June 12, 20204 yr my bread machine loaf has 45 minutes to go. So far the dough looks messed up. Crossing my fingers..
June 12, 20204 yr New peak in number of cases and deaths and this time I'm not even shocked at having such big numbers... Yeah, the "Jaguars of Latin America" indeed...
June 12, 20204 yr Well, I'm glad to live in France. Our media aren't perfect (far from it), but they are much better than the US media. Here's an article of Time magazine (link to Time article), which is filled with many mistakes and that relies upon a so-called expert, who is in fact an extremist. Here's what our (real) newspapers have to say about the same topic: French article [1], [2], [3]. Huge difference.
June 13, 20204 yr Minneapolis City Council to replace police with community-led model Quote (Reuters) - The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to pursue a community-led public safety system to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police. The move comes days after a veto-proof majority of the council voted to disband the police department after the country erupted in protest over the killing of Floyd, a black man who died when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. “The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police officers is a tragedy that shows that no amount of reforms will prevent lethal violence and abuse by some members of the Police Department against members of our community, especially Black people and people of color,” five council members wrote in the resolution. The movement to “defund the police,” as some advocates have termed it, predates the current protests. It has won new support since a video of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee to the neck of Floyd horrified viewers around the world. More than a dozen Minneapolis police officers published an open letter on Thursday to condemn the actions of Chauvin and express support for police reforms, the Star Tribune reported. The city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, has stopped short of vying to abolish the police department, although he said this week he supported “massive structural reform to revise a structurally racist system.” According to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging “with every willing community member in Minneapolis” to come up with a new public safety model. The council commissioned a new work group to deliver recommendations by July 24 on how to engage with community stakeholders to transform the public safety system. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/minneapolis-city-council-to-replace-police-with-community-led-model
June 13, 20204 yr Quote America, We Are Leaving This is the hardest thing I have written. I grew up in a law enforcement family. My father worked his way up to the rank to Captain at the Ft. Smith (AR) Police Department. As I kid I remember going with him on Friday to pick up his check and I was in awe of these superheroes he worked around. WHO WILL FIGHT FOR US They were funny and fun to be around. Men and women of all races all with the same mission, to make the community safer. My dad sacrificed a lot and so did my late mother. Whether it was the week-long surveillance or wiretap or chasing drug runners across the country, he gave it all for my family and worked plenty of extra details to never let our family be without. Some would call that privilege but where I grew up, it was called hard work. The kids at school thought it was cool what my dad did and while he sometimes asked me if anyone gave me a hard time, they never did. There was a respect among all….even the kids in shop class. A MESSAGE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT: WHY I HAVE NOT JUDGED I didn’t grow up wanting to be a cop but one fateful night, as a freshman in college, that all changed. I went on a ride along and my life’s journey would never be the same. After four years of college my dad wanted me at an agency that respected that education so I moved to Tulsa (OK) at 21 years old and never looked back. I didn’t know anyone and all I knew was what I saw my dad do, work hard and treat people with respect. I saw a lot of other cops working hard as well and doing all they could to keep the community safe. 27 years has passed and if you would have told me the condition of law enforcement today, I would have never believed you. I’ve seen cops help and save any type of race, gender or ethnicity you can think of and while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore. I’ve been called every name you can think of and many of them with racial overtones and it’s never come from cops. I’ve watched African American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him. I’ve heard words I never heard before being a cop. Uncle Tom, Cracker, Pig and the N Word just to name a few. I’ve heard them thousands of times and never once did I see a police officer retaliate. They just took it. Despite that, it’s been the greatest opportunity of my life to do this job. I would have recommended it to anyone and I secretly hoped one of my kids would do it one day. It’s not that law enforcement has changed for the worse but everything around it has. The mentally ill used to get treatment and now they just send cops. Kids used to be taught respect and now it’s cool to be disrespectful. Supervisors used to back you when you were right but now they accuse you of being wrong in order to appease crazy people. Parents used to get mad at their kids for getting arrested and now they get mad at us. The media used to highlight the positive contribution our profession gave to society and now they either ignore it or twist the truth for controversy to line their own pockets There used to be a common respect among criminals. If they got caught, they understood you had a job to do but now it’s our fault they sit in handcuffs rather than their own personal decisions. If someone attacked a cop, they were seen as such. Now we martyr them and sue for millions. We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed. Now, unless there is video from three different angles, no one cares what you have to say. With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I’ve never seen people treated differently because of their race. And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me racist for saying it, all I’ve ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it and they didn’t give a rip what their skin color was They would have been a 4th Generation Cop. But today, all of that is over. I wouldn’t wish this job on my worst enemy. I would never send anyone I cared about into the hell that this profession has become. It’s the only job you can do everything right and lose everything. It’s the only job where the same citizens you risk your life for hate you for it. It’s the only segment left in society where it’s cool to discriminate and judge, just because of the uniform you wear. You never get to explain. You can never reason with them. The nasty words have now turned into rocks and bottles and gunfire. I’ve watched it happen to those around me and I have seen the total destruction of their life. This job is a walking a time bomb and you could get cancelled or prosecuted on the very next call, even if you do everything right. No profession has to deal with that. Doctors kill 250,000 people a year. They call them “medical mistakes” because society understands that they do a very difficult job under high stress and they must make the best possible decision in the moment. Law enforcement is tasked with the same and we are highly successful. Despite the most violent society we have ever seen, less than 1,000 suspects are killed a year. 96% are attacking us with weapons and all but a few others are attacking us with their cars or their fists and more and more with simulated guns so Benjamin Crump can help their family win the lottery. I’ve seen cops risk their own lives when they shouldn’t have…….just to keep from taking one. They never get the credit that other professions get. Cowards are all around us. From chiefs to sheriffs to politicians, no one has our back. Now, the little we have, we are told they are going to defund us or even abolish us. Citizens with a political agenda will reign over us and all you have to do is wake up and put on a uniform to be a racist. This weekend I received death threats for just doing my job. It would have been outrageous a decade ago and made national news. Now, it’s just a Monday. There will be more threats, more accusations of racism and more lies told about us. I used to talk cops out of leaving the job. Now I’m encouraging them. It’s over America. You finally did it. You aren’t going to have to abolish the police, we won’t be around for it. And while I know, most Americans still appreciate us, it’s not enough and the risk is too high. Those of you that say thank you or buy the occasional meal, it means everything. But those of you that were silent while the slow turning of the knives in our backs happened by thugs and cowards, this is on you. Your belief in hashtags and memes over the truth has and will create an environment in your community that you will never expect. If you think Minneapolis will turn into Mogadishu and that is far from you, it’s coming. And when it does, remember what your complicity did. This is the America that you made.
June 13, 20204 yr Band-Aid announces inclusive new line of bandages to match a range of different skin tones
June 13, 20204 yr Now Law and Order SVU faces calls to be canceled: Rolling Stone writer says the show should be canned because of 'good cop' Olivia Benson - while Amazon Prime considers pulling Dukes of Hazzard over the Confederate flag
June 13, 20204 yr Swift demands Tennessee remove 'racist' memorials to the KKK's first Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest and pro-lynching newspaper editor Edward Carmack because they 'make her sick' Floyd, the Martyr we need. Breaking into a pregnant woman's house while you threaten her life and that of her and her unborn child while you and your boys ransack her house and steal. 10/10 not a Villian
June 13, 20204 yr 19 hours ago, Stormbringer said: Yeah, the "Jaguars of Latin America" indeed... Jaguars always make me think of Argentina, because of their rugby team emblem, which is a jaguar (even if it has been misinterpreted as a puma over time, which led them to be called "Los pumas"). They are not among the best, but the keep getting better over the years. You don't have much Rugby in Chile? I remember learning about the "Jaguars of Latin America" at school (Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina) - even though, among these 4, I'm not sure Colombia should still be called a Jaguar. Chile is classified as a high-income country by the World Bank (unlike the other jaguars) and it's part of the OECD. There were also the Asian tigers... which are now richer than the so-called high-income countries. Things change faster than we think.
June 13, 20204 yr Not trying to justify any of those things above right or wrong, but what does this stuff have to do with police reform? The BLM movement got hijacked by the far left Religious Cultists. DeRay Mckesson actually has some good police reform suggestions that mostly everyone could agree with.................. Quote Ban chokeholds and strangleholds Require de-escalation Require warning before shooting Exhaust all other means before shooting Duty to intervene and stop excessive force by other officers Ban shooting at moving vehicles Require use-of-force continuum Require comprehensive reporting each time an officer uses forces or threatens to do so
June 13, 20204 yr 5 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said: You don't have much Rugby in Chile? No, not really. Last year or the year before we had somewhat decent results at Rugby 7 though.
June 13, 20204 yr 6 minutes ago, Stormbringer said: No, not really. Last year or the year before we had somewhat decent results at Rugby 7 though. I'm not a huge fan of Rugby 7, it looks a bit weird to me (probably because I'm used to Rugby XV). I remember the first match I saw, when I was in Australia, was "Footy" aka "Aussie Rules". I thought it would be like Rugby, but it was very different (and very odd....)
June 13, 20204 yr Best part, the money doesn't even go to Black Lives, or Black Communities, it goes to the Democrats political campaigns.... the same Democrats who created this mess in the first place. Can't make this shit up.
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