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Biographical Flynn film may make you flinch

 

The first question you have to ask about The Last of Robin Hood is: Why is it called The Last of Robin Hood?

OK, it’s about the final two years of film star Errol Flynn’s life, and Robin Hood was one of Flynn’s most popular roles. But couldn’t they have come up with a title that’s a bit less awkward?

The only good thing you can say about the name is that it fits in with the rest of the film, which addresses an uncomfortable situation in such an awkward manner that it leaves us feeling even more uncomfortable.

The situation is the real-life affair between Flynn (Kevin Kline) and Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning), an aspiring actor who is only 15 when they meet in 1957. Flynn, who’s in his late 40s, obviously knows Beverly is less than half his age, but he doesn’t know she’s underage until after he’s seduced her. That’s because Beverly’s mother, Florence (Susan Sarandon), is so eager to push her daughter toward stardom that she lies about the girl’s age.

Homeland Security at ComFest secures Ice Cream and arrests photographer

They wandered and they loitered. They appeared to shop. They ate ice cream. They hung around for much of the day by political booths including the Spore Infoshop, an anarchist bookstore and community space, and the Ohio Rights Group, an organization attempting to place a pro-medical marijuana and industrial hemp initiative on the ballot. They were not, however, your average Comfest attendees. They were agents of the Ohio Investigative Unit (OIU) of the Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS) who may have been working for or with the Department of Homeland Security.
When a Comfest visitor took a camera phone picture of a badly handmade Harley Davison T-shirt stretched over the central girth of one of the agents, the other agents swarmed and the unfortunate photographer was arrested.
The Comfest visitor was charged with disorderly conduct for taking photos of the agent.

Coverup in Beavercreek Walmart police shooting: Prosecutor has controversial past

Hack the Bastards to Save the Internet

The internet is the lifeblood of what’s left of global democracy.

It’s under attack as never before. We must act.

It’s time for the hactivists to mobilize.

When the British slaughtered eight Americans at Lexington and Concord, farmers grabbed their guns and picked off 250 Redcoats as they marched back to Boston.

With guerrilla tactics learned from the Indians, the farmers shot from behind rocks and trees and then flowed back into the woods to fight again further down the road.

They began a Revolution in both modern warfare and the demands of a people determined to be free.

Today the corporations are marching again---this time to choke off the last gasp of a free media.

The prime culprits are “internet providers” like Comcast, Time-Warner, PacBell, etc.  They did not invent or develop the internet. That was done with public money and communal institutions.

They have simply, as always, used their ill-gotten billions to warp, buy and steal a public trust. Now they want it all. They need to be stopped.

Successful lawsuit exposes bureaucrats and lobbyists betraying employers in Ohio’s Workers’ Compensation System


In May Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cuyahoga County upheld a common pleas court’s decision ordering the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC”) to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to up to 264,000 businesses. Under the decision in San Allen v. Buehrer, some businesses were owed more than $1 million, and many were owed six-figure amounts.

 

A few weeks after appealing the decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, BWC agreed in July to settle the class-action lawsuit for $420 million.

 

The appeals court said the case involved a “cabal” of lobbyists and BWC bureaucrats who “rigged” the workers’ compensation premium rates paid by Ohio employers. It found that BWC developed and maintained “an unlawful rating system under which excessive premium discounts were given to group-rated employers at the expense of nongroup-rated employers.”

 

From Ferguson to Columbus: Police shootings second highest in the wild, wild midwest

Boy holds sign that says Don't Shoot



Did you ever wonder where Columbus ranks in police shootings? We’re Number Two among the major cities in the United States. Only Las Vegas police officers kill more citizens per capita than Columbus.



 With the explosion of demonstrations and activism in Ferguson, Missouri over the police shooting of an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, the Free Press investigated the likelihood of police killings in Columbus. Although it is often difficult to get precise statistics that depend on state and local police cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Free Press obtained FBI data for so-called “justifiable homicides” from 2012. The results may surprise many.

 In the United States, 410 people died from police shootings. The 410 people were not in police custody at the time of the shooting, but were running away.

 This is a different measure than what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calls “custody or arrest-related deaths.” There were 4813 “custody or arrest-related deaths” in the nation between 2003-2009.

City official charged with theft in office

Bernadine Kennedy Kent and James Whitaker have filed suit against the city of Columbus, including its police chief, city attorney and chief litigator Glenn Redick, over being placed on the Columbus Police Department’s Chronic Complainers List. Kent and Whitaker are widely acknowledged for helping to break the data scrubbing scandal at the Columbus Public Schools. Also, they initiated the investigation by Ohio Auditor David Yost into the theft of federal No Child Left Behind funds earmarked for tutoring centers servicing low-income children. One felony conviction of a tutoring “vendor” has resulted from their whistle-blowing activities.
  Kent and Whitaker run a nonprofit advocacy service called Parent Advocates for Students in School (PASS). In 2006 when Kent and Whitaker alerted school officials of data manipulation, school attorney Loren Braverman called the cops on the couple. The police subsequently placed them on a “Chronic Complainers List” designed to ignore any criticism of police behavior.

Community Bill of Rights guarantees clean air, soil and water

Columbus citizens may assume they now have and will continue to enjoy clean air, soil and drinking water. A group of concerned citizens aren’t so sure, and are currently organizing to make sure the Columbus environment stays healthy.

 This group is working towards passing a local “community bill of rights” in response to the toxic threats caused by fracking in the state. The group is collecting signatures on a Columbus Community Bill of Rights petition, an amendment to the Columbus City Charter, that would ensure the rights of Columbus citizens to a clean environment.

The State is Gonna State, and We're Just Gonna Shake it Off

There is now a tendency among the activist portion of the black community that white people no longer deserve an explanation, that we have oh-so-politely explained to them the reality of white supremacy, taking pains not to appear too angry, and it still doesn't seem to be taking, and that it is no time for concern for white feelings when our people are literally dying in the streets at the hands of our own government. I, however, am more charitable, because I do not believe that Ferguson is a culmination of anything, but rather a beginning, and I believe that white America, like all people, deserve an explanation for what may be about to happen to them.

 The connection between Ferguson and Gaza that has appeared in recent demonstrations is one made more than just of convenience, or rhetorical flourish, and it is one that should give the Fox News crowd and other assorted defenders of American Liberty quite a few moments of pause. Because as Israel is a font of occupation, so is Palestine a font of resistance, and it is that idea of resistance that is beginning to catch on in the land of the free speech zones.

What about us old Amateurs

 

 


When it comes to “Young Professionals”, Columbus is a mecca of sorts. The Columbus Young Professional Club is the largest YP club in the US with more than 21,000 members. There’s also the Create Columbus Commission, a board of apparently elite young professionals appointed by Mayor Coleman and funded by city taxpayers

Anyone between the ages of 21 to 45 is welcome to join a YP group, but for the most part YP’s have a college degree and a skill that apparently deems them professional.

According to the Mayor’s office, the Create Columbus Commission “strives to make Columbus the nation’s number one place for YPs to live, work, play (and) serves as the community’s foremost thought leader on young professional interests, experiences, and priorities.”

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