The Problem with the SAT and ACT is that there are ways to game it by teaching for the test, rather than teaching on broad knowledge and application. The Advanced Math is there to trick folks, and the Advanced Language skills are so focused that they barely have application anywhere else. I could h...
Jump to postThe Problem with the SAT and ACT is that there are ways to game it by teaching for the test, rather than teaching on broad knowledge and application. The Advanced Math is there to trick folks, and the Advanced Language skills are so focused that they barely have application anywhere else. I could ha...
Jump to postAnother mass murder brought to you by the NRA and GOP. Let's allow more guns and less mental care to see how much further we can get. Nothing but gaslighting. What does the NRA have to do with someone committing this crime? Nothing. Can we stop with the hyperbole. The NRA takes money to fund coward...
Jump to postUS now in 5th week of below average excess deaths https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID_excess_mort_withcauses_04142021/WeeklyExcessDeaths?:embed=y&:jsdebug=y&:toolbar=n&:tabs=n&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link...
Jump to postSo new update. https://twitter.com/OpossumPress/status/1382666366877114371 Not sure about the student unarmed part, but there are apparently three video cameras that will tell us the full story. We will have to wait on those. The officer was shot in the hip ( perhaps their own gun?) during scuffle ....
Jump to posthttps://abc7chicago.com/10515380/
Looks like some counties out there, mostly correlating with Red Counties are hesitant to take the vaccine. I guess these folks don't want jobs or the ability to take vacations.
Another mass murder brought to you by the NRA and GOP. Let's allow more guns and less mental care to see how much further we can get.
Jump to postThere's steakhouse chain called Ruth's Chris Steakhouse - doesn't make any sense to me. What's a "Chris Steakhouse" and why is it Ruth's? There is an answer . https://ruthschris.net/about-us/ruths-story/#:~:text=Over%20four%20decades%20ago%2C%20Ruth,%E2%80%9CRuth's%20Chris%20Steak%20House...
Jump to postI do worry about the future of the Region. The Taliban is still highly active and a strong force, but at the end of the day, I think Russia and the US have given over 40 years to a cause that is only winnable from the internal side. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/15/pentagon-afghanistan-troop...
Jump to postChauvin is invoking the fifth. That is not the strategy I would expect from a man who swore an oath to uphold the law. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/derek-chauvin-trial-04-15-21/h_c21bb7972f1340ec453d633bc80bc6c8 Defense attorney Eric Nelson just explained to his client that he has the right to ...
Jump to postI am not sure what can occur here. The Games and their preparations are occurring on the edge of the vaccine rollout. As many have stated, some countries may not be as prepared as others to compete by then. I think by 2022 though, the games can go on. The Winter Games in Beijing to me are more of a ...
Jump to postextender wrote:Some people just have no clue as to what our rights really are.
Chauvin is invoking the fifth. That is not the strategy I would expect from a man who swore an oath to uphold the law. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/derek-chauvin-trial-04-15-21/h_c21bb7972f1340ec453d633bc80bc6c8 Defense attorney Eric Nelson just explained to his client that he has the right to t...
Jump to postDid I ever say it wasn't? I was merely saying that a person facing years in prison if they are arrested, isn't going to go calmly because the officer had empathy for them. It depends on training ,and recognizing what is going on. Years in Prison is for the judge and jury to decide. The police offic...
Jump to postStating that everytown.org is a safety advocacy group is about safety, is saying planned parenthood is pro-life. It is gun control. plain and simple. They are a far bit better than the National Russian Artifice that is the NRA. Do you really think your name game makes a thread better? Seriously. Th...
Jump to postPeople who are looking at years in jail don't care about empathy. Jail is about Rehab. You don't make things better by being cruel. Empathy is about establishing working relationships, and it is something strongly lacking in many jurisdictions due to the fact that many cops do not live where they p...
Jump to postJust to be clear either way everytown.org is a gun safety advocacy group saying they have 6 million members. Stating that everytown.org is a safety advocacy group is about safety, is saying planned parenthood is pro-life. It is gun control. plain and simple. They are a far bit better than the Natio...
Jump to postNIKV69 wrote:casinterest wrote:If Gaetz had morals he would have resigned already. He is just pushing as far as he can, outside the law.
He probably watched how King Cuomo is handling things.
2. We still need escalation training. We have people that are going to flee, but they are less likely to do it if they have some understanding with the officers and see a bit of empathy from them. People who are looking at years in jail don't care about empathy. Jail is about Rehab. You don't make ...
Jump to postIf Gaetz had morals he would have resigned already. He is just pushing as far as he can, outside the law.
Jump to postYou seem to be conflating two things. No one here is arguing that Wright should have been shot. But tazing him definitely would have been appropriate given the circumstances. Yes, this cop made a terrible error....that doesn't mean that cops should just routinely let people go when they try to resi...
Jump to postHow do you de-escalate someone who won't be taken into custody because they know with warrants they are going to jail? How do you de-escalate this person who jumps in his car and guns it and drags a police officer and puts the others in danger? I am seeing a lot of posts here that are code for just...
Jump to postTraining on deescalating issues needs to be done. Training on arresting a suspect and keeping them away from the door to a vehicle. Training on figuring out what a taser is and is not. Many lives were ruined over this, and lessons are not just about police compliance. How do you de-escalate someone...
Jump to postextender wrote:Oh dear, leave it to some to throw the race card out where it doesn't exist; "thug" has been around since at least 1810. Mistakes, absolutely, but Wright was a product of his culture.
And so it doesn't get swept under the rug,by our friends advocating gun control, the thug mentality probably had nothing to do with this predisposition to police encounters. When you have folks that dehumanize every criminal, those folks should not be in police work. Generalizing does not help with...
Jump to postextender wrote:casinterest wrote:Planes are a lot easier, except when the data is bad.
What is this, gibberish?
Apples and oranges. Until airplanes start developing minds of their own, they are predictable. People are not. Wasn't twenty one yet, and being in possession of one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgH1hVJYaL0 There's part of your gun problem right there People are not predictable, and that is the ...
Jump to postHow about people stop being stupid? Some people over-complicate things. Some people over simplify things because they can't deal with complications when things do not go the way they are expected too. There are complex issues with people that sometimes require more training. Remember. Pilots spend ...
Jump to postAll sorts of wrongs in this arrest. The PD training does need to be revamped. All of this comes down to. An air freshener leads to Manslaughter death by Gun. The people in Minnesota have a right to be angry about all of this. There is no logical reason for a stop other than profiling, and there is ...
Jump to postAll sorts of wrongs in this arrest. The PD training does need to be revamped. All of this comes down to. An air freshener leads to Manslaughter death by Gun. The people in Minnesota have a right to be angry about all of this. There is no logical reason for a stop other than profiling, and there is n...
Jump to postInteresting notes out of Israel where roughly 55% are fully vaccinated. The number of cases and percent positive are plummeting. https://www.timesofisrael.com/serious-covid-cases-fall-below-300-for-first-time-since-early-december/ This is why we all need to get vaccinated. Here are hospitalizations...
Jump to postInteresting notes out of Israel where roughly 55% are fully vaccinated. The number of cases and percent positive are plummeting. https://www.timesofisrael.com/serious-covid-cases-fall-below-300-for-first-time-since-early-december/ evel in over four months on Wednesday, as the coronavirus pandemic co...
Jump to post:checkmark: :checkmark: :checkmark: They odds more if not all of them would still be alive would be high. The odds are near zero. Name one mass shooting where someone was carrying a concealed weapon and it didn't stop the shooter in their tracks before law enforcement arrived. So everyone has to we...
Jump to postDeflection? When people snap bystanders sometimes are killed. I am guessing it's something along the lines of the Fedex judge thing. Funny how this wasn't called a mass shooting. https://www.fox13news.com/news/fbi-federal-judge-son-killed-husband-injured-by-mens-rights-lawyer-dressed-as-fedex-drive...
Jump to postThe title of this thread is not correct. It isn't a mass shooting. CNN is using this tactic of now calling all gun crime a mass shooting. It was a murder suicide and I would wait for the facts to come out I bet it wasn't random. Explain why Children and the HVAC employees were killed. Deflection? W...
Jump to postNIKV69 wrote:The title of this thread is not correct. It isn't a mass shooting. CNN is using this tactic of now calling all gun crime a mass shooting. It was a murder suicide and I would wait for the facts to come out I bet it wasn't random.
Looks like mental illness and some serious issues to examine. The NRA will go silent for awhile and then gear back up. The HVAC worker, the Grandkids, the Doctor and his wife were all killed. One HVAC technician still is in the hospital. https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/rock-hill-shooting-hva...
Jump to postHold the horses: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/08/covid-news-michigan-variants-vaccine-passport/7126994002/ It sounds like it was dizziness and nausea, which according to the doctor interviewed above are to be expected. The mass media industry needs to stop using the vaccine ef...
Jump to postThere are stories out today about adverse reactions to the J&J shot. Sites are shut down in Denver and Raleigh. Do we have a bad batch? https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/colorado-vaccination-adverse-reactions-johnson-johnson "Following the administration of the J&J vaccine and dur...
Jump to postWho cares? Actually, you wrote "Who Cares?" It will be interesting how the defense refutes all of this. The defense doesn't have to refute it, they have to create reasonable doubt. No, that was rhetorical to yours. However the defense is going to have a hard time creating reasonable doubt...
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