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Dem theft of raisins ... FDR

Apr 22, 2015 8:14AM PDT

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perhaps he was instead
Apr 26, 2015 8:04AM PDT

a fine upstanding member of the community, a pride to Baltimore, an wonderful example to his peers, etc.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-freddie-gray-20150425-story.html

He was a druggie at the least. Other news reports a record of offenses. All of that doesn't matter though, he shouldn't have been killed in that manner. He ran.....but he's not running anymore. Time to quite the drugs? Time to quit the stupidity? Time to quit running?

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Where did you find that he ran?
Apr 27, 2015 12:23AM PDT

The video I saw had the cops picking him up off the ground right by his bike.

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Diane, not doing your homework for you
Apr 27, 2015 2:39AM PDT

I'm not going to look up every little question you have about it and link it back to you. You should do some investigating on your own. Several sources, and you can find them, stated clearly that soon as eye contact was made with him he bolted and ran. They had to chase him down.

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PS - Diane
Apr 27, 2015 2:47AM PDT

The bike belonged to the police. They ride bikes in the city, easier to chase down the bad guys, also keeps them in shape. I don't think Freddie even had a bike but was on foot. See, this is just sloppy investigation of the subject on your part.

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I'd have a few questions to ask about that
Apr 25, 2015 8:26AM PDT

I'd want to know who did the survey, what was the criteria used and how they define "happy". Happiness is quite relative and often transient. I doubt there's a reliable way to measure it.

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RE: how they define "happy".
Apr 25, 2015 12:53PM PDT

The overall message of the report is that the well-being of countries depends on individuals being able to make decisions for the common good, and that the best societies are those where individuals act honestly and benevolently and where they trust that others are as well.

There's hope for other countries...

Among the key findings is that if unhappy people are trained to cultivate mindfulness, kindness and generosity, their brain's circuits can be rewired.

RE: I doubt there's a reliable way to measure it.


Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy

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Your answer is good for a laugh
Apr 25, 2015 7:18PM PDT

I wasn't really expecting much more. We can go into what we think are the deepest pits in the jungles and find contentment among folks who've never seen an ipad...and that seeing one just might make them afraid.

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My response was good for a laugh
Apr 25, 2015 8:56PM PDT

AND a response.

Just what I expected.

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And all that matters to you
Apr 25, 2015 9:47PM PDT

is that you provoke often enough to get a response....you don't care what the response is as long as you get one. So here's mine.

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Maybe because the tribe works for the common good
Apr 26, 2015 4:18AM PDT

Unlike here.

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Are you saying...
Apr 26, 2015 8:30AM PDT

...they are out of place and should return where the "tribe" can work for them again?

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Are you talking "socialism" here?
Apr 26, 2015 9:58AM PDT

Didn't I say it may work on a smaller scale? I didn't mention "tribe" however but it's a good example of what I meant.

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You mean like
Apr 26, 2015 7:58PM PDT

Eskimos' legends of putting their old people out on ice floats when they aren't productive anymore? lol

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I guess you ignored the
Apr 26, 2015 11:51PM PDT

'legends' and 'lol'..........as is par for the course for you.

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That only happened, as far as I can find,
Apr 27, 2015 12:17AM PDT

during times of famine. Hasn't happened since the early 1900s.

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Diana....
Apr 27, 2015 1:23AM PDT

So, in your opinion, during times of famine, the tribe doesn't care for its whole community.....it comes down to the 'common good' so the oldest or weakest can be tossed. What happened to the 'meek shall inherit the world'? I guess even a liberal believes, after all, that the strongest should survive (and by today's 'standards' the rich are the strongest)....the ends justifies the means.

Hypocrites..........

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We cannot judge them by our standards
Apr 27, 2015 1:58AM PDT

If people are starving and you are seeing your kids and grandkids have nothing to eat, would you volunteer not to eat and feed them instead. On the other hand, your kids and grandkids would want you to eat, so you leave so they can survive.

As for the common good, it is working better than here today where to only good goes to the very wealthy and the rest, including children and parents and grandparents, can go to hell. They are only good for cannon fodder and retail sales.

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That's the biggest problem
Apr 27, 2015 3:21AM PDT

with liberals.....they are so pessimistic about real life that they feel 'obligated' to take from those who are optimistic and successful in life, and they have to use scare tactics to bolster their agendas rather than actual facts. You just don't seem to understand the concept of self-reliance for survival........which is what founded this country in the first place. There were no government handouts back then.....in fact, there was no government at all....and people, depending on each other, is what started this country. Why is so hard for liberals to admit, even to themselves, that without self-reliance and pride in accomplishment, we have nothing but a dictatorship all over again.....exactly what 'we' left behind in order to have freedoms, including choice.

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RE: without self-reliance and pride in accomplishment,
Apr 27, 2015 4:03AM PDT

Where would Wal-Mart be without Public Assistance?

Nestled in the latest annual report from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is a line that underscores just how much the world's largest general merchandise retailer and its shareholders have depended on public assistance programs in recent years.

RE: they are so pessimistic about real life

Above link is an "example of "real life"

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RE: 'legends' and 'lol'.....as is par for the course for you
Apr 27, 2015 4:10AM PDT

And all that matters to you is that you provoke often enough to get a response....you don't care what the response is as long as you get one. So here's mine.

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WalMart and public assistance
Apr 27, 2015 4:24AM PDT

"food stamps"...........if so many people were actually working again, food stamps wouldn't be such an issue, JP....they would be able to actually HELP the economy by spending their own cash instead of the taxpayer funded food stamps. Simple solutions.......let capitalism work again at creating the jobs, stop enticing kids into 'free' college or student loans that don't get them the jobs they are told they would get at the end, create trade schools again since not everybody actually needs a college education to succeed in life, etc.

Nearly every outlet in the USA takes an EBT card today, so it isn't just WalMart that benefits from that program......it used to 'shameful' or 'embarrassing' to someone who had to stand at a checkout counter and rip paper foodstamps out of a booklet. Now that the EBT cards look like a normal credit card, there is an insane 'pride' mentality for the user today because they have gotten used to the 'entitlement' crap. Bring back the paper foodstamps...........I wonder how many would feel embarrassed again realizing that the people around them at the checkout counter know what's going on.

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RE: Walmart and public assistance
Apr 27, 2015 4:46AM PDT

Toni.....As you've just stated

it isn't just WalMart that benefits from that program...

So it isn't just the "little guy" that is benefiting from Government programs...when the large corporations need government assistance to survive...

WHY aren't you railing on about large corporations for ACCEPTING these ETB cards.

Never mind attacking the USERS of ETB cards.

Stop shopping at Wal Mart...That'll show 'em.

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RE: Bring back the paper foodstamps.
Apr 27, 2015 4:49AM PDT

You want to pay to print, deliver, recover and keep track of pieces of paper?

Next you be setting people adrift on an ice floe. (those were the days)

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This will be the last
Apr 27, 2015 5:50AM PDT

comment I'll make about this unless the topic gets back to the government stealing crops and not paying for them.

I don't know how it is in Canada, but places here that sell food, including gas stations, are nearly, if not all, all mandated to accept the food stamps (EBT cards)....and WalMart has a huge grocery department in their stores. Even the Dollar Stores chain takes them because they sell some food.

You made no comment about my 'solutions' or getting people back to work so they can use their own cash instead of foodstamps paid for by other people....silly me for thinking you would actually comment on something important in a thread rather than continue to make your normal nonsensical remarks.

Bye........

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are they mandated to do so?
Apr 27, 2015 6:10AM PDT

I remember stores in 70's with signs stating they didn't take food stamps. I've not paid that much attention lately to see if that's still true.

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RE: You made no comment about my 'solutions'
Apr 27, 2015 6:28AM PDT

DID TO.

your solution was to re-introduce food stamps.

Embarrass them to death?

You think that works?

Have you seen the way people dress when they go shopping...especially Wal-Mart shoppers

I can hear you whining IF/WHEN you would be held up in the checkout while cashiers counted little pieces of paper and customers shuffled through their wallet looking for the right paper.

With some many gun-owners (some probably purchased with EBT cards) in America I can see a gunfight erupting.

Embarrass me?...I'll shoot you.

While you're "embarrassing" people, perhaps when people are only paying the "minimum" of THEIR credit card balance, the flashing lights in Wal-Mart could go on.

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Here's some "common good work"
Apr 28, 2015 3:46AM PDT

Rap sheet for the deceased. Not your regular choir boy, that's for sure. At least his crime spree is ended.

* March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
* March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault
* January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
* January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute
* December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
* December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance
* August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing
* January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana
* September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape
* April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation
* July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute
* March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
* March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute
* February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance
* August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
* August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana
* August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
* July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)

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irrelevant.....
Apr 28, 2015 4:39AM PDT

once he was in police custody...THEY were responsible for his well being, Whether he was a thug or a preacher or a thug preacher.

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Since
Apr 28, 2015 5:40AM PDT

there were no cameras in the van, and he had a long criminal record that could have seen him looking at jail time, there is a possibility that he got pretty violent (due to drugs in his system perhaps since there are many that cause violent behavior) in there.

The only real question I have is: IF his neck got broken in the van so severely that it was 'snapped' in half, would it physically take a week, after processing, for him to die from it without somebody noticing something was wrong, including himself?

I have an uncle who got a broken neck as a teenager in a car accident....sat at the curb waiting for the police to come and held his head in his hands just thinking he got 'whiplash' and a sprain, and never went to the hospital. He never knew until many years later during a routine x-ray that he had actually broken his neck back then and it actually healed over on its own.