Do we know it was the police who released the video? It could have been the security guy.

And yeah, that was a stupid move. He could have gotten the guests killed.>> ^BoneRemake:

"lapdtv.com"
it is odd that they would put up such a video. Whenever you hear of stories like this the police are always quoted as saying " you should not resist a robbery, do what they say, do not take matters into your own hands "
Yet they publicize the opposite.

WITH GOOD CAUSE:

On November 21, 1980, the Los Angeles fire department responded to a 911 call from Henley's house. Inside they found an unconscious 16-year-old prostitute who later was determined to have overdosed on cocaine. Henley pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and received two years' probation.


There's just not enough love in the world.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Little known fact: Most cats are allergic to Don Henley.

Thanks! I enjoyed the read.

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'Thought this would be of interest:
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'Thought this would be of interest:
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>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Don't tell blankfist, but you are a much better debater than he. Good chatting with you, Chilaxe.


He probably doesn't have to tell me. I'm actually pretty good at reading. It's debating I'm terrible at... oooooooooh. I see what you did there.

A peaceful man stands tall. Just like the pied piper led rats through the streets. We dance like marionettes.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Corporatist idiots.


Speaking of corporatists, why is it he seems to get left out of the debate when the corporate media covers the primaries? Obama gets plenty of attention from the corporate media, and so do the neocons and dominionists from the GOP.

For example, this article just came out yesterday. Ron Paul polled in 2nd place, but the headline reads: "Poll: Romney leads New Hampshire, Huntsman in third, Perry in fourth". Looks like the big corporatists are afraid of Paul yet love them some Obama. They practically pitched Obama into the White House like a softball to the voter's.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Corporatist idiots.


Says the guy who voted for Obama.

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From www.washingtonsblog.com:

... Dick Cheney was in charge of all counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State announcement; this CNN article; and this essay.

In fact, 5 war games were scheduled for 9/11, including games that included the insertion of false radar blips onto air traffic contollers’ screens. Specifically, on the very morning of September 11th, five war games and terror drills were being conducted by several U.S. defense agencies, including one “live fly” exercise using REAL planes.

Then-Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, admitted to 4 of the war games in congressional testimony — see transcript here or http://www.spiegltech.com/media/McKinney2.rm">video here (6 minutes and 12 seconds into the video).

Norad had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and “numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft”. In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the twin towers, were run. See also http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/news_photos/Contingency_Planning_Photos.html">official military website showing 2000 military drill, using miniatures, involving a plane crashing into the Pentagon.

Indeed, a former Los Angeles police department investigator, whose newsletter is read by 45 members of congress, both the house and senate intelligence committees, and professors at more than 40 universities around the world, claims that he obtained an on-the-record confirmation from NORAD that on 9/11, NORAD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack exercise which involved government-operated aircraft posing as hijacked airliners.

On September 11th, the government also happened to be running a simulation of a plane crashing into a building.

In addition, a December 9, 2001 Toronto Star article (pay-per-view; reprinted here), stated that “Operation Northern Vigilance is called off. Any simulated information, what’s known as an ‘inject,’ is purged from the screens”. This indicates that there were false radar blips inserted onto air traffic controllers’ screens as part of the war game exercises.

Moreover, there are indications that some of the major war games previously scheduled for October 2001 were moved up to September 11th by persons unknown.

Now here’s where it gets interesting … Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified to the 9/11 Commission:

“During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President … the plane is 50 miles out…the plane is 30 miles out….and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president “do the orders still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said “Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!?”

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y]

(this testimony is confirmed here and here).

So even if 9/11 wasn’t foreseeable before 9/11, it was foreseeable to Dick Cheney – who had been attacking democracy for nearly 40 years – as the plane was still 50 miles away from the Pentagon.

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>> ^Trancecoach:

It's like the hair of someone who was pretending to be from the future.. in the '80s!
>> ^ant:
>> ^Trancecoach:
those 80s hairdos were just amazing.
(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)

Hehe, I recognized her. She is Colleen Williams from KNBC4 in Los Angeles/L.A.: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Colleen_Williams.html ...



Or she's old school and thinks she is still in the 1980s/80s. I can't remember if she was on that news station back then. Maybe she was like in 1989.

It's like the hair of someone who was pretending to be from the future.. in the '80s!

>> ^ant:

>> ^Trancecoach:
those 80s hairdos were just amazing.
(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)

Hehe, I recognized her. She is Colleen Williams from KNBC4 in Los Angeles/L.A.: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Colleen_Williams.html ...

>> ^Trancecoach:

those 80s hairdos were just amazing.
(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)


Hehe, I recognized her. She is Colleen Williams from KNBC4 in Los Angeles/L.A.: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Colleen_Williams.html ...

Well, during the Rodney King riots in the U.S. it was basically the same situation as in London... people (including some of my friends, I'm ashamed to say) saw it as an opportunity. The police were overwhelmed and couldn't be everywhere at once, so throngs of (mostly young) people headed down to their local strip mall and grabbed anything they could carry. The justification my friends gave? Those places were being looted by other people anyway, so you might as well get something for yourself in the process. Plus some of them felt they were "sticking it to the man." They saw themselves as protesting the Rodney King verdict. If cops could get off for killing someone why shouldn't law abiding citizens get off for stealing a couple of items?

The rationalizations were, of course, ludicrous. But I think the whole rioting thing is a complex issue. My friends aren't thugs. Aside from the riots, the most trouble they've ever been in with the law since then are parking violations. Certainly there were genuine gang-bangers and other thugs out during the riots looking for trouble, but I think a lot of the rioters (both in London and Los Angeles) were just normal kids who succumbed to the excitement and temptation of mob mentality (see this article about the psychology of mobs).

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

In addition to 'teaching', an educator also needs to be a leader, a negotiator, a salesman, a disciplinarian, a politician, an administrator, a motivator, a receptionist, an advocate, a librarian, a manager, a public relations agent, a psychologist, an entertainer, an accountant, and for some students, a parent. If you are a music teacher, you get even more hats - arranger, copyist, bus scheduler, event planner, fund raiser, critic, graphic designer, contractor etc. (Running a high school band is like running a business, complete with a board, fundraiser income, expenses, employees, audits, etc.)


And yet I wonder why these super geniuses settle for teaching instead of using just some of the myriad of skills you listed and become the next big inventor, or the next great physicist, or the next big whatever. Yet instead, even with those over-qualifications (if we're to take your word for it), they choose to work so much harder for fewer rewards (again if we're to take your word).

Sounds totally legit.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I know you grew up in a region of the country that does not have high educational standards (and cruel stereotypes that reinforce these low standards), so I don't doubt that you've had more than your fair share of bad teachers.


Emphasis mine. Trolololo. Actually this is classic elitism. To you my geographical location, specifically that I grew up in the South, makes me inferior in every respect to people like you who grew up near richer Metropolitan areas. I know you're trying to goad me, but I also think you really believe some of that. It's the priggish nature of the elitist.

You can try to disassociate yourself from the Southern school system because of how people like you look down on them, but at the end of the day that system is still a product of your ideal one-size-fits-all Prussian school model no matter the location. To mock any part of it is to mock all of it.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I grew up in middle class Southern California, with teachers that were paid fairly, schools that were well funded and parents that involved themselves in the academic lives of their children. (3 of the biggest factors in student achievement). Out of the 40+ teachers I had from K-12, I can think of two that were bad.


Still, here in Los Angeles the charter schools and/or private schools tend to perform the best. Even with all the unions and heavy spending that goes on, the public schools just cannot outperform the charters/private schools. That's got to sting a bit for those in support of public schools and teacher unions.