Well…have been following a little story out of Maryland that has me shaking my head every time I think about it…in case you haven’t heard, there are some parents there that are trying to allow their children to be children and walk around their neighborhood by themselves….the latest incident happened when these parents let their kids, 10 and 6, walk by themselves to a park that is near their house….and that’s where the nightmare started…some idiot called 911 (for kids playing in a park?) and the cops came and took the kids away…and the normal crap started to happen…CPS got involved and the normal playing that I did when I was a kid became criminalized for these two…and the cops didn’t even call the parents for almost 3 hours…freaking them right out…and now the parents are in the system for allowing their kids to be kids. I have had enough of the normal activities that we all did as kids being criminalized…if this kind of nonsense would have happened when I was a kid…my parents would have been in jail for letting me play in my neighborhood and allowing me to cross the street by myself when I was 4. this crap has got to stop…parents need to be allowed to be parents…and kids need to be allowed to be kids and go outside by themselves to play…I let mine do that unsupervised and they all survived it…geez…
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Finally, a cop is held responsible…
Well…another day, another cop murder here in the US, but this time, he is going to be held responsible. On the 4th of April, an SC cop pulled over a motorist (black, of course) on the trumped up “fact” that he had a taillight out…that’s kind of funny when it was a new car and in the daylight….and the normal scuffle happened, according to the cop, and then the driver ran away and the cop shot him 8 times in the back. And, the cop said all of the normal things from the cop playbook…he attacked me, he tried to get my gun and I shot him during a struggle…only a tiny, little problem with that…none of it was true. A passerby who just happened to have a camera on him (who doesn’t these days?) captured the entire encounter including the cop planting his taser next to the dead man’s body. Now, I have ranted here about how the cops are out of control…maybe it’s not a rant, maybe it’s really true. In this case, finally, the cop has been fired, charged with murder and is sitting in the can awaiting arraignment…but, what about the rest of them….after all of the press about the outrageous behavior of cops, you would think that they would learn that this violence is not acceptable and there are increasing chances that they will get caught…but, what to do they do? They just keep on abusing citizens every day…I just have to conclude that cops are not too bright or have gotten away with it so long that they feel invincible to accountability…..let’s hope the tide is changing…geez…
Music in advertising…
Well…I have talked to Tom about this before but I had to get it down here since it is something that I am a little amazed about…and that is the use of certain kind of songs in advertising….the first time this struck me was a Ford ad that used a Deep Purple song “‘On the highway stoned”…now I wonder if anyone listened to that before the made the ad…and they even left the lyrics in that one that you could hear plainly playing as the cars were driving across the screen…probably not the message that they wanted to convey. Then, I just heard a shoe company using “Who are you?” by the Who which is about a drunken night where the lyrics talk about passing out in a Soho doorway and getting in a drunken brawl….and now I will always connect drinking with that shoe company….and the last one that just came on is the use of the Who’s “Eminence Front” as the background for a GMC commercial when the song is about how people are getting screwed and used by the institutions and people that they believed in…maybe that one is appropo for GM…not sure….geez…
I’m irritated with Top Gear….
Well….on Monday night, I was watching “Top Gear” specifically since they were going to do a review of the new Miata and I hadn’t seen a review or video of the car so I thought it would be kind of cool….and the piece with the Hamster started out good with them driving either a Marina or Laguna blue old one and then getting into the new one…and Hamster was really impressed with the new car…loved how it drove…that it was slow but a perfect sports car…but then, he just had to trot out the tired, old stereotype of the Miata being a car that only women and hairdressers bought throughout it’s history….now…I have only known a few women who drove sports cars (T being one of them) and I have never known a hairdresser that owned one…I will admit that I don’t know very many hairdressers so that sample may be a little skewed….I do know one thing…or two things…I’m not a woman or a hairdresser and I own a Miata…. just irritated me all to hell that they had to ruin a good segment trying to be cute….
A mixed bag…
Well…have been thinking of a topic for the day and haven’t been able to come up with a big one that would do it so I guess I’ll just do some thoughts that will be a mixed bag of ideas…this week is the week that the supreme court hears argument on the King v. Burwell fake case that the the right is using to try to gut Obamamcare…there are so many problems with the case that the court never should have taken it but, with the right wing hacks on the court, merits of cases really don’t mean anything anymore…there was another police murder in LA over the past day where 5-8 cops descended on a homeless man to get him to take his tent down during the day and the killed him with the standard excuse that he was ‘going for” an officers gun…and, again, no cop was suspended even though the cell phone video showed he was on the ground and never ever going for any gun….that makes the average of 3 people per day that are killed by cops in this country…in Michigan there have been 3 killed in the last week by the same force just south of GR…this has got to stop…geez…
RIP Joe Cocker…
Well…just read on the news that Joe Cocker has died at the age of 70….I remember seeing him in the film “Woodstock” and was just fascinated with the intensity he showed in not only that performance but in every other one that I saw…an especially funny one was when he was on “Saturday Night Live” and during the performance John Belushi came out in his Joe Cocker character and I just laughed my butt off…just listened to his version of “Feeling alright” on the ride today…what a great blues voice… RIP Joe….
Topics, topics, topics…
Well…there are still a dearth of topics, at least in my head and in things that interest me right now…so we’re going to go free form again and see what happens…man, what a bunch of cowards at Sony Pictures that have folded on the release of their new movie ‘the Interview” just because of some puny threats from North Korea…so now they are going to let other countries censor what is shown in the US? I wonder what is in the e-mails that NK is threatening to release…if they are anything like the business e-mails I’ve written in my lifetime, they might be a danger to bore someone to death but that is about it. I am a little disappointed that Space X has postponed their latest launch until sometime in January…I was really looking forward to seeing them try to land the booster on that floating platform they have…oh, well….it was a pretty cool last show of “the Colbert Report” with all of the guests coming on and singing “We’ll Meet Again”…..but, it did flash me back to the end of “Dr. Strangelove” when the same song is overlayed over the nuke explosions….anything else? Nope, not right now….going to see if there is some soccer on and just veg awhile….
Can’t believe this one…
Well…just reading a little news online and came across a story that I just can’t believe…with all of the scrutiny that police have come under over the past few months, how stupid does and officer need to be to do this…stop a black man walking down the street because he has his hands in his pockets…on a winters day, when it’s cold outside. Yep, this really happened here in Michigan…Pontiac police must recruit idiots…and the additional reasons were the “people” were concerned…when asked what people, the cop just kept saying “people” then went on to the normal BS that they use on black people all the time…like what are you doing here? etc. etc….and just trying to roust the guy but he got it all on his phone and now it’s all over the internet…there should be consequences for this kind of crap….what’s next? Shooting someone for having their hands in their pockets in the winter? This idiot cop should at least get a reprimand for this crap and forced to actually be trained in what his job is…to protect and to serve…geez…
Unbelievable if true….
Well…have been thinking about this one since I read the article last week and thought I’d talk a little about it…if you are a fan of Led Zeppelin like I am, I’m sure you’ve read about the offer that Richard Branson (of Virgin everything) made to the remaining members of the band…that he would pay them 800 million dollars to do a tour of 32 shows next year…yep, that’s 800 million dollars….around 25 million a show…and the even stranger thing? Robert Plant said no so there will be no tour…now, I’m not sure what the hell happened between these guys to have Robert feel this way but turning down 800 million? I guess he doesn’t need the money….geez….
Just another one…
Well…as I expected, it has been a total veg day today since the couch was so inviting and there was just tons of sports on…in the middle of the race right now and then the Wings start at 6 or so so that will keep me busy until Walking Dead comes on at 9…yep, I do live a boring life right now but that’s okay…the Lions did another come from behind win this aft and I don’t remember the last time they won 4 in a row so that was cool and a pleasant surprise after I gave up on them earlier…..but I just had a feeling they may do something special so I turned it back on with a little under three minutes left…I am getting excited about the comet landing on Wed…nope, going to turn that one into a post of it’s own later in the week….so, I guess that’s enough for now..still haven’t read any news since last week and it really hasn’t been a bad thing…might just keep that up for a while…