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Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Main Stream news media acting ignorantly and irresponsibly. Howard Kurtz - The New York Times, whether consciously or not, has just endangered Darren Wilson’s life. With tensions running high in Ferguson over the lack of an indictment for Wilson’s killing of Michael Brown, the paper has published the officer’s approximate address -- the street and town where he lives with his new wife, who also is named. Given the racial animosity unleashed by Brown’s death, given the rioting and the looting and the stores that were set afire, how can a news organization make it easier for some crazy zealot to track down Wilson? But there it is in the paper: “Officer Wilson and [blank] own a home together on [blank] Lane in [blank], Mo., a St. Louis suburb about a half-hour drive from Ferguson.” I mean, why not add a locator map? The piece was a seemingly innocuous scooplet about Wilson, who had dropped out of sight before the grand jury decision...

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"I understand that mistrust," Holder said. "I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man." The attorney general then described how he was stopped twice on the New Jersey Turnpike and accused of speeding. Police searched his car, going through the trunk and looking under the seats. "I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me," Holder said. Holder also described how once, while living in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, he was running to catch a movie with his cousin when a squad car rolled up and flashed its lights at the pair. The officer yelled, "Where are you going? Hold it!" Holder recalled. His cousin "started mouthing off," and Holder urged him to be quiet. "We negotiate the whole thing, and we walk to our movie. At the time that he stopped me, I was a federal prosecutor. I wasn't a kid," he said. by: Les Carpenter Rational Natio...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth The above was seen on one of two of Samuel Wurzelbacher's, better known as "Joe the Plumber", Facebook Pages today. Now I won't accuse the man of being a racist as some might be inclined to do but he sure as hell is pretty damn dumb. Aside from the fact it simply is not true it is lacking in character, it is insensitive in the extreme, and sure as hell does not serve any purpose other than making as ass of Joe the Plumber. I might add that it is very unlikely anyone could have done a better job of making Joe look like as ass. Straight from TPM : Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as "Joe the Plumber," took to Facebook on Wednesday to post his thoughts about the ongoing conflict in Ferguson, Mo. and compared the protestors to "cockroaches." In two separate Facebook posts, Wurzelbacher speculated about the clashes and looting that have broken out in Ferguson in the wake of the k...