The "Gunfire In NYC, 2011, By Race" graph is pretty interesting, and I'm sure proof supporting just about any opinion you wish to hold.

The comments are...sassy.

Racial makeup of NYPD, I assume these are the cops on the street who do most of the shooting:

Of 22,199 officers on patrol, 53% (11,717) were black, Latino (of any race), or Asian or Asian-American, and 47% (10,482) were non-Hispanic white. Of 5,177 detectives, 57% (2,953) were white and 43% (2,224) were people of color.

Maybe the only thing inarguable is that Asians and Hispanics in NYC seem to keep out of the way of cop trouble way more than whites and Blacks.

Each of those guys gave us some defining sax riffs in their day, and I think this is one of Bobby Keys' best, from the Stones' classic 1972 double album Exile on Main Street -- "Sweet Virginia."

Keys also lent his talents to other artists, as well. Here he is wailing away with John Lennon and Elton John in "Whatever Gets You Through the Night." (This song just screams 1970s, and Keys' riff never fails to remind me of the opening credits to NBC's "Saturday Night Live" during its early years. I half-expect to hear Don Pardo announcing the names of the original cast.)

This year is on track to become one of the hottest ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...

if high temperatures continue at current rates, 2014 will be the hottest in 135 years of record-keeping...

If November and December maintain the same tendency, then 2014 will likely be the hottest on record, ahead of 2010, 2005 and 1998...

Michel Jarraud, WMO secretary-general, said the information on 2014 means that 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all taken place in the 21st century.
 

LINK

"While our policy does not require obtaining a personnel file prior to employment, the Cleveland Division of Police has amended our policies to request a personnel file from previous employers," a Cleveland police spokesperson said yesterday.

Highlights from Loehmann's file:
"... "follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal."
"...show a pattern of a lack of maturity, indiscretion and not following instructions."
"genuine in his explanations, and takes criticism well. It just appears that he is not mature enough in his accepting of responsibility or his understanding in the severity of his loss of control on the range."
"It appears from the pattern developing within our short time frame with Ptl. Loehmann that he often feels that when told to do something, that those instructions are optional, and that he can manipulate them if he so feels it can better serve him. I do not say he is doing this for some benefit, or in an insubordinate way, but he just appears to have the mind set that if he thinks he knows better, than that is the course he follows..."
"I do not believe time, nor training, will be able to change or correct these deficiencies."

CLEVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT GAVE TIM LOEHMANN A GUN.

Dadler Jr's concert band has his holiday concert tonight though, just in time for his old man's sanity. Love hearing that boy blow his horn. In the nice, new performing arts center at the high school. All's not lost yet.

Riley, who has coached the Beavers for the last 100 years (really just 14 years) has previously proclaimed his desire to coach in Corvallis for the rest of his career. Now he says the Cornhusker's offer was too good an opportunity to pass up.

I have been to both Corvallis, OR and Lincoln, NE. I can tell you Corvallis is the more desirable town, and its appeal is enhanced by the fact that, unlike Lincoln, it is not the state capital, so is not teeming with politicians and lobbyists and their attendant entourages.

  That doesn't mean they cannot help prevent wrongs and lead to better decisions after the fact.

  IF 10% of cope were to refrain from shooting because they know the camera is running that would a number of people without bullets in them. (or with other physical or legal injury resulting from other forms of misconduct). Likewise, even if some factfinders construe videos in a way we find wrong, that doesn't mean other factfinders won't see them as we do and render decisions they would not have rendered if it was just the cops' words against others.

Arguing with political radicals over the internet is never a worthwhile activity, which is why I try to avoid it like the plague.  Being in the center is tough as you're hated from both sides.

I mostly come here for Jeralyn's ISIS coverage, which is the best around, and a topic I find interesting.  When it comes to NYC and Ferguson, I think the grand juries got it right.  The grand jury will also get it right in Cleveland WITH an indictment.  They will be 3-3 no matter how much radicals incite racial hatred and violence.

As far as TL being a fun place to troll I think it's up to us to make it less fun.  I plan to do that at every opportunity.  I love this place and I am not going to allow it to be over run.  I've seen it happen before.  The reason it has not happened here is our hostess.  She does not allow them to use the bullying tactics they have learned in less civilized places on the web.

What do you mean by "Right now"? have things changed or you more aware of recent shooting because of the media?

You are correct, sorry I should have scratched the 'right now' part of my statement, "If a black person appears to have an object that looks like a weapon, cops are free to shoot."

That's BS.  Cops shoot white people too you just don't hear about it.

Are you aware of any proof that cops don't afford black people the same process? I'm not and I don't believe what I see in the media is an accurate depiction of our society.  

So basically, it has nothing to do with the police who are shooting black people without even realizing they are kids and/or are holding toys inside Wallmart.  If only the 'media' would cover when white kids and white people were gunned down by cops there would not be a problem ?

If it makes you feel better, let's pretend this rash of cops killing black people, was a rash of cops killing white people including a child, would that be a problem, or would the media be the problem in those cases as well ?  

At some point you have to realize the evil media isn't pulling the triggers that are killing innocent black people.

I am still trying to wrap my head around your belief that the media likes to cover dead black people more than dead white people.

If the race angle makes you uncomfortable, let's pretend they are white, I still find what the police did in both instances very problematic, innocent children and adults should not have to fear that picking up a toy gun in a store in in a park may result in their being killed by the very people tasked to their safety.

And I hope New York follows Ferguson's lead and releases all the actual facts given to the GJ.  

I understand this is talkleft and not talkcentral.  But I was hoping the left would be a little more rational than the right.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised as the left is out for blood after "losing" the Darren Wilson case.  All rational debate is thrown out the window and any disagreement you are immediately cast as a member of the KKK.

Too bad. You don't like my point of view... get over it.

"So, please be honest in your conservatism henceforth, and state your point to that effect clearly and respectfully:"

Does that apply to everyone or just me?

You seem to think I have to pick a political side on an issue and be 100% consistent with that. Guess, what... that's not how I do things.  Sometimes my view is going to appear very conservative.  Sometimes it won't.  I believe in innocent until proven guilty and not jumping to conclusions.  I sometimes see both sides to an issue.  Not everything is clear cut black and white.  

"You've got this charade of faux naiveté going on here in which you're pretending to be fair and open-minded."

Again, does that only apply to me? Are you saying I'm less open-minded than most people in here?  

(Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, CDC)

    In 2013, blacks committed 5,375 murders
    In 2013, whites committed 4,396 murders
    Whites are 63% of the population blacks are 13%

I can't always keep up with your blog, but I try.

An hour and twenty minutes of cop violence via news.

On this site are some of the few photos of markers 19 and 20.

The only thing that the Grand Jury heard these witnesses say was that Brown turned around there and moved back toward Wilson from there -- but they said more than just that.

Markers 19/20 say that Brown was likely shot from behind just short of there -- as Dr Baden testified to.  

They also say that after turning around, Brown did put his hands out/up and then in.

And then there is that picture of the ONLY blood found inside the Tahoe:

Blood was only found on the driver's side door handle -- and nowhere else.

And yet we were told for 3 months that Brown's  blood inside the Tahoe was proof that Brown was inside the Tahoe, assaulting Wilson there in a great struggle for the gun there.

But it said nothing of the sort. All it said was that Wilson opened the door with  blood already on the inside of his right hand which he subsequently and quickly went back to the station and washed down the drain.

1.  Why was he arrested in the first place?  

2.  Why did the cops continue to use aggressive force after he said "I can't breathe"?

3.  Why do people resist arrest?  No one wants to talk about that but if you don't let cops handcuff you, all hell could break lose.

Mordiggian writes:

" Falsifiability would be to explain the observations of the glaciers melting, with the "fact" that the earth's temperature hasn't changed, according to you and some climate denialists."

See what Reconstructionist wrote regarding "mutually exclusive." It is a very important point when analyzing things. But, since you don't think it important I suppose you believe that if I throttle by neighbor's rooster the sun won't come up.... I mean the rooster crows and the sun rises...the events are obviously connected. ;-)

Also actually consider that it is a proven fact that dust increases snow melt.  Or have you never seen stove ashes thrown on a snow covered driveway?? Wait... We don't have stoves anymore, especially in SoCal.  But we do have deserts, high winds and volcanoes.  And that was one of the ways scientists proposed to fight global cooling.

And there is lots of conflicted information on what is expanding and what is contracting.  We could prove each other "wrong" time and again. I mean:

"This year, Antarctic sea ice has expanded its frigid reach with unprecedented speed, setting records in June and July. By the time spring punctures the long Antarctic night, 2014 stands a decent chance of topping 2012 and 2013, which each broke records of maximum total ice extent."

LA Times

And  "Falsifiability" has nothing to do with glacier melt. To simplify,  if a theory is incapable of being proved false, then it is not "testable" and that means it is a matter of faith (see religion).  Man made global warming - MMGW- fails to do that. Lots of anecdotal but no testable proof.  

And Howdy, it goes back to '98. See Dr Jones' email of 7/5/05. Some say further. But no matter. Sixteen is a trend and easily seen on the link I gave you.

Reconstructionist, exactly.  Ond one of the arguments of the hoaxers has been that the warming will release CO2 stored in sea water and soil and that will increase warming which will increase CO2 release, etc That's also a definition of how an oscillator works... in a closed system.  Of course the Earth isn't a closed system. Hold that thought...

One of the supports of that theory, is that the amplification factor was around 35. A few years back a new study, this was published in Science Magazine, showed the number to be between 3.5 and 7. On a linear scale that is a large difference. On a log scale it is huge. Either way, that is an excellent explanation of why all the predictions have failed.

A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

A link to the evileeeeee Fox News

And Nyshooter, it doesn't make any difference as to how many agree. Consensus isn't science.

And lentniel ...  No, I don't think there is a conspiracy.  Just a lot of people trying to find a place at the trough of the $21 Billion the feds are spending this year. I mean, a few years ago a small town in SE TN tried to get fed money based on the claim their water supply had failed because of MMGW.

But my basic motivation is that my background is engineering. And engineers don't accept scientific principles based on anecdotal evidence or faith.

I mean Howdy showed us that Tuesday when he posted the Pope and his crowd saying the earth was the center of the universe..... while just one dude was saying otherwise.

A great deal of nonsense has been talked here.  Screwing up one's face and voicing the suspicion that a certain defense witness could not have seen what he claims to have seen doesn't get the job done.  The burden is on the prosecution to prove, through credible evidence, the existence of "probable cause."  The claim is even made that Wilson should be prosecuted because the forensic evidence doesn't prove his innocence, or because the witness testimony is such a contradictory mish-mash."  Some have even come by the notion that the prosecution has the right to cross-examine a defendant in trying to establish "probable cause."    

I don't think it's fair at all but I understand why it's happening.  It has nothing to do with race. Polanski's crime, and more importantly the media coverage of that crime, took place in the 70s.  Cosby's alleged crimes are only now getting big media coverage.  

Today's media coverage and views on sexual assault are a lot different than they were in 1977.  Today, we have 24 hour cable news, the internet, and victims rights advocates like Gloria Alred and Wendy Murphy.  When someone is accused of rape, it's a big deal.  Back in 77, that wasn't the case.  Our country's views and values were a little different, especially in regards to underage sex.