cheese it, the cops!

let me just point out that the fact that you receive extremely stupid email does not entail that what you're saying is true. else we'd all be geniuses.

new guidelines to protect the journalistic integirty (as we pronounce it here at eyeofthestorm.blogs.com) of eyeofthestorm.blogs.com.

(1) all groundless innuendo and vicious slander must be attributed to unnamed sources.

(2) increase basic factual errors. this will tend to conceal basic interpretive errors.

(3) when our coverage is criticized, fire back immediately with large-caliber automatic weapons.

(4) remember that "truth" is relative and that no one has ever shown any assertion actually to be false.

(5) all articles will now achieve "balance" by getting a comment on, say, interest rates, only from one anarchist and one fascist. non-anarchists and non-fascists - such as democrats and (moderate) republicans - who are obviously too chickenshit to take a decisive position, will henceforth be ignored. addendum: communists, unbeknownst to themselves, are in fact fascists.

(6) increase coverage of people who believe in idiotic things (e.g. christianity) or live in places only idiots would live (e.g. the american south).

(7) at the dawn of the internet, plagiarism became impossible. cut and paste.

(8) pretend not to be a liberal! repeat: pretend not to be a liberal!

(9) take a tip from the cabinet: avoid at all costs the appearance of conflict of interest, while paddling contentedly in the rejuvenating waters of its reality.

(10) keep in mind that the reporters here at eyeofthestorm.blogs.com all went to like columbia and harvard and shit. condescend.

(11) desperately placate anyone who uses the term "lawsuit."

fusillade update . they apologize for subjecting the neighborhood to a hailstorm of bullets.

"They're not hiding," Emerson told reporters. "They're honorable, decent individuals. They're proud professionals of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and they're willing to stand up and tell the community that they do apologize."

ok. fair enough. i accept everything besides "professional." when the professionals set up a situation in which they're shooting straight at one another, when they expend 120 rounds at point-blank range and can't kill the "suspect," one prays that the criminals will be pistol-whipped by amateurs.

 

the war on people of faith isn't going all that well, because despite the fact that people of faith are incredibly oppressed in this country, they have the u.s. air force on their side . but if we, the secular humanists, satanists, atheist freaks, blasphemers etc just stay unified, we can start our own airforce, and maybe even get hold of some nukes. then at last michelle malkin, david limbaugh, ann coulter, alberto gonzales and other advocates of darkness will feel what it's like to be vaporized for their god. let us give them the glorious martyrdom they deserve and seek.

only the truly vicious and self-deluded little green footballs would be rooting for karimov, in virtue of the fact that the people he's killing are moslems. the footballs object to the headline u.s. ally fires on its people. what headline do they want? maybe "freedom-loving democrat reasons with terrorists"? surely you can't object to a flat statement of fact.

sometimes education is just so lame . btw, which do you prefer, books or butts?

the war on people of faith meme (to use adam's term) provides this week's creator's column . it's one of those i write knowing that it's extremely unlikely that any newspaper would actually run it.

but still, a prediction. karimov will go down harder than the assmonkeys in ukraine or kyrgyzstan. it's gonna hurt.

yeah you might find instapundit and some other whatevers a little reticent on this one, since the torturer karimov has provided the fundamental staging area for the afghan portion of your show.

islam karimov , fuck of fucks , may end up going the way of an amazing string of autocrats in ex-soviet republics. but i think this one might be a bit harder. on the third hand, amazing shit can obviously happen amazingly fast in these places when you didn't even expect it one little bit.

ok so the talk of the sphere and of rush limbaugh (i, um, listened today) is that michael isikoff (whom i knew when i was a baby copy boy at the washington star: i daresay he don't remember me) is to blame for many deaths in virtue of his reporting about flushing the koran (or perhaps (quran)). imagine that! so i reported a story and now i'm a fucking murderer. at worst it's an unpredictable consequence. but i'll tell you this: i regard isikoff's original assertion as extremely plausible.

no matter how happy the philadelphia inquirer may be about the idea, don't forget move, 20 years on.

i think american cop has got this false alarm thing nailed. when you look at the people running out of the capitol and onto the streets of dc it looks like a million movies in which people escape from the insane unexpected disaster/invasion into the clutches of an ecstatic collective death.

one quick observation: if i hear the phrase "out of the judicial mainstream" again i'm agonna hurl. on you. the argument appears to be this: the nominee fails to help us produce the little consensus of 2005.  reject on ideology, temperament, ethics, or whatever, but please not: he's not in our momentary unanimity.

so they're rioting in afghanistan  over newsweek's report of abuse of the koran by american interrogators. instapundit is up in arms not over the abuse or even the rioting but the reporting. it does seem that the k-abuse is unconfirmed. on the other hand, it's obvious that one whole wing of the interrogatioon strategy - concerted and from on high because widespread - involved abusing the prisoners specifically for their moslem beliefs by violating moslem taboos: for example, the "menstrual blood"  move and even the entire sexual humiliation strategy had that element. it would surprise me if it weren't true that they were flushing korans.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico said the U.S. military was investigating. "This allegation is contrary to our respect for cultural customs and fundamental belief in the freedom of religion," Plexico said.

i love these comedians!

here's a pretty good attack on the real id act, passed 100-0 by the senate. actually the site and group are overall pretty interesting, though i don't know about em. eric 's up on this too.

so i was thinking of changing the name of the blog to "cheese it, the cops!" though the address would be the same. "eye of the storm" seems i mite pretentious. any feelings either way?

cheese it! the cops!

yo just read and rolled eric's harnessing catastrophe . dude. i love you.

alright . tell you what. let's kill this person very slowly on national television. and let's enjoy that, without a hint of self-loathing. actually people should loathe themselves if they don't want to see this person die. he stabbed his second-grade daughter through both eyes - thirty wounds in all on the 2 girls - in, um, self-defense.

help! the vatican is controlling my brain with "extremely strong electromagnetic waves" ! wait a second! it is just as my master lyndon larouche predicted!!!

some days it's hard to be an anarchist .

people really are chumps , knowhati'msayin?

did y'all see michael winerip's article in the nyt about the sat essay? grade correlates almost perfectly with length. my son hayes just took it by the way and the essay question was something like: does work add structure to life? at any rate, i admire the college board and assert flatly that in matters of intelligence and academic achievement, only ignorant idiots are able to be truly objective.

latimes has excellent continuing coverage of the fusillade case, with more accessible and complete video (including an "officer" threatening the person with the camera).

do y'all read the quasi famous little green footballs ? tell me that shit ain't put out by israeli intelligence or something. it's incessant. got an arabic name? you're a fucking terrorist, dude. little green footballs is gonna be rounding up our arab brethren and making the brown people pay, my man. seriously, as i've been reading, day after day, it's all about: abdul done somethin wrong. where am de camps??? we will have revenge for auschwitz when  we've killed precisely 6 million arabs. and their children.

i've been waiting for this, cause i do think our species is not completely hopeless. andy roddick thought a serve by his opponent, called out by the ump, was in, so he himself made the call (and lost the match).

Roddick was leading 5-3 in the second set and had triple match point when Verdasco appeared to hit his second serve just long. The line judge called the ball out but Roddick said the ball was in after checking the mark left in the clay, giving Verdasco an ace.

"I didn't think it was anything extraordinary," Roddick said. "The umpire would have done the same thing if he came down and looked. I just saved him the trip. He's working hard up there."

this dude is my alltime hero now. can you imagine (let's say) an nfl receiver saying: no i trapped it etc: his own teammates would turn on him like a pack of vicious dogs. anyway, i really hope that were i in that situation i'd make the same call. when we used to play pickup basketball on the streets of dc, we had to call our own fouls. now who would you despise? the dude who never committed a foul by his own account: the dishonest, rationalizing fuckhead. andy roddick: you rock.

 

ok i just took a few hits off the worst beer i ever tasted: magic hat #9. probably - just spitballing here - you shouldn't make a flat bitter out of carrot juice. the web site has a certain appropriateness: interesting but impossible to navigate. anyway, the last time i poured a beer down the sink was probably when i swore off in 1990.

sometimes i feel like my life is just too sheltered and boring:

Hobbs was arrested on Aug. 4, 2001 after arguing with Sheila Hollabaugh, Laura's mother, in a Texas trailer park, said Rick Mahler, a prosecutor in Wichita County, Texas. Hobbs had grabbed a chainsaw and chased other residents around the area, Mahler said. No one was hurt and someone subdued Hobbs by hitting him in the back with a shovel, he said.

update on the fusillade. the dipshits fired at least 120 shots at close range without killing the (unarmed) suspect.

The shooting on a narrow residential street in Compton sent residents diving for cover as bullets zipped over their heads and through their windows. In the aftermath, bullet holes pocked the walls of at least five homes.

i wonder what these clowns would have said if the thing hadn't been caught on tape.

"This is crazy, really, really crazy," said Trina Hays, 42, who dove onto her lawn when the shooting erupted 20 feet away. "They didn't have any concern for anybody's life, including their own. That's why their own police officer got hit…. They could have just sat there and waited it out, but they opened fire."...

About 100 yards down the street, resident Pedro Mendez said he had stepped to his bedroom window when he heard the sirens, then saw the gunfire begin.
Two bullets smashed into the window over his head, through his bedroom, a closet door and a back wall before burying themselves in a kitchen cupboard
"The bullets almost grazed my head," Mendez said, adding that glass from the window landed on his scalp. "They passed like one inch above my head."
Mendez yelled to his wife and her 14-year-old daughter to take cover....

sherriff baca - known to his collegues as "bright eyes" - points out that deputies can use deadly force when they believe their life is in danger. they might want to tighten up these rules a bit so that they don't entail that when your life is in danger from any source (for example, yourself) you can kill whomever you like.

Authorities said they have no evidence that Hayes was involved in the shooting that brought officers to the area except that he was driving a similar vehicle to one possibly involved in that incident.

but even without such evidence, it might be a good idea to set up a gauntlet down two sides of the  street and then empty all our guns into the poor sap. and one another. one thing that should be completely clear from the tape is the sheer cowardice. not only am i one of an army pumping lead into an suv that hasn't ever fired back, but i am taking cover and looking for a new clip. dude. the situation is dangerous. only twenty deputies against one unarmed man, emptying our pistols like a firing squad. and, um, missing. sometimes the situation just gets away from you. sometimes you feel so endangered that you just must join your colleagues in a murder, even as you moan and cry like the chickenshit police motherfucker you are. sometimes we execute black people arbitrarily, and sometimes nobody riots.