Try as I might, I just don't understand this, at all.  I don't understand how the possibility of a juvenile record is supposed to get them from the tragedy of Michael Brown to the triumph of Darren Wilson.  How, in any universe that is supposed to be civilized, can walking in the road be cause for a confrontation of that magnitude?

Why are they working so hard to feel okay about a death at the hand of someone who's supposed to be about "protect and serve?"  Who was Darren Wilson protecting?  Himself?  How does running after someone and shooting at them fit into that category?  Who was he serving?  The community?  How does firing bullets with no regard for people in the area serve them, or anyone?

What really just wants to make me vomit is finding out how many people think like "crimebird" does.  

Sanford had its Rachel and now Ferguson has its Josie.

The President is sending three White House officials to the funeral service of Michael Brown in St. Louis on Monday:

Leading the group for Monday's service will be the chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force, Broderick Johnson. My Brother's Keeper is an Obama initiative that aims to empower young minorities. Johnson is also the secretary for the Cabinet.

Also attending will be the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Marlon Marshall, and an adviser for the office, Heather Foster.

And here's how deranged, openly racist right wing blogger Jim Hoft sees it:

Reports: White House to Send All Black Delegation to Michael Brown Funeral

Oh and Ball canning jars hit the floor from 6ft up and didn't break! That would have been a mess of jams, salsas and sauces mixed with glass if they did :P Luckily, my dishes are in the cabinet under the counter, so that was good.

Nice try and thinking we haven't heard of automobiles.

The five-minute video released by ISIS, now the focus of intensive forensic analysis by British and American authorities, is narrated in part by the killer, wearing a black hood with eyeholes, who addresses the camera in English before putting a knife in his left hand to the journalist's throat. The video then skips ahead to show Mr. Foley's severed head atop his corpse in the sand, with what appears to be a different knife lying nearby. [Jeralyn ahead of the curve, as usual]

Speculation among terrorism experts and the British news media has focused on a number of militants known to have joined ISIS, including a 24-year-old London rapper named Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary. Mr. Bary's father, Adel Abdel Bary, was extradited to the United from Britain in 2012 after a long legal battle to face terrorism charges in Al Qaeda's bombing of two American Embassies in East Africa in 1998.

The NYT story suggests that this is more a recuirtment video for British Militants, than anything else.. The fact that a Westerner did the deed, or may have done the deed, or probably did not do the deed but was a stand in for the Preview of the deed.

"Did you see what we can do? There is more!!" wrote one ISIS supporter monitored by SITE. Another wrote, "I was happy to see the beheading of that kaafir." Kaafir is the Arabic word for unbeliever.

To judge by Twitter and other social media, "British militants have been impressed that this was done by a British guy," said Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute and author of an upcoming book about Muslim extremists in Britain.

According to reports ... former ISIS hostages have given him the nickname "John the Beatle" -- because of his British accent.

Hmmmm...  looks like TMZ is stretching things quite a bit..

From the Telegraph (also not the highest in the food chain)

Razul Islam is understood to be on a list of suspected British Jihadists whom the security services are comparing with the footage of Mr Foley's killer, a British man known as "John" described as the leader of a British cell of jihadists known as "The Beatles".

Investigators will also be keen to rule out Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, a former rapper from Maida Vale, west London, who went to Syria last year and later tweeted a picture of himself holding up a severed head. He has a similar accent to the man who killed Mr Foley, and has a similar build and skin tone.

"The straw that broke the camel's back, an officer shot at a female. She was stopped for a traffic violation. She had a child in the back [of the] car and was probably worried about getting locked up. And this officer chased her down Highway 70, past city limits, and took a shot at her. Just ridiculous."

Police faced a series of lawsuits for using unnecessary force, Stichnote said. One black resident, Cassandra Fuller, sued the department claiming a white Jennings police officer beat her in June 2009 on her own porch after she made a joke. A car had smashed into her van, which was parked in front of her home, and she called police. The responding officer asked her to move the van. "It don't run. You can take it home with you if you want," she answered. She said the officer became enraged, threw her off the porch, knocked her to the ground and kicked her in the stomach.

He turned around and ran towards Wilson.

Mr. Brown, 18, was also shot four times in the right arm, he said, adding that all the bullets were fired into his front.

Kurtz traces responsibility for the "Snowden Hoax" to a German website, www.shababek.de, and Kareem al-Baidani.

Glenn Greenwald and others state there is no evidence in the Snowden cache that ISIS is linked to the CIA, Mossad or any other intelligence agency.

Greenwald points to Ben Wizner, a lawyer with the ACLU, who retweets spy novelist Jeremy Duns. Duns provides a link to the Kurtz blog post claiming to document the "Snowden Hoax" and a lack of definitive evidence connecting ISIS to the CIA or Mossad and pointing back to Iranian propaganda.

I will not be surprised if there is a Saudi connection to it. The Arab spring revolts may have led the Saudi monarchy to think that they may be a future domino to fall. They may therefore have encouraged the most extreme people in Saudi Arabia to go and create a Caliphate somewhere else to thwart a future rebellion within Saudi Arabia from these same elements. The Saudis are like Pakistan of the Middle East. They are officially our allies but more often than not support elements that are inimical to the principles we espouse or even our strategic interests based on realpolitik considerations. Here is a link about that country that shows why we should be concerned.

Try this on.

You condemn others for judging people based on their skin color and yet you judge Wilson because of where he came from.

The nearby town of Jennings was forced to dismantle their entire PD because of abject racism. Wilson came from that PD.