“I’d learned that the strongest thing a leader can do once his men entrust power to him is to put it back into their hands.”
Sean Parnell – Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan; Page 351
February 2013
[Presented without further comment. It applies to many aspects. I recommend reading their story, it’s a good one. -B]
Coworker had this stuff stashed on old reel to reel tapes. He recently digitized it for our enjoyment.
I told him after listening to it it’s totally going on the blog. They’re hilarious.
FYI: That was my coworker and Tim and they turned on the recorder.
I got an email today providing an update to a SSCC back in Nov 2011. Earlier this year the men were cleared and the details indicate someone else really deserved the label.
Ends up the Police Chief was no shining star and some of the men tried to call him on it.
That said, the way to get me to update an incident in the count is NOT to call me a “F–kin’ loser”. Seriously. I won’t repost the whole thread as he apologized at the end, but seriously folks not a way to get me to even pay attention to your email.
Via Tam I saw this and it made me feel a little bit better.
Suspended (and now soon-to-be Former) IMPD officer David “Bottles” Bisard has just been found guilty on all charges by a jury of his peers.
Now I’m not happy still for a couple of reasons.
Seriously, WTFO!? Name me one other job in the world where they wouldn’t have canned your ass for doing something like that? Heck, many employers will fire you if you’re charged with a felony. “Come back after the not guilty verdict.” They don’t want the publicity black eye, yet in law enforcement land they get a free pass because “COP”.
Not to mention the many other issues, honestly I don’t trust law enforcement anymore. They have too many laws protecting them so they can get away with murder. Seriously, they can kill you and as long as they’re in uniform most likely they will get away with it as long as it wasn’t “premeditated”.
If you still don’t understand, let me just quote Tam herself yet again on the subject:
This came across Slacker today while coding… My immediate thought was both neat and awesome rolled into one:
If you don’t get it, I suggest this for your viewing pleasure. Oh and in the theme of Deadmau5, here’s a costume a coworker wore for Halloween last Thursday.
I should have taken video too. The eyes went to the beat of the music and changed colors.
Deadmau5 – Closer
Can you? This started as a rant I was sending to Facebook and then I decided to push it here. You see Chris made a post on Facebook yesterday, the crux of which was this image.
The the thread predictably devolved into people saying how taxation is not a form a slavery because you can have property.* Guess he missed all those taxes on that property where if you don’t pay they seize your property (so in reality rent). And my personal favorite, where the state can take your property under eminent domain and give you pennies on the dollar, if the state feels like spending the pennies. (Seriously check out that link… The City of Seattle is seizing a 103 year old woman’s property, currently a parking lot, to make it a parking lot. I can’t make this crap up.)
So don’t tell me I’m not a slave when there is nothing voluntary about my relationship with my government and I live in fear of them deciding to seize my property without cause and me with no legal recourse. Remember, this is the land of the free, where the mob can vote to have the state steal your stuff to give it to them.
If everyone saw equal services from the state, then I might not call it slavery, but entitlements are horse shit. I should not be taxed to feed someone else’s kids because they squandered their money on a big screen TV.
Go ahead and say I have no heart. Know why I don’t have kids yet? Because I’m paying for someone else’s. But remember I’m the heartless asshole for merely being the responsible person and staying within my means.
I’m paying more now for my healthcare too, why? To subsidize people who didn’t want to take care of it themselves. Pardon me while I say screw all of you who support this BS.
*He also made a comment about the ballot box being involved so it wasn’t really against your will. Uhh, so because the mob votes to steal my stuff makes it some how morally ok and just? WTFO!? Seriously, how does the fact a ballot box being involved make it OK for the state to take, by force, property from one person and give it to another. If it was really that person’s property it couldn’t be taken in such a way now could it?
**As someone who’s now working as a contractor, I’m well versed in exactly how much I’m paying out in taxes and it’s far beyond most people. For every dollar I earn I see about .46 cents. I could easily start a family with all that money being dumped into a government who spends more frivolously than a drunken sailor… But I’m not a slave since I can rent property from the state and they can seize at any time to do with as they please.
I’m going to end the rant here because I think I’ve made my point. But seriously if you think you’re not a slave merely because they’ve provided you some illusions of freedom, you’re an idiot. The greatest trick the government ever pulled was making the people think they’re free when they’re really slaves, they just don’t know it yet.
Hmm. Goose, gander. Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum? Bevis, Butthead?
I guess if we kick out all U.S. military and militia, people will really feel safe. If we rip the seat-belts from our vehicles, throw away all first aid kits, close down the hospitals, get rid of the fire extinguishers, then by never seeing those things we’ll never again have to be reminded that bad things happen, except when they do.
Or we could all jump off a cliff into the ocean. Either way we’d need to be hypnotized the same.
Lyle Keeney – Email Thread
October 3, 2013
[Now it should be noted that this was in reference to an email about this incident. The TL;DR version is as follows. Parents go into PSH over a police officer dropping his child off in uniform, thus armed.
Ry, rightly pointed out, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Though I must say that the stupid is going to evolve into an epic Darwinian moment. Sadly there will be collateral damage involving children outside the gene pool of the idiot suffering from Peterson Syndrome.
With regards to the idiots and their PSH, I think this line/scene from Hunt for Red October puts it best. -B
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I don’t really like rifles that will just live on a wall and look pretty. It’s a tool. Period dot.
I did however see a rifle I want on my wall oh so badly.
Seriously. I think I might be getting myself one for Christmas if I have the cash.
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