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I'll do most of those, then. Shit, I miss the days when not everything was about the President and Congress.

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These comments that are not allowed often help me sort out my thoughts and other kinks, and this story reminds me of just how much of a waste the Ol' Pussy Grabber is. Here's the blog post I wrote about it.

http://wp.me/p7vabV-4y8

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team is in CHI...that's why judge waited til today to release verdict, team was in town all week til today...and stl-ans need no excuse to ignore white bias, racism and facts, trust me

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yeah, well...if the esteemed judge was really up on his 'urban dealer' weaponry, he'd know that said dealer would be much more likely to have a slimmer, easier-to-conceal semi auto 9mm, not that big-ass bulky taurus .38

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i have two photos here...one is a screen shot of the back of the police car after stockley returned his sks to the car....the second photo is a stock photo of the version of sks that is stockley's....yup...also, i will remind that it is Not Department Approved, so yeah--crazy https://uploads.disquscdn.c... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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After 44 years of this area, I know it too well.

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Totally appropriate reply. I do like that name Gretchen though.

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You're right about this. Makes one wonder why DA didn't go for a more sustainable charge.

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Master race, indeed.

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Once again, the Librarian affords us the Readers' Digest version of the last 200+ years in one pithy, salient post. Issue sensitively and comprehensively addressed in a nutshell. Thanks for your service!

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30 years on the bench eh? Well, if this is any indication, that's 30 years of completely wrong on their goddamn face verdicts!

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yep :(

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How about fingerprints? I guess those are really difficult to collect off guns too.

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Saaaaay, you know who else poured over evidence?

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Yeah the planting of evidence was weak.

The whole deliberately walking into that situation intending to kill that man. Strong.

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This. I just explained this to my dad, old generally liberal white dude who got on the "why don't black people improve their culture" horseshit. I said, my white boy middle class husband had exactly TWO bad run ins with the cop over a forty-year life. Those two were enough to poison his well. How corrosive do you think egregious policing and stop and frisk might have been on the black culture?

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