In Case You Missed It: The Justice Department wants your input for what reforms they should demand from the Seattle Police Department.
Shopping Violence: 2,000 people showed up to Southcenter mall to buy the new Air Jordan shoe yesterday. A teenager was arrested for punching a police officer in the face and officers used pepper-spray on about 20 people. Arrests were made at the shoe-release across the country.
I Will Read Any Headline with the Words “Chainsaw Standoff”: “Property dispute prompted W. Seattle chainsaw standoff”
Ouch: Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich didn’t make it on to Virginia’s primary ballot because they didn’t have the required 10,000 signatures.
You Don’t Say: “The Justice Department on Friday blocked a new South Carolina law that would require voters to present photo identification, saying the law would disproportionately suppress turnout among eligible minority voters.” (NYT)
Craziest Economic Policy Ideas of 2011: ThinkProgress has a list including “Florida State Rep. Proposes Ending Ban On Dwarf Tossing To Create Jobs.”
Watch Your Back, Putin: Tens of thousands are protesting in Moscow over unfair elections for the second time this month.
Merry Christmas Eve! Cuba will release 2,900 prisoners as a “goodwill gesture.”
Must be tough being po’ in the USA. So tough they have to eat Aur Jordans.
I say, if u can show up in Air Jordans, you can vote.
Southcenter really is a classy place to shop!!
@3 no doubt. Stick to U-village if u want to avoid thug life.
@3 Btw, when u hear ” ho ho ho” at Southcenter in December, it’s not Santa.
Well troll…I’d include Walmart as being another shit ass place to shop. Asshole shoppers are asshole shoppers no matter what their skin color is. And BTW, the article in the Seattle Times doesn’t mention what race the perpetrators were. They could be white boys from Bellevue for all you know.
@6 you obvious haven’t seen all the reports of Air Jordan violence across America yesterday. White boyz were rarer than hen teeth
in the melees and gunfire. looked about 90% people of color.
But ur right about Southcenter. It’s a gangbanger infested shit hole. Let’s stick to U Village. No Bellevue boyz will give u a best down over sneakers, I promise.
You won’t know if a headline says ‘chainsaw standoff’ unless you read it in the first place.
I really got a kick out of Putin calling demonstrators against election fraud “western stooges”. It seems to me a clue to his terribly outdated thinking. Poor Russians have their own version of Republicans in Putin and his party; Backward, corrupt and only thinking of themselves.
If you read the Air Jordan story the reason they wanted to get the sale is they could buy the shoes at $180 and sell at $460 (current ebay, black market price).
I find it hypocritical that here these people are exercising rational free enterprise in a truly unregulated market, and all the usual racists pile in with their stupid comments.
#7
Yes, but selling stock options for $25 when the price was $60 more than a decade ago, and pulling money out of people’s 401k plans is okay with you.
@12 yes, but how come black ‘free enterprise’ in america’s cities requires fist fights , bullets and mace to regulate?
Btw Bailo, were y Santa at Southcenter this year?
Maybe the “occupy movement” would have had more success with their “occupy the hood” outreach effort to colored people (whoops! sorry, “people of color”) if they gave some new Air Jordans to every “occupier of color” that joins up!
You don’t see white boys at the Apple store at U Village pulling guns on each other.
#13
Unlike any other?
But hey, I guess you like communism better…and its harder for you yo find a roach nest to breed in. Maybe ‘Un’ can harbor you, Mr. Fischer.
On more pressing issues….Christmas is nearly here. And that always seems to be a busy and stressful time of year for me and oddly London.
Supreme Ruler @11 – you make a good point. When you don’t have much, it’s amazing the lengths you’ll go through for a 400% profit.
And when you do have a lot, and it’s other people’s money, and there’s virtually no repercussions, why not take down the economy in the process for that 400%+ profit? Too bad the bankers didn’t hurt themselves exclusively like these peeps did.
Whiny Newt.
The state party said that Gingrich had failed to submit the required 10,000 signatures to appear on the ballot. Texas Gov. Rick Perry also failed to qualify, the Virginia GOP said.
The Gingrich campaign responded that “only a failed system” would disqualify Gingrich and other candidates. It said Gingrich would pursue an aggressive write-in campaign in Virginia.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg…
@20 – So much for personal responsibility.
I’ve noticed a lot of these pepper spray shopping riots tend to happen at the very late/early hours of the day (midnight or 4am). I don’t recall anything like this happening at say an apple store during the 4pm special events. I know I know, I’m comparing apples to shoes but I bet it has to do with time. Too many people sleepy/tired/cold/wet/idiots at god awful hours.
@23 LMAO, yes, it has everything to do with the time. Of course, most of the thugs you saw on TV yesterday probably don’t have bedtimes but it’s a cute theory. Let’s call it the “It’s past their bedtimes” theory.
@18 I’ve made more than 400% on my Apple stock and managed not to get maced in the process.
@23 the iPhone 4 release people camped out for 2 days in the cold. No mace needed. No gunfire. No Apple geeks abandoning their 1 yr olds in cars. No nerds punching cops. And the resale value of those iPhones on the streets of Beijing was over $1000 for a $200 phone. Lots of buyers on Craigslist. Makes the Air Jordan thugs look like like sloppy businessmen; either that or they couldn’t figure out the U Villages Urbanist pedestrianized parking lot.
I stopped by, quite a sweet bunch of people lining up at the U Village. Of course, take the bus down Rainier Valley with that iPhone out and you may well witness your own mugging.
Hey Slog, how ’bout the behavior of your Big Tent brothas?
When the going gets tough its going to be quite a party….
The shoe riots are the best present the troll could get. Hopefully it will keep his mind oh his poo fetish, at least for the holidays.
Poo fetish? It’s not us who swill our cocks in people’s rectums and then blame Reagan when it all goes terribly wrong.
Btw Catalina, I’d pay you $100 to walk down MLK at 2am with a pair of these shoes on.
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And how many times did Our Little Danny post about Frothy Feces in 2011?
This year the government funded a study of why monkeys fling poo (our tax dollars at work…)
Perhaps they will gain some insight into Danny’s posting patterns.
Oh troll, You tried so hard. Really, you did. I blame myself. I just tempted you, didn’t I? And you’re weak. I know how it is when people lack a sense of personal responsibility. It’s difficult, isn’t it?
I think you should go and hug you mother, and ask her for another cup of hot chocolate. She’d love to feel your embrace, what with it being Christmas and all. Just be sure and wash your hands first.
No, really- how many times did Our Little Danny post about Frothy Feces in 2011?
And about Rick?
How many times did he confess on TV that he wanted to Whip Up Some Santorum IN Santorum?
we lost count……
@31: He posted about such things exactly three times. Prove me wrong, Alleged.