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From somewhere, re oppression in Charlotte:

There's a Black President
There's a Black Congressman
There's a Black Chief of Police
There's a Black District Attorney
There's a Black Mayor until 2014 (Jailed)
There's a Black Officer who pulled a trigger
There's a Black Man Dead of that gunshot wound

The Narrative versus the Facts in Charlotte

From here:

For inexplicable reasons, the Left believes that the violence wrought by angry minorities will benefit them, so they encourage it. They subsidize it. Obama has given his not-so-tacit permission to riot every time one of these tragic events occurs, from the Henry Louis Gates minor incident, to the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, the Dallas officers. And now BLM is rolling in money, $100m from "social justice" organizations. Soros gave them $33m.

"Keith Lamont Scott was scum." The media spin; “Family and neighbors call Scott a quiet ‘family man.’”

Quietly sitting in his car with his PCP and his firearm (he did he get a firearm?). Rule of thumb: Never, ever, wave a handgun at police officers.

Like everything else, the debates are all about Trump

Why Trump Will Win: It's the Likability, Stupid!

Hillary: The Third World Has a “Right” to Move to the United States

Finally! The Clinton Family has a compound

Greedy social climbers, pond scum, like the Kennedys were/are. Maybe that's the Clintonian aspiration.

Here’s a question Donald Trump should try and work in to the debate: why is Hillary Clinton against the right to work?

Hell is wherever Hillary is.

OK, that is not news and not a reason not to vote for her

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Re sprawl: "Chuck Marohn at Strong Towns has shown that the low density, car-dependent development that has typified American cities since World War II does not produce enough tax revenue to service the debt that cities took out to build the infrastructure needed for sprawl." Now, this made me laugh. Suddenly we're supposed to care whether cities have a sustainable tax system in light of economic realities? But the only factor worth considering is transportation infrastructure that everyone is equally entitled to use? No need to think about crony deals for stadiums or public pension bloat? Blue cities are drowning in financial (and other) chaos all over the country, but I don't think it's because of their citizens' freedom to avoid population density.

#1 Texan99 on 2016-09-24 09:11 (Reply)

And I remember cities such as Philadelphia levying a wage / payroll tax. Kinda like an income tax except you didn't have to live in Philly or even Pennsylvania.

#1.1 OldFert on 2016-09-25 00:17 (Reply)

I paid New York city and state income taxes for years, though I've always lived in Texas. Benefits of belonging to a partnership with a NY office. Not a little symbolic payment, either, but a whopping big check.

#1.1.1 Texan99 on 2016-09-25 22:54 (Reply)

Re the home invaders: I had the same reaction as many of the commenters: well done, but weren't you itching to get her to reload and secure the scene? There were at least 3 home invaders, and I didn't see her count and disarm 3 indisputably dead-as-doornail youths who needed to turn their lives around.

#2 Texan99 on 2016-09-24 09:21 (Reply)

Glad to see she and her friend were safe after her confrontation with the gun. Wonder if the guy was really a heavy sleeper or just plain scared as it appeared the intruders went into the guys bedroom. Hopefully they won't go after her for shooting out the door as you know "that was really mean, they were running away". Good for her!

#2.1 JC on 2016-09-24 12:42 (Reply)

This demonstrates why we all need to be arming ourselves in this era of lawlessness. She fortunately killed one, but there are still two others out there preying on other people. No one is safe as criminals become bolder and bolder. People need to be defending themselves.

#2.2 Jim on 2016-09-24 20:23 (Reply)

Ref Pet ownership

I read that article as part of my morning ritual: go into the spare room and log on. I was soon joined, like most mornings by my dog, hopping up on the couch to quietly watch me.

Yeah. 'slavery'

#3 jay on 2016-09-24 09:29 (Reply)

QUOTE:

The ‘Fingerprint’ Of Global Warming Doesn’t Exist In The Real World, Study Finds

Even a cursory look finds several problems with the paper that would probably have to be revised before publication. For instance, the tropical tropospheric hot spot is a result of the adiabatic lapse rate, which can be due to any warming, regardless of cause; hence, it is not a fingerprint of CO2 warming. The footnote they provide refers to an article which says the actual relationship is complex due to large-scale circulation patterns.

But if it feels true ...

#4 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 09:58 (Reply)

Invalid comparison. The phrase "had slaves" is not the same as "were slaves".

#4.1 tnxplant on 2016-09-24 12:56 (Reply)

The usual word salad. Do you think this actually reaches people?

#4.2 Texan99 on 2016-09-24 13:48 (Reply)

Texan99: The usual word salad.

The claim is that the tropical tropospheric hot spot is a fingerprint of CO2 warming. That is incorrect. As the claim forms the basis of a primary claim of the paper, it means the paper needs some work before publication in a scientific journal.

There are other problems with the paper, but you might start with that claim first.

#4.2.1 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 14:34 (Reply)

If we just put enough epicycles into our model, it will prove the Sun is the center of the universe.

Global warming is a hoax, always has been.

#4.3 Jim on 2016-09-24 13:53 (Reply)

Jim: If we just put enough epicycles into our model, it will prove the Sun is the center of the universe.

No. That just proves that you can fit data to curves. To show that the Earth moves requires independent entailments (e.g. the retardation of the pendulum).

#4.3.1 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 14:41 (Reply)

ref Zika and global warming

World ends. Women and minorities hardest hit.

#5 Randy on 2016-09-24 10:18 (Reply)

Right to work? Yep! Great idea to debate this topic.

#6 jma on 2016-09-24 11:23 (Reply)

Black America does NOT have a race problem, they are just getting stupid. Years ago now, I grew up around many lower middle class blacks, but they maintained two-parent homes, smallish families, steady work, regular church attendance and a garden wherever they could find soil.

Now all I see is very highly educated blacks filling every news show discussing how the system screws them. The latest meme was a black professor insisting that "it was not capitalism with it's respect for the individual and property rights that first made America great; it was slavery! The role of capitalism is a myth." We white folks started a whole new country on the hard work of the slaves.

Well, from what I can figure out, only 8% of the population had slaves as it was a rather expensive proposition. And much of the work came from indentured people who were so anxious to escape famine, lack of property rights and disrespect of the law that they were willing to sign such a contract for a ship ride to the New World. Plus, iife is not working too well for those blacks in Africa who -- along with the Arab populations -- are still maintaining slavery and face real poverty that lacks food stamps, free healthcare, tax-supported housing and Obama phones.

We have plenty of blacks in this country who are millionaires or well on their way. They just don't like hanging around with the brothers and sisters who don't make good choices and fail to appreciate the opportunities available to anyone who has the entrepreneurial spirit.

#7 jma on 2016-09-24 12:06 (Reply)

jma: Well, from what I can figure out, only 8% of the population had slaves as it was a rather expensive proposition.

About 40% of the population in the Confederate States were slaves at the start of the Civil War.

#7.1 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 12:36 (Reply)

Sorry, posted to wrong comment above :( but still holds that the comparison is invalid. "Had slaves" is not the same as "were slaves".

#7.1.1 tnxplant on 2016-09-24 13:00 (Reply)

tnxplant: The phrase "had slaves" is not the same as "were slaves".

True enough. A few people owned a lot of slaves, some owned a few, and many owned none. Nonetheless, slaves represented the single largest portion of wealth and production of the South. Jma was arguing that slavery was not economically significant, which was clearly not the case.

#7.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 14:38 (Reply)

"In 1861, the population of the Union was 18.5 million. In the Confederacy, the population was listed as 9 million, with 5.5 million free and 3.5 million enslaved. In the Border States there were 2.5 million free inhabitants and 500,000 enslaved people."
https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/facts.htm

26.5 million free people
4 million enslaved
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13% of the total population was enslaved in the US and the border states combined.

In the South about 25% of white people owned slaves - 1.4 million. So 5% of the total US population in 1861 owned slaves.

Fully 82% of the US and territories population in 1861 were neither enslaved nor did they own slaves.

#7.1.2 JM01 on 2016-09-24 13:07 (Reply)

Not only that, but slavery didn't do wonders for the economy of any region where it was endemic. In contrast, capitalism turned the U.S. into the richest country on earth, and even the South developed a fine economy after it ditched slavery. But I don't think they teach economics (or even clear reasoning) at Grievance University--which is the real grievance guys like that ought to be chapped about.

#7.1.2.1 Texan99 on 2016-09-24 13:52 (Reply)

Texan99: Not only that, but slavery didn't do wonders for the economy of any region where it was endemic.

No. It tended to make some white people lazy. Ironically, they would complain about lazy blacks, while bragging about their accomplishments. It was sort of like a welfare program for rich white folk, paid for on the backs of slaves. They got "even" after the Civil War, blaming blacks for their troubles.

Texan99: In contrast, capitalism turned the U.S. into the richest country on earth, and even the South developed a fine economy after it ditched slavery.

After the Civil War, the South's production remained primarily agricultural, and industrial development lagged behind other regions of the country, at least until the federal electrification programs of the New Deal. The South didn't fully recover until the end of Jim Crow, which allowed it to tap into the full potential of its people.

#7.1.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 14:31 (Reply)

So, to make a long and PC story short, you agree that the article's argument that slavery, not capitalism, created this country's extraordinary wealth is risible.

#7.1.2.1.1.1 Texan99 on 2016-09-25 22:58 (Reply)

Slavery was a significant economic factor in the early days, when the U.S. was primarily an agricultural nation. It certainly wasn't the only factor, though, which included open markets, maritime trade, as well as vast resources (often taken by force, as from Native Americans and Mexico).

#7.1.2.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2016-09-26 06:54 (Reply)

JM01: In the Confederacy, the population was listed as 9 million, with 5.5 million free and 3.5 million enslaved.

Yes. That would mean about 40% of the population of the Confederate states were slaves.

#7.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2016-09-24 14:24 (Reply)

What's the mount on the left? A brant? I think one flew by me one time. I was struggling to identify it and it was long gone by the time I realized what it probably was.

#8 LWS on 2016-09-24 12:20 (Reply)

No, from the beak its not a brant. What is it?

#8.1 LWS on 2016-09-24 13:41 (Reply)

Rutgers prof equates pet ownership with 'torture'
Satire or serious?

Serious. Progressives are much more earnest than they are humorous.

#9 Gringo on 2016-09-24 20:39 (Reply)

>Hysteria without data. Plus there is the "Who cares?" factor.

This is the most dangerous of all. Apathy has allowed the Ontario Liberal government to create a Cap n Trade tax that sucks 1.9 billion out our economy that is given to those who did not earn it and do not deserve it, at the expense of those who do.

#10 Phil Taylor on 2016-09-25 14:27 (Reply)

Quietly sitting in his car with his PCP and his firearm
Terence Crutcher was the one with the PCP, not Scott

#11 Douglas2 on 2016-09-25 16:50 (Reply)

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