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December 7, 2018 at 13:10 in reply to: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham #5775
Dragon
Participant::We still don’t know why she shot him. Mistaken identity just don’t float. There was something else involved here. IMO
BTW: I can’t see how any entity or person should be held liable for what this stupid twit did.
One thing not mentioned yet was her choice of action. If she was frightened of the fellow because she was surprised to see him there, she could have turned around and fled. Instead, she pulled a gun, ordered him about and then shot him dead. I don’t see how she has a leg to stand on avoiding a murder charge. She did everything wrong and did it consciously and deliberately.
I imagine that our prisons are full of people convicted of murder who hadn’t intended to commit murder at all. Things just got out of hand and now they’re paying the price.
December 7, 2018 at 12:54 in reply to: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham #5774Participant::What difference does it make why she committed these crimes? She assaulted a citizen with a deadly weapon and proceeded to kill him. The overriding crime here is felony murder. If you want to try to turn it into a hate crime, you might be able to spin it that way, with her being white and her victim a big, scary black man. But I think she has enough on her plate as it is. Society has just gotten sick and tired of white folks killing black folks for being black.
If you know what her motive please share the info.
My understanding is that she was scared.
Participant::https://www.usps.com/national-day-of-mourning/welcome.htm
President Donald J. Trump has declared December 5 as a national day of mourning, calling on Americans to remember the vast contributions of former President George H.W. Bush.
To honor the life and legacy of President Bush, the Postal Service will observe the national day of mourning.
All Post Office® locations will be closed.
Regular mail will not be delivered.
Package delivery will be limited.I don’t remember this happening before when a past president has died. Is my memory faulty?
Gerald Ford (2007)
Ronald Reagan (2004)
Richard Nixon (1994)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1972)
Harry S. Truman (1972)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969)
John F. Kennedy (1963; assassinated)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945; died in office)
Woodrow Wilson (1924)
William McKinley (1901; assassinated)-
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Dragon.
Participant::How can this be? Repealing Obamacare saved us billions, The Wall that Mexico Built for Us came free and stopped illegal immigration, and we’ve embarked on a trillion dollars worth of infrastructure renovation. The Republicans came through with their promises and these three alone must have created millions of well-paid jobs for everyone.
It’s hard to account for so many people in this country on public assistance now that America is great again. Something doesn’t add up.
December 2, 2018 at 10:07 in reply to: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham #5524Participant::I think in the end you may well end up disappointed Dragon. I do not think they have a reasonable murder charge.
Beyond any doubt civilly liable. But no criminal offense. Simply a bad accident.
There is no hostility or animosity. She simply did not know the guy from Adam. Got into an improbable set of circumstances that cascaded into a disaster.
To me the big question is does the family get a reasonable payday for their loss. My guess is some of the goings on are to shield the municipality from a 20 or 25 million verdict. He was the wrong guy to kill.
Going to be a while. Estimates are a year before it goes to trial.
I don’t think it merits a classification of “accident”. She wasn’t out hunting deer and mistakenly shot another hunter. She saw this man, aimed her gun at him and made the conscious decision to shoot to kill him.
She may not have intended to break the law by shooting him, but she sure did break the law, felony law. By killing him after assaulting him with her deadly weapon, a charge of felony murder is called for.
He wasn’t an accidental target. He wasn’t hit by a stray bullet. He was shot dead in his own home by a person who entered without invitation, accosted him and killed him. The shooter’s motives (or lack of them) don’t make it all right.
If she’d been responding to a police call and misread the situation and done the same thing, this would be a different case. She may have placed herself in a position subject to internal disciplinary action and her agency might be on the hook for a major civil suit.
But that wasn’t the case. She did this deed on her own time, being where she shouldn’t have been and acting as she shouldn’t have done. She may not have intended to commit a murder that day, but she has to accept the consequences of that series of very bad decisions that she made that led to her final decision to kill that man.
ParticipantDecember 1, 2018 at 13:55 in reply to: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham #5498Participant::What difference does it make why she committed these crimes? She assaulted a citizen with a deadly weapon and proceeded to kill him. The overriding crime here is felony murder.
If you want to try to turn it into a hate crime, you might be able to spin it that way, with her being white and her victim a big, scary black man. But I think she has enough on her plate as it is. Society has just gotten sick and tired of white folks killing black folks for being black.
November 30, 2018 at 19:06 in reply to: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham #5475ParticipantParticipantParticipant::I think we need to do two things to correct this problem. 1) Reform the way we accept and process applications for asylum. 2) Provide asylum to a lot more refugees, particularly from regions where we’ve been complicit in creating such an intolerable living environment.
And the third thing is to send them all to your home town.
In a country as large as ours? Doesn’t sound very practical.
ParticipantParticipantParticipant::It might be even more effective if we would simply accept asylum applications at our American embassies. As now, they would be processed and eventually approved or denied. If approved, the refugees would get the documents they need to emigrate to the US. If denied asylum by the US, they’re still free to apply to any other country in the world, even as their US applications are being processed.
This policy we have that they can’t apply for asylum unless and until they reach our shores isn’t working well, for anyone. Let’s do the paperwork first, then make the trip if it’s approved.
November 21, 2018 at 12:05 in reply to: Is it Moral for the US and/or the UN to take out a tyrant? #5047Participant::<iframe id=”twitter-widget-0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” allowfullscreen=”true” class=”twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered” style=”position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; width: 550px; height: 547.951px; padding: 0px; border: none; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;” data-tweet-id=”1061675919172161538″ title=”Twitter Tweet”></iframe>
<script async=”” src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>Some people are most comfortable when they have a strong figure to lean on, someone to tell them what to do and explains that they’re not responsible for the circumstances they face. That’s what attracts some to the military initially and keeps some of them for life. They’re better at following than thinking on their own.
I belong to a couple of veterans groups and their political crap pops up now and again. It’s quickly deleted by the administrators but it’s a reminder that nationalism is alive and well in this country, while patriotism is often criticized.
ParticipantParticipantParticipant::For a Smart TV, it isn’t very smart it doesn’t have Bluetooth capability built in. It also doesn’t have a 3.5 mm jack. (Panasonic Viera TV.) All I can figure out to do is 1) connect an optical SPDIF/Coaxial to RCA L/R 3.5mm Jack converter to generate an analog signal from my TV’s optical ouput, then attach a Bluetooth transmitter to that new 3.5 mm jack, or 2) attach a Bluetooth transmitter to the optical out jack on the TV, or 3) connect a Bluetooth transmitter to the L/R (red and white) RCA jacks on the TV with the appropriate cabling depending on the input requirements of the Bluetooth converter. In any case, the Bluetooth device must have a special capability, aptX, it seems.
I don’t think Bluetooth would interface with either of the three connection types.
That’s one of the reasons I’m bringing this up. The more devices I add in the signal path, the more opportunity for incompatibility to present. I just don’t like the idea of having to buy a new TV just because I want to be rid of the headphones and cord. The TV we have serves its basic function; it just doesn’t seem to be very “expandable”.
Good thing I don’t watch much TV.
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