"It appeared to cast dispersions on a young man that was gunned down in the street. It made emotions raw."
Of course the Governor meant "cast aspersions" and not "cast dispersions." The words are related at their core as a simple analysis reveals:
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Both crowd aspersion and crowd dispersion are happening in Ferguson. The latter got me interested in tear gas, it being chemical and all. From the Wiki:
Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator (from lacrima meaning "tear" in Latin), is a non-lethal chemical weapon that stimulates the corneal nerves in the eyes to cause tears, pain, and even blindness. Common lachrymators include pepper spray (OC gas), CS gas, CR gas, CN gas (phenacyl chloride), nonivamide, bromoacetone, xylyl bromide, syn-propanethial-S-oxide (from onions), and Mace (a branded mixture).Tear gas usage is long and storied -- most famously perhaps during the First World War (cf. xylyl bromide, by the Germans, a century ago). I note how many (but not all) contain a halogen -- but no halos are being generated around the heads of the police. Some lacrymators are wholly synthetic in origin. I expect the human rights and lefties to begin a movement to extend the Geneva Convention to the trenches of American Civil Rights movements, banning tear gas except for the "Mr. Natural" ones -- especially the one derived from The Onion. Or least we'll see some trenchant warfare against their use.
Wait for it.
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Were he a republican he would be stupid. But he's not.
Droll, sir.
You've been on a droll yourself, Ed. :)
We're not talking permanent blindness are we? Because if the tear gas permanently blinded a yute we might be losing a future brain surgeon or sump'n.
Are you sure he didn't say "cas taspersions?"
When I say "cast" I almost make the "t" a "d" which makes sense because it's a past tense word which we usually form with an "ed". Say the words without a clear break between them and aspersions can certainly sound like dispersions.
That's possible, synova, which would make it a transcription error which should have been caught by an alert editor. As if they have such things as editors any longer.
Ah... probably an underpaid copywriter at ABC.
Great catch Chicke.
Jay Nixon is not endearing himself to rural white voters with this, especially if it turns out that Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.
I hope he takes Hillary with him.
BTW, the Germans used tear gas on a large scale during WW I. The point was to force troops and artillery gunners to don Gas masks, thereby reducing their effectiveness. It's hard to fire off a 75mm Gun when everyone is wearing a gas mask.
Dispersion is what you get when wave speed depends on wavelength.
Dis Persian, Dat Persian.
Cat Persian.
Cast dispersion is what happens when a play closes and the actors seek work elsewhere.
Did you see this morning's Meet The Press hosr, Andrea Michell, criticized the police for releasing the video of the kid strong-arming the store clerk?
What was her rationale, AJ?
The same people pushing the shot-from-behind narrative were they same ones claiming it wasn't MB in the store video and that MB had never done anything wrong.
I once came up out of the subway onto the street in Seoul, South Korea and got a face full of tear gas. I know what it feels like and how it smells. Americans don't know what they don't know.
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