Franco Potente posted:

Texans. And not very nice ones, at that.

FAUXTON posted:

Why? I hope you asked the bastard why.

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

I'm sure it's too much to hope that Carson is a deep cover sleeper agent with all that abject stupidity, right? Like if he wins the nomination and the election he will use his inauguration to announce his support for single payer health care or something.

RuanGacho posted:

Texas owes us all big time for putting up with this poo poo.

Joementum posted:

Correct. Brady won the assignment today, making it seven of them chairing committees total.

But I was wrong about there being only one select committee. That's true at the moment, but there's about to be a second. Here are the list of Democrats who will serve on it, via Pelosi (she did not use the official committee name):

Joementum posted:

Correct. Brady won the assignment today, making it seven of them chairing committees total.

But I was wrong about there being only one select committee. That's true at the moment, but there's about to be a second. Here are the list of Democrats who will serve on it, via Pelosi (she did not use the official committee name):

Joementum posted:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Should never have accepted them into the Union. Damned serial secessionists. Secede once, shame on you. Secede twice..

McAlister posted:

Like I never thought about using my grandmas word for "stingy" till someone pointed out to me it's based on the n-word and then I was embarrassed I'd used it and stopped doing so. If you actually aren't -ist you want people to point out poo poo like that so that you don't present like an -ist.

Pillowpants posted:

He's an affordable housing guy who doesn't know me at all. All he knows is the joke campaign he sees and that we both hate the same tea party douches in town.

2 or 3 of the city councilors who won last night and 2 who lost wrote my name in because they actually somewhat know me and my history.

Should I make a separate thread?

quote:

Police in Louisiana shot and killed a 6-year-old boy Tuesday after opening fire on a car during a nighttime chase, authorities said.

The boy's father, who was at the wheel, was also hit, and was hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said.

The shooting unfolded at 9:30 p.m. CT, after officers in the city of Marksville opened fire at the conclusion of the chase, state police said.

The state police did not explain the reason for the chase, or the circumstances that caused the officers to shoot at the car.

Local NBC affiliate WDSU reported that the car backed into the officers on a dead-end street.

The station quoted the Avoyelles Parish coroner's office as saying the boy was accidentally shot by the officers.

The office identified the boy as Jeremy David Mardis and said he was shot five times in the head and chest. His father was identified as Chris Few.

Joementum posted:

Blowdryer posted:

Louisiana Cops Kill 6-year-old Boy After Car Chase With Father


http://thefreethoughtproject.com/breaking-police-shoot-6-yo-boy-head-multiple-times-killing/

Blowdryer posted:

Louisiana Cops Kill 6-year-old Boy After Car Chase With Father


http://thefreethoughtproject.com/breaking-police-shoot-6-yo-boy-head-multiple-times-killing/

Hollismason posted:

How do they explain that he was shot 5 times in the head and in the chest. Ugh gently caress this.

Joementum posted:

Did you guys know that there's an official Jim Webb discussion forum?

http://jimwebbvote2016.com/#discussions.1

JT Jag posted:

Actually, we should increase Congress' wage, publicly fund all elections, and make the purchasing or selling of influence (all political donations and favors) a felony.

SLOSifl posted:

Let me guess - they have somehow negative understanding of the topics they purport to represent in such committees?

Joementum posted:

Did you guys know that there's an official Jim Webb discussion forum?

http://jimwebbvote2016.com/#discussions.1

Pillowpants posted:

He's an affordable housing guy who doesn't know me at all. All he knows is the joke campaign he sees and that we both hate the same tea party douches in town.

2 or 3 of the city councilors who won last night and 2 who lost wrote my name in because they actually somewhat know me and my history.

Should I make a separate thread?

A Winner is Jew posted:

He was no angel.

Hollismason posted:

How do they explain that he was shot 5 times in the head and in the chest. Ugh gently caress this.

Hollismason posted:

How do they explain that he was shot 5 times in the head and in the chest. Ugh gently caress this.

VikingofRock posted:

Didn't see this posted yet: 4 people got stabbed today at UC Merced.

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

http://blogs.theadvocate.com/politicsblog/2015/11/04/john-bel-edwards-promises-major-campaign-announcement-in-governors-race/

ahahahaha gently caress vitter

Silly Burrito posted:

Combine that with local pundit Jim Engster predicting an Edwards win (https://www.businessreport.com/article/edwards-will-win-governors-race-engster-predicts), that's a definite good sign for Edwards.

Now if Angelle endorses Edwards too, Vitter is going to be scrambling big time. However, having Dardenne and Angelle basically telling their voters that it's ok to vote for a Democrat is going to be close to game over for Vitter unless Edwards does something huge to mess it up.

Blowdryer posted:

Louisiana Cops Kill 6-year-old Boy After Car Chase With Father


http://thefreethoughtproject.com/breaking-police-shoot-6-yo-boy-head-multiple-times-killing/

fits my needs posted:

Another thug bites the dust. Unfortunate about the child. Clean shoot. Etc.

A Winner is Jew posted:

He was no angel.

DemeaninDemon posted:

He is now though.

Logikv9 posted:

But wait guys this kid was obviously a thug, he just had that thug look to him. #AllLivesMatter

AlternateNu posted:

I...I think I'm done in D&D for a while. For a minute there, I was blindingly angry. I was seriously going to go off on a rant for all these reaction posts until my mind snapped back into reality that this is a comedy forum, and this is our lovely way of coping.

These things are just so draining sometimes...

Absurd Alhazred posted:

To be fair, this ironic reaction to every child death by cops is starting to get tiresome and repetitive.

On the other hand, so is the repeated child death by cops.

Hollismason posted:

Have shootings by cops increased or decreased since the 70s like is it on the actual rise or are we just exposed to it more.

Joementum posted:

There's no way to know because, for some weird reason, nobody kept statistics on it.

Joementum posted:

There's no way to know because, for some weird reason, nobody kept statistics on it.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Plus, see people's reactions to the notion that cops might hypothetically not be using force appropriately with the availability of contrary footage. Just imagine what it was like without cellphone cameras in most pockets.

quote:

Speaking of Cheney, who was vice president under President George W. Bush, the senior Bush said: "I don't know, he just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with," according to the report.

Cheney served as defense secretary during George H.W. Bush's 1989-1993 presidency.

"The reaction (to Sept. 11), what to do about the Middle East. Just iron-rear end. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East," [George H.W.] Bush told Meacham in the book to be published next Tuesday.

Bush believes Cheney acted too independently of his son by creating a national security team in his own office, and may have been influenced to become more conservative by his wife and daughter, Lynne and Liz Cheney, the report cites the biography as saying.

On Rumsfeld, secretary of defense for most of the two terms served by his son, Bush is even more critical. He is quoted as saying: "I don't like what he did, and I think it hurt the President," referring to his son.

"I've never been that close to him anyway. There's a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. He's more kick rear end and take names, take numbers. I think he paid a price for that. Rumsfeld was an arrogant fellow," he was quoted as saying in the biography.

Joementum posted:

Quotes of the night: