"the Former Chrysler Group" - surely they must have some other name than that.

Doesn't Starbucks try to have a "progressive" appeal? I guess that's like Apple complaining about Indiana's RFRA law and yet doing business in China and Saudi Arabia.

I don't know enough about these prison-labor systems to tell if the companies are actually "exploiting" prisoners though.

I'm not going to watch the video, but as for the unarmed part we have to remember that in the heat of the moment the officer doesn't know for sure whether the other person is armed or not.

Did he shoot the guy when he was running away or when the guy tried to grab his taser? Grabbing a cop's taser does put the cop's life at risk, since he could tase the cop and then take his gun.

@Gaming-Planet: Why don't you like the name "Bill"?

@comp_atkins: It says they graduated junior high school together, so Bill was young at the time of the story.

I'd imagine they would be.

Malcolm Charles Obama.

@MrGeezer: whoah. Were your fingers sore after you finished with that post?

oh yeah, April 2nd, didn't notice that until you mentioned it.

It was the week after Easter when it happened? I remember I was in school and it was towards the end of the day the Friday after Easter when they announced over the PA system that he had lost consciousness. I don't know if he died on that day though or on the day after.

So here's a little story I came upon recently (well, I first saw it last year) :

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A Simple Gesture

Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder.

Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked Mark discovered the boy's name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history, and that he was having lots of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.

They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then Mark went home. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years.

Finally the long-awaited senior year came and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk. Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met.

Did you guys expect the story to end that way? I wonder if it's a true story. Makes you think though, doesn't it.

"the clairvoyant doesn't like to be touched"?

This is a no win situation, so we shouldn't be getting involved.

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