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I suppose equating an outdated brand logo with art is simply a reflection of the cartoonist and his supporters' fundamental ignorance.

A caricature of Aunt Jemima is labeled "art" isn't it?

Aunt Jemima is art???? Seriously???

Except that none of the recent killings of black men and women were involved in any violent crimes, and in none of the cases were the cops involved were victims of violent crime or were their lives in danger. Maurice Gordon was killed during a traffic stop. George Floyd was apprehended for supposedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill. In the case of Rayshard Brooks, he struggled with the police, took the tazer, and shot it at the officers, but he was running away from the police not toward them. A tazer is not a deadly weapon. The protests aren't about the police shooting blacks involved in violent crimes. They are about police killing blacks who were guilty at most of petty crimes or traffic violations. They are about lesser incidents as well as in this one that just happened: Teens arrested for jaywalking

Brooks was shot in the back twice while he was running away. There is no way that there's an excuse for that. The officer could have just let him run away and collected him later as they had his personal information and his car. It's attitudes like yours which continually excuse the use of excessive -- including deadly -- force by police officers against citizens in general but black citizens in particular that perpetuates unnecessary police violence.

Cops are not pawns when they use what is clearly unjustified deadly force. All police departments have guidelines whether they are followed or not. Nobody ordered Chauvin to kneel on anybody's neck for almost 9 minutes. That doesn't exempt the Minneapolis PD from culpability. Chauvin had 18 significant complaints of using excessive force in his 19 years on the force. Brooks was shot in the back twice as he was running away. He didn't have a lethal weapon only a tazer he took from one of the cops. They had his info and his car so they could have picked him up any time. They didn't have to shoot him. What exactly do you mean "not be canceled"? Another poster upthread mentioned a "cancel culture". Is this another special code word from some pundit? Donald J. Trump and his top economic advisor Larry Kudlow have both disputed it publicly which, of course, gives legitimacy to those who wish to argue that calls for racial justice are unjustified.

Why do you think this? Because they're white? Because they've changed their minds about the topic? It seems to me that there's been a sudden sea change in how people look at the issues of systemic racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement because of the George Floyd murder. Many white people who never really thought about racism or police brutality have jolted to awareness -- and many to action -- by watching that video.

So, what? Nobody is demanding that you protest at work. Who are these people who are losing their livelihoods because they refuse to kneel? Colin Kaepernick is the only person who lost his job "over this" and it was because he started "this", ie, the kneeling during the national anthem. That this is 2020 not 2016, and 3 black men have been killed by police in May and June: Maurice Gordon on May 23 in a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis, and Rayshard Brooks on June 13 in Atlanta, all three incidents captured on body cam/cell phone video.

I'm saying that the FBI might better use its resources concentrating on hunting terrorists who have actually been active in this century -- I'm sure there are considerably more than just 9 -- rather than pretending that an old woman whose terrorist activity ended 47 years ago, presents the same threat that younger active terrorists whose whereabouts are unknown.

The FBI doesn't have enough active terrorists for their list that they have to list one who was last active almost fifty years ago? Assata Shakur is a 73-year-old former BLA member who was convicted as an accomplice in the killing of a NJ state trooper in a shoot out in 1973. She escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba in 1984, where she has been ever since.

Maybe that's true, but It undoubtedly takes one to support one.

Oh, you mean, like the mainstream media pointing out Trump's lies?

The point is that Republicans have been losing ground among voters in Orange County over several years and election cycles because of changes in the population, so there's nothing "surprising" about the Congressional election results. Historically, mid-term elections frequently result in Congressional losses for the party of the sitting president.

How exactly can Orange County be both "Orange County" and "the county & surrounding areas" at the same time??? More to the point than your geographically-impaired thinking, there's nothing "miraculous" about Orange County's voting Democratic in 2018. It's called changing demographics. The Republicans went from having a 10% advantage over Democrats among registered voters in 2013 to only a 1% advantage among registered voters in 2019. At the same time, the number of non-aligned voters increased to more than 27% of registered voters. That makes the electorate in the county much less predictable. In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first Democrat presidential candidate since 1936 to win the county, so there's nothing surprising about the Democrats taking the three Congressional seats in 2018.

Trump doesn't need the media to show him in a bad light. He does that all by himself every time he tweets.

The military and the country it protects are not synonymous. The national anthem, like the flag, is simply a symbol of the country while the military is an institution subservient to the country. The military does not make policy, although its members are too frequently expected to sacrifice for those policies it has no voice in making. What is disrespectful of the military is presidents sending American soldiers/sailors/flyers into harm's way in pursuit of questionable objectives stemming from short-sighted or foolish policies, not individuals expressing their dissatisfaction with their country during the playing of the national anthem. More importantly, "freedom" rings very hollow if people aren't free to express their dissatisfaction with the conditions in the country or the current government's actions. The anthem has NEVER been apolitical as it represents the country which is a political entity.

If you want to have a sanitized NFL playing in a vacuum where "the outside world" doesn't intrude, I suggest Madden. The NFL is made up of people, and people can't divorce themselves from their experiences or from what happens in the world. Deal with it. This applies as much today as it did 394 years ago ... "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any many of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne, 1624

I don't think that anybody gives "homage" to OJ for the last quarter century. I think that many like myself don't take pride in the greatest player to ever wear a Bills uniform because he so tarnished his legacy by his later actions.

This is simply untrue. The only groups that have been shown to trying to inflame a "race war" have been some white supremacist groups, which are part of "the Right" not "the Left". Moreover, who made you an expert on what the "majority of America" thinks about anything?

OJ isn't the first ex-husband/boyfriend to kill his ex. In fact, it's so common that ex-husbands/boyfriends frequently top the list of suspects whenever a woman is murdered or disappears under mysterious circumstances. From my memory of the well publicized murder trial, there was never any testimony by anyone claiming that OJ displayed erratic behavior that might, in hindsight, be considered symptomatic of CTE. He did demonstrate anger and a willingness to threaten his ex wife.

What these two posters said. He''s in the HOF and he's on the Wall. Leave it be.

Jameis Winston threw for the infamous 30/30 ... 30 TDs and 30 INTs, including IIRC, enough pick sixes to approach, tie or break the NFL season record. That's not "mediocre". That's terrible. Even average QBs are expected to throw more TDs than INTs. I don't think Jacoby Brissett is listed behind Phillip Rivers because he's black. I think the Colts don't think he's quite good enough. I think they also believe that they're a better QB from being a SB contender, so they're willing to see if Rivers has something left in the tank. I personally would have preferred Dalton to Rivers, but Dalton was still with the Bengals when the Colts signed Rivers. That's nice, but your original parameters conveniently left out black QBs like Tyrod Taylor and Teddy Bridgewater, both of whom will will likely be starters for their teams on opening day. That's kind of the old "skew the params" so that my data will support what I want to prove. Your premise -- that it's harder for black QBs to get and keep starting gigs than white ones -- is probably correct but your numbers don't prove it. More importantly, Jameis Winston isn't the only starting QB from his draft class to get kicked to the curb last season. Marcus Mariota also lost his starting job. In both cases, maybe their teams should have sent them packing sooner because neither has been more than barely competent as starters, but teams don't like to give up on QBs they drafted high. When it came time to shell out big bucks for either, they were both cut loose -- as was Blake Bortles, another below average starter, at the end of his rookie contract.

There are "bad opinions" for which there is no middle ground because they are simply wrong. Maybe they were "okay opinions" or "popular opinions" fifty or one hundred years ago but times change, and societal standards change. Racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia are among the opinions that are no longer acceptable in the general American society in 2020 although shrinking segments of society still hold them. Holding those opinions is your own business, but if you express them or act on them, then you will offend a lot of people and catch hell for it. Hopefully, George Floyd's death will be instrumental in adding the idea that police brutality is okay -- not just against black and brown men but against every person in the US -- to the list of proscribed opinions.

My 2020 garden update. Several weeks ago, I turned a short piece of plastic sewer pipe, about 2' diameter by 1' high into a raised bed in which I planted lettuce, radishes and spinach. Because of the cold weather, the seeds were slow to germinate and then grow, but they've taken off now. It's time to sow some more lettuce in it. I dug out the lemon balm and catnip from my herb garden, planted the lemon balm along the outside of the herb garden so that it will form a boundary, and divided up the catnip into 1 large and 2 small clumps that I potted up. The big one I will replant in my garden and give the other two away. I left the chives, garlic and some onions that apparently resowed. I filled the rest of the bed with extra soil to raise it up, and planted 5 Ozark Beauty strawberry plants. I put in 4 Romaine lettuce seedlings among the strawberries because they will be done before the berries send out runners. I rototilled existing garden space plus the areas where I planned to expand. Then I built the raised beds from the 3 yards of garden soil I purchased (at least half of which still remains). I have one bed that's two feet wide and 25 feet long and about 4 inches higher than the existing garden. The second bed is about 21 feet long. In one irregular corner, I put in a bed against the fence. Along the south side of the garden is a 4 foot by about 15 feet raised bed that I'm building up with more soil as I plant seeds and seedlings. I have a drainage area right along the garage which is still a work in progress plus an entrance area from last year that's covered with landscape fabric and wood chips. The paths between the two long beds and the shorter wider bed are wide enough to fit my garden cart. So far, I've planted 21 tomatoes, 4 eggplants, 2 zucchinis, and a small area of yellow and red onions. I still have a few red onion sets to plant plus 4 celery and 4 parsley plants. I still have room for green beans,carrots, basil, and dill. I made the main garden, the currant patch, and the herb garden/strawberry patch dog proof with a two foot high wire fencing because my dog Gibbs gets inspired to digging out plants by watching me digging and weeding. While Gibbs could easily jump the fence, he isn't even interested in the area unless I'm in it. It should keep out any stray bunnies or woodchucks that come into the yard, too. I currently have 2 makeshift wire gates. Earlier in the spring, I built a raised bench along the fence in a sheltered area behind my garage. It's about 12 feet by about 3 feet. I planted 10 asparagus roots there and some peas, but those don't seem to be likely to sprout. I think I should have just spent the money to get actually started plants but I was cheap. The area in front of this would-be asparagus patch is going to grow okra after I build the raised bed for it. Okra needs really warm soil to germinate, so I will plant that some time after June 1.

I saw two once thirty plus years ago at my late father's. They apparently came out of the woods to feast on the ripe grapes in his vineyard near the house.