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Dennis Rodman is a slobbering, immoral, diseased, drug addicted brain damaged walking hazard zone. He IS a Realtor.

His only virtue is that he is an ugly, tasteless cross dresser. Maybe he should plant one of his high heels in Kim Jong-un's eye socket.

socal2 says

Looks like you are flirting with 9/11 trooferism too. Bgmall has your back!

And damn proud of that!

Ceffer says

Dennis Rodman is a slobbering, immoral, diseased, drug addicted brain damaged walking hazard zone.

In other words he is just like everyone else in NY, LA or Miami.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Whose Arms Would You Rip Off to Use to Beat Kim Jung-un To Death?

His own.

Dan8267 says

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Whose Arms Would You Rip Off to Use to Beat Kim Jung-un To Death?

His own.

Correction, this guy's.

socal2 says

The GOP is so "far-right" they keep nominating big government Republicans (McCain and Romney) to be our standard bearer for US President.

Can you say "congress."

I knew you could.

Yes, you're right, Presidential nominees aren't far right. That doesn't mean they don't have to kiss up to the far right.

I distinctly remember Bush (GWB) campaigning that he was opposed to "nation building." But then the neocons made him do Iraq. His tax policy was right wing too.

Dan8267 says

Dan8267 says

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Whose Arms Would You Rip Off to Use to Beat Kim Jung-un To Death?

His own.

Correction, this guy's.

Good God man where here do you find this stuff? You must be on some funky mailing lists!

I have a 15 year old Honda that gets me to and from work everyday in the same amount of time as the Porsches and Mercedes in our parking lot. Next topic?

And I'll bet it does so with less time in the shop.

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999. Note "... how much it will buy."

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Thursday, May 29, 2014 __ Level is 105.2

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes! This was in the New York Times on August 27, 2006:

And up to date (by me) is here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

And "ThePublic Be Suckered"
http://patrick.net/?p=1230886

corntrollio says

rootvg says

Yes, and we drive a ten year old Toyota as our get around car when we don't want to put miles on the others.

Sort of wussy, right? Having a baller car but not putting miles on it because you're afraid to. My fancy European cars get driven, like cars are meant to be, instead of sitting in the driveway like trophies.

I have friends who do that, and I could never understand why. Eventually your newer car will be 10 years old, and then you will start putting on miles. The miles will get put on by the time you sell it anyway. Isn't it more fun to put on miles when the car is still new?

and links to 10 years worth of tax returns....trust but verify.

Heraclitusstudent says

Patrick, please add a net worth entry to the user profiles, so we can judge the credibility of posters

Warmer weather is here. rootvg, the coward, has slithered out from under his rock.

Not if you're hetero....

jazz music says

The fact that he claims to like the Palins is pretty scary though.

jazz music says

probably holds a DoD security clearance, so he's had his background checked already,

Robert Hanssen held security clearance but became so caught up in his delusions of grandeur and "conservative" religion that he betrayed America and got many people killed.

New Renter says

I have a 15 year old Honda that gets me to and from work everyday in the same amount of time as the Porsches and Mercedes in our parking lot. Next topic?

And I'll bet it does so with less time in the shop.

True that. What they spend per year on oil changes is my total cost of maintenance.

curious2 says

bdrasin says

rootvg says

When it becomes legal to walk in the Castro with a forty five on my hip, we'll KNOW something big is happening.

Is it just me or does that sound a bit...I don't know...GAY?

Not only that, but he needs a 45 in order to feel "big".

That's not a gun in his pocket - he's just glad to see you.

bdrasin says

That's not a gun in his pocket - he's just glad to see you.

"Glad" doesn't quite say it - excited maybe, and (violently) conflicted.

I'm not seeing a problem here.

These people were definitely not bankers, and were quite possibly liberals.

He should have laundered the drug money instead of selling the drugs.

Welcome to the two-tiered justice system in the banana republic of Amerika.

Boot on the neck of the commoner. The wealthy run wild.

Danville ain't exactly a republican stronghold either, in fact it's 67% dem.

http://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/california/danville

The incompetent cops say they didn't see any indication of children:

“There was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home. If there had been then we'd have done something different,”

Does this mean we need to start pinning kids toys and clothes to our porches to make sure cops know we have kids and their friends might be visiting too? Wtf?

There should be mass firings with forfeiture of pensions for this kind of stuff, but we all know the police unions will back the assholes and that local government will back down. The problem in poor neighborhoods is that they sometimes riot over things like a minority criminal getting shot by a white cop, but won't riot when a kid gets killed by any person no matter what race, cop or civilian.

Meth heads turn out kids like kindling. They need to duct tape their babies around the porch and windows if they want to become "raid proof".

Of course, then their children would no longer be useful in lawsuits against the city.

This is horrible, sick and twisted.

I guess I now have the right to throw a flashbang at the cops face and excuse it as "I didn't have any indication he was present." I'll add that to my bucket list.

FortWayne says

I guess I now have the right to throw a flashbang at the cops face and excuse it as "I didn't have any indication he was present." I'll add that to my bucket list.

You should probably save that one for last.

PolishKnight says

If anyone is NOT breeding like rabbits, it's the bay area useful idiot white
male liberals that celebrate the extinction of their own kind.

The object of life is not to outbreed others, it's to outlive them!

Hopefully gold keeps falling to 1000, then we can back up the truck.....................

PolishKnight says

Heck, I'll put it this way: My decision to be on the right is an, er, no-brainer.

Self-aware humor. Well done.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Atlanta Cops Grenade an Infant

The only way to deal with this is to apply the same suffering to each offspring, past and future, of every cop involved in this situation. Only when their own families suffer the same as their victims will cops change their behavior.

A cop should treat every household he enters as if it were his own and the people in it as if they were his own family.

The fucking media warns viewers that the photo is graphic. The actual event was graphic. That's what should offend you.

This is yet another example of why the War on Drugs must end immediately.

It is also an example of why every citizen has a valid self-defense right to shoot cops on their property on sight with RPGs. The very concept of a no-knock raid is tyrannical and absurd. A man's home is his castle.

People have the right to expect privacy and security in their own homes, especially from government. If the government can't force us to quarter British soldiers in times of war, the government has no right to burst into our bathrooms while our teenage daughter is taking a shower. And no cop has the right to discharge ANY weapon in a private home without knowing who is there. Hell, no cop has the right to inflict ANY harm on a civilian who isn't an immediate danger to other persons.

The judge who issued the no-knock warrant should also be drawn and quartered.

These lunatics are doing 50-80 THOUSAND of these violent home invasions a year, nationwide.
This woman's home was destroyed by a SWAT raid:
"For more than four hours, SWAT team members fired grenades through walls and windows and blasted in the doors with explosives."
Nobody was home, the guy they were looking for hadn't stayed there in months. They broke every window in the house while they kept the evacuated neighbors standing in the rain for 4 hours.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crime-law/renton-homeowner-wants-know-why-damage-swat-raid-h/nPcW7/

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/renton-woman-demands-payment-two-years-after-swat-/nf5Sy/

They were from the Minority report squad.
That kid was going to grow up to be a Tea Party President.

Apparently it is NOT the cops fault.
Says Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell:
“The person I blame in this whole thing is the person selling the drugs,” Terrell said. “Wanis Thonetheva, that’s the person I blame in all this. They are no better than a domestic terrorist, because they don’t care about families…"

This same over amped "Task Force" gunned down an innocent Pastor in '09:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/05/30/drug-task-force-that-burned-a-toddler-this-week-also-killed-an-innocent-pastor-in-2009/

Robert Sproul says

This same over amped "Task Force" gunned down an innocent Pastor in '09:

Like who hasn't thought about doing that?
Those damn pastors aren't so innocent, they are intolerant Jesus spreading bigots. - Cali Lib

Robert Sproul says

They [meth dealers] are no better than a domestic terrorist

Clearly a few dollars worth of meth is an offense that justifies military-style response.

Because of their poor research & surveillance, the alleged dealer wasn't even THERE at the time. Was he carrying an AK-47 with grenade launcher when arrested?

"Terrell said the suspected drug dealer, 30-year-old Wanis Thonetheva, was arrested later at another house, with a quantity of methamphetamine, possibly as much as an ounce. but no weapons."

Judges who approve no-knock warrants like this, should be removed from office.

If the cops had had an armored vehicle with a battering ram, they could have just knocked the house over, and that baby would not have been burned.

The worst part of the video was the sheriff saying they'll know what to do better next time. How about not doing anything next time?

Next time, they need to pack the baby and it's diapers with C4 and a remote trigger, wheel it into the house on a robot and detonate so no cops get hurt.

The Professor says

A persons life has to be pretty messed up

Like, nobody in the family has worked since grandpa had a job at the mill in "82.
Much of middle America is a sacrifice zone to "Globlaization"
Then they monetize the pathetic left-behinds through the "War on (some) Drugs".
It was in regard to prescription opioid addiction (another way they profit from poverty) but I thought this phrase was poignant:
"Some of these patients could be said to be suffering from what his colleagues call 'terribly-sad-life syndrome.' 'These patients are at a dead end, life has stymied them, they are hurting,' he said. 'They want to be numb.'"

Terribly-sad-life Syndrome, let's all count our blessings today.

I know some of this sort of people: living off public assistance intermittently or permanently, never accumulating savings when times are good, sometimes working harder but other times giving up.

I have no idea as to how the family in this case fits this profile, but here are some of the characteristics one sees again and again:

1) High incidence of mental illness in the family - a schizophrenic here, a severe autistic there. It's uncanny sometimes.

2) Uncanny ability to fail most of the time, even among the brightest of the bunch. The smart ones will tell themselves they must hang around to take care of the weakest (mentally ill or drug addicts), which inevitably wears down the smart/able ones themselves, who are torn between their jobs and the extreme drama at home. Guess what happens to their job performance?

3) Disapproval and meanness toward family members who succeed by moving to where jobs are more plentiful or by starting their own business.

4) Fear of leaving the hopeless shit hole backwater they're living in, because "we don't belong with city people, or whatever people it is who live elsewhere and are oh-so-scary and "better than us".

5) Failure to save due to weak character in the face of constant barrage of televised appeals to spend, spend, spend. The poor have TVs, which gets them into the same frivolous spending habits as the rest of us, but they can't afford those habits.

6) Consistently abysmal choices in sexual partners, as in three drunkard husbands in a row, followed by a fourth who is obviously chemically unbalanced to even the most casual observer; have a child by this man, and the child then must be institutionalized for life.

7) Lots of small bad choices which pile up, creating health problems: diets of beige fried food and sugary treats, lack of exercise, poor vehicle maintenance resulting in accident and chronic pain.
The worst of these is usually dietary - near-universal diabetes in some of these families.

This stuff is exasperating to witness. I know two brothers with the same intelligence level and same decent work ethic: one lives in wealthy retirement with a supportive wife, while the other lives in Section 8 housing with his mentally-ill daughters who are pushing 50, with drug addicts among the grandchildren, a couple of whom steal his stuff to buy drugs.

The wealthy got there partly by marrying the boss's daughter, but still worked hard. The poor one also worked hard, but was treated like shit by his wives. I also know people who shit on their spouses and children, who would steal your putter out of your bag at the golf course, and are quite wealthy.

The worst things these marginal people do are to themselves; drugs are a symptom and not the cause. None of them deserves to have their 18-month-old blown up.