(CNN) -- Nearly two years before he shot and killed a 12-year-oldwho had an air gun, Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann resigned from another police job after a supervisor described him as "distracted and weepy" and "emotionally immature."
"Ptl. Loehmann's inability to perform basic functions as instructed, and his inability to emotionally function because of a personal situation at home with an on and off again girlfriend leads one to believe that he would not be able to substantially cope, or make good decisions, during or resulting from any other stressful situation," Polok wrote.
Another memo from a sergeant who worked with Loehmann at a shooting range described the officer as "distracted," "not fit to return" after an emotional outburst and someone who was "not following simple instructions."

Now we find out, or at least I find out, that the driver of the car who came swooping in like the Green Hornet has some issues too-

CLEVELAND, Ohio --  Cleveland paid out $100,000 earlier this year to a city resident to settle an excessive force lawsuit brought against an officer involved in the Tamir Rice shooting.

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I called Senator Feinstein's office to tell her that if the people being investigated get to edit the report, then the CIA is exercising "oversight," but the committee is the one being overseen.

So, someone help me out here...whether I like it or not, it is legal to sit in a car with a gun in your own driveway. If I personally view that alone as a threat, I doubt I get to kill the kill the guy. But the police do.

I just...cant deal with this crap.

Despite the deep economic frustration many Americans feel, evident in everything from public opinion surveys to water cooler chats to last month's Congressional elections, the American economy has made significant progress this year.

So why the persistent gloom, not to mention anger?

Part of the problem is that even though employment is back above pre-recession levels -- the eight million jobs lost between 2008 and 2010 have been more than made up since then -- millions of new workers have joined the work force over that period.

What's more, wage gains for the vast majority of Americans who kept their jobs throughout the downturn and then the recovery been very modest. The 2 percent wage increase over the last year is barely enough to keep up with inflation or rising costs for many services, like education, insurance and health care.

For wages to show meaningful gains over a sustained period of time, as was the case in the 1990s, the unemployment rate would likely have to drop below 5 percent, said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial in Chicago.

For some highly skilled workers in sectors like technology and finance, wages have been rising sharply, as have stock holdings and 401(k) portfolios.

But unlike in the 1990s, the gains for the broad mass of middle-skilled and low-skilled workers have been scant, Ms. Swonk said.

The breach at Sony Pictures is no longer just an IT issue

Think about it - any plans that were on the network for new business, existing business, staffing, talent, etc. Sony has to assume those are all compromised, and if they were business critical, they'll need to be altered immediately.

How do you recover from something like this? I mean, truly recover? Is it even possible?

My FB newsfeed has been consumed by this.  It's now metastasized to Deloitte-

Sony Hackers Expose Rogen's Pay Along With Deloitte Salaries

1. For those in a complaining mood, there are a few even more egregious examples of excessive police force in the news.

2. Bob McCulloch, the district attorney handling the case brilliantly disposed of it by having a review of the evidence (really a non adversarial trial) done by a citizen's panel, which decided for him that the case was not worth pursuing, and then had a complete record of the proceedings released.  After a brief period of huffing and puffing and nitpicking at that record, those who might benefit from a long drawn out case, have wisely shut up.

Only the police would find that name even remotely appropriate, even before Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Tamir Rice, and now Rumain Brisbon.

Meanwhile, over at Meet the Press:

In the latest Make the Case, Tim Lynch, Director of Cato Institute Project on Criminal Justice, and Eugene O'Donnell, a professor at John Jay School of Criminal Justice, debate the use of military equipment by local police departments.

Yes give them the good stuff, they are not killing enough innocent people with lousy guns, and please let NBC's Algonquin Table weigh in on arming the supposedly broke police departments with military grade gear.  

Geothermal development

The Geysers is the world's largest geothermal field[4] spanning an area of around 30 square miles (78 km2) in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties in California. Power from The Geysers provides electricity to Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Marin, and Napa counties. It is estimated that the development meets 60% of the power demand for the coastal region between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oregon state line.[5] Unlike most geothermal resources, the Geysers is a dry steam field which mainly produces superheated steam.[4]

Steam used at The Geysers is produced from a greywacke sandstone reservoir, capped by a heterogeneous mix of low permeability rocks and underlaid by a silicic intrusion.[2][6] Gravity and seismic studies suggest that the source of heat for the steam reservoir is a large magma chamber over 4 miles (6.4 km) beneath the surface, and greater than 8 miles (13 km) in diameter.[7]

The first geothermal wells drilled in Geyser Canyon were the first in the Western Hemisphere.[1] The first power plant at the Geysers was privately developed by the owner of The Geysers Resort[1] and opened in 1921, producing 250 kilowatts of energy to light the resort.[2] In 1960, Pacific Gas and Electric began operation of their 11-megawatt plant at the Geysers.[8] The original turbine lasted for more than 30 years and produced 11 MW net power.[9]

By 1999 the steam to power extraction had begun to deplete the Geysers steam field and production began to drop.[2] However, since October 16, 1997, the Geysers steam field has been recharged by injection of treated sewage effluent, producing approximately 77 megawatts of capacity in 2004.[10] The effluent is piped up to 50 miles (80 km) from its source at the Lake County Sanitation waste water treatment plants and added to the Geysers steam field via geothermal injection.[10] In 2004, 85% of the effluent produced by four waste-water treatment plants serving 10 Lake County communities was diverted to the Geysers steam field.[10] Injecting treated water into the Geysers field increases the amount of power that can be generated.[10]

The injection of wastewater to the Geysers protects local waterways and Clear Lake by diverting effluent which used to be put into surface waters,[10] and has produced electricity without releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.[2]

In some cases after they had left the country.

The whole paragraph proves that what the writer is doing is trying to justify "consensus."

Let everyone here read the whole thing and come to their own conclusions, instead of squawking the word "consensus"  like a parrot with a bipolar disorder.

Consensus is the attempt to make sense of recent historical changes in the climate that are evident from numerous studies that have been peer-reviewed before publication in the scientific literature.

Falsifiability would be explaining how glacial melt isn't a sign of AGW.  If that isn't the cause, why are they melting?

Honestly, Mordiggian you haven't the least idea, what "Falsifiability" means. That comment is so wrong it astounds me, and that's hard to do.

Please, use Google.

lol

In the meantime:

Following rapid warming in the late 20th century, this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface. At first this was a blip, then a trend, then a puzzle for the climate science community.

snip

Subsurface ocean warming explains why global average air temperatures have flatlined since 1999, despite greenhouse gases trapping more solar heat at the Earth's surface.

Reproducible results are absolutely relevant. What Crichton is missing is how we decide that those results are significant and how one investigator goes about convincing everyone that he or she happens to be right. This comes down to what the scientific community as a whole accepts as evidence.

The whole paragraph proves that what the writer is doing is trying to justify "consensus."

Note the "how we decide." That's saying some group, as in Galileo's day, gets to define what is important and what is not. And then "what the scientific community as a whole."

We have centuries of proof that science doesn't work like that.

Antichrist is amazing.

Interested in the new one.

I confess I have never seen the whole story...what a bizarre thing it is.

Two weeks ago, Washingtonians gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of The New Republic, the magazine that helped shape Woodrow Wilson's views on democracy and torpedo Bill Clinton's health plan.

On Thursday, the venerable Washington institution announced it is shifting its headquarters to New York, amid a shakeup that saw the resignation of its highest editors and promised to redefine the identity of a century-old institution that once served as liberalism's leading voice.

Franklin Foer, the top editor, sent a memo to staff in the afternoon announcing that he would be quitting due to differences of vision with the magazine's owner, Chris Hughes, a 31-year-old Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012 and now aspires to reposition it as a "digital media company." The move came, sources said, after Foer discovered that Hughes had already hired his replacement, Gabriel Snyder, a Bloomberg Media editor who formerly ran The Atlantic Wire blog.

In an impromptu address at the magazine's office in Washington, Leon Wieseltier also told staff that he would be quitting after 31 years as literary editor. His time at TNR, he said through tears, was "the best thing I've done in my little life."

On Friday, the majority of The New Republic's masthead resigned en masse to protest the decision. Nine of the magazine's 12 senior editors submitted letters of resignation to Hughes and chief executive Guy Vidra, as did two executive editors, the digital media editor, the legislative affairs editor, and two arts editors. At least 20 of the magazine's contributing editors also requested that their names be removed from the magazine's masthead.

"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Will Dana, the magazine's managing editor, wrote on its website.

I have nothing wrong with a naked Kate Winslet. I actually find her body type a refreshing change from the typical Hollywood untra-slender look.  I was just shocked to see a film where she kept her clothes on.