- That waitress who naively turned her $12k tip over to the cops? She’s getting her money back despite police claims that the cash … um, yeah, um … “smells like marijuana so we have to keep it, you know, for your own good.” (Amazing how self-congratulatory the jerks manage to be even after the whole country beat up on them for stealing from the poor woman.)
- Oh, Arizona, the silliness of your legislators never ends, does it? Now they’re trying to declare that you can be pregnant up to two weeks before having sex.
- Too late! Too late! You missed your chance to buy Buford, Wyoming.
- Did you know that (among other things) inability to think is now a federally protected disability? And it just gets weirder and weirder.
- If you liked Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games or Winter’s Bone you might like her even better in real life. 🙂 (Tip o’ hat to EN.)
- TaxKilla and Occupy the IRS. The aim: to teach the 99% how to use one of the tax advantages of the 1%. It’s just using Schedule C, which all us self-employed types already know. But it’s using it with Attitude. (You have to have JavaScript enabled to read the manifesto. Wish they wouldn’t do that, but it’s worth it.)
- I’m sorry the man’s dead. But he really was the George W. Bush of art.
I have always loved Kinkade’s art. Never heard a word about all the other stuff. What a crying shame.
My father quit doing business with Fedgov about 30 years ago when it started going beyond doing business. Initially they just “order stuff”. Then they started demanding compliance within their accepted manufacturing practices. And then they wanted to inspect his facilities… and look at his employee records. He refused nicely, and how does that go, “he lived happily ever after!” The Austrians love this stuff, it’s classic. As you can imagine the next guy to do the work was probably desperate and not exactly the top tier of quality in the biz. Anyone who’d actually let a moron whose only concern is that you higher the disabled have a say in your affairs is doomed.
I hope Stacy Knutson learned something from her experience. She could have had $12,000 free and clear. Now she has $12,000 minus legal fees and income taxes. Too bad she hadn’t seen “Why You Should Never Talk to the Police” prior to getting the tip of her life.
Every day someone gives me another reason to hate authority, especially the police.
Hmm, inability to think has never been a bar from serving in elected office. Of course they would want to enshrine that in private businesses even as the Fed Gov reduces the number of “disabled” it hires.
“Every day someone gives me another reason to hate authority, especially the police.”
That’s for sure. The ‘authority’ (and corresponding responsibility) rightfully belongs to all of us free people, but sure as sunshine little by little the chosen enforcers are granted more and vaster privileges and immunities that are forbidden to the wee little folks without badges.
“Too late! Too late! You missed your chance to buy Buford, Wyoming.”
And how much did you bid on it?
@Elmer: Hating authority seems to be one of the few growth industries left in the US.
If I can get pregnant without having sex, why can’t I fill my stomach without eating food?
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I’ve benn following the Buford, Wyoming story and was interested to learn the owner had sold it. But it makes me wonder if the Vietnamese guy plans to turn it into a resort or casino, _a la_ Gael Carolina in “Hardyville Tales”. http://www.backwoodshome.com/store/files/cw01.html
Is this Arizona’s way of dealing with those with ‘inability to think’? Giving them jobs in the legislature? What about the male partner? Is wanking murder? It is nice to have something to laugh at when the gov goes off the rails of sanity.
I’m glad the waitress got her money back. The war on drugs with the confiscation has turned the police into armed robbers. I can understand why she called the cops. She was probably worried some thugs would turn up wanting it back but it really was up to the cops to prove it wasn’t hers.
Steve
One more thing: Kinkade’s world of parody
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/slide_show/
Steve
I’m always one to support an artist, for the art’s sake….but his business side was horrible, plus I think the whole mass producing concept took away from the “specialness” of his art…..
No doubt he made millions, if you want to consider that a success….I can imagine the conversation with the devil that sealed those results…..
Come on down the the Utopic Desert Paradise that is AZ! All the problems must have been solved, since the Govt has plenty of time on its hands for this stupid stuff!
Oh, those are a hoot, Steve. Especially this one, which is such a perfect comment on Kinkade: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/slide_show/7/
I likes me a cute little cottage as much as anybody, but his almost-too-syrupy-for-Hallmark works were gag-iferous. The Keane paintings of this generation.
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=580&q=keane+paintings
(And those, too, got parodied a lot, come to think of it.)
People seem to be “Keane-ing” animals now a days….which is just as odd as what she use to do with people, LOL……
Sorry,
I am not a fan of Kinkade myself I do think his paintings are too frosted but I REALLY cant stand art snobs that trash mass market works just because its mass market. If Kinkade only painted and did not go the whole mass market route I suspect his drunken outbursts would be evidence of his tortured genious and his early death would be the subject of countless documentaries. Only after he died would it be acceptable to plaster his work on all manor of dishwear and t-shirts, posters and coffee table books, you know like Dali and Picasso and Munch and Escher and Van Goah and countless more. Kinkades problem was not that his work was puffy air-whiped dairy topping. His problem was he did it all backwards. He mass marketed and became a millionare BEFORE he died.
Not that I am anyone here who dislikes Kinkades work just that Salon article practicaly runs with Art-snob.
Did you have any idea this went on?
NYPD’s Stop and Frisk in Apartment Hallways!!
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/04/nypds-stop-and-frisk-in-apartment.html#comment-form
I didn’t.
Isn’t it something you’d expect to read about going on in the Old Soviet Union or behind The Wall in East Germany?
I never saw a better reason to buy vs. rent, or to get out of the country altogether.
Elmer wrote, “Every day someone gives me another reason to hate authority, especially the police.”
Your comment reminded me of a similar comment from a disabled woman named Doreen Salazar who learned the hard way:
“… because of her perceived tardiness in buzzing him and his partner into the residential area. Salazar, who had been advised by the apartment managers never to grant access to anyone she didn’t know, and who had difficulty identifying the officers as police, paused for perhaps a second or two before letting them in. It’s a tragedy that she didn’t understand that police are the most dangerous variety of strangers she’s likely to confront.
Security camera video shows Miller snarling at the small, middle-aged woman, pushing her, and cornering her near an elevator. He then slammed her face-first into the elevator door, handcuffed her, and held her in his patrol car for about ten minutes – a sadistic act that served no purpose other than to terrorize an uppity Mundane who had failed to respect Miller’s supposed authority.
“Did you learn your lesson?” a smirking Miller sneered at Salazar after releasing her from the handcuffs.
“Yes, I learned my lesson,” Salazar – who is more of a man than little Shawn will ever be — replied. “I learned not to open a door for a cop ever again.” …”
http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/04/necessary-force.html