BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: October 26, 2013 06:25PM
Just a matter of time.
Mach Report This Comment Date: October 26, 2013 06:49PM
The fact that this is on Fox News is, in itself, a sign.
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 27, 2013 11:20AM
yes, legalize and tax pot just the same way as booze and possibly our national
debt would disappear.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: October 27, 2013 12:47PM
With the never satiated "tax and spend" nature of govt. that'll never
happen.
The US govt was once debt free and amazingly, at that time had NO federal
taxation of the citizens. Fast forward to today where direct and indirect
taxation of the citizens numbers in the hundreds of taxes levied and we're
deeper in debt than ever, with no end in sight for getting deeper still.
Giving the govt more money will never be the right answer
bayerischer dorfdepp Report This Comment Date: October 27, 2013 06:07PM
hmm looks like i live in the wrong country.
i want to be a ganja farmer. ganja makes me so happy !!
jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 28, 2013 12:30PM
But a lot of people are saying Clinton got rid of our debt, I don't believe it
but other people do.
pulse Report This Comment Date: October 28, 2013 01:28PM
Defecit yes, but not debt.
In 2000, the US made $280bn profit, but still owed 50% of GDP in debt.
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 29, 2013 12:01PM
I wish I could spend money I don't have like the government. I still think if
we vote all incumbents out of office it would send a message. Trying to get all
Americans to agree on anything will be impossible.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: October 29, 2013 05:00PM
Get a credit card.
You have to replace those voted out with people voted in. The choices will still
be limited to the pool of politicians available to run for office. They are all
of the same ilk; they are politicians. In other words it isn't going to make any
difference in the long run.
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 30, 2013 10:23AM
But if we keep replacing them at every election they should get the idea.
Until the internet can be used to allow us to make the decisions this is what we
are stuck with.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: October 30, 2013 01:45PM
The internet?!? You are a total moron!
jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2013 10:36AM
There would have to be some way for all individuals to make the decisions
before we would ever be able to do away with representatives and politicians.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2013 02:26PM
You are not capable of understanding some basic things about government nor the
internet.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: October 31, 2013 07:19PM
He doesn't understand macaroni...
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 01, 2013 11:36AM
I you guys are just trying to piss me off, it ain't gonna happen. I never get
angry no matter what anyone says to me or about me online. I also never get
angry in reality either, I just wait for the right time and cut them off at the
knees.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 01, 2013 04:06PM
I can't speak for PJ but I couldn't care less if you got pissed off or not. You
are obviously too stupid to comprehend that when you post stupid comments online
someone will reply that you are stupid.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 02, 2013 11:00AM
I think stupid comments are like when you guys say all politicians are crooked
and evil and the current system needs to be changed. Making statements like
that without offering any alternatives is stupid. At least I was trying to
think of some way to do away with the current method of government decision
making. We cannot just get rid of our politicians without putting something in
it's place.
Stupid statements, like beauty, are in the eyes of the beholder. In the past
people thought ideas of a round world were stupid ideas. I don't care if you
guys think I am stupid or not I will continue to make whatever comments I
desire. I am not in this world to please other people and I am at the age to
where I just don't care.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 02, 2013 03:33PM
I do not recall ever saying that, at least not exactly. I expect politicians to
be corrupt, some more so than others, that's part of the gig. I don't expect
that to change and I think it is pointless to bitch and play blame games about
it. I also think it is dumb to hold fantasies that someone sometime in the past
was some super Jesus of leaders and that the "founding fathers" were
some kind of holy beings or that the US constitution is a holy writ. As forms of
government go it's pretty damn good but nothing sacred or perfect.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2013 11:04AM
OK if we do away with our constitution and get rid of our military and all our
privately own guns then what's to stop some other country from walking in and
taking over? What's to stop some president from deciding to become a dictator?
If our Bill of Rights or the Constitution are no longer enforced or protected
then what would happen to our rights as free individuals? It is bad enough that
so many of our rights are being taken away right now, what will we do when they
are all gone?
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2013 03:39PM
I do not advocate any of that and I have never stated that I did. I don't think
any of that is going to happen. I think you are over-reacting and your fears are
basically unfounded and exaggerated. I'm not saying things don't need to or
won't change, but the changes will not be as dramatic as the media tries to
paint it, nor as dramatic as some people fear it is or will be.
Mach Report This Comment Date: November 04, 2013 04:34AM
A downright classic......
DRUGS
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Realize that "illegal drugs" are just as much of a MARKET to Law
Enforcement as drug cartels, gangs etc... etc...
they don't want you to take away their booty either!
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 04, 2013 01:20PM
I don't think we should legalize all drugs, just pot, but maybe we shouldn't go
after drug users so hot and heavy. I think we should do away with all laws
which were enacted to try and curtail things that never harmed other people IE
seatbelts. Laws should only be used to prevent harm done to people by other
people never when someone does something which may or may not cause harm to
themselves. It could be said that drugs harm other people when drug users rob
and steal to get their drugs so doing away with drugs will prevent the crimes
peripherally associated with drugs. Then in the same sense maybe we should do
away with knives forks and spoons because they may or may not cause obesity.
Leroy Brown Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 04:35AM
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Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
Posted by Darby Beck
Friday, July 5, 2013
In his new book, Rise of the Warriror Cop, Radley Balko provides a detailed
history of our decline into a police state.
He works his way through this history in a sound way describing police raid
upon police raid gone terribly wrong, resulting in a useless loss of life. He
discusses police agencies that serve populations of only 1,000 people but
receive federal funding for military-type weapons and tank-style vehicles. We
have also seen a total disregard for “The Castle Doctrine” which has been
held dear by our citizens since the colonial days. The “Castle Doctrine” is
the idea that a man’s home is his castle and a warrant signed by a judge is
necessary to enter and search the “castle.” Balko cogently explains the
reason for all of this: The war on drugs and the war on terror are really wars
on our own people.
A profession that I was once proud to serve in has become a militarized police
state. Officers are quicker to draw their guns and use their tanks than to
communicate with people to diffuse a situation. They love to use their toys and
when they do, people die.
The days of the peace officer are long gone, replaced by the militarized police
warrior wearing uniforms making them indistinguishable from military personnel.
Once something is defined as a “war” everyone becomes a “warrior.” Balko
offers solutions ranging from ending the war on drugs, to halting mission creep
so agencies such as the Department of Education and the FDA don’t have their
own SWAT teams, to enacting transparency requirements so that all raids are
reported and statistics kept, to community policing, and finally to one of the
toughest solutions: changing police culture.
Police culture has gone from knocking on someone’s door to ask him to come to
the station house, to knocking on a door to drag them to the stationhouse, to a
full SWAT raid on a home.
Two quotes from the HBO television series The Wire apply quite appropriately to
this situation.
"This drug thing, this ain't police work. Soldiering and police, they
ain't the same thing."
"You call something a war and pretty soon everyone's gonna’ be running
around acting like warriors. They're gonna’ be running around on a damn
crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs and racking up body counts. And
when you're at war you need a f**king enemy. And pretty soon damn near everybody
on every corner's your f**king enemy. And soon the neighborhood you're supposed
to be policing, that's just occupied territory."
Mach Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 04:45AM
Like I said, it's a fighting market, this retired officer (Lieutenant
Commander) let's you know who's fighting (lobbying) to keep the budget flooded
with..... "drug money."
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Press release: Police arrest more people for marijuana than for
all violent crime combined
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 11:32AM
It's a helluva lot easier to arrest a bunch of people is search of twinkies and
somethin to drink than it is real criminals out to do harm to society. 'Sides,
they get great fringe benefits like cars, homes (and their furnishings), cash
<- lots of which disappears better than in a David Copperfield illusion trick
and then rake in tons more from court fees, probation fees, while the judges
buddies in the counseling racket get paid handsomely too.
Saddest of all, we actually hafta pay for these fuckers to do this to us all in
the name of "protecting" us
pulse Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 11:42AM
I seriously don't understand people who complain about seat belt laws.
"OMG they're taking my freedom, it's my choice man!"
Ok. So go die in a crash. Nobody else cares, but talk about your pissant weakass
whinges..
I've been in a car accident. I'm more than happy to wear a seat belt. It's
nothing to do with freedom, it's basic fucking common sense.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 12:50PM
I have been in several car accidents and the seatbelts did no good at all.
Avoiding accidents is the answer not forcing people to do something that only
affects them and no one else. If I choose not to wear one then that should be
on me not the government, just the same as if I choose to at fast food joints.
Personal choice should only be be governed if your choices affects others and
not just yourself.
I live in a small town and really don't see a police state forming yet but I do
believe it is coming and more so after Odamna declares martial law which may be
coming shortly.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 02:13PM
Seriously, it is very hard not to keep calling you a fucking idiot.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 02:39PM
As one of the very few people alive today who can honestly say that's only
because I waddn wearin a seat belt in a horrendous crash I was in, I despise
bein made to wear the damned things. Had I been wearin one I'd have been
decapitated by the steering wheel instead of just slammin the right side of my
face into the dash.
An awesome plastic surgeon took care of the damage to my shattered cheek bone
and eye socket, along with another stellar orthopedic surgeon who put my mangled
left ankle and right foot back together, but there's not a doctor on the planet
that could have reattached my severed head
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 03:34PM
I seriously doubt that a steering wheel could decapitate a human being.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 03:59PM
Man, it's so awesome to have someone on here so wise that they can make sight
unseen determinations about an accident they have absolutely no details of, even
when the cops and ambulance drivers who dragged me outta the car along with my
doctors all made statements to the contrary.
I hope one day to be as wise as the all knowing blah. Maybe if I schedule a
full frontal lobotomy I can speed up that process
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 04:50PM
I could state the same kind of opinions about you. I think you are generally
full of shit. I also think you're a delusional ego-maniac and extremely narrow
minded and you think you are absolutely right about everything.
Now I am sure that colliding with the steering wheel with enough force would
definitely cause blunt force damages but a steering wheel is not sharp enough to
actually cut someone's head off. With enough force and at the right angle of
impact it could crush someone's neck to the point that they might as well have
been decapitated but I don't think it is physically capable of actually severing
the head from the body, which is what decapitation means.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 07:12PM
I get it man, I get it. Although you weren't there, nor have any clues to what
happened, you still profess to know more than the professionals who were, I got
that.
Since you seem to think I'm all ass, no need to pick a spot, you can just mooch
all over my fluffy white ass
Mach Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 08:22PM
Time for a plus613 cage match........
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 08:52PM
What you got was something you created in your own mind, not something I said.
I did not profess to know more than the professionals who were there, I stated
an opinion concerning the feasibility of decapitating a human being with a
steering wheel. Neither did I state that I think you're all ass. Read the words
themselves brainiac, don't read into it meanings that aren't there.
pulse Report This Comment Date: November 05, 2013 11:55PM
Conversely, I & others I know have been involved in accidents where the
only thing that saved us, and years of facial reconstructive surgery were seat
belts.
It's all well and good to say that the key to not needing a seatbelt is to avoid
an accident. Thank you captain obvious. If that were possible though, there'd be
no accidents. Nobody (well, very few people) are driving around trying to get
into an accident.
It's also impossible to avoid an accident where on a blind intersection somebody
sails through a stop sign and you plow into the side of them at 70mph. This shit
happens, it's unavoidable sometimes. And if you think a seatbelt won't help you
in that instance, you're insane. Flying through the windscreen and bouncing down
the road at that speed isn't something I fancy doing. Nor is being thrown from
the car and having it roll over the top of me. Or even smashing my face into the
dashboard at that kind of velocity. I'd rather a couple of broken ribs.
Furthermore, it DOES have an impact on others. Family. Friends. A&E crews.
Do you think peeling your carcass off a nearby tree isn't going to fuck with the
guy who has to do it? Serious injuries take beds from hospitals, take surgeons
from people who need them, make insurance premiums go up for everybody. Do you
think the next 40 years of care and being fed through a tube isn't going to cost
an insurance company, or the government, a fuckload of money? Imagine all the
people that need to be involved, from family and friends wiping your ass to the
nurses that are being distracted from others who could've used them.
What do you think that does to everybody else?
The fact that you're inconsiderate enough to think your actions don't affect
others astounds me. I can't stand people who only think about themselves.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 03:01AM
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 03:17AM
Meh, don't get your knickers in such a knot pulse, it'll make your nutz
hurt.
Having heard all the stats, I know my accident was an anomaly, but let's also
start off by saying when it occurred, wearing a seat belt waddn even mandatory
yet and that most people at that time chose not to wear them either. What a
selfish society eh?
After workin for 3 months without a day off, while averagin about 11 hrs a day,
and still tryin to keep up with the typical 20yr old bachelors party schedule on
top of that, one mornin on my way TO work, I fell asleep at the wheel.
During my unplanned nap the freeway made a curve and I didn. I ran off the
freeway at an estimated 60-70mph and slammed into a 6" thick concrete
culvert facing with dirt behind it. The culvert facing came out of it amazingly
well,
All in all several things worked in my favor that morning.
From my tracks it looked like I must've woken up about 100' before smackin the
wall because I made a veer to the right to try and get onto the service road to
the freeway that ran parallel to it. That change in trajectory was enough that I
only hit the culvert facing with the drivers side of the front end of the car
instead of hitting it head on, which likely would have made a more severe impact
and problee launched me through the windshield.
Managing as I did to only hit the end of the culvert facing where it was
relatively short, it was just tall enough to cream the whole front end from dead
center in the front end and just below the hood all the way over to the drivers
side end of the bumper.
It looked like you'd taken the car and literally planed it off flat from the
center of the front end to where the drivers door started. Comically enough, the
hood was still standing out there straight as an arrow.
The car managed to slide up over the top of the culvert facing after knockin off
about a 2' X 8" X 6" thick chunk of the wall and hurlin it about 100'
forward. Since I'd hit a glancing blow the car also spun around about 180
degrees, which is what slammed the right side of my face into the heater
controls and radio in the center of the dash, amazingly that was another stroke
of luck for me.
The whole planing off the front end of the drivers side of the car and sliding
over the top of the concrete wall also folded the drivers front wheel up
completely flat (horizontal) just under where my seat was.Then as the bottom
edge of the car slid over the top of the wall it had folded the cars sheet metal
back on itself till the metal under the drivers door looked like wadded up tin
foil.
During the milliseconds or so all this took place in as the front drivers wheel
came backwards, the steering wheel came up to an almost horizontal position, and
this is the part where not having a seat belt on saved my life. Had I been
wearing one I would have slammed my neck directly into the steering wheel
instead of making a sideways run at it.
Both cops, both ambulance drivers and my doctors all agreed had I had a belt on
there would have been a good chance the impact on my neck at that speed would
likely have snapped my head off the end of my neck and then sent it flyin
through the windshield, uh .... windscreen for you down under and euro cats.
Now then, let's take blahs perspective that he knows better than all the pros in
this case and we'll say if I'd have had a seat belt on it would only have
snapped my neck like a twig.
In this scenario problee the best I could have hoped for would have been I'd
somehow miraculously have survived, but in all likelihood would also have been a
quadriplegic.
So, being selfish and careless with my own safety managed to in all likelihood
have saved my life, or at the very least kept me from having to have someone
else wipe my ass for me for the rest of my days.
BTW, as a hint at just how violent the impact was when I smacked the wall, there
was a big ol ceramic beer stein sized coffee mug sittin in the back seat that
flew forward hittin the back of the passengers seat ... all that was left of it
was a small pile of dust in the floor board, not even so much as the thick
handle survived. And, in the whole planing off trick with the front end, the
floor board on my side didn make it out the other side still bein flat. It
folded backwards along with the rest of the bottom of the car so that just to
the left of the gas pedal is where the new side of the car started and also what
mangled up my feet.
After 9 days in the hospital, which included 2 surgeries, one on my face and the
other on my shattered left ankle, then a month in a hospital bed and a wheel
chair with casts on both legs, another month with a single walkin cast and
crutches, and finally about 3 weeks of walkin with just crutches I was walking
on my own again, without even a limp once I completely healed up, and was outta
work for a total of 4 months.
I KNOW I was lucky, but I also know I'm here today because of that luck, and
.... because I didn wear my fuckin seat belt
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pulse Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 08:06AM
The selfish comment wasn't aimed at you. Reading your story though, that sounds
like a total fluke & 99 times in 100 you'd have come out better with a
seatbelt on. Or probably dead regardless.
I know there's exceptions, however I also believe that seatbelts prevent a lot
more minor accidents than yours yours becoming a fatality.
My point is there's a hell of a lot of good reasons to wear them and I really
can't think of one not to. And those laws have nothing at all to do with
controlling personal freedoms and everything to do with reducing the road toll
and accident cleanup bills.
And hell. Maybe it's just because I drive too fast and hard into the corners,
and I don't want to he thrown around the cabin. Either way it all works for me.
woberto Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 10:20AM
I crashed my bike but my spaghetti strainer saved me.
Becoming a Pastafarian really did change my life.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 11:48AM
Yeah pulse, I agree it was a fluke that not wearin a belt lead to a better
outcome for me, And yeah, no one who ever saw the car afterwards thought it
looked like anyone would have survived, though thankfully I did.
It was really an odd looking mess of a car afterwards. If you approached the car
from behind it all you could see was a 3" buckle in the front of the roof
line by the windshield, but once you got a look at it from the front, it was
like "Holy sheep shit Bat Man! How'd I manage to survive that?".
As an admitted adrenaline junkie who also loves to square off corners at the
highest rate of speed the suspension, tires and traction will allow, I always
wear my belt when doing so, but I still despise the idea of being forced by law
to do so
'Berto, while recuperating I had lotsa time to ponder why I managed to live
through somethin it would seem I shouldn't have and, oh yeah, I heard numerous
times about how "God must have a plan for you" and "It just
wasn't Gods plan for you to die". Admittedly it did make me wonder and in
those days I was strugglin off and on about the whole concept of God and
faith.
It would be many years later before I heartily embraced the flyin spaghetti
monster, but now don my strainer with pride before entering the Pastafarian
temple
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 12:30PM
Blah, why is it you and so many others like you feel the need to control other
people's lives? I suppose you also feel the need to stop everyone from smoking
in their homes as well. Next you will want to remove all fast food joints. If
you want to control other peoples actions in one thing then it stands to reason
you will need to control all actions as well. This is why so many people are
trying to keep anyone from owning guns, because they don't own them they think
nobody should. There are some who never drive and feel nobody should drive
either. Where do we draw the line on the control of everyone? Our laws were
setup initially to prevent harm to others by people's actions and now that line
has become so hazy so as not to be able to see it any longer. Everything now
has been stretched out so far that anything we do at all can show some form of
harm to others, even sitting home and watching TV.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 06, 2013 01:49PM
You suppose wrong then and you're making shit up.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 07, 2013 12:55PM
But you still want to control the actions of others.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: November 07, 2013 01:34PM
Says who? You're making shit up.
pulse Report This Comment Date: November 08, 2013 04:05AM
I want to. When I am king and ruler of the known universe you'll all get yours.
....
woberto Report This Comment Date: November 08, 2013 06:16AM
You gals are great. Keep up the good work.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 08, 2013 12:24PM
When I get mine make sure it's in 20s