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Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSsBYO1oNI

A frightening and violent mob swept through the normally quiet seaside community of Huntington Beach last night following a surfing competition in the area. Businesses were vandalized and looted, portable toilets overturned, and brutal fistfights waged right out in the open. It was an ugly display and a sad day for California. But more than that, it was a reminder that we must begin to seriously consider the values of our thuggish white youth.
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What's his angle? Al Sharpton has never derided his support base like this before.
 
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Well they're surfers so I wouldn't be surprised if some of them did. Did any unarmed surfers get killed?
 
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Slap Shot said:
Did those rioters blame the man too?
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The rioters in St. Paul during the 2008 GOP nominating convention did, but then you saw video which showed the cops only reacting to actions taken by those protestors.
 
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Theodore Robert Bundy was born to a young, single Philadelphia woman who raised him in Tacoma, Wash. But his mother, Louise Bundy, said there was never a shred of evidence in her son's first 28 years, before he became a murder suspect for the first time, to hint at any aberrant behavior.

People familiar with his early years say he was a Boy Scout, a B-plus college student; he loved children, read poetry and was a rising figure in Republican politics in Seattle. The year the murders began there he was the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission and wrote a pamphlet for women on rape prevention.
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Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life. Shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson, the police say he was caught on a security camera stealing a box of cigars, pushing the clerk of a convenience store into a display case. He lived in a community that had rough patches, and he dabbled in drugs and alcohol. He had taken to rapping in recent months, producing lyrics that were by turns contemplative and vulgar. He got into at least one scuffle with a neighbor.
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It's nice that the serial killer gets a better obit than the unarmed black teenager killed by a cop. Apparently, Ted Bundy was an angel.
 
Priceless said:
It's nice that the serial killer gets a better obit than the unarmed black teenager killed by a cop. Apparently, Ted Bundy was an angel.
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I remember the description of the batman killer after he shot up the movie theater and it was mostly about how he's a quiet guy and very studious etc.
 
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Priceless said:
It's nice that the serial killer gets a better obit than the unarmed black teenager killed by a cop. Apparently, Ted Bundy was an angel.
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What a world! Lefties b*tching that the NYT was insufficiently hagiographical. Who'd a thunk it?
 
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Imagine the derposphere if McVeigh, Lanza, Harris, Klebold, Holmes, McClendon had all been black. We'd have internment camps by now.
 
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Was this the NYT?

Why are they doing an obit for some random (harsh maybe, but true) kid from Missouri anyway?


I for one hope this story will now go away.
 
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Priceless said:
It's nice that the serial killer gets a better obit than the unarmed black teenager killed by a cop. Apparently, Ted Bundy was an angel.
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Especially when both grabs presented by you were taken out of context.

For Brown they began with a story of his observation of an angel in the sky, in the context of his recent grappling with religion and life. The writer then points out that while Brown was "no angel"..., he loved and lived his life much like similar young men, all as observed through family and friends.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/u...eeks-grappling-with-lifes-mysteries.html?_r=0


The Bundy quote you grabbed is at the very end of a long description of the evil perpetrated by this man, during his life, giving some context to who Bundy was. A typical person, who participated in typical activities, who turned into a very atypical human being.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/ga9N8fHfh5k


But then again, posting these comments in context really doesn't fit very well with your narrative, does it?

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Just out of curiosity, how many serial killer obits did you have to read before you found one in which the writer suggested something nice or normal about the deceased?
 
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SJHovey said:
Especially when both grabs presented by you were taken out of context.

For Brown they began with a story of his observation of an angel in the sky, in the context of his recent grappling with religion and life. The writer then points out that while Brown was "no angel"..., he loved and lived his life much like similar young men, all as observed through family and friends.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/u...eeks-grappling-with-lifes-mysteries.html?_r=0


The Bundy quote you grabbed is at the very end of a long description of the evil perpetrated by this man, during his life, giving some context to who Bundy was. A typical person, who participated in typical activities, who turned into a very atypical human being.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/ga9N8fHfh5k


But then again, posting these comments in context really doesn't fit very well with your narrative, does it?

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Just out of curiosity, how many serial killer obits did you have to read before you found one in which the writer suggested something nice or normal about the deceased?
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I didn't have to dig through any. The comparison was part of a tweet sent out by someone else. I then verified it myself and cut and pasted the passages directly from the NY Times. I suppose if we checked the obits of Tim McVeigh, Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wayne Gacy, we still wouldn't find a passage telling us they were no angels. We would probably read all about how they lived a typical life with a typical childhood and then something just went wrong and they became killers. The black kid was a thug who broke the law repeatedly and deserved to die.

I don't expect much different from the people on this board. As I have pointed out repeatedly, this board is not very representative of America as a whole. This board is largely comprised of highly-educated, high-income white males. There are precious few women who post here, no minorities that I know of and no low-income people (sure, there are recent college-grads who have a mountain of debt and are just starting out, but they are almost entirely on a career path that will earn them a comfortable income). A Pew research poll I saw cited recently noted that more white Americans believe they have interacted with a ghost than believe race is still a problem in this country. I have no idea what your views are of ghosts, but I would safely say that a vast majority of people on this board (not to mention five members of the Supreme Court) would say that racial injustice is a thing of the past.
 
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It's my impression that there are also far more liberals on this board than conservatives.

Interesting that there is a split amongst them (us) over certain aspects of the Ferguson situation.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
It's my impression that there are also far more liberals on this board than conservatives.

Interesting that there is a split amongst them (us) over certain aspects of the Ferguson situation.
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Yes, but the demographics are still the same. I'm about as liberal as they come, but I'm still a white male with a college degree that earns decent money (even though I don't work anymore - go figure!). Is there anyone who posts here regularly that isn't a white male with a college background?
 
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Priceless said:
this board is not very representative of America as a whole. This board is largely comprised of highly-educated, high-income white males. There are precious few women who post here, no minorities that I know of and no low-income people (sure, there are recent college-grads who have a mountain of debt and are just starting out, but they are almost entirely on a career path that will earn them a comfortable income). A Pew research poll I saw cited recently noted that more white Americans believe they have interacted with a ghost than believe race is still a problem in this country. I have no idea what your views are of ghosts, but I would safely say that a vast majority of people on this board (not to mention five members of the Supreme Court) would say that racial injustice is a thing of the past.
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Rec'd for truth. Asking the people on this board to opine about the challenges of being black and poor in America is like asking Honduran day laborers about the correct method of making snow shoes. Yes, they'll give it their best shot and be able to cite a few general principles, but in the end they just aren't going to "get it."
 
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Kepler said:
Rec'd for truth. Asking the people on this board to opine about the challenges of being black and poor in America is like asking Honduran day laborers about the correct method of making snow shoes. Yes, they'll give it their best shot and be able to cite a few general principles, but in the end they just aren't going to "get it."
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By the same token, I wonder how many of you who reflexively take the ultra liberal side of the debate have ever lived anywhere near some of these troubled neighborhoods/areas. Some of your comments lead me to believe that you haven't coz oftentimes, they aren't grounded in reality.
 
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