Busy
Real life shouldn’t interfere with blogging, but it does.
So, the Missouri governor figured out that he doesn’t need the National Guard in Ferguson because things have quieted. They have quieted because officials started talking to community leaders, and the community leaders asked people to lower the temperature. Officials should have done that days ago, but they apparently didn’t know who the community leaders were.
The police have made 163 arrests, but 128 have been for ‘failure to disperse’, i.e. exercising your rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances is illegal if the police say so.
ISIS was apparently asking for over $100 million in ransom for the journalist they murdered. The organization he was working for doesn’t have that kind of money available, and certainly couldn’t have raised it or paid it without US government assistance because the transfer would have been illegal.
I’m keeping an eye on Invest 96 which is west of the Antilles and headed for the Caribbean. It might be a tropical depression tomorrow.
