The apparent unnecessary death of an individual, regardless of whether he was innocent or had committed a crime at some point prior is obviously wrong. The story however, should be about the larger issue:

1) Lack of police trust, presumption of culpability rather than belief that it was an accident.

2) Racially non-representative nature of the police force in the city relative to the populace that it is tasked with protecting.

3) Tone deafness of the city leadership in response to what is a public outcry, instead focussing on the criminal riot element that choose to take advantage of it.

4) Overt militarisation of the police force and overt use of military hardware in the face of largely peaceful protests.

Like every other case like this, the most likely outcome is the individual story will get disputed but the larger issues will be ignored. In fact, if anything, the riot will give credibility to the camp that wants to militarise the police.

You are not tone deaf. Music sifts are tough.

It looks like I'm definitively tone-deaf when it comes to predicting which videos will get easily sifted. But it looks like I'm not the only one so that's a bit reassuring :-)
Thanks @lurgee and @ChaosEngine for pushing this.

*beg

Here's a longer version of the clip. Turns out that tone-deaf old Bill keeps on digging his hole. He really seems confident that he can convince these women of his point that women have a "gender deficiency to lead the free world." Just watch the face on the woman on the right.

http://youtu.be/085FHc5uA64

I wonder if the people who wrote this ad know how tone deaf this ad is, but don't care because the tea party/republican/libertarian crowd have put themselves totally out of reach.

These videos with autotunage are the best use for the tech-Autotune sounded stupid and silly when rappers adopted it like some red-headed stepchild....WHY? Because 90% of rappers are tone deaf and can't sing for shit.

On the other hand, Charles Ramsey sounds golden.

Is this school for the tone-deaf kids?

*promote the tone deafness.

Stupid survey.

I'll replace it with "something."

Iunno, she could have.. practiced singing, maybe.

Makes it kinda difficult to fully appreciate her humor and creativity.

Like listening to expert guitarist play a famous solo with two strings out of tune.



>> ^messenger:

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

Guys.... While I'll admit that this is gonna be a short-lived meme, I must also admit that I find it entertaining at this moment in time & let's see what she comes up with next.

*Doublepromote
*Quality

Thanks to @syncron for posting

>> ^messenger:

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

I've tried and tried, but I just can't see Manson's appeal. He takes moderately enjoyable music (like this song) and turns it into tone-deaf screaming shit.

Anyone want to try and explain what I'm overlooking?

If religion is the disease, then why did we have over 100 million deaths from atheistic regimes in the 20th century? They made it their express goal to exterminate religion and in the process committed some of the worst atrocities in history. No, the problem is clearly human nature. When man tries to get rid of God he just replaces God with himself. I agree with you, that religion itself has contributed to the suffering and degeneration of the planet. Jesus hated religion. That's why He drove the moneychangers out of the temple. That is why He railed against the pharisees. He said, these people worship God with their lips but their hearts are far from Him. Scripture says this about religion:

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The problem has always been that people follow the traditions of men rather than demonstrate the love of God. Even just a few decades after the cross, Paul wrote about men who preached a different gospel, one that glorified men rather than God. The contamination is universally human nature. Nothing is pure in the hands of an impure heart.

Examine history and see the parallels. Humanity is just repeating the same story, over and over again. There is nothing going on today that hasn't already happened before. The set and props have changed, but our nature hasn't changed. Man corrupts everything he touches because his scheming is against the will of God. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end are the ways of death. The problem is outlined in this video. Yes we have more knowledge, but knowledge doesn't help us. What we need is wisdom. However, wisdom doesn't come from man, it comes from God. Wisdom isn't something you can engineer..explore some philosophy and you will see that ultimately it has no real answers.

The divine wisdom, however, ordained that Jesus Christ would come in the flesh to give us our answer. It says that message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. The world in its wisdom knows nothing of the ways of God, so God chose what the world would consider foolish to shame the wise. God chose to save us in a way people would consider foolish, because the foolishness of God is wiser than mans wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than mans strength. You think it's ridiculous, but God is simply showing up the wisdom of the world for what it is: foolishness.


>> ^Fletch:
Religion is the disease, Blurry. You're feverish rants, nonsense ramblings, and tone-deafness are primary symptoms. Reason is the only thing that can save you or this planet, but I fear it is too late for you and your fellow carriers. The infection has mutated into hundreds of different, self-preserving variations, and reason, although a powerful medicine (and requisite for wisdom), cannot cure those who refuse treatment in the first place, or have simply become immune to it's healing due to past, repeated undertreatment. Religion has evolved into a superbug.
Can the next version of VS please hide ignored comments that have been quoted in a subsequent comment?

Religion is the disease, Blurry. You're feverish rants, nonsense ramblings, and tone-deafness are primary symptoms. Reason is the only thing that can save you or this planet, but I fear it is too late for you and your fellow carriers. The infection has mutated into hundreds of different, self-preserving variations, and reason, although a powerful medicine (and requisite for wisdom), cannot cure those who refuse treatment in the first place, or have simply become immune to it's healing due to past, repeated undertreatment. Religion has evolved into a superbug.


Can the next version of VS please hide ignored comments that have been quoted in a subsequent comment?