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A tweet by Trump said that it was a bogus report.

Doesn't know or like the current occupant of the WH, doesn't care what it says?

I mostly liked the talking heads before any details came out that had this attributed to right wing extremists. Like always, facts aren't needed.

I agree 100%.... however..... Yes, politicians are into politics. It is kind of like saying police officers are into policing or doctors are into doctoring. I agree that we ought to push our own agenda. Does that mean that we can't then agree with a politician pushing his agenda no matter his reasoning? As as example, this shooting has both the Dems and the GOP spitting out their opinions on gun control. Does that mean that we cannot agree with one side that it putting out their opinion? Sometimes political rhetoric IS my agenda. I am anti most gun control measures. If a politician comes out against those same measures, he isn't thinking for me. I am simply agreeing with his stance. Although I rarely use politicians in my posts unless it is disagreeing with one and not agreeing with (pushing someone else's) an agenda.....

Looking at the FBI UCR statistics from 2010, CA has a higher homicide rate from "firearms" (and total murders) than the very gun friendly TX. I am trying to figure out how the CA strict guns laws have made them safer.

Probably just a member of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Sounds like the police have jumped the suspects and were in a shootout. At least one dead, one wounded in the back of the SUV and one loose in the neighborhood. The on foot suspect may be cornered and awaiting SWAT to move in.

I doubt that we are in some kind of conspiracy with them however our rules of engagement likely help their continued survival. I am sure the president doesn't want to offend anyone while we are killing them.

Harry Reid is one of the biggest idiots from either party. If a Republican met someone one the street and said, "Hello", Reid would say that it is hate filled speech. The guy is really a loon. Typically he will take an insane act by a completely loser idiot and blame it on a political party. I am sure that he doesn't feel that riots that destroyed millions of dollars in property in places such as Ferguson and Baltimore are associated with the Democratic Party or the whiner in chief that encourages the action with supportive statements about "the cause". It is a case of selective outrage.

Probably like most other parents.

Love the media and their headlines. "Drug Lord"...... An ounce of cocaine and 4 ounces of marijuana and they make it out like she is head of a cartel. She is a street level dealer probably selling to college kids. Some of the articles called her a "kingpin". I guess if a 16 year old gets arrested for shoplifting at Walmart of a $10 t-shirt, they will say major theft ring busted up.

That is why I have five pairs of Crocs.............

Again, I agree. Try and convince the current occupant of the White House of that strategy.

I agree can basically agree with that. Are Syrian refugees not our issue also?

Why not worry about both of them? I am fairly certain that policy and enforcement of immigration laws are the federal government's responsibility by the US Constitution and a response to active shooters is local/state/county police. Because there is a shooting in Colorado, the Border Patrol and ICE is not going to leave the border. One has nothing to do with the other. By the same reasoning, we could say, why worry about Syrian refugees because a house caught fire in Beaumont last night and the firefighters had to respond.

That is correct. You will not hear that several officers forced their way into a home and took the suspect into custody with no injuries and with a Spanish surname, probably a minority. A man who was supposed to be armed and there was a claim of shots having been fired. So we have several officers, forcefully make an entry into a home and take a minority into custody for a violent crime and do so with no injuries. No way that will even get much play in the local news, much less national. It will be mentioned and forgotten in about one day, maybe two. In fact most people will likely not know that it even happened. It does happen thousands of times a day (by FBI stats, almost 35,000 arrests per day in the USA) and let one bad incident happen (or more likely, the accusation of a bad incident) and there will be a call for a national referendum against the police. Usually with little facts or knowledge of the law.

It was a dynamic entry to PA SWAT. The woman and child were still being held after negotiations failed and officers forced entry, threw a stun grenade/flash bang/distraction device and took the woman and child out and arrested the man with no injuries.

I think your comments are certainly plausible and I think they knew all along what was happening. I believe the kid might have been a pawn of his father and that the father intentionally used his child as the "victim" knowing the outcome.

I always liked this cartoon and it pretty much sums up the way I feel about this entire incident.

Oh good, more diversity training. As a police officer I have been to diversity training about 15 times. One of the first things they state in most of the classes is that the training will not change your opinions...... but you have to sit and listen to it anyway. After taking such classes mandated by the legislature choir over two decades, I can confirm that it's true. The training changes nothing but it makes some liberal politicians or activists feel good about themselves. What they need is diversity training for the stupid people that are (yet again) demanding diversity training. So now the school district is coming up with new curriculum that includes not only diversity but "acceptance". Yep, so much for free speech. There has to be acceptance of the message or you are in violation of some code. The superintendent says that if someone finds your speech offensive then there should be consequences. Maybe she is correct. I find her speech totally offensive and against the First Amendment of the Constitution (and reasonableness) therefore she should be terminated since (in her words) there should be consequences to offending someone.

Watch what?

Fished for flounder in the Louisiana bayous Friday since the wind got too wild for a speck chase. In about an hour four of us caught 10 flounder with the biggest being about 3 pounds. Most were about 12"-13". All stuff at The Seafood Lover in Beaumont.

I think the entire thing is silly. It was started as a protest over a lie and then the counter claims (all, blue, white, etc.) is just in retaliation for the first stupid act. It is like some nut jumping off a cliff to see what it is like and another nut doing what your mother always admonished you about in following, "If Johnny jumped off the cliff, would you follow him". In this case it appears to be exactly what has happened. At times it is just better to allow stupid people to be stupid and eventually many people will see through the facade.

What I can gleam from this is that no matter the numbers that are put on the evening news about how great the recovery is, apparently many aliens (legal and illegal) cannot find work even considering that many do under the table work for lesser pay. You can put what you want for stats in the media but fudging the numbers does not create work.