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CHERTOFF: We Have Nothing To Fear But Politically-Motivated Fearmongering Itself
US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff was in Philadelphia on Thursday to talk about the need to understand how terrorists make bombs and our need to understand how to counter them. Chertoff says improvised explosive devices are now the weapons of choice for terrorists: “Whether it’s London or Glasgow, or a sea in Germany, or Bali in the South Pacific, or here in Philadelphia, the only way to defeat an IED is to be able to detect it, prevent it and disarm it.” Chertoff says Tripwire gives bomb experts the latest bomb recipes so that law enforcement can recognize the […]
PARIS, TEXAS: The Next Jena
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: PARIS, Texas — “Some of the things that happen here would not happen if we were in Dallas or Houston,” Cherry said. “They happen because we are in this closed town. I compare it to 1930s.” There was the 19-year-old white man, convicted last July of criminally negligent homicide for killing a 54-year-old black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck, who was sentenced in Paris to probation and required to send an annual Christmas card to the victims’ family. And then there is the case that most troubles Cherry and leaders of the Texas NAACP, involving […]
HANDSOME FAMILY: Beautiful Bride
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PAPERBOY: It’s The Deeney, Stupid!
BY AMY Z. QUINN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right — these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. Hey, we know how it is — so many words to read, so little time to surf for free porn. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you, freeing up […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR For 25 years, author and journalist Ahmed Rashid has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He files for English language papers including the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Telegraph. Based in Lahore, Rashid is the author of the bestselling books, Taliban and Jihad. ALSO, Critic Milo Miles reviews the new four DVD set, “Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938.” The animated series features the classic Popeye cartoons by the Fleischer brothers studios. Miles calls the set a first rate reissue. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 (Rebroadcast tonight at 11) Observers of the Justice Department say that […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
DISCO RIOT: Taking A Well-Deserved Rest, Girl Talk, Starlight Ballroom, Monday [Photo by EVA LIAO]
iMAYOR: Hooray! I Added Five More Cops!
When Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson announced with fanfare last week that state police would be patrolling high-crime neighborhoods to help control growing gun violence, officials declined — citing strategic reasons — to say how many troopers would be involved. Yesterday, Mayor Street let it slip. The number, he said, is five. Street, in unsolicited comments, mentioned the number of troopers working with city police while he was attending a city-sponsored job fair that drew 2,000 people to the Liacouras Center in North Philadelphia yesterday morning. He complained that the news media do not cover such events, but gave significant […]
MEAT IS MURDER: Alicia Silverstone PETA Ad
HOUSTON (AP) — An animal rights group says Alicia Silverstone appears naked in a television ad promoting vegetarianism that was to debut Wednesday in Houston. The 30-second ad was to air about two dozen times in Houston on Wednesday, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said. PETA said Houston was picked for the commercial’s launch because it is often high on lists of cities with unhealthy eating habits. Houston was named the sixth fattest city in the nation by Men’s Fitness magazine this year.
KILLADELPHIA: 2 More Dead Since U Went 2 Bed
INQUIRER: The year’s homicide count in Philadelphia reached 300 this morning after two people were found dead this morning, police said. Shortly after midnight, a young man was gunned down in North Philadelphia. About 9:30 a.m., a woman was found beaten to death in her North Philadelphia home. The shooting happened at 12:05 a.m. on the 2500 block of North 17th Street in North Philadelphia, police said. Steven Gates, 25, was shot multiple times, and was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m., according to Sgt. William Gallagher. Gates lived on the 2900 block […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
[Photo by CARLOS FERNANDEZ] ALL THE YOUNG DUDES: Girl Talk + Friends, Starlight Ballroom, September 17 EVA SAYS: Monday night at the Starlight Ballroom was all about heavy-petting and robot dancing. And I do mean heavy, baby. DJ Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk, brought together a sold out crowd of hyper, manic, oddly-dressed, or even not-dressed-at-all hipsters who bum-rushed the stage within seconds of Gillis firing up the Mac Pro that makes it all possible. It didn’t matter that Girl Talk’s hooded figure or scruffy face couldn’t be seen even from the lip of the stage — chances are he […]
BLOWBACK: Iran Threatens To Bomb Israel If Attacked
ASSOCIATED PRESS: TEHRAN, Iran — The deputy commander of Iran’s air force said Wednesday that plans have been drawn up to bomb Israel if the Jewish state attacks Iran, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency. The announcement came amid rising tensions in the region, with the United States calling for a new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program and Israeli planes having recently overflown, and perhaps even attacked, Iranian ally Syria. On Sunday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the international community should prepare for the possibility of war in the event that Iran […]
KILLADELPHIA: ‘I Don’t Care What Kia Gregory Says’
Today on NPR’s Here & Now, heard locally on WHYY, host Robin Young interviewed Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson about his call to raise a 10,000 man army of voluntary crisis interventionists to help defuse the violence before it starts on the blocks where they live. Young quotes PW’s Kia Gregory calling on Johnson to resign to the Commish, to which he responds “I don’t care what Kia Gregory thinks.” Young continues to quote from Gregory’s work, citing the fact that several hundred beat cops have been pulled off the street and put in desk jobs during the Commish’s reign. […]