Of course I approve! Look at that little girl go:
Category: Life in the Big City
Holder says they will investigate NYC death
Who the hell knows if it’s for real?
US attorney general Eric Holder announced a federal investigation into “potential civil rights violations” in the death of Eric Garner, just hours after news broke that a local grand jury had decided not to indict the New York police officer who placed Garner in a chokehold.
In a televised address, Holder said the Justice Department would investigate whether Garner suffered any civil rights violations when he was placed in a chokehold by New York police department officer Daniel Pantaleo.
A separate DoJ investigation is already underway into Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s fatal shooting of another unarmed black man, Michael Brown.
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I just want to climb into a hole and cry
I was at the doctor’s office yesterday, checking Twitter. Suddenly, the whole feed lit up: No indictment in Eric Garner’s death. Cops can kill a black man on video, and still, nothing happens.
And why? He wasn’t doing anything!
http://youtu.be/j1ka4oKu1jo
http://youtu.be/vT66U_Ftdng
They didn’t give him CPR. They let him die.
And then we have 12-year-old Tamir Rice, killed in Cleveland for playing with a toy gun.
Ohio is an open-carry state. By law, cops are supposed to confirm whether someone carrying a gun is a threat.
Macy’s light show
I don’t care who bought the store, it’s still Wanamaker’s to me! And I remember my mother taking us to see The Tree Of A Million Lights when we were little, and we’d lie down on our coats and stare up at the show:
Scroll down to see it as it was in 1983, when I took my own kids to see it:
http://youtu.be/tmdAeen9AbQ
Hallelujah chorus flash mob
Yes, I know it’s Macy’s. But I’ll call it Wanamaker’s until I’m dead:
Led by the Philadelphia Opera Company, a total of 650 area choristers joined in song. Ahh.
The enchanted Christmas village
This was my very favorite Christmas tradition of all when I was a kid: Going to Lit Brothers department store to see the Enchanted Christmas Village. I thought it was magical! Now it’s at the Please Touch Museum:
It’s that time of the year
I can’t wait to see this:
That’s probably me
I live two blocks east of I-95, I never know which way it’ll go. Snow? It was 71 here yesterday:
Roads north and west of I-95 will likely be blanketed by snow Wednesday night, and the National Weather Service says the New York area could see 6-10 inches of snow. Travelers should expect clogged roads and airport delays up and down the east coast into Thursday
Hate to break it to you, but if you are traveling anywhere on the East Coast this Thanksgiving, you may have a tough road ahead of you. Snow and ice is expected from New England to Georgia on Wednesday, which promises to snarl traffic on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
According to the Weather Channel, roads north and west of I-95 are likely to be blanketed by snow Wednesday night, and the National Weather Service says the New York area could see 6-10 inches of snow. Travelers should expect clogged roads and airport delays all up and down the eastern seaboard from Wednesday into Thursday morning.
Heavy turnout
In my neighborhood today. How about yours?
My neighborhood
“What happened to you, you look awful!”
The young woman was speaking to a guy who probably wasn’t more than 50, but he had some real hard miles on him. He was thin and stooped over, and walked in obvious pain with a cane.
“I dunno, the doctor put some kinda shots in my back. Thirteen of them! And now I’m in a lotta pain and can’t hardly walk,” he said. “This is my first day out of bed in a week.”
“Geeze, I seen you last week and you were fine,” she said. “What was in the shots?”
“I dunno, he said it would help. And now, look at me. Hon, could you get me two packs of Marlboros, please?” he said to the drugstore cashier.
And they want to raise the retirement age? Bastards.