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Looking ahead after Ferguson. There are several outcomes to this situation in Ferguson. One: The officer will not be tried Two: There will be a trial with two possible outcomes: a) Wilson is acquitted b) He is found guilty The questions: What will be the reaction of various segments around the country? Will it be a repeat of LA 1992? Do you know your community and the demographics? Anticipated reaction from various communities? What preparation steps, if any, are you taking for these outcomes?

Time and time again, we seem to be presented with a complete disconnect with how violent black youths present themselves and what is real. Trayvon Martin, we presented as a young moral boy who was afraid for his life while Michael Brown as a gentle giant--both with bright college futures ahead of them. Regardless of what positive virtues they may have had, it's pretty clear that neither strived to be gentle or striving for educational excellence. It seems that both fully embraced the black violent gang culture and this culture embraced them back. If either of these two were anything...

An open letter to the Dear leader and blame thrower extraordinaire.So far you’ve shown yourself to be utterly incompetent in everything you touch, but you’ve always had ready made excuses: It was President Bush’s fault OR Racism OR Global Warming OR obstructionism or whatever was the excuse de jour. But now it seems you’re going to make a move so inept and so vast it boggles the mind. A move that will be ALL YOU. Seems like you want to capitalize on the border invasion crisis YOU created and initiate a virtual coup d’état. This would be the granting of...

You park your SUV in a space and you and your wife prepare to do some shopping. You open the door and a 300 pound jerk is near to the vehicle and he slams your door shut and yells at you and tells you to leave, and says your kind don't belong around here. You get out of the vehicle, and the jerk pushes you back into it, punches you in the face a few times, and for good measure, punches your wife in the mouth, splitting her lip. He walks away and you get out of your car, and...

OKAY. It's obvious this is another Tom Delay type witch hunt. My question isn't really if there is any validity to this. It's more about if it will actually work this time against Gov. Perry or will it (hopefully) backfire and shine a big bright light on the corruption that is the Dem party today. Your feedback is much appreciated... Oh, and if "they" can be allowed to get away with this, shouldn't the same thing happen to the two most corrupt gov employees we have right now? Obama and Holder. I'm hoping if we all break out our new...

Watching Hannity's show tonight and other news sources I've heard the following terms: Tanks Heavy Artillery Assault Weapon If you listen to this you'd get the impression that M1A1s along with MLRS' are rolling down the streets of Ferguson and other US cities. I've also heard "conservatives" cry about the "assault weapons" being used by the police. My goodness....don't we fight against the use of this term to describe ARs??

This morning, the alarms in my house went off. I immediately armed myself and went in search of the cause or person. After thinking about it I think one fire alarm went off and then each and every alarm started as well, I believe, the actuall alarm system to the house. Freaking loud as hell and brought me out of bed, with me grabbing a weapon and charging through the first floor, then running upstairs to ascertain if we had just been broken into, with a thought running through my mind that maybe there was a fire. I didn't know....

Breitbart.com reports that b/c of an increasingly hostile political landscape, Democrats are resorting to whining---asking voters to believe they have suddenly "seen the light" and are now conservatives. In districts across the country, Democrats are campaigning as "true believers' in tax cuts, balanced budgets and for rolling back big government's harmful regulations. They're even bleating about guns, fracking and coal....trying to appeal to the conservative heartland. The list of Democrats carving out more conservative positions is too lengthy to mention. In fact, breitbart.com reports, it would be noteworthy to find any Democrat in a competitive election running on the platform...

"In politics there are no accidents,if it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."--FDR All the talking heads and the chattering classes are in a tizzy about Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about Obama's "stupid" foreign policy. Is she daft? What would posses her to criticize him so bluntly? And how could Obama be so "unpresidential" calling it horses**t? This is all so phony I can't believe anyone thinks this was unplanned or unexpected. The terms of endearment were agreed to long ago. Hillary would become Obama's dutiful Secretary of State and Bill would enthusiastically campaign for Obama. In...

upchuck -- What Walgreens did last week was a big deal. The pharmacy giant publicly decided to do the right thing by refusing to exploit a tax loophole. The loophole -- called a tax inversion -- is when a company in the United States purchases a foreign company, and then claims residency in that country for tax purposes. It's something that could cost our country $20 billion over the next 10 years. Right now, dozens of American businesses across the country are weighing this decision. To a lot of us, this issue is pretty clear cut: President Obama said it's...

My high school-aged daughter has been assigned this book for a summer reading assignment. I'm interested in some opinions about it from anyone who has read it. Thanks.

A man who turned his antebellum Mississippi home into a quirky Elvis Presley shrine was found dead Thursday on the front porch, two days after police said he killed a man who broke into the museum

Can someone please tell the MSM to stop blathering that Palestinian and Muslim parents just want their children to grow up and have opportunity like everyone else? We've seen the pics for over 10 years about the type of education that the tykes in Gaza and the West Bank get -- jihad, death to Israel, instruction that "Jews use the blood of Islam to make their matzos." Now we have the children of ISIS being trained by their parents to engage in not just jihad but in utter brutality.

A brief overview of the major news stories tonight. Guess which has top coverage? 1)Robin Williams 2)Ferguson, MZ 3)Iraq 4)Ebola 5)Gaza 6)Tony Stewart

So, I recorded this program "The Company You Keep" A former Weather Underground craptivist goes on the run after a journalist uncovers his real identity. So! My question: I have the option of watching: 40 something (I think it's hilarious, no matter I've seen it 10+ times) Jubal - A western, 1956, starring Glenn Ford. The Big Red One - Awesome WWII film with Lee Marvin. Luv this one too. Or, bonus movie.... Get Carter w/ Stallone and finally atman Begins w/ Christian Bale. So, which should I watch? I recorded the Undergroung thingy a month ago and keep finding...

I was curious so I went to FaceBook.com and did a search for "people who live in Mosul Iraq" Hundreds of people who have their FaceBook accounts came up. This brought a whole new dimension of their suffering. They were no longer just bloody corpses that you see lying in the dust. They were no longer just some statistic that I'd hear about. Rather, you'd see they were just normal human beings living their lives, so similar to us. Here: lots of pictures of this brother and sister until 2014. Wonder if they are alive? https://www.facebook.com/sarmid.alshmani?fref=browse_search This one posts lots...

Ed Henry on Fox News just reported from the White House that word has been given Obama will speak sometime tonight on worsening situation in Iraq and the U.S. response which so far involves humanitarian aid airdrops in northern Iraq.

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: provide immediate military assistance to the Kurdish Regional Government. The Islamist ISIS terrorists are making serious inroads against our long-time friends and allies, the Kurds. The area controlled by the Kurdish Regional Government has hitherto been an island of peace, stability, and religious toleration in Iraq. For it to remain so, the Kurdish peshmerga require immediate military assistance--munitions and modern weapons--to defend themselves, their people, and (indeed) all of Iraq against this dire threat. We urge the Obama Administration to take immediate steps to meet the military needs of the Kurds, as they battle...

Sgt. Thamooressi home, or NAFTA deadhttps://www.facebook.com/TahmooressiHomeorNAFTADead 'nuff said.