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A Day of Much Events

Allrighty so it’s been a while since I’ve written one of these but I feel like yesterday was interesting enough to merit a commemoration of some sort. I had one of the objectively worst runs of luck that I’d had in a while, broken by one exceedingly great event.

Got to six flags 2 hours later than planned, not too bad;

Lose my SHOE on the first ride, X2, and am told that they dont have access to the ride until after the park closes. Fuck.

Get in line for about another 2 hours (lines were ridiculous) to ride the second ride, Tatsu, which had these infuriating mist machines in line that made the ground and my foot unbearably soaked and muddy the whole while I was in line.

wait for an hour thirty in line for the third ride and I get hit with the need to shit just a little bit before we get on the ride. Not shitting myself, so I run out and I miss the third ride. host a kickback later at our place (after I purge my foot of filth and toss the sock that was basically solid with gunk)

aaaand a family head brings my crush (who I’ve been recently really getting to know)! And he tells me that theyve been low-key dating! which is fantastic! and by FANtastic I mean TOTAL ASS. FUCK. FUCK. SHIT. FUCK.

It’s not often that you need to hold a friendly smile when you’re hit with news like that, but that’s all that I could focus on; holding my smile. The thing being I don’t know what their relationship is like. They never talk to each other when people are around. I’m pretty sure he is pretty interested on keeping them exclusive especially since he brings this up to my face specifically. I don’t know how she feels about him. Or me either for that matter, I guess.

After that awkward debacle, we play kings card (among 9ish people too) and she’s dealing. The first round, 6 kisses 2 on the cheek. Her card flips, my card flips. 6, and 2. I get my kiss and let me tell you, that peck might have been the most innocuous kiss I’d had in college (and I’ve had some pretty raunchy kisses) but it blew my mind. I just went blank, and I’m not even sure when I tuned back in to reality (it sure didn’t feel like reality haha) but when I did the first thing I noticed was my smile, locked in ridiculous and embarrassing bliss.

If it werent for the whole awkward news debacle, hell I’d do day again in a heartbeat. Fuck. X2 could take my shirt and pants too, I’d do that day again.

It was a day of much events.

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the end of the colbert show I feel is like an instance of someone giving up doing something for society to do something for themselves. Not to say Colbert doesnt deserve to make his own decisions regarding what he wants to do with his life but there is something to mourn in losing one of the most unbiased source of news for the common man out there.

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Forensics expert Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky examined the official autopsy performed by Missouri authorities on Michael Brown's body

The nature of the first bullet wound to Brown's right forearm, as detailed in the official autopsy, casts doubt on the claim of surrender, according to Kobilinsky.

"If one is in the process of surrendering, one's palms are forward," Kobilinsky said, adding that the bullet would enter on the underside of the arm. However, the round entered on the other side of Brown's arm.

"People don't give up, they don't surrender with their palms facing in. So for that round, I think the simplest explanation is the arms were down, rather than up."

The wounds to Brown's head also lend themselves to multiple versions of events.

One of the rounds that entered Brown's skull near his right eye came out of his right jaw, which means the bullet traveled down and to the right through the head. According to Kobilinsky, that suggests Brown's head was facing down.

"You can postulate he was in the process of falling when those shots were fired or he was charging at the police officer, which is consistent with what police officer Wilson alleged," Kobilinsky said.

Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist in San Francisco, said the autopsy “supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun, if he has gunpowder particulate material in the wound.” She added, “If he has his hand near the gun when it goes off, he’s going for the officer’s gun.” Sources told the Post-Dispatch that Brown’s blood had been found on Wilson’s gun. Melinek also said the autopsy did not support witnesses who have claimed Brown was shot while running away from Wilson, or with his hands up. She said Brown was facing Wilson when Brown took a shot to the forehead, two shots to the chest and a shot to the upper right arm. The wound to the top of Brown’s head would indicate he was falling forward or in a lunging position toward the shooter; the shot was instantly fatal. A sixth shot that hit the forearm traveled from the back of the arm to the inner arm, which means Brown’s palms could not have been facing Wilson, as some witnesses have said, Melinek said. That trajectory shows Brown probably was not taking a standard surrender position with arms above the shoulders and palms out when he was hit, she said.

To Maddy, and others...

This is not just an average high schooler. Michael brown was big; 6'4'' and of a pretty substantial build on top of it, nearing 300lbs. Darren Wilson's testimony implies he (about as tall, 200 lbs) was overpowered during their scuffle and when I look at photos of Brown, I can believe it. Just because a police officer is supposedly trained doesn't change the reality that one on one, physically, this guy could probably beat the crap out of you. Being trained doesn't imply you can bend the laws of physics. Calling someone a demon isn't necessarily racist, they could just be really fucking big compared to you and look like theyre about to beat the shit out of you.

Karishma, firing a gun at night into the distance with accuracy is difficult, even for those who are trained. Real life is is not like COD; there is no reticle, and you dont necessarily have faith that the shots you take will land where you want. Also if you perceive a danger you aren't necessarily going to wait for someone to get close enough for you to guarantee a shot in the leg. I feel the same actions would have been taken if the subject were white. He was a large individual who had shown to have been able to overpower the officer at close range. He in fact, wrestled the weapon from the officer at close range, and wouldve taken it if it didnt fire into his hand. Later that individual runs towards the officer, who only has his weapon (not even the threat of the weapon as the subject has ignored warnings from the officer.) to maintain control of the situation.

Even if events didnt unfold precisely as darren's testimony claims, it is still corroborated by physical evidence and comparatively credible compared to that of other witnesses (contradictions, withdrawn testimony, and secondhand hearsay)

What's really frustrating to me about the opinions of many around me is theyre going around spitting fire about Black oppression when the grand jury details are around for everyone to see. On top of that, the details seem to imply anything but an incident of race-motivated police brutality, implying that those who are spitting fire have no actual research into the Jury's decision or are blatently disregarding it to spread the otherwise less-grounded story of persecution. Police brutality is an issue in this country but I can't in good conscience say that the Brown case is definitively an instance of this; especially when there is physical evidence that brown was running towards wilson, invalidating pretty much any of the scattered testimony that does claim Brown as running away/surrendering.

Shruthi, this unfortunately also implies that there is no strong dispute for involuntary manslaughter. In the eyes of MO law, an officer is entitled to defend himself by shooting, and Darren Wilson's testimony paints himself as doing just that, defending himself from an exceedingly large violent body that had previously already shown the ability to overpower him (in the car, when Brown wrestled control of the officer's firearm). If this case did go to court, I doubt anyone would be angling for an involuntary manslaughter sentence as Wilson's story doesnt suggest him trying to do anything but defend himself with potentially lethal force.

Also, on that note keep in mind; if this were any other case where the most detailed source of testimony were corroborated by physical evidence, and only disputed by comparatively tenuous and even contradictory testimony, then it would be no surprise that prosecutors would not be excited to bring it to court.

Why are people so convinced that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in cold blood?

I personally find Darren Wilson's testimony to be a pretty plausible explanation and his actions (in his story) to make sense to a certain degree. I mean a 6'4'' hostile/violent body is running towards him. Can you stop that with pepper spray? I mean in that story one would take the same actions regardless of the race of the one running towards you.

I mean his testimony also seems to be a lot more believable than the scattered testimony of assorted other witnesses too. The image of the brutal officer really seems like speculation.

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Boruto Uzumaki (うずまきボルト) and Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト) in Smalto Spring-Summer 2012

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you know youve reached a dark place when you think about how female anglerfish straight up devour/mutate their male counterparts and you start thinking that that might not be too bad a fate at all