If she’s smart

She will use the donated money to move to another area and start over.

Not do business with the neighborhood that harbors the animals the trashed her bakery…..not give them the service of a good bakery…Not contribute any tax money to the area that failed to properly police it’s citizens and protect the businesses in the area. Certainly not employ anyone in the area.

She should urge all other decent citizens and all the businesses to do the same…

If you care to read

The full report from the Grand Jury….

Go HERE. (it is, for some reason, incomplete, but it is the best report I have seen so far) Interview #57 (page 4) is….interesting. 
Again: I don’t know what happened, and neither do you. I do know that Mike Brown wasn’t the choir boy the parents say he was, nor is Officer Wilson the bloodthirsty madman other say HE was. 
THe witness accounts differ a bit. But most of them jibe with the story Darren Wilson gave. 
No one will ever know for sure. I do know that, like the Trayvon Marin shooting, outside forces made things worse by only telling part of the story and twisting (and also not reporting) facts. 
I also can’t help but notice that this happened a few months before an election, just like the Trayvon Marin debacle…

One thing I realized last night

Is that, while there may be other reasons for “White Flight” and separatists and all the other actions people take that are perceived as racist….

The events in Ferguson (both earlier this summer and last night), as compared the fact that they DIDN’T happen in areas where the demographic is, shall we say, different, should be a good  indication as to why decent people of all races move away from areas like Ferguson. They don’t like to live in areas where such things are likely to happen.

In my area (and likely in yours) no one torched any businesses, no one broke windows or looted stores. No one burned or overturned nor broke the windows out of any cars (police or not). No one feared any of those actions might take place, simply because the people who live here (and it is a fairly mixed area) are decent people, rather than the kind of folks who remain in Ferguson after all the others moved out.

Are there racial tensions? Yes, to an extent. But people (of all races) don’t generally get pulled over and treated badly by the police because they don’t look, dress or act like thugs and lowlifes, nor act like criminals.

Are the police perfect? Not at all. Nor are the citizens.

But we aint’t Ferguson style folks, either…..

I hope, when I die

That in remembrance of me, my supporters will loot something worthwhile, like a National Guard Armory or a bank or something..at least a Bass Pro Shop or a Cabela’s or a Gander Mountain.

Not something as small and insignificant as a Family Dollar….

‘Cause nothing says “we remember you and will avenge your death!” like looting a Family Dollar store.

Listening to the scanners:

Seems like at least some folks in the crowds are trying to piss off the Police. Throwing things at the crowds and such.

How long will they be calm? Were I a police officer having stuff tossed at me, I don’t know that I would be willing to endure it long, and at some point I’d start kicking ass. (Which is why I am not  a police officer!). I don’t envy those cops who have to be out on the streets tonight.

I pray no one is killed (or injured) tonight….but it looks like the rioters will see to it that someone is.

Idiots. Rioting isn’t gonna bring Brown back, nor will it change things.

ETA: These groups of rioters looters protesters seem to not fear police at all.  One might think they felt they were immune to prosecution.

ETAII: Turning ugly, cops are retreating from several groups. I hope the cops are ok tonight.

Why do these folks trash their own neighborhoods?

If you wanna listen, the link is here:   http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/1573

I’m turning in for the evening.

Just in case you haven’t heard

Decision reached,,,

Announcement at 4 pm.

Frostify if need be.

ETA: Now 6 PM announcement….

ETA2: Now pushed back to 8 pm. I think they are gonna keep pushing it back so the rioters protestors will be all keyed up over and over and then when the time comes will be burnt up. Plus it’ll be colder then. 

Harder to be a bad ass looter when yer fingers and face are freezing.