Newburgh Entrapment

Seems to be as straightforward a case of entrapment as you're going to find.

One should only go into government with eyes wide open as to the likely result - the destruction of the ability to think clearly, and the corruption of one's soul to its very core in favor of acquiescence to state power in all its forms.

You will not be the same on the way out as you were on the way in, and while that is often the case, it is rarely more disgustingly, nauseatingly, unamericanly so.

Tony Dungy's a loser and a coward.

Fact.

Many arrests are unnecessary.

Cops are largely useless  (strike, replace with unnecessary so as to avoid being unnecessarily offensive to the good ones who do exist) and tend to cause more problems than they solve for various reasons. One of the most common situations that result in cops violating rights and abusing citizens occurs during arrests.

Many of these arrests are unnecessary. Simply "serve papers" with a recorded video, certainly for all situations that would likely result in an immediate release after the arrest.

Arrests as escalation for those who fail to appear is inevitable, but that process should only be used as a last resort (in situations involving non-violent offenses, or other situations where a serving of papers will suffice). Once the benefit is established for appearing in court, most will tend to appear as requested.

There will always be situations where goons with uniforms force will be required but they should be minimized as much as possible. Those who have yet to prove themselves capable of dealing with stressful situations without overreacting should have their hands tied behind their backs whenever possible. They are servants. Employees. They should be treated as such, viewed and treated with skepticism, and be forced to justify any increase in granted powers.

if an anarchist believes in militias

is he really an anarchist?

no decent video

of a plane hitting the Pentagon. is there a plausible explanation for this?

i saw at least one person claim that "by showing the available videos, you expose your security weaknesses". i would never again trust the judgment of anyone who makes such a laughably ridiculous and stupid statement.

i would, however, be interested in hiring them if i needed a lackey who was willing to say (and believe) the dumbest things, and would do so in a way that would benefit me, either via profit or by protecting me from negative repercussions from my actions.

Inalienable

Education and the good you've done for others.

I feel so stupid.

I just now realized that the majority of technical/programming advice is exactly the same as financial advice.

Should this make me more compassionate towards those who continue to value financial advisors (at least as far as the mass media variety are concerned)?

(in case the comparison isn't obvious, it lies in the inherent variability and the essentially random nature of the two disciplines. one's advice will (may) apply in a certain percentage of cases, but those cases may or may not constitute a majority of cases that will be experienced by potential absorbers of the advice. the more confidently the completely arbitrary opinion is presented, the more successful the business venture (the business of advice peddling) will be, regardless of the inherent "accuracy" of the advice. in other words, it's all self-fulfilling bullshite.)

the two are the

exact

same

thing.

save for the details of course.

Maybe you CAN "retrain" authoritarian-inclined authority figures.

Perhaps focusing on the "as long as the citizens with whom you are interacting are doing nothing wrong (and in some cases, even if they are), you are their bitch, their employee, and their protectorate, and you shall mind your tone.

I don't watch Univision, mostly because I'm a racist.

I also find myself avoiding movies involving significant roles for Eddie Griffin (I had a wonderful "exception example" for Griffin at the ready, namely his appearance in the Nutty Professor, but it turns out that that was actually Chappelle. c'est la vie) and Kevin Hart... again, because I am a racist.

To prove my racist bonafides, I think Key & Peele are, in the vast majority of cases, awkwardly unfunny... although I will admit an occasional chuckle, potentially at personal expense (via the disapproval of my racist brethren).

Truism?

"Nobody likes bikers except for other bikers"

LOL

for a few different reasons
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Philadelphia City Council Votes to Decriminalize Marijuana

Submitted by Diamond Dog on Fri, 06/20/2014 - 18:44

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If signed into law, the bill would allow Philadelphia police to issue $25 tickets for possession of up to an ounce of weed.

By Dan McQuade | JUNE 19, 2014

[Original: 2:36 p.m.] You can breathe a little easier today, stoners, and not just because you probably are into vaping now. Philadelphia City Council voted today to decriminalize the possession of up to an ounce of weed. Even the heaviest stoners rarely buy more than an ounce at a time, so this bill is good news for Philadelphia potheads from the casual smoker to the wake-and-bake stoner.

The bill was first introduced by Councilman Jim Kenney in May. Under Kenney's bill, Philadelphians caught with up to an ounce (30 grams) of marijuana would not be arrested. After they paid a $25 fine, they'd have the charge expunged from their record. (Presumably, their weed would also be confiscated.) Since June 2010, Philadelphia has treated possession of up to an ounce of weed as a summary offense punishable with a $200 fine and a three-hour class on drug abuse.

"After discussions with Philadelphia’s criminal justice stakeholders, my requests to end mandatory custodial arrests — i.e. handcuffs and a night in jail — were deemed an 'administrative burden' on our courts and police,” Kenney told NBC10.com in May. “Public officials shouldn’t be worried about ‘administrative burdens’ when our inaction is senselessly burdening over 4,000 people with life-changing criminal records each year.”

Two Republican members of City Council, Dennis O’Brien and David Oh, spoke out against the bill. O'Brien suggested the law could eventually lead to “assaults on police officers.” (<- reason number 1. LOL)

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/06/19/philadelphia-city-council-votes-decriminalize-marijuana/

reason #2:

Ahhh

Submitted by eagleindistress on Fri, 06/20/2014 - 19:17. Permalink

I can smell the brush fires of freedom burning, and it smells skunky.

http://www.dailypaul.com/321041/philadelphia-city-council-votes-to-decriminalize-marijuana

No WAR Yet?!?

the FUCK? let's GO.

Anyone who ever "liked" Eric Cantor

is a bad judge of character and is not to be trusted.

GO SAVE ISRAEL, ERIC. SHE NEEDS A HERO. YOU CAN BE THAT HERO. TAKE DB MOST HIGH EMMANUEL AND FAMILIA WITH YOU AND FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Iran oughta should be nuking Israel soon, right?

Not only has it been 6 months, but it's been like 5 years. So by all the DC douchebag Israel-firsters' calculations, we are wwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy overdue for an Iran nuking of Israel.

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT. Fuck you, invaders. Go back to Germany and fight your own battles. Not willing to fight? Too bad. You die off then. You're nobody else's responsibility. Get your shit together and quit your incessant, unbearable whining.

If you really think it's going to happen, you can go ahead and use the nukes we gave you to flatten Iran. Then you'll be able to stay in your "homeland" LMFAO safely, I guess? Or whatever? Who cares. Do what you want. You want to stay in the land you have no right to? Do it. Just STOP FUCKING WHINING ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES. You don't hear us whining to others to protect us from Mexico, do you? CAN  YOU IMAGINE? WHO WOULD FUCKING CARE? NO ONE. BUT YOU'VE MANAGED TO USE THE GUILT CARD longer than anyone could ever have imagined. Congrats for that. Now man up, you unbearable bitches. Or die off. Shit, or get off that fucking pot. Make some fucking decisions and FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, STOP FUCKING WHINING.

I'm all for a new war now.

Cuz I just don't give a fuck anymore.

Bring it on. With whomever. For whatever reason. Oil? Sure. General imperialism? Sure.

Fuck it. For NO reason. Just cuz. Let's blow some shit up just because it's good for ratings. That's good enough for me. I hope the Capitol building gets hit in retaliation. I hope all of Washington D.C. is flattened, or vaporized. Who cares? We're just roaches. Nothing matters. Later.

Edit: Don't forget Wall Street. Vaporize that bitch too. Works for me.

Bring on that war, STAT. Let's get this party started.

Contradictory Terms

"Neo-nazism" and "anti-government".

Are we to assume that neo-nazis have some sort of affinity for and ideological similarity with the original incarnation?

I think so.

Were Nazis "anti-government"?

LOL.

Does this question, when posed so directly, actually need to be answered?

Does this cause any pause for those wishing to paint with broad brushes?

Need this question (when posed so directly) be answered?

I expect "loosing" to be codified any day now

it has reached critical mass and so will become an accepted spelling of "losing".

and one more part of me will die on the inside.

is this pet peeve ironic given the grammatical challenges (perhaps grammatical affront is a better description) demonstrated in this post and elsewhere on this here blog?

nah.

Maureen Dowd on pot candy bar: 'I became convinced that I had died'

The only question required is "so would you be likely to do it again, or not?"

And then the followup, should the person say they would be likely to do it again, "do you think society should attempt to prevent you and every other individual from making that choice by attempting to arrest and imprison you?"

The only people who support the drug war are losers and assholes and they're all stupid.

In some people,

the mirage of exceptionalism must be beaten out of them before they can ever hope to reach their true potential.

Intergalactic Misanthropy/Cynicism

I no longer think it would be a good thing to encounter extraterrestrial intelligent life.

Interesting, sure. But not good.

Imagine our "heroes" holding them at gunpoint in their own lands. Or, you know, imagine them eating us in ours. The likelihood of a third option seems remote.