I think a lot of cops are too afraid of situations, too quick to pull out their guns and shoot and don't get enough training on how to de-escalate like that cop I mentioned above did.

what happened to peace in our time?

@russ,

every case is different.

michael brown reached for an officer's weapon. eric garner sold cigarettes on a street corner. trayvon martin, nobody will ever know what he did or didn't do, he was 17. i don't think anybody holds these people out as role models, but at least the latter two probably qualify as victims. george floyd and ahmad arbury certainly do. philando castille almost certainly.

yes, most LEO's are good people and aren't out to kill anyone. but there's a systemic problem in our country when it comes to relationships between cops and communities.

JL

?BLM may be the biggest nonprofit scam of our generation:

Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign beats it easily. BLM raised tens of millions; Trump raised well over $100 million. No contest.

You’ve challenged me to defend BLM countless times, and I have never chosen to…because your arguments are often misguided and more rhetoric than reality in nature. But the truth is that while I support police reform where it is needed; I do not support the BLM organization for two reasons.

First, the organization has made Trayvon Martin, Eric Gardner, and Michael Brown into martyrs and heroes despite that the evidence proves that none of them should ever be held up to kids as role models. Their message that these three were innocent victims who did nothing wrong will only result in more young black men being killed.

Which leads me to the second reason I cannot support the BLM organization: they have no program that promotes “compliance” to prevent police violence. BLM tells us that the police are out there looking for a chance to kill black men. If that were true, then you would think that BLM would be in support of a sure fire way to steal the opportunity for police to use force against them — by complying with what the police instruct them to do!

Resisting arrest and refusing to obey lawful commands permits the police to use physical force to compel compliance. If you comply from the very start, there is no opportunity for the police to use physical force against you. I have only been able to locate ONE example of someone complying being shot by the police (SC state trooper shot a driver he told to reach for his wallet — driver was not killed and the former trooper is currently in prison for this shooting). Look at every major story over the last few years and almost every one of the cases started with the person refusing to comply to legal commands. Compliance saves lives.

LBJ once said:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

So cultural and bigoted views are more popular than your own financial well-being… that’s what the GOP has convinced it’s base to believe. I did not think you’d post an article that comes right out and says that cultural fear-mongering and race-based hate messaging is what the GOP uses to appeal to their base…color me surprised!

Not easily done.. And DEFINITELY nearly impossible to do undetected on a scale that would swing an election..

All you had to do in your example was make sure you correctly put the birth year in the DL#. And just FYI, state ID’s are not driver licenses. Driver licenses can be used as your photo ID, but you can simply get a photo ID if you do not want a drivers license.

The only way to determine that the info in an ID is fake would be to run it through NCIC or your state’s data base.

But you are correct about one thing. The costs far exceed the benefits that you would get from the fake ID. And that is also why we have not had a real problem with voter fraud in this country: the effort needed to steal a single vote far exceeds the benefit gained.

How, exactly, do you make that determination? What data are you comparing? Are you saying that school closures and requiring masks be worn caused more people to get the COVID-19 virus?

GOOGLE School masks closures more harm than good and you'll see the FACTS.

HOLY CRAP! Do you mean that Google will return articles that say exactly what I asked them to search for? That is how you determine if something is a FACT — if Google finds what you asked it to find? This explains SO MUCH!!!

"I think the president has lost one of his key attributes, which was always likability. Whether people favored his policies or not, he did have this image of being a kind of likable Uncle Joe. You know, ice cream Joe kind of friendly. And I think he's lost that. I think it's been replaced by a kind of sterner, angrier figure who can now generate numbers like this.

Look, all pollsters agree right now the president's underwater. Inflation, crime, immigration, these are core issues handling foreign affairs. Look, I think the president took a big hit on the way he handled Afghanistan. Does he seem compassionate to people now? You look at the war crimes being committed, is he seen as the kind of president who can rally leadership around something like that? You know, those are the open questions. Those are the opportunities that he has as president. So far, he hasn't really taken them despite, I think, clear opportunities to change energy policy, to change immigration policy, to appoint a more moderate Supreme Court. He hasn't made those changes that would pivot his administration in a new direction. Time is running out for that."
-Democrat Clinton Strategist Mark Penn

Again.. JUST the facts.. From DEMOCRAT sources..

This is from an email, it's a bit long...

?BLM may be the biggest nonprofit scam of our generation:

For a while, the Black Lives Matter organization and its allies were very good at getting people to do their bidding. They could bully journalists into ignoring the organization’s issues (being called racist is terrifying and not worth the scoop). They could convince social media companies to happily block critical commentary and reporting on the organization’s financial improprieties.

Now, slowly, the truth is leaking out.

We already know BLM used funds to buy an $6.3 million party house in Toronto, called Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, which lists no public events. This week, thanks to a dogged freelance investigative reporter named Sean Kevin Campbell, we now know that Black Lives Matter also used nearly $6 million in donated money to buy a Los Angeles mansion. That’s Part One of the scam.

Part Two, broken by the New York Post: They bought it from a friend who paid $3.1 million for it six days earlier. So they got themselves a party house with donated funds and kicked nearly $3 million of donor funds to a buddy. Who knows how the fat thereafter was split up.

From the house, they posted a video of the leadership crew having fancy outdoor brunches. One founder, Patrisse Cullors, began a YouTube cooking show in the expansive kitchen. (After the story on their property came out, they took both videos down.) They called the holding company used to buy the house 3726 Laurel Canyon LLC, an address that can be shared since it was bought with tax-deductible charitable dollars.

Patrisse Cullors took to Instagram to slam Sean Kevin Campbell, who is black, and to slam the outlet that published his reporting, New York Magazine, calling the piece a “despicable abuse of a platform.” She added: “Journalism is supposed to mitigate harm and inform our communities.” She said the house, which has a pool and a sound stage, “was purchased to be a safe space for Black people in the community.”

It’s important not to forget how BLM leaders like Cullors raised these tens of millions: It was by chanting the names and showing the photos of dead black children. The donated money came from kind, well-intentioned people who desperately wanted to help.

Remember how ya'all got conned by the Global Warming Con and then by the Occupy Con???

Now ya'all have the BLM Con... :D

What *IS* it about ya'all Democrats that fall for these cons??? :D

A Maryland women suffered two broken bones after four suspects, who were caught on camera assaulting her, attempted to steal her car in Prince George's County.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-senior-citizen-assaulted-suspects-attempted-car-jacking

America... Under Democrat Party Governance.. :^/

Except what you call "acres of right-wing alternative reality" are documented FACTS.. Much of which comes from LEFT WING sources like NY TIMES, WaPo and CNN...

SO yer claim is demonstrably not factually accurate..

You think Trump was a good President! I don't doubt you thought the same of Dubya. You're way too far down the rabbit hole to bother with. No matter what, don't look up!

Says the guy who is stuck way WAY down in the Democrat rabbit hole he hasn't accepted reality in almost a decade.. :D

And the FACT that you stiffed CW out of $150 yet continue to pollute his comments section says it all about your lack of character.

My reasons were clear and acceptable.. Quit beating on that dead horse..

Once again.. I accept your concession.. :D

Let's face reality, MC..

Ya stopped reading my facts because you have no factual rebuttal.. :D

Naw, I've no interest in plowing through acres of right-wing alternative reality. Not my job, ese, because why bother?

You think Trump was a good President! I don't doubt you thought the same of Dubya. You're way too far down the rabbit hole to bother with. No matter what, don't look up!

And the FACT that you stiffed CW out of $150 yet continue to pollute his comments section says it all about your lack of character.

Like Fredo you're just a waste of time.

There's no reason not to treat you like Joe treated Trump during his record breaking campaign:

Stand aside and let the other guy keep running his mouth. It was right out of The Art of War.

Finally, a Black Woman Has a Place on Supreme Court Bench
-Los Angeles Times

"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play??"

:^/

Democrats change reality to fit their agenda.. Just like Democrats alter the data to fit their theory...

The accepted definition of racism, the definition that Dr Martin Luther King lived by and died for, shows Democrats for the racists that they are.. The definition of racism doesn't fit the Democrat agenda..

So what do Democrats do??

They change the definition of racism..

This is documented FACT..

Democrats go on and on hysterically about global warming.. But the data doesn't fit the Democrat agenda, so what do the Democrats do??

They change the data to fit the agenda..

A woman is a person born with a vagina.. A man is a person born with a penis..

But that doesn't fit the Democrat agenda.. So Democrats change the definition of what a woman is... Democrats make gender a "state of mind"..

This is documented FACT...

Over and over again, Democrats simply change the facts, change reality to fit their agenda..

It's NO WONDER they are losing all over the country..

Opinion: How Elon Musk could end up being a game changer for Trump

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk bought more than 9% of Twitter's stock and secured a board seat at the social media company, fueling speculation about his potential influence on the platform.

"Now that @ElonMusk is Twitter's largest shareholder, it's time to lift the political censorship. Oh . . . and BRING BACK TRUMP!" tweeted Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Twitter spokespeople have said that management and employees make those policy decisions, not the board.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/opinions/elon-musk-twitter-donald-trump-2024-zelizer/index.html

It's going to be fun watching ya'all's heads explode when President Trump is re-instated at Twitter.. :D

It's gonna be a laugh a minute!! :D

The Kangaroo 6 Jan Committee will save Democrats!!??

Another January 6 Narrative Goes Boom

Capitol Police did, in fact, let the protesters in the building.

Testifying under oath, a U.S. Capitol police official told the court that police indeed had allowed people to enter the building that day. BuzzFeed reporter Zoe Tillman, who is covering the in-person trials, reported the bombshell news:

When Martin entered the Capitol through a set of doors on the east side, there were two US Capitol Police officers standing on either side,” Tillman wrote on April 6. “Video played at trial showed them standing still and for the most part not reacting to the crowd. U.S. Capitol Police Inspector John Erickson testified that given the large number of people, the officers understood they couldn’t stop them from coming in, but could only observe and try to make sure no one got hurt; Erickson wasn’t one of the two officers but spoke generally about the security perimeter and police response.

The video, according to Tillman, also showed “Martin had waited to enter while the officer leaned forward to speak with another person, and then leaned back, reopening the passageway; Martin tapped the officer on the shoulder and the officer leaned back further.”

In other words, Martin and others were allowed into the building.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/07/another-january-6-narrative-goes-boom/

Shirley, you jest... :D

Many of ya'all need to come to grips with reality..

Democrats are going to lose BIG in November..

And then the Kangaroo 6 Jan Committee will be thrown on the trash heap of history where it belongs..

THEN we'll get to enjoy.. REALLY enjoy.. the Hunter Biden Committee and the monthly Impeachments of Joe Biden!!

Won't that be FUN!!!??? :D

Karma's a biatch, eh Democrats?? :D

The American people are concerned about inflation, skyrocketing crime and illegal immigrants overrunning the border..

News of the day doesn’t mean existential problems go away

The news of the day does not make existential problems go away. Two new official reports buried in the aftermath of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine deserve serious consideration. The reports illustrate how rampant inflation devastates middle-class families and the ravages of climate change threaten the health, wealth, and wellbeing of Americans and the people of the world.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3261776-news-of-the-day-doesnt-mean-existential-problems-go-away/

This is why Democrats are going to lose and lose BIG in November...

Remind me again how Democrats are not the Party of DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE??

Soros family quietly bankrolls committees supporting 'defund the police' candidates

George Soros and his daughter are top funders of two entities that are backing the progressive politicians
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-family-quietly-bankrolls-defund-the-police-candidates

I seem to have forgotten what with all the FACTS that prove otherwise..

Progressive = Cop Hate = Democrat Party

CW, the title still needs name order fixing, too.

Did the title really read "JACKSON BROWN"!!???

hehehehehehehe..

My influence here in Weigantia is indelible, unmistakable and incontrovertible!!! :D

Love it!!! :D

In a new study that comes three decades after their first one, William Galston and Elaine Kamarck of the Brookings Institution make the case that Democrats are in deep denial. What the authors call “a new politics of evasion” has led the party to increasing political peril because it is “in the grips of myths that block progress toward victory.” In short, the party has abandoned rural America and the working-class whites it once represented to focus solely on urban voters and voters of color, a coalition that doesn’t add up to a majority.

“They have been led astray by three persistent myths: that ‘people of color’ think and act in the same way; that economics always trumps culture; and that a progressive majority is emerging,” they write.

Galston and Kamarck are breaking some necessary news to their fellow Democrats: namely, that voters who decide elections are finding GOP culture arguments more persuasive than the Democrats’ economic messages. That should sting. A new Morning Consult poll showed recipients of the child tax credit, since the payments expired, now favor Republicans over Democrats for Congress 49-46. Of those voters, 55% disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/08/is_bidens_course_correction_too_late_to_help_democrats_147449.html

Democrats are going to get CREAMED in November!!!

No amount of denial (yes I am looking at you, MC :D) will change that one accepted fact...

"Your boys are going down, Danny."
-Captain 'Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN

:D

Abbott has 900 buses, capable with just one journey each of dropping some 4,500 migrants on Biden’s doorstep
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/abbott-to-biden-dont-mess-with-texas

Yea baby!!! :D

Drop a few thousand at Pelosi's front gate of her house.. :D

Ya stopped reading my facts because you have no factual rebuttal.. :D

But now you understand why I bother.. I bring the FACTS to the fact-less.. :D

Like the Judges who brings Law to the Lawless outside of Mega City One....

I bring Facts to the Fact-less of Weigantia..

It's a bear I must cross... Or a cross I must bear.. One of those.. :D

The fact that I have so much fun doing it is besides the point.. :D

A black woman was nominated to the SCOTUS..

The Dr Martin Luther King definition of racism..

The very first sentence of the commentary?? Does it espouse Jackson Brown's intelligence?? Or Judicial Prowess?? Her Legal skills??

No...

The VERY first sentence of the commentary is about NOTHING but her race... It reduces and condenses ALL of Jackson Brown's accomplishments down to ONE THING..

And ONE THING only..

She's a black woman...

Dr King wanted to live in a world where the color of a person's skin was the LAST thing anyone talked about if it was talked about at all..

You Democrats are making sure that Dr King's dream will NEVER come to pass...

Sad..

Besides, the {Michale} thinks Trump was a good President(!) and that Joe Biden is racist(!) for nominating an unrepresented America to SCOTUS.

And yet, the *FACTS* prove beyond ANY doubt that President Trump WAS (and will be again) a good President..

And that Joe Biden is, indeed, a racist.. He made a selection SOLELY on the basis of race.. The VERY DEFITION of racist.. The REAL definition of racism. The definition that Dr Martin Luther King lived and died by..

Not the fake definition that Democrat agenda demanded..

The FACTS prove this.. Facts that *NO ONE* here has been able to refute..

Funny how that is, eh?? :D

Duane Winger has 1 DUI... :D

Please tell me how easy it is for you to verify a person carrying a photo ID is using a fake ID.

Yer kidding, right??

With today's technology it's rather easy to verify that an ID is valid..

Even in the old days it was rather easy..

Take a look at this ID..

http://mfccfl.us/WestenID.jpg

What shows that this is a fake ID??

The 3rd set of numbers in the DL # denotes the bearer's birth year..

According to the DL, the bearer was born in 69. But the DL number says 65..

This is a fake ID...

When you know what to look for, it's EASY to spot a fake ID..

Of course, that's above and beyond today's technology that has holograms and water marks and invisible marks seen under UV...

Yes, it's still possible to fake IDs..

But the expense to make one pass even a rudimentary inspection?? And to do so on a scale that will make a difference in an election..

Not easily done.. And DEFINITELY nearly impossible to do undetected on a scale that would swing an election..

In the context of THIS discussion (Canadian Elections) the only way to have even a CHANCE at a fair election is photo ID...

The facts are conclusive..

No where in the CDC’s report does it ever suggest that the shutdowns or requiring masks were the wrong moves for school systems to take given the threat the pandemic posed.

Of course the CDC won't admit it..

But the facts are that school closures and school masks did MORE HARM than good..

GOOGLE School masks closures more harm than good and you'll see the FACTS.

Yer Democrats frak'ed up Russ.. That is all their is to it..

And a whole buttload of kids are going to pay the price..

Only a parent could understand how badly Democrats frak'ed our kids over..

RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!

COVID cases rise again in half the states
Change in reported COVID-19 cases per 100k people in the last two weeks
https://www.axios.com/covid-cases-rise-again-in-half-the-states-43180a96-9339-450d-966a-0631d04d9490.html

It's going to be HILARIOUS to see Democrats try and impose severe restrictions on our freedoms again!!

Go for it, Democrats!! I double-dog dare you!! :D

Obama blasted for ‘self-serving’ ‘revisionist’ Russia comments during conference on disinformation

Odumbo.. A legend in his own mind.. :^/

This is completely unrelated to CW's column but it's important to realize that solar and wind cannot save the climate and are meanwhile destroying our environment.

This 2019 TEDx (17:33, and worth it) is presented by a Liberal Environmental Warrior so he not only has street cred but it sends that his message is compelling. I agree with him that nuclear power is the answer, Three Mile Island and Chernoble be damned.

Well said, MC....

It's ironic that it was Margaret Thatcher who originally started the global warming con.. She pushed nuclear power to solve the "global warming" crisis of burning coal..

She figured that NO ONE with more than 2 brain cells to rub together would be able to deny the logic of nuclear power if it was a choice between THAT or the end of civilization..

Little did Maggie know that environmentalists don't HAVE more than 2 brain cells to rub together.. :^/

I only mention it because those who insist on honoring Jackson Brown for just being black have forgotten Dr King's wisdom...

Everyone who honors Jackson Brown just for being black is spitting on Dr Kings wisdom.. :^/

But hay.. That's today's Democrat Party...

Hypocrisy It's not a bug in Democrat Programming. It's a feature.

Reposted for clarity...

For the first time in American history, today the Senate confirmed a Black woman to become a justice on the United States Supreme Court.

Yea?? So??

^^^ THAT is how someone who doesn't care about race responds.. :^/

Yunno.. The kind of society that Democrats *CLAIM* they want?? :^/

Yunno.. The kind of society that Democrats *CLAIM* they want?? :^/

C'mon, Bashi!

Aren't you supposed to first post something like **spoiler alert** before you let the cat out of the bag?

Precise.

You know, like metric.

If you're going to spell it honour shouldn't you likewise spell it Running oun Empty in order to be consistent?

Well, at least now I have an easy way to remember it!

:-)

-CW

Running on Empty ...

I'll be playing that one in your honour Sunday Night.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/04/04/louis-brandeis-jewish-confirmation-hearings/

about Brandeis confirmation hearings (historical).

-CW

Fixed it, thanks. I wrote the damn thing and used both versions, then I realized it, corrected them all so they agreed with each other... the wrong way... then realized it and had to go back and re-correct them all... (sigh)... and then just now I realized I hadn't fixed the title on my final re-correction.

It's been one of those days...

(implied joke ahead! warning!) ...where I feel like I'm running on empty.

Heh.

-CW

Better than Republicans. I'm guessing the next republican nominee will be a right wing Christian white guy 'cause they did a right wing Christian white woman last time...

Obviously, Chris can't get enough of Michale's comments.

:-)

I predict the next Dem pres will commit to nominating a gay trans-gender Native American women to the court. That would fill in a helluve lot of 'blank spots' in one fell swoop!

You have not. You and OD absolutely suck and you have ducked every criticism of OD, Fredo.

It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!

GODFATHER PART II

I mean, how cool is it to live in a country that would entrust such a position to a Ketanji?

Whatever problems we have in Murica we remain the global leader in excellence in human rights.

Naw, it's a hard-fought victory for us white
men, too. Because I'd much rather be a white male living in a more perfect union America than live in the Republican dystopian be-afraid-be-very-afraid-of-fill-in-the-blank that they offer. Oh, and Trump won.

This 2019 TEDx (17:33, and worth it) is presented by a Liberal Environmental Warrior so he not only has street cred but it sends that his message is compelling. I agree with him that nuclear power is the answer, Three Mile Island and Chernoble be damned.

But it's just fine for One Demand?