StrangeSox

Dude was caught on camera screaming "we're going to kill this motherf***er" but hey, good shoot. I'm sure all of the Good Cops involved in this scenario faithfully and truthfully reported the incident and actually tried to stop it before Smith was murdered, just like the good cops stood up to that thug who assaulted the nurse in Utah and the good cops who made sure Laquan McDonald's murderer was held accountable and didn't willingly participate in a cover-up.

I know I shouldn't be surprised, but Ex-cop Jason Stockley found not guilty in black man's death Stockley murdered Smith with his personal AK and then planted a gun in his car. It was all caught on video. Still, not guilty.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 09:29 PM) Legit don't know what that is. A lot of us are smart, middle of the road "establishment" Democrats who supported Hillary, support Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, and support keeping the party united when we've got SUCH an opportunity to win and win big. "Party unity my ass," the contingent of Hillary supporters who said they would refuse to support Obama after he won the nomination. I think pelosi is a great leader even if there are often times I disagree with her politics. I've been surprised by Schumer so far, expecting a much bigger step down from Reid. I voted Clinton last November and would do so again if they were holding another election tomorrow. But the base of the party, or at leasta decent portion of it, is or is moving substantially to the left of centrism. The American people as a whole seem to be fed up with the status quo. People by and large continue to struggle economically even if the stock market is surging and some segments of society are doing very well. Doubling down on the 90's and 00's era politics isn't going to appeal to these people. Sanders "independent" label is a gimmick, but he's always been a reliable vote for Democratic policies. He seems to have single handedly given a voice to the people looking to push the Democratic party as a whole leftward on multiple issues. I don't think he'd be a particularly strong president or leader of the party as a whole, but he does represent an important base and ignoring that is no better than the hardcore Bernie people who insist on their own version of purity politics.

There's definitely something to what you're saying and why "everyone get a STEM degree!" Isn't an actual solution

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 01:09 PM) Any travel experts on here? What's the best way to get to Sacramento from KC around the holidays? Very expensive to fly to Sactown from KC. Like 600 ish. Is the drive from Oakland to Sactown OK or a nightmare? Is it really 1 hr 20 mins; is the drive from Reno to Sactown better? I prefer SW Airlines obviously. Thanks. Is there a logical route I'm overlooking? You could always fly into Oakland or San Jose and drive to Sacramento if the flights were better. It's only a few hours depending on traffic, made the drive many times myself.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 01:07 PM) My issue is for the vast majority of jobs out there that require a degree, you really don't need one. You learn the skills for the position by doing the work. At best you need an associates degree to shore up math or writing skills (though if you're able to take AP calc or physics or english in high school, that's more than you'll ever need). The experience of college and living on your own and figuring out the social stuff is what college provides. The in-school portion is a waste unless you're on a specific track for sciences or accounting or whatever. And those should just be specific degree tracks at a school. Most of my friends got general liberal arts degrees in business admn or political science or whatever, and they have vastly different careers. None of them used what they learned in school to do their jobs. Only in the most general way. Even lawyers. Why did we have to get an undergrad degree? What did my political science/business admn double major provide me in my prep for law school? Nothing. I could have gone to law school right out of high school. But those college degrees are still requirements to getting your foot in the door in those types of careers. And even in more technical programs, things can diverge pretty radically. My degree is in mechanical engineering, and I haven't done anything directly related to that in years, though I'm still in engineering. People maybe only really "need" an associate's degree to acquire the skills for a particular job, but the hiring manager and HR for that job are still going to be looking for bachelor's or better and no amount of "well things ought to be different" will really change that imo. It's also missing the forest from the trees a bit to view college solely as "training for a specific career." A generalist education gives you better background and understanding as an individual, and you might not have any idea where your career or life will take you over the next several decades.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 12:26 PM) A large chunk of the Democratic base actually falls into the #NeverSanders camp as well. It would be wise not to discount that growing faction. how many of the "#neversanders" people were also PUMA dopes back in 2008?

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 09:18 AM) Reddy on Medicare for all - Meaningless bill that won't pass Reddy on Better Deal press conference people have already forgotten- This is a game changer!

Trump humiliated Sessions after Mueller appointment Trump berated and humiliated Sessions, calling him an idiot and saying he should resign back in May. Sessions turned in a resignation letter, but Trump ultimately rejected it based on the advice of other senior members. Trump talked about firing Sessions again back in July, but it didn't go anywhere.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 02:33 PM) "revolutionary leftist views" Is the media being run by Maoists? we see the war between third world Maoists and old school marxist-leninists play out daily in the pages of the NYT and WaPo, not the mention the tankie Stalin revisionism constantly spouted on the airwaves! nothing close to actual leftist thought is given airtime/column space in the mainstream media. unless you're counting things like Democracy Now!, but even then that's a tiny fraction of a percent of "the media." The multi-billion dollar media industry is liberal on social issues, generally speaking, and hard line corporatist otherwise.

lmao the idea that the mainstream media has revolutionary leftist views

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Aug 19, 2017 -> 09:47 PM) Do you haul a lot of stuff? 3rd rows have a good amount of cargo space with all the seats folded down. And renting a truck from Menards or Home Depot is like $20-30. jenks your post has had me thinking the last few weeks, and after finally starting to go look around at options last weekend, I think we're more settled on a 3rd row SUV. Currently looking at some Ford Explorers since we liked them more than the equivalent Chevys, Dodges or Nissans.

Florida got really lucky that Cuba took a big chunk out of Irma and that it ended up pushing back east rather than riding up the whole coast. Glad the damage there seems relatively limited, even if there are a whole lot of people without power right now. We saw what this storm was capable of on some of the other islands.

all models now converging on landfall in FL. hurricane force wind gusts across the peninsula. https://twitter.com/growingwisdom/status/906246072065982465 Miami might avoid a direct eyewall hit but it's in the worst possible spot for storm surges.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 01:35 PM) The longer range forecast is also aiming the leftovers of the storm directly towards the midwest. Last time we got one of these about a decade ago, we got something like 8 inches of rain over a couple of days IIRC. We got some from Katrina, right?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 01:33 PM) With all the projections now predicting a western shift, is it possible Louisiana/New Orleans gets hit? No, it's still projected to go right up the middle of Florida, we're talking shifts of 20-50 miles or so of the path of the eye. From everything I've read, the models this far out are pretty accurate, so there would have to be a massive failure in the multiple models in all the same way for it to shift that much. It's pretty much a lock, just wait for results from Broward county to come in and......oh my god. [sorry for the bad election joke]

Video from St. Martin, which was devasteted https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/america...icane-irma.html

NOAA's latest forecast continues to shift west. Cuba's getting more of the storm than originally predicted, the upper east coast of Florida might not get it as bad but at the expensive of more of the west coast getting hit hard. Panhandle's inline for some hurricane damage, too.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 12:59 PM) This just happened after Rush spent the week telling his listeners that this hurricane is basically a hoax: He still didn't actually admit that he was evacuating, just that they couldn't do the show from there tomorrow for "reasons." This idiot is going to get people killed.

So we've already got two Cat 4 hurricanes going at once, who's ready for Round 3? https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/906193823956697088

can't embed .mp4's here as far as I can tell, but here's an inundation map of southern florida https://i.imgur.com/7IGmjS6.mp4 and a satellite video of the storm approaching Florida last night into today https://i.imgur.com/icp70kH.mp4

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 12:23 PM) I'd venture to guess that in the vast majority of situations where BIG CORP has wronged you, arbitration is a better avenue to have your claim handled. It's cheaper, it doesn't require legal representation, evidentiary rules are more relaxed and the whole process is less onerous meaning at the end of the day you'll get more money out of it. Only if it's worth it on the individual level (the case in question was $35--how many people would bother pursuing that vs. how many did AT&T defraud?), and only if you actually realize you've been defrauded. I've gotten several hundred dollars back over the years from various class action suits that I would never have otherwise known I was wronged. I'm sure law firms abuse the system too, and you do generally see them taking a big if not the biggest cut of any awards or settlement, but the opposite system of mandatory individual arbitration puts an awful lot of power in the hands of corporations. It still seems completely bulls*** that in order to check out if Equifax screwed you personally even if you have never personally done business with them, you're required to give up your access to the court system. Would that really hold up? edit: I guess the NY AG has already demanded that they take the language down