FOOTBALL-SUICIDES-AND F****ED UP BRAINS

FOOTBALL-SUICIDES-AND F****ED UP BRAINS

It's a simple but tragic connection. Scramble someone's brains and it's more likely they will kill themselves and/or others.  But that won't deter the "fans" who's craving for blood far outweighs any common sense or concern for the players. Much like the Roman gladiators these football players are just collateral damage. The game must go on. 

Missing Ohio State football player found dead

Last week, Karageorge's parents told police that their son had complained about concussion symptoms before he disappeared.

In a copy of the missing persons report obtained by CNN, Susan Karageorge told police she received a text from her son about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday that said, "I am sorry if I am an embarrassment but these concussions have my head all f***ed up."

She added that her son has had several concussions and confusion "spells."

OPEN SEASON ON BLACK MALES;HOMICIDE BY COP

No Judge, no jury, no trial. Just a closed meeting with private citizens and a prosecutor to decide if  another unarmed black man  was legally murdered.



A grand jury on Monday declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, resolving a secretive, months-long legal saga and reigniting powerful frustrations about America’s policing of African Americans.

The decision means that Wilson, 28, will face no state charges for the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. It also set off a show of fury on streets near where Brown was shot, a reflection of emotions that register in this riven city as either out of control or justifiable.

Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.

BUYING SEX

One question. If it's true, why are women who claim to have been sexually assaulted accept money to remain silent?

Explosive New Cosby Allegation Explains How He Might Have Gotten Away with It

This weekend a former NBC employee, whose job was guarding Cosby's Brooklyn dressing room, told the explosive tale of how he was allegedly dispatched by the comedian to make pay-offs to wronged women to keep them silent.

RAPING AMERICA

War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely.

The money should stagger you. Journalist James Risen, author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, a revelatory new book about the scammers, counterterrorism grifters, careerist bureaucrats, torture con artists, and on-the-make privatizers of our post-9/11 national security state, suggests that the best figure for money spent on Washington’s war on terror, including the Iraq and Afghan wars, is four trillion dollars


Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful as its historic wartime abuses — and until this book, it has worked very hard to cover them up.


So our four trillion dollar-plus investment gave rise to a crew of war profiteers that Risen dubs “the oligarchs of 9/11” and who are now wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

One of Largest Transfers of Public Wealth to Private Hands: Our Staggering War Economy

CRATE CHRISTIE

Pig farmers are dumb. No question about that. Torturing the very animals that provide their lively hood is a "no brainer" for them.



Chris Christie, on the other hand is one slick-savvy politician and knows exactly why it's immoral and wrong to torture living creatures; pigs included. In his case, selling his soul to the Devil to get the Iowa vote is all that stands between him and banning pig torture in his home state of New Jersey.



Maybe crating Chris for a few weeks would help him in making the right decision.

Chris Christie Faces Iowa Pressure On Pig Crate Ban

A DEN OF THIEVES Banking Culture Primes People to Cheat

This should come as no surprise given the history of criminal activity in the banking industry. The mantra from the film, "Wall Street" , "Greed is Good" fits like like a glove.

Banking Culture Primes People to Cheat

The reputation of the financial sector has taken a bashing in the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, and after scandals involving the manipulation of interest rates, fraudulent deals and rogue traders losing billions of dollars. Now, a team of economists at the University of Zurich in Switzerland has found that when bankers think about their jobs, they are more likely to lie — evidence that banking culture encourages dishonest behaviour.

Aspects of a person’s life, such as their job or whether they have children, can affect how they behave. But when it comes to the ethics of finance, the key question is “whether the business culture actually renders bank employees more dishonest, or whether more-dishonest people simply choose to work in the banking industry”, says Michel Maréchal, who co-led the study. In a previous study, which is under review at a journal, Maréchal and colleagues found that prison inmates were more likely to cheat in a coin-tossing game when reminded of their criminal past. Psychologists call this effect ‘priming’.

AMERICA ON THE ROCKS; A PARTY CULTURE

Americans love to party. Hey! What's wrong with wanting to have a good time?



Nothing. At least if it doesn't include maiming children on football fields and raping girls on college campuses just to name a few of our national past times.



This latest revelation of the culture of silence and the "no big deal" attitude when women are "gang raped" is another example of how psychologically damaged this society is.

UVA asks police to investigate rape claims published in Rolling Stone

“Rapes are kept quiet, both by students – who brush off sexual assaults as regrettable but inevitable casualties of their cherished party culture – and by an administration that critics say is less concerned with protecting students than it is with protecting its own reputation"