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• On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 09:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Do you publish any pro-police articles

  Public servants should not expect it to be newsworthy or laudatory when they do the basics of their job properly. That is (supposedly) what they are paid for.
  
  And when you give a person a gun, a taser, and massive power, it is entirely reasonable to expect a higher standard. Any police officer who can't handle that expectation shouldn't be a police officer. Period.

• On the post: Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2017 @ 12:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Millennials Have Better Things To Do

  "take money from working class Americans and put it on their over-educated socialist's tables"
  
  Have I missed something? Are millennials storing money on tables now? (And only on tables belonging to one particular socialist?)
  
  I feel so out of touch. Must be middle-age.

• On the post: Texas Agency Says It Needs $1 Million To Hand Over Records On Prison Sexual Assault

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2017 @ 11:55am

  Either the problem with prison sexual abuse is completely out of hand or the Texas DCJ really really really wants to keep King from seeing these investigative records.

  The problem with prison rape is completely out of hand, and the Texas DCJ wants to cover it up.

• On the post: Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner Will Soon Collect And Sell Data About You And Your Home

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2017 @ 03:58pm

  quickly understanding that we're probably being screwed in some fashion, but having neither the time nor patience to understand how.

  And that sums up life about as well as anything I've ever read.

• On the post: Trump Hopes To Use AT&T Time Warner Merger As 'Leverage' Over CNN

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2017 @ 12:18pm

  Re: Re: GAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

  GAAHHHHHHHHHH NUKEYOULER!

• On the post: Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2017 @ 01:50pm

  Re: Re:

  More to the point, what year this guy's family - or anyone's - landed is entirely irrelevant to their value as Americans. Or at least it should be.

• On the post: Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2017 @ 01:43pm

  Re: OK, Show of Hands, Democrats

  Well thank god you're here to speak for the poor oppressed homophobic sexist racist authoritarian bootlickers of the police state. Where would we be without you.

• On the post: Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2017 @ 01:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Don't you have a Senate campaign to run, fraud?

• On the post: Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2017 @ 01:32pm

  Re:

  Hey look everyone we have our standard racist dogwhistle:
  When confronted with inexcusable (and yet officially excused) police violence against black people, simply say "Chicago", though the article has nothing to do with Chicago.

• On the post: South Carolina Sheriffs Less Interested In Enforcing Laws Than Taking Stuff

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2017 @ 03:36pm

  Re: Re: Live and learn

  The whole article is a stretch, don't you think? What would you do better than the Police if it were your job?
  
  I wouldn't murder innocent people.

• On the post: Proposed DHS Rules May Cause The Deaths They Claim To Prevent

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2017 @ 10:35am

  • anyone looking to bring down an aircraft with explosive devices won't care if they're in the cabin or the hold

  I suppose... Two people, each carrying a laptop hiding bomb components, could go through security, and after security assemble a bomb combining the components of the two laptops.

  It's the same argument about the liquid restrictions: Two or more people could combine some 3oz liquids to make an explosive mixture.

  Basically unless everyone flies naked with no belongings whatsoever, there will be a risk. And no food and drink service on planes, cause they're a risk. And no ground crew, cause they're a risk.

  Come to think of it, we might as well ban all travel. It's dangerous.

• On the post: Our Response To Titan Note Sending A Frivolous Takedown Notice Over Our Critical Coverage

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2017 @ 09:44am

  In the meantime, we've retained lawyer Ken "Popehat" White to handle this matter, and he has responded to Jansson's takedown notice as follows:

  uh oh you printed the whole letter. Now Ken's going to sue you for copyright infringement.

• On the post: Former FCC Commissioner Uses Manchester Bombing As A Prop To Claim Net Neutrality Aids Terrorism

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 30 May, 2017 @ 10:26am

  Sadly, here in America, limiting access to the Internet would be illegal

  Many things about America are sad. This is not one of them.

• On the post: This Makes No Sense: US To Ban Laptops On All Flights From Europe

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 11 May, 2017 @ 03:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: obey your betters

  I almost want someone to work out how to put a bomb in a passport just to watch their heads spin.

  Wellllll..... paper cuts can be very dangerous. Therefore, passports are deadly weapons. Please no one tell TSA about the deadly danger of stabbing with pens.

• On the post: This Makes No Sense: US To Ban Laptops On All Flights From Europe

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 11 May, 2017 @ 03:33pm

  Re:

  Bringing back the glory days of transatlantic luxury travel.
  
  Or, as President Trump would say...
  We're going to goddamned steam.

• On the post: Ruslan Sokolovsky Gets 3 And A Half Years Suspended Sentence And A Conviction For Playing Pokemon In A Church

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 11 May, 2017 @ 02:47pm

  Re: Those Dirty Rotten Ruskies are at it Again

  We should concern ourselves with the mess within our own glass house before we go throwing stones at others in self-righteous indignation.

  Alternatively, we could support fundamental human rights everywhere, including the U.S., on principle.

• On the post: This Makes No Sense: US To Ban Laptops On All Flights From Europe

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 11 May, 2017 @ 03:42pm

  Maybe...

  ...the airlines just need more money from checked bag fees?
  
  
  
  (yes, yes, I know, airlines are actually worried about this rule because they don't want lithium-ion batteries in checked bags. Don't ruin my bad joke with facts.)

• On the post: Zillow Sued By Homeowner Because Its Estimate Is Lower Than The Seller Wants To Sell The House For

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 02 May, 2017 @ 12:08pm

  Horror of horrors

  Those homes have approximately the same square footage as Andersen. However, they are located in a less desirable (more condensed homes, busy streets, by Willow Creek Church, by a cemetery and less desirable golf course)

  Gods, no! Anything but that!

• On the post: Deputy Loses Immunity For Battering Arrestee, Tightly Handcuffing Him For Three Hours As 'Punishment'

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2017 @ 09:14am

  Re: Re:

  in a state where private citizens making a citizen's arrest can legally use any degree of force to enforce the arrest that a police officer could to enforce an arrest.
  
  Had Paul Stephens or his cousin attempted to make a citizen's arrest, that deputy would have murdered them.

• On the post: Twitter Sues Homeland Security Over Attempt To Unmask 'Alt' Immigration Twitter Account

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2017 @ 03:46pm

  Re: All bad is good as long as it's our people doing it.

  These are people claiming to speak for government organizations.

  Did you even bother to look at the twitter account, which explicitly states "Not the views of DHS or USCIS"?

  ANY organization should be able to ferret out rogues that speak for it.

  You don't get to use the power of the courts to do it.

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