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7:53 a.m. CDT, July 9, 2013

 Three people, including a 15-year-old boy, were shot to death on the West Side Monday afternoon, police said.

Hours later, three others were injured in separate shootings on the South Side.

The 15-year-old boy, Ed Cooper, was shot in the chest about 5:08 p.m. in the 600 block of North Lawndale Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was declared dead at 5:54 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Cooper lived in the 1200 block of South Kostner Avenue.

The boy was playing a ballgame at the playground of Laura Ward Elementary School, formerly Ryerson Elementary, 646 N. Lawndale Ave., when he was shot, 

Chicago shootings violence July 8 to 9: 3 killed in West Side attacks – chicagotribune.com

Bite a pastry into the shape of a gun – get a visit from the police. Make a threat against George Zimmerman – no problem.

They are 50 miles away from 40% concentration ice. Red circle shows their location. Blue circle shows the ice.

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This ice has blown in during the last three days. Compare with July 10 below

If the current winds continue, their route will be completely impassable in about three days.

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Trayvon’s parents failed to raise him properly, causing him to degenerate from this :

to this – in just three years :

While suspended from school, he made the incredibly stupid decision to attack the neighborhood watch man. This got him killed, and his parents want someone else to pay for their criminally negligent parenting.

According to our progressive friends, Zimmerman profiled this child before he killed him

Apparently the neighborhood had a rash of burglaries by cute little 12 year old kids with skittles prior to that fateful night, and Zimmerman profiled him on that basis.

Standing outside the courthouse threatening to kill the defendant, and no fear of consequences. That is what progressives call “justice.”

h/t to Latitude

Creepy ass cracka chases down cute 12 year old Obamason lookalike who went to the store for candy, profiles him and kills him in cold blood – while he screams for help.

Thus summary provided by the world class professionals at NBC News.

Climate change

When you have regular droughts or ones over a 15-year span, when does it stop being an abnormal weather pattern and become your new climate?

That’s a tough question to answer. Stooksbury said this weather pattern is similar to one Georgia experienced from the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s, so it could be part of a periodic cycle.

Or it could indicate the new direction the Southeastern climate is headed. Climatologists won’t be able to tell for about 10 more years.

“Our computer models don’t help us on this,” Stooksbury said. “That’s one of the frustrations. The computer long-term climate models for the Southeast are all over the place. Some have us wetter, some drier. Some have us wetter but with much more variability.”

Marshall Shepherd, director of the Atmospheric Sciences program at the University of Georgia, pointed to Columbia University research after the drought that ended in 2008.

“The frequency and perhaps intensity of droughts is consistent with what models say would occur with climate change,” he said.

“There is likely some shift in our climate that is occurring and creating new norms,” said Tom Mote, head of the UGA Geography department. “(The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) recently released its new 30-year climate normals, and ours are now warmer and drier than they were.”

Repeated droughts taking toll on midstate | Local & State | Macon.com