Neocon porn. After he crossed the river he converted the moose to Christianity, then killed it with his bare hands.
So maybe my skepticism was wrong. The FBI is now looking into the Pennsylvania webcam spying case.
NYPD will start experimental program to tape police interrogations. This should have happened a long, long time ago.
Make your URL shady.
Sex secrets of the Olympic Village. Think Olympic athletes get extra points for level of difficulty?
Hell, I’m with you, Scott. But as these things go, my opinion isn’t worth much.
Fun newborn photography.
Right out of The Wire: Retired NYPD police commanders say politicians, brass pressured them to juke crime stats data. Maybe “broken windows” wasn’t the overwhelming success its supporters claim, after all.
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well, pardon my skepticism but probably the “investigation” will find no wrong doing; just a cover for the govt criminals.
I read the article on manipulation of crime statistics. One of the things the article talks about as manipulation is looking up the value of an item on e-bay or Craig’s list instead of taking the valuation given by the alleged victim as gospel truth. I can’t really call that manipulation so much as appropriate research. Too often I see officers/DA’s who want to use the new value of old worn-out items in order to make them felonies. Research at e-bay and Craig’s list seems entirely appropriate research, just research that is likely to help rather than hurt the defense. The fact that this was apparently flagged by retired LEO brass as inappropriate is what raises a red flag for me. Makes me wonder if any research that could be helpful to the defense is deemed inappropriate.
If a person has an item stolen, they lose the utility of that item. When they replace that item, they might be able to get a used item that is equal to the one stolen, but they might need to buy one that is new at full cost. They put a high value on the item to attempt to forestall insurance company difficulties. The fact that the cops found the time to do all this ‘research’ is astounding given that they claim to be so overworked and all. Don’t get hung up on that one item however, look at the big picture; lots of time and effort for no gain whatsoever. All about the optics of making things look other than they really are. Smoke and mirrors. Is it any wonder that all the intelligent people ignore what the cops and politicians say?
Most tangible assets depreciate, and your loss has to take that into account. There are a few exceptions – gold, jewels, real jewelry, real estate, etc.
Here’s an outright scary story out of New Jersey, where a college professor was teaching a class on budgeting in local and state politics. During the course of the lecture he mentioned a recent news story about the county Sheriff Kevin Larkin, who was under criticism for “double dipping” on his salary. Larkin “retired” as a regular officer last year with a full salaried pension, but is also collecting an even larger salary as the elected sheriff. He currently makes over $210,000 a year.
One of the students in the class was an employee of Sheriff Larkin. She texted him on her cell phone that the prof was “disparaging” law enforcement. A few minutes later, Sheriff Larkin himself showed up in the classroom and basically coerced and intimidated the professor into issuing an apology for his remarks in front of the class.
The next day Sheriff Larkin also called the college president and HR department to make complaints about the professor.
http://www.mcccvoice.org/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=8e240ee5-513a-4ae8-9103-f49dc117b824
I found this quote amusing:
Fayette authorities investigate dog shooting
“I want to stress that this dog was inside of a fenced-in yard when it was shot and killed,” [Sheriff] Kessler said. “Anyone who would do something like this is cruel, cold-hearted and a coward to boot.”
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/policeblotter/201002160330
To my knowledge this gang of LEOs has never committed puppycide but didn’t he just insult nearly every other PD in this country?
Hmmmm… theagitator.com becomes:
http://5z8.info/bomb-plans_f8w7s_smut
;-)
“Think Olympic athletes get extra points for level of difficulty?”
No, but you do need to nail the dismount.
#5 PW
I hope I’m not the only one who thinks that Brooke the good little narc gets publicly shunned for the rest of her life.
Looks like some people think that Neocon porn is a photo shop job.
http://i.imgur.com/9JDS7.jpg
Yes well, some people clearly can’t identify where the light source is in the photo seeing as the shadow pattern matches neither of those light sources but does match an overhead source slightly to the front. If light source 2 was actually there his neck would be the same color as his hands. Moreover, I’m unsure as to how they get missing reflection when turbulent water’s reflectance properties vary wildly.
It would be interesting to see condom companies sponsor athletes. I’d like to see the names of condom manufactures on the rears of women doing the skeleton.
Sex secrets of the Olympic Village. Think Olympic athletes get extra points for level of difficulty?
So now we know why Tiger committed to Golf’s debut in the 2016 Olympics.
#6 WV cops generally don’t kill puppies. They leave that to the feds.
You sure about the WV cops. They might take home the evidence to eat.
#15 They’re rednecks, not Chinamen.
You know, I’m all for promoting safe sex, but I can’t help but think there’s an opportunity being missed here to create a race of super-ski-jumpers…
I was going to post that I was surprised the Pennsylvania story didn’t happen in NJ, but then I read PW’s #5 comment and my faith in the chaos of the world was restored.
Karl Denninger has a good take on the Pennsylvania school district.
http://market-ticker.denninger.net
Skepticism is never wrong. Denial of reality as the facts pour in is.
When Alfred Wegener hypothesized contintal drift early las century, a skeptical respons would have been that there is insufficient evidence to buy into such a fantastic claim. Questioning the fact of plate tectonics (as it is now known) today would make one an ignorant fool.
J sub D
“Skepticism is never wrong”
You said it, brother. I research everything before I take it to heart. Ten years ago I would have been more of the “that sounds good it’s probably true” kind of guy. Not now.
I found the gamesmanship over the status of the school laptop as “reported stolen” interesting. If the laptop was in the child’s possession at the time of the alleged “inappropriate activity” and opened an turned on (as required to use the security software), then it clearly was not stolen or even missing. The school is insisting that they never violated their policy of only activating the camera when the laptop is reported stolen – “infer what you will”. I wonder who made such a report – since the family filed suite, I would assume that it was someone other than the family. It sounds like they found a nice loophole in their policy there – just mark it down as “reported stolen” if you get caught spying. I bet that doesn’t go so well for them when they try it in an FBI interview.