The Ferguson thread

[Vigilant]

Does business insurance cover civil disobedience? Friend told said most insurance doesn't, his right outside the city limits and can see and smell the smoke from the fires. He has two pistols and two shotguns loaded and placed through out his home. People in his subdivision are worried it will spill over into the neighboring areas.

I have a job in E St. Louis coming up, actually I'm going to postpone it a few more days, and I specifically asked if I was covered, and luckily I am, but my agent said most aren't!

 

[Beorn]

Ferguson Documents: How The Grand Jury Reached A Decision

Ferguson Documents: How The Grand Jury Reached A Decision : The Two-Way : NPR

 

[TRWXXA]

The wife has the Today Show on and they've got a poll going as to whether the GJ made the right decision. I think they're a bit surprise, I know I was, that 79% of their audience said "yes".

How long before Matt Lauer dismisses nearly 4/5ths of his audience as "ignorant racists"?

 

[TRWXXA]

Does business insurance cover civil disobedience? Friend told said most insurance doesn't, his right outside the city limits and can see and smell the smoke from the fires. He has two pistols and two shotguns loaded and placed through out his home. People in his subdivision are worried it will spill over into the neighboring areas.

I don't think what is going on in Furgeson counts as "civil disobedience" It is criminal activity, plain and simple.

 

[HoughMade]

Even having a poll about whether the grand jury made the right decision is nonsense.

My guess that without the rioting and looting, the poll would be closer to 50-50. Good job!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Even having a poll about whether the grand jury made the right decision is nonsense.

My guess that without the rioting and looting, the poll would be closer to 50-50. Good job!

And if my uncle had boobs, he'd be my aunt. But that's not the reality, is it? The rioting and looting DID occur, and it cannot (nor should) be ignored.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

Just got caught up since I hit the hay last night around midnight. Crazy stuff.

 

[HoughMade]

And if my uncle had boobs, he'd be my aunt. But that's not the reality, is it? The rioting and looting DID occur, and it cannot (nor should) be ignored.

Who said anything should be ignored?

My point is that the evidence is the evidence and NO ONE answering the poll has seen more than a scant amount of it. Not the 79%, not the 21%. Who is in a position to say the grand jury got it wrong? No one.

What I am saying is that in this absence of facts, people answers the poll based upon gut feelings, impressions, beliefs, who knows? The rioters have harmed their supposed "cause".

 

[pudly]

What I am saying is that in this absence of facts, the rioters have harmed their supposed "cause".

The rioters cause is "us" vs. "them". Not sure how that was harmed.

 

[Co Th G]

You have to teach the proper ways of looting at a young age

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[JollyMon]

You don't have to TEACH blacks to loot. They are born with that instinct.

 

[Birds Away]

INCOMING!!!!!

 

[Co Th G]

Do you think a t-shirt with Michael Brown's photo, and the statement: "Good Riddence" would go over well?

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[Vigilant]

You don't have to TEACH blacks to loot. They are born with that instinct.

That's probably not going to go over well.

 

[Birds Away]

Suicide by Mod in three, two, one....

 

[HoughMade]

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Not ashamed in the least to say this: Reported.

 

[Vigilant]

How about "One down..... many left to go"

We have a shooter on the run...must have sold everything already!

 

[HoughMade]

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Not ashamed in the least to say this: Reported.

Twice now. If I called this guy a racist a-hole, would that qualify as a personal attack? Just asking.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Who said anything should be ignored?

My point is that the evidence is the evidence and NO ONE answering the poll has seen more than a scant amount of it. Not the 79%, not the 21%. Who is in a position to say the grand jury got it wrong? No one.

What I am saying is that in this absence of facts, people answers the poll based upon gut feelings, impressions, beliefs, who knows? The rioters have harmed their supposed "cause".

Well, the evidence and testimony has now been presented (see links upthread), but you're probably right that when the poll was taken, those polled had not seen it all. However, what little was presented in the media (autopsy and forensic evidence) was pretty compelling. In the absence of all the facts, people will form opinions on what is available and form expectations. It appears that the rioting and looting fulfilled those expectations and served to cement those opinions, hence the poll results.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Twice now. If I called this guy a racist idiot, would that qualify as a personal attack? Just asking.

No more than calling a sunflower a yellow belly is an attack