King Kung

Anyway, I think we are too far gone. Socially there are too many people who have bought into the 'us vs. them' based on color, religion and lifestyle for us to have any meaningful change.

I agree 100%

Stars and Stripes | Sep 10, 2014 | by Chris Carroll

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force said Tuesday it was awaiting a legal opinion from the Defense Department's top lawyer on whether an enlisted airman who's an atheist can opt out of the phrase "so help me God" in his re-enlistment oath.

The airman, stationed at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, was told in late August that federal law requires those words in the enlistment oath, attorney Monica Miller of the American Humanist Society said. Air Force policy previously allowed airmen to drop the phrase if they wished, but the policy was changed in 2013.

"The opinion that we're seeking will help inform future decisions and the latitude that can be taken with the oath," Air Force spokeswoman Rose Richeson said Tusday. "But the Air Force has to comply with law."

However, a defense official who discussed the matter on the condition of anonymity said the airman's right to modify the oath to fit his lack of religious belief is not in question outside the Air Force.

"I'll tell you that there is no legal requirement to say 'So help me God' in any federal oath/affirmation by a person taking the oath," the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, said in an email. "That is, saying 'So help me God' in any federal oath is optional at the discretion of the person taking the oath (not the person administering the oath)."

A host of Supreme Court and lower court cases support the airman's right to opt out of calling on a deity, as does as the text of the U.S. Constitution itself, said military legal expert Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale University.

According to Article VI of the Constitution, federal officers "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

But a religious test is what a requirement to say "so help me God" amounts to, Fidell said.

Miller said last week the American Humanist Society was prepared to sue the Air Force and individual officers involved in the decision if the airman is not allowed to reenlist.

The airman, whose term of service expires in November, has chosen to remain anonymous to avoid what he fears would be hostile reactions from others in the military or the public, Miller said.

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Smart kid. The religious loons in the military are almost as intolerant as the gaystapo.

I applaud his courage. My guess is that he will be allowed to reenlist without having to orally recite the fantasy of god.

Racist!

Black criminals kill more blacks than anybody. Why doesn't this raise the ire of the oppressed?

No hay to make?

Come on now, a serious answer please.

Where are Jesse and Al when 100 black kids a month are gunned down by other blacks?

No Hay. Is it only "racist," and therefore objectionable, when these opportunists can connive a nefarious plot? Nobody can be that stupid.

Instead they fabricate fantasies against cops and neighborhood watchmen who display grievous wounds from criminal animals they've killed.

It's all quite comedic and amateurish. You need some better handlers. Queers and Mexicans and females are stealing your advantage.

Supporters of Mireille Miller-Young cite the "cultural legacy of slavery" and even the effects of pregnancy to explain why the feminist studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara would accost a teenager spreading a pro-life message on campus.

 

The pregnant 38-year-old who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of theft, vandalism and battery after stealing and destroying an anti-abortion poster and injuring a a16-year-old activist, says she’s sorry for some of her actions and hopes to “makes amends through community service.â€

 

An associate professor whose course work, which includes pornography and sex work, has gained her the nickname the “porn professor,†Ms. Miller-Young was set to appear for sentencing today (August 14) before Judge Brian Hill in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/15/slavery-pregnancy-drove-california-professor-to-accost-teen-pro-lifer-say/?intcmp=obinsite

Mireille Miller-Young, professor of pornography and sex.

The "cultural legacy of slavery" caused you to assault a 16-year old? Sounds reasonable ...

USA! USA! USA!

A camera caught the dead thug robbing a convenience store minutes earlier, before he was stopped walking down the middle of the roadway.

Here's a picture of Michael Brown released by his family -- reportedly taken just days prior to his death.

I bought a Kindle book through Amazon last week. Where is the sidebar? Is it a section of the forum?

*edit* Never mind, I found it.

One less criminal robbing convenience stores. Well done I say.

A major American city under curfew... shocking.

Before dawn, looters, their faces hidden, lugged stolen bottles of rum and vodka. After the sun returned, good-hearted citizens with brooms helped to clean the mess.

This is an anecdote for America. Rotten in the core, but cleans up nicely.

The people who are ashamed and cleaning up are outnumbered by the rabid scum 2-1. America has become Angola. Celebrate the diversity!

Agreed, it was so obviously manslaughter that they could easily have nailed Zimmerman on it. But the refused to go for that - and got nothing. No one to blame but the prosecutors.

Someone smashes you head into the pavement, you are at liberty to inject some hot lead into his heart. Good night. Yeah, your color doesn't matter.

I will not tolerate racism on this board. Knock it off!

Sanuk!

I respect that. However, Are you asking me to:

1 Forget or discount my personal experience?

Or

2. Ignore my personal experience and perhaps blame it on something else....

I'm interested in hearing your response.

If a person was following you in an area you didn't think the person should be,

would you think you should defend yourself?

A little early for historical revisionism. You can look up the facts of the case. Zimmerman was falsely accused and convicted in the hair-on-fire court of public opinion by racist Americans (including the media) trying to fabricate a case where none existed. He was subsequently exonerated by a jury of his peers in the cold, harsh daylight of a courtroom where fact and fiction were clearly separated. Watch this Missouri hooliganism case carefully. The same dynamics are at work.

supremacist ideology

Sorry, you're barking up the wrong tree. That overplayed card doesn't get a reaction from anyone anymore. Congratulations. Just a friendly suggestion which has nothing to do with your message: Invest in a spell checker. About half of your post is incorrectly spelled.

The boy(s) were walking peacefully home, not causing any trouble.

Where have I heard that before?

And you'd best not refer to them as "boys."

Liberia? Sierre Leone? ....... Nah, Missouri.

Here we go again.

A calmer dawn broke Monday morning after a night of protest and looting in Ferguson left broken glass and at least one burned-out building.

 

Officer Brian Schellman of the St. Louis County police said two officers were injured overnight Sunday — one was hit by a brick and one suffered knee injuries. Police arrested 32 people for theft, assault or burglary.

 

The protests followed the fatal shooting on Saturday of Michael Brown, 18, by police. Authorities said Sunday that a police officer shot Brown, who was unarmed, after the teen attacked the Ferguson officer.

 

After protests and a vigil earlier in the day, some people broke into stores and looted them, setting fire to a QuikTrip and leaving glass and other debris strewn about.

 

Schellman said the looting and destruction stopped and the area had quieted a down about 3:30 a.m. Monday.

 

He said the police helicopter was shot at once or twice, but was not hit. He said the night was a scary situation for even veteran officers.

 

Jennings school district canceled the first day of school today, saying it was concerned for student safety in the wake of Sunday night's violence.

 

"Safety is our uppermost concern," a Jennings release said. "At this time we do not feel it's safe for our students to walk to school."

 

Officials said they hoped classes could begin Tuesday.

 

On the lot of a QuikTrip that was looted and burned Sunday night, some men who said they had been there last night defended the damage as a response to injustice.

 

http://www.stltoday....0a3d36a083.html

When are these irresponsible and unconscionable police forces going to learn that it's the god-given right of every black teen in America to attack violently that which he finds oppressive? Just turn the other cheek, police dude! Don't be a racist bigot! Just let the teen attack you.

USA! USA! USA!

The robots may be designed by a few engineers in Silicon Valley, but will assuredly be built by thousands of workers in China.

What will 320 million Americans do when even the lowest forms of manual labor are outsourced?

Print more food stamps.

"Ghetto America. And it's getting worse. Ain't diversity great?"

 

This statement alone reveals your bigotry.

It reveals my opinion. Nothing more. Multiculturalism has failed Europe and is failing America. Diversity for diversity's sake is a non-starter. Read SCOTUS' Clarance Thomas. America is failing its children, failing its elderly, failing its future. It has become ashamed of its proud past and is busy rewriting history to create new heroes -- pure fiction. It's shameful that anyone might consider the new generation of squeegee men on 37th and Lexington as progress. I am not proud of America and what its become -- a ghetto.

More racial stereotyping and bigotry, King Kung.

How is a first hand testimonial stereotyping or bigoted? I'm not relating a story I heard or that I assume to be true. Sorry my reality doesn't fit within your constrained PC prism. Open your eyes, you'll be surprised at what you see.

Mike Benthins works as a "squeegee man" on East 37th Street near the corner of Lexington Avenue. They were the ultimate symbol of the lawlessness and blight of the 1980s and early 1990s — and now they’re making a comeback.

Squeegee men are menacing motorists across New York City, including spots near the Holland, Lincoln and Queens-Midtown tunnels, as well as the Queensboro Bridge, The Post has learned.

Residents and drivers who pass through the areas said the panhandlers are spraying and wiping windshields without permission to shake down drivers for cash.

Their sudden return is an ominous sign according to the proven “broken windows†theory that has kept the city safe by having cops crack down on minor offenses to prevent bigger, violent crimes.

http://nypost.com/20...g-city-streets/

Ghetto America. And it's getting worse. Ain't diversity great? I was a child in the early 70s when my father would drive me into NYC. The lumbering Negroes (yes they were always black) would either spit on your windshield and offer to clean it off, or merely act unsolicited and demand payment. It's this sort of simian behavior I cannot tolerate. It's no surprise this sort of deviant behavior is making a comeback.

He is an embarrassment to Americans everywhere.

He was elected to (ironically) get the monkey off of America's back. He was merely black enough to assuage liberal white guilt. I've had elementary school social studies teachers more qualified than Barry Sotero. But that's what they wanted -- they deserve what they've chosen. I'll have no part of it.

Frequent patrols in high crime areas are a preventive measure all police forces use. Cops have a pretty good idea who the crims are and what they're doing.

MOST ANNOYING NEW POSTER OF THE YEAR

Because my experience is different than yours? How much longer do we have to listen to minorities crying about unfair laws?

Policemen the world over exist to enforce laws made by others. In civilized countries, police do not have the latitude to create laws or to apply creative interpretations of laws. The courts will punish that sort of recklessness. My experience is that police in the US are friendly and firm. If you break the law, expect to pay the penalty. There is no provision in jaywalking laws that suggests it's OK if no cars are around. I've seen many people adopt an immediate and absolute confrontational attitude toward police. These are always the mouthy types resisting orders and getting tazed or worse. Their immediate reaction is to flop around and play the victim. Shameless and transparent -- much like the poor "victim" belting her daughter across the face causing the real victim (the 12-year-old daughter) to scream and alert neighbors who called the police. It's funny how the perpetrator so often becomes the "victim." Where is the sympathy for the victim? It's lost in the sad, see-through ruse emboldened by the empty rhetoric of other perpetual "victims." Nobody gives a crap about the abused child when there's a chance to twist the scenario of a cop doing his job as another racial injustice. Yawn.

American cops do a good job. They should be thanked for plunging crime rates nationwide, not castigated for fabricated injustices.

I've always been polite to cops and always show respect (for the law, not necessarily for the cop). I've never been insulted, done over, spent a second in apprehension or in jail. Never. I've lived in nine states across the continent. California to New York, Louisiana to Indiana. I've never had a problem with cops. I've received about three speeding tickets in my life and maybe five parking tickets. That's it. I've nothing but good things to say about policemen in the USA. They've always been helpful and understanding when I needed assistance or directions. I've noticed a lot of people have a problem with authority figures. They're usually the ones having a rough go of it. Oh well.

I don't understand the mindset of innocent people who try to resist arrest. Just comply. Stay calm. Smile.

Inform the nice policemen that there is no problem at this address. No need to get excited and start fighting. Save your energy and pay attention to names and who is doing what. You'll need this information for your lawsuit against the nice policemen. Think of it as a payday in the making.

If, however, you've got a half kilo of heroin under your bed, that's another story -- you are a criminal you deserve to have your house raided. If you're a Boy Scout, just go along for the ride. It'll pay nice dividends.

A spokesman for the Administration for Children’s Services said Saturday they were investigating the allegations against Denise Stewart, 48, who was yanked out of her Brownsville home by NYPD officers on July 13 and left to stand topless in the hallway. Her 12-year-old daughter had injuries on her face and told officers she had been beaten, cops said. She had “visible injuries†on her face and the child told officers that her mother and older sister had beaten her with a belt, cops said.

Likewise, if you are abusing children, it is the duty of policemen to intervene on the child's behalf.

http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1889919

A rather ironic choice of apparel.

They voted for that snake twice. Ebola is a fitting reward.