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What a Joke!
None | 11/24/2014 | Pox

Posted on 11/24/2014 9:08:57 PM PST by Pox

The "riots" occurring tonight are minimal and nothing compared to what was seen this past summer in Ferguson. Most reporting done tonight has been laughable and inflammatory, IMO.


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To: Pox

“I’ve heard pops! I heard pops shep. A hundred pops and they are returning fire!!”

Idiots


61 posted on 11/24/2014 9:49:56 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Ted Grant

I’ve been watching Fox News nonstop since before the announcement was made, and his (Shep) first report on Times Square along with the provided video showed barely a hundred people in the area at that point in time of the broadcast.


62 posted on 11/24/2014 9:50:01 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Jim Robinson
In a couple of days when the temperature drops off again, they're gonna wish they didn't burn it down. Either that or they're going to have to keep burning it down just to stay warm!
63 posted on 11/24/2014 9:51:54 PM PST by vigilante2 (Re-elect nobody)
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To: Pox

What is your angle? I am asking a sincere question.

It’s duly noted that our media is shameful, got it.

Beyond that, what is your point in this vanity?

It seems you are indicating that the riots didn’t live up to the hype, which makes you sound a bit unhinged.


64 posted on 11/24/2014 9:52:56 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I thought Jarrett Maupin was going to stir up some trouble.


65 posted on 11/24/2014 9:52:58 PM PST by azishot (God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.)
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To: vigilante2

The U.N. can send them tents for the winter.


66 posted on 11/24/2014 9:55:18 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Steve_Seattle

Honest to God, it’s so strange and disturbing!


67 posted on 11/24/2014 9:56:24 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

I can happily state that it’s been a very good day for me when I’ve been labeled a “bit unhinged”!

It’s a statement. No need to psychoanalyze a particular vanity unless you have a significantly distressful case of OCD that should really be looked into! :)


68 posted on 11/24/2014 9:57:04 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Pox

Ok, you are just a joker - enjoy your fun times.

I’ll make a note to avoid you and your silly antics.

Stay safe


69 posted on 11/24/2014 9:59:16 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Jim Robinson

Add in the statements by idiot white liberals and, yes, we have a war zone on our hands. This is a disgusting piece of street theater.


70 posted on 11/24/2014 10:01:02 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Jane Long
Going to cut visit short. Just not willing to be in unsafe area because one never knows just how far this is going to spread.

Just heard on local media that because of many shots fire into the air, Lambert International Airport is now closed to all but emergency law enforcement flights!

71 posted on 11/24/2014 10:04:14 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Steve_Seattle

“Are you serious? I am seeing buildings being burned to the ground, police cars being burned, stores being looted, and you are saying it’s all media overreaction?”

Um... yeah I’m inclined to agree. The media always gets a little ramped up about mayhem and violence but it seems Fox has been mostly reporting the facts as it unfolded. When you have people on the ground watching looting and businesses burning it’s no longer just “the media” - what do you expect them to do (but yeah, an element of this is egged on by all the media).

And they’ve pretty much identified these a-holes as opportunists and anarchists and joy-riders. So no big drama about it all being about the poor “gentle giant” (yeah, right) - I don’t think the woman running out of the liquor store with an armload of booze was thinking about poor Michael Brown. This is just dull brute stupidity and mayhem.

I hope the business owners leave and never return. It’s not as if the morons of Ferguson have jobs to worry about. They’re all collecting freebies from Obama.


72 posted on 11/24/2014 10:04:22 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: JimSEA

That is the whole point of my post. Outrageous and over the top proclamations and “threats” for weeks in a blatant attempt to coerce the decision of the Grand Jury and this is all they have to show for it? (At this time, and admittedly, it is always possible it could get much worse)

Street Theater indeed!


73 posted on 11/24/2014 10:04:35 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Listening to the scanner it sounds like there is a crowd in Seattle. The cops are trying to block the on-ramps to I-5, and are just about to push the cops up Capital Hill.

Interesting listening to the cops tactics. Getting cops and bike police out of the way first, swinging them around, etc.

“If you start taking lots of rocks, back off and we’ll order the dispersal order again from the south.”


74 posted on 11/24/2014 10:04:40 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Pox

Specific? How about a U-City cop getting shot?


75 posted on 11/24/2014 10:05:56 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: 21twelve

In Seattle, crowd got on road above cops - throwing cans of food on the cops.


76 posted on 11/24/2014 10:11:18 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: 21twelve

Seattle? Not the least bit surprised.


77 posted on 11/24/2014 10:12:49 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: JoeDetweiler
Everything’s quiet in my little corner of Oakland. The idiots are all out trying to loot a freeway ;-)

Quiet where I am, too. Heard some police sirens about an hour and a half ago, but nothing I haven't heard any other weeknight. No gunfire, no hovering choppers with searchlights.

It hasn't been mentioned much, but there's a subtle undercurrent of "Oakland proud" that keeps things from getting too out of hand. Last time the riots were concentrated in Downtown, 14th and Telegraph. No one wants to foul their own nest.

78 posted on 11/24/2014 10:15:03 PM PST by thecodont
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To: windsorknot

And lots of anarchists up here to get the more peaceful protestors riled up.

Protestors now on the I-5 freeway. I wonder what happens if they get hit by a car?


79 posted on 11/24/2014 10:15:18 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: cardinal4
Just heard about that and although it's an escalation that occurred well after my initial post, I still hope that the officer survives and the perp is apprehended and incarcerated, or better still, hunted down and exterminated if the situation warrants it.

In all honesty, it certainly can get worse in the near future, but after all of the proclamations we've been subjected to over the last several weeks from those who were attempting to influence the Grand Jury along with those who were truly angered at the situation, I was expecting much worse, by orders of magnitude, than what we've been witnessing tonight, and I apologize to anyone who feels that I am trivializing the events occurring this evening, as that is not my intention.

80 posted on 11/24/2014 10:16:31 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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