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More likely shooting someone for mean mugging them or to get some sneakers. Stealing bread? Thanks for the laff.
Posted by Sugartit]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:35:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:07:33 -0800 The Stranger
Watch:

https://www.facebook.com/help/4205761713…

And seek mental health counseling.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:37:54 -0800 The Stranger
There's quite a few novels based on this theme. The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury is a favorite of mine. That one had a more positive outlook than the paragraph that I wrote above, but I'm more of a depressive person by character than Bradbury was.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:38:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by six five]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:17:29 -0800 The Stranger
Speaking of BPA I thought I would try switching from the local megamarkets to the small organic place nearby (yes, on Kent East Hill) for groceries.

So I bought a few items none of which set off any gluten scanners. However the cashier paused and noted that the $3.59 bag of pasta was sealed with rivets.

"Mmm...metal", she said.

Then when I opened the rice bread and took it from the standard plastic bag, it additional had a hard plastic tray container with a plastic seal on top...twice as much packaging as the ordinary loaf!
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:16:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by six five]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:14:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:14:11 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/busine…

I note that with all the yelling about Kansas about to eliminate income tax, it has one of the higher property tax rates at 2.09% (even higher is Texas at 2.57).

Meanwhile Washington, a state full of wealthy property owners and asset holders constantly cries "Poor" while taxing at a paltry rate of 1.03%... among the lowest in the nation.

I don't see how landed deadbeats can get away with taxing the productive class in this way.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:03:28 -0800 The Stranger
Just imagine how collectively aghast and what consensus there would be that it was enormously fucked up if, in looking back to the Roman Empire the way a historical lens would look back on the American Empire...that a portion of society stole, affected, and ruined countless fortunes --at the threat of the stability and foundation of the entire society--without recourse, while plebeians were thrown in dungeons for stealing bread. It would be so clear how unjustified and deleterious to the Empire it was. Yikes. But presently, nobody cares.
Posted by six five]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:32:20 -0800 The Stranger
Anon vs. the USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/201…

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-26…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…

http://www.breathingearth.net/

Secret Owners Conduit of the Day:

AR ASSET MANAGMENT INC


Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:22:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ChadK]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:55:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:58:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pucker up]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:30:31 -0800 The Stranger
we added a few states.
Posted by geography of ignorance]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:27:49 -0800 The Stranger
NOTHING about the Labor Board SMACKDOWN?

Kiss your Boeing jobs 'byebye...'
Posted by SOUTH CAROLINA]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:24:34 -0800 The Stranger
Also, what's the point of buying and melting down a used and inoperable missile launcher? Shouldn't that money have been used to buy back an actual weapon which could have been used to hurt somebody?
Posted by GermanSausage]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:15:03 -0800 The Stranger
yes, but please don't piss in the Credulous Liberals' punch.....
Posted by It's full of Kook Koolaid]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:02:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by kiss your asses goodbye]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:59:44 -0800 The Stranger It's more than a little disturbing some of the buybacks were to J Random Person rather than the city buyback program. Along with the good, did Seattle just set up a particuarly unchecked private gun sale?

Posted by david]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:56:51 -0800 The Stranger Someday, thousands of years from now, the archaeologists are going to dig up the remains of our civilization.

TacomaTraveler, you're so optimistic.
Posted by LMcGuff]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:47:02 -0800 The Stranger
Or use ColdFusion running on IIS...
Posted by I Heart Flan!]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:46:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by JensR]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:41:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by JonnoN]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:59:10 -0800 The Stranger
Someday, thousands of years from now, the archaeologists are going to dig up the remains of our civilization. I wonder what they'll think of a country where heavy munitions are as common as dirt, and where medical care is as rare as it gets.

Given that the stuff that gets dug up is usually the most common things, I wonder if they won't find copies of Glenn Beck's books or The National Enquirer or a Beiber CD and base their assumptions of what our society was like on those artifacts.

How barbaric we will look to these future archeologists searching for clues about life in the once great American Empire. When all they find are paranoid rants and weapons, hyperbolic descriptions of each other, and crocs (because styrofoam clothing will outlast cotton or silk), that's the legacy the children of the far-flung future will learn about in school, that's the image they will have of you and I.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:31:48 -0800 The Stranger