Armed African-American man fatally shot by Houston police. Police say he was threatening. Video shows he was not.
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Armed African-American man fatally shot by Houston police. Police say he was threatening. Video shows he was not.
Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensations, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us.
By the way, I have requested that the FtB recirculate any ad revenue from this blog to the rest of the collective.
You’ve all seen the NRA’s imagery of the declining and clueless actor, waving a gun, attempting to reprise his role as Moses the lawgiver. It’s memorable. It’s sad. It’s metaphoric.
More strategy for the tactical team:
It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.
“Baton Rouge police took Alton Sterling surveillance video without a warrant or permission”
“It is inconceivable how the ancients, who cultivated the land as well as we do, could imagine that all the 
seeds they sowed on the ground had to die and rot before sprouting and producing. It would only have needed someone to pull a seed from the ground at the end of two or three days; it would have appeared fine, a bit swollen, the root below and the earth above.”
The topic is Stuxnet. That’s the “mysterious” virus that damaged computer systems at the Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, and offlined several critical systems at the German-built 1970s nuclear reactor at Bushehr.