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Five things: It's all getting closer now
Ryan Lambert
June 06 2013 08:45AM
1. Ramo is locked up
It may have been just a formality at this point, and no they can't reveal terms until July 5, but I guess it's nice to have some level of confirmation that they got the Karri Ramo contract done in something resembling a timely fashion.
I'm not surprised by the multi-year term and I probably won't be surprised by whatever the money is (unless it's really low, I guess), but it really does look like they're going to run a battery of Joey MacDonald, Reto Berra and Ramo, which I think is very interesting.
Here you have a team which says its ambition is to make the playoffs. Here you have a team whose goaltending will be comprised of a career backup and two guys whose combined NHL experience is 48 games, all of them Ramo's. These are reportedly highly-regarded goaltenders, but you can't help but wonder exactly how much experience in SM-Liiga or the KHL helps them for the rigors of an 82-game NHL season. Does that mean MacDonald is the starter? If so, that's trouble for the Flames' chances, which probably leads to a front office cleanout.
Don't get me wrong: I'm all for this team being rather bad the next few years and stockpiling high picks, and I think a goalie rotation of that type is more likely than not to get it done, but you have to think the executives are actually trying to do what was asked of them and make the playoffs. Which leads one to believe they're high as hell on Ramo. I guess we'll see.
2. A thing I can totally see happening
Someone on Twitter the other day, I think it was Dave Lozo, asked idly which team would be most hilarious in their desire to offer a big ol' contract to Bryan Bickell after his insane, unsustainable goalscoring run in this postseason (I asked the same thing yesterday - ed.). All the usual answers followed, with the most obvious being Buffalo because of the Ville Leino situation and how giving Bickell big money would be more or less the same thing.
Meanwhile, all I could think was "The Calgary Flames." They want scoring. They want to get "tough to play against." Bickell, based on what he's done here in the playoffs, provides both. You know, ostensibly. He is a free agent at the end of this season and he reportedly wants more than the $2 million or so Chicago offered him to stay, and someone's certainly going to give it to him. I just have a sinking feeling that it will be Calgary.
Y'know, just because you're scoring a ton of goals on a line with Jonathan Toews doesn't mean you're going to actually play like you're worth more than $2 million a season, particularly if you're already 27 and have no history of doing that thing that you're going to be paid to do. The idea that he'll magically revert back into the 17-goal guy he was three years ago will probably be brought up a lot, backed up by his scoring nine in 48 this year (a contract year), but that is of course preposterous.
His underlying numbers are also completely underwhelming despite his nice goal line too.
I eagerly await the point at which he gets $3.5 or $4 million a year for way-too-long from somebody, and I really hope Jay Feaster isn't the guy to give it to him.
3. Time to get Brodie signed
Rpger Millions tweeted the other day that the Flames have yet to talk to Tj Brodie's agent about anew contract, which indicates that there's very little in the way of traction for him getting signed. Normally no big deal, sure, since he's a restricted free agent. But here's the issue: About the same time as I saw that, I also saw that Elliotte Friedman reported the Flyers would be hunting RFA defensemen.
Uh oh.
This is, one supposes, one of those things that is avoidable: The Flyers are desperate for defensive help and will, as we saw with Shea Weber last summer, go to extremes to pull it off. The reason I think Brodie might be a target for them in particular is that he's a) very good, and b) not exactly the world's best-known RFA defenseman. Consequently, while guys like Roman Josi might attract a bit more attention in the musings-about-this department, Brodie might be a better target, and perhaps one that comes a little bit cheaper in theory.
You'd think the Flames would be hard at work trying to get this sorted out as soon as humanly possible to avoid such a fiasco, but then you never know. The closer July 5 gets without it getting done, the more you have to worry about Philadelphia's designs on swooping in.
4. Some quick thoughts on grandfathered visors
This is a very common-sense thing, which is shocking because the NHL often avoids common sense like it does any association with Sean Avery. It's the best way to make sure everyone has to wear a visor in the future while simultaneously letting the idiots who want to skate around without them put themselves at greater risk. One of the arguments against the move I saw yesterday was that visors don't protect players from everything, and that's certainly true. But just because it's not a total failsafe against facial injuries doesn't mean it shouldn't be pursued.
In a lot of ways — and not to trivialize this too much — it's the same thing as the gun control debate in the United States. Advocates want more basic precautions put into place to prevent guns from getting into lunatics' hands, but those who oppose such measures typically say that it won't stop every gun from getting to every criminal, as though it's an all-or-nothing proposition.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of players in the league wear visors these days, and most have done so forever. I think it was something like four guys who have fewer than the requisite games-played to make such a decision actually don't wear visors, so this changes nothing for most players; all CHL players wear visors, all AHL players wear visors, all European players wear visors, all college players wear full cages. That the NHL took this long to get on board tells you everything you need to know about how slow the league moves.
Next up is hybrid icing, which is apparently bad because linesmen get it wrong sometimes. Just like regular icing.
5. I don't see how LA wins that series
People are acting like the Kings are right back in this series now that they've won one at home, but I gotta think they're still in tough to win three of the next four games. You can say it's as simple as winning one in Chicago and continuing their home dominance, but 13 of their 17 games in this postseason have been decided by one goal (or two with an empty netter, like Tuesday).
Do you really wanna get into that kind of narrow slugfest with a team like the Blackhawks? Imagine what happens if Kane or Toews shake out the cobwebs. The Kings are fininshed.
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Jason Gregor has an in-depth interview with Darnell Nurse up at OilersNation. Many believe Nurse will be the second defender taken at the upcoming draft behind Seth Jones and could even sneak inside the top-7 picks. Here's a tase:
JG: How did you approach that question period with the NHL teams? Was it nerve-wracking?
DN: I think that you just have to be genuine. That's the biggest thing. Obviously you're in this position for a reason, and you can't change who you are or give people answers that you think that they want to hear. For me, that was the biggest thing; just go in there and show them who I am as a person. By doing that it made the interview process a lot easier. With that being said, after 22 meetings there is a point where you get sick of talking about yourself for sure.
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I'm down with some Bickell. Dude can flat out play hockey. Stupid hockey hipsters.


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Flames To Hire Craig Hartsburg
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June 02 2011 09:51AM
This may have slid by without notice in the wake of the Erixon stuff, but Bob McKenzie noted today that the Flames are going to announce the hiring of Craig Hartsburg as an associate coach at some point in the near future.
Hartsburg is a former NHL head coach who has also spent a lot of time in the CHL and the Canadian World Junior team. His last gig in the show was with the Ottawa Senators from 2008-2009 before begin replaced by Cory Clouston. He won a couple of golds with the Canadian junior team between 2007-08 and has been the head coach of the Everett Silvertips since being deposed in Ottawa.
I don't know too much about Hartsburgh, but he comes with a pretty solid pedigree. No Doubt Brent Sutter had a lot of input into this hiring. As McKenzie notes, the two have a WJC connection.
June 02 2011, 10:02AM
Hey, at least they're making moves. Times they are-A-changin'.
blah blah blah
But great article Kent.
Well I guess he fits the mould of "veteran" assistant coach. Now Brent will have a buddy to confide in when people say "he's a great junior coach but just couldn't translate it to the NHL."
June 02 2011, 11:05AM
Does "Associate Coach" mean the same thing for Brent as "Assistant GM" meant for Darryl?
June 02 2011, 11:18AM
Who will have the bigger scowl?
Hey the guy is experience and a former NHL player too...this cannot be bad for the Flames. Also he could be the "back-up plan" should the Brent Sutter era not go well. However with Feaster watching Butter, I think this year will go OK but may be hard to reach playoffs.
Interesting..This fills McGills spot right?
June 02 2011, 12:48PM
That's cute.
The Flames are letting B Sutter pick his replacement, just like they let Darryl.
At least they are consistent.
June 02 2011, 12:50PM
Shoot, didn't see Beeker beat me to it. Well played.
So... with news that Brad Richards will go to free agency, do we try to dump Kotalik+Hagman and sign Richards for something like... $5-6M? That'd be sweet to see him playing a line with Tanguay/Iginla, buuuuut, a pipe dream I'm sure.
He'll end up on the Rangers I'm sure...
craig hartsburgh. baaaaaaaaa. the guy has all the emotion of an undertaker. junior resume padded with a mem cup win years ago with an inherited team. his nhl results in chitown are junk, his junior record with the soo greyhounds is junk, his ottawa stint is junk. another crony move.
June 02 2011, 08:31PM
I like the move. Nothing wrong with Hartsburg.
Here is something on how to sign Tanguay and free up cap space: 1)Sign Tanguay for four years 12 million. Nice raise for Tanguay.(3 million/year) 2)Resign Iginla for fours 22 million effective immediately.(5.5 million/year) Iginla would be taking a paycut in the short term however would gain 2 more years at a above average salary. This is not much risk to the Flames as he has proven to be in great shape and is quite capable of keeping pace for another four years. Overall the Flames would dish out the same money as last year for Iggy/Tangs and keep them both for four years which would by them some time to rebuild along the way.
Just a thought!
Oh my another washed up NHL coach? This guy has no success in the NHL, kinda like the current Flames coach. The only difference is Hartsburg has failed EPICALLY!
Oh my another washed up NHL coach? This guy has no success in the NHL, kinda like the current Flames coach. The only difference is Hartsburg has failed EPICALLY!
His earlier stints were not so great, but to put the blame on that Ottawa mess solely on him is a little unfair, that whole Org has been a mess the last few years, and now he is not a Head Coach but just an Assistant and has been a very good Junior Coach, maybe he's just not quite ready for the Head Coaching thing but maybe what he has from Junior will be better suited to an assistants type role. I think its a little early to completely write it off. I think its better than our previous hirings of getting guys straight out of the W without any previous NHL experience or even AHL experience.
June 03 2011, 09:07AM
Offensively stifling head coach, and offensively stifling assistant coach...I only HOPE they can continue to be somewhat offensive going forward, even though the numbers this season were maybe higher than they should have been. I suppose the pendulum is about to swing back to "Flames have top 5 defense in the league, but bottom 5 offense"


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Does anyone think this art style would make a great game, as a Steam punk MMO? These guys are doing a Indiegogo fundriser for their upcoming art book, but I love their art style and havent seen anything like that as a MMO game. Check it out
i love cyberpunk and steampunk
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Waiting on: Lost Ark
Who's going to make a Cyberpunk MMO?
It's hard to say really. Steam Punk as a genre of style and interests is still in the formative stages (this includes defining itself). Most so-called steam music, art, costumes etc. is only vaugely similar when you really look at it. And, before the sub-culture has time to vent from comming out of the furnace, people are trying to mold it into other things (deisel and cyber punk, though either of which arguably may have existed before steam punk).
I know that there was a short lived steam punk MMO. There are also a few small steamy games put out by kongragate, and one awesome puzzle strategy game simply called gears. There is also a game (that seems to be largely still in production) called city of steam... None of these though have been good enough to cross-over into popular gamer culture stardom.
For any who don't know and are wondering at this point, the basic concept of steam punk is an idea of; what would things look like now had the cultural norms and tech-tree of the victorian era (roughly 1840-1880) continued un-interupted into the modern age.
Think of an alternate present-future based on an alternate past (something like what bethesda did with the fallout series and the American 1950's). What if the hindenburg had not crashed and the wright brothers never quite figured out how to get off the ground? What if no one refined the concept of the internal combustion engine and the steam engine kept it's hold and continued to be refined? What if Edison never electrivuted an elaphant to show the 'dangers' of 'Tesla's Brand' of electricty? Or if Robert swan had gotten his due credit for the invention of the light bulb?
Steam Punks do not often just imagine this but create a glimpse into this alternate dimension, and often believe that things would be better had they gone this other direction (and they make a few really good point about base technological superiorities)
The point of digressing into all that is to say...show me a game made off of that at it's core and i'll not all only pay into it but encourage all my friends to do the same. And this to me seems to be the issue with steampunk games, in that their developers attempt to capture the style without persuing the essence and point of it all. So, in my opinion they only crank out insincere likeness' of the Steam world, and thusly, often fail in their endevours.
(btw those artists' work for exalted is my favorite, it's one of the campaigns my group and I switch between)
Originally posted by Helleri
I know that there was a short lived steam punk MMO. There are also a few small steamy games put out by kongragate, and one awesome puzzle strategy game simply called gears. There is also a game (that seems to be largely still in production) called city of steam... None of these though have been good enough to cross-over into popular gamer culture stardom.
Don't forget Rise of Legends* by Microsoft. The humans in that game were super steam punkish, with even clockwork soldier's and DaVinci flying machines.
*EDIT: correct game name now.
Funny no one mentioned Dishonored, a very much steampunk game and a block buster.
City of steam just started closed beta and shouldn't be too long before release(first half next year maybe). But not really an mmo from what I've read and seen(could be wrong there).
To the art style, I would say the gameplay would be more improtant.
I never played that one, I will take a look though.
I think a big aspect of the world of steam is that most every one has an industrial or aristicratic look. This is because it's most commonly accepted in the steam world that every has a surplus job (a job not directly related to the cultivation of food, and collection of materials). And, that is because they have automotons (like androids) to do base labour force work.
This alone sets the stage for a great storyline. The main antagonist could a mad technologist who started out as human, but through accidents he blamed on the inefficiency of society as a whole he became maimed and deformed (just one unfortunate event after another planted deep seeded hate for human civilization in him). he fixes himself using technology, then finding it more efficient continues to modify himself.
But, people start to dislike him over ethical issues and he ends up exiling to some steam fortress atop a mountain or something (maybe an air base). Where his intentions turn towards 'fixing the world'...So you end up with a very Dr Robotnik/Professor Eggman type villian who's aim is to convert the world to machines.
While people like machines in this world they don't want to be one, and they feel the natural world has it's place and that this villian is dangerous. So, all citizens of the land are charged with doing their civic duty in combating this evil mad-man-machine.
He could send his flawed machines out into the lands to convert the natural world into a machanically based one. at the lowest levels you might be combating creatures who have been automotized and collecting both their natural and mechanical parts that remain intact after combat in order to build a wide variety of useful things.
later you might fight the machines doing the conversions, and later still sabotage their bases and foil his multifront plans...
This world can even show the conflict between one kind of technology trying to over take another....perhaps this bad guy goes the crude oil route to fuel his army. so villians are distinguished from the steam punks by having a very deisel punk look to them.
This could be a game that is sandbox centric, like you must put the gears in the right place to get a machine working again, there are several ways to do it. as long as gear a turns gear b the machine will run. But, how efficiently and thus, how much experience you earn from such a task depends on how well you build it.
Questing could be part puzzle game part discovery, part materials collection. Weapons and armor creation of your own design. Mount unique to how the individual builds them...every part can have a physical behavior, mechanical behavior, statistical value, and range of compatability with other parts. you combine this with basic construction and you get an amazing world.
There are already mini games that sorta do this as I mentioned earlier. I for one would love to see key aspects of these put into the base cuntion of an MMO... here are a few:
Cogs (A one time purchase game that has a free demo): http://www.cogsgame.com/
Gears (free to play browser based): http://www.kongregate.com/games/ch00se/gears
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I totally agree, for this kind of game to be properly developed, the development team should latterly go back into history and basically explain/re-write history as we know it. Maybe have quest lined up as a history lesson showing the difference where it could have gone. The art style certainly have some draw I think to be made into an interesting MMO game, especially when you will be able to look at something that's designed and say "hey so that's how a car would look like if that happened".
There is an alternative to that, you could use an existing steampunk IP as long as you are willing to create the right mechanics for it. This is harder than using an already working mechanic and build a world that works with it but it also have the potential of being a whole lot better.
On good IP you could get almost free is FASAs (the guys who made Shadowrun) old "Crimson skies" even though it is more diesel punk than actual steampunk. The P&P RPG were as good as ready for release when FASA went down so most people remember it for the boardgame and Microsofts flight game but the IP is a lot more interesting.
Another good IP is the one from the anime/manga series "Pumpkin scissors", or for that matter the classic "Trigun" if you want a bit more cowboys in it.
Or Eric flints "Ring of fire" books (starts with 1632, read it).
But all these settings needs custom mechanics. Regular tab targetting, cool downs and levels would just destroy the game. Then so would pure FPS mechanics.
In any case, ignore how other MMOs work and think about the cool stuff you have in your setting and how you could make mechanics that makes that possible. Take healing for an instance, unless you mix in magic like in Ravenloft you need something else than trinity healers. Players do need ways to manage their health one way or another.
Maybe you focus on damage avoidance instead, like dodging and cover which make sense in a game with revolvers and rifles and let people heal up between combat, or maybe you have another smart system in mind, just dont do a LOTRO and screw over your lore (yeah, many other games have done this as well, including TOR and STO).
A steampunk game shouldnt feel just like Wow but with a slightly different setting, it needs to both look and feel different.
And yes, the art works fine.
Originally posted by Karahandras
City of steam just started closed beta and shouldn't be too long before release(first half next year maybe). But not really an mmo from what I've read and seen(could be wrong there). To the art style, I would say the gameplay would be more improtant.
While gameplay is more important, messing up the art is a huge misstake. Art is hardly the most expensive part when you make a MMO so it isnt that hard to get right.
And good art can make a game with comperatively low graphics look good even after years.
I wouldnt recommend anyone to put more focus into art than actual gameplay of course, but finding a good artist or a few that capture the mood of the game (and work for a reasoable price) is a great idea.
Something in a MYST world would be cool.


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Cudahy School Board Forum
I attended the School Board Forum tonight and thought the four in attendance (Scott Mulqueen (inc.), Crystal Silkwood, Bob Grams, and Tim Schwartz) did a good job.
Incumbent Jenny Cummings was not in attendance.
I do have to say I was most impressed with Crystal Silkwood. She has some good ideas, strong opinions and seemed like she really wants to help the students.
Now many people may have heard Mark Belling's podcast taking about Crystal Silkwood's same sex partner who happens to also be a school board member and the possible implications this might have or perceived to have.
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While Mr. Belling brings up good points, we are in unchartered waters and I feel as long as the GAB says it is okay, it is okay.
I care more about what people will do, can do, verses what sex, race, religion, or sexual preference they have. I want people that are going to do the best things for the students.
I think Bob Grams and Tim Schwartz had some good answers as well and both seemed very open about making improvements.
I don't want someone to be a talking head for the teachers or the Superintendent, but an independent board balancing and checking both sides. They are the check and balance!
One of the questions I asked is why don't the school board members have email addresses?
Board President Scott Mulqueen told me they are on the website, however an educator checked on his phone and NO they are not, as you can see below. This is something I have be harping about for years, so I will be going to the next School Board meeting to ask why, correct that WHY NOT!!!
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Metals service center O'Neal Industries, Birmingham, Ala., through its subsidiary United Performance Metals Inc., has acquired the assets of Vulcanium Metals, a stock/distributor and processor of titanium for aerospace, defense, and medical instrument applications with locations in Northbrook, Ill., and Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Nearly all religions and faith traditions in the world have special prayers and ceremonies or blessings for giving thanks after hard times or good times, for harvests, or special events in the religion or for individuals. In the United States, tradition holds that our early European settlers gave thanks for their tenuous survival, after an ill-prepared expedition and subsequent very difficult times. They celebrated their deliverance from doom and the new hope they had been given. This week let us not forget about the real meaning of our American Thanksgiving Day.
For our ancestors, Thanksgiving was not a time to celebrate the end of hardship or the beginning of a more perfect time, but a festive, grateful occasion, marking a moment of awareness — there can be hope and gratitude, even in the most bleak of times and situations. With each ensuing harvest, farmers thankfully marked the end of the long, hard work required to grow their crops. Their thanksgiving recognizes that the fruitfulness of the bounty is not dependent on or proportional to human actions alone, but to the many factors — often uncontrollable — which contribute to the process of farming.
So in the gray autumn days, surrounded by bare fields, farmers — then and now — celebrated not just their own efforts, but also the ways God encouraged and supported those efforts, the many ways God had allowed their work to bear fruit. This "fruit of the earth" and their accompanying gratitude, they prayed, will feed them physically and spiritually, and will give them hope of a more-promising future.
Thanksgiving calls us to a new awareness of our surroundings. For St. Ignatius, this meant that we pray that we see our world and our lives as God sees it, as God sees us, as life really is, and as we really are. In his Examen, he teaches us that the first thing we need to do is to ask God to see our lives, our world, in a new light, a different way, with new vision. As Ignatius certainly knew from his own life, we all seem to see the bad or negative things in our lives and actions, rather than working with those things, to live beyond them. He knew we need help to remember the blessings and the positive actions which are also part of our lives. From this wider perspective, we can better see ourselves, our world, and be really grateful for all of the blessings we have. From this wider perspective, we can make the corrections we may need in our lives ... from this wider perspective.
As we busily prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, a day often of too much food, a day of sleep conversations and laughter, a day of giving thanks for so many things, let us also take a little time to become more aware our own fields, perhaps ready for harvest.
Let us ask God for the light we might need, to see beyond the grayness of our skies, the feeling of weariness after long hard days of work. Let us ask God to allow us to see that we are truly blessed, not just from our own efforts, but blessed most by those things over which we have no real control. Let us use God's perspective to see that our greatest blessings are not on the tables before us, but in the people with whom we share the table, the people with whom we share our lives. We are each and all blessed, not just for what we have or have not done, but because of God's love for each of us.
So as we fill our plates, pass the cranberry sauce and hope that the gravy makes it to us again, let us give thanks for our friends and family, even for each other; even perhaps, for ourselves. Let us ask God to bless those people who have not been able to see their blessings, or who do not have people around them, and thank God for all the gifts we've been so abundantly given. Let us ask God to keep us aware of all those in our city and world who do not have the same opportunities or blessings we enjoy.
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Skip to comments.Nebraska Police Chase Down Man Video Recording Their Abuse While Second Man Video Records It All
Posted on 03/25/2013 9:29:55 AM PDT by redreno
Omaha police displayed an unbridled street gang brazenness when they chased a man who was video recording them abusing his brother into a private home, confiscating his phone and arresting him to ensure their actions would never see the light of day.
However, another citizen captured the entire incident on video from a second-floor window, ensuring at least the façade of an internal investigation.
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Now that truly is "can't win for loosing".
And I'm supposed to disarm myself and trust these gorillas to protect me? Who's going to protect me from THEM?
These days you should pretty much assume that anything you do in public will be captured on video.
How's that for turning statist logic back on the state?
We call this:
Felony Assault
Felony Battery
Felony Kidnapping
Felony Armed Robbery
Felony Breaking and Entering
Using a Firearm during the commission of a VIOLENT FELONY
Every cop there should be in Prison for not less than 30 years, personally I would ask for LIFE and maybe even the Death Penalty for their FELONY GANG BEHAVIOR.
There are Federal charges which could be brought, also. See 18USC242.
Welcome to the new Obama Police State folks.
This is what happens when you DON'T fight back! I hope these lame f**ks go to prison for a very long time.
I wonder if they are "Oath Keepers"?
Question is, which Oath are they keeping?
Who is the biggest thug?
Boy, do I feel safe.
The number of cops involved pretty much eliminates the one bad apple excuse.
At least 15 officers...
Any destruction of a video of the police, by the police, should be a serious crime.
Camera systems with software motion detection and automatic uploads to remote servers are much less expensive and easy study in preparation for self-installations. Free operating systems and software are great for those. Cameras that work well in very low light conditions can be had for as little as about $100 (need sealing/weatherizing), last I looked (couple of years ago). It's a fun kind of project for the private property and home, too.
Looks like one of the doughnut-eaters went around back to shoot the dog.
Police pretty much are a gang, complete with colors, turf, us-against-them mentality, lingo, initiation rites, you name it.
That's frightening. It looks like they had about a third of the day shift at that house — overwhelming force in a matter of minutes.
The Public Integrity Section in the Department of Justice is the office that prosecutes corrupt public officials—worthy of much more funding, unlike most other offices, but usually short of funding. The many offices that regulate against more productive activities get enormous amounts of funding.
That is precisely why the Founders wrote the 2nd Amendment...to protect citizens from the state...a state which insists police are there to protect the citizens when, in fact, they "protect" no one who is being attacked, robbed, assaulted, raped and murdered. When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
The city cam get the checkbook out now.
As an aside, if there were that many cops available to respond to this, Omaha has too many cops.
Corruption that goes unchecked in Omaha. Mayor Suttle is on-board with taking guns from law-abiding citizens. Police chief says they are investigating this incident.
What is going on? I scrolled 9 posts and not one of them were made by the cops-can-do no-wrong crowd. They are usually on these threads by no later than the third post.
I also wonder whether they had dash cameras going at all. They ended up arresting all three brothers. The original reason the police were there was due to cars with expired tags. The mother and aunt of the boys said, "...we are not dealing drugs, we are not out shooting people...." along that line. The media is even complicit (GO FIGURE), because they released a list of the several misdemeanor charges in the past compiled against the three brothers. I really think this was a HUGE overstep by the OPD. I also hope it can be used against the mayor in his upcoming re-election (primary is Tuesday, 4/2).
When I look through some of the videos posted at that site all I see is my husband visiting grievous harm on some of those police officers. I really have to wonder how many times these thug cops make the mistake of picking on the wrong citizen? Can you imagine these thugs picking on a SEAL team that's out for a night's fun?
It's hard to imagine that just such a thing hasn't already happened a bunch of times.
Taking photos now has gotten to be hazardous. Not only from cops, but from security, copyright bloodhounds, paranoid people, DHS, government. I tried taking photos of downtown Dallas next to a federal building. Two guys came out with AK47's or similar. I'm sick of the whole camera=terrorist thing.
Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer, who took over in August 2012, vowed to get to the bottom of this. (402) 444-5600.
The cops can do no wrong and if you haven't done anything wrong why would you care if they entered your home without a warrant and confiscated your camera?
Are you trying to say that the 98% are making a bad name for the other 2%?
What's funny is that there are cameras at red lights, security cams, cop dashcams, private insurance dashcams, but let one guy video a cop and all hell breaks loose.
This is impossible.
I've been assured that police departments are not jackbooted thugs.
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That's true in Medford, OR. The police there were just the toughest gang in town, operating under the color of authority. They scared the bejeezus out of me.
We can't have a couple of good cops giving a bad name to the other 98%. I guess in omaha they aren't inflicted with any good cops to water down the average.
You are kinder than I. I hope the next one of these criminals that busts in a door take a round to the neck.
For beginners, because it is my home and my camera. If I wanted to get picky, I might add, because I can't enter their homes and confinskate their cameras. I may even go as far to say that I paid for the camera and am paying on/renting the house. And in closing, it is only those whose desire is to be slaves that believe that everything the cops do is right.
I've seen more than one youtube video of cops being recorded when one of them yells "camera!" The same way you would hear them if they spotted someone holding a gun.
What are those clowns going to do when the next generation of cameras hit the marketthat are so small and cheap that they can be anywhere?
Gee, where was SWAT, the Marines, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force? The goons couldn't handle one guy with the people on site. This is what our,"Police Force," has become, little people with and over whelming sense of power and authority. DISCUSTING!
But cameras today are so cheap!
Anyways, I agree with you. I used to be Mr. Law and Order, but about 10 years ago I saw a group of police at a restaurant and they were cursing loudly, farting so everyone could hear them, basically acting like animals. No respect at all for anyone around them. Ever since then my respect for them just diminishes more and more, based on what I see.
This is exactly why "Shall Not Be Infringed" means we RETAIN the right to be, at minimum, as well armed as the forces government will use against us. Show me anywhere else in the BOR or the Constitution where the founders were so emphatic as to write "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED". SNBI leaves no wiggle room for a law abiding government but that is long gone in this country.
Does anyone think, if this happened in NYS, that there would be only 7 officers or they would only have 7 bullets?
The left is pushing us right into the arms of law enforcement who will in conjunction with the media hide all their abuses of power.
A decade ago it might have been "one bad apple", now the entire barrel is bad. ;)
Did the dog get away?
It is amusing how these guys like service ribbons and stars. Just ordinary guys who are big jokes otherwise.
Interesting that the newly arrived cops knew exactly which house to go into.
So did I.But I learned.
3 times I have experienced the fear of being in the presence of a rogue cop - and incredibly relieved to walk away without being harmed.
I know many of them are good people, but I have developed a large amount of distrust.
Going to work one day (when I had a job), just rolling down the expressway with all the other traffic...
When all of a sudden everyone starts slamming on their brakes.
Some idiot motorcycle-cops doing radar on THE EXPRESSWAY. So naturally everyone slams on their brakes.
I had to stop in the median. Got a few tickets.
Talk about rogue cop, both arms full of tats. Complete 100% certified-guaranteed asshole. Most revenue collectors are, seems to me.
there is no "bottom"
this is standard operating procedure. the civilians vs cops. no inbetween.
It is also very hard to get rid of a truly bad cop who is in tight with the union.
I had one such pointed out to me by the brother of an officer on his force. The other cops knew he was rotten, doing drugs, unpredictably violent, and that nobody, even other cops, should ever be alone with him. They also knew that the union would not permit him to be disciplined at all.
The union even had his death reclassified as "In the line of duty", though he was off duty, DUI and carrying narcotics, and had illegal weapons in his car when he crashed it into a building and died. Why? Because he had no relatives, and his insurance had the union as his beneficiary. Lots of money they wouldn't get if that other stuff was official.
I really don't know if our local union is the same as large metro areas (small rural area)
But when you're in the presence of someone who truly appears to be enjoying your powerlessness....that is terrifying.
I've seen that happen too.
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I am not from here. At 64 i look 50. Since i moved here from so. Calif. I have developed into a wrinkled old lady. I think its the weather. Most women my age have ugly drab hair & saggy boobs& bellies. Not me. Im an artist & i stay fit. At 64 I AM NOT OLD.!!!!!
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Baby-Boomers still refuse to age-you must not have hit 30 yet. I am 63 and if I feel like acting like 30 I am going to. Reason?? Because I can!! Age is not the only deciding factor. We have stayed in younger shape because we are active and busier than ever. I know people in their 90s who are still as vibrant as a 50 year old. You gonna tell them to stop that too?? I was afraid to hit my 60s. When I did and found I am just as good as ever I felt better and hold my head high. We are still the elders in the sense of our experience and wisdom, but we are not ready for the rocking chairs and walkers yet.
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Posted on 08/10/2011 11:06:11 AM PDT by yetidog
The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population during the current riots has not surprised me in the least. I have been writing about it, in its slightly less acute manifestations, for the past 20 years. To have spotted it required no great perspicacity on my part; rather, it took a peculiar cowardly blindness, one regularly displayed by the British intelligentsia and political class, not to see it and not to realize its significance. There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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Yes, it seems an eloquent description of what the oligarchical collectivists would have us become.
Solution - G4
Clearly this cannot be the same nation that beat the Germans in two world wars, is it?
Winston would have had these hoodlums mowed down within a day, and not with rubber bullets either. Maybe the English empire should call in some UN peacekeeping troops.
Britain is SOOOO screwed...
They have been aborting their next generation for so long AND importing near easters for so long... its a wonder Britain is functioning at all...
Same is true of Germany and France..
America has been aborting their next generation for a good long while now..
AND the same importing Mexicans and other south americans..
Its a wonder Washington D.C. is working at all..
OH! WAIT... maybe its not working.. NEVermInd...
Socialism took hold immediately after WW2. The most malevolent expression of it was National Health Care. A little over 60 years for the cancer to get to this point.
Hmmm...I think I saw some of those in Manchester.
Actually, the thing that impressed me was the wide variety of thugs that England has produced. Truly multicultural...
For a week now my 9-year old son has been going to bed, assisting on falling asleep to my tapes of old time radio shows of Edgars Bergen Charlie McCarthy.
London is burning
My Retirement savings and his college funds are evaporating as the stock market dives.
This is 2011 right? or 1940?
I've been thinking 1931.
I read his "Life at ther Bottom" last year, and it was excellent.
It's basically a recounting of various stories accumulated over his years as a physician. Remarkable in it's clarity and familiarity.
IIRC, That's a pen name he writes under. And no wonder.
What Dalrymple says here is true in the US as well. Our black population has probably had more public money spent on it than any single group ever in the entire history of the US, and we are getting exactly what one should expect: resentment and demands for more.
But as the welfare state has spread out its net of dependency, catching people ranging from members of the skilled trades (dependent on government make-work jobs and protection) to university students (living off of grants and "loans" that they do not intend to pay back), we have built a large, seething, sullen group of dependent people for whom whatever is done will never be enough.
A. Many of the Ivy-league educated people are dependent themselves. They also feed at the trough that is filled by the efforts of working people.
B. Many have useless degrees, so "teaching" is the only place they can find a job.
C. It's a good place to hide insecurity in one's own capacity to support family and self. I know of (and know) professional students and teachers hiding behind two or three PhDs.
D. Many have a deep (albeit unconscious) sense of guilt, which they try to relieve through their politics and ideology.
I gave "Life at the Bottom" to my social worker daughter when she graduated from college a few years ago. She is now a hard azz social worker.
If you remember "Animal Farm" and recognize the feral youth burning down London as the Doberman pups, you might also see the Ivy League types angling to be the pigs and live in the house while the rest of us live outside.
...radio shows of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
A radio ventriloquist. The ultimate example of trust and blind faith.
You're right, we don't in the U.S.A. have classes, at least in the sense the Europeans had an aristocracy and a peasant and a worker class. I think we're using it here in a descriptive sense. A self-descriptive sense, because a lot of snot-nosed progressives are only too happy to proclaim their superiority.
What Dalrymple says here is true in the US as well. Our black population has probably had more public money spent on it than any single group ever in the entire history of the US, and we are getting exactly what one should expect: resentment and demands for more.
But as the welfare state has spread out its net of dependency, catching people ranging from members of the skilled trades (dependent on government make-work jobs and protection) to university students (living off of grants and "loans" that they do not intend to pay back), we have built a large, seething, sullen group of dependent people for whom whatever is done will never be enough.
Consider the concept above in terms of "foreign aid," with "dependent people" replaced by "dependent nations."
Good question. There are several answers:
1) Ivy league types believe in social engineering, the kind that says we can win the war on poverty, the war on drugs, etc. This goes against human nature (and the wisdom of the Bible) in the sense that as the Bible says (paraphrase), We will always have the poor. Unfortunately, there is injustice in the world and no man-made plan can eradicate all of it man is a fallen creature. Ironically, the socialist Utopian plans for human perfection have actually created more misery imaginable (100 million dead in the last century from national and international socialism). But these Ivy League types refuse to give up on their blinkered idealism and continue to say, That really wasnt socialism and we just have to keep trying. In other words, they dont learn anything from reality.
2) Related to the first point is the idea that these professors have created their careers on this type of leftist thinking and they are not going to jeopardize what took them a whole life time to create they are not going to say I was wrong. (Actually some have like David Mamet, David Horowizt, Norman Podhoretz, Thomas Sowell, Whittaker Chambers, etc.) Many of these professors bought into the ideas of the Frankfurt School (communists) at a time when they themselves were students protesting the Vietnam War as part of the bigger picture of American imperialism. They knew they couldnt change the system from without through protests or violent revolution in the street but from within (through the institutions). The university provides cover for all sorts of anti-American, anti-capitalist activity under the disguise as education: post-colonial studies, radical feminism, Queer theory, Gender theory, Critical theory, Multiculturalism, Post Modernism, etc. This is all part of Cultural Marxism and it carries on today in the humanities and social sciences with professors hiring similar minded professors who have come up through the ranks as students.
3) Many of these professors are atheists and Social Justice or socialism is like a religion to them it provides them with a seemingly higher purpose and a feel good morality. To quote from Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion. And this religious strain or higher purpose also contributes to a fervor that makes them to feel quite superior of the common man. It gives them, in great part, their smug elitist attitudes or the belief that they should be able to dictate to the masses for their own good. No wonder they wouldnt want to give that up.
To sum it up in a nutshell: human pride.
Was Thomas Sowell originally on the left?
Yeah, he was a Marxist student at the U of Chicago. Working for the government opened his eyes. There are some good videos on Youtube where he talks about his conversion.
Thank you.
Wasn't that a great book!
You assume that the "American Intellectual Class" actually believe the dreck they spout.
An "intellectual", pretty much by definition, is somebody who uses his skill in rhetoric and argumentation to convince others about some theory, or persuade others about a course of action. They do not necessarily believe what they say any more than a salesman or marketing executive believes all the claims they make about the superiority of their products.
They want a centralized planned economy because they think they would thrive as members of the State's propaganda machine.
We live in a world where technology is the new God, served up by men who ridicule the believers of our ancient faith.
We live in a world where grand theft of an entire industry is chuckled at by the millions stealing movies, music and books on the Internet.
We live in a world where it is a crime to mention God in a public grammar school or high school. Where prosecutions have occurred for those who actually prayed in a school and we consider the rioters mad?
We live in a world where human fetuses are considered garbage to be thrown out in a trash can and when human life is worth so little, why should I respect a store front.
When you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
They pray to the Internet but it brings no value to live by only a call to aimlessly follow. Vast segments of our own society are lost, 'like a huge throng running naked in a circle in hell, being stung by bees, chasing a man with a banner.' Aimless, amoral hordes, taught that faith is for idiots, and then put into prison-like schools where their brains and morals addle, while the children of their progressive overseers are sent to elite private institutions to be hopefully cordoned off from the hopelessness that is peddled to the masses.
Now we have raised an army of jackals.
No acts of faith will ever be declared heroic. No mention of the power and accomplishment of faith is ever taught only to the effect that crimes against humanity can be attributed to it. The progressives have set out on a Stalinist course of destroying religion and the world now reaps the harvest of their insidious labors.
I was struck once watching a news clip of a neo-nazi klan rally being violently chased through the streets by a crowd of mixed races. They fell upon one Klansman who collapsed and lying prone, defenseless, was being kicked and punched to death. A black woman, who had nothing to gain but only her communion with the Lord, dove on the helpless Klansman and yelled "STOP" and saved his life. It was a moment for me when the heavens opened and I saw the hands of God and I finally understood the Gospel and the words of Jesus Christ. When that defenseless Klansman stood for the annihilation of her race, and this black women risked her own life to save his, this act of selflessness deeply showed me the essence of our Christian faith. If we could take her faith and her charity and her selflessness and multiply it to these millions of godless souls, we could stop this insanity and make the world a better place.
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