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Starvation is a strong motivator.

I always figured that if something was an acquired taste, there are usually no reason to acquire it.

I am hopefully going to southwest Missouri in the morning for a few days in kind of a working vacation.

If squirrels, various birds, gator , wild pig and deer are strange.... I guess I have eaten something strange. Those seem like everyday fare in southeast TX but obviously not everyone has eaten it. Seems far from "strange" however. "Maybe" in that category that I have eaten is pig ear salad and jellyfish salad..... and maybe strange for most people (including me), haggis.

That won't buff out...........

His one shining achievement............

.......... to keep that string going.

I haven't been to a movie in years. This might be the time...........

He can throw some fireballs but getting off the prompter isn't his problem.

I don't think Rush or anyone else has an issue with teleprompters. They are just a modern convenience instead of notes. Abraham Lincoln didn't give the Gettysburg Address from memory. The problem is with people that cannot give any answer without it being fed to him/her. Trump can talk for a long time without video prompting. You can really tell when Obama goes of the script and he stumbles, stammers and generally flubs his answers. He is a great speech giver when he can read it. He can hardly put a sentence together when he isn't. I am not a Trump fan but speaking isn't his problem.

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I'm going to lose sleep because an editor at GQ has an opinion? Some people must lose sleep easily if that is their level of interest.

It all goes by percentages and how you look at them as you say. About 13% of the population is black. The FBI considers Hispanic as an ethnicity and not a race so most of what we call Hispanics are white although obviously a person can be a black Hispanic. The FBI generally (or always) lists race as Black, White, Asian, Other or Unknown. It varies from year to year but from what I can gather from the FBI annual UCR statistics, blacks commit roughly half of the murders in the USA. Other violent crimes have similar stats with some being even higher. Examples are like in 2013, 56% of arrests for robberies where black. That deals directly with police contacts with people. The more contacts you have, especially for violent crimes, the more likely you have a chance for violence between an officer and citizen. Obviously the most contentious contact is an arrest where you are taking a person's liberty completely away with handcuffs and restrained usually in the back of a vehicle. For that reason, arrests are the most likely situation for violence from either the police are the person being arrested. While whites are shot and killed by the police more, are the deaths equal to their population? The answer is no. I think that recently blacks have been about 30-35% of the people killed by the police which is 200-300% higher than their population. So are they over represented? Again, how do you look at it in total? If blacks are committing 50% of murders and 56% of robberies (both some of the most violent crimes), does that mean the officers come into contact with blacks under violent circumstances more so than other races by population? It appears to me to be the case. I added up the officers killed in the of duty from 2008-2013. If my math was correct, 40% of all officers killed where killed by blacks. Almost no women killed officers so really about 7% of the population (black/males) killed almost half all officers killed. Again, violent confrontations between officers and blacks tend to happen at a much higher rate than their population represents both in number of deaths from both officers and the accused. So how do we look at "more likely"? It is by population or simply total numbers? I believe that more whites (including Hispanics) are killed by the police than are blacks. Are whites more likely to be killed than blacks by percentage of the population? No. Blacks are likely killed at about 200-300% higher than their population. Is that due to what appears to be stats that show that they are more likely to be involved in violent crime and arrests for those crimes? That is open to debate but I believe that some people want to look at the number killed by law enforcement and then ignore the police contacts for violent crimes. Then the want to ignore the number of officers killed. I tend to think they go hand in hand. I normally get my figures from going to what I consider the source, FBI stats. They are never complete however they likely represent the most reliable percentages. The stuff above is simply stats. People can make of them what they wish but I can see where the statement made on the radio could be correct according to interpretation or opinion. That always comes around to my chicken or the egg debate. Which comes first?

What could he see? It all appeared to be on video. Now if he saw the trooper get her in the back of the car off camera and slap her around or something like that, he needs to come in and give a statement and if they will not look at it, go outside like to the Rangers and file a report for Official Oppression against the officer. Why come out with an accusation several months later? Why not step in either to help the officer so more force would not be needed or to stop the trooper for doing anything else? It all sounds fishy on the claims from an officer. More than likely it is an opinion from an officer (if there even was one) that didn't agree with what was done. Not agreeing does not make it illegal. Ordering her out of the car was legal. Putting his hands on her to get her out when she refused was legal. Arresting her for not putting on a turn signal within 100' of a turn is legal.

They showed up in Port Arthur about 20 years ago for a rally. There were about 5 members of the media and one other person attending. They planned on about a 90 minute rally and after a few minutes packed up their equipment and left as there was no audience. Like none unless you count a single person.

Any idea what the silly accusations means to the case? It was all on audio and video. What does another officer have to say that will refute what was seen and heard? This isn't like something that happened in an alley and it is a head said/she said case. If there was an officer witness, why didn't he step in either to assist the officer or if he saw something wrong. Particularly if he saw something illegal as this article and his statement implies. So we have an officer saying, I saw the whole thing and it was wrong.... but I never got involved. Ooookay.............

You would have assaulted someone for no reason because from the evidence, that appears to be what Martin did?

Who has said no equal rights for women? Who has said send the blacks back? The wall is already in place but not complete. It is to keep out criminals that we coincidentally put thousands of armed police officers on that same border. The wall or fence would simply make it easier and safer for the officers. I have never heard any politician running for office saying to get Muslims out. You know that it is all nonsense. That is okay but many people hear such obvious nonsense and believe that it is true because an unknown person claimed it was so.

No because we are not in a perfect world. What percentage of police shootings do you believe are clearly against the law? Do you think we have officers out there that joined or continue to work for the opportunity to kill someone?

Then why even investigate it? If you want to accuse someone of breaking the law with absolutely no evidence, feel free. I can accuse anyone as long as no evidence is needed. That appears to be a favorite tactic of the current anti-police accusations. We have no evidence but they are officers so they must be wrong............

Good one.

I doubt the investigators/FBI wanted to find the officers wrong. I think the people that sent them did. Heck, the governor of the state called for an indictment I think the next day after Michael Brown was killed and he knew nothing. Much like Obama, he used it as a political moment without care for justice or any complete knowledge of what happened. The term under the bus is often used and that was done to Officer Wilson had his life and career thrown into turmoil so that some politicians could get a photo op. I don't think that attitude went into the FBI agents that had a job to do. If they would have found wrongdoing they would have documented it. If there was no evidence against the officer then that would be result of the investigation. I believe that they did not go into it with an agenda or wanting to find anything except where the evidence led.

This spring was one of the best in a long time in Sabine Lake. I had friends that were limiting on the LA shoreline fairly quickly. Then the rains hit............ The three big floods back to back to back slammed the lake. It took a while for the water to flood the lake but it finally pushed most of the saltwater out. That pushed the specks toward the jetties and maybe offshore. If you could find them there, you could do fairly well but it did not appear to be consistent. I went two weeks ago to the jetties and then the first rigs. We got nothing at the jetties and about 27 between 3 different rigs. I have had worse days. Back the very next day and we got 60 at the near rig alone. I fish a dock at night in the ship channel and by this time of the year we have been getting good stringers for a few years. I guess due to the freshwater, we have not even seen a fish under the lights until about three weeks ago. Now they are starting to show up. Not great but they are there finally. I am guessing that they are heading back up into the big lake now also. It just looks like those really historical floods slowed the fishing and pushed many or most of the fish out. It also appears that it is finally coming back to normal.

Yes. It is normally in the jury's "charge" which is the instructions from the judge. The charge lists the laws that apply, the definitions that apply and any potential verdict from guilty or not guilty or lesser included charges.

The died in the county jail. The FBI has been investigating her death for a year. Has the FBI been able to uncover any wrongdoing in her death?