I am asking probably an impossible question, but I was stationed in Korea on a Nike Hercules site from 1973-1976. During that time I became very close friends with a Korean ROK Army NCO that was stationed with our unit. He took me away from “the ville” to explore the real Korea. He was the company “liasion” with the KATUSA soldiers. I have been wondering if there would any possibility of getting contact information for him? All I remember at this point is his name and rank at the time. SFC (JUNGSA) Kim No Soo (Su). At this point he would be between 65-70 years old. He was fluent in English I have tried to find information online reference ROK veterans with no luck. If someone could “point me in a direction of any possibilities” I would really appreciate it. I am planning a trip to Korea next year and it would be WONDERFUL if I could arrange a meeting to remininsce old times
CurfewViolator
9 years ago
I can see what I can drum up. I work with a lot of ROKs and my wifes uncle is a member of the Vets organization here. Where was the site located and organization? Ironic, my dad was a Nike Herc guy in the late 70s in Europe.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
I wouldn’t want to volunteer him for anything but Chickenhead seems to be pretty effective at tracking people down.
The trouble with Korean names is that there isn’t a whole lot of diversity, though I’m not sure if his given names are common or not. His surname certainly is.
Good luck. If I ever went back, I have a few Korean buddies I would like to catch up with too.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Nike Herc Man… if you have site name, unit info (from a Korean point of view), and year he arrived and/or left, it would go a long way to making this possible.
Thanks very much to all, the unit was C Battery, 2nd Battalion, 44th ADA. The battalion HQ was located in “Camp Humphreys” It was called “Camp Sarafi” and was located by a small village called “Sak Sun Ni”. Google maps now shows a village near that area spelled “Sakseon-Ri”. I understand it was transferred to ROK Army control in the late 70’s. I am unsure the date he arrived, but he was there when I left in Aug 76. I flew (PCS’d) the day before the ax murder and tree cutting incident.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“but Chickenhead seems to be pretty effective at tracking people down”
Why do you say that 🙄
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Ladd–Peebles Stadium is a stadium in Mobile, Alabama, United States where Donald Trump gave a speech this past week, it was only half full(at most) of people but most media outlets have been saying there were tens of thousands of people which would mean that at least 20 thousand people attended(some media said 30 thousand attended because that’s what Trump predicted).
The media is like EGGHEAD, it doesn’t know math ❗ What is half of 33,471 EGGHEAD ❓
The bigger question is WHY did Trump go to Mobile, Alabama to speak? http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0821/Why-a-billionaire-Yankee-like-Trump-is-beloved-in-Alabama
“For one, Trump’s tough talk on illegal immigration – including his proposal to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants currently estimated to be in the country – touches a live wire in Alabama. In 2011, the state passed the harshest immigration law in the country, much of which was later dismantled by federal courts.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Ladd–Peebles Stadium
Capacity: 40,000
Half full: 20,000
20,000 = 10,000 x 2 = tens of thousands
There are no further questions, your honor.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Wait…
…my mistake.
For concerts and speeches, the capacity is 50,000.
That would be due to all the people standing in the field while Trump spoke that aren’t allowed there during ball games.
Is there anything Tbone can get right?
Liz
9 years ago
I’m anxiously awaiting all the future Trump limericks if he’s elected.
Trump rhymes with so many things…. 🙂
johnnyboy
9 years ago
I have seen people asking to find old friends on here. CH was able to give them some contact information within a day or two. Thought he might be able to help, but I didn’t want to speak for him.
And now Trump is partnering up with White Power in Alabama
Watch: Donald Trump’s Racist Supporters Scream ‘White Power’ At Alabama Ladd–Peebles Stadium Rally
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Undocumented Immigrant Bravely Calls Out(Video) His Racist Employer, Donald Trump
A 24-year-old undocumented immigrant who works as a busser at Donald Trump’s Soho hotel recently opened up about what it’s like to work for a man whose immigration platform rests on characterizing Mexican immigrants like himself as criminals and rapists. http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/08/donald-trump-undocumented-immigrant
“I feel like Republicans think Mexicans are lazy, but I personally work three jobs, my stepfather works two jobs,” Aca said. “Everything that my family has we have earned it by working.”
While other Republican presidential hopefuls have attempted to distance themselves from Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric, Aca said their own immigration platforms aren’t much different from those of the real-estate mogul.
“I may have an accent, but I’m not stupid,” he said.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“I feel like Republicans think Mexicans are lazy, but I personally work three jobs, my stepfather works two jobs,”
It sounds like this illegal immigrant is taking the jobs away from 3 American welfare recipients.
The solution seems simple. Ship illegals home and cut off welfare at the same time. Problem solved.
As for Trump’s crowd… who knows. The media lies. The pictures are staged… either trying to make small empty places look like large empty places through manipulation of perspective and perception or taken before/after the event. This can be argued out. But who cares. The reality is Trump is generating more enthusiasm and drawing larger crowds than any of the other Republican losers… or the Democratic losers… especially as the dirtbaggedness of Hillary has hit critical mass and even a lot of Democrats are afraid of what Bernie says. The trial balloons touting Biden reek of desperation and are getting little response.
With the Republicans and Democrats both fielding a jizz puddle of lame and tired candidates, Trump is doing the best… regardless if there were 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 or more people at his speech.
Who cares how the media spins it. Arguing over the number of people at Trump’s speech is like arguing how many teeth are on the zipper of the vinyl hip boots of the double D stripper about to blow you in the Champagne Room. It draws attention away from the more important aspects of the situation.
…which is a valid strategy if:
– you are a Democrat (or Republican) worried sick that Donald Trump actually has something to say that people want to hear
– you have no interest in double D strippers giving you a schnarling because you are a kiddy-toucher like Tbone
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“The reality is Trump is generating more enthusiasm and drawing larger crowds than any of the other Republican losers… or the Democratic losers”
What planet are you on? Trump has been lying about crowd numbers as have other GOPers. Trump is NOT “drawing larger crowds” than Bernie Sanders you STUPID EGGHEAD ❗ Bernie’s campaign is grass roots, paid for by the people who actually attend in comparison to Trump’s crowd which he pays and DOESN’T consist of White Supremacists/HATERS.
And, they’re less likely to commit adultery as those in Alabama where Trump had his largest crowd.
Alabama is ‘by far the most adulterous place in the US’
EGGHEAD’s name(“sexlessmarriage”) was tracked & listed by Ashley Madison website hacking group(“The Impact team”) and his profile was trying to attract men like Josh Duggar and Jared Fogle
EGGHEAD says…”Who cares how the media spins it. Arguing over the number of people at Trump’s speech is like…”
I’m not arguing, only stating the facts which the media wrongly reports because Trump LIES and the other GOP candidates REALLY, REALLY care/worry about crowd numbers since they aren’t getting what Mr. Grass Roots Bernie Sanders gets ❗
setnaffa
9 years ago
tbone loves illegal aliens and wants blacks unemployed and powerless.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Compton rules box office at No. 1 again ~
I’m going to see it tonight ❗
‘Straight Outta Compton’ was a strong No. 1 at the box office for the second week in a row raking in $26.8 million and crossed the $100 million mark Saturday for a total of $111.5 million.
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation was # 2 with $11.7 million http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/08/23/box-office-movies-straight-out–compton/32080495/
Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell and Paul Giamatti
setnaffa
9 years ago
“panem et circenses” is all tbone really cares about. While the Democrats put all blacks back in [government] slavery because there are no jobs, he advocates for the lifestyle guaranteed to keep them under the thumb of people like Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholarship) and Bernie Sanders (another old white guy). Of course, after all the racial healing and economic growth caused by Obama, I don’t wonder why he lost hope.
“He’s getting the biggest crowds, and I’m getting the biggest crowds,” Trump said last week of Sanders in one of his innumerable TV interviews.
He meant it as a putdown of Hillary Clinton, but the left-handed salute to Sanders resonated. Because he has arguably drawn the very biggest crowds this summer, even more “biggest” than Trump’s.
Sanders doesn’t have billions of dollars and has risen from obscurity so I’d say he’s doing pretty good.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Sanders’ message is getting an audience because Americans are frustrated with the loss of free enterprise and the domination of winner-take-all crony capitalism… not to mention a generation or so of pushing a lifestyle of dependence.
Communism and socialism start looking attractive in times like that… in both American and global history.
Despite the promises, it never really works out well for the proletariat in the end.
Leon, I’m glad to see you also abandoning reason and sense to support Tbone’s rantings.
Keep in mind that the Sanders camp has never claimed to have ever drawn 30,000. Trump has claimed that.
The stadium’s website claims there are 40,000 seats. Photos taken during the speech make a good case for it being more than 75% full… not including the people on the field. It is reasonable to estimate there were 30,000 people.
You need to come up with some honest and clever reasoning to support your Tbonesque yapping when you say things like…
“Because he has arguably drawn the very biggest crowds this summer, even more “biggest” than Trump’s.”
…as just saying so without any thinking is not “arguably”… it is just running your mouth.
& I don’t usually read Tbones copy-patsa so do not know what you are referring to there.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Netanyahu Denied Multiple Attempts To Attack Iran
Now we know why he’s always wanting USA to fight his wannabe war(and American GOP War Hawks Love Netanyahoo) http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-pressed-iran-attacks-denied-ex-defense-chief-150226989.html
“Israel’s political leaders pushed to attack Iran at least three times in the past few years but had to back down on the advice of the military and due to concerns about its ally the United States, former defense minister Ehud Barak said.
In interviews to his biographers aired late on Friday by Israel’s Channel Two, Barak said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had wanted military operations against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, 2011 and 2012.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Train Attacker or alleged subway pure-blooded Korean “attacker” was tackled and placed in chokehold by “foreign” English teachers on S. Korean subway. English teachers are being held in separate S. Korea prisons after questioning for attacking a Korean man while tens of thousands fill Seoul streets in protest against “foreigners.” The alleged “attacker” says the gun was fake or just a play gun and the “gun” has yet to be found by S. Korean police.
setnaffa
9 years ago
No link? Must be a lie.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
How does recognizing the truth/facts equal “abandoning reason and sense?”(@21).
F****** EGGHEAD being an EGGHEAD AGAIN ❗ 🙄 😈
EGGHEAD hypocritically says(@21)…”ranting…it is just running your mouth.”
You’re describing the GOP Goat Rodeo/Circus Race i.e. Koch brothers/Superpac etc… “bread” providing them the $$$ to operate thy GOP Goat Rodeo/Circus Race.
“While the Democrats put all blacks back in [government] slavery because there are no jobs, he(sic) advocates for the lifestyle guaranteed to keep them under the thumb of people like Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholarship) and Bernie Sanders (another old white guy).”
What did Bill Clinton do to “put all blacks in slavery” and what is Bernie Sanders guilty of? You’re such an EGGHEAD in your use of superlatives. You can’t help but sound like an EGGHEAD like your buttlickingbuddy EGGHEAD ❗
The remote Alaskan village that needs to be relocated due to climate change http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/02/24/the-remote-alaskan-village-that-needs-to-be-relocated-due-to-climate-change/
“The question now facing the town, the state of Alaska, and the nation is whether to move the people of Kivalina to a safer location nearby, either inland or further down the coast — and who would pay upwards of a hundred million dollars to do it. It’s a question already facing Kivalina and a handful of other native Alaskan villages, and in the coming decades could apply to numerous other towns along U.S. coastlines. Here, climate change is less a future threat and more a daily force, felt in drastic changes to weather, loss of traditional means of sustenance like whale hunting, and the literal vanishing of land.”
President Obama opened up oil drilling in Alaska to Shell Oil(why doesn’t FoxNOTnews tell us about that instead of the still in court Canadian/Keystone pipeline running through USA?). Or why doesn’t FoxNOTnews tell us about how Pres. Obama opened up oil drilling via the USA southeastern coastline from Virginia to Georgia?
Oil is at $39 per barrel, the lowest in years.
So, Shell Vice CEO went to Iran for/with the Britain Embassy re-opening ribbon-cutting.
Where should Exxon go next, to Alaska, southeastern USA, or Iran?
setnaffa
9 years ago
tbone, you revere the Clintons; but Bill received a scholarship named after the founder of Apartheid (See the link you ignored). Defend that. Go ahead. It’d be terribly Progressive of you.
“The mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.”– W.E.B. DuBois, Birth Control Review, June 1932. (Quoted by Sanger in her proposal for the “Negro Project.”)
And how do the Democrats put blacks back in slavery? Look at the black employment statistics under Democrats. Labor Statistics: http://data.bls.gov
Blacks are more dependent than ever on welfare. Generation after generation. Despair-not Hope-and Change. And trapped on the Democrats’ plantation. Amnesty for illegal aliens increases the pressure on low-skilled labor… And Affirmative Action makes everyone think Blacks are too stupid to succeed on their own.
Just where they want you. And you still going on about Trump and the Koch Brothers while Obama’s friends are making fortunes and the EPA is dumping millions of gallons of toxic wastes into rivers that run through parks and Native American tribal lands. How touching.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Kentucky Republicans vote to give Rand Paul a caucus, if the money is there…
Rand Paul for senate or president? Kentucky changed their law this past Saturday so that Rand Paul can run for both ~ http://www.kentucky.com/2015/08/22/4000515/kentucky-republicans-vote-to-give.html
It wasn’t unanimous, but Kentucky Republicans voted Saturday to hold a presidential preference caucus next year, helping U.S. Sen. Rand Paul get around a state law prohibiting a candidate from appearing on the same ballot twice.
But the approval of a caucus is conditional on whether Paul has transferred $250,000 to an account controlled by the Republican Party of Kentucky before Sept. 18. If the money is not there, the party will automatically revert to a primary.
In a closed-door session before the caucus was openly debated, Paul asked his fellow committee members to trust that he would fully fund the caucus, as he has repeatedly pledged to do.
But…”
Read the Rest
Also…FBI raids home of Ron Paul aide
Anthony Terrell, NBC News Producer and Journalist, joins Page Hopkins to deliver the latest details on the early morning raid by the FBI that woke up a family in Northern Virginia, where guns were drawn and the family was forced outside their home. ~ Video of FBI Raid ~ http://www.msnbc.com/weekends-alex-witt/watch/fbi-raids-home-of-ron-paul-aide-511084611793
Why was that home raided?
Kesari A Suspect In Rhode Island Burglary…
“Federal authorities announced Wednesday that Kesari and two other political operatives face charges linked to their work on the 2012 Ron Paul presidential campaign.
An investigation revealed the concealment of payments to former Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, who switched his support in the GOP nomination contest from then-Rep. Michele Bachmann to Paul.
Sorenson secretly negotiated with Kesari, John M. Tate, of Warrenton, and Jesse R. Benton, of Louisville, KY, to make the move in exchange for more than $70,000, authorities said.”
setnaffa
9 years ago
And you still believe in AGW/Climate Change?
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Earth Scum GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker says…
Cancel Chinese president’s White House visit
He also said he’d start a war with ISIS and/or Iran the first day of his presidency which will NOT ever happen ❗ http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/politics/scott-walker-china-xi-jinping-2016/
“Walker, a Republican presidential contender, made his call after U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday amid global fears of China’s economic slowdown.
In a statement, Walker — whose standing in Iowa, a key early state, has suffered as Trump has risen in GOP polls — accused China of manipulating its economy, echoing critiques of the Asian giant that have come from populists like Trump.
He said Obama should “focus on holding China accountable over its increasing attempts to undermine U.S. interests,” rather than hosting Xi.”
Susan Sarandon tries to save man on death row in Oklahoma…
I Love Susan Sarandon ❗
Richard Glossip convicted of killing Barry Van Treese http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/governor-fallin-grant
“Stop the planned execution of Richard Glossip on September 16. Richard was convicted of murder after Justin Sneed, the man who confessed to the killing, claimed Richard had hired him to do it, despite a breathtaking lack of evidence. Sneed got a life sentence in a medium-security prison, while the self-serving testimony that saved Sneed’s life sent Richard to death row.
PETITION BACKGROUND
I firmly believe Oklahoma is about to execute an innocent man.
Ten men have been exonerated from death row in Oklahoma in the past 35 years, four of them due to falsified testimony by criminals who had their sentences reduced in exchange for their testimony.
Richard Glossip, who is scheduled for execution on September 16, was convicted solely on the testimony of his coworker, Justin Sneed. Sneed confessed to the murder and avoided the death penalty himself by implicating Richard.
A stay of execution will give Richard’s pro bono lawyers time to prove his innocence.”
tbone, why do you feel compelled to serve George Soros’s interests?
tbonetylr
9 years ago
setnaffa(comments 18 & 30) is so much into the color race card hand…
while Trump doesn’t like the black hand of Jeb Bush ~ Trump and setnaffa…two peas in a pod ~ http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-bashes-bush-on-photoshop-fail-121636.html
“Donald Trump on Saturday sought to give Jeb Bush a black eye over a black hand.
Trump wailed on the former Florida governor for a Photoshopped picture in a campaign leaflet sent out by a pro-Bush super PAC that shows him with a black left hand, and his body apparently super-imposed on a picture of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Story Continued Below
“Jeb Bush has a Photoshopped photo for an ad which gives him a black left hand and much different looking body. Jeb just can’t get it right!”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“tbone, why do you feel compelled to serve George Soros’s interests?”
You’ll have to explain EGGHEAD, perhaps you could provide a link?
What I’m compelled to do is provide information, something which Leon, etc…doesn’t like me to do.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Setnaffa, just pity Tbone.
If you understood his childhood and his (understandable) mommy issues, you would just nod your head.
It’s too bad about Trump. His presidential campaign was doing so well. This will really set off the conspiracy theorists. They will never believe this wasn’t some joint Democrat/Republican plot hatched to stop a joint threat to their shared monopoly on power. No matter how rich you are, there are some things you can’t buy your way out of.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Alabama Closing DMV Offices – 45 of 49 – In Spite Of Voter ID Laws http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25/1415384/-Despite-strict-voter-ID-laws-Alabama-is-in-the-process-of-closing-45-of-49-driver-s-license-offices#
“This will no doubt have a devastating effect on lower-income residents. Considering 18.7% of residents live at “poverty level” and another 8.4% at extreme poverty levels, it’s another blow that will surely leave more people behind. Can you imagine a single parent needing to take an entire day—or even two days—to travel to a driver’s license office and then wait all day for their turn to take the test? Perhaps most frightening about these closures is the effect it will have on voting in Alabama, where a conservative legislature passed a law in 2011 which requires a photo ID to vote. Alabama has already been on a steady decline (41% in November 2014) and these closures certainly won’t help to bring those numbers up.
Intended or not, these office closures and the strict voter ID law will have an effect on government, policy and even safety (more people like to drive without a proper license) for a long time to come.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“Alabama Closing DMV Offices – 45 of 49 – In Spite Of Voter ID Laws”
Let’s take a look at reality instead of what the Tbone-Libtard Disinformation Complex vomits up.
“Alabama’s chief law enforcement officer said Monday he will close all but the state’s four largest drivers’ license offices next year if state lawmakers don’t provide more funding than they are proposing.”
See… it is actually not a done deal. It is a threat by law enforcement which doesn’t want its budget cut next year. Of course law enforcement will find the money to buy and maintain:
“At least eight tactical vehicles are in use in a 10-county area of north Alabama, as well as six helicopters and more than 230 assault rifles through the 1033 program.”
…to kick terrorist and drug dealer… and parking ticket evader azz…
…but not have the budget for less glamorous things like actual public service.
Law enforcement loves to buy and maintain those helicopters… and ride in them, given any chance.
But what happens if these DMV offices actually close?!?
“Regular license renewal can now be done on line. Collier said that is one of several improvements the state has made to the process, including online examination scheduling, self-serve kiosks, and digital licenses for cell phones. But first licenses and examinations must be done in person”
Ah… so it will have no effect on people with an internet connection or the ability to get to the mall. It only affects first-time licenses… teenagers and new arrivals.
So… no big deal, really.
Democrats sure don’t like those voter ID laws… as they overly affect the stupid and the lazy… which is an important Democratic voter demographic.
Is Tbone every right about anything?
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Lindsey Graham: ‘I Think We Need To Be A Nation At War’
But aren’t we already at war? https://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/lindsey-graham-i-think-we-need-be-nation-war
In an interview Aug. 23 on “Fox News Sunday,” Graham commented on the Aug. 22 thwarted attack by Ayoub El-Khazani on a train headed to Paris, France. He said the incident was another example of lack of U.S. forces to fight enemies overseas.
“The whole world is a battlefield and radical Islam is everywhere,” he said. When he was asked whether passports from “certain regions” should be limited by the U.S. government, Graham said: “Absolutely. I think we need to be a nation at war. We’re letting our defenses down. We’re not acting like we’re at war anymore. We’re acting like we’re trying to fight a crime. It’s going to come back to bite us.”
I thought we were already “at war?” Ooops, I forgot the GOP majority refuses to vote to declare war on ISIS even though our President Barack Obama has repeatedly asked them to.
Why Won’t the GOP Declare War on ISIS? http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015/05/why-wont-gop-declare-war-isis/113959/
“Republican presidential candidates delight in slamming Obama’s strategy, but won’t vote on legislation to define the scope of the struggle.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“So… no big deal, really.” 😈
How much says it WILL happen ❓
The Alabama GOP led gov’t won’t fund the offices so the offices will close causing many young first time drivers to drive illegally while blocking the young person vote. 🙄
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“…to kick terrorist and drug dealer… and parking ticket evader azz…”
How many terrorist azzez has Alabama kicked?
How is the “war” on drug dealers going in Alabama?
And what about your “parking ticket evaders?” Yeah sure, Alabama needs to arrest these “evader” types aye? Alabama should issue twice as many warrants on these “evader” types as there are people in Alabama. 🙄
Tbone-Libtard Disinformation Complex, did I quote that? Ooops, EGGHEAD said it as though I’m somehow equal to the…USA Military Industrial Complex/Military Industrial Congressional Complex which comprises of the policy and monetary relationships which exists between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them.
Complex this you herpes simplex EGGHEAD…
First of all I’m an Independent, not a Liberal. 😎
Wal-Mart: Always Low Taxes http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2015/8/25/wal-mart-always-low-taxes
“Walmart is America’s largest company, and it seems to have $205 billion in assets, and it seems to have its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, but $76 billion (or 37 percent) of its assets appear to have migrated to 22 shell companies in Luxembourg. You know how sometimes you use another bank’s ATM, because yours is too far away? It’s like that.
Ninety percent of the assets of Walmart’s International Division end up in Luxembourg and the Netherlands, rather than, as you might assume, Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart has 4000 stores in America. It has zero stores in Luxembourg.
All of this is according to a recent report by Americans for Tax Fairness, which also points out that Walmart has a “network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S. tax on those foreign earnings.” This has probably allowed Walmart to avoid about $3.5 billion in taxes in the last six years.
Why isn’t this a bigger issue? I guess Hillary Clinton could mention it, because…”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-companies-make-millions-off-lead-poisoned-poor-blacks/2015/08/25/7460c1de-0d8c-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
“Before his April death after being severely injured in police custody, before this hollowed-out city plunged into rioting, the life of Freddie Gray was a case study in the effect of lead paint on poor blacks. The lead poisoning Gray suffered as a child may have contributed to his difficulties with learning, truancy and arrests — all of it culminating in a 2008 lead-paint lawsuit and a windfall of cash locked inside a structured settlement. By late 2013, Gray was striking deals with Access Funding.
People like Gray who have suffered lead poisoning as children are especially vulnerable to predatory transactions. Many are impulsive and mentally disabled, but not so much that the law regards them as incapable of acting on their own behalf, as long as they’re 18 or older.
“A lot of them can barely read,” said Saul E. Kerpelman, who estimates he has defended more than 4,000 victims of lead poisoning, nearly all of them black. “They have limited capacity. But they fall through a crack. If they were severely disabled enough, you could file a court petition to have a trustee manage their property. But they’re not disabled enough.”
Over the past two decades, state legislatures and the U.S. Congress have passed measures to protect vulnerable people selling structured settlements. In 2000, Maryland inked the Structured Settlement Protection Act, which enumerated a series of requirements. First, a seller must seek the counsel of an independent professional adviser. Then the proposed deal must go before a county judge, who decides whether that agreement reflects the seller’s best interests.
But today, critics say, that measure is failing. “There are weaknesses and ways people can circumvent it,” said Eric Vaughn, executive director of the National Structured Settlements Trade Association, which represents companies and lawyers working in the industry. “And these companies are getting around the intents of the law. . . . And when that happens, people get hammered.”
A Washington Post review of thousands of pages of court records and interviews with industry insiders and eight victims of lead poisoning have revealed these loopholes in Baltimore.”
Housing chief suggests mothers may deliberately expose children to lead http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-lead-liability-20150814-story.html
“Kenneth C. Holt, secretary of Housing, Community and Development, told an audience at the Maryland Association of Counties summer convention here that a mother could just put a lead fishing weight in her child’s mouth, then take the child in for testing and a landlord would be liable for providing the child with housing until the age of 18.
Pressed afterward, Holt said he had no evidence of this happening but said a developer had told him it was possible. “This is an anecdotal story that was described to me as something that could possibly happen,” Holt said.
He offered no specific proposals, but said he hoped to limit the liability of landlords in lead paint cases. He said his department is working with the Maryland Department of the Environment to draft legislation for the 2016 General Assembly session.
Health advocates reacted by saying they would fight any effort to weaken lead paint protections — and Holt’s suggestion that parents might poison their children to gain housing benefits provoked outrage.
“To me it’s beneath contempt,” said Ellen Silbergeld, a professor of environmental health science at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health.
State Del. Samuel I. “Sandy” Rosenberg, a Baltimore Democrat who has specialized in lead paint issues, said any weakening of lead paint laws would take the state back “way backwards.”
“If that’s the direction that we’re headed in for regulatory reform — making us a business-friendly state but a citizen-unhealthy state — that’s outrageous,” he said.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“The Alabama GOP led gov’t won’t fund the offices so the offices will close causing many young first time drivers to drive illegally while blocking the young person vote. ”
Driving age: 16
Voting age: 18
If they can’t get their shyt together in 2 years to get a license, it really is better they don’t vote.
“How many terrorist azzez has Alabama kicked? How is the “war” on drug dealers going in Alabama?”
We are likely in agreement, Tbone. Alabama law enforcement is threatening to reduce services to the public over budget concerns… yet maintain a fleet of tactical vehicles and helicopters to unnecessarily play with whenever they can find an excuse. The example I gave was ONLY 10 counties.
I understand when you are shytty to me when we disagree… but why be shytty to me when we agree? Unless you are just a shytty person. See. Answered my own question.
“Complex this you herpes simplex EGGHEAD”
Awesome… another one to add to my collection. Will he work his way through diseases with social stigma, ending up with AIDS, or will he go the terrible disease route, ending up with leprosy? Or another unexpected direction? I can hardly wait!
“First of all I’m an Independent, not a Liberal. ”
Independently stupid, liberally biased. You have never once pushed any independent issue that was shared by conservatives. You only push liberal issues… and mostly from the stupid end rather than the smart end of the spectrum.
Walmart: They have a duty to stockholders to maximize profit. In fact, this is a legal obligation. The tax law is set up to allow this to happen. The problem is not Walmart taking advantage of this… which is what the media focuses on. The problem is lobbyists representing Walmart and all other large companies paying off lawmakers to insure the tax structure continues to allow this to happen.
Lead poisoning: It is a complete myth that lead paint is only a danger to poor blacks. White paint before 1978 had lead… and was used in housing for all races and classes. Afro-fatigue.
Liz
9 years ago
There are 98 different federal law enforcement agencies in the US.
Is that crazy or what?
Liz
9 years ago
“Lead poisoning: It is a complete myth that lead paint is only a danger to poor blacks. White paint before 1978 had lead… and was used in housing for all races and classes.”
Our last house on base had lead paint. We had to sign a disclaimer.
Bet section 8 housing is healthier.
setnaffa
9 years ago
No one in America is poor because of the color of their skin. They are poor because they or their parents made bad economic choices. But there is room to change. Lots of success stories for those who care to look.
Neither billionaire Bill Gates nor billionaire Michael Dell have an earned university degree. They were too busy earning money to waste time sitting on their arses listening to tbone’s sources drone on about man’s inhumanity to man.
Maybe there’s a lesson in that for those who are willing to study success, not dwell on failure.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Katrina Ten Years Later, remember that guy MIchael Brown/‘Brownie’ who George W. Bush chose to lead FEMA? Well, he’s back. He says people shouldn’t trust the gov’t to save them while 1800 people died under his Katrina watch. His experience was lacking to lead FEMA but Bush chose him anyway and now he’s standing next to Jeb Bush in hopes for another nepotism lead position…but don’t trust him because he’d be part of the gov’t again and he doesn’t believe in gov’t other than for his own servicehimself $$$ selfishness. How about this…Don’t Trust People Like Michael Brown/‘Brownie’ to Lead Gov’t When those that Lead Gov’t Don’t Believe in Gov’t ❓ Perhaps he’ll be Jeb’s choice for vice president 😛
“Stop Blaming Me for Hurricane Katrina”
‘Ten years later, the name ‘Brownie’ is still identified with the government’s failures. Here’s what really happened.’ http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/katrina-ten-years-later-michael-brown-121782.html#.Vd-2qyWqqko
“f members of Congress don’t understand that, then congressmen are dumber than I ever thought. Ask yourself—how many members of Congress would be willing to share any-and-all emails they have exchanged with staff, family or others while in office? I guarantee that we would find similar exchanges.
But it wasn’t just my emails for which Congress was disconnected from reality.
Today government needs to affirmatively reassert its commitment to the all-hazards approach to disasters. Whether a disaster is man-made, natural or the result of terrorism, the response is the same. And the federal government must not become a first responder. The more state and local governments become dependent upon federal dollars, the weaker and more dependent upon the federal government they will become.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
VA NOT NEEDED and I AGREE, screw those volunteer servicethemselfmembers/War Dogs who support War Hawks fight fake unjust wars. Carson is in the TOP Three
Carson: We Don’t Need A Department Of Veterans Affairs http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-we-dont-need-a-department-of-veterans-affairs/
“Ben Carson told radio host Dave Ramsey thatwe can do away with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Carson stated that one way to shrink the size of the government would be to do away with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and place its services under the administration of the Defense Department.
“We don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs,” Carson said. “Veterans Affairs should be folded in under the Department of Defense. And it should be a smooth transition.”
Carson went on to explain that the reason why the number of military volunteers has recently seen a decline is because of the negative opinion Americans have about how veterans are cared for after leaving service.”
Yes, Carson is 2nd just ahead of Bush as of 8/20/15 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html
I wonder if the DOJ is going to investigate WDBJ for racial inequality. Maybe disparate impact since a disproportionate number of black people who worked there had to suffer mental illness and homicidal rage.
The libs are calling for gun control again but how are the social justice warriors they created supposed to take the fight to whitey if they are unarmed?
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Black people calling for a race war appear to be unfamiliar with math.
Anyway… i noticed the Obama administration was quick to send attention, manpower, and LOTS of money when a crazy white racist shot black people.
When a crazy black racist shot white people… nothing.
Afrofatigue grows larger every day.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“Black people calling for a race war appear to be unfamiliar with math.”
Do you mean statistics? If so, then you should show us some before blabbing foam from your pie hole DUH ❗
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Georgia County Admits To ILLEGALLY Disenfranchising Voters(minorities) so NOW we know that other GOP states do as well, they’re just too EGGHEADED to admit it ❗ EGGHEAD is JUST like Georgia State Senator Fran Millar (R), a RACIST ❗ ❗ ❗ http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/26/3695039/county-admits-it-disenfranchised-voters-in-african-american-dominated-county/
“Fulton County, Georgia admitted to illegally disenfranchising and misleading voters in the 2008 and 2012 elections in a settlement this month. For more than two dozen violations of state law — including improperly rejecting eligible ballots and sending voters to the wrong precincts — the county will pay a fine of $180,000. To make sure the problems do not continue in the future, the county has promised to spend an additional $200,000 on new training software for their poll workers. ”
“We’re happy that the [settlement] is over and we’re able to move forward,” Erica Pines with the Fulton County Democratic Party told ThinkProgress. “We want our voters, many of whom are minorities who’ve experienced a history of disenfranchisement, to remain confident in our elections system and not fear there’s going to be some type of issue when they go to the polls.”
Yet the problems facing voters of color in Georgia are not confined to Fulton County. When neighboring DeKalb County, another stronghold of African American Democrats, opened an early voting location in a popular mall, Georgia State Senator Fran Millar (R) publicly lamented that “this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches.” He later added, “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters.”
READ the REST ❗ ❗ ❗
johnnyboy
9 years ago
I am guessing he is referring to population percentages.
If there were a race war, blacks would not fare well, assuming everyone divided up and fought strictly along racial lines.
The sh#t heads on both sides clamoring for a race war need to stop this nonsense.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
When it comes to statistics, perhaps blacks would fare better in a race war as they seem much more at ease with murdering other human beings.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Back to Katrina and Bush’s boys…
Michael Chertoff(Homeland Security Boy) SURPRISED that New Orleans’ leeves broke!! Meet The Press VIDEO with the late Tim Russert… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airFQZDjlJo
The truth according to some FBI’s homicide statistics is that the United States is in the wake of an epidemic of white-on-white crime. Back in 2011, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
But wait…why would Our Great President Obama be speaking about Katrina 10 years later ❓
johnnyboy
9 years ago
I believe the FBI numbers showed that white on white and black on black crime rates were similar, but that blacks kill a larger number of other black than whites kill other whites. Is that right?
johnnyboy
9 years ago
Actually, I was wrong. Of the 6,131 murders in 2011, 2,630 (about 43%) were committed by whites while 2,447 (about 40%) were committed by blacks. When considering that whites make up 77% of the population and blacks are 13%, that means that blacks have a much higher concentration of murderers than whites.
Also, the black on black murder rate in 2011 was 90.7%.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“Back in 2011, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.”
Oh dear.
Yet again, Tbone’s lack of general understanding allows him to quotes statistics that disprove whatever point he was trying to make. Yet again.
This statistic has no reflection on white people. As killing within a racial group is the expected behavior, 100% would be the expected number. As this percentage has no quantity, it cannot reflect any behavior of whites… unless it is zero, demonstrating that whites never kill.
This statistic actually relates to non-whites killing outside their racial group… as any number less that 100% shows that a non-white has killed a white… though, without a quantity or comparison, it is a rather meaningless statistic.
Taken alone, as presented by Tbone, the more “staggering” this number is, the less threatening non-whites are to whites. The lower it is, the more non-whites are killing whites.
This statistic’s real meaning comes when comparing it to the same statistic of other races.
Yeah, I boned those up a little bit. It was pretty late last night. I think my mistakes actually were in favor of blacks as I must have only counted blacks killing within their race and neglected to add in those who killed whites.
setnaffa
9 years ago
tbone, like his daddy Barry, forget who actually runs New Orleans and drowned all the school buses that could have saved everyone.
They forget FEMA can’t act without being invited.
And they still want to blame Bush after all these Obama-led years of recovery and racial healing…
I thought she got out, but then promptly ran off at the mouth? I guess once you get out of the can, you should keep a low profile.
Not sure when she will be released. She got a year, and went to jail in December, out in May. Will she do four more months until this December, or will she have to do seven months to make a full year? Or twelve months from now to make it a year?
“Hurtful stereotype alert: black man wins footrace, immediately run over by camera-toting Asian who can’t drive”
Hee hee. 🙂
The rest of the story: Jewish lawyer chases ambulance as hispanics clean up the mess at the scene.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“The rest of the story: Jewish lawyer chases ambulance as hispanics clean up the mess at the scene.”
Gay masturbates over half naked man on ground, white guy laughs, Tbone says something stupid.
MTB Rider
9 years ago
Never mind on Heather Cho. Yahoo dredged that article up from February. I should have checked the date. That’s what I get for assuming Yahoo isn’t staffed by incompetent people.
Haven’t seen much since July, when she was trying to move the venue back to Korea, where Daddy owns the judges.
Lol!
Hey don’t jinx me setnaffa, we have one headed our way right now (scheduled to hit Sunday). Boo. Hopefully it will calm down before then (seems to be, but knock on wood).
I’m surprised at the allegedly educated folks who fall for this brand of snake oil… 😛
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“educated folks” don’t fall for this snake oil.
They use it as yet another tool for dominance and control of uneducated folks.
Further, what passes for education these days is not really education. A large collection of objective facts and a skillset designed to organize, analyze, and apply them is discouraged. The ability to repeat, and even believe, concepts which (should be obvious that) have little relationship with functioning reality are encouraged… pretty much exactly as they were/are in authoritarian, primarily communist, countries.
Every year, various alarmist myths are pushed on the population. The ones that get a foothold in the public mind are then exploited to manipulate and control the population.
Very smart people observe this process and fine tune it to tailor the message to current sensibilities for maximum effectiveness.
This is not a conspiracy… as it is an open process and there have been many excellent books written on it which are worth reading to understand and apply the process.
Once one is “educated” in this, the manipulation becomes transparant and ineffective… winning back mental freedom… at the cost of ridicule from those who still belive as they are told.
Global Warming Alarmism should be a shockingly transparent scam to anyone who has been around the block… as simple observation should notice all the focus is on economics and control rather than doing anything about temperature control… and this is all pushed by people who have giant carbon footprints paid for with money they make from those told to sacrifice.
But people still buy timeshares and send money to Nigerian princes… so it works.
In the end, if the “educated” were so smart, they would have sat down with a calculator and third grade math skills and there would be no trillion dollar student loan crisis.
But there is. And many of these people… ESPECIALLY these people… push Global Warming Alarmism.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Liz @ 53
“Our last house on base had lead paint. We had to sign a disclaimer.
Bet section 8 housing is healthier.”
And I’m just suppose to believe you 🙄
But you missed the major point of the article titled: Companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks
Who made $$$ off of your obvious sickness ❓
Your “disclaimer” signature doesn’t mean you can’t file a lawsuit. Besides, you volunteered, there wasn’t any racism involved, and could’ve quit. 😯 Poor black children don’t have a choice ❗
This Black Child Never Had A Chance, And Here’s Another Reason Why (VIDEO) http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/07/lead-paint-black-urban-children/
“But the real cause of violent crime in black neighborhoods may have a lot to do with another toxic legacy of racism in America: Lead poisoning. The Chicago Tribune reports that in 1995, over 80 percent of children in Chicago’s high-crime neighborhoods were found to have terrifyingly high levels of lead in their blood.
[Last month, a Tribune investigation found that lead hazards are festering in the same parts of Chicago that have given the city a national reputation for violence and academic failure. In impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods like Austin, Englewood and Lawndale, more than 80 percent of the children tested in 1995 had dangerous lead levels.]
Now these kids are in their 20’s, their peak crime years, and are still living in these neighborhoods. Furthermore, lead pollution concentrates in the low-income, former industrial neighborhoods where many of our nation’s black people currently live. So why don’t they move? Decades of redlining and housing discrimination, plus lack of economic and social mobility in recent years have left people stuck.
Research shows lead poisoning and violent crime are linked.
Children exposed to toxic amounts of lead in their environment have shorter attention spans, less impulse control, and tend to act out more. Now, it’s becoming apparent that these difficulties continue through their teens and into adulthood.
When we began phasing out lead in gasoline for car engines in the late 1970’s, banned lead paint back in 1978, and launched lead abatement programs to remove or seal lead paint in people’s dwellings, childhood lead exposure dropped drastically. As these kids reached their teens and 20’s in the 1990’s, crime rates abruptly dropped in cities across the U.S. At the time, we all gave credit to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and their harsh “broken windows theory” policing.
Now, researchers and criminologists are taking a long hard look at the correlation between lead poisoning and violent crime. Nature World cites additional research from the FBI that supports the link between lead exposure and crime.
[According to FBI records, violent crime has been in decline since the early 1990s. A new theory explaining the drop has been gaining traction, and its focus isn’t on politicians or the criminal justice system. An article in Chemical & Engineering News details the mounting data that suggests taking lead out of gas and paint has played a critical role.]
Unfortunately, lead doesn’t just come from peeling paint chips. In these old, former industrial urban neighborhoods, lead pollution also lingers in the air and in the dust. Unfortunately, we’re cutting back on programs that would help families protect children from lead exposure.
[[A] growing body of research is making it clear that the toxic legacy of lead has far more wide-ranging effects than previously known. Lingering dust from paint and deposits from old vehicle emissions continue to harm thousands of children in older industrial cities like Cincinnati and Chicago.]
We’ve long known that lead is poisonous and that when children are exposed, they suffer from permanent brain damage that holds them back in school and life. But we’re now learning that lead exposure and its long-term effects are far worse than we imagined. Harvard University researcher Robert J. Sampson explains:
[“People in neighborhoods like Englewood have faced multiple assaults over different periods of time — job losses, segregation, housing discrimination. Yet through all of that there is this persistent lead poisoning. It creates a social context where kids are at a clear disadvantage.”]
Furthermore, the rates of lead poisoning in children under six from these low-income neighborhoods in Chicago back in 1995 correspond almost exactly to the rates of violent crime in these same neighborhoods in 2012, when these children were ages 17-22. Sampson adds:
[“It’s not something I appreciated before. But when I see the astounding levels of lead poisoning in these communities, it makes complete sense that it is part of the cycle of deprivation.”]
Compounding the problem is the fact that nearly all public housing projects and section eight housing from the 1960’s were coated with lead paint. At the time, lead paint was seen as cheaper and more durable. Many of these dwellings are currently owned by slumlords who never bothered to do any lead abatement.
This child suffered from lead poisoning: His name was Freddie Gray.
And of course, black children (and other kids from poor, inner city neighborhoods) aren’t just getting poisoned by lead in Chicago. Hundreds of children in St. Louis and nearby communities like Ferguson are still testing positive for lead exposure. Baltimore also suffers from a toxic legacy of lead paint, and its children are three times more likely to suffer from lead poisoning than the national average. Five Thirty Eight reports:
[State tests found more than 65,000 children in the city with dangerously high blood-lead levels from 1993 to 2013. Across the United States, more than half a million kids are poisoned by lead each year, and the majority come from cities like Baltimore: rust belt towns built up during the first half of the 20th century when leaded paint was dominant.]
Among these children poisoned by lead paint was the little boy shown above: His name is Freddie Gray.
The Washington Post reports Gray and his family had living off of a settlement from a lead paint case when he got arrested and murdered by police. Yet all that money couldn’t make Gray whole again.
[Before Freddie Gray was injured in police custody last month, before he died and this city was plunged into rioting, his life was defined by failures in the classroom, run-ins with the law and an inability to focus on anything for very long.
Many of those problems began when he was a child and living in this house, according to a 2008 lead-poisoning lawsuit filed by Gray and his siblings against the property owner. The suit resulted in an undisclosed settlement.]
Of course, Gray had many other strikes against him. However, the lead poisoning set him and his siblings — and thousands of others who’ve grown up in places like Sand Town — up to fail.
Watch the Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur report on the relationship between childhood lead poisoning and violent crime.”
Liz
9 years ago
“And I’m just suppose to believe you”
It would be an odd thing to fabricate, not sure what you think my motivation would be. If you had any experience with military housing at all you’d find it very easy to believe. But believe what you want. I’ve also known people to become very sick from mold in the walls of base housing. If it were section 8 housing, the occupants would sue the government I’m sure.
Did you know, T-bone, in military housing they actually expect you to cut your own lawn and keep up the appearance of the home? And if you don’t, they can evict you!! Crazy, huh? They’d never try that in a housing project, or it would make headline news.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
If the military wanted you to have a lawsuit, they would have issued you one……..
setnaffa
9 years ago
Did tbone eat lead paint chips? Is that it?
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“Did you know, T-bone, in military housing they actually expect you to cut your own lawn and keep up the appearance of the home?”
You’re leeching off the gov’t for a job while promoting war, weapons, and killing but that ain’t enough, you gotta suckoff the gov’t for housing as well then complain about your lawn upkeep? Why don’t you just pull it up, sell it, and upkeep the dirt to save water?
“It would be an odd thing to fabricate, not sure what you think my motivation would be.”
You haven’t provided any links nor could you that would compare to the links I’ve provided 🙄
johnnyboy
9 years ago
Uncle Sam at least gets some work out of GI’s.
There are people in the projects who leech off the government and all we get in return is riots.
Liz
9 years ago
You don’t have the option to let the grass die on base housing, Tbone.
“On average, 16 percent of the paint in each dwelling unit contains LBP”
Liz
9 years ago
One of your articles above described one mother who tried to soak off of the government benefits by making her toddler chew on a leaded paint chip. You probably won’t find that type of parenting style so much with military people, so the lead rates in their blood from this exposure might not be as high (though the stuff can go aerosol). I never let my babies lick paint chips off the ground.
Liz
9 years ago
BTW, the house that had the lead paint disclaimer also had aspestos (and related disclaimer).
Liz, by a number of metrics, military members are more violent than ghetto rats.
…must be the lead exposure.
Why is everything but failed ghetto black culture blamed for ghetto black behavior?
When some tattooed-up trailer park-dwelling hillbilly is all screwed up or can’t get a job, it is blamed on him being a tattooed-up hillbilly.
When some hoodie-wearing thug has the same problems, ot is paint chips and white racism.
setnaffa
9 years ago
CH, it’s because the white racists running the Democrat Party want to keep their dupes on their new (voter) plantation…
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“You don’t have the option to let the grass die on base housing, Tbone.”
Yes you do ❗ You volunteered 🙄
“One of your articles above described one mother who tried to soak off of the government benefits by making her toddler chew on a leaded paint chip”
WTF ❓ Don’t you think you should include “alleged” without any proof whatsoever which was included in my comment # 50?
Specifically, are you referring to Kenneth C. Holt’s statement based on ZERO evidence? You count on ZERO evidence since you have proven how/why you could possibly win the “bet” you proclaimed you’d win 🙄
“Kenneth C. Holt, secretary of Housing, Community and Development, told an audience at the Maryland Association of Counties summer convention here that a mother could just put a lead fishing weight in her child’s mouth, then take the child in for testing and a landlord would be liable for providing the child with housing until the age of 18.
Pressed afterward, Holt said he had no evidence of this happening but said a developer had told him it was possible. “This is an anecdotal story that was described to me as something that could possibly happen,” Holt said.”
Liz, is this really all you got ❓ …“On average, 16 percent of the paint in each dwelling unit contains LBP”
16% is low, not considered a high level especially compared to innocent children whom are more susceptible to lead. 🙄 Again, you’re an adult(WAR DOG) who volunteered to kill others while supporting fake wars for WAR HAWKS and the military–industrial–congressional complex, comprising of the policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Liz and other servicethemselfmembers have signed disclaimers so they supposedly can’t sue/win a lawsuit(not true) ❗ I say if Liz or anyone else lived on a poisonous base knowingly with their children then those children should be taken away from you for obvious reasons…CHILD ABUSE ❗ You knowingly placed your children at risk/in a dangerous/poisonous environment. Such EGGHEADS you serviceyourselfmembers are ❗ F*** MY KIDS, I NEED A JOB AND MONEY, THEY WILL DIE BEFORE ME BECAUSE THEY’RE WEAK CHILDREN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO LEAD POISONS ❗
ChickenHead
9 years ago
In terms of poisoning the population, liberal propaganda is more dangerous than lead.
Liz
9 years ago
“In terms of poisoning the population, liberal propaganda is more dangerous than lead.”
Sniffing paint thinner, however, seems to leave a mark like no other.
setnaffa
9 years ago
I don’t think Paintchip has been sniffing the paint thinner… I think he’s smoking “Labrador”… And none of his friends are successful in stopping him…
I am asking probably an impossible question, but I was stationed in Korea on a Nike Hercules site from 1973-1976. During that time I became very close friends with a Korean ROK Army NCO that was stationed with our unit. He took me away from “the ville” to explore the real Korea. He was the company “liasion” with the KATUSA soldiers. I have been wondering if there would any possibility of getting contact information for him? All I remember at this point is his name and rank at the time. SFC (JUNGSA) Kim No Soo (Su). At this point he would be between 65-70 years old. He was fluent in English I have tried to find information online reference ROK veterans with no luck. If someone could “point me in a direction of any possibilities” I would really appreciate it. I am planning a trip to Korea next year and it would be WONDERFUL if I could arrange a meeting to remininsce old times
I can see what I can drum up. I work with a lot of ROKs and my wifes uncle is a member of the Vets organization here. Where was the site located and organization? Ironic, my dad was a Nike Herc guy in the late 70s in Europe.
I wouldn’t want to volunteer him for anything but Chickenhead seems to be pretty effective at tracking people down.
The trouble with Korean names is that there isn’t a whole lot of diversity, though I’m not sure if his given names are common or not. His surname certainly is.
Good luck. If I ever went back, I have a few Korean buddies I would like to catch up with too.
Nike Herc Man… if you have site name, unit info (from a Korean point of view), and year he arrived and/or left, it would go a long way to making this possible.
Thanks very much to all, the unit was C Battery, 2nd Battalion, 44th ADA. The battalion HQ was located in “Camp Humphreys” It was called “Camp Sarafi” and was located by a small village called “Sak Sun Ni”. Google maps now shows a village near that area spelled “Sakseon-Ri”. I understand it was transferred to ROK Army control in the late 70’s. I am unsure the date he arrived, but he was there when I left in Aug 76. I flew (PCS’d) the day before the ax murder and tree cutting incident.
“but Chickenhead seems to be pretty effective at tracking people down”
Why do you say that 🙄
Ladd–Peebles Stadium is a stadium in Mobile, Alabama, United States where Donald Trump gave a speech this past week, it was only half full(at most) of people but most media outlets have been saying there were tens of thousands of people which would mean that at least 20 thousand people attended(some media said 30 thousand attended because that’s what Trump predicted).
The media is like EGGHEAD, it doesn’t know math ❗ What is half of 33,471 EGGHEAD ❓
The bigger question is WHY did Trump go to Mobile, Alabama to speak?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0821/Why-a-billionaire-Yankee-like-Trump-is-beloved-in-Alabama
“For one, Trump’s tough talk on illegal immigration – including his proposal to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants currently estimated to be in the country – touches a live wire in Alabama. In 2011, the state passed the harshest immigration law in the country, much of which was later dismantled by federal courts.”
Ladd–Peebles Stadium
Capacity: 40,000
Half full: 20,000
20,000 = 10,000 x 2 = tens of thousands
There are no further questions, your honor.
Wait…
…my mistake.
For concerts and speeches, the capacity is 50,000.
That would be due to all the people standing in the field while Trump spoke that aren’t allowed there during ball games.
Is there anything Tbone can get right?
I’m anxiously awaiting all the future Trump limericks if he’s elected.
Trump rhymes with so many things…. 🙂
I have seen people asking to find old friends on here. CH was able to give them some contact information within a day or two. Thought he might be able to help, but I didn’t want to speak for him.
The people on the field could’ve easily taken the empty seats(33,471) that weren’t filled in the upper sections and the place might have then and ONLY then been 50% full…See 16,736(at most) crowd here…
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/donald-trump-holds-strategic-rally-in-alabama/
Again, as i said the bigger picture is here…
Alabama’s Racist 2011 Immigration law = Economic loss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=truIRO9xWtE
And now Trump is partnering up with White Power in Alabama
Watch: Donald Trump’s Racist Supporters Scream ‘White Power’ At Alabama Ladd–Peebles Stadium Rally
Undocumented Immigrant Bravely Calls Out(Video) His Racist Employer, Donald Trump
A 24-year-old undocumented immigrant who works as a busser at Donald Trump’s Soho hotel recently opened up about what it’s like to work for a man whose immigration platform rests on characterizing Mexican immigrants like himself as criminals and rapists.
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/08/donald-trump-undocumented-immigrant
“I feel like Republicans think Mexicans are lazy, but I personally work three jobs, my stepfather works two jobs,” Aca said. “Everything that my family has we have earned it by working.”
While other Republican presidential hopefuls have attempted to distance themselves from Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric, Aca said their own immigration platforms aren’t much different from those of the real-estate mogul.
“I may have an accent, but I’m not stupid,” he said.
“I feel like Republicans think Mexicans are lazy, but I personally work three jobs, my stepfather works two jobs,”
It sounds like this illegal immigrant is taking the jobs away from 3 American welfare recipients.
The solution seems simple. Ship illegals home and cut off welfare at the same time. Problem solved.
As for Trump’s crowd… who knows. The media lies. The pictures are staged… either trying to make small empty places look like large empty places through manipulation of perspective and perception or taken before/after the event. This can be argued out. But who cares. The reality is Trump is generating more enthusiasm and drawing larger crowds than any of the other Republican losers… or the Democratic losers… especially as the dirtbaggedness of Hillary has hit critical mass and even a lot of Democrats are afraid of what Bernie says. The trial balloons touting Biden reek of desperation and are getting little response.
With the Republicans and Democrats both fielding a jizz puddle of lame and tired candidates, Trump is doing the best… regardless if there were 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 or more people at his speech.
Who cares how the media spins it. Arguing over the number of people at Trump’s speech is like arguing how many teeth are on the zipper of the vinyl hip boots of the double D stripper about to blow you in the Champagne Room. It draws attention away from the more important aspects of the situation.
…which is a valid strategy if:
– you are a Democrat (or Republican) worried sick that Donald Trump actually has something to say that people want to hear
– you have no interest in double D strippers giving you a schnarling because you are a kiddy-toucher like Tbone
“The reality is Trump is generating more enthusiasm and drawing larger crowds than any of the other Republican losers… or the Democratic losers”
What planet are you on? Trump has been lying about crowd numbers as have other GOPers. Trump is NOT “drawing larger crowds” than Bernie Sanders you STUPID EGGHEAD ❗ Bernie’s campaign is grass roots, paid for by the people who actually attend in comparison to Trump’s crowd which he pays and DOESN’T consist of White Supremacists/HATERS.
And, they’re less likely to commit adultery as those in Alabama where Trump had his largest crowd.
Alabama is ‘by far the most adulterous place in the US’
EGGHEAD’s name(“sexlessmarriage”) was tracked & listed by Ashley Madison website hacking group(“The Impact team”) and his profile was trying to attract men like Josh Duggar and Jared Fogle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205519/The-Unfaithful-States-America-Ashley-Madison-data-determines-Alabama-far-adulterous-place-West-Virginians-devoted.html
“The personal and intimate information of over 37 million users of cheating website Ashley Madison was leaked online this week.
The data dump of 9.7 gigabytes revealed such details as addresses and emails.
Now a Reddit user has taken that data and, along with Census statistics, used it to compile a list claiming to show the most unfaithful states in the US.
The graph was calculated to show the state that spent the most money on Ashley Madison per capita,…”
EGGHEAD says…”Who cares how the media spins it. Arguing over the number of people at Trump’s speech is like…”
I’m not arguing, only stating the facts which the media wrongly reports because Trump LIES and the other GOP candidates REALLY, REALLY care/worry about crowd numbers since they aren’t getting what Mr. Grass Roots Bernie Sanders gets ❗
tbone loves illegal aliens and wants blacks unemployed and powerless.
Compton rules box office at No. 1 again ~
I’m going to see it tonight ❗
‘Straight Outta Compton’ was a strong No. 1 at the box office for the second week in a row raking in $26.8 million and crossed the $100 million mark Saturday for a total of $111.5 million.
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation was # 2 with $11.7 million
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/08/23/box-office-movies-straight-out–compton/32080495/
Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell and Paul Giamatti
“panem et circenses” is all tbone really cares about. While the Democrats put all blacks back in [government] slavery because there are no jobs, he advocates for the lifestyle guaranteed to keep them under the thumb of people like Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholarship) and Bernie Sanders (another old white guy). Of course, after all the racial healing and economic growth caused by Obama, I don’t wonder why he lost hope.
References:
Dr Dre Still Rich (and offers apologies to the women he used as objects to relieve tension): http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/entertainment/dr-dre-apologizes-thr-feat/
Bernie Sanders talks to other white people: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/31/bernie-sanders-race-problem/
Cecil Rhodes Racist Scholarship: http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-nightmares-of-cecil-rhodes-the-racist-inspired-rhodes-scholarship/
Tbone… It seems pretty clear, through pictures taken DURING Trump’s speech, that he had at least 30,000.
Can you find an event where Bernie Sanders had a crowd larger than 30,000?
Probably not… considering it never happened.
Out of curiosity, what part of Trump’s message don’t you like and what part of Sander’s message resonates with you?
“He’s getting the biggest crowds, and I’m getting the biggest crowds,” Trump said last week of Sanders in one of his innumerable TV interviews.
He meant it as a putdown of Hillary Clinton, but the left-handed salute to Sanders resonated. Because he has arguably drawn the very biggest crowds this summer, even more “biggest” than Trump’s.
Sanders doesn’t have billions of dollars and has risen from obscurity so I’d say he’s doing pretty good.
Sanders’ message is getting an audience because Americans are frustrated with the loss of free enterprise and the domination of winner-take-all crony capitalism… not to mention a generation or so of pushing a lifestyle of dependence.
Communism and socialism start looking attractive in times like that… in both American and global history.
Despite the promises, it never really works out well for the proletariat in the end.
Leon, I’m glad to see you also abandoning reason and sense to support Tbone’s rantings.
Keep in mind that the Sanders camp has never claimed to have ever drawn 30,000. Trump has claimed that.
The stadium’s website claims there are 40,000 seats. Photos taken during the speech make a good case for it being more than 75% full… not including the people on the field. It is reasonable to estimate there were 30,000 people.
You need to come up with some honest and clever reasoning to support your Tbonesque yapping when you say things like…
“Because he has arguably drawn the very biggest crowds this summer, even more “biggest” than Trump’s.”
…as just saying so without any thinking is not “arguably”… it is just running your mouth.
Those were Trumps words, not mine.
& I don’t usually read Tbones copy-patsa so do not know what you are referring to there.
Netanyahu Denied Multiple Attempts To Attack Iran
Now we know why he’s always wanting USA to fight his wannabe war(and American GOP War Hawks Love Netanyahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-pressed-iran-attacks-denied-ex-defense-chief-150226989.html
“Israel’s political leaders pushed to attack Iran at least three times in the past few years but had to back down on the advice of the military and due to concerns about its ally the United States, former defense minister Ehud Barak said.
In interviews to his biographers aired late on Friday by Israel’s Channel Two, Barak said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had wanted military operations against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, 2011 and 2012.”
Train Attacker or alleged subway pure-blooded Korean “attacker” was tackled and placed in chokehold by “foreign” English teachers on S. Korean subway. English teachers are being held in separate S. Korea prisons after questioning for attacking a Korean man while tens of thousands fill Seoul streets in protest against “foreigners.” The alleged “attacker” says the gun was fake or just a play gun and the “gun” has yet to be found by S. Korean police.
No link? Must be a lie.
How does recognizing the truth/facts equal “abandoning reason and sense?”(@21).
F****** EGGHEAD being an EGGHEAD AGAIN ❗ 🙄 😈
EGGHEAD hypocritically says(@21)…”ranting…it is just running your mouth.”
EGGHEAD’s @21 comment is exactly his usual blah, blah, blah(ranting ~ running his mouth)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04
“panem et circenses”
You’re describing the GOP Goat Rodeo/Circus Race i.e. Koch brothers/Superpac etc… “bread” providing them the $$$ to operate thy GOP Goat Rodeo/Circus Race.
“While the Democrats put all blacks back in [government] slavery because there are no jobs, he(sic) advocates for the lifestyle guaranteed to keep them under the thumb of people like Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholarship) and Bernie Sanders (another old white guy).”
What did Bill Clinton do to “put all blacks in slavery” and what is Bernie Sanders guilty of? You’re such an EGGHEAD in your use of superlatives. You can’t help but sound like an EGGHEAD like your buttlickingbuddy EGGHEAD ❗
Ben Carson disses old white guy’s views on Black Culture:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/24/blacklivesmatter-sanders-clinton-anger-column/32055507/
Obama’s Teeshirt Legacy:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/general/obama
This Explains the F-35:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/general/obama
I remember those days:
http://www.theonion.com/article/college-still-looking-absolute-saddest-place-campu-51151
Hope your Monday was happier than mine!!
President Barack Obama’s peaceful 2 week vacation went uninterrupted and just ended. Our President B. Obama had lunch with Vice President Biden today and spoke in Las Vegas at the NCES forum(see Pres. Obama’s speech below)…
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/aug/24/president-obama-lands-las-vegas-energy-summit-fund/
The remote Alaskan village that needs to be relocated due to climate change
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/02/24/the-remote-alaskan-village-that-needs-to-be-relocated-due-to-climate-change/
“The question now facing the town, the state of Alaska, and the nation is whether to move the people of Kivalina to a safer location nearby, either inland or further down the coast — and who would pay upwards of a hundred million dollars to do it. It’s a question already facing Kivalina and a handful of other native Alaskan villages, and in the coming decades could apply to numerous other towns along U.S. coastlines. Here, climate change is less a future threat and more a daily force, felt in drastic changes to weather, loss of traditional means of sustenance like whale hunting, and the literal vanishing of land.”
President Obama opened up oil drilling in Alaska to Shell Oil(why doesn’t FoxNOTnews tell us about that instead of the still in court Canadian/Keystone pipeline running through USA?). Or why doesn’t FoxNOTnews tell us about how Pres. Obama opened up oil drilling via the USA southeastern coastline from Virginia to Georgia?
Oil is at $39 per barrel, the lowest in years.
So, Shell Vice CEO went to Iran for/with the Britain Embassy re-opening ribbon-cutting.
Where should Exxon go next, to Alaska, southeastern USA, or Iran?
tbone, you revere the Clintons; but Bill received a scholarship named after the founder of Apartheid (See the link you ignored). Defend that. Go ahead. It’d be terribly Progressive of you.
Hillary proudly adores Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood–who basically wanted to kill all non-white or poor babies. Defend that.
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/09/23/hillary-clinton-i-admire-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/
“The mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.”– W.E.B. DuBois, Birth Control Review, June 1932. (Quoted by Sanger in her proposal for the “Negro Project.”)
And how do the Democrats put blacks back in slavery? Look at the black employment statistics under Democrats. Labor Statistics: http://data.bls.gov
Blacks are more dependent than ever on welfare. Generation after generation. Despair-not Hope-and Change. And trapped on the Democrats’ plantation. Amnesty for illegal aliens increases the pressure on low-skilled labor… And Affirmative Action makes everyone think Blacks are too stupid to succeed on their own.
Just where they want you. And you still going on about Trump and the Koch Brothers while Obama’s friends are making fortunes and the EPA is dumping millions of gallons of toxic wastes into rivers that run through parks and Native American tribal lands. How touching.
Kentucky Republicans vote to give Rand Paul a caucus, if the money is there…
Rand Paul for senate or president? Kentucky changed their law this past Saturday so that Rand Paul can run for both ~
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/08/22/4000515/kentucky-republicans-vote-to-give.html
It wasn’t unanimous, but Kentucky Republicans voted Saturday to hold a presidential preference caucus next year, helping U.S. Sen. Rand Paul get around a state law prohibiting a candidate from appearing on the same ballot twice.
But the approval of a caucus is conditional on whether Paul has transferred $250,000 to an account controlled by the Republican Party of Kentucky before Sept. 18. If the money is not there, the party will automatically revert to a primary.
In a closed-door session before the caucus was openly debated, Paul asked his fellow committee members to trust that he would fully fund the caucus, as he has repeatedly pledged to do.
But…”
Read the Rest
Also…FBI raids home of Ron Paul aide
Anthony Terrell, NBC News Producer and Journalist, joins Page Hopkins to deliver the latest details on the early morning raid by the FBI that woke up a family in Northern Virginia, where guns were drawn and the family was forced outside their home. ~ Video of FBI Raid ~
http://www.msnbc.com/weekends-alex-witt/watch/fbi-raids-home-of-ron-paul-aide-511084611793
Why was that home raided?
Kesari A Suspect In Rhode Island Burglary…
“Federal authorities announced Wednesday that Kesari and two other political operatives face charges linked to their work on the 2012 Ron Paul presidential campaign.
An investigation revealed the concealment of payments to former Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, who switched his support in the GOP nomination contest from then-Rep. Michele Bachmann to Paul.
Sorenson secretly negotiated with Kesari, John M. Tate, of Warrenton, and Jesse R. Benton, of Louisville, KY, to make the move in exchange for more than $70,000, authorities said.”
And you still believe in AGW/Climate Change?
Earth Scum GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker says…
Cancel Chinese president’s White House visit
He also said he’d start a war with ISIS and/or Iran the first day of his presidency which will NOT ever happen ❗
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/politics/scott-walker-china-xi-jinping-2016/
“Walker, a Republican presidential contender, made his call after U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday amid global fears of China’s economic slowdown.
In a statement, Walker — whose standing in Iowa, a key early state, has suffered as Trump has risen in GOP polls — accused China of manipulating its economy, echoing critiques of the Asian giant that have come from populists like Trump.
He said Obama should “focus on holding China accountable over its increasing attempts to undermine U.S. interests,” rather than hosting Xi.”
Oh, and the Pope will visit next month to discuss over prison population and meet with 100 prisoners, will he wash their feet as he’s done before? Will the GOP try to cancel the Pope’s visit to USA?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/inmates-work-create-chair-popes-philly-prison-visit-33287373
Susan Sarandon tries to save man on death row in Oklahoma…
I Love Susan Sarandon ❗
Richard Glossip convicted of killing Barry Van Treese
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/governor-fallin-grant
“Stop the planned execution of Richard Glossip on September 16. Richard was convicted of murder after Justin Sneed, the man who confessed to the killing, claimed Richard had hired him to do it, despite a breathtaking lack of evidence. Sneed got a life sentence in a medium-security prison, while the self-serving testimony that saved Sneed’s life sent Richard to death row.
PETITION BACKGROUND
I firmly believe Oklahoma is about to execute an innocent man.
Ten men have been exonerated from death row in Oklahoma in the past 35 years, four of them due to falsified testimony by criminals who had their sentences reduced in exchange for their testimony.
Richard Glossip, who is scheduled for execution on September 16, was convicted solely on the testimony of his coworker, Justin Sneed. Sneed confessed to the murder and avoided the death penalty himself by implicating Richard.
A stay of execution will give Richard’s pro bono lawyers time to prove his innocence.”
Climate Change Explained: https://youtu.be/nq4Bc2WCsdE
tbone, why do you feel compelled to serve George Soros’s interests?
setnaffa(comments 18 & 30) is so much into the color race card hand…
while Trump doesn’t like the black hand of Jeb Bush ~ Trump and setnaffa…two peas in a pod ~
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-bashes-bush-on-photoshop-fail-121636.html
“Donald Trump on Saturday sought to give Jeb Bush a black eye over a black hand.
Trump wailed on the former Florida governor for a Photoshopped picture in a campaign leaflet sent out by a pro-Bush super PAC that shows him with a black left hand, and his body apparently super-imposed on a picture of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Story Continued Below
“Jeb Bush has a Photoshopped photo for an ad which gives him a black left hand and much different looking body. Jeb just can’t get it right!”
“tbone, why do you feel compelled to serve George Soros’s interests?”
You’ll have to explain EGGHEAD, perhaps you could provide a link?
What I’m compelled to do is provide information, something which Leon, etc…doesn’t like me to do.
Setnaffa, just pity Tbone.
If you understood his childhood and his (understandable) mommy issues, you would just nod your head.
Oh no, he didn’t ! 😮 Bush steps in it.
CH, when you’re right, you’re right.
They all need to go to prison. And never be allowed to hold office again.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/25/ambassador-kennedy-used-private-email-watchdog-says/?intcmp=hpbt1
It’s too bad about Trump. His presidential campaign was doing so well. This will really set off the conspiracy theorists. They will never believe this wasn’t some joint Democrat/Republican plot hatched to stop a joint threat to their shared monopoly on power. No matter how rich you are, there are some things you can’t buy your way out of.
Alabama Closing DMV Offices – 45 of 49 – In Spite Of Voter ID Laws
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25/1415384/-Despite-strict-voter-ID-laws-Alabama-is-in-the-process-of-closing-45-of-49-driver-s-license-offices#
“This will no doubt have a devastating effect on lower-income residents. Considering 18.7% of residents live at “poverty level” and another 8.4% at extreme poverty levels, it’s another blow that will surely leave more people behind. Can you imagine a single parent needing to take an entire day—or even two days—to travel to a driver’s license office and then wait all day for their turn to take the test? Perhaps most frightening about these closures is the effect it will have on voting in Alabama, where a conservative legislature passed a law in 2011 which requires a photo ID to vote. Alabama has already been on a steady decline (41% in November 2014) and these closures certainly won’t help to bring those numbers up.
Intended or not, these office closures and the strict voter ID law will have an effect on government, policy and even safety (more people like to drive without a proper license) for a long time to come.”
“Alabama Closing DMV Offices – 45 of 49 – In Spite Of Voter ID Laws”
Let’s take a look at reality instead of what the Tbone-Libtard Disinformation Complex vomits up.
“Alabama’s chief law enforcement officer said Monday he will close all but the state’s four largest drivers’ license offices next year if state lawmakers don’t provide more funding than they are proposing.”
See… it is actually not a done deal. It is a threat by law enforcement which doesn’t want its budget cut next year. Of course law enforcement will find the money to buy and maintain:
“At least eight tactical vehicles are in use in a 10-county area of north Alabama, as well as six helicopters and more than 230 assault rifles through the 1033 program.”
…to kick terrorist and drug dealer… and parking ticket evader azz…
…but not have the budget for less glamorous things like actual public service.
Law enforcement loves to buy and maintain those helicopters… and ride in them, given any chance.
But what happens if these DMV offices actually close?!?
“Regular license renewal can now be done on line. Collier said that is one of several improvements the state has made to the process, including online examination scheduling, self-serve kiosks, and digital licenses for cell phones. But first licenses and examinations must be done in person”
Ah… so it will have no effect on people with an internet connection or the ability to get to the mall. It only affects first-time licenses… teenagers and new arrivals.
So… no big deal, really.
Democrats sure don’t like those voter ID laws… as they overly affect the stupid and the lazy… which is an important Democratic voter demographic.
Is Tbone every right about anything?
Lindsey Graham: ‘I Think We Need To Be A Nation At War’
But aren’t we already at war?
https://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/lindsey-graham-i-think-we-need-be-nation-war
In an interview Aug. 23 on “Fox News Sunday,” Graham commented on the Aug. 22 thwarted attack by Ayoub El-Khazani on a train headed to Paris, France. He said the incident was another example of lack of U.S. forces to fight enemies overseas.
“The whole world is a battlefield and radical Islam is everywhere,” he said. When he was asked whether passports from “certain regions” should be limited by the U.S. government, Graham said: “Absolutely. I think we need to be a nation at war. We’re letting our defenses down. We’re not acting like we’re at war anymore. We’re acting like we’re trying to fight a crime. It’s going to come back to bite us.”
I thought we were already “at war?” Ooops, I forgot the GOP majority refuses to vote to declare war on ISIS even though our President Barack Obama has repeatedly asked them to.
Why Won’t the GOP Declare War on ISIS?
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015/05/why-wont-gop-declare-war-isis/113959/
“Republican presidential candidates delight in slamming Obama’s strategy, but won’t vote on legislation to define the scope of the struggle.”
“So… no big deal, really.” 😈
How much says it WILL happen ❓
The Alabama GOP led gov’t won’t fund the offices so the offices will close causing many young first time drivers to drive illegally while blocking the young person vote. 🙄
“…to kick terrorist and drug dealer… and parking ticket evader azz…”
How many terrorist azzez has Alabama kicked?
How is the “war” on drug dealers going in Alabama?
And what about your “parking ticket evaders?” Yeah sure, Alabama needs to arrest these “evader” types aye? Alabama should issue twice as many warrants on these “evader” types as there are people in Alabama. 🙄
Here is what Ferguson, Missouri is doing about your “parking ticket evaders” and those like them but not Alabama because obviously it needs money from poor people since taxing the rich is out of the question.
New Law Drives Ferguson to Drop 10,000 Arrest Warrants
http://www.onenewspage.com/video/20150826/3242144/New-Law-Drives-Ferguson-to-Drop-10-000.htm
Back to your “kick terrorists azz”…
Alabama GOP sides with terrorists…As do other GOPer’s
House Republicans Side With The Terrorists By Refusing To Support Obama Against ISIS
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/16/house-republicans-side-terrorists-refusing-support-obama-isis.html
Tbone-Libtard Disinformation Complex, did I quote that? Ooops, EGGHEAD said it as though I’m somehow equal to the…USA Military Industrial Complex/Military Industrial Congressional Complex which comprises of the policy and monetary relationships which exists between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them.
Complex this you herpes simplex EGGHEAD…
First of all I’m an Independent, not a Liberal. 😎
Wal-Mart: Always Low Taxes
http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2015/8/25/wal-mart-always-low-taxes
“Walmart is America’s largest company, and it seems to have $205 billion in assets, and it seems to have its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, but $76 billion (or 37 percent) of its assets appear to have migrated to 22 shell companies in Luxembourg. You know how sometimes you use another bank’s ATM, because yours is too far away? It’s like that.
Ninety percent of the assets of Walmart’s International Division end up in Luxembourg and the Netherlands, rather than, as you might assume, Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart has 4000 stores in America. It has zero stores in Luxembourg.
All of this is according to a recent report by Americans for Tax Fairness, which also points out that Walmart has a “network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S. tax on those foreign earnings.” This has probably allowed Walmart to avoid about $3.5 billion in taxes in the last six years.
Why isn’t this a bigger issue? I guess Hillary Clinton could mention it, because…”
Companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-companies-make-millions-off-lead-poisoned-poor-blacks/2015/08/25/7460c1de-0d8c-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
“Before his April death after being severely injured in police custody, before this hollowed-out city plunged into rioting, the life of Freddie Gray was a case study in the effect of lead paint on poor blacks. The lead poisoning Gray suffered as a child may have contributed to his difficulties with learning, truancy and arrests — all of it culminating in a 2008 lead-paint lawsuit and a windfall of cash locked inside a structured settlement. By late 2013, Gray was striking deals with Access Funding.
People like Gray who have suffered lead poisoning as children are especially vulnerable to predatory transactions. Many are impulsive and mentally disabled, but not so much that the law regards them as incapable of acting on their own behalf, as long as they’re 18 or older.
“A lot of them can barely read,” said Saul E. Kerpelman, who estimates he has defended more than 4,000 victims of lead poisoning, nearly all of them black. “They have limited capacity. But they fall through a crack. If they were severely disabled enough, you could file a court petition to have a trustee manage their property. But they’re not disabled enough.”
Over the past two decades, state legislatures and the U.S. Congress have passed measures to protect vulnerable people selling structured settlements. In 2000, Maryland inked the Structured Settlement Protection Act, which enumerated a series of requirements. First, a seller must seek the counsel of an independent professional adviser. Then the proposed deal must go before a county judge, who decides whether that agreement reflects the seller’s best interests.
But today, critics say, that measure is failing. “There are weaknesses and ways people can circumvent it,” said Eric Vaughn, executive director of the National Structured Settlements Trade Association, which represents companies and lawyers working in the industry. “And these companies are getting around the intents of the law. . . . And when that happens, people get hammered.”
A Washington Post review of thousands of pages of court records and interviews with industry insiders and eight victims of lead poisoning have revealed these loopholes in Baltimore.”
Housing chief suggests mothers may deliberately expose children to lead
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-lead-liability-20150814-story.html
“Kenneth C. Holt, secretary of Housing, Community and Development, told an audience at the Maryland Association of Counties summer convention here that a mother could just put a lead fishing weight in her child’s mouth, then take the child in for testing and a landlord would be liable for providing the child with housing until the age of 18.
Pressed afterward, Holt said he had no evidence of this happening but said a developer had told him it was possible. “This is an anecdotal story that was described to me as something that could possibly happen,” Holt said.
He offered no specific proposals, but said he hoped to limit the liability of landlords in lead paint cases. He said his department is working with the Maryland Department of the Environment to draft legislation for the 2016 General Assembly session.
Health advocates reacted by saying they would fight any effort to weaken lead paint protections — and Holt’s suggestion that parents might poison their children to gain housing benefits provoked outrage.
“To me it’s beneath contempt,” said Ellen Silbergeld, a professor of environmental health science at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health.
State Del. Samuel I. “Sandy” Rosenberg, a Baltimore Democrat who has specialized in lead paint issues, said any weakening of lead paint laws would take the state back “way backwards.”
“If that’s the direction that we’re headed in for regulatory reform — making us a business-friendly state but a citizen-unhealthy state — that’s outrageous,” he said.”
“The Alabama GOP led gov’t won’t fund the offices so the offices will close causing many young first time drivers to drive illegally while blocking the young person vote. ”
Driving age: 16
Voting age: 18
If they can’t get their shyt together in 2 years to get a license, it really is better they don’t vote.
“How many terrorist azzez has Alabama kicked? How is the “war” on drug dealers going in Alabama?”
We are likely in agreement, Tbone. Alabama law enforcement is threatening to reduce services to the public over budget concerns… yet maintain a fleet of tactical vehicles and helicopters to unnecessarily play with whenever they can find an excuse. The example I gave was ONLY 10 counties.
I understand when you are shytty to me when we disagree… but why be shytty to me when we agree? Unless you are just a shytty person. See. Answered my own question.
“Complex this you herpes simplex EGGHEAD”
Awesome… another one to add to my collection. Will he work his way through diseases with social stigma, ending up with AIDS, or will he go the terrible disease route, ending up with leprosy? Or another unexpected direction? I can hardly wait!
“First of all I’m an Independent, not a Liberal. ”
Independently stupid, liberally biased. You have never once pushed any independent issue that was shared by conservatives. You only push liberal issues… and mostly from the stupid end rather than the smart end of the spectrum.
Walmart: They have a duty to stockholders to maximize profit. In fact, this is a legal obligation. The tax law is set up to allow this to happen. The problem is not Walmart taking advantage of this… which is what the media focuses on. The problem is lobbyists representing Walmart and all other large companies paying off lawmakers to insure the tax structure continues to allow this to happen.
Lead poisoning: It is a complete myth that lead paint is only a danger to poor blacks. White paint before 1978 had lead… and was used in housing for all races and classes. Afro-fatigue.
There are 98 different federal law enforcement agencies in the US.
Is that crazy or what?
“Lead poisoning: It is a complete myth that lead paint is only a danger to poor blacks. White paint before 1978 had lead… and was used in housing for all races and classes.”
Our last house on base had lead paint. We had to sign a disclaimer.
Bet section 8 housing is healthier.
No one in America is poor because of the color of their skin. They are poor because they or their parents made bad economic choices. But there is room to change. Lots of success stories for those who care to look.
Neither billionaire Bill Gates nor billionaire Michael Dell have an earned university degree. They were too busy earning money to waste time sitting on their arses listening to tbone’s sources drone on about man’s inhumanity to man.
Maybe there’s a lesson in that for those who are willing to study success, not dwell on failure.
Katrina Ten Years Later, remember that guy MIchael Brown/‘Brownie’ who George W. Bush chose to lead FEMA? Well, he’s back. He says people shouldn’t trust the gov’t to save them while 1800 people died under his Katrina watch. His experience was lacking to lead FEMA but Bush chose him anyway and now he’s standing next to Jeb Bush in hopes for another nepotism lead position…but don’t trust him because he’d be part of the gov’t again and he doesn’t believe in gov’t other than for his own servicehimself $$$ selfishness. How about this…Don’t Trust People Like Michael Brown/‘Brownie’ to Lead Gov’t When those that Lead Gov’t Don’t Believe in Gov’t ❓ Perhaps he’ll be Jeb’s choice for vice president 😛
“Stop Blaming Me for Hurricane Katrina”
‘Ten years later, the name ‘Brownie’ is still identified with the government’s failures. Here’s what really happened.’
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/katrina-ten-years-later-michael-brown-121782.html#.Vd-2qyWqqko
“f members of Congress don’t understand that, then congressmen are dumber than I ever thought. Ask yourself—how many members of Congress would be willing to share any-and-all emails they have exchanged with staff, family or others while in office? I guarantee that we would find similar exchanges.
But it wasn’t just my emails for which Congress was disconnected from reality.
Today government needs to affirmatively reassert its commitment to the all-hazards approach to disasters. Whether a disaster is man-made, natural or the result of terrorism, the response is the same. And the federal government must not become a first responder. The more state and local governments become dependent upon federal dollars, the weaker and more dependent upon the federal government they will become.”
VA NOT NEEDED and I AGREE, screw those volunteer servicethemselfmembers/War Dogs who support War Hawks fight fake unjust wars. Carson is in the TOP Three
Carson: We Don’t Need A Department Of Veterans Affairs
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-we-dont-need-a-department-of-veterans-affairs/
“Ben Carson told radio host Dave Ramsey thatwe can do away with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Carson stated that one way to shrink the size of the government would be to do away with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and place its services under the administration of the Defense Department.
“We don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs,” Carson said. “Veterans Affairs should be folded in under the Department of Defense. And it should be a smooth transition.”
Carson went on to explain that the reason why the number of military volunteers has recently seen a decline is because of the negative opinion Americans have about how veterans are cared for after leaving service.”
Yes, Carson is 2nd just ahead of Bush as of 8/20/15
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html
Your Zimmerman Hero now bend over and clean/kiss his feet 😮
Everyone here was/is on Zimmerman’s side…
Alleged Human George Zimmerman Responds With Gay Slur To Virginia Murders: Obama Is A “Racist and Baboon”
http://freakoutnation.com/2015/08/alleged-human-george-zimmerman-responds-to-virginia-murders-obama-is-a-racist/
It’s time for the George Zimmerman Non-Human Centipede, EGGHEAD…you’re last in line. 💡
I wonder if the DOJ is going to investigate WDBJ for racial inequality. Maybe disparate impact since a disproportionate number of black people who worked there had to suffer mental illness and homicidal rage.
The libs are calling for gun control again but how are the social justice warriors they created supposed to take the fight to whitey if they are unarmed?
Black people calling for a race war appear to be unfamiliar with math.
Anyway… i noticed the Obama administration was quick to send attention, manpower, and LOTS of money when a crazy white racist shot black people.
When a crazy black racist shot white people… nothing.
Afrofatigue grows larger every day.
“Black people calling for a race war appear to be unfamiliar with math.”
Do you mean statistics? If so, then you should show us some before blabbing foam from your pie hole DUH ❗
Georgia County Admits To ILLEGALLY Disenfranchising Voters(minorities) so NOW we know that other GOP states do as well, they’re just too EGGHEADED to admit it ❗ EGGHEAD is JUST like Georgia State Senator Fran Millar (R), a RACIST ❗ ❗ ❗
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/26/3695039/county-admits-it-disenfranchised-voters-in-african-american-dominated-county/
“Fulton County, Georgia admitted to illegally disenfranchising and misleading voters in the 2008 and 2012 elections in a settlement this month. For more than two dozen violations of state law — including improperly rejecting eligible ballots and sending voters to the wrong precincts — the county will pay a fine of $180,000. To make sure the problems do not continue in the future, the county has promised to spend an additional $200,000 on new training software for their poll workers. ”
“We’re happy that the [settlement] is over and we’re able to move forward,” Erica Pines with the Fulton County Democratic Party told ThinkProgress. “We want our voters, many of whom are minorities who’ve experienced a history of disenfranchisement, to remain confident in our elections system and not fear there’s going to be some type of issue when they go to the polls.”
Yet the problems facing voters of color in Georgia are not confined to Fulton County. When neighboring DeKalb County, another stronghold of African American Democrats, opened an early voting location in a popular mall, Georgia State Senator Fran Millar (R) publicly lamented that “this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches.” He later added, “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters.”
READ the REST ❗ ❗ ❗
I am guessing he is referring to population percentages.
If there were a race war, blacks would not fare well, assuming everyone divided up and fought strictly along racial lines.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
The sh#t heads on both sides clamoring for a race war need to stop this nonsense.
When it comes to statistics, perhaps blacks would fare better in a race war as they seem much more at ease with murdering other human beings.
Back to Katrina and Bush’s boys…
Michael Chertoff(Homeland Security Boy) SURPRISED that New Orleans’ leeves broke!! Meet The Press VIDEO with the late Tim Russert…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airFQZDjlJo
Our President Obama today said Katrina became a MANMADE DISASTER, and I AGREE…OBAMA has revamped FEMA ❗
Obama Marks 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
( 03:53 )
http://on.aol.com/video/president-obama-marks-10th-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina-in-speech-519041051
The truth according to some FBI’s homicide statistics is that the United States is in the wake of an epidemic of white-on-white crime. Back in 2011, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.
But wait…why would Our Great President Obama be speaking about Katrina 10 years later ❓
I believe the FBI numbers showed that white on white and black on black crime rates were similar, but that blacks kill a larger number of other black than whites kill other whites. Is that right?
Actually, I was wrong. Of the 6,131 murders in 2011, 2,630 (about 43%) were committed by whites while 2,447 (about 40%) were committed by blacks. When considering that whites make up 77% of the population and blacks are 13%, that means that blacks have a much higher concentration of murderers than whites.
Also, the black on black murder rate in 2011 was 90.7%.
“Back in 2011, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.”
Oh dear.
Yet again, Tbone’s lack of general understanding allows him to quotes statistics that disprove whatever point he was trying to make. Yet again.
This statistic has no reflection on white people. As killing within a racial group is the expected behavior, 100% would be the expected number. As this percentage has no quantity, it cannot reflect any behavior of whites… unless it is zero, demonstrating that whites never kill.
This statistic actually relates to non-whites killing outside their racial group… as any number less that 100% shows that a non-white has killed a white… though, without a quantity or comparison, it is a rather meaningless statistic.
Taken alone, as presented by Tbone, the more “staggering” this number is, the less threatening non-whites are to whites. The lower it is, the more non-whites are killing whites.
This statistic’s real meaning comes when comparing it to the same statistic of other races.
Let’s look.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6
2011 (single victim, single offender)
Whites (3172) murdered by blacks (448) = 14.12%
Blacks (2695) murdered by whites (193) = 7.16%
It appears that blacks are twice as dangerous to whites as whites are to blacks.
The only thing “staggering” is that blacks are obviously best avoided. Why?
Out of the 14,548 offenders in 2011, 4,729 were white, 5,486 were black, and 4,077 were unknown.
All these percentages start to take meaning when real numbers show up. At 13% of the population, blacks are 8.9 times more likely to kill than whites.
No matter how you slice it, blacks conduct a highly disproportionate amount of violent crime (and firearms crime).
But this is likely all lost on Tbone who will believe whatever he wants to believe no matter how much the facts say otherwise.
Just another day in the hood. Nothing but fun and games, right?
https://www.facebook.com/1515451032010101/videos/1606938972861306/
Yeah, I boned those up a little bit. It was pretty late last night. I think my mistakes actually were in favor of blacks as I must have only counted blacks killing within their race and neglected to add in those who killed whites.
tbone, like his daddy Barry, forget who actually runs New Orleans and drowned all the school buses that could have saved everyone.
They forget FEMA can’t act without being invited.
And they still want to blame Bush after all these Obama-led years of recovery and racial healing…
On a lighter note, Heather Cho gets to spend a year behind bars:
http://news.yahoo.com/court-finds-former-korean-air-exec-guilty-nut-070354928.html#
I thought she got out, but then promptly ran off at the mouth? I guess once you get out of the can, you should keep a low profile.
Not sure when she will be released. She got a year, and went to jail in December, out in May. Will she do four more months until this December, or will she have to do seven months to make a full year? Or twelve months from now to make it a year?
This is pretty funny:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/636949209195778049
“Hurtful stereotype alert: black man wins footrace, immediately run over by camera-toting Asian who can’t drive”
Hee hee. 🙂
The rest of the story: Jewish lawyer chases ambulance as hispanics clean up the mess at the scene.
“The rest of the story: Jewish lawyer chases ambulance as hispanics clean up the mess at the scene.”
Gay masturbates over half naked man on ground, white guy laughs, Tbone says something stupid.
Never mind on Heather Cho. Yahoo dredged that article up from February. I should have checked the date. That’s what I get for assuming Yahoo isn’t staffed by incompetent people.
Haven’t seen much since July, when she was trying to move the venue back to Korea, where Daddy owns the judges.
End of snow, Hurricanes a go-go… erm, wait. What?
http://twitchy.com/2015/08/28/paging-msm-future-predicted-by-climate-change-fear-mongers-has-arrived/
Lol!
Hey don’t jinx me setnaffa, we have one headed our way right now (scheduled to hit Sunday). Boo. Hopefully it will calm down before then (seems to be, but knock on wood).
Snow in August? Doubtful… 😉
🙂
It’s globe cooling…didn’t you hear?
It was global cooling back in the 1970s… until it was Ozone holes… Now it’s just more “Hide the Decline”… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqc7PCJ-nc
I’m surprised at the allegedly educated folks who fall for this brand of snake oil… 😛
“educated folks” don’t fall for this snake oil.
They use it as yet another tool for dominance and control of uneducated folks.
Further, what passes for education these days is not really education. A large collection of objective facts and a skillset designed to organize, analyze, and apply them is discouraged. The ability to repeat, and even believe, concepts which (should be obvious that) have little relationship with functioning reality are encouraged… pretty much exactly as they were/are in authoritarian, primarily communist, countries.
Every year, various alarmist myths are pushed on the population. The ones that get a foothold in the public mind are then exploited to manipulate and control the population.
Very smart people observe this process and fine tune it to tailor the message to current sensibilities for maximum effectiveness.
This is not a conspiracy… as it is an open process and there have been many excellent books written on it which are worth reading to understand and apply the process.
Once one is “educated” in this, the manipulation becomes transparant and ineffective… winning back mental freedom… at the cost of ridicule from those who still belive as they are told.
Global Warming Alarmism should be a shockingly transparent scam to anyone who has been around the block… as simple observation should notice all the focus is on economics and control rather than doing anything about temperature control… and this is all pushed by people who have giant carbon footprints paid for with money they make from those told to sacrifice.
But people still buy timeshares and send money to Nigerian princes… so it works.
In the end, if the “educated” were so smart, they would have sat down with a calculator and third grade math skills and there would be no trillion dollar student loan crisis.
But there is. And many of these people… ESPECIALLY these people… push Global Warming Alarmism.
Liz @ 53
“Our last house on base had lead paint. We had to sign a disclaimer.
Bet section 8 housing is healthier.”
And I’m just suppose to believe you 🙄
But you missed the major point of the article titled: Companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks
Who made $$$ off of your obvious sickness ❓
Your “disclaimer” signature doesn’t mean you can’t file a lawsuit. Besides, you volunteered, there wasn’t any racism involved, and could’ve quit. 😯 Poor black children don’t have a choice ❗
This Black Child Never Had A Chance, And Here’s Another Reason Why (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/07/lead-paint-black-urban-children/
“But the real cause of violent crime in black neighborhoods may have a lot to do with another toxic legacy of racism in America: Lead poisoning. The Chicago Tribune reports that in 1995, over 80 percent of children in Chicago’s high-crime neighborhoods were found to have terrifyingly high levels of lead in their blood.
[Last month, a Tribune investigation found that lead hazards are festering in the same parts of Chicago that have given the city a national reputation for violence and academic failure. In impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods like Austin, Englewood and Lawndale, more than 80 percent of the children tested in 1995 had dangerous lead levels.]
Now these kids are in their 20’s, their peak crime years, and are still living in these neighborhoods. Furthermore, lead pollution concentrates in the low-income, former industrial neighborhoods where many of our nation’s black people currently live. So why don’t they move? Decades of redlining and housing discrimination, plus lack of economic and social mobility in recent years have left people stuck.
Research shows lead poisoning and violent crime are linked.
Children exposed to toxic amounts of lead in their environment have shorter attention spans, less impulse control, and tend to act out more. Now, it’s becoming apparent that these difficulties continue through their teens and into adulthood.
When we began phasing out lead in gasoline for car engines in the late 1970’s, banned lead paint back in 1978, and launched lead abatement programs to remove or seal lead paint in people’s dwellings, childhood lead exposure dropped drastically. As these kids reached their teens and 20’s in the 1990’s, crime rates abruptly dropped in cities across the U.S. At the time, we all gave credit to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and their harsh “broken windows theory” policing.
Now, researchers and criminologists are taking a long hard look at the correlation between lead poisoning and violent crime. Nature World cites additional research from the FBI that supports the link between lead exposure and crime.
[According to FBI records, violent crime has been in decline since the early 1990s. A new theory explaining the drop has been gaining traction, and its focus isn’t on politicians or the criminal justice system. An article in Chemical & Engineering News details the mounting data that suggests taking lead out of gas and paint has played a critical role.]
Unfortunately, lead doesn’t just come from peeling paint chips. In these old, former industrial urban neighborhoods, lead pollution also lingers in the air and in the dust. Unfortunately, we’re cutting back on programs that would help families protect children from lead exposure.
[[A] growing body of research is making it clear that the toxic legacy of lead has far more wide-ranging effects than previously known. Lingering dust from paint and deposits from old vehicle emissions continue to harm thousands of children in older industrial cities like Cincinnati and Chicago.]
We’ve long known that lead is poisonous and that when children are exposed, they suffer from permanent brain damage that holds them back in school and life. But we’re now learning that lead exposure and its long-term effects are far worse than we imagined. Harvard University researcher Robert J. Sampson explains:
[“People in neighborhoods like Englewood have faced multiple assaults over different periods of time — job losses, segregation, housing discrimination. Yet through all of that there is this persistent lead poisoning. It creates a social context where kids are at a clear disadvantage.”]
Furthermore, the rates of lead poisoning in children under six from these low-income neighborhoods in Chicago back in 1995 correspond almost exactly to the rates of violent crime in these same neighborhoods in 2012, when these children were ages 17-22. Sampson adds:
[“It’s not something I appreciated before. But when I see the astounding levels of lead poisoning in these communities, it makes complete sense that it is part of the cycle of deprivation.”]
Compounding the problem is the fact that nearly all public housing projects and section eight housing from the 1960’s were coated with lead paint. At the time, lead paint was seen as cheaper and more durable. Many of these dwellings are currently owned by slumlords who never bothered to do any lead abatement.
This child suffered from lead poisoning: His name was Freddie Gray.
And of course, black children (and other kids from poor, inner city neighborhoods) aren’t just getting poisoned by lead in Chicago. Hundreds of children in St. Louis and nearby communities like Ferguson are still testing positive for lead exposure. Baltimore also suffers from a toxic legacy of lead paint, and its children are three times more likely to suffer from lead poisoning than the national average. Five Thirty Eight reports:
[State tests found more than 65,000 children in the city with dangerously high blood-lead levels from 1993 to 2013. Across the United States, more than half a million kids are poisoned by lead each year, and the majority come from cities like Baltimore: rust belt towns built up during the first half of the 20th century when leaded paint was dominant.]
Among these children poisoned by lead paint was the little boy shown above: His name is Freddie Gray.
The Washington Post reports Gray and his family had living off of a settlement from a lead paint case when he got arrested and murdered by police. Yet all that money couldn’t make Gray whole again.
[Before Freddie Gray was injured in police custody last month, before he died and this city was plunged into rioting, his life was defined by failures in the classroom, run-ins with the law and an inability to focus on anything for very long.
Many of those problems began when he was a child and living in this house, according to a 2008 lead-poisoning lawsuit filed by Gray and his siblings against the property owner. The suit resulted in an undisclosed settlement.]
Of course, Gray had many other strikes against him. However, the lead poisoning set him and his siblings — and thousands of others who’ve grown up in places like Sand Town — up to fail.
Watch the Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur report on the relationship between childhood lead poisoning and violent crime.”
“And I’m just suppose to believe you”
It would be an odd thing to fabricate, not sure what you think my motivation would be. If you had any experience with military housing at all you’d find it very easy to believe. But believe what you want. I’ve also known people to become very sick from mold in the walls of base housing. If it were section 8 housing, the occupants would sue the government I’m sure.
Did you know, T-bone, in military housing they actually expect you to cut your own lawn and keep up the appearance of the home? And if you don’t, they can evict you!! Crazy, huh? They’d never try that in a housing project, or it would make headline news.
If the military wanted you to have a lawsuit, they would have issued you one……..
Did tbone eat lead paint chips? Is that it?
“Did you know, T-bone, in military housing they actually expect you to cut your own lawn and keep up the appearance of the home?”
You’re leeching off the gov’t for a job while promoting war, weapons, and killing but that ain’t enough, you gotta suckoff the gov’t for housing as well then complain about your lawn upkeep? Why don’t you just pull it up, sell it, and upkeep the dirt to save water?
“It would be an odd thing to fabricate, not sure what you think my motivation would be.”
You haven’t provided any links nor could you that would compare to the links I’ve provided 🙄
Uncle Sam at least gets some work out of GI’s.
There are people in the projects who leech off the government and all we get in return is riots.
You don’t have the option to let the grass die on base housing, Tbone.
Per the rest, it couldn’t be easier to Google military housing lead based paint (or mold, or toxic water). Or you can get the pdf file for the ‘Residential Lead Based Paint Exposure’ notice form.
But here is one base that didn’t offer the form so the EPA fined the company: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/6427a6b7538955c585257359003f0230/f9d0a008bace76eb852579810061d27d!OpenDocument
Here is a public health report:
http://www.publichealthreports.org/issueopen.cfm?articleID=1193
Lead disclaimer notice for housing in Japan:
http://www.housing.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-130110-013.pdf
“On average, 16 percent of the paint in each dwelling unit contains LBP”
One of your articles above described one mother who tried to soak off of the government benefits by making her toddler chew on a leaded paint chip. You probably won’t find that type of parenting style so much with military people, so the lead rates in their blood from this exposure might not be as high (though the stuff can go aerosol). I never let my babies lick paint chips off the ground.
BTW, the house that had the lead paint disclaimer also had aspestos (and related disclaimer).
Climate Change Truths Revealed! http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/08/summer-snow-to-greet-obama-on-alaska-climate-trip/
Liz, by a number of metrics, military members are more violent than ghetto rats.
…must be the lead exposure.
Why is everything but failed ghetto black culture blamed for ghetto black behavior?
When some tattooed-up trailer park-dwelling hillbilly is all screwed up or can’t get a job, it is blamed on him being a tattooed-up hillbilly.
When some hoodie-wearing thug has the same problems, ot is paint chips and white racism.
CH, it’s because the white racists running the Democrat Party want to keep their dupes on their new (voter) plantation…
“You don’t have the option to let the grass die on base housing, Tbone.”
Yes you do ❗ You volunteered 🙄
“One of your articles above described one mother who tried to soak off of the government benefits by making her toddler chew on a leaded paint chip”
WTF ❓ Don’t you think you should include “alleged” without any proof whatsoever which was included in my comment # 50?
Specifically, are you referring to Kenneth C. Holt’s statement based on ZERO evidence? You count on ZERO evidence since you have proven how/why you could possibly win the “bet” you proclaimed you’d win 🙄
“Kenneth C. Holt, secretary of Housing, Community and Development, told an audience at the Maryland Association of Counties summer convention here that a mother could just put a lead fishing weight in her child’s mouth, then take the child in for testing and a landlord would be liable for providing the child with housing until the age of 18.
Pressed afterward, Holt said he had no evidence of this happening but said a developer had told him it was possible. “This is an anecdotal story that was described to me as something that could possibly happen,” Holt said.”
Liz, is this really all you got ❓ …“On average, 16 percent of the paint in each dwelling unit contains LBP”
16% is low, not considered a high level especially compared to innocent children whom are more susceptible to lead. 🙄 Again, you’re an adult(WAR DOG) who volunteered to kill others while supporting fake wars for WAR HAWKS and the military–industrial–congressional complex, comprising of the policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them.
Liz and other servicethemselfmembers have signed disclaimers so they supposedly can’t sue/win a lawsuit(not true) ❗ I say if Liz or anyone else lived on a poisonous base knowingly with their children then those children should be taken away from you for obvious reasons…CHILD ABUSE ❗ You knowingly placed your children at risk/in a dangerous/poisonous environment. Such EGGHEADS you serviceyourselfmembers are ❗ F*** MY KIDS, I NEED A JOB AND MONEY, THEY WILL DIE BEFORE ME BECAUSE THEY’RE WEAK CHILDREN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO LEAD POISONS ❗
In terms of poisoning the population, liberal propaganda is more dangerous than lead.
“In terms of poisoning the population, liberal propaganda is more dangerous than lead.”
Sniffing paint thinner, however, seems to leave a mark like no other.
I don’t think Paintchip has been sniffing the paint thinner… I think he’s smoking “Labrador”… And none of his friends are successful in stopping him…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9lZAp7iFY
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert offered this: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/128029718551/trump-engineers-a-clinton-linguistic-kill-shot
Detroit bumper sticker:
http://www.thehulltruth.com/attachments/dockside-chat/472944d1415203248-detroit-window-sticker-bumper.jpg
Stop making me laugh at that, Liz!!!!
😀