It’s not peace in the Middle East, but it’s something
It’s been one of those days, but I still couldn’t help but crack a smile when I saw this report. (h/t TPM)
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley were spotted at a pub in Cambridge Wednesday night.
The owner of “River Gods” told WBZ the two sat in a booth together and talked for about an hour.
Over the summer, Crowley arrested Gates for disorderly conduct while responding to reports of a possible break-in at Gates’ home. Gates accused the officer of racial profiling.
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Doggone/GA
October 29th, 2009
3:28 pm
OMG! What will the conned do? Geez, “enemies” sitting down and talking to each other…that’s just SO wrong. /sarcasm
Normal
October 29th, 2009
3:31 pm
See, All you need is love…and a few drafts.
stands for decibels
October 29th, 2009
3:32 pm
Good for them.
GoingBroke
October 29th, 2009
3:32 pm
Normal –
I agree..
Peadawg
October 29th, 2009
3:35 pm
Bear and a baseball/football brings everyone together! Amen!
Normal
October 29th, 2009
3:36 pm
Bear?
Jackie
October 29th, 2009
3:37 pm
Wonder how many would be upset if you were in your own house and had documented identification as to who you are and it shows you are at the address the police officer is physically located.
Disorderly conduct charge for a man that is upset because he is partially crippled and shows you his identification for his home at his address?
Hard to buy that one, but, truth is stranger than fiction.
Truth
October 29th, 2009
3:40 pm
It is nice to see Gates was able to get that chip off his shoulder. And Doggone, Crowley tried to be civil and talk with Gates at the time of the arrest. Gates was the one who wouldn’t calm down.
reebok
October 29th, 2009
3:40 pm
that’s awesome…i think it was Jo Dee Messina who had a song called ‘I Think the World Needs a Drink…’
DoggoneGA
October 29th, 2009
3:43 pm
“Crowley tried to be civil and talk with Gates at the time of the arrest. Gates was the one who wouldn’t calm down.”
Gee, I didn’t realize you were an eye-witness.
Jackie
October 29th, 2009
3:46 pm
@Truth
Where were you able to gather that information?
Marsh
October 29th, 2009
3:46 pm
Great news! The cons will hate it though.
Truth
October 29th, 2009
3:50 pm
Why be a jerk, Doggone? Maybe you should work on getting rid of that chip on your shoulder.
reebok
October 29th, 2009
3:50 pm
Sorry…it’s Terri Clark, not Jo Dee Messina…fun song, tho.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
3:53 pm
There’s no sense in holding Professor Gate’s ignorance against him.
hahaha, us Cons are so much more civilized than that.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 29th, 2009
3:54 pm
Well, I think it was mighty kind of that cop to have a beer with one of Those People, even if he is uppity. I just hope the cop wasn’t on duty. Nothing worse than a drunk cop. You can sometimes reason with a sober cop, but not a drunk one.
I’m still a little took aback by a question this fellow asked downstairs about if I’d take out a loan on my trailer to help pay the salary of my boss. Heck, if I even learnt my boss had to take a loan out on his house to pay me, I’d be setting up about 20 job innerviews a day trying to get a new job before he fired me. Everybody knows the first thing to go in a co. in trouble is training. The 2nd thing to go is workers. Does this guy that asked the question think we’re all idiots?
Have a good day everybody.
Nothing Is Free
October 29th, 2009
3:55 pm
DoggoneGA
**What NIF leaves out of his question is: if the business is dying from lack of customers would the boss STILL mortgage his house to pay his employees, **
Ahhh, . . . . yea. no one mortgages their house to meet payroll if the business is booming. Man, you really have NEVER even considered running a business, have you?
it’s all about having the spine to take the chances that will result in a successful business where employees can be paid and given a nice benefit pkg.
But what do you want? It sounds like you want the owner to take all the chances, create the market, extend his credit, borrow money for expansion, and then refuse any profit that might come his way. When the company does well, the employees get a nice bonus. In those years, I make a nice profit. Why do you have such a problem with that?
DoggoneGA
October 29th, 2009
3:58 pm
“Why be a jerk, Doggone?”
You get back what you give. YOU don’t really have ANY idea what actually went on that day, in that place…but you speak as if you were God on a cloud watching every little detail.
I’ve been treated similarly by a police officer, I have very little faith in taking HIS word as gospel for what went on. But before you jump on me AGAIN about my “chip” – I also have no doubt there were faults on BOTH sides.
Nothing Is Free
October 29th, 2009
3:59 pm
Redneck
So you are a Redneck that lives in a trailer and of course, you are a conservative. How original. No-sir, no bigoted stereotyping there.
I wish I was a liberal so I could look down my nose at everyone that doesn’t think like me.
And BTW. People who live in trailer parks are usually poor people. that’s right, the same income bracket as the people who live in the inner city ghetto.
I know that it makes you feel very important to talk down poor people, but it is getting rather old. We get it. You’re a bigot.
DoggoneGA
October 29th, 2009
4:03 pm
“no one mortgages their house to meet payroll if the business is booming”
And no one mortgages their house if the business is dying either. That would only happen if there’s a reasonable chance the business will pick up and the mortgage paid back.
“When the company does well, the employees get a nice bonus. In those years, I make a nice profit. Why do you have such a problem with that?”
Why do you think I said anything like that? I never did. What started this…AGAIN…was your question about working for a poor person. I don’t begrudge the bosses of successful businesses their income, or their bonuses – if honestly earned – or their success. What I do begrudge is the attitude that if it wasn’t for THEM *I* wouldn’t have a job.
Well, you know what? If it wasn’t for the CUSTOMERS, they wouldn’t have a job EITHER. Trickle down is based on the same false premise that leads you to repeatedly ask that question. Money, income, profits DON’T “trickle down” and never have. They RISE UP from the customers. Always have, always will.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
4:04 pm
That Obama sure knows how to broker those lasting peace deals. The Republicans could learn a thing or two. Something that doe not involve shocking and aweing people into a billion pieces.
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
4:04 pm
This has the makings of a Monty Python routine
:…would you like to come back to my place?”
“I thought you’d never ask…”
I smell a book deal, myself, and Caribou Barbie and Baby’s Daddy have some ghost writers in the arctic sky…
Has Oslo been informed?
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
4:09 pm
NIF–
Thanks for the defense of the trailer park people.
Road Scholar
October 29th, 2009
4:09 pm
OK I’ll bite: Whiner, we don’t hold your ignorance against you either!
Peadawg: Have you been drinking? You slurred your typing! It’s OK though; It is after 5 pm somewhere!
Good for them!
Angry Black Man
October 29th, 2009
4:11 pm
NIF
There’s always an exception to the rule. There’s plenty of mobile homes i.e. trailers in Alabama. You should really see the triple wides. If you saw pictures from inside, it would be hard sometimes to tell that it’s a trailer and not a house.
Road Scholar
October 29th, 2009
4:13 pm
The really affluent in Alabama have double highs! But they are a bitch to move!
Angry Black Man
October 29th, 2009
4:14 pm
Jay
The way some of your posters debate back and forth, I think you should arrange a “beer summit” for us.
I swear, some people here could give a headache to excedrin, and argue the sh!t out of ex-lax.
mike
October 29th, 2009
4:16 pm
Gee I guess Crowley isn’t a racist after all.
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
4:17 pm
ABM–
Thank G-d for manufactured housing, it’s put home ownership in standard accomodations within the reach of people of modest means and has done an awful lot toward equalizing the horrid housing conditions that plagued us here in Uncle Sam’s oldest colony since that little episode that burned it all to the ground during our “liberation.”
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
4:18 pm
Road Scholar–you comin’ to the trailer park bash?
Nothing Is Free
October 29th, 2009
4:19 pm
DoggoneGA
**And no one mortgages their house if the business is dying either.**
Of course they do. I did. I knew that if I could hang on, I would make it work, which I did. it is a matter of having the confidence to know what you can do. But that’s true in every part of business. The house was an asset that I turned into a vehicle to finance my business until it could recover. Happens every day. I don’t mind you not answering the question. I knew that you wouldn’t. But you need to understand that yes, business owners put everything they have on the line and they do it every time that they need to do it.
**What I do begrudge is the attitude that if it wasn’t for THEM *I* wouldn’t have a job.**
Well, you wouldn’t have THAT job. There’s always other jobs, but whether you like it or not, when you work for someone else. without their taking the chances that it took to establish that business you would not have that job. It sounds like you need to start your own business. Meet a few payrolls. take a few chances. Do you think you could do it?
**They RISE UP from the customers. Always have, always will.**
Why do you put the customer on the bottom? They are the ultimate boss. They are my boss. And yes, they pay me and I pay the employees: t-r-i-c-k-l-e-d-o-w-n It’s the actual definition of trickle-down. The customer doesn’t pay the employees and they decide who gets what. Even if the employee takes the money (in my business, checks are sent to our accounting service), the money is turned over to a boss.
I know how touchy libs are about that trickle down thing, but Capitalism is based on trickle down. Your paycheck has trickled from the customer to your company to your boss to you. All downhill.
DebbieDoRight
October 29th, 2009
4:19 pm
NIF: I wish I was a liberal so I could look down my nose at everyone that doesn’t think like me.
Well no worries then!! You’re doing just fine as a “con”!!!
And BTW. People who live in trailer parks are usually poor people. that’s right, the same income bracket as the people who live in the inner city ghetto. I know that it makes you feel very important to talk down poor people, but it is getting rather old. We get it. You’re a bigot
Dude, ever hear of the word parody? That’s P-A-R-O-D-Y. RC is just a parody of a person. I mean you can’t believe that he’s real do you? I mean do you think the Redneck Comedy Tour (with Jeff Foxworthy and friends) is real and that they’re bigots too? Man!! You need to lighten up!!!
mike
October 29th, 2009
4:20 pm
Doggone –
“And no one mortgages their house if the business is dying either.”
Sure they do. They do it all of the time.
That is what folks like you don’t understand. In addition to the tons of work they put into their busienss, business owners take on substantial, potentially crippling, risk when they start and operate a small business. Many of these owners lose everything on their business ventures.
Nothing Is Free
October 29th, 2009
4:21 pm
josef
LOL!! You know that Jews own all those trailer parks, anyway.
Diod you hear about the shooting this morning in Cal?
Warren "Slim" Soros, GE Inc.DBA, Cox Ent., Xing Shipping, A Southern Company
October 29th, 2009
4:21 pm
Jay Bookman is a good tax-paying citizen.
Do not concern yourselves with matters best left to professionals.
After all,,,,,que bono????
Paul
October 29th, 2009
4:21 pm
Took only seven posts to start the rehash of ‘he did, no he did.’ Meanwhile the subjects are having lunch and talking.
Time to follow the example and let it go -
NIF 3:55
You’re more than welcome to continue that discussion back on the previous thread where the topic started. Such as it is.
Angry Black Man
October 29th, 2009
4:21 pm
josef
Some of the homes I’ve seen had fireplaces, nice chandeliers, and things you’d normally expect in a custom built house. I’ve seen the double stacks, but I haven’t seen them from the inside.
mike
October 29th, 2009
4:22 pm
DebbieDoRight –
“Dude, ever hear of the word parody? That’s P-A-R-O-D-Y. ”
Right. Just like people who perform in black face are doing a parody.
It is so laughable that the most politically correct liberals are the first to defend bigotry and ignorant stereotyping, just as long as it is directed at people that they hate too.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
4:23 pm
Rich people live in trailers. They didn’t have to spend all their money on making interest payments so they were able to save it instead.
DebbieDoRight
October 29th, 2009
4:23 pm
mike: Gee I guess Crowley isn’t a racist after all
And neither is Gates…
Angry Black Man
October 29th, 2009
4:24 pm
Paul
You should have seen the post I’ve got locked up in moderation. It would explain how I feel about that.
mike
October 29th, 2009
4:25 pm
DebbieDoRight –
“And neither is Gates…”
Not so certain. Gates is the one who cried racism when there was none there.
Has Crowley ever accused Gates of racist behavior?
Nothing Is Free
October 29th, 2009
4:25 pm
DebbieDoRight
So it’s a parody. I see. LOL!!
Making fun of poor people is a parody.
So is it just poor people or can we “parody” Black people? How about Obama? How about Hispanics? How about disabled Americans? Is that OK?
Or is it just poor people that happen to be conservatives?
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
4:26 pm
DDR–
I have a problem with this brand of humor for the same reasons I do Steppin’ Fetchit…it’s fine and good as a break and I DO enjoy Redneck from time to time, but then I confess to having Amos and Andy on tape, too…it’s the jacka**es who throw around trailer dwellers as synonymous with sub human that tend to raise hackles whenever it’s mentioned by those a little more open-minded.
BTW–the mobile home as has been adopted by the American Romany would surprize a lot of people if they were ever let inside by the owners…I have been guests in some which would put Buckhead inside the shame…
DebbieDoRight
October 29th, 2009
4:26 pm
mike – I REPEAT I mean do you think the Redneck Comedy Tour (with Jeff Foxworthy and friends) is real and that they’re bigots too? Man!! You need to lighten up!!!
Do you believe Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy are bigots because they do a PARODY of southern males? Please answer and explain your answer. Thanks!!!
Nothing Is Free
October 29th, 2009
4:27 pm
Angry Black Man
One of the most beautiful homes I have seen was transported by helicopter up into the Smokies. It was a doublewide.
Rightwing Troll
October 29th, 2009
4:27 pm
Speaking from experience, and after seeing the officer in question speak, it’s my feeling that perhaps the good professor could’ve been a little more respectful to the officer. The man was just doing his job and answering a call.
Angry Black Man
October 29th, 2009
4:28 pm
Paul
It was released, check the 4:14
Paul
October 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
Angry Black Male
From the fact it’s in moderation – I think that gives me a clue.
See? Watching ‘Monk’ does pay off.
mike
October 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
DebbieDoRight -
“I mean do you think the Redneck Comedy Tour (with Jeff Foxworthy and friends) is real and that they’re bigots too? ”
This is like when black folks use the “n word”. When black people say it, it is not racist. When white people do, it is racist.
“Man!! You need to lighten up!!!”
Please. Stop with the triple exclamation points and you can start telling others to lighten up.
“Do you believe Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy are bigots because they do a PARODY of southern males? Please answer and explain your answer.”
I did above. When a parody is done by the members of the group being parodied, it is done with good intentions. When a parody is done by people who hate the group being parodies, it is done in the name of bigotry and intolerance.