Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Mike]

Classic.

[UMStan White]

Don't let statistics get in the way of good old fashion misperception.

[entropy]

I am quite confident the average officer in America will view 3 black kids walking down the street late at night differently than 3 white kids.


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[iam416]

They would have statistical cause to do so.

[Prime2]

Guy who filmed the Alton Sterling killing gets publicly arrested at his employer for 'assault" then gets told down at the station that he was actually only picked up for $1200 in unpaid parking tickets.

Also the owner of the convenience store where this happened (and testified a number of times that Sterling had done nothing wrong) has filed civil rights charges against the police

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/man-...t-and-battery/

That's usually how this scam works, feigning outrage , feed the racist media, mobilize pseudo "black community leaders" then sue any business, person, municipality, state or federal government, essentially target the cash.

Alton Sterling was arrested in 2009 essentially for committing the EXACT same crime. Did 5 years in jail for it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alton-sterling-had-eerily-similar-brush-with-cops-in-past-report/

"The officer asked Sterling to put his hand on the hood of his police car and asked if Sterling had any weapons on him. The report says Sterling did "not answer" and, as the officer continued to pat him down, Sterling started reaching for his pocket.

The officer went on to say in the report that Sterling suddenly spun around and the two began to struggle. The officer and Sterling hit the ground. The officer said he was able to call for backup as Sterling tried to push him off.

"While wrestling with this subject on the ground, a black semi-auto hand gun fell from this subject's waist band at this time," the report states.

A deputy with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office arrived as the officer was on the ground with Sterling. The two eventually were able to get Sterling into handcuffs. "Sterling was then escorted to my unit, where he continued to fight with officers," the report ends.
After that incident, Baton Rouge Police charged Sterling with possession of marijuana, sound reproduction prohibited (for the CDs), illegal possession of a firearm with drugs, resisting an officer and illegal possession of a stolen firearm, says WAFB.

Sterling pleaded guilty to illegal carrying of a weapon with a controlled dangerous substance. On July 19, 2011, he was sentenced to five years in prison, where he was until being granted parole on Dec. 5, 2013."

[iam416]

DSL is correct re violent crimes/murders (even as gun ownership has skyrocketed). He's also right about blighted urban areas.

[entropy]

From faux Pelini.. @CureBrainCancer ALL CANCERS MATTER A-HOLES

#allcancersmatter


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[hack]

From faux Pelini.. @CureBrainCancer ALL CANCERS MATTER A-HOLES

#allcancersmatter


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LOL!!! Damn that's good.

[Prime2]

DSL is correct re violent crimes/murders (even as gun ownership has skyrocketed). He's also right about blighted urban areas.

Speaking of being right, it would be wise for you & your "social science" buddy to get the hell out of Ohio during the Republican National Convention, July 18th-21st.

Ohio is an open-carry state, 1000's will be adding guns to the powder keg and it's about to explode. Serious gun violence.

There's always plenty of room at the Chateau OP Plantation although DSL would need to tuck his ponytail and be freshly washed.

Cleveland is going to destroy Trump's convention.

[Wild Hoss]

From faux Pelini.. @CureBrainCancer ALL CANCERS MATTER A-HOLES

#allcancersmatter


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Heh.

[entropy]

https://t.co/kvZG036pXB

? Officials at the Holocaust Museum and Poland's Auschwitz Memorial are calling on Pok?mon Go maker Niantic to take their sites off the locations where players can hunt cartoon creatures in the popular augmented reality app, saying it dishonors Holocau



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[Wild Hoss]

I read that some were "pinned" or whatever, inside Arlington too. Idiotic.

[Wild Hoss]

Read a headline that Tom Brady may attempt to take his suspension to the Supreme Court, after having lost at 2CCA.

I cannot believe this even got the circuit level. The importance people put into sports in this country is ridiculous.

[Jeff Buchanan]

.....My point is that in a just society there should be no opportunities at all for such a photo.

You are saying the photo of Evans depicts an injustice? I don't believe it does. It is a photo of a protester who, if the facts that are known to us are correct, was asked by police, acting in accordance with the law and in performance of their duties, to leave the area. When she failed to comply with the officer's orders, she was in violation of the law and apprehended.

.......The people that need to avail themselves feel differently - to the extent that they'd rather get arrested and make themselves targets for cops in the future than use those formal channels. Are you and I really and truly in a position to say whether they are right or not? What experience do we have that entitles us to dismiss their experiences and paint them all as extremists?

First, nothing I have said has labeled Evans as an extremist. She is a protester that broke the law and was apprehended because of that.

Second, people make choices all the time, some of them are right, some wrong. Let me ask you this: I am disturbed that when I received my electric bill it appears the provider overcharged me. I have a choice to make. I can choose to use the formal channels the company has established for customers to resolve billing disputes or I can stage a sit-in in front of the CEO's office carrying a sign that says, "you over-charged me and I want my money back you greedy bastard." Which method is the most likely one to resolve my dispute?

I apologize if I appear to be demeaning your position. However, this is pretty simple. The BLM movement can address their grievances through vehicles intended to do that or they can choose other inappropriate means and it is clear, in my view, they have. Other appropriate means include filing civil rights violation claims with the courts so that they can be adjudicated and resolved. Airing grievances before City Councils in politically respectful ways. Choosing quietly implemented tactics to influence outcomes, for example, boycotting companies that have questionable policies involving any kind of discrimination .... and there are plenty of those. In this country, for corporations doing business here, money talks. Decrease income and profits or create intense media scrutiny of company practices and behavior will change. Ask Sea World or McDonald's. Don't scoff at this and here's why:

https://hbr.org/2012/08/when-do-company-boycotts-work

No, I have no personal experience with racial prejudice other than believing strongly it is wrong. But that does not exclude me from judging the choices BLM is making to, as they perceive it, address state violence against blacks. Nor does it exclude me from judging their chosen tactics, namely castigating the police and otherwise creating a perception of a nationwide problem with state violence that manifests itself as police brutality directed against blacks. I particularly object to the in-you-face tactics BLM, under Garza's strategic direction, have been adopted. These can be characterized as highly provocative and incendiary with regard to the role of law enforcement in the US.

I consider that to be harmful to the BLM movement's cause and dangerous to society.

[iam416]

Hoss:

You have a right of appeal for any district court decision. No surprise the NFL appealed because the district court really fucked it up. Brady's efforts now are prayers. The end banc 2nd C and Sup CT are not required to hear further appeals and there's zero reason for them to do so.