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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:17 pm

Another Tyree tasered to death
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Re: Only in America

Post by JimC » Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:04 am

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-14/ ... /101972482
A gunman has opened fire at Michigan State University (MUS) in the US, killing three people and leaving at least five injured.

Authorities have swarmed the university campus in search of the lone suspect.

Interim deputy chief of the university police, Chris Rozman, said shots were fired in two locations on Monday night — at an academic building called Berkey Hall and the MSU Union building.

Police responding to the shooting, which began shortly after 8pm local time, found victims at both locations, Mr Rozman said.

He said at least five victims were taken to hospital, some of them with life-threatening injuries. MSU police issued an update a short time later confirming at least three additional people had been killed.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:28 pm

He be dead now. Killed himself.
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MSU Police and Public Safety released photographs of the gunman.[13] Police described him as "a Black male, short in stature, wearing red shoes and a jean jacket and a ball cap."[14] The gunman later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[15] He was 43 years old.[13][16]
I attended a university of about that size In Illinois and then Ohio. I did not care for the Ohio one much. I was poor then, so I had to get whatever entertainment I could for a dollar or two. I did see Zappa and Genesis in Ohio, but mostly I did not want to spend the 5 dollars for a ticket then.

The universities in the midwest are all rather similar. A bit of culture in the middle of a cornfield. The Ohio one was also the state capitol for a large state. This might have easily happened at Ohio State.
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Re: Only in America

Post by macdoc » Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:21 pm

If Santos were a one-off, his antics might be amusing. But there is nothing remotely funny about a political system that has allowed someone such as Santos to get as far as he has. Indeed, Santos may not be the only fabulist in the Republican party: the Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... biography/> reported last week that Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who was recently elected as a Republican congresswoman in Florida, also appears to have fabricated a lot of her biography.
She, too, has claimed Jewish roots, but, according to her own family, her grandfather reportedly “served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany”. If true, these allegations would suggest that the only qualifications for a successful career in the Republican party are an active imagination and no moral compass whatsoever. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... g-him-down
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:34 pm

Police doing a good job of shooting anyone that runs off after they yell "hey you..."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-violence
“There is a lot of fear, with mass shootings and gun violence in general, that some stranger will show up wherever you are and kill you,” said Samuel Sinyangwe, the founder of Mapping Police Violence. “But police contribute a large part to those numbers.”

The circumstances for many murders are listed as unknown in the FBI’s incomplete national crime statistics database, but in 2020 nearly 4,000 people were listed as being killed by a friend or an acquaintance, and about 1,800 were known to be killed by a stranger.
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Re: Only in America

Post by JimC » Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:03 am

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-18/ ... /101994140
A US cleaning service that hired more than 100 children at 13 meat-packing plants has been fined more than $US1.5 million ($2.1 million).

US Department of Labour officials found 31 underage workers as young as 13 working for Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI) last year at meat-packing plants owned by JBS USA and Turkey Valley Farms.

They also searched PSSI's headquarters where they found more underage workers.

The department went on to review records for 55 locations where PSSI provided cleaning services and found even more violations, involving children aged 13 to 17.

The agency obtained a temporary restraining order in November and a permanent injunction in December, when PSSI entered into a consent judgement that committed the company to no longer employ minors illegally.

Over the past three years, children were found to be using caustic cleaning chemicals and cleaning "dangerous power-driven equipment like skull-splitters and razor-sharp bone saws," Jessica Looman from the department said.

At least three of those minors, including a 13-year-old, suffered burns from the chemicals used for cleaning at the JBS plant in Nebraska, officials said.
I suppose there aren't that many chimneys needing cleaning these days... :tea:
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Mon Feb 27, 2023 8:42 pm

Americans need more guns and free access to guns. No waiting, no background checks. How else will they protect themselves at mass shootings?
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Re: Only in America

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:16 am

JimC wrote:
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:03 am
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-18/ ... /101994140
Trigger Warning!!!1! :
A US cleaning service that hired more than 100 children at 13 meat-packing plants has been fined more than $US1.5 million ($2.1 million).

US Department of Labour officials found 31 underage workers as young as 13 working for Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI) last year at meat-packing plants owned by JBS USA and Turkey Valley Farms.

They also searched PSSI's headquarters where they found more underage workers.

The department went on to review records for 55 locations where PSSI provided cleaning services and found even more violations, involving children aged 13 to 17.

The agency obtained a temporary restraining order in November and a permanent injunction in December, when PSSI entered into a consent judgement that committed the company to no longer employ minors illegally.

Over the past three years, children were found to be using caustic cleaning chemicals and cleaning "dangerous power-driven equipment like skull-splitters and razor-sharp bone saws," Jessica Looman from the department said.

At least three of those minors, including a 13-year-old, suffered burns from the chemicals used for cleaning at the JBS plant in Nebraska, officials said.
I suppose there aren't that many chimneys needing cleaning these days... :tea:
The solution is at hand. It's part of Making America Great Again. :dance:

'"It's just crazy": Republicans attack US child labor laws as violations rise'
As child labor law violations have been on the rise in the US, some state legislators are pushing for changes at state and federal levels to roll back protections in what some see as a threat to return child labor to the country.

The laws aim to expand permissible work hours, broaden the types of jobs young workers are permitted to do, and shield employers from liability for injuries, illnesses or workplace fatalities involving very young workers.

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Re: Only in America

Post by JimC » Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:52 am

An interesting article in the Age, centred on a book, "Bloodbath Nation" by Paul Auster.

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books ... 5cpqm.html
The long-form essay sets out to answer a direct question: why is the US the most violent country in the Western world? “This is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done as a writer,” Auster admits.

The essay contains a number of shocking statistics. There are 393 million guns owned by Americans. More than 100 Americans are killed by bullets every day. Americans are also 25 times more likely to be shot than individuals residing in other wealthy, developed nations. Each year, approximately 40,000 Americans are killed by gunshot wounds.

“Fear coupled with violence, with bullets as the weapon of first resort, is a combination that runs through every chapter of [American] history,” Auster explains. That bloody history began in the early 1600s, when America was still a sparsely populated collection of white settlements, scattered among 13 distant outposts of the British Empire.

“American society was built by religious fanatics who promoted armed struggle, conflict, war, violence, annihilation, and what we today would call genocide,” says Auster. He notes how the Declaration of Independence that the Continental Congress approved on July 4, 1776, announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. The second paragraph states that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Namely: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Auster describes this bedrock credo on which the American republic was founded “as a hypocritical lie”. He has a point. Slavery, after all, was still legal at the time the words were written. “Violence, from the very beginning, was embedded in the whole American project,” says Auster. “The United States is an invented country, based on the premise of capitalism, where there is conflict, competition, and winners and losers.”
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Re: Only in America

Post by laklak » Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:35 am

JimC wrote:
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:03 am

I suppose there aren't that many chimneys needing cleaning these days... :tea:
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Re: Only in America

Post by rainbow » Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:04 pm

JimC wrote:
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:03 am
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-18/ ... /101994140
A US cleaning service that hired more than 100 children at 13 meat-packing plants has been fined more than $US1.5 million ($2.1 million).

US Department of Labour officials found 31 underage workers as young as 13 working for Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI) last year at meat-packing plants owned by JBS USA and Turkey Valley Farms.

They also searched PSSI's headquarters where they found more underage workers.

The department went on to review records for 55 locations where PSSI provided cleaning services and found even more violations, involving children aged 13 to 17.

The agency obtained a temporary restraining order in November and a permanent injunction in December, when PSSI entered into a consent judgement that committed the company to no longer employ minors illegally.

Over the past three years, children were found to be using caustic cleaning chemicals and cleaning "dangerous power-driven equipment like skull-splitters and razor-sharp bone saws," Jessica Looman from the department said.

At least three of those minors, including a 13-year-old, suffered burns from the chemicals used for cleaning at the JBS plant in Nebraska, officials said.
I suppose there aren't that many chimneys needing cleaning these days... :tea:
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Re: Only in America

Post by Woodbutcher » Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:45 pm

It's never too early to learn self-defense. And the older sister was probably a woke democrat!
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:43 pm

Lauren Boebert
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Biden says there is no “recreational justification” for a 100-round magazine.
The Second Amendment isn’t about “recreational justification”.
The Founding Fathers didn’t get back from a hunting trip when they drafted the Constitution.


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The 2A protects the rights of a well regulated militia necessary to protect the country.
There are no other protections.
All other ownership and use of arms comes from laws outside the Constitution.

A few more words (Seth would pick out each word to deny)
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The fact that every state has a National Guard, and is supplied with weapons that are kept safely in an armory, covers the entire reason why the 2nd Amendment was created.
Outside of the National Guard, or the Police Department’s special units, no one should possess a weapon of war.
The fact that someone owns a gun for hunting or home protection is a privilege, and should be required to follow strict rules. Each gun owner should be required to own a gun safe that is inspected & approved, and each gun owner should be required to possess a gun license that needs to be renewed every year and must pass a background & practical test.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:25 pm

But that would be emasculating.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:34 pm

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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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