The Goat Pen

bluetick wrote:Mississippi, 3rd most miserable state in the U.S. (West VA #1, KY #2)

Well-being index score: 63.7
Life expectancy: 75.0 years (lowest in U.S.)
Percent obese: 35.4% (highest in U.S.)
Median household income: $37,095 (lowest in U.S.)
Percent with high school diploma (3rd lowest)

Nowhere else in the U.S. did people feel as negative about their work environment as in Mississippi. But this was just one of the problems facing state residents. Respondents were among the most likely in the nation to lack access to basic necessities. More than a quarter of people surveyed in the state indicated they did not have money for food at some point in the previous 12 months, while nearly as many lacked money for health care. By a number of measures, the state was one of the absolute poorest in the nation. The median income in Mississippi was just $37,095 in 2012, lowest in the nation. Also, 24.2% lived below the poverty line, more than any other state. With limited access to basic needs and poor healthy behaviors, the state was among the worst in the nation in physical health assessments. Last year, no state had a higher obesity rate than Mississippi. In 2010, no state had a higher rate of death from heart disease or a lower life expectancy at birth than Mississippi.

Jesus, IB. Have you no shame?

sardis wrote:The misery index in WV and KY wouldn't have anything to do with the attack on the coal industry, now would it?

Jungle Rat wrote:Wait a second. Who the fuck is tick?

crashcourse wrote:fox news now reporting facial fracture of cop

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/20/mi ... ys-source/

Guidry drew her handgun as she was about seven feet away from Arellano, investigators said, and he moved toward her. When she told him to stop and show his hands, he responded again with obscenities and told her to shoot. She backed up, and he continued to approach her with an “aggressive demeanor,” investigators said. Guidry feared he would overpower her and grab the gun, she told investigators. When he was about three feet from her, she shot him once in the upper chest. Paramedics pronounced him dead when they arrived minutes later. According to a witness who was in the juice shop at the time, Arellano put his hands up, then down again as he interacted with the officer. As he exited, he was smiling and laughing — being a “smart ass,” the witness said. He lunged at the officer as he stepped out of the shop, the witness added, possibly to try to intimidate her. Given the statements of the officers, the witness and several videos of the shooting, a jury would likely find that Guidry reasonably believed her life was in danger from Arellano, the District Attorney’s investigation concluded.

puterbac wrote:I have no real response to the BART shooting. The cop sure as hell shot him when he clearly didn't need to. I read the part about him yelling he was going to tase him, but he grabbed the wrong one? Pretty weak. He got off easy with involuntary manslaughter.

The other one the story says:

Guidry drew her handgun as she was about seven feet away from Arellano, investigators said, and he moved toward her. When she told him to stop and show his hands, he responded again with obscenities and told her to shoot. She backed up, and he continued to approach her with an “aggressive demeanor,” investigators said. Guidry feared he would overpower her and grab the gun, she told investigators. When he was about three feet from her, she shot him once in the upper chest. Paramedics pronounced him dead when they arrived minutes later. According to a witness who was in the juice shop at the time, Arellano put his hands up, then down again as he interacted with the officer. As he exited, he was smiling and laughing — being a “smart ass,” the witness said. He lunged at the officer as he stepped out of the shop, the witness added, possibly to try to intimidate her. Given the statements of the officers, the witness and several videos of the shooting, a jury would likely find that Guidry reasonably believed her life was in danger from Arellano, the District Attorney’s investigation concluded.

Seems like a taser would have been more appropriate, but she had her gun out and the guy came at her anyway. There the weaker female argument may have come into play?

Jungle Rat wrote:Try it

Mann Coulter wrote:The old media just love creating huge racist hoaxes -- which has done so much to improve the lives of ordinary black people!

Luckily for America, especially African-Americans, the advent of alternative media has reduced the Non-Fox Media's ability to stir up urban riots. Today, it's possible to get information that never would have seen the light of day in the 1980s.

In less than two weeks, the original version of the racist police execution of Michael Brown -- or "Big Mike" -- has already undergone major revisions. We were told:

-- Big Mike was the sweetest kid, he'd never hurt a flea.

Then we got the store surveillance video of him robbing a liquor store and manhandling the clerk. Perhaps Big Mike committed his first-ever crime 11 minutes before his encounter with Officer Darren Wilson, but it doesn't look good.

-- He was shot in the back.

At least two autopsies now establish Big Mike was not shot in the back.

-- He didn't touch the police officer.

This week, we saw the X-ray of Officer Wilson's fractured eye socket.

-- He was holding his arms up surrendering when Officer Wilson shot him.

That's at least in doubt now that a video of a Big Mike supporter has emerged, capturing the private conservation of an eyewitness confirming the officer's claim that Big Mike was running at him.

Mann Coulter wrote:On the tape, one black man tells another:

"Him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran -- the police got out and ran after him ... Then the next thing I know he comes back toward the truck 'cause -- the police had his gun drawn already on him. The police kept dumping on him, and I'm thinking that the police missing ... but he kept coming toward him."

Mann Coulter wrote:Some would say a private conservation, unintentionally recorded immediately after an event, is more credible than alleged eyewitness accounts by people who know they're talking to the press.

But if MSNBC can spend six months on a bridge closure in Fort Lee, New Jersey, they can probably do at least a year on a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

This week, we saw the X-ray of Officer Wilson's fractured eye socket.

innocentbystander wrote:
But [Mississippi] is great place to retire to because your $100 spent there gets you $115 of goods and services. Which was the whole point of Toem's graph which you missed because you live in a world of liberal-malignant-narcisism.

innocentbystander wrote:

crashcourse wrote:fox news now reporting facial fracture of cop

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/20/mi ... ys-source/

okay well then that's that. There should not be any charges pressed against the cop. There shouldn't be because the DA should be smart enough to know that he or she will not get a jury conviction.

innocentbystander wrote:

Toemeesleather wrote:Canton, Ms....baggers build cars.

They also build ships at Ingalls (or did, I don't know if they shut down or not) but car manufacturing at one plant in Mississippi does not make the state an economic power. It isn't. It never was. It never will be. (I think they have pretty much always been either #48, #49, or #50, since 1959 anyway when we went to 50.)

They don't have the education in Mississippi. They will not be an economic power in the information age. Can't happen. They don't have the people. In Massachusetts, if I have $500,000 cash in the bank, I could rent 5000 square feet of office space (somewhere), hire 10 entry-level-developers, run lean for 6 months, and bid on multiple multi-milion dollar software development projects for large companies. That happens all the time in MA because the technical people are available. That shit does NOT happen in Jackson MS. But, I'll bet you can make $30K dealing poker in Biloxi to retirees when their SS checks come in.....

innocentbystander wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:Try it

Try what, mouthing off to a cop? Getting arrested? Or resisting arrest? No thanks, I have a lot to lose.

Professor Tiger wrote:If the cop did have a facial fracture, then there will be a plenty of evidence to prove it - medical records, cat scan results, medical staff witnesses, etc. If there is such evidence, then this becomes a Tawana Brawley case. Without such evidence, it continues to look like a Rodney King case.

Jungle Rat wrote:Is Johnette's Daddy a regular from Cnn/SI or Worldcrossing? Looks familiar but I don't remember him being crazy.