Comments on: Sunday Links/Open Thread

By: Oatwhore

Oatwhore — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:21:55 +0000

So inhalants are the “it” drug, huh? And all the cool kids are doing it. If you huff air duster then you’re cool, right, NBC?

Sounds just like DARE.

By: B

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:55:47 +0000

Re: inhalants…most of the upticks in inhalant use since the 1950′s have followed the periodic moral panics in the media. Good job Today Show!

By: Carlyle Moulton

Carlyle Moulton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:54:05 +0000

Radley.

Your link to the “stupid drug story of the week” goes back to your home page.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:17:47 +0000

Tyler Durden didn’t kill anyone. How dare you spoil his good name. ;-)

By: Frank Hummel

Frank Hummel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:34:01 +0000

“…and police again declined to say why the officer fired on the man”

I guess the Fairfax, VA police spokesman didn’t attend the training where they taught that cops only shoot because “they fear for their life”.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:45:38 +0000

I was out at Walmart this summer in California buying some booze and coincidentally buying some air duster because I was about to open my laptop up and clean out the innards. I looked all around the electronics and finally found the dusters locked up with the 100-200$ hard drives and LCDs. “This is weird, I thought.” As I stand there holding a case of beer, asking to get a duster, the associate tells me I can’t buy air duster after 10pm because I could be giving it to children. I looked at her, at my beer and replied “Are you serious?” “Yes, it’s a problem around here,” she replied. /sigh

By: Buck B.

Buck B. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:42:52 +0000

Markets for everything.

By: Tim C

Tim C — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:22:48 +0000

Huffing dusters etc – once again, no real need to point this out here I’m sure, but if kids that want to get high could just…GET HIGH, do think they’d be bothering with dusters, spray paint, etc?

By: Fluffy

Fluffy — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:30:16 +0000

You know what is missing from the Fairfax story?

Any indication whether or not the victim ACTUALLY STOLE THE DAMN FLOWERS.

By: tarran

tarran — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:17:08 +0000

The Stupid Drug War story link: http://www.slate.com/id/2236302/

By: Mack

Mack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:10:46 +0000

“the city of Medina (where Bill Gates lives) already photographs and checks the license plates of every car entering town.”

The article (thanks!) gives an average income of $222,000. If Gates lives there, everyone else must be unemployed.

Maybe they meant “median income”?

By: Samsam

Samsam — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:09:27 +0000

In January 2006 the Fairfax cops shot and killed Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., and optometrist suspected of gambling. Mr. Culosi was unarmed and was not resisting arrest, they just killed him for no reason.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/update-on-the-news/culosi-case-languishing-in-fed.html

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:08:39 +0000

Fairfax, Virginia police shoot, kill unarmed man suspected of stealing flowers.

“The officer’s name has not been released.”

What are the odds that the officer’s name is Deval Bullock? Any bets?

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:02:47 +0000

WTF? The police in Fairfax can just blow some guy away through the window and then just say “No comment”?

According to a witness, the car was slowly driving away “As if he took his foot off the brake” when officers opened fire. No officers were in any danger, with the vehicle rolling slowly away from them.

The amazing part? The witness actually said he thought police “did the right thing. The last thing you want is a high-speed chase…”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/11/20/ST2009112000382.html?sid=ST2009112000382

Fairfax’s new Police Motto! “Comply or die”

By: Highway

Highway — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:48:11 +0000

The facts won’t come out. What really really agitates me is that the police ‘declined’ to say why the officer shot. WHY ARE THEY ALLOWED TO DECLINE TO SAY!?!?! Why are people who are supposed to be civil servants, to serve the citizenry, to have special powers that the rest of society just isn’t able to handle (according to them) allowed to kill a man and then just clam up?

That the police are not directly accountable to citizens is the biggest mistake that was made and ultimately may be a fatal mistake for individuals and society as a whole.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:35:57 +0000

Another comment: anyone notice what city on the eastern seaboard is unaffected by the surge in unemployment?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:32:00 +0000

The family in that Fairfax incident is showing admirable restraint. If I found out someone I love was shot through the passenger-side window while he was unarmed, I doubt I’d be in a “wait ’til facts out” mode.

By: MacGregory

MacGregory — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:12 +0000

Trooper who resigned over sex incident now chief in Hinton
Derek S. Snavely, who was accused of raping a woman while on duty as a West Virginia State Police officer last year, is now police chief in Hinton.
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200911200946

This is from the same reporter who chronicled gypsy cop Michael Leavitt. I’m wondering how long it will be until Mr. Harki is run out of this state by the cops.

By: Elroy

Elroy — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:11:46 +0000

The unemployment map kind of looks like that Verizon commercial. I am afraid I might be adding some more color to the Ohio portion come the first of the year.

Regarding the Peruvian gangs there are a lot of people in this country paying to have fat removed, this seems to be a supply chain issue.

By: Aresen

Aresen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:11:40 +0000

Fairfax, Virginia police shoot, kill unarmed man suspected of stealing flowers.

The officers involved have been placed on “administrative leave.”

If I kill someone, can I get a vacation with pay?