Here it is, your favourite weekend hangout.
I’ll be busy for most of the next two days, so if the blog slows down, get outside and enjoy the spring frost.
Here it is, your favourite weekend hangout.
I’ll be busy for most of the next two days, so if the blog slows down, get outside and enjoy the spring frost.
Because they are the good guys:
SF man awarded $10 million after jury finds police framed him for murder
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-man-awarded-10-million-after-jury-finds-12813726.php
“A federal court jury awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a San Francisco man who spent six years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.
… had violated Trulove’s rights by fabricating evidence against him and withholding evidence that might have helped him.”
Jackbooted thugs one and all .
Not all “jackbooted thugs”. Unfortunately policing in our countries too often becomes political one way or the other. Many have been hurt or killed because of that.
Nothing political about them framing him, just thugs abusing the system as they all do.
You need to seek mental health help.
Colonialista’s hatred of the police is pathological. According to him, Jamal was a good boy who din’ do nuthun. The evil police “framed” him. …. but he very well may have been and likely was guilty. That’s because we are all about laws and not justice.
He was a felon and a violent criminal. These are well known f a c t s. The world is not a better place with him on the street.
“fabricating evidence against him and withholding evidence that might have helped him” is what happens in banana republics and places of tyranny. I’m not surprised that it’s also happening in ‘Murrca today as the ‘Murrcan empire winds down. Low intelligence, low morality, low aspirations, low, low, low and a legal system actively working against its own citizens. Did you guys find the WMDs in Iraq yet? Win that victory in Vietnam? Or Korea? Syria? Lybia? Kosovo?
Colonista was certainly right! Jackbooted thugs, one and all.
You also need mental health counselling.
The police represent institutionalized force. The weight of the government it’s laws and regulations juxtaposed against the rights of the individual. Who do you think wins in this scenario?
The police are not your friend. They exist to do the governments bidding .
MAJOR ‘bingo’ on that.
today’s skill testing Q:
howcum it isn’t called a fireman’s state, carpenter’s state, surgical nurse’s state, cab driver’s state, assembly line worker’s state, etc?
howcum it’s ALWAYS ‘POLICE state’ as in gestapo, savak, kgb, tonton macoute, stasi, etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_secret_police_organizations
why is that? wtf IS it about ‘policing’ that draws them into this lethal level of repression?
follow the money !!! it’s ALL about power and money and zhob security !!!
as always under the guise of ‘nashnal scurity yup yup yup’
followup Q: what is all creation, given enough time, will decisively and permanently prevent a similar police organization cropping up on this continent??? hmmmm????
A: a *REALLY* short leash and robust CIVILIAN oversight, that’s what. aka keep those go&$#^$&#mn bastards OFF the various ‘police boards’ and ‘civilian oversight organizations’.
“…The world is not a better place with him on the street.”
That’s true. Also true: the world is not a better place when police break the law. It costs us a lot to have the police do their own job. We don’t need them to break the law, criminals do enough of that for no salary, no pension, with no recruitment or training costs to the public purse, and they equip and house themselves. (If they weren’t inflicting physical harm and material losses on people, they’d be quite good value.)
“According to him,…”
The police framed him not according to me but according to the jury. Do you comprehend that? When a braindead jury exonerates cops guilty of obvious abuses you’re jumping up an down from joy and pleasuring yourself in a perfect manifestation of Stockholm syndrome. But when, even in a system that is inherently stocked in favor of cops, where the populace does its best to avoid recognizing cops as nothing but sociopathic thugs in uniform cynically abusing the system, these thugs are found guilty of fabricating evidence, consciously framing their victim and withholding evidence that would exonerate him it is all “according to me”? Nope cupcake, it is according to the very system that these cops were required to serve and protect.
All of the responses made to my comment missed the central point. We are a nation of laws. Justice is served under the law most of the time but not always….. justice and law do not always coincide.
In 2007, ‘someone’ shot Seu Kuka in the back. Kuka was chasing Trulove’s brother after a fight. An eyewitness (a woman) testified it was Trulove who fired the shots. He was found guilty.
Under the law an appeal was made in 2014 and a District Judge found that the prosecutor had made “an unfounded claim to the jury, telling jurors that the neighbor (eyewitness) had been threatened and risked her life by coming forward”. This was a prejudicial statement to the jurors and affected their verdict UNDER THE LAW. Thus, under the law, a second trial was ordered and held.
In the second trial in 2014, the defense produced “5 witness” that said it wasn’t Trulove who fired the shots, apparently introducing sufficient doubt about the initial eyewitness’s account. Trulove was found “not guilty” under THE LAW.
Trulove then sued 5 or 10 policemen involved in the case. A jury found that charge to be true UNDER THE LAW against 2 of them. Trulove got $10,000,000 for 6 years imprisionment. JUSTICE was done…. at least we are lead to believe.
Will Seu Kuka get justice? Actually, I don’t really care. Both he and Trulove are low life scum. One dead, one buying coke for his new friends. Several lawyers buying new SUVs. The police, well who gives a crap.
Nice try David. Did the cops frame him? Yes. Did they withed evidence that would exonerate him? Yes. End of story. STFU.
What is pathological is your compulsive need to lick the jackboot every occasion you get.
Justine Damond could not be reached for comment.
Nor could Kelly Thomas nor Andrew Finch.
“Jackbooted thugs one and all.”
Some other truisms you may or may not subscribe to:
Catholic priests are pedophiles, one and all.
Moslems are terrorists, one and all.
Men are evil, one and all.
People from U.S. southern states are inbreed hill billys, one and all.
Indigenous people are stupid, one and all.
I tell you Colonialista, it’s a pathology when you can not discern between wheat and chaff (an expression I hope you understand).
And I can’t help but notice that when people disagree with you, it’s always “Shut the fuck up”. Oh sure, you never actually say those words but isn’t that what STFU means? I know you’re trying to show what a hip guy you are, up to date in the lingo and all, but still it’s a crude and rather obscene expression is it not?
I sometimes wonder what in your life made you hate the police with a pathological hate. It must have been a doozy of an incident.
Oh, by the way, did it not concern you a bit that Unme supports your assertion?
“Some other truisms you may or may not subscribe to:”
Can you please list all those cops who went on the record in the last (let’s be generous here) decade and openly recognized and condemned the militarization of police services? Who condemned the absurd proliferation of no knock warrants against non-violent offenders? Who are opposed to the usual abuses of qualified immunity? How about all those cops who went on the record demanding that body cameras become mandatory? How about all those cops who went arguing that there is something wrong when their rules of engagement are less restrictive than that of military on deployment to a war zone?
… crickets chirping …
Like I said: jackbooted thugs one and all.
“And I can’t help but notice that when people disagree with you, it’s always “Shut the fuck up”. “
No not always, mostly in cases when an idiot tries to argue a strawman.
“Oh sure, you never actually say those words but isn’t that what STFU means?”
Congratulations you are today’s winner of the coveted “No $hit Sherlock” award.
“I know you’re trying to show what a hip guy you are, up to date in the lingo and all, “
In your universe saying STFU as opposed to “Shut the f*** up” makes one … “a hip guy”?
“I sometimes wonder what in your life made you hate the police with a pathological hate. It must have been a doozy of an incident.”
I have never been arrested nor charged with any crime (and I am way pass 40). However I have witnessed police abuse on several occasions and more importantly I have witnessed their reaction when it is obvious to all involved that cops are in the wrong. For as long as they are determined to hold the blue line at all cost they are no better than thugs who off snitches for talking to pigs.
“Oh, by the way, did it not concern you a bit that Unme supports your assertion?”
No not one bit. Do you like donuts? Hitler liked donuts too. You are just like Hitler.
“He was a felon and a violent criminal. These are well known f a c t s. The world is not a better place with him on the street.”
True and irrelevant. How does the boot taste?
Cops do this all the time. The NYPD loves false testimony: https://splinternews.com/nypd-officers-have-given-false-testimony-in-dozens-of-c-1823875760
“We are allies,” senior Kurdish official Aldar Xelil told the Washington Post in a Skype interview. “The Americans should have helped us. We were allies for a very long time…For one and a half months we have been under attack by Turkey. Turkey is using NATO weapons to attack an American ally. We were partners in the fight against [ISIS], and they did not do anything to help us.”
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/turkish-american-alliance-heads-toward-cliff
When it comes to the Kurds, this is one of those unfortunate and intractable political triangles that defy diplomacy. The Turks don’t trust the Kurds, the Kurds don’t trust the Turks (both with good reason). Turkey is a founding member of NATO and long-time ally of the US, the Kurds are long-time allies of the US.
If anyone thinks they have a clever solution that will neatly take care of the security concerns and interests of all three parties and make them happy campers, do let us know.
I would agree with your argument until about five years ago, maybe, probably earlier than that. Lately Turkey has only been a nominal ally and practically almost an enemy. I would kick them out of NATO regardless of Kurd related issues. As for Kurds they deserve better than a betrayal. They have been a very loyal ally for decades, sacrificed for the alliance, risked everything and are surrounded by either rabid or cold cynical enemies. We (we the west) owe them big and we owe nothing to their enemies. Trying to please their (and our) enemies does not change said enemies into friends. Finally, in Turkey vs Kurds conflict Kurds are in the right (generally speaking).
It’s been time to cut the Turks loose for a while.
The problem with ‘The Kurds’ is that they aren’t a unified force as ‘The Kurds’ implies. The PYD are better than the alternative but they are repressive and a bunch of damn reds!
They are not united because they are divided by borders of four foreign countries. They cannot possibly be united. But when Iraqi Kurds declared Independence they should have been recognized and their independence guaranteed. They earned it.
This singer sounds so depressed; did he vote Liberal?
Simply Red -Holding Back The Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w
Please send money to help save this newspaper.
https://www.thewrap.com/denver-post-staff-makes-desperate-plea-amid-layoffs-the-paper-must-be-saved/
Diversity is our strength. Ezra has a very interesting interview with an apostate. Disturbing that this is happening in Canada.
Yasmine Mohammed: Confessions of an ex-Muslim
Yasmine describes growing up in Vancouver with a divorced mother who turned to the local Mosque for a sense of community and ended up marrying a fundamentalist polygamist Muslim man.
As a child, Yasmine’s step-father forbade her from making friends or listening to music, forced her to wear a niqab, and beat her for not memorizing the Quran.
When her abuse was brought to the authorities, they brushed it off as being part of Islamic culture.
“When her abuse was brought to the authorities, they brushed it off as being part of Islamic culture.”
Perhaps she should have claimed she was transgendered.
Syracuse Gun-Store Owner Thwarts Potential Mass Shooting
A gun-store owner reported a Syracuse University student, in the country on a student visa, to the police after refusing to sell him a gun last month, likely thwarting the student’s murderous plot.
Xiaoteng Zhan, 22, was apprehended and deported to China on March 20, eight days after the owner of a Nelson, N.Y. gun store called the police to express concern about the would-be customer’s lack of citizenship, according to Syracuse.com.
The unnamed store owner followed Zhan to the parking lot and photographed his license plate after refusing to sell him an AR-15.
Zhan, who was legally entitled to purchase a gun because he possessed a hunting license, had previously texted friends about carrying out a mass shooting.
“I might use the gun to cause trouble,” Zhan said in texts read at a meeting Thursday by Syracuse deputy police chief Derek McGork said. “I have been preparing.” He had apparently also told one friend that he did not intend to use the guns he sought for hunting, but rather for something “extreme.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/syracuse-gun-store-owner-thwarts-potential-mass-shooting/
PET POT Cemetery Report.
Stupid Liberal Justine say, It’s Climate Barbie McKenna’s fault.
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“Don Martin: Political hot air to blame for pending carbon pricing failure
On the same day as a think tank of economists found most Canadians don’t understand carbon pricing, the federal environment minister proved she doesn’t understand taxpayers.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says if Ontario’s Doug Ford or Alberta’s Jason Kenney win their respective elections and refuse to collect a carbon tax – as both seem likely to do – she will rebate the forsaken revenue directly to taxpayers.
Voters are supposed to hear that as a threat and tremble. In the real world, that will be seen as an election goodie and drive them to elect carbon pricing opponents.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-martin-blog/don-martin-political-hot-air-to-blame-for-pending-carbon-pricing-failure-1.3873205
Oilpatch CEO says Trudeau needs to give real pipeline support, ‘not just words’
Athabasca Oil Corp.’s chief executive blasted the Liberal government for not providing regulatory certainty or doing its job to get pipelines built just as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was visiting the heart of oilsands country on Friday.
“I would tell him he has to show leadership on the pipeline file. And it’s not just words,” said Athabasca CEO Rob Broen at the company’s annual general meeting in Calgary.
https://energynow.ca/2018/04/oilpatch-ceo-says-trudeau-needs-to-give-real-pipeline-support-not-just-words/
Perhaps he could be put on a pole and used as a brush to clean the pipes.
The real solution is for Trudeau and his crew to get the boot. They are running Canada into the ground and I see little hope that they will change. They do not listen to citizens — in truth, I don`t think they care. They are simply taking orders from the UN. We are the poster child for the UN Sustainable Development goals — and that includes squelching oil, paying carbon taxes, promoting the interests of aboriginals and immigrants over the broader population.
“VIDEO: Scheer Shreds Liberal Carbon ‘Pricing’ Myth”
“Watch Scheer’s comments below:…”
“Government enforced collection is a tax, not a ‘price’ says Scheer.
The Trudeau government loves to talk about carbon ‘pricing,’ as if calling it a price will hide the fact that it’s being taken out of our pockets by force.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has pushed back against that Liberal carbon ‘pricing’ myth, calmly explaining why it is a tax, not a price, and shredding the deception.
“When the market sets a cost on something based on supply and demand and the freedom to buy that item, that’s a price,” said Scheer. “There’s a price on apples, I don’t have to buy it and depending on what the crop year is like in certain areas that price goes up and down – that’s a price. When the government sets it, enforces its collection and takes it into it’s coffers that’s a tax, and all the Liberal spin machines in the world doesn’t change that.”
“Scheer’s remarks were basically common sense, but in today’s Ottawa they stand out. Compare his understanding of how the world really works to the crazy utterings of Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh.
Trudeau thinks selfies grow the economy from the heart out, and Jagmeet Singh thinks Justin Trudeau isn’t socialist enough.”
https://www.spencerfernando.com/2018/04/06/video-scheer-shreds-liberal-carbon-pricing-myth/
Canada’s drilling rigs went down by 23 to the current count of 111 actively drilling rigs according to data collected by Baker Hughes for the week of April 6th.
Meanwhile, U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for the third time in four weeks as crude prices drifted from a three-year high hit earlier this year amid concerns of a trade war between U.S. and China.
Drillers added 11 oil rigs in the week to April 6, bringing the total count up to 808, the highest level since March 2015, General Electric Co’s Baker Hughes energy services firm said in its closely followed report on Friday.
This was the biggest weekly addition in about two months.
https://energynow.ca/2018/04/canada-weekly-rig-count-down-23-to-111-for-week-ending-april-6-2018/?source=de&wtv
All the while PM Nero fiddles while the prairies burn with economic disaster.
All the while PM Nero fiddles while the prairies burn with economic disaster.
That’s what he wants. Not only can he keep the watermelon crowd happy, he can joyously wage war on the part of the country he hates the most. What’s not for him to like?
Eh, Saskatchewan isn’t ‘burning’. Alberta is in trouble, and that is largely self-inflicted.
Ontario Conservative Doug Ford Has Killed the Dinosaur MSM.
Here, from the journo’s typepad, the inflated self-worthless egos of journos:
“It’s possible for voters who still count on journalists to hold politicians to account to be thoroughly depressed by this.”
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“Why Doug Ford’s controversial campaign-bus decision does everyone a favour”
“… whatever his motives, he is helping drag the relationship between Ontario’s politicians and its media into the 21st century – and doing both sides a favour.
Even for relatively media-friendly parties, the traditional investment in two campaign buses – one for the leader, the other for journalists – is no longer a good use of funds. As mainstream-media budgets have shrunk, not enough outlets are willing to pay for seats through entire campaigns. So media buses wind up largely empty for weeks, while parties foot more of the bill for less coverage.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-why-doug-fords-controversial-campaign-bus-decision-does-everyone-a/
Uber strikes again!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43683687
/sarc
Another act of vibrant cultural enrichment, courtesy of Mutti Merkel:
http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/developing-several-people-dead-after-vehicle-rams-crowd-of-pedestrians-in-munster-germany-photos/
Remember, folks, diversity is our strength!
In Germany: Three dead after minibus ploughs into diners outside restaurant:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5589217/Lorry-crashes-crowd-Germany-leaving-three-dead.html
Vehicle attacks to hit Europe in the last four years:
April 7, 2018 – A man drives a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in the old city centre of Münster in Germany, killing several of them before taking his own life, police say, a year to the day after the Stockholm truck attack.
March 23, 2018 – A gunman kills three people in southwestern France after holding up a car, firing on police and taking hostages in a supermarket, screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’. Security forces storm the building and kill him.
Aug 17, 2017 – A van ploughs into crowds in the heart of Barcelona, killing at least 13 people, a regional official says, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack.
June 3, 2017 – Three attackers ram a van into pedestrians on London Bridge then stab revellers in nearby bars, killing eight people and injuring at least 48. Islamic State says its militants are responsible.
May 22, 2017 – A suicide bomber kills 22 children and adults and wounds 59 at a packed concert hall in the English city of Manchester, as crowds began leaving a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande.
April 7, 2017 – A truck drives into a crowd on a shopping street and crashes into a department store in central Stockholm, killing five people and wounding 15 in what police call a terrorist attack.
March 22, 2017 – An attacker stabs a policeman close to the British parliament in London after a car ploughs into pedestrians on nearby Westminster Bridge. Six people die, including the assailant and the policeman he stabbed, and at least 20 are injured in what police call a ‘marauding terrorist attack’.
Dec 19, 2016 – A truck ploughs into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says authorities are assuming it was a terrorist attack.
July 26, 2016 – Two attackers kill a priest with a blade and seriously wound another hostage in a church in northern France before being shot dead by French police. French President Francois Hollande says the two hostage-takers had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
July 24, 2016 – A Syrian man wounds 15 people when he blows himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach in southern Germany. Islamic State claims responsibility.
July 22, 2016 – An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman apparently acting alone kills at least nine people in Munich. The teenager had no Islamist ties but was obsessed with mass killings. The attack was carried out on the fifth anniversary of twin attacks by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik that killed 77 people.
July 18, 2016 – A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife attacks passengers on a train in southern Germany, severely wounding four, before being shot dead by police. Islamic State claims responsibility.
July 14, 2016 – A gunman drives a heavy truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing 86 people and injuring scores more in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The attacker is identified as a Tunisian-born Frenchman.
June 14, 2016 – A Frenchman of Moroccan origin stabs a police commander to death outside his home in a Paris suburb and kills his partner, who also worked for the police. The attacker told police negotiators during a siege that he was answering an appeal by Islamic State.
March 22, 2016 – Three Islamic State suicide bombers, all Belgian nationals, blow themselves up at Brussels airport and in a metro train in the Belgian capital, killing 32 people. Police find links with attacks in Paris the previous November.
Nov 13, 2015 – Paris is rocked by multiple, near simultaneous gun-and-bomb attacks on entertainment sites around the city, in which 130 people die and 368 are wounded. Islamic State claims responsibility. Two of the 10 known perpetrators were Belgian citizens and three others were French.
Jan 7-9, 2015 – Two Islamist militants break into an editorial meeting of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7 and rake it with bullets, killing 17. Another militant kills a policewoman the next day and takes hostages at a supermarket on Jan. 9, killing four before police shoot him dead.
May 24, 2014 – Four people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels. The attacker was French national Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who was subsequently arrested in Marseille, France. Extradited, he is awaiting trial in Belgium.
Why did Europe need the Renaissance when it could have waited a few centuries and experienced such a torrent of cultural enrichment like the examples you cited?
Welcome to Eurostan.
“So media buses wind up largely empty for weeks, while parties foot more of the bill for less coverage.”
The Media whores who pen AGW fear…They should ride bikes, like they want the peons to do…. The.CBC ban all vehicle travel for staff, no more LIMO’s….
We’d probably be subjected to endless stories about Ford not putting the toilet seat down, so therefore unacceptable as a candidate.
No doubt. That is about their level.
AGW RIP.
“no sustained warmth in sight.”
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“North Dakota 25 degrees below normal” (iceagenow)
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“Record low temperatures were set in Alberta and Saskatchewan Saturday morning, including Pincher Creek, Saskatoon and Regina.”
“We’re also watching the track of a Colorado low tracking south of the border mid week, which will strengthen as it tracks east, bringing a swath of snow for southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Colder weather spreads back in behind this system for late week with no sustained warmth in sight.”
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/prairie-blast-arctic-air-heavy-snow-alberta-saskatchewan-manitoba-brief-warm-up/98778/