Their aim was off a bit when they wounded Shetamia Taylor in the leg ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 10:31AM I thought her mother told NBC 5 In Dallas last night it was a ricochet ? -- rdm 07/08/2016 10:48AMThe Soapbox
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Dallas Police Chief stating that Suspect(s) specifically said they -- Charleston Cav 07/08/2016 10:18AM Their aim was off a bit when they wounded Shetamia Taylor in the leg ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 10:31AM I thought her mother told NBC 5 In Dallas last night it was a ricochet ? -- rdm 07/08/2016 10:48AM Hillary seems to wasting her money advertising on Mother Jones, esp. since -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 10:11AM I would imagine even the most vehemently anti-police protesters in the -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 10:04AM Nice thought... but reality is... -- LAHOOters 07/08/2016 10:37AM Pure trash ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 10:44AM You mean civilly like chanting f?!$ the police? -- TomKazanski 07/08/2016 10:04AM People have the right to chant anything they want; doesn't matter -- WilliePegram 07/08/2016 10:20AM Never claimed they don't....I was just objecting to someone's view that -- TomKazanski 07/08/2016 10:30AM 'Everywhere'? Consult a dictionary please. ** -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/08/2016 11:10AM Newsflash: Tommy doesn't like black people! Shocking developmen ** -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 10:52AM Please link proof of "massive" looting "everywhere" there were BLM protests ** -- SixerHoo 07/08/2016 10:46AM See ferguson, see Baltimore.pretty much everyone single -- TomKazanski 07/08/2016 10:54AM Not so fast, my friend -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 3:10PM Proof ** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 11:03AM And, the looters should be prosecuted. But, I come down on the -- WilliePegram 07/08/2016 10:36AM Tom has a very black and white world view ** -- NJHoo 07/08/2016 10:39AM Well, white anyway ** -- 111Balz 07/08/2016 11:36AM Good thing he did not attend the Dallas rally last night in that case ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 11:37AM Double entendre intended? ** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 11:04AM Every pun intended. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 3:12PM Better check your free speech laws ** -- Charleston Cav 07/08/2016 10:25AM Were they chanting that last night? How often is that chanted? -- cvilleHOOrat 07/08/2016 10:09AM Just saw this Rat -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 10:34AM US putting its troops on the Russian border. What a stupid provocation -- hokeyhokie 07/08/2016 09:39AM Do you know the origin of the Kuwait invasion? -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 10:20AM Did the US ever ask European NATO members -- hokeyhokie 07/08/2016 10:32AM Amen. We should keep a small group there for NATO exercises and to ensure -- GoochlandHoo 07/09/2016 08:35AM Absolutely agree with that sentiment -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 10:50AM That is certainly the opinion in China, Russia, Iran, etc. -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 10:37AM Education -- Beerman 07/08/2016 10:11AM How do you educate people who don't want education? Ever get into a -- hokeyhokie 07/08/2016 10:35AM Not easily -- Beerman 07/08/2016 10:50AM The pen is mightier than the sword. -- ryno hoo 07/08/2016 09:48AM That's the ticket. Take away people's words but not their guns. ** -- SixerHoo 07/08/2016 10:52AM Is 2nd Amendment under attack, or how people use it? It's arguable that the -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 10:03AM Exactly, which is why 1A is more important than 2A in protecting our -- JohnHoo2 07/08/2016 10:02AM I'm not in favor of restricting the first amendment, but doing so would -- ryno hoo 07/08/2016 10:11AM I have an old swastika armband that my dad acquired in WWII. -- SixerHoo 07/08/2016 11:03AM All we need is our own version of a führer and state police to make it work ** -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 10:14AM Didn't Lincoln say something about a house divided against itself? ** -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 10:10AM Not a great way to put it... -- cvilleHOOrat 07/08/2016 09:42AM You mean like former IL R Congressman Joe Walsh (link) ... -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 09:34AM Boy did he have to backtrack. THINK before you hit send! -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 10:03AM Good Lord. Some of these people actually want a war on both so-called sides -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 09:43AM And we wonder why Middle East is so f'ed up. Just this type of mentality -- JohnHoo2 07/08/2016 09:57AM Right on ** -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 10:05AM Lets try weeding out the problem officers first -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 11:04AM I agree completely. The "blue wall of silence" is a major inhibitor. -- BocaHoo91 07/08/2016 11:35AM You make some good points -- 757 07/08/2016 11:31AM Good point ** -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 12:29PM Nope ** -- Charleston Cav 07/08/2016 10:19AM Thoughtful response, as always ** -- BocaHoo91 07/08/2016 10:26AM You dont know what you're talking about ** -- Charleston Cav 07/08/2016 10:29AM Exactly ** -- BocaHoo91 07/08/2016 10:32AM Would be safer for officers and citizens -- 757 07/08/2016 10:07AM It would be interesting to see how the numbers (both of civilians and -- Hokie5150 07/08/2016 09:46AM Makes sense. ** -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 09:38AM Good post...would strain the budgets in many communities, but worth it. ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 09:34AM Especially in the 3K Depts. that employ 1 officer ** -- 757 07/08/2016 10:10AM Those departments likely don't experience many issues -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 11:51AM It is a separate issue, but most such departments should be abolished -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 11:13AM I came across the coverage live last night. Very impressed with him. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 09:03AM Holy crap. Heart goes out to the officers' families. What a sick, effed -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 06:58AM The DART Officer was just married two weeks ago ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 08:00AM It surprised me a bit, as we haven't had a planned attack against law -- JohnHoo2 07/08/2016 07:23AM Completely agree RQ. This is another tragedy occurring way too frequently. ** -- Hoos Operator 07/08/2016 07:17AM It is F'd up. Everything and I mean everything is politicized and seen -- TpkeHoo 07/08/2016 07:08AM Alarming. My life split between here & Denmark. DK's just DK. US looks like -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 08:22AM Belgium, the UK, and France don't look so rosy ** -- hokeyhokie 07/08/2016 08:54AM So? They'll deal with it. Doesn't deflect from what's happening here ** -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 09:05AM Everything is sensationalized and billboarded over social media too. -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 07:16AM Look at ryno's posts below, and others. Some people can -- 111Balz 07/08/2016 07:34AM Politics out of the barrel of a gun is invitation to anarchy.. That's true -- copenhoogan 07/08/2016 09:03AM So true. It's disconcerting and discouraging. The first thing to hear -- cvilleHOOrat 07/08/2016 07:10AM If you see a Policeman this a.m...say a nice word, thank them if you can, -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 06:52AM Hopefully Obama, MSM and liberals tamp down their anti-police rhetoric now. ** -- ryno hoo 07/08/2016 05:54AM You mean like this? -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 08:54AM This is exactly what the NRA wants. An armed citizenry fighting back v what -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 08:36AM Do you honestly believe that this kind of rhetoric helps anything? This is -- Hokie5150 07/08/2016 12:49PM Deleted....** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 1:09PM We don't know their motives yet, but I'm assuming you are correct. If so, -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 10:24AM Bingo** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 10:42AM That is a solid post, Seattle. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 10:50AM Are you a member of the NRA? Just curious... ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 09:20AM The answer to that is self evident ** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 10:43AM I have several friends and family in the NRA...none seem to happy about any -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 11:15AM Therein lies a conundrum. NRA leadership & membership seem to be -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 11:29AM They agree with the core message...and it is a powerful lobby to help -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 11:46AM Yes, and the message does infinitely more for -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 11:51AM Nary a Reasoned Analysis? Yes he his. ** -- ryno hoo 07/08/2016 09:28AM Come back and comment ryno when your IQ rises above that of the average -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 09:46AM I had this exact thought. ** -- Hoocinogenic 07/08/2016 09:15AM As the DPD and DART were coordinating a peaceful protest march. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 08:57AM My reference is to the broader context, jdub, not Dallas -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 09:45AM Not a shocker you are in lock step with a liberal viewpoint. -- ryno hoo 07/08/2016 10:02AM Not a shocker you are in lock step with the most moronic wingnut viewpoint. ** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 10:41AM Trying to have civil discourse, trying to reword a couple of trite posts. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 09:56AM Hey, no worries jdub. -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 10:38AM Cool, I understand rivalries and the such. New to Soapbox but if you are -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 10:48AM You'll suss out the rivalries here very quickly. :) -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 11:31AM * -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 09:47AM People are using their guns against a govt they think is a police state -- hokeyhokie 07/08/2016 07:55AM There is a difference between defending yourself/family/property from an... -- EAPo 07/08/2016 09:48AM To thinking people there is a difference. ** -- Hokie5150 07/08/2016 1:00PM Interesting point. I saw a Facebook -- HoosWillWin 07/08/2016 08:22AM What evidence is there to the "truth to that"? ** -- HokieDan95 07/08/2016 09:24AM Gun laws were originally designed in the South to disarm blacks -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 10:46AM So gun control advocates are racists ** -- HokieDan95 07/08/2016 11:55AM Some of them were motivated by race, yes. -- Toolie92 07/08/2016 2:03PM This is why you can't have a discussion with a Hokie. No ability -- HoosWillWin 07/08/2016 12:16PM Ever heard of answering absurdity with absurdity? ** -- HokieDan95 07/08/2016 12:21PM "A vicious, calculated, and despicable attack" ... The president. ** -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 07:02AM Its a little hard to put the genie back in the bottle. Obama's -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 08:05AM You don't think a lomg history of actual police brutality is part of the -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 08:34AM I'm not ignoring anything and in fact alot of what you posted -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 10:16AM RQ, why do you always try to blame the 2A on every single gun instance? ** -- HoosGuy 07/08/2016 08:53AM RQ actually highlights several contributing factors, none of which are 2A -- Bacon 07/08/2016 09:06AM Not "blaming it" per se but only a blind fool would pretend its not a major -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 09:04AM A direct use would've been the Minn driver using it on the officer -- HoosGuy 07/08/2016 09:13AM Well a few things.... -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 10:26AM You may want to brace yourself but I totally agree with this -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 10:40AM As cars are a major source of the drunk driving problem is this country. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 09:06AM Why don't you sit a few plays out? ** -- Bacon 07/08/2016 09:08AM I have as much right to be here as you do. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 09:15AM But it's also the absurd number of guns. It seems that many -- BocaHoo91 07/08/2016 09:40AM I can best say look to my two posts below replying to HoosWill and RQ -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 09:48AM You have to admit "personal responsibility" doesn't stop psychos from -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 12:14PM We can go to middle ground since you used the word psycho. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/08/2016 12:30PM I'm a firm believer in cost/benefit-based regulation. Here the balance of -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 12:57PM Still trying to understand why you think our govt is not susceptible to... -- HoosGuy 07/08/2016 1:42PM I think the cost of mass proliferation of guns is VERY REAL and GREATLY -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 1:52PM ... on both sides. I cringe every time I hear Sharpton speak, since -- HoosWillWin 07/08/2016 08:16AM Talking heads who blame Obama for this and Trump for terrorism are idiots ** -- HoosGuy 07/08/2016 08:51AM They'll pivot to gun control. ** -- TpkeHoo 07/08/2016 06:41AM If killing of school children wouldn't get the nation to do something, -- JohnHoo2 07/08/2016 07:32AM It's about damn time, don't you think? How many people need to die -- 111Balz 07/08/2016 07:31AM Because that's completely irrelevant, right? -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 07:00AM Because better gun control would have prevented this -- dajoka004 07/08/2016 06:51AM Funny how assault weapons were used for, ummm... assault. ** -- HoosWillWin 07/08/2016 08:12AM He (and they) already have. Oh well. ** -- Tuckahokie 07/08/2016 06:49AM Of course, that is the baseline default. ** -- ryno hoo 07/08/2016 06:45AM Much more relevant than your lame partisan default ** -- Bacon 07/08/2016 07:50AM What "anti-police rhetoric"? -- cvilleHOOrat 07/08/2016 06:12AM Voices in his addled head ** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 08:38AM He moved in on that police officer like a professional -- hooshouse 07/08/2016 01:24AM Thought the same -- hoothat 07/08/2016 07:58AM After watching that, there better not be a trial -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:56AM Of course there needs to be a trial and a fair one. The suggestion of some -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 01:09AM Nothing vigilante, I just believe the DPD will take them out -- rdm 07/08/2016 01:17AM Yes, well extra-judicial. NOTHING justifies throwing out the rule of law. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 01:45AM I would submit that "rule of law" was thrown out in this country long ago -- rdm 07/08/2016 01:53AM You would submit correctly; especially if you're a minority. That doesn't -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 02:02AM Correction: Especially if you are minority, or poor. ** -- EAPo 07/08/2016 09:34AM Answer these two questions -- rdm 07/08/2016 02:10AM Interesting that you place a price on the LEGAL administration of justice. -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 10:15AM Third world entitlement no responsibility America -- rdm 07/08/2016 10:43AM Now they say that was taped earlier. ** -- LAHOOters 07/08/2016 12:22AM I Wonder if this was planned for some time. Seems -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 12:30AM CNN showed a video that person on phone said was of one -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 12:54AM If, indeed, that is one of the gunmen, he wasn't being very secretive ** -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/08/2016 12:04AM Report is that one in custody, one cornered downtown, & one photographed -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:12AM Someone claiming to be brother of that guy said he had given his gun over -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/08/2016 12:17AM You can just walk around Texas with an AR-15 on your shoulder? holy shit ** -- hooshouse 07/08/2016 12:24AM A number of states have open carry. Virginia is one.** -- LAHOOters 07/08/2016 12:36AM Saw a redneck at Kroger carrying a couple months back ** -- hooshouse 07/08/2016 12:40AM Do they take them into Piggly Wiggly, too? ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 01:13AM No,Texas doesn't allow open carry. It sould have raised -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 12:31AM Go to a gun show - I have CHL & it's scary -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:37AM I generally a guns rights guy, but why would any state -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 12:46AM Try this -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:55AM Who is Q-10? I googled it but only got results for some type of drug. ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 01:01AM Some unemployed neverwas wannbe walking around in $4,000 suits & -- rdm 07/08/2016 01:08AM They do for long guns (and this year for handguns too) ** -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 12:33AM Thanks for the correction. I was looking at 2014 info. ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 12:38AM Correct ** -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:38AM Every time Q-10 & his crowd show up -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:29AM It is just plain fucking insane is what it is. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 12:27AM Can't imagine it is what the founders intended ** -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 12:29AM New report, NO ONE in custody, 4 officers dead, 3 more critical ** -- rdm 07/08/2016 12:16AM Didn't appear to be the guy cuffed and taken away. ** -- LAHOOters 07/08/2016 12:08AM Any gun experts hear those shots and have a decent idea of the weapon? ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 11:49PM No expert, but didn't sound like handguns. More like high powered rifles ** -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 11:55PM Not an expert but sounded like a semi-auto rifle ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/07/2016 11:53PM And the stupid woman just interviewed can't understand -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/07/2016 11:44PM She put 2 and 2 together and got 'potato' ** -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/07/2016 11:49PM That was insane, not just the woman, but the cops are just casually -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 11:48PM So he came out, surrendered, and the lady is acting like officers just -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/07/2016 11:52PM Fox News now reporting 2 snipers, 10 officers shot, 3 officers and 1 -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 11:33PM If by "leadership" you mean that of both political parties, -- SixerHoo 07/08/2016 07:32AM Obama is not a leader. He's a trial lawyer. ** -- Hoos Operator 07/08/2016 9:45PM Were you alive in the 1960's? How about the 1860's? -- WahooRQ 07/08/2016 07:14AM People in this country are obsessed with weapons, with violence, with -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 12:15AM Texas doesn't allow open carry and they just showed one -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 12:28AM Ummm....well I've seen that in both Texas and Arizona. I think you're wrong -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 01:06AM Never mind CHH. Just saw your post above on this. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 01:07AM Long guns are allowed to be open carried. ** -- hoothat 07/08/2016 12:38AM Honestly, I expected this a while ago -- hoothat 07/08/2016 12:11AM I think your on the right track wrt the msm and social media. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 07/08/2016 12:07AM But they will point at everything but themselves. ** -- LAHOOters 07/08/2016 12:13AM Guns everywhere don't help imo. Everyone is scared of the other -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 12:01AM People deciding to use those guns (or bombs,chemicals,etc) to express their -- Hoos Operator 07/08/2016 12:14AM Well, one party nominated a bigot. ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 11:48PM And the other nominated a sociopathic liar. -- Hoos Operator 07/07/2016 11:52PM Showing out tonight I see -- TomKazanski 07/07/2016 11:50PM Johnson '16 ... vote for the guy running on his ideas not against somebody -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 11:34PM 1968, 1861 ** -- hokeyhokie 07/07/2016 11:31PM The distinction now may be the degree of fragmentation within each group. ** -- Hoos Operator 07/07/2016 11:55PM And what's worse is we have spent trillions -- TomKazanski 07/07/2016 11:28PM Who up votes this trash? He's a pos. ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 11:40PM +1 (since I've been disenfranchised by our resident loser) ** -- Bacon 07/08/2016 07:54AM Yes, but you'd refuse to accept the answer** -- WaxHoo 07/08/2016 08:41AM You don't understand why it's a national issue? ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 11:32PM I do ... wasn't aware this was a peaceful protest basically hijacked by -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 11:53PM It wasn't peaceful, with chants like f$&@ the police -- TomKazanski 07/08/2016 12:56AM Assholes are way too polite name for these two. I actually wouldn't mind -- JohnHoo2 07/08/2016 12:12AM Not to pick on you JohnHoo but therein lies the problem. -- Seattle .Hoo 07/08/2016 12:30AM You are absolutely right of course. And that's what's great of this country -- JohnHoo2 07/08/2016 07:26AM I think the anger is fine and natural. But you're right -- cvilleHOOrat 07/08/2016 06:01AM Reports say that one officer has died ** -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/07/2016 11:27PM 2 police officers and a transit officer dead from a sniper. Sick.** -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/07/2016 11:35PM BLM is over, time to end these protests before they start ** -- TomKazanski 07/07/2016 11:07PM Disgusting. ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 10:33PM 2 Dallas policemen shot ** -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 10:12PM All hell is breaking loose in Dallas and CNN sticks with Minn girlfriend** -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 10:18PM Then Chicken Noodle News goes to commerical ** -- jackethoo 07/07/2016 10:21PM They are showing it. ** -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 10:36PM 40 minutes into it. ** -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 10:40PM MSNBC placing the blame on the police. ** -- Hoos Operator 07/07/2016 10:32PM It has been 40 minutes already, we need some conclusions!** -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 10:44PM Minnesota governor-shooting wouldn't have happened if passengers were white -- copenhoogan 07/07/2016 8:31PM The girlfriend says he told the cop he had a gun as he was reaching for his -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 9:26PM That's what I want to know. Why was the gun drawn in the first place? ** -- Hokie5150 07/08/2016 1:46PM I wonder if officer knew that the guy had a rap sheet a mile long? Not -- Mad Bowl Hoo 07/07/2016 11:11PM He had no felony convictions just lots of traffic stops from what I read ** -- KCHoo 07/08/2016 12:20AM Uh ..., because the guy was black? ** -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 9:47PM He's right. This was a quiet suburb. -- DanTheFan 07/07/2016 9:21PM Kind of doubt he would have even been stopped ** -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 9:28PM Reckless statement. Of course MSM Post buries Democrat -- ryno hoo 07/07/2016 9:21PM Everyone knows a R governor would be color-blind ** -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 10:29PM Why do you require labels? ** -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 9:27PM I require competent reporting, which I know I will not get -- ryno hoo 07/07/2016 9:53PM So you definition of competent reporting requires labeling people? Why? ** -- 111Balz 07/08/2016 07:27AM That why you watch Fox? ** -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 11:01PM MSDNC correctly assumed that their audience would know he was a Dem by -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 9:24PM Sadly, that is probably true. ** -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 9:30PM I'm sure that's comforting to this individual's parents. (Link) -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 8:48PM There is something very very seriously wrong with our police training. -- RML Hoos 07/07/2016 9:16PM No one is being trained to shoot people as they reach for their wallet -- 757 07/07/2016 9:34PM In almost every one of these with video, the cop(s) is acting like -- wahoo138 07/07/2016 9:25PM The hotheads are known to their coworkers before they kill people -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 10:39PM It does seem like they were scared of their shadows -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 9:28PM That's what I'm saying. Most people aren't cut out for this kind of work -- wahoo138 07/07/2016 9:33PM You can't fully simulate that level of stress in training -- 757 07/07/2016 9:48PM Wonder if he can give me the mega millions numbers for tomorrow night** -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 8:41PM Sounds like the focus is on the originators of the classified emails -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 10:28PM Nothing in that story. ** -- DanTheFan 07/07/2016 9:22PM Don't party nominees typical receive intel briefings in the months -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 8:40PM I believe they are granted the clearance automatically -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 10:26PM Do you think Trump would be self-disciplined enough to not blab -- NJHoo 07/07/2016 10:42PM Doesn't matter. He should get the most up to date intelligence briefings** -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 11:29PM 50K gun violence incidents a year in the US -- 757 07/07/2016 9:24PM Some stats on police officers killed on the job. -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 4:01PM Does "offenders" refer to the people who killed the police officers? -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 4:14PM Open an incognito tab/window to see Post articles -- NJHoo 07/07/2016 5:18PM Yes. ** -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 4:21PM Chaffetz is an idiot. Comey trying his best with his dumb questions. ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 2:16PM Yep - both sides just grandstanding. ** -- graycalhoo 07/07/2016 2:34PM When one side grandstands, the other has to at least stand, grand or not** -- copenhoogan 07/07/2016 2:37PM That's business per usual in D.C. That is where Sanders and Trump have -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 2:54PM Yep. I'm at the point of understanding clearly what their appeal is, -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 2:56PM Yes, I was questioned often late last year and early this year -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 3:09PM They're all idiots. He's schooling the R's and the D's. Our Reps are a joke -- TpkeHoo 07/07/2016 2:20PM The lack of understanding of the way computers/internet/tech works is -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 3:56PM That lack of understanding likely contributed to this entire situation ** -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 4:15PM Don't doubt it. HRC is far too calculating to do something intentionally -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 4:37PM Well, a little more generously, -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 2:43PM So you're not sure if he's political? kindof like that -- Charleston Cav 07/07/2016 3:07PM He may have bowed to political pressure here. A lot of -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 3:12PM Didn't Wikileak say they have something that can bring down Clinton? -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 3:56PM One can only hope! ** -- Charleston Cav 07/07/2016 2:47PM I don't hope they release anything -- cvilleHOOrat 07/07/2016 2:43PM Would at least want to know what you are not being told? -- thor9hammer 07/07/2016 6:00PM Are you supportive of edward snowden, chelsea manning, wikileaks? ** -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 6:09PM Im unclear because I havent seen what the leaks are or the content -- thor9hammer 07/07/2016 6:28PM Hmmm, so better to be an ostrich? ** -- Charleston Cav 07/07/2016 2:47PM Like police brutality and incompetence? ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 2:57PM This election is all about the least bad option. -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 2:38PM I'm quite comfortable with the option I'm voting for... ** -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 4:22PM Well, that makes one of us! ** -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 5:27PM Vote your conscience. Your vote is not going to change the course of the -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 5:57PM One article discussing polls said this Election would be decided ultimately -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 3:29PM I wish we could just start over. I can't believe the 2 candidates we have. ** -- HoosWillWin 07/07/2016 3:55PM The thing is, even the Final 4 were fairly bad. Cruz and Sanders are not -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 4:00PM Here is what I think is the political correctness destroying discourse... -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 5:03PM It's more partisanship than political correctness. One has to toe the -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 6:06PM Never seen this before.......a daily link to wapo trump article ** -- TomKazanski 07/07/2016 2:39PM Hard to find any paper without daily Trump article. Now that campaign is -- copenhoogan 07/07/2016 2:46PM We should be careful not to get ahead of our allies on this one.... -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 2:47PM True (despite my somewhat 'flip' comment below)... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 2:52PM We may not want to anger someone that holds over a trillion in our debt ** -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 1:55PM The old saying. If you owe the bank a $100,000, the bank owns you; -- Shenhoo 07/07/2016 2:26PM Sweet...we own another Bank! Take that you Maoist tools ** -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 3:01PM What the Chief seems to be ignoring is that what we're already doing is ... -- HowieT3 07/07/2016 2:17PM You think we'll end up destory one of their bases? -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 3:53PM All their base are belong to us. ** -- EAPo 07/07/2016 5:23PM Let 'em come and get it. (try and collect, that is.) -- EAPo 07/07/2016 2:00PM I heard someone describe it as an "Ice Cube". If they want to take it out -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 2:17PM 538 on impact of Johnson -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 7:15PM Right there w/u brother. Neither HRC nor DT EVER should sniff the WH ** -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 2:17PM Holy shit we agree! As of now it's Johnson/Weld for me ** -- DAMHoo 07/07/2016 3:52PM Hello my friend. Know what ... -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 4:16PM That's basically where I am now. -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 2:00PM Johnson/Weld???? I thought mine said "Johnson/Weed. -- Shenhoo 07/07/2016 1:28PM At this point, I'll take weed over these two clowns ** -- WAH00WA 07/07/2016 7:16PM What are "Two things that are favorites of the Bernie Crowd" for $300 Alex ** -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 2:21PM Shoutout to former C'ville-area General Assembly candidate Al Weed -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 1:29PM You're good at trolling, I'll give you that ** -- WAH00WA 07/07/2016 7:18PM Totally clueless ** -- Charleston Cav 07/07/2016 12:50PM I have no dog in this, but Comey ignored (or was told to ignore) the law... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 12:42PM Well the head of the FBI -- who has seen the actual evidence -- seems to -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 1:08PM Then we have in the past had some 'unreasonable prosecutors.' I addressed.. -- EAPo 07/07/2016 1:42PM And you are ignoring the context in which this all took place -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 1:49PM I'm genuinely unaware of others creating a network of private servers -- HoosGuy 07/07/2016 1:54PM So the private server is the distinction? -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 2:03PM Huh? These are entirely different situations. Please try to understand. -- HoosGuy 07/07/2016 2:09PM Correct me if I'm wrong but in order to use a private email account without -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 2:24PM I hope I understand your question correctly Balz -- HoosGuy 07/07/2016 2:35PM You started that off with big assumptions as to -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 9:05PM It's not an assumption, he doesn't own the 'server' he utilized. ** -- HoosGuy 07/08/2016 09:01AM I don't even know where to begin with that except to say... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 1:53PM If you have experience with classification decisions you know it is murky -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 2:35PM No really, they don't. While the decision on 'what' to classify and to... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 2:48PM That does not eliminate the need for prosecutorial discretion -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 3:07PM You're talking about 'ex post facto' violations which, under just... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 3:14PM IMA give you some examples -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 3:48PM Frankly, that overclassification ought to be as big a deal as the emails -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 4:37PM Okay, fine, BUT... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 4:15PM No argument there -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 4:40PM In 2014, it became illegal to use private email accounts/servers for this -- HoosGuy 07/07/2016 3:20PM Then when are Powell and Condi getting their hearings? -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 2:01PM The equivalence with Powell / Condi, and Clinton has been debunked so -- Hoo05Dave 07/07/2016 4:17PM That's so anecdotal (and not even anecdotal--pure conjecture) that... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 2:13PM Why don't you explain what law was violated and how. -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 2:29PM You're not paying attention. Separate sections of same law. 18 USC 793... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 2:40PM Direct and lengthy quote from Comey addresses your exact concern -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 2:54PM Exactly - and again why citing instances where a cleared employee -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 2:59PM He is incorrect. It's been used at least twice in recent years, and not -- EAPo 07/07/2016 2:58PM You seem to be having trouble distinguishing intentional acts from what you -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 3:01PM For the last time: Read. The. Statute. Intent is not required. ** -- EAPo 07/07/2016 3:06PM LOL, it's either intent or gross negligence, neither of which is present -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 3:21PM Gross negligence -- EAPo 07/07/2016 3:37PM Is it possible that this has been used in plea bargains? As I linked above? ** -- HoosGuy 07/07/2016 2:58PM The bottom line is that the knee-jerk HRC supporters are never going to... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 3:04PM We're not the ones putting political nuance into the equation -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 4:33PM IOKIARDI. ** -- HowieT3 07/07/2016 2:19PM There is no defending a liar or the blind bats who follow them ** -- Mr Wahoo 07/07/2016 1:11PM So who are you voting for? Clearly it can't be Trump ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 1:13PM Not going to support either one of these phonies - both are rotten to bone ** -- Mr Wahoo 07/07/2016 1:16PM Who then? And which Republican did you support? -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 1:20PM None of them - I don't trust politicians enough to sign my name - -- Mr Wahoo 07/07/2016 1:47PM So you have never voted? -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 1:58PM You're welcome to your opinions - so am I - I'm a taxpayer and probably -- Mr Wahoo 07/07/2016 2:22PM It is ridiculous to be attacking Comey's integrity and based soley -- Lazarus 07/07/2016 12:53PM No politics, no bias. The law is the law. Not sure what else to say.... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 12:58PM You need to read up on Comey. Here ... -- Lazarus 07/07/2016 1:15PM I've met Harvard and Yale grads who are bad lawyers. Met same who are... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 1:29PM You're allowed to respect a person and disagree with a single judgement -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 1:23PM That is true, but that is not what is going on here. Here is a man's -- Lazarus 07/07/2016 1:36PM Touche'! ** -- Charleston Cav 07/07/2016 12:58PM I believe that was an attempt at humor to a supportive assembly. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:57PM Who else thinks Laz would see this totally differently if it were -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 12:41PM She doesn't have a great record on transparency, BUT -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 12:59PM And by the way I have not seen today's remarks by Comey. -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 2:10PM Totally blame her, 100%, in part for the reason you state. -- hoolstoptheheels 07/07/2016 2:06PM +1. Pragmatic and well-state. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:52PM I'm shocked you feel this way. ** -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 12:38PM Meteor a bit too establishment for me.Think Im voting for 'Solar Kill Shot'** -- EAPo 07/07/2016 12:12PM Sure...throw your vote away ** -- HokieDan95 07/07/2016 12:25PM Meteor just panders to the Doomsday Preppers ** -- cvilleHOOrat 07/07/2016 12:24PM Looks like a foreign accent over the i also. Maybe muslim? ** -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 12:29PM One I liked is "Cthulhu, why vote for the lesser of two evils" ** -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 12:08PM Im thinking a well aimed GRB might do the trick ** -- thor9hammer 07/07/2016 12:26PM Gamma Ray Burst? I thought you would want Ragnarok. -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 12:42PM Nix on the Ragnarok. Being a demi-god I could survive a GRB -- thor9hammer 07/07/2016 12:51PM If the GOP has the house for the next eight years, I'd say 9. -- Lazarus 07/07/2016 11:54AM You think the FBI has committed perjury? Interesting... ** -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 11:37AM And when will the Great Pumpkin arrive? ** -- Shenhoo 07/07/2016 11:34AM Maybe in early November? (see pic) -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 11:47AM Same time the Red Baron appears in the skies above? ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:44AM I'm watching this hearing ... the people who run our country are tech -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 11:18AM I've seen that b4, probably a halloween prank ** -- Charleston Cav 07/07/2016 1:00PM Should check out the Bush photo with the Viet commies--all in wizard outfit ** -- Shenhoo 07/07/2016 4:41PM Why would this be interesting? ** -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 11:25AM I imagine from time to time you dress like Obama does now. -- SixerHoo 07/07/2016 11:13AM All over the media and internet during 2008 campaign; in fact -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 11:09AM Yep... Hillary thought this was an issue 8 years ago. -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 12:37PM Issue? LOL! No, she just knew that some fools would buy it ** -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 12:50PM I'd make a campaign commercial out of it. ** -- LAHOOters 07/07/2016 1:05PM Trump needs to up the ante and hire some of Hillary's 2008 mercenary hit -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 11:25AM Didn't work for Hilary. Her Manifest Destiny to be POTUS was spit upon -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:40AM Nobody was going to beat a guy that could lower the Oceans ** -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 11:55AM This actually applies 24/7 but would have loved to be a fly on the wall -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:57AM Not happy, I'm sure. But both she and her husband campaigned for him twice -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 12:15PM Good pull. Reagan's '80 campaign was very similar to Obama's '08 -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:28PM Oh I think he is doing fine as a hit man all by himself ** -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 11:38AM Welp...if he ever converts he can keep his current name ** -- Tuckahokie 07/07/2016 10:54AM And continue to consume those delicious bean pies. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:33AM What do you find "very interesting" about it? -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 10:53AM Interesting that pictures of him in Muslim dress surface 7 1/2 years into -- ESHooFan 07/07/2016 10:57AM Muslims have a dress code? I thought that was the Mormons. ** -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 12:05PM Baptists. They also don't believe in premarital sex because... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 12:51PM He has no "true connection" to Islam. Are you really this meatheaded?** -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 11:24AM "true connection to Islam" ... wtf? -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 11:11AM Nope , see above; you either missed it or forgot it ** -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 11:10AM I don't know fashion very well, so I don't know how Muslim that style is. -- JohnHoo2 07/07/2016 11:04AM Some of you are batshit crazy ** -- hooshouse 07/07/2016 11:02AM Friend of ours is a Navy psychiatrist who specializes in this area. It is.. -- EAPo 07/07/2016 12:04PM Saw a statistic that said more Iraq Veterans have been killed by their own -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 12:07PM PTSD is no joke. And think about this -- our modern wars are a cakewalk -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 10:49AM The level of care can be pretty limited too -- NJHoo 07/07/2016 12:37PM It isn't clear the suicide issue is related to PTSD -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 12:05PM Interesting, and thanks. That article makes some mention of the gun issue -- WahooRQ 07/07/2016 12:22PM Yeah -- people with access to a gun (and maybe especially those who are -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 12:26PM The late George Carlin talked about this. -- HowieT3 07/07/2016 11:41AM Carlin really was borderline genuis. One of the few similarities between -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:50AM It's really too bad he became such a bitter old man... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 11:57AM +1 from the bleachers, my man. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:00PM My favorite line of Carlin's - -- HowieT3 07/07/2016 12:31PM My favorite Carlin line... -- cvilleHOOrat 07/07/2016 12:54PM Good job, rat. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:58PM Good pull, I wouln't even know where to start. I even remembered after -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:32PM Another good pull. I'd forgotten about Thomas the Tank.... -- EAPo 07/07/2016 12:36PM Yes, Alec Baldwin was another narrator, for example, and I don't think -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 12:54PM I grew up with that show, don't remember Alec -- cvilleHOOrat 07/07/2016 1:00PM Baldwin narrated series 5 and 6 -- Stimp 07/07/2016 1:17PM I watched under the auspices of being a good parent. :-) -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 2:32PM I'm not suggesting everything you say isn't true, but people were much more -- CharlestonSC 07/07/2016 11:13AM I believe I lost a friend last year like this. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 10:40AM I really don't know why veterans are not allowed to seek medical care -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 10:35AM They are. just need different insurance for it (or to pay for it) ** -- KCHoo 07/07/2016 11:50AM That's my point. They shouldn't need different insurance or to pay for it -- Hokie5150 07/07/2016 11:57AM Republicans face (yet another) moment where they will either focus attentio -- Hoo05Dave 07/07/2016 10:00AM Republicans never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. ** -- Lazarus 07/07/2016 11:58AM "Leopard change your spots." ** -- HowieT3 07/07/2016 11:43AM Surely you understand their ONLY motive is to put on (yet another) show. ** -- SixerHoo 07/07/2016 10:39AM A public flogging, perhaps? ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 10:45AM I believe water boarding is their currently preferred torture. ** -- SixerHoo 07/07/2016 10:59AM Touche, ole, my friend! :-) ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:16AM Which is a shame, because this does smell fishy and there are legitimate -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 10:42AM The FBI, led by a Republican universally acclaimed as a Boy Scout, -- SixerHoo 07/07/2016 10:58AM That's not what we're talking with regards to legitimate questions. -- Hoo05Dave 07/07/2016 11:17AM You think it has not yet been explained adequately? -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 12:01PM This. Well done 05. ** -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 11:30AM Nope. Just does not pass the smell test. ** -- WaxHoo 07/07/2016 11:12AM I really don't think the House Republicans thought this through -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 11:01AM We agree, my man. Thorough, thoughtful questions do need to be posed. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 10:44AM Comey thought he had Republican credentials to protect him ** -- Toolie92 07/07/2016 10:21AM That's the FT's point (linked article) -- Stimp 07/07/2016 10:18AM I can't help but add a Steve Martin post script of "Naah" -- 111Balz 07/07/2016 10:03AM Classic. He did another one where he was Theodoric the judge. :D ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/07/2016 10:40AM He was such a damn fine looking man in his prime. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 10:31AM They will release the hounds, IMO. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 10:03AM Ugh... less than a minute in and it's already a mess. Chaffetz made a fool -- Hoo05Dave 07/07/2016 10:15AM Neither side is handling this well -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/07/2016 11:04AM The winner in this election is gonna look like Rocky at the end of Rocky II ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 11:47AM Getting worse and worse. I thought Clinton speaking in front of -- jdubforwahoowa 07/07/2016 10:35AM