'Why don't you?"
One of several tweets interrogating Wesley Lowery, writer for Washington Post that nettles him as taunting. He's had it. Blocked the taunting followers and calls them stalkers for reading his posts. He's taken his argument Tumbler here, showing the screenshots of taunting tweets and responding. At the end of it some dozen + Tumbler followers "Like this" Wesley Lowery's response.
Since Twitter troll now stalks my tumblr, some responses:
1. every reporter i know who was initially in Ferguson tried to speak with the store owner - he’s lawyered up and won’t talk. I’ve followed up with the attorney several times (most recently two weeks ago - will follow up again today), no dice.
2. For the record: The store owner was not the person shown in the video being grabbed by Brown, that is another employee.
Someone let this guy know his media criticism is no more accurate in 2015 than it was in 2014.That almost sounds reasonable, doesn't it?
But logic come as naturally to Wesley Lowery as consistent capitalization, as they do to his beholden followers over there on Tumbler who "like this." Apparently he does not see how his response demonstrates the points made by the vexing taunting stalking questioners.
Let the vexing, taunting, stalking question be restated then, since Wesley Lowery is so impossible on the uptake:
Does anyone know the name of the employee that Michael Brown grabbed by the throat? And, why don't you?
And now that the question is restated for the hard of understanding and its response predicted, did every reporter Wesley Lowery knows who was initially in Ferguson try to speak with the employee that Michael Brown throttled? Is he lawyered up too, does the employee refuse to talk too? If so, have you followed up with his attorneys?
Finally, stop telling people to do what you can do easily enough yourself. Let the guy know his his media criticism is just as accurate in 2015 as it was in 2014 and that you, Wesley Lowery, are just as thick now as then. They haven't blocked you as you have them. And stop trying to bullshit us. That only works on your fellow traveler race baiting liberals.
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Say, would you guys like to see a lily-white brunch?
Did I show you this already? I'm having that déjà vu thing happening again.
The Mozaic, at Palmer Lake, just south of Castle Rock, sort of in the middle there between Colorado Springs. West of I-25, so at the foothills. North of the USAF Academy.
Lovely drive, I must say. If you don't take the highway back to Denver and stay west of it, then you'll go through the most remarkable neighborhoods with deer walking around and red rock formations POW right in the back yard. Have your camera ready because the whole place is beautiful The restaurant itself is in a new building that looks like a graystone castle. Perfect for weddings and such. Sparkling clean ample bathrooms. A very nice dealio all around.
But, Lordy, is it ever lily white. Goodness gracious. But then, you know, these protesters are right; brunch really is a white-people thing. It is. It just is. I do not understand why minorities do not get into the act. But that's their decision, not ours. Fuck 'em if they choose not to participate. Nobody is keeping them out. Nobody is being unwelcoming. Let me restate that for polity purposes: Come, join us. You are all quite welcome to join us white people. It's fun. It's inexpensive. The whole family is welcome. Here's what the food looks like at the Mozaic buffet. You can have as much as you like.
(Avoid omelets, you can do better yourself at home. The reason is because the omelet-making guy is also the prime rib slicing guy and you should never double duty like that when it comes to omelets or else they do suffer for it, as they must. Done right, it is a fast and full attention activity.)
The store owner and the employee may have been stuffed down Sandy Berger's pants. That's like Kryptonite to any reporter.
Meanwhile let's check up on Joe the Plumber's licensing problems and Sarah Palin's dog.
I saw Mumtaz Lalani, the owner of Dellwood Market on the Sean Hannity show. He looked to be in his late 60s and was there with his son who looked to be in his 30s.
Their story is that the store has been demolished three time in the last year. They brought photos. the first two times were gangs of local yutes swarming the place, tipping over shelves, running out with arms full of food and liquor. The police didn't arrive until it was over, and despite being given videotapes from the store security cameras, no one has been arrested or charged.
Each of the first two events cost over $150,000 in damages and lost goods. They paid a deductible and their insurance covered the rest of the lost the first time. The insurance company wouldn't pay for damages and goods the second time, so that became the owner's loss.
The third time, after the Michael Brown grand jury decision was announced, the loss exceeded $300,000.
They don't have the money to start over a fourth time, and if they did, their store would probably be damaged again. They are essentially broke, and Mumtaz says he is too old to start over, at least in Ferguson.
I have a feeling Wesley Lowery is a person of color.
Is that the one with the tree inside?
Doesn't matter, we have the tape.
We know what happened.
Pfffffft. Like anyone would want to have sex with Alan Dershowitz.
Lem, no it is not. That place is an old land mark no longer around. Closed a year ago.
But you know what? The page I wrote for Emil Ene's continues to get page views every single day.
This is a good post. It just needs more anger and less relevance to anything important in life in order to give it some real potential.
I see a star in the making!
You're such a douche, Ritmo.
Smart enough to know better, but sadly lacking in the ability to do so.
Don't mean to be mean. As I was there once myself.
One just needs think harder.
As there there is no real end to the rainbow.
That is a fantasy.
You honestly think Chip's hard-core anger and steady-stream of fixations on the minutiae of petty potential insults to his ideology really do him much good?
I'm sure we've all "been there". But as The Good Father said, maybe he's better off sticking to cooking posts. Or posts on how to make pop-up greeting cards.
I just think he could use a constructive outlet, is all. A lil rage every now and then is fun, but he gets into it to an extent that seems worrisome.
Not that I have much to complain about. My early posts used to be hard-core rage-a-holic hard-ons of fanaticism. But I'd still try to see the value in a more creative way of looking at it all every now and then. People that never seek a way to unwind from the things that bother them can pop, when what we should be doing is bursting with delight.
Cheers, and sorry about the douche-i-ness -
Ritmo thinks people are paying less for health care - and that they have greater access.
LOL.
Fixating on the decline of our media into a narrative driven pile of unicorn crap is worth fixation. It's a big f*ing deal.
Haz @4:38 - Thank you.
The left do not care at all about that.
I personally am going to fixate on the democrat media industrial complex for the long haul.
Fight.
Punch back twice and hard and all that.
Did you drive through Perry Park, Chip?
I haven't done that in years... years! and only once anyway. So beautiful.
So I'm going to join twitter/Face book or whatever just so I can mock and taunt Cher.
Wow is she a moron.
Don't worry, April. FOX is coming to the rescue! They'll give you plenty of stock footage to label as "news".
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/8ndq1n/sean-hannity-uses-glenn-beck-s-protest-footage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/wisconsin-protests-fox-news-sacramento_n_830314.html
Very professional.
Why on earth would I clink on a link to some highly edited crap from Jon Stewart?
Nighty!
Is it true that Michael Brown had a juvenile record? If so, none of that info has ever leaked. Why not?.....The first day of the protests, there was a report that two protesters had been shot, one critically. They had not been shot by the police so there was no follow up to the story. Black lives matter but mostly when there's the chance of a big wrongful death settlement or juicing up the electorate.
Burst of Delight indeed! Leave it to Rhythm and Balls to find the Phrase of the Month and deliver it with a flourish as an admonishing should!
What other great minds and characters (besides the inestimable Chip Ahoy on a daily basis) are bringing bursts of delight up for consideration?
Brainpickings, with this recent article(posted 12.11.2014?) highlighting Susan Cheever's book, e.e.cummings: A Life, includes the phrase "burst of delight" in the post title, brain picked from the following Cheever quote:
"Modernism as Cummings and his mid-twentieth-century colleagues embraced it had three parts. The first was the exploration of using sounds instead of meanings to connect words to the reader’s feelings. The second was the idea of stripping away all unnecessary things to bring attention to form and structure: the formerly hidden skeleton of a work would now be exuberantly visible. The third facet of modernism was an embrace of adversity. In a world seduced by easy understanding, the modernists believed that difficulty enhanced the pleasures of reading. In a Cummings poem the reader must often pick his way toward comprehension, which comes, when it does, in a burst of delight and recognition."
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