Local Counselor Booked for Attempted Child Rape: He ran a drug treatment center in Seattle that was, you guessed it, Christian.
Whoops: Reports are coming in to the New York Times about Libyan rebels detaining dark-skinned sub-saharan African immigrants on suspicion of fighting for Qaddafi as mercenaries. The only reason for the “suspicion?” Pretty much just racism.
Shelton High School Sports Facility Destroyed: Arson is suspected. Three students had spent all summer building the facility for their senior project.
Coming Out: If you received an honorable discharge under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (as most did), you can begin to reenlist now, as many are electing to do.
We Cut Down The Oldest, Tallest, Still-Growing Tree in the World: In 1897. Ron Judd has a great profile of the event.
Tied in California: The Republican nomination has gotten a lot more contentious since Perry’s entry—he’s now tied with Romney in California.
German Bonds Below 2%: And also below long-term Euro zone inflation. Yikes.
Mubarak’s Trial: He’s charged with shooting protesters during his fall from power, and a senior Egyptian police official testified he never authorized the use of lethal force.
I think we could all do with seeing a prairie dog laugh.
“Local Counselor Booked for Attempted Child Rape: He ran a drug treatment center in Seattle that was, you guessed it, CHRISTIAN……”
you know the troll who posts about blacks and murders and half of all Seattle murders are committed by blacks who are 4% of the population?
you know the guy?
substitute CHRISTIANS for blacks and Slog is that guy……..
“detaining”?
the rebels are shooting blacks from sub-Sahara Africa in cold blood.
pretty ironic.
a black Kenyan American President supports the rebels and they commit genocide against black Africans…..
German bonds…Yikes?!
Wasn’t Goldy telling us Germany was a Union paradise and Unions and generous worker benefits have guaranteed German Prosperity and America was such a chump for not kissing the Union’s Asses the way Germany does?
YIKES!…….
That prairie dog is priceless. And hooray for those dedicated service members who are rejoining the military after being discharged under the discriminatory DADT. This is one veteran who thanks you for your service!
That prairie dog is probably the last good thing we see before we get flooded with a week’s worth of 9/11 porn.
Laughing prairie dog!!
The best is that 9 or 10 second stretch there after he laughs the first time and you’re just anticipating his doing it again.
The prairie dog is laughing because the economy is about ready to take another tumble off a gaping cliff, thus ushering in another round of pain and suffering for a considerable number of humans.
Prairie dogs get a kick out of that kind of shit.
I just want to hug mikethehammer for his epic avatar.
I know what YOU’RE getting for the holidays! (Lock up your cats!)
Italians and French should not be releasing Libya’s frozen assets until the provisional government has proved itself.
Where is the news of Dan Savage running for governor? There’s a booth at Bumbershoot.
Loved the prairie dog…thanks!
He ran a drug treatment center in Seattle that was, you guessed it, Christian.
I wonder if he also owns a pit bull?
@1: I don’t see too many blacks claiming that they are inherently superior to non-blacks and hold the high ground as far as morality goes. I mean, there are a few, but black supremacists are just as crazy.
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yeah.
you don’t see too many black Jews…..
nice news summary, Paul.
and Happy Labor Day!
how much did you get paid?
for working on a holiday, no less….
don’t cry-
maybe Danny will bring you back a bag of toasted almonds from his next First Class flight…..
nothing about the Unionized US Postal Service?
about to default?
going broke…..
they can’t cut the payroll to weather the storm.
Union won’t allow it.
they can’t make a due $5 BILLION payment for the over generous Union pension system.
the Union wants Congress to steal the money from your children.
nice Unions……
@3 german bonds are so low at the moment because they are considered safe. If anything it’s a sign that at the moment investment people do believe in a certain stability of Germany’s financial abilities.
Good for Germany’s treasury.
Not a good sign for the economy worldwide, though.
Certainly not much of a reason to bring german unions into this.
Amazing story about the drug treatment center fellow. Even more interesting than the professed Christianity of the center is the fact that he was apparently back on the crack cocaine, if the rocks in his apartment were any indication. No matter what principles a person may hold if you’re hooked on the truly bad shit they do go out the window. Pope or Stephen Fry, makes no difference.
I’ve been watching the documentary A Very British Gangster about Manchester’s openly gay crime king Dominic Noonan whose brother Desmond went from being head of the family and the most feared hit man and enforcer in England to being knifed to death by a small time crack dealer. People like to laugh about crack is if it’s some mythical eighties joke, but it is still out there wreaking havoc, in ways both horrific (placing a ten year old in danger of rape) and blackly comic (rendering an assassin unfit for his work).
OMG, that dude was my absolutely favorite instructor in my Master’s program. He was the best professor I ever had. Seriously. I hope he’s innocent. Shit.
Somebody alert Jen Graves! She can bring this up at her next meeting of the Seattle White-Guilt Libtard Society!
Hey!
You NAIVE SHELTERED WHITE-GUILT REALITY-IGNORING LIBTARDS at Slog ignored the [BLACK] shootings in Portland (the USA’s whitest and most “progressive” city) this last weekend!
How stereotypically white-guilt libtarded of you!
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index…
http://tinyurl.com/3l5kl49
Shooting of six teens in North Portland ‘nothing short of an ambush,’ police say
Published: Saturday, September 03, 2011, 9:15 PM Updated: Sunday, September 04, 2011, 10:43 AM
By Kate Mather, The Oregonian
After a shooting police called “nothing short of an ambush” in North Portland that left six teenagers wounded, the mayor and other city officials said Saturday that police would be out in full strength the rest of the weekend in hopes of preventing retaliatory attacks.
Shots rang out just before 11:30 p.m. Friday near the intersection of North Jessup Street and Albina Avenue, where a group of teenagers were hanging out after Jefferson High School’s first football game of the season. Six males — a 17-year-old, four 16-year-olds and a 13-year-old — were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting had the highest number of victims of any single gang-related incident in the city in the past year, Portland police said.
“It’s absolutely concerning to us,” said Assistant Police Chief Eric Hendricks. “It’s concerning to the point where we’ve got a maximum number of gang enforcement officers out on the street with gang outreach workers for the next couple of nights.”
“The fact that six people were shot by two people in one incident where the guns were obviously fired into a group does make this stand out from other violence we’ve seen, whether it’s involving gangs or not,” said Lt. Robert King, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman.
Patrols will be increased this weekend. Hendricks said the school district was notified and had a “number of actions” planned for Tuesday when classes resume, and would consider increasing security at high school sporting events.
Portland Mayor Sam Adams said the shooting was part of an ongoing problem with “grudge matches” between African American gangs in the city.
“This is horrible,” he said. “This is tragic. We’ve had too many African American teenage Portlanders murdered in this city, and we are doing everything we can to stop it.”
Portland has seen 66 gang-related incidents in 2011, King said. The city had 93 such incidents in 2010.
“This is a problem for the entire city,” Adams said at a Saturday afternoon news conference. “This is not a Northeast Portland problem. This is not just an African American problem or a problem that affects communities of color in this city. This is an everybody in Portland problem.”
“We could have had six deaths or more last night,” Adams later said. “It’s only by sheer luck that our young Portlanders were injured and not murdered.”
Police released few details about Friday’s shooting, but said two African American males fired numerous shots into the crowd before fleeing on foot. No arrests were made as of Saturday night, and police said the neighborhood has a known history of gang activity.
“This was not a random act,” Hendricks said at the news conference. “To be candid, what we saw last night was nothing short of an ambush.”
Rosie Willis, who lives in the neighborhood, said the activity seemed to focus in front of a vacant house next door.
“I just heard gunshots,” Willis said. “I was like, whoa, what’s going on out here?”
Willis raced downstairs to her front porch to find people running from the area. Soon, she said, police were “everywhere.”
John Canda, a veteran gang outreach worker and founder of Connected, a youth outreach program, arrived at the scene shortly after the shooting.
“Officers and paramedics were out frantically working on people, and as quickly as they could get them inside and stabilized in ambulances, they were taken off,” Canda said. “It was a pretty traumatic scene.”
At least some of the teens were taken to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, where Canda sat with their families as they waited for news.
“I looked at the parents’ faces … there was grief, there was pain, there was bitterness, there was anger, there was concern,” Canda said. “They were afraid that they could possibly not see their children again.”
Neither the names of the victims nor the schools they attend were released. However Jefferson High School football coach Anthony Stoudamire said one of the teenagers shot was one of his players, B.J. Henderson, a junior linebacker and defensive end. Henderson was shot in the calf and foot, Stoudamire said.
The mother of one victim told The Oregonian Saturday that her son had been released from the hospital. The conditions of the other victims were not known.
City leaders worried Saturday that the incident would spark retaliatory violence. Canda said some of the witnesses he spoke to made remarks that concerned him.
“Some of the younger kids spoke about taking matters into their own hands,” he said. “The next few days — we’re not predicting anything — but the next few days, especially with the extended weekend, the perfect weather, could prove to be interesting. So we’ll keep an eye on things.”
Various city groups stepped up gang-prevention efforts in recent months after 14-year-old Shiloh Hampton was gunned down in April at Holladay Park, less than four miles from Friday’s shooting. Hampton wasn’t the intended target, but he got caught in the middle of a gang rivalry when he walked out of Lloyd Center with a group of friends.
Canda and Tonya Dickens, a gang outreach worker with Brother’s & Sister’s Keepers, spent Friday night in the park with other volunteers, part of an initiative started after Hampton’s death designed to pair young people with adult mentors.
They’re doing all they can to prevent gang violence in the city, Dickens said.
“We’re there every Friday night, talking to kids. Then I had my gang outreach team at the Jefferson game,” Dickens said. “We can’t be everywhere. But we are doing what we can do to run interference every way we can.”
It’s a multifaceted effort, Canda said, adding that the entire community needs to be involved in reaching out to young people.
“This activity has proven over time that people aren’t necessarily afraid of consequences of violence or being caught,” he said. “It’s not going to be by force that we win the city of Portland back … It’s going to be because people begin to understand, ‘Wait, I have a stake in this too. This is my community.'”Dickens admitted she’s frustrated by the ongoing violence, but not about to give up.
“My job is to continue to get my hands dirty. The thing is, everybody’s got to get their hands dirty. Parents, community, school, police — everyone has a role. If we are going to save our community, we have to know where our kids are; we have to know who their friends are.”
“If this is how the streets are going to be, we can’t give our kids to the streets,” she said.
— Kate Mather
@13: Maybe you don’t but I do.
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Gosh we hate to break it to you Junior but just because your Johns are circumcised doesn’t mean they’re Jewish….
@21: Right you are. Muslims also practice circumcision, as do many other groups. But there are plenty of black Jews, and not all of them are Ethiopian.
How do black Jews relate to any of this, anyway? When you don’t have a point, do you just resort to saying something entirely unrelated?
In college, I went on a field trip to South Dakota with my Population Biology professor and some classmates.
Our mission was to watch prairie dogs. Mark. Observe social relations. They have an intricate social order and their mounds are like the rigged huts in “Lost” — each place has meaning, friends, rules.
I kept getting bitten by irate prairie dogs who didn’t like the way I held them when we put ink on their fur.
We got up at dawn and sat about 20 ft up in open sided observation towers. One morning, I fell asleep and went over the edge to the ground. Luckily I was wearing a 70s style down parka, olive green with a big hood.
The next 12 hours I was unconscious and when I woke up, a willowy blonde classmate named Pip was sitting next to me in bed, ready with some soup. Heaven.
But the next day I was back in the cold watching prairie dogs for the rest of the two weeks.
Prairie dogs are serious business. For me.
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OK Junior, we’ll explain it.
You mentioned people “claiming that they are inherently superior to non-(members of their group) and hold the high ground as far as morality goes.”
Perhaps you are unaware that racial arrogance has been a hallmark of your people through the millennia- why- it even lead them to crucify their messiah….
Probably your old men never tell you about that.
So go back and re-read 12 and 13 and see now if you can get it…
@24: We believe that our religion is the one true religion.
JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER RELIGION.
We do not believe that being Jewish makes us inherently superior to Gentiles. It is well-accepted among my people that a righteous Gentile is more meritorious than a wicked Jew. Contrariwise, Christianity holds that one needs only to accept Jesus in order to attain salvation, and that good deeds aren’t really important. Tikkun olam, my boy. Look it up.
Get ready for a teen pregnancy boom in Shelton. It’s not like they have anything else to do now.