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Post by professorx on Nov 23, 2009 23:01:17 GMT -5
I think Duke has a new screw buddy! Your Fly is down and I think Duke is on top of it. Fly only understands comics:
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Post by professorx on Nov 23, 2009 21:56:47 GMT -5
And some condemn cops that wait until after changing employers to write a book detailing the abuses that have been observed? Whistleblower statutes are weak, but do offer government employees some protection. The cop author wasn't an observer but a participant if what he wrote was factual. He is also blowing the whistle at least 7 years too late. He would not fall under anyone's definition of "whistleblower". "I am blowing the whistle on crimes done 10 years ago" I don't think so. If a federal employee observes a crime and fails to report it, they are generally as good as fired when the crime is found out. What more could a boss threaten them with?
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Post by professorx on Nov 23, 2009 21:44:46 GMT -5
Cops lie. They have to. Why? Because there is a shortage of criminals to arrest? See, in the Army we got to shoot first and don't answer questions. What army is this that can kill without repercussions? Its not our army. Cops however have to answer to somebody. They are fucked. What is the logic here? That because cops have oversight, they have to lie? I am trying hard to see your point. Cops feel the need to win cases in court so they testilie. Says who? They get paid the same regardless. Like the iconic cop said "Just the facts". Present the facts as is, and let justice play out. Why should a cop have a personal interest in the ultimate outcome as long as he did his job... except in the movies. If someone offends you, why should a cop risk his career to guarantee your offender goes to jail? You are not that valuable. They start doing so as rookies. You should see all the cops in a courtroom when the rookie gets his first case. He is under pressure to deliver so he testilies. Again, why would they care so much as to end thier new hard-earned career when they have no personal interest in the case? He HAS to win, doesn't matter if JUSTICE is done; he HAS to win. Yeah, if he doesn't win he misses out on that bonus check. He gets a demotion. He has to wear a dunce cap at work. Last time I was on a jury the defendant went home. No matter what. And they say the qualities of juries are poor these days.... It evens the field. I am sure the victims appreciated you even-ing the field. Eat that, cops.
It will happen the next time, too. Even if I know deep in my heart the turd is guilty. I guess psychological tests for potential jurors are out of the question? Just to fuck with you.
Cop. Again, I am sure the victims appreciated it. I am sure the cops were all torn up that you foiled thier evil scheme. Did you know that Billy Long used to chase Chattanooga Central HS male students out on 58 Highway? He liked to frisk them.
I told the Chattanoogan before he was elected but they buried the post. Then Billy Long went to jail. If they only would have posted your letter to the editor, we could have avoided the whole mess.
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Post by professorx on Nov 22, 2009 23:39:19 GMT -5
***** apologetic thread-jack***** A while back I was in court with the great Judge Walter Williams presiding... He had a guy who had gotten one too many speeding tickets and was going to lose his CDL, and therefore his job, his means of making a living. Instead of losing his license, he had the guy go buy flowers at a specific florist and he had to deliver them to women at a certain nursing home!! and said he'd call the nursing home later that day to check!! It was hilarious... How do you feel about alternative sentencing? Williams could have f'ed the guy or he essentially gave him another chance. For every 10 speeders given another chance 9 went out and killed someone, but the 10th learned his lesson. I've only been in court once as a defendant and WW was the judge. After my day, I am convinced he was much maligned in the media. I think he was trying to "correct" people without ruining their lives. My opinion is based on having to see about 10 cases before mine and how he handled them. I see what he was trying to do, but have mixed feelings about the effectiveness of such tactics. As far as Arapaio, I guess without the powers of enforcement the judge's order is more or less worthless. We have separation of powers here for a reason. Most of the time it works.
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Post by professorx on Nov 22, 2009 15:11:04 GMT -5
dukey's fraternity is known as "The Brotherhood of Conniption". I have real problems with this book either way. 1. It might be bullshit. 2. It might be true and this author/former cop only found the moral compass to expose it when he could financially gain. Of course this was seven years after he was a direct participant in the illegal activities. Either way he sucks as an author. I am tired of the Raymond Chandler bullshit (today's word). Write like a human being. Just because it is "cop related" everyone feels like the have to copy the style of Raymond Chandler, or write as if they are recititing a monologue to the COPS camera.
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Post by professorx on Nov 22, 2009 15:08:09 GMT -5
If I had started this thread it would have been bowdlerized by now. Your topics are limited to those you can find comics for. The hypothetical "bowdlerization" limitations you are under are nothing compared to your own intellectual limitations. You can't really impose limits on people that have nothing to say in the first place, right?
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Post by professorx on Nov 16, 2009 18:32:18 GMT -5
well, nobody SAID it was a boring job..... That video is total insanity. If I would have seen that in a movie, I would have thought "Bull crap!!!" That last scene (no spoilers) is so surprising and unreal. Perfect balance from the officer, perfect camera angle to catch the action. It had to be CGI.
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Post by professorx on Nov 14, 2009 20:53:03 GMT -5
That still doesn't justify giving my life over to the government. I'm not an anarchist, I just don't want government protecting me from me. I also don't want the government going beyond what is required to protect others from me. Again, if they make drugs across the board unrestricted. And the government has no right to restrict drugs then what happens when we go back to people dying from the common cold? We can trust people with amoxicillian, but weed is ok?
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Post by professorx on Nov 14, 2009 18:24:57 GMT -5
The DEA sets the schedules for narcotics and medicines based on medical evaluations. Weed is a schedule one drug based on medical evaluation and enforced by the DEA. (1) Schedule I.— (A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. (B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. (C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision." That seems pretty clear from the medical scholars and the DEA. It's schedule is even stricter than cocaine or morphene, because they have accepted medical uses. Because cocaine and mophene have accepted medical uses mean we should set up a shop on every corner for them too? Personally, its' my contention that in a free society government has no place in restricting my use of any substance as long at I'm not interfering in any one else's individual freedoms. But that's just me. I also don't think it is government's place to license me to practice medicine or law or to create a family. But that's just me. Maybe the rest of you like having a nanny. If nanny were not controlling and scheduling drugs we'd have a big Tuberculousis problem like our neighbor to the south. In Mexico you can buy antibiotics at will. Now they have a lot of antibiotic resistent germs. They have TB, we don't.
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Post by professorx on Nov 14, 2009 18:22:03 GMT -5
Would that include Nicotine and Caffeine and alcohol. If not it should. Destroys as many lives as any on that list How many lives has caffeine destroyed? I believe it has saved many lives. Caffeine has legitimate medical benefits. Watch your filthy mouth when you talk about caffeine.
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Post by professorx on Nov 13, 2009 23:12:44 GMT -5
this is what you liberals get for forcing unjust gun laws on law abiding citizens! I wonder how out dated the idea of saw-off shotguns being "too dangerous" to be legal is? I wouldn't think they would be any more or less "lethal" overall than a lot of today's modern firearms. A legal M-4 with a collapsible stock and a crap load of magazines would not be that hard to conceal. A crazy man with a couple of pistols killed and injured a lot of soldiers last week. Crazy people with box cutters killed 3,000+ people less than 10 years ago. I'd never want one, but what makes a saw-off more or less dangerous than a lot of other weapons? Of course this key piece of evidence is in the article "CLARIFICATION: This incident occurred in England, a fact that should have been mentioned in the original post." That was probably added to the article after Duke's post.
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Post by professorx on Nov 13, 2009 23:03:55 GMT -5
Your pseudo-science is hardly research...more like cred search. Being a cop do you think the DEA is a credible source? If so how about these facts? www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marinol.htmlMarijuana has PROVEN medicinal purposes. Even the DEA agrees with this. The DEA sets the schedules for narcotics and medicines based on medical evaluations. Weed is a schedule one drug based on medical evaluation and enforced by the DEA. (1) Schedule I.— (A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. (B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. (C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision." That seems pretty clear from the medical scholars and the DEA. It's schedule is even stricter than cocaine or morphene, because they have accepted medical uses. Because cocaine and mophene have accepted medical uses mean we should set up a shop on every corner for them too?
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Post by professorx on Nov 13, 2009 22:51:17 GMT -5
I am wondering too, why the cyclist was not charged. The three foot rule is used exclusively to benefit cyclists. If it cannot be used to make a martry of a cyclist, then it is not enforced.
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Post by professorx on Nov 13, 2009 18:24:01 GMT -5
Stay with this one until the end.... I've seen a lot of videos and watched a lot of COPS and have never seen anything like this. OK. No comments. I see you all have ADD. Fast forward to 3:28 and check it out. If this were in a movie you all would claim BS.Updated with better quality www.liveleak.com/view?i=857_1190711482&p=1
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Post by professorx on Nov 12, 2009 21:49:41 GMT -5
I've thought about it. I think the ages of the "rescuers" has more to do with their actions than the "officer being friendly".
It is doubtful that the officer being nice had anything to do with the rescue. How well do you get to know a booking officer when you are in jail?
The rescuers were "more mature" offenders and more discriminate with thier selection of victims. A young indisciminate punk attacking an old man offended their own sense of right and wrong. They are not total animals like young punks with no sense of control.
Certain things set off criminals. The most famous being child molesters in custody. They are as good as dead if it is found out. Even criminals have their limits.
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Post by professorx on Nov 12, 2009 21:20:42 GMT -5
I jest as well, but there's really nothing to laugh about. Let's start at the beginning. NOBODY'S RAISING CHATTANOOGA'S YOUTH. I'm working on three generations of criminals now. I knew their daddys and grandaddys. If some names off the latest shooting seem familiar, it's because they're related. NOT to criminals, sadly. I'll agree to decriminalizing POT, prostitution, and a host of lesser offenses if they'll put people away for Life for one crime: NOT RAISING THEIR KIDS. THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. Sundered in 1989 by a defense-attorney-written "reform", Tennessee's criminal code is a joke, a sop to the Public Defender's Office (all of them, not just Hamilton County's). If you bought a product like this at retail, you'd DEMAND your money back. SOCIETY HAS NO EXPECTATIONS OF AND MAKES NO DEMANDS ON YOUTH. Whatever happened to "ask not what your Country can do for you?" When did "pimpin'" become the prime objective or what to become? Or skateboarding, for that matter? Everyone--hear me EVERYONE from parents to politicians have ABDICATED their role in producing a society in which everyone has a place, a time, and a ROLE to play in making a better tomorrow. For themselves, their heirs, and everybody else. It's got to change. Or it will CHANGE US. In ways we won't like. I agree with the analysis of your's, but shouldn't this apply to everywhere? I am looking at this list: www.city-data.com/top27.htmlAnd there are cities that are way higher than they should be. IE Anniston, Alabama, and Chattanooga are more dangerous per capita than Memphis, College Park, Flint, MI, and Miami (Vice City). Anniston has a higher crime rate than Atlanta! Is it education? No neither Anniston or Chattanooga ranks in the top 100. Of course globally we are still doing well. The highest murder rate for a city is for lovely Caracas, Venezuala with a record of 130 per 1000. www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4480
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Post by professorx on Nov 11, 2009 23:35:53 GMT -5
Well, I constrained myself from including anything east of Missionary Ridge for as long as I could stand it, but this past year confirmed my worst fears... ...IT'S SPREAD! I like to joke around about a lot of topics, but crime in our town is disproportionate. I am not sure of the cause. It may be a simple case of our proximity to Atlanta. It may be because a major interstate is close to us. I am reading a lot of statistics. One interesting one is "87 percent of Chattanooga residents believe the police are very or somewhat fair with their treatment...
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Post by professorx on Nov 11, 2009 23:24:19 GMT -5
With the photographer involved, I assume they ALL are. In the south, that is a good assumption... then especially so if they are wearing 5.11 police pants... There is no way that some of those people are carrying concealed. This chick may have had this pistol in a purse, but I doubt it was on her.
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Post by professorx on Nov 11, 2009 20:59:22 GMT -5
Yeah, the guy in the 5.11 pants is not armed....
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Post by professorx on Nov 11, 2009 20:51:44 GMT -5
I am not sure of that, but I do believe that the correct pronunciation of that would be Glass Skreet. Is Glass Street the reason we are ranked as the 42nd least safe place to live in the US? We are just barely safer than Baltimore?
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Post by professorx on Nov 11, 2009 18:22:28 GMT -5
What percentage of this year's total violent crime happened on or near Glass Street?
It seems like this area is mentioned every week in the local media.
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Post by professorx on Nov 5, 2009 22:34:04 GMT -5
Inmates saved deputy's life during attack, sheriff's office says www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/04/inmates-credited-rescuing-hillsborough-deputy-duri/By JEFF PATTERSON | News Channel 8 Published: November 4, 2009 Updated: 11/04/2009 09:38 pm TAMPA - The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate 40 years his junior. Deputy Kenneth Moon had another disadvantage: He was the sole deputy in a jail pod that houses 62 inmates. The only nearby people who could help him were there because they have been charged with attempted murder, home invasion, drug dealing. And yet they did. ....
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Post by professorx on Nov 5, 2009 22:17:33 GMT -5
Hate against gays is caused by the bible and the bible-thumpers. Your message verges on a hate-crime. You are against the very spirit of this new law.
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Post by professorx on Nov 5, 2009 21:59:15 GMT -5
No. Recent surge? For sake of argument I'm going to bunch you in a group that you may not be in... but how about fighting for tougher penalties on child molesters instead or as much as the anti-gay beatings and killings that are spreading like wild fire. (or are they?) Hate Crimes against gays are up worldwide. London, Amsterdam, Broward County Florida, everywhere. An attack on a gay student occurred near Georgetown University campus on Sunday “when a man with his face painted red and white harassed a male student verbally, and assaulted him before fleeing,” reports The Advocate. This is the second attack on a gay Georgetown student to occur off campus in the past week. The first attack occurred last Tuesday, when “a female student walking near campus was assaulted by two men in their late 20s, who shouted antigay slurs and pushed her to the ground before striking her with her book bag.” How about enforcing the existing penalties? Why should heterosexual victims not receive the same justice a homosexual victim does? If a person commits a violent crime, they should go to jail for a long time regardless of the motive. If a violent wife beater gets 10 years for putting his wife in the hospital, then he should actually go to jail for 10 years. That's 10 years he will never beat up anyone homosexual or not. I seriously doubt that violent people victimize exclusively one group. If a person victimizes the weak, they attack easy targets (in their opinion). If might be their kids, their wives, gays... I seriously doubt they are selective and exclusive with their violence. I would bet that a lot of people that have assaulted homosexuals have been previously arrested for violent crimes. If they were in jail (instead of a revolving door) then they would not be out on the street to assault anyone. Your idea is a "feel good" idea that doesn't target the cause of the problem. Assaults overall are not rare. You don't have to look in Broward, Amsterdam, or D.C.. That you only care about sporadic gay-only incidence, and that non-gay incidents should be pursued less aggressively, and those offenders should be treated more leniently says a lot about your character. My idea is better and more consistent. What if a gay person is seriously injured and they are not able to prove is was "hate" motivated? If a case goes to federal court, then a local court will drop the case or push it to the back-burner. Then if a crime is not proven to be hate based, then there is no federal law against plain old assault as far as I know. Then the case is dead in the water. The gay-beater may walk free. Its a gamble. Give them all the same jail time regardless of the motivation and the scumbag will go to jail for a long time regardless of having to prove it was hate-motivated. Keep it simple and it will keep more violent people off the streets.
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Post by professorx on Nov 3, 2009 18:53:48 GMT -5
Personally... I think religion is nothing more than a crutch for somebody that is nothing more than a sheep... more wars & death have been caused in the name of "somebody's" religion. witch in nothing more than somebody's interpretation of what is "right". I'll never die, I'm too much of an Asshole to do otherwise. I've never bought the "religion caused more wars and death..." argument. I think it is over simplistic. It would be as if 500 years from now the current war between the US and Bin laden supporters would be explained as a Christian vs. Muslim conflict. I think that any religious persecution (or even all religious persecutions combined) pales in what totalitarian regimes have done in the past 100 or so years. Religions can't convert the dead, so they are generally pro-life. Totalitarians want to eliminate competition, so they'd even off their closest friends if need be.
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Post by professorx on Nov 3, 2009 18:42:41 GMT -5
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Post by professorx on Nov 2, 2009 2:28:13 GMT -5
It depends. How many customers did the guy offend? How many customers are now offended by Home Depot firing the guy. I'm going to tell you I've never known anyone that wasn't an annoying person to begin with get fired over something like this. Have you been to home depot lately? Try to find anyone to help you. I'd be thankful. "Sure, tell me about Jesus/Buddha, Mohammed while you are helping me get the mower in my truck..." I really doubt a company would tell a person to remove a button. It doesn't interfer with work. There has got to be more to the story. I guess we will have to see if a person with a burka is fired next from the home depot.
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Post by professorx on Nov 2, 2009 2:20:39 GMT -5
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Newbie. Chon was worth it for the "Crude, tedious and banal" line.
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Post by professorx on Nov 2, 2009 2:05:39 GMT -5
This is an opinion. It is only an opinion. If you cannot handle this opinion please do not read further but allow others to make up their own minds. Fundies need to stop here. Do not go any further unless you wish to know the truth. Wow, thanks. I've seen the light. You know all the great thinkers in the world have wondered about this highly philosophical question, yet it has been settled by you. I was going to dismiss your message at first because you have selected your name from a 2nd rate comedy, and the name is border line racist at best... But I am sure that's unintentional because you are a enlightened free thinker. Fuck Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Camus, and all those suckers. Chon Wang has used the internet to deliver the truth. And each delivery of truth includes Flied Lice for no extra charge.
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Post by professorx on Oct 25, 2009 20:31:08 GMT -5
The hotel I inhabited there had metal shutters on the south side, and you could hear the automatic gunfire all night long. felt like 'home'. I've never had the honor of being able to visit El Paso. Some border towns are alright (San Diego, etc.)
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