Six officers have been charged in murder related indictments. I listened to Bill Carol on the radio both before lunch and after lunch. He was talking about that indictment of those six police officers in Baltimore - - and one charge was a reckless homicide charge. Actually the term is “depraved heart homicide”. Marilyn Mosebee has been on the job four months and there the DA is referred to as the State’s attorney. This lady was reading off the scads of varying charges against the six officers charged. Norman Goldman also says that Gray suffered a false arrest to begin with. Apparently spring action pocket knives are not illegal to carry. Right now the lady was reading off the “no basis for arrest” stipulations. Marilyn Mosebee is African American and she’s 35 years old, and her husband is a city councilman. Some wanted her to recuse herself. Personally I’m pleased to see a little action. Apparently the DA didn’t believe Shawn Hannity’s verion of events, assuming he’s concocted one. It’s rather obvious Freddy Gray was beaten up by the police before he ever got in the van, and then called twice for medical assistance and was denied that. His neck rammed right into a big bolt or nut thing on the side of the van and Bill Carol wondered why such an object was even in the enclosure. They call it a Paddy Wagon of course because the Irish used to be called Paddies because they were arrested for drunkenness and the name stuck.
Tomorrow is super sports day. Apparently it’s the NFL draft picks. But it’s also the day years in the making where Maryweather fights Mannie Pacheau, or however you spell it. Their boxing styles are very different. The odds are two to one in Maryweather’s favor. But those are the shortest odds he’s had in any fight in years- with others more like ten to one. Six of eight of the Circ De Solee locations are showing the fight on the big screen. The main vanue costs between fifteen hundred dollars and ten thousand (!) dollars for a ringside seat. There are twelve rounds- not fifteen- - but still three minutes, of course. It’s also Game 7 of the Clippers and SA Spurs, assuming KABC even televises that game. Judy thought I wanted to stay home for a big game, but this one I didn’t even know about it. I thought perhaps it had already been played. I need to keep closer track.
Senator Bernie Sanders made his announcement to run for President live on the Thom Hartman show just a little after nine. He says he will not run a negative campaign but will only cite issues over seventy percent of the voters, on average, already agree with him on. Hartman is afraid the media will tear him apart and give him poor coverage and ask only biased, barbed questions. Sanders is someone who can help us feel good about voting for a political candidate. I voted for the Green party in 2012 just to throw my vote away because of President Obama's extreme stance on abortion in these "wrongful life" legal cases, where a baby was supposed to have died in an attempted abortion but didn't. And Biblicly if you KNOW something to be a fact, you have to DEAL with it based on that knowledge one way or the other. I agree with Sanders on doing something about Global Warming right NOW and not wait twenty years till it's too late. The ice is breaking up in the Atlantic faster than ever. And Sanders is solidly against the Trans Pacific Trade agreement. I have also come to agree with Sanders that we need publicly funded campaigns, and probably a much shorter campaign season. What we have now is pointless and absurd, running the campaign like it's October of 2016. There is the inequity between the many who are poor verses the few who are rich. We need to crack down on Wall Street crooks. And Sanders bucked the media hysteria and voted against the Iraq War in 2002 or 2003 or whenever it was. They say that Sanders is less knowledgable in foreign policy than he is on domestic.
The UN Secretary General stated Thursday that Saudi bombings of Yemen, which are assisted and coordinated by the US, “are having a devastating impact on humanitarian aid efforts and are in violation of the laws of war.” While noting that fighters within Yemen are also committing war-crimes – ISIS, for example, has been able to establish a presence in the country thanks to the Saudi campaign – the UN has “been particularly critical of the Saudi air strikes”, for which the “United States is providing aerial refueling and intelligence” from within and outside the Saudi-Wahhabi dictatorship’s territory, as well as rescuing Saudi pilots: “U.S. military assets ha[ve] been used to rescue two Saudi pilots” – McClatchy. (The US also evacuated its own government staff.) While 8 countries, including India, China, and Russia, have carried out missions to rescue thousands of their civilian nationals, as well as foreign nationals and some Americans from the Yemen war zone, the Obama regime, recalling Bush’s treatment of hurricane Katrina refugees, refuses to evacuate any of the 3 to 4,000 US civilians trapped in Yemen, despite US-lawsuits calling on Obama to do so. The UN said that “more than 1,200 people have been killed in the past six weeks of fighting and that 300,000 have fled their homes.” Antiwar.com reports that US-backed Saudi aggression “has provided an opportunity for AQAP [al Qaeda] and ISIS to gain ground”, as the Houthis, a domestic Yemeni movement opposed to al Qaeda, had previously prevented the Saudi-supported groups from gaining a foothold.
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