Day 351: Corrupt Police

 

December 17th, 2011Today, I encountered a sharp contrast between corrupt police officers and at the same time, peaceful Occupy protesters. Though I spent the majority of my morning at home watching How I Met Your Mother and surfing the Internet, Earle eventually picked me up. The destination? Fry’s Electronics, where he would buy several (2) USB sticks. I was hungry so afterwards we went to Chick-Fil-A to eat some delicious chicken. When we left for the parking lot I saw some corrupt police officers park in a non-existent parking space (as pictured above). I absolutely detest it when cops place themselves above the law. Power hungry Santa Ana fools! On our way to some camera shop, we saw some peaceful Occupy protesters outside our window. Fun. We are the 99%! We then went to Earle’s house where we had a “website design session”. It was entertaining at first, but nearly tiring by the night’s end. Let’s just say come 2012, this website is going to have a whole new look. I went home afterwards to eat dinner and chill for the rest of the night.

On December 18, 1620, the British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. The famous Mayflower story began in 1606, when a group of reform-minded Puritans in Nottinghamshire, England, founded their own church, separate from the state-sanctioned Church of England. Accused of treason, they were forced to leave the country and settle in the more tolerant Netherlands. After 12 years of struggling to adapt and make a decent living, the group sought financial backing from some London merchants to set up a colony in America. On September 6, 1620, 102 passengers–dubbed Pilgrims by William Bradford, a passenger who would become the first governor of Plymouth Colony–crowded on the Mayflower to begin the long, hard journey to a new life in the New World. OOH AMERICA.

In a significant milestone in the battle against AIDS, Gilead Sciences (GILD) of Foster City on Thursday asked the government to make one of its drugs the world’s first approved medication to help prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that can lead to the deadly disease. Studies of the drug have shown it sharply reduces the risk of HIV infection in those who don’t have the AIDS virus but who often engage in risky practices that lead to the disease. The drug, called Truvada, has been used for years as a treatment for people who already have HIV. PROGRESS!

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