The SCOTUS has upheld that any person who makes eye contact with a police officer and then runs is probable cause to be detained and searched. Especially if such occurs in a high crime area...

an individual who suddenly and without provocation flees from identifiable police officers patrolling a high crime area creates reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment for the police to stop him.
-Illinois v. Wardlow

Carrying a Swiss army knife while black

Actually the knife was a spring loaded switch blade which is illegal under Baltimore City Code..

Don't you ever get tired of being wrong and having ZERO facts??

Michale

ISIS terrorists got a real warm TEXAS style welcome over the weekend....

An un-armed security officer gets credit for drawing their fire and a Garland PD traffic cop gets credit for 2 in the 10 x 2...

Apparently, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS is not a well known sentiment amongst scumbag terrorists... :^)

Michale

Contrary to goals, ER visits rise under Obamacare
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/04/emergency-room-visits-rise-under-affordable-care-act/26625571/

I thought that TWC was supposed to REDUCE ER visits??

Another lie...

Another failure...

Michale

I'll have what she's having... :D

Michale

"Keep your hands where I can see them, and step away from the bong."
-Nash Bridges (in the episode with the "partners from another series", Cheech and Chong together again...)

Heh.

Also from the same episode, when Chong is asked why he qualifies for medical marijuana:

"Oh, uh, depression, man. I get depressed when I don't get stoned, you know?"

Heh heh.

-CW

Michale

Then allow me....

http://funnyasduck.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/funny-dog-monica-bill-hilary-clinton-pics.jpg

:D

Michale

Punishable by extra-judicial execution in AmuriKKKa:

Making eye contact while black
Running while black
Carrying a Swiss army knife while black

Maybe you can explain something...

The mayor of Baltimore is black.

The Police Chief of Baltimore is black..

48% of the officers in Baltimore PD are black...

The president of the city council is black..

A majority of the city council are black..

The state attorney is black...

And YOU are making the claim that white racism is the cause of the problems in Baltimore??

You obviously haven't a CLUE about what is what in Baltimore....

The total BS being spewed by the Hysterical Left regarding so-called racism in Baltimore simply proves what I have been saying all along...

All Democrats have is the race card.. Even when it's blatantly obvious that race isn't an issue, you can always count on Democrats to play the race card...

Michale

I'm just sayin...

Michale

Don't let the door hit ya on yer arse on the way out.. :D

Freddie Gray being black had absolutely NOTHING to do with the initial contact..

Half the officers involved were also black...

Of course, Freddie being black had EVERYTHING to do with the moron DA deciding to press charges against the officer...

Nothing like appeasing the lynch mobs, eh??

The officers will walk, just like Zimmerman did...

Michale

Making eye contact while black
Running while black
Carrying a Swiss army knife while black

A-OK in AmuriKKKa:

Walking into Target with your WMD while white
Aiming your rifle at and threatening to kill government officials while white

This informative PSA has been brought to you by Biblical Christians worshiping the Constitution™.

I wouldn't call it "freaking out"... Just being concerned about what goes on in his state...

I would imagine the same response would happen if it was a GOP POTUS doing these things in California or Mass...

Michale

Awwwww and here I thought I was being soo clever.. :D

Michale

TBH, I don't pay much attention to local politics.. Even less so back in Bush's day..

If the election were held today, I would probably vote for Walker..

Michale

Actually, I don't recall saying much about Hillary V Jeb and I am too lazy to go back and re-read to see if I did..

But your warning should be going to those who are slamming the author of Clinton Cash as a right wing hack, no??

Michale

Thanks, sometimes the lede comes to me before the rest of the story, sometimes it's an afterthought. This week, it was kind of a mixture of both...

[2] -

There's a reason I ended that paragraph with "Draw your own conclusions"... it was too bizarre for me to draw my own....

[3] -

To say nothing of the origins of that conservative nemesis the EPA... heh...

Michale [5] -

Oh, come on... Saying that THAT is from "Republicanland" is like saying that Bush and the MOSSAD conspired to launch the 9/11 attacks is from "Democratland"...

That's a REAL reach, eh? :D

Um, the GOVERNOR of TEXAS is one of the conspiracy theorists. How does that not qualify? If you can't search this story out on your own, let me know, I'll provide a link. These aren't the tinfoil hat crowd, this is the GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS freaking out. So how is the GOP not somehow responsible for at least some of that?

As for "bluntly"... the hidden stoner joke was actually "one thin dime," in the earlier story (whiich I note you did not comment upon) about the DEA's fubar operation. But thanks for playing....

As for Hillary-vs-Jeb, the same guy that wrote the book on Clinton swears he's going to be releaseing a book very soon on Jeb Bush's money problems. So, be careful how you comment on this writer, because the second volume may raise as much of a spash as the first....

Interested: you're a citizen of Florida. What do you think about the years the state was led by Jeb? What do you think about him as a candidate?

As for Baltimore, my thoughts are with the city. An Orioles game without fans? Bizarre.

Go O's!

That's all I have to say, for now.

-CW

Ya know, it's funny...

The Left complains about old rich white guys..

Unless, of course, it's an old rich white guy that has a '-D' after his name..

Funny how that is, eh?? :D

Michale

President Obama, Are You Listening?
The president wants to zero out a program that is saving poor kids from bad schools—the kind of reform that could work in Baltimore too.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/president-obama-are-you-listening-1430522350

It's funny that it was President Bush who started this HIGHLY successful program and it's Republicans who want to continue it..

Obama and Democrats want to kill this program...

Maybe our resident teacher/poet can chime in...

Again, I have to ask...

Am I wrong??

Michale

Then, who is responsible?

Baltimore's Poor Not Helped by Liberal Policies
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/02/baltimores_decline_is_all_democrats_work_126472.html

There is PLENTY of blame to go around..

And yes... BPD is not entirely blameless...

But the cops on the beat??

There is no evidence of any criminal malfeasance...

NONE.. ZERO... ZILCH.... NADA....

Michale

Am I wrong???

Michale

I realize it's not politically correct to state that..

They are, after all, dedicated and loyal Democrat voters.. :^/

Michale

My Freddie Gray comments are downright pleasant compared to many comments ya'all have made about Republicans...

So, I don't understand what the beef is?? :D

Michale

I am assuming you mean the "loser can't even do THAT right" crack...

I don't apologize.. I have dealt with hundreds of Freddie Grays in my time.. They are low life scumbags who prey on people and care for nothing but themselves and their own selfish wants...

The world is a better place without the Trayvon Martins, the Michael Browns and the Freddie Grays of this world..

I realize it's not politically correct to state that..

But you'll find that it's an attitude that's universally accepted amongst local, state and federal LEO types...

Michale

You know, that's a new low for you Michale. It's funny, I often think of you as kind of a funny guy. An silly, silly man but live and let live, etc. But when you say -- because apparently you believe -- stull like what you wrote there, I don't think you're funny anymore.

The Bernie comments are just your usual idiocy. But the Freddy Gray comments are genuinely loathsome. They are stupid, ugly, credulous, wicked. I am ashamed for you.

Which part?? :D

Michale

Apparently you haven't heard of how Baltimore and Ferguson lynch mobs destroyed people's lives and livelyhoods..

But, it's OK.. The lynch mobs vote Democrat so it's allowed...

But it's nice ta see you can actually respond to direct questions.. Shows me yer not a chat bot. :D heh

Liz,

So, you are saying that the cops in this case are not responsible for the death of Mr. Gray?

Then, who is responsible?

According to eyewitness testimony, Gray was intentionally pounding his head against the metal walls.. Likely to injure himself so he can play the victim and get a huge monetary settlement from the city..

Apparently, the guy was such a loser, he couldn't even do THAT right...

But, if you want to know what is ultimately responsible, my guess would be decades of Democrat rule... Greedy, corrupt and not interested in anyone's welfare except their own...

Michale

So, you are saying that the cops in this case are not responsible for the death of Mr. Gray?

Then, who is responsible?

Except when it's cops who are being persecuted..

Then it IS a "rush to judgement"..

The moron prosecutor in Baltimore proved THAT beyond any doubt when she decided to prosecute cops totally against the evidence...

She "heard the words" of the lynch mob...

Funny thing is, a prosecutor is not supposed to hear ANY words..

They are supposed to make decisions based on the evidence ONLY..

NOT on the words of a lynch mob...

Michale

Oh waaa.... Someone call the waaaa--ambulance...

Are you seriously complaining about how Republicans are treating the minority Democrats?? :D

Even stranger news from Republicanland: some people are convinced that the United States military is about to attack Texas. No, really. A training exercise ("Jade Helm") has entered the realm of the black helicopters (boy, doesn't that take you back to the 1990s?) in some people's imagination, making them cower in fear of an imminent Second Civil War. Or something. It's hard to figure out the ravings of lunatics, at times.

Oh, come on... Saying that THAT is from "Republicanland" is like saying that Bush and the MOSSAD conspired to launch the 9/11 attacks is from "Democratland"...

That's a REAL reach, eh? :D

The letter encourages President Obama to name a new head of the D.E.A. who will better reflect (instead of fighting against) the administration's new policies on marijuana enforcement. It bluntly states that outgoing

"uh. huh...uh.. He said 'blunt'.. uh.. huh..."

:D

No pun intended, eh?? :D

Kind of a dry week this week for disappointment. A conservative tried to gin up some scandals with a new Hillary Clinton book, but we're ignoring all that as partisan mudslinging nonsense for the time being.

Of course you are.. :D No one wants to talk about real scandals if they are Democrat scandals..

But the simple fact is even Democrats are worried about the Clinton Piggy Bank and all the dirty money it's been taking in..

I mean, come on.. Let's be honest here. If it was a Jeb Bush Piggy Bank that had been doing all these things, ya'all would be over it like stink on rice...

Am I wrong??

Bold action on climate change

Unless we take bold action to address climate change, our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to look back on this period in history and ask a very simple question: Where were they? Why didn't the United States of America, the most powerful nation on earth, lead the international community in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and preventing the devastating damage that the scientific community was sure would come?

OK, this cements it..

Bernie Sanders is a fruitcake...

The "scientific (IE political) community" has been "SURE" that devastating damage would come for the last 40 years..

Guess what??

It's never happened...

You can only have Chicken Little cry wolf (ooo nice confluence :D) for so long before people just roll their eyes at the "imminent catastrophe" that will happen "any time now"..

"We're gonna save the planet!!?? The arrogance!! The planet will be just fine.. It's the people that are fucked!"
-George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjRGee5ipM

The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage -- $15 an hour over the next few years. No one in this country who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.

Mininum wage jobs are for kids and for second jobs.. They are NOT designed to be jobs that people survive on...

And please don't give me that load of crap about how there are no other jobs available. If Democrats had listened to the American people and worked on JOBS issues instead of pushing their own TrainWreckCare agenda, there WOULD be jobs..

I gotta say this about Bernie Sanders, the candidate..

It's a toss up as to which candidate more guarantees a GOP POTUS??

Sanders or Clinton.. :D

The Good Ship Lollipop or Nixon's & Alinsky's love child.. :D

It's gonna be a fun campaign...

Michale

"We are all Keynesians now" Nixon would have had little heartburn over Sanders' agenda. Really. That's far our politics have shifted since the '70s. Richard Nixon could ALMOST pass for a flaming liberal.

John...

private bathroom....

loaded gun....

loaded John Boehner?

Merlot.....John Boehner

Loaded gun....Old Yeller...John Boehner

child...private....Boehner...big gavel

loaded....question

loaded question

What...the....?????