#FreddieGray dies after cops severed 80 percent of his spine

Posted on April 19, 2015 by SouthernGirl2  on 3 Chickspolitico

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 A man injured after being arrested by the Baltimore police died today, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Freddie Gray had to undergo a double surgery on three broken vertebrae and an injured voice box on Tuesday, after he was released by the police. He died today after days of remaining in a coma.

The 27-year old was arrested last week for an undisclosed violation. The police said that he was restrained on the ground by an officer during the arrest, but appeared to be fine when he was taken to the district station. However, a cell phone video shows that the arresting officers used force that some may seen as “brutal.”

Protests have broken out in his neighborhood since Gray was sent to the hospital.

“What happened to Freddie was unnecessary and uncalled for,” the Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant of the Empowerment Temple said to protestors on Saturday. “All of those police officers involved need to be held accountable and answer for what they did, and need to be terminated from their positions,” he urged.

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Poster of the day

Who would have thu’nk it?

Eideard

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Thanks, SmartAlix

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Why We Aren’t In Step With Die Deutschen?

Eideard

This is a comment by a reader of the previous article on Eideard’s site.

“None of this requires extra smarts. The broad core of the German Left ain’t different from ours. They just sweep opportunist wimps to one side. The broad core of German Conservatives accept class collaboration instead of religion-based 19th Century economic myth as their guide. Both sides put national progress ahead of superstition and greed. Even their (successful) improvements over unemployment insurance during the Bush Great Recession required cooperation and both classes improved their lot. Compare this to birdbrain Democrats and turdbrain Republicans.”

Angryman says:

I have been listening to the bullshit coming from the fossil fuel industry for 40 years. That was the year of the “First Arab Oil Embargo”.
It was being strongly suggested that we begin to switch our nation to renewable and perpetual energy sources and  the same rhetoric was spewing from their lying mouths then; as now.

Too expensive to implement.
Not efficient enough.
Take too long to make it profitable. (A telling phrase)
Take too long to build the industry.

 

The other day, the electric meter for all of Germany ran backwards for 8 hours!

 

Thanks Eideard for the good news. The nation of Hitler and Goering has beaten us to self sufficiency. No offense to Germany but isn’t this just a little embarrassing for us?

 

Eideard

Germany’s electricity traders may face busy weekends as sunny weather positions the nation for a season of solar power records.

After Wednesday’s all-time high of 27.7 gigawatts, Europe’s biggest electricity market is poised for new highs in the next few days or weeks, according to group meteorologist Marcus Boljahn at MeteoGroup. The previous record of 24.2 gigawatts was set on June 6, 2014, when fewer solar panels were installed, the weather forecaster said. One gigawatt is about equal to the capacity of a nuclear reactor…

Germany’s planned decade-long, 120 billion-euro ($127 billion) shift to cleaner energy from fossil fuels has made the nation the biggest economy in the world to rely so heavily on renewable power. Unpredictable solar and wind energy can flood the grid, resulting in negative power prices, when generators must pay consumers to take electricity. The risk is higher at weekends, when usage slows as offices and…

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White Pride; Celebrate it?

Every day I get up and eat breakfast; go to the store; shop; drive my car; go home to my family; and sleep through the night without fear of being harassed or arrested; beaten; shot; or misidentified because I look like every other white guy on the street.

 

How much more can I celebrate my “Whiteness”? Just doing these things is celebration enough.

 

If I was Black; all of those things would be a risk to my life and freedom.

 

 

Montezuma’s revenge:

Looks like Fidel got the best of us after-all. Thanks Walt,

Bell Book Candle

Diarrhea

Castro’s revenge:

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio

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Poem To A Friend I Almost Forgot.

You may wish I had. But good or bad and just for kicks; I’ll take the licks.

Hey! Hey! Ms. K;
How you doing this fine day?

I read the post about the Pres.
The Canadians like him better;
Than all the Republican Right-Wing Freaks
and Theocrats put together.

The Racists call him N-N-Not American
They say he was born abroad.
But I say No Way he’s a chick;
I’m sure I’d see the fraud.

The Republicans want their god;
To tell us how to live.
But he tells Them to take-take-take
And Us to just give-give-give

I say Church and State;
Should never have relations.
Like brother/sister intercourse;
The results; abominations

But there I go again;
My mind running off on a spree.
When I started simply to share this link;
Of a letter to Boehner;
From ME!

https://angrymanspeaks.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/an-open-letter-to-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-john-boehner/#more-396