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Posted by: jsg at March 18, 2018 01:58 PM (znQDG) 2
They are starting with a gun confiscation proposal in Illinois https://tinyurl.com/ycorpe89
Posted by: smilin jack at March 18, 2018 01:58 PM (otSEE) 3
Figured ghere was a nood, posted below anyway
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2018 01:59 PM (aC6Sd) 4
Anyone here!
Posted by: Surfperch at March 18, 2018 01:59 PM (H+7tw) Posted by: Jim at March 18, 2018 01:59 PM (QzJWU) 6
What the Hell is wrong with Walker?
Doesn't he have the catbird seat, just like Trump has both Houses? Just smoke out the gun- grabbers and get leaders on the Record. Posted by: Charlie Barker at March 18, 2018 01:59 PM (7dFeK) 7
We're further away from Martin Luther King Jr's ideal than ever before, at least in my lifetime.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 01:59 PM (398bZ) 8
Ugh.
I had one of the 'nice old ladies' of my congregation Wednesday night showing off pictures of her grandchildren taking part in the walkout and bragging about them. Someone else tried to make a tangential point about it this morning and I asked if they'd given any thought to how many people would die if gun control like everyone know the progs want was attempted. I wasn't even specific about whether that was a threat of civil war or an observation about crime rates. Suddenly it wasn't an important topic to discuss anymore. Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:00 PM (XQvuQ) 9
>>>>>This past week we witnessed a nation wide walk out of students for "gun
control measures". This walk out was orchestrated by left wing groups and ideologue "educators". I wish they were honest. I wish they would come out and call for what they want, the total ban of firearms. But, honesty is not part of their make up. . . .I wouldn't call it a Nationwide walkout as they only got about 10,000 students total to participate. And most of those were from liberal areas and forced to attend like the students bused in from Baltimore. Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 18, 2018 02:00 PM (+Dllb) Posted by: jsg at March 18, 2018 02:00 PM (znQDG) 11
Somewhere today saw a article the anti gun protesters ransacked a Wal-Mart in Chicago while they were out of school.
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2018 02:01 PM (aC6Sd) 12
It wasn't a march for gun control. It was a Democrat recruiting drive.
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 18, 2018 02:01 PM (5fSr7) 13
Realistically, the "gun murder problem" in America is a black problem. Absent the black murder rate, America's per capita murder rate is lower than that of Belgium.
True story. But the leftists never talk about cracking down on black criminality, or gun control in the ghetto, where most of the guns are probably illegal already. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:01 PM (YqDXo) 14
Seems a lot of protesters went along unwilling fearing backlash if they didn't.
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2018 02:02 PM (aC6Sd) 15
Democrats don't really care about gun control and abortion. Those are just issues to keep the sheep in the herd.
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 18, 2018 02:04 PM (5fSr7) 16
7 We're further away from Martin Luther King Jr's ideal than ever before, at least in my lifetime.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 01:59 PM (398bZ) Yeah, we need to encourage, not demonize, plagiarism. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:04 PM (YqDXo) 17
We're further away from Martin Luther King Jr's ideal than ever before, at least in my lifetime.
Good. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:04 PM (6FqZa) 18
KTYs school did a memorial "walkout" and explicitly claimed it had nothing to do with guns.
also they did a safety drill last week using run -hude-fight model yesterday KTY said she and her classmates were discussing what to do if they ever did get an armed attacker. I think the kids plan to have one kid on top of the shelf next to the door with a heavy jacket ready to jump the attacker if he comes thru the door while the rest of the class hit him with textbooks and chairs. Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 18, 2018 02:05 PM (hMwEB) 19
They are starting with a gun confiscation proposal in Illinois
--- We fortunately have a lot of lakes to arrange accidents on. Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:05 PM (XQvuQ) 20
>>Why should we take the students seriously when they cheer for law breakers?
Speaking for myself, I don't. I point and laugh. I really think some people are getting too worked up about the power of these kids and their fake protests. They might be firing up their base but they are also firing up those opposed to them. We don't do drum circles or control the media so we don't get the wall to wall coverage but we aren't the ones eating Tide pods either. Posted by: JackStraw at March 18, 2018 02:05 PM (/tuJf) 21
This month, Washington High School's star basketball player is headed to the state tournament, even though he pleaded guilty to felony armed robbery.
Why is this guy even free? WTFF?? Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 18, 2018 02:06 PM (8gDQu) 22
If you think the commies have lost their shit now, wait 'til the IG report comes out. Whenever the hell that happens.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 18, 2018 02:06 PM (89T5c) 23
gun confiscation by cops has already begun in FL using that new law that was just passed which was supposed to deny 18 year olds the right to buy long guns. I guess nobody bothered to read it before they voted on it. and it was 'Republicans' who passed this POS.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:07 PM (mpXpK) 24
Wow, I didn't expect anyone here to object to the idea of judging people by the content of their character.
Very odd. Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 02:07 PM (398bZ) 25
This month, Washington High School's star basketball player is headed to the state tournament, even though he pleaded guilty to felony armed robbery.
According to the criminal complaint, Deontay Long and his friends robbed two people at gunpoint in an east-side neighborhood last summer before carjacking a woman. Police arrested them after they crashed her car into a building. Young "Deontay" seems determined to touch base with every stereotype, which as we all know, are totally baseless. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:08 PM (5B+da) 26
I think the kids plan to have one kid on top of the shelf next to the
door with a heavy jacket ready to jump the attacker if he comes thru the door while the rest of the class hit him with textbooks and chairs. --- I suppose that they have a plan to act, rather than cower with their useless teachers, but that's probably about as useful as having a detailed plan for how you're going to spend your powerball winnings. Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:09 PM (XQvuQ) 27
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 02:07 PM (398bZ)
https://tinyurl.com/y7v8lbpg Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:10 PM (5B+da) 28
This gang pressing of Children marks the arrival on our shores of Child Soldiering African/Palestinian style.....
Diversity! Posted by: WontSubmit at March 18, 2018 02:10 PM (122Gu) 29
I suppose 'it's nice that', I mean
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:10 PM (XQvuQ) 30
Okay Cloyd Freud, defend MLK's dream:
At no time has a total, coordinated and fully adequate program been conceived. As a consequence, fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor. In addition to the absence of coordination and sufficiency, the programs of the past all have another common failing - they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else. I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective - the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income. Or were yuu just virtue-signalling, making a genuflection to some icon, in the hope he wouldn't get called on it? Perish that thought. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:11 PM (6FqZa) 31
I got a lot more hard-Left comments MLK uttered in public. anti-white comments too.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:12 PM (6FqZa) 32
I'm surrounded by libs where I live. Totally surrounded (well, dagny is just up the street). Anyhoo, I'm on good terms with all of the libtard neighbors but I rather do enjoy horrifying them with my stereotypical righ wing behavior. My goal is to get to the point where they have meetings about me.
Posted by: Weasel at March 18, 2018 02:12 PM (MVjcR) 33
I suppose that they have a plan to act, rather than cower with their useless teachers, but that's probably about as useful as having a detailed plan for how you're going to spend your powerball winnings.
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:09 PM (XQvuQ) yeah, I'm glad they are gaming out scenarios I told her to always remember that defending her own life was always her #1 job Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 18, 2018 02:12 PM (hMwEB) 34
not to mention anti-Vietnam.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:12 PM (6FqZa) 35
31. In fairness, I think he was talking about the Irish and the Eyeties.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 18, 2018 02:12 PM (fA1SL) 36
The police know that many guns are from straw purchasers but the authorities refuse to go after them. So, the beat goes on...
Posted by: smilin jack at March 18, 2018 02:14 PM (otSEE) 37
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:10 PM (5B+da)
So what, Jay? He was a plagiarist. He was also a womanizer. He might even have been a Communist. The point I tried to make is that the ideal of racial equality --of a color-blind society--is further away now than ever before. Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 02:14 PM (398bZ) 38
The "stop the school to prison flow!" makes no sense at all. Lefties are complaining about young criminals being forced into jails, and they argue that, left alone, many of those same criminals would be high school standouts. The Milwaukee story, to them, actually supports their argument, as crazy as that may seem to a rational human.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 18, 2018 02:14 PM (rBnYq) 39
All these 'youth' protests are being organized by communist front groups from all over the country. none of them are local people.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:14 PM (mpXpK) 40
The very same people complaining about the school-to-prison thing also (sometimes in the very next breath) go on to bitch about the disproportionate impact of violent crime on poor neighborhoods. Young children are killed by stray gang bullets, and young boys are forced into being drug lookouts. Old ladies are assaulted walking home from the store, and home invasions are a fact of life. Square these thoughts? Not possible. And yet the left yammers on and on senselessly. Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 18, 2018 02:14 PM (rBnYq) 41
MILWAUKEE -
This month, Washington High School's star basketball player is headed to the state tournament, even though he pleaded guilty to felony armed robbery. According to the criminal complaint, Deontay Long and his friends robbed two people at gunpoint in an east-side neighborhood last summer before carjacking a woman. Police arrested them after they crashed her car into a building. Why should we take the students seriously when they cheer for law breakers? For some, MUH SPORTS supersedes everything from armed robbery to serial child rape. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 02:15 PM (NWiLs) 42
"What the hell is going on?" I ask this almost every day. The sad part is, I know the answer.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 18, 2018 02:15 PM (H8QX8) 43
The hassenfefer episode with Yosemite Sam is on the Boomerang channel. Good shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 18, 2018 02:15 PM (89T5c) 44
23 gun confiscation by cops has already begun in FL using that new law that was just passed which was supposed to deny 18 year olds the right to buy long guns. I guess nobody bothered to read it before they voted on it. and it was 'Republicans' who passed this POS.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:07 PM (mpXpK) Yikes! I just moved to Florida -- from Virginia. I'm WAY over 18, but this is how it starts. Posted by: smilin jack at March 18, 2018 02:16 PM (otSEE) 45
So what, Jay? He was a plagiarist. He was also a womanizer. He might even have been a Communist.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 02:14 PM (398bZ) So ... if we're judging people by the content of their character ... See also boulder terlit hobo's comments, which are also apposite. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:16 PM (5B+da) 46
23 gun confiscation by cops has already begun in FL using that new law that was just passed which was supposed to deny 18 year olds the right to buy long guns. I guess nobody bothered to read it before they voted on it. and it was 'Republicans' who passed this POS.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:07 PM (mpXpK) You'll find Republicans created the DHS... Republicans created the EPA. It was under a Republican President (although passed under a Dem one), that the Ed Dept. started... Hell... the INCOME Tax was started when Republicans held both houses of Congress, in 1909... Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:17 PM (NgKpN) 47
Or were yuu just virtue-signalling, making a genuflection to some icon, in the hope he wouldn't get called on it? Perish that thought.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:11 PM (6FqZa) Fuck you. I objected to the racism of the left. I tried to point out that the left-racism of today makes the ideals of the civil rights movement impossible to attain. One of us is definitely virtue-signalling, though. Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 02:17 PM (398bZ) 48
44 Yikes! I just moved to Florida -- from Virginia. I'm WAY over 18, but this is how it starts.
Posted by: smilin jack at March 18, 2018 02:16 PM (otSEE) The first person they confiscated guns from was 56 years old. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:17 PM (mpXpK) 49
Cloyd Freud, the point I am trying to make is that King was a Marxist community-organiser first - he couched it as "ending poverty", regardless of how anyone got into poverty - and his speeches about racial equality were secondary to that. King was wholly uninterested in equal opportunity. He wanted equality of outcome.
I have a dream that conservatives would quit cucking. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:17 PM (6FqZa) 50
Lefties are complaining about young criminals being forced into jails, and they argue that, left alone, many of those same criminals would be high school standouts.
"Stand," "drop," what's in a word? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:18 PM (5B+da) 51
My goal is to get to the point where they have meetings about me.
Posted by: Weasel at March 18, 2018 02:12 PM (MVjcR) Maybe they already do. It's not like they'd tell you about it. Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 18, 2018 02:18 PM (z79tQ) 52
46 You'll find Republicans created the DHS...
Republicans created the EPA. It was under a Republican President (although passed under a Dem one), that the Ed Dept. started... Hell... the INCOME Tax was started when Republicans held both houses of Congress, in 1909... Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:17 PM(NgKpN) The Democrat congress passed the EPA law with a 61vote majority. Richard 'fake Republican President' signed it into law. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:19 PM (mpXpK) 53
When America-hating European loudmouths berate the US for our level of violence, they assume it's caused by Trump voters. I always point out that it's mostly Democrats shooting Democrats, because Democrats have poor impulse control. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 18, 2018 02:19 PM (k7fBq) 54
Here's a King I respect
Don King, the most famous and successful boxing promoter, tells FOX Business that President Donald Trump "shocked the world" when he won the presidency and has exceeded expectations as the leader of the free world. "No one has carried the type of lightening rod activities since the 13 colonies wrote a letter to King George saying they wanted to discharge so they can be eliminated and independent Americans," King said. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:20 PM (6FqZa) 55
"What would one of these students or "educators" think and feel if they were held up at gun point?"
They think they *won't* get held up at gunpoint if they espouse these views, perhaps. Many Progs are wishcasters, a key element of their new Religion. Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at March 18, 2018 02:20 PM (IG9An) 56
Why didn't you come to me like a man and tell me there was a nood?
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2018 02:20 PM (LiyEm) 57
I have a dream that conservatives would quit cucking.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 18, 2018 02:17 PM (6FqZa) My man. Me too. Consider those who are the objects of veneration in popular (i.e., Marxist-shaped) culture. Gandhi? MLK? On closer examination, neither was a day at the beach. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:21 PM (5B+da) 58
Pastor in church today said a group of individials were going to participate in antigun protest this week. She also said that no guns would be brought in to the church. I think thats the last time i attend service . Its been the slow creep of activism in the church. Attendance is way down.
Posted by: Madxmom at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (/ERmc) 59
No nood report I would blame it on the first, its their job
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (aC6Sd) 60
The leftward drift of blacks started with FDR,who of course hated them but they supported at the ballot box.
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (LiyEm) Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:23 PM (5B+da) 62
57 Add Mandela to that.
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2018 02:23 PM (LiyEm) 63
Fat Man and Little Boy is on,started at 2:18.Too bad I have to go out shortly anyway.
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2018 02:25 PM (LiyEm) 64
Posted by: Madxmom at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (/ERmc)
===================== I don't get pastors who pontificate politics from the pulpit. You want to do politics? Run for office. You want to be a Pastor? Preach the Word of God. I could say other things but I won't. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 02:25 PM (lwiT4) 65
Every so often they are honest. Vox had a piece about how what was needed is total gun confiscation. NYT today has an opinion piece up about the same thing. They will claim nobody is calling for that to your face but they admit it at times.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:25 PM (39g3+) 66
When America-hating European loudmouths berate the US for our level of violence, they assume it's caused by Trump voters. I always point out that it's mostly Democrats shooting Democrats, because Democrats have poor impulse control.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 18, 2018 02:19 PM (k7fBq) This. European ignorance about America is boundless, although they think they're desperately well-informed (although compared to Americans' knowledge of Europe, they are). Probably not a European in a thousand is aware that lynchings in the South were perpetrated by Democrats on Republicans (as blacks uniformly were, at the time), or that the lynching capital of the US is ... NYC. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:25 PM (5B+da) 67
Read an tearjerker article about the Mexican kid going to Berkeley who lives in an rv with three siblings. There's a gofundme of course. The Latimes just updated the article with the arrest record and impending trial info. Spray painting I hate white people but I guess taking white peoples money is ok
Posted by: NCKate at March 18, 2018 02:26 PM (1l010) Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 18, 2018 02:26 PM (T09ml) 69
62 57 Add Mandela to that.
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2018 02:23 PM (LiyEm) Yes, thank you, absolutely. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:26 PM (5B+da) 70
Nice post. I have supervisors that frequently request that I work overtime on weekends to repair neglected, abused, derelict equipment and machinery.
My argument is "why should I donate my scheduled time off to consort with the criminals and thugs and felons that they hire to do weekend, unskilled, cleanup work? Kiss my ass. Posted by: Fritz at March 18, 2018 02:26 PM (bJ0w+) 71
59 No nood report I would blame it on the first, its their job
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (aC6Sd) I had to use the restroom. Posted by: jsg at March 18, 2018 02:27 PM (znQDG) 72
File under "I" for Infuriating:
Rubio: McCabe "Should've Been Allowed To Finish Through The Weekend" Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 18, 2018 02:27 PM (+y/Ru) 73
58 Pastor in church today said a group of individials were going to participate in antigun protest this week. She also said that no guns would be brought in to the church. I think thats the last time i attend service . Its been the slow creep of activism in the church. Attendance is way down.
Posted by: Madxmom at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (/ERmc) I would have gotten up and Left right after the announcement... mid service. Silent protest has not gotten us anywhere... they need to KNOW when they cross lines. Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:27 PM (NgKpN) 74
Gandhi? MLK? On closer examination, neither was a day at the beach.
But despite their flaws (many, in some cases) you can still find good things in their words, and through that reach people through cracks in their armor. If you say 'we have to treat people based on who they are, not what group they belong to" and all they hear is "racist racist white supremacist" But if you quote MLK, it gets past that block in their brain. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:28 PM (39g3+) 75
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. And those who can't even do that take grant money.
-Larry Correia Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 18, 2018 02:28 PM (T09ml) 76
The first person they confiscated guns from was 56 years old
=========================== Weil, that is reason number 18 -- make that #1 --why Florida is over-rated as a retirement location. Posted by: smilin jack at March 18, 2018 02:29 PM (otSEE) 77
75 Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. And those who can't even do that take grant money.
-Larry Correia Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 18, 2018 02:28 PM (T09ml) LOL.... I used to say... Those who can do... those who can't teach... and those who can't teach, become Administrators... Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:30 PM (NgKpN) 78
She also said that no guns would be brought in to the church. I think thats the last time i attend service . Its been the slow creep of activism in the church. Attendance is way down.
Churches need to stay out of politics period as a body. Individual Christians, fine, but the church needs to focus on the souls and righteousness of the people in their community, not hot button political issues. Add Mandela to that. Mandela was a bit more blatantly evil and has basically nothing quotable or good to use. His only virtue was opposing an evil regime, but that's the bare minimum of what humanity is supposed to do, you get no extra credit there. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:30 PM (39g3+) 79
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. And those who can't even do that take grant money.
-Larry Correia Posted by: TANSTAAFL Honestly, I'm half tempted to see what cock and bull I can come up with to siphon a few million in grant money instead of trying to make an honest living. I'm probably better suited for it, even if I might hate myself. But hey, I'd hate myself on a full stomach. Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at March 18, 2018 02:31 PM (lLeln) 80
78 She also said that no guns would be brought in to the church. I think thats the last time i attend service . Its been the slow creep of activism in the church. Attendance is way down.
Churches need to stay out of politics period as a body. Individual Christians, fine, but the church needs to focus on the souls and righteousness of the people in their community, not hot button political issues. Add Mandela to that. Mandela was a bit more blatantly evil and has basically nothing quotable or good to use. His only virtue was opposing an evil regime, but that's the bare minimum of what humanity is supposed to do, you get no extra credit there. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:30 PM (39g3+) And seeing as how some of Jesus last words to his disciples were, Sell your cloak, buy a sword??? Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:32 PM (NgKpN) 81
Honestly, I'm half tempted to see what cock and bull I can come up with to siphon a few million in grant money instead of trying to make an honest living
Other than the ethics of the thing, it doesn't seem that hard. Like I could write erotica and make a lot of money selling books, I'm pretty sure. But... ew. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:33 PM (39g3+) 82
I'm watching Blazing Saddles on the Black channel Bounce, sad that such a funny movie could never be made today
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 18, 2018 02:34 PM (6Ll1u) 83
I would have gotten up and Left right after the announcement... mid service.
Silent protest has not gotten us anywhere... they need to KNOW when they cross lines. Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:27 PM (NgKpN) Back during Gulf War I, a priest in my Mom's church was preaching from the pulpit against the war -- in a Navy town with many parishioners being active and former military. My Mom, and quite a few others, got up and walked out in the middle of the Mass. My Mom was the furthest thing from being any type of activist, she was simply fed up with such bullshit. Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2018 02:34 PM (nek9x) 84
There are no words for Rubio and Flake - McCabe should be in jail, period
Posted by: rammajamma at March 18, 2018 02:34 PM (famYS) 85
Second City Cop, a Chicago police blog, noted that a significant percentage of the homicides in Chicago are committed by students enrolled in the Chicago public school system.
Posted by: The ARC of History at March 18, 2018 02:35 PM (dlwIY) 86
Well, in fairness, if you take the felons out of professional sports what are you going to have? A couple of place kickers and a waterboy?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 18, 2018 02:35 PM (+y/Ru) 87
Other than the ethics of the thing, it doesn't seem that hard. Like I could write erotica and make a lot of money selling books, I'm pretty sure. But... ew.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor Honestly, how long would it take to stuff $6-10 mil in grant money for me to live off of for the rest of my life, however long that might be? I can see the temptation... Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at March 18, 2018 02:35 PM (lLeln) 88
And seeing as how some of Jesus last words to his disciples were, Sell your cloak, buy a sword???
Posted by: Don Quixote... at March 18, 2018 02:32 PM (NgKpN) ======================== But not to defend a political party, or even a nation. And remember, the last miracle Jesus performed before dying on the cross, was healing the ear of the government official. The ear Peter cut off with his sword. Then He told Peter to put it back in its sheath. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 02:35 PM (lwiT4) 89
Imagine if the basketball kid was taken out by someone defending themselves during the crime. Their life would be hell right now.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 18, 2018 02:35 PM (famYS) 90
He shoots... he scores! A wallet, it looks like
Posted by: t-bird at March 18, 2018 02:37 PM (XaSia) 91
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They are starting with a gun confiscation proposal in Illinois That will go over real well downstate. Those people already have no say in state-wide politics because of Chicagoland. Hey, Chicago, how about you start with all those illegal guns on the South Side?. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 18, 2018 02:38 PM (P8951) 92
Every school in the country has been covering up their sports stars crimes for 80 yeas - at a lot of prestigious programs, that's the most important job the Athletic Director has to do. This bunch just got lazy and got a lot more blatant about it.
Also, this is why everything in a law has to be very strictly and carefully specified. They can say, as they are doing "yeah, we don't tolerate drugs and hate speech and stuff like that, but no one said anything at all about Armed Robbery, so that's cool." Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 02:38 PM (k1TUh) 93
It's the culture war.
Just because Trump won doesn't mean it's stopping. If anything, expect more and more attacks during the rest of his two terms. Gun up, be alert, be bold facing the assholes down. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 18, 2018 02:38 PM (xJa6I) 94
I could use a couple mil grant to sit around and think of ways to get science deniers to accept climate change.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 18, 2018 02:39 PM (+y/Ru) 95
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:30 PM (39g3+)
Mandela opposed evil like Stalin opposed Hitler. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 18, 2018 02:40 PM (Zc7fg) 96
Imagine if the basketball kid was taken out by someone defending themselves during the crime. Their life would be hell right now.
- He was turning his life around! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 18, 2018 02:40 PM (+y/Ru) 97
But despite their flaws (many, in some cases) you can still find good things in their words, and through that reach people through cracks in their armor. If you say 'we have to treat people based on who they are, not what group they belong to" and all they hear is "racist racist white supremacist"
But if you quote MLK, it gets past that block in their brain. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:28 PM (39g3+) Yeah. But you have to wonder how many of those quotes were calculated for effect rather than matters of conviction. I watched a movie last night in which the speaker called for youth to be peace-loving, for the eradication of all class distinctions, and equal treatment for everyone regardless of their class of origin. The movie was "Triumph of the Will." Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:41 PM (5B+da) 98
And seeing as how some of Jesus last words to his disciples were, Sell your cloak, buy a sword???
- When Jesus said that they didn't have full semiautomatic AR-15s with chainsaw bayonets! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 18, 2018 02:42 PM (+y/Ru) 99
When Jesus said that they didn't have full semiautomatic AR-15s with chainsaw bayonets!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 18, 2018 02:42 PM (+y/Ru) ================= Don't forget the thing that goes up. And the bumpstocks. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 02:43 PM (lwiT4) 100
The public schools culture must be hell for kids that oppose this.
Think of it. The popular mean girls, the beauties, the top cliques, along with their weenie boyfriends, are all in and the pressure must be awfully high to join in on beating down the Nazis. Speaking out against it would take an act of courage most kids could not muster, and it could result in shoutdowns and even violence. Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 18, 2018 02:44 PM (5OEn4) 101
"They are starting with a gun confiscation proposal in Illinois"
And the purpose, of course, will be to confiscate guns from law-abiding suburbanites and rural residents. It's not as if they are going to go door to door in Englewood and Austin in Chicago confiscating guns from the gangbangers. If Trump wanted to expose the hypocrisy of the gun-grabbers, propose using a firearm in the commission of a violent felony a Federal crime, with a five year minimum prison sentence. The blue cities would scream, because violent criminals are part of the Democrat's political base in those cities. Posted by: The ARC of History at March 18, 2018 02:44 PM (dlwIY) 102
Second City Cop, a Chicago police blog, noted that a significant percentage of the homicides in Chicago are committed by students enrolled in the Chicago public school system.
Posted by: The ARC of History at March 18, 2018 02:35 PM (dlwIY) More midnight basketball ought to end that Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 02:44 PM (SiINZ) 103
Those who can do; those who can't teach; those who can't teach teach pedagogy.
Posted by: Jim S. at March 18, 2018 02:45 PM (ynUnH) 104
It's not as if they are going to go door to door in Englewood and Austin in Chicago confiscating guns from the gangbangers.
If they ever do that, I hope that they put it on PPV. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:45 PM (5B+da) 105
Don't forget the Chicago students who marched to end gun violence by looting a Wal-Mart.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 02:45 PM (my6cm) 106
Regarding the 56 year old having his gun's confiscated under Fla. new law, you need to read the documentation by police that was submitted and used by the judge in Fla to order not just his guns confiscated, but his involuntary commitment.
I will link the SunSentinal piece that describes in detail the guy's behavioral history. The police were called on him this latest time when he turned off the main electric breaker to his condo complex because he claimed he was being shocked by electricity. When police interviewed him at his condo, he had all sorts of claims, not the least of which was that President Obama really had died years ago , but had come back to kill children, etc. Oh,, and he's being targeted by the FBI and his neighbor who can "shape shift" and looks like Osama Bin Ladin. I'm glad the guy is being evaluated and weapons have been removed before he randomly killed someone. Link below https://tinyurl.com/yd9pguo2 Posted by: Jen the original at March 18, 2018 02:46 PM (m0lmR) 107
a significant percentage of the homicides in Chicago are committed by students enrolled in the Chicago public school system.
===================== Anybody with three cents to rub together has their kid in private or parochial school in Chicago. GOP really needs to jump on the Voucher bandwagon. Give some of these kids a chance, for goodness sake. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 02:46 PM (lwiT4) 108
Oh,, and he's being targeted by the FBI and his neighbor who can "shape shift" and looks like Osama Bin Ladin.
His neighbor's a Joo? Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 02:47 PM (NWiLs) 109
But not to defend a political party, or even a nation. And remember, the
last miracle Jesus performed before dying on the cross, was healing the ear of the government official. The ear Peter cut off with his sword. Then He told Peter to put it back in its sheath. --- I would say that's an indication we aren't to use the sword to defend *Him*, but each other. Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:47 PM (XQvuQ) 110
I watched a movie last night in which the speaker called for youth to be peace-loving, for the eradication of all class distinctions, and equal treatment for everyone regardless of their class of origin.
The movie was "Triumph of the Will." Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:41 PM (5B+da) I saw that. It was a total rip off that Chewbacca didn't get a medal too. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 18, 2018 02:47 PM (xJa6I) 111
100 The public schools culture must be hell for kids that oppose this."
And that's why home schooling is growing, and that's why private schools are becoming so widespread. In much of the country now it's probably child abuse for a white parent to allow their children to attend a public school. (I suppose in the all white states like Vermont and Oregon they're not too bad) It probably would surprise people to know that the public school system in Dallas, Texas (DISD) is 97% black and hispanic. Same thing in most every big city school district in the southern half of the country. Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 02:48 PM (k1TUh) 112
I would say that's an indication we aren't to use the sword to defend *Him*, but each other.
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:47 PM (XQvuQ) ==================== I can easily agree with that. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 02:49 PM (lwiT4) 113
106 sorry, no. This guy may be a poster case whack job, but wait until they just start deciding that something they don't like is a mental disorder or you need evaluating - like an abortion protest or a Tea Party gathering.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 18, 2018 02:49 PM (famYS) 114
I'm glad the guy is being evaluated and weapons have been removed before he randomly killed someone.
Link below https://tinyurl.com/yd9pguo2 Posted by: Jen the original at March 18, 2018 02:46 PM (m0lmR) They didnt need a new and facially unconstitutional law to involuntarily commit him. The Baker Act has been around for ages. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 02:49 PM (NWiLs) 115
I'm glad the guy is being evaluated and weapons have been removed before he randomly killed someone.
Link below https://tinyurl.com/yd9pguo2 Posted by: Jen the original at March 18, 2018 02:46 PM (m0lmR) Me too. Thanks for providing the back story. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:50 PM (5B+da) 116
"We're further away from Martin Luther King Jr's ideal than ever before, at least in my lifetime.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud" With all due respect conservatives should stop lionizing MLK. They played that game with JFK for 30 years because he was assassinated and helped contribute to the cult surrounding him and his family and have done the same with MLK. He gave good, inspirational speeches, that is it. I have no doubt if MLK had not been assassinated he would have turned as hard left as Rev Jackson or Sharpton. Just look at his widow and children and their shenanigans who for the most part became Dem tools.He now has his own holiday which get far more importance than Presidents day and my kids spend more class time on MLK than all the Founding Fathers combined. I refuse to give him any more homage or acknowledge his ideals. Posted by: Ripley at March 18, 2018 02:51 PM (MxEKc) 117
Jay Guevara, you should watch the sequel - Existence Without Life. Margaret Sanger would approve. and give it two thumbs up.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 02:51 PM (my6cm) 118
And for pity's sake, DON'T even ask the real question: Why is this the first generation that can't be trusted with firearms?
Everything a crazy shooter does is merely a violent rendering of what THE ENTIRE generation suffers from: 1.) Extreme narcissism. 2.) Inability to think ahead. 3.) Excessive emotion. 4.) Ability to shut off reality and view things as a movie or a game. 5.) Blaming others. In fact, their whole argument of "We want guns to be un-invented and made to vanish forever!" exhibits all these traits. They handle the gun debate the same way the shooter handled his dealings with others. Posted by: RKae at March 18, 2018 02:51 PM (YyNjs) 119
It probably would surprise people to know that the public school system in Dallas, Texas (DISD) is 97% black and hispanic. Same thing in most every big city school district in the southern half of the country.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 02:48 PM (k1TUh) Although I don't know the numbers, I've read that LA is much the same, and has the shitty academic results to prove it. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:52 PM (5B+da) 120
All the little chilluns in high skool need to get worked up over the things that will really make a difference in their sad lives over the next 20-30 years.
1) Illegal Invaders taking their jobs and places in society 2) The Ponzi Scheme known as "Social Security" 3) Murderous abortion providers and their enablers But guns bad, BaseketBall good. Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2018 02:52 PM (EoRCO) 121
106 Link below
https://tinyurl.com/yd9pguo2 Posted by: Jen the original at March 18, 2018 02:46 PM (m0lmR) The Fox article Iinked did not have all that. Hell, the feds could have confiscated his guns under their old law. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 02:53 PM (mpXpK) 122
106 Regarding the 56 year old having his gun's confiscated under Fla. new law, you need to read the documentation by police that was submitted and used by the judge in Fla to order not just his guns confiscated, but his involuntary commitment. "
Thanks for that, Jen. Involuntary Commitment is a very hard thing to do these days, and I knew this guy had to have been displaying a lot of seriously whacked out behavior in order fo that to happen to him. and yes, I believe that people who are Barking Mad (as the English say) should not be allowed to keep weapons. I lived near an older man once who had shot out a lot of his windows from the inside and put carboard up to cover them. (even the second story windows) He told people he was going to teach those people who kept looking through his windows a lesson. I wondered if there really were people doing that to him, and then a relative of his admitted to me once that he had said that the people who bothered him the most were green men who were 2 feet tall. That who he kept trying to shoot, each time he saw their green grinning faces in his windows. Fortunately for all of us, he's dead now. But that guy should not have been allowed to keep his gun. Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 02:55 PM (k1TUh) 123
Anybody with three cents to rub together has their kid in private or parochial school in Chicago. GOP really needs to jump on the Voucher bandwagon. Give some of these kids a chance, for goodness sake.
Posted by: grammie winger A couple of my grandkids are involved in a research study of reading and comprehension. Not sure of the product. But they have to read something then answer some questions about what they read. They're each making a couple hundred bucks apiece. Did I mention that they're reading and comprehension is two grade levels over their age? Did I mention they're home-schooled*? No walk-out for them. Their Mom would kick their butts. * While a generic term, it involves some limited classroom with other students in a religious facility, Internet based programs, purchased paper based systems, home instruction, some AP special programs, trips to library, and some stuff I forget. The home-school 'network' of Moms, and talented people who contribute their time and energy for home-schooled students, is pretty incredible. The mockery of home-schooled kids by the leftists is humorous to me. It only shows their ignorance. Vouchers would help my daughter out. We give what we can to support her efforts. But she still pays school taxes on top of her personal outlays. Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 18, 2018 02:55 PM (LOgQ4) 124
117 Jay Guevara, you should watch the sequel - Existence Without Life. Margaret Sanger would approve. and give it two thumbs up.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 02:51 PM (my6cm) Thanks for the tip. I will watch it. I've been watching famous and culturally significant movies recently - most recently Battleship Potemkin, Triumph of the Will, with Birth of a Nation in the on-deck circle. I'll add your suggestion to the batting order. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:55 PM (5B+da) 125
CSPAN had a program yesterday on ,"Discipline in schools". Take away: surveys of students and teachers showed less discipline (e.g. suspensions) means more disruption and poorer learning atmosphere.
What a surprise. Posted by: Smiling Jack at March 18, 2018 02:56 PM (otSEE) 126
Yesterday dissent was patriotic. Today it's thought-crime.
Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson's rapey banana at March 18, 2018 02:56 PM (1L9V9) 127
And yes, the less discipline approach was mandated by the Dept of Education
Posted by: Smiling Jack at March 18, 2018 02:58 PM (otSEE) 128
Well some news in the Justine Damond case.
In an unrelated suit that Noor is involved in with two other officers, any questions about Justine's death won't be allowed. This incident occurred two months prior. And Noor's lawyer is as classy as a scum lawyer can be by wondering if Justine was on sleeping meds. And he says Noor still won't cooperate with investigators. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 02:58 PM (my6cm) 129
And seeing as how some of Jesus last words to his disciples were, Sell your cloak, buy a sword???
Mandela actually took that to heart pretty literally. The African National Congress is a terrorist group that won. He was thrown in jail not because of racism but because he was the leader of a terrorist organization that was bombing, killing, burning, and destroying people and places. They didn't target military areas or government, they targeted people. It was textbook terrorism. Mandela claims he had a change of heart when in prison but who knows? By the time he got out, the regime had changed. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 02:58 PM (39g3+) 130
>>>In fact, their whole argument of "We want guns to be un-invented and made to vanish forever!"<<<
Is bullshit and this nails it. Ban! Won't work. Never. Ever. These people are too stupid to realize that automatic firearms were manufactured in a barn in France in 1942 from household pipe fittings and glue. And spit. And semen. And blood. And death. Posted by: Fritz at March 18, 2018 02:59 PM (bJ0w+) 131
127 And yes, the less discipline approach was mandated by the Dept of Education
Posted by: Smiling Jack at March 18, 2018 02:58 PM (otSEE) The DOE doesn't want kids getting educated anyway. Ignorant people unable to think critically are much easier to persuade and control. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 02:59 PM (NWiLs) 132
The mockery of home-schooled kids by the leftists is humorous to me. It only shows their ignorance.
It really does. Who routinely wins spelling bees? Home-schooled Indian kids. They practically have a lock on spelling bees. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:00 PM (5B+da) 133
132 The mockery of home-schooled kids by the leftists is humorous to me. It only shows their ignorance.
It really does. Who routinely wins spelling bees? Home-schooled Indian kids. They practically have a lock on spelling bees. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:00 PM (5B+da) Home schooled kids also routinely blow public school kids out of the water on standardized testing. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:00 PM (NWiLs) 134
A thought from the theme Gorilla Gumdrop was on in the last thread - if you want to work to make a real change, don't try to come up with some big legislative fix, that won't work in the long run. (any win we get there can be reversed or neutralized) If you want to work to change the country, then work to support private education and home schooling, and work to slowly defund and limit public education and the University system. That's where the worst rot is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 03:01 PM (k1TUh) 135
1). That guy could and should have already been committed
2.) Not a bad personal arsenal, he's clearly had some lucid moments 3.) Exactly how is NCIC going to handle the mental health holds? Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2018 03:02 PM (MS0+a) 136
And Noor's lawyer is as classy as a scum lawyer can be by wondering if Justine was on sleeping meds. And he says Noor still won't cooperate with investigators.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 02:58 PM (my6cm) So it's OK to blast Australian chicks in nighties, but only if they're on sleeping meds? And how did our Third World friend know this? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:02 PM (5B+da) 137
Just as late as last year, I was feeling hopeful that the post-Millennial generation was actually going to amount to something great. The mass gun confiscation rallies by the tide-pod eating Brownshirts over the past month have completely shot that to shit.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 18, 2018 03:02 PM (NL6wI) 138
public high school is mainly adolescent day care.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 03:02 PM (k1TUh) 139
Mandela actually took that to heart pretty literally. The African National Congress is a terrorist group that won. He was thrown in jail not because of racism but because he was the leader of a terrorist organization that was bombing, killing, burning, and destroying people and places. They didn't target military areas or government, they targeted people. It was textbook terrorism.
An inconvenient truth Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 03:03 PM (SiINZ) 140
At the public high school in my small, rural town in East Tennessee the junior History teacher took the American flag and stomped on it to use an "object lesson".
He claimed that students were having trouble understanding what it was like to be offended. The School Board did nothing. If you are tired of this corruption of our educational system, run for your BoE or support a conservative candidate for such positions (a veteran would be a good choice to support or draft into running). Short of action, we are basically just whining. Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2018 03:03 PM (X1pLm) 141
Home schooled kids also routinely blow public school kids out of the water on standardized testing.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:00 PM (NWiLs) Yep. But you have to dig to find that out. To see who won the most recent spelling bee, you just have to flick on the TV. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:03 PM (5B+da) 142
public high school is mainly adolescent day care.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2018 03:02 PM (k1TUh) How dare you say that!! Where's my crayons, blankey and pacifier?!?!? Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 03:03 PM (SiINZ) 143
In fact, their whole argument of "We want guns to be un-invented and made to vanish forever!"
Yeah, its like Superman IV where Supes gathers up a buncha nukes and throws them into the sun. They're all gone now, its magic! Nobody can ever create more! If you want to work to change the country, then work to support private education and home schooling, and work to slowly defund and limit public education and the University system. Real change is having lots of babies, raising them very well outside the leftist indoctrination system, and them having lots of babies and doing the same. In 2-3 generations, the nation would totally change. Its a slow plan, but easily doable. If people would do it. he mockery of home-schooled kids by the leftists is humorous to me. Well you notice they never mock the education that Home Schooled kids get. they mock their personality, lack of socialization, weirdness, crazy beliefs. Never "they can't add or read!" Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 03:04 PM (39g3+) 144
Jay that movie is pretty dang sick. Got this central casting German professor justifying the killing of the handicapped and saying it as being merciful to them since they aren't really alive just existing. It uses plenty of imagery of the feeble minded/retarded to push this point. And the movie ends with an impassioned plea from the professor that if he was one of those unfortunates, of course he ain't as he's really smart and all, well he wouldn't want to live that way.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:04 PM (my6cm) 145
136 And Noor's lawyer is as classy as a scum lawyer can be by wondering if Justine was on sleeping meds. And he says Noor still won't cooperate with investigators.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 02:58 PM (my6cm) So it's OK to blast Australian chicks in nighties, but only if they're on sleeping meds? And how did our Third World friend know this? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:02 PM (5B+da) He wouldn't have. But remember the cops executed a search on her home the very next morning looking for dirt. They're going to try to blame the victim any way they can. That was the plan from day one. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:04 PM (NWiLs) 146
140 At the public high school in my small, rural town in East Tennessee the junior History teacher took the American flag and stomped on it to use an "object lesson".
He claimed that students were having trouble understanding what it was like to be offended. The School Board did nothing. If you are tired of this corruption of our educational system, run for your BoE or support a conservative candidate for such positions (a veteran would be a good choice to support or draft into running). Short of action, we are basically just whining. Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2018 03:03 PM (X1pLm) Brave man. Should've stomped on a rainbow flag, or whizzed on a Koran. NOW we're getting somewhere. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:04 PM (5B+da) 147
Jim, are you still here? check your e-mail, even the spam file...
i sent you some interesting pictures. Posted by: redc1c4 at March 18, 2018 03:05 PM (XnXLV) 148
If only my policy of promoting midnight hoops had been followed, this could have all been avoided.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 18, 2018 03:05 PM (H5knJ) 149
He wouldn't have. But remember the cops executed a search on her home the very next morning looking for dirt. They're going to try to blame the victim any way they can. That was the plan from day one.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:04 PM (NWiLs) You're trying to get me to rage stroke, aren't ya? People rip on California, but for sheer concentrated insanity on a per capita basis, I think it's tough to beat Minnesota. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:06 PM (5B+da) 150
Real change is having lots of babies, raising them very well outside the
leftist indoctrination system, and them having lots of babies and doing the same. In 2-3 generations, the nation would totally change. Its a slow plan, but easily doable. If people would do it. ================== Well, Sarah was 90. I guess I could give it a go. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 03:06 PM (lwiT4) 151
The DOE doesn't want kids getting educated anyway. Ignorant people unable to think critically are much easier to persuade and control.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man The nutrition advice for the past 30 years? Low fat diets? Brains need fat. The advancement of the human brain from size X to size 1.5X occurred after mankind figured out how to track down and kill animals. Fat animals with well marbled meat. But if Michelle Obama had her way the kids would all be eating lettuce. Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 18, 2018 03:06 PM (LOgQ4) 152
People rip on California, but for sheer concentrated insanity on a per capita basis, I think it's tough to beat Minnesota.
Hold my beer. Posted by: Florida at March 18, 2018 03:07 PM (znQDG) 153
144 Jay that movie is pretty dang sick. Got this central casting German professor justifying the killing of the handicapped and saying it as being merciful to them since they aren't really alive just existing. It uses plenty of imagery of the feeble minded/retarded to push this point. And the movie ends with an impassioned plea from the professor that if he was one of those unfortunates, of course he ain't as he's really smart and all, well he wouldn't want to live that way.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:04 PM (my6cm) Nice. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:07 PM (5B+da) 154
An inconvenient truth
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 03:03 PM (SiINZ) All Truth is inconvenient to the Left. It's so much easier to believe made up bullshit as bullshit is so malleable. Posted by: RickZ at March 18, 2018 03:07 PM (nek9x) 155
I'd gave taken a shit in one of that flag-stomping teacher's desk drawers to communicate that I definitely now understood what it was like to be offended.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 18, 2018 03:07 PM (H5knJ) 156
Fuck off, sockey Bill.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 18, 2018 03:08 PM (H5knJ) 157
Anyone wanna bet that autopsy report they are holding in Vegas shows the shooter full of SSRIs or other psychotropic drugs? Just an nic bet, no cash.
Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2018 03:09 PM (MS0+a) 158
5 I'd gave taken a shit in one of that flag-stomping teacher's desk drawers to communicate that I definitely now understood what it was like to be offended.
..... Several students got up and left the classroom and asked to be transferred to a different teacher. There are still more than a few future leaders and true Americans but they need support from adults. Posted by: Common Tater at March 18, 2018 03:09 PM (X1pLm) 159
"How dare you say that!! Where's my crayons, blankey and pacifier?!?!?"
Oh be quiet. Here, scribble on your participation award, mmkay. Posted by: Exile at March 18, 2018 03:10 PM (Fikbq) 160
Jay, I said Margaret Sanger would approve of it.... It is one of those evil films that sticks in one's memory much like an ink stain.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:10 PM (my6cm) Posted by: ThugBasketBaller at March 18, 2018 03:10 PM (ciBil) 162
Gun control is about control it sure in the fuck isn't about lives, crime, or safety. As many lives are saved with guns that are taken with them; CCW licencees are the most law abiding citizens. The vast majority of gun owners are safe with their weapons; swimming pools and cars cause more deaths than guns.
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at March 18, 2018 03:10 PM (0OmEj) 163
I watched a movie last night in which the speaker called for youth to be peace-loving, for the eradication of all class distinctions, and equal treatment for everyone regardless of their class of origin.
The movie was "Triumph of the Will." There's a reason the left finds that movie so compelling and terrifying. Because it hits all their buttons, it says all the stuff they say and the way they say it. Because the voices in that film and their approach are the same voices and approach the left has today. Same type of people, same template. Some are worse than others like that ghastly abortionist, and some are more aware of the final solution than others, but that was true in Nazi Germany as well. There's been a myth built up of the Nazi where they all were identical in their ideology, all knew everything that was going on, all were in on it, all agreed on everything, and all had the same goals. They didn't. The main thing they all agreed on was Germany needs to be strong in revenge for what was done to them, and Hitler is the greatest leader to get them there. Beyond that, they had all sorts of reasoning and understandings and goals. Some were in direct conflict with each other. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 03:10 PM (39g3+) 164
But if Michelle Obama had her way the kids would all be eating lettuce.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 18, 2018 03:06 PM (LOgQ4) Quarter-cup of raw jicama with a tablespoon of fat-free Ranch dressing. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:11 PM (NWiLs) 165
Anyone wanna bet that autopsy report they are
holding in Vegas shows the shooter full of SSRIs or other psychotropic drugs? Just an nic bet, no cash. Posted by: Jean at March 18, 2018 03:09 PM (MS0+a) ======================== That wouldn't necessarily mean causation. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 03:11 PM (lwiT4) 166
Heinlein's crazy years a in full swing but we have no where near reached peak "crazy."
Like Orwell, he was an incredible visionary of human nature. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 18, 2018 03:11 PM (pw+jk) 167
152 People rip on California, but for sheer concentrated insanity on a per capita basis, I think it's tough to beat Minnesota.
Hold my beer. Posted by: Florida at March 18, 2018 03:07 PM (znQDG) Florida may take the prize for stupidity, but Minnesota is the state to beat for leftist insanity. California has a considerable number of sensible, conservative people - they just get outvoted by the leftist nutjobs. I've yet to meet someone here from Minnesota who ISN'T a leftist nutjob, and stories such as that involving Noor reinforce that impression. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:12 PM (5B+da) 168
CSPAN had a program yesterday on ,"Discipline in schools". Take away: surveys of students and teachers showed less discipline (e.g. suspensions) means more disruption and poorer learning atmosphere. I'm surprised they allowed that to be broadcast. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2018 03:13 PM (IqV8l) 169
At the public high school in my small, rural town in East Tennessee the junior History teacher took the American flag and stomped on it to use an "object lesson"
That wouldn't have made me offended, it would have made me think the guy was infantile and possibly demented. Everyone alive knows what its like to be offended, its something you learn early on as a child: the world does not always match what you wish or hope it to be. People do things you find awful. It used to be understood that when you took offense, that was on you and your response because nobody can mind control you. Its one of the key components of Alcoholics Anonymous recovery for the people in the life of an alcoholic: your response to them is what makes you act that way, break that pattern and stop responding. Now if someone does something you consider offensive, then they are the offender who must change. Because the cardinal rule is never make anyone feel bad. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 03:13 PM (39g3+) 170
Plenty of people in plenty of states do stupid and reckless things. Bear in mind that "Florida Man" only became a thing after Al Gore lost the election due to SCOTUS ending the bullshit recount, re-recount, re-re-recount going on in Palm Beach County.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:14 PM (NWiLs) 171
Quarter-cup of raw jicama with a tablespoon of fat-free Ranch dressing.
That sounds okay as a tiny side dish but if she wants nutrition, that has too much sugar... Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 03:14 PM (39g3+) 172
There's a reason the left finds that movie so compelling and terrifying. Because it hits all their buttons, it says all the stuff they say and the way they say it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 03:10 PM (39g3+) Yep. At one point Hitler says something to the effect that everyone must work for the state, and dedicate himself to - and make any and all necessary sacrifices for - the improvement of the state. Remove the context, and contemporary leftists would cheer wildly. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:16 PM (5B+da) 173
CSPAN had a program yesterday on ,"Discipline in schools". Take away: surveys of students and teachers showed less discipline (e.g. suspensions) means more disruption and poorer learning atmosphere.
'Zone of proximal development' is a thing, a real thing. One child can bring down an entire class. That's a lot of power in the hands of one individual. Seems as if public schools would be desirous of improving results. Not endorsing the efforts of the disruptive child. Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 18, 2018 03:16 PM (LOgQ4) 174
>One of the demands they did not make was to enforce existing gun laws. Or penalize those who break existing gun laws.
Yes, do that. And while you are at it, enforce immigration laws too. If you still have too much time on your hands start filing perjury charges against the Deep Staters. Posted by: To Dream the Impossible Dream at March 18, 2018 03:17 PM (M+Tfi) 175
Oh, totally missed the Did Not Make.
Posted by: Stupid, Useless Commenter at March 18, 2018 03:18 PM (M+Tfi) 176
The state of Nebraska now requires that you submit paperwork requesting permission to exercise your Second Amendment Rights.
I will not live in any state that demands I ask for "permission" for my Constitutional Rights. We have thrown away enough freedom. The time for submission is over. The time for outright defiance is at hand. Molon labe, bitches. Posted by: Sam Adams at March 18, 2018 03:18 PM (VDbGO) 177
"CSPAN had a program yesterday on ,"Discipline in schools". Take away:
surveys of students and teachers showed less discipline (e.g. suspensions) means more disruption and poorer learning atmosphere" ========== Gosh, I wonder what importing in tens of millions of third world shithole country's kids with a very low standing would do. Now imagine if these "children" were now what drive our education system. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 18, 2018 03:19 PM (pw+jk) 178
Less discipline = more disruption, less learning. Do tell.
How unfamiliar does one have to be with kids to know this inevitably would be the case, particularly in public schools that more or less take all comers in the district? This is what you get when education majors focus on trendy educational theory but have not read Lord of the Flies. Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 18, 2018 03:20 PM (H5knJ) 179
She also said ...
Posted by: Madxmom at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM (/ERmc) --- i think i see the problem here... ![]() Posted by: redc1c4 at March 18, 2018 03:20 PM (XnXLV) 180
Remove the context, and contemporary leftists would cheer wildly.
I cannot remember who did it, one of those college conservative groups I think, but they went around a college and asked students about different quotes and got rave reviews... all of them were Hitler quotes. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2018 03:22 PM (39g3+) 181
"This is what you get when education majors focus on trendy educational theory but have not read Lord of the Flies.
Posted by: Bear" If hey had they would see it as a warning about unchecked Toxic Masculinity. Posted by: Ripley at March 18, 2018 03:23 PM (MxEKc) 182
Minnesotan seem to be mirroring the actions of their cousins back in Skandistan.
Posted by: Downcast at March 18, 2018 03:25 PM (v2Njf) Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:26 PM (5B+da) 184
At the public high school in my small, rural town in East Tennessee the junior History teacher took the American flag and stomped on it to use an "object lesson".
He claimed that students were having trouble understanding what it was like to be offended. Last week (I forget who wrote it) but said, when he was in high school he didn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. His teacher who was in in the Marines (I think during the Vietnam War) said that the next time he didn't stand for the Pledge/the flag he'd break both of his fucking arms. We need more heart warming stories like that in today's schools Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 03:27 PM (SiINZ) 185
Minnesotan seem to be mirroring the actions of their cousins back in Skandistan.
Posted by: Downcast at March 18, 2018 03:25 PM (v2Njf) That's the impression I get of them too. The Euro insanity. Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 03:28 PM (SiINZ) 186
Alternate definition of Narcissism
The belief that such as The Lottery can never happen to you, only to someone else. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:28 PM (my6cm) 187
With the Illinois primary just days away, state election officials are beefing up cyber defenses and scanning for possible intrusions into voting systems and voter registration rolls.
Yeah, they wouldn't want anyone interfering with the illegals or dead voting Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 18, 2018 03:32 PM (SiINZ) 188
OT: a McCabe lawyer twatted that Trump's tweets confirm the president has "corrupted" the process which resulted in McCabe's firing.
Yeah, you go with that, guys. If you even dare make the insane move of contesting his termination. After the govt. side lays out the summary of McCabe's infractions and violations of FBI standards, the investigation of which began before Trump was president, you counter with "yeah but the president tweeted mean things!". Very compelling. That is, if the indictments of McCabe for various serious crimes aren't consuming all your billable hours already. Posted by: rhomboid at March 18, 2018 03:32 PM (QDnY+) 189
186 Alternate definition of Narcissism
The belief that such as The Lottery can never happen to you, only to someone else. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:28 PM (my6cm) Like the Mexicans who are so proud of Aztec culture, apparently not realizing that they'd probably have ended their days on the Aztec altar, not in the crowd cheering the Aztec priest(s). Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:33 PM (5B+da) 190
Watching basketball earlier I saw the ad for 60 minutes with those doofus HS students and one quote from the lead idiot was "we are the school shooting generation". What? Its never happened before? This passes for liberal news. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2018 03:34 PM (r+sAi) 191
It's official, Trey Gowdy is a dipshit.
Trey Gowdy to Trump, "If your innocent, act like it." I can't even begin to describe in words what I would like to say to this imbecile. Posted by: Kreplach at March 18, 2018 03:34 PM (UfMVm) 192
190
Watching basketball earlier I saw the ad for 60 minutes with those doofus HS students and one quote from the lead idiot was "we are the school shooting generation". What? Its never happened before? This passes for liberal news. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2018 03:34 PM (r+sAi) Everybody wants to be special. Very few people actually are. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:35 PM (NWiLs) 193
Schools should not be run as partisan Leftist One Party-States any more than the FBI should be.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 18, 2018 03:35 PM (Ndje9) 194
Gosh, I wonder what importing in tens of millions of third world shithole country's kids with a very low standing would do. Now imagine if these "children" were now what drive our education system.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 18, 2018 03:19 PM (pw+jk) It's the convoy effect: the class can only move as fast as the slowest student. And with our recent imports, that's going to be pretty effing slow. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:35 PM (5B+da) 195
Like the Mexicans who are so proud of Aztec culture,
apparently not realizing that they'd probably have ended their days on the Aztec altar, not in the crowd cheering the Aztec priest(s). Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:33 PM (5B+da) Naahh. That's what the Mixteco and the Guatemalans are there for, right? Posted by: Kindltot at March 18, 2018 03:35 PM (2K6fY) 196
Back on-topic, this Khmer Rouge-like mobilization/exploitation of kids for a dark political purpose *does* seem like a new, shocking low for the authoritarians ruining America.
Though I admit it's hard to keep track or perspective when the new, shocking lows for the authoritarians ruining America keep coming and coming. I saw there was push-back and even internal "resistance" (principals mandating things like going to the auditorium for 17 minutes, basically neutering/trivializing the entire thing) in some places. Posted by: rhomboid at March 18, 2018 03:36 PM (QDnY+) 197
Yeah, Gowdy finally jumped the shark with that comment.
Graham, Rubio - their shark-jumping moments came long ago. Posted by: rhomboid at March 18, 2018 03:38 PM (QDnY+) Posted by: Andrew McCabe, Unemployed, Hung Over and Pensionless at March 18, 2018 03:41 PM (H+7tw) 199
13 Realistically, the "gun murder problem" in America is a black problem. Absent the black murder rate, America's per capita murder rate is lower than that of Belgium....
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 02:01 PM (YqDXo) I think we need to be a bit more fair in how we discuss "the black problem." It isn't a black problem, because there are a great many black folk who are law abiding citizens, middle class or higher, quite good citizens. Painting them with this broad brush is simply racist. In some areas of the country, mine for instance, we don't have a ghetto culture of blacks. OTOH, the black ghetto culture IS the issue, and that would be approximately 1/4 of the black folk in this country. Then there are the successful black folk who glamorize ghetto culture and, while seeming to claim it, don't live it at all, and then there are the wiggers, who are a worthless class of white trash. But saying that it's a black problem is really quite inaccurate and unfair, IMO. Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 03:42 PM (NXsWM) 200
The belief that such as The Lottery can never happen to you, only to someone else.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:28 PM (my6cm) B--bb--but we are SPECIAL!!! Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 03:43 PM (NXsWM) 201
I had a co-worker tell me that "white people" had ruined things for his "Aztec ancestors." I asked him if he was referring to the campaigns Cortez carried out on behalf of the Spanish monarchy. He said yes. I then asked him if he was truly pining for the days of cannibalism, bashing babies brains out on rocks, ripping 14 year-olds limb from limb, painting primitive altars with their blood, and using their entrails like party favors. I told him I didn't believe that butchering children would guarantee a good corn crop, and suggested he read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 18, 2018 03:44 PM (VDbGO) 202
I cut the chord ysterday. Today I was looking at Sling. They have Cnn, Msnbc, Cnbc, about 19 espn channels.
No Fox news, no fox business. sigh. Posted by: #neverskankles at March 18, 2018 03:44 PM (BTCVh) 203
24 Wow, I didn't expect anyone here to object to the idea of judging people by the content of their character.
Very odd. Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 18, 2018 02:07 PM (398bZ) Well, the content of MLK's character included banging lots of white hookers, so adultery and just plain skeezyness. Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 03:45 PM (NXsWM) 204
Everybody wants to be special. Very few people actually are.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:35 PM (NWiLs) --- i tell people all the time "you aren't special: your mommy and your therapist both lied to you..." after they splutter i add "even if you *are* one in a million, there are 7 or 8 thousand other people on the planet just like you... get over yourself." yeah, i make a lot of friends here in Lost Angels, but at least i keep the local therapists employed. ![]() Posted by: redc1c4 at March 18, 2018 03:46 PM (XnXLV) 205
If you get a Roku stick you can get Fox News, but they are all rebroadcasts.
So you can't watch in real time unless you also have the cable box. Posted by: navybrat at March 18, 2018 03:46 PM (w7KSn) 206
It isn't a black problem, because there are a great
many black folk who are law abiding citizens, middle class or higher, quite good citizens. Painting them with this broad brush is simply racist. In some areas of the country, mine for instance, we don't have a ghetto culture of blacks. OTOH, the black ghetto culture IS the issue, and that would be approximately 1/4 of the black folk in this country. Then there are the successful black folk who glamorize ghetto culture and, while seeming to claim it, don't live it at all, and then there are the wiggers, who are a worthless class of white trash. But saying that it's a black problem is really quite inaccurate and unfair, IMO. Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 03:42 PM (NXsWM) You don't have a 'black' ghetto in AK because you have very few big cities and very few blacks. Blacks in AK are only 3.4% of the total population. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 03:46 PM (mpXpK) 207
It isn't a black problem, because there are a great many black folk who are law abiding citizens, middle class or higher, quite good citizens. Painting them with this broad brush is simply racist. In some areas of the country, mine for instance, we don't have a ghetto culture of blacks.
OTOH, the black ghetto culture IS the issue, and that would be approximately 1/4 of the black folk in this country. Then there are the successful black folk who glamorize ghetto culture and, while seeming to claim it, don't live it at all, and then there are the wiggers, who are a worthless class of white trash. But saying that it's a black problem is really quite inaccurate and unfair, IMO. Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 03:42 PM (NXsWM) First, thanks for the accusation of racism. I appreciate it. Second, your argument is hopelessly feeble. To see why, replace "black" with "male," and "racist" with "sexist." My statement was not categorical; it was statistical. Allow me to elaborate: it does not refer to every goddamned person in the group, nor was it intended to. It refers to the relative incidence of the problem in that group. In support of my contention, I give you the CDC stats: the leading cause of death among black males 15-35 is murder, by other black males. Racist? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:47 PM (5B+da) 208
yeah, i make a lot of friends here in Lost Angels, but at least i keep the local therapists employed.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 18, 2018 03:46 PM (XnXLV) I need to find that happy medium between the extreme ends of "I'm human garbage" and "I'm the most specialist snowflake ever!" Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:47 PM (NWiLs) 209
No Fox news, no fox business. sigh. Posted by: #neverskankles Check YouTube. I know that someone usually has a stream running every day. I never checked for Fox Business, but I suspect someone is up to the task. Enter 'Fox News Streaming' in YouTube search field. Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 18, 2018 03:48 PM (LOgQ4) 210
On my LinkedIn feed there is a dude who gave a presentation to a classroom in Detroit. He posted a pic. About 20 kids, of which 5 girls had jibabs and 2 white kids.
The future of America. Posted by: #neverskankles at March 18, 2018 03:48 PM (btirN) 211
At the risk of sounding rather mean-spirited, I'm fine characterizing it as a black problem without any further distinction because:
1. the black community as a whole has proven to be completely opposed to holding any black people accountable for their actions (for a concrete example, consider polling data on OJ); 2. any discussion of the obvious problems within the poor black community results in being branded a racist, not least by the black community as a whole; 3. the black community is so committed to to the far Democratic left that it de facto opposes all conservative causes and candidates. Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 18, 2018 03:48 PM (H5knJ) 212
The belief that such as The Lottery can never happen to you, only to someone else.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 18, 2018 03:28 PM (my6cm) That was one of the scariest short stories I ever read. Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at March 18, 2018 03:49 PM (l7Kbv) 213
Since I've been sitting here reading this blog, my face has broken out in like thirteen places. You people are bad for my complexion. Geez. Who's got some Clearasil?
Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 03:50 PM (lwiT4) 214
211 1. the black community as a whole has proven to be
completely opposed to holding any black people accountable for their actions (for a concrete example, consider polling data on OJ); 2. any discussion of the obvious problems within the poor black community results in being branded a racist, not least by the black community as a whole; 3. the black community is so committed to to the far Democratic left that it de facto opposes all conservative causes and candidates. Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 18, 2018 03:48 PM (H5knJ) Back when the OJ mess was going on a bunch of the company blacks convened in the cube next to mine to talk about the case. The general consensus was the LA cops framed him. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 03:50 PM (mpXpK) 215
Since I've been sitting here reading this blog, my face has broken out in like thirteen places. You people are bad for my complexion. Geez. Who's got some Clearasil?
Posted by: grammie winger Yeah, I used to have that problem. Then I stopped spanking the monkey and joined the Tide Pod challenge. Posted by: Leftist Backpacker at March 18, 2018 03:52 PM (LOgQ4) 216
Then I stopped spanking the monkey and joined the Tide Pod challenge.
Posted by: Leftist Backpacker at March 18, 2018 03:52 PM (LOgQ4) ============== Thanks for the tip! Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 03:53 PM (lwiT4) 217
213 Since I've been sitting here reading this blog, my face has broken out in like thirteen places. You people are bad for my complexion. Geez. Who's got some Clearasil?
Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 03:50 PM (lwiT4) I recommend bourbon and a dose of antihistamines. Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:53 PM (NWiLs) 218
food up
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 03:54 PM (mpXpK) 219
Nood. Food.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 18, 2018 03:54 PM (Dhht7) 220
I recommend bourbon and a dose of antihistamines.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 18, 2018 03:53 PM (NWiLs) ================= Could I do gin and some Ativan? Cuz I have a warehouse. Posted by: grammie winger - at March 18, 2018 03:54 PM (lwiT4) 221
Just the tip?
Posted by: Sam Adams, almost as hung over as Andy McCabe at March 18, 2018 03:54 PM (VDbGO) 222
You don't have a 'black' ghetto in AK because you have very few big cities and very few blacks. Blacks in AK are only 3.4% of the total population.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 03:46 PM (mpXpK) Anchorage has a ghetto, a large one, called Mountain View. It is full of minority folk, but very few of them are black. It has the usual ghetto issues: poverty, drugs, murders, rapes, gangs, etc. But nobody would characterize it as black. The problem isn't race, it's attitude and behavior. First, thanks for the accusation of racism. I appreciate it. Second, your argument is hopelessly feeble. To see why, replace "black" with "male," and "racist" with "sexist." My statement was not categorical; it was statistical. Allow me to elaborate: it does not refer to every goddamned person in the group, nor was it intended to. It refers to the relative incidence of the problem in that group. In support of my contention, I give you the CDC stats: the leading cause of death among black males 15-35 is murder, by other black males. Racist? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:47 PM (5B+da) I did not call you a racist. I said that when you paint an entire group of folks based on skin color with the criminal behavior of a small group of them, that's racist. What we are here is inaccurate, not horrible. There is a rather large group of white folk who commit crimes. Does that make you a criminal? Why don't you turn that around, like you tried to do with the sexist/racist trick? I'm not calling anybody here names. I'm not trying to start a fight. But as the mom of a racial minority, I find it difficult to listen while an entire population of decent Americans is painted with the criminal brush. Why should we be as sloppy as the people who call all of us deplorable just for loving our constitution and country? Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 03:55 PM (NXsWM) 223
Pastor in church today said a group of individials were going to participate in antigun protest this week. She also said that no guns would be brought in to the church. I think thats the last time i attend service . Its been the slow creep of activism in the church. Attendance is way down.
Posted by: Madxmom at March 18, 2018 02:22 PM That tears me up. Today we were called on to pray for all those in service and for an end to violence. Then again, we're a bunch of bitter clingers. Our young pastor is very old-school. I noticed today that most of the young families have 3-4 kids, which seems huuuuge compared to the libs with one or just "fur babies". There was a little girl with Downs Syndrome, too. BTW Our local high school students scheduled a walk-out/17minutes of silence. The principal told teachers not to comment on it, pro or con, but to keep teaching. The administrators attended to make sure students returned to class afterwards and the local police attended. The usual kids left and the usual ones stayed. The FFA members and the hunters had clearly talked to their parents; they stayed in class. Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 18, 2018 03:58 PM (G8B7r) 224
I did not call you a racist. I said that when you paint an entire group of folks based on skin color with the criminal behavior of a small group of them, that's racist. What we are here is inaccurate, not horrible.
There is a rather large group of white folk who commit crimes. Does that make you a criminal? Why don't you turn that around, like you tried to do with the sexist/racist trick? I didn't try to do it. I did it. And it's not a trick. I was trying to bring out how exactly the same argument could be made re males, and it too would have validity. You have sharpened my point by making it refer to ALL members of the group. That was not the expressed or implied import of my statement. And let's not engage in the sophistry of distinguishing between characterizing someone as racist on one hand with accusing him of making a racist statement on the other. It's a distinction without a difference. But let's pursue your logic. "Violence is primarily a male problem." True? Or false? Sexist? "Methamphetamine is primarily a white problem." True? Or false? Racist? "Terrorism is primarily a Muslim problem." True? Or false? Racist/ Islamophobic/ whatever? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 04:02 PM (5B+da) 225
TCN, I don't think anyone here believes all [insert demographic group here] are criminals or whatever. But if we can never generalize from statistics, then statistics are relatively useless. We all understand that what is generally true is not universally true.
The criminals versus deplorables comparison is inapt, I think. We have murder statistics and can accurately make certain demographic claims about murderers and their victims. We can't do anything of the sort with "deplorable," which is just an insilt. Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 18, 2018 04:04 PM (H5knJ) 226
Back when the OJ mess was going on a bunch of the
company blacks convened in the cube next to mine to talk about the case. The general consensus was the LA cops framed him. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 18, 2018 03:50 PM (mpXpK)--- i was w*rking as a sillyvillian tech at a Mil pharmacy here in Lost Angels then... the enlisted staff were all black. they were outraged when he lost the civil case. i pointed out that it was no different than when the LAPD cops that walked on the criminal charges on Rodney King were later convicted on federal charges. they all lost their shit, even the one sane one. Posted by: redc1c4 at March 18, 2018 04:07 PM (XnXLV) 227
TCN, I don't think anyone here believes all [insert demographic group here] are criminals or whatever. But if we can never generalize from statistics, then statistics are relatively useless. We all understand that what is generally true is not universally true.
The criminals versus deplorables comparison is inapt, I think. We have murder statistics and can accurately make certain demographic claims about murderers and their victims. We can't do anything of the sort with "deplorable," which is just an insult. Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 18, 2018 04:04 PM (H5knJ) Thank you. I thought I'd made clear above the distinction between a categorical statement - i.e., one that applies to every member of the category - and a statistical one, but that distinction apparently did not resonate in all quarters. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 04:07 PM (5B+da) 228
And let's not engage in the sophistry of distinguishing between characterizing someone as racist on one hand with accusing him of making a racist statement on the other. It's a distinction without a difference.
But let's pursue your logic. "Violence is primarily a male problem." True? Or false? Sexist? "Methamphetamine is primarily a white problem." True? Or false? Racist? "Terrorism is primarily a Muslim problem." True? Or false? Racist/ Islamophobic/ whatever? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 04:02 PM (5B+da) False. Sorry. Not buying it. In this country, I'm fairly certain that a person is only responsible for their own crimes. Any number of folk here object mightily when leftists divide people up by race, or by sex, or by whatever metric, and for good reason. Saying that meth is a white problem is not accurate. Yes, most meth users are white. That doesn't make it a white problem, any more than saying that most rapists are white men, so rape is a white man problem. If you accept those statements, then clearly, as a white man, you must be a rapist. It is false, on the face of it. Can't we be better than the leftist fools who use statistics falsely to paint us as knuckle-dragging idiots clinging to our guns and Bibles because we are too stupid to see how wonder life will be once we are all sorted into our categories and nobody ever says anything we don't agree with? So, no, I don't buy it that saying that something is a black problem does not paint all blacks with the same brush, just as I don't buy it that saying that something is a white male problem makes all white males rapists. It's sloppy, and dishonest, and solves exactly nothing. Posted by: tcn in AK at March 18, 2018 04:11 PM (NXsWM) 229
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: "Professor" (part-time adjunct lecturer) Barky Obama at March 18, 2018 04:22 PM (fqUgw) 230
No Fox news, no fox business.
sigh. Posted by: #neverskankles at March 18, 2018 03:44 We cut the cord in Dec. Went w/ Roku & Hulu so we could get FNC & FBNC. However we went over our usage w/ Comcast. You get 2 free months of overages, used them up. We are being more careful about usage, but in a few days I have to decide whether to go back to Dish, which is on a $5/month hold or stick w/ the new setup. Even w/ overages the new setup will save ca. $25 a month. The incentive to go back is Dish will give us a discount for a year if we do. So it all depends on the discount they offer. Is that clear as mud, LOL? Posted by: Farmer at March 18, 2018 04:36 PM (yJ1e6) 231
If you get a Roku stick you can get Fox News, but they are all rebroadcasts.
So you can't watch in real time unless you also have the cable box. Posted by: navybrat at March 18, 2018 03:46 Get Roku and add Hulu you can get it live. Cost $40 month, better than Dish's $105 or so. Just watch out for data usage overages. Posted by: Farmer at March 18, 2018 04:42 PM (yJ1e6) 232
So, no, I don't buy it that saying that something is a black problem does not paint all blacks with the same brush, just as I don't buy it that saying that something is a white male problem makes all white males rapists.
In a world of properly limited police resources, it's best to recognize where to put them to use. Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 18, 2018 04:43 PM (yQpMk) Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 04:58 PM (5B+da) 234
The kid can play basketball so as far as the world of education goes (or indeed the wider world) he can do as he will damn well please.
Schools (especially HS and college) view themselves as sports training academies first. So if you are good at a sport, nothing bad can happen to you. Any other student would have been thrown out promptly. It pays to be an athlete-student. Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at March 18, 2018 05:06 PM (0/2MJ) 235
Sign in.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 18, 2018 05:25 PM (ewxPW) 236
Keep repeating that Shaw quote. Then come teach my real analysis class. Hell, come teach my Diff Eq class.
Posted by: Notropis at March 18, 2018 05:48 PM (aAePe) 237
Keep repeating that Shaw quote. Then come teach my real analysis class. Hell, come teach my Diff Eq class.
Posted by: Notropis at March 18, 2018 05:48 PM (aAePe) I'm in IT and have been for nearly 40 years. I don't get upset when someone characterizes us as unsocial nerds, even though it's far from true for me. Because, sadly, I recognize it's general truth. Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 18, 2018 06:20 PM (yQpMk) 238
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They are starting with a gun confiscation proposal in Illinois --- We fortunately have a lot of lakes to arrange accidents on. Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2018 02:05 PM (XQvuQ) I read that in Australia, with their supposed gun ban, only about 25% of all guns have been turned in since 1996. Over 20 years, still three-fourths of the guns still in the bottom of Australian rivers and lakes. Oh, and crimes on people have increased in double digits. Could there be a link? yes, of course, TRUMP. Because in the 1990's, Trump probably visited Australia. Case closed! Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 18, 2018 06:42 PM (UsCnO) 239
People rip on California, but for sheer concentrated insanity on a per capita basis, I think it's tough to beat Minnesota. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2018 03:06 PM (5B+da) Mexico to Minnesota is over a Thousand Miles. California is just a step over the freshly manicured Nanzi grass lawn. So you make an important point. Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 18, 2018 06:58 PM (UsCnO) 240
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