tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5751568811940183933..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-17397159669469296562011-11-12T15:25:11.838-05:002011-11-12T15:25:11.838-05:00Furman's little tough guy speech sounds false ...Furman's little tough guy speech sounds false to my ear. He seems to have been indulging in quite a lot of braggadocio. I don't buy it.<br /><br />My guess is the incidents he described didn't happen QUITE the way he said, but he hoped to impress the screenwriter with something suitably cinematic, casting himself as the rough, manly anti-hero. He's a stone racist, sure, but I don't think that skinny little blowhard actually indulged in a lot of personal ass-kicking. He wouldn't want to sprain an ankle.<br /><br />...On second thought, he could have watched other people do it and stood by snickering, I suppose. Worm.Julia Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17362674302259593644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-68245151135570340632011-11-12T07:38:32.811-05:002011-11-12T07:38:32.811-05:00WOW!
Perfect!
3rd!!!WOW! <br />Perfect!<br />3rd!!!c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91174758227191033042011-11-11T18:08:29.952-05:002011-11-11T18:08:29.952-05:00I;ll second that.I;ll second that.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-82766372336039054432011-11-11T13:19:00.558-05:002011-11-11T13:19:00.558-05:00NBB, that's one of the most perfect comments o...NBB, that's one of the most perfect comments on the OJ case I've ever heard.BHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991272246814476124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63437671898089847252011-11-10T21:32:10.651-05:002011-11-10T21:32:10.651-05:00As a (white) acquaintance said of the OJ verdict a...As a (white) acquaintance said of the OJ verdict at the time: "This is what happens when the police set out to frame a guilty man."Never Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78565507083502203572011-11-10T21:30:32.276-05:002011-11-10T21:30:32.276-05:00From the Wikipedia article on Fuhrman:
----------...From the Wikipedia article on Fuhrman:<br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />"In one 1985 recording, Fuhrman gave a taped interview to Laura Hart McKinny, a writer working on a screenplay about female police officers. In another interview, Fuhrman talked about gang members and was quoted as saying, "Yeah we work with niggers and gangs. You can take one of these niggers, drag 'em into the alley and beat the shit out of them and kick them. You can see them twitch. It really relieves your tension." He went on to say "we had them begging that they'd never be gang members again, begging us." He said that he would tell them, "You do what you're told, understand, nigger?"<br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />So, yeah. The OJ example is going to be a complicated one to make any kind of useful comparison about group loyalty.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894655800419937862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-57504159246773966592011-11-10T21:26:53.271-05:002011-11-10T21:26:53.271-05:00The OJ example is complicated because you had an o...The OJ example is complicated because you had an open white supremacist -- Mark Fuhrman -- deeply involved in the case, and he was caught moving evidence from the crime scene to OJ's residence. This doesn't exonerate OJ, of course, and I think OJ was guilty, too, but the jury (and black community) were right in sending a message that they refuse to abide this kind of police corruption and white supremacy.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894655800419937862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72719320250686051142011-11-10T17:50:57.688-05:002011-11-10T17:50:57.688-05:00Ditto!
As a lifelong PSU and Joe Paterno fan, I c...Ditto!<br /><br />As a lifelong PSU and Joe Paterno fan, I can't believe that this was allowed to happen.<br /><br />Everyone connected, who let this amoral monster roam around with little children, and had even a HINT about it and allowed it to continue but turning their head, deserves to lose their job, benefits, pension, and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.<br /><br />Every day, this story makes me sicker and sicker.<br /><br />And, of all the worthy things out there to protest (I'd prefer non-violently) against, this is what the kids decided to make a major issue of?<br />Really?<br /><br />Is it me, or does this remind anyone else of some religious order, with Joe Paterno as the Pope, or Mohammed, or whomever, as the religious figure who is being blasphemed/aggrieved?<br /><br />Sorry kids - REALLY FUCKING STUPID!c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-59185262116872933842011-11-10T17:23:29.918-05:002011-11-10T17:23:29.918-05:00Thanks. And regarding the elimination of big-time...Thanks. And regarding the elimination of big-time college football and basketball: I can't imagine it ever happening, but it would be a great thing. I'd settle for paying the players openly, and not just because <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/the-amateur-ideal.html" rel="nofollow">David Brooks disagrees.</a>Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-33931390510219655972011-11-10T17:15:30.568-05:002011-11-10T17:15:30.568-05:00Excellent post, Steve. And the whole Penn State th...Excellent post, Steve. And the whole Penn State thing - the crime(s), the post-firing riot - is more proof that if we're ever going to be serious about higher education in the US, athletics and colleges need to be surgically detached. "College athletics" needs to become football's and basketball's Minor Leagues.BHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991272246814476124noreply@blogger.com