murps2000

I agree the comments section is pretty bad at fox. But check out breitbart if you want to take a deeper dive sometime.

Maybe re read what I posted a bit more closely? I posted a link to the incident I was referring to. It wasn’t this one.

Duly noted McGruff.

Very observant. Looked like she was using her legs to move around too. Not saying police had any other choice in this situation though.

I don’t mean to suggest that a baton would have any effect at all in real life and in this situation. I don’t even recall a movie where that tactic worked either.

All fair points, and that’s not even to mention the stress of each situation. I don’t mean to armchair quarterback either. I’ve just never seen the tactic used and wondered why. You can’t really do much with a knife if only one leg works. the incident I was thinking about is this one from 6 years ago. https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-police-shooting-in-instagram-bayview-district-caught-on-video-sfpd-shoot-man-stabbing/1107491/ To be fair, SFPD tried non lethal options but couldn’t get the man to stop. It seemed to me at the time there were enough guys there shooting that they could easily have taken out his legs. Sorry I guess that actually is armchair quarterbacking, and in hindsight no less. All of your points could apply.

Interesting the suggestion to possibly throw a baton to trip up the knife wielding girl. Can police do nothing else but shoot to kill? Why not a good shot to the thigh? I wondered the same thing years ago when SFPD unloaded on a clearly mentally disturbed individual in the city who also had a knife.

Interesting that in your mind the actions of the right are the fault of Dems. Trump didn’t fill three seats because of that precedent. He filled two. He filled a third because of Mitch McConnell refusing to hold a vote on Obama’s last nomination, despite Garland being a pretty centrist pick. The lesson to be learned is that Republicans will do there worst no matter how nice you try to play with them. And they’ll cry victim as they do it.

I suppose. I never thought of it that way. Maybe second. But no deeper than that. He’s friends with Michelle, and any friend of Michelle is a friend of mine, evil or not.

I imagine he was probably as surprised as any real conservative that Trump would drag the party as far as he has down the road it is currently on. He might have just been playing by the old rules of etiquette, when former Presidents didn’t criticize a sitting one, so as not to interfere with the latter doing his job. Etiquette used to be a thing, even in politics.

This is why it blows my mind when I think about what they are trying to accomplish. I’d love to see the specs on those rotors. Interesting they went with a coaxial design although not surprising, given space limitations. Probably more reliable than a quad setup as well.

This is what MAGA really is. But yeah, they’d better avoid Martian houses. A raygun shot would end the party real quick. https://spacenews.com/nasa-reschedules-ingenuity-first-flight/

Maybe like this?

Got my first Pfizer jab this morning. One of my favorite delicatessens is a few blocks away from the vaccination site so afterward I promptly headed over and grabbed a huge pesto chicken sub. Then I went for a medium 6 mile hike. I'm home now enjoying a chilly pale ale. My shoulder smarts a bit but not as bad as the other jabs I got from some stinging nettle along the trail. I lost a very good friend to the fourth wave on Friday. He was as good as they come, a mentor and role model, and I was lucky to know him. I wish he could have gotten a vaccine in time. I wish more precautions would have given him that extra time.

Strange analogy but okay. I guess all previous Vice Presidents must fall into that category then. I’m going with Heirald Ford for my veep play on words.

How does being elected Vice President make one heir to the Oval Office?

Well Trump said covid goes away when it’s warmer. So Florida has an unfair advantage over Michigan. People in Florida probably go outside in March more than people in Michigan. I also think you’re making the assumption that mask mandates were followed to the letter. I have no data on that but I suspect that a significant percentage of Michiganders care little about them.

I’m not thrilled about it in a general sense but I am sort of thankful that Trump still controls the Republican Party. They reap what they sow. As does Mitch McConnell.

Nice. So in Arkansas, all a veto does is force the general assembly to make the same vote twice. They just come back in the next day and do it again. Brilliant. They could just eliminate the veto and make it a little more efficient to achieve the same legislative results.

Fair enough. I should have read your post a little more closely. Instead of looking at most mass shootings, I guess I just focused on the worst one. In the case of the Vegas shooter the reaction was to go after bump stocks anyway, rather than high capacity magazines.

Consider how low capacity magazines may have affected the outcome of the Vegas mass shooting. I’m generally pro second amendment, but that one event made me willing to compromise on magazine capacity. I doubt the shooter could have achieved anywhere near the same number of casualties if he only had shotguns.

I’ll say it again, take the George Floyd challenge. Have someone kneel on your neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while you are stone cold sober and get back to us with the results. Make sure they only weigh 140 pounds though. If you’re not on drugs you should be fine.

I tried to stop them in CA by voting no on prop 22. They threw a bunch of money into political ads and convinced enough voters to overturn legislation mandating worker protections for their contractors. For months I couldn’t watch the evening news without seeing them. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-11-04/uber-lyft-proposition-22%3f_amp=true

I'm starting to think you'll never be able to understand how this works. Masks were never for self protection, so whether or not you are high risk means nothing. They were to limit your ability to infect others if you were carrying the virus. If you can't wrap your head around that then I guess they would seem like a charade.

Ironically I was listening to a discussion on NPR on the way home from work today and the subject was this very topic. I’m pretty sure Prius radios are designed to only play NPR but I can occasionally get some old r&b to come through if I jab the display enough. Anyway, they suggested oil prices might dip soon, perhaps briefly, but then rise again as we might expect in the northern hemisphere as we get closer to the warmer months and demand rises as people tend to travel more. I think they might have been alluding to the possible increase in production by OPEC. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973623451/opec-and-allies-keep-oil-production-steady-as-saudi-arabia-urges-caution This is a relatively old article as far as markets are concerned but it delves into the strategy behind OPEC’s decision making about production increases. It’s interesting that although they definitely want oil prices to rise, one of their considerations is that allowing them to rise too much might result in a further push toward renewables, and a subsequent decrease in demand that would have the opposite effect.