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50 comments:
Ooop!
Oh no, Mikey!
Nifong and Grace, two despicable human beings ...
"Lawsuit Against CNN, Grace in Florida Missing Boy Case to Be Tried Federal Court, Judge Rules
OCALA, Fla. (AP) -- A judge has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit claiming that CNN's Nancy Grace pushed the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning on her show will be tried in federal court.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary R. Jones ruled Monday that federal court would handle the lawsuit filed by Melinda Duckett's relatives because the involved parties are from different jurisdictions, according to court documents.
The lawsuit was filed in November 2006 and names the talk show host and CNN as defendants.
Grace grilled Duckett on Grace's CNN Headline News show in September 2006 about the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son, Trenton. Duckett fatally shot herself before the network aired the pre-taped interview.
Authorities, who have said they believe Trenton is still alive, have named Melinda Duckett as the prime suspect in his disappearance.
Attorneys involved in the case did not return phone messages left at their offices Tuesday."
Lets see, he didn't read the report, he didn't watch the entire ID session or read the entire transcript, and he never interviewed CM. We know he wasn't meeting with Defense lawyers, besides granting interviews with the media what the hell was he doing the day?
He was really really busy with other cases. Or maybe he was licking stamps and mailing campaign literature with VP? One thing we know for sure....he wasn't at the dentist or the dermatologist.....
Take a look at some cable news today. There is a story, although underplayed, about a riot that occurred as a result of the celebration of Juneteenth. Juneteenth is celebrated by blacks noting the end of slavery.
Seems they have a long list of celebrations for everything under the sun. A whole month in February and more days off to celebrate MLK Day. But little constructive ever results.
Is there a picnic day? A collard day? A hip-hop aesthetics day?
Like so many times when there is a large congregation for anything, violence erupts.
Juneteenth celebrants were atacking policeman physically, mass rioting with the kind of destruction we saw in South Central LA in years past. Some people exist only to destroy and exhibit violence.
3:28pm
What city was this? Durham leaders won't admit it but riots would have broken out there if they hadn't been allowed to falsely charge the Duke players.
When will this ever end? I'm so sick of them, honestly.
I think it is bad karma to wish ill wille to others, but I do hope the Dockett family gets justice.
Anyone have a link to the video clip of Nifong claiming "something happened"...Please post it if you have it KC. Thanks!
He certainly tried Nifong double speak at the trial - it worked on Titus and Stephens because they were supporting Nifong. It did not work with Lawyer Williamson or the other lawyers (including Freedman and probably Witt). As Williamson and Nifong were classmates in law school, it looks like Mr Lane was well familiar with Nifong's stuff.
Now, we see how truly inept this guy is, I can hardly believe he kept this thing going for ten months.
The June-Teenth story I saw was in Austin, TX. A man had hit a young girl with his car (minor injuries) but a crowd of black men surrounded him and threatened him. When another man (Hispanic) came to his defense, they beat him to death. It is a shocking story.
Sadly, no it isn't shocking anymore. They act like that all the time. It is what they are.
When a large group of AA congregate something destructive always happens. Many towns have had to discontinue their own festivals and family oriented celebrations because groups and gangs of black males hijack the occasion and then violence erupts.
Families with children are run away and are unable to enjoy taxpayer supported events because of these thugs.
Much of Durham is like that.
There was another June-teenth incident in Milwaukee where another group of blacks pulled a guy out of his car and beat him... in today's paper.
Some towns where black college students go for spring break are left in shambles, but if the residents complain they are called racists.
I think most people are tired of this. It's not the fault of others that the blacks in this country cannot or will not abide by the same codes of decency. Why should this be ignored? Many are such destructive people and the responsible members of the community will never do anything to bring them in line.
Just as they sat and did nothing about this lacrosse fiasco. They enjoyed it because they don't live by the same rules of decency.
Where did Juneteenth come from? How does it fit "I didn't read the report"?????
Why is KC stonewalling on the final evidence submitted by Fried man. Is it truly exculpatory for the Fong?
Actually there are three different stories on Drudge about blacks stabbing each other and pulling whites and Mexicans from their cars and assaulting them. They killed a Mexican in Austin! These people are poison
"... what the hell was he doing all day?"
... visualizing Mikey's hand moving up and down rythmically ...
4:11pm
It fits because Mikey is a thug like they are. No sense of reason. Just instant gratification and destruction. Like an animal.
Juneteenth is really a Texas thing, although it's spread to other states now. It commemerates June 19th, 1865 which is when the Union general occupying Texas at the close of the civil war first announced the emancipation proclamation (which had been issued 2 years previously) to Texas slaves.
Now they call it the black July 4th. (no kidding)
All you guys do know that KC will erase these true stories. Even though discussing this topic explains clearly why the people who live in Durham, NC did what they did and enjoyed it.
It explains the very different mindset that exists among the majority of the black population, even though those who are educated sit back and watch right up until the end when Nifong was finally disbarred.
Everything, including the rogue element on Duke's campus is rooted in the deficiency the exists in the black community and their willingness to accept destructive methods to get their way.
Nartey
Solomon Burnette
Grant Farred
Wahneema Lubiano
Houston Baker
Mark Anthony Neal
Karla Holloway
Serena Sebring and Ubuntu
Black editors at the N & O
Black employees at the H-S
Durham's black mayor and the many black council members
Durham's black city manager
Durham's black police chief
Judge Orlando Hudson and his stonewalling until the end
Durham's activists
--and on and on and on.
One of the black Durham city council members named Howard Clement once said that he never celebrates this country's 4th of July because it didn't include "his people".
No kidding. Why should anyone bother with such losers? Yet they always want and want and want what this country offers.
Praise the Lord. Easeley is putting Jim Hardin back in as DA.
If any of you can watch Tucker on MSNBC when it is repeated again at 6pm, you should. The man who is substituting for him gave a lengthy editorial statement on why there will be no closure in Durham, NC until Crystal Gail Mangum is hauled into court as a perpetrator and receives the same justice dealt to Mike Nifong because she is the main reason for all these settlements right now.
Very very good.
JLS says...,
Thanks for these clips Professor Johnson. It was hard to fully appreciate and be outraged by all of Nifong's testimony at once.
JLS says...,
re: anon 4:42
Wow, next the new DPD chief will be the inhouse candidate. I guess the powers that be in Durham want to dump this all on Nifong and carry on.
For all those on the other thread who would be so proud to send a child to Duke, you do realize it is in Durham where the record is the authorities would have it in for your child?
I'm surprised that Durham doesn't try to get Jim Jefferson (who likes very cold cash) as the new DA. It's how they do business there.
During the NBA ALL STar weekend, my town was invaded by low life thugs - thousands staying in three rooms at the MGM Grand. All the usual trash that folk would attribitue to this crowd. As a result, Mayor Goodman will never get a stadium through taxes. They can'at come back. We have a tragic incident of a bouncer shot and is now a quad. Pacman Jones was present during the choas. Folk from NO were writing, we don't know how to handle crowds. At 44 million a year tourist, I think we do. Jason wrote having the Lousiana National Guard facing off this crowd could happen in NO.
"All you guys do know that KC will erase these true stories."
And why shouldn't he? Leave your simple-minded racism at someone else's doorstep. This is a thread dealing with Nifong's crimes, not your bigotry. If you have a problem with the way folks behaved at Juneteenth, start a blog about how bad black people are ruining the country, oh wait, that's what the GOP is for. Fuckin' idiot
4:55pm
We all remember the behavior in the city of New Orleans. They try to blame a slow reaction by the federal gov't, but their sickening behavior--thugs stealing, raping, shooting, and tearing everything in sight apart is what caused the real trouble.
A friend of mine who lives in another country and saw it all on CNN said that places like New Orleans look like the third world to onlookers.
Who's fault is that, really?
5:00pm
Sorry, fella. This country's problems with the black community is the very reason Mike Nifong was even able to get this fiasco going. It is the reason for Brodhead's cowardice. It is the reason so many newspapers went along with Nifong's story.
You want to try to ignore it, but black bad behavior and scapegoating and extortion methods are all the reasons for Mike Nifong's sorry mess.
Without the distorted black mindset with regard to the justice system, this would have been over in one day.
You know that. And I am a Democrat, fella. Sorry, I'm just sick and tired of black people and the way they enjoy destruction of anything in sight.
"Sorry, I'm just sick and tired of black people and the way they enjoy destruction of anything in sight."
So get the fuck out you sniveling dipwad. As if "black people" describes anything other than your own loony fears about brown-skinned human beings. Save that whiny-ass bullshit for next Klan meeting.
5:14
You sound (or read) as someone very ignorant.
No need for your dirty language. Are you black and just can't help yourself?
"fucking idiot?" Actually a growing number of whites, Mexicans, Asians etc. are waking up to the fact that every time there are "racial problems" in this nation the problems are really black problems. The unrelenting ugly violence, the sick racism directed at whites, Asians, Latinos, the gang warfare, the shootings the stabbings. It's almost a relief these days when you actually see a white criminal on the news! Black crime is a serious problem in this nation and some of us have grown a spine are fighting back. Nifong's willingness to sacrifice three white men to assuage black racist lynch mobs is an absolute disgrace--but I'll bet even he is starting to understand what you get when you deal with these people.
"Fucking idiots" are people who look at the world but refuse to see what the real problems are. I'll bet you wouldn't be caught dead in a black nieghborhood after dark--I've yet to meet a condescending liberal who would.
humboldtblue, you destroy the points you try to make with your filth.
Others can see that you do not have the restraint or the discipline to argue or debate without uncivilized behavior.
Just like those thugs discussed above. And that's too bad.
Humboldtblue epitomizes what has come to be known as irrational thug behavior. Are you a member of the faculty88. Bet you are.
And you're an anonymous coward, whose racist drivel has turned a thread relating to Nifong into an attack on "black people."
Your comments deserve no dignity, so I'll lower myself to your level and finish with, fuck off.
5:19
One of the black Durham city council members is afraid of black neighborhoods too.
He keeps bars on his windows and has a big dog for protection.
Try as you might, you can't ignore the awful behavior that many want to ignore, but is the root cause of most of their problems.
"Are you a member of the faculty88. Bet you are."
And I'll bet you're too fucking stupid to realize I live in California.
5:26
We can all see that your filthy diatribes are anonymous. Unless your real name is "beezlebub humboldtblue".
What kind of a name is that? You, like most here are anonymous. Only you display filth.
btw, does "blue" stand for "blue gum"?
A study run by a Winston-Salem newspaper, then buried, reported that 95% of calls to the Raleigh 911 system were due to bad behavior of young black men. Their total percentage of the population, even in Durham, cannot be more than about 20%. Remarkable amounts of destruction and criminality, and dare I mention, actual rape, as opposed to Nifong's former favorite, fictional rape. Oh, right, something happened. Sorry Mikey, wrong again.
And now Easley says "And over this kingdom, Hardin shall reign again". Great. Swell, thanks for nothing, you lame duck democrat backstabber.
5:45
I have been troubled by this for some time. Whenever I hear a news story about crime, I pray that it is not a black/white situation because I am so tired of all that goes along with that mess.
If it's a black perpetrator, I hope the victim is black. If it's a white perpetrator, I hope that the victim is white.
I just can't stand the behavior of most black people anymore. it's like living in a banana republic. They don't seem to want to build anything up. just tear down.
"Only you display filth."
What better way to counter the filth of vapid, insipid racism than with filth. There is nothing more filthy than an ignorant piece of shit insulting "black people" as if the color of one's skin is a determinant of behavior. There is nothing more filthy than relying on the pernicious use of stereotype to smear a huge block of the human race. There is nothing more filthy than a cowardly piece of shit like you to then turn and try to justify it. What a fucking poltroon.
5:51, as we have seen, the color of one's skin often does determine behavior. I know that we're not supposed to admit that fact, but it's what "nice liberal people" talk about among themselves at cocktail parties and about how they have to appease their "minority" friends.
Don't play dumb. Just try to work for positive change in the black communities of this country. Trust me, almost everyone is getting sick of trying to deny the trouble that they cause everyone else. Be a fly on the wall.
5:51pm
If there is nothing worse than doing all that you say, why did Duke's black professors do that to the white lacrosse players who were innocent?
You can't live with those double standards you've been used to. You thugs will be forced to begin going by the same rules of decency as most people in this country.
I can think of plenty of things more filthy than racism. Pedophilia, for example. But to each his own, I guess...
When a third of the black male US population has a criminal record, I think we have a problem. You can bray all day long that it's some irrational crazy thought process in white people called "racism"--but nobody's fooled anymore. Nobody feels comfortable in black nieghborhoods. There are race wars going on in LA blacks vs Mexicans/Latinos and nobody's talking about it--do a search on Youtube and you'll see some shocking, ugly video
We all know that there are good black people, but that certainly doesn't excuse the ever increasingly violent and ugly black underclass. if blacks can cry about slavery from 150 years ago, I'll be damned if I'm going to shut up about what's going on today. People of all races are getting fed up
6:03pm
Yes!
I recently read a column by Mayor Bell that he wasn't going to choose his panel to investigate the DPD to please other people, but that the panelists chosen were those whom he deemed to be what was needed for his objective.
Knowing who most of those panelists are, I have very little faith that Bell wants the whole truth to come out. That entire place is run by a bunch of racists.
Everything is out - In this case, the truth has not set people free.
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