The RoanokeSlant
This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.comSunday, May 31, 2020
Roanoke Protest A Contrast With Roanoke Crime
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Roanoke
Times, 5-31-2020, Pg 1, 4: Demonstrators rally march in Roanoke
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A black man
being forceably taken into custody in Minneapolis
dies and the Roanoke
community reacts with a major protest movement (to their credit reasonably
proper and therefore their right).
How are
these community members reacting to the multitude of murders of their young men
right here in ‘River
City’?
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There’s a
major disconnect between Saturday’s Roanoke Protests for George Floyd and the
Reality of Black violent deaths, especially young men, right here in Roanoke.
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“With
a crime rate of 49 per one thousand residents, Roanoke
has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities
of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance
of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 21.”
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At a
minimum the community should help get witnesses to these crimes to come forward
and help indentify and prosecute the lawless criminals and form 'community watch' teams and assist the police in stopping rampant crime.
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Community
quality of life depends on the peace and safety of all.
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Reality: Roanoke’s
crime problem is Not a Police Caused Problem!
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The George
Floyd Case: What Will The Jury Say?
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Roanoke Violent Crime Rages On
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The George Floyd Case: What Will The Jury Say?
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The George
Floyd death in custody case
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We know what the rioters and media say!
But
What Will The Jury Say?
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Prosecution’s First Witness
Prosecution’s First Witness
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Defense’s First Witness
Defense’s First Witness
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Defense’s Second Witness
Preliminary Coroners Reoport: Underlying Health Issues
Preliminary Coroners Reoport: Underlying Health Issues
“An
ambulance arrived and brought Floyd to Hennepin County
Medical Center
where he was pronounced dead. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner (ME)
conducted the autopsy saying that asphyxia was not the cause of death.
Floyd had underlying health issues including hypertensive heart disease and
coronary artery disease.”
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Major Cities Under Siege
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Major Cities Under Siege
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Saturday, May 30, 2020
Major Cities Under Siege
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‘protests’
intensify across US, from New York City to Los Angeles
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These
aren’t ‘protests’ – these are riots and insurrection masquerading as
‘protests’.
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Clearly the
death of George Floyd is being investigated and the judicial process will
determine if police malfeasance was the cause or a contributor and if so a jury
will determine the outcome.
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So what is
the basis for the riots?
Who
organizes and directs these sieges?
Clearly
responsible black people are appalled by the riots just as they are by the
George Floyd case, perhaps more so.
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A major
contributor to the chaos is the PravdaMedia who have much to gain politically
and financially by chaos and division.
Their immediate public ‘lynching’ of the police officers involved is
clearly a contributor to the explosive situation that they then exploit.
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200 black
people, mostly young men, have been murdered in Chicago this year, but no protests and no
riots. How can that go unnoticed by the
media and the community? The challenge –
who to protest against?
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The riots
in Ferguson and Baltimore and these riots do Not enhance the empathy
for black suppression and abuse issues.
Instead they solidify a negative view of black issues and grievances.
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The premise
that cops are the enemy is hard to sell to white folks when the cops are the
only thin line standing between the rioters and the white folks.
Something
about gun sales being at an all time high.
Something about race relationships in an election year.
Something about race relationships in an election year.
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The War on
Cops
Friday, May 29, 2020
Arrogant Swede Took Wrong Path
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Sweden took the path of laissez-faire or let it roll.
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Sweden took the path of laissez-faire or let it roll.
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Sweden has the highest daily coronavirus
death rate in the world – and it’s getting worse
Figures
published by Our World in Data shows Sweden currently has the highest
daily death rate per capita in the world. As of May 28, Sweden
reported, on average, 5.5 COVID-19 deaths per million per day (on a seven-day
rolling average) as outlined in the chart below.
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Sweden, with a population of 10 million,
has so far had 4,029 officially recorded COVID-19 deaths, according to data
compiled by Johns
Hopkins University. But the country has a far higher rate of infections and
deaths than its Scandinavian counterparts.
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The head of
Sweden's
no-lockdown coronavirus plan (Anders Tegnell) said the country's heavy death
toll 'came as a surprise'
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Anders
Tegnell is perhaps the most arrogant person in Scandinavia.
His
statements and directions were imposed in Sweden in a dictatorial manner inconsistent
with Swedish culture.
Perhaps the
only thing worse than arrogance is arrogance gone wrong.
Tegnell’s drive
to get ‘herd immunity’ in Sweden
has come at a terrible price that keeps getting higher each day.
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Why does
Anders remind one of ‘The Swede’ in ‘Hell on Wheels’?
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Follow Sweden’s
Covid-19 Process – Really?
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Sweden says its coronavirus approach has
worked. The numbers suggest a different story
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Minneapolis Burning
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The mayor and other local officials are wringing their hands and asking those burning down local businesses to ‘please stop’.
The
Socialist City of Minneapolis in the Socialist State of Minnesota is burning at
the hands of rioters who claim they are reacting to the death of George Floyd
who died resisting police arrest.
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Minneapolis police release 911 call that led to
encounter with George Floyd
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-911-calls/index.html -
The mayor and other local officials are wringing their hands and asking those burning down local businesses to ‘please stop’.
They have
called in Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to help quell the riots – Really? Why not have crop-dusters spray down-town
with gasoline?
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Reminiscent
of Baltimore
where the mayor had the police ‘stand down’ during the Freddie Gray riots and
burnings and was quoted as saying ‘go ahead and burn it’:
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The hills
are alive with animosity toward the cops who forcibly subdued a big man who
refused to comply with police orders.
A rerun of
the NY Garner and Baltimore Gray cases – in which the police were totally vilified but in both those cases the police were
exonerated after the Real Facts were established:
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The ‘Black
Lives Matter’ Dichotomy
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Thursday, May 28, 2020
Larry Kramer AIDS Activist Dies
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Larry
Kramer used voice, pen to raise consciousness on AIDS
“Kramer, 84,
whose angry voice and pen raised consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands
to action, died Wednesday at 84. His art was often as blunt as his anger, but
his dedication was unwavering.”
“In 1981,
when AIDS had not yet acquired its name and only a few dozen people had been
diagnosed with it, Kramer and a group of his friends in New York City founded Gay Men’s Health
Crisis, one of the first groups in the country to address the epidemic.”
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Unfortunately,
this RT-AP Kramer article totally fails to reflect upon the massive malfeasance
of the government actions that resulted in this epidemic becoming a pandemic
not just within the gay community but throughout the community at large
including the blood banks, bisexuals, drug users, prostitutes and ultimately promiscuous
persons of all ilk throughout the country.
Leading
this criminal malfeasance of the public health systems was NY Gov. Mario Cuomo
and NYC Mayor Ed Koch, himself a gay.
http://gaycitynews.nyc/ed-koch-12-years-as-mayor-a-lifetime-in-the-closet/
The public-health system criminal malfeasance of NYC and NY State:
The public-health system criminal malfeasance of NYC and NY State:
Specific New York actions in the
1980’s and 1990’s resulted in a list that is difficult to read no less comprehend
-- what the hell were they thinking?
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* A testing laboratory CAN NOT advise a doctor that the results of a blood test the doctor ordered for a patient is HIV+. Only the patient is notified.
* A parent CAN NOT be advised if their child is HIV+.
* A spouse CAN NOT be advised if their partner is HIV+.
* Rape or sexual abuse victims CAN NOT find out if their abuser is HIV+.
* There is no requirement for an HIV+ person to advise or notify their intimate partners of their condition even though this is clearly the most dangerous concealed weapon in our society.
* There is no requirement for an HIV+ person to take reasonable or prudent steps to avoid contamination of others.
* There is no requirement that an HIV+ person can not sell their blood to a blood bank, it's up to the blood bank to detect the virus and dispose of it without notification to the Public Health Department.
* A testing laboratory CAN NOT advise a doctor that the results of a blood test the doctor ordered for a patient is HIV+. Only the patient is notified.
* A parent CAN NOT be advised if their child is HIV+.
* A spouse CAN NOT be advised if their partner is HIV+.
* Rape or sexual abuse victims CAN NOT find out if their abuser is HIV+.
* There is no requirement for an HIV+ person to advise or notify their intimate partners of their condition even though this is clearly the most dangerous concealed weapon in our society.
* There is no requirement for an HIV+ person to take reasonable or prudent steps to avoid contamination of others.
* There is no requirement that an HIV+ person can not sell their blood to a blood bank, it's up to the blood bank to detect the virus and dispose of it without notification to the Public Health Department.
* The
pre-marriage blood test was eliminated thereby placing newly-wed partners at
risk.
* The state and local health departments are not allowed to intervene in the plague's progress: no interviews, no determination of contacts, no containment and no direct management to halt the spread of the virus by known carriers.
* In New York HIV+ and AIDS are by law NOT defined to be sexually transmitted diseases and therefore are not processed or managed by the Public Health Systems as are all other STD's!
* Even though New York has one of the highest rates of HIV+ and AIDS it did not, by law, report any data to the federal Center for Disease Control for multiple early years.
* The state and local health departments are not allowed to intervene in the plague's progress: no interviews, no determination of contacts, no containment and no direct management to halt the spread of the virus by known carriers.
* In New York HIV+ and AIDS are by law NOT defined to be sexually transmitted diseases and therefore are not processed or managed by the Public Health Systems as are all other STD's!
* Even though New York has one of the highest rates of HIV+ and AIDS it did not, by law, report any data to the federal Center for Disease Control for multiple early years.
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In retrospect, it is very difficult to comprehend the extent and magnitude of our government health system malfeasance in the HIV+AIDS Pandemic and the awful outcomes that resulted.
In retrospect, it is very difficult to comprehend the extent and magnitude of our government health system malfeasance in the HIV+AIDS Pandemic and the awful outcomes that resulted.
It’s as if the public health systems
from Typhoid Mary never existed and secrecy was far more important than
containment and saving lives.
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Managing
Pandemics – Democrats Just Shut-up Already!
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Trump
Confronting HIV+AIDs Pandemic – Democrats Enabled It
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Covid-19 SideEffects: Socialists HiJack Colleges
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Let’s not miss this opportunity to exploit a crisis!
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The
left-wing Socialists who run our colleges and universities have found a
silver-lining in the Covid-19 Pandemic shutdowns and isolations.
They are on
an expedited mission to kill all the objective competitive tests and scores for
college entry criteria.
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Let’s not miss this opportunity to exploit a crisis!
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They can now
totally focus on subjective and feel ‘good to them’ criteria for admissions.
This has
been the mantra of the Academic Liberals for their lifetime.
Their quest
is the equivalent of ‘biodiversity’ in the student body and society.
Their view
is that Socialism is the future and therefore young people should be schooled
in the idyllic liberal arts and not competitive technology, science and
business.
College
entry selections should be made on sociology metrics to develop an enhanced
‘village’ where all the people, animals and plants will live in a mediocre commune
of ‘equalness’ and 'sameness' where the rewards are for participation.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/09/teaching-teachers-communist-manifesto.html
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Preparation for excellence, competence and competitiveness in the world marketplace is viewed as negative, archaic and obsolete and inconsistent with their view of the New World Order.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/09/teaching-teachers-communist-manifesto.html
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Preparation for excellence, competence and competitiveness in the world marketplace is viewed as negative, archaic and obsolete and inconsistent with their view of the New World Order.
This is also a major component of
why they so love Obama and so hate Trump.
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The
Socialists have the media and they have the schools now it’s just a matter of
time for the remnants of the Greatest Generation to die off (Covid-19 is
helping that) so that the New Socialist Order can be permanently established by
the comrades and their fellow travelers.
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Karl Marx’s
Manifesto Leads The Democrat 2020 Field
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Cuomo’s Covid-19 Nursing Home Conundrum
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Through a
sweet-heart deal with the PravdaMedia, NY.D.Gov Cuomo has essentially escaped
responsibility for his actions that excesserbated the deadly spread of Covid-19 in NY nursing homes and
the subsequent major death rates.
He also has
avoided addressing the political contributions from those healthcare execs to
whom he granted immunity.
A simple reporter question would be: why weren't these patients sent to the Javits Center or the Mercy Ship neither of which were utilized?
Cuomo spent
Wed at the White House, not justifying his mishandling of the NY epicenter
issues, but, asking that the entire nation chip-in to bail NY out of their
financial swamp.
This has to
be true – you can’t make this ‘stuff’ up!
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Bombshell
report on NY nursing home policy
overlooked in Gov. Cuomo's daily press conference
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“Reporters
at Andrew Cuomo’s daily press conference on Friday failed to ask the New York
governor about a scathing Associated Press report, published just
hours prior, that was highly critical of the way in which Cuomo had handled the
state’s nursing home coronavirus crisis.”
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Cuomo granted immunity to nursing home executives, after
big-money campaign donation
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“Three of
the hospital association’s top officials separately gave more than $150,000 to
Cuomo’s campaign between 2015 and 2018, the outlet reported.That donation
is now drawing scrutiny after Cuomo signed legislation last month that protects
executives from lawsuits -- just as he is under continued criticism
for his March
25 order (since deleted) requiring nursing homes to take in COVID-19
patients.”
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Death, Politics and the Nursing
Homes
“Professor
Glenn Reynolds, reminds us of the idiotic
moves Cuomo took.
Probably
the biggest and deadliest mistake was New York’s requirement that recovering
patients with COVID-19 be accepted by nursing homes.”
“More
than 5,300 nursing home patients in New York have died from Covid-19, and
as an Albany Times Union account notes,”
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Medicare
chief Verma blasts Cuomo for trying to deflect blame onto White House for NY
nursing home deaths
https://www.foxnews.com/media/seema-verma-andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-deaths
https://www.foxnews.com/media/seema-verma-andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-deaths
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
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Pathetic Cuomo Statement -- this is leadership?
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Pathetic Cuomo Statement -- this is leadership?
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Cuomo At White House For BailOut
Money
Cuomo Meets
With President Trump To Discuss Infrastructure Jobs, Says It Will ‘Supercharge’
The Economy
“The
governor wants to use the coronavirus
crisis as an opportunity to repair the nation’s crumbling roads and bridge
while helping to revive the economy.
Cuomo has
previously highlighted several large-scale projects he’d like to see move
forward, including a Penn
Station overhaul, a train link to LaGuardia Airport
and rebuilding the Hudson
River rail tunnels.”
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Apparently
Cuomo thinks he can bypass all the Obama-Regulations and the Obama-Judges who
are committed to derail all development projects to protect the American People
from the scourge of infrastructure improvements or expansions.
Perhaps he
actually can! What Judge wants to wake up with a horse head in their bed?
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The Fallacy
Of Proposing Another WPA
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NY Cuomo
Continues To Shrink
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Renewable Energy Not A Utility Solution
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Are
renewables worth the trade-offs?
“Considering
electricity costs, climate change mitigation and adaptation potential, and
environmental impact, renewables — wind and solar — are little more
advantageous than conventional energy sources — natural gas, coal, nuclear —
for electricity generation, and are in certain respects worse.”
“the wind
is not always blowing, nor the sun shining. By contrast, electricity production
from conventional power plants is steady, continuous, and available.”
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Botetourt
project changes part of wind industry's move toward taller (680-foot) turbines
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The
Botetourt Wind Turbines (680-foot) will be twice the height of the Wells Fargo Bldg
Roanoke’s highest: 21-stories 320-feet
high
But not to
worry – they won’t be a ‘view-shed’ issue nor a sound issue nor will they kill too many bats,
birds or eagles and the cost is not a problem because Gov. Northam has guaranteed
that all the equivalent electricity and cost will be purchased by The State of
Virginia at taxpayers expense.
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The utility
energy reality is that because wind energy is intermittent and not reliable,
100% must be backed-up by conventional systems at utility customer’s expense.
Something
about RAS: Reliability, Availability and Serviceability.
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Where Is Virginia’s Renewable
Energy Realism?
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The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Dichotomy
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Mr George Floyd had ample opportunity to be peacefully detained and handcuffed. He chose to resist and the subsequent put-down and hold-down was the result of his decisions and actions. Unfortunately Mr Floyd died, not from police strangulation; however, the police are being blamed as was the case for NYC James Garner who died in similar circumstances.
Memorial
Day in Chicago:
49 people being shot, 10 of them fatally.
No – none
from Police action (perhaps some from Police nonAction)
“200
homicides, compared with 176 during the same period last year. The number of
shootings climbed from 679 to 826.”
And No –
not from lack of so called ‘gun control’ laws!
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16 dead, at
least 30 injured in second straight weekend of violence in Chicago
https://www.foxnews.com/us/16-dead-at-least-30-injured-in-second-straight-weekend-of-violence-in-chicago
https://www.foxnews.com/us/16-dead-at-least-30-injured-in-second-straight-weekend-of-violence-in-chicago
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
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Four Minneapolis officers are
fired after video shows one kneeling on (side of) neck of black man who later died
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Minneapolis police release 911 call that led to
encounter with George Floyd
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-911-calls/index.html -
Mr George Floyd had ample opportunity to be peacefully detained and handcuffed. He chose to resist and the subsequent put-down and hold-down was the result of his decisions and actions. Unfortunately Mr Floyd died, not from police strangulation; however, the police are being blamed as was the case for NYC James Garner who died in similar circumstances.
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Reminiscent
of James Garner NYC: At that point
Garner had ample opportunity to turn around and put his hands behind his back
to be hand-cuffed (as he had been many times before).
Instead, he
used his 6’4” 350 pounds
of arrogance to resist arrest.
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In both
cases the police were called for a violation of law.
In both
cases these men chose to resist arrest.
In both
cases the police used reasonable force to subdue the suspect.
In both cases the resistors had underlying health issues that proved fatal.
Perhaps
when a police office tells you ‘you are under arrest’ you should peacefully
comply with the police orders and processing!
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Lots of
rioting for Mr. Floyd and Mr. Gardner.
Not so much
for the almost 200 dead black men in Chicago
this year.
Apparently
not all black lives are equally noted.
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Reflections of Obama’s Legacy
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Political Cartoons For Some
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Timely Insightful
Cartoons
-Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Northam At Beach No Mask
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How
Awkward! No Mask
and he’s
about to make masks mandatory.
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If he forgot his Mask
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Why didn’t he just wear his KKK
Hood?
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And where’s
the Social Distancing? Talk about a
Hypocrite!
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The 2020 Caddy Shack Campaign
The PravdaMedia Trump Derangement Syndrome
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The
commentary by Roanoke’s
Tom Taylor is an outstanding description of the PravdaMedia TDS and it’s major
disservice to the American People.
How sad
that such an important component of The American System has degraded to such a
sad and negative state.
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The
heartbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome
“It’s also unsettling to realize much of the
news media, like Congressional Democrats, are obviously more interested in
defeating President Trump in November than in the welfare of the nation.”
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WSJ: The ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Has
Passed Its Tipping Point
A return to balance would be commercially unviable. The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.
By Van Gordon Sauter A former president of CBS News
A return to balance would be commercially unviable. The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.
By Van Gordon Sauter A former president of CBS News
“To many
journalists, objectivity, balance and fairness—once the gold standard of
reporting—are not mandatory in a divided political era and in a country they
believe to be severely flawed. That assumption folds neatly into their
assessment of the president.”
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Trump
Derangement Syndrome And Mueller
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