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True Dough's JournalPolice shoot 12-year-old boy in his bed during pre-dawn raid on suburban Chicago home
The bullet shattered his kneecap.
The raid, however, had a far more lasting impact on Worships sons, particularly 12-year-old Amir Worship. The Washington Post describes the scene in the young boys bedroom:
the sounds of the raid had roused Amir. Seconds later, the door of his bedroom flew open. An officer barged in, aiming a flashlight and automatic rifle at the boy, shouting at him to put his hands up, the suit claimed As that officer searched the room, another one came in with his weapon trained on Amir, the lawsuit said. The second officer, described in the complaint as Caucasian, ordered Amir to put on his shoes. But when the boy tried to obey, the officer snatched one shoe away and examined it with his flashlight, all while keeping his gun aimed at Amir, the suit claimed.
The gun was allegedly not on the safety lock position even though the room had already been cleared and it was obvious that Amir was a child who was no threat to officers, the lawsuit said. Then, as the officer was giving Amir the shoe back, he quickly moved his right hand back to the handle and trigger of his rifle, grabbing it and firing it
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/chicago-illinois-police-shot-12-year-old-black-boy-in-bed-kneecap.html
It's as if Anne Frank was writing about today...
50th anniversary of Beatles' Abbey Road
The 3CD+blu-ray super deluxe edition delivers Giles Martins new stereo mix on CD 1 with two further CDs of outtakes and unreleased rarities (sessions). A blu-ray audio is the fourth and final disc and it delivers two separate surround sound mixes a standard 5.1 and a Dolby Atmos mix (along with a hi-res stereo version of the new Giles Martin stereo mix).
The super deluxe is packaged as a luxury hardcover book which slots into an outer slip case. Theres plenty of text with some wonderful photos (many by Linda McCartney). Unlike The White Album package this is a square 12? x 12? set.
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-beatles-abbey-road-reissued-for-its-50th-anniversary-across-six-formats/
Original track list:
Come Together
Something
Maxwells Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopuss Garden
Want You (Shes So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Her Majesty
The world according to Jon Voight -- yes, it's as disgusting as you might think!
We ought to be aware that there are "celebrities" out there spewing this sort of drivel. Right in Trump's pocket.
https://twitter.com/jonvoight/status/1158063351492042752
Then-senator Barack Obama on guns and hopelessness in 2008
"You go into some of these small towns ..., and like a lot of small towns ..., the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/21/obama-dusts-off-his-cling-to-guns-or-religion-idea-for-donald-trump/
Seems awfully prescient, doesn't it?
Donny wonders why he's blamed for mass shootings but Obama was not
Well, here's one good reason why, you cretin!
https://twitter.com/StephCity/status/1158785421414940672
We've taken ACTION on much less threatening causes of death, but guns keep getting a free pass
Neil DeGrasse Tyson apologizes for his mass shootings tweet
If you missed it, I offered a short list of largely preventable causes of death, along with their average two-day death toll in the United States. They significantly exceeded the death toll from the two days of mass shootings, including the number of people (40) who on average die from handgun homicides every two days.
I then noted that we tend to react emotionally to spectacular incidences of death, with the implication that more common causes of death trigger milder responses within us.
My intent was to offer objectively true information that might help shape conversations and reactions to preventable ways we die. Where I miscalculated was that I genuinely believed the Tweet would be helpful to anyone trying to save lives in America. What I learned from the range of reactions is that for many people, some information -my Tweet in particular -- can be true but unhelpful, especially at a time when many people are either still in shock, or trying to heal or both.
So if you are one of those people, I apologize for not knowing in advance what effect my Tweet could have on you. I am therefore thankful for the candor and depth of critical reactions shared in my Twitter feed. As an educator, I personally value knowing with precision and accuracy what reaction anything that I say (or write) will instill in my audience, and I got this one wrong.
Respectfully Submitted
Neil deGrasse Tyson
https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/tweetstorm/10157492889446613/
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