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My Imaginary GF posted:Let's be honest, Hillary is seeing if he'd settle for something less thsn Veep, which he really really wants so he can run after she's over with. I realize that you are the gimmickiest of gimmick accounts, but for the sake of argument I'll humor you. Rahm brings no positive attributes to a Presidential ticket, only baggage. He's volatile, verbally abusive to those he considers enemies, corrupt, and he has, if possible, even a bigger target on his back than Hillary does. An alarming number of Democrats hate him, either because they don't trust him, or because he has personally wronged them in some way, and the base actively despises him. Hillary already has to shed corruption allegations AND prove to the left that she's not a tool for corporate America (good luck with that). Rahm does nothing for that--in fact, he exacerbates the problem. The only way Rahm Emanuel ever sees the inside of the Oval Office again is with a visitor's badge.
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Evil Fluffy posted:And since he used a gun all those fancy Tazer bodycams would've been completely worthless since they only record when the tazer's used. No tazer means no video evidence of you murdering someone. Body cams on at all times? Not on my watch, buddy. That's not how Tazer's bodycams work - they aren't linked to tazers, they're just an additional product from the Tazer company. (Tazer also makes a tazercam that is mounted with the tazer, but their bodycam line is a straightforward body cam.)
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Shageletic posted:By your avoidance of actually explaining what you mean by what you write, I take it then you are not interested in an actual dialogue, instead of randomly re-iterating inflammatory facebook comments. I'll disregard any future comments by you as noise, then. He more just assumes people are following the minutia of the thread as much as he does. Tsarnev is aiming for life rather than the death penalty, guilty is already a foregone conclusion and it would take an act of God to get life. He may get that though because the prosecutor has been absurd in the way they have handled the trial (eg trying to pass off tweets of quotes as tweets of planning and getting their rear end kicked by the defense lawyer as a result) instead of sticking with "he did it, he confessed, tender your verdict". If the jury buys the defense's argument of "oh he was coerced by his brother, this wasn't premeditated and planned to repeat multiple times" it will absolutely be evidence of unacceptable mismanagement by the prosecution
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Kalman posted:That's not how Tazer's bodycams work - they aren't linked to tazers, they're just an additional product from the Tazer company. I think they are confusing the rumor that tasers have an onboard recording device that records when and for how long a taser is used (that it has one has popped up in TV and movies to justify doing something worse for plot, no idea if it is true) with the cameras you mentioned
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Kalman posted:That's not how Tazer's bodycams work - they aren't linked to tazers, they're just an additional product from the Tazer company. The ones going out right now, including the several thousand orderd by the LAPD, activate when the taser is used. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/06/us-usa-california-tasers-idUSKBN0KF26B20150106 Now sure, maybe they could turn them on ahead of time, but then we'd just have more incidents of video being damaged/missing than if they only activate after the taser fires and does the job of cutting out pre-tasing dialogue that could cast the situation in an entirely different light.
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Tsarnev verdict coming out now, so far guilty on 10 of the 30 counts, readings ongoing I have to go to a meeting now, so no more live updates from me
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Fried Chicken posted:Tsarnev is aiming for life rather than the death penalty, guilty is already a foregone conclusion and it would take an act of God to get life. He may get that though because the prosecutor has been absurd in the way they have handled the trial (eg trying to pass off tweets of quotes as tweets of planning and getting their rear end kicked by the defense lawyer as a result) instead of sticking with "he did it, he confessed, tender your verdict". If the jury buys the defense's argument of "oh he was coerced by his brother, this wasn't premeditated and planned to repeat multiple times" it will absolutely be evidence of unacceptable mismanagement by the prosecution If he get the death penalty, would that actually result in an execution? Basically, is Massachusetts like California or like Texas?
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FourLeaf posted:If he get the death penalty, would that actually result in an execution? Basically, is Massachusetts like California or like Texas? I don't think he'd be getting the death penalty under Mass. law, but rather federal law. I don't think Mass. has the ability to conduct executions.
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FourLeaf posted:If he get the death penalty, would that actually result in an execution? Basically, is Massachusetts like California or like Texas? It's a federal case, not state, and he is looking at execution
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FourLeaf posted:If he get the death penalty, would that actually result in an execution? Basically, is Massachusetts like California or like Texas? I believe these are Federal charges, so In this case, yes.
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Shageletic posted:By your avoidance of actually explaining what you mean by what you write, I take it then you are not interested in an actual dialogue, instead of randomly re-iterating inflammatory facebook comments. I'll disregard any future comments by you as noise, then. I mean what I say. The only acceptable verdict for Dzhokar is to find him guilty, and for the punishment to be dead. You see, guilty means you did the crime so you do the time, and dead means dead. Alter Ego posted:Rahm brings no positive attributes to a Presidential ticket, only baggage. He's volatile, verbally abusive to those he considers enemies, corrupt, and he has, if possible, even a bigger target on his back than Hillary does. How are all of these not a benefit to the Clinton ticket?
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Down where, to a game ranch in texas or something?
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Can Cheney ever not look like a comic book villain? That hat really isn't doing him any favors.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I believe these are Federal charges, so In this case, yes. McVeigh was executed under federal law too I believe. A Winner is Jew posted:Down where, to a game ranch in texas or something? Is it partridge season already?
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Man i should really start watching The Blacklist
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:Man i should really start watching The Blacklist Cheney isn't charming enough to be Raymond Reddington.
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Maybe Obama just wants to take us all down to Paradise City? I hear that the grass is green and that the girls are pretty.
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Alter Ego posted:Cheney isn't charming enough to be Raymond Reddington. Reddington is literally the only reason to watch that show. Gravel Gravy posted:Is it partridge season already? Fun fact, my wife was at the taping for TDS that day and has a script signed by the cast.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Reddington is literally the only reason to watch that show. Lucky. I'll be in NYC in the middle of May and trying to score tickets though it seems that it won't be taping those days.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Reddington is literally the only reason to watch that show. Well, it sure as hell isn't "Rookie Lady FBI Agent #14242156".
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Alter Ego posted:Well, it sure as hell isn't "Rookie Lady FBI Agent #14242156". I believe you mean incompetent FBI agent #1-14242156.
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So like, I've never figured out if I'm supposed to laugh at the Drudge Report or be scared of it. I mean, how much influence does the Drudge Report have? It just always looked so lovely. Like, it looks more like a website run Anthony Crispino than actual an actual news site.
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alpha_destroy posted:So like, I've never figured out if I'm supposed to laugh at the Drudge Report or be scared of it. I mean, how much influence does the Drudge Report have? It just always looked so lovely. Like, it looks more like a website run Anthony Crispino than actual an actual news site. From what I heard it was much more mainstream in the late 90s/2000s, when posting SCARY CAPITALIZED TITLES on a webpage was considered cutting edge.
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Drudge was one of the first popular right wing news sites. Now there are a billion alternatives.
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It broke the Lewinsky stuff and it's been coasting on that cachet since.
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He made his name by breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, and has gone downhill ever since.
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The left needs to just loving drop gun control. In addition to polarizing centrists who like guns, it's actively counterproductive, because we need to be arming and training the poor (especially poor minorities). Anyone who wants guns to be banned is forgetting that laws don't apply to our real enemies; it'll just widen the force gap between them and us.
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haveblue posted:He made his name by breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, and has gone downhill ever since. There are worse places to go down from than Monica Lewinski. Just ask Bill
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LORD OF BUTT posted:The left needs to just loving drop gun control. In addition to polarizing centrists who like guns, it's actively counterproductive, because we need to be arming and training the poor (especially poor minorities). Anyone who wants guns to be banned is forgetting that laws don't apply to our real enemies; it'll just widen the force gap between them and us. No one is arguing for banning guns, stop reading Drudge. Also, you'll never unseat Amergin don't even try.
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My Imaginary GF posted:If you had to pick the best position within a Hillary whitehouse for Rahm, what would you pick? Under Vince Foster.
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I always thought the deal with Drudge is that back in the 90s the mainstream media had SOME standards so wouldn't run with the Clinton affair rumors but Drudge was running a tabloid on the internet (before that was cool) so he just went with it. So when it turned out to be true and turned into a giant mess it legitimized Drudge and cursed us all to the tabloids forever being the news. Is that just totally wrong? Its not like I've studied it or anything. I just knew back during my journalism days in and just after school a lot of old, grizzled news people would curse Drudge's name and insist that he was a hack who got it right once just because he was willing to report unsubstantiated trash that turned out to be true. But they might have just been angry because their livelihood was dying.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:The left needs to just loving drop gun control. In addition to polarizing centrists who like guns, it's actively counterproductive, because we need to be arming and training the poor (especially poor minorities). Anyone who wants guns to be banned is forgetting that laws don't apply to our real enemies; it'll just widen the force gap between them and us. They largely have.
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Trabisnikof posted:No one is arguing for banning guns, stop reading Drudge. The last federal AWB that was proposed would have banned many common models of semi-automatic guns, and plenty of gun control proponents such as Cuomo and Bloomberg have advocated banning semi-automatic weapons or limiting them to like 3 rounds. That's not "banning guns" but from the perspective of your average gun owner or collector it basically is.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:The left needs to just loving drop gun control. In addition to polarizing centrists who like guns, it's actively counterproductive, because we need to be arming and training the poor (especially poor minorities). Anyone who wants guns to be banned is forgetting that laws don't apply to our real enemies; it'll just widen the force gap between them and us. Why stop there? I am all for the AGA, Affordable Gun Act aka Obamagun. Mandatory guns for everyone or pay a fine. Alternatively if you like your gun you can keep it.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Why stop there? I am all for the AGA, Affordable Gun Act aka Obamagun. Mandatory guns for everyone or pay a fine. Alternatively if you like your gun you can keep it. The NRA would hate it
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Gravel Gravy posted:Why stop there? I am all for the AGA, Affordable Gun Act aka Obamagun. Mandatory guns for everyone or pay a fine. Alternatively if you like your gun you can keep it. I love asking the NRA types why they're not trying to arm the homeless since gun ownership should be for everyone.
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MaxxBot posted:The last federal AWB that was proposed would have banned many common models of semi-automatic guns, and plenty of gun control proponents such as Cuomo and Bloomberg have advocated banning semi-automatic weapons or limiting them to like 3 rounds. That's not "banning guns" but from the perspective of your average gun owner or collector it basically is. I was under the impression neither Cuomo or Bloomberg were leftists?
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JT Jag posted:Subsidized weapon purchases for every adult American (you can get away with not owning your own gun until 26 under your parents' coverage) The NRA is run more by the gun lobby than by racists, so they'd love it.
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