Fuckin’ Cops.
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Though I understand the concept well, being a 33 year old who has already suffered a heart attack, what ever happened to the days when not fucking dying was incentive enough for one to take his meds? I sure hope this idea doesn’t become too popular as I’m sure that it will only be a […]
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Jackie Calmes and Sheryl Gay Stolberg via The New York Times: President Obama on Saturday implored Congress to provide more aid to states and cities to blunt “the devastating economic impact of budget cuts” by local governments that imperil the jobs of teachers, the police, firefighters and other public employees. I’m not sure better proof […]
I find it extremely amusing that the attitude of some people is that oil gushing in to the gulf is bad, but that detonating a fucking nuclear bomb to stop it is okay. They’re not okay with oil in the environment, but are good with radiation.
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Arthur Laffer via The Wall Street Journal: And it’s also simple enough for most people to understand that if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work. Incentives matter.
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Joan Biskupic via USA Today: By a 5-4 vote, the justices said that once rights have been read and questioning begun, a suspect must clearly declare that he wants to remain silent and cannot simply be silent. If I have to speak up in order to be silent, what’s the fucking point of having a […]
Jake Tapper and Huma Khan via ABC: The White House is seemingly making an increased show of pressuring BP, but President Obama is facing political heat from within his own party for what some say has been a lackluster response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Pray tell, state worshipers, what the […]
Kareem Fahim via The New York Times: The government has not said whether any of the people killed by security forces were armed. And although almost a thousand people were arrested and detained for days, all but 10 of them were eventually released without charge. A side note to the collateral damage in Jamaica as […]
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Though it certainly shouldn’t be taken as an indication that the war on drugs will be coming to a close, this new memo from Attorney General Holder is a step in the right direction. Mike Scarcella via The National Law Journal: Sentencing Commission Vice Chairman William Carr Jr. said the Holder memo “clearly” gives more […]
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According to Secretary of State Billary Clinton, we should strive to be more like Brazil in our taxation by heavily taxing those with, in order to support those without. Brazil has the highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere and guess what — they’re growing like crazy,” Clinton said. “And the rich are getting richer, but […]