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White Detroit Homeowner Sentenced to 17 years in Prison for Shooting Dead Black 19-year old.
The Daily Mail ^
| 9/03/2014
| AP AND Mailonline
Posted on 09/03/2014 5:00:22 PM PDT by Bon of Babble
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To: Morgana; a fool in paradise
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posted on
09/03/2014 7:50:04 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: The Antiyuppie; F15Eagle
Yeap, Co. Springs had a case where the drunk man was shot and killed through the door. Castle doctrine kicked in.
To: Dr. Sivana
Remember when the first Harry Potter was released in the U.S.?
The language was "cleaned up" for American audiences - words such as "shan't" were changed to "won't" - even the title was changed from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
I could not find an original copy in the United States! My kids were young at the time and I read to them from this book - and I would have appreciated having the English version over the American version specifically because of the difference in language. One of my neighbors had one sent to her from London.
See a list of changes for the American audience here:
https://www15.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/potter.html
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posted on
09/03/2014 8:12:34 PM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(Tired? There's a napp for that!!)
To: Bon of Babble
My Canadian wife and I regularly have "dictionary wars". While the OED generally favors her diction, and the Websters Unabridged 2nd Edition mine, there are notable exceptions.
The English versus American edition pops up all over the place. My wife had read about a child-rearing book called French Children Don't Throw Food, and I could only find the book on the UK Amazon site. In fact, the American version was named Bringing Up Bébé. This was done perhaps out of fear of getting sued by the publisher of French Women Don't Get Fat. I only found out after I purchased the English edition for her.
Besides the title, other small changes were certainly made. Harry Potter would have been better off keeping the British flavor. It certainly hasn't hurt Shakespeare, Jane Austin, The Prisoner or Monty Python.
When my old employer decided to come out with a new edition of English author Canon Ripley's This Is the Faith, we did make small revisions as some of the author's analogies would not be understood by an American without some changes. Even in those cases, we appended an equivalent American term, while keeping the original English term. Two that come to mind had to do with getting service at a Harrods. We simply changed it to "Harrods or Macy's". We also changed "Meccano set" to "Meccano or Erector set", as Meccano was practically unknown stateside.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:08:27 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Gay State Conservative
Did I read once that Texas law allows one to use deadly force in situations that few,if any,other states allow? I'm almost certain I did. It might surprise you to learn that a private citizen's right to use deadly force in the state of Washington is is equal to or broader than it is in the State of Texas.
To: SeaHawkFan
Without reading the thread, I’m sure someone has asked why shooting a dead teen is a criminal offense “... for Shooting Dead Black 19-year old.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:36:43 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
To: VRWCarea51
Prolly didn’t even knock the pancake off your head, right?
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:41:33 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
To: Bon of Babble
It was not a ‘good’ shoot. Looking at all the facts his actions didn’t seem rational. I think he shot out of anger and not fear.
To: Bon of Babble
Public intoxication is illegal. Why do police arrest such people if they are “harmless”?
Pounding on a door is a belligerent act. Now you may call it knocking if you believe you know who lives there but once they establish that it is the wrong home, you are a trespasser to persist.
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:15:14 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: F15Eagle
The homeowner was wrong. You cant just blast through the door at someone pounding. Vice president Biden says you can.
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:15:56 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
Comment #71 Removed by Moderator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A guy in Texas (a millionaire) got off after killing his neighbor in a dispute and then hacking up the body and throwing it in the Gulf. His only “crime” was in mistreating a corpse (he claimed the killing was in self-defense).
I think that guy made the news again this year but I don’t recall for what.
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:18:08 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
Comment #73 Removed by Moderator
To: F15Eagle
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:20:41 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
Comment #75 Removed by Moderator
To: F15Eagle
No accountability either. And US News said Biden’s staff had “no comment”.
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:30:10 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
Comment #77 Removed by Moderator
To: Bon of Babble
What does the race of either party matter? Oh and BTW, it wasn’t a “Detroit” homeowner....
What has happened to the press? (yes that is rhetorical.”
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:54:37 AM PDT
by
CSM
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
“Screw her, she drove drunk and crashed her car, she could have killed an entire family. Karma dealt her justice, good riddance.”
Are you seriously advocating the death penalty for DUI?
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posted on
09/04/2014 7:01:01 AM PDT
by
CSM
To: MHGinTN; VRWCarea51
I just got out of the shower, am I logged on?
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posted on
09/04/2014 7:31:43 AM PDT
by
CSM
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