Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

.........................the law must apply with equal force to police officers of every color and origin. Similarly, the way in which jurors evaluate these tragic police shootings should never turn on the color of a victim's hair or skin. Instead, the critical inquiry must continue to be whether the officer reasonably perceived a legitimate threat to his or her life. And that must always be a color-blind assessment.


Each case is different - in ways other than skin color.

"Let's keep pretending that there are not a ton of racist police and prosecutors and judges."

Is that what happened here?

With the conviction? Probably - had everybody's races been reversed, the police officer would likely have been found innocent, as the overwhelming majority of police are in similar situations.

With the sentencing, again probably - had the officer been white, the sentence would have been shorter even if there had been a conviction. And that's assuming it even went to trial.

Black men are sentenced an average of 20% longer for equivalent crimes than white men.

You seem to be having a really hard time coming to grips with the realities of America, Kiiid. Racism pervades our criminal justice system from top to bottom and from childhood through old age.

And part of it is the vast number of white people who are not prepared to admit that that racism is there.

[josh]

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/heatstroke-kills-monkeys-as-india-suffers-in-searing-temperatures-1.64472756

Swaths of country have been sweltering in temperatures that have hit 50C in Rajasthan

For my fellow Americans who cannot do math in their heads and won't be bothered finding out what that translates to:

50*Cx(9/5)+32=122*F

[josh]

Let me explain more about the racism in this country, Kiiid, since you seem so unclear.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/huckabee-dred-scott-still-the-law-the-land

While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford – which held that all blacks, free or enslaved, could not be American citizens – is still the law of the land even though no one follows it. […]
 
“I’ve been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, ‘How dare you say that, uh, it’s not the law of the land?’” Huckabee said. “Because that’s their phrase, ‘it’s the law of the land.’ Michael, the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren’t fully human. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?”

It is this kind of bullshit that continues to pervade the right wing of the GOP, while the more moderate members remain silent.

Like you and Ward.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/06/08/climate-change-sea-level-fairbourne-wales-coastal-town-black-pkg-ndwknd-vpx.cnn

If they would just stop believing those lying scientists, their town would not be at risk!

[josh]

Hey, Tony!

You're in the news:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/klm-flying-v-plane-scli-intl/index.html

[facilitatorn]

http://www.salon.com/2019/06/07/understanding-the-trump-doctrine-trade-based-bullying-and-crude-imperialism/

[josh]

http://www.salon.com/2019/06/07/understanding-the-trump-doctrine-trade-based-bullying-and-crude-imperialism/

Everything Trump does is based on either bullying or wheedling.

And he views himself as akin to an emperor with regard to US law and policy, both inside and outside our borders.

[josh]

https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-towns-sinking-rapidly-us-2019-6

This is not about rising sea levels, but about the pumping of ground water leading to sinking, some places in the US faster than 2 inches per year.

It makes them more prone to flooding, even before taking other issues into account.

[josh]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/07/abortion-the-guardian-style-guide

Why the Guardian is changing how it talks about abortion bans

[josh]

More pointless posturing followed by misdirection by the Buffoon-in-Chief.

He cancelled the Mexican tarriffs and we all breathed a sigh of relief. And he explained that he got what he was after, which is why he cancelled them. But what he didn't tell us is that he got it in March, but deemed it wasn't good enough, so he held out for more.

And got nothing.

https://thehill.com/latino/447592-mexico-agreed-to-take-action-at-border-months-before-trump-deal-to-avert-tariffs-nyt

[josh]

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-06-industrial-methane-emissions-higher.html

100 times more methane is being released than our industries have admitted to.

[josh]

This will warm the cockles of Tony's heart!

https://www.intelligentliving.co/street-stores-homeless-worldwide/

[josh]

https://www.axios.com/white-house-blocks-testimony-climate-change-not-following-administrations-views-e1d26240-955e-4cf0-a087-9c1d61440a8b.html

The White House stopped State Department intelligence analyst Rod Schoonover from providing written testimony on climate change this week, because "the science did not match the Trump administration's views," the New York Times reports.

Driving the news: Among other complaints from the National Security Council, the final basis for blocking Schoonover's testimony was to eliminate 5 scientifically-based pages that "described the various national security threats linked to climate change, like instability from water shortages in some parts of the world," per the NYT.

The intrigue: "I have never heard of basic facts being deleted from or blocked from testimony," Norman J. Ornstein, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, told the NYT.

The Administration doesn't care what the science says, only what Trump says. NASA disagrees? The Pentagon disagrees? The intelligence community and analysts disagree? So what, says Trump and his appointees! "It goes both ways," says the Prez.

[josh]

Nor does the administration care about international law.

Israel has the right to annex some, but "unlikely all," of the Palestinian West Bank according to U.S. Ambassador David Friedman, reports the New York Times.

Why it matters: Friedman's proclamation comes less than a month from when White House adviser Jared Kushner is expected to reveal the economic details of his Middle East peace plan in Bahrain.

The big picture: If Israel begins to annex land from the West Bank, the country would be in violation of international laws, per the Times. It's not likely the Trump administration would oppose the move, reports the Times.

Yes, but:

A State Department official told Axios there is “no plan for unilateral annexation by Israel of any portion of the West Bank has been presented by Israel to the US nor is it under discussion.”
An official from the American Embassy in Israel also confirmed there has been no change regarding the U.S.'s policy toward annexation of the West Bank.

From https://www.axios.com/us-ambassador-israel-annex-part-west-bank-89e282a9-0978-4276-af28-801dc1a33a49.html

[josh]

It's probably just as well that Jared has no plans to actually negotiate with the Palestinians and doesn't care if they trust him.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/kushner-questions-whether-palestinians-can-govern-themselves