Originally Posted by 600th Photo Sq (Post 1780593)

I have yet to see you being the least bit concerned about the safety of the police.

Not so much as a Peep.

The strategic placing of large containers of Bricks, Rocks, Plastic Bottles filled with Cement, and the latest Ice Cream Containers filled with Cement Disguised as " Ice Cream ".

Many have been seriously injured and have died.

So Madam what say you?

Originally Posted by CNM

Originally Posted by 600th Photo Sq (Post 1780593)

Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1772969)

These type events make living in TV so much nicer and probably helps many to decide to move here. I know I couldn't wait to leave the Baltimore area, I still like the sports teams and maybe visit, although it's been since 2013 since my last visit.

I lived in a probably one of the best suburbs in Baltimore, it was Bel Air, and in 2016 two cops were ambushed and killed inside a Panera's next to Wegmans a 1/2 mile from my old house.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...11b_story.html

I usually try to avoid seeing or reading about these events, there's really nothing we can do about it. I even hate when I see someone start a thread like "Forget About Getting Fired", what good did that do, other than rile up a few people who live 1500 miles away. I wish those threads were never allowed. It's always the same posters, they stay quiet until something bad happens in the country and they quick to jump on the topic and post their views like they're know-it-alls. I wish that thread was closed right now,

Originally Posted by BobnBev (Post 1780891)

John, my wife is from Bel Air. It sure has changed after we got married. She lived right across from the fire house on Churchville Rd. Her old house is long gone, and is now a bank.

Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 1779587)

Another protest/destroy day in Richmond VA. Groundhog day VA. It is Monday, maybe they will go to work?

Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 1780478)

The Bible says not to worship idols. I wish they would move the 100+ year old statues. Then the protesters can just destroy other things they are told not to like. Let them burn the city, again.

Now Richmond VA would like to defund police funds and take that money to hire people to go the poor neighborhoods to teach them how to act. Good luck with that.

Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 1781162)

Still protesting/destroying/robbing going on in Richmond Va last night. This is a everyday/night thing. Decided the Christopher Columbus statue bothered someone so they destroyed it last night. Then they moved on to do some late night shopping/stealing.

Do these people ever work?

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1781539)

No one is trying to change history, nor should anyone be pushing...to destroy these things.

Just take the statues, monuments and memorials of these traitorous losers and put them all together someplace...where the public doesn't have to constantly look at them.

Then teach our children that they tried to destroy the UNITED States of America...which is also of huge importance to our history.

It's not a coincidence, and was the primary impetus, that the majority of these were put up decades after the end of the Civil War as an attempt at intimidation...toward African-American's who were simply asking/pushing for true equality.


The real reason for Confederate statues (click here)

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1781205)

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1781651)

I am eighty years old and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Old Chris gave us a rather nice background feeling living there.... I doubt anyone found this "controversy" that you speak of. I think that is just a way to make excuses for making trouble. I am not buying it.

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1781651)

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1781710)

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1781764)

I have found that the History Channel sometimes just dances with valid facts.........Sometimes the History Channel makes me cry out........"Are you kiddin' me???"

AND Christopher Columbus, and the Civil War and most things that happened more than a hundred years ago are often used as excuses for lack of responsibility for people living today in my opinion. How long can you blame situations that it is unlikely that the people involved are even aware of?

I do not believe that most people know or care about this little known piece of information about Christopher Columbus the OP shared. They know Queen Isabella funded Chris and he and his buds sailed across a previously unknown part of the ocean and discovered America. Does it matter now whether Ponce De Leon was first or whether either were black or white or gay or they did things now considered sexist or racist or politically incorrect or downright stupid? Nope. And whether or not a person knows a lot about history or anything for that matter has more to do with the lucky draw of I.Q. points................but still most of us care about people whether or not they or "ignorant" of history or not, and would like to kick their fanny if they are lazy and steal things. And that goes to people of every color and ethnicity and sexual orientation and wealth level. Take care of yourself and your family so we won't have to and if you can't we will. That is how I see most of this. I am tired of people acting as if their knowing something other people don't know makes them better. It was probably just that some people are above average in I.Q. and others aren't. Bigum Dealum. It isn't a choice.

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1781769)