snafuWhy does that not surprise me?
snafu50 years later what has really changed in the hearts of the American people? Yes more citizens accept integration and their is a black President who is blocked at every turn by the Republican s who back the NRA
—– Oh yes a mixed blood president who spent most of his life with his very rich Grandmother who sent him to a private high school that costs 19,000 dollars a year to attend in Hawaii where black suppression never existed so he what knows anything in the continent is by what his professors at Harvard, schooling paid for by his grandmother, told him.
The NRA hmmm, they are involved in race relations in the country how?
Oh I suppose you could not think of anything good to say about Obama due to his recent rhetoric about policemen in which he blamed them for killing a criminal in Missouri who was guilty of ever single thing the policeman who was prosecuted said he was so you throw out the liberal sound byte NRA — BRILLIANT.
What has Obama’s education got to do with anything, other than to point out that only the rich can truly progress in the ‘land of the free’?
What sort of education did Bush and Shrub have – or Trump for that matter – and in what way did theirs differ from Obama’s? You say that there was no oppression in Hawaii, but there is plenty of documentary evidence to be found about oppression in the rest of America; I never experienced the Nazi oppression of the Jews but that does not mean that it did not take place or that I should feel it doesn’t affect me because I am not a Jew nor did I see it with my own eyes. And what makes you believe that there is none at Harvard, or outside the gates of Harvard?
Obama is not the president you voted for: fine, we get that. Obama has said things you do not agree with about gun control: we get that too. You don’t want rules and regulations in your life, you don’t care about people (presumably those outside immediate friends and family), and you don’t want to even contemplate anything which might affect you and your gun’s intimate relationship: all things you have said or intimated before.
I have no idea about anything to do with a Missouri police shooting.
What would Martin Luther King say about today’s America had he not been shot by a Remington Gamemaster rifle on April the 4th in 1968? — He would condemn everything the NAACP and other supposed black leaders have done since he died.-
He would, you believe? Why? You think he’d have wanted black people to be killed in higher proportionate numbers to whites by the police?
I have spoken to elderly black gents and they condemn what the “young punks” today are doing especially Jessie Jackson.
How brave of you.
Have you spoken to younger black men or tried to see life through their eyes? Love him or hate him, Jessie Jackson is still a black man standing up for black rights – your politics will not let you believe that he is anything but evil.
Is it not now time for American to take a good hard look at themselves and dislike what they see? —- They have and do which is why Washington insiders are considered loathsome people.
You vote for monkeys you get…monkeys, and yet you still vote for them.
Of course, there are pressure groups that make the politico’s dance to their tune – famously the NRA – but big businesses also buy votes in order to force their best interests to be your best interests too.
My, my brave words but words of complete ignorance of what is actually happening in this country outside of certain big cities where liberal press controls the news you get so it will be looked on as statement of one who is given a false bill of sale by the press.
What will? Talk sense man!
snafuHave you even considered that maybe no one present so far has a copy or one to hand and thought that it would be simpler for you to get the Ebay one if you needed it quickly?
Also you came to your conclusion that we are all useless in the space of three hours – there are one or two shows on this weekend so the chances are that someone who might have been able to help is a little busy at the moment. Add to that the feeling of many observers that you were rather offensive to those trying to help and they might feel less like helping you – and maybe others – in future.
Reel your neck in, apologise, and maybe we can all get back to friendly banter again.
snafuDoes being in a position of authority in America take away your common sense?
An emotional Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick blamed Black Lives Matters protesters for “creating situations like we saw last night” during television interview on Friday.
“All those protesters last night, they turned around and ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to protect them. What hypocrites!” Mr Patrick told Fox News.
“I do blame people on social media with their hatred toward police,” he said. “I do blame former Black Lives Matter protests. … This has to stop.”
Is it simplistic to say that if the police had kept their weapons holstered and not shot dead what were, essentially, subdued suspects then that would have prevented situations where five officers were shot dead? Black Lives Matter were highlighting a situation created by the police – that of shooting black people for the flimsiest of reasons – and when the shooting started it wouldn’t be beyond belief to imagine that the police had opened fire, or that with the police under attack they could take the opportunity to shoot a few more blacks; running away, under the circumstances, made a lot of sense.
As for hating the police on social media…they can be as cute and cuddly as they like in the flesh on meet and greets, but when the over riding feeling in one demographic of society is that they would be safer without the police around then those with big salaries and large offices should be asking what the problem is rather than blaming the protesters.
snafuTo my eye certainly and probably a few million others, the Nazi regime looked to be extremely popular.
No, there was little choice. If you were a Communist, a Gypsy, any group opposed to Hitler or a homosexual, for example, could earn you harsh punishment up to, and including, death.
‘Dance to my tune or die’ would make us all dancers and believers; it did in Nazi Germany.
snafuBut, take away the gun…?
snafu…Because, despite anglicising her name, she was originally from Poland and actually Mrs Biały…
snafuJohn, I know you are ignoring me but here is a bit to get that vein on your forehead throbbing.
Beermat,
Excuses, excuses, excuses. It seems to be the case that we don’t know exactly who is responsible so, as you write, we should be careful in apportioning responsibility but, the media news coverage from Sweden, Germany and France isn’t exactly encouraging – is it ?
And if you were abroad and examining our newspapers you would be seeing similar coverage (after ploughing through all that rubbish about the next PM being a woman, although it does take a lot for some publications to put stuff on their front pages that isn’t about Celebrity Love Island…)
If immigration isn’t vastly reduced to something akin to manageable proportions using an Australian type program then this government will have zero credibility at the next election paving the way for JC (if you believe that, you’ll……) or, better still UKIP.
Our lord John Cleese??? (Tips head to Not The Nine O’Clock News team!)
You seem misinformed about me. I’m a republican. Having been a Tory supporter for most of my life and local election candidate, I am now neither of those things.
The electorate didn’t want you either?
If I salute a flag, it isn’t the Union, as an Englishman, it is another of which you haven’t heard.
A broken black cross in a white disc on a field of red, maybe…?;o)
Bruce
“but people look at their behaviour and equate it with ‘normal’ Muslins. The vast majority of people of all religions are peaceable and eschew violence, yet there are always extremists.”
Very commendable, but the same was said about the Germans, that not all were Nazi’s, and look how that panned out.
Not all were Nazis. Some were weak willed, some were cowards, some went along with the flow and some were bullied. Some were ‘good’ Germans who assisted their Jewish neighbours despite knowing what would happen if they were caught and some were anti Nazi activists who died for their cause.
The same can be said for Muslims (incidentally I could have gone off on one about the cloth, but it was a spelling mistake by Bruce and you didn’t notice it because of the flecks of spittle on your monitor from all your raging that hid the problem; don’t worry, John Green frequently has to wipe his screen down!). Why else are IS intent on ruining their own standing with their religious compadres unless it is to install a sense of fear about not doing the ‘right’ thing in their eyes?
Anyone noticed a new weekly addition to the news stands?
Not a very good front page and at £2 a copy it won’t get many takers after the first edition, but at the moment it is only running for four editions with reader interest deciding whether it continues after that.
snafuApparently a genuine image, but in connection with a IPMS Switzerland members model…
snafuFrom BBC News:
A pilot, whose vintage jet crashed at the Shoreham Airshow killing 11 people, is being investigated for manslaughter, police have confirmed.
Former RAF pilot Andy Hill, 52, was interviewed under caution by police in December, after recovering from critical injuries in the August crash.
The details emerged in papers filed by Sussex Police in its High Court bid to access evidence.
snafuJudge, jury and executioner, all in one. Again.
A police officer fatally shot a 32-year-old man during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights on Wednesday night and his girlfriend live-streamed the immediate aftermath. She said in the graphic Facebook video that he had a legal license to carry a firearm and had been reaching for his ID when the officer fired several times.
St. Anthony police provided few immediate details about what led to the shooting, which drew a large crowd to the scene near the Minnesota State Fairgrounds and later outside the Governor’s Residence in St. Paul. About 3 a.m. Thursday, people leaned on car horns outside the Summit Avenue residence and shouted, “Wake them up! Wake them up!” Gov. Mark Dayton was at the residence at the time.
Relatives of the man who was killed identified him at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis as Philando Castile.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner said an autopsy would be peformed Thursday.
Castile was black, and his death follows heightened concern nationwide and in Minnesota about deadly encounters black men have had with police.
http://www.twincities.com/2016/07/06/officer-involved-shooting-investigated-in-falcon-heights/
There is a video on that site from them dead mans girlfriend, showing the immediate aftermath after he was stopped for having a broken tail light and then shot after being asked for his ID and informing them he had a legal gun.
snafuThe next pm will be a woman…
The home secretary, Theresa May, and Andrea Leadsom, the junior energy minister who campaigned for Brexit, will be the two candidates put before Conservative party members in the vote to confirm Britain’s next prime minister.
Conservative MPs chose Leadsom, who was considered a rank outsider when the contest began, over the justice secretary, Michael Gove, who entered the contest last Friday, effectively stopping his fellow Vote Leave campaigner Boris Johnson from entering the race.
In the second round of voting by Tory MPs, May scooped up 199 votes, Leadsom scored 84 and Gove was knocked out, with just 46. The choice means that the next British prime minister is guaranteed to be a woman, the second after Margaret Thatcher.
Have to chuckle – Gove gets his reward for being…Gove! (You might have to have listened to Radio 4’s Dead Ringers for that one!)
snafuAn updated part of an old product, doing away with the outdated role of housekeeper and attempting to make it appeal to younger generations, I expect.
snafuFor J Boyle, on his own, by himself: a former Tuskegee Airman. (And I’ve spelt it correctly – unlike the news provider!)
THE BRONX –National war hero and New York City educator Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. has died. He was 94.
Brown had been hospitalized for about a week until he died of natural causes over the weekend, his family confirmed to PIX11.
He served as a Tuskgee Airman during World War II and was one of the first U.S. pilots to shoot down a then state-of-the-art German military jet. Brown received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Brown went on to have a distinguished academic career, earning his PhD and eventually becoming president of Bronx Community College – a position he held for 17 years.
http://pix11.com/2016/07/04/roscoe-brown-former-tuskegee-airman-and-nyc-educator-has-died-at-94/
snafuYes of course but, not the wounding insults repeated ad nauseam. But that is to be expected from many on this forum.
Again, John?
Why not just add something like this to the signature at the bottom of each post to save you having to type it out each missive.
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