” ‘cop hater’ – anyone noticing the institutional corruption of civilian law enforcement.

To compare “police academy” to BUDS, SFAS, Ranger School, or similar program shows a complete ignorance of those programs…. See More

We learn by failure. When a wise negotiator/salesman does not get the deal closed, he reviews his techniques to determine how to do better.

If a negotiator succeeded every time, he’d assume his technique was sound.

But in all LE interactions with their fellow citizens, there is the unspoken threat of force.

Cop: “Please move over there, as I do not want witnesses to my actions” Citizen: “No thank you, I will remain here.”

Cop: “Please move over there” (or a will bash you with my night stick, taze you, or even shoot you and have 6 of my buddies swear you attacked me). Citizen: “Yes Sir.”

The cop probably thinks he’s great at “managing” people. But change the dynamics and he finds the badge, gun, and threat of force (legitimate or not) were his only negotiating tools.

My best friend’s mom was the first female prison guard in CA. She could not go toe to toe with inmates in physical strength or ego. She rarely had any problems because she brought no ego for the inmates to clash with.

Compelling people to obedience through force is not leadership, and is a type of conditioning that is antithetical to motivational leadership.”

Another gem from said poster…..

“It is when the administrator of implied force steps beyond their “legitimate” authority, or exercises that authority in an arbitrary and capricious manner, that they earn contempt. To the petty and vindictive, that contempt reinforces the “us versus them” mentality, motivating those with some power to “get them” or “show them who is boss” which earns them further contempt. When the conflict reaches crisis, and the “victim” has no confidence in his ability to petition his grievance, he takes desperate measures. When enough people agree, there is revolt.

I do not resent being pulled over and ticketed for speeding, when I was in fact speeding. I resent a MCSO officer pulling me over – and lying – claiming I was swerving and crossing over the divider multiple times, and then pretending he was doing me a favor by not ticketing me for something I didn’t do. I further resent a “system” that will take the word of a lying punk with a badge over my own. When my rights are trampled by my neighbor, I have recourse. When I am assailed by a criminal, I have recourse. When the criminal wears a badge, I am helpless. Who, therefore, should I rationally fear?

Psychological experiments have demonstrated time and again when one person is given arbitrary authority over another (or a group with authority over another group) that those in power rapidly abandon any principles of fair play they may have claimed to previously have. This process is rapidly accelerated when there is affirmation from peers and supervisors that the behavior is acceptable. That is why I do not believe for a moment the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses went on without the knowledge and tacit consent of the commanders, nor for a moment believe the actions of an individual LEO are not well known and tacitly approved by his FTO, SGT, and LT. In these cases – one guy does something out of line. He notices that it is not immediately reprimanded. So he does it again. Others notice this new “acceptable” behavior and the cycle continues.”

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Letters from the Fed?

After seeing those envelopes, I instantly thought “Oh man.. WTF did I do this time?”  When my stomach finished turning over, I remembered that I was actually EXPECTING something from the Federal Reserve. A couple of weeks ago I read an article on Reason.com and found out that the Federal Reserve actually publishes “educational” comic books to help kids “learn” about our fractional reserve scam system.

Group shot of the comic books.

After reading through a few of these, the propaganda clouds your mind like a funk laden mystery container of food in your refrigerator.  The level of indoctrination and brain washing by the omnipotent state is scary, but when they target the nation’s youth, it feels like programming from our masters. I was originally going to post summaries of each one, but I changed my mind. Instead, I scanned each of them and you can look at them for yourself

I’ve uploaded them in CBZ format which requires the free comic book viewing program, Comical. It is available for Windows, OSX and Linux, so everyone should be covered. You can grab the application here.

None of the comics have any mention of a copyright, so there shouldn’t be any issues. Click on the images below to be taken to the download location.

The only thing I ask of people is this:  If you make a parody, review, praise or chastise these comics, let me know so I can see what you did with them

Wishes & Rainbows

The Story of Inflation

Once Upon a Dime

The Story of Checks and Electronic Payments

The Story of Money

The Story of the Federal Reserve System

Too Much, Too Little

The Story of Monetary Policy

The Story of Foreign Trade and Exchange

A Penny Saved...

The Story of Banks

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If you think you might find yourself in a compromising situation and wish you could get a quick video out as evidence to protect yourself or someone else, you need to get Qik. No, you don’t need a Blackberry, Android or an iPhone… they didn’t forget about us Windows Mobile users. Qik, among other things, will instantly upload a video you take to any social networking site you choose. You can have it send a tweet out with a direct link, you can have it upload to facebook video or even youtube. If you are interested in streaming live, you can even do that with only a 10 second delay.

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King George was accused of “erect[ing] a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

He was also held accountable “For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury” and “For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.”

However, I feel one of the most important accusations within is that of “abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.”

233 years ago, the founding fathers’ most valuable laws may not have been the same as our most valuable laws today. But, without their perseverence and steadfast resolve, I would not be able to write my opinion down. I would not be able to rally a cry of revolution. I would not be able to hold our overlords accountable for the repeated injustices they have committed against their people.

The real judgement day is coming. I’m not talking about fairy tales from ancient books, I’m talking about they day we judge you! Your refusal to do what is right for our great country is your greatest offense.

Now is the time for you to change your ways and return to the ideals this country was founded upon. Read the words of our treasured documents. Those that wrote the words that changed world were wise, pay attention and change your ways before it is too late. Follow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Stop taking our natural rights and replacing them with collective rights or priveleges. Stop violating our human nature. We can speak our of turn, we can yell in the streets, we can gather to discuss your demise, and more importantly, we have the right to follow through with it.

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Q & A: The difference between hard and soft links LG #105.

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Taglocity adds tagging of emails to Outlook. Still confined to the Exchange servers model, it does what it can. I’ve been using it for about 5 hours and have already cleared my inbox and tagged every single email I deemed worthy of saving. I’m not quite sure why it forces you to share your tags on their website, but I really could care less. I don’t have time to search for another solution and retag again, so hopefully this works.

Upon installing Taglocity, you are forced to install the Windows Desktop Search, which is fine with me. It seems nice as well… and at this point, I’m jumping all over anything that might make myself more productive or my day a bit easier.

Being in a corporate environment (that is stuck in the 90s), I frequently use mapped network drives. The standard Windows Desktop Search does not index files on UNC paths. Microsoft has a solution for that as well; enter Windows Destkop Search: Add-in For Files on Microsoft Networks.

I’d say that I would update this with how things work out… but I know I won’t… unless something fails miserably. All in all, I’m really quite surprised at easy this daunting task was completed.

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I started drinking Michelob lager in 2007 whenever i had an extra couple of bucks to upgrade from PBR. It was in the same price range as bud and miller, but it wasn’t made from rice or give me terrible diarrhea. The best thing Michelob had going for it though, was their teardrop shaped bottle, i seriously loved those bottles. I have a lifelong fear of drinking from bottles when anyone is near me, but Michelob bottles made me feel invincible. Probably because i saw my dad (who rarely drinks) drinking a Michelob once when i was a kid. Now i was really exited when i saw Michelob putting out new beers, and i tried a few of them, they are all good; not the best, but better than most mass-produced beer. But when i saw the bottles that they came in, i knew that this was coming. Goodbye Michelob teardrop bottle. The only bottle that if you left 30 or 40 of them all around your house, just seemed to class up the joint. The beer is the same, its still better than bud or miller, but the new bottle just can’t compete with clean lines and patriotic color scheme of my old stand-by Pabst blue ribbon.

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