Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of black man

[ditcherman]

[video=youtube_share;ngFDy52eCZY]http://youtu.be/ngFDy52eCZY[/video]

I think this is my favorite performance of the song.

Look, I have nothing against the song.

To me, it's like having turkey on Thanksgiving. You are fond of turkey. It's a great tradition to eat it on a certain date. It's wonderful....but, it's only a portion of the dinner. There is stuffing, and cranberries and mashed potatoes & gravy, or yams, and pumpkin pie. The dinner isn't a turkey dinner. It's dinner with turkey.

And, after a few days of turkey sandwiches and turkey omelets and turkey ala king, you're pretty sick of turkey and don't want to see it again for awhile.

That's what this push of equality and police interaction with the black community seems to be.

I get it. George Floyd was the last straw. It's time to do something about it. Let's get moving. Why are you still vibrating in place and protesting? Oh, because of the ENTIRE list of grievances?

Bro, no. I'm not going along with it. Mostly cuz I don't buy it as fact. And when you stuff your blackness into the conversation 24/7, I'm beginning to remember that last Turkey sandwich after Thanksgiving and how I haven't had one in 6 months. I'm done with turkey. Maybe have a ham this year.

Do you get it? You've overwhelmed the conversation to the point I don't want to hear any more. I don't want to see you protesting. I especially don't want to see you burning and looting.

Let's get back to the first priority: Police reform.

If we can't get there, I think it's gonna be on you....cuz you're losing your audience.

Well said.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Alpo again.​

 

[Route 45]

https://www.businessinsider.com/home-depot-rope-sales-nooses-in-stores-2020-7

We're living in a ****ing clown world.

 

[Phase2]

The demand for racism far exceeds the supply.

 

[OurDee]

[video=youtube;K8JGNChUVzk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JGNChUVzk[/video]

 

[churchmouse]

[video=youtube;K8JGNChUVzk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JGNChUVzk[/video]

I just saw this one over on the book of faces. These guys are on point. Not just because they see the world close to what I do but they are onto the truth.

 

[chipbennett]

[video=youtube_share;ngFDy52eCZY]http://youtu.be/ngFDy52eCZY[/video]

I think this is my favorite performance of the song.

That is a really beautiful rendition. And I don't have any problem with the NFL including its performance during pre-game festtivities. How is it any different from "God Bless America", "America the Beautiful", "God Bless the USA", or other patriotic songs or hymns that have occasionally been included?

Look, I have nothing against the song.

To me, it's like having turkey on Thanksgiving. You are fond of turkey. It's a great tradition to eat it on a certain date. It's wonderful....but, it's only a portion of the dinner. There is stuffing, and cranberries and mashed potatoes & gravy, or yams, and pumpkin pie. The dinner isn't a turkey dinner. It's dinner with turkey.

And, after a few days of turkey sandwiches and turkey omelets and turkey ala king, you're pretty sick of turkey and don't want to see it again for awhile.

That's what this push of equality and police interaction with the black community seems to be.

I get it. George Floyd was the last straw. It's time to do something about it. Let's get moving. Why are you still vibrating in place and protesting? Oh, because of the ENTIRE list of grievances?

Bro, no. I'm not going along with it. Mostly cuz I don't buy it as fact. And when you stuff your blackness into the conversation 24/7, I'm beginning to remember that last Turkey sandwich after Thanksgiving and how I haven't had one in 6 months. I'm done with turkey. Maybe have a ham this year.

Do you get it? You've overwhelmed the conversation to the point I don't want to hear any more. I don't want to see you protesting. I especially don't want to see you burning and looting.

Let's get back to the first priority: Police reform.

If we can't get there, I think it's gonna be on you....cuz you're losing your audience.

This is the thing. I agree. And at some point, the underlying grievance has to be challenged. For instance, last weekend in Chicago, more black lives (14) were taken through commonplace urban violence than there are unarmed black lives taken by police across the entire country in an entire year, on average (~9). If "all lives do not matter until black lives matter" (the new mantra), then why is it not also true that "black lives do not matter until all black lives matter"? Either the mantra is absurd on its face, or it exposes hypocrisy.

Granted, I know the truth. BLM is nothing more than a Marxist front organization and a funding channel for the left (see: ActBlue).

As for me, where I have time, resources, and energy to use, I will focus it on areas that will help protect the most against unnecessary loss of life.

 

[actaeon277]

Some protesters on a highway again.
2 get hit.
Of course, they cry for the police.
The same police they are protesting.

[video=youtube_share;GtRQQQEBFbQ]https://youtu.be/GtRQQQEBFbQ[/video]

 

[chipbennett]

A mob blocking the road and impeding traffic is committing a felony. I have zero empathy for whatever happens to them, when people righteously (and lawfully) assert their right to travel unimpeded and their right to self-defense in response to unlawful detention by an unlawful mob.

 

[rvb]

I have nothing to a add to this...
powerful.

https://twitter.com/theangiestanton/status/1279380683903963137

 

[KellyinAvon]

Some protesters on a highway again.
2 get hit.
Of course, they cry for the police.
The same police they are protesting.

[video=youtube_share;GtRQQQEBFbQ]https://youtu.be/GtRQQQEBFbQ[/video]

 

[churchmouse]

I have nothing to a add to this...
powerful.

https://twitter.com/theangiestanton/status/1279380683903963137

Very much so.

 

[Alpo]

That is a really beautiful rendition. And I don't have any problem with the NFL including its performance during pre-game festtivities. How is it any different from "God Bless America", "America the Beautiful", "God Bless the USA", or other patriotic songs or hymns that have occasionally been included?



This is the thing. I agree. And at some point, the underlying grievance has to be challenged. For instance, last weekend in Chicago, more black lives (14) were taken through commonplace urban violence than there are unarmed black lives taken by police across the entire country in an entire year, on average (~9). If "all lives do not matter until black lives matter" (the new mantra), then why is it not also true that "black lives do not matter until all black lives matter"? Either the mantra is absurd on its face, or it exposes hypocrisy.

Granted, I know the truth. BLM is nothing more than a Marxist front organization and a funding channel for the left (see: ActBlue).

As for me, where I have time, resources, and energy to use, I will focus it on areas that will help protect the most against unnecessary loss of life.

Michael Connelly's main protagonist, Hieronymous Bosch, uses this as a guiding principle in his homicide investigations:

Everyone counts, or no one counts.


Seems about right.

 

[nonobaddog]

Painting by the real Hieronymous Bosch.

 

[Alpo]

Not to be picky, but it looks like you've posted a fabric swatch.

Most of us go to museums rather than JoAnn's to look at paintings.

 

[nonobaddog]

Not to be picky, but it looks like you've posted a fabric swatch.

Most of us go to museums rather than JoAnn's to look at paintings.

The real painting is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Go for it.

 

[foszoe]

that's my shower curtain!

Not to be picky, but it looks like you've posted a fabric swatch.

Most of us go to museums rather than JoAnn's to look at paintings.

 

[chipbennett]

The real painting is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Go for it.

Alright; I'm in! When are we going?

 

[Alpo]

The real painting is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Go for it.

Yeah...well, I wasn't attempting to show a painting....you making masks from that swatch?

 

[Alpo]

Alright; I'm in! When are we going?

The thing that's pretty remarkable about his paintings....to me anyways...is that they were painted around 1500 a.d.

 

[Alpo]

Alright; I'm in! When are we going?

With a side trip to see a few Vermeer's? Maybe a Van Gogh or two?