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[Angrboda]

‘Who did this?!’: Someone put googly eyes on a historic Georgia statue. Police want answers.

The query sent out by officials from Savannah, Ga., was indignant and urgent.

“Who did this?!” the City of Savannah Government posted to its Facebook page Thursday.

“This” was an act illustrated by two photos: Somebody had placed “googly eyes” on a statue of Nathanael Greene, a Revolutionary War general buried in the city’s historic Johnson Square.

From afar, the craft-store stick-on eyes were barely visible. Up close, though, they rendered Greene’s monument almost comically alive.

Savannah officials seemed to acknowledge the effect, but they also tried to nip public reaction to it in the bud.

“It may look funny but harming our historic monuments and public property is no laughing matter,” city officials wrote. “In fact, it’s a crime.”

[The Valkyrie]

‘Who did this?!’: Someone put googly eyes on a historic Georgia statue. Police want answers.

The query sent out by officials from Savannah, Ga., was indignant and urgent.

“Who did this?!” the City of Savannah Government posted to its Facebook page Thursday.

“This” was an act illustrated by two photos: Somebody had placed “googly eyes” on a statue of Nathanael Greene, a Revolutionary War general buried in the city’s historic Johnson Square.

From afar, the craft-store stick-on eyes were barely visible. Up close, though, they rendered Greene’s monument almost comically alive.

Savannah officials seemed to acknowledge the effect, but they also tried to nip public reaction to it in the bud.

“It may look funny but harming our historic monuments and public property is no laughing matter,” city officials wrote. “In fact, it’s a crime.”

Take a fucking chill pill.

[Fireball]

IK,R? Better than hanging someone from a tree in a public park. Besides which, those things peel right off, and a little IPA will remove the glue easily. If I ever wanted a ride to said state (not fucking likely, TYVM), I'd even accept plane fare and per diem to wipe their hero's crying eyes.

[Little lunch]

Abortion is about to be decriminalised in my state of Queensland.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Cop Confronts 11 Year Old Black Kid With BB Gun

And NO ONE GETS HURT!!

In that split second, the officer showed restraint in the encounter, which was captured on a body camera video released Monday by Columbus police. He didn't fire his weapon. Instead, Casuccio, who is a father, said he went into "dad mode" and used the moment to teach the 11-year-old, who is African-American, a lesson.

See?  It can be done.

Boru

[RoadRunner79]

Homeland Security inspectors who made an unannounced visit to a private, for-profit immigration jail in California in May found major violations of federal detention standards, including cells with nooses dangling from air vents, detainees losing teeth from lack of dental care and one disabled inmate left alone in a wheelchair for nine days.

How long where they in this immigration detention center?   It seems to me, that losing teeth from a lack of dental care, takes some time to occur?   That this type of thing doesn't just happen overnight (or even in a year), nor is it remedied so quickly. 

I'm not trying to say that this particular place was properly caring for it's detainees, but something seemed a little fishy with this statement.

[Brian37]

[Angrboda]

One of the most puzzling elements of the 2016 election, at least for a lot of Americans, was the millions of voters who switched from voting for Barack Obama in 2012 to Donald Trump in 2016. Somewhere between 6.7 million and 9.2 million Americans switched this way; given that the 2016 election was decided by 40,000 votes, it’s fair to say that Obama-Trump switchers were one of the key reasons that Hillary Clinton lost.

The existence of those voters has served as evidence that the most plausible explanation for what happened in 2016 — that Trump’s campaign tapped into the racism of white Americans to win pivotal states — is wrong. “How could white Americans who voted for a black president in the past be racist,” or so the thinking goes.

“Clinton suffered her biggest losses in the places where Obama was strongest among white voters. It’s not a simple racism story,” the New York Times’s Nate Cohn wrote on the night of the election. This typically segues into an argument that Trump won by tapping into economic, rather than racial, anxiety — anger about trade and the decline of manufacturing, or the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession.

A new study shows that this response isn’t as powerful as it may seem. The study, from three political scientists from around the country, takes a statistical look at a large sample of Obama-Trump switchers. It finds that these voters tended to score highly on measures of racial hostility and xenophobia — and were not especially likely to be suffering economically.

“White voters with racially conservative or anti-immigrant attitudes switched votes to Trump at a higher rate than those with more liberal views on these issues,” the paper’s authors write. “We find little evidence that economic dislocation and marginality were significantly related to vote switching in 2016.”

This new paper fits with a sizeable slate of studies conducted over the past 18 months or so, most of which have come to the same conclusions: There is tremendous evidence that Trump voters were motivated by racial resentment (as well as hostile sexism), and very little evidence that economic stress had anything to do with it.

(Vox)

[Angrboda]

Amy Winehouse Hologram Expected To 'Tour' With A Backing Band

A hologram depicting Amy Winehouse, the British singer whose music, addictions and premature death dominated headlines, is expected to embark on a tour, according to Reuters.

Her father, Mitch Winehouse, told the news agency that the singer's hologram will be projected on stage along with her voice and a live band.

The tour, set for next year, is part of a trend in recent years of concerts featuring projected likenesses of deceased artists. BASE Hologram, the company producing the Winehouse concerts, has also produced hologram tours of Roy Orbison and opera singer Maria Callas.

However, unlike the Orbison and Callas holograms, which stand square in front of a microphone throughout the show, Winehouse's father wants to be sure that BASE Hologram accurately recreates his daughter's performances, which feature more dancing and movement, Reuters says.

[Whateverist]

A hologram depicting Amy Winehouse, the British singer whose music, addictions and premature death dominated headlines, is expected to embark on a tour, according to Reuters.

Her father, Mitch Winehouse, told the news agency that the singer's hologram will be projected on stage along with her voice and a live band.

Seems like a prince of guy her dad.