On this day of giving thanks, I hope you\u2019re all with friends and family and, if you\u2019re caught in the Northeast storm, I hope you get through it OK.<\/p>\n
And if you\u2019re in Ferguson, Missouri, well, condolences. I hope you get through that storm, too.\u00a0 If you\u2019re NOT in Ferguson, you have one more thing to be thankful for.<\/p>\n
For me, I\u2019m thankful that I only have to watch CNN, currently the \u201call Ferguson, all the time\u201d network, when I want to.\u00a0 Not until last night did they even mention the murder of the young black man who may have witnessed the Michael Brown shooting and given honest testimony that favored Officer Wilson. However, CNN didn\u2019t make that connection.\u00a0 Conservative Treehouse did<\/a>, a day or two before.\u00a0 Thanks, Treepers! \u00a0.\u00a0 Indeed, some of the most incisive commentary on this whole case can be found at the Treepers\u2019 main website<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 This element of the case needs more investigation\u2026<\/p>\n A lesson: mad dogs bite anyone, including their own. Among the casualties are the burned-down African-American church that Michael Brown\u2019s biological dad attended.\u00a0 And the bakery of the nice black lady who, throughout the whole mess, had been providing free food for protesters.\u00a0 The difference between mad dogs and rioters is that no one blames you if you shoot rabid dogs.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a couple of New York Times <\/em>reporters have published the new address of Officer Wilson and his new wife. If that <\/em>home is burned down, I think those reporters and their paper will bear significant responsibility.\u00a0 (Someone on the conservative side has, in turned, put the addresses of the two reporters on the Internet. Please, folks, encourage everyone to leave that alone: don\u2019t let them turn \u201cus\u201d into \u201cthem.\u201d) \u00a0It would seem that some elements of the lynch mob have already put a price on Darren Wilson\u2019s head<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thanks to all the emergency service personnel who are sacrificing their holiday with their families for the safety of the good citizens of Ferguson and other locales that have caught the sparks of civil disturbance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On this day of giving thanks, I hope you\u2019re all with friends and family and, if you\u2019re caught in the Northeast storm, I hope you get through it OK. And if you\u2019re in Ferguson, Missouri, well, condolences. I hope you get through that storm, too.\u00a0 If you\u2019re NOT in Ferguson, you have one more thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-politics","9":"category-preparedness","10":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}