Another Hero Died Last Week

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Saturday June 12, 2010 · 7:00 PM PDT

2010/06/12 · 19:00

Sometimes here we see some unfortunate trends. One of these is a vocal minority of people who take every opportunity to denigrate police officers. This takes several forms: From name-calling ("pig" still seems a favorite), to factually inaccurate hyperbole ("All cops are killers!") to apparent satisfaction when a cop is killed. When one diarist was reminded of the murders of two police officers in Arkansas a few weeks ago, his response was, "I feel sorry for the families."

These people seem to fall into a few distinct camps. One group consists of people who honestly have been mistreated by the police. These folks have a legitimate concern, and my intent is not to second-guess their understandable generalization – though generalization it is. Another group is people who have simply bought into that old sixties-era "Cops are the man; fight the power!" cliché. Their hatred of cops is based on nothing other than anecdotal experience. The third group is people whose interactions with the police have been, quite frankly, self-imposed: People who have been legitimately arrested and jailed for breaking the law. Rather than learning, "Don’t do that," they blame the police instead of themselves.

IndieGuy

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 10:00 AM PDT

2010/04/14 · 10:00

I'm lucky enough to work in Washington, DC, a few blocks from the White House. The weather is nice today, so I went outside for lunch. Walking across the street from the Old Executive Office Building I saw 3 or 4 people trying to hand out flyers of some kind. I was curious so went over to check it out.

These people had signs propped on the sidewalk with "Impeach Obama" printed all over them. They even had the obligatory picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache.

Hot damn! Pay dirt!

IndieGuy

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 7:50 AM PST

2010/03/04 · 07:50

< rant >

This is an open letter to the attractive, young girl sitting next to me on the Orange Line this morning. You're the one who called the customer service desk for a new card. (Two, actually.) You helpfully gave the nice lady all the information she needed to process your request. Yes, that's you.

I now have your date of birth (early January 1991) and your Social Security number (I really wasn't taking notes). With a hi-jacked Merchant ID I could now have access to your complete credit report, including account numbers and payment amounts. I could also have your home address and your phone number(s). I know the station where you boarded, and I know which station you exited.

Since I wish you nothing but a long and happy life, I sincerely hope this creeps you out. The next guy may be taking notes. His wishes may be different.

</rant>

I just don't get it. Were we all really that clueless at 19?

Grant County, OR: We Don't Want The Crazy

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Friday February 19, 2010 · 10:25 AM PST

2010/02/19 · 10:25

According to the weekly Blue Mountain Eagle, the only newspaper in Grant County, Oregon, the Aryan Nations wants to establish a new "national compound" in the city of John Day, in a scenic area midway between Bend and Boise. A spokesman for the group, a guy named Paul R. Mullet, was recently in John Day looking for property for the group. According to the article:

Mullet, wearing a uniform shirt with a swastika patch on it, said the group's goal is to create a homeland for white people.

"That area is the Pacific Northwest," he said. "The blacks have Africa, the Jews have Israel ..."

Mullet claims the group is looking for property where they can provide barracks and other facilities for recruit training. Grant County is attractive, he claims, due to its proximity to the mountains for "survival training". Claiming that the people living in the area share common values with the Aryan Nations, he vowed to have members patrolling the streets of John Day "making it safer for the residents who live here".

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