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		<title>By: Sure Fire</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2009/admin/cops-students-justice-injustice/comment-page-1/#comment-175793</link>
		<dc:creator>Sure Fire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My apolgies for this detour but going way back to an old post doesn&#039;t make sense.

When I said there was a double standard for the racist language used by minorities as compared to whites, or liberals to conservatives for that manner, a better comparison for Jamie Foxx would be Don Imus.

Imus and Foxx both have radio shows. Imus lost his due to the uproar over his comments about some black female basketball players, though he apologized for his comments. Nothing happened to Foxx with his show regarding his more nasty, vile and racist remarks regarding a white teen female.

Apparently Reg&#039;s idol Obama doesn&#039;t care either about the continual and contemptible remarks by Dem. Representative Alan Grayson, maybe Obama is anti-female like some think. Besides charging last month that Republicans want sick people to &quot;die quickly, the &quot;Jewish&quot; lawmaker also described the health care crisis as a &quot;holocaust (good comparison Mavis?), called Fox News and the GOP enemies of America and portrayed former Vice President Dick Cheney as a vampire. 

Now it comes out that last month Grayson called Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a &quot;K Street whore.&quot; (Washington&#039;s K Street is where many lobbying firms are located, and Robertson used to represent Enron.)

&quot;I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women,&quot; Grayson explained Tuesday. That&#039;s pretty funny, he reached for a word, &quot;whore&quot; came out but he didn&#039;t intend to use the term.

The Florida Democrat made the remark in a radio interview last month, but the recording didn&#039;t catch fire online until Monday. Now follow me here...

President Obama hailed Grayson as an outstanding member of Congress at a Miami fundraiser Monday night.

So all this comes out Monday and Obama hails him as &quot;an oustanding member of Congress&quot; on Monday night?  

More of that double standard or does Obama have the most inept group of people surrounding him since Nixon?

Even funnier was the initial spin regarding the remarks..

Grayson&#039;s office initially defended his comment. Spokesman Todd Jurkowski said Tuesday it wasn&#039;t a personal attack -- that the congressman was just criticizing Robertson&#039;s career as a lobbyist. Jurkowski also cited one dictionary definition of a whore as someone who compromises principles for personal gain. Huffington Post&#039;s Howie Klein joined in, arguing Grayson was right about lobbyists. 


You guys are too funny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My apolgies for this detour but going way back to an old post doesn&#8217;t make sense.</p>
<p>When I said there was a double standard for the racist language used by minorities as compared to whites, or liberals to conservatives for that manner, a better comparison for Jamie Foxx would be Don Imus.</p>
<p>Imus and Foxx both have radio shows. Imus lost his due to the uproar over his comments about some black female basketball players, though he apologized for his comments. Nothing happened to Foxx with his show regarding his more nasty, vile and racist remarks regarding a white teen female.</p>
<p>Apparently Reg&#8217;s idol Obama doesn&#8217;t care either about the continual and contemptible remarks by Dem. Representative Alan Grayson, maybe Obama is anti-female like some think. Besides charging last month that Republicans want sick people to &#8220;die quickly, the &#8220;Jewish&#8221; lawmaker also described the health care crisis as a &#8220;holocaust (good comparison Mavis?), called Fox News and the GOP enemies of America and portrayed former Vice President Dick Cheney as a vampire. </p>
<p>Now it comes out that last month Grayson called Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a &#8220;K Street whore.&#8221; (Washington&#8217;s K Street is where many lobbying firms are located, and Robertson used to represent Enron.)</p>
<p>&#8220;I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women,&#8221; Grayson explained Tuesday. That&#8217;s pretty funny, he reached for a word, &#8220;whore&#8221; came out but he didn&#8217;t intend to use the term.</p>
<p>The Florida Democrat made the remark in a radio interview last month, but the recording didn&#8217;t catch fire online until Monday. Now follow me here&#8230;</p>
<p>President Obama hailed Grayson as an outstanding member of Congress at a Miami fundraiser Monday night.</p>
<p>So all this comes out Monday and Obama hails him as &#8220;an oustanding member of Congress&#8221; on Monday night?  </p>
<p>More of that double standard or does Obama have the most inept group of people surrounding him since Nixon?</p>
<p>Even funnier was the initial spin regarding the remarks..</p>
<p>Grayson&#8217;s office initially defended his comment. Spokesman Todd Jurkowski said Tuesday it wasn&#8217;t a personal attack &#8212; that the congressman was just criticizing Robertson&#8217;s career as a lobbyist. Jurkowski also cited one dictionary definition of a whore as someone who compromises principles for personal gain. Huffington Post&#8217;s Howie Klein joined in, arguing Grayson was right about lobbyists. </p>
<p>You guys are too funny.</p>
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		<title>By: WBC</title>
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		<dc:creator>WBC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow.  About the Innocence Project (didn&#039;t have time yet to read the 1st posting).  Still another case where prosecutors are more interested in protecting their record of &quot;wins&quot; than in justice.  Even if in this case, it means making themselves look bad by going after students and exposing their agenda as they try to &quot;prove&quot; their assumption of bias by, among other things, micro-analyzing the grading system as to whether it offers incentives to &quot;get them (the prosecutors).&quot;  Instead of maybe trying to figure out a way to work with students and the school, to share their own allegedly superior legal knowledge and -- inspire?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  About the Innocence Project (didn&#8217;t have time yet to read the 1st posting).  Still another case where prosecutors are more interested in protecting their record of &#8220;wins&#8221; than in justice.  Even if in this case, it means making themselves look bad by going after students and exposing their agenda as they try to &#8220;prove&#8221; their assumption of bias by, among other things, micro-analyzing the grading system as to whether it offers incentives to &#8220;get them (the prosecutors).&#8221;  Instead of maybe trying to figure out a way to work with students and the school, to share their own allegedly superior legal knowledge and &#8212; inspire?</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Fortunately, the shooter â€” as gang members usually are â€” was inept and the bullets missed the intended targetâ€™s vitals.&quot;

 This is, tangentially, an interesting comment. The one time I witnessed what I assumed was drug gang violence - three guys with semi-automatic pistols on foot chasing and shooting at a car - I was as shocked by how stupid they obviously were as I was by the violent event unfolding before me.  I learned to shoot in Boy Scouts and I could have easily hit the car - but these guys had absolutely no idea what they were doing, shooting wildly as they ran.  A school, a church and a bus stop were all on various corners of the intersection. Innocent bystanders were clearly in greater danger than the occupants of the car who had pissed these guys off.  I assumed their perverted sense of survival was somehow connected to their brandishing guns, but it was clear they were just dummies and likely doomed if this was their best shot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Fortunately, the shooter â€” as gang members usually are â€” was inept and the bullets missed the intended targetâ€™s vitals.&#8221;</p>
<p> This is, tangentially, an interesting comment. The one time I witnessed what I assumed was drug gang violence &#8211; three guys with semi-automatic pistols on foot chasing and shooting at a car &#8211; I was as shocked by how stupid they obviously were as I was by the violent event unfolding before me.  I learned to shoot in Boy Scouts and I could have easily hit the car &#8211; but these guys had absolutely no idea what they were doing, shooting wildly as they ran.  A school, a church and a bus stop were all on various corners of the intersection. Innocent bystanders were clearly in greater danger than the occupants of the car who had pissed these guys off.  I assumed their perverted sense of survival was somehow connected to their brandishing guns, but it was clear they were just dummies and likely doomed if this was their best shot.</p>
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