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Jauronimo

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  1. Did you read it? It wasn't just sitting down and catching his breath. He waited 24 hours to do anything about it. I might have sat down until I could breathe but I doubt I would have resumed the Thanksgiving Day holiday and called my neighbor about a lawyer 24 hours later. I understand the concern re: shock and, of course, I'm not sure how I would have reacted in total at that moment. I'm fairly sure, however, that I would have called 911 asap/relatively soon and probably wouldn't have moved a body around and then resumed my prior activities. Just an opinion on a message board....but I'm fairly confident. The manner in which he terminated the intruders combined with his behavior afterwards raises some suspicion about the guy's baseline mental health. His rationale for not calling the cops is he didn't want to bother them.....not that he 'didn't know what to do' or 'that he was scared.' His resumption of 'the day' and not wanting to bother police defies the extreme of the situation he was just in.

     

    It may have all been a stress reaction but this type of behavior is not consistent with most home invasions/shootings I've ever read/heard about. I.e. Ones in which you hear the tape of the screaming person telling the operator...."I just shot someone...help...they came in and I shot them...." etc.

     

    ...and how do you know what I've done. :lol:

     

    EDIT: Yes you read it. I just looked at your prior posts. You seem to state the behavior was 'odd' as well....even considering the circumstances. I think i missed your sarcasm....

    Poorly worded on my part. Should have phrased my response as if you were criticizing his choice of furniture to sit on. Without voice inflection to sell it, wording needs to be more precise. Damn internet.

  2. 100%

     

    Quite frankly, I found the 'horrible tragedy' thread on the main board to be pretty lame too. Way too many people afraid to call a spade a spade these days. This guy was a worthless subhuman; I hope he's rotting in hell.

    Save for DaveInElma, everyone is afraid and you should be too. The proper nomenclature is Monday-American.

  3. This guy is really going to have to push the narrative of an elderly man, living in fear after a number of prior break ins and robberies. For his sake, I hope thats the case. Having your home broken into can certainly take away anyones sense of security and safety. I'm guessing after the last break-in this guy drew a line in the sand.

  4. He didn't sleep on it - it all happened at the same time. The only delay was that he didn't call the police (or more aptly, ask his neighbor to call the police for some reason) until the next day. (not wanting to bother the police on Thanksgiving sounds... odd... though).

    Thats what I meant by sleeping on it.

  5. Self defense doesn't give you the right to sleep on it (that right is reserved for the Kennedys) and then administer a coup de grace when you notice that one of your would be burglars is still breathing. Maybe the guy was just totally shocked causing him to act the way he did, but his actions after shooting the dude, including moving the body, finishing off the girl, and his rationale for waiting as long as he did to call the authorities all strike me as awfully strange.

  6. Here's what I don't get - Christian Ponder picked 13th overall - EJ Manuel same school, better measureables, similar but superior statistics and he's ranked somewhere between a 2nd and 4th round pick.

    If I recall correctly, general consensus among us expert fans and TV talking heads was that Minnesota reached pretty high for Ponder. They needed a QB, as we do, and they took best QB available with their first pick. He's shown some flashes, but I'm guessing in 1.5 seasons or less, the Ponder experiment will be over and Minnesota will once again be in QB or bust draft mode.

     

    Thats the great thing about reaching for a QB. You get to do it again and again and again.

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    "@billromanowski: Thank God I don't have to watch Rolando McClain anymore! It is an honor and a privilege to play and he was an embarrassment not only. To the Raiders and to all the warriors who worked their asses off. Sorry but I am glad not to see him play again...hopefully EVER!"

    Romanowski only said that because McClain is black. But as far as racist, juice head, morons go, Romo is one of the best.

  8. Actually, there is a correct answer and it's not controversial as long as you're not a member of a political party and trying to maintain the support of the lunatics who have hijacked it... 4.54 billion years. (That's the age of the Earth, not of the universe as Rubio somehow strangely misinterpreted the question).

    Actually, I'm aware. Thus the word most.

     

    Go ask 100 people at random and see if they have the slightest clue. I'd be willing to guess most of congress couldn't date the formation of the universe, age of the earth, and beginning of life on earth to within 2 billion years. And I wouldn't hold that against them either. Why would they necessarily know any of it?

  9. I think it is. I think it implies a perceived hierarchy. These are statements in support of your central point... that you're better, more valuable, that your opinions carry more weight. Those people you refer to as fungible parts in the machine...their voices do not matter because they lack the special privelaged point of view that only you and a few other special people have.

    Its not perceived. The business hierarchy is real, and thats a function of the most basic economic principle: supply and demand. You are conflating worth in a business sense with the value of human lives. One of these concepts is easily assessed. You may not like it, and it may make you uncomfortable, but the truth often does.

  10. Making money is easy when it it's all you care about.

    You're just above it all, right? One of those "I could've been a millionaire if I tried. I just didn't feel like it. Money can't buy happiness, you know? When you work that much you sacrifice so much precious time away from your wife and kids. I wouldn't trade that time spent with my family for all the money in the world!" types of guys who then plays softball 4 nights a week, mows the lawn every day, goes to Home Depot for hours at a time to stop the sink from dripping, the walls are closing in, anything to get out of the house and away from my ordinary life kind of guys, aren't you?

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