Horrific Video of Cop Brutality in Houston Beating of 15-Year Old Released

Seems this is becoming normalized in our society. SMH

Color of Change has released a revolting video of a swarm of Houston police kicking and beating a 15-year old kid named Chad Holley who was running away from a burglary.

Some cops kicked him repeatedly in the head and legs, others punched his torso — all while Holley was lying face down with his hands behind his head in surrender.

AlterNet: Horrific Video of Cop Brutality in Houston Beating of 15-Year Old Released.

Sarasota substitute named in attack on 3 students | HeraldTribune.com

Some folks are just not kid friendly.  Why would this idiot ever apply to substitute?

SARASOTA – A second-grade substitute teacher at Booker Elementary School became so frustrated with the classroom’s ActivBoard that he reportedly punched two students and pushed a third, leading to his arrest Thursday on child abuse charges.

Sarasota substitute named in attack on 3 students | HeraldTribune.com.

Disrespectful Teen has GrandMother Arrested

The Colliers of Largo, Fla., have yet to recover from authorities’ charging the 73-year-old family matriarch with domestic battery.

“Shocked,” Theresa Collier said of her arrest. “I am so shocked after everything that happened. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.”

The trouble began last Tuesday when two officers from the Largo Police Department responded to a domestic violence call by Collier’s granddaughter, Felicia Collier.

The young woman, 18, was visiting her grandmother’s house to use the computer. She is finishing her senior year of studies online because she had been kicked out of Catholic school for cursing out a nun, Theresa Collier said.

“She didn’t want to listen to me. She kept saying ‘F-you,’ and using the F-word about our family members,” the elder Collier said. “I had enough of it. I was so upset that I got up and slapped her across the face. She grabbed my wrists and I couldn’t move.”

The young woman then called police to report the alleged incident.

Felicia Collier tried many times to convince officers not to arrest her grandmother but to no avail, according to police. ”The next thing you know they are arresting me,” Collier said. “We didn’t know what was going on.”

This is why we need to get back to raising and displining our children.  They have lost their minds.  So you have your Grandmother arrested for slapping you after you curse her out – in her house?

It’s sickening that our society has come to this and that the government aids this foolishness.  Grandma should have knocked her trifling behind out.

More here:  Florida Woman Arrested After Slapping Granddaughter in the Face – ABC News.

Tax Averse City Must Cut Basic Services

COLORADO SPRINGS — This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.

Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.

Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.

City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won’t pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.

“I guess we’re going to find out what the tolerance level is for people,” said businessman Chuck Fowler, who is helping lead a private task force brainstorming for city budget fixes. “It’s a new day.”

Read more:http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473#ixzz0f7XTC91Y

Teacher Takes Scissors To 7 Year Old’s Braid

Picture from WISN

Well, I guess in today’s society you can practically do whatever you want to a black female and get away with it.  It’s reported that a  Milwalkee “teacher” became so frustrated with a 7 year old student, Lamya Cannon that she took scissors and cut her braid off in front of the classroom. Apparently Lamya was absentmindedly playing in her hair during class (typical behavior for children this age). School administrator’s are characterizing this incident (I consider it assault) as the teacher simply being “stressed” out due to budget constraints.

Lamya Cammon is angry, confused, and scared by the incident last week in which the apparently frustrated teacher cut one of her braids off after she wouldn’t stop playing with them in class.

Cammon, 7, sports a few dozen braids, but one is conspicuously absent.

“She told me to stop playing with it. Then cut it off and sent me back to my desk,” Cammon said.

Cammon’s a first-grader at Congress Elementary and said her teacher used a pair of classroom scissors to cut off one of the braids after she absent-mindedly kept playing with them. Read More

So I guess stress is now an acceptable justification for assault? If the mother of this student became stressed and took scissors to the teacher’s hair, would this behavior also be characterized as simply a result of “stress” or would it be assault? Since when are teachers allowed to CUT CHILDREN”S HAIR? I’ve never read that as a disciplinary action in the schools I’ve dealt with – have you?

This teacher knowingly and willfully laid hands on this child’s person with scissors to degrade and humiliate her in class. She should be brought up on charges. People have been charged for far less than this in our society. It just depends on who the victim is.

I’m not in the mood for sympathizers – so I’m not entertaining it today. “Oh but AJ, the teachers have so much to do”. You know what? That teacher CHOSE HER PROFESSION. She knew when she took this job that she would be dealing with 7 year old children that daydream. If she can’t deal with typical behavior such as inattentiveness by a 7 year old…perhaps the heffa needs to take up arms and go fight in Iraq. Then she can get a clue as to what STRESS is.

BTW- the teacher was “punished” with a $175 fine for “Disorderly Conduct”. Yes……that’s it. She takes scissors to a child’s head and is only charged with “Disorderly Conduct”. SMDH

Better to be Thrown Accolades than Shoes

I’ve been going about my day trying to ignore the foolishness and uproar in this country by some folks because a sitting U.S. President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  We have looked like buffoons around the world for the last 8 years with the Clueless Cretin of Crawford running our country into the ground.  I for one am proud that our President was recognized and awarded for his efforts.

“Better to be thrown accolades than shoes”  -  Hillary Clinton’s State Department

BTW- I must give credit to a forum I read for the colorful name used within this post.  bwahahaha

Employers Taking Out Life Insurance On Employees

These fools have lost their minds. Why is it an employer can buy a policy on my life without MY permission. I guess they figure if they work you hard enough from doing the job of 5-6 people you’ll keel over in no time – simply more money in their greedy pockets. – cha-ching.

What’s Your Name Boy?

UPDATE: For some reason this popped in my head while rereading this post. It contains cursing (it’s Samuel Jackson) so if offended don’t click on the link and keep it moving.

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Last night my husband and I went to a football game. While there we saw friend of ours who happens to be Asian and of course has a Asian name. As he got closer we heard someone refer to him as “Bob”. We looked at each other with disgust. Later on the friend made his way to our bench and sat with us during the game. I asked him who the gentlemen was that referred to him as “Bob”. He told me it was his boss. My heart sank as this reminded me of the scene in Roots where LeVar Burton refuses to take his slave name “Toby” until beaten into submission.

While my friend doesn’t seem to mind (I’ve heard other’s refer to him as “Bob”)- I find this to be insulting and disrespectful. Why can’t folks be bothered to pronounce his real name? While it took awhile for me to learn to pronounce his name correctly – I did until I got it right. It’s not rocket science – it just feels like the right thing to do – call someone by their given name.

Insane Killer Escapes During a Field Trip?

Yes, you read it right. It seems the criminally insane folks up in Washington are taken on field trips. How many degrees/common sense/experience would it take for you to realize that sending a mentally disturbed, known killer on a field trip is just not a good idea? I imagine with all the budget cuts occurring across the country, that many more people that should not be walking our streets will be released back into society. That’s kinda of what happens when folk decide they don’t want government intervention. I wonder how many tea baggers would like for this individual to live next door to them?

SPOKANE, Wash. — A criminally insane killer who escaped during a mental hospital field trip to a county fair remained on the run Friday, and furious residents and officials wondered why such a dangerous person was out in public.

Authorities believe Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, is heading to the Sunnyside, Wash., area, where his parents and many siblings live. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office used a helicopter to search Friday, and officers also searched transient camps along railroad tracks in the area. The public was urged to call 911.

“He is in a bad mental state,” his brother, Tom Paul, told The Associated Press. “Why would they load him on a bus and take him to a fair?”

That’s a question many are asking.

Authorities at Eastern State Hospital are being criticized for allowing Paul to visit the fair despite his violent criminal past and history of trying to escape. Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard has called it unacceptable, and the state Department of Social and Health Services ordered an immediate end to such trips and launched an investigation into the practice.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/19/phillips-arnold-paul-insa_n_292135.html

Domestic Violence – Pre Existing Condition

Yes, I know – I’ve not posted in awhile-but I just had to say something about this one. Nine states allow insurance companies to deny coverage by considering domestice violence to be a pre-existing condition. WTH?

When I heard about this I thought it must have been incorrect. Surely the insurance company is not this callous and cold right? Think again. These inhumane, bloodsucking crooks will not only pull the plug on Grandma but they won’t even help a woman that is being abused by her spouse – because it cuts into their bottom line. And to think “Tea Baggers” and their ilk are actually going to rallies to cut their own throats by supporting private insurance.

Insurance companies have used the excuse of “pre-existing conditions” to deny coverage to countless Americans. From cancer patients to the elderly suffering from arthritis, these organizations have padded their profit margins by limiting coverage to patients deemed “high risk” because of their medical condition.

But, in DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that “domestic violence victim” is also a pre-existing condition.

Words cannot describe the sheer inhumanity of this claim. It serves as yet further proof that our insurance system is broken, destroyed by the profit-mongering of the very companies who’s sole purpose should be to provide Americans with access to care when they need it most. In 1994, an informal survey conducted by the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that 8 of the 16 largest insurers in the country used domestic violence as a factor when decided whether to extend coverage and how much to charge if coverage was extended. Source