leh-nerd skin-erd

You’ve stitched together quite a patchwork of random musings and supposition here, but ultimately you just have an ugly sweater that doesn’t fit. Yes, I would assume that the riots, chop zones, death and destruction precipitated changes to the law. We’ll gloss over the fact that many, many involved in the riots were white if it makes you feel better, but you’ve provided none of the the racially suggestive language you seem to imply is obvious. Still, your angle seems to be you have to die to be lawfully able to protect yourself while fleeing, and that’s a non-starter for me. Leh-nerd Snopes rates your claim “FALSE”.

You’re flapping your yap, but providing no text, wording or even legal analysis to support your position. I understand it’s fun to just toss crap against the wall, but I beseech you: Help me understand what you see. I know, but I’m back and forth having some hardwood floors refinished so I’m bored, or “board” as those folks say!

You’re getting turned around here, like a blindfolded monkey in a barrel. Are you back to the redundant law issue? We already agreed that can be a real kick in the nuts. Why don’t we do this, you tell me specifically the white supremacy clause and language that’s got the burr under your saddle. That should be very easy to do as it’s your argument. I provided links as requested, how about you help us both out. As to your follow up question on angry mobs and such, I appreciate your perspective that one should not defend oneself until seriously injured or dead. It is true that Reginald Denny survive the assault with only serious injuries. You’re free to proceed accordingly and I hold no malice towards you and your sacrifice. I’d simply choose to carve a different path.

Well, certainly an argument can be made that there are entitled rich people in the world, and that intergenerational wealth can contribute to that. I did a term paper on the subject in college and sought to interview some of the poor Kennedy heirs— I couldn’t find any and I failed.

The default go-to you use religiously reveals an extraordinary obsession with how your words might impact others. If it bucks up your inner self to think ya really got to me and @Buffalo Timmy, I’m happy to help you out. Who knows, maybe it keeps you from beating the dog. You posted something dopey, I responded, you veered off on a tangent and tried to recover a semblance of dignity by flipping back to the white supremacy of your dopey Twitter link. With respect to your request for sourcing, here are a couple that come to mind: Apologies as the vehicle weighed a bit more than the 35hunge threshold you arbitrarily applied. https://abc7ny.com/bikers-attack-car-bmw-attacked-flatiron-nyc-crime/9204831/ No idea on GVWR on vehicle. https://www.khq.com/top_video/video-angry-mob-surrounds-father-and-children-driving-in-spokane-valley/video_9062b55a-5e8a-11ea-a20a-8fa76b16f531.html Not sure if this car was air conditioned. Maybe if the internal cabin temp was more comfortable the folks surrounding the vehicle might have been more at ease? https://www.thespec.com/news/world/2016/10/03/video-angry-mob-attacks-patrol-car-with-cop-still-inside.html Cops likely don’t qualify as people in your scenario, but vehicle is in target zone weight wise. https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/video-teen-mob-attacks-vehicle-in-broad-daylight-in-midtown-manhattan/ Attack by perps riding Huffy Davidson’s.

Oh, if your only point was that lawmakers often promote multiple bills and laws, with multiple redundancies and busy work to appear as if they are taking action, or often take existing legislation and attempt to improve it or change it for the greater good, we agree on that. It’s just weird that you went all crazy linky to White Supremacy and fostering terrorism in your prior post though. I didn’t understand that you were mocking the guy with the tweet.

You get one life, and it can be complicated to make it through at times. If a group of peaceful demonstrators blocked my safe passage to the local Walmart or a dinner with friends, I’d turn around and find an alternate route. If all routes to my destination were blocked, I’d move on. I’d think someone who targets a peaceful demonstration with an intent to injure, maim and kill would suffer the consequences of their actions, then again some people view a video of a police officer saving the life of a person being assaulted with a knife and think the police officer is the perpetrator of the crime and the assailant the tragic hero. Personally, I feel no obligation to any group of people surrounding my car, banging on the hood and threatening me. My obligation in that case is to me and those in my car. I have no way of knowing what the mob intends, what weapons they might possess, or what their intent would be. To be completely honest, those situations look an awful lot like a scene from The Walking Dead. I’d hate to be in that position, but then again, it would not be of my making to begin with. At that point, all civilized and rational bets are off. I believe you would feel the same and expect the law to protect you accordingly.

The desire to build and sustain intergenerational wealth has been part of the American dream since the country was founded. Painting the desire for a legacy to pass on the fruits of ones life as some sort of lottery win seems unreasonable to me, and suggesting that it promotes laziness is painting it with an exceptionally broad brush.

A quick review of American history (Vietnam War, Pentagon Papers, Iran-Contra, Benghazi, Keating 5, Bush’s War For Oil, Cuomo Nursing Home Deaths, Tuskegee Experiment, Trump and Russia and so many others) reveals the truth of that Bruce Springsteen said to a crowd of tens of thousands at the Meadowlands circa 1985–“Blind faith in your leaders can get you killed”. There are many, many questions to be answered with the shutdown, the spread of COVID, the financial incentives to label every possible death as caused by COVID, the Georgia and Florida experiments, no mask/yes mask/double mask, the rat-f*cking of our educational system, and the role politics played in the great COVID lockdown of 2020-21. The fact that most of the people who should be doing the asking are suddenly mute doesn’t change that, and in fact makes me more suspicious than I otherwise might be. I’m reminded of a couple verses from “The Rock” by Harry Chapin: He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone They knew he was insane so they left him all alone He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself One night while he was working building braces on the ledge The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge "The rock is gonna fall on us! Run or you'll all be crushed!" And indeed the rock was moving, crumbling all to dust He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop The people ran into the street but by then all was still The rock seemed where it always was or where it always will be When someone asked where he had gone they said: "Oh he was daft. Who cares about that crazy fool." And then they'd start to laugh But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit So yeah, it’s entirely possible you’re out there a bit, but lining up at the knee wall to pay homage to one’s betters without question often ends badly for the one who kneels.

I can’t fault him for this one. It’s entirely possible he thinks he’s a world renowned surgeon who lied graduating at the top of his class.

Wrongo. He’s the target.

You have a right to question my intellect, what conclusion you reach is not really my concern. You're not the first to question it, I'll gut it out and see it through. I'm assuming that since you only referenced "everything is a public health crisis" that you agree with everything else on the list? My point was simply that there is certainly credence to what @Big Blitz shares. While I'm certainly not in agreement with everything he suggests, I respect his willingness to do the heavy lifting on many of these issues. No, I don't think everything is a public health crisis. Athlete's foot, for example, is not and I don't see the government turning our lives upside down over it any time soon. I do see this pandemic and the way death and disease was tracked as problematic and manipulative. I followed protocol, distanced, avoided, masked, sanitized my hands like Dr Jill at a tonsillectomy, ***** down travel, avoided visiting with elderly members of my family and watch as the world shut down. I got my vaxx. I knew people who got sick and in a few cases, some who got really sick, and in a few more, some that died. Still, I've had this burning question about masses of people gathering to demonstrate and nary a word about the massive and irresponsible danger that those gatherings posed to us all. I watched Fauci shrug his shoulders and behave like a mousey school marm as what we were being told (science dudes) and what was being done conflicted. Never made sense to me, either they were willing to stand idly by and let the virus rage then, or they knew the near complete lockdown then was a waste of time. Now suddenly, maybe outside stuff is ok. Whatever. As I said in my reply, it's not that I agree with everything as you've outlined over the past few months, but what you've said makes sense in many cases.

That's a pretty good start. I acknowledge losing faith in the govt science dudes. I always want to given them the benefit of the doubt, but a govt lifer is a govt lifer.

Listen, this is the same crowd that is all boned up about Uncle Joe and Aunt Liz saddling others with the debt people incurred for four years at a prestigious college or University replete with Sprang Break, general buffoonery, needless spending on room and board, a well-paying job coming out, a university with an endowment greater than the collective wealth of several third world countries (excluding Canada of course), and a set of financial priorities that reads 1. me 2. my stuff 3. more stuff for me. 4. new stuff to replace last year's stuff 5. bmw 6. travel 7. vacation 8. reunion with the other scofflaws 9. Biden 4 Prez 10. any financial obligations i knowingly and purposefully entered into using my good name as my word to honor said debt, but "what's in a name?". The payoff, they say, is that by saddling others with the debt, it frees up other money to fund items 1-9, so they're actually the hero of the day.

I like your thoughts on most issues. I’m saying this: The greatest gift you can give to your children is a strong work ethic, the willingness to put in a hard day’s work in something you love, and to encourage them to stand on your shoulders and see farther than you dared to dream. The assets accumulated through hard work and perseverance are part of that if I choose to include in my own plan. What I’m thinking is: You sandal-wearing-filthy-footed-grungy-hippie-liberal-$&$&!! Grab the pitchforks baby.

#freethepeach and concurrently let’s just #freethenipple I’m good with both.

But what about a George Foreman grill? Can someone bring that in a voting line so they can make delicious samwhiches like grilled cheese or BLTs? This law is a Jim Crow rope-a-dope fiasco.

Reminder: Peaches. We need to add that to the long list of COVID kryptonite.

He shoots 4 times to neutralize a threat. The threat in this case was a person trying to end the life of another person. Are you advocating one shot to the skull? Maybe catch the edge to the stabbing arm? Or the hand, the one holding the knife, sorta in the range of the other girls face and neck? To answer your question about whether or not it was necessary, I think she made it necessary to act with haste and resolve to end the threat she posed, and there is not much more to say than that. Stepping back from the need to act in haste with resolve to end the threat, there are many things we can talk about as it relates to society, upbringing, mental health, the other individuals who didn’t assist or exacerbated the situation. We can certainly talk about the future of policing, sending social workers in to defuse these situations and the quest for some version of non-lethal force that would thread the needle between victim rights and the rights of people trying to stab the life out of another. Monday morning quarterbacking the decisions by the officer in something as obvious as this does nothing for the greater or good. The best course of action for him personally would be to do nothing and let things play out. Maybe the girl is wounded but does not bleed out. Maybe she wrestles the knife from the other lady. Sometimes people die because their actions just are not reasonable.

There’s always someone trying to take guns away, and as a citizen you have every right to question the intent of government officials. The clusterf*ck of the past year and a half as officials chose winners and losers, who could gather who could not, and “hunker down and be compliant but we’ll look the other way for those who are not” tells you all you need to know about our trusted leaders. I’m not sure what you’re talking about in your second paragraph. Student loans no more ‘kill our economy” than car loans, mortgages, property tax, sales tax and income tax. The fear isn’t really a fear at all, it’s a carefully manufactured story to appeal to the supposedly educated among us that they are victims of a great scam. Meanwhile, the folks to be victimized by the payoff often honored their debt (many educated folks do and have), never partook in the absurdity of a Philosophical Sustainability degree from Berkeley, understood priorities (obligations v newest iPhone), and totally bypasses the carnival barkers running the scam if one exists—Big Ed. That’s not a fear, that’s a recognition that you can convince anyone they are a victim if the payoff is of sufficient value for them to suppress their moral standards.

Awww snap like das Fauch, hiding in his science cubby while folks spread the virus he’s the supposed expert on?

Like shrugging one’s shoulders and pretending protests didn’t cause the spread of the virus, like the Fauch was known to do. Sounds like one of those west coast swingers parties that are all the rage with your Miley Cyruses and Jodi Fosters.

I wonder if they found his new address and we’re going to try and burn him out again. The timing seems odd.

Your comments are hurtful. Be that as it may, I did think you were painting every law enforcement officer with your broad brush, but I was hoping I was wrong. People with your mindset have been responsible for a lot of pain and misery over the years.

Who are “they”?