http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/09/27/police-officer-fired-after-posting-racial-slur-on-social-media/

She's obviously young and dumb and she made a mistake.

Is there any chance of redemption for her?

What if she showed remorse and she was sincere? Would that be enough to give her another chance and let her keep her job?

What if she was sharing this with her friends some of whom were black and none of them had an issue with it. Would that make it okay?

What if she was sharing this with her black boyfriend?

What if she were part black?

I'm not a fan of hip hop but I understand that this word is used a lot by some artists. If she were merely singing along to a song and sang that word should she be fired then?

Is there any possible condition that could exist that would allow her to keep her job?

I'm not trying to be provocative or contrarian. I'm simply trying to understand this new standard.

As a kid I was a huge fan of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. I know I've repeated some of their off color of jokes. Should that cost me my job?

I actually know why you didn't want to answer my question and why Stacy Swimp didn't want to answer either.

We all know that if she were black she wouldn't even get a reprimand.

This is the hypocrisy of the left. They want to demonize whites for using the "n-word" and they will demand that persons head. Like this dumb girl, like Paula Dean. Who was fired by the Food Network.

But when Larry Wilmore calls our president "my n-word" we hear silence from the black community. Sure we'll have some conversations about whether he crossed a line. But no one demanded that he be fired from his job at Comedy Central for saying far worse than this girl ever did.

Stacy Swimp

5 hrs · Flint ·

How would you feel if YOUR child were stopped and killed by police because he or she "looked like he was up to something" or "looked like he had something to hide"? That is Donald Trumo's concept of what law and order does.
Same rationale George Zimmerman used before trailing and gunning down Trayvon Martin
Stop and Frisk allowed police to stop private citizens for "furtive movement".
This is very subjective. It means when someone "looks" a certain way.
Is that what you call sound policy? Do you understand how subjective looks can be?!
I will never support stop and frisk, nor respect the spirit of anyone who does.

Adam Kondraciuk Replied - So, if you're a resident of a high crime neighborhood. You're just expected to suck it up?

Sorry, the police can't help you. The police can't do anything to make your neighborhood safe. All they're allowed to do is to show up after you've been robbed at gun point and make a report?

There is nothing proactive that they can do to make your neighborhood safe.

Don't bother calling the police when you see some kids that are up to no good. The police can't do anything until they've actually assaulted you or robbed you.

Do you honestly believe that the police just show up in a black neighborhood at random to harass young men? Who do you think called them?




Megan Cameron-Scott  Replied to me - That's exactly how it is now. Thank you, from baltimore. I was almost maced while only with my preschooler, by elementary kids ....cops couldn't do anything. Several waves of attempted robberies with knives in broad daylight....cops couldn't do anything. No harm, no foul. "Back off" is their orders, unless a crime is committed. It's ridiculous. I see weirdos everyday and I'm not a cop, but it's plain as day they just aren't doing ordinary business. Nothing done until shots fired. It's ridiculous.

 

Everyone wants to paint the oil company as some big evil corporation. It's not true in this case. The company has gone out of their way to make a safe pipeline that doesn't disturb any historical sites.

"The ruling said Dakota Access hired professional archaeologists to survey the entire route through the Dakotas and much of Iowa and Illinois for cultural resources. When the surveys revealed previously unidentified resources, the company changed the route on its own 140 times in North Dakota alone to avoid them, the judge said, and the corps ordered the company to change the route where it crossed the James River to avoid burial sites there."


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/leaked-memo-remains-artifacts-found-pipeline-site-42374617

They should give me a 70 meter head start so that I can compete with Usain Bolt in the 100 meter race. Does that sound absurd? Well so does lowering the standards for one group of students so that they can compete with the rest.

A question for my liberal friends? How much taxes are enough? What percentage do you consider to be fair? 10%? 20%? 30%? 40%? 50%? 60%? 70% How much is enough? At what rate would you agree with us and say that they now need to be lower?

When honest work isn't available, the only option left for the poor and destitute is dishonest work. Selling drugs, theft and prostitution are the most common.

Whites didn't leave the inner cities because they're racist. They left for the same reason that blacks are leaving the inner cities today. They left because of crime and the desire to keep their families safe. And because the had the ability to leave.

If you went to public school in the suburbs, you likely received a pretty good education. But do not, even for a minute, think that the kids in the inner cities get the same level of education. Teachers matter and the best teachers end up in the suburbs.

Regulations are imposed on business under the guise that they're looking out for us, the little people.

In reality they're designed to help protect big business from smaller competitors.

Why do Democrats refuse to take responsibility for their heritage, their history, their criminals, but insist that everyone else does?

When democrats do despicable things they always refer to it as America's shame. In the case of slavery its blamed on the South's

If their politicians are caught committing crimes or disreputable they dismiss it by saying things like they all do it.

I personally don't care if Malia Obama or anyone else smokes pot. I do care that Obama's DEA, FBI, and Justice department continue to arrest and imprison other peoples children for doing the exact same thing. Arresting hundreds and hundreds of kids and young adults every year. So, If Malia is going to be treated differently than other kids I'd like the president to explain why. If she's going to get a pass because she was at a concert, then lets have the president spread the word throughout law enforcement that we will no longer be enforcing these laws at concerts and you know other types of teen gatherings. Because, you know, they're just kids too.

If you have a new drug and you want FDA approval. It'll cost you 14 years and a billion dollars for that approval.

Drugs that have been in use for over 10 years in Europe and Canada still can't be sold here until they go through this 14 year process.

If your drug will only help 1,000 to 100,000 people you'll to have to scrap it. Because you'll never recoup the approval cost from such a small group.

Regulations cost lives and money.

Government regulations cost lives.

It's estimated that about 4.7 million to 5 million people have died while waiting for the FDA to approve drugs that are already legal in Europe.

Government regulations cost lives.

If a business wants to advertise that their bottled water actually prevents dehydration. Now that's a medical claim.
You'll have to spends millions and millions on tests to back up that claim or the FDA will force you to drop the claim.

How stupid is that?

Hillary is putting out an ad where she is smearing the Alt-Right as being racist.

She's calling all Trump supporters racist.

She's panicking folks.
Trump is campaigning for the African American vote.

She is threatening the African American voters. Screaming don't you dare abandoned me.

I thought she was ahead in all the polls? I thought she was running away with it?

That is desperation folks.
That is sign of fear.

As an American you have the right to protest the flag, the government or whatever you want. You don't even need a good reason. If you only consider people of your color to be your people then you've missed the most important thing about who we all are. Polish Americans, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, Italian Americans, German Americans, Latin Americans we are all Americans. That's what everyone has to remember.

Aug 30, 2016 7:18pm

It's been 7-1/2 years since Obama took office and Liberals are angrier today than they were when Bush was in office.

I don't see how Hillary can win. I predict that Trump will win in a landslide.

Conservative Hammer asked me to convince him to vote for Trump without mentioning Hillary.
Here we go. Keep in mind I was a huge Cruz supporter in the primaries.

He's more conservative than either "Mr Romneycare" or "Mr McCain/Feingold."
Or have we all forgotten just how.... cough..cough.. "moderate" they were?

He will build the wall, he will deport criminal illegal immigrants, he will rebuild our military, he will lower taxes. He's smart and intuitive. He's run successful businesses. He knows how to cut costs. He's not a politician. He's not afraid of offending anyone.
He is a leader.

"This is not a hard decision for me

One Presidential Candidate says

They Love America and They Love Me.

The other one says I'm Deplorable and Irredeemable!

Irredeemable Meaning:
1. Not able to be saved

Deplorable Meaning:
1.deserving strong condemnation:

synonyms: disgraceful · shameful · dishonorable · unworthy
inexcusable · unpardonable · unforgivable · reprehensible · despicable · abominable · contemptible · execrable · heinous · beyond the pale

So one Candidate wants to be a Humble Servant
the other already thinks SHE'S GOD!!!" - Christmas Phoenix.

Let's all have a laugh at these men who believe that genuflecting is a form of protest. Clearly they don't realize what they're actually doing.
So, we should continue to let them.

"Genuflection or bending at least one knee to the ground was from early times a gesture of deep respect for a superior. Like an emperor, a king, the lord almighty. "

So by all means submit yourselves before the flag.

"What American exceptionalism is not: It is not that we are better people. It is not that we are superior people. It is not that we are smarter people. It is not that God loves us and hates everybody else. It is not that God prefers us. It is not that God doesn't prefer anybody else.

American exceptionalism has nothing to do with anything but freedom and liberty. Here is what American exceptionalism is.

So what is it? Well, if you know the history of the world... Read your Bible, read whatever historical account of humanity you hold dear, and what you'll read about is human tyranny. You'll read of bondage. You'll read of slavery. The vast majority of the people, the vast majority of the human beings who have lived and breathed and walked this planet have lived under the tyranny of despots, the vast majority.

It isn't even close.

The vast majority of the people of this world since the beginning of time have never known the kind of liberty and freedom that's taken for granted every day in this country. Most people have lived in abject fear of their leaders. Most people have lived in abject fear of whoever held power over them. Most people in the world have not had plentiful access to food and clean water. It was a major daily undertaking for most people to come up with just those two basic things.

Just surviving was the primary occupation of most people in the world. The history of the world is dictatorship, tyranny, subjugation, whatever you want to call it of populations -- and then along came the United States of America. Pilgrims were the first to come here seeking freedom from all of that. They were oppressed because of their religion. They were told they had to believe in the king and his god, whatever it was, or they would be imprisoned.

They led an exodus from Europe to this country, people of the same mind-set. They simply wanted to escape the tyranny of their ordinary lives. This country was founded that way. For the first time in human history, a government and country was founded on the belief that leaders serve the population. This country was the first in history, the EXCEPTION -- e-x-c-e-p-t, except. The exception to the rule is what American exceptionalism is.

It is because of this liberty and freedom that our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes from God. It's part of the natural yearning of the human spirit. It is not granted by a government. It's not granted by Putin. It's not granted by Obama or any other human being. We are created with the natural yearning to be free, and it is other men and leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for seeking it.

The US is the first time in the history of the world where a government was organized with a Constitution laying out the rules, that the individual was supreme and dominant, and that is what led to the US becoming the greatest country ever because it unleashed people to be the best they could be. Nothing like it had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism. "

You don't get to riot, loot, burn down buildings, block traffic, threaten and assault people just because someone you didn't even know, was shot by the police while carrying a gun, happens to have the same color skin as you.

You do have a right to protest peacefully.
You do have a right to vote for people you believe can make a difference.
You have a right to try change laws that you believe to be unfair.