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And there it is. ‘We’re just not taxed enough!!’ Same as it ever was for the left. Do you even know why taxpayers are fleeing California and New York?

Actually totally true when it comes to Colorado.

Growing state, hot economy, highly educated work force, low employment rate.

Ranks 46th in teacher pay. 42nd in K-12 funding. At the state university level, CO ranks 49th! Which is why CU Boulder is over 50% out of state students and quite expensive for in-staters. So, basically, CO can't keep up with Mississippi.

Fan and I obviously don't pay nearly enough state taxes. But CO gets a lot right:

Universal mail in voting. No gerry mandering (an independent commission draws the state and federal district lines). Two functional political parties (one D senator, one R senator) and a lot of independents. Even though Cory Gardner is doomed in November, he's a reasonable guy. As is his replacement John Hickenlooper.

Plus Red Rocks, great skiing, craft beer, legal weed, 300 days of sunshine per year and lots of good HS and youth lacrosse.

Disturbing behavior by this young man. Appears he will be subject to hate-crime laws, if convicted:

https://www.wtvy.com/2020/08/31/columbu ... ppearance/

According to courtroom testimony, Police say Hatchett told them he had been watching videos on Facebook for hours of police shootings around the country. Police say he told them he decided during those videos he wanted to stab a white male.

6ftstick wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 1:01 pm Liberals don't believe in Jesus

And the hate jews.

The big secret is out 6' no longer ignores me. Wooopeeeeee!

But obviously, he is projecting as the vast majority of Jews idetnfiy themselves as libs whereas the majority of bigots and haters are right wingers.

Yusef Salaam: 'Trump would have had me hanging from a tree in Central Park'

Wrongly jailed for gang rape – which inspired Trump to call for the death penalty – Salaam has poured his experiences into a novel about hope, justice and race

~ Arwa Mahdawi


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/ ... ntral-park


If Donald Trump had got his way I wouldn’t be speaking to Yusef Salaam right now. “Had his ad taken full effect we would have been hanging from trees in Central Park,” Salaam says matter-of-factly. “People wanted our blood running in the streets.”

You’ve probably seen the ad in question: it’s infamous. In 1989, a white investment banker was raped and left for dead in Central Park. Five black and brown teenagers, including 15-year-old Salaam, were charged with her rape. Two weeks after the attack, before any of the kids had faced trial, Trump took out a full-page advert in multiple New York papers calling for the death penalty. His inflammatory stunt is credited with prejudicing public opinion and contributing to the Central Park Five – now known as the Exonerated Five – going to prison for something they didn’t do. The boys’ story was retold last year in the Emmy-winning Netflix drama When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay.


Salaam spent almost seven years behind bars; he had his youth ripped away from him. However there is no bitterness in the slim, softly spoken, 46-year-old man I’m talking to: you can come out of prison better, not bitter, he likes to say. Salaam, who is speaking to me from his home in Georgia, completed a college degree in prison and, when he got out, dedicated his life to educating others about what he calls the “criminal system of injustice”. He has 10 children (“It’s a blended family”), a successful career as a public speaker, a record of policy reform, and a lifetime achievement award from Barack Obama. Now he and the Haitian-American author Ibi Zoboi, a National Book award finalist, have teamed up on a young adult book partly inspired by his experience. Punching the Air, a novel-in-verse, explores institutional racism and the school-to-prison pipeline through the eyes of Amal Shahid, a 16-year-old black Muslim boy who is wrongfully incarcerated after a fight in a park leaves a white kid in a coma.

Punching the Air has been a long time in the making. Salaam first met Zoboi, who has joined our video call from her New Jersey home, in 1999; they were both taking classes at Manhattan’s Hunter College. Salaam had been out of prison for two years and was grappling with how to get back into the world: “I would tell anybody and everybody about what happened to me and how Trump rushed to judge us.”



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Trump hate cult has fomented racial hate for many years. He profits from the hate as do the cops who committed these crimes who are now retired on fat, taxpayers financed pensions. All of those criminals should have been forced to spend a long stretch in jail for their crimes.

Another night, another rash of Democrats doing incredibly bone-headed things like trying to light a condominium complex in Portland on fire with babies, women, and elderly trapped inside.


https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/130 ... 79776?s=20


Heroes of the Left unite!!!

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/13 ... 78307?s=20

What a crew. I'm sure that no suburban women are noticing the Democratic anarchy.

Baltimore man hit by brick from behind!

Democrats are out of control.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/01/wild-vide ... ith-brick/

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:34 am Baltimore man hit by brick from behind!

Democrats are out of control.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/01/wild-vide ... ith-brick/

Like to see if this is tried as attempted murder. Or will a liberal progressive prosecutor let it go as a peaceful protest!

Last night in Portland

Last night in Oakland

BLM protesters chanting popular Iranian phrase 'Death to America' goes viral

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... uxbndlbing

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:50 am

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:34 am Baltimore man hit by brick from behind!

Democrats are out of control.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/01/wild-vide ... ith-brick/

Like to see if this is tried as attempted murder. Or will a liberal progressive prosecutor let it go as a peaceful protest!

Does everything need to be politicized, seen through a political lens? A puppy pees on the kitchen floor in Baltimore and... Dem Puppy! Hates America! Destroying America!

This guy has some interesting thoughts concerning the Kenosha riots, fro. A conservative point of view. The video lasts 20 minutes

https://youtu.be/EKAucs4dd3U

Cooter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:58 am This guy has some interesting thoughts concerning the Kenosha riots, fro. A conservative point of view. The video lasts 20 minutes

https://youtu.be/EKAucs4dd3U

First 10 minutes is a pretty good breakdown. (Last 10 minutes is more gun-centric, the speaker's passion.) Thanks, Cooter.

Matnum PI wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 11:58 am

Cooter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:58 am This guy has some interesting thoughts concerning the Kenosha riots, fro. A conservative point of view. The video lasts 20 minutes

https://youtu.be/EKAucs4dd3U

First 10 minutes is a pretty good breakdown. (Last 10 minutes is more gun-centric, the speaker's passion.) Thanks, Cooter.

"Don't go someplace with a gun you would not go without a gun....." Pretty good advice.

Very good advice and my sentiments exactly. Why do you go out and get involved in this kind of environment/situation? I always go back to the same question, what do you think is going to happen? Based on what I've seen/heard at this point I believe self defense is going to be the outcome for this kid. Doesn't make it a good move to go out and get involved in this kind of violence and chaos, hopefully he'll think twice/thrice before going out and getting involved the next time.

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:59 am Last night in Oakland

BLM protesters chanting popular Iranian phrase 'Death to America' goes viral

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... uxbndlbing

The Dems hate you, your family, your success, your free agency, they hate all police, they hate beauty, they hate normalcy.

Most Fanlax Dems will say ‘this is just our fringe whahhhhh’, neglecting to mention that over half the party TODAY says they prefer socialism to capitalism. They despise America. They’d rather you butcher dogs in the street than have a Wegmanns.

The Democrat leaders can’t denounce violence because it’s their base. Trust me, they hate you.

DMac wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:44 pm Very good advice and my sentiments exactly. Why do you go out and get involved in this kind of environment/situation? I always go back to the same question, what do you think is going to happen? Based on what I've seen/heard at this point I believe self defense is going to be the outcome for this kid. Doesn't make it a good move to go out and get involved in this kind of violence and chaos, hopefully he'll think twice/thrice before going out and getting involved the next time.

Self defense, 100%. He was chased twice by a radical mob who’d have absolutely killed him if they got him.

Anyone who says otherwise is a dishonest hack.

The kid will wind up pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

No way a 17-year-old kid wants to face a jury on two murder charges. Maybe they buy his argument that it was self-defense. Maybe not. Do you want to roll the dice on that?

One thing is indisputable. If the kid had stayed home, in his own state for goodness’ sake, two people wouldn’t be dead.

Would certainly defer to your experience/knowledge, njb.
Questions: What charges? Jail time?
Certainly indisputable that he wouldn't have killed two people had he had enough sense to just stay home, but whether these two hyped up aggressive, less than stellar citizens, might have ended up dead anyway because of their behavior is somewhat debateable.
Idiots...all of them.

njbill wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:07 pm The kid will wind up pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

No way a 17-year-old kid wants to face a jury on two murder charges. Maybe they buy his argument that it was self-defense. Maybe not. Do you want to roll the dice on that?

One thing is indisputable. If the kid had stayed home, in his own state for goodness’ sake, two people wouldn’t be dead.

What's the over/under that DOPUS pardons him before the election even after a any possible plea deal?