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gwb-trading said:
'Experts' blasted for cautioning against use of term 'looting' to describe large-scale California thefts
'People don't need help understanding looting'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/experts-blasted-looting-california-thefts

Critics reacted strongly to claims by "experts" Monday that use of the term "looting" to describe recent large-scale thefts from retail stores in California could be associated with people of color and therefore shouldn't be used.

According to the local ABC affiliate for the Bay Area, the California Penal Code didn't allow for the use of the term "looting" to describe the thefts involving large groups of people because, it claimed, the definition didn't match the act as defined by law. It also cited two individuals it referred to as "experts," who described the term as being reminiscent of Black people and people of color being associated with the act of looting.

"According to the California Penal Code, what we saw was not looting," it wrote. "The penal code defines looting as ‘theft or burglary...during a ‘state of emergency,’ ‘local emergency,’ or ‘evacuation order’ resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster.'"

The affiliate cited Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven, and a retired veteran police officer, who described the term through a racial lens.

"Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing," he told the affiliate.

The affiliate pointed out that they did not yet know the identities and races of the perpetrators of the recent wave of thefts, before noting that they occurred following last Friday's acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.

It then cited Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, who was reminded of Black residents in New Orleans that were described as looters for committing "crimes of survival" following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when they stole water, food and other supplies prior to receiving aid from the federal government.

"This seems like it's an organized smash and grab robbery. This doesn't seem like looting. We're thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed, and folks often may be on their own," Reynolds said.

Critics took to social media to blast the attempt to describe the crime wave as something other than looting, with some suggesting the change wouldn't make any difference, and others calling it an attempt at being politically correct.

"It’s looting. Just like there were riots in Kenosha, not just protests," former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wrote, referring to the unrest in Kenosha following the non-fatal police shooting of Jacob Blake.

"'Experts.' Remember-- they believe if they can control the language they control reality. Time to 'smash and grab' this garbage," Fox News' contributor Tammy Bruce wrote, while another simply wrote, "Umm ok."

One critic likened the pushback on using the term "looting" to people claiming critical race theory was taught only in law schools and not to school-age children. "There was no looting. As a matter of fact, 'looting' is only a term used in law school," he wrote.
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TreeFrogTrader said:
How do I interpret the 31 days worth cited below versus the 1000 that you mention?

I think the 1000 is equivalent imported value days versus "basic oil needs for the u.s." Basic needs being met via both domestic and imported.

But I don't know. I am asking.

from wiki

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest known emergency supply in the world, and its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas have capacity for 714 million barrels (113,500,000 m3).[1] The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973–1974 oil embargo, to mitigate future supply disruptions.

The current inventory is displayed on the SPR's website.[2] As of September 4, 2021, the inventory was 621.3 million barrels (98,780,000 m3). This equates to about 31 days of oil at 2019 daily U.S. consumption levels of 20.54 million barrels per day (3,266,000 m3/d)[3] or 65 days of oil at 2019 daily U.S. import levels of 9.141 million barrels per day (1,453,300 m3/d).[4] However, the maximum total withdrawal capability from the SPR is only 4.4 million barrels per day (700,000 m3/d), so it would take about 145 days to use the entire inventory. At recent market prices ($58 a barrel as of March 2021),[5] the SPR holds over $14.6 billion in sweet crude and approximately $18.3 billion in sour crude (assuming a $15/barrel discount for sulfur content). In 2012, the total value of the crude in the SPR was approximately $43.5 billion, while the price paid for the oil was $20.1 billion (an average of $28.42 per barrel).[6]
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I was getting it from here:

Current days of import protection in SPR - At the end of CY 2019 (as of December 31, 2019), the SPR’s crude oil inventory was 634.9 MMbbl. This is equivalent to approximately 1,069 days of supply of total U.S. petroleum net imports.

https://www.energy.gov/fecm/strategic-petroleum-reserve-9
 
El OchoCinco said:
Is he saying truck drivers who cross from Mexico or Canada have to be vaccinated? But anyone else not essential can still cross without being vaccinated?
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essentials were likely exempt. All land crossers have to be vaxxed. Weird how the GOP is now advocating for letting "dirty diseased immigrants" in unvaccinated.
 
gwb-trading said:
Welcome the undocumented shoppers to Black Friday...

At least 30 people loot a Best Buy in Minnesota on Black Friday
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/27/us/best-buy-looting-minnesota/index.html
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Look at all those uppity political clowns in california with their "this problem is not limited to San Francisco" bullfeathers.

No it isn't. But you showed the country how to start getting this madness going and instituted and it has spread like wildfire. Now you vomit up this drivel about how you will not tolerate it.

Just keep making made for TV looting videos for the RNC. Let us know how that works out at midtime. We get that it will make no difference in CA but many other part of the country see the lessons to be learned there- in addition to things like bail scams in LA and Wisconsin, etc.

I knew an old guy in Maine for many decades who ran a gun shop and he absolutely did not have a problem with break-ins and he knew nothing about high-tech surveillance. But he lived up over the shop. And when he and Anita went to bed at night, they just put their two German shepards- both trained to fillet you out like mackeral if needed- to run free in the shop down below all night. Those dogs were good at their trade. Even when I came in during the day to check out the guns the dogs would agitate in the background hoping to maybe kill me just for sport but the owner would put them in the back room. No hard feelings toward the dogs though. They were there to serve.
 
elderado said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1464693919136972802
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It's insane.

Y'all will recall that in Fergeson the savages showed their love and respect for George Floyd by killing a retired, police captain who had left his house to help a buddy who was concerned that his store might be burned, looted, or whatever savages do. Of note, he was black, because well, George Floyd, however that whole "killing blacks for George Floyd routine works. There is not a lot of thinking and moralizing going on when people are just out for free stuff. You know, as we learned from Katrina, that when people are having an emergency and are desperate it is important to load your shopping cart up with jeans and nike.

Stop the madness for God's sake. Declare martial law if the local police are too woke to respond. Failure to do so in Kenosha was the root cause of all the fall out from it.
 
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