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[still fly]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Bernie Sanders would've won this with ease. I mean, Hillary will win but with a bunch of hate.

If only unemployed socialists who think they are owed a living wage for existing would actually voted!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

An Arkansas gunman who shot two cops on his property and the barricaded himself inside his mobile home surrendered peacefully Wednesday after an hours-long standoff, police said.

Billy Jones, the 34-year-old gun-wielding suspect, emerged from his western Arkansas trailer about noon, nearly five hours after shooting Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells and Sebastian County Deputy Bill Cooper, officials said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/2-arkansas-cops-shot-gun-wielding-suspect-not-custody-article-1.2745617?cid=bitly

Melanism
‏@Melanism
@bomani_jones I guess killer robot bombs haven't made it to Arkansas

#GTBW #ITWAN

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

man I feel old when Slim is using hashtags I don't get.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

GTBW = Good To Be White

ITWAN = If That Was A...

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

post/av

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/08/11/this-republican-mayor-has-an-incredibly-simple-idea-to-help-the-homeless-and-it-seems-to-be-working/

This is p. cool.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Dope idea

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

In more #GTBW news:

http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2016/08/man-shoots-at-cops-they-shoot-him-with-bean-bags-arrest-him-alive/

When officers arrived at the scene, they said the man fired at them through the door.

After being barricaded for several hours with SWAT outside the motel, the man was eventually shot with bean bags and tackled by SWAT.

 

[Damaramu]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Before even reading the article I couldn't help but notice in the photos he was white.......

 

[devo]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Justice Dept. to End Use of Private Prisons

This is a big fucking deal if followed through on. The prison-industrial complex is one of the main driving forces in our world-leading rates of incarceration and recidivism.

 

[Lord of The Curry]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

The lesson here is don't out billlionaires who have the time and money to tie you up in court and bleed you dry. Ya done goofed, Gawker.

 

[Precious Roy]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Justice Dept. to End Use of Private Prisons

This is a big fucking deal if followed through on. The prison-industrial complex is one of the main driving forces in our world-leading rates of incarceration and recidivism.

I'll believe it when I see it in action. I'm not even sure this is financially feasible. Are they going to release a ton of non-violent drug offenders? They should, but some of this people may in fact now be violent due to years of being stuck in our fucked up prisons. And coming on the heels of the DEA once again refusing to re-schedule Marijuana..........I don't have much faith in the system

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

It really isn't that hard to buy into when you realize it only applies to the federal system. 13 facilities and 22k prisoners. And it's a phase out over the next 5 years as the contracts come up. It will hopefully start a movement away from private contractors but it is only a first small step.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Today's #GTBW news also has a lot of #GTBM flavor to it:


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/judge-sets-aside-rape-charges-for-probation-so-ex-athlete-can-enjoy-a-college-experience/

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/cocks-not-glocks-texas-campus-carry-gun-law-protest

#CocksNotGlocks

A group of students at the University of Texas at Austin are protesting the school's allowance of open-carry and banishment of sex toys by passing out dildos. Sometimes I think these millenial kids are on to something.

 

[still fly]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Aren't you a millennial too?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

heh

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Aren't you a millennial too?

Spoiler

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/31/us-teen-pregnancy-rate-record-low-contraception


I wonder how the evangelicals will spin this?

 

[SFH]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/31/us-teen-pregnancy-rate-record-low-contraception


I wonder how the evangelicals will spin this?

This is the reality over the whole nation, but for the evangelicals in the Bible belt and rural areas where there are legitimately pharmacists and physicians that refuse to offer these things, teen pregnancy rates are probably still consistent.

This is good news, but I can tell you there are still too many whack jobs out there shaming people for trying to be responsible.

 

[KOAB]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/30/us/vladimir-putin-name-arrested-publix-trnd/index.html

we finally got him

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://theantimedia.org/cop-impregnating-14-year-old/

WSOCTV reported the ordeal began when Officer James Blair offered to mentor two children — the now impregnated teen, who had previously run away, and her sibling. The girl’s mother says he told her he wanted to take a role in their lives “To show them, ‘Hey, policemen are good.’”

wut

 

[Master Thrasher]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/06/492819673/large-for-profit-itt-technical-institutes-will-close-its-doors

ITT Tech is closing all of its schools. I feel bad for the students but I heard it was a horrible place.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

It is horrible: they took 20K of my money, and kicked me out with a 3.52, because I "didn't go to class enough".

 

[SFH]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Completely fucked. I know a guy that sunk $40k in student loans, last I heard was working at a Best Buy.

Note: If it's federal student loans, not able to be discharged in bankruptcy, so if his life ever goes totally out of control, he'll still be on the hook for it.


EDIT: Best Buy is an AWESOME opportunity for a lot of great people, just not worth $40,000 in debt.'''


More Edit: Just read on a friend's FB that he got an email stating loans will be forgiven.

 

[Richard]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/09/cory-doctorowthe-privacy-wars-are-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/
Not technically news, but interesting/depressing read.

 

[909]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/13/health/lawmaker-dies-in-motorcycle-crash-trnd/

Lawmaker who opposed universal helmet law dies in motorcycle crash

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3787594/Cop-fired-DIDN-T-open-fire-black-man-gun.html

... But Mader used what he learned in the Marines and his police academy to assess the situation - and did not shoot Ronald ‘RJ’ Williams.

‘I saw then he had a gun, but it was not pointed at me,’ Mader told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He said it was by Williams’s side and pointing to the ground.

Mader said he began to use his calm voice urging the 23-year-old, of Pittsburgh, to put the weapon down while standing behind the man’s car.

‘I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’’

Mader said Williams started flicking his wrist to try and get a reaction – but still he didn’t shoot.

‘I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and deescalate it. I knew it was a suicide-by-cop situation.’

But before he could, two other Weirton officers arrived on the scene. When Williams walked towards them and brandished his weapon – which was later discovered to be unloaded – one fatally shot him.

An investigation by West Virginia State Police concluded the shooting was justified.

... Now, Mader has spoken out for the first time to call his termination unjustified.

He said that when he returned to work almost weeks after taking the usual leave after an officer-involved shooting, he was told to meet Weirton Police Chief Rob Alexander.

Chief Alexander told him that he was being placed on administrative leave pending an investigation because he ‘put two other officers in danger.’

Mader said: ‘Right then, I said to him: ‘Look, I didn’t shoot him because he said, ‘Just shoot me.’’

But on June 7, he was handed a notice of termination saying that he had ‘failed to eliminate a threat.’

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

That's so fucked up and sad.

 

[Richard]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/14/man-gives-away-teddy-bears-everybody-pan