two young white guys killed at a Golden Corral - Page 5 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

P.C. · #61 07-17-2013, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

A friend of mine used to say "I came out of a ******* and I have been trying to get back into one.". Is that the hole you are talking about?

Old Robin Williams line: It took me nine months to get out and I'm spending the rest of my life trying to get back in.

Pooka · #62 07-17-2013, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by dynalow

Different? Sure. Mass media and instant communications give anybody the ability to motivate folks today. Didn't Rev. Al say this is not over by any means (or words to that effect)? We certainly lacked that fact of life back then.
I haven't looked it up, but I would lay odds that black unemployment today is much, much greater than in 67.... (and has been for years.

). That could/should arouse bitterness today. Shouldn't it?

It will be interesting to see how the actions of the DOJ play out in this. Will blacks and others react if they decide not to prosecute? In what manner? If they prosecute and he's acquitted again, what then? I tend to agree with you that big riots won't happen this time, but that, too, remains to be seen.

Point of clarity. George Romney used his National Guard, then asked LBJ for Fed troops. LBJ sent a unit of the 82nd Airborne . The "All American" Division.

For the record, in July 1967, I was out of the country, sailing around the Medeterranean Sea, shaking off the effects of the Six-Day War and the USS Liberty attack. CONUS news was sparse, except what we could copy off the AP & UPI TTY wires.

You might want to do some reading on the cause of the unrest in Detroit. It was police suppression the people there were reacting to. Years and years of it.

Detroit was not about a guy who ignored the police, stuck his nose into someplace he did not belong, got in over his head and took the easy way out.

Pooka · #63 07-17-2013, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by nate300d

I guess I am not going to get an answer to this......

All of us are laying in the sewer, but some of us are looking up at the stars.

aklim · #64 07-17-2013, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Pooka

All of us are laying in the sewer, but some of us are looking up at the stars.

Regardless of what you are looking at thr environment is the same

Botnst · #65 07-17-2013, 06:27 PM

^^^ LOL!

Botnst · #66 07-17-2013, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

Me neither. We may have gone to different schools together.

^^^ LOL!

Botnst · #67 07-17-2013, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike D

You guys who say you don't remember the '60's worry me.

Those were the years when that politician, don't recall his name but remember his face, oh wait, never mind it was that sports star, or was he a tennis player, got that operation or maybe it was arrested for selling, no it was for refusing or maybe using to testify against something they didn't agree with or something like that. YOU guys may be getting getting senile but my memory is as sharp as a bell.

But But you're getting getting there.

aklim · #68 07-17-2013, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

^^^ LOL!

Untouchables Al Capone: Like a lot of things in life, we laugh because it is funny and we laugh because it is true.

G-Benz · #69 07-18-2013, 10:43 AM

Thought this thread was about two individuals who ATE the food at Golden Corral...

Pooka · #70 07-18-2013, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Regardless of what you are looking at thr environment is the same

It would be hard to find an environment in the USA worse than the one I grew up in. An educated person there was one that had made it out of the eight grade.

But if you know there is a way out all you have to do is work towards it. A lot of the kids I grew up chose to stay in the gutter, but several of us climbed out.

And the point of my comment was: Yes, regardless of what you are looking at the environment is the same. And if you want your's to change then it will not do it on it's own.

If a man's reach cannot exceed his grasp then what's a heaven for?

Botnst · #71 07-18-2013, 01:39 PM

Ooh, that's nuthin'. We lived in a septic tank, ate hot gravel, and worked in mill 36 hours every day and when we came home Dad would cut us in half with a bread knife.

cmac2012 · #72 07-18-2013, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

The differences between the states is striking.

In NY, Zimmerman goes away for manslaughter. No question about that. There is nothing in NY law that allows a guy with a gun to shoot a guy without one.

I'm not big on Z but are you sure about that? A woman in her house cannot shoot a rapist? A homeowner can't shoot an intruder rushing at him with a baseball bat?

TwitchKitty · #73 07-18-2013, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by G-Benz

Thought this thread was about two individuals who ATE the food at Golden Corral...

Making me think about that probably qualifies as terrorism. Biological warfare.