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[eople are getting very fed up with the pandering and no one willing to call out wrongdoing]

Get out in front of what, exactly?

A mob attacking the police who are trying to protect their neighborhood from a armed felon who are responding to a call

Not one local politician has offered any support to BPD in recent weeks

People are getting very fed up with the pandering and no one willing to call out wrongdoing

Almost like something a Black Lives Matter spokesperson would say.

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

We're talking about English, not Irish.

A noun like "singer" does not refer to an airport or a legislature.

OK, I thought your issue was using 'the' to refer to an entity of which there is only one.  I'm not sure now what you're objecting to now.  Is it the use of 'The' to refer to some sort of entity referred to by a proper noun?
If that's the issue, do you have the same problem with talk of The Dail? 

In any event,  the 'the' in 'The US Congress'  attaches to 'US', not to 'Congress'.  No-one calls it The Congress, and it would sound strange in most contexts to call it US Congress (without the 'the' prefix).

Sorry, but I've heard it referred to as "the Congress." It's a thing. That's what I'm objecting to.

As for airports, when was the last time you heard someone say "I'm flying out of the Dublin airport?"

I'm surprised to hear that.  I've lived here close on 30 years and I've never heard anyone say, or seen anyone write, 'the Congress'.  Maybe it's a west coast thing?


On historic/historical, there is a clear use for 'historical' where 'historic' doesn't apply.  As in "A historical introduction to psychology", where 'historic' would tend to reveal a fair amount of ego on the part of the author, as opposed to a guide to the history of the discipline.   

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

We're talking about English, not Irish.

A noun like "singer" does not refer to an airport or a legislature.

OK, I thought your issue was using 'the' to refer to an entity of which there is only one.  I'm not sure now what you're objecting to now.  Is it the use of 'The' to refer to some sort of entity referred to by a proper noun?
If that's the issue, do you have the same problem with talk of The Dail? 

In any event,  the 'the' in 'The US Congress'  attaches to 'US', not to 'Congress'.  No-one calls it The Congress, and it would sound strange in most contexts to call it US Congress (without the 'the' prefix). 

Only one is the singer though.

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

Abuse of the definite article.

"The San Jose Airport."

"The San Jose City Council."

"The US Congress."

Those are all fine, unless there are more than one of each.

Lots of people don't want to pay for armed invasions of other countries. But we don't get to choose where our taxes go.

Surprising how long someone can live here and not know cops unions are a solid Republican voting block.

This article on Churchill showed up on my newsfeed today.  Timely, given the direction of this thread. A good read.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/winston-churchill-british-empire-colonialism?fbclid=IwAR1Tr1kPIxqqp21KT47dXXDoDpVDb1kT2JgHnQtfcDURkV9LhKTWxviSMKg

Dave Chapelle on police killings. Absofuckinglutely devastating. You need to watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1624&v=3tR6mKcBbT4&feature=emb_logo

It's not in the least bit funny,  in case you were expecting that.

A very interesting article arguing that it was not in fact the atomic bombs that caused Japan's surrender.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Interesting argument indeed.

However, surely some research must have been done back in the day on the thinking of those in power in Japan?

Assuming the author's opinion is correct, did every single one of those involved toe the line and, forever more, falsely promote the decisiveness of the atomic bombings?

Has there been any revisionism in Japan?

I don't know the answer to any of these questions.  I had always thought the second bombing was sheer malevolence, given that the Japanese surely would have surrendered just to avoid a second bombing.  But not if this author is correct.   

A very interesting article arguing that it was not in fact the atomic bombs that caused Japan's surrender.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I'd imagine the white privilege point is that one privilege white people have is to call the police to come to their home without worrying that the arriving cops might think the resident is  the intruder.

Yeah. That post you just quoted has done it for me.

[Prosecutors appealed the ruling twice, calling the two a danger to the community. A federal appeals court sent them back to jail on Friday]

OK, fine.

After Mr. Mattis and Ms. Rahman spent more than two days in jail, a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn released them each on $250,000 bond to home confinement with GPS monitoring, describing the allegations as "one night of behavior."

Prosecutors appealed the ruling twice, calling the two a danger to the community. A federal appeals court sent them back to jail on Friday, pending the outcome of their bail appeal.