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  1. Portland, OR Doubletree hotel calls cops, kicks out guest for telephoning while black.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2018/12/portland-hotel-calls-cops-on-black-guest-in-lobby.html

    Jermaine Massey had just seen Travis Scott perform at the Moda Center on Sunday night and returned to his hotel when he saw that his mother had called.

    She lives on the East Coast, so he assumed if she called so late, something must be wrong. So he sat down in the lobby of the DoubleTree Hotel in the Lloyd District to take the call before going up to his room.

    Massey recounted what came next in a series of Instagram videos that have gone viral. Massey, from Kent, Washington, says in them that he was targeted by a security guard because he is black and that this led to Massey being kicked out of the hotel and having to find a new one near midnight.

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    One of Massey’s videos shows where he was sitting, tucked away in a group of comfortable chairs away from the main part of the lobby. Massey, 34, said he was sitting there when a white security guard approached him and interrupted Massey’s phone call to ask if Massey was a staying at the hotel.

    Massey said he was. The guard then asked what room number.

    According to Massey, that is when he became irritated and told the guard that he was on a phone call and that he doesn’t remember his room number off the top of his head.

    The guard then had a manager call police. In the recording of the incident Massey posted, the guard says that he was calling the cops because Massey was loitering, despite Massey holding his room key card.

    Massey said in a video after the incident that the guard told him he thought Massey was a threat to other people’s safety.

    Massey, who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with bright lettering, jeans and sneakers, contended that the white guests who were walking in and out of the hotel and milling about the lobby were not stopped. Several times, he suggests that he was singled out because he was black, to which neither the manager or guard responds.

    After the manager called the police, he asked Massey and the guard what happened and told Massey to “calm down” and that the guard had the right to alert police and wouldn’t have done so without cause

    I'd say he was being pretty calm in the video, given the circumstances, when the manager told him to "calm down."  I guess the manager thought he was getting a little uppity. 

  2. 8 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Lethal Weapon is cheesy on every level but it works, because 80s.

    It's extremely cheesy. I watched it again this morning. If you thought Gary Busey was hilarious then you must have found Mel Gibson hamming it up trying to look tough and mysterious to be positively hysterical. 

    How did Mr. Joshua know where Riggs was going to be questioning a hooker on the street when he shot him up after the hit on Hunsaker? How did he even know who Riggs was or that he was on the case? Did he figure that out just from the helicopter when he killed Kelly's dad? There were a lot of people out on the lawn. 

    Why was Murtaugh watching from across the street when Riggs was talking to the hooker? Were they expecting a hit? Apparently not because Murtaugh didn't know Riggs was wearing his bullet proof vest. We saw that the brakes work on the buses in L.A. when Murtaugh ran across the street after Riggs got shot. 

    How did Mr. Joshua know about Murtaugh? He couldn't have seen him in Hunsaker's office. How did he know about him and where to go to kill his daughter's boyfriend and kidnap her? How did the general manage to get the drop on Riggs out in the desert, on foot, from the meeting place? Why did they take two captured cops back to the site of the heroin delivery in order to interrogate them?

    Let's grant that it was plausible for Murtaugh to know that Mr. Joshua was driving to the freeway and could give Riggs a shortcut to beat him there on foot so he could engage him in a shootout with automatic weapons on a road crowded with citizens. And apparently none of them were shot accidentally. After Joshua got away, and they figured out he'd be going to the Murtaugh home, how did they get there before him, evacuate the family, and write him a note from "the good guys?"

    After Riggs took off on foot for Joshua, Murtaugh went back for the general. He confronted him in a car speeding through the alleyway, took aim, and shot...the general's driver. Fortunately, happenstance came to the rescue again as this time the brakes on the bus weren't used and the general's car got smashed. Otherwise he might have lobbed some of those grenades in Murtaugh's direction and gotten away. 

    When they went to question Amanda Hunsaker's "meal ticket" without a warrant, someone just happens to open the gate on their way out and invite them into the party. There's a lot of random chance used to move the story along. 

    Die Hard is a much, much better movie. Earning 20 percent? Please. 

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  3. They just showed Bill Walton and Mickey Hart in the stands taking in the Lakers-Warriors game. 

    Edit: I had it on a second screen with the volume down when I first saw them. With the volume up a few minutes later the announcers had just been told who Bill's friend was. 

  4. On December 20, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Richard Kimball said:

    White Christmas (how could anyone watch Danny Kaye shove off Vera Ellen and not know he was gay?)

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    Because they're not homophobic and don't think about such things? Didn't know, never noticed, don't care. 

    But, then, you didn't get Buddy in Elf. So your taste and character was already in question. 

  5. 12 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

    All you have to do is google search and see almost every President since Teddy Roosevelt has spoken to the midshipman. Obama twice. 

    That's all Fake News that George Soros pays Google to provide in your search results. 

  6. 11 hours ago, luke duke said:

     


    He was drinking it too.

     

    Oh, well, that's different. I was going to say you should've poured it down the drain and said you'd wait for the fresh pot. But if he was drinking it too then it really wasn't a gesture of disrespect. Maybe the opposite.

    I'll reheat cold coffee in the microwave. I don't have a problem with that. But I'd never serve it to guests. 

  7. 1 hour ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

    Their 12-year old son must be heartbroken to miss out on that stilted holiday photo op.

    Either A. someone exercises good judgement by keeping Barron well clear of this shitshow or B. the kid is the wisest of them all and decided that himself.  I'm leaning toward B. Barron is Buddha.

     

    No one has ever been more certain to grow up to be an asshole than Barron Trump. Bank on it. 

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