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The insanity continues. "The free-agent quarterback will have his own exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, according to the Twitter feed, @BlackToLive." https://sports.yahoo.com/colin-kaepernick-exhibit-national-museum-african-american-history-culture-160414439.html And yet Justice Clarence Thomas isn't recognized by this federally-funded museum?

I've only talked to a couple people who knew him, but it seems like everyone who was there gets real stiff when his name is brought up. Phrasing.

I saw the title of this thread and thought Mattis was becoming President.

@GypsyGhost...is English your first language? serious question.

6.9 times more if you were a pilot. Sorry brother we have not done the ACJ test folks justice, hoping that changes.

And the whole fixation on ISR allows the intel types to think that they are operators, not support.

You couldn't have waited 3 months to make it a full decade thread bump?

Short bus preschoolers could have formulated a more legitimate poll. I don't set a high bar for sports page writers, but the guy who picked this up and wrote an article around it should really be forced to have his dick concussed by J.J. Watt. The poll provided options and asked respondents to answer "yes" or "no" to them. This type of poll is among the worst, and no survey looking to produce reliable, "scientific", results utilizes this tactic. Unfortunately people are dumb as shit, and it's equivalent to leading a witness. Exacerbating this is the fact that the poll did not ask respondents to indicate if THEY had curbed their viewership, and if so, what motivated THEM to do so. It asked every participant of the survey to speculate on what they BELIEVED was causing the drop, whether they had stopped watching or not. You would expect the results to skew towards a story that was discussed on every news and major sporting event broadcast in the month of September whether it had anything to do with it or not. If I had to guess, Colin Kaepernick's first start this season probably saw a massive ratings boost, not a decline. A small percentage of people who like what he's done would be more likely to tune in and hope to watch him succeed. A large minority would tune in to hopefully watch him fail in spectacular fashion, and a massive majority wouldn't modify their behavior either way. It's too bad also, because the way police in this country do their job (and are trained to do their job), deserves to have every player, coach, and fan in the stands on their knees in protest. But with every news broadcast and idiotic NFL protest player suggesting the atrocious policing is all a result of widespread institutional racism, the actual problem is going to persist unchecked for decades more.

Never seen a second of broadcast of the channel in my entire life (excluding clips shown on other networks). That's not hyperbole. Not one second. I assume you must have some familiarity with the network in order to make your statement, so I'd say that relative to me, you might as well be Rachel Maddow herself. Your assumption about my political positions based on my statement couldn't be more off the mark. It's born out of past personal involvement in law enforcement and my sentiment has been shared in depth in other threads (you were commenting in a few of them as well, although it was a long time ago and I wouldn't expect you to remember). It is not a fundamentally anti-police position. It's a pro-Constitutional rights position. Unfortunately the police are, by orders of magnitude, the largest violators of Constitutional rights in this country. It's ingrained in what they do on a daily basis. They're trained to do it from day 1 of the Academy. Given this board is full of military members, my opinion should be the prevailing opinion within the community. Instead, most here would rather just flash their CAC to the DHS agent at the illegal inland "border" checkpoint in order to get hurried along. Not even willing to slightly inconvenience themselves to avoid trampling all over the document they purportedly volunteered to give their life for. Sorry, but with respect to this issue, relative to me, you're the left-wing communist.

Who said you couldn't be polite? You don't have to be a dick in asserting your rights. Sure, no matter how polite you are the cop will take it as a challenge to their "authority" (rather than a beautiful application of the document they also swear an oath to), and they will needlessly escalate the situation in response to it, but that's not on you. I saw it every day from my coworkers in the time before I realized that the profession would not allow me to protect and serve as I envisioned it would. A cop who has that as their goal (and stays true to it) literally cannot survive in today's law enforcement community. And yes, they're out to get you. Any cop who is honest will tell you the same. Don't ever talk to the media. Don't ever talk to the cops. That is, until there is a wholesale movement towards actually being public servants.