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Daveed Diggs is Jewish. His mom is Jewish and by tradition it passes in matrilineal fashion.

True I'm sure. However, when you send a notice out to everyone in an entire government agency, it is going to be very hard to figure out who leaked the notice. This is doubly true when the agency in question does not have any investigative powers.

It is a shame. I am sure that movie would have become a classic of sorts.

It is illegal to make false statements to the House of Representatives? Why aren't they all in jail?

I can't heart or trophy this post, but I certainly know where you are coming from.

Man who lost wife, son in Texas mass shooting tells story

Yes, but if he realized that it was the police on the other side of the door, he likely wouldn't have pointed a gun at them and would still be alive. Still, I am happy to agree to disagree.

No. I agree that the homeowner bears some fault, but I am not willing to let the police off the hook for their role in this. Neither resident of the house realized that the people pounding at were police officers. I consider this prima facie evidence that the officers did not do a good enough job identifying themselves. Yelling "this is the police" once at people who may be asleep or in a distant part of the house behind closed doors is not sufficient identification. I work in health care, and we don't fool around with identification. We don't say are "are you so-and-so", and when they dumbly nod yes, proceed to give them potentially dangerous medications. No, we ask them to identify themselves with name and birthdate, then we check these against both their patient ID bands and our own records. Going the other way with identification, we get the patient's attention, make eye contact, tell them our name and job title and what we plan to do with them, and then we give them a chance to respond. So, these cops failed. They didn't even make sure that they were at the right address before proceeding, and they identified themselves only once to people that for all they knew were asleep or out of the range of full hearing. That is a procedural failure, in that either they failed to follow the department's procedure or the procedure itself was inadequate. Yelling "this is the police" before pounding on the door is good, but they needed to repeat the yell several more times in case they were not heard or understood the first time. Also, having the the flashing lights from their patrol car streaming through the windows would have really brought home that this was actually the police at the door and would convey the information to people who don't hear well. Yes, I understand that. However, a huge part of our problem is that we have dumbed things down way too much. See my earlier post statement about right to bear arms and the right to be a moron. Barring extenuating circumstances, pointing a gun at someone is assault with a deadly weapon (yes, the misdemeanor form of this charge, but still). People should be taught that it is not alright even when they are on their own property and it is night time. This is important information for the public to understand and if we don't talk about after a tragedy like this, when will we talk about it?

Okay, but here is the thing. The man and his wife did not know that they were cops. Indeed, while the wife was in a shoot out with the police, she took a moment out to call 911 and tell them that intruders had just killed her husband. The police department has come out and said that given the circumstances - late at night, people pounding at his door - that the husband was perfectly within his rights to open the door with his gun drawn and ready. According to police department, the man who was killed didn't do anything wrong, and the only thing wrong that the police did was go to the wrong house. Yep, nobody made any big mistakes, despite the fact a man died and there was firefight between the police and the wife that could have resulted in more deaths. Alright, I am over simplifying, there is to be an investigation of the incident and the investigation may lead to more findings a suggestions. However, those would suggestions for future police raids. So, I have some of those amateur opinions that you dislike so much. The husband and wife in the house did not know that it was law enforcement; this represents huge failure on the part of both the officers involved and the police department's policies and procedures. It brings to mind the poor women in Sacramento who got shot when the man skulking outside her window that she drew a gun on turned out to be a cop. When law enforcement shows up they should announce themselves in no uncertain terms. Leave the cherry lights on the patrol car going and announce that you are the police repeatedly when showing up to make an arrest. Also, when you are a gun owning home owner or renter, if you don't feel safe opening your door without your weapon drawn, don't open your door at all. Talk through the door until you know what is going on. All three of these tragedies could by a short conversation through a locked door. Here in America we feel that we both have a right to own guns and to be morons. One of those rights needs to go.

Usually, these sort of sentences are set to run concurrently. So likely, he would be sentenced to 10 years.

Yes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is frequently given to artist. The Congressional Gold Medal is also sometimes given to artist, but is more commonly given for acts of bravery and heroism.

Interesting.

Thank you for the clarification.

Dr Eric Feigl-Ding is deliberately making false claims about the bill in order inflame the public. Here is that section of bill when not edited to deny the reader context: Notice the main heading of the section, which Dr Feigl-Ding left out, specifies that medical interventions it is prohibiting apply only to minors. Personally, I feel that puberty blockers should be available trans kids, and believe that this bill is wrong headed. However, I still can't support deliberate lying about the bill to further inflame the public. People, please, stop getting your news from twitter.

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Whether or not Stewart's tactics are underhanded depends on whether he legitimately considers teenage gang members to be children. At a certain age, it is not a hard thing to do. Personally, I consider everyone under twenty a quite a few people over 20 to be children. No one is born a violent gang member and no one needs to die one. Of course if you die young, you lose the ability to walk away from that life. Gang diversion and gang intervention programs age great, but why are we limited to those solutions. We could do those things and make gun access harder to get. Yes, they could still stab one another, but knives simply are not as good at killing people as guns in the hands of the untrained. Everything that reduces the chance of dying young gives the young and foolish more time to turn their lives around.

Yes, the survey that they did was vague and didn't address many important issues. Still, it is worth noting that most Republicans thing that Muslims can good Americans, that the US government should do more in the way of gun control, and racism still exist in America; while, a majority of Democrats believe that most Republicans are so extreme that they would not agree to those reasonable statements. Also, apparently most Republicans believe that a majority of Democrats are ashamed to be Americans, want to abolish ICE and have completely open borders. They also think that most Democrats want the the the US to become a socialist country. Given how broad of a definition many Republicans have for what is socialism that last one might be true from their perspective. However, the other ones all seem pretty straight forward and I doubt that the two sides have substantially different ideas on what it means to have an open border or abolish ICE.

Example given include that the US should have completely open borders, should adopt socialism, that most police are bad people and that not even the law abiding should have access to firearms No, those are things that Democrats believe that all the majority of Republicans disagree with.

Both Both Republicans And Democrats Severely Overestimate How Extreme The Other Side Is The ironic thing about this is that all the factors that one would expect to lead to more accurate assessments only make things worse.

I've read about this bill. It is unconstitutional AF. Even with our current SCOTUS, I don't see it having a chance. However, I suspect that the idea is to rile people up more than to pass actual, constitutionally enforceable law. The numbers of young people who identify as nonbinary or trans has risen significantly, and this is freaking out a lot of people. So, socially conservative politicians are finding anti-trans stunts a good way to both energize their base and attract new support. IOWs, laws like this are going to keep on coming.

Adopting out the baby only saves a person from the work of raising the child. Never mind all work of carrying a fetus for nine months, the act of childbirth is itself extremely difficult. They don't call it labor for nothing.

It is not worth watching for Pike, but might be worth watching for Spock. He had a much bigger role in Discovery than Pike. Though it is worth noting that the Spock in the Discovery is a different Spock than the the one in TOS or even SNW. He is a younger Spock who is still dealing with issues than his older selves had already come terms.

Based on what I have read, there were numerous allegations of abuse and police brutality against the unit, but this is the first death.

Is it really the part most influenced by the United States? Vancouver could be mistaken for Seattle and shows a definite family resemblance to San Francisco. Maybe all of Canada is influenced by the parts of the US to the south of them and vice versa.

The Original Series: Adventure The Animated Series: I watched as a child but don't remember well enough to comment The Next Generation: Hopeful vision of the future Deep Space 9: Ongoing story lines and moral complexity Voyager: Didn't watch Enterprise: Didn't watch Discovery: Diversity and handling of emotional trauma Picard: Nostalgia Lower Decks: Humor while remaining Star Trek Prodigy: This one has lots of potential. It is extremely the cool that the entire crew is aliens. However, it trying to attract a younger audience it dumbs itself down somewhat. Kids are smart and that is unnecessary. Strange New Worlds: SNW does so many things well that is hard to pick one to settle on. Probably the best of the new Treks.