See Mediaite.com: Alleged Photo of Injured Darren Wilson Not Actually Darren Wilsonon for the real story.

Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson MO Police Department

Why aren’t the media releasing the photos of Police Officer Darren Wilson’s injuries after he was assaulted by “the unarmed black teenager”?

He was punched in the face before he emptied his weapon into the drugged “unarmed teenager”—here is what a broken eye socket looks like:

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The responses in this one thread I saw were as follows (I’m deleting the photo and changing the names to cover for the guilty suckers who bought into this ugly racist meme. )

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Some Guy with the initials C.R. Why not to controversial for them to handle.

September 2 at 8:54am

Some Gal with the initials M.S.  Yes where is the media now?

September 2 at 9:16amReply

Some Guy with the initials J.D.D. Simply Fucking Amazing…..The Liberal Media is trying the case before the court system….

September 2 at 9:20amReply

Some Guy with the initials T.G. Let’s burn our villages and loot our stores.

September 2 at 10:32am · 1Reply

Some Guy with the initials T.O. Ohh thats alrite. Hes supposed to take it…..bullcrap

September 2 at 10:32am · 1Reply

Some Guy with the initials P.R. I would have unloaded two magazines on that motherfucker

September 2 at 10:47am · 2Reply

Some Gal with the initials M.A.M.  fuc*#ing media!!

September 2 at 11:42amReply

Some Guy with the initials J.D.D. Again IF the Police CAN’T PROTECT THEMSELVES, How can they protect us?!???

September 2 at 11:59am · 1Reply

Some Guy with the initials R.L.  According to the politicians and some judges, public service employees are to expect these kind of injuries as part of their jobs and that the person who caused the injuries is to be held harmless.

September 2 at 1:13pm · 1Reply

Some Guy with the initials J.D.D. yet again I guess that means, We as TAXPAYING Citizens, can expect the same injuries, due to Police not being able to protect US or THEMSELVES…..

WHAT THE FU@K is happening to this Country????

September 2 at 3:20pm · 2Reply

Some Guy with the initials R.M. We hear so much about Ferguson in the media. But we never see this picture. I guess “The publics right to know” doesn’t apply to everything.

September 2 at 5:37pm · 2Reply

Some Gal with the initials V.B. Hope he doesn’t lose his eye or eyesight. Sorry, but that kid got what he deserved!!

September 2 at 10:16pm · 1Reply

Some Guy with the initials J.D.D. yet one more time again He disobeyed a Police Officer…..

He assaulted a Police Officer ….

He ran from, and then Charged a Police Officer, with intent to assault him again……

Nobody wants to see anyone die, but when a person charges a Police Officer, while being told to stop…..This Cop wants to go home to his family after his shift…

Thanks to the Media, he may lose his job, career, and more, for merely defending himself….

And, was there ever a Drug/Alcohol Screen released on Michael Brown??????

Yesterday at 10:38am

I am pretty appalled by this little dialog and I am sure it is not the only one like it out there. Unfortunately no one has posted anything about it being a fake and they (about 13 comments) are all enraged at the MSM and the guy that supposedly did that to Officer Wilson.

Sadly “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ― Mark Twain

It turns out that there is a short list of powerful tech companies which have unified to support the new internet censorship law S.O.P.A.http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/list-of-companies-which-support-sopa-intern…

f you live near an apple store organize your friends and go pass out flyers stating that Apple supports internet censorship to every client walking in or out of the store. If you don’t live near a store get on the phone and call apple care, and the apple sales line repeatedly and take up as much time with each representative talking to them about your concerns as possible. Next go to the Apple website and fill in as many customer support forms as possible with letters demanding that they take a public stand against SOPA.

Now if we want to have an effect here we need to mobilize as many people as possible, that’s why I’m requesting that everyone share this video with as many people as possible, through as many networks as possible. Take this video and re-upload it to your channel or make your own version calling for your subscribers to participate. Now is the time to act, we have to hit them where it hurts, and hit them hard.

More Information Regarding Fighting SOPA

• Who in Congress Supports SOPA and PROTECT-IP? | SOPA Opera
• All About SOPA, the Bill That Wants to Cripple Your Internet Very Soon PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo…. call your congressperson on the phone. This is especially important if you live in Texas, Michigan, Vermont, or Iowa. You can also send a letter to your congressperson by visiting the American Censorship Day web site.
• Stay On Top of the Fight Against SOPA/PIPA with These Tools
• Internet Giants Consider “Nuclear Option” in Fight Against SOPA | NationofChange
• Inside the Fight Against SOPA | Inc.com

Christopher Hitchens the brilliant writer and polemicist, after a noted public battle with cancer has passed away at 62

• Christopher Hitchens | Culture | Vanity Fair
• Richard Dawkins: Illness made Hitchens a symbol of the honesty and dignity of atheism – Commentators – Opinion – The Independent
• The Blog : Hitch : Sam Harris
• A lesson from Hitch: When rudeness is called for – – The Washington Post
• Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary – NYTimes.com
  

  …He also threw himself into the defense of his friend Mr. Rushdie. “It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved,” he wrote in his memoir. “In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”

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• Christopher Hitchens, RIP | Entertainment | TIME.com
  

  …Stewart [Jon Stewart], playing devil’s advocate–which in this case means God’s advocate–asks whether religion isn’t justified as a comfort, because “we are a species that knows we are going to die.” Hitchens rejects that idea, just as he would reject that comfort for himself when he was later diagnosed with terminal cancer–as much as, he wryly confesses here, he wishes that “an exception would be made in my case.” Self-awarely, he acknowledges to Stewart: “But I must look like an asshole to you when I say that.” Indeed. A pugnacious, eloquent, brilliant asshole. RIP

• Hitchens’s Eulogists and Detractors | Camels With Hammers
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• Christopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62 – Boston.com
• Christopher Hitchens: the moral power of polemical fury | Mail Online
• Hitch RIP – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
• Christopher Hitchens obituary | Books | guardian.co.uk
• BBC News – Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 after suffering cancer
• Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 | Greta Christina’s Blog
• RIP Christopher Hitchens | Dispatches from the Culture Wars
• Christopher HItchens 1949 – 2011
• We Lost Hitch. That Is All | Token Skeptic
• Hitch is not in heaven | Pharyngula
• Christopher Hitchens, a Vanity Fair Writer, was a religious skeptic and acerbic master of the contrarian essay – The Washington Post
• Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 – Associated Press – POLITICO.com
• The 20 Best Christopher Hitchens Quotes | Unreasonable Faith
• Raise a glass to Christopher Hitchens | Lousy Canuck
• Ian McEwan on Hitchens
• Reactions to Hitch’s Death | Dispatches from the Culture Wars
• We Have Lost Christopher Hitchens | Camels With Hammers
• Hitchens Must Die | Almost Diamonds
• To those praying for Hitchens | The Crommunist Manifesto
• Ratio Primoris (Reason Foremost): Christopher Hitchens: The Best Of The Hitchslap
• The dark side of Hitchens | Pharyngula
• via Hitchens on Mother Theresa, Hitler, and Immorality | Camels With Hammers
  
  In another post on another Freethought Blog; It’s a poisoned chalice | Butterflies and Wheels which featured a cut from this speech Peter Nothnagle gives us Hitchens’ remarks here

  …I’ll close on the implied question, “why don’t you accept this wonderful offer?” [of Salvation, I suppose] Wouldn’t you like to meet Shakespeare, for example. I don’t know if you really think that when you die, you can be corporeally reassembled, and have conversations with authors from previous epochs — it’s not necessary that you believe that in Christian theology, and I must say it sounds like a complete fairy tale to me. The only reason I want to meet Shakespeare, or might want to, is because I can meet him any time, because he is immortal in the work’s he’s left behind. If you’ve read those, meeting the author would almost certainly be a disappointment!

  But when Socrates was sentenced to death for his philosophical investigations, and for blasphemy, for challenging the gods of the city, and he accepted his death, he did say, if we are lucky, perhaps we’ll be able to hold conversation with other great thinkers and doubters too. In other words, the discussion about what is good, what is beautiful, what is noble, what is pure, and what is true, could always go on. Why is that important? Why would I like to do that? Because that’s the only conversation worth having. And whether it goes on or not after I did, I don’t know. But I do know it’s the conversation I want to have while I’m still alive.

  Which means that, to me, the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is the offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know enough yet. That I haven’t read enough, that I can’t know enough, that I’m always operating hungrily on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way, and I’d urge you to look at those of you who tell you, those people who tell you at your age, that you’re dead until you believe as they do. What a terrible thing to be telling to children. [Applause] And that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority. Don’t think of that as a gift — think of it as a poisoned chalice, push it aside however tempting it is, take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. Thank you.

• God Sent Christopher Hitchens to Hell Because He Loved Him – Bryan Fischer – Focal Point – RichardDawkins.net
• Hypocritchens
• Why Honesty About Hitchens’ Addictions Matters « The Reality-Based Community

The effort began with "the support of almost sixty eminent scientists (including 11 Nobel laureates), business leaders, journalists and editors (including the editors in chief of both Science and Scientific American), politicians (including several members of Congress and two former Science Advisers to the President), the president of Princeton, and several presidents of large science organizations." and you can support the call by singing the petition and giving the petetion organizers your comments about the idea or questions you like to see dealt with in the debate by clicking here.

The petition which was the brainchild of Chris Mooney who described the evolution of the idea like this (from: Call for a Presidential Science Debate):

Let’s begin with some background: Nearly a month ago, I linked up with Matthew Chapman, the author, screenwriter, and great grandson of Charles Darwin. Chapman, I already knew, had a great idea that I wanted to write about in my forthcoming Seed column: A call for a debate among the current crop of presidential candidates solely devoted to issues in science and technology.

One thing led to another, and before long–along with many others, including Sheril (whose contribution has been invaluable) and Physics of Star Trek author Lawrence Krauss– I was helping Chapman organize a push to make this happen. First we got together a distinguished list of scientific luminaries, and later, we assembled a complementary blogger coalition, all in support of the following statement:

Given the many urgent scientific and technological challenges facing America and the rest of the world, the increasing need for accurate scientific information in political decision making, and the vital role scientific innovation plays in spurring economic growth and competitiveness, we, the undersigned, call for a public debate in which the U.S. presidential candidates share their views on the issues of The Environment, Medicine and Health, and Science and Technology Policy.

Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and blogs with Chris Mooney over on ScienceBlogs.com in The Intersection blog. Lawrence M. Krauss (wikipedia) is Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and former Chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University and just the other day wrote this Op-Ed for the WSJ: Science and the Candidates ] and along with Chris Mooney wrote this Op-Ed for the LA Times: Make science part of the debate.

What the organizers are so far hoping to see discussed in The Debate are topics such as:

The Environment

• Climate Change
• Conservation and Species Loss
• The Future of The Oceans
• Fresh Water: Drought, Pollution, Ownership
• Population Growth and Its Effect on Environment
• Renewable Energy Research

Health and Medicine

• Global Diseases and Pandemics
• Stem Cell Research
• Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
• Drug Patents, Generic Drugs
• The Genome
• Bioethics

Science and Technology Policy

• Scientific Innovation and Economic Growth
• Improving Science Education
• Space Exploration
• Preserving Scientific Integrity in Government
• Energy Policy

So again you can support the call by singing the petition and giving the petetion organizers your comments about the idea or questions you like to see dealt with in the debate by clicking here.