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  Menu? We don't need no stinking menu!  :D   Yeah, there are a couple of items on the menu but the most common by far and best is to make your own. It is like going through the line at Subway or Freebirds but instead of a build your own sandwich or burrito, you build a grilled (kind of like stir fry but dry grilled on a large plate/grill.    You pick the meat(s) you want (cubed marinated beef, shredded beef, sausage, ham, pork, chicken, and others), season it with a dozen powdered/granulated flavors (sea salt, pepper, lemon pepper, ginger, garlic, dragon salt, etc.), put in your vegetables from 15 or so to choose from and then pick your flavored sauce(s) to season it with. Give it to the guys/cooks doing the grilling lastly pick the base/bed (they call starch) like spiral pasta, udon noodles, white rice, brown rice, cabbage, fried rice or tortillas (tortillas?).    You pick from small, regular or large bowls. I get the regular because I know how to really stack up the vegetables. You can fill your bowl with meat but you won't have much room left for the veges. Unless you are just a big time meat eater and ignore vegetables, it is better to go lightly with the meat on your first trip. I see newbies go through the line and get crazy and stack the bowls with meat (like a kid in a candy store), then figure out that they have room for about half a cup of vegetables that when cooked turn into about two tablespoons. Now if you are a meat eater and don't care about vegetables, load that sucker up.    My favorites are the shredded beef for protein and spiral pasta for the bed. I like all of the sauces but usually pick Honey Soy, Chili Garlic or Ginger Citrus. 

  The one in PA?

  In a country of 300+ million people, do you really think that it is hard to single out people for stupid behavior? Can I find stupidity from people on any subject that proves nothing?   Yes, Obama has had racists remarks made toward him. Duhhhhh.......   And if the next president is a Republican that is black, you will hear some of the same calls. If the next president is a woman, you will hear simply stupidity from the opposing side that did not win.   If you predict the day that racial remarks will not be made by anyone from all races, please point out that day. I am going predict it will be the day the world ends. 

  And why shouldn't they be?    Wow, the Republicans would be against anyone that is against Obama. Stunning right?   But you make the point very well. It is politics that drives the masses, not race. What Dr. Carson would do if he supported Obama would give the Democrats another chance to scream that race is driving the disagreements..... but as we have seen, that is not the case. You use the term "any blacks" like the Republicans only support anti-Obama people if they are a dark skin color. It is a simple truth that the Republicans have a strong dislike for Obama but they even impeached Clinton. Does that strong dislike count or only when it is a different race?    You might not have noticed it but the Republicans aren't very fond of white people that support Obama either. It doesn't matter how much melanin is in their skin but where they stand politically. 

Dr. Carson is guilty of the sin of being a highly intelligent, successful and respected black to have the audacity to state the obvious. That is that a welfare system that allows people to take without any need to put in any stake in the process is doomed to the failure of allowing most people to languish is poverty. When there is no incentive to succeed, most people will not and only demand that other people pay for their lack of desire and then complain when they do not get enough handouts.   He is not a hypocrite. He is a person that is degraded and ostracized by his own race for being successful. How dare you come from a poor household in a black community and not demand more welfare, while trying to get people to strive for success and being self sufficient.    In rebuttal, many people only can point out that he had some help in the past and that somehow makes his statements wrong or hypocritical for his mother being on welfare more than 50 years ago. Maybe it allows him to speak the truth because he has seen it from the inside. His detractors spit out labels like hypocrite like it somehow hurts him or baffles his supporters.    What Dr. Carson has done is yet again show that race does not matter, political stance does. Many and maybe even a majority of the same people that hate Obama would vote for Carson tomorrow. 

  Not likely since almost no one is ever killed for a tv. 

  The DOJ has nothing to do with burglaries or robberies (except maybe carjackings and bank robberies). 

  So you think a 17 year old with no record should get the same sentence as a guy that have been in prison three times previous? 

  Not if it is his first rodeo but for a repeat offender, sure. 

  No kidding. I saw that in 2012 when Obama lost 4 million votes and still squeaked by. I can understand fooling people once. 

  That "losing party" has had complete control of the House (the only politicians elected locally) for 4 of Obama's 6 years in office and is threatening to take over the Senate. 

    And had I seen this response first, I wouldn't have answered.    :)

  I have sat on about four juries and I have never seen any alternates. An alternate is merely to replace a juror that gets sick and most trials only take a day or two so there isn't much chance of a sick juror. When you have CA cases like the OJ trial that take almost a year, they need someone to sit in just in case. Those alternates sit in the jury box and hear the entire trial but once the trial ends, they do not get involved in the deliberation unless they actually replaced a sick or removed juror. 

  Kind of standard, especially in a high profile case.   Appeals are generally based on an error by the court (judge). They don't get to just routinely retry the case but have to show a valid reason why it was not a fair trial. There is always an argument to be made by a lawyer as long as he is getting paid.    It can be a racial appeal like the one I mentioned before. Even though there were three black men on the jury, another person may have been struck by race like maybe a black female was struck and the defense wants to contest it. Other examples of appeals might be like maybe an objection made by the defense on piece of testimony or physical evidence during the trial did not go the way the defense liked or they can simply contest the law itself as being unconstitutional.    Most cases are not overturned but you never know........... 

  There are supposed to be 7 neutral people in this case. They are the 6 jurors and the judge. Of those 7, 4 of them are black.   I saw (I think) the representative from the Beaumont NAACP and he called this a lynching of another black in Beaumont. Really? A majority of the participants were of the same race as the defendant. Did they take race into account of did they simply look at the video showing the very convincing evidence that Haynes was blocking the door? 

I don't think an alcohol related arrest means anything for any media celebrity or even politicians from any network or party.    It means nothing to either side's issues. 

Also, each state and the federal government systems have the right to make their own laws and may vary slightly from the TX system but they will essentially be the same. Some states or the feds might require a reason to strike anyone instead of a peremptory strike without a need to state the cause. Others might also have alternates in each trial instead of the usual 6 or 12 and other variations. 

  Typically there are twice as many people in the jury pool as will sit on the jury like 12 people on a 6 person misdemeanor or 24 people on a 12 person felony trial although on some trials it can be quite a few more like a Capital Murder trial.    After the questioning of the pool (voir dire) by the attorney for the state (DA) and defense, the attorneys "strike" (peremptory strikes) the ones that they do not like by reasoning that the person would have a hard time rendering a fair verdict. The first 6 (or 12 for a felony) members of the jury pool that are not struck will sit on the jury.    The pool sits randomly so it is not alphabetical or by another other segregated means. The bailiff will typically call the 12 members of the pool for a misdemeanor and shuffle the cards and then randomly seat the pool as it comes out after the shuffle.    Each attorney usually gets to strike half of the extra people in the pool. For example 12 people are seated in the pool for a misdemeanor. They need to get down to 6 for the trial meaning that up to 6 can be removed or struck. So each attorney then gets 3 strikes. Even if the DA and defense attorneys strike different people, there will still be 6 left for the trial. They may however strike the same person as the strikes are anonymous. For that reason, there may be more than 6 qualified jurors but the first 6 will get the job and the rest will simply be released.    Let's say the jurors are numbered 1-12 and each attorney gets 3 strikes. You might end up with something like this: 1  2 (X by DA) 3 (X by Defense) 4 5 6 (X by DA and Defense) 7 8 (X by Defense) 9 10 11 (X by DA) 12   You will see that 7 jurors survived the strikes but the first 6 will serve and  juror #12 will be the odd man out as 6 had already survived (1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10).   Clear as mud?   Also, the attorneys can strike for almost any reason HOWEVER they cannot be struck for race according to the SCOTUS ruling in Batson v. Kentucky (I think that is still the prevailing case). If one side thinks the other struck a potential juror in a peremptory strike based solely on race, they can challenge it and make the other side show the judge why the juror was struck. The judge can then accept or strike the juror, almost like ruling on an objection in trial.  I have been in cases where a challenge was made but the striking attorney has always been able to show why the strike was made other than by race. Like maybe it was a DWI trial where I was on the pool and when challenged, the DA said that during the voir dire the struck juror stated that he had two family members convicted of DWI, meaning that the juror might be prejudiced toward the police for a DWI arrest. The judge would then rule that that was a valid reason to strike the juror for fairness and not solely race based. 

.... and you've got to love the sentencing. She selected the judge instead of the jury to assess punishment and she got the maximum fine and two years of regular probation, meaning that it is permanently on her record. The DA offered $1,000 and 6 months of deferred meaning that it would show no record of a conviction.    What a great deal she made by going to a jury and then the judge for punishment.  :D

  Kind of.   They don't pick jurors, they eliminate them with strikes. Apparently all of the women on the pool were either struck or there were some remaining and the random order that they were seated had 6 men seated first. There may have been a couple of women left in the pool but the random order and the non-striking of the 6 seated jurors allowed them to serve. 

  How is it wasting "millions"? I don't think congressmen get overtime.    And what is this hypocrisy? 

  How many times is meaningless when evidence is being covered up.    I Hillary and others spout out that they have turned over "more than 25,000 documents". That means almost nothing as it is not the 25K that matter but what might be a very few that hold the smoking gun.   

  I agree. By TX law she is clearly guilty in my opinion but I thought a hung jury was likely as the defense brought up enough reason for a juror, looking for a reason not to convict, could justify (in his/her own mind) a not guilty vote. I know that a juror does not have to justify a vote but I think in a juror's mind, he/she wants to be able to fall back on something.   I applaud all members of the jury for following the law and the judge's charge and not falling to politics. 

  Probably not. He will simply fire the officer and deny everything like his mentor (and maybe more), Haynes.    It will all come down to a he said/she said ..... unless the officer was smart enough to record the incidents after the first occurrence..... assuming it happened.......

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