Chef Jim Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 No, I was talking about your analogy I know. So make sure to be careful when you go out during a storm. You'll either be killed by a cop or struck by lightening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 This might be the very stupidest thing I've read on PPP Paging Mr Kettle Paging Mr Kettle You have a call from Mr Pot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Thank you for putting me in with such esteemed posters, Azalin and jboyst excluded of course. of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Thank you for putting me in with such esteemed posters, Azalin and jboyst excluded of course. welcome to the club! of course! we get members only jackets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Waldorf! We never learn his name, but Taibbi calls him Waldorf because he resembles the grouchy old balcony heckler on “The Muppet Show.” Waldorf’s casual contempt for his defendants (and tacit approval of the sloppy policing dragnet that puts them at his mercy) is voiced at the conclusion of a grimly comic vignette worthy of Joseph Heller — one of many deeply reported, highly compelling mini-narratives of dysfunction within the criminal justice system that make “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap” as infuriating as it is impossible to put down. Photo CreditJennifer Daniel A 35-year-old black man named Andrew Brown is arrested for “obstructing pedestrian traffic” in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brown, having been similarly harassed by the cops countless times before, refuses to provide ID and accept a summons, and is consequently brought into court. Once there, Brown explains to Waldorf that he was talking to a friend outside his own apartment building after getting off work, and that, given the lateness of the hour (shortly before 1 a.m.), there wouldn’t have been any pedestrian traffic on Myrtle Avenue to obstruct. None of this seems to register with Waldorf. “What are you arguing?” he asks. He wonders aloud whether Brown was “being a wise guy” with the cops, and expresses surprise that a person such as Brown would have a job. He advises his client to pay the $25 fine. Brown refuses and explains it all over again to the judge. The judge turns to Waldorf and asks whether Brown will pay the $25 fine. Waldorf explains, for the second time, that Brown won’t pay, his manner suggesting that for the life of him he can’t figure out why not. Only then does the judge bestir himself to ask the arresting officer whether he saw any other people on the sidewalk that night. No? “O.K., then,” the judge sighs. “Not guilty.” Out in the hallway, Taibbi asks Waldorf why white people never get arrested for obstructing pedestrian traffic. Oblivious to the lesson that has just played out, and puzzled as to why Taibbi would want to include any of this in a book, Waldorf replies, “Low-class people do low-class things.” Interesting book. Just heard the NPR interview with the author http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/books/review/the-divide-by-matt-taibbi.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....lybob Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 welcome to the club! we get members only jackets straightjackets which will be the first thing you guys have gotten straight in your lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 straightjackets which will be the first thing you guys have gotten straight in your lives. There's a cow or two that can refute that. Maybe a Longhorn too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 There's a cow or two that can refute that. Maybe a Longhorn too. Texas, where men are men, and longhorns are nervous.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 straightjackets which will be the first thing you guys have gotten straight in your lives. then the idiots would get in a fight over who got Curly, Larry or Moe on the back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Bureau of justice statistics - Data from the Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) component of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) represent a national accounting of persons who have died during the process of arrest from 2003 through 2009. Highlights: A total of 4,813 deaths were reported to the Arrest-Related Deaths program from January 2003 through December 2009. Of reported arrest-related deaths, 61% (2,931) were classified as homicides by law enforcement personnel, 11% (541) were suicides, 11% (525) were due to intoxication, 6% (272) were accidental injuries, and 5% (244) were attributed to natural causes. State and local law enforcement agencies employing 100 or more full-time sworn personnel accounted for 75% of the 4,813 arrest-related deaths reported during 2003-2009. Among reported arrest-related deaths, 42% of persons were white, 32% were black, and 20% were Hispanic. No dude, these numbers don't fit the narrative. Find some better ones and we'll listen. This might be the very stupidest thing I've read on PPP *this is, of course, excluding anything azale, 3rdthing or Joyboy have ever said Does anyone else feel insulted about being left off this list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 then the idiots would get in a fight over who got Curly, Larry or Moe on the back who can fight while in a straight jacket? and you call us idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 No dude, these numbers don't fit the narrative. Find some better ones and we'll listen. Does anyone else feel insulted about being left off this list? I feel great that it was in direct response to one of my posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Texas, where men are men, and longhorns are nervous.... you're in the club, too... but which are you? the longhorn or the man? then the idiots would get in a fight over who got Curly, Larry or Moe on the back Don't you owe me a reply, idiot? Yeah, isn't is a scary thing when I actually pwned you? I mean, I didn't actually try that hard because...well.. it's you. But, for the half minute I took this basement serious I really put a collar on you, backed you up to a stump and showed you who's your daddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 you're in the club, too... but which are you? the longhorn or the man? why, the longhorn of course. the very longhorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 If you have the mentality that you are a victim, you will always be a victim of failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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