Jon Stewart on Ferguson and racism and the media
Pretty moving stuff.
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This is one of the reasons that I CRINGE whenever my 14 year old African American son walks out the door. My son started high school today. In addition to my wife's and my hopes that he will work hard, get good grades and have fun, my wife and I are additionally having to be concerned that he may just get shot on the way to or from school. Even here, in what many people would consider to be in the seemingly idyllic setting of Winthrop, Maine.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, so flame away...there were 6 idiots in Florida who rendered that horrendous Zimmerman verdict. They declared, in doing so, open season on black teen boys and adult men.
Thank you very much, 6 Florida idiots, for putting a target sign on MY SON'S back...ASSHOLES!
That's my 2 cents, and quite possibly overpriced at that.
PEACE! 
thing I've read today. I'm so sorry. I can't imagine what it's like for you. I hope your boy grows up to be a fine man because his Mama sure is a sweet one. Hugs and love. 
How she puts up with a cranky old fudd like me I'll never know, but I'm happy she does!
PEACE!
Now c'nere & give us a hug. My step mother, who is Jewish, was saying that all the time! 
PEACE!
freaking powerful. 
FLASHBACK: Sean Hannity Speaks Out Against A “Government Gone Wild”
By Mark NC - August 19, 2014
It was just four months ago that Fox News was covering the “second American revolution” at the ranch of tax-cheat Cliven Bundy. While the network was uniformly supportive of Bundy’s refusal to pay customary grazing fees, it was Sean Hannity who took the lead, featuring Bundy on his program numerous times, heralding him as a hero, and fiercely defending the militia movement’s embrace of armed opposition to law enforcement.
At that time, in the view of Hannity and other conservatives, it was the feds who were overstepping the bounds of decency and behaved like jackbooted thugs. To them it was the manifestation of a dictatorial state trampling on freedom and crushing liberty. Hannity milked the controversy for everything he could squeeze out in regular segments that he called “Government Gone Wild...”
Jump forward to today and it’s the people going wild. The government is now believed to be acting appropriately by shooting an unarmed teenager to death. And his only crime was an allegation (unconfirmed) that he pocketed a few cigars. Then militarized police confront justifiably angry citizens who have no personal stake in the matter other than to insure that justice is brought to bear.
The presence of urban tanks, assault weapons, riot gear, tear gas, and other aggressive means of crowd control, are not considered to be indicative of a government gone wild anymore. Is it because the victim in this case is a poor, black kid, rather than a well-to-do white rancher?
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=20262
And now this Goebbels wants to present himself as being in the same situation that DWB is. I ain't buying. Only the brain dead would.
