reserved for those occasions when i feel the need to share my excitement with the world
ramblinations

2006-11-17

patriots, and other news
i keep finding things to mention and then not mentioning them, so here's a short list:
  1. thank you, patriot act. no really, thank you. i feel so much more secure now, knowing the evil iranian students lay prone before your awesome might. thanks.
  2. benjamin's father has cancer. terminal. he's out of the hospital, back with his family. please keep praying.
  3. i'm still upset about item 1.
  4. the engine in our little saturn is really dying this time. it's still driveable, but not for much longer. new car! again! yippee!
  5. with any luck, i'll be transitioning off the beta blogger very soon. it's not friendly to my beautiful custom template, and i don't see the point in learning a new templating language if i won't be using it for long.
  6. Rumsfeld resigned!
  7. my brothers have started publishing their favorite pastime. watch and enjoy!
just one more comment about item 1. if you watch the video, it's obvious the student was not treating the officers with respect. shouting expletives at them, not jumping at their command, etc. folks, that's not admirable behavior, but neither is it a crime. threatening an innocent bystander with a taser, on the other hand, is. it's the responsibility of people given power to enforce the law to not use it, unless absolutely necessary. if they don't have the patience to exhaust all other options before they pull out the tasers, they need to be removed. maybe that's too jedi for you, but this is absurd.

there was another recent incident in los angeles, featuring a cop beating a contained suspect's face, without provocation and for no apparent reason. the guy's on the ground, immobilized by two cops, and one of them shifts position to get a better angle and bashes the suspect's face in. blood and everything. come on, folks. a woman commented to me after i saw that last video that i shouldn't be too harsh in my opinions, because some day i might need an officer to come running to my protection.

i'm skeptical.
# ramblinated by gemma : 00:10 : :