http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/04/the-friday-morning-news Comments On: The Friday Morning News by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:00:23 -0800 The Stranger
Anyway, if the driver thought it was worth driving to a pedestrian to get, it was probably worth saving.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:59:47 -0800 The Stranger
Unless maybe she dropped a contact lens and didn't want a car in the space before she found it. But that's unlikely to be the case here.
Posted by originalcinner]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:45:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:45:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:43:12 -0800 The Stranger
Also, if you look at the video, there's an empty space a few spots back and to the left. The driver decided risking that girl's safety (and if the driver hadn't braked in time, the girl could have been seriously hurt) was better than backing up a few spaces.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:56:36 -0800 The Stranger
And you're also wrong about this incident. You either didn't watch the video, or your outsized rage at the girl blinded you to the obviously dangerous way the SUV accelerated at the girl. This was no "nudge." The driver was literally on the brakes just in time (like, hundredths of a second) to keep from seriously injuring the girl.

"Hit," "struck," "came into contact," "run over" - all these terms are interchangeable in a situation like this. Learn that, if nothing else.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:52:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by schmacky]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:36:24 -0800 The Stranger
Nevertheless, I understand your point: Swissyland, the peaceable nation of Guntopia; even they choose to implement rational gun management laws.

As the article suggested, I also sought and read info on the prior 'big incident' in which a Swiss madman shot up a courthouse. The story said that it was followed by a national call for better gun management - defeated. The voters see their citizen 'army at large' as national defense. They consider it as the reason they weren't overtaken by Nazis.

My father in law expressed a similar sentiment as to why Japan never landed in (continental) America during WWII. Apparently, they were too afraid to even dare.


Posted by NotSean]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:33:15 -0800 The Stranger
So in short, while it's not cool to run over assholes, and assholes--no matter what--unquestionably maintain their right of way as pedestrians, I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone who gets nudged by a car strictly because of their aforementioned assholishness, even if they do have the right of way (and to be clear, the driver in this specific scenario, if she did indeed "lunge" straight into this girl without giving her a chance to get out of the way, is the asshole here).
Posted by schmacky]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:26:38 -0800 The Stranger
Just because someone is in command of a 5000-lb motorized conveyance does not mean they are immune to laws regarding battery and assault. They're still a person, with no more rights than any other person.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:22:06 -0800 The Stranger
http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world…

http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/12/31/…

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fraud-money…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:54:26 -0800 The Stranger
You can allege that people shouldn't hold onto parking spaces in this manner, but there is NEVER any right on the part of the psycho behind the wheel who just has to have that spot and will run over a person for it. Jesus. She could have honked or done any number of things instead.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:45:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thatsnotright]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:40:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thatsnotright]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:36:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Joel_are]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:32:34 -0800 The Stranger
In this specific instance, it's pretty hard to tell from the video who's at fault...the girl seems to kind of step into the path of the car. It's not even clear the driver knew she was trying to save the spot.
Posted by schmacky]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:32:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:28:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TVDinner]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:25:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TVDinner]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:15:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by schmacky]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:12:55 -0800 The Stranger @ Goldy, you know, Goldstein, you might try reading the jobs data once in a frigging while; the bulk of those jobs were part-time, with the majority going to the 55+ age group.

I realize you are one of those blind, lemming-like followers of Drone Master Obama (with the Nobel Peace Prize), but a speck or mite of integrity and analytical behavior is in order occasionally.
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:10:48 -0800 The Stranger Malala, The Flower of Pakistan

Malala was finally discharged from the hospital after the horrendous attack on her by members of the Pakistani Taliban.

Malala's father was recently appointed to the position of educational attaché at Pakistan's London embassy, so hopefully Malala will be out of harm's way for awhile.

Pakistan has a history of strong and brave women, although little heard of in the West. Fatima Bhutto is a sterling example of female activists in that country.

While Ms. Bhutto's relative, Benazir Bhutto, had a political career tainted with corruption (a missing billion here, a missing billion there, and she would accede to the destruction of her people's rights in return for political power, much like Obama and Clinton have acceded to the destruction of the rights of Americans), overall the Bhutto family has been a historic force for much progress in Pakistan.

It's curious to note that it was Condoleezza Rice, late in the Bush administration, who urged Benazir Bhutto to return to Pakistan to seek the position of president or prime minister of that country. Several weeks prior to her return, John Negroponte would visit the same region of Pakistan.

Whenever an assassination or lengthy period of bloody violence occurs, somehow Negroponte always appears in the neighborhood?

When Diem of Vietnam was assassinated, Negroponte was nearby. A short while later, during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Negroponte was sighted in the vicinity; perhaps temporarily attached to the American embassy in Mexico City?

Negroponte received his nickname of "Death Squad John" after Jack Binns, Jimmy Carter's appointed ambassador to Honduras, was replaced with Negroponte by Ronald Reagan.
It seems that Ambassador Binns had been vociferously complaining to Washington about the violence perpetrated by corporate-financed militias, so the honorable former naval career officer had to go!

Shortly after Negroponte's appointment as ambassador to Honduras, death squads began appearing. This wasn't Negroponte's first introduction to death squad activities as Negroponte was supposed to have been associated with the notorious Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War.

Interesting to observe that both Condoleezza Rice and John Negroponte are members of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission; could the elderly David Rockefeller be pulling the strings behind the scenes?

He does vacation yearly in Chile, visiting the Josef Mengele Rejuvenation Clinic he helped finance --- he'll probably outlive us all. (And we can depend on obfuscatory and confusing reportage, thanks to fellow Trilateral Commission members, Charlie Rose [Charlie Rose Show], along with representatives of the Washington Post, New York Times, US News & World Report, etc.)

Lately, John Negroponte has been with the Jackson Institute at Yale University, along with Gen. McChrystal, Ernesto Zedillo and the usual suspects. (Jackhole Institute ? ?)

As Gerald Celente once remarked, America's problems can be summed up thusly:

"Bullets, bombs and banks; Harvard, Princeton and Yale."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yous…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:08:04 -0800 The Stranger
Oh, wait, it was the police.


Posted by NotSean]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:59:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by evilvolus]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:45:00 -0800 The Stranger