they attacked him in self-defense.

The department has also started the termination process for the two officers, who had yet to complete their probationary period with NOPD.

<looks at picture>

There are two types of cops;

Great article Michael.

I don’t believe the Russians did it. I believe all those Randian tehbros who are in love with the GOP and Tea Party are a much more likely candidate. We know they are steeped in evil and believe not only that the ends justify the means, but that if you have the ability to do something then you have the right to do it…

It’s unsettling to me how few people seem to remember the bruhaha over GOP ties to voting machine manufacturers back in 2002 or whenever, when we were all told, “nah, it’ll be fine”.

There is a coup in America being orchestrated by an American adversary and a sitting president. America will never be free society again.

PAPER BALLOTS! PAPER BACKUPS! DAMMIT!

Germany had a recent election in which AfD went from no representation in the Bundestag to being the third biggest party. AfD is a far-right wing party that is often described as working in partnership with bigoted organizations and which arguably harbors neo-Nazi views. I am not a close follower of German politics,…

My problem with this “America might be turning into Nazi Germany!” line of thinking is that it requires us to ignore all the Nazi-level things the US government has done in the past. Native Americans: out of sight, out of mind.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the insecurity is there to both let the republicans win the elections through fraud, but ALSO there so that if they lose the election they can roll out all these vulnerabilities that “cost them the election” and demand a do-over.

The password, which could not be changed, was (you might want to take a deep breath) “abcde.”

But when Marks’ organization sued for data to see whether or not the state’s elections systems had been penetrated, Kennesaw State University, the college that houses the Center for Election Systems, wiped the servers clean.

The vulnerability of electronic voting is the quietest scandal going. I believe that vulnerability was purposely “back doored” in to those machines at the behest of the republican party in order to preserve their tyranny of the minority. Making that back door means those machines are vulnerable to any determined…

The were pretty heroic. They also weren’t the norm in their society and a small minority.

There ain’t no getting away from the fact that we’re all Nazis under the skin

There are actually quite a lot of movies about good (well, as good as can be) German people at the time, for example about the Scholl siblings and their group the White Rose (executed for treason in ‘44) and it’s heroes who, for once, weren’t fucking military.

This is a fascinating story, and one I’ve looked forward to being adapted for the screen.  My next big wish: A film adaptation of the Battle for Castle Itter, in which American and German soldiers fought side by side to defend the castle’s POWs against an encroaching unit of SS-men.  And if that weren’t enough, the…

Yeah, it was bad science.