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Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:48 AM
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Twenty: The number of mass shootings the US averages per year.
Twenty: The number of Aurora, CO residents who are murdered per year.
"Play dead": A witness in the theater recounts what she told others to keep them safe.
Christopher Nolan on the Shooting: "The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me."
Falling Off Track: Shooting suspect James Holmes had gone from an honors college graduate, to promising grad student, to drop-out.
Now, in Faith-in-Humanity-Restoring News: Yang Yuanqing, CEO of PC company Lenovo, distributed a $3 million bonus among his 10,000 employees.
And Some More: After the president of Chick-fil-A revealed his deep homophobia this week, the mayor of Boston has vowed to block them from opening a restaurant in his city.
Science Rules, Music Rules: A new study has discovered that human drummers narrowly miss the beat according to a pattern—a fractal pattern, in fact.
How They Caught Him: A detailed account of how police tracked down the man now charged with killing Justin Ferrari.
Frat House Brawl: A group of intruders raided the Delta Upsilon fraternity at UW Wednesday this week, brandishing "bottles, pepper spray, a fire extinguisher and brass knuckles." Six bros were injured, and seven intruders arrested.
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis Were at Pike Place Yesterday Thursday: Here are some pics.
And now, courtesy of Will Ferrell's website Funny or Die, a new trailer for every 3D movie ever:
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Intern dearest, it wasn't yesterday Ferrell and Galifianakis were at the Market - it was the day before. Sweetly, after their "work" was done they stopped in at Captain Black's unannounced.
Gay stuff this morning, good gay stuff:
Frank Ocean - fantastic interview with the Guardian:
Gay-wedding fatigue in the NYT:
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Gay stuff this morning, good gay stuff:
Frank Ocean - fantastic interview with the Guardian:
There's a sense that impulse has driven Frank Ocean's career so far. He emerged from two worlds: he was a successful songwriter for the likes of Brandy, Justin Bieber and Beyoncé; and he ran with Odd Future, though always seemed more mature than their mouthier shock tactics. It could be argued with conviction that he's already eclipsed them. Packing up, broke, and driving away from his hometown of New Orleans, post-Katrina, to give it a shot as a songwriter in LA was a risk. Giving away his first album Nostalgia, Ultra for free was a risk (he put it online in 2011 without the knowledge of his label, Def Jam). Coming out was a risk.http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul…
"I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective," he says. "People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. Me putting Nostalgia out … what's physically going to happen? Me saying what I said on my Tumblr last week? Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American. Do you just not go outside your house? Do you not drive your car because of the statistics? How else are you limiting your life for fear?"
Gay-wedding fatigue in the NYT:
Mike Vollman, a movie marketing consultant, laughed when I complained about the wed-a-thon happening among my friends. Enjoy it while you can, he said, because weddings are a breeze compared with what comes next.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/fashio…
“Oh, just wait,” he said. “We’re now on the other side of the gay-wedding bubble with our friends. You know what’s there? I call it death by gay baby shower.”
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do the gun lovers say europe also has 20 massacres a year or delft, holland has twenty murders a year? you know, because (a) gun controls don't work, becuase (B) "guns don't kill people, people kill people," and (c) over in delft they kill each other by throwing fine chinaware?
answer gun lovers. then tell us why is it okay for the feds to ban you from owning hand grenades killing 70 at a time but not rifles or handguns that spit out 60 rounds a minute. They are both "arms" and you have a right to keep and bear "arms," right? so your position must be, logically, you have the right to keep and bear hand grenades.
and tanks. they're "arms" too right?
and suitcase nukes, certainly those are "arms" of war.
pray, do explain.
answer gun lovers. then tell us why is it okay for the feds to ban you from owning hand grenades killing 70 at a time but not rifles or handguns that spit out 60 rounds a minute. They are both "arms" and you have a right to keep and bear "arms," right? so your position must be, logically, you have the right to keep and bear hand grenades.
and tanks. they're "arms" too right?
and suitcase nukes, certainly those are "arms" of war.
pray, do explain.
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I work with a man who is an absolute darling at most times, but has an annoyingly naive view of the world due to his conservatism.
Yesterday, he smugly announced that, had this horrible event taken place in Texas, the body count would have been much less. Because everyone knows, of course, that the more guns - and especially guns being handled by terrorized amateurs with probably dubious aim to begin with - you can add to a confused situatation full of panicked people, the better. Especially when tear gas is involved.
As I have said before, I don't care about guns. Have all the guns you want, just don't expect me to get one. What I want is for us to grow up when it comes to STUPID FOLKSY MYTHOLOGY surrounding the issue of guns.
And I also want to know what drugs this shooter was prescribed. I have a sinking feeling it was, yet again, a case where we were over-medicating a young person and he went berserk. Just like the kid who shot up the store in Omaha.
Yesterday, he smugly announced that, had this horrible event taken place in Texas, the body count would have been much less. Because everyone knows, of course, that the more guns - and especially guns being handled by terrorized amateurs with probably dubious aim to begin with - you can add to a confused situatation full of panicked people, the better. Especially when tear gas is involved.
As I have said before, I don't care about guns. Have all the guns you want, just don't expect me to get one. What I want is for us to grow up when it comes to STUPID FOLKSY MYTHOLOGY surrounding the issue of guns.
And I also want to know what drugs this shooter was prescribed. I have a sinking feeling it was, yet again, a case where we were over-medicating a young person and he went berserk. Just like the kid who shot up the store in Omaha.
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4 guns, including an AR-15, a 100-round drum magazine, and something like 7000 rounds of ammo. Time to make some new laws.
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REVISIONISM
When we saw union members in Wisconsin, prior to their recall election debacle, cheer Bill Clinton, the former governor of Arkansas, who did to that state what Gov. Walker is doing to Wisconsin, we saw revisionism in its purest form!
Just as so much fictitious revisionism has spewed forth after the murders of President Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sen. Bobby Kennedy, so does positive revisionism spew forth on those who wage economic warfare against us.
We believe President Kennedy was the first president to both broke diplomatic relations and halt foreign aid to a country where a democratically-elected government was overthrown in a military junta. (Compare that against the Obama Administration’s financing of the coup of the democratically-elected President Zelaya of Honduras.)
There were many brave and progressive “firsts” from the Kennedy administration, yet few are aware of them today; fewer still recall that Kennedy announced the withdrawal of 1,000 Marines from Vietnam by the end of 1963, with the remaining US military to be withdrawn sometime before or by the end of 1964.
Instead, we have Exhibit A: Bill (and Hillary) Clinton --- that fellow who did so much to lay the groundwork for the coming global meltdown brought about by massive financial fraud (continued on by the legislation of the Bush administration, naturally).
Many claim that Clinton was responsible for the surging stock market during his administrations, but lest we forget, his program was based on the bond market, which performed poorly to mediocre in comparison to the stock market back then.
It was Clinton who signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, allowing for the final consolidation of by the corporate media and the recombining of AT&T (to lead the attack on network neutrality).
It was Clinton who signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, permitting the final dissolution of Glass-Steagall.
It was Clinton who signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, denying oversight of credit derivatives and their underlying securitizations, as well as promoting insurance fraud with credit default swaps (naked swaps).
It was Clinton who appointed an array of suspicious and anti-democratic types: such as Warren Christopher (as his secretary of state) who was once the deputy attorney general involved with the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation (we think he may have also been the liaison between that program and the Army’s illegal domestic surveillance program also).
It was Clinton who appointed David Rockefeller’s man and protégé, Peter G. Peterson, to his commission to “… end welfare as we know it.”
Not surprisingly, shortly before exiting the White House, Clinton signed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, containing Section 308, which grants complete immunity and legal exemption from the US Constitution to intelligence personnel.
Now why do so few recall what Clinton actually did, yet believe the fiction surrounding John F. Kennedy and his administration?
Sources:
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy presidency, by Donald Gibson
Thy Will Be Done, by Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett
Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson
John Kenneth Galbraith, by Richard Parker
Congressional Record, years 1992 – 2000
More...
When we saw union members in Wisconsin, prior to their recall election debacle, cheer Bill Clinton, the former governor of Arkansas, who did to that state what Gov. Walker is doing to Wisconsin, we saw revisionism in its purest form!
Just as so much fictitious revisionism has spewed forth after the murders of President Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sen. Bobby Kennedy, so does positive revisionism spew forth on those who wage economic warfare against us.
We believe President Kennedy was the first president to both broke diplomatic relations and halt foreign aid to a country where a democratically-elected government was overthrown in a military junta. (Compare that against the Obama Administration’s financing of the coup of the democratically-elected President Zelaya of Honduras.)
There were many brave and progressive “firsts” from the Kennedy administration, yet few are aware of them today; fewer still recall that Kennedy announced the withdrawal of 1,000 Marines from Vietnam by the end of 1963, with the remaining US military to be withdrawn sometime before or by the end of 1964.
Instead, we have Exhibit A: Bill (and Hillary) Clinton --- that fellow who did so much to lay the groundwork for the coming global meltdown brought about by massive financial fraud (continued on by the legislation of the Bush administration, naturally).
Many claim that Clinton was responsible for the surging stock market during his administrations, but lest we forget, his program was based on the bond market, which performed poorly to mediocre in comparison to the stock market back then.
It was Clinton who signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, allowing for the final consolidation of by the corporate media and the recombining of AT&T (to lead the attack on network neutrality).
It was Clinton who signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, permitting the final dissolution of Glass-Steagall.
It was Clinton who signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, denying oversight of credit derivatives and their underlying securitizations, as well as promoting insurance fraud with credit default swaps (naked swaps).
It was Clinton who appointed an array of suspicious and anti-democratic types: such as Warren Christopher (as his secretary of state) who was once the deputy attorney general involved with the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation (we think he may have also been the liaison between that program and the Army’s illegal domestic surveillance program also).
It was Clinton who appointed David Rockefeller’s man and protégé, Peter G. Peterson, to his commission to “… end welfare as we know it.”
Not surprisingly, shortly before exiting the White House, Clinton signed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, containing Section 308, which grants complete immunity and legal exemption from the US Constitution to intelligence personnel.
Now why do so few recall what Clinton actually did, yet believe the fiction surrounding John F. Kennedy and his administration?
Sources:
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy presidency, by Donald Gibson
Thy Will Be Done, by Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett
Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson
John Kenneth Galbraith, by Richard Parker
Congressional Record, years 1992 – 2000
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First sensible article on how this might have been flagged in advance:
Data Mining Can Help, Immediately
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-pavle…
Data Mining Can Help, Immediately
But as a technologist I know there is something we can do to help. We can start doing it today. It's been proven as a reliable predictor of human behavior. And we use this technology every minute of every day for advertising, fraud, recommendations, and dating.
I'm talking about Data mining: The art and science of discovering patterns in all the mountains of data that web sites and services collect when we use them.
One of the most chilling facts to emerge in the Aurora shooting so far is that the murderer purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition through the internet in a few weeks. That kind of activity on a credit card is a strong signal of trouble.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-pavle…
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Catalina dear, the shooter was an adult, not a kid. If he was being medicated, "we" were not doing it; he was taking them willingly. But it's more likely that he had stopped taking medications. It's the unmedicated crazies who are dangerous.
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@8: He didn't at first. He got a front row seat and at some point during the previews propped the emergency exit open, went to his car, and returned with the guns and gear.
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@11 age is relative darling. He is a "kid". Obviously if medicated he was taking it willingly after being advised to do so by a medical doctor who's advice he was paying to receive.
I think that's Catalina's point. Also, it is your exact dismissive attitute about "unmedicated crazies" that can cause a person to not seek long term mental health care or not believe it is necessary.
I think that's Catalina's point. Also, it is your exact dismissive attitute about "unmedicated crazies" that can cause a person to not seek long term mental health care or not believe it is necessary.
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Sarah dear, he was 24 or something. Yes, that is legally, and otherwise, very much an adult.
But some pharmaceuticals, when given to young adults, can have horrible consequences. Some Anti- depressants, for example, can make some young people psychotic or suicidal. That was one the factors with the shooting in Omaha.
But some pharmaceuticals, when given to young adults, can have horrible consequences. Some Anti- depressants, for example, can make some young people psychotic or suicidal. That was one the factors with the shooting in Omaha.
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That CEO took a step in a nice direction but that $3mil was 7% of his total earnings for the year:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/19/busine…
Given that China is a socialist republic supposedly in transition to communism with "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability" STILL codified into their constitution (http://www.usconstitution.net/china.html…), I think the implication here is that CEOs just have very strong needs compared to everyone else.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/19/busine…
Given that China is a socialist republic supposedly in transition to communism with "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability" STILL codified into their constitution (http://www.usconstitution.net/china.html…), I think the implication here is that CEOs just have very strong needs compared to everyone else.
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The instructions from my brand new KitchenAid food processor tells me that in France it is known as a robot culinaire.
English sucks!
English sucks!
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OWS and violent anarchists are two reasons right thinking American patriots should own assault weapons and form citizen militias as called for in the 2nd Amendment.
That and an illegal president turning every corner of main street into the Castro.
That and an illegal president turning every corner of main street into the Castro.
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You know what Basil? Usually I laughingly ignore your inane commentary because it's not worth responding to someone who is so clearly either hardcore trolling or mentally retarded. But today?
FUCK YOU. Fuck you for taking this tragedy and turning it into conservatarded propaganda. Fuck you for implying that the movement that advocated non-violent methodology deserves to have guns turned on them. Fuck you for advocating the deaths of your fellow citizens. Fuck you for propagating the anti-gun control batshittery that allows tragedies like this to happen 20 times and 31,000 fatalities a year. Fuck you for trolling, you fucking loser.
FUCK YOU. Fuck you for taking this tragedy and turning it into conservatarded propaganda. Fuck you for implying that the movement that advocated non-violent methodology deserves to have guns turned on them. Fuck you for advocating the deaths of your fellow citizens. Fuck you for propagating the anti-gun control batshittery that allows tragedies like this to happen 20 times and 31,000 fatalities a year. Fuck you for trolling, you fucking loser.
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@13, my attitude, as you call it, has not been displayed anywhere but here. I don't think it's the reason that people don't seek mental health treatment. As far as the phrase "unmedicated crazies", a shooting 6 years ago here in Seattle was done by someone who'd stopped taking medication, and I missed being one of those shot by about 5 minutes. So I reserve the right to say that on one blog.
Catalina, you are right that some medications affect people badly. For instance, too many physicians don't realize that SSRIs can be really awful for people with bipolar disorder. So we'll reserve our opinion on this guy. But it appears that whatever the precipitating factors, this was coming on for a long period of time since he's been accumulating weapons and explosures over months -- obviously it wasn't simply a failure to take an antipsychotic over the preceding week.
Catalina, you are right that some medications affect people badly. For instance, too many physicians don't realize that SSRIs can be really awful for people with bipolar disorder. So we'll reserve our opinion on this guy. But it appears that whatever the precipitating factors, this was coming on for a long period of time since he's been accumulating weapons and explosures over months -- obviously it wasn't simply a failure to take an antipsychotic over the preceding week.
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@18 Wait, what, Basil is honest? I thought, he was being sarcastic... I mean no one can be that naive? This is a bit too funny for a sunday morning, now I have to read through all his posts.
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I, for one,Catballou, am not assuming anything, I'm just curious. Or is there something wrong with questioning the wisdom of the medical/pharmaceutical complex?
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