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 17-01-2015 02:31 AM
@imastawka wrote:Ermagerd!! Read the recipe. Feel ill now.
Who on earth originally put all those ingredients together and said yum?
they were VERY hungry, no questioning about that.
if you haven't eaten for a week and you are offered english food (just for example) or nothing what would you chose?
(i think i might wait for another week just in case....)
on 17-01-2015 02:32 AM
@aps1080 wrote:
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.
will you allow her to post here one day?
on 17-01-2015 02:37 AM
You mean my "better half" ?
Not sure "allow" is the right word, I don't stop her so she is free to if she wants.
I know she was reading the forum the other day, or one of the threads as I had left it up on the ipad
so she knows if the forum and what I post.
(I introduced her to ebay and researching things on the internet when I first met her,
mainly as she went from shop to shop looking at prices.)
on 17-01-2015 02:41 AM
@lal-au0 wrote:
will you allow her to post here one day?
lal
I assume you are a lady. I have a question for you.
Why did you use the word "allow" ?
Just interested as it implies (from my side) a whole load of things to do with a womans standing in life, relationship etc.
(And before anyone asks, no, I am NOT offended )
on 17-01-2015 03:08 AM
@imastawka wrote:Ermagerd!! Read the recipe. Feel ill now.
Who on earth originally put all those ingredients together and said yum?
LOL! I'm laughing at yoru little green face. 🙂
I don't see that many ingredients. 10 ingredients and 5 are spices. It's a Fall pie (around here) and usually made and served for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.......which is when the pumpkins are harvested.
I don't care for it either, but not to the point of turning green. 🙂
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
3 egg yolks
1 large egg
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon Chinese 5-spice powder
1 9-inch unbaked pie crust (see footnote for recipe link)
on 17-01-2015 05:56 AM
And remember those taxes also go towards unemployment benefits for people like yourself joanie, so seems unfair to pick and choose what you think 'workers' taxes should be used for.
and what do you think caused me to be without a job or home? how do you account for 40+ years of hard work, saving and building? I'm not a drug user, don't drink or even smoke, don't gamble and never have. So where did it all go?, must be someone took it away don't you think? who would have that kind of power to do such a thing and write it up in a way to make themselves seem justified in doing so? at least a few policing agencys have had this in the works for years, but it only took the sheriffs about an hour to take it all away, 40+ years of everything I had, a home, a house, everything and declare me lowlife criminal scum.
Don't look at these stories if they bring you down, get back on that positive line you were on yesterday.
I should count my blessings, yes, maybe not a bad idea, but what shouldn't do is dilude myself into thinking this won't happen again. You might think I can build back up to where I was, maybe in another 10 years if I am lucky? But I know the truth, they will just take it all away yet again, like they did before, the rape, robbery and abuse will continue if I ever get back any measure of what I had before. My only chance at being left alone by these cops is to stay at the bottom of life, not work to build myself up to a place they can knock me down from. If they even knew i was in this shelter staying warm, they'd pull me out, rape me, and throw me into a holding cell where I am sure to be freezing cold with nothing but a rug to wear.
YOU are just using the police as an excuse for your own miserable life, if you didn't have them to blame you would find something else....anything else rather than face the fact that ultimately YOU are responsible for your situation and only YOU can improve it.
Miserable life? no, not even close to that at the moment. It's because I have nothing left for the police to take that my life at least seems decent and worthwhile. I fail to see how you equate me bring the truth about police types, tyrants and the like, to this board to being miserable. If anything, it feels good to put the truth such as this out where those can at least judge for themselves.
It's a growing problem means that even if you don't can't or refuse to see it, it will get worse to the point where at some point, when you do see, somewhere in the back of your mind, you'll say or think, Joanie was right, she was dead on accurate in what back such n such a time ago seemed like rantings of lashing out.
Posting about police abusing their power actually helps me to face and accept what has happened in my own life and find comfort in the fact that i'm not alone in this. Others have been the victim of cops as well. Some worse, and some not to the extient of myself.
on 17-01-2015 06:37 AM
Do we have options? http://w11.zetaboards.com/Fun_Factor/topic/10911399/1/#new
Give peace a chance, NV (non violence) 4ever can't we all just, ,, ,,, get along?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVVwfGF4h30
A song recorded by the Youngbloods. Written by Dino Valente in the early 1960's. A peace anthem for all time. Come on people now, smile on your brother, Everybody get together, try to love one another right now.
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on 17-01-2015 08:20 AM
A song recorded by the Youngbloods. Written by Dino Valente in the early 1960's. A peace anthem for all time. Come on people now, smile on your brother, Everybody get together, try to love one another right now.
If only... Those words 60 odd years down the track still speak volumes.
I hope Lyn-Flyn reads your reply there. After reading it (even though I have read similar posts from your goodself) I understand where you are coming from.
My 20 cent solution for you (if it's even worth that...) , as soon as you have enough cash, get as far away from where you are as possible. Start a fresh in a totally different state (or country even if you can somehow save up some dollars) Re invent yourself in a new place where noone knows ya 🙂
There are tyrants in the world, I watched some of the Chuck Baldwin semon you posted yesterday, loved the bit where he talks of tyrants. "I'll repeat Tyrants fear the people and they hate Christ" He gets emotional (and considering it was an hour and 23 minutes long I admit I didnt watch it closely from start to finish) but he's not like one of those annoying televagalistic (sp) types. When time allows I'll check out some more of his videos
on 17-01-2015 09:46 AM
@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
?? They have always been available here.
on 17-01-2015 10:23 AM
@gleee58 wrote:
@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 😄
I've seen Costcos, but never been in one. One of these days maybe I'll give them a look. Never been in a walmart either, but saw one last week that I've passed 1000 times, but never noticed they were there.
I've had Pumpkin pie and dispite how the ingredients might look it wasn't bad. Warm topped with vanilla icecream. I just like all other pies better.....that I can think of.