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Nothing mentioned above can happen with legislation by both houses of Congress coming into exact wording agreement. It does not matter what Trump will sign, if it doesn't hit his desk then it cannot become law. I would not hold my breath waiting for Congress to act swiftly. They might start swiftly but waiting for a final product may take time if something ever even passes. It took a completely Democratic Congress and willing president two years to get Obamacare into law. Hopefully the repeal of it will happen and will do so fairly quickly but expecting an early change might be a stretch. Early stuff might actually enforcing immigration laws, etc., which the president can do almost immediately.

Obama-- first administration in the modern era where the main stream media is afraid to uphold their responsibility to be impartial reporters.

Run over them and if they live, file charges for obstructing traffic. God Bless North Dakota.

Every generation looks at the previous generation as being out of style. Every generation looks at the next generation as uneducated idealists without the wisdom of age. That is just the way it is from each of our perspectives. With that in mind, we are raising a bunch of brain dead idiots ..... that you could probably rob them over the telephone by saying you are in another state but have a gun pointed at the telephone and the bullet will travel to you so you'd better put $500 on your porch and not call the police.

I believe that was the original intent and that is what it should be. It has evolved into an entitlement and I think many people are offended if someone suggests that their free money be spent on staples.

Probably like they don't blame him because he kind of got screwed over by the BISD admin.

Let's see, he is mad because the judge dismissed a lawsuit because he could not get a telephone number. He then spent almost $1000 out of his own pocket to buy the equipment and pay people to bring the pennies in. He had to spend a lot of his own time to gather the pennies in the first place. Then he gives it to several clerks who are probably making $15 an hour or less and had absolutely nothing to do with his situation. Yeah, that'll show 'em!! Yes this guy is several descriptive terms that is against the rules of this forum.

No real point. I don't know the person and even if I did, I can't read minds. I am always suspicious of any issue when children are brought in as a reasoning for a decision. It doesn't mean that it isn't true, I just think it is a convenience. Ask him this if the topic ever comes up again. What if the black girl was someone that he found beautiful and got along with great, and..... she couldn't have kids. So there is no reason to wonder about children being divided, the strife that they might have been put through, etc. I could care less why someone doesn't want to marry or date outside their race or how a person views such relationships. That is a personal issue. But when they say, it's for the kids......

It's for the kids... right?

My wife is not white and she is not an American. What was the question again?

The healthiest eating people will not get out of here alive. I guess they will die of good healthy but die they will.............. I guess I'd better sell my new copper coated non-stick pans.

Editing? By the media to hide the truth? Tell me it isn't so.....

I love these always, among us, new scientific claims..... given by one person. Oh yeah, (always in the article) you can find further information in my book. Sorry, I just sold the Brooklyn Bridge a couple of days ago but just acquired Mount Rushmore so make an offer.....

..... unless you are looking for a handout.

The scary thing about going in front of a jury.......

The officer should have held back to wait for a backup that might have calmed the incident down. Maybe he wanted to but no other officers were available. Maybe he should have simply walked away and leave the woman standing there babbling. Maybe..... I did not see any illegal actions however. Since this was in TX, our laws apply. There are two that come to mind. The law says that you cannot resist even an unlawful arrest. If an officer tells you that you are under arrest, then you are. It is not open for debate at that point. Later it is very much up for grabs on his actions but on scene, the officer's words that you are under arrest are enough by law. Then there is interfering with an officer trying to perform any authority. It does not require that the person breaking the law do so "intentionally". It doesn't even matter if the person was "reckless" in interfering with an officer. The culpable mental state for interfering with an officer in TX is if you do so with "criminal negligence". Negligence is as low of a standard as exist in law. If you do anything that interferes with an officer trying to do his job even if it was not intentionally, you have violated the law and can get up to 6 months in jail. On the other hand, for an officer to commit the crime of Official Oppression (kind of the TX version of a civil rights violation) it takes the officer to act "intentionally". The officer cannot merely make a mistake or hit someone four times when three might have been enough. It doesn't matter if the officer "could have" waited longer for a backed or used bad tactics. It is impossible to do any form of police work if every single action the officer takes is potentially a crime. Even under standards set by the US Supreme Court, it has to be viewed from the eyes of the officer having to make split second decisions and not cool calculations by someone in a room several weeks later that did not have to make that decisions. There are several such court rulings that back this up. People say it all the time and it goes over a lot of people's heads.... comply with the officer's commands. If you feel he is wrong, get you a good lawyer and sue him and the city he works for. Retire early.

Interesting logic. I guess WWII was Franklin Roosevelt's fault and 80 million people dead worldwide is on a Democratic president.

I think Donald Trump proved that one.

And what planet have you been on for the last 8 years? It certainly wasn't Earth. Where do we go, the first six months after his election when he jumped into the Cambridge Police arrest for what was the equivalent of a traffic citation disturbing the peace charge? When he was quoted saying the he had no facts but knew that the police acted stupidly. Of course it did give us the now famous "beer summit". Obama routinely jumped into not only racial issues but local issues that should have had nothing to do with the president. Perhaps one of the most telling was the memorial service for five police officers killed in Dallas while protecting protesters. Obama, the Divider in Chief, chose this somber occasion to speak about slavery and Jim Crow laws. How do you speak at basically a funeral service for fallen officers and start talking about slavery that ended more than 150 years ago? Oh yeah, that was the guy steered clear of racial issues. And if you believe that, I have the Brooklyn Bridge for sale.................

The people that voted for Trump did so in spite of him. They want a couple of conservative judges on the SCOTUS. They want to end the rush to gun control every time there is an act of violence that gun control will not slow one bit. They want the health care system improved. They want the tax system reformed. The people that tossed out Hillary's chances of running the country voted for Trump even though all kinds of groups of people got butt hurt at some point in the election. The people are fed up with the last 8 years. Going back over 100 years, Obama is the only two term president to lose votes (over 3 million) in his reelection. The only other president to lose any votes was the third term of FDR. The voting public could see what was happening and Hillary was seen as his legacy. To make it short, people did not vote for Trump. They voted against Obama's third term. I think there is a good chance that they will get what they wanted and that is lightening of business rules, the SCOTUS, etc. The rest is just fluff.

Got to be kidding, right?

I was referring to your logic. You can point out an incident or two or 100 and make a million police officers guilty by association. You would not likely do the same for any other profession or group.

The idea that a majority of officers will cover for other officers is nonsense. In response to millions of police contacts per month and 12-13 million arrests per year, people point out individual incidents. You cannot have millions of contacts per month and not have something that is wrong but what percentage out of those millions?

This is probably a reference to a case of insanity. Some people say that anyone committing a horrific crime has mental issues. That is likely true. This issue is not "issues" but "insanity". Under both state and federal statutes the term insanity when used as a defense to crime, the person committing the crime is not responsible because of "severe mental disease or defect" (TX and US both use the same term) kept the person from knowing that he was committing a crime. Ignorance of a crime is not a defense but if the person is insane and has not clue that he is committing a crime, he is not guilty. The careful planning and it being cold and calculated does not mean that he has no mental issues. It does mean that he can almost never have an insanity defense. There is a huge difference under criminal law between having a mental defect and due to such a defect has no clue that he is breaking a law. If a person tries to cover up a crime, plans an escape or any other such activities then he is not insane under criminal law in my opinion. Think of something that is not a crime and a normal routine. Maybe washing dishes or putting gasoline in the car for a long trip. You would not go out of your way to hide that you are washing dishes or that you are gassing up a car. The reason is that you will not go to jail for those actions. A person that is insane should have the same demeanor. He will go about a normal routine because as far as he knows, it is not a crime.

In truth I know almost nothing about the shooting. I was sleeping most of the day and had to get ready to go to work after that. I know that a man with a Hispanic name shot and killed some people and then surrendered to the police in Florida. Other than that I have no clue.