I have to admit that strikes me as the biggest likely hurdle to a black James Bond’s box office success.
So…Halle Berry as Bond girl again?
Porn on the internet has been awash (if that’s the right word) for years with images and videos of black men fucking white women. Often, black men with giant cocks fucking tiny white women. All of whom appear to be having a very good time. So … would anyone really care other than the hardcore bigots? (Who are probably big customers of said porn, in secret of course.)
I’m sure some would, yes.
Bloomberg banned cannoli? How does that work?
Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/01/3607416/4-things-2015-obama-reelected/
1. Gas was supposed to cost $5.45 per gallon.
2. Unemployment was supposed to be stuck at over 8%
3. The stock market was supposed to crash
4. The entire U.S. economy was supposed to collapse
You do understand, don’t you, that all these “gains” are complete fabrications and the result of the government cooking the books, don’t you? Come on, sheeple!
Just channeling the Usual Suspects who leap to the barricades whenever the local birdcage-liner publishes anything even remotely resembling good economic news.
Nonsense, that would be stupid! They will, of course, point out the obvious truth that the economic recovery is a direct result of recent mid-term elections and reflects the renewed confidence of the American people in the Republican Party and its leadership.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/01/3607416/4-things-2015-obama-reelected/
1. Gas was supposed to cost $5.45 per gallon.
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Gas prices are my favorite example of the Fox News types deliberately misleading people, while technically telling the truth. They have all kinds of charts that show how gas prices dramatically increased after Obama took office in 2009.
What they don’t show is that due to the economic collapse of 2008, gas prices collapsed as well, falling from $4.10/gal in July 2008 to $1.59/gal in December 2008, the first time they had been below $2 since February 2005, and the first time since June 2007 they had been below $3 for more than a few weeks. So although starting the graph from when Obama took office seems logical, it obscures the fact that prices were just returning to normal, not suddenly reaching new highs. In fact, prices under Obama have never been as high as they were in July 2008.
The graph of gas prices around the 2008 election has to be seen to be believed — it’s such a deep, sharp valley that it’s hard not to believe that, economic collapse aside, the oil companies were doing everything they could to help McCain win, and then raised prices to recoup their losses immediately after Obama won.
It’s also a fact that all through the Clinton administration (except for another suspicious spike right around the 2000 election), oil prices averaged around $30/bbl, and were as low as $16. But when Bush invaded Iraq (and one of the reasons given was to insure a supply of cheap oil) the prices took off, and never looked back, to the point where today people are giddy over $50 oil, and are used to it being over $100.
Was it worth it?
If that guy were black he’d be dead. What?
I don’t think this guy was a Republican.
- Not a Republican.
- He was in the right.
- Right up until he started struggling with the police.
Seems like a tasing and maybe a few whacks with a nightstick would have sufficed.
In what was was he in the right?
Not showing his ID. “Show me your papers!” isn’t quite here in Murka yet. Close, but not quite. He should have just walked away.
If he took his dog with him, I’m sure they would have no problem with that. I suspect anonymous abandoning of pets is the issue here.
Really? He had paperwork stating that, as a citizen, he was subject to no law at any level. One wonders: which authority issues such paperwork and what colour crayon was used?
Again, not defending the nutball for being a nutball. But there is no law that says you have to produce ID upon demand. When the clerk at the shelter demanded ID, he should have just walked away, taking the stray dog with him if necessary.
Fear Itself probably has it right. The shelter likely requires ID to prevent all sorts of possible abuses by people against animals.
The guy seems like a bozo, but this probably belongs in the controversial encounters between police and civilians thread. How does that incident get so out of hand that the cops wind up killing him?