tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2172290189280330770..comments2024-03-29T03:18:25.501-04:00Comments on the daily howler: THE PROBLEMS WITH NOVELS: Gene Robinson buries John Geer!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1957867567324060382020-06-27T05:18:12.058-04:002020-06-27T05:18:12.058-04:00Hello! I'm very excited to inform everyone tha...Hello! I'm very excited to inform everyone that I'm completely cured from my HSV 1&2 recently. I have used Oregano oil, Coconut oil, Acyclovir, Valacyclovir, Famciclovir, and some other products and it's really help during my outbreaks but I totally got cured! from my HSV with a strong and active herbal medicine ordered from a powerful herbalist and it completely fought the virus from my nervous system and I was tested negative after 12 days of using the herbal medicine. I'm here to let y'all know that herpes virus has a complete cure, I got rid of mine with the help of Dr Oyagu and his herbal exploit. Contact him via email: oyaguherbalhome@gmail.com call or whatsApp him on +2348101755322.Cookie Walker https://www.blogger.com/profile/10813732916322250990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59759602839655251842016-07-14T08:40:52.866-04:002016-07-14T08:40:52.866-04:00Are you "someone with no education, training,...Are you "someone with no education, training, and very little practice in the field?"<br /><br />Oh, NO! Could it be that you are a, *gasp*, hypocrite?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28021460767268057432016-07-13T18:37:19.728-04:002016-07-13T18:37:19.728-04:00I don't have to prove anything. I am not a jou...I don't have to prove anything. I am not a journalist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86553965526150923502016-07-13T11:22:56.354-04:002016-07-13T11:22:56.354-04:00Speaking of narratives, after the Dallas police sh...Speaking of narratives, after the Dallas police shooting last week, can we finally kill the one about the 2nd Amendment being for citizens to fight the tyranny of the government?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65743470576749802772016-07-13T11:02:05.052-04:002016-07-13T11:02:05.052-04:00Did Geer really have the temerity to be called Gee...Did Geer really have the temerity to be called Geer instead of Greer?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-35144875663191276782016-07-13T10:58:19.416-04:002016-07-13T10:58:19.416-04:00"Bad journalism." An opinion of yours t..."Bad journalism." An opinion of yours that is so poorly defended, that you actually manage to prove Somerby's points more often than not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83446737810911083642016-07-13T10:11:14.944-04:002016-07-13T10:11:14.944-04:00What Somerby does here is journalism. Bad journal...What Somerby does here is journalism. Bad journalism. From someone with no education, training, and very little practice in the field before beginning his own publication, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19403821049925995572016-07-13T09:56:46.924-04:002016-07-13T09:56:46.924-04:00HOW TO SAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP
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To enable you have a taste of his great workMandy Divannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236744773652189011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28130861895803632302016-07-13T09:28:51.542-04:002016-07-13T09:28:51.542-04:00Having been stopped many times before, Castile may...Having been stopped many times before, Castile may have been known to the police and that may have been the basis for deciding he looked like the robbery suspect in the security video. If we are going to speculate, why not speculate that Castile was known to local officers? <br /><br />Further, everyone seems to assume that the numerous traffic stops were bogus. Does it change the picture to assume that Castile was someone who couldn't conform to requirements to keep his driver's license current, to license his vehicle and keep it in good repair? 31 of his CONVICTIONS (not stops, convictions) were for misdemeanors -- those are not routine tickets (such as for speeding) but more serious problems such as DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, lack of a license or insurance. We have video of Castile and Reynolds driving DUI (from Reynolds facebook). Why assume he was being hassled unfairly when there is evidence such stops may have been justified. Why assume anyone was beaten? Why not assume he was a nuisance to local officers because he could not conform to traffic laws? Inability to do what an authority figure asks, in the manner asked, then seems like a plausible contributor to his death -- e.g., failure to keep his hands up after he told the cop he had a gun.<br /><br />Assumptions can go both ways. Reasoning from statistical data tells us very little about what happened in this specific situation. <br /><br />Being stopped 51 times does not result in any tickets at all if you keep your vehicle in repair and follow traffic laws. Dismissed tickets are generally the result of fixing a mechanical problem and showing proof of the repair in court. They don't prove the officer's stop was wrong. I've seen a lot of dismissive talk about "They were just speeding tickets" and so on, but these laws exist because they prevent accidents and keep people safe. Why should any segment of the population, because of skin color, be exempt from following the same laws everyone else agrees to follow? Traffic tickets matter. <br /><br />If I see one more person say "The sentence for speeding shouldn't be death" I will believe BLM supporters are not trying to think clearly. Castile's death was because he made a cop fear for his life by reaching instead of keeping his hands up (after telling the cop he had a gun). It wasn't a punishment for any aspect of operating his car or for being black or for being a cafeteria supervisor or for having a child in the car or anything else like that. These formulations -- who cares if he had 52 traffic stops -- the penalty for that shouldn't be death -- are an insult to the seriousness of the discussion on race.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17246941489874139672016-07-13T06:21:15.259-04:002016-07-13T06:21:15.259-04:00From 2000 to 2015, the data span a pretty large pe...From 2000 to 2015, the data span a pretty large period. Lots of changes in circumstances in there: post-9/11, two major wars, deep recession, slow recovery, black president. It would be very informative to see those statistics plotted year-by-year. People tend to think history began with their awareness of it. If it is so that 20-25-year-olds have just discovered the last 5-8 years, and it is true that in that period, blacks ARE more frequently shot, they may have point.<br />From the data we have, it appears to me that blacks are generally grabbed, held, and generally abused at a much higher rate. And, of course, they survive those experiences to tell the tale. Naturally, those persons will deduce a higher shooting rate as an escalation of their own experience. I would also like to know how many times each shooting victim had previously been beaten and released by police. Everyone has a breaking point; after being stopped 51 times for minor offenses, Mr. Castile might have shown less than the respect expected by the police, and they both escalated ftom there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1834011399578658842016-07-12T20:47:01.330-04:002016-07-12T20:47:01.330-04:00Did Greer really, after being shot, have the temer...Did Greer really, after being shot, have the temerity and the wherewithal to close the door before he fell to the floor, fatally wounded?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29943329556760657002016-07-12T20:17:33.154-04:002016-07-12T20:17:33.154-04:00Reporters aren't supposed to dance around the ...Reporters aren't supposed to dance around the truth.<br /><br />If Donald didn't send gumshoes to Hawaii, she should have said so plainly, up front. Journalism isn't about reading between the lines.<br /><br />What Somerby does here isn't journalism. How many times does that need to be explained before you will get it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46500319196117747702016-07-12T17:43:13.082-04:002016-07-12T17:43:13.082-04:00I remember a reporter from the New York Times who,...I remember a reporter from the New York Times who, by implication, made it plain Donald Trump never sent gumshoes to Hawaii but didn't say she asked anyone. Pretty clear to all but really stupid people that he didn't. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66268214606727387782016-07-12T13:13:33.915-04:002016-07-12T13:13:33.915-04:00 if you like them, if you like them, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50393933006228018582016-07-12T12:42:10.182-04:002016-07-12T12:42:10.182-04:00Yes, why should readers follow his links?
Somerby...Yes, why should readers follow his links?<br /><br />Somerby, by implication, makes it plain that Geer is white but he doesn't say so.<br /><br />If the reporter neglected to mention that Geer was right, a reader could "follow the links" and find out by looking up Geer's birth certificate, so why the fuss?<br /><br />Years ago, journalists were told it was racist to mention the race of a person in a crime article (or other type of article), so they stopped doing it. Then civil rights activists decided race was important and began emphasizing disparities. It is hard to notice patterns or assess disparities when race is omitted from articles routinely.<br /><br />The point isn't whether the original article mentioned that Geer was white, but that cases of shootings of white people are not given the same salience, the same media attention as those involving black men in these days of BLM and renewed civil rights interest in police activity. A distorted picture of the statistical realities is the result.<br /><br />Somerby illustrates in today's post how this happens. You @12:08, think it is sufficient that race could be determined with a bit of effort. That effort deters a reader from generating a correct impression of who gets shot under what circumstances.<br /><br />Another Howler reader who doesn't get subtlety when it hits him in the face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4275396744527101392016-07-12T12:13:57.190-04:002016-07-12T12:13:57.190-04:00Hi, Ms. Pigeonhole!Hi, Ms. Pigeonhole!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21811019172543082252016-07-12T12:08:19.159-04:002016-07-12T12:08:19.159-04:00Another Howler reader who never follows a link.
(...Another Howler reader who never follows a link.<br /><br />(Reporters never ask the questions Bob wants in the posts or quoted materials so why should his readers follow his links. Everyone disses <br />Bob.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39296713522870968272016-07-12T11:08:12.045-04:002016-07-12T11:08:12.045-04:00Nowhere in this piece or in the quoted material do...Nowhere in this piece or in the quoted material does it say that Geer is white. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60388245354647827482016-07-12T11:02:38.272-04:002016-07-12T11:02:38.272-04:00Joe and MEka have been lying about Hillary Clinton...Joe and MEka have been lying about Hillary Clinton to slam her for days and this is when you decide to attack something said no Morning Joe. I guess you rather attack a liberal african-american than a fellow old, white, southern, conservative white guy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com