Did the troopers not know how to make a head shot or 10? Now this scum bag will get to bill taxpayers for his food, housing, and medical not to mention the expense of flying him to a hospital. My heart and prayers are with the familyof this innocent baby. Kill a baby and be killed
An unexpected result for some census takers: the wrath of irate Americans
This is the scary season for the nation’s census takers.
Since they began making follow-up house calls in early May, census takers have encountered vitriol, menace and flashes of violence. They have been shot at with pellet guns and hit by baseball bats. They have been confronted with pickaxes, crossbows and hammers. They’ve had lawn mowers pushed menacingly toward them and patio tables thrown their way. They have been nibbled by ducks, bitten by pit bulls and chased by packs of snarling dogs.
Some days, being cursed at seems part of the job description.
So far, the Census Bureau has tallied 379 incidents involving assaults or threats on the nation’s 635,000 census workers, more than double the 181 recorded during the 2000 census. Weapons were used or threatened in a third of the cases. [...]
no, weapons were used or threatened in 100% of the cases. however, all subjects of the state are to genuflect and ignore the obvious — that every edict from an official crime gang threatens the use of weapons. it so thoroughly pervades human interaction that we’re supposed to throw it out as part of any equation. a given.
[...] DC’s thugs will see us all die in more 9/11’s rather than admit their culpability and cease their anti-Constitutional forays overseas. That’s because ending the War on Terror would cancel all those lucrative, cozy contracts belligerent bureaucracies from the Pentagon to the Transportation Security Administration hand out; "targeting" Anwar instead funnels billions of our taxes into corporations’ coffers and from thence to politicians’ campaign chests. No wonder yet another nameless "official" sniffed to the New York Times, "The United States works, exactly as the American people expect, to overcome threats to their security, and this individual – through his own actions – has become one. … None of this should surprise anyone." Especially those who understand corporatism and the transformation of a republic into a fascist empire.
Meanwhile, there’s this from Rep[ulsive] Jane Harman (D-Israel – whoops, I mean CA), neoconservative chair of "a House subcommittee on homeland security": Anwar is "probably the person, the terrorist, who would be terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us."
if you “support the troops”, die. you aren’t worthy of a kick to the groin. eat this, “service to our country” goonited state bullshit motherfuckers. revel in your manifested support [NB: literally nauseating]:
despite the sick subject, i burst out laughing after reading this:
[...] Hunter’s son, Ken Hunter, said he’s alarmed by comments that called the pilot a hero.
“How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane … and flies it into a building to kill people?” Hunter told ABC.” “My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad’s a hero.” [...]
requisite premise for such insanity: before destroying, get a “permit”. from who? the world’s biggest crime gang.
[...] And the tragic thing is that if the TSA put an ad in the New York Times or USA Today wanting to hire people to do anal exams, it would probably be flooded with applicants.
oh the havoc these crime syndicate frootloops create pretending it’s their concern what other people smoke, shoot, snort, whatever. minding my goddamned business at a paid WiFi hotspot early this morning, a drug bust attempt — complete with at least 6 cop cars staffed by delusional control freaks — descended upon the previously peaceful parking lot and some poor sap parked one row over. wasn’t good enough that when i left the parking lot i checked in with one of the cops on my way out; these incompetent fucks decided it was better to let me get down the road a bit so they could light/siren me and run the usual roadside scam (i.e., driver “license” required by force if in a moving vehicle, even if the stop wasn’t traffic related). (more…)
i composed the name saltypig in ’95. i know of no precursors, yet that name is now used by others on the internet. i should be able to show up at the home of one of these “thieves”, display my sidearm, and tell him that if he doesn’t stop using “my” name i’ll lock him in a cage for a spell. right? (more…)
don’t put up with it. whenever you see some business trying to glom onto “the troops”, go to the manager and register your firm opposition. you’ll probably be thought an “unpatriotic” wack job, but there are worse things in life. (more…)
strange how easily most people can slide directly into supporting something they also condemn, so long as the language is shifted — sometimes no more than to change the team names:
Councilwoman Dona Spring said the council should not be cowed by the volume of hate mail and threats.
“I still oppose the Marines recruiting in Berkeley because it’s one way of protesting this wasteful war,” she said. “Our military policy is a shambles. But we’re not in opposition to the Marines, we oppose the policy that directs the Marines.”
“Normally the Iraqis know the drill … if something happens … get down, hands up … They started to take off, so I shot at them,” he said.
~US marine staff sergeant frank “do the right thing” wuterich, explaining how he ended up in a foreign country, shooting and killing native residents for not following his orders assumptions. (more…)