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We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
I am a Pennsylvania Yankee living in Virginia (NOVA / Metro D.C.) and this is about as far South as I could live. There is a voluntary ignorance grounded in racism that I just can't stand among the electorate that is pathetic. These people keep electing gop / tea-bagger extremest that work against the best interest of those who elect them, denying them fair wages, workers rights and the social safety net programs so many of them need while making the rich richer. The picture above is a perfect depiction of many of these people in the deep South and rural South (as well as many of the rural areas of the North, including the part of PA I am from). This from +Daily Kos shows the results of their votes. Also from +The New York Times & +New York Magazine .....
Why any ostensibly rational person living in Kentucky, Tennessee, the
Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana who saw this
map, and still would think their states' Republican leaders' policies
were delivering the economic growth their region so sorely needs is
beyond comprehension. Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?
The toughest places to live in America
Almost every county in the U.S. has its share of haves and have-nots.
But there are some regions where it's just plain harder for Americans
to thrive, places where the poor far outnumber those living in
middle-class comfort.
Ten counties in America stand out as the most challenging places to
live, based on a survey of six criteria including median household
income, disability rate and life expectancy, according to an analysis by
The New York Times.
The county with the dubious distinction of being the worst of all is
Clay County, Kentucky, where residents can expect to die six years
earlier than the average American.
The other four counties ranked at the bottom of the survey
include four counties in the rural south: Humphreys County, Mississippi;
East Carroll Parish, Louisiana; Jefferson County, Georgia; and Lee
County, Arkansas.
The findings highlight an often overlooked issue in the debate about income inequality -- the stubbornness of rural poverty. In
the U.S., the number of poor rural residents outnumber those in the
cities, with 14 percent of rural Americans living below the poverty
line, compared with 12 percent in urban areas, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development's Rural Poverty Portal.
Of course you'd never get an inkling of any of this from watching Fox
Noise. The right's hired boobs like to characterize America's urban
areas as teeming with desperately poor people.
Of course, Appalachia and the South aren't the only parts of
the country where people struggle, The Times' study found. Pockets of
economic and social hardship extend from Maine to Alaska.
By Roberto A. Ferdman
Meanwhile, there are a number of states — all of them in the South — you might want to avoid. Mississippi,
which scored lower than any other state, barely broke 50. Arkansas and
Alabama, which tied for second to last, each scored 51.3. West Virginia,
which was fourth to last, scored 52.2. And Tennessee, which was fifth
to last, scored 52.9.
The South, which performed the worst of any region in the country, is
home to eight of the poorest performing states. Only Virginia was in
the top 25. And just barely — it placed 22nd.
The average person's life is harder in the South and in Appalachia. The
economic safety net in these states is bare bones and have gaping gaps
that let many their citizens fall through into the economic margins. The
South's and Appalachia's craven political leaderships that grovel
before wealthy interests are the main reason why the region consistently
lags behind the other states across a range of measures.
Originally posted to Lefty Coaster on Sun Oct 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM PDT.
Annie Lowrey writes
in the Times Magazine this week about the troubles of Clay County, Ky.,
which by several measures is the hardest place in America to live.
The
Upshot came to this conclusion by looking at six data points for each
county in the United States: education (percentage of residents with at
least a bachelor’s degree), median household income, unemployment rate,
disability rate, life expectancy and obesity. We then averaged each
county’s relative rank in these categories to create an overall ranking.
(We tried to include other factors, including income mobility and measures of environmental quality, but we were not able to find data sets covering all counties in the United States.)
The
10 lowest counties in the country, by this ranking, include a cluster
of six in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky (Breathitt,
Clay, Jackson, Lee, Leslie and Magoffin), along with four others in
various parts of the rural South: Humphreys County, Miss.; East Carroll
Parish, La.; Jefferson County, Ga.; and Lee County, Ark.
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The Hardest Place to Live in America
CreditLuke Sharrett for The New York Times
We
used disability — the percentage of the population collecting federal
disability benefits but not also collecting Social Security retirement
benefits — as a proxy for the number of working-age people who don’t
have jobs but are not counted as unemployed. Appalachian Kentucky scores
especially badly on this count; in four counties in the region, more
than 10 percent of the total population is on disability, a phenomenon
seen nowhere else except nearby McDowell County, W.Va.
Remove
disability from the equation, though, and eastern Kentucky would still
fare badly in the overall rankings. The same is true for most of the
other six factors.
The
exception is education. If you exclude educational attainment, or lack
of it, in measuring disadvantage, five counties in Mississippi and one
in Louisiana rank lower than anywhere in Kentucky. This suggests that
while more people in the lower Mississippi River basin have a college
degree than do their counterparts in Appalachian Kentucky, that
education hasn’t improved other aspects of their well-being.
As
Ms. Lowrey writes, this combination of problems is an overwhelmingly
rural phenomenon. Not a single major urban county ranks in the bottom 20
percent or so on this scale, and when you do get to one — Wayne County,
Mich., which includes Detroit — there are some significant differences.
While Wayne County’s unemployment rate (11.7 percent) is almost as high
as Clay County’s, and its life expectancy (75.1 years) and obesity rate
(41.3 percent) are also similar, almost three times as many residents
(20.8 percent) have at least a bachelor’s degree, and median household
income ($41,504) is almost twice as high.
Wayne
County may not make for the best comparison — in addition to Detroit,
it includes the Grosse Pointes and some other wealthy suburbs that could
be pulling its rankings up. But St. Louis, another struggling city,
stands alone as a jurisdiction for statistical purposes and ranks even
higher over all, slightly, with better education and lower unemployment
making up for a median household income ($34,384) that is lower than
Wayne County’s but still quite a bit higher than Clay County’s $22,296.
At
the other end of the scale, the different variations on our formula
consistently yielded the same result. Six of the top 10 counties in the
United States are in the suburbs of Washington (especially on the
Virginia side of the Potomac River), but the top ranking of all goes to
Los Alamos County, N.M., home of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which
does much of the scientific work underpinning the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The lab directly employs one out of every five county residents and has a
budget of $2.1 billion; only a fraction of that is spent within the
county, but that’s still an enormous economic engine for a county of
just 18,000 people.
Here
are some specific comparisons: Only 7.4 percent of Clay County
residents have at least a bachelor’s degree, while 63.2 percent do in
Los Alamos. The median household income in Los Alamos County is
$106,426, almost five times what the median Clay County household earns.
In Clay County, 12.7 percent of residents are unemployed, and 11.7
percent are on disability; the corresponding figures in Los Alamos
County are 3.5 percent and 0.3 percent. Los Alamos County’s obesity rate
is 22.8 percent, while Clay County’s is 45.5 percent. And Los Alamos
County residents live 11 years longer, on average — 82.4 years vs. 71.4
years in Clay County.
Clay and Los Alamos Counties are part of the same country. But they are truly different worlds.
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There
are many tough places in this country: the ghost cities of Detroit,
Camden and Gary, the sunbaked misery of inland California and the
isolated reservations where Native American communities were left to
struggle. But in its persistent poverty, Eastern Kentucky — land of
storybook hills and drawls — just might be the hardest place to live
in the United States. Statistically speaking.
The team at The Upshot,
a Times news and data-analysis venture, compiled six basic metrics to
give a picture of the quality and longevity of life in each county of
the nation: educational attainment, household income, jobless rate,
disability rate, life expectancy and obesity rate. Weighting each
equally, six counties in eastern Kentucky’s coal country (Breathitt,
Clay, Jackson, Lee, Leslie and Magoffin) rank among the bottom 10.
Clay
County, in dead last, might as well be in a different country. The
median household income there is barely above the poverty line, at
$22,296, and is just over half the nationwide median. Only 7.4 percent
of the population has a bachelor’s degree or higher. The unemployment
rate is 12.7 percent. The disability rate is nearly as high, at 11.7
percent. (Nationwide, that figure is 1.3 percent.) Life expectancy is
six years shorter than average. Perhaps related, nearly half of Clay
County is obese.
It’s
coal country, but perhaps in name only. In the first quarter of this
year, just 54 people were employed in coal mining in Clay County, a
precipitous drop from its coal-production peak in 1980. That year, about
2.5 million tons of coal were taken out of the ground in Clay; this
year, the county has produced a fraction of that — just over 38,000
tons. Former mines have been reclaimed, and that land has been
repurposed in scattershot ways: a golf course, shopping centers, a
medium-security federal prison. But nothing has truly come to replace
the industry on which Clay County once depended.
The
public debate about the haves and the have-nots tends to focus on the 1
percent, especially on the astonishing, breakaway wealth in cities like
New York, San Francisco and Washington and the great disparities
contained therein. But what has happened in the smudge of the country
between New Orleans and Pittsburgh — the Deep South and Appalachia — is
in many ways as remarkable as what has happened in affluent cities. In
some places, decades of growth have failed to raise incomes, and of
late, poverty has become more concentrated not in urban areas but in
rural ones.
Despite
this, rural poverty is largely shunted aside in the conversation about
inequality, much in the way rural areas have been left behind by broader
shifts in the economy. The sheer intractability of rural poverty raises
uncomfortable questions about how to fix it, or to what extent it is
even fixable.
The
desperation in coal country is hard to square with the beauty of the
place — the densely flocked hills peppered with tiny towns. It’s
magical. But it is also poor, even if economic growth and the federal
safety-net programs have drastically improved what that poverty looks
like.
Fifty
years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared his “war on poverty”
from a doorstep in the tiny Kentucky town of Inez, and since then,
Washington has directed trillions of dollars to such communities in the
form of cash assistance, food stamps, Medicaid and tax incentives for
development. (In some places, these transfer payments make up half of
all income.) Still, after adjusting for inflation, median income was
higher in Clay County in 1979 than it is now, even though the American
economy has more than doubled in size.
There
have been periodic attempts to flood persistently poor counties with
federal dollars in an effort to jolt them into higher growth rates. The
Obama administration this year named southeastern Kentucky a “promise
zone,” putting it at the top of the list for federal grants. It’s an old
idea: Draw in businesses, create jobs, help finance infrastructure,
turn the cycle virtuous.
On
the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, Kentucky’s libertarian
senator, Rand Paul, has proposed a more supply-side-oriented strategy:
Let certain counties eliminate capital-gains taxes and institute a
special federal income tax of 5 percent in those areas. “I’m just
letting you keep more of your own money,” Paul said to a small crowd in a
college auditorium in eastern Kentucky last winter. “The difference
between this and a government grant is I don’t choose who gets it.” On
either side of the aisle, the underlying assumption is the same: Places
like Clay County just need a kick-start. But what if that isn’t true?
In
many cases, a primary problem in poor rural areas is the very fact that
they’re rural — remote, miles from major highways and plagued by
substandard infrastructure. Think about the advantages of urban areas,
described by thinkers going back to Jane Jacobs and beyond. Density
means more workers to choose from, more potential customers, more
spillover knowledge from nearby companies. As such, cities punch above
their weight, economically speaking. The 10 largest metro regions
produced more than a third of the country’s entire economic output as of
2012.
The
converse is true for rural areas. Take eastern Kentucky, grappling with
the decline of coal — and perhaps looking at an even bleaker future for
the industry, given recent carbon-reduction efforts by the E.P.A. Those
rolling hills might be picturesque. But those country roads make it
hard to ship goods in and out, in turn making it more expensive to build
a warehouse or a factory.
“One
of the challenges that faces eastern Kentucky is the remoteness of the
area,” said James P. Ziliak, the director of the Center for Poverty
Research at the University of Kentucky. “It’s difficult to get to a lot
of places. The communities are small, and they’re spread apart, so you
lose that synergy that you want to spark development a lot of times.”
Even with additional government subsidies, would businesses really want
to move there? “It’s this chicken-and-egg problem,” Ziliak said. “My
view is that firms will never locate into a community with an unskilled
labor force, unless the only labor they need is unskilled. And there has
been a historic lack of investment in human capital in these areas.”
The
queasy answer that economists come to is that it would be better to
help the people than the place — in some cases, helping people leave the
place. Generally, the wealthier and better educated the family, the
more mobile they are. It takes resources to pack up all your things,
sign a new lease, pay for gas or a flight and go. That might help
explain why more Americans aren’t flocking from places with high
unemployment rates to places with low ones, even if those places are
surprisingly close together. College graduates, for instance, are
several times as responsive to differences in labor demand as those who
completed only high school, according to a study in The Journal of Human
Resources.
But
government policy based less on place and more on people might help
ameliorate that trend. “Let’s say I was a hardworking person who lost my
job in Harlan, Ky. — the ideal place, really, to go is Williston,
N.D.,” Senator Paul said. “People need to be mobile to go there. Some
government programs prevent mobility or discourage mobility.” And none
encourage it: There are scant federal resources to help the unemployed
or the poor in rural areas move to a job or even just a better
neighborhood. (Imagine Senator Mitch McConnell running for re-election
on the campaign slogan: “I’ll get you out of this moribund area and up
to the wilderness of North Dakota!”)
Of
course, thousands of families in places like Kentucky, South Dakota and
West Virginia manage to cobble together enough resources to make the
move themselves; the share of Americans living in rural areas has slowly
drifted down. In Clay County, the population has declined for the last
decade. And the overall population in rural areas declined for the first
time from 2010 to 2012, according to the Census Bureau.
Jeff
Whitehead runs the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program,
which helps retrain laid-off coal miners and find them new jobs.
“There’s just very limited opportunity for the people who were working
in the region,” he said, adding that he helped 220 families move out of
the area in recent years, despite many workers’ understandable
resistance. “That’s a really hard pill to swallow. People are really
connected to place here. For a lot of people, it’s the last thing
they’re doing. They’re holding off until they have no other choice.”
But
the number and proportion of people living in poverty in places like
eastern Kentucky persists, despite all the trillions of dollars spent to
improve the state of the poor in the United States and promote
development. Ziliak thinks that efforts focused on human capital —
meaning education initiatives, from prekindergarten all the way through
college — might be the best use of any new money. But, of course, that
also might mean more people moving away.
Annie Lowrey was, until recently, an economics reporter for The Times. Alan Flippen contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on June 29, 2014, on page MM13 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Bluegrass-State Blues.
HERE'S what the sports pundits are saying about the Buffalo Bills come from behind win over the Minnesota Vikings on 19 OCT 14. I have to work Sundays so I miss watching most of the season on TV but I follow the Bills games on my breaks at work. When I checked last Sunday they were down 10-16 Vikings with a little over 6 minutes to go. I didn't get bummed cause I didn't hear the Fat Lady singing and sure as shit the team came back in glorious fashion. LOVE YOU BUFFALO Bills!!!!!!
A summary of national media comments from around the web following the Bills comeback win against the Vikings in Week 7.
ESPN.com, John Clayton – Last call Defensive game ball – Leodis McKelvin
Bills
cornerback Leodis McKelvin intercepted Vikings quarterback Teddy
Bridgewater on consecutive throws in the second quarter of Buffalo's
17-16 victory.
CBS Sports, Pete Prisco – Monday musings • I have to give it to Bills quarterback Kyle Orton.
I didn't think he would play as well as he has so far in his three
starts. Orton threw for 283 yards and two touchdowns in Buffalo's
come-from-behind victory over Minnesota. He hit Sammy Watkins for
the game-winner with one second left on the clock. Watkins caught nine
passes for 122 yards and two touchdowns. The Bills are now 4-3 and have
to be considered a playoff contender.
USA Today, Nate Davis – Week seven winners and losers WINNERS
Sammy
Watkins: His career is only seven games old, but he set personal highs
with nine catches for 122 yards and two TDs, including the game winner
with 1 second left against the Vikings. Safe to say the Bills' new star
is picking up rookie of the year momentum.
—
It was a good omen Bills rookie WR Sammy Watkins hung onto the winning
2-yard TD pass from QB Kyle Orton with one second to go against the
Vikings. The Bills will need a lot more from their top draft pick now
that RB C.J. Spiller is likely done for the season with a broken collarbone and RB Fred Jackson
(groin) may miss some time as well. This was Watkins' best game of his
young career — nine catches, 122 yards, two TDs — and journeyman Orton
is smart enough to keep feeding him now that their options have thinned
in the backfield.
Yahoo Sports, Frank Schwab – Winners and Losers WINNERS
Kyle Orton and Doug Marrone: When
the Buffalo Bills fell to 2-2, Marrone made a decision that was
second-guessed, sitting 2013 first-round pick E.J. Manuel for journeyman
veteran Kyle Orton.
Not
that Manuel had played well, but it was still a bold move to give
Manuel the hook so soon into a season, with the Bills still at .500.
Especially since Orton has established his role in the NFL: a solid
quarterback who can execute the offense but rarely will do anything
special. But lo and behold, Orton made one of the biggest plays
of the NFL season so far, and Marrone looks pretty smart. Orton – who
also led a last-minute drive in his first start to beat the Detroit
Lions – took the Bills 80 yards in 3:06 with Buffalo trailing by six,
and hit rookie Sammy Watkins with one second left to give Buffalo a
dramatic 17-16 win. The degree of difficulty on the win was high after
the Bills lost their top two tailbacks, Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller.
Orton came through.
Orton's career looked to be over when he
threatened retirement all offseason. He did that to force the Cowboys to
release him (you can argue the ethics of that), and then the Bills gave
him a two-year, $11 million contract that seemed a bit expensive. But
now with the Bills at 4-3 thanks to two late victories led by Orton, it
all makes sense.
MMQB, Peter King – Monday Morning Quarterback
10 things I think
m. The Bills putting longtime play-by-play man Van Miller on their Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium. So deserving.
v. Buffalo quarterback Kyle Orton with a beautiful 26-yard touchdown pass laid in perfectly to Sammy Watkins.
Talk of Fame Network, Clark Judge – Judgements FIVE HALL-OF-FAME SIZZLES 1. Buffalo WR Sammy Watkins. He
has a career-best 122 yards in catches; he has a career-best nine
receptions; he has a career-best two touchdowns; and he makes the only
catch that matters — a game-winning TD grab with one second left. Memo
to St. Louis: You should’ve drafted this guy when you had the chance.
NFL.com, Marc Sessler – 39 things to know from week seven Buffalo Bills 17, Minnesota Vikings 16
1.
Trailing 16-10, Kyle Orton drove Buffalo on a gutsy 15-play, 80-yard
drive that saw him connect with four different pass-catchers before
finding rookie Sammy Watkins in the end zone with one tick left on the
clock. Orton's biggest toss on the march saw wideout Chris Hogan make
an outstanding 28-yard catch that set up the Bills at the Minnesota 2.
It's a critical win for Buffalo, one that keeps them alive in the AFC
East.
2. The win didn't come without a cost to Buffalo.
After Bills running back Fred Jackson was lost for the day to a groin
injury, C.J. Spiller was carted off the field with the broken collarbone
he suffered on a dazzling 52-yard sprint in the second quarter. With
enigmaticBryce Brown inactive for the seventh straight game, Anthony
Dixon -- the only running back left -- held his own to rumble for 51
yards at 3.9 yards per clip.
3. After throwing an ugly
interception last week against the Lions, Teddy Bridgewater flung a pair
of picks to Bills cornerback Leodis McKelvin. The second of those
interceptions saw Teddy underthrow wideout Adam Thielen, who couldn't
stop McKelvin from jumping the route to give Buffalo the ball back at
the Minnesota 26. Orton hit Watkins one play later for the 7-3 lead.
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Game photos: Vikings vs. Bills
NFL.com – Seven plays that explain week seven
Kyle
Orton is far from perfect, but the Bills passer delivered on a 15-play,
80-yard march that saw him connect with four different pass-catchers
before finding rookie Sammy Watkins in the end zone with one tick left
on the clock. Chris Hogan made the biggest catch on the drive with this
outstanding 28-yard grab that set up the Bills at the Minnesota 2. It's
a critical win for Buffalo, one that keeps them alive in the AFC East. -- Marc Sessler
Sports on Earth, Sheil Kapadia – 10 Takeaways from NFL’s week seven 6. Everyone's been saying it for years: Any time you can get the ball to Chris Hogan in a big spot, youhaveto do it. The
little-known 25-year-old Bills wide receiver has spent time with four
different organizations in four years. But with the game on the line
Sunday, he came up with a huge catch, attacking the ball in the air for a
28-yard gain that got Buffalo to the Vikings' 2-yard-line. Sammy
Watkins, who was brilliant all day, then sealed the win, keeping his
feet in bounds for the touchdown from Kyle Orton.
The Bills lost
running backs Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller to injuries. They turned it
over four times and allowed six sacks, yet escaped with a 17-16 victory.
Buffalo Bills – Performances of Note Sammy Watkins, WR: 3.0 Breakdown: Watkins
has had a very up-and-down season so far, but this was an outstanding
performance he put up against the Vikings. He had nine receptions (in 14
targets) for 122 yards and two touchdowns, setting personal bests in
all three categories. He looked extremely quick in and out of breaks all
afternoon. Signature Play: Q2, 9:28 remaining. On his
first touchdown grab of the day, he jumps inside on the go-route, giving
Orton a good angle to hit him on at the goal line, beating Captain
Munnerlyn for the touchdown. Jerry Hughes, DE: 2.5 Breakdown: Hughes
managed his fourth straight game at 1.0 or higher against Minnesota,
and continued to show quickness off the edge. He got to Bridgewater
twice for sacks, and added three stops in the run game. Signature Play: Q4,
13:35 remaining. On first-and-goal for the Vikings, Hughes puts an
inside move on left tackle Ryan Kalil and is immediately on Bridgewater
for the sack. Signature Stat: After finishing tied for
fourth last year in Pass Blocking Efficiency among offensive tackles,
Glenn is currently 24th out of 55. Game Ball: Sammy Watkins gets our game ball for his career (albeit early) performance against the Vikings.
Marvin Guy and Henry MageeBell County Sheriff's Department and Burleson County Sheriff's Department
One
Friday last May, the sun had not yet risen when a SWAT team ignited a
flash-bang grenade outside Marvin Guy's apartment in Killeen, Texas.
Officers were trying to climb in through a window when Guy, who had a
criminal record and was suspected of possessing cocaine, opened fire.
Four officers were hit; one of them was killed.
Five months earlier, 100 miles away, a SWAT officer was shot during a
predawn no-knock raid on another house. In that case, too, police threw
a flash-bang grenade and tried to enter the residence. Henry "Hank"
Magee, according to his attorney, grabbed his gun to protect himself and
his pregnant girlfriend. "As soon as the door was kicked in, he shot at
the people coming through the door," says his attorney, Dick DeGuerin.
With his legally owned semi-automatic .308 rifle, Magee killed one of
the officers.
The cases are remarkably similar, except for one thing: Guy is black,
Magee white. And while Magee was found to have acted in self-defense,
prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Guy. He remains in jail
while he awaits trial.
Historically, police serving
warrants were required to knock on a door, announce their presence, and
wait for an answer. But in SWAT raids, this is often no longer the case.
Police aren't required to announce themselves if they believe the
circumstances present a threat of physical violence, or if they believe
evidence would be destroyed. According to a study by the American Civil Liberties Union, no-knock warrants are used in around 60 percent of drug searches.
Like Guy, Magee was initially charged with capital murder, which is
punishable by death. But before Magee's trial, a grand jury found there
was not enough evidence for him to stand trial on that charge. "In
essence it was a ruling in self-defense," DeGuerin said. Guy has been
through the grand jury process as well, his attorney said, but in his
case, the grand jury allowed prosecutors to move ahead with capital
murder charges. So while Magee awaits trial for felony possession of
marijuana, Guy awaits potential execution.
Both defendants had previous encounters with the law: Magee had been
arrested twice for driving while intoxicated and twice for possessing
marijuana. Guy had previous charges of bank robbery, theft, burglary,
and "felony in possession of a firearm," and had done time in prison.
Guy's arrests warrant
shows that police suspected him of possessing cocaine after receiving a
tip from an informant who said he was selling. The search of his
apartment turned up an "orange glass pipe," but no drugs. Magee,
however, did have drugs—"more than 4 oz but less than 5 lbs" of
marijuana, according to the district attorney.
When SWAT teams were created, they were not intended for drug raids.
They were set up in the late 1960s for extreme scenarios like active
shooters and hostage situations. Yet 85 percent of SWAT deployments
today are for "choice-driven raids on people's private residences,"
Peter Kraska, an Eastern Kentucky University researcher who studies
tactical policing, testified in a recent Senate hearing. The ACLU study
found that 62 percent of SWAT deployments today are for doing drug
raids. The study also found that in around half of SWAT deployments for
drug offenses, no contraband is found at all.
The study also showed that 71 percent of today's SWAT raids affect
people of color, even though white people are more likely to be involved
in the types of scenarios SWAT teams were created for, like active
shooter and hostage situations.
Magee was found to have acted in self-defense by shooting at
unannounced intruders before dawn. Whether the same standard will apply
to Guy remains to be seen. His trial is scheduled for next June.
Shane Bauer is a reporter in Mother Jones' San Francisco bureau, covering criminal justice, social justice, and human rights. His work has also appeared in the Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications. He is the co-author of A Sliver of Light,
a memoir he wrote with his fellow hostages (one of whom is now his
wife) about their two years as prisoners in Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. RSS | Twitter
Here is the rare classic "Thus Cracked Henrietta" by Ray Stevens, from the "I Have Returned" album.
This
is the first track, "Thus Cacked Henrietta", is a rendition of Richard
Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra", performed in chicken clucks.
However, it's only the popular fanfare portion of the musical number and
obviously not the entire performance, which lasts over thirty minutes,
broken into various parts. The rendition by Stevens lasts a little over 1
minute and was his first chicken-clucking performance since 1977's "In
the Mood," released under the alias "The Henhouse Five Plus Too."
"In The Mood" is a novelty version of the song that was recorded by Ray Stevens in 1977.
Stevens'
version consisted of him performing the song in chicken clucks,
bar-for-bar. The performance was credited to the "Henhouse Five Plus
Too". The single was a Top-40 hit in both America and the UK.
DISTURBING but not surprising. These people preach the gospel of prosperity so these comments just reinforces the selfishness that their interpretation of Christianity proclaims. This from HuffPost , a interesting discussion involving two other pastors, one of which, steve camp (pastor of The Cross Church) makes a controversial comment at the beginning of the discussion about no Biblical allowance for women preachers / leaders in the Church. Just as there is nothing in New Testament Scripture validating the selfishness of the prosperity gospel there is nothing in Scripture from Jesus Christ forbidding women preachers or women in positions of leadership in the Church. The link above is for the +HuffPost Live video, the article is from HuffPost, and be sure to watch the video of Bill Cosby's reaction to victoria osteen's "preaching".....
Lakewood Church co-pastor Victoria Osteen received backlash from the Christian community after video footage of an August sermon surfaced showing Osteen encouraging congregants to "do good for your own self."
The
pastor, who is married to televangelist Joel Osteen, told the
congregation that the key to making God happy is first making oneself
happy. Osteen said:
When we obey God, we're not doing
it for God...we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when
we're happy. Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to
church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really.
You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
Steve Camp, pastor of The Cross Church in Palm City, Florida, told Christian News Network that Osteen's remarks went directly against scripture:
“It’s
the age old sin of idolatry -- that it’s not about God, it’s about us.
True worship for the humanist is about how we feel at the end of the day
and what gives us meaning, as opposed to what gives God glory.”
On the other hand, college chaplain, Morgan Guyton, critiqued Osteen's wording
but commended her effort to push back against what Guyton called an
"unhealthy attitude about worship in the middle-class American church."
He
argues, "The benefit that we gain from pretending that we don’t benefit
is the sense of moral superiority to other people... I would revise
Victoria Osteen’s words to point out that the way we gain true happiness
is to forget ourselves because of our delight in God."
Huffington Post reached out to Osteen about the criticism but did not receive a response.
PÁNICO es seguro que comenzará en Nueva York con esta revelación de un DWB / MSF médico dar positivo por Ebola después de llegar en 14 de octubre 14 de Guinea. Para
mantenerse de un ataque de ansiedad Ofrezco enlaces como herramientas
educativas sobre el Ébola y también sugerir neoyorquinos comprobar el NYT Pregunta Bueno columna para obtener información honesta y precisa sobre la enfermedad. Esto de + Mother Jones y asuntos urgentes y la + The New York Times Pregunta Bueno columna. No
mantenerse ignorante, desinformada y con miedo, obtenga su información
de expertos y compartir con familiares, amigos y compañeros de trabajo. Y no se deje embaucar por los políticos que buscan explotar Ébola en los EE.UU. , en lugar de considerar esto desde el proyecto de orden del día +
El New York Times informa
Craig Spencer, unos Médicos Sin Fronteras médico que había estado
recientemente en África occidental para ayudar a tratar a los pacientes
de Ebola, ha probado positivo para la enfermedad . Spencer es la primera persona en Nueva York para ser diagnosticada.
Como la identidad de Spencer se había confirmado el jueves por la tarde, se supo que había estado rodando en Brooklyn el miércoles, viajando a través de un paseo en Uber hacia y desde Manhattan.
"Ebola es muy difícil contrato, estar en el mismo vagón de metro o vivir
cerca de alguien con ébola no poner a alguien en riesgo ", de Blasio
dijo a los periodistas en una conferencia de prensa el jueves por la
noche.
Desde que volvió a los Estados Unidos el 14 de octubre, el comisionado
de salud de la ciudad, el Dr. . María Bassett, confirmó Spencer utilizó
una del metro, 1, y las líneas L y rodó en The Gutter en Williamsburg . Bassett
dijo que la ciudad se ha estado preparando para la posibilidad de un
brote de las últimas semanas, con Cuomo enfatizando trabajadores de la
salud han sido bien entrenados para tal evento.
Previamente
el jueves, Spencer fue llevado al Hospital Bellevue en Manhattan
después de sufrir de síntomas del Ebola-como, incluyendo una fiebre de
103 grados y náuseas.
El Departamento de Salud de la Ciudad de Nueva York emitió un comunicado indicando Spencer había regresado a los Estados Unidos en los últimos 21 días .
El paciente fue trasladado por una unidad ZAC TAC especialmente capacitado que use el equipo de protección personal (PPE). Después
de consultar con el hospital y el CDC, el DOHMH ha decidido llevar a
cabo una prueba para el virus Ébola debido a la historia de este
paciente ha viajado recientemente, patrón de los síntomas, y el trabajo
pasado. DOHMH y HHC también están evaluando al paciente por
otras causas de la enfermedad, ya que estos síntomas también pueden ser
compatibles con la salmonela, la malaria, o la gripe de estómago.
El New York Post identificó por primera vez Spencer, quien regresó de Guinea el 14 de octubre e informó que la fiebre esta mañana.
Bueno, hay una nueva víctima posible Ebola en Nueva York (aunque la
prueba no confirmó), y las personas locas sobre los hechos que montamos
en el metro mientras se está enfermo. Así que vale la pena revisar esto desde reciente NYT "Bueno" columna :
Es muy probable que se propaguen a través de transporte público, por varias razones.
No todos los virus se acumulan a las dosis infecciosas en todos los fluidos corporales. Por
ejemplo, el sarampión se escupe a cabo porque primero invade las
células en la parte posterior de la garganta, mientras que el VIH no lo
es. Norovirus no es un virus respiratorio, pero se
necesitan esas pequeñas dosis para infectar a una persona que el vómito
en aerosol se cree que han enfermado a muchos pasajeros de cruceros. Normalmente,
el ébola no en un primer momento a hacer víctimas de toser o
estornudar, aunque alguien que también tenía la gripe podría, en teoría,
rocíe el vómito o sangre. Una vez Ebola invade los pulmones, el cuerpo va a toser para eliminarlas. Pero los pasajeros que enferma de muerte no es probable que sea en el transporte público.
De acuerdo con la reciente declaración de la OMS, los altos niveles de
virus Ebola en la saliva son raras excepto en las víctimas más enfermos,
y el virus del conjunto nunca se ha encontrado en el sudor. Los fluidos conocidos para construir una alta carga viral son la sangre, las heces y el vómito.
¿Cómo se necesita mucha virus para causar la enfermedad no se conoce exactamente. Los virus difieren de esa manera. En
cualquier grupo que comparte las agujas, la hepatitis C se extienda más
fácilmente que el VIH ya que las dosis más pequeñas infectan.
Una posibilidad tentadora es que dosis muy pequeñas de Ebola actúan como una vacuna . Los
científicos que trabajan en Gabón han encontrado que más del 30 por
ciento de las poblaciones de algunas aldeas tienen anticuerpos del
Ébola, aunque nunca ha estado enfermo o en contacto con cualquier
persona que era. Ellos pueden haber ingerido algún virus por comer murciélagos infectados o frutas contaminadas con saliva de murciélago. (Por
otra parte, dijo W. Ian Lipkin, un experto en virus, que puede haber
tenido un virus desconocido que reacción cruzada en pruebas de
anticuerpos.)
Nadie ha probado la transmisión de Ebola en el metro. Pero nunca se ha confirmado ningún caso de transmisión a un ser humano a partir de una superficie seca. El CDC ha dicho que "no hay evidencia epidemiológica" para la transmisión de las superficies de hospitales,
incluyendo barandillas de la cama y las perillas de las puertas - que
son tan cerca como una habitación de hospital llega a tener un palo de
metro y un mango de autobuses. Un estudio de 2007
citado por los expertos de los CDC muestra que los hisopos de 31
superficies - incluyendo marcos de cama, un recipiente saliva y un
estetoscopio utilizado - en un entorno muy peligroso, una sala activa
Ébola en Uganda, - no tenían virus en una sola muestra.
Entonces, ¿cómo podría ser pasado Ébola en el metro? Si
alguien expulsa mucosidad con sangre o vómito en un poste de metro, y el
siguiente pasajero llegara a tocarlo cuando todavía estaba mojado y
luego, por alguna razón inimaginable, iban a poner esos dedos mojados en
un ojo o la boca en lugar de limpiarlos con disgusto - entonces sí,
podría suceder. Del mismo modo, si un pasajero
extremadamente enfermos con altas cargas virales eran saliva estornudar
gotas grandes y húmedos directamente en la boca o los ojos de otro
pasajero, la infección puede ser transmitida. Pero la ruta
de la gripe - estornudar para entregar a polo a entregar a los ojos -
Nunca se ha sabido a suceder y se considera muy poco probable.
África está llena de transporte público abarrotado - autobuses, furgonetas y algunos trenes. No hay casos conocidos de transmisión en esos ambientes.
El 20 de julio, un morir de Liberia-estadounidense viajó a Nigeria y estaba vomitando en el avión. Las 200 personas a bordo fueron controlados; ninguno se enfermó.
Y actualizar esta noche:
¿Se puede contraer Ebola de una bola de boliche?
A.
Aunque la superficie de una bola de boliche compartido es un lugar
probable para encontrar gérmenes - y algunas personas a evitar los bolos
por esta misma razón -. es muy poco probable que el Ébola podría pasar
de esa manera
No hay evidencia de que se ha pasado, como los resfriados o la gripe a
veces son, al tocar superficies que alguien tocaba después de estornudar
en sus manos. Ébola normalmente se pasa a través del contacto con sangre, vómito o diarrea.
Si alguien dejó sangre, vómitos o heces en una bola de bolos, y la
siguiente persona que lo toque ni siquiera darse cuenta, y luego poner
los dedos en los ojos, la nariz o la boca, puede ser que sea posible. Pero,
el virus Ebola no normalmente no se acumule en altos niveles en la
saliva o moco hasta muy tarde en la enfermedad - varios días después de
la puesta fiebre iniciales - y es poco probable que alguien que enferma
hubiera ido solo bolos. Además, el virus Ébola es frágil y susceptible a la desecación. Normalmente no sobrevive por más de unas pocas horas en una superficie dura, seca.
P. ¿Puedo obtener Ebola del transporte público? Al
igual que en, si un pasajero tosió en su mano y luego se aferró a la
pole, y luego otro pasajero se aferró a ese polo y sin darse cuenta se
limpió su ojo?
A. Actualizado el 23 de octubre | Mi respuesta original era simplemente no. Una respuesta más matizada es que es muy probable que se propaguen a través de transporte público.
Muchos lectores han argumentado que la respuesta original era incompatible con algunas declaraciones
por parte de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades y la Organización Mundial de la Salud. De
hecho, algunas de las declaraciones de los CDC y de la OMS son
inconsistentes entre sí y cambiando a medida que se plantearon más
preguntas. La OMS emitió el lunes una nueva evaluación de la situación del Ébola derecho "Lo que sabemos acerca de la transmisión del virus de Ebola entre los seres humanos."
A partir de mi respuesta con una manta "No" estaba mal. Pero
yo lo consideraría una irresponsabilidad haber respondido "Sí". Dando a
entender que el Ébola es atrapado tan fácilmente como la gripe o los
resfriados sería falsa e incendiaria .
Es muy poco probable que el virus del Ébola se propague a través de transporte público por varias razones.
No todos los virus se acumulan a las dosis infecciosas en todos los fluidos corporales. Por
lo general, el ébola no en un primer momento a hacer víctimas de toser o
estornudar, aunque alguien que también tenía la gripe podría, en
teoría, rocíe el vómito o sangre. Una vez Ebola invade los pulmones, el cuerpo va a toser para eliminarlas. Pero los pasajeros que enferma de muerte no es probable que sea en el transporte público.
De acuerdo con la reciente declaración de la OMS, los altos niveles de
virus Ebola en la saliva son raras excepto en las víctimas más enfermos,
y el virus del conjunto nunca se ha encontrado en el sudor. Los fluidos conocidos para construir una alta carga viral son la sangre, las heces y el vómito.
¿Cómo se necesita mucha virus para causar la enfermedad no se conoce exactamente. Los virus difieren de esa manera. En
cualquier grupo que comparte las agujas, la hepatitis C se extienda más
fácilmente que el VIH ya que las dosis más pequeñas infectan.
Nadie ha probado la transmisión de Ebola en el metro. Pero nunca se ha confirmado ningún caso de transmisión a un ser humano a partir de una superficie seca. El CDC ha dicho que "no hay evidencia epidemiológica" para la transmisión de las superficies de hospitales,
incluyendo barandillas de la cama y las perillas de las puertas - que
son tan cerca como una habitación de hospital llega a tener un palo de
metro y un mango de autobuses. Un estudio de 2007
citado por los expertos de los CDC muestra que los hisopos de 31
superficies - incluyendo marcos de cama, un recipiente saliva y un
estetoscopio utilizado - en un entorno muy peligroso, una sala activa
Ebola en Uganda - no tenían virus en una sola muestra.
Entonces, ¿cómo podría ser pasado Ébola en el metro? Si
alguien expulsa mucosidad con sangre o vómito en un poste de metro, y el
siguiente pasajero llegara a tocarlo cuando todavía estaba mojado y
luego, por alguna razón inimaginable, iban a poner esos dedos mojados en
un ojo o la boca en lugar de limpiarlos con disgusto - entonces sí,
podría suceder. Del mismo modo, si un pasajero
extremadamente enfermos con altas cargas virales eran saliva estornudar
gotas grandes y húmedos directamente en la boca o los ojos de otro
pasajero, la infección puede ser transmitida. Pero la ruta
de la gripe - estornudar para entregar a polo a entregar a los ojos -
Nunca se ha sabido a suceder y se considera muy poco probable.
África está llena de transporte público abarrotado - autobuses, furgonetas y algunos trenes. No hay casos conocidos de transmisión en esos ambientes. El 20 de julio, un morir de Liberia-estadounidense viajó a Nigeria y estaba vomitando en el avión. Las 200 personas a bordo fueron controlados; ninguno se enfermó.
Dr. Craig Spencer, el paciente con Ebola actualmente en aislamiento en
el Hospital Bellevue, hizo viajar en el metro desde su llegada a Nueva
York el 14 de octubre Cabalgó los A, L y N º 1 los trenes, según la
doctora Mary Bassett, el Ciudad de Nueva York comisionado de salud. Dr. Bassett dijo el doctor Spencer había estado tomando su temperatura dos veces al día desde que salió de Guinea. Hasta
el jueves por la mañana, su temperatura era normal y que no estaba
experimentando cualquiera de los síntomas tempranos de la enfermedad de
Ebola, como náuseas o diarrea. Los expertos dicen que la enfermedad de Ebola no puede transmitirse antes de la aparición de los síntomas.
P. ¿Cuánto tiempo el virus Ebola viven en las superficies contaminadas, tales como ropa de cama, perillas de las puertas, etc?
A. Es diferente en cada conjunto de circunstancias. El virus Ébola finalmente se seca en el aire y muere. No es como el ántrax, que forma una cápsula dura alrededor de sí mismo y puede sobrevivir durante meses o un año. Ébola es un virus que está destinado a vivir dentro de la sangre o de líquido en las células. No es la intención de vivir al aire libre, por lo que muere. Una hoja que tiene sangre en mojado es más peligroso que uno con sangre seca, porque para entonces ya se habría secado. No
hay una sola respuesta, pero se considera que es bastante seguro
después de unas 24 horas, sobre todo en los ambientes que se limpian
regularmente, como los hospitales.
P. ¿Puede un programa de análisis de sangre si una persona tiene el virus Ébola antes de que sean sintomáticos?
A. Con los análisis de sangre que tenemos ahora, no. De
hecho, con el fin de estar bastante seguro, usted tiene que tener el
primer síntoma, que es una fiebre, durante unos tres días antes de que
haya suficiente cantidad de virus que cursa alrededor en la sangre para
la prueba de sangre para ser exactos.
P. Muchos virus (como el herpes) pueden ser transmitidas antes de que una persona muestra síntomas. ¿Por qué es que no es el caso para el Ébola?
A. La respuesta básica es que todos los virus son diferentes. En
el caso de Ebola, usted tiene que conseguir una base todo-sobre la
infección por el cuerpo con sangre infectada y el vómito que sale de
usted antes de que pueda transmitir la enfermedad a nadie más.
