Covid outbreak in Houston protesters and the police assigned to it. Exactly as expected for defying a large gathering ban.

Death rate trending back up. All those young adults brought it home to their elders, who spread it through their workplaces.

America's divorce is getting really weird. The left got NASCAR and the right got Harry Potter.

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-10 02:33 PM | FLAG:

The question is, how do you encourage people to be more tolerant of what they may disagree with.
#5 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2020-07-10 10:35 AM | FLAG:

Discourse ethics.

The Paradox of Tolerance just lands you in jail when you put a lock in a sock and have at people.

If the GOP was planning on holding the convention outdoors the same thing would apply. But they weren't to the best of my knowledge, so...

#11 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2020-07-09 11:55 AM | FLAG:

Since 60,000 people shoulder to shoulder in 2 city blocks is not infectious at all, and under 6,000 people checked for symptoms before entering a 5 block long convention center is greatly infectious, the Republican convention indoors has been cancelled. Now they are in fact looking at outdoor conventions in Florida and Texas.

Go home politically motivated idiots on all sides. You are not helping.

Fascism, Communism. Same mother, different daddies.

#61 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-09 05:52 PM | FLAG:

I don't see any meaningful progress on how the police treat blacks since Rodney King.
How about you?

#35 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-09 04:13 PM | FLAG:

We went the other way with that and added laws that would obviously, disproportionately effect black communities. You can only get somebody for so long on a drug sentence. Add some gun control to the mix and now you've got a guy for 30 years and a fat stack of charges. Looks great on a police record, looks great on a DA record who wants to get into politics.

No. He motioned to his jacket twice and was yelling "SHOOT ME!" at the police. So they shot him. He did have a loaded pistol in his pocket.

to a status quo

#31 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-09 03:49 PM | FLAG:

It only took 6 revisions for Minneapolis, but that particular branch of police can't restrain you by the neck anymore. You're such a fan of incrementalism you should be celebrating. It's one tiny step forward from getting choked to death for selling a loosie. Still can't sell loosies though.

I'm of the opinion that cop is going to walk, but I don't like it.

#22 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-09 03:03 PM | FLAG:

Childish and trifling as usual.

No you wouldn't do that in competitive grappling. Terrible technique. You're trying to put them unconscious on purpose in a tournament. You wouldn't go Knee on Neck from their back. You'd go knee to the center of their back but only for control to setup the next position and submission combination somewhere down the flow chart. A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Knee On Neck choke is done from a top position, but with their back to the ground, and you have to underhook deep as you can on your knee down side and get their gi or clothes grabbed onto deep at their shoulder. That's a strangulation and you go out within seconds. The black starts at the edges and it races inwards until things are just a pin -----. Then you have a very vivid dream and wake up not know why people are looking at you funny while some guy gets a high 5 from his friends and coach.

Sure.

#18 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-09 02:53 PM | FLAG:

Remind us of your grappling pedigree again.

#9 In that case, the law legalizes murder by asphyxiation.

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-07-09 01:11 PM | FLAG:

if these cops walk due to following establish restrain protocols

#5 | POSTED BY MUTANT AT 2020-07-09 12:19 PM | FLAG:

Chauvin will probably walk under the argument that since the subject was able to talk and yell he had no reason to believe he was applying more than light or moderate pressure. That's assuming he was authorized to use it in the first place which requires an instructor signoff it looks like.

Sort of. 60,000 packed shoulder to shoulder into 2 downtown blocks. 10,000 attended the indoors George Floyd visitation. Dallas packed thousands into a spot directly front of their Police HQ before the Deep Ellum riot. It's like they want to get Covid.

Now compare those BLM protests to Pres Trump's campaign which insisted that the city hosting the convention cannot have a mask requirement, cannot require social distancing, must allow full occupancy of bars and hotels, among other demands.

#4 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2020-07-08 09:35 PM | FLAG:

In Houston the BLM protests dwarfed Trump's rally there 100 to 1 and are still going on. Houston cancelled the Republican convention. Mask discipline at protests has improved, but at some points is still terrible.

Almost every Super Wal-Mart comes with a gas station in front and has for at at least a decade.

One of his staffers seems to have heavily implied he already had it and recovered.

Its a joke from a Dave Chapelle bit, explaining why he bought a shotgun.

and for a fun political update, it's working out like this:

The governor is pawning off any type of shutdown talk back to the cities and accusing them of not enforcing executive orders.
The mayors of the cities are pawning off cracking down on their local rules and kicking it up to the governor to enforce a state wide shutdown.

It's a circular firing squad with the citizens standing in the middle.

It made the Chron but it's paywalled. TLDR, the 6/14 study showed what the early 5/17 study hinted at but didn't confirm. There's another that came out 2 days before along the same lines, and another on Cell along the same lines.

"SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolates encoding a D614G mutation in the viral spike (S) protein predominate over time in locales where it is found, implying that this change enhances viral transmission. We therefore compared the functional properties of the S proteins with aspartic acid (SD614) and glycine (SG614) at residue 614. We observed that retroviruses pseudotyped with SG614 infected ACE2-expressing cells markedly more efficiently than those with SD614. This greater infectivity was correlated with less S1 shedding and greater incorporation of the S protein into the pseudovirion. Similar results were obtained using the virus-like particles produced with SARS-CoV-2 M, N, E, and S proteins. However, SG614 did not bind ACE2 more efficiently than SD614, and the pseudoviruses containing these S proteins were neutralized with comparable efficiencies by convalescent plasma. These results show SG614 is more stable than SD614, consistent with epidemiological data suggesting that viruses with SG614 transmit more efficiently."

There are a LOT of militant "redders" there. San Diego, Orange County, and radicals and militias in Northern CA.

#62 | POSTED BY YAV AT 2020-07-08 10:48 AM | FLAG:

We'll have to differ on what "a LOT" is. "Out of the 53 seats California is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, 7 are held by Republicans". Texas is 24 Repub, 12 dems in the Fed House, while lopsided it's far more balanced than California.

If anybody was curious, the last time FEMA was efficient, it was run by a friend of Bill Clinton who was a confederate flag flying, ostrich boot wearing, dip chewing redneck that never went to college. The guy focused FEMA on being great at building up emergency communication systems and he was gifted at it, even slashing the classified FEMA spending from $100 million to $7.5 million. There has been a lot of mission creep since and their performance during disasters subpar. The only thing they get praised on is distributing money.

Not a good idea to wear a mask into a gun store.