We had a talking parrot when I was a kid and they are so incredibly smart. He would yell “shut the door” whenever anyone left the house and learned to count in English and Spanish from watching Sesame Street with me. His language skills were incredible and he actually adapted and learned. My mom hated him and always…

I participate in a male-dominated sport. And I can’t even count all the times some guy has said to me, “The only reason that move worked on me was because you caught me off guard.”

The twist is the parrot is the actual killer and he framed the wife.

If this was restricted to defensive items (bulletproof vests, helmets, that sort of thing) I actually wouldn’t have a huge problem with it. But we all know that it’s not.

Those gloves are opera length, for evening wear. Jackie would have worn short white gloves with that dress.

Why do we have to render everything in this country meaningless?

Yep. Like when the police force in my town brought out their Bearcat in response to a woman who barricaded herself in her house and said she would kill herself. Of course, when she saw the SWAT team and armored vehicles, she did kill herself. Way to de-escalate and protect public safety!

It’s the little towns that love to get the hardware so they can play big boy cops. Good cops want to be part of the community, not seen as an occupying force.

This reminds me of all those great editorials from military members who actually served in combat pointing out that they had higher standards for rules of engagement than the police, and critiquing all of the misuses of military equipment and positioning in Ferguson.

Reminder that under the last iteration of this program, the Los Angeles Unified SCHOOL DISTRICT had an MRAP and grenade launchers. For use in schools.

No good can come of this. I have said this before, but I will keep saying it for as long as I have to. Militaries need enemies to justify their existence. When you militarize the police, the police will look for enemies. They aren’t going out to fight other police forces, so citizens become the enemy.

Hey it’s just a real life exercise so the American Public can find out what’s it’s like to have the US Forces occupying their country.

Sigh. Police departments should not be serving warrants in tanks. It’s unnecessary to over arm and play war video games for day to day policing. It tends to escalate every situation and also makes it more likely that cops will shoot because they’re so amped up with all the firepower. Some police departments have…

I grew up in the 1980s. We were Democrats and pro-choice, but we were also extremely devout, straight-laced Christians. My parents did not permit us to watch MTV for various reasons—partly because my mother was a classically-trained musician who considered pop music to be trash, partly because they felt MTV was…

I was there, your headline is right on the money, cause that’s what actually happened. The local news was painting the whole event as some kind of violent incident when it was more like a block party without food. And the antifa were a sight to see,. They were like soldiers, very coordinated and with purpose to keep…

They align with anarchists. Knew many of them when I lived in the Bay Area in the 90s. They can be utter assholes and violent, but they carry sticks and homemade weapons that don’t stand a chance against the police or the well armed right wing assholes/white supremacists/militias.

They mostly (here in the East) are anarchists. And are generally average aged of 16? We had two run through the museum I work in and drop a smoke bomb (ugh). They are all of the ‘I’m a teenager and I’m MAD and I hate RULES so I don’t want any RULES so I’m going to go throw smoke bombs at law enforcement and museums…

“Antifa” have been around for nearly a century. Some are anarchists, some are communists, some are socialists, some are just plain anti-fascists. They started in Europe and likely still have an even stronger presence there than they do here. Anybody who hadn’t heard of them before Charlottesville hasn’t been paying…

For the conservatives who want to rush in about how both sides have violent assholes, let’s make one thing clear.

Dozens of anti-facists protesters, known as antifa, pounced when Joey Gibson, founder of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, showed up with his crew. Antifa protesters beat one man with a shield and another person wearing an American flag.