This Just In: The News Thread

Yeah you don't try to occupy a working police station. You quietly protest ouside, making sure you do not disrupt the daily workings of any of the businesses in the area including and especially the police station.
Doctor King would be rolling in his grave.

Soldier Surprises Wife With Romantic Breakfast, She Surprises Him Back By Shooting Him

www.inquisitr.com/1745325/soldier-wife-shooting/#3MHoQZbFX3Eh09lS.99

Yeah I always shoot through closed doors at unknown targets    Makes for a nice guessing game.
 

Step #1 is enacting across the board term limits.

yup - when this country was formed you were a farmer or whatever, you served your country and then went back to the fields. It really wasn't a career for most.

The government is corrupt because politics have been turned into a career. It's supposed to be a public service. And when our elected officials are more interested in self-preservation than the people, you can see why issues arise.

Easy, honcho. I was questioning Ramplate's inference that colonial America still holds the gold standard on political policy. That's it.

There are a lot of differences between then and now and I think you are both oversimplifying things greatly. You can put your pitchforks away now.

Not really. Lobbyist control the government and putting a term limit on all politicans could eliminate some of the more corrupted officials.

Missouri Family Allegedly Kidnaps Boy To Teach Him Lesson About Strangers

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/family-kidnaps-boy_n_6627222.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000021

Crazy family - I bet their family tree grows straight up without branches

"60 Minutes'" Bob Simon killed in NYC car crash

news.yahoo.com/photos/cbs-reporter-bob-simon-killed-in-new-york-city-car-crash-slideshow/

Wow quite a crash too

Once again Faux News is right on top of the issues (not)
thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/02/23/3625777/fox-friends-bashes-patricia-arquette-advocating-wage-equality-appalled/

Fox news is horrendous to the point that there's no need to acknowledge it because if you did every time they embarrassed themselves you'd literally spend your whole day highlighting it.

Better to spend your time enlightening anyone who actually watches that crap for non-ironic reasons.

We have some godawful press in the UK, The Daily Mail in particular, but even they have some stellar journalists in certain fields. Oodles of utter shite, yes, but they still have some legitimate journalists worth reading, which suggests that the crap that the others write is a direct result of the people that want to read it.

Sadly, a large, and vocal, part of the UK population aren't interested in discourse about bigger issues like immigration or our place in the EU or anything that can't be solved with a soundbite, they want to read about things happening now that they can have instant opinions on and judge immediately.

The modern, young adult in the UK is being groomed to think that everything they see of note in the news is disposable. They can read it today, judge it based on how what they're reading illuminates the details, and then it's on to tomorrow. The next thing will come along to be shocked at. They have no genuine interest in expanding their horizons, they just want to feel that there are people out there who agree with their blinkered opinion and that's enough.

"Oh my god, I can't believe that happened in Malaysia! That's so sad."

day 2: "Oh shit, the Russian occupation of Ukraine is madness. What are we going to do about it?"

day 3: "Wills and Kate are pregnant again. Hooray!"

The Ukrainian issue is a 2 inch column that they occasionally scan over thinking, "well, it's got such a small portion of the newspaper, it cant be that important."

I said in another thread, how I read about the holocaust in depth and the perspective that that puts life in.

People were so eager after 1945 to say that humanity will "never forget". "This was a one off." But they'd already forgotten by the 90s in Rwanda, and even before that in Tibet.

Can these people not read? Do they think the holocaust was made up?

I genuinely have no idea how anybody can read even the basic facts about what the nazis did and not become a complete humanitarian. A pacifist, even. I know we defeated them through warfare but I can imagine all the soldiers coming home and reading about what they were doing in the extermination camps and thinking...war stopped this, now all we have to do is show people what these people suffered through and that will be enough.

Only psychopaths wouldn't flinch at the details and the imagery.

When I think about Hitler I'm genuinely impressed. One man could persuade so many. His charisma and dominance must have been terrible to endure. I daresay if we had been in his presence he would have persuaded us. I'm just glad I wasn't born into Germany in that time. Or into Poland as a Jew. What horrors we have escaped.

And our lands were so hopeful and happy in the time after. Yet it has taken only 70 years for both the US and the UK to go down the toilet. "Democratic states" who are ran by the people with the highest 1% of the world's money, for the highest 1%. I follow a guy on Twitter (https://twitter.com/conradhackett) who has some amazing stats, one of which is:

Income gains going to top 1% in:
1954-7: 5%
1975-9: 25%
2009-12: 95%

Kind of says it all in the modern economy.

'Man is the cruelest animal.'

It will always be so.

Sorry, Angel. Haha. Bleak is the order of the day.

Never underestimate the stupidity of large numbers of people. The public is an idiot