on 16-01-2015 12:09 AM
Many people join the police because they are enamored by images of protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, maintaining order, promoting peace, serving and protecting the people etc. It is also fun to believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny but it is not encouraged to base our future professions on such myths and eventually we must shed them. To believe, in our adult life, that the primary function of police is to perform the aforementioned is to be plagued with a severe form of schizophrenia and a selective understanding of reality. In economics we understand that people act according to incentives and that by thoroughly understanding those incentives the result of those actions can be more or less predictable. If I give a man money to not work, is he likely to continue seeking employment or to abandon such efforts? If pharmaceutical representatives shower a physician with luxurious gifts the more he prescribes a certain medication is likely to prescribe more or less of that medication? If fascistic special interests banks are given cheap currency in the form of Quantitative Easing and then told by the Federal Reserve that they will be given a greater interest rate if they park it in their reserves, are the banks likely to lend that currency out or park it in their reserves? If fascistic special interests banks are told that they can gamble with the people’s currency in the massive derivatives casino, lose trillions, and those funds will still be secured throughout colossal criminal bailouts at taxpayer’s expense are they likely to gamble recklessly in the derivatives casino or be more cautious with the people’s hard earned currency? I hope the trend is clear.
The people do not voluntarily fund the police; rather they are coercively funded through the theft of taxation. Their salaries will always be guaranteed regardless of abuse or cruelty towards the people. Therefore the incentive is not about pleasing the customer in any respect but about pleasing their superiors and political masters. When this is understood then the rise of the police state, the militarization of the police, and the flooding of police brutality videos is not surprising. It is but a natural result of incentivized human action. “Government” is the giant exception to the law of morality and the enormous incentive to waste, inefficiency, and barbarity to which we all must contend. Eliminate the paradigm of systematic predation and all the wretched hydra heads will inevitably die. Stop funding wickedness with your participation and support! What is done violently through aggression is always inferior to that which is done peacefully through voluntary interaction. Good ideas do not require force.
Albequrque, NM after the release of a bombshell police video showing helmet cam footage of the police shooting a local homeless man in a NM State Park
Adam Kokesh Interview: "Police are granted a monopoly on violence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-dpr-xnqeo
on 16-01-2015 05:44 PM
what sort of pumpkin Allie?
on 16-01-2015 05:50 PM
What do you call a camper? I mean is it like a tent on wheels, or a van like a kombi?
A small house like structure that can ideally be pulled by a vehicle around to diffrent places, (camp sites) to sleep and stay in. This one is old and can no longer be easally moved. leaks and basically is falling apart.
And what do you mean by 'the fly one" ?
That might not be so easally explained in a single reply. Search and study mid to late 1980s rap lingo for a more detailed discription, but if you have not the time, just think of "fly" as a twist on "cool" though not entirley accurate. Fly, is one of those words that describes it'self. Hard to find a basis for comparison.
16-01-2015 05:54 PM - edited 16-01-2015 05:55 PM
I don't remember now, and I don't have the recipe. But I googled and one recipe says Queensland blue, the others don't say what sort. I think I used the commonest sort.
But it is delicious.
on 16-01-2015 06:08 PM
ask your grocery store employee, where the frozen pie section is, look for it there. I have a hard time believing theres no Pumpkin pies sold in Australia. Has it been banned there too? as I remember seeing the topics on this board about banning certain things, like the burka. lol. Maybe it's called something diffrent, but I would think you would have it there.
Tell them the fly one sent you in for a pumpkin pie. lol, No, don't tell them that, they'll ban me from their store.
on 16-01-2015 06:13 PM
16-01-2015 06:49 PM - edited 16-01-2015 06:49 PM
No Pumpkin pie in Aussie shops and no pumpkin pie in New Zealand shops.
We still make our own pies, well some of us do.
I remember going to the super Market in Miami with my sister inlaw and the bakery section had the biggest pies I have ever seen.
My sister inlaw said you can have any thing you want, I said no thanks I would be big as a house if I ate any of that.
Was hard even to buy a small filled roll, they were all as big as a loaf of bread 🙂
on 16-01-2015 06:51 PM
I really missed pumpkin when I lived in England. Pumpkin is pig food to them, although I think they are possibly a different breed of pumpkin. I visited an aussie girl who had moved there and she grew her own pumpkins to eat as she missed them too.
I find it funny how americans go out for 'pie' . There seems to be a pie culture that we don't have. But I'm only going on what we see on tv.
What do you call a camper? I mean is it like a tent on wheels, or a van like a kombi?
A small house like structure that can ideally be pulled by a vehicle around to diffrent places, (camp sites) to sleep and stay in. This one is old and can no longer be easally moved. leaks and basically is falling apart.
Sounds like a small caravan. To me a camper has canvas sides or is really small. I lived in a caravan when I was a teenager. It was horrible, stinking hot in the summer, freezing in the winter and the sound of rain on the roof would deafen you. To this day I still hate the sound of rain on a tin roof. And to those who are gonna say Oh I love the sound of rain on the roof, trust me, having a ceiling then insulation then metres of space to the roof is not the same as having the tin roof without insulation just above your head. I used to light the gas burners and stove to try and heat van up in the winter.
on 16-01-2015 06:57 PM
One thing I missed in Australia was Baked Kumara with the lamb roast.
Kumara is a sweet potato but a nice purple colour on the out side.
I did manage to get a couple once at a market, think my Maori cussie's may have sneaked some into the country hahaha
on 16-01-2015 07:14 PM
The most common form of camper over here is a structure that slides into the back of a ute.
Some of them pop up, some of them are just larger.
on 16-01-2015 07:21 PM