ROK Drop Open Thread – June 28, 2015

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TagumCityTim
TagumCityTim
9 years ago

What do all of you think about Bill O’Reilly calling out the race baiters who are calling the U.S. a “white supremist” nation? I think it’s great. I want to see if any of these people are courageous enough to sit down with Bill face to face and defend their positions. For more details on what O’Reilly said see,

http://www.billoreilly.com/b/Demonizing-America-as-a-Racist-Nation/645432505419715354.html

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Baltimore police shoot another unarmed black man…
I feel confident(NOT) that the police will investigate honestly and thoroughly and without a video I’m sure(NOT) justice will be done for this dangerous/life threatening(NOT) unarmed man’s family.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/27/us-usa-baltimore-shooting-idUSKBN0P70TZ20150627?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
“The latest incident unfolded in the Baltimore suburb of Owing Mills, where three officers fired at least 19 rounds and killed Spencer Lee McCain, 41, during a domestic disturbance on Thursday.

A statement by the Baltimore County police identified the officers involved in the latest incident as Wilkes, Besaw and Stargel, providing only their last names.

A police spokesman would not provide first names or ages, saying he was prohibited from doing so by union rules.

Baltimore County Police Department salary records show Shenell Wilkes, Jonathan Besaw and Shannon Stargel as the only employees with those last names.

Officers were called to a home in Owings Mills just after 1 a.m. on Thursday. They forced their way inside when they heard a disturbance, police said.

Three officers shot McCain, fearing he had a weapon, but no firearms were found. Investigators found 19 shell casings, but the exact number of rounds fired was unknown, police said.”

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Pot medicinal dispensary raided, customers/amputee scared. 05/2015 ~ Cops act like pigs, enjoy raid, target disabled lady’s “nub,” punch her, destroy cameras(forget one), DVR, consume cannabis edibles, laugh, giggle, play darts while bald cop plays with self.
6/10/2015 video
“The Santa Ana Police Department will launch an internal affairs investigation after being provided video clips showing officers engaging in questionable behavior during a police raid last month on a medical marijuana dispensary, Police Chief Carlos Rojas told Voice of OC this week.

Attorney Matthew Pappas, who edited and produced the clips before providing them to Voice of OC, says the video shows officers eating food laced with marijuana, known in pot lingo as “edibles,” and seized during the raid. Officers also played darts inside the pot shop while apparently completing an inventory of the shop’s contents. Pappas represents the shuttered Sky High Holistic dispensary where the video was recorded.

The clips also show officers dismantling video equipment and cameras, indicating they didn’t know other cameras continued to record their activities.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKTfUHfeKM

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

GOPers and Deregulation, hah! Don’t stop there GOP’ers, now it’s Reverse Regulation ~ Where will your barbecue be from this 4th of July?
The United States of You Don’t Wanna Know
http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2015/6/27/the-united-states-of-you-dont-wanna-know

Leon LaPorte
9 years ago

5. PBS? Now you are a commie?

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

I get all my news from tbone. He’s just like Drudge; but really negative about all his fellow travellers…

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

The DOD is the largest $$$ grubbing gov’t agency(#1) in American followed by the Veterans Administration(#2). 1000 people in the VA should be fired according to agency values but who could meet those values when the WAR DOG volunteers or “ServiceThemselfMembers” already got $$$ for WAR HAWK wrong war reasons and wrongly fought “wars?” The VA needs 2.800 new workers or sympathizing “WAR” dummies(+ 2500 head doctors) to take care of helpless WAR DOGS influenced by WAR HAWKS and FoxNOTnews to volunteer for created and badly fought wars. Can they be found when hardly anybody but non-documented workers/illegal aliens/USA Military ServiceThemselfMembers or pure STUPID WAR DOGS would want to continue to fight this/these media HYPED ISIS etc…”wars?” If history can’t teach future and repeated WAR DOGS/future homeless/future eventual killers of themselves anything from this date forward then don’t come begging for $$$ from USA normal peaceful taxpaying people.

TagumCityTim
TagumCityTim
9 years ago

@5 – I don’t disagree with you that the cable news is made to be controversial so that it attracts viewers but I believe also like you that Bill has it right and he is just calling out the people that are making outrageous statements and believing that they are telling the truth. The strategy behind all this is to boost the Dems chances in the upcoming election by support more social programs which do little to address the problem’s root and serve only to inflate the soaring national debt!

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

GOPers refuse to refute Donald Trump;s words about Mexican immigrants but NBC “Your Fired” him and remarkably got a bump among GOP 2016 presidential candidates campaign polls, he now stands at #2 assuredly placing him on the Level #1 GOP Debate Stage. I vision a GOP Trump/Christie selection ticket for 2016 president/vice president.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Voting districts were drawn in a bi-partisan way in Arizona and California but the GOP in Arizona wanted voting district lines to be drawn in a partisan way so they file a lawsuit which made its way to the Supreme Court and today the Supreme Court said F*** YOU, so no longer will the GOP win regardless of more democrats voting. Meanwhile…the Supreme Court votes for more pollution!!!

Soon, a report on GOP Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s HYPOCRISY…

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Meanwhile the Supreme Court votes for more pollution!!!

Correction: …the GOP majority Supreme Court votes for more pollution!!!

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Alabama counties will not issue a marriage license for any couple ~ GOP FREAK-OUT!!!
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/27/3674802/states-resisting-same-sex-marriage/

Texas
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150626-interactive-map-how-texas-counties-are-handling-same-sex-marriage-licenses.ece

And in Mississippi GOP leaders want to try and stop or delay same sex marriages.

Louisiana
Louisiana Attorney Gen. Buddy Caldwell (R) made a statement on the decision yesterday, saying marriage equality “overturns the will of the people of Louisiana.” He said his office is not immediately enforcing the ruling because there wasn’t a specific mandate in the decision for Louisiana to issue marriage licenses.
“Therefore, there is not yet a legal requirement for officials to issue marriage licenses or perform marriages for same-sex couples in Louisiana. The Attorney General’s Office will be watching for the Court to issue a mandate or order making today’s decision final and effective and will issue a statement when that occurs,” Caldwell said.
Utah
A Utah lawmaker has drafted legislation that would end the state’s issuance of marriage licenses, according to a Salt Lake City television station, Fox 13, which confirmed the story through another legislator. The sponsor of the legislation and its exact language are unknown because it is “protected legislation” and therefore not yet public knowledge.
Tennessee
Gov. Bill Haslam (R) and Attorney General Herbert Slattery (R) announced that they would not try to stop clerks from issuing marriage licenses. However, that doesn’t mean state lawmakers can’t pass legislation to make it more difficult for couples to get married.
Two state legislators, State Rep. Andy Holt (R) and State Rep. Bryan Terry (R), are drafting legislation that would “protect all religious clergy from performing same sex marriages, as well as, providing legal protection from being forced to perform same sex marriages on church property.”

MTB Rider
9 years ago

South Korea fires warning shots at the NLL. North Korean ship retreats back across the NLL…

http://news.yahoo.com/korea-navy-fires-warning-shots-chase-off-north-140313775.html

And right now there is a movie about the 2002 NLL incident in the theaters. Hmm… Things could get interesting for a few days.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Allegiance the George Takei(and cast, see…Lea Salonga & Katie Rose Clarke & Michael K. Lee) Musical on Broadway…
Note: Michael K. Lee(Korean) is playing the role of a Japanese man named Frankie Suzuki.
http://allegiancemusical.com/
“…strive to save their family from the wrongful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Sam enlists in the army to prove the Kimuras’ loyalty, but Kei joins draft resisters fighting for the rights of their people. Their paths take them from the lush farmlands of California to the wastelands of Wyoming to the battlefields of Europe…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQ1wB8stbs

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Human Dissentipede
Stewart Rips Scalia, The ‘Human Dissentipede’ (VIDEO). Somehow EGGHEAD fits into this…or no wait that’s the HumanCentipede for which he’s last in line eating S***.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEU0R0h9soY

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

American Racism Unmasked. White right-wing dark skin haters and the GOP love for white supremacy has been revealed under President Barack Obama…
‘Obama’s approval rating grows to over 50%
Great week may have marked a turning point’
http://foxct.com/2015/06/30/obamas-approval-rating-grows-following-memorable-week/
“And his overall ratings are bolstered by increasingly positive reviews of his treatment of race relations and the economy.
Overall, 74% of Americans say racial discrimination against African-Americans in the U.S. is a very or somewhat serious problem, up from 57% saying so five years ago. Among African-Americans, 80% now describe this as a very serious issue, up from 42% five years ago.
And African-Americans are more likely than they were 12 years ago to say they frequently face discrimination because of their race. Forty-five percent say they face discrimination in public or at their jobs once a month or more, including nearly a quarter (24%) who say they face discrimination daily. In a 2003 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, 39% of African Americans said they faced discrimination at least monthly.
A plurality of all Americans now say that relations between African-Americans and whites have gotten worse in the time since Obama became president: 43% think so, while about half as many, 20%, say things have improved. Among African-Americans, opinions are evenly split, with 35% saying things have worsened while 33% think they’ve gotten better. Whites tilt toward worse: 47% say relations between African-Americans and whites have gotten worse since Obama took office.”

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

KKK Alive Distributing Fliers in L.A. They are alive and well, how many Koreans are members?
‘Ku Klux Klan fliers left on lawns in Los Angeles suburbs’
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/29/ku-klux-klan-fliers-left-on-lawns-in-los-angeles-suburb
“Throughout the block, clear Ziploc bags … contained flyers, a rock and pieces of candy,”

The Los Angeles Times reported that the fliers contained comments on African Americans, and bore the name of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

One longtime Whittier resident who found a flier on her lawn, Stella Paquin, told the newspaper that at first she thought it was a hoax.

“I have never heard or read anything that impacted me so much to think, ‘My goodness, there are just such hateful people,'” Paquin told the paper. “This really shocked us.”

An NBC affiliate in southern California reported that the fliers also listed a North Carolina phone number which, when called, played a voicemail message referencing last week’s shooting at a historic black church in Charleston that killed nine people.

The Los Angeles Times said there was a similar incident in Orange County last week when about 100 homes in Fullerton, California, received KKK fliers criticizing blacks, Latinos and Jewish people, also in plastic bags with a rock and piece of candy.

The newspaper also said a neighborhood in Santa Ana, California, was blanketed with KKK fliers on Jan. 18, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.”

TagumCityTim
TagumCityTim
9 years ago

@14 – Things always heat up on the NLL in the summer months when the fishing is the best in the disputed areas south of the NLL. This is nothing new.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Chris Christie LIES

He just announced his 2016 presidential campaign but he has a horrid history as NJ Governor economically etc…and more people are moving out of New Jersey than any other state in America according to moving companies.

‘After 14 years of watching Christie, a warning: He lies | Moran’
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/06/after_14_years_of_watching_christie_a_warning_he_l.html
He(Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey) has a silver tongue. But if you look closely, you can see that it is forked like a serpent’s.

He’s been lying on steroids lately, on core issues like Bridgegate, guns and that cozy personal friendship with his buddy, the King of Jordan. I’ll get to all that.

But let’s start with my personal favorite. It dates back to the 2009 campaign, when the public workers unions asked him if he intended to cut their benefits.

He told them their pensions were “sacred” to him.

“The notion that I would eliminate, change, or alter your pension is not only a lie, but cannot be further from the truth,” he wrote them. “Your pension and benefits will be protected when I am elected governor.”

He then proceeded to make cutting those benefits the centerpiece of his first year in office.

This, we know now, was vintage Christie. Other lying politicians tend to waffle, to leave themselves some escape hatch. You can almost smell it.

But Christie lies with conviction. His hands don’t shake, and his eyes don’t wander. I can hardly blame the union leaders who met with him for believing him.

“He seemed very sincere,” says Bill Lavin, head of the firefighters union. “Why doubt someone who tells you this is sacred to them?”

Here are some more recent examples:

• In May, Christie told Megyn Kelly of Fox News that the Bridgegate scandal was basically over:…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“And his overall ratings are bolstered by increasingly positive reviews of his treatment of race relations”

It’s nice to see Obama doing the one thing he is truly qualified for and bridging the gap between black and white… displaying leadership to all Americans… and building harmony by speaking out against the unruly, condemning the divisive, and doing what is right.

“A plurality of all Americans now say that relations between African-Americans and whites have gotten worse in the time since Obama became president: 43% think so, while about half as many, 20%, say things have improved.”

Huh? Worse?

I thought the article opened with: “And his overall ratings are bolstered by increasingly positive reviews of his treatment of race relations”

…sooooo….

More Americans, both white and black, believe race relations have gotten worse under Obama rather than better… yet he has become more popular for this?

Americans WANT prsidentially-manufactured racial division and associated violence and civil unrest?

The Afirmative Action President is popular due to failure?

Does this mean I, too, can becone popular if I go lynch some of them negoes this weekend…

…or dies it mean yet another tbone cut and paste job is full of shyt.

This points out a growing trend of media reports containing conflicting information… yet so many readers only seem to retain the point that supports their preconceived notions.

Generally, the bullshyt is in the headline and opening statements… as so few short-attention span people bother to read the supporting evidence which often contradicts the premise… frequently quite openly and without much manipulation.

Amazing times we live in.

Historically, large-scale social/political/economic turmoil resets this nonsense for a generation every now and then.

We are overdue.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Mitt Romney and Chris Christie in 2012 and why Mitt hated him so much he released the negative vetting file collected on Christie in the case he was chosen to be Romney’s Vice President…
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/christie-bridge-burning-haunts-him-for-2016-473968707511

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Chris Christie is everything wrong with shytbag politicians… regardless of how they self-identify.

Tbone, were you going to explain how race relations have deteriorated under Obama yet “his overall ratings are bolstered by increasingly positive reviews of his treatment of race relations”

Would you like to shoot us some of that famously insightful Tbone Analysis to help us reconcile these apparently contradictory pieces of information?

Come on. Have some pride. As a man.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“Tbone, were you going to explain how race relations have deteriorated under Obama yet…?”

EGGHEAD, why can’t you understand English? The answer to your question is in my comment #17. Race relations haven’t “deteriorated” as you say, they’ve just been revealed/unmasked because the GOP and their white supremacy lovers/donors HATE OBAMA, the half black/dark-skinned man.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Breaking News GOP Peter King NOT running for president, but why? Watch VIDEO…
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/07/01/rep-king-no-2016-presidential-run-intv-wolf.cnn
Rep. Peter King: Not running for president in 2016

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

High Times in Oregon…Hip Hip Hooray! ~ Recreational Cannabis is LEGAL…I’ll be there soon!
‘Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana! Here’s What That Means’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/marijuana-legal-oregon_n_7701238.html

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Sean Hannity Supports Donald Trump remarks…
Sean Hannity: Donald Trump’s remarks not ‘racially tinged’
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/sean-hannity-defends-donald-trump-119574.html
“Fox News host Sean Hannity defended Donald Trump on Monday, saying the billionaire businessman’s comments about Mexican immigrants weren’t “racially tinged” as many critics have alleged.

Univision first canceled its broadcast of the Miss USA pageant, which is partially backed by Trump, last week. NBC followed suit a few days later.

Trump blasted NBC Monday for ending the contract: “If NBC is so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem in the United States, coupled with the horrendous and unfair trade deals we are making with Mexico, then their contract-violating closure of Miss Universe/Miss USA will be determined in court.”

“Furthermore, they will stand behind lying Brian Williams, but won’t stand behind people that tell it like it is, as unpleasant as that may be,” Trump said.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“comments about Mexican immigrants”

Mexican is not a race… there are both very dark and completely Caucasian Mexicans.

If complaining about illegal Mexican immigrants is racist, Canadians are the most racist people on earth with all the complaining about the American race.

Your 15 minutes of fame is up, False Appeals to Racism. Stop drinking and go home.

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

Black Suspect Arrested After Racist Message Discovered Outside Predominately Black Church

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/30/suspect-arrested-after-racist-message-discovered-outside-church/

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

TV Land cancels Dukes of Hazzard over Confederate Flag

http://www.people.com/article/dukes-hazzard-tv-land-yanks-reruns-confederate-flag

Denny
Denny
9 years ago
tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

@28
“comments about Mexican immigrants”…”Mexican is not a race… there are both very dark and completely Caucasian Mexicans.”

WTF are you talking about? Who said Mexican is a race, I think you’re DRINKING & DRUGGING!!! And besides you’re once again baiting & switching. You ask me a question, I answer it and…Go F*** YOURSELF EGGHEAD!!!

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“Canadians are the most racist people on earth with all the complaining about the American race.”

Link please you decrepit SOB???

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington, Hayenes, Bybee, and Yoo are all going to celebrate the 4th of July in Malaysia.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Tbone, since Mexican is not a race, criticism or disparaging comments about Mexico, the Mexican government, Mexican policy, Mexican culture, Mexican people, illegal aliens, wetbacks, beaners, or greasers… is not racist.

It could be nationalist, elitist, insulting, or in poor taste… but it is not racist.

And those who call it racism are either hiding a deeper truth (such as Mexico being a scummy place that feels entitled to appropriate what America has de-scummed) or they really believe it because they are projecting their racism.

Don’t you have to be a college graduate to teach English in Korea?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“Canadians are the most racist people on earth with all the complaining about the American race.”
“Link please you decrepit SOB???”

I said that… as, if American criticism of Mexicans is racist, then Canadian criticism of Americans must also be racist.

But, since you insist on a link…

https://www.rokdrop.net/2015/06/rok-drop-open-thread-june-28-2015/#comment-37361

Leon LaPorte
9 years ago

The week in review.

Mexicans: We absolutely need to control our borders. Donald Trump is a clown. If he’s so worried about rapists, I’ve seen many more stories with clergymen being convicted rather than illegal alien Mexican nationals.

Flag: It is stupid over-reaction to cancel the Dukes of Hazard, however it’s probably a welcome gesture to remove it from government buildings if it offends some of our fellow taxpaying citizens. Personally, I like the rebel flag, but it was a flag of rebellion. As such, if for that alone, it has no place flying over government buildings. Should it be banned? Of course not. This is a free country, remember?

I am astounded by the number of presidential candidates saying the SCOTUS should be disobeyed. Why, because they didn’t get their way and want to force others to live by their questionable beliefs. Very sad. As far as government workers who cannot comply for personal reasons. They should be allowed 6 months to find a job where they can perform required tasks.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

EGGHEAD’s Mother(Video)…Or is it setnaffa’s? No wait, it’s Leon’s!
Watch: This Christian lady really can’t handle the SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/07/02/watch-this-christian-lady-really-cant-handle-the-scotus-same-sex-marriage-ruling/

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

No, you got it right the first time. It is my mom.

Too bad about your mom, tbone. Drugs can be a terrible thing.

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