The Goat Pen

Professor Tiger wrote:JD, I see that the first cop to be tried in the Freddy Gray case just got a hung jury. I haven't seen much outrage from you or anywhere else in the media. Is that because the accused cop was black and the jury was majority black?

Outraged? Dude, we're HAPPY!

Hung jury? In the past 10 years, only 1 in 5 cops tried for on-duty killings were convicted. The expectation was that the cop was going to walk. A hung jury meams they'll get another shot at him in a criminal proceeding!

But the cop is black! Doesn't that mean they're trying to frame him?

All kidding aside, if a healthy handcuffed suspect gets into a police van, and gets out of that man with a broken neck and dies, somebody killed him and that somebody has to be a cop. If I'm on a jury, I'm looking for somebody's ass to kick. If not this cop's, then somebody else's.

Bernie Sanders campaign accesses Hillary Clinton data, gets suspended from DNC voter files

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/ ... index.html

Bernie is a nube. He should have accessed Hillary's private information through his own secret server located in somebody's bathroom. And if the DNC catches wind of it, wipes the server clean. Or, if there were emails involved, he should have deleted the records and destroyed the server. That's what competent crooks do. He's proven that he's not even qualified to be the IRS commissioner or Secretary of State, much less President.

Worse, Bernie admitted to the breach and fired his own operative. A seasoned Democrat crook would have lawyered up his operative and promoted him into a higher ranking position to ensure his silence. Then Bernie should have lied his ass off for months, saying he did nothing wrong. Under the rules at the time, he was allowed to steal Hillary's campaign information. When he looked at Hillary's stolen information, it wasn't marked "Hillary's Private Campaign Information. Don't look at this, Bernie." He had no way of knowing that he wasn't allowed to look at it. Besides, Colin Powell did the same thing.

When that quits working, Bernie should have expressed shock and anger that such a thing might have occurred, pledged his full cooperation to the investigators, and vowed to get to the bottom of this. He wants the full information to come out. Then, he should have stonewalled and provided no information to the investigators whatsoever - especially the subpeona'd information.

Then he should have called the whole investigation a witch hunt, led by a partisan Inquisitor who has just trying to harm his prospects, and attribute it to the "vast Socialist conspiracy."

Bernie, you're way over your head. Leave the felonious Nixonian behavior to the trained professionals.

Yale Students Sign 'Petition' to Repeal the First Amendment

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Harvard publishes a placemat for its students to help them survive microagressions from their neanderthal relatives at Christmas meals

2016 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates https://www.lp.org/candidates/president ... idates-16/

Prof has his hands full trying to pick from this robust gang of challengers. Check out this guy...can't call him an empty suit, he doesn't own one.

the guy has an interesting website...and is passionate about the interests of his constituency

The Case for Legalizing Meth, by Darryl W. Perry for President 2016 http://darrylwperry.com/the-case-for-le ... /#more-558

Enough of that lunacy. Now to the serious business at hand:

GOP Voter Poll: Trump Handily Wins Fifth Debate - The Hill

Putin Declares Trump is Frontrunner in Presidential Race, Calls Him "Outstanding Man" - WSJ.com

Trump to MSNBC's Scarborough: Putin is "a Leader," Unlike Obama - Newsmax

Trump Pulls Away From Field at 41 Pct After Muslim Ban Remarks - NY Post

bluetick wrote:2016 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates https://www.lp.org/candidates/president ... idates-16/

Prof has his hands full trying to pick from this robust gang of challengers.

YIKES!

That whole group of Libertarian candidates reminds of this group from Animal House:

I know some of you panty wetters and Obama knob gobblers are happy about the way Obama treats our military.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/che ... e-matters/

As the article states, Obama fired two other Secdef's Panetta and Gates, who told the same story. They were not willing to move to self delusional fairy tale land next to Obama.

If irony were gold, there's enough in this statement for all to retire.

"Let's tell the truth, Martin," Clinton said.

Ohio Barber Confronts White Man Walking Around Black Neighborhoods Carrying Gun

[Isn't The Talent from NE Ohio?]

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/20 ... c=obinsite

An Akron, Ohio, barbershop owner had enough of one young white man who was walking around the neighborhood with a rifle on his back, so he confronted the 25-year-old outside his shop on Thursday and called the police, Cleveland.com reports.

Deone Slater, owner of Kangaroo Kutz, did not want Daniel Kovacevic in front of his shop that morning. "He was a threat to my community," Slater told the news site. "If I can prevent him from shooting up the city, I would. I won't condone it. Somebody's got to stand up."

Police arrived shortly after and tried to calm Slater, who was reportedly shouting at Kovacevic.

"[Slater] was obviously emotional and concerned about his safety and the safety of everyone in the community," Police Sgt. Doug Sandor said.

"I told [Kovacevic] to take his guns off," Slater said. "I told him let me have five or 10 minutes with him without his weapons."

Slater also called officers out for trying to calm him instead of engaging with Kovacevic. "[The police] asked me why do I have a problem," Slater said. "He's a threat to me and my people. He's a threat to me.

"[The police] were more concerned about me than him, as if I were the threat," he added. "It it were me with a gun, they would have shut the whole block down."

Officers are claiming that they have their hands tied—even as Akron police spokesman Lt. Rick Edwards acknowledged that the man has been spotted in predominantly black communities—because of Ohio's gun laws, which allow open carry.

Some, however, aren't too thrilled with the police response and suggest that race may be a factor in the toned-down response, especially considering the deaths of Tamir Rice and John Crawford, both of whom were shot in Ohio by police while carrying toy weapons.

"It's different if it's a black person. People say it isn't, but it is," one person, 26-year-old Traneece Johnson, told the site, referencing Tamir. "[Kovacevic] was approached, and they gave him a chance to speak and say he was expressing his right. The little boy didn't get that chance."

Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.

Obama plays the race card.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/us/po ... .html?_r=0

Just because nearly all mass murders are committed by young white males with guns is no reason to imagine any connection whatsoever between young white males with guns and mass murder, like Slater did. Kovacevic highjacked a wonderful and peaceful age, race and gender. He must have seen a video that was offensive to young white males.

And if Kovacevic had wrestled a police officer for his gun and then charged him, the other officers would have rightly turned him into Swiss cheese.

10ac wrote:

Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.

Obama plays the race card.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/us/po ... .html?_r=0

I've not encountered a single discouraging word about potus's skin color.

since 11am

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Rick-Sa ... id/706651/

that argument can be flip flopped so many ways--mika exactly right about it just like what about all the black on black killings--see family guy episode

bluetick wrote:

10ac wrote:

Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.

Obama plays the race card.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/us/po ... .html?_r=0

I've not encountered a single discouraging word about potus's skin color.

since 11am

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You're comparing an idiot mayor of a nothing town to the POTUS?