Darren Wilson has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department. Gee, really?

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the fatal confrontation with the black 18-year-old that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation. 

Darren Wilson, 28, has been on administrative leave since the shooting on Aug. 9. His resignation was announced Saturday by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager. The resignation is effective immediately, Bruntrager said.

Nothing at all surprising about this. After all how could this man ever be expected to walk the streets of Ferguson as a law enforcement official after this.

Or walk down the street at all actually.

And why should he keep such a low paying job, rife with the possibility of further interaction with people who so desperately need to be shot, when he can get paid simply to spin his tales on television?

Courtesy of Got News:

A NBC source with knowledge of the #DarrenWilson interview talks said that ABC offered to pay “mid-to-high” six figures for the interview. 

The source did not say an exact figure because NBC stopped bidding for it after ABC upped the ante.

Mid-to-high six figures, that sounds somewhat north of $500,000 doesn't it?

Quite a bump up from what police officers typically make, isn't it?

Well perhaps Wilson is looking for a more lucrative job providing analysis on some cable new outlet or something. Hmm, I wonder which cable news station would be so unscrupulous as to hire a man who just may have shot a young man to death in cold blood?

By the way Wilson characterized his decision to quit the Ferguson police force as "the hardest thing I've ever had to do."

Yes so much harder than gunning down an unarmed teenager in the streets. Right?

George Stephanopoulos gets first interview with Darren Wilson after Grand Jury decision.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

ABC News broke into scheduled programming Tuesday afternoon to give a brief preview of the interview. Stephanopoulos told viewers that he spent more than an hour with Wilson in a "secret location." He said Wilson told him that he is "sorry" for the death of Brown, but that he would not do "anything different" if he were to relive that day. "He does not think he could have done anything differently," Stephanopoulos said. 

"He says he did what he was trained to do. He has a clean conscience over his actions that day."

"He has a clean conscience over this actions that day." You know having a clean conscience after ending the life of another human being indicates a psychopath.

Even soldiers fighting in wars against individuals that are trying to kill them, do not usually say they have a clean conscience over the soldiers they have killed.

Even if you really feel you are justified that is a troubling way to put things.

And saying that he would not have done anything differently....well I don't even know what to do with that statement.

If you watch this tonight feel free to weigh in here to let us know what you think of Wilson during, and after the interview. I am interested to learn if it changes anybody's mind or not.

The USDA plans to bring indoor plumbing to Alaska villages. Yeah, kind of a big deal.

Alaska honey bucket. No, there is nothing sweet about this.

Courtesy of ABC News:

A remote Alaska Native village where only half the homes have indoor plumbing is among rural communities nationwide that will receive upgrades to rural water and wastewater systems with $352 million in grants and loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is scheduled to announce the funding Thursday at a convention of Alaska Natives in Anchorage. 

In a telephone interview Tuesday, Vilsack told The Associated Press that ultimately, the future goal is to bring the entire nation into the modern world. 

"It's really designed to make sure people live in communities and in areas that provide the basic protections and the guarantee of basic protections that we all, as Americans, ought to have," he said. "It's an adequate supply of quality water. It's the ability to treat sewage properly so that it doesn't to harm or damage to the environment."

This may seem almost impossible to believe for those living in the lower 48, and actually those of us in Alaska cities often forget about ti as well, but there are thousands of residents who have to carry their own waste to a dump site for disposal, rather than simply pulling a lever like most people in the modern world.

Not too long ago I worked with a client from a very small village in Western Alaska who had never been out of his community before.

He was taken from his village after an incident and transported to a mental health facility in Anchorage. It was the first time he had flown on a plane, or ridden in a car, but those two things did not freak him out as much as indoor plumbing did.

After check in one of the doctors noticed that he was hopping around and realized that boy, who did not yet speak hardly any English, had to use the facilities.

He was taken into a room, which completely confused him as his family went out of doors to relieve themselves, and was encourage by male staff to pee into the toilet bowl.

Finally unable to hold it, he did just that. However when the toilet was flushed he became terrified and ran out of the room and almost out the front door of the building in terror.

So yes, this would be an incredibly huge deal for rural Alaskans.

Oh and by the way. These are the kinds of things that happen under Democratic administrations. And the kinds of things facilitated by Democratic Senators.