396 people involved in Thursday’s Anti-War Committee protest were arrested after the group’s protest turned into an attempted march on the Xcel Energy Center when the group’s permit expired. A heavy, and highly-organized tactical police response anticipated the protesters, perhaps as a result of a press conference last July where Katrina Plotz of the AWC [...]
HT: Are We Lumberjacks? Was it just coincidence that Sarah Palin gave her acceptance speech in Minnesota, also home to Frostbite Falls, or that she was only a few miles from Whatsamatta U? Meanwhile, keep checking with the MSM for the latest attempts to fracture the fairy-tale. bookmark to:
The Strib story detailing the post-concert exploits of Rage Against the Machine fans and the Minneapolis police included this phrase: 87 people were brought in, tagged and released… I couldn’t help but get a picture in my head of some wild child being hit with a tranquilizer dart, taken down in the street and then [...]
Every four years, people who have been dedicating months, even years of their life in preparation come together in front of the TV cameras to live their dream in front of a world-wide audience. Of course I’m not referring to the Olympics but to protesting the presidential conventions. To be fair, there was a Mount [...]
by the Night Writer Some bad reps are hard to shake. For example, Cleveland will always be remembered as the city who’s river caught on fire, Philadelphia fans will always be remembered for booing Santa Claus and Green Bay will always be remembered as the town where someone killed the coach’s (Dan Devine) dog during [...]
by the Night Writer LZ Granderson has a great article on ESPN.com today about the members of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) that is competing in shooting in the Olympics. Glenn Eller is a lanky, baby-faced 20-something from Katy, Texas, a cushy suburb outside of Houston. He is friendly, quick to laugh and has [...]
From the front page of today’s StarTribune: “Squeezed by a smoking ban and higher costs, beer sales in British pubs have fallen to Depression-era levels, and 1,400 pubs have closed.” The Telegraph had more to say. UK beer sales have fallen through the five billion litre mark for the first time since 1975 as the [...]
[Closed circuit to the Reverend Mother: this is one you're not going to want to read.] This is a pretty grim topic, but I saw a stunning story on CNN today about a man who beat a toddler to death as onlookers tried unsuccessfully to get him to stop; ultimately the man had to be [...]
An AmericInn in Moorhead, MN ended up unexpectedly hosting a “convention” of cleaning products salesmen who thought, perhaps, that they were rock stars. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press: Moorhead motel boots 40 salesmen for ‘very, very rude behavior’ Associated Press MOORHEAD, Minn. — About 40 traveling salespeople were thrown out of a Moorhead motel [...]
Another great one from Scrappleface yesterday: Feds to Raid Isolated, Black-Robed California Sect by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · (2008-05-16) — Federal agents and National Guard troops surrounded the gleaming white temple-like San Francisco enclave of an isolationist sect after the black-robed “high priests” of the group yesterday declared themselves to be above the laws [...]
