I saw somethings on the web that made me frustrated beyond belief.
1. The first is something we’ve already discussed in this forum. The Texas Board of Education Chairman. If you’ll hark back a couple months, you may recall that the Texas Senate got rid of the Chairman bc he was a religious nut whose main goal was to ban the teaching of evolution in the school curriculum, which would have been ironically a form of devolution, ie. the rest of the world progresses while Texas remains primitive.
Instead of getting someone who most Texans wouldn’t object to (read: moderate conservative who doesn’t ruffle feathers) he went as far right as he could without pulling someone out of a pulpit.
I’d never heard of her before, but Cynthia Dunbar is my new least favorite person.
How people like this exist, much less get voted into public office is beyond me. Their “faith” blinds them into believing that their ways are error free, and there is but one path through this world.
Ahh, Texas how I love thee, why must we be plagued by a pestilence worse than any locust???
2. Next is a story of wrongful accusation. Is there anything worse than that? When I was a kid, I used to get so upset by characters being wrongly accused on television/film that I would have to leave the room or change the channel. It was so painfully obvious from my enlightened spectator’s point of view, that I couldn’t believe the accusers could behave in such a way. I’d probably cry somewhere in there, because I was a weiner.
This story is strange in that the institutions set up to measure justice seemed so ready to drop the hammer after a mere glance at the ruler.
Some of the more infuriating facts of the case:
a) Girl had BAC of % .29 which is about as much as you can possibly have (her testimony of the night was still taken on record, that makes sense) without dying.
b) The girl’s admittedly jealous ex-boyfriend’s semen was found on the underwear she was wearing that night. An explanation for this fact was never provided because both the girl and the ex-boyfriend could not corraborate on the last time they had been together before this, but were both sure it had been in the past couple of weeks. WTF??
c) This event occurred around the same time as the Duke LaCrosse scandal. Regardless of their innocence them Duke boys are now painted as victims of reverse racism in a racially divided area. Well Frimpong wasn’t in a divided area, he was completely submerged, and the story didn’t see the 1/10,000th the coverage that Duke LAX got. (BTW, much of the “victim’s” testimony in the LAX case was disregarded because she had been drinking. HA. As the french say: Standehrd Duble’!)
These 2 stories just make me want to do one thing:
jesus, the frimpong case... i'm firing off half-cocked here, but i really can see the need for 'them who balance the scales'. if ever there was a time to light up the bat signal. don't want to say call the watchmen, because they are all fat now, but someone ought to rise to the occasion, actually rape 'jane doe', free frimpong, and steal off back into the night.
you'd need a lawyer like harvey dent to get frimpong his spot with kansas back. mls one day, hard time the next?
i know what you mean about yelling at the tv, bjorn. especially when jane doe said 'i don't know, it felt like a penis.' the man was ghanain -- there's not going to be a question about what is happening.
iudena
I wanted the beat to drop in that video so bad. thx
Kinda like the CU football rape case. I bet had all male parties involved been white, they wouldn't have had their pictures splashed all over the front page of the newspaper.
In that case, the girl who had been date raped wasn't even the accuser.
I don't remember what happened to the boys or the case...but I do remember the coach got in big trouble because the whole thing went down at an illegal recruiting party for prospective players.
thebluebird
From what I recall, Gary Barnett was suspended not for the party/allegations, but for his comments about a former (female) placekicker, Katie Hnida. After the allegations of rape at a circa 2001 party were made in 2004'ish by several women, Katie stepped forward and claimed to have been raped by CU players (after previously only claiming sexual harassment) in 2000. No charges were ever brought by the DA against any of the accused players.
The quotes that got him fired: "It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful. You know what guys do? They respect your ability. You can be 90 years old, but if you can go out and play, they'll respect you." "Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible. OK? There's no other way to say it. She couldn't kick the ball through the uprights."
imattclark
the new person has been elected actually. just recently. her name is Gail Lowe. Not Cynthia Dunbar, but not any better imo. Sigh.
Angrification Station
I saw somethings on the web that made me frustrated beyond belief.
1. The first is something we’ve already discussed in this forum. The Texas Board of Education Chairman. If you’ll hark back a couple months, you may recall that the Texas Senate got rid of the Chairman bc he was a religious nut whose main goal was to ban the teaching of evolution in the school curriculum, which would have been ironically a form of devolution, ie. the rest of the world progresses while Texas remains primitive.
Well, The Great Governor Rick Perry, who nominated the first chode to begin with, needs to elect another.
Instead of getting someone who most Texans wouldn’t object to (read: moderate conservative who doesn’t ruffle feathers) he went as far right as he could without pulling someone out of a pulpit.
I’d never heard of her before, but Cynthia Dunbar is my new least favorite person.
Houston Chronicle
Texas Freedom Network
Bad Astronomy
How people like this exist, much less get voted into public office is beyond me. Their “faith” blinds them into believing that their ways are error free, and there is but one path through this world.
Ahh, Texas how I love thee, why must we be plagued by a pestilence worse than any locust???
2. Next is a story of wrongful accusation. Is there anything worse than that? When I was a kid, I used to get so upset by characters being wrongly accused on television/film that I would have to leave the room or change the channel. It was so painfully obvious from my enlightened spectator’s point of view, that I couldn’t believe the accusers could behave in such a way. I’d probably cry somewhere in there, because I was a weiner.
This story is strange in that the institutions set up to measure justice seemed so ready to drop the hammer after a mere glance at the ruler.
Some of the more infuriating facts of the case:
a) Girl had BAC of % .29 which is about as much as you can possibly have (her testimony of the night was still taken on record, that makes sense) without dying.
b) The girl’s admittedly jealous ex-boyfriend’s semen was found on the underwear she was wearing that night. An explanation for this fact was never provided because both the girl and the ex-boyfriend could not corraborate on the last time they had been together before this, but were both sure it had been in the past couple of weeks. WTF??
c) This event occurred around the same time as the Duke LaCrosse scandal. Regardless of their innocence them Duke boys are now painted as victims of reverse racism in a racially divided area. Well Frimpong wasn’t in a divided area, he was completely submerged, and the story didn’t see the 1/10,000th the coverage that Duke LAX got. (BTW, much of the “victim’s” testimony in the LAX case was disregarded because she had been drinking. HA. As the french say: Standehrd Duble’!)
These 2 stories just make me want to do one thing: