Nov. 17th, 2006

Sick

Nov. 17th, 2006 01:08 pm
ebonlock: (Brock pissed)
I saw this video on Olbermann last night of a UCLA student being repeatedly tasered for the crime of not having his student ID on hand in the computer lab. It's...in a word, horrifying. The screams are the worst part, and then the security officers threatening to taser everyone who tried to get their names and info to make sure they're held accountable. The Daily Bruin has more:

At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.

The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.

The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.

It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.

UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.

Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.

As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
ebonlock: (Monarch)
You know, if if Jim Webb keeps talking like this I may just have found my new political pretend boyfriend (Barack Obama was a mere crush, though Russ Feingold still holds a big piece of my heart):

America's top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country. Few among them send their children to public schools; fewer still send their loved ones to fight our wars. They own most of our stocks, making the stock market an unreliable indicator of the economic health of working people. The top 1% now takes in an astounding 16% of national income, up from 8% in 1980. The tax codes protect them, just as they protect corporate America, through a vast system of loopholes.

Incestuous corporate boards regularly approve compensation packages for chief executives and others that are out of logic's range. As this newspaper has reported, the average CEO of a sizeable corporation makes more than $10 million a year, while the minimum wage for workers amounts to about $10,000 a year, and has not been raised in nearly a decade. When I graduated from college in the 1960s, the average CEO made 20 times what the average worker made. Today, that CEO makes 400 times as much.

In the age of globalization and outsourcing, and with a vast underground labor pool from illegal immigration, the average American worker is seeing a different life and a troubling future. Trickle-down economics didn't happen.


Isn't he just dreamy?
ebonlock: (Snape Potterpuff)
Woo, just heard this from our Warner rep:

The teaser trailer for “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” will make its online debut on Monday, November 20th at 12:00 p.m. PST / 3:00 p.m. EST on the “Happy Feet” site (www.happyfeetmovie.com).


Most of the pics I received are pretty murky and uninteresting, but I think I spotted two from Occlumency classes which show some nice details of what may be Snape's quarters:

Calm Harry with eerie green glow, note the bottles in the back.

Freakin' out Harry with eerie green glow, more bottles behind him.

And these are kinda cool:

This one of Dolores overseeing the O.W.L.s is kinda fun too.

A little something something for my Sirius-loving friends

And does Harry look like freaky old in this one or is it just me?

UPDATE:

All right, kiddies, I've got the first 10 seconds of the teaser trailer for you and OMG the Snape-y goodness makes my toes curl already! BTW, [livejournal.com profile] moonlightnrain I totally called it, Harry's standing in Snape's quarters during those photos. I do believe I can declare it game, set and match when it comes to geek points on this one ;)

Quicktime
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_56.mov
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_100.mov
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_300.mov
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_500.mov


Windows Media Player
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_56.asx
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_100.asx
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_300.asx
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/orderofthephoenix/10seconds/10sec_500.asx

Profile

ebonlock: (Default)
ebonlock

August 2013

S M T W T F S
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728 293031

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Aug. 29th, 2025 06:32 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios