Showing posts with label violent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violent. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Interesting: You may have been beat at a violent video game by a Supreme Court Justice...

Supreme Court justices played violent video games as research for  2010 case concerning California's ban on the sale of violent video games to minors.

From the Associated Press:
Kagan said the justices often turn to their clerks, who are much younger, to help them understand new technologies.
But they also try to learn on their own. In one case, involving violent video games the first year she was on the court, justices who had never played the games before dove in and gave them a try, Kagan said.
“It was kind of hilarious,” she said.
She didn’t say which games they played.
I wonder which game they played? My guess is this:

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Connecticut community to burn violent video games and movies...

 


Will violent books be next?

Via The Guardian:
A Connecticut community is to hold an amnesty of violent video games in the wake of last month's mass shooting in Newtown.

Organisers Southington SOS plan to offer gift certificates in exchange for donated games, which will be burned. The group, a coalition of local organisations, says its actions do not assert that video games were the cause of the killings in nearby Newtown, but argues that violent games and films desensitize children to "acts of violence".

Pupils from Sandy Hook elementary school, where 26 people were killed on 17 December, returned to classes for the first time on Thursday in the neighbouring town of Monroe. Sandy Hook elementary is still being treated as a crime scene and it is unclear if it will ever reopen.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Video: Woman Describes "Violent" TSA Search

The TSA employee ran a hand up the woman's skirt and hit her crotch so hard her heels were lifted off the ground. TSA denies the screener did anything wrong. There is nothing to see here. Move along now.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Violent Felons Coming to Your House Courtesy of the Census


Great news. Team Obama has hired as many as 200 violent felons to go door to door for the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau botched the background check. Some of the criminal records may include rape, manslaughter and child abuse. These are the same people that want to be in charge of our health care.

New Majority
reported:
A Senate Subcommittee hearing today revealed that nearly 36,000 Census Bureau employees were hired despite the fact that the fingerprint component of their criminal record checks was botched. Despite additional name checks recommended by the FBI, the GAO said that it was possible that more than 200 employees hired by the Census Bureau had criminal records, and were in contact with the public while canvassing for the ongoing 2010 census.