1
Obviously went to the Murtha School for Prognosticative Judgment.

2 Don't go giving ABSCAM Jack any ideas for new taxpayer-funded projects in his district, geoff.

3

Commenting at IMAO we have Son of Bob FTW!

Meanwhile, Obama has also refused to provide the proper identification showing that he is the legal resident of the house he is standing in.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a nirther or a birther at all, I just think that's darn funny. Especially considering that usually birthers can't be funny because they're so angry.

Which, stream of consciousness warning, reminds me of a joke that most Bush/Cheney haters were too full of hate to make.

When Cheney had to undergo some procedure and was going to be under sedation for a while, not one of them thought of the obvious joke.

Does that mean Bush is in charge?

4 Libtards never need to know the facts about a situtation prior to commenting on it authoritatively.  Just proves what a rabid racist Obama is though.

5

Indeed. I'm sensing a theme here.

Candidate DipShit during the campaign: Doesn't know diddly squat about Russo/Georgian conflict. Flicks a booger at Georgia by telling both sides to chill after Russians invade and kill hundreds of Georgian civilians.

Pres DipShit: Goes on his first European Apology Tour, scarfs up all the appetizers, bows to a rank despot, pats the Queen of England on the ass, and makes the French look like profiles in courage.

Pres DipShit again: Goes on a South American vacation, swaps spit with the worst tyrant on the continent, snubs our only real friends because they wouldn't spot him any blow, and reanimates Fidel Castro's rotting corpse.

Pres DipShit again:  Doesn't know diddly squat about Iranian internal politics or US history with them over the past 30 years, then claiming it would be gauche to interfere, poo-poo's Iranian citizens who take to the streets by the millions in outrage over a faked election and calls the murderous response from the regime "robust debate".

Pres DipShit still again: Doesn't have the first clue where Honduras is or what led them to run their mini-Chavez out of town on a rail, and courageously defends his earlier pledge of non-interference by immediately demanding international action and the would be dictator's return. Hondurans go back about their business.

Pres DipShit still again: Never having authored or shepherded a single piece of significant legislation through a planning and zoning board much less the US Congress, issues rambling and incoherent proclamations, makes hollow threats, throws everyone within reach under a bus, and whines to Oprah's about what a meany Rush Limbaugh is.

Never mind his not-so-secret idolization of Dick Cheney and all things Bush.

Did I miss any?

6

I enjoy the fact that he says that people of diverse races get "stopped" more frequently than whites.

This guy wasn't stopped.  A neighbor thought his house was being broken into and called the cops.  Cops showed up and asked for his i.d.

He refused to give it to prove that he was a legal resident.

Since when does being African American mean "you can just ignore the requests of police officers who are trying to protect my property?"  Seriously.  Arrested for being a legal resident my ass.  Arrested for being a jackass.

7 Exactly ember.

I picked up a guy hitch-hiking once who told me about some 'asshole cop'.
Apparently the dude was hitch-hiking on the same road (genius) and a cop across the road honked his horn and made a "come here" gesture with his forefinger.
According to my passenger, he shook his head and made the same gesture (no, you come here, in other words).

The cop was more than happy to comply.
He ended up giving the dude a few tickets, two had to do with hitch-hiking, but one was "walking the wrong way on a street".
Legally, you're supposed to walk facing traffic. Hitch-hiking, of course, you walk with traffic.

The "asshole judge" wouldn't drop the charges and made him pay the ticket.

The brain surgeon in my car never realized that his ticket was "No, you're the asshole" ticket. If he wasn't such a dick, the cop would have hassled him for a while and sent him on his way. I'd dealt with them in a similar situation (New Paltz, NY), and that's what happened with me.

It's not necessarily right, but it's how it is. You don't unnecessarily hassle people who have power over you. That's just an elementary survival trait.

8

The best advice my liberal mother ever gave me was, "Always be nice to the police."  And I have.  And I have, as a result, never been given a ticket, despite being pulled over ... 5 times in my life.  Be polite, be respectful, and be honest, and if your worst offense was going 5-10 over the speed limit, you get a warning at worst.

I just don't get why people can't just be polite.  Had this been my house, I would have explained to the police that I lived there, handed them my ID, and thanked them and the neighbor for watching out for my property.

Guess who doesn't go to jail?

9

It's not necessarily right, but it's how it is. You don't unnecessarily hassle people who have power over you. That's just an elementary survival trait.

So it's okay for the police to arrest people who piss them off?

Maybe Gates acted like a jackass.  Maybe he wrongly accused the cop of racist motives.  So what?  He mouthed off at a cop in his own house.  The cop responded by abusing the power given to him to toss Gates in jail.  He should be vigorously disciplined for doing so, possibly even fired.

10 Sigh.
First off, we don't know what happened.

And I don't know if it's okay, I don't know if it's not okay, I wasn't there.
But it's the way it is.

If some ghetto dude mouths off, off he goes.
If some suburbanite mouths off, off he goes.
My buddy was hitch-hiking and a cop hassled him for a while and finally said, "I have one more question." and my friend, who had taken it for probably 10-15 minutes, said, "What, how big my dick is?" off he went.
High falutin college profs should be treated the same as the rest of us.

In this case the police were answering a call of a break-in so they weren't hassling him, they were trying to protect his house that had recently been broken into.
He should have been polite. Being an asshole should have consequences.

11

I disagree.  I think that you should have the right to be an asshole on your own property, as Gates was at the time.  If the cop didn't like how he was being spoken to, he should have simply left.

12

If he did in fact refuse to give ID to prove he lived there, though, the cop had every right to "hassle" him.  They were there on a suspicious persons / break-in call.  If someone were breaking into my house and the cops showed up and the robber said, "What, asshole, I live here, back the fuck off?" should they leave him alone?

We don't have all the facts, either - my point is that it's simply innappropriate to announce that the cops acted "stupidly" if you don't know that the above wasn't the case.

13 I'll reiterate my point

In this case the police were answering a call of a break-in so they weren't hassling him, they were trying to protect his house that had recently been broken into.
He should have been polite. Being an asshole should have consequences.

They were there to help him and it appears he was belligerent from the get-go.

If they had gone there to collect for the PBA and he was a jerk, that would have been another thing, but they were there because of a report of a burglary.

He should have thanked them for checking.

14 The police report

It says he was acting like a dick from the get go and kept being a dick after being warned. Two officers report that.

With a healthy helping of "You don't know who you're dealing with"s.

I'm going away from, "He was probably being a jerk" to "He's an elitist prick who got what he deserved."