Penn State Karma

"Joe Paterno fractured his pelvis"

Brokeback Perry?

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Big Trouble In Little China: Keep Kurt Russell In The Dark

The Wire - Characters Saying the Opening Quotes

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR

'Lying,' Holder Says, 'Has to Do With Your State of Mind'

Ernest Evans Talks Kansas City Crime

DEar Mr. Cozad:
As always, I enjoyed you on the latest "Ruckus"!! A few thoughts on our new Chief of Police and the KCMO crime situation.  Police officers in modern America are required on a daily basis to do a most politically incorrect thing--use violence against racial minorities. And, as any cop can tell you, there is no such thing as a nice takedown--they all look terrible on TV. Given that ugly reality, if cops are to have the morale and motivation to fight black-on-black crime they have to be given firm assurances that if accused of racist misconduct they will get due process. When that is not the case, out of sheer self-survival the cops abandon their duties in  minority neighborhoods and crime in these neighborhoods explodes--witness NYC after the Tawana Brawley case in 1987-1993, Prince George's County, Maryland since the Stephanie Mohr case in 2001, Cincinnati in the three years following the race riots in the spring of 2001, and Oakland today in the aftermath of the riots in Nov. 2010.

In the case of KCMO's black neighborhoods crime exploded after the Police Board meetings in Jan. 2008 and April 2008 on the Salva tragedy--Board members Karl Zobrist, Mark Thompson and Terry Brady spent those entire hearings falling all over themselves to pander to the city's community leaders out of terror of a convention boycott; the cops got the message and out of self-survival abandoned serious efforts to fight crime in the black neighborhoods of kcmo.  And, remember, for the cop on the beat it is not just the threat of dismissal that they have to worry about--there is also the danger of being brought up on federal civil rights charges.

The Wire - Tis da Season

Temperature drops in the Metro so gang bangers start shooting from their heated cars and breaking into homes with heat

1.  Nothing brings a KCMO family closer during the holidays than a knife in the back.
2.  Does doubling the gang squad mean that this city MIGHT actually admit to having a gang problem.
3.  18 year old East Sider shows what a KCMOSD education can get you.
4.  Fatima goes missing and nobody cares
5.  KCMO residents begin their annual holiday shopping trips through Mission Hills homes.
6.  The term "rolling gun battle" has been used at least 30 times this year in the metro.  KCK
7.  This headline is a little off "neighbors interrupt sexual assault".  Is interrupt really the best word here?  It makes it sound like they talked over someone rather than PREVENT A RAPE.

Crazy White People

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Cheerleading Coach Gets Screwed

Since when did Hooters = Fireable Offense 

Merrill Discusses Lemmiwinks

In case you don't know who Lemmiwinks is

Almost Daily Link Blast

It's Friday B*****s

1.  The 10 dirtiest places in your house.

2.  We are all screwed if this is the new "normal"
3.  Ever hear of Ghost Island in Japan?  33 pics
4.  Opening quotes from The Wire
5.  4 product gimmicks of 2011
6.  Burger King is changing their fries...Again.
7.  Worlds Biggest Ship Propellers.  Pics
8.  Anna Kournikova has a new dog.
9.  Jersey Shore's Paully D signs with 50 Cent
10.  10 best bands from 90's TV shows
11.  Eating horse is never a good idea?
12.  Living in the Hood for 18 months

Huntsman's Daughters

Occupy Lego

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Welfare Ho's are Awesome