oh, he was a young veteran


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How conveeeeenient.
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." —Suskind, Ron (2004-10-17), Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush. The New York Times Magazine
And they're making hay while the sun is blaring headlines down on us.
Micah Xavier Johnson, the 25-year-old Afghanistan Army veteran with body armor, an assault rifle and handgun who shot 12 cops at Dallas protest, killing five, after saying 'he wanted to especially kill white officers'

EXCLUSIVE: Guilty of 'driving while black': Man whose shooting death by police was streamed live by his girlfriend had been pulled over AT LEAST 31 times and hit with 63 traffic charges despite having no other criminal record

'This is now war!' Former Congressman Joe Walsh warns 'cop hater' Obama to 'watch out' after police officers are shot dead in Dallas

Newt Gingrich calls 'Baloney!' on Black Lives Matter after Dallas cop killings as he says Democratic politicians have betrayed urban black voters and Americans must 'hunt down people who shoot the police'

The young father, the newlywed and the cop who moved to Texas for his dream job: Three of the five Dallas officers killed in the deadliest attack on police since 9/11 are named

'It's a kind of anti-black mood': Reverend Jesse Jackson points the finger at Donald Trump and his followers for the rise of 'mean-spirited division' in America

Terrifying moment brave cop's bullet bounces off armored vest of Dallas gunman - who then shoots the officer in the back before executing him at point-blank range with assault rifle

Police on alert nationwide: NYPD chief bans officers from being alone as cops in Washington, Boston and more are told to partner up in wake of Dallas shooting

PIERS MORGAN: Some cops will always be racist, some cops will always make mistakes and some people will always be full of hate - but if America wasn't awash with guns it wouldn't have to be a bloodbath
While you are engaged in the judicious study of discernible reality and they are acting. Doesn't matter how carefully they explain it to us, we don't learn.


always and any time....