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How would you know which ways he works in?
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Videotaping Farm Cruelty is Becoming the Crime
regulator replied to Andy9o8's topic in Speakers Corner
What if instead of taping these assholes abusing animals the people arm themselves with firearms and group all of those abusers in a room and shoot off their big toes. Animal abusers are one step away from child abusers. -
I would say the person should have left in their car instead of retrieving a firearm.
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That's one possibility. But another possibility is that some jurors were dead-set on 1st degree murder, while other jurors were dead-set that while Dunn was culpable of 2nd degree murder and/or manslaughter, it was not 1st-degree murder, and the two camps could not be reconciled. Thus: impasse = deadlocked jury on that charge. since it was deadlocked can't they re-try him again?
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How do you know anything about what it's like to be black? At what time did I claim to know what its like to be black as she did for whites?
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Where their white peers’ biggest fears will be handled in elementary school drills about tornadoes, hurricanes and thunderstorms, or maybe the perennial deranged young white male school shooter, my nephews will have to have safety drills of a different kind. It won’t just be “stop, drop and roll,” for them, but “Stop, hands up and make no sudden movements. Keep your anger and your fear in check. It just might kill you.” Racism in its most exclusive form. How does this woman know anything about what its like to be white?
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How much more are black people in this country supposed to take? On Saturday, a Florida jury failed to convict Michael Dunn for the callous murder of Jordan Davis. Though he was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and also on a gun charge, a mistrial was declared for the first-degree murder charge. He will face substantial jail time – perhaps up to 75 years on the four charges for which he was found guilty. Prosecutor Angela Corey has also publicly declared her intent to seek retrial on the murder conviction. However, she is the same prosecutor who oversaw the Zimmerman murder trial and failed to get a conviction. She is the same prosecutor who has overzealously prosecuted Marissa Alexander, for firing a warning shot into the wall to scare off her violent ex-husband. The Alexander case is the only case of the three for which she has gotten a conviction, and though Alexander has been granted a new trial, Corey intends yet again to send her to prison for 20 years for a crime that harmed no one. Therefore, I don’t trust Corey. It is clear that Florida prosecutors are fairly unclear about how to defend black life against an onslaught of white murder. Yes, I know that Jordan’s killer may spend the rest of his life in prison. But this is not about jail time. This case, like the case of Trayvon Martin, hinges on whether white fear legally outweighs and is therefore more legally defensible than black life. The day before Jordan Davis would have turned 19 years old, a court failed to affirm the value of his life, his right to exist in space enjoying music with his friends, his right not to be harassed by someone while doing something as mundane as sitting in a parking lot at a gas station. Professor Angela Ards said of this decision, “The chilling social logic of this illogical legal verdict is that Dunn has been found guilty of missing the other black boys in the car, of failing to kill them all.” I think it we can safely and fairly assume that it is open season on black teenagers, if the murders of Trayvon, Jordan and Renisha McBride are any indication. I teach college students, and in the hopefulness and optimism of their youth, they are often quick to point out that racial politics are so “different in their generation.” But what I see is black students their age being murdered unceremoniously in locales throughout the country, by white or non-black men, who receive insufficient justice for their crimes. Despite a belief in progress, this moment suggests that young black men’s audacity to exist is a capital offense punishable by murder. And to be clear, this is not about the music Jordan Davis and his friends were listening to. The global dominance of hip-hop music and the often crass depictions of black life in which hip-hop artists traffic have made it an easy target and scapegoat for white racial anxiety. But white racial anxiety –and in particular the alleged legitimacy of it – is a foregone conclusion searching for facts. In this era, those “facts” seem to be readily available in endless media depictions of violent black males. In the post-Reconstruction era, those “facts” could be found in the swiftness of black progress during Reconstruction. During the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, those “facts” could be found in the audacity of black people’s desire to vote, share equal space on sidewalks, be paid fair wages, and eat at the same lunch counters. Black being is the problem. Not black thuggery. Black boys officially exist in a state of social death, because the law continues to tell us that their lives, when taken by white men, are legally indefensible. They have been rendered by the law dead men walking. It’s no wonder then that in so many places they act like it. White thuggery, meanwhile, marches on, mowing down black folks at every turn, white sheets, sight unseen. Many white folks believe that black criminality has produced white fear and that white fear in the presence of black masculinity is therefore always justified. But the opposite is true. White anxiety and fear and racism have produced the myth of pervasive black criminality. Intraracial black violence is a problem, but white racism has produced the concentrated structures of poverty and lack of access to education that give rise to violent behaviors. Our national inability to tell the truth about this will only lead to more black victims. In his famous essay “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” James Baldwin wrote, “Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of people, and ours is no exception.” The truth we need to be telling is that the myth of black male criminality is foundational, not incidental, to America’s national identity. Even if there were no black male criminals, to riff on professor Hortense Spillers’ work, they would have to be invented. The presence of black criminals justifies white male rage, white women’s fear and subsequent white male violence. The question is how should black people respond? Having seen a lot of violence in my childhood, I’m a deep believer in and practitioner of nonviolence. But in the face of unreasonable violence toward our children, why do black people owe the nation the safety of our reasonable, rational, nonviolent responses? Whether we take it to the streets or stay home and raise our sons and daughters, they are killed all the same. Black people continue to believe that respectability politics will save us. Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin both came from “good families,” with fathers who were present. Neither one of them lived to see their 19th birthday this month. Neither one of their killers has been convicted of their murders. How should black people respond? These killings and the inability of our justice system to do justice explode the bounds of reason. My nephew turned 7 on Jordan Davis’ birthday. By all indications he and his big brother, aged 8, will be very tall men, like their father and grandfather who both hover somewhere around 6 feet, 6 inches. I know my little men to be great soccer players, lovers of Temple Run played incessantly on my smartphone, fierce competitors already, A students, hilarious dancers, sensitive and insightful souls, and a ball of giggles. But far too soon, their parents will have to talk to them about what their imposing body size will indicate to the general public. Where their white peers’ biggest fears will be handled in elementary school drills about tornadoes, hurricanes and thunderstorms, or maybe the perennial deranged young white male school shooter, my nephews will have to have safety drills of a different kind. It won’t just be “stop, drop and roll,” for them, but “Stop, hands up and make no sudden movements. Keep your anger and your fear in check. It just might kill you.” This is unreasonable. In the face of all of it, black women lavish the men in our lives with the unreasonable love that our nation only knows how to give to white people. Playing surrogates for the nation is a job black women know quite well. In this instance, though, we are acutely aware of the insufficiency of our efforts. In the face of too much hate, our love is so clearly not enough. http://www.salon.com/2014/02/18/michael_dunn_and_open_season_on_black_teenagers_the_onslaught_of_white_murder/
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I am not requiring anything. Neither is the government. That is the issue. Perhaps they considered it but realized it wasn't feasable to pull off.
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Except maybe, you know, an enormous loophole in the laws requiring background checks. did you read the whole post or just the last line and then kneejerk reply? did you read the part about "FFL-sponsored transfers"? IF you are telling me all of these transactions are 100% on the up and up, well, that's an extraordinary position to take. Sounds like you have personal knowledge that there Isn't 100% legal transactions on this page. If not then your comment is purely speculation and should be treated as such.
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Post your gun for sale along with DESCRIPTION, PHOTO, PRICE and CONTACT INFO , What STATE you are in and we will repost it for millions of potential buyers to see! It might be just me...but I'll pay the few dollars difference and get my firearms through a respected dealer (my father) and not get set up. This sounds like a craigslist setup to me.
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https://www.facebook.com/GunSellerz
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Whats strange is that from 97-2006 I lived in Dallas and I had a black roommate the entire time. We never once had any racial tension between us or any of the people we hung out with. Of course he was a DJ and everyone we would be around was in the music industry of some sort and we all smoked the dizzle. Perhaps potheads aren't violent, but if I can know someone for that long and never have any dustups about race then the rest of the nation should be able to finally have some tolerance amongst the races. And ebb and flow of patience and kindness that goes both ways. But there will always be assholes. They aren't worth my time since I don't associate with people with self-esteem issues.
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Why does Obama, continue to defer the benefits of Obamacare?
regulator replied to brenthutch's topic in Speakers Corner
Why do any laws ever take effect at a later time as opposed to instantly? To allow for a period of adjustment. If, during that period of adjustment it is discovered a further adjustment needs to be made, it can be made. However, with the current do-less-than-the-do-nothing-Congress in place, that adjustment has to come from somewhere. Since Congress has decided it will NOT act in any way that is positive to ACA, the President is sort of the only person left who can do anything. Why do we have to make "adjustments" to a law that will increase coverage, lower costs and be a benefit everyone, from large corporations to single parents working for minimum wage? I want my Obama care and I want it now! Because, it appears, enough corporations bitched about the changes that would hurt short term profits if it went into place sooner than later. I can even see where that might be the case with some companies who had made old style contracts with healthcare providers in the interim hoping beyond all hope the Republicans would be successful in a complete overturn even after 40ish failed attempts. But trust me, I can nearly 100% guarantee you pushing back provisions is the LAST thing Obama wants to do. Seriously? The ACA was designed to fail so it can default to a single payer system. Anyone can see the method to obama's madness. SINGLE PAYER -
And yes, there's multiple reasons to have a BOB. I have 2 on the ready that just need to be loaded in a vehicle. If you live in a hurricaine zone like I do, then you can remember evacuating a few years back and being in complete gridlock even on the furthest back roads. Nothing wrong with being prepared...but of course there's a difference between being prepared and spending all your money on an underground bunker.
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Well I learned something new today. That mexican restraunt in Lake Jackson..El Jimador. A jimador is a type of Mexican farmer who harvests agave plants, which are harvested primarily for the production of mezcal, sotol and tequila. Maybe that's why their margarita's are awesome and their food sucks ass.
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pretty sure that's exactly what happened.
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Instant Justice. I do not feel any sympathy for any of these 3 idiots.
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NY SAFE Act (gun control) and its Proponents
regulator replied to Kennedy's topic in Speakers Corner
They all just wanted to be witnesses to the first hand stupidity of gun control advocates getting caught at their own game. http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-control-advocates-arrests-highlight-irony-and-hypocrisy -
Classy. There doesn't need to be a case, she just needs to be better than the alternative(s). I could go out to the jungle and find the first chimp I see and that would already eliminate that worthless cunt hillary.
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Black residents oppose Trader Joe's in Portland!
regulator replied to CameraNewbie's topic in Speakers Corner
This is in response to the OP's article....not anyone in particular. but basically the gist of the the resentment is trader joe's is dont bring in any nice stores to our community because were a bunch of fucking bottom dwellers that have no aspirations of becoming more than what we currently are and new and prosperous businesses will make the cost of living go up and were too fucking lazy to get off our asses to make something better of ourselves. This is the perpetuation of the welfare community. Their lack of self enrichment is sickening. -
Most people with an IQ above retarded have the ability to understand statements made in general. ***But I still hold that most of the people who claim to drink for taste are lying to themselves. lol, yes I am sure most are closet alcoholics But you holding that opinion still doesn't disprove what I stated. Unless you now come up with your magical data about all those pot smokers who are doing it for the taste Unless of course you are trying to imply that pot smokers are inherently more honest than those who have a glass of wine with dinner. You must never have tasted blueberry kush. Heavenly is one of the few words to describe it.
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Black residents oppose Trader Joe's in Portland!
regulator replied to CameraNewbie's topic in Speakers Corner
To me from the way you describe it...sounds like they'd bring in more business to the area. Nothing wrong with that. -
My brother in law is a divorce attorney and he loved getting drunk...until he had a visit with his doctor and his drinking was leading to medical problems...and just like that. Poof. I saw him drinking an Odouls...and I asked my sister...what the FUCK is wrong with rodney? And she wispered in my ear about some heart murmers and how he can't drink anymore. And don't get me wrong...rodney could drink with the best of them...and then put on a thong and a cowboy hat and party all nite long after that. But just as a soon as I thought I could peg him as being an alcoholic. He quits at the drop of a hat and hasn't drank a single alcoholic beverage since then. So let me repeat what I said before...not everyone is the same. Some can quit and some can't and some can quit and some straight up don't want to. Not all people and their dependancies are equal. For rodney's sake...he told me in private he prefers to fly his airplane and the freedom of flight more than the feeling of inebriation.