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  1. -No stamps or postmarks -No addresses And check out the handwriting. Handwriting #1 Handwriting #2 Cops truly do think we are as dumb as they are.
    23 points
  2. He’s not wrong. I’m proud of the message the program has put out during this time of tragedy. I’m especially proud to be a Longhorn fan that also happens to be black. America isn’t perfect, and we got a lot of shit to fix that will take the generations behind us to solve, but dammit I wouldn’t want to be born or raised anywhere else.
    21 points
  3. The president is a terrorist. Far more dangerous than osama bin Ladin ever was.
    17 points
  4. This is how you concern troll. That’s just troll art right there. The proposal you are talking about was made a month ago, when we were in the depths of COVID, and it was an idea for temporary UBI until the pandemic had eased. It was actually $2000 a month per person. It was never actually introduced as legislation, but an idea floated back when the Senate GOP was still interested in doing pandemic relief. Defunding police departments is a grab bag phrase that can cover a lot of serious proposals: stopping the purchase of military equipment, abolishing and recreating local PDs in a manner like Camden, NJ, or getting tough with the Union in exchange for real policing reform and accountability. Nobody is talking about just wiping out your local PD and going to the honor system. But I appreciate your concern that formally GOP suburban voters who have likely already voted Democrat I’m 2018 or are strongly Democrat curious are going to hear some sort of vague socialist bogeyman language and immediately run back into the nurturing arms of Donald Trump.
    11 points
  5. Don’t forget....simply ending the war on drugs would get us 80% of the way to solving all of these problems. They wouldn’t need as much money, we wouldn’t need as much jail space, they wouldn’t have probably cause to search everyone and everything....one step, with a thousand benefits.
    10 points
  6. Hey John Bolton, suck my dick, choke on it. I yield my time. FUCK YOU!
    9 points
  7. 9 points
  8. losers and traitors celebrate other losers and traitors
    9 points
  9. My boy is on a roll protesting. He was on the sidelines about participating, and then early this week cops shot a tear gas canister that exploded near his h.s. swim coach's head, and BANG - skull fracture and maybe brain damage. He is pissed. I had to coach him up not to white knight his coach and get into a tussle with the cops. He has been going out every night lately with my blessings.
    9 points
  10. Due to the business that I am in I have been to 29 different countries, many of which have been multiple visits, and most of them have been for a decent stay and not a drop in and get out situation. Unlike a lot of people's views of other countries that have been Chamber of Commerce Come Visit Our Country commercial on TV or have actually gone to these countries to only visit the tourist spots, etc., I have had the opportunity to actually get out into the depth of the countries and see how conditions are and have met a wide variety of people in return. I am with USMCHorn 100% on this post. If you do not think that the USA is not the best country in the world then you need to get out more often.
    8 points
  11. Tweet about how Powell was an incompetent general in 3...2...1
    8 points
  12. Ask and you shall receive, Donny boy:
    8 points
  13. Herman has handled recent events arguably better than any other head coach in the country, and that likely matters with some recruits. Dabo has had a bad two weeks, and that might matter with some recruits. I have no idea if either of those are a factor for Mukuba, but the thought crossed my mind.
    8 points
  14. Unfair?!? Who’s the fucking nihilist here?
    7 points
  15. Celtic legend giving the President some truth. SIAP.
    7 points
  16. Okay, reporting back. I normally just go by feel with a steak, but at damn near 2 lbs and 2 inches thick, this thing required a meat thermometer. Patagonian Toothfish for the wife. Martinis were flowin... Nice little Caesar salad with some homemade croutons... And, as usual, the star of the show was the mac n cheese (also did a bread basket and a shrimp cocktail, but I didn't get any pics of them). This was just a huge bowl of cheesy noodle awesomeness... Back to the steak, seared it on the griddle... Took what seemed like forever to cook and rest, but here's the finished product... And here's her sea bass. Yes, I cut her lemon into a flower. Happy wife, happy blah blah blah. Come at me... Plated with some mac n cheese... And just so I don't get called out by the surly steak mafia, here's the money shot. Nailed it (thank you meat thermometer)... Did I mention the star of the show was the mac n cheese...
    7 points
  17. My wife and I were married right at 25 yrs when she passed away. In all that time I managed to get over on her a few times because of one situation that happened not long after we were married. Now, my wife was probably the most intelligent and smart person I ever knew. How she ended up with me is still a mystery. But, I digress. We were discussing a topic that I knew I was without a doubt, beyond all reason, right about. She, of course, was telling me I was wrong. We used to have coffee on Saturday with her mother who lived across the street. She said, "Momma, I want to ask you a question." Mom's "ok." She laid out the topic and even presented my side accurately. Then, the payoff. "Who's right?" Mom, "he is." Oh shit, it hit the fan big time. She thought her mother should take her side automatically. Her mother said right is right, and he's right. Everytime after that I knew I was on solid ground all I had to do was say "let's go ask your mother". Tone.
    7 points
  18. Look at what happened in Baltimore in 2015 when the mayor told the cops to ease up on making arrests.... the murder rate shot up into the 50s per 100,000 and have stayed there since. Citizens and politicians better be very careful what they are asking for.
    6 points
  19. The telltale whimsical, tidy pseudo-cursive handwriting of a kindergartener:
    6 points
  20. Good on him. Still sucks but good on him.
    6 points
  21. It's also the "she's black and female, so she doesn't deserve a seat at the table much less a taste of the pie."
    6 points
  22. Never heard of this story of Elijah McClain. 23 yr old black man killed by Aurora Police a few months ago while walking home. Dude would spent his free time playing music for homeless kittens. Video of part of the incident is below. One of the cops is caught on camera telling another cop to cover their body camera. Nobody charged, nobody suspended, all officers still on the job. Video of the incident:
    6 points
  23. LOL. Good one. GOP grow a conscience. You kill me.
    6 points
  24. The New York police department alone has a budget of 6 billion dollars. That’s larger than the GDP of 50 countries. Studies have shown over and over that more police do not lead to less crime or violence. Often times it’s the exact opposite. I would love some accountability related measures but frankly that’s only a small piece of the problem. The problem is how we police in this country. We have cut services and increased budgets for police and in turn we have given them responsibility for things they have no business dealing with. Mental health problems, domestic issues, etc. are all things police are not qualified to handle but we expect them to. We could be smart and direct funding to things that help improve our police interaction with the community or prevent their interactions at all but we don’t. We buy more tanks, more guns, etc.
    6 points
  25. Here he tacitly admits that he wants to use force on protestors, not looters. Previously, he has limply acknowledged that protestors =/= looters.
    6 points
  26. The confederacy were losers and traitors. How they are still being held up as “southern pride/heritage” is beyond me.
    6 points
  27. my niece has also been going down to APD regularly since last friday. she got pepper sprayed last weekend but i think it's been calmer since monday or so. she's ended up with a microphone a few times even. she's supposedly wearing her mask regular...but i do make her sit in the backseat with it on when i drop her off down there...as i blast RATM with all my windows open to show my support lol 😊 god bless these kids
    6 points
  28. Fried mojarra, potato twister fries, beans, rice, and salad topped with salsa valentina. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    5 points
  29. yes, he's remarkably consistent with shit like this. my personal favorite was right after the burr/stock stuff hit, and then the 2nd wave identified a total of 8 senators with "suspicious" activity that got flagged. 7 r's and feinstein. during his briefing, he was asked about the "senators that sold stock with insider info" and his response was, "yes, i know dianne feinstein was one of them, but i don't know too much about it." he knew just enough to name the one dem. since day one everything has been "us vs them", and people are just now realizing he's not even trying to unite us? no fucking shit he's not uniting us. he's not trying to unite us. but what mattis didn't say, is that "he's not even pretending to try to unite us". because he doesn't want to. he thinks he can win by dividing the country and riling up his base. he can't.
    5 points
  30. My daughter, too, and she’ll be out there today again. It scares the shit out of me. All I can think about is Brad Ayala getting his hair parted by a sniper just standing by himself on the embankment, watching. Which is of a piece with what she’s down there to help stop. I’m very proud of her, but that’s my baby.
    5 points
  31. Cops see this and think
    5 points
  32. From that same Texas monthly edition, a pretty good depantsing of the fraud that is Art Acevedo. Well done TM! --------------------------------------> https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/art-acevedo-houston-police-george-floyd/ At a press conference on March 23, 2018, Art Acevedo, the Houston police chief, announced an aggravated assault charge against Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett. Acevedo alleged that the Eagles star had pushed an elderly paraplegic security guard at Houston’s NRG Stadium as he rushed to celebrate on the field with his brother Martellus, whose New England Patriots had just won the 2017 Super Bowl. At the half-hour press conference, held more than a year after the game—Acevedo explained the HPD had prioritized “serious crimes”—the police chief was in his element, bantering with reporters and issuing soundbite-worthy quips. He worked himself into a righteous lather over someone “putting hands on a little old lady” in a motorized wheelchair and called Bennett “pathetic” and “morally bankrupt.” But, as Acevedo admitted, there was no video of the alleged assault. Given the number of people trying to access the field after the Patriots’ Super Bowl victory, it was unclear how the elderly security guard, and the police officer who allegedly witnessed the incident, could clearly identify Bennett, who strenuously denied the charge. One year after the press conference, in April 2019, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office dropped the case after determining that “a crime could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.” Acevedo said he stood by the assessment that an assault had occurred, but agreed there wasn’t enough evidence to proceed with the case. This kind of grandstanding and moralistic posturing from Acevedo has drawn heat from local activists. Since taking over as police chief in 2016, Acevedo, who did not immediately respond to requests for an interview, has excelled at self-promotion. This week, he is trying to sell himself to the nation as a pro-reform police chief. He’s changed his Twitter profile picture to an image of George Floyd, the longtime Houston resident who was choked to death by police in Minneapolis, sparking nationwide protests. Acevedo has appeared on the Today show and penned an op-ed for the Washington Post calling for more police accountability. A video of him standing with protesters, speaking of his anger over Floyd’s killing, has gone viral. But Acevedo’s record is one of a police chief reluctant to make fundamental reforms. READ: The Houston Years of George Floyd Consider the issue of bail reform. Acevedo has called for reform of the cash bail system, saying the decision to release suspects accused of a crime before trial “should be based on [their] public safety risk rather than how rich [they] are.” Yet he, along with many in the criminal justice establishment, opposed Harris County’s historic 2019 settlement of a lawsuit about how it sets bail, which eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanor defendants. He regularly takes to Twitter to slam judges for granting bail to defendants he thinks belong in jail. Thank you for reading Texas Monthly Now more than ever Texans are connecting over shared stories. Enjoy your unlimited access to our site. To have Texas Monthlymagazine delivered to your home, become a subscriber today. Not even the coronavirus has softened his opposition. In March, when Sheriff Ed Gonzalez proposed waiving bail for a significant percentage of the eight thousand inmates in Harris County jail to reduce the risk of an outbreak, Acevedo pushed back. He argued that anyone considered for release should be subjected to an individualized risk assessment—a time-consuming process. Between Acevedo’s intransigence and a series of court orders blocking the sheriff’s plan, only about three hundred inmates have been let out, and by mid-May, more than one thousand inmates and jail staff had contracted the virus. “There are those of us that are trapped here in what could be Houston’s largest death camp, just for being accused, just for being an addict,” inmate James Walter Gandy told the Houston Chronicle. This week, Acevedo has tried to position himself as a friend to both protesters and police officers. During Tuesday’s massive afternoon demonstration in downtown Houston, he stood with a group of protesters to answer their increasingly pointed complaints about police brutality. The protest that day was peaceful. The only property damage I witnessed was a single act of graffiti-spraying. Nonetheless, as it began getting dark, the HPD, backed up by state Department of Public Safety troopers—all of them wearing paramilitary-style tactical gear—started aggressively and systematically clearing protesters out of downtown, even though the city was not under curfew. “This is no longer a peaceful protest,” I heard officers repeatedly announce via bullhorn, in direct contradiction to what I could see and what video of the event would later confirm. “Those who refuse to disperse are subject to arrest.” A block from Minute Maid Park, I saw mounted police nearly trample a line of kneeling protesters who refused to get out of the road. Later, I had to flee with other protesters through Discovery Green after several hundred cops in riot gear donned their gas masks and rumors spread of imminent tear gas. (HPD says it did not end up deploying the gas.) The night ended without “significant property damage or injuries,” as an official HPD tweet put it, yet police arrested more than two hundred people. Acevedo’s condemnation of the killing of George Floyd is also complicated by the fact that his own officers have shot and killed six Houstonians over the past six weeks, at least one of whom was unarmed. Despite his recent public calls for accountability, Acevedo has refused to release police video of any of the six shootings, citing concerns about privacy and about the videos’ potential to taint potential prosecution of the police officers. Five of the six Houstonians shot were people of color. Acevedo denies that race has anything to do with it. He told the Houston Chronicle that “it saddens me that people look at race,” adding, “What we need to look at is that behavior”—a reference to claims that several of the victims were threatening officers. Cellphone video appears to show one of the six slain men, Nicolas Chavez, kneeling when he was shot. (Acevedo has asked the FBI to investigate Chavez’s shooting.) No officers have been disciplined for any of the shootings. READ NEXT A No-Knock Raid in Houston Led to Deaths and Police Injuries. Should Police Rethink the Practice? BY LEIF REIGST Acevedo’s department has also conducted controversial no-knock raids, leading to one prominent scandal. In January 2019, undercover narcotics officers executed a no-knock warrant on the southeast Houston home of Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle. A gunfight broke out during which Nicholas and Tuttle died and several HPD officers were injured. The narcotics officers believed the couple was dealing heroin, but found only small amounts of cocaine and marijuana. The entire raid, it turned out, was based on an unlawful warrant written up by HPD officers Gerald Goines and Steven Bryant. Goines and Bryant retired after the incident. Goines was charged with murder, and Bryant was charged with tampering with a government document. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office anticipates it will dismiss more than 150 drug cases handled by Goines, and their review is ongoing. A Houston Chronicle investigationrevealed that Goines spent much of his undercover time busting low-level street dealers. In 2004, he arrested George Floyd for allegedly selling him less than a gram of cocaine. Floyd pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten months in state jail. In March 2019, the district attorney’s office sent Floyd a letter notifying him that Goines was under criminal investigation. Acevedo’s handling of the case has followed a predictable arc, from defending his officers to the hilt in January of 2019, to issuing an apology for Goines’s and Bryant’s actions in November, to positioning himself as the hero of the whole affair by claiming credit for discovering the malfeasance. “It would have been a tragedy for Rhogena and the Tuttles if we had not uncovered [Goines’s alleged misconduct],” Acevedo told Texas Monthly in February. “That would be an even greater tragedy and injustice.” In February, Acevedo announced a series of reforms including more scrutiny of “no-knock” raids and tighter supervision of narcotics operations. The families of the married couple killed in the raid remain unsatisfied. On Wednesday, Rhogena Nicholas’s brother John wrote an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle calling on Acevedo to release the forensic and ballistics reports from the scene of the raid; fully investigate the entire narcotics division; and be transparent about the state of the case against Goines and Bryant. “As [Houston mayor Sylvester] Turner and Acevedo plan for their next news conferences to comment on public safety in some faraway place or even in Houston, we ask them to take a moment and remember that our family is still awaiting their answers to our questions,” Nicholas writes. Like Nicholas, many Houstonians say they are tired of their police chief saying the right thing in public but allowing the same problems he speaks against to fester behind closed doors. It’s time, they say, for Acevedo’s actions to be as bold as his words.
    5 points
  33. So last week the baby had a stomach bug and was shitting twice as much as usual, meaning twice as many dirty diapers in our trash. Tues night I put the garbage out for the usual Wed pickup (now understand our trash pickup usually hits in the afternoon). Wednesday morning my wife goes and gets the 10yo daughter from her grandparents at about 11am.. trash hasn't picked up yet, but my wife just assumes it has for no reason and when they get back, she instructs the girl to get the trashcan and roll it back into the garage. Never in the 2 years we've lived at his house has either of them ever touched the outside garbage bin. It's never their chore, always mine. Fine..... but for some reason this week is the week. Doesn't faze the daughter ONE BIT that the can is clearly still full while she rolls it back into the garage. 15 min later the trash guys come by. Now I have a full ass trashcan in the garage with double the usual amount of dirty diapers, and we're looking at 100+ for the next several days.
    5 points
  34. My wife broke one of those old glass thermometers. Her: they don't put mercury in thermometers anymore do they? there was this weird silver stuff that came out and rolled around and I couldn't get a grip on it to pick it up. Me: uhhh Her: so I just vacuumed it up
    5 points
  35. Ordered this on canvas for our son’s 12th birthday and while I know there are potential better uses of money this day and age I honestly don’t give a fuck because he’s going to go out of his mind with happiness when he sees it and that’s all I want to see. Our Rocket and Edgar, brothers in arms. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    5 points
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