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MLK was not even entertaining. He was all, like, serious and no fun. He was religious, too...who wants to look up to that? Now, Mike Tyson...heth a role model. Yeth indeedy.

I think the thread needs to be renamed.

I knew it was all a mistake. ROR would never drive drunk and hit a Timmy Ho's.

Or, sitting in front of a screen on a marvellous Saturday afternoon simply wasn't appealing.

Why can't he go to Barnes and Noble, buy a coffee and browse a few books? What about joining a health club and taking yoga? There would be plenty of pick ups doing those things.

Here you go, tough guy. Warning: video is reality and violent. Training.

The officer kept her pinned to her seat. In the video, like I said, he tells her to keep her hands where he can see them. There's nothing else she can do, really. This is the thing, these incidents are so...not the right word but it helps make the point...so popularized, she's spreading the word. I do understand, that, especially when it seems initially he was only wounded in the arm.

Absolutely. Going through the goals, there's no way to choose one, a lot of them are just so dang pretty. Can't wait until next season.

Maybe. I won't argue that point. I think Sheriff Clarke makes the case plain.

I'm going to leave TBPhD a little present in this thread.

I going to put this here...

This is why GMTM wouldn't hire Enroth back. Tell me that feed from Samson isn't filthy... Also note that this is one of those shots where Jack makes the puck curve in the air. FILTHY Samson, filthy...

Right here, my bachelor comrades, is the secret to a happy life:

Sheriff David Clarke lays it all out with a lot more authority than I can.

Ah! GREAT question. The police are not the elites. The police are sworn to uphold the law and protect the innocent. They're soldiers for and of the public. An officer takes that job for whatever reasons they do, but I would say an insignificant few believe they're going to attain elite-level power through it. They're working people who happen to find the job appealing; maybe they have a big brother/big sister psychology, maybe they like being Sheriff of the neighborhood, maybe they were picked on and this gives them a little power and authority, maybe they do actually respect and appreciate law and order, maybe they like the benefits package. What I'm driving at here is that officers are pretty much no different in class than a typical blue or white collar worker bee. They still have a conscience, they genuinely love their kids (as in, the kids aren't accessories or necessary by-products of their circumstances and plans), they like having days off and hanging out. Regular Joes and Janes for the most part. When they pull you over, they're doing their job. Following orders. They don't want to have to be brave and handle the crappy situations that certain humans are prone to putting themselves in. They generally don't like having to be on the scene of a nasty car accident. They don't want to be in a gun fight. They don't even want to write five dozen parking tickets in a day. But it's their duty, their job. If the people force the government to change the laws, say, parking tickets are no longer to be issued, then the police will enforce THAT law. If the people decide the elites are ruining the country, and that the elites need policing, you know, some type of French Revolution/dark pol-sci fantastic scenario that is becoming more probable as time goes on, these regular Joes and Janes are going to have to make a choice. I have faith that many of them will make the right choice when/if the time comes. But, the police are not the issue when it comes to the elites. That's like asking why the janitors still empty the waste baskets in the White House. It's their job. The conflict isn't with the police, it's between the people and the elites. Some police would side with us, some would side with them. I agree with this entirely. No one wants to lose sight of all hope.

I'm glad you asked. For a minute there, I thought all of the righteous indignation would be based solely upon assumptions and imagination. It's sad. I get the impression there was a mis-communication. The victim did the right thing, told the officer he had a weapon and was licensed. The officer clearly got amped up and was ready to shoot unless the guy did everything absolutely perfectly - like trying to solve an explosive Rubik's Cube; one wrong turn and it explodes. Yes, this indicates to me that this particular officer was in over his head. He was scared and hyped up because a black dude had a gun. What exactly happened prior to his putting 4 bullets in the guy we don't know - the woman said in the video the officer asked him to get out his license, the officer says "I told him not to reach for it - I told him to get his hand off it!" And, you know what, the officer is clearly anguished. This is what pisses me off. Play the line where the officer says "I told him not to reach for it - I told him to get his hand off it!" over and over again like I just did to get the quote right. Does that sound like someone who is happy he just shot someone? WTF? The guys is standing there with his gun drawn, telling the lady to keep her hands where he can see them. He's anguished. Not like some f*cking deer hunter like some of you are trying to make these guys out to be. He knows what's going on and his mind is racing a million miles a second. Him standing there like that is training taking over. What do you want? Hang 'em! There's no reason for it. It's tragic. Do you think a white guy gets through a similar situation alive? Or a Hispanic? Maybe. Is La Raza bearing down on police? Is White Lives Matter holding demonstrations against police featuring lines like "Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon"? Again, we don't know exactly what happened prior to the video starting, but of course it could have been handled differently, of course the guy didn't need to die. But to suggest the cop is a hunter, and that he pulled the car over thinking "I'm gonna kill me a black guy today" is outrageous and irresponsible. I see this issue as a Circle of Causality. And the cops didn't start the circle spinning. And neither did the black community.

This point trumps all. Let's not forget the image of the two happy boys strutting down the hall to the locker room. I would be curious to know their real answers if asked, but I suspect either would be happy to give up their natural position to keep playing on the same line together.

Unless you have a gun or are trained to disarm someone at close range, I suggest you cowtow, otherwise you will be damned fer shure. These events are inevitable when people are made to be angry and afraid of each other. And I'm sure you'll "speak up" at the moment an officer wrongs you in the field. You tell that cop where to go for me.

I'm going to wrap this up into a nice package with a bright red bow. Note: "you" refers to the grand "you", not anyone in particular, and you can read "me" in the same vein. You can think I'm a whack-a-doodle right winger conspiracy guy. I can think you're a selfish, ignorant head case. None of that matters. What matters is that all of this upset in the country, in the world, is a distraction. The elites of the world have always tried to concentrate power. The elites of the past have never gone away, they have just changed form over time. When someone has power and some capital, they join the ranks of the elite. Most want to stay there, others are compelled. We see the machinations of the elite all of the time. Obama is an overt manifestation, Hillary is an overt manifestation. The Bushes, many of the high-ranking Republican and Democrat Congress-people. It goes on. This stuff, BLM, again immigration, the economy, all of these things have two aims: tear us down and give cause to rebuild it in a way that keeps the elite in power. There are people who serve the elite without even knowing it, for reasons they don't even realize: the media, scores of people online. They take advantage of your insecurities and feed into your need to "do and be good". You should angry not at the likes of me, but at them. THEM! They construct these scenarios, seduce you into supporting their aims, and they are the only ones who profit from it.

The data is the data. I guess you don't buy into fancystats for hockey, either, right? You'd rather be swayed by mediated, contextual, anecdotal evidence? Okay.

The myth of the killer-cop ‘epidemic’ How about instead of making people feel like they can/should contest a cop when he/she pulls you over, you teach them to swallow their pride and go through the motions so everyone comes out on the other side safely.

Dude. Criminals who pose a threat get shot - black, white, Hispanic, Chinese, whatever. You are implying the number of blacks shot by cops prior to the Obama era was out of proportion - like a plague. Where do you get this from? Here's a quick read. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. Read the article which is stat based. It's short and makes the point. You are allowing yourself to be manipulated by the state. BLM peaceful? Ha! Black Community News: The Real Power and Purpose Behind the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement Of course, this is a story from a Black Christian Conservative new site. I guess you'll have to deal with the dissonance such a source causes before actually reading the article.

Kane's reputation preceded him, and prior to this he was already the subject of an investigation. ROR's reputation preceded him, too, for what that's worth. You're talking apples and oranges. Kane was and is a reformation project marked by multiple publickly known incidents. ROR had one public incident...period. We're all allowed to err. ROR erred once. Kane seems to routinely err. That's the difference.

Don't worry, your fellow conformists will descend upon me in a fury in no time, confirming your world-view, and assuring you can sleep at night knowing that little blip on the radar was just an anomaly. A bit of undigested potato. "Fundamentally" - an important word in context.

Words and reality are not the same thing. The reality is that Obama has ruled fundamentally unobstructed. Yeah, and Bill Maher is about as insightful as a moldy teddy bear. Excellent reference, though, it makes me think. That's right. Off the rails because the crazy right-winger is talking. "La-la-la-la-la I don't hear you, you look funny and say weird things, la-la-la-la-la".