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datzenmike Grand Master

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Whites are moving back to Inglewood. There goes our neighborhood.

 

Several years ago, a woman who lives around the corner in Inglewood told me a story common to black people who were among the first to move into once-white cities. She and her husband bought their house in 1967. Every day that summer, she said, her next-door neighbor came out on his porch, glaring. Whenever he saw her, this white man shouted not a greeting, but a question: Why are you here? In a few months, he was gone, along with pretty much every other white family on the block.

 

I grew up in and around Inglewood and have lived here for the last 13 years. Walking home with my dogs three weeks ago, I was approached by a young white woman who, like me, is an animal lover. Turns out she and her husband had moved into the neighborhood recently. “We like it so far,” she said brightly. Like it? I felt a rush of resentment at a remark that to her, I’m sure, was perfectly innocent. All I could think was: White folks abandoned Inglewood, and now they’re coming back with no memory or acknowledgment of all that, expecting neighborliness?

 

Gentrification is big news all over L.A., and working-class and lower-income people across the county stand to lose a lot from its advance. They already have. But black people in particular will feel the sting. We will be out not just apartments and homes we can afford to rent or pay the mortgage on. We will lose our space, our place.

 

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaplan-inglewood-gentrification-20171126-story.html

Call it what you like but it's a normal ebb and flow of what's available and what you can afford. Whites moved out of the city to suburbia to abandon it to crime, taxes and because they could. Blacks and minorities moved in to replace them. Now she's whining???

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Funny thing, I spent a lot of time during the mid 80's through the early 90's in Inglewood since my Dad lived there after my parents divorced. 

 

Never had any issues with the hood.

 

Even while being white.

 

 

 

If you look hard enough, you can always find at least one person to quote to help fulfill your agenda and steer an article the way you want it to go.

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Former Bank governor 'encouraged eastern European immigration'

 

Ex-Cameron adviser says Mervyn King was strong advocate of opening up immigration without transitional controls, which partly drove Brexit vote

 

“King pressed the case to open the labour market without transition on the grounds that it would help lower wage growth and inflation, address supply bottlenecks in a fast-growing pre-financial crisis economy, and help keep interest rates low,” he said.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/24/former-bank-governor-encouraged-eastern-european-immigration

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What's happening ? Trump's going to even up the playing field a little bit.Great news.

 

I am glad I don't live in Alabama and am a law abiding citizen anyway;

 

This nominee is unqualified;

 

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2017/11/10/Trump-judge-nominee-Brett-Talley-never-tried-case-not-qualified-Alabama-Senate/stories/201711100158

 

"Even up the playing field a little bit"? 

 

M-kay....

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Well that doesn't surprise me.

...to each his own, yes mike people do depend on tips. My son goes to college and works part time at a restaurant and the tips he gets makes a huge difference with of setting the min. Wage he gets.
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datzenmike Grand Master

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Q...

 

Perhaps I have a higher standard for earning a tip that others. If you tip all the time then it's not really a tip is it? It's more of a tax. Then you have to decide how much it was really worth or how less useless was she? Society has conditioned people to expect to pay for a service that is pretty much.... what they are being paid to do. They even pay when the service is absolutely shit. Some credit card machines even have a button that calculates a tip and enters it for you!!!! The fucking nerve! NEVER tip if it goes into a communal cup that is divided up at the end of the shift. If you tip, ask about this. It rewards the incompetent and truly is unearned... welfare. Tipping should be voluntary and you shouldn't be shamed into doing something voluntarily. Don't feel bad for not tipping the merely competent, feel good for tipping someone that impressed you and made your meal there enjoyable.  

 

On a side note.... being interrupted with a mouthful of food or in conversation and asked 'how are you doing? Is everything alright?' to look like they are being deserving of a tip, gets no tip. Servers should be non intrusive and attentive for a signal or look. Experienced servers know this...usually.

 

 

I notice men tend to 'tip' and on higher scale for a pretty face and larger boobs rather than service. Alcohol could be a factor.....

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Perhaps I have a higher standard for earning a tip that others. If you tip all the time then it's not really a tip is it? It's more of a tax. Then you have to decide how much it was really worth or how less useless was she? Society has conditioned people to expect to pay for a service that is pretty much.... what they are being paid to do. They even pay when the service is absolutely shit. Some credit card machines even have a button that calculates a tip and enters it for you!!!! The fucking nerve! NEVER tip if it goes into a communal cup that is divided up at the end of the shift. If you tip, ask about this. It rewards the incompetent and truly is unearned... welfare. Tipping should be voluntary and you shouldn't be shamed into doing something voluntarily. Don't feel bad for not tipping the merely competent, feel good for tipping someone that impressed you and made your meal there enjoyable.  

 

On a side note.... being interrupted with a mouthful of food or in conversation and asked 'how are you doing? Is everything alright?' to look like they are being deserving of a tip, gets no tip. Servers should be non intrusive and attentive for a signal or look. Experienced servers know this...usually.

 

 

I notice men tend to 'tip' and on higher scale for a pretty face and larger boobs rather than service. Alcohol could be a factor.....

 

Agreed, tipping is an arbitrary custom unique to service jobs. If tipping makes the wait staff more attentive I'm game, but I have the option not to tip if the service is poor. In all reality, if we did away with tipping, business would have to pay a higher wage to retain a skilled presentable and motivate staff that provide the front line PR face for their business. Who do you think will pay those higher wages? YOU. Is that a form of tax? And if they do a shitty job you pay like it or not.

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Comey, Mueller bungled big anthrax case together

 

They botched the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that took five lives and infected 17 other people, shut down the U.S. Capitol and Washington’s mail system, solidified the Bush administration’s antipathy for Iraq, and eventually, when the facts finally came out, made the FBI look feckless, incompetent, and easily manipulated by outside political pressure.

 

This, too, was an enormously complex case. But here are some facts: Despite the jihadist slogans accompanying the mailed anthrax, it had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein or any foreign element; the FBI ignored a 2002 tip from a scientific colleague of the actual anthrax killer, who turned out to be a Fort Detrick scientist named Bruce Edwards Ivins; the reason is that they had quickly obsessed on an innocent man named Steven Hatfill; the bureau was bullied into focusing on the government scientist by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy (whose office, along with that of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, was targeted by an anthrax-laced letter) and was duped into focusing on Hatfill by two sources — a conspiracy-minded college professor with a political agenda who’d never met Hatfill and by Nicholas Kristof, who put her conspiracy theories in the paper while mocking the FBI for not arresting Hatfill.

 

In truth, Hatfill was an implausible suspect from the outset. He was a virologist who never handled anthrax, which is a bacterium. (Ivins, by contrast, shared ownership of anthrax patents, was diagnosed as having paranoid personality disorder, and had a habit of stalking and threatening people with anonymous letters — including the woman who provided the long-ignored tip to the FBI).

So what evidence did the FBI have against Hatfill? There was none, so the agency did a Hail Mary, importing two bloodhounds from California whose handlers claimed could sniff the scent of the killer on the anthrax-tainted letters. These dogs were shown to Hatfill, who promptly petted them. When the dogs responded favorably, their handlers told the FBI that they’d “alerted” on Hatfill and that he must be the killer.

 

You’d think that any good FBI agent would have kicked these quacks in the fanny and found their dogs a good home. Or at least checked news accounts of criminal cases in California where these same dogs had been used against defendants who’d been convicted — and later exonerated. As Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times investigative reporter David Willman detailed in his authoritative book on the case, a California judge who’d tossed out a murder conviction based on these sketchy canines called the prosecution’s dog handler “as biased as any witness that this court has ever seen.”

 

Instead, Mueller, who micromanaged the anthrax case and fell in love with the dubious dog evidence, personally assured Ashcroft and presumably George W. Bush that in Steven Hatfill the bureau had its man. Comey, in turn, was asked by a skeptical Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz if Hatfill was another Richard Jewell — the security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Comey replied that he was “absolutely certain” they weren’t making a mistake.

 

Such certitude seems to be Comey’s default position in his professional life. Mueller didn’t exactly distinguish himself with contrition, either. In 2008, after Ivins committed suicide as he was about to be apprehended for his crimes, and the Justice Department had formally exonerated Hatfill — and paid him $5.82 million in a legal settlement — Mueller could not be bothered to walk across the street to attend the press conference announcing the case’s resolution. When reporters did ask him about it, Mueller was graceless. “I do not apologize for any aspect of the investigation,” he said, adding that it would be erroneous “to say there were mistakes.”

 

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/05/21/comey-mueller-bungled-big-anthrax-case-together/

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Meanwhile in Portland....

 

 

Don't you have carry permits down there???? Give them a 'whiff of lead'. If the lawyers don't like it give them one too.

We're working on going permit-less here.

 

Oklahoma's New Concealed Carry Law: What Troops Should Know

 

Oklahoma will soon allow U.S. military personnel to carry their personal firearms without a state-issued concealed carry permit, but commanders may not be so lenient, Pentagon officials maintain.

 

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin recently signed legislation that allow active-duty, National Guard and Reserve members to carry a handgun without having to go through the application process for a concealed carry permit.

 

Senate Bill 35, authored by republican Sen. Kim David, goes into effect November 1 and authorizes military personnel who are 21 years of age or older to carry a handgun, concealed or unconcealed, as long as they possess a valid military identification card and a valid Oklahoma drivers license or an Oklahoma state photo ID.

 

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/01/oklahomas-new-firearm-carry-rule-may-conflict-pentagon-policy.html

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