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2007-10-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

New York Police Hunt for Suspects in 2 Noose Incidents in 1 Week

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Gee, no one ever thought these nooses have something to do with the Halloween season?

Posted by Penguin 2007-10-14 09:08|| 2007-10-14 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 ...police were called to the Ivy League campus again Thursday to probe another troubling discovery â a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika found on a university bathroom stall door. The hate crime unit was investigating the black-ink drawing...

If it is on a bathroom stall it is a "hate crime". If it is on a wall of signs at a street protest it is "speaking truth to power".

Posted by Excalibur 2007-10-14 10:50|| 2007-10-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika

A universal feature in Arab cartoons that mysteriously elicit no objections from the West.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-14 11:21|| 2007-10-14 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "speaking truth to power"

I gotta add: Do these "speakers of truth" ever wonder why they aren't in power?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-14 11:23|| 2007-10-14 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 We used to tie nooses all the time at Boy Scout camp. We'da been in real trouble because the Mason Dixon line ran right through camp. Who knew?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-14 11:26|| 2007-10-14 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL, NS. I remember in college, we had a huge map of the US on our wall. As we drove around the Southeast (mostly to away SEC football games), we'd "redraw" the Mason-Dixon line based upon whether or not you could get sweet tea at your average restaurant. Sad to say a lot of those States that used to be "southern" are not anymore, and including many major urban areas.

So, we have two incidents now in NYC, the Jena, LA incident, the US Coast Guard incident in Conn., and the Hempstead PD incident in NY. Yet, we STILL have to "report" the original meaning behind nooses was a "southern thang"???? Why can't reporters get past 1863, as most of the South already has?

Posted by BA 2007-10-14 17:01|| 2007-10-14 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Why can't reporters get past 1863, as most of the South already has?

Bull Connor/George Wallace. It was one of the great successes of the '60s that made Journalism the profession it is today. The other two were Watergate and Vietnam. The trifecta of liberal triumphalism. They will wallow in them until the boomer are gone.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-14 17:08|| 2007-10-14 17:08|| Front Page Top

#8 That's true, NS, as to why it's still reported as a "Southern thang". Yet, I always love the "WTF" look on some of my black co-workers' faces when I tell them that Lincoln was a Republican, and that the Republican Party (in terms of percentages) completely outvoted the Donks on the 1965 Civil Rights Act and the following Voting Rights Act. Sure, it was signed by a Donk President, but if the Republicans hadn't voted for it, it would've NEVER made it to his desk.

Posted by BA 2007-10-14 17:17|| 2007-10-14 17:17|| Front Page Top

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