WTF?!
New Music: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round
The one thing I hate sometimes about doing these indie posts is the ‘edgy’ imagery they like to trawl in. Seriously, WTF is up with the single artwork on this one (not above, hit the jump to see it – I just couldn’t post it as the lead art). Maybe I’m just getting old ‘cos I was way more open when I was younger. There are acts that I might dismiss now based just on their image that I used to dig in my high school and younger days but that being said, I do still appreciate groups like the Scissor Sisters and I am posting this anyway, so maybe not….
AP Video: NBC Suspends Countdown Host Keith Olbermann for Undeclared Campaign Donations
As much as I love Keith Olbermann (pause), I can’t say tNBC were really wrong for coming to that decision. Or are they? That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sign the petition asking for his reinstatement though.
Former Toronto Police Officer Claims He’s Not Racist for Wearing Blackface Halloween Costume…
While leashed to a noose held by his friend costumed as a Ku Klux Klansman! Let that sink in a for a minute while you also look at the photo above taken at the Halloween party they attended….
“”I don’t believe in the KKK. It was a Halloween mistake is what it was,” Terry Nunn told Toronto radio station AM640. The former Toronto police officer says people from work are asking him what he was thinking.”
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BTW: Nunn was Toronto’s Police Officer of the Year in 1981.
Read more:
Police Officer Johannes Mehserle Only Receives a 2-Year Sentence for Killing Oscar Grant!
As Shake at 2dopeboyz opined, “So you’re telling me a officer (who is meant to “protect and serve”) who shoots and kills an unarmed man in the back will serve the same amount of time as Tip (who only had guns, but didn’t use them)?”
What else is there to say? Total travesty….
Read more:
– The San Fransisco Chronicle on the post-sentence announcement protests in Oakland.
– The Root
Call to action:
– Sign a petition asking US Attorney General, Eric Holder to Prosecute Mehserle in Federal Court.
Read the background on the murder of Oscar Grant by the BART Police on Different Kitchen 1.0 HERE.
Rep. John Boehner: The American People Have ‘Sent an Unmistakable Message’
All evidence to the contrary, ‘unmistakable message’ my ass, Mr. Boehner! I’m sick over this though! After catching a bit of Rand Paul’s smug victory speech on CNN last night, I couldn’t bear to watch any more of the election results. Depressing….