Draft John Cronin to run for President. “He’ll stop the Bullshit!”

BZ is right. The USA will be Balkanized after all is said and done, with States seceding in groups. And burying the dead, I’m afraid.

…they (Sharpton, Jackson, et al) come in throw threats around. Inflame the people, blame everyone and everything…

That’s what those asshats DO. And they make a ton o’ money doin’ it, too. I really, rilly, hope Hell exists just because of those guys.

There was a shooting down the road from me around the same time as Michael Brown was killed.

It started with a chase through a town at 50 mph +.
Ended on a back road with the driver stopping, leaving the car and charging the cop, instead of getting down on the road. There was evidently rude talk while the charging
was in progress. (Sounds sort of familiar, no?)

Same number of effective shots as on The Gentle Giant (!)
but they were both in the chest. The attacker died
on the scene. Grand jury was convened and found “no true bill” (or whatever the local words for it are.)

The dead man’s family has evidently retained an attorney but there were no demonstration, riots, and no “community organizers” flew in to stir people up.

Too bad “Justice In Ferguson (?) didn’t follow the same
path.

Right. Let’s try including the link this time.

http://hopelesslysane.blogspot.com/2014/08/gratitude.html

Several of us were talking the other night about the difference in media coverage between what is going on in Ferguson and what happened in Utah.

It wouldn’t fit the liberal agenda to point out that police officers occasionally must shoot suspects, regardless of race, creed, religion, or other identifying features, be they on the side of the officer OR on the side of the suspect. The liberal agenda is only served when “the man” is made out to be the oppressor, as in Ferguson, not as in Utah.

It also doesn’t fit the agenda of the race-baiting “rhymin’ reverends” to comment, or to even notice, incidents such as that in Utah. They can’t twist it to fit their needs, nor can they use it to stir hatred and deepen the divide between black and white that is their sole means of survival their livelihood.

I don’t know how we stop this or how we change it, but unless we do, and until we do, it’s only going to keep getting worse. And the crash is going to come.

I wasn’t there, so I personally can neither confirm nor deny but according to the papers “Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel attended and spoke with the family” at the chapel only, out of concern for the family & for security reasons. He should trump 3 lowly Obumer aides at the fiasco in Ferguson.

You can’t change The System from within; it changes (corrupts) you, or crushes you. It even welcomes a “troublemaker” from time to time to lend itself legitimacy, to further insulate itself from real reform, and to provide excuses for cracking down on dissent.

Hey old NFO;

For starters, I definately don’t want to be president..living in a fishbowl has no appeal to me. The racebaiting reverends get their power and money from stirring up the base and shaking down corporations(See Rainbow PUSH).
The liberal chickens are coming home to roost and it is getting worse. We have generations of people that hate us and they propagate it amongst themselves along with white guilt giving it credence. I fear that the problem will not get fixed except by fire to burn out the hatred. Balkenization is coming and I hope I live in the right area to avoid having to move. But we will see.

Sigh. I REALLY don’t want to have to live through what’s coming down the pike. Realizing that things have to get really ugly for a while is not comforting, nor conducive to a restful household or eventual retirement (long time away and getting longer).
Time to start hedging bets and paying off debts. Meeting and getting to know those who feel the same way.
I’ve read too much science fiction to be excited about the outcome though…

Whatever the outcome of all of this Ferguson idiocy, that officer and his career are screwed.

I’ll be honest, the only reason I’m remotely willing to get chewed on even in the most local and mild of arenas is that, while I have deep family obligations that preclude moving, I have no immediate dependents…and I am sincerely contemplating becoming a nun or at least a lay sister. This warps my mindset. I have, perhaps, the luxury of being involved. Even so, it is exhausting, because the system does try to change one, because concessions from principles must be made, because most of the time you don’t win.
But a vote isn’t enough and the alternative? I still believe in the ideals this country was founded on, and I don’t believe the miracle that was the American Revolution’s successful aftermath can happen twice. If we continue to slide, if Balkanization happens, the outcome will not be another young United States nor will it be the mythic republics of Texas or Vermont. It will be, at best, the Balkans. So yeah, I’ll keep trying to change the system, one local, exhaustingly, boringly, insignificant, inglorious council meeting at a time. My confession is shorter that way.

Maybe that’s why my knee is busted, kicking against brick walls.

How many people would be able to pick Chuck Hagel out of a lineup? He was there and met privately with the immediate family. So sez politifact.

As for Ferguson, I think this is getting to be Zimmermanesque. Media rush to judgement. Sharpton to stir the pot. (Notice that Jackson wasn’t anywhere around. He backs some wrong horses, but he tries to do good.)

The more I hear out of this, the less the narrative holds out.

The issues I have seen tend to be about the militarization (and escalatatory nature of their deployment) of police. It did not help matters but at least it didn’t approach the St. Louis riot of 1919.