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 07:28 PM
To late, I am back in the land of the Kumara now 🙂
on 16-01-2015 07:47 PM
This is our camper
16-01-2015 11:14 PM - edited 16-01-2015 11:15 PM
@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:Back to your old tricks, Joanie?
Actions have consequences......civil disobedience may result in your being body-slammed to the ground.
10 times more annoying than her threads....you bashing every thread she posts.
Edit: don't like them...don't click them. Simple.
I haven't had pie in years. Pumpkin is my least favourite.
Lol at giant pies. Another myth!
16-01-2015 11:52 PM - edited 16-01-2015 11:53 PM
@softail-joanie wrote: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.
No, the only place you will find pumpkin pie for sale in Australia is at the farmers market, or similar. Not even Sara Lee ones in our supermarket freezers. I haven't seen them in Costco either, although they have the most massive cheese cakes ever.
16-01-2015 11:56 PM - edited 16-01-2015 11:57 PM
@lionrose.7 wrote: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
Mmmm, I haven't seen those in years but do recall the first sweet potatoes I tried had the purple colour skin and were always baked. never boiled.
16-01-2015 11:59 PM - edited 17-01-2015 12:00 AM
@jimmy*part3 wrote:
@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:Back to your old tricks, Joanie?
Actions have consequences......civil disobedience may result in your being body-slammed to the ground.
10 times more annoying than her threads....you bashing every thread she posts.
Edit: don't like them...don't click them. Simple.
I haven't had pie in years. Pumpkin is my least favourite.
Lol at giant pies. Another myth!
Perhaps our pies are just small then :D:D
Are Costco pies very large to you or are they stock standard sized pies? they are huge compared to most you'll find here 😄
on 17-01-2015 12:00 AM
Homemade Pumpkin Pie:
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/desserts/pies/pumpkin-pie/
I think most, here in the US, make it from scratch, but it can also be purchased frozen already baked, or frozen and you bake it.
Not my favorite pie either.
on 17-01-2015 12:30 AM
Ermagerd!! Read the recipe. Feel ill now.
Who on earth originally put all those ingredients together and said yum?
on 17-01-2015 01:45 AM
we need no stinkin' pumpkin pie we have meat pois here! (which is a pie filled with dog food).
on 17-01-2015 02:23 AM
Nothing better than Pumpkin soup, home made.
The "better half" is very good at making it.
My "Camper" is a swag !
Was originally a Canvas Tarp rolled into a swag but I eventually got round to buying one
with hoops in it, not that I use them much.