- Oh rats. Device sniffs out smuggled money.
- Irony. While Obama asks Ferguson, MO, police to quit attacking journalists, press-freedom advocates ask Obama to do the same.
- In the “decline of civilization and common sense” department, two women are so terrified of an angry cat that they call 911. And this was their own cat, not some potentially rabid stranger. (H/T SC)
- “The Soros Put.” The savvy, super-connected billionaire bets $2.2 billion (17% of his assets under management) on a coming stock market crash. H/T to Silver, who also comments.
- “Who lost the cities?”
- Hint: Their close cousins lost the whole darned economy.
- Some perspective on Ferguson from a local.
Re: quit attacking journalists
Hypocrisy is a bit more obvious these days, now that we have the Internet.
Re: 911
911 is for morons. Think about it folks, it is a government program. What government program ever provided *on net* better service than what it replaced? Like the broken window story, SOMETHING unseen was replaced by 911 – such as personal responsibility, connections to neighbors, etc.
Re: who lost the cities
Good article although I bet Williamson thinks “school choice” is the solution to the school problem.
Re: secular stagnation
I had to laugh, the author is looking to Republicans to fix our economy.
Now, now. I’m in favor of school choice myself:
A. Firebomb the gov indoctrination camps
B. Bulldoze the gov indoctrination camps, and sow salt
C. Controlled explosive demolition
D. All of the above
Some might think that’s a bit extreme, that the buildings could be sold on the open market and reused. But frankly, those floor plans aren’t really suited for much of anything but prisons. And we’re trying to discourage that, right?
Hey, we could combine some of your ideas with the buildings’ stated purpose, Bear. One of the most memorable courses I ever took was on demolition with explosives. You can bet I paid attention in class.
No ICE operated device can sniff out an encrypted bitcoin wallet left on a google cloud drive, with some un-exciting name like “2007 quarterly tax report”.
( and yes, the dumbfucks are now asking peole if they have bitcoins on electronic devices. Good luck with enforcing that … )
Oh, and survailence video of the person shot in Ferguson has surfaced, showing him committing strong arm robberies of convenience stores in the past. Aggressive shoplifting for the most part.
Not exactly a choir boy.
Kristophr — Agreed, almost certainly not a choir boy. I covered that in my JPFO alert yesterday, BTW. (http://jpfo.org/articles-assd04/wolfe-police-militarization.htm)
Whether he was a choir boy doesn’t have that much to do with whether the shooting was justified or not. Neither petty theft nor strong-arm robbery carries the death penalty. Was the shooting justified? Who knows? But how very convenient that the police departments that can send their troops out in Bearcats somehow haven’t gotten around to installing dashcams and “can’t afford” bodycams.
No argument there, Claire.
The militarization of the police, and their allergy to video they do not control is very disturbing. They claim he was trying to grab a gun, but so many police departments lie routinely, no one will take their word for it.
And the current litigation environement has made anything short of lethal force problematic, and you can’t taser someone in the car with you. A few decades ago, he would have gotten a hickory shampoo for resisting arrest, and then thrown into a cell with a bunch of new head lumps, still breathing.
The Bearcats are provided by the feds … but somehow the feds don’t consider cameras important.
As much as the Portland PD irtritates me, the one thing they do right is video-taping every damned thing. During the Occupy riots, one in every tem riot cop was assigned to film.
Device sniffs out smuggled money.
“Really, Officer Irate? I left six one dollar bills in the jeans I packed? Gosh, I was wondering where they went.”
I noticed the link to the cat story was to a British newspaper, and thought, That figures. Then I saw by the headline it happened in California. Yeah, pretty much the same thing.
“Who lost the cities?”
Saw a map recently on the states that were worst for workers. (Low minimum wage, open shop, etc.) Ran a quick comparison. Yup. The same states all the workers are moving to.
LarryA:
That won’t work. The border is a federal nexus, and the constitution allows customs to search everything in pursuit of tarrifs and excise.
The only way to fix this is to remove the currency control laws, by one means or another.