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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/florida.police.shot/?hpt=T1

Epignosis wrote: Finnforest wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/florida.police.shot/?hpt=T1 And then you have the jackasses down there in the comments section.

Did anyone catch Obama's speech at the G20 Summit? Because I gathered 2 things from it:

1) I felt like it was 2006 again and Bush was giving a speech.

2) I find it laughable that Obama has the gall to tell the Europeans that to solve the whole Greece and Spain debacle, they need to keep spending money. From the way I understand it, there are several countries, Germany especially, who are very angry that they have to use their money to help bail out another bankrupt European country. They're more concerned about getting their fiscal deficits in order, and this clown tells them they should keep spending? Preposterous.

Also, if you have 45 minutes to spare (or have no life like myself ), here's his press conference. I found it almost as laughable. He spends the first 5-10 minutes talking about more government controls on the private sector, and the world economy isn't getting better yet despite whatever he thinks! I bet Obama honestly knows as much about economics as Bush does.

Demopublicans and republicrats..........same old same old

The T wrote: Epignosis wrote: Finnforest wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/florida.police.shot/?hpt=T1 And then you have the jackasses down there in the comments section.  They did their job. I applaud them for that. The risk of dying is part of their job.

I have great respect for anyone whose job involves people trying to kill you for doing your job unless you abuse your authority.

Epignosis wrote: The T wrote: Epignosis wrote: Finnforest wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/florida.police.shot/?hpt=T1 And then you have the jackasses down there in the comments section.  They did their job. I applaud them for that. The risk of dying is part of their job. For a liberal, you seem to be a pretty cold person. By this "logic," the risk of dying is a part of anyone's job, including teachers, pastors, and musicians.

Meanwhile, in a fantasy land where we don't pretend teachers have a comparable risk of death to police officers...

Epignosis wrote: The T wrote: Epignosis wrote: Finnforest wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/florida.police.shot/?hpt=T1 And then you have the jackasses down there in the comments section.  They did their job. I applaud them for that. The risk of dying is part of their job. For a liberal, you seem to be a pretty cold person. By this "logic," the risk of dying is a part of anyone's job, including teachers, pastors, and musicians.

True Teo, but don't you agree that they are shafted by the media in terms of how they are presented overall?

Everything they do wrong is front page news, with the dash cam videos constantly showing everywhere even though these incidents are the exception.  Whereas all the good things they do every day are virtually ignored.  Thus the public perception is that they are *mostly* a****les when the opposite is true.  Most are professional, and *few* are a****les. 

I'm not against punishing abusers, what drives me nuts is the outright fallacy of the picture that is painted for the public.  The reality is not reflected in the coverage choices. 

Epignosis wrote: The T wrote: Epignosis wrote: The T wrote: Epignosis wrote: Finnforest wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/florida.police.shot/?hpt=T1 And then you have the jackasses down there in the comments section.  They did their job. I applaud them for that. The risk of dying is part of their job. For a liberal, you seem to be a pretty cold person. By this "logic," the risk of dying is a part of anyone's job, including teachers, pastors, and musicians. I'm not cold. I'm much warmer than you I'm sure  I just think a police officer dying in his job is much more likely than a teacher or a pastor or a musician, and they have to be applauded for being ready to put their lives on the line, but they also have to be scolded when they abuse the power that we have given them over us.  Every profession has people who don't do their jobs properly. And they get punished for that. As you have probably seen the lots of cases of teachers caught having affairs with students, or stealing funds, or pastors doing exactly the opposite of what they preach.  If a teacher gets murdered, do you bring up "they also have to be scolded when they abuse power."  ? No because the teacher murder wasn't a part of being a teacher. It's unrelated. A cop puts his life on the line, therefore is a possibility, sad but true, in his line of job.  If a pastor gets murdered, do you bring up "they also have to be scolded when they abuse power."  ? The same.  The media boosts ratings by mostly airing the abusers.  No question about that. But they also air the heroes, maybe not as much but they also do. Anyway, it's the abuse the one that has to be aired so IT CAN BE STOPPED. We don't need to stop them when they do their job, do we? People don't want to hear good news. We need to know when cops (or other people) abuse the power so something can be done about it. god, in this libertarian dream of yours that would be an absolute necessity Rob, since there would be no government and people would have to solve things by themselves...  As far as I can tell, people have an addiction to complaining and talking about scandals.  Please have more compassion. You too please. In other cases.

Edited by The T - June 30 2010 at 11:09

I hate Homeowner's Associations more than almost anything in the world. People complain about the government running everything, but then they let these f**king fascists  bully the neighborhood for their own good.

Edited by Henry Plainview - June 30 2010 at 16:06