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Oh, the wailing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over last week's killings at Fort Hood!—a tragic instance of what Americans call an "isolated" event that happens almost daily.
· The very next day, Jason Rodriguez walked into an office building in Florida, killed one and wounded several.
· Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail, CO Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded.
· In Cleveland, TX, authorities called to check a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death.
· A British tourist, Thomas Reeve, 28, was killed when a man entered a bar in Amarillo, TX, and opened fire.
· More than ten bodies have been found in the home of a rapist in Cleveland, OH.
· Authorities in Reading, PA say a Maryland man is dead after a weekend shooting at an illegal bar that also injured six people.
· Three people including a young child are dead and six were injured in a drive-by shooting in Walterboro, SC.
· A son of Washington state's lieutenant governor has been wounded in a workplace shooting in Kent, WA.
All of these "isolated" incidents took place in less than a week. America is a killing field! It has been for a very long time. "Killeen, TX, in 1991 is watching a replay of the spotlight shone on it when a man entered a cafeteria and fatally shot 22 diners."
In America, children kill children (Columbine), children kill their parents, parents kill their children and each other, strangers kidnap and kill children, strangers kill strangers , agents of the government kill citizens (Kent State, Waco), college students kill fellow students (VA Tech), former employees kill those they worked with, anti-abortionists kill abortionists, police called upon to help the mentally ill and otherwise challenged often end up killing them, soldiers often kill fellow soldiers and civilians. Nothing about any of this is unusual. It happens every day. If John Dos Passos were alive today, he would be reissuing U.S.A. in multiple volumes!
So why all the wailing about the shootings at Fort Hood? Perhaps it's the fact that an officer killed enlisted men? That's unusual; it's usually the other way around. Perhaps it's the shooter's name and religion? Is the hoopla all about drumming up anti-Islamic attitudes? Is it part of the war on Islam? Oh, sorry, the war on terror?
I don't know the answer, but I do know that there is nothing unusual about this event. Americans are driven to killing. We are entertained by it in movies and on television. Our children are enticed into playing killing computer-games. And we are often stressed to the breaking point. The lawyer for the shooter in the Orlando office attack has said, "This guy is a compilation of the front page of the entire year—unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce—all of the stresses. It looks like a classic case of stress overload." America is filled with well-armed people who are led to react like cornered animals.
These events are not surprising. What is surprising is who gets killed. While with a group of colleagues on break some time ago, someone said, "Americans kill a lot of people. Unfortunately they kill the wrong ones." Historically, the oppressed have killed their oppressors—the French in the French Revolution, the Russians in the Revolution of 1917, the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland, the Bader-Manheim gang in Germany, the Red Brigade in Japan, the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the Moslem fighters killing NATO forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines . But not in America, at least not yet. In America the oppressed kill each other. Strange! How long will it last?
American politicians claim that America is the free-world's leader. But what other country would want to follow America down this road? (Perhaps the stupid British from whom we acquired the roots of this vulture—oops!, culture.) It is noteworthy that since 1789, approximately 70 nations have become democratic, but not a single one has copied the American model. Whom are we leading where? Perhaps only ourselves to perdition.
Today is such a wonderful warm but day but I have a really rotten cold. That's soo mean.
Outside, it's bright, and sunny...I'm sitting on my window listening to Tom Waits,
looking for a new layout and everything could be so nice, despite my cold ;)
I'm having to take my mom's fever tablets, which are working. I'll have to take
one it in a bit. My throat is so sore and dry and my nose feels as though it's just going to explode.
But maybe it's a definate sign that autumn is almost here!
And... as if a cold isn't worse enough, our apartment has been infested with some nasty
daddy-long-legs- the night before last I had to kill one in the kitchen, then that night I was woken up
at 05:50am by another huge one banging against my window - so I grabbed a
magazine ready to kill it, but it flew behind my DVD's on the shelf.
I decided that I'd better go to the kitchen, and when I walked out, another
one dive-bombed me! I think they're getting me back for killing the other one
*OMFG*
But I think they're all dying now, thankfully
I HATE daddy-long-legs... *flees*
Program Date: August 21, 2009
Program Time: 2100 hours, Pacific
Topic: The Sixth Session
Listen Live: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/LawEnforcement/2009/08/22/The-Sixth-Session-
About the Guest
Lieutenant Joe Hefferon of the Essex County Sheriff’s Office is a 22 year veteran of law enforcement who is currently assigned to the office of the chief. He “has been a police officer for more than twenty-two years. His experiences have given him access to the scarier hallways of the human psyche, helping to layer his narrative with poignancy, grit, and dark humor. Joe Hefferon is the proud parent of two beautiful children, Jack and Kaitlin.” Lieutenant Joe Hefferon is the author of The Sixth Session.
According to the book description of The Sixth Session, “Newspaper man Carter Jackson forms an unlikely alliance with Detective Brooke Enright to stop the awful killing of children while reconciling their own inner torment. Carter is reeling over the death of his beloved wife and immerses himself in the brutal investigation, set against one bitter cold December. The Sixth Session will make you think about the best and worst of human capacities. It will make you want to fall in love again, even with all its tragic consequences.”
About the Watering Hole
The Watering Hole is police slang for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and life. Sometimes funny; sometimes serious; but, always interesting.
About the Host
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of Lieutenant. He holds a bachelor’s from the Union Institute and University in Criminal Justice Management and a Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California State University, Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work. Raymond E. Foster has been a part-time lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and Fresno; and is currently a Criminal Justice Department chair, faculty advisor and lecturer with the Union Institute and University. He has experience teaching upper division courses in Law Enforcement, public policy, Public Safety Technology and leadership. Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide range of venues including magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile Government, Airborne Law Enforcement Magazine, and Police One. He has appeared on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and Europe as subject matter expert in technological applications in Law Enforcement.
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The finest of all the 'grunge' era albums. Probably the best album of the 90's. I'm sure you won't agree but this is my page so I can say whatever I want.
Every song on this album is great & it brought so called 'alternative rock' to the masses. Ever since the Cobain suicide, Nirvana gets all the grunge credit - without Ten Nirvana would have never been as popular as they were. If I were stranded somewhere with only one album to kill the time it would be this one. The song Ýellow Ledbetter'came out of the album sessions. Ten defined the 90's. It gets my vote for greatest album in the history of the universe ever.
Vs. - 1993
The second album by Pearl Jam is a rock solid follow up. Most of the songs are a little more raw than those of the first album, with the obvious exceptions of 'Daughter' & 'Elderly Woman...' If anyone wasn't convinced of the groups legitimacy by Ten, they surely were by Vs. - Songs on this album included fucking classics like 'Leash', 'Go', & 'Dissident' along with the two mentioned previously.
Vitalogy - 1994
The last of the grunge albums. This album is the first to have what I'd call outright 'filler' tracks. While few songs like 'Aye Davanita', 'Bugs', & 'Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me' leave something to be desired. Still full of great songs though - 'Nothingman' is excellent, 'Spin the Black Circle' jams & 'Corduroy' & 'Better Man' are amazing songs... This album has an even more unpolished 'raw' sound than Vs.
I was gonna do all the albums but I ended up getting tired so I'll stop here for now... I'm not doing all the live albums either cause theres a fuckin shitload of them. I have alot of live shows on my ipod... the show at Benaroya Hall is pretty bitchin though.
No Code is the next album... I'll pick it up from there one day... my mind tends to wander so I start and stop shit abruptly sometimes.
Mums kill their boys
Women in Papua New Guinea's Highland region are killing their male babies to end a tribal fight that has raged for more than 20 years.
Two women from the Eastern Highlands told PNG's National newspaper of the slaughter during a three-day peace and reconciliation course in the region's capital, Goroka.
Rona Luke and Kipiyona Belas, both from warring tribes, said the male infanticide reduced the cyclical payback violence infamous in highlands tribal fights.
If women stopped producing males their tribe's stock would go down and this would force the men to end their fight, they said, choking back tears.
"All the women folk agreed to have all babies born killed because they have had enough of men engaging in tribal conflicts and bringing misery to them," Luke said.
The women could not give a figure on how many male babies had been killed.
Belas said getting food was hard as husbands kept fighting and mothers and children were left to fend for themselves.
The Salvation Army is working with various tribes to bring peace to the warring groups.
One fight is still going on after starting in 1986 over sorcery claims.
The Salvation Army said women are so fed up with the violence they are taking the drastic steps.
"This is what we were told during the peace conference," a spokesman said.
"This situation shows the extreme frustration the women have with the men in these areas."
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