The “liberal” Post. Biden “badly” needs a victory. Alongside a headline about the fastest economic growth in 40 years. Assholes.
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The article, and the speaker on the video, present this story as a positive thing. But watch the video: they’re crowing about how great it was that the stolen car was boxed in due to heavy traffic, so the cops were able to pull in front and start screaming at them. This of course caused them to reverse (into another car, innocent bystander) and start shooting. Fortunately, only one person was shot (3 times, non-lethal) and it was one of the alleged carjackers as opposed to a bystander – THIS TIME.
They knew where the car was. They could have shadowed it until it wasn’t surrounded by other cars. Nah, where’s the fun in that?
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So far probably no (serious) casualties.
Also:
US President Joe Biden was also set to visit Pittsburgh later in the day for an unconnected event.
He will discuss the issue of infrastructure.
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“Needle Spiking.” I had to look that up. Good God, we are a scary species!
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What the… I had to look this up, too.
More that 1300 cases? I certainly hope this is a scare, like the LSD blotters parents were so convinced were distributed in schoolyards, back in the day?
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Is it just me or has it been showing up as a movie/TV cliche more the last few years? “Fight ends when combatant A injects combatant B with something debilitating.” There’s always a tail of the distribution where people will actually do X: the scary thing. A small shift to the left (e.g. by seeing it in movies a bit too often) and you can go from zero to many events pretty quickly.
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It has, and I could see that leading to a “hey, that’s a great idea!” kind of thing. Still, that is (or at least should be) attempted murder, or at the very least depraved indifference. Way too many things can go way bad in a situation like that.
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Ah, I had assumed you were talking about eternal damnation. You’re right about all the other stuff, but I’m gonna keep hoping for eternal damnation for the people responsible.
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Here you go:
I haven’t read the whole thing yet. A quick skim showed they were willing to omit that book, the anchor of the unit, and might lead to the students skipping that unit entirely, so I has a bigger win than they intended. 
ETA: I’m only 3 pages in and I have found a new person to hate and his name is Tony Allman. What a fucking uninformed, petty asshole.
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Good grief. From the instruction supervisor:
So, our anchor text is Maus, and we have all these supplemental things that we look at throughout this module that build to that anchor text. We look at interviews from Holocaust survivors, news articles from BBC, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, survivor stories, and excerpts from other books. There is even a section where we go to the Jewish Virtual Library and look at some selections from that. All of these go to build that background knowledge, it’s grade level appropriate for our students.
and
Every lesson we teach gives us a chance to make a change for the better for our students. When we teach habits of character, we are teaching our students how to be better people. There was a time where that happened every day at home, but when we think about what’s going on now and in the lives our students live in, many of them live in broken homes when they are at one house one day and another house the next. The list goes on and on of the things they have to deal with. Whether we realize it or not, school is the most stable thing in many of our students lives. What students see and hear where they live, may not be appropriate in some settings and we have a chance with every lesson to change what our students see is ok. We get a chance to kind of influence their ethics, their morals, their upbringing.
Somebody needs to hire this guy away from the crazy school district in which he has found himself.
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He’s a front-line fighter. Give him a medal, and let him keep doing it! Convince others that following in his footsteps is the heroic path.
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How did I miss this?
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Fucking evil twins.
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Good place to track this sort of stuff:
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Ah, the binches of Madison County.
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Ugh. This shit on top of increasingly aggressive anti-masking, anti-vaxxer loons is making tough, poor-paying jobs all that much harder for the good people who almost invariably fill them – teachers and librarians.
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Sixth-grader who wrote to Tennessee governor opposing ‘permitless’ gun law is killed by stray bullet
Rayford thought the law made no sense, and described why in a letter he wrote to the governor. As reported by Lateshia Beachum, writing for the Washington Post, the letter said, among other things, “It is my opinion that this new law will be bad and people will be murdered.”
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