crosberg

washingtonpoststyle:

In a phone call from the Capitol immediately after the State of the Union address last night, President Obama informs John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica, a kidnapped aid worker, was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia earlier that evening. 

Official White House photo by Pete Souza

I’ve decided my dream job is to be the person that gets to wrap up this phone call.  Like “Yes, the President is wonderful, isn’t he? I’m sure that Seal Team Six knows just how much it means to you that they saved your daughter.  No, I don’t think you’re allowed to send rawhides for the titanium-toothed dog, but I’m sure they’d love it.  Ok, so we’ll be dropping your daughter off on Sunday at 6, does that work for you?”

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8bitian:

coolguyerrant:

crosberg:

8bitian:

leahj:

solitaryforager:

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

Let me say for the 5th time, that the use of this image is priming the pump for violence.

It doesn’t help that Chicago cops are dead set on beating the everloving shit out of anybody protesting or demonstrating. They’re chomping on the bit so hard that they are complaining that the mayor doesn’t want them to bring guns.

You know what? I wasn’t going to say anything, but this is pissing me off.  Leah is damn right: let’s not pump people up to violence.

But seriously? Where the fuck is your proof that cops are “chomping at the bit” and that they want to beat the shit out of people? ALL of the cops I know are concerned about people’s SAFETY.  The cops that help out at Critical Mass have to put up with people breaking the law on purpose to test them, screaming things like “pig” and “I smell bacon”.  And then they get headbutted by assholes wearing bike helmets, and when they detain people for ASSAULTING AN OFFICER the bikers start screaming about brutality and bitching that they can’t record it.

I agree that should be able to record the police.  But fuck you with sandpaper if you genuinely think that the entire CPD is just waiting to beat the shit out of protesters for the fact that they are protesters.  Don’t let some bad cops allow you to color an entire city that way.  Don’t let your own fucking bigotry show how ignorant and naive you are.  Remember all those officers from other cities that got arrested while standing with protesters in NYC?  They’re cops too, asshat.  So are the guys that ride the bus with me every morning, and the ones that stopped assholes that work in the CBOT from assaulting the Occupy protesters when I was walking to my bus stop one night.

tl;dr version: grow the hell up and stop blaming cops for everything.

I know I’ll probably regret posting this but I can’t STAND it when people blast cops like this.

Sorry, crosberg, but 8bitian has evidence that certain populations of cops are itching to fight.

Oh hey, what’s that? Chicago cops talking anonymously on a copblog about how pissed they are that Rahm won’t let them bring guns? And how they’re going to cover up their badge numbers and take off their stars and wear signs that say “99% Too!” to throw off the protestors? I guess I don’t have proof, though. Nope, not at all.

When did I say you didn’t have proof? I said show it to me, and reminded you that one group of cops does not a city-wide conspiracy make.  Thank you for passing the link along, I hadn’t seen it yet and it scares me, especially for the safety of the protesters and the cops that aren’t a part of this.

But I can bet you, dollars to donuts, that there are just as many angry protesters out there that will want to get into it with the cops as there are cops posting on this blog.  My point was that you are vilifying a massive group of people for the behavior of the few.  Don’t you get pissed when people say that the occupy protesters are a bunch of whiny kids that need to take a shower and get a job? Then don’t do the same thing to the cops.  Don’t help the violence start.

coolguyerrant:

crosberg:

8bitian:

leahj:

solitaryforager:

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

Let me say for the 5th time, that the use of this image is priming the pump for violence.

It doesn’t help that Chicago cops are dead set on beating the everloving shit out of anybody protesting or demonstrating. They’re chomping on the bit so hard that they are complaining that the mayor doesn’t want them to bring guns.

You know what? I wasn’t going to say anything, but this is pissing me off.  Leah is damn right: let’s not pump people up to violence.

But seriously? Where the fuck is your proof that cops are “chomping at the bit” and that they want to beat the shit out of people? ALL of the cops I know are concerned about people’s SAFETY.  The cops that help out at Critical Mass have to put up with people breaking the law on purpose to test them, screaming things like “pig” and “I smell bacon”.  And then they get headbutted by assholes wearing bike helmets, and when they detain people for ASSAULTING AN OFFICER the bikers start screaming about brutality and bitching that they can’t record it.

I agree that should be able to record the police.  But fuck you with sandpaper if you genuinely think that the entire CPD is just waiting to beat the shit out of protesters for the fact that they are protesters.  Don’t let some bad cops allow you to color an entire city that way.  Don’t let your own fucking bigotry show how ignorant and naive you are.  Remember all those officers from other cities that got arrested while standing with protesters in NYC?  They’re cops too, asshat.  So are the guys that ride the bus with me every morning, and the ones that stopped assholes that work in the CBOT from assaulting the Occupy protesters when I was walking to my bus stop one night.

tl;dr version: grow the hell up and stop blaming cops for everything.

I know I’ll probably regret posting this but I can’t STAND it when people blast cops like this.

Sorry, crosberg, but 8bitian has evidence that certain populations of cops are itching to fight.

Yeah? Let’s see it. Because certain populations of vegans throw paint on fur coats, too.  That doesn’t mean that all vegans break the law and assault people, does it?  There has been TOO MUCH vitriol around this topic: not all the protesters are gods, not all the cops are monsters.  Everybody there is just people.  And as much as I can appreciate the fear felt when going up against a huge government machine (I’ve been to my share of protests, after all, and was told that if ever arrested my father would only bail me out if that’s why I got tossed in jail).  But that doesn’t mean you can go around tossing hyperbole like it’s truth and exaggeration like it’s fact.

You show me one cop that’s a power-drunk butthead, I’ll show you sixty that aren’t.  You show me sixty protesters that are respectful of other people and really believe in their community and their message, I’ll show you one who’s an asshole: spitting on people, screaming, punching, and doing more to hurt his own cause than his opponents. 

And let’s see the goddamned proof.

8bitian:

leahj:

solitaryforager:

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

Let me say for the 5th time, that the use of this image is priming the pump for violence.

It doesn’t help that Chicago cops are dead set on beating the everloving shit out of anybody protesting or demonstrating. They’re chomping on the bit so hard that they are complaining that the mayor doesn’t want them to bring guns.

You know what? I wasn’t going to say anything, but this is pissing me off.  Leah is damn right: let’s not pump people up to violence.

But seriously? Where the fuck is your proof that cops are “chomping at the bit” and that they want to beat the shit out of people? ALL of the cops I know are concerned about people’s SAFETY.  The cops that help out at Critical Mass have to put up with people breaking the law on purpose to test them, screaming things like “pig” and “I smell bacon”.  And then they get headbutted by assholes wearing bike helmets, and when they detain people for ASSAULTING AN OFFICER the bikers start screaming about brutality and bitching that they can’t record it.

I agree that should be able to record the police.  But fuck you with sandpaper if you genuinely think that the entire CPD is just waiting to beat the shit out of protesters for the fact that they are protesters.  Don’t let some bad cops allow you to color an entire city that way.  Don’t let your own fucking bigotry show how ignorant and naive you are.  Remember all those officers from other cities that got arrested while standing with protesters in NYC?  They’re cops too, asshat.  So are the guys that ride the bus with me every morning, and the ones that stopped assholes that work in the CBOT from assaulting the Occupy protesters when I was walking to my bus stop one night.

tl;dr version: grow the hell up and stop blaming cops for everything.

I know I’ll probably regret posting this but I can’t STAND it when people blast cops like this.

dcu:

DC Entertainment Announces “We Can Be Heroes” Capaign

This is a really great campaign (though it’s weird to see non-comic book blogs talking about it and being unable to ID some of the members of the Justice League).  I understand the timing as a good way to help solidify their new logo and branding scheme, though that is a little squicky.

soupsoup:

via Brett Smiley at New York Mag

I don’t care how you feel about their politics, this has got to be one of the best things I have ever seen.

longreads:

U.S. soldiers returning home face a culture that doesn’t understand them:

The 1 percent tends to be concentrated in the southern states and among the working and lower-middle classes. With a few notable exceptions—such as vice-president Joe Biden’s son Beau—the children of the elite have not served in these wars. It’s a sharp change from the night of Pearl Harbor, when Eleanor Roosevelt told a radio audience, “I have a boy at sea on a destroyer, for all I know he may be on his way to the Pacific.”

Instead, America now has its first generation of political and business leaders who have not served in the military, and it shows. With the Pentagon ordered to slash spending as part of wider government budget cutting, military benefits, such as pensions, and college education funding for veterans are on the chopping block.

“Veterans’ Struggle.” — Anna Fifield, Financial Times

See also: “The Last Two Veterans of WWI.” — Evan Fleischer, The Awl, May 3, 2011

I’m very proud of the men and women in my life that have served our country in the armed services.  I’m not sure that “regret” is the right word to describe how I feel about the fact that I didn’t enlist, but it’s sort of close?

(via theatlantic)