicide/blog/page/1/


Smiley J Bang via Facebook
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/01/edwin_johns_jr_jefferson_high_football_killed_drive-by.php

This is a trenchant article on how our perceptions of violence in urban areas are skewed by police reporting to minimize our perception of the degree of suffering that occurs.

R.I.P. Edwin Johns Jr. and Francisco Rodriguez.


January 14, 2012

Toons: Persian Perversion, Vulture Parasite, The Politics of Envy and More. - 1/13/12


By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/13/2012


By Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle - 1/13/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/13/2012


By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/13/2012


By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/13/2012


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/13/2012


By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/13/2012


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/13/2012


By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/13/2012


By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 1/13/2012


By J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register - 1/13/2012


By Paul Zanetti, Australia - 1/13/2012


By Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria - 1/13/2012


By Stuart Carlson, January 13, 2012


By Ted Rall, January 13, 2012


By Ben Sargent, January 13, 2012


By Tom Toles, January 13, 2012


By Don Wright, January 12, 2012


By Jim Morin, January 15, 2012

Note: All previous editions can be found in my journal. Have a good weekend!
January 13, 2012

Toons: It's a Sweater Vest, Believe it Myself, Twinkie Shelf Life and More. - 1/12/12


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/12/2012 - "Sanitized War"


By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/12/2012


By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/12/2012


By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/12/2012


By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/12/2012


By Chris Weyant, The Hill - 1/12/2012


By Rob Tornoe, PoliticalCartoons.com - 1/12/2012 12:00:00 AM - The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA)


By Tony Auth, January 12, 2012 - "Drone War"


By Matt Davies, January 12, 2012


By Walt Handelsman, January 12, 2012


By Drew Sheneman, January 12, 2012

Note: All previous editions are available in my journal.
January 12, 2012

Jon Stewart v. Jim DeMint - The Daily Show - 1/11/12

I give this interview two thumbs up. Did you catch this interview? What did you think? I've transcribed some of the wonderful quotes from Jon as best as I could. I hope you enjoy. It's good to laugh.

Part 1: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-11-2012/jim-demint-pt--1
Part 2: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-11-2012/jim-demint-pt--2

From Part 1 - Jon Stewart: "The thing that confuses me about this, with all the terrible strangling of regulation, why have the wealthy done so better than the rest of the country, if the regulations are so bad to the job creators." - "When is it going to trickle down?" - "If we eliminate the Bush Tax Cuts and the Alternative Minimum Tax the Debt will be gone by 2026" - "I feel like my believing that I want government better not government gone doesn't make me a Communist." - "The rich are not burdened in this country."- "I don't understand this idea that any intervention from the government to provide a minor social safety net is a freedom-hating Communist-loving plot." - "Is this when we arm wrestle?"

From Part 2 - Jon Stewart: "There is no question regulation could be done better, but the idea that I hear from one side of the country is that corporations can somehow manage better...I don't want to go back to the 1900s." "You say we may not be a country anymore" - "The sense I get from the book is you believe that the Democrats don't have an interest in helping the poor, they have an interest in creating a dependent underclass, that is purely accepting their largesse in return for votes, you ascribe to them motivations that are incredibly Machiavellian and incredibly pernicious" -

"It seems to me part of what's holding us back from having that discussion is the type of rhetoric that comes through some of these more politicized plans that puts the side that puts the has a disagreement with you on the defensive about not just their motivations, but about their love of this country, and their patriotism, and that is toxin that is that once injected into that pool is very difficult to remove." - "If people understood what made this country great, I think one of the things that made this country great is that nobody got here by themselves." "Capitalism is a wonderful system but there is no question that there is collateral damage...There is a reason why unions arose, and why regulation arose" - "South Carolina vs. Michigan is never going to be the same as China."


Do you think Jon was prepared for DeMint?

January 12, 2012

Toons: Courage Citizen, Pimple Paul, Young Mitt Learns Firing is Real Fun and More. 1/11/12


By Larry Wright, The Detroit News - 1/11/2012


By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/11/2012


By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/11/2012


By Parker, Florida Today - 1/11/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/11/2012


By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/11/2012


By Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons - 1/11/2012


By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/11/2012


By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 1/11/2012


By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/11/2012


By Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons - 1/11/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/11/2012
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/10/10097194-gayest-us-town-surprise-its-salt-lake-city


By Randy Bish, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1/11/2012


By Paresh Nath, The Khaleej Times, UAE - 1/11/2012


By Hajo de Reijger, The Netherlands - 1/11/2012 - "Syrian Warpaint"


By Pat Oliphant, January 11, 2012


By Steve Benson, January 11, 2012


By Walt Handelsman, January 11, 2012


By Mike Luckovich, January 11, 2012


By Don Wright, January 11, 2012


By Jim Morin, January 12, 2012


By Ted Rall, January 11, 2012 - Rall obviously wants a challenger from the Left.

Note: All previous editions available in my journal.
January 11, 2012

Toons: Super Pac Rats, Dog on Man, The Pope Speaks and More. - 1/10/12


By Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner - 1/10/2012


By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/10/2012


By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/10/2012


By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 1/10/2012


By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/10/2012


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/10/2012


By Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com - 1/10/2012


By Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen - 1/10/2012


By Tony Auth, January 11, 2012


By Matt Davies, January 10, 2012 - photobucket - woops - you get the idea


By Chan Lowe, January 10, 2012


By Ted Rall, January 11, 2012


By Ben Sargent, January 11, 2012


By Drew Sheneman, January 11, 2012


By Tom Toles, January 11, 2012


By Dan Wasserman, January 10, 2012


By Don Wright, January 10, 2012


By Jim Morin, January 11, 2012

Note: All previous editions are available in my journal. Late post tonight, new forums and groups
January 10, 2012

Toons: Pious Baloney, Bookends, Junk in the Trunk and More. - 1/9/12


By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/9/2012


By Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner - 1/9/2012


By Parker, Florida Today - 1/9/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/9/2012


By John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri - 1/9/2012


By Steve Greenberg, Freelance, Los Angeles - 1/8/2012


By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/8/2012


By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/8/2012


By Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons - 1/7/2012


By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/7/2012


By Osama Hajjaj, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions - 1/9/2012


By Emad Hajjaj, Jordan - 1/9/2012


By Tony Auth, January 10, 2012


By Clay Bennett, January 09, 2012


By Steve Benson, January 08, 2012


By Matt Davies, January 09, 2012


By Mike Luckovich, January 08, 2012


By Ted Rall, January 09, 2012


By Steve Sack, January 09, 2012


By Tom Toles, January 10, 2012


By Don Wright, January 09, 2012

January 7, 2012

In Poland, unburying a nation’s Jewish past


Holocaust remembrance advocates plastered images of Polish Jews on buildings in Warsaw that were part of the Jewish ghetto before World War II wiped them out. Adam Galicia / msnbc.com

By Don Snyder, NBC News

WARSAW – Zuzanna Radzik wants Polish children to know that almost every Polish town and village was part of the Holocaust.

There were about 3.5 million Jews in Poland before World War II, making up 10 percent of the overall Polish population. And some pre-war Polish towns Jews comprised as much as 70 percent of the residents.

But although Polish children learn about the Holocaust in school, many believe the killing was confined to death camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka.

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“We bring history to children in towns and villages who have never met a Jew or seen a synagogue,” Radzik said. “When we show them where the ghetto was in their town and that Jews were killed there, it all becomes real.”

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/06/10011420-in-poland-unburying-a-nations-jewish-past

My grandparents are from Plock (pronounced [pwɔt​͡sk]) , west of Warsaw on the Vistula, they both went back after the war and found nothing left. In 1939, my grandmother was 17 and my grandfather 19, they knew each other, but had not spoken since my grandfather refused to lend her and a friend his rowboat; he wanted to take her out on the river.

My grandmother's sister survived, and two of my grandfather's second cousins; he lost four older sisters, no one else from either family survived the war. There are only 20,000 or so Jews left in Poland today.

This is a link to excerpts of a 1967 history of the Jews of Plock: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Plock/Plock.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%82ock



Plock was 25% Jewish before the war and one of the most centralized Jewish populations in Poland.





January 7, 2012

Toons: Pac-Man, Sour Grapes, Hog-Tied Pentagon and More. 1/6/12


By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/6/2012


By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/6/2012


By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/6/2012


By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/6/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/6/2012


By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/6/2012


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/6/2012


By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/6/2012 - "Exhuming Reagan"


By Clay Bennett, January 05, 2012


By Steve Benson, January 05, 2012


By Stuart Carlson, January 07, 2012


By Stuart Carlson, January 06, 2012


By Ted Rall, January 06, 2012


By Steve Sack, January 06, 2012


By Ben Sargent, January 06, 2012


By Signe Wilkinson & Signe Wilkinson, January 06, 2012




By Jeff Danziger, January 06, 2012

Note: All previous editions can be found in my journal. Have a good weekend!
January 6, 2012

Toons: Sweater Vest, A Clean Break-Up, Strait of Hormuz Jacket and More. - 12/5/12


By Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle - 1/5/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/5/2012


By Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons - 1/5/2012


By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/5/2012


By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/5/2012


By Parker, Florida Today - 1/5/2012


By Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com - 1/5/2012 - Mr. Rainier Shooter


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/5/2012


By Larry Wright, The Detroit News - 1/5/2012


By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 1/5/2012


By Randy Bish, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1/5/2012


By Tony Auth, January 05, 2012


By Matt Davies, January 05, 2012


By Walt Handelsman, January 05, 2012


By Chan Lowe, January 05, 2012


By Drew Sheneman, January 05, 2012


By Tom Toles, January 05, 2012


By Dan Wasserman, January 04, 2012


By Don Wright, January 04, 2012


By Jim Morin, January 06, 2012

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About ellisonz

Zachary Ellison is an Independent Journalist and Whistleblower in the Los Angeles area. Zach was most recently employed by the University of Southern California, Office of the Provost from October 2015 to August 2022 as an Executive Secretary and Administrative Assistant supporting the Vice Provost for Academic Operations and the Vice Provost and Senior Advisor to the Provost among others. Zach holds a Master’s in Public Administration and a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Policy and Planning from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. While a student at USC, he worked for the USC Good Neighbors Campaign including on their newsletter distributed university wide. Zach completed his B.A. in History at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon and was a writer, editor, and photographer for the Pasadena High School Chronicle. He was Barack Obama’s one-millionth online campaign contributor in 2008. Zach is a former AmeriCorps intern for Hawaii State Parks and worked for the City of Manhattan Beach Parks and Recreation. He is a trained civil process server, and enjoys weekends in the great outdoors. Find me on: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/
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