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yellojkt2011 – A motley crew of political junkies and refugees from other blogs join forces to create All Things in Moderation, “a place where political discussion and debate can take place in the absence of the kind of unproductive vitriol that has come to characterize much of blog commentary these days.” The significance of this on the world outside their little bubble is highly questionable, but since this post is inside that bubble, it remains worth noting.
1971 – A four day riot in Attica prison in New York, during which prisoners held employees hostage and took over portions of the prison, ends abruptly when police open fire on the prisoners, killing 29 inmates and 10 hostages. Four days earlier, an inmate attack on a guard had grown into a full-fledged riot and inmate take-over. Three days of negotiations ensue, with prisoners demanding improved living conditions. When negotiations fail, Governor Nelson Rockefellar authorizes the police to re-take the prison by force. Lawsuits surrounding the event will carry on for decades, with New York State being ordered by a federal judge to pay $8 million in damages to sruviving inmates in 2000, and in 2005 the state finally settles with the families of those employees who were killed, for at total of $12 million.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPHRnMQULrw
1814 – As the British bombard Fort McHenry from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, American Francis Scott Key pens The Defense of Fort McHenry, a poem that will eventually be set to music, renamed The Star Spangled Banner, and go on to become the US national anthem. Key had gone to Baltimore in order to negotiate the release of a friend of his who had been captured by the British. Brought aboard a British ship, Key secures the release of his friend, but is prevented from going ashore until the British finish their attack on Fort McHenry. Key was inspired to write his poem when, after an all night barrage, he awoke in the morning to the sight of the Stars and Stripes still flying over the fort. The Star Spangled Banner is now heard virtually daily in sports stadiums throughout the nation.
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unproductive vitriol
We here like out vitriol to be productive.
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McWing;
We here like out vitriol to be productive.
LOL
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I believe what you posted was actually very reasonable. But, what about this?
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I mean Today in history – September 13 | All Things in Moderation is a little vanilla.
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Or boob pictures.
#JustWannaHelp
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I’ve been following the weather and flooding in CO. They’re calling it the 100 year flood there. The pictures are really amazing if you haven’t been watching the news.
http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/09/12/your-photos-flooding-along-the-front-range/
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The latest on Syria according to Reuters.
(Reuters) – The United States and Russia agreed on Saturday on a proposal to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, averting the possibility of any immediate U.S. military action against President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the agreement after nearly three days of talks in Geneva.
Kerry said that under the pact, Syria must submit a “comprehensive listing” of its chemical weapons stockpiles within one week.
He told a news conference with Lavrov that U.N. weapons inspectors must be on the ground in Syria no later than November. The goal, he said, was the complete destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons by the middle of 2014.
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The latest talks prompted Obama to put on hold his plans for U.S. air strikes in response to the chemical weapons attack. Obama is now also spared facing a vote in Congress on military action that he had appeared increasingly likely to lose at this stage.
Experts say removing Syria’s hundreds of metric tons of chemical weapons, scattered in secret installations, will pose huge technical problems in the middle of a civil war.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/14/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE98A15720130914
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