Ladies, Please ... .ALWAYS answer your door and please teach your children to do so. Espescially in the daytime. Don't OPEN it but don't I ignore it or pretend you aren't home. Burglars knock first, almost always. If you answer they come up with an excuse then leave ... .wrong house, lost dog, offer to do yard work, sell magazines. If you do not answer, they break in. If you are comfortable with shooting an intruder dead, that's up to you, but don't put your kids in that position.

#19 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7 AT 2021-07-30 09:44 PM | REPLY

Most residential burglaries strike during the daytime while residents are at work. They don't want your kids or your wife, they just want stuff they can sell. That's why they knock first, to make sure nobody is home. I've been to a couple calls where kids did as their parents instructed, pretended nobody was home. They ended up hiding under beds or in closets, terrified white burglars searched the home. In one case an 11 year old shot and killed the intruder when he opened the closet door. He was celebrated for his "bravery", but the kid never got over it and is still traumatized.
people fear"Home invasion" robberies but they are very rare and usually not random. I've never investigated one that was not drug related or specifically targeted (store owner known to have a lot of cash, etc)
Dogs are great. If burglars hear a decent sized dog barking they will usually skip the house and move on to the next one. Not worth the hassle. Almost every burglary I've been to with a dog in the house there were indications the burglar was not a stranger to the family or the dog.

#20 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7 AT 2021-07-30 10:02 PM | NEWSWORTHY

Appreciate this context and nuance.

Right now I'm having a Juice Bomb Northeastern IPA by Sloop Brewing out of Hopewell Junction, NY.
#63 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Fascinating. About to crack a Mongo IIPA made by Port Brewing.

San Diego won't be the same without you.

#18 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

TIL

I crack a Coors Light in the morning huddle.
#47 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

No offense to anyone who enjoys Coors Light, especially those East County folks, but god damn it, SNOOFY. You live in the craft beer capital of the world and you're drinking Coors Light in the morning?

Yeeeesh.

We shouldn't be seeing case load spikes this time of year.
#19 | POSTED BY JPW

We're going to be ------ this summer.

JFC

Fox Fake News:

The bill comes as Republicans across the country have been speaking out about Critical Race Theory, a teaching method that has been adopted by schools and corporations nationwide that claims the United States is inherently racist.

The bill, passed on Friday in the Texas Senate by a margin of 18-4, removes language from a previous bill condemning White supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan. However, the bill does expressly prohibit educators from teaching that "one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex."

Also cut by the bill, requirements that students study Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech or about the work of labor leader Cesar Chavez and feminist Susan B. Anthony.

A current requirement, that students learn: "the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong" would be dropped if the bill is passed.

#3

It's an interesting question:

Speaking on the chamber floor, state Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D) said the legislation amounts to "tying the hands of our teachers."

"How could a teacher possibly discuss slavery, the Holocaust, or the mass shootings at the Walmart in El Paso or at the Sutherland Springs church in my district without giving deference to any one perspective?," she said.

then it begs the question why it was not lowered to 1-1, either by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 or via executive order by the President who signed it (which could have been called DACHA).

That's what I'm inquiring about.

The drug war and the resulting systemic racism stemming from it is a bi-partisan affair. Bill Clinton being guilty of exacerbating disproportionate minority confinement.

Could this have been based on a correlation is causation fallacy? Absolutely.
#54 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

That doesn't explain why they lowered the discrepancy from 100-1 to 18-1.

Mask up, folks!

against Asian-Americans in college admissions. ...

I'd say that's more in line with institutional discrimination, but I suppose that would be splitting hairs.

Now to the drug war:

Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind what was once a 100-1 crack versus cocaine sentencing disparity that was FINALLY reduced to 18-1 relatively recently? Asking for a friend.

#68 | POSTED BY EBAYREPAIR

Trump touted the vaccine once during an interview on Fox News.

OH, wait, no:

Hulk smash! Hulk smash!

That's the quote.

---- me.

#71 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

From my POV, the incorrect information is the variable that is pertinent to call out.

Smash, BOOM!

At least you focused on the pertinent information.
#67 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

It was the only incorrect information in your post.

So, you're exactly right.

She was murdered by a black cop.
#8 | POSTED BY JUSTHANK

What does the race of the "murderer" have to do with anything?

#3 | POSTED BY BILLY_BOY

They can keep their loser trophies in museums, where they belong.

No reason to celebrate traitors, which is what the Daughters of the Confederacy were doing when they erected all those statues all those years AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation.

#2 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

The secession declarations from numerous confederate stated their intent to secede was meant to preserve states' rights that protect the institution of slavery.

The "States' Rights" folks are not wrong, they are just incomplete.

Chauvin voted for B. Hussein Obama!

NEXT!

jkjkjkjkjk

He was a registered Republican in Florida, oddly enough.

The Right is NOT killing black people with impunity.

STFU, C-SHACK!

"January 6 is now a heroic uprising for the movement."

As postulated in my post on a different thread, 'hero' must now be synonymous with 'traitor.' Or at least seditionist in this context.

Choose your heroes wisely, my friends.

BTW, who in the flying ---- is considered a hero on the Confederate side?

Unless, of course, 'hero' is NOW synonymous with 'traitor.'