So nice to see you again. Its been so long since we talked. I am so glad you are doing well. Might be in your area soon. Contact me if you would like to have coffee.
sammielee24
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Hello again friends...
by alamb ini haven't been on here for so long.
peeking in to say hello.
any old friends here?
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Heil Trump. Sieg Heil.
by oppostate incrowd looking like they're doing the heil hitler salute to trump when he asks for a pledge and swear their support while calling for broadening torture laws.
trump asks backers to swear their support, vows to broaden torture laws.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/politics/donald-trump-florida-pledge-torture/.
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sammielee24
On point LRG.
Bernie's statement was about as racist as could be and so out of touch as to be humorous. He obviously doesn't keep up on the stats that show more 'white' folks live in poverty than others....or was he trying to say that all black people are poor and live in the ghetto? That's an insult to everyone no matter which way you think about it because the entire statement is false.
Now - I always loved Bernie's passion for social programs and so I recognize that he, just like any politician whose sole purpose on the campaign trail is to say things to win - might just have put his foot in it it by saying something he didn't mean. It was said simply to fire people up and create a base - and like every single politician, especially career politicians, their whole strategy is to divide, conquer and keep separate.
The only non political contender out there is Trump - and the very fact that the old school politicians who are married to the media, big banks, Wall Street, corporations, Hollywood and global elite can't figure out why he's so popular, speaks volumes about how out of touch they really are.
It's an interesting campaign. sw
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Heil Trump. Sieg Heil.
by oppostate incrowd looking like they're doing the heil hitler salute to trump when he asks for a pledge and swear their support while calling for broadening torture laws.
trump asks backers to swear their support, vows to broaden torture laws.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/politics/donald-trump-florida-pledge-torture/.
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sammielee24
Geesh...what needs to stop is all the name calling.
A lot of people who voted for Obama in the past have switched sides to vote for Trump this time around - the reason? Because they're sick to death of the two party system- status quo. That's it. Period.
Obama hasn't been any better than any other President and with corporate funding and lobbyists running the government, people want something else - hope. That another President won't be bought and paid for.
When Obama got elected and all those people voted for him then, they weren't racist nor uneducated - suddenly now they vote for Trump and they somehow became stupid and racist. People are just simply fed up with a whole lot of things and that frustration at not being heard seems to be whats driving things - IMHO.sw
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Is is Muslim terrorist cafe seige Sydney...hundreds of hostages! looks bad.
by Witness 007 inlindt chocalate cafe martin place in city people pressed against the glass with hands up...this will not end well..
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sammielee24
Amazing that he was an Immigrant
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He was a refugee - that is different than an immigrant. Ironically, he sought asylum in Australia and was granted safe haven because he convinced them he would be persecuted if returned to his own country - then in turn, he turned on the country who housed him by choosing to persecute the citizens there. The thought of his own death scared him so much in his native country that he left behind his wife and children forever and by choice - then summarily decided to kill others not caring that they left behind families they never wanted to abandon.
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Is is Muslim terrorist cafe seige Sydney...hundreds of hostages! looks bad.
by Witness 007 inlindt chocalate cafe martin place in city people pressed against the glass with hands up...this will not end well..
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sammielee24
//partial script from CNN -
Monis was using the name Mohammad Hassan Manteghi -- his birth name, according to Iran's state news agency IRNA -- and claimed to be a "healer," according to the report.
Monis also pleaded guilty last year to writing offensive "poison pen" letters to the families of Australian soldiers who died in Afghanistan, and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. The letters were "sadistic, wantonly cruel and deeply wounding," one High Court judge said at the time, according to CNN affiliate Seven News.
But the criminal accusations against him began even before he came to Australia.
Monis fled his homeland in 1995 while being sought for allegedly committing fraud, Iran's semi-official Fars News reported.
A spokesperson at Iran's embassy in Canberra told CNN that Tehran had officially requested Monis's extradition but nothing had come of it. Monis had been granted political asylum in 2001 and had had no further contact with his birth country, the spokesperson said.
An extremist theology
Manny Conditsis, a lawyer who acted for Monis in relation to the accessory to murder and letter-writing charges, told CNN his former client had been a cleric in Shiite Iran, but had become critical of the Islamic Republic's government in the late 1990s, and fled to Australia "because he was going to be killed."
He had left behind a wife and two children, who he believed Monis had not seen since.
Throughout the 2000s, said Conditsis, Monis "became sympathetic to what he perceived ... was the victimization of Muslims and Islamists around the world, and partly at least took up that cause."
His broader cause, he said, was lobbying governments around the world, particularly Australia, not to wage wars on Muslim soil.
"He was so blinded by that objective that it would seem he had lost sight of objectivity and rationality and acted in extreme ways," he said, describing his former client as "intensely conflicted and contradicted and inconsistent."
While older footage of Monis preaching shows him dressed in typical Shiite cleric's attire, in his social media posts, he appears to embrace a radical Sunni extremist theology.
He used the Internet to spread extremist beliefs, garnering nearly 13,000 likes on his Facebook page.
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Michael Brown verdict discussion policy - take II
by Simon ini had originally thought that making the rules clear about what was and wasn't going to be allowed when discussing the michael brown verdict that we'd be able to avoid some of the unpleasantness that surrounded the subsequent trayvon martin trial discussions.. michael brown verdict discussion policy.
i had hoped that once the evidence came out there would not be as many people promoting opinions that contradicted it.
unfortunately, that appears to have been naive of me.
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sammielee24
LAW OF THE LAND
FERGUSON: AN ORGY OF ANARCHY
Thomas Sowell cites long-term consequences of failing to respect stubborn facts
Published: 17 hours ago
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri. But, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”
Soon after the shooting death of Michael Brown, this 285-pound young man was depicted as a “gentle giant.” But, after a video was leaked showing him bullying the owner of a store from which he had stolen some merchandise, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed displeasure that the video was leaked. In other words, to Holder the truth was offensive, but the lie it exposed was not.
Many people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses to the fatal shooting gave opposite accounts of what happened. Some even gave accounts that contradicted what they themselves had said earlier.
Fortunately, the grand jury did not have to rely on such statements, though some in the media seemed to. What the grand jury had, that the rest of us did not have until the grand jury’s decision was announced, was a set of physical facts that told a story that was independent of what anybody said.
Three different medical forensic experts – one representing Michael Brown’s parents – examined the physical facts. These facts included the autopsy results, Michael Brown’s DNA on the door of the police car and on the policeman’s gun, photographs of the bruised and swollen face of policeman Darren Wilson and the pattern of blood stains on the street where Brown was shot.
This physical evidence was hard to square with the loudly proclaimed assertions that Brown was shot in the back, or was shot with his hands up, while trying to surrender. But it was consistent with the policeman’s testimony.
Moreover, the physical facts were consistent with what a number of black witnesses said under oath, despite expressing fears for their own safety for contradicting what those in the rampaging mobs were saying.
The riots, looting and setting things on fire that some in the media are treating as reactions to the grand jury’s decision not to indict the policeman actually began long before the grand jury had begun its investigation, much less announced any decision.
Why some people insist on believing whatever they want to believe is a question that is hard to answer. But a more important question is: What are the consequences to be expected from an orgy of anarchy that started in Ferguson, Missouri, and has spread around the country?
The first victims of the mob rampages in Ferguson have been people who had nothing to do with Michael Brown or the police. These include people – many of them black or members of other minorities – who have seen the businesses they worked to build destroyed, perhaps never to be revived.
But these are only the first victims. If the history of other communities ravaged by riots in years past is any indication, there are blacks yet unborn who will be paying the price of these riots for years to come.
Sometimes it is a particular neighborhood that never recovers, and sometimes it is a whole city. Detroit is a classic example. It had the worst riot of the 1960s, with 43 deaths – 33 of them black people. Businesses left Detroit, taking with them jobs and taxes that were very much needed to keep the city viable. Middle-class people – both black and white – also fled.
Harlem was one of many ghettos across the country that have still not recovered from the riots of the 1960s. In later years, a niece of mine, who had grown up in the same Harlem tenement where I grew up years earlier, bitterly complained about how few stores and other businesses there were in the neighborhood.
There were plenty of stores in that same neighborhood when I was growing up, as well as a dentist, a pharmacist and an optician, all less than a block away. But that was before the neighborhood was swept by riots.
Who benefits from the Ferguson riots? The biggest beneficiaries are politicians and racial demagogues. In Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young was one of many political demagogues who were able to ensure their own re-election, using rhetoric and policies that drove away people who provided jobs and taxes, but who were likely to vote against him if they stayed. Such demagogues thrived as Detroit became a wasteland.
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Michael Brown verdict discussion policy - take II
by Simon ini had originally thought that making the rules clear about what was and wasn't going to be allowed when discussing the michael brown verdict that we'd be able to avoid some of the unpleasantness that surrounded the subsequent trayvon martin trial discussions.. michael brown verdict discussion policy.
i had hoped that once the evidence came out there would not be as many people promoting opinions that contradicted it.
unfortunately, that appears to have been naive of me.
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sammielee24
Shoplifting shouldn't end in death.
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And there we have it again. And that's why things will never changed. We know this is about the Ferguson case and it infers that Brown was killed because he stole something. We all know that statement is not true.
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Michael Brown verdict discussion policy - take II
by Simon ini had originally thought that making the rules clear about what was and wasn't going to be allowed when discussing the michael brown verdict that we'd be able to avoid some of the unpleasantness that surrounded the subsequent trayvon martin trial discussions.. michael brown verdict discussion policy.
i had hoped that once the evidence came out there would not be as many people promoting opinions that contradicted it.
unfortunately, that appears to have been naive of me.
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sammielee24
The way I'm reading what Simon said is that once a legal verdict has been given on a case, the facts of the case must be considered solid. In otherwords, you can have an opinion but you can't change the facts of the case to support your opinion. If the facts of the case prove a person is guilty - you can't change the facts to support your opinion or theory of innocence. If no facts are presented to a court of law - then one has only opinions or theories to base a discussion on.
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Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown
by Simon inafter a thorough investigation and weighing of the evidence the grand jury has decided not to indict the officer.. the reaction so far seems as predicted - people refuse to accept that the result represents justice despite claims that is what they wanted.. there is now violence and vandalism, including gunshots.
let's hope the police contain the troublemakers.. .
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sammielee24
Lisa I will accept your apology for trying to claim that I said something I never did.
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Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown
by Simon inafter a thorough investigation and weighing of the evidence the grand jury has decided not to indict the officer.. the reaction so far seems as predicted - people refuse to accept that the result represents justice despite claims that is what they wanted.. there is now violence and vandalism, including gunshots.
let's hope the police contain the troublemakers.. .
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sammielee24
Please name some of these differences along racial lines.
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They're out there - go ahead and find them.
What is interesting is that when science works on DNA, genetics, and they seek to try and find similarities and differences to point to strengths and weaknesses, they find those things for example in health. That is why they were able to find markers in Sickle Cell and Tay Sachs for example - diseases specific to particular groups of people. They can take genetic markers for health weaknesses or strengths and then factor in environment and come up with what might be plausible averages for the advancement of some of those issues they find. sw
