Three Men Come to Aid of Florida Deputy

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Tuesday September 08, 2015 · 8:22 AM PDT

2015/09/08 · 08:22

Amidst all of the stories about police shootings, police brutality, open season on the police, and more hysteria comes one good story out of Florida of all places where we first heard the name George Zimmerman and became all to familiar with the rather frightening "stand your ground" philosophy. Three men, a black, a Latino, and a white man, saw a sheriff's deputy being beaten after making a traffic stop and came to his rescue. It's the kind of story that gives some hope for the future that perhaps some day we can close the chapter on all of this senseless violence, prejudice, misinformation, and suspicion that plague our criminal justice system. There is no reason that police and citizens have to be enemies. Just a quick hit here to pass the story on.

Citizens are Just Collateral Damage in Deadly Game of Cops and Robbers

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Friday July 31, 2015 · 2:42 PM PDT

2015/07/31 · 14:42

With so many questionable police shootings dominating the news cycle, it's easy to overlook another police action that's behind the deaths of more than 5000 innocent people since 1979 according to USA Today analysis - high speed chases. Although the Justice Department has urged police to avoid pursuits that endanger pedestrians, many police departments leave it up to individual officers to decide. And yet the number of deaths in 2013, the last year covered by this report, chase-related deaths were greater than 1990, the year in which the Justice Department issued its warning.

The results of allowing police officers to make life and death judgment calls has resulted in thousand of unnecessary deaths and untold losses in property damage. And these numbers probably belie actual casualties and losses since NHSTA records are based upon police reports. The almost complete lack of public accountability has allowed this sort of Dirty Harry/Popeye Doyle mentality to run rampant in police forces across the nation. Clearly we need more oversight and public accountability.

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Monday February 14, 2011 · 9:21 AM PST

2011/02/14 · 09:21

This is just a quick hit and run diary. I haven't been on the new site yet and I thought I'd give it a try. But the real purpose of the diary is to start a discussion about the new Republican myth in the making.

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The Redemption of Pastor Jones

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Saturday September 11, 2010 · 9:53 PM PDT

2010/09/11 · 21:53

I suppose we will never hear the following words, but one can always hope.

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Tuesday March 30, 2010 · 4:23 PM PDT

2010/03/30 · 16:23

We Ask America ran an anonymous robo-call poll last Wednesday asking voters if they'd be less likely to vote to re-elect Congressman Bill Foster (IL-14) after his vote for the health care reform bill. The results of the poll indicate that 57 percent of the district's independent voters are less likely to vote for Foster. The Daily Herald covered the story here and here. The problem is that some people who wanted to register their support for Foster were unable to do so due to a "glitch" in the program and at least one person informed Foster's office of the problem. The company that ran the poll claims it was not commissioned by anyone to do the poll. However, the owners are Republican supporters and contributors and that casts even more doubt upon the poll results, which are making their way into Republican rags like this. So much for We Ask America just doing these polls for fun.

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 3:51 PM PST

2009/12/22 · 15:51

My wife just called from the candy shop in town. She’s buying chocolates for friends and family and thought she might buy candy canes to accompany the place settings for Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner. The shop has fabulous chocolate and people come from miles around to buy their chocolate creations, especially during the Christmas season. But they also make great candy canes and they demonstrate those skills every year during the town’s Christmas festival. I’ve watched them make candy canes and tasted the samples while they were still warm. It was an experience that still brings a warm glow and a smile even on the coldest winter nights.

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 8:00 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 20:00

This morning my wife headed down to the post office to sell raffle tickets to help out with the local beautification project, which consists of a group of volunteers planting and caring for flower beds around town. They solicit money and hold fundraisers to buy the flowers.

I had to to install hardware and software at one of our remote sites, so I wasn't around to help. She was joined by two of her friends who worked for the previous Republican congressman. We live in the county seat of a very Red county, so many of our friends and acquaintances are Republicans. In fact my wife is also a Republican, but not of the rabid Joe Wilson stripe. She'd been there less than half an hour when a vanload of teabaggers arrived and began setting up right next to her. She politely asked them to please move to the other side so that they would not be getting in each other's way. With that, the woman who was the leader of the group launched into a tirade about Baby Boomers and how they were always getting involved with stupid things like flowers.

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 2:56 PM PDT

2009/09/11 · 14:56

So he might have disrespected the President a little. Might have even called him a liar. And despite being forgiven by the President, conciliatory treatment from Baucus and and Carper, Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi halting efforts to censure him, and praise from many of his constituents, Wilson is feeling about as welcome as Bill Maher at the Vatican. People have actually contributed a half million dollars to his Democratic opponent, all because Wilson has been speaking his mind, what little there is of it, about the calamities the Democrats have in store for the country. Things have gotten so bad that Wilson has been forced to hire a professional Tweeter according to The Hill to send out his SOS messages.

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 9:15 PM PDT

2009/08/30 · 21:15

Tonight I caught part of 60 Minutes and heard the piece on credit default swaps, the "financial weapons of mass destruction" that brought down Wall Street. But the real cause of the financial meltdown was the willingness of Congress to abandon common sense altogether and buy into the argument that business can regulate itself and that government needs to take a hands-off approach to business.

As we look at a long recovery period from the disaster caused by this ill-advised leap of faith, we are now hearing similar arguments from the insurance industry. Government is bad for business. Right. And policemen are bad for the robbery business.

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 10:28 PM PDT

2009/04/04 · 22:28

A recent diary here has asked us to be smarter than the Freepers. However, being smarter does not necessarily mean being more honest. A lot of the Wall Street investment bankers thought of themselves as pretty smart people. Smart has unfortunately taken on the connotation of being able to pull something over on other people. We don't need any more smart people like that. What we really need are more honest people, even if being honest means admitting to some pretty painful truths.

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Tuesday March 10, 2009 · 11:09 PM PDT

2009/03/10 · 23:09

We have the Ten Commandments, the Five Precepts of Buddhism, the Kashrut of Judaism, the Sharia of Islam, the Mormon Word of Wisdom, the Eight Beatitudes, the seven spiritual works of mercy, the seven corporal works of mercy, and now the nine principles of Glenn Beck's We Surround Them movement. Perhaps Beck is a bit out of his league in comparison to the founders of the world's major religions, but his zealotry and that of his prophet Chuckabee Norris, once the disciple of Mike Huckabee, are unrivaled in the annals of religious lunacy.

Let's take a look at the guiding principles of Beck's new religion, which will be unveiled this Friday following a PR blitz that would have been the envy of Abraham, who only had God's help in rolling out his religion, and not the geniuses in Fox's advertising department.

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 10:57 AM PST

2009/02/06 · 10:57

I used to have a business class teacher who frequently told us, "A partnership is a sinking ship." He was convinced that partnerships in the business world did not work out in the end. He didn't ascribe to another common theory that one should either "love your partner or buy him out." If you happened to have no choice but to go into business with a partner, he said you should work as quickly as possible towards the goal of buying your partner out. Partnerships always ended in disagreement with partners going their separate way after a long and costly legal battle that hurt the business, destroyed personal relationships, and only enriched the attorneys.

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Oh Noes, Don't Let the Goverment Do It

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Glenn Beck's Nine Principles

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