2014-08-20, 22:59 | Link #34581 |
Juanita/Kiteless
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Location: New England
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I posted this on another forum about Ferguson:
I think the protests are going on too long. There is chaos now. Brown shouldn't be made into some kind of martyr. He was a trouble maker. I'm starting to doubt eyewitness accounts now, too. A video surfaced of a bystander who was at the scene of the incident shortly after it happened and in the video you here him say what he saw (telling it to someone else), about Brown approaching the officer and then being shot, and this goes against witnesses saying Brown was walking away, got shot, and then tried to surrender. Also, reportedly, the cop has some documented injuries to his head and/or face from an altercation with Brown, and if this is true, Brown did get into an altercation with the cop. Witnesses said the cop made that up. I'm willing to bet the cop did not need to use lethal force, even if there was an altercation and Brown was coming after the cop. But I'm starting to think that the witness accounts aren't true on some very important things.
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2014-08-21, 00:11 | Link #34582 | |
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Big, big news!
Massive ocean discovered towards the earths core!
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Take your mind away from terrible news as of late and marvel at this discovery, which is sure to change our understanding of this planet.
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2014-08-21, 01:08 | Link #34584 |
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Shouldn't this be on the Science News thread? I remember reading about this some time ago (maybe even from that very thread), but I still think that water came from comets. Rather than surface water originating from this reservoir, I think this deep reservoir formed when surface water got trapped and dragged down there through the subduction zone.
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2014-08-21, 06:05 | Link #34586 | |
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2014-08-21, 07:13 | Link #34587 | |
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Thailand coup General Prayuth Chan-ocha named PM
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2014-08-21, 08:27 | Link #34588 | |
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2014-08-21, 10:20 | Link #34590 |
Logician and Romantic
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It just seems the king is the only thing the country can agree on. It seems the issue is that you can have elections, but it doesn't matter very much if the voters don't respect the outcomes. I say if they don't believe in democracy then you can't force it into them.
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2014-08-21, 10:25 | Link #34591 | |
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2014-08-21, 12:03 | Link #34593 | |
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Reported killed in Syria, Malaysian jihadist gets some support at home
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2014-08-21, 12:12 | Link #34594 |
AS Oji-kun
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The Philippines? The one that's over eighty percent Catholic?
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They seem to think that anywhere a Muslim could set foot is a Muslim land. In fact, only 2 out of the 5 can be said to be a Muslim dominant state - even then they don't mix religion with politics most of the time (other than Malaysia during MH370 with the coconut ritual). What is beyond me is what is so good about the caliphate thing - still it probably won't stop me from asking them to talk to my HK if they insist that I be their subject when I am in uniform. Landslides hit Japan's Hiroshima, killing at least 36 Quote:
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2014-08-21, 13:55 | Link #34597 | |
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2014-08-21, 14:10 | Link #34598 | |
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Put it this way, assuming person A was involved in a serious traffic(or potato cannon, whatever ) accident that was caused by person B. While A can sue B/B's insurance company for medical cost/lost wages etc., chances are any request by A for B to pay his medical bills after he had already sued him without it being part of a settlement would be rejected. As not only would B be subjecting himself to additional financial costs, B would also be shooting himself in the foot by providing A something that can be used as tacit admission of guilt in the lawsuit, further exposing himself to even more financial liabilities. This is where I think the county's statement of not being legally able to pay the bill comes from. While you and I as private citizens have all the right to intentionally and actively shoot ourselves in the foot in a lawsuit, government institutions may not have that freedom. |
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2014-08-21, 15:01 | Link #34599 | |
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2014-08-21, 15:10 | Link #34600 |
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Depends on which government. City and county governements are generally broke relative to the Federal government and some State governments. Other state governments are also broke.
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