The Rolling Stones used a studio in 1974 following a Led Zeppelin session. Jimmy Page decided to hang around and contributed to the track Scarlet. Mick Jagger recently rediscovered the track and included it on the 2020 rerelease of the Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup album.
Jimmy Page
🤣NYPD OFFICER GOES OFF ABOUT HIS NEW TACTICAL TRAINING!!!🤣THIS IS A MUST WATCH…AND PLEASE SHARE!!!🖤💙🖤 pic.twitter.com/4SBMkSkHV8
— 🌻Destiny, RN, BSN🌻 (@Destiny3650) July 11, 2020
Legitimate protests have continued for months in Louisville and around the world. Conscientious people have been calling attention to police killings of citizens, many of whom are African Americans.
Good for the protesters for keeping alive the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and so many other victims of police misconduct or miscalculation. The Black Lives Matter movement is the most important cultural voice in 2020.
99% of the violence in America has nothing to do with police.
16 people were just shot a funeral home in your city.
It isn't the feds that are terrorizing your residents. https://t.co/ivogjefuxz
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 22, 2020
Nonetheless, police brutality needs to be rooted out by the intense attention it is drawing in 2020.
Just as a pickpocket needs a crowd to create diversion, nefarious shooters, looters, rioters, arsonists, and physical abusers have used the cover of noble BLM protests to mask their criminal activity.
Police want to protect the entire community, including the peaceful protesters. But they are limited in how they can respond to felonious agitators who want to take things into violent territories.
Louisville officials have essentially shrugged at the criminals and accepted their behavior as an unfortunate addition to peaceful protests.
Over 60 local volunteers from all walks of life served 1,200 meals to @LMPD, SWAT, EMT, and Sheriff’s Dept. last Saturday as a “Thank You” from the community. Many officers were deeply touched by the personal handwritten notes on every food box. Well done, people! #support pic.twitter.com/uOp309NIe8
— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) July 14, 2020
LMPD has arrested around 500 people for various crimes but almost none of the perpetrators are encumbered because of free bail and legal representation provided by sympathetic people. Many of the arrestees are protesters refusing to move, but many others are people who have committed violent crimes in the midst of protests.
In 1968, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley did not mince words on the proper way to handle the criminals using protest crowds for cover.
This weekend, another group that purports to have the firepower to overcome local law enforcement is scheduled to set up a “formation” in Louisville. This will be yet another line to gauge how serious local leaders are about providing security and keeping the peace.
Tonight, as protesters attempted to stop @LMPD from towing a car, a woman threw water at one officer.
The officer quickly grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and arrested her.
People in the crowd say the officer says she threw a punch. Here’s the video. pic.twitter.com/fMCjxM4qXY
— Bailey Loosemore (@bloosemore) July 8, 2020
Courier Journal reporter Bailey Loosemore was embedded with Louisville protesters as they swarmed LMPD officers. The police were having a car removed from a no parking zone near the protest site that has seen one murder and multiple battles with police over the past two months.
The reporter’s caption is more supportive of the protester claims. First, the type of liquid is unknown. In prior protests, police have had urine and chemicals thrown at them. This video does not clarify the actual substance splashed toward several officers, not just one.
“People in the crowd say” sets up a hearsay problem. The same problem arises from the reporter’s secondary claim that “protesters say the car’s owner was never asked to move it.”
Who is the car owner? Why not get a direct quote from that person?
Read the comments for more backseat driving misdirection.
On a parallel front, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer began his one year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. His office posted a video touting leadership, listening, and learning.
Read the comments section to see how the Louisville protesters and #BlackLivesMatter constituents aren’t having any of what the mayor is serving.
In these challenging times, the amount of opportunity we have to do good has never been greater. During my tenure as President of @usmayors, Louisville will be leading the calls for the kinds of systematic change people are demanding. pic.twitter.com/ThHUdvoQbv
— Mayor Greg Fischer (@louisvillemayor) July 8, 2020
You want truth?.. @DrRickyLJones @terrymeiners https://t.co/NkPXckFbXp
— Terry (@cardinalterry42) July 7, 2020
THREAD: On @CNNTonight, Terry Crews explained to host @donlemon why he was rightly critical of the Black Lives Matter organization. "It was almost a supremist move where they viewed that their black lives mattered a lot more than mine." But lemon got combative real quick pic.twitter.com/TkgfU5ZAxu
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 7, 2020
Two men. One Black. One White. Both descendants of Thomas Jefferson. Both say take down the Jefferson Memorial in D.C. (Replace it, they say, with a statue of Harriet Tubman “ I think we paid enough attention to the founding fathers and it’s time to celebrate…the women.”) pic.twitter.com/3r0dWSVQaX
— Poppy Harlow (@PoppyHarlowCNN) July 7, 2020
Activist journalism is killing what our information disseminating forebears spent hundreds of years building. Thanks, partisan jackasses.
Journalism today. https://t.co/46dQvCprtl
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 4, 2020
Also, the English language is under siege.
Yep. English is literally dead. https://t.co/hGVXeSNDV7
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 1, 2020
As I see @WKUBasketball call out @KentuckyMBB I’m wondering why them two along with @LouisvilleMBB and @RacersHoops don’t play a Big Four Classic every year. Would think that would make money in this state. Am I wrong?
— Kendrick HaskinsWave (@KendrickHaskins) July 7, 2020
Those two, Kendrick. Those two.
Are there no editors in today’s world? Have we completely surrendered to cost cutting management?
Yes.
Here’s a promising story. The BLUE ANGELS are here! Happy 4th of July, America!
As a Catholic, I found this incredible scene from The Sopranos completely spot on. In the 1970s and 80s, our family home was a regular stop for various priests and other religious leaders looking for a meal or adult beverages.
The Sopranos scene above is an uncomfortable reality showing the freeloading priest Father Phil being called out by Carmela for manipulating “spiritually thirsty” women.
The Catholic church limits women to roles lesser than priests and therefore keeps them locked in a spiritually thirsting state.
Bravo to the script writers for a searing look at reality.
Now enjoy more treats from the brilliant Sopranos series, one of the greatest stories in American television history.
Matt Damon can’t commit to a sensible pronunciation of Louisville. On 30 Rock, no one on the production team reshot this scene where Damon says LOO-uh-ville.
Hillbillies say LOO-uh-vul.
People with self respect say LOUIE-ville.
The city is named after King Louis XI. There is no King LOO-uh.
Ville is vill. Villanova. Villain. The Ville.
Stop being a poser. If you can muster the energy to correctly pronounce Taylorsville Road and Shelbyville Road then work a little harder to say Louisville with a shred of self respect.
And now here are some bloopers from Between Two Ferns. Good night. Let yourself out.
📻 @DrRickyLJones analyzes McGrath vs Booker, political courage, Black Power in 2020, equal decision making with White people, and why Sammy Sosa is dead to him. 🎙 @840WHAS audio ▶️ https://t.co/VG39nSjGdL #race #community #BlackLivesMatter 📸 @Utterback13 @courierjournal pic.twitter.com/kcYe4qd8Xz
— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 24, 2020
Those who want to see everything through a lens of race and class, judging individuals based on immutable characteristics, pretend to be fighting the very thing they are enacting. And none of us wish to speak up because we have been bullied into silence. Anyway how was your day?
— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) June 24, 2020
Erin Calipari is the daughter of University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. She regularly fights with people on Twitter.
This one’s a little stickier than others. Erin Calipari took offense to a social media post where Christi Mack, wife of University of Louisville basketball coach Chris Mack, applauded a post about supporting all of society, including police, during these tumultuous days of racial unrest.
Erin Calipari deleted her clapback tweet less than one hour after posting it.
Who in 2020 thinks it’s OK to demand that a man put his wife in her place? Wut? Aren’t you a Ph.D doing research at Vanderbilt? Did your husband say it was OK to go to college?
Erin Calipari added this follow up:
I’ve said this before – if you make money off of Black athletes you should definitely not be working to invalidate a movement to raise awareness for police violence against Black people and the inequities in our societies.
— Dr.SicilianoCalipari (@TheErinCalipari) June 24, 2020
Erin has a right to her voice. So does Christi Mack. So do all people. 1A, baby!
Of course, most true blue Kentucky fans are supportive of Erin Calipari throwing a shrill bomb at her dad’s arch rivals. But she deleted the tweet so we know who still calls the shots in the family, and it’s not the one wearing a lab coat.
John Calipari’s daughter vs Chris Mack’s wife on Twitter is exactly the spark the UK/UL rivalry needed
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) June 24, 2020
Here’s the full message that Christi Mack was applauding online before Erin Calipari went on the attack.
The current intellectual movement is "counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily." https://t.co/MHXoAy9U5e
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 13, 2020
A free press is a sacred trust. We must protect its integrity instead of baking in bias and pretending to be objective. Diversity is good. Group think is not.
BREAKING: An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president has been convicted of libel and sentenced to up to six years in jail, in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy. https://t.co/iLFPMjV3GQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2020