Absent such a miracle, St Louis will have 300 murders by year end.
 

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A lot of the St. Louis Metro area is liberal. STL and KCMO went blue the last two presidential elections, as did Columbia, MO, IIRC.

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“He walked over there and into a gunfight,” Gebhard’s uncle, Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his nephew. “When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed him.”
 

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Unfortunately, we don't have % of Total Rebounds for Wilt except for the last three years of his career at age 34-36:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/chambwi01.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rodmade01.html

But Rodman's stats at that age (the three championship seasons in Chicago) are dramatically higher than Chamberlain's at that age (a one championship, two finals run in LA).

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I don't watch that much basketball so don't take my observation as worth much, but Jerry West did something regularly that nobody else did much of back then, nor did I see it since: block outside jump shots from behind. He'd drift over from the man he was guarding to behind the other guard who had gotten away from Gail Goodrich and when Goodrich's man went up for a jumper, West would reach out with a long arm and strip the ball from the surprised opponent who inevitably would finish his shooting motion while West took off for a lay-in.

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StevenRichter > [tiny minority of American muslims as evidenced by lone-wolf-syndrome

That's a really good point, and also please note that in both cases the perps were second-generation (i'm sorta discounting the SanBernadino wife because I figure she merely followed her hubby's lead)

I am 30% MORALLY opposed to the idea blanket ban on muslim immigration, and 100% practically opposed to the idea.

The practical reason being: They will lie. They're already willing to throw away their ID documents. If they can throw them away, they can also get fake ones showing that they are yazidis or Coptic Christians.

If you just implement some simplistic ban, then you think you have "solved" the problem; you stop thinking about it, and you move on to the next cause celebre du jour. Where "you" is the aggregate of the thinking classes

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Syonredux, Not a conspiracy theorist, but Oswald may have been like a Manchurian Candidate and his wife, an arranged trigger. easier to accomplish if she is relatively good looking.

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"I hoping you are disagreeing regarding Airplane vs. Starship and not on his assessment of Muskrat Love. The 70s were probably the peak period for uniquely terrible top forty hits."

The 1970s was a great decade for music.

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Whiskey,
I usually agree with you even though you tend to HAMMER HAMMER HAMMER HAMMER your points too hard, but you are flat out wrong here.

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I agree. YT is so uniquely and irredeemably horrible that he must be completely isolated from POCs, NAMs, and LGBTs. All white Americans should be confined to the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states, where they are already an overwhelming majority. An impenetrable wall should be built to completely seal off this area of unbearable whiteness and prevent it from oppressing the outer world in any way. Each area should practice strict non-interference in the economic and political life of the other.

Enjoy.

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"these countries should be world beaters but corruption and mismanagement is what keeps them in poverty"

And I imagine a hefty amount of intervention, both overt and covert, by Uncle Sam over the years? The Monroe Doctrine seemed to be translated as "no other countries can get involved, but we can do as we like".

In the early 1900s Argentina's per capita GDP was up there with Europe's.

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All I know is that the Rice and Garner families both got $6 MM checks, and quickly. That's six times was Trayvon's family got. In the Gentle Giant case, on the other hand, the family of Michael Brown has so far received -- nothing (although that's still winding its way through the courts.)

The whole point of settlement is not admitting culpability. They could always take it to court.

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Who are these Americans you speak of? And why should we care about them? What are your definitions? Just who are these people we should care about 'first' ? What makes them so different from anybody else?

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In Missouri, the dividing line is I-70.

Around Kansas City and St. Louis you will find all three stripes: Independence and much of outer North and West County being old style rednecks (North County has pretty much purged them), but otherwise, only outlying far north Nodaway County has much hickishness north of I-70. Hannibal and rural Adair County (props to Alex Linder!) have a few to be sure, but most of them are south of Sedalia.

North of I-70, with the abovementioned exceptions, the rurals are German-Scandianvian. At least that's my impression. But Missouri does have cities named Bolivar and Mexico, so there is that. Then again, there is Ste. Genevieve and Gasconade County.

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But, for example , on the one hand , Philadelphia and St. Louis are both "Midlands" cities but on the other hand St. Louis ended up on the Southern side and Philadelphia was quintessentially Northern and abolitionist. Jim Crow existed in St. Louis right up until it was outlawed by the Feds in '64.

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"But observably, anti-hate speech laws in the UK allow the authorities a do-as-you-likey approach to harassing citizens."

To what extent is this law enforced by UK authorities? Is it perpetual?

"By framing free speech as something other than hate speech, the law creates a framework that excludes the possibility of conceiving of free speech as including grumpy references to mealy-mouthed mohammedans, at least among those who drink the PC Kool-Ade."

Muslims you meant to say. Listen, hate speech is one of those things that is an over-the-top law that ought to be repealed and/or lack enforcement.

"I’m seeing the culture that gave birth to the rights that I hold essential to civil society in my homeland getting pissed away."

The UK is your homeland? Then I suggest you run for office and work to repeal those laws you find objectionable.

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"Even in Kansas City, there are pretty decent Thai restaurants, and Mexican restaurants are a dime a dozen.

But I can’t get a genuine, authentic, Neapolitan style Pizza Margherita (to say nothing of Pizza Capricciosa – a.k.a. heaven on earth) to save my life.

We obviously need more Italian immigrants, and fewer Asians & Latinos."

Are there any good Italian restaurants in St. Louis where the late Yogi Berra is from?

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Trump is no Gomer Pyle. He outwitted the entire brain trust of the Republican Establishment.

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the “fiance visa” was utilized specifically to bring in another terrorist
 

Te consular officer who OKed her visa, after the interviews and background checks, may have suspected something, but must not have wanted to violate her constitutional rights.

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The difference is that AndrewR responded to what could be interpreted as a call for someone to be shot, while the SJWs are usually harassing someone over an opinion or statement of fact that they don't like

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Andrew R, what you did is what "they" do....good job my friend.

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No worries we just build spaceships they need - like in the story "The Marching Morons" . See these SJW fellas aren't too bright to begin with and are technically illiterate. So the rocket ships don't need a life support system, can use lethal levels of acceleration. And all the rocket ship has to do is reach orbit for a bit then burn up on re-entry. No muss, no fuss.

The first ships will contain the humanities departments from all the major universities along with the administrators. The next ones will contain the dim wit professors and students from MIT who praised Ahmed the Clockmaker as some sort of genius.

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Sort of related:

“I think the Department of Education should monitor institutions of higher education for political bias and withhold federal funding if it exists”—Ben Carson

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The first case you listed actually occurred, the second case is your own assumption. So, you really should have both instances be similar in nature. Regardless, there actually is a rape culture no matter if it is a white or black male, contrary to some conservatives insistence that it's all made up. Yet, this claim states otherwise.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/11/new-doj-data-on-sexual-assaults-college-students-are-actually-less-likely-to-be-victimized/

Considering more white non-Hispanic commit violent crimes than Hispanics or blacks, as in raw numbers, if one considers the absolute number of offenders and it turns out there are a larger number of offenders who are white than those who are black, then it stands to reason whites is the greater threat in terms of likelihood of criminal acts. The statistical fact is that you’re more likely to be a victim of a white perpetrator than a black one just because there are so many more whites in the population.

But rape culture doesn't exist, so I've been informed. Or, it only exists if non-whites are somehow involved. Or, it occurs when whites aren't involved. It's really a political and racial football, like so many other things.

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Part of the problem I think is that hardly anyone can remember when some drugs were legal. Cocaine was banned in 1914, for example. Marijuana was banned more recently 1970, and I think most sensible people now realize that it should be legalized again, but still, that's a while ago. People think of drug criminalization as just part of the landscape, and few are ready to entertain the idea that maybe drug problems could be better dealt with as a medical issue, rather than a criminal one.

I guess we need baby steps. First legalize marijuana, and when the world doesn't end people will be willing to extend this to other drugs.

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The St Louis Post-Dispatch is tool of mega-billionaire Democratic activist Warren Buffet who is the power behind the scenes of Lee Enterprises, the Post-Dispath's holding company.

The rest of the left-wing media is pushing the Schweich commited suicide due to anti-semitism angle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Schweich

Schweich was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Brigitte and Julius Schweich.[4][5] He was a fifth generation Missourian and a graduate of Missouri's public school system.[6] He was of part Jewish ancestry, but himself attended an Episcopal church.[7] Schweich received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, and he obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School.[8] After law school he joined the oldest law firm in Missouri, Bryan Cave.[8] As a partner at Bryan Cave, Schweich specialized in corporate compliance, helping to manage internal audits and investigations for large companies.
 

Naturally high-strung, Schweich seemed unusually agitated — his voice sometimes quivering and his legs and hands shaking — when he told an AP reporter on Monday that he wanted to hold a press conference to allege that Missouri Republican Party Chairman John Hancock had made anti-Semitic remarks about him.

Schweich postponed a planned press conference Tuesday. But he called the AP at 9:16 a.m. Thursday inviting an AP reporter to his home for a 2:30 p.m. interview and noting that a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch also had been invited. An AP reporter spoke with Schweich by phone again at 9:35 a.m. to confirm the upcoming interview.

Police say the emergency call to Schweich’s house was received at 9:48 a.m.
 

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States can exclude students with disabilities (SD) or that are English-language learners ELL from NAEP tests.

States don’t all exclude the same fraction. For example, with 8th grade reading, Iowa excludes 1% and Texas excludes 6%. With 4th grade reading, Iowa excludes 1% and Texas excludes 10%.

In grade 4, Iowa classifies 15% as disabled and excludes 1 out of 15. Texas classifies 10% as disabled and excludes 6 out of 10.

In grade 4, Iowa classifies 6% as ELL and excludes almost none. Texas classifies 22% as ELL and excludes 5 out of 22.

The Texas Miracle !
 

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The black/white percentages in these cities are 82.7/10.6 for Detroit and 49.2/43.9 for St. Louis. Given the large black white homicide rate gap, you'd expect Detroit to therefore have a much higher homicide rate. In fact, it is only slightly higher, 38 v 45 per 100,000.

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I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't intended to catch readers' attentions. The mayor, the police chief, and the editor of the newspaper are all telling everybody to move along, nothing to see here, so the reporter slipped in something awkward, but not something he could get in trouble over. Or maybe I'm all wrong about this.

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Abstract Some authors defending the ‘‘hereditarian’’ hypothesis with respect to differences in average IQ scores between populations have argued that the sorts of environmental variation hypothesized by some researchers rejecting the hereditarian position should leave discoverable statistical traces, namely changes in the overall variance of scores or in variance–covariance matrices relating scores to other variables. In this paper, I argue that the claims regarding the discoverability of such statistical signals are broadly mistaken—there is no good reason to suspect that the hypothesized environmental causes would leave detectable traces of the sorts suggested. As there remains no way to gather evidence that would permit the direct refutation of the environmental hypotheses, and no direct evidence for the hereditarian position, it remains the case, I argue, that the hereditarian position is unsupported by current evidence.
 

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