Recent content by sonjay

<modsnip - quoted post removed> I would venture a guess that when they only have partial skeletal remains, a lot of what's normally done in an autopsy can't be done.

Yes, almost everything is green year-round. We have a few trees that lose leaves when it gets cold, but they're vastly outnumbered by those that don't. At least here in SoFla, including North Port. Up in the panhandle, they probably have more bare trees in the winter. Also, even trees that do...

Maybe, maybe not. Gators also like to stash their kills and come back over and over to tear off chunks. Like squirrels burying nuts for the winter.

Looks very Belgian Malinois to me, but even experts can't always tell. Mals have become exceedingly popular for protection training, SAR, etc. Working dogs need drive, and Mals are pretty much in overdrive whenever they're not sleeping.

I had my GSD mix in SAR training for a while (before she blew out her knee and had to drop out). Our trainer (who is head of one of the leading SAR groups in this exact area of Florida where BL's family lives) told us that literally any dog can excel at any of the different types of searches...

So DB's lawyer, who is not a mental health professional, is asserting that the man (18 year old is a man, not a kid) is schizophrenic. Lawyers are paid to assert things like that. Right now, DB is simply an adult man charged with a horrific and senseless murder of an innocent young boy.

In my experience following a lot of these cases, LE is often very close-mouthed about the evidence they're gathering. People on forums such as this one will speculate endlessly about whodunit and what evidence there might or might not be, and condemning the police for not making any progress on...

I'm not at all sure that's true. Do you have a link to any data to support that? Over the years, I've seen only sporadic and isolated reports of violence by white nationalist groups. Mostly they seem to parade around with signs and then go home.

<modsnip> There do indeed seem to be a lot of people who support violence when the violent group's politics align with their own. I am always against initiating violence in pursuit of political goals &#8212; whatever they may be. I am always in support of free speech &#8212; whatever the...

Why did they initially release that ridiculously redacted 911 transcript? I'm very interested in the calls that we haven't yet heard. But I don't expect there will be anything like the terrorist Omar Mateen saying he's not really an Islamic terrorist and he's doing it because he's gay. I've...

Yeah, I think you misunderstood. It sounds much more like an attempt to justify the use of mob violence to shut down speech that one doesn't like. It really doesn't have anything to do with Nazi Germany — except for the fact that if BAMN and Antifa gain enough power, America may well become...

As it is to most of us. The subtle justification of using violence to shut down people that a group disagrees with is, quite frankly, extremely alarming. Thing is, the protection of free speech is most important for speech that is unpopular. Popular speech doesn't need protecting. Unpopular...

It would be nice if Florida officials had the brass to do a giant document dump before the FBI can get its machinery fully geared up — just make the FBI's request moot.

Have the specific white nationalists who were attacked last Sunday by violent mobs been violent before? Is there any difference between white nationalists who don't instigate violence and those who do? Is it justified for a violent mob to attack a group of white nationalists because other white...

If we had a hate-group ranking system, I would rank those who instigate actual physical violence against their opponents as WORSE than those who simply say offensive or hateful things. Your ranking may differ.