mabhatter

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by mabhatter 13y ago
And the number of people illegally beaten or killed by cops at routine traffic stops is an order of magnitude higher than cops injured or killed.
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Here was an article a while ago about making safer beer mugs so barfights didn't turn into dangerous weapons. The UK police were backing rolling them out. American police just shoot fuckers instead of getting in a minor tussle.
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Being as its Levar... His famous role was in Roots as the slave that kept getting lashed for not taking a proper English name from his owner over and over if he would just say his English name... So its more than a little ironic that THIS a
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by mabhatter 13y ago
POLICE are not "emergency services" when they get to carry guns. EMTS and Firemen do just fine without guns. Why can't Police?
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Firemen and EMTS DON'T WANT to be cops! That's why "public safety" movements fail. They don't want to be forced to issue citations for petty drug laws while trying to save people from health or fire emergencies. It&
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by mabhatter 13y ago
That's an entirely reasonable way to handle it. Simply designate a certain amount of tables off-limits to using for "work". Then the coffee shop stops losing business when somebody just wants to DEPRINK COFFEE for twenty min
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Because if the general public was doing it 50% or better would be squished. Public employees have to clean your guts up off the pavement each time it happens. It's not "victimless" after the same old guy has scrapped 30 peop
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Defacing public cones... The guy wasn't exactly PAYING for the orange cones he was using. Consider if every road project has to pay an extra $1000 for lost cones it becomes a police problem quickly and they crack the whip hard.
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by mabhatter 13y ago
But NSA leaks are TREASON, no matter how small. This isnt even military level treason, this is death in a cold ditch treason. To maintain operational discipline they have to kill him... Very horribly. This only shows that the premiere spyin
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Simple. A significant portion of long-term, powerful congressmen are in on the story too... They VOTED for it. Remember too. Since the Cold War, certain amounts of spying are "necessary" that's why we have the NSA and CIA in
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Take something as simple as Mozilla. Most of their work revolves around publishing the Firefox browser, they collect donations from Google for using Google's home page. After that it gets murky because there is another for-profit Mozil
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by mabhatter 13y ago
The Constitution doesn't GRANT the Feds any power to decide who is married or not. They have to respect whatever status the STATES designate. So to unilaterally deny one type of marriage versus another that is sanctioned by a state is
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by mabhatter 13y ago
the media lost their Forth Estate status when they let Bushies push Dan Rather and Tom Brokow off the air for reporting stuff the Bush administration had them sitting on for almost a year. The editors didn't take the fight to the public the
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by mabhatter 13y ago
Why do people commute 45+ minutes each way to work... To live in a Suburb where the dont interaxt with any neighbors. a place with no public transport, no major retailers, and no place for "malcontents" to flock within 10 miles that's not
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by mabhatter 13y ago
It's not terrible to cancel that program for a while. Her previous counterparts spent too much time on politics and people at home weren't WORKING on what the company needed. When the company is out of control, somebody has to take reigns..
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by mabhatter 13y ago
It's simple really. It cost the GOP no bad Karma to let Cheney and Bush open the thing. The President called it a "military camp" so legally it was the same as keeping these bad guys in a tent in Iraq. For Obama to MOVE THEM would have requ