- The Corleone family on Wall Street. 🙂
- Gobsmacking. Yet somehow utterly unsurprising: vials of smallpox just stashed away, unrecorded, unremarked, and forgotten in government facility.
- Another marvelous cautionary tale from MamaLiberty.
- Officer Friendly strikes again. (Via Say Uncle)
- Elephant tears (of joy). I don’t know how true the part about the tears is, but the story is still … liberating. (H/T Jim B in comments)
Thanks, Claire. That story is fiction, but grew out of a discussion I had with my sister about the need for caution, much less a gun. She lives just a few miles from the San Fernando valley, well documented to be full of various gangs, some of the nastiest in the country. She won’t even talk about it… and I can only pray she never has to “walk on the dark side” to understand what is necessary.
As for the smallpox vials, I am certainly not worried they’re going to infect the world. Smallpox is a serious disease, but far from the “most deadly.” It is good to see some people start to question the wisdom of trusting the CDC or any of the other idiot agencies with so much power and money.
Here’s an “update” to the Elephant Tears story. Its actually an article with more details and backstory on how they found and treated Raju.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2682388/Incredible-sight-elephant-cried-Raju-held-chains-beaten-abused-fifty-years-day-released-tears-rolled-face.html
Now if only that article had a link to send donations to.
The incorporation article could make a much better argument if Mr. Cohen understood four things:
1. The main purpose of incorporating is continuity, not immunity.
2. Immunity from prosecution is a product of the government “justice” system, not incorporation. (Simple bribery already gave the Corleone family more immunity from government than any corporation.)
3. Finance is one of the most heavily regulated industries. When a bank “ruins someone’s life” it’s almost always because it’s acting in accordance with government laws and rules and regulations and policies and procedures and taxes and fees and fines and subsidies and supports and…
4. When a corporation is prosecuted it’s most often because it was trying to act in accordance with government laws and rules and regulations and policies and procedures and taxes and fees and fines and subsidies and supports, but the government interpreted them differently or inconsistently.
It is fortunate that Officer Friendly displayed the typical marksmanship skills of his kind, otherwise the two guys he was targeting would have been killed. 14 shots aimed at two guys, and one wounded but not killed. It usually takes them about 41 shots to kill somebody.
[The main purpose of incorporating is continuity, not immunity.]
Well, the main reason people incorporate is neither. Instead, it’s for reducing looting by the government. But I am talking small corporations, not banks and such.
Good article MamaLiberty. It reminds me of something that happened to me:
Years ago (before I went anarchist!) I was a member of a civic group lobbying for this and that. Of course with this there were numbers of meetings. One time we had a large meeting in a room at a large hospital. After the meeting a woman I didn’t know came up to me and asked me to walk her out to her car in the big parking structure, which I did. I didn’t say much, but I sure was thinking, “Geez lady, you are forced to beg a complete stranger for protection? That is nuts! What if I was an axe murderer? Buy yourself a revolver and take care of yourself!”
There’s also this article, probably many have seen it, “Jew Without a Gun”
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/jew-without-a-gun/2013/01/30/
For 11 years I was a PBX (telephone) operator at a large Portland, Oregon hospital.
As part of my duties I would dispatch security on various types of calls, one of which was requests for escort to one of the several parking structures.
One night I received a call for an escort, and notified security. Right after I had told them about the escort request, I had to dispatch them to the psych floor. All of the security officers went to those calls unless they were already standing by with someone in the ER.
After a period of time had passed I received a phone call from the person who wanted the escort wondering where security was. I told them about the higher priority call, and she went ballistic on *me* about her having to wait until someone was available.